The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-03 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

EXPECTED RETIREMENT OF M. DROITYN
DE LHUYS.

(nor OUR owz comparoirorn.)
PARLS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

I am positively assured, in a quarter which I
have hitherto found trustworthy, that M. Drouyn
de Lhuys is going out of office, and that the new
Minister for Foreign Affairs will be the Prince de
la Tour d'Auvergne, now Ambassador to the Court
of London. The following paragraph in this even-
ing's Pays is probably connected with the above
fact, which reaches me from a private and exclusive
source :

The Prince de Is Tour d'Auvergne, who, it wee thought,
had gone to London, is still in Paris, and will not leave it for
some days. The news of his departure was, however, well-
founded at the time ; only just as he was about to go •
telegram from Nice summoned him to the south of France.
The prince passes for being even a more fervent
catholic than M. Drouyn de Lhuys, and therefore
some anxiety is likely to be felt as to the signifi-
cance of his accession to the Foreign-office in regard
to the construction so much canvassed of the con-
vention of Sept. 15.

The Pays says it is "probable" (this is a subject ou
which no semi-otticial organ has yet been enabled to
speak positively) that the departure of the court for
Compiegne will take place on Sunday or Monday
next ; that there will be three series of invitations,
and that the visitors included in the first list will be
at Compiegne on November 10. lam told, how-
ever, that no invitations have yet been issued.
Lord Bloomfield, the Duke of Somerset, and
several Lords of the Admiralty are now in Paris,
and are expected to stay some days.
The Teieps publishes this evening a second letter
from its London correspondent (M. Louis Blanc),
arguing with much ingenuity that Muller's guilt is
not conclusively proved. The clever Frenchman
admits, however, that it is ten thousand to one
that Muller is guilty. It is easy to see that not
any reasonable doubt of Muller's culpability,
but hostility to capital punishment in any case
whatever, is at the bottom of M. Louis Blanc's
reasoning.

The Tonps, which was the first journal to give
the news in a positive form of the contemplated
creation of a cause of great public works, now says
that a special commission is about to open an in-
quiry as to what public works are urgently re-
quired throughout the empire ; and that it is not
until after the report of this commission that the!
cause, or "any other analogous institution," will
be established. Moreover, inasmuch as the mea-
sure, whatever it may ultimately be, will involve
an expenditure of public money, it must necessarily
be submitted to the Corps Legislatif. I have
no doubt that the above paragraph was dictated to
the Temps by the government in order to tran-
quillise public opinion, which has been considerably
excited by current rumours of a loan, confirmed
as they were, in such a remarkable manner, by
the Duke of Magenta's circular in Algeria. A
respite, at any rate, seems to be now promised, and
if in spite of M. Fould's remonstrances the pro-
fuse expenditure advocated by MM. Hausmann
and Behic is to go on it will not be authorised by
any sudden decree. No ceremony will be left out
iu order to give the sanction of law to extrava-
gance.

The war in Algeria appears to be far from over,
for we are told to-night that about the 4th or sth
of November the entire army under the Duke of
slagenta's command will "resume the offensive."
It is ititended to attack the insurgents in several
points at once, and of course it is not doubted that
lecisive results will be obtained.
It is stated that most of the chambers of com-
merce, being asked their opinion of the bill for an
alteration of the usury laws now before the Council
of State, have reported in favour of free trade in
money.

The I3ourse, although the settlement has gone off
better than was expected, closed rather heavily.
Rent° fell 15c., the last prices being ti4fr. 60c. and
ll4fr. 45c. lilobilier remains without change.
Railways are somewhat higher.

A Paris letter, in the Post, says :—" Baden-
Bodes, that pleasant ' watering.place' with the reput►tion
of furnishing to the obituary of Europe annually a list of
suicides, io consequence, some people say, of its gambling
institutions, has this week been the scene of a sad catas•
tropbe. Two young persons, a handsome young lady
and a line youth, arrived the other day at one of the
principal hotels. After dining they retired to rest. The
youthful pair were found dead in the bed next morning, a
poniard baring been plunged into each other's heart. It
does not appear that this fatal act originated in any loss
of money at the tables, but that • long waiting love' was
the cause, and that they would not live to hear the world's
reproaches."

