The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FerDAT EvJarmo.

" Prince Napoleon's pamphlet," as by anticipa-
tion it has been conventionally called, is nothing
more than a collection published by the prince's
secretary, M. Hubaine, with the approbation and
assistance of his imperial highness, of the official
and authentic documents which were referred to
by him in the great speech delivered in the Senate
on March 1, 1862. The public has now an oppor-
tunity of consulting at leisure a series of diplo-
matic papers extending ever two centuries, which
prove that the most eminent French statesmen
who represented France at Rome during the 17th,
18th, and 19th centuries, uniformly pointed out
the vices of the Papal government.
A French court-martial at Rome has just con-
demned two Roman peasants to death for the
murder of a soldier, named Braman, of the 19th
Regiment. The soldier, with two of his comrades,
was caught in the fact of stealing grapes iu a vine-
yard at Viterbo—a very favourite pastime as it
seems with the French garrison there. The owners
of the vineyard, who bear the formidable names of
Saturnino Terribili and Valentino Terribili, were
watching their property, with a loaded gun, and it
was proved that one of them did shoot the French
soldier, in a very cold-blooded manner. After the
murder the culprits took refuge iu Cardinal Bedini's
carriage, and were conveyed by him to a sanctuary
in which the Roman government pretended that
their persons were inviolable. The French com-
mander-in-chief, however, intimated to Cardinal
Antouelli that lie should recognise none of
this medheval nonsense in a case where
French subjects were concerned. The Terribilia
were dragged from the sanctuary and brought be-
fore a court-martial. The Capuchin monks made
great efforts to suppress evidence in the case, but
the French military authorities got quite enough
to satisfy the court-martial. The men are con-
demned to death, and the sentence will, doubtless,
be executed. The officer acting as judge-advocate
pressed for an example, as, he said, the prisoners
were actuated by hatred to the French army, and
not by a desire to protect their grapes. What a
singular jurisdiction is that of the French court-
martial in this case ! The eldest son of the church
—who protects the temporal power—cannot trust
the Pope to do justice upon his own subjects for
vulgar civil crimes, but tries Roman citizens by
court-martial, as if the French army were in an
enemy's country.
Correspowleuee gives currency to a ru-
mour that the ministerial council to-day was occu-
pied with the "pretensions" of Prince Alfred to
the throne of Greece, and speaks of a paragraph
the Muniteur and a collective note of France and
Russia on the subject. It is now certain that the
three French vessels fitting out at Toulon are under
orders for Greece.

The Esprit riddle gives out that the Emperor
means to go ou with his scheme of mediation in
America by himself. That is precisely what Pnnch
of this week tells him he had better do.
At the Bourse the rise of yesterday was main-
tained in the Rente, and surpassed in many other
securities. Mobilier rose 17fr. 50c., and the Or-
leans Railway sfr. The other railways were Hr. or
2fr. higher. The Italian Loan fell 20c.

EXTRAORDINARY JUDICIAL ERROR.
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

I doubt whether all the collections of mows
eeli,bres in the world contain such an extraordinary
case of judicial error as the one which has just been
redressed by the assize court of the Somme. On
August 13, 1861, the assize court of the Nord found
a young married woman, named Rosalie Gardin,
guilty of the murder of her father, Martin Doize,
and the jury having out of compassion given her
the benefit of " extenuating circumstances," she
was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for
life. The evidence against her raised nothing more
than a case of slight suspicion, founded upon her
having been at times on bad terms with her father,
but she had confessed to a matron of the prison of
Hazobrouck, and to the Judge of Instruction, that
she did commit the murder ; and although alto
retracted this confession at the trial, both judge and
jury believed her first statement, and she was con-
victed on the strength of it. There is now not a
shadow of doubt that this woman was innocent. She
passed upwards of a year in penal servitude, pursuant
to her sentence, during which time she constantly
expressed a confident trust that God would one day
prove her innocence, and whenever she wrote to her
husband she begged him to expend money in masses.
Ou August 16, 1862, the same assize court, upon
overwhelmiug evidence, strengthened by a full con-
fession, found that Martin Doize was murdered by
two notorious robbers named Vanhalwyn and Ver-
hamme, and sentenced them—the one to death and
the other to hard labour for life. The Court of
Cessation then quashed Loth these verdicts, on the
ground that they were incompatible the one with
the other, and sent the three prisoners to be tried
de metro by the assize court of the Somme. At this
new trial it was proved conclusively that the murder
was committed by Vaultalwyn and Verhamme, who
moreover renewed their confessions. But how did
it happen that the poor woman Cardin, if
of sound mind, charged herself untruly with
the frightful crime of parricide ? The answer,
the shocking, the heart-reading answer is, that
she was goaded into confession by the torture
of solitary confinement. For two long months
this innocent woman, who moreover was cacciat,
of
her first child at the time, was locked up by herself
in a cell to which air and light were only admitted
iby an aperture a few inches square made, by the
j removal from the wall of a single brick. The sole
furniture of this horrible dungeon was a fetid tub
and a straw mattress laid on a brick Hour. The
, mattress was daily taken away to be aired pursuant
;to sanitary regulations, and then the unfortunate
!creature, who never had a chair to sit upon, oatdd
not even lie down, except upon the cold bricks.
• The prison matron, who brought hor the daily
prison food, told her continually that if she would
confess, she would be taken out of that place, and
would not have her head cut off. This woman was
herself a convicted prisoner in a state of pro-
batiom and it was her interest to curry favour
with authority by extracting • confessions.
At the end of the two months the poor
woman, whose terrible position was aggravated
•by those nervous feelings and fancies which
uotoriously accompany the advent of maternity,
felt herself abandoned by God and man, at
I least in this world ; the idea struck her that if
what the woman constantly told her was true, that
by a confession she might get out of the " black
bole," and prevent her " head being cut off,"
(these are her own expressions), she would at any

