The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-29 00:00:00

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is apparently put in for the benefit of the Commie-
siouers themselves. The Crioimiesioners are
anxious to have it known that, having made a secret
arrangement to the prejudice of Dr. Banner!,
they subsequently fated to make him • party to
the arrangement. It cannot, we think, surprise
any one that Dr. Bsxnsrr declined their invitation
to name a conductor, and left the responsibility
on the right shoulders.

IT would have been difficult to persuade the
public in 1860 that in 1862 Dr. SMETHURST
would figure in the Probate Court se the credited
witness and the successful plaintiff in an action to
establish the will he drew for IS•RELLA BANES&
But so it ia. Even the tenacious and persis-
tent may doubt whether they have attained
to the highest power of perseverance as they
read the verdict in Dr. SMETHURST'S action.
Never to take "No " for a denial ap-
pears to be the lesson of the remark-
able series of law proceedings which it may fer-
vently be hoped are now brought to a conclusion.
Appearances were at one time so strong against
the Doctor that many would have thought him
lucky to escape from the fangs of the law with the
skin of his teeth. not with a cool head on his
shoulders, he took the measure of the world.
He was not the man to be scowled out of any
advantage within hie reach. Certainly there are
few men who would have braved the ignominy he
was sure to encounter by propounding Miss
Essen's will and defending it before Sir CRESS-
wati. Caretwett.. That able Judge was of opinion
that Doctor Se eriteawr " presented himself to the
" court as a man against whom human nature
" must revolt." And this was the expression of
no idle prejudice, no lurking suggestion, born
of impressions which had furtively survived a
royal act of pardon. When the Judge told the
jury to suppress all the best feelings of their heart,
and look only at the cold legal evidence, he was
referring to matters which had just passed under
their eyes. For, as the Judge truly said, in the
witness-box the Plaintiff had just admitted himself
to have been guilty not only of gross immorality
but of the crimes of bigamy and perjury.
It would seem from the history of Dr.
Sorrneasir that no prudent man need, or indeed
ought to be, without friends. There is no knowing
what fantastic array of circumstances may be com-
bined against innocence, and require to be met by
other combinations, prompt, bold, and decisive.
In the worst case the tears of an injured wife may
be worth a king's ransom. It is further evident
that if the good word of the world is for-
feited by great vices, and even crimes, there
is no reason why private attachments should
fall before them. Such as Dr. Smenteiner was,
there were those to whom his life was dear and
his companionship desirable. We need not despair
of fnenilship when we see what infinite pains were
taken to recover him back to that society from
which the blandishments of a late acquaintance,
acting upon • too susceptible heart, had all too
soon removed him. These wishes are gratified;
Dr. Surnitiner's friends have him back—may be
a sadder and a wiser, but at all events a richer man.
Let him enjoy his gains with all possible quietness,
while the public marvel at the mysterious dis-
pensation which sends him back to comfort piously
the declining years of his wife with the money of
IsAIiELLA 111.C•KEs.

YABHIOrpII MAY.

(has Le Pollee.)

Ws learn from a note addressed to us by Mr.
Cove that it his been the object of some writers
to induce the belief that he has created em-
barrassment, by suddenly declining to conduct
the music which Dr. IteNNzrr has written for the
Opening of the International Exhibition. This is
incorrect, as plainly appears from Mr. Coatis
letter to her NIA., txrv's Commissioners, and their
reply. The facts, as established by these two
letters, are just those which we stated last Friday.
It is, therefore, only as an act of courtesy that we
now publish them. We were, however, under
the impression, until we read Mr. CCeCTe'e letter
to Mr. &mortal; that his refusal to conduct
Dr. Btzrirarr's music had been publicly dis-
cussed upon quite other grounds than that of the
inconvenience it might cause to her MAJ very 'l4 Com-
missioners. With the facts now authentically before
them, the public will judge for themselves whether
their earlier impressions were warranted. Mr.
Cosrs certainly shows that there has been no
ambiguity or vacillation on his part. As early as
last July he announced his intention not to con-
duct any music of Dr. Blyweren, and be has con-
sistently adhered to it. This, as we read his
letter, is all the merit he claims.
Mr. fixeriiroze, on behalf of the Commissioners,
accepts and confirms Mr. CoarA's representations,
and adds an explanation, which does not seem to
be called for by anything in Mr. COSTA'S note, but

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1862.