REI'RESESTATION OF WEST SUFFOLK.—LoraI
Augustus Hervey, brother of the retiring member, and air
Edward C. Kerrison, of lirome Hall, are mentioned as pro-
f table c►ndidates for the vacancy in the representation I f
West Suffolk, consequent on the lamented death of the late
Marquise( Bristol, and the elevation of Earl Jermyn to the
House of Lords. A rumour is also prevaleut that Mr,
Fuller Maitlsod Wilson, of Longhorn, will be invitod to
contest the county on liberal principle,.
THE PRINCE CONSORT IN COLLISION OFF PLY-
' )101-lii. —The Prince Consort, 35, screw, iron-cased ship,
' Car lin George O. C. 8., while coming into Ply-
) mouth Sound, on Tuesday morning, came in collision with
the schooner Commodore, of Jersey, and narrowly escaped
sinkiog her. The accident happened four miles outside
the Breakwater, at about 4 o'clock, The schooner bad
just stsy, d, with her bead to the south, and her crew !
" hailed the Prince Consort on perceiving her approach.
I The crew of the latter were engaged in reducing
; sail, previous to entering the Sound, and did
not seem to Doti°, the schooner at hint. Forte-
'
nately the proximity of the vest)! was at length discovered.
' just early enorgh to allow them to come into collision only
side by side. The crew of the schooner, frightened at the
I formidable proportions of their neighbour, immediately took
, refuge on board the Prince Consort. After the vessels had
cleared, it being observed that the schooner was not sink•
' log, her crow were sent on board her spin by one of the
Prince Consort's boats. The latter then took the schooner
in tow sod brought ber into the Sound. The schooner lost
her fore topmast, part of her fore-rigging. and of her rail
and bulwarks, but suffered no damage of importance to her
hull. She was towed into the Hammes by a government
steam-tug, to be repaired by the dockyard authorities, The
Prince Consort carried away her wrnsker.boutu in the will.
lion.— Wr:r co Afoi!niny Nt erg.
A Vreser., RUN DO% N OFF GREENOCK. —On
Tuesday mornisg, shortly after 3 o'clock, an the Dublin
steamer Lord Gough was on her passage up the river, off
the Red Lamp, below Greenock, Captain Ward sighted a
low two•masted vessel like a schooner lying moored but
showing no lights, and before he had time entirely to slow ;
his steamer he ran into her. He immediately stopped and
lowered a boat, the men on board of which hailed the
injured vessel, but could see no signs of any
person being in her, and in ten minutes after
striking the schooner went down. The steamer re.
maioed about the place where the schooner gook until
satisfied that none of the crew were floating about, and
then proceeded on her way up the river. One of the Lon.
donderry steamers, which arrived at Greenock two hours
afterwards, repor•ed having passed a vessel's boat full of
water drifting outwards off Kempoch. The tide was about
the first quarter of ebb when the schooner was run down.
When day dawned quantities of wreck were seen floating
along the shore from the foot of Fox-street on to below the
Battery Point, and people from the houses along Clyde.
street were out picking up fragments of wood. A young
woman, servant to Mr. Turner, writer, whose house is uu
the shore at the foot of Beutiuck•street, wailed into the
water and brought out of the river.) bible which was flouting
past, and which bad written on one of the boards, " Robert
Haugh, schooner Isabella, of Wietou." About the same
place a pair of oars were picked up, several large pieces of
wood, like pert of a vessel's bulwark., painted dark green
outside, and stone colour hulas, the cover of a hatch
about two feet six iodise square, black on top and red in-
side, and quantities of detached portions of broken wood.
The sunken vessel tarns out to be the schooner
Robert Haugh, master, from Whitebaves, laden with pig
iron. It is thought that the crew, consisting probably of 4
three men and a boy, were below asleep when the collision c
took place, and oilskin with the vessel, perished.—Nera
Britiot Mail,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

(THD3 DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

fittings in Berea-(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn,
Justices Crompton, Mellor, and Shen.)