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A curious instance of opposition has taken place I
at Pima between the government and the " party of ac-
tion." It is stated that during the night a marble slab
had been set up at the spot where Garibaldi was landed,
commemorating that event, and mentioning that be
was wounded at Aspromonte. That circumstance
was considered by the authorities as intended to
cast a slur upon the army, and on the following
day a picket of carbineers was sent to pull down
the slab, and put another in its stead, with the same in-
scription, except the words, " wounded at Aspromonte.'
But, lo! notwithstanding the vigilance of the police, on the
night after the government slab was taken away, and one
identical with the first one put in its stead. The corre-
spondent of the Opie tone of Turin, who relates this, says
that while the carbineers were at work, Madame Mario
(Miss White) might Le seen at the window of the hotel in-
habited by the general, watching them in great apparent
agitation.
A Lyons letter says :—" Large orders for silk
stuffs have been received here from Italy and Loudon ;
already the plain silk and foulard looms are being again set
up, which circumstance leads to the belief that there will
be plenty of employment during the winter."
Hist-toe CoLeNscie BOOK.—The Archdeacon of
Taunton gives notice that io the Session of Convocation of
the Province of Canterbury next ensuing he will move that
the standing orders he suspended, in order to the conside-
ration of an address to the Upper House, praying the
Upper House to direct the appointment of a committee of
the Lower House to examine and report upon to the Lower
House a book lately published, intituled • The Pentateuch
and Book of Joshua, critically examined by the lt,ght Her.
John William Colenso, D.D., Bishop of Natal. London :
Longman and Co. 1862," that the Lower House may de-
liver its opinion to the Upper House touching the proceed-
ing
-to a synodical judgment upon the book.
ETROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS—The weekly
meeting of the board was held yesterday, Mr. Thwaites
presiding. A report from the committee upon new streets
was brought up, submitting for approval a plan of plow of
the land in the line of Southwark-street, between South-
wark-bridge-road and Illackfriars-road, and also recom-
mending that the committee be authorised to take the
necessary steps for letting the pieta fur building purposes.
After some discussion it was moved and seconded that the
plan bo approved, which was agreed to. A report was re-
ceived from the engineer and superintending architect on
the line of the new street from Blackfriars-bridge to the
Mansion-house, as recommended in the report of the Royal
Commiyaioners of IS6I, and farther to consider as to apply-
ing to parliament for powers to make the new street, and ss
to giving orders for all necessary steps being taken by the
solicitor, parliamentary agent+, and officers, with a view to
a bill being prosecuted in parliament in the ensuing session,
, and further to consider that part of the cornmuni-
cation from the First Commissioner of her Majesty's
Works, Ac., which relates to the einhankrneut of
the south side of the river. The motion was carried. The
engineer submitted a report upon the south embankment of
Ithe Thames, the estimatedcost of which would be 2.50,00 W. ;
I compensation, this,i.ool. ; together requiring an outlay of
515,0(01. It will give a direct lice of roadway near to the
river between Londou.bridge and Vauxhall, and it will is-
! cream, the width of the Thames opposite Milbank Peniten-
tiary from 500 feet to 720 feet, and will thereby allow the
tidal waters more freely to piss up the river, amid with seve-
ral other advantages it would cost less than half that pro-
posed by the plan of the royal commissioners. A men•ber
moved that the report be approved of, which, after a
long discussion, was agreed to. After the routine business
had been disposed of, the board adjourned.
THE SOI:IAL SCIENCE. ORGANIZATION.—A numer-
ous meeting of the council of the Social Science Association
was held at their rooms in Waterloo- place on Thursday last ;
the principal business being to decide the place of the annual
meeting of the association, iu lhlid. Lord Brougham, on
' taking the chair, moved a resolution expressing the deep
sense of the council of the loss sustained by the association
in the death of Sir Benjamin Brodie, one of their
earliest members. The Lord Mayor of York, Mr.
Alderman Husband, and other gentlemen, attended as
a deputation to urge the claims of that city to a visit from
tile seurciatiou ; the rival applicant was Edinburgh, repre-
sented by Mr. Charles Cowan, Mr. Billie Momman' and Mr.
Robert Chambers. After a long discussion. in which Lord
Stanley, Mr. Kinnaud, MP., Mr. Denman. M.P., Mr.
Macqueen, Q.C., Dr. Fart, Mr. Newmarch, Yr. Hastinga,
and others took part, a majority of 22 to 17 decided in
favour of Edinburgh, in which city the next congress will
be held.
MARRIAGE DIFFICULTIES —IL will be in the recol-
lection of our readers, a few weeks ago, of the publication of
. banns between Charles Pearson and Margaret Stockdale
' having bees stopped by the poor-law guardian of Bedale
church, that functionary stating as his reason that Charles
Pearson was an imbecile. An appeal was made to the
bishop of the diocese. who ordered publication of the banns
to be proceeded with. A surgeon's certificate now be-
came nocesaary, to show that the bridegroom was tempos
'acetic This having been procured. the parties presented
themselves at the Hymeneal altar of the parish church at
Kirkby Fleethani, on Saturday last. Everything now went
smoothly on until the ceremony of putting on the ring took
place. Here the clergyman demanded the fees, 7s. &l.
The parties were in another dilemma, having only a. ad.
between them. Several reunions assembled in the church
to witness the interesting ceremony took pity upon
them, and subscribed the remaining portion of the fees.
The marriage ceremony wan soon over, and Charles Pearson
and Margaret Stockdale, after meeting with may obstacles,
are now legally married, and they departed from the
church apparently very happy. The bells rang merrily at
intervals throughout the day.— Yorkaltire Ga:ette.