The materials materials suitable for spring wear are in
great variety Shill season. We may safely say, there hest i
sever bees a more abundant supply, or so many new de
signs. In far, the manufacturers rem to have vied with
each other to produce a choice selection of goods. Timm
are some of a silky texture, of a fresh pink, tummies bre,
or pale green colour, which form the most Imentifel sad
Await toilettes ; some of taffetas moires, with arrow
Mee lines, gros d'ete, taffetas chines, and moires. We
have seen a nankeen taffetas, upon which it appeared as if
a network of lace had been thrown; this material is
trimmed with black lace. The same styles made in violet
ex whits. Spotted moires make vary handsome erasing ce
swami dinser-dressea, and are also worn for visiting direr
Them Are are taffetas with a white ground and arrow
Hass of violet, orange, pink, black, he., cc
with brocbeea flowers ; or black ground, with the same
pattern. Cliambery mama are already worn for evening
der; and are made with high bodies for young girl,
for whom organdie, with coloured flowers, mad
checked taffetas, as well as foulard ere still fears-
able. For simple dress, black, brown, or violet moire
antique should be made quite plain, or with very Utile
trimming. Indian foulards and Irish poplins are wore r
well ; the sew foulards made with various designs, detached
bouquets on black or brown ground : those with white
ground are reserved for summer wear. A plain silver drab
is the colour most in vogue for poplin. The poll de chevre,
with a drab ground, either plain or chine, with small
flowers embroidered in green, blue, or nasturtium coloured
silk, is in great favour just now.
The narrow flounce at the bottom of the skirt maple
cried indispensable—at any rate, it is rarely this does est
at least form part of the trimming ; it is generally Moll
double, especially in light material cc summer taffetas
Skirts without trimming are no longer worn. Airy
and °Marti are often made with a very full skirt, hear'
four or five wide tucks ; in this case, the WIOW
flounce is not put at the bottom. Sometimes the teaks
are trimmed with a narrow fluting. These dresses ere also
made with a narrow plaited flounce at the bottom, endear
rows of Tay narrow fluting above.
Taffetas drew are sometimes made of two oolonn—for
example,the dress of violet silk with alternate tucks of
black and violet; brown with green, violet, white, or Week
tucks.

Shame retain very much the same fashion they have
bad lately, with revers, and not very wide. A very pretty
sleeve for silk drew is made with revers, but narrow, and
with • seam up the back, and showing • white tinder-
Short *Wm, for out-of-doors wear, are now taking the
Anna of the large and long pardessus we have bad lately.
Alpaca is used for these, braided, trimmed with pious, or
with passementerie. Round capes and shawls are also
made in alpaca, and in plain material, matching the dress.
Some are trimmed with frills (not if made of barege) ; but
these are not so generally adopted.
For the season, when farther advanced, some magnificent
shawls have been prepared ; the pound of tulle, with net
folds, forming cross ben, checked like a chees-tioard, sad
two rows of English lace.
For this Reason the small bate, with raised ar falling edges,
are as much in favour as in any preceding year. The shapes
are exceedingly graceful, and are trimmed with velvet or
long feathers. The hat is composed either of black, grey,
or brown straw, Limbers or Belgian straw. Bonnets are
now made 1111M111,111f at the shies but raised on the forehead ;
they are trimmed very mock, both inside and outside, and
the ornaments are of • varied description.
Crepe and tulle are both tow in demand for spring bon-
nets. White drawn crape, with • large coquille of black
lace and tea-roses, the ends of the lace falling over the
curtain, is considered very elegant. The front is covered
with • point of lace shading another roes, which is placed on
the summit of the head.
Some are made of white tulle,having two curtains—one of
violet taffetas, which is plaited exactly like the under ova,
but open in the middle, to allow for • soul of blonde, tied
in • knot to fall over the back. This scarf is fastened on
the front of the bonnet by a plume of white and violet
feathers, platted very flat, partly inside and partly outside.
The bandeau is composed of violets. One string is white,
the other violet.
Another is of white crape, in tucks, the curtain edged
with a mullion of blue between each tuck. On the top is
a large coquille of blue, on the left sideorith • white feather.
The inside is trimmed to match. The strings are blue.

LAT!