MALCOLM T. THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY

COMPANY.

Mr. Bovill, (1 0., said this was an action for negligence,
tried before the Lord Chief Justice at Guildhall, when
the jury returned • verdict for the plaintiff, damages
3,0001., which were apportioned by the jury as
follows : 2,0001. for the widow, and 1,0001. to be
divided amongst the children then under age. The learned
counsel now moved for the rule aid, calling upon the
plaintiff to show came why the verdict should not be set
aside, and • new trial had, on the ground that the verdict
was against the evidence. The deceased gentleman resided
at Harrow, and on the day of the accident he had gone to
Berkhampstead. On his return to the station he
was crossing the line at the proper place to the
up-platform, when the express train, which was
seven minutes late, came up, and knocked him dowa, and
he was killed on the spot. The Berkhampetead station
stands on a sharp curve. A train coming up can be seen 100
yards from the station when looking up the line, but at 900
yards distance if looking across the country. The express
train was due at 2.47, and the train by which the
deceased was about to leave at 3 o'clock. The
evidence for the plaintiff was that no porter
was at the station to warn the deceased, but
the defendants called • porter, who swore that
he twice cautioned him, but be took no notice of it. The
whistle was sounding when the train was within 100 yards
of the station, and persons who were on the platform
shouted and held up their hands. The deceased the moment
beam the engine, rushed forward, but had he stepped back
he would have saved himself. If the deceased, who
was an elderly m►n, had used his eves and his ears instead
of walking with his head down, thinking, he must have seen
and heard the train before it came up.
The Lord Chief Justice said there was some conflict of
testimony on that head, viz., whether the engine driver
used the whistle before he maw the unfortunate gentleman
onthe rails._ _

Mr. Bortll said the evidence for the defence was that the
deceased was cautioned, and that three of the witnesses who
saw the train coming shouted and held up their hands for
him to stop. Mr. Hughes, one of the plaintiff's wit-
nesses, also deposed that if the deceased had used
his eyes and ears there would have been abun-
dant time for him to stop and the unfortunate acci-
dent would not have happened. The deceased lived
on the line, and mast have been aware that trains passed
up and down every ten minutes or a quarter of an boor.
The Lord Cuief Justice said he should have been
better pleased if the verdict had been the other
way, but it was • question of evidence entirely for
the jury, who considered the deceased had not been warned
as he ought to have been. There was evidence which pro-
duced a considerable impression on his mind th►t the de-
ceased genth man did not exercise that caution which a man
was bound to do when crossing a railway. That evidence
was pressed with great ability on the attention of the jury,
but they thought otherwise.
Mr. Bevill said he could only urge that there was evi-
dence of cautioning the deceased by words, shouting, &c.
Mr. Justice Crompton said that shouting and whistling at
railway stations often bewildered people ; and whilst they
were considering, very frequently the mischief it was in-
tended to prevent unfortunately happened.
The Lord Chief Justice said be thought there should be
no rule. He should have been better pleased as he had
said if the verdict had been the other way, but starting
with the finding of the jury that it was negligence on
the past of the company io their not having cautioned • man
whom they had invited to cross the rails that an express
' train was due, the question how far • man
who met with his death, might have contributed
towards it from want of care was a matter on which they
could not lay down any precise rule, but was a case espe-
cially for the consideration of the jury. The jury had
found that this was not that negligence which deprived the
relations of compensation, and he was not so much dissatis-
fied with the verdict as to recommend that it should be set
aside.

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The other learned judges concurred.
Rule refuted.
WALTZES V. MANSFIELD AND ANOTHER.
Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., mid this was an action for injuries
received through the alleged negligence of the defeedant's
servants. The allegation was that the defendants, who
were large contractors, had allowed • piece of
timber to lie accost the footway in the neigh•
bonrhood of Holloway, over which the plaintiff
fell and received the iojuries complained of, The action
was tried at Guildhall before Mr. Justice Mellor, when
the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 100/.
The learned counsel moved to set the verdict aside and for
a new trail, on the ground that the verdict was against the
evidence.
Rule granted.