Count de Niewerkerke, and at 3 this afternoon her
Majesty and the Emperor left the Tuileries in a
travelling carriage to see the Chateau of Vincennes.
There is to be a grand dinner, a concert, and a ball
at the Tuileries this evening.
The Bourse has been extremely firm. The
Recite rose 20c. both for cash and account, closing
in each case at 70fr. 60c. Mobilier rose 7fr. 50c.,
and the Italian Loan 35c. The Southern Railway
rose 17fr. 50e., from which fact it is to be inferred
that the interview with the Emperor yesterday was
favourable ; Orleans rose Sir. 75c., and Lyons
Mr. 25c. The Russian Loan was officially posted at
the Bourse.
The Campana collection, which is to be called
"The Napoleon 111. Museum," will be open to the
public on May 1. On the same day will be ex-
hibited, for the first time, the curiosities found by
M. E. Renan and M. E. Balmy in Phenicia, on
the eastern slope of Mount Olympus, and also M.
Ravaisson's casts from Greek marbles unknown in
France.
A double murder, which suggests very melan-
choly reflections se to the moral value of "good
conduct" in prison, has just been perpetrated at
Toulon. A soldier named Huet, who was con-
demned to death in 1848 for an attempt to murder
an officer, had his sentence commuted to imprison-
ment with hard labour for life. Subsequently, in
consequence of his good conduct, he was informed
that his punishment would cease at the end of
twenty years, and consequently in six years from
this time he would have been a free man. But
two of his comrades in chains drew the inference
from the favour granted to him that he must be a
police spy, and gave expression to their suspicions.
This accusation awakened the old instincts of the
man, whose mind was familiarised with the notion
that any injury to himself must be wiped out with
blood. He got hold of a hatchet used to cut wood
in the kitchen, killed with it at a single blow one
of his traducers, whom he found asleep in bed, and
so desperately wounded the other that his life is
despaired of.
A sergeant of the 44th Regiment, now quartered
at Fort Nogent barracks, has been sent to the
guardhouse for a fortnight, for having set snares
for cats. It was proved that he caught half-a-
dozen, and converted them into "jugged hare."
This is a case of de gustibiss, Am.; but the not very
severe punishment of the military authorities makes
no reference to depraved taste, but is founded upon
the swarms of rats and mice in the barracks which
the cats would have usefully made war upon.
A new play called Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois
Dore, founded on a novel by Georges Sand, and
dramatised by M. Paul Meurice, was produced at
the Ambign last night with immense success.

THE NEW RUSSIAN LOAN.

The prospectus of the new Russian Loan was
not circulated by the agents, Messrs. Rothschild,
until late last evening. Annexed is a copy :

IMPERIAL RUSSIAN FIVE PERCENT. LOAN OF 1862.
His Majesty the Emperor of Ramie, by Imperial Ukase
under dateof the 26th of April, 1862, haying authorised the
emission of a loan for 15,000,0001. sterling, nominal capital,
Menus. de Rothschild Brothers, of Paris, and Mews. N.
M. Rothschild and Sons, in this City, have catered into a
contract for the negotiation of the same. Five Millions
Stock of this Loan have already been disposed of, and for
the remaining 10.000,000/., Five per Cent. Stock tuberrip-
lions will be received. NOM N. M. Rothichild and Sons,
therefore, beg to announce that they are ready to receive
applications for the mine, which will be emitted in bonds to
bearer for 501., 1001., 501)1., and 1,000/. sterling, bearing
interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, with cou-
pons, payable half-yearly, on the Ist of November
and let of May, each year, at the option of
the holders in London, in pounds, darling ; in
Paris, at the exchange of 25 franc 20 cede. per
2 sterling ; in Frankforton-the-Main, and Amstardar
at the exchange of the day ; and at St. Petersburg, at 37
pence per silver rouble. 'rho bonds will be proed wi
twenty coupon', and a talon for renewal of the same after
they are exhausted free of expense. The Imperial Govern-
ment reserves to itaelf the right, after the expiration of
twenty years from Ist May, 1862, of redeeming this loan at
par. The price of emiasion is 84/. for every 1001. stock,
payable in twelve months, with dividend from tat May,
18C, as follows, viz. :
lb per cent, on 941. on the 15th May next.
10 „ „ „ 10th July.
10 „ „ „ 10th September.
15 „ „ „ 10th Nov., lees the dividend.
10 „ „ „ 12th January, 1863.
10 „ „ „ 10th February.
10 „ 10th March.
10 ~ „ „ 10th April.
10 „ „ „ 12th May, lees the dividend.

100
Subscribers desirous of anticipating the payment of these
instalments will be allowed a discount of 4 per cent. per
annum, and the bonds will be delivered as soon as they can
be obtained from the Imperial government. Every applies.
Ron meat be areninpsnied with a deposit of 10 per cent. on
the amount applied for. In mule the allotment should not
require the whole deposit, the surplus will be returned ; if
it be insufficient for the first instalment on the amount
allotted, the balsam required must be paid forthwith.
Scrip receipts will be issued, which will be exchanged foe
the bonds after payment of the last instalment. Subscrips
tion lists will be opened at the same time at—Mews. De
Botha:lldd Brothers, Paris ; M. A. De Rothschild and Sons,
Frankfort O.M. ; Becker sod Fuld, Amsterdam; Mr.
Bleiehroder, Berlin. No applications will be received alter
Friday evening, the 2nd May next.
It will be noticed that the amount-15,000,0001.
is quite as large as reported, while the conditions
in some respects are even less attractive than ru-
mour made them to be. The announcement that
5,000,0001. has been "disposed of" must be held to
mean merely that the subscription of that amount
has been guaranteed by the agents and others, but as
regards a large portion, if not the whole of it, the
subscribers, no doubt, retain the power of sale.
The instalments are spread over a year, ending in
May, 1863. The large amount of the preliminary
deposit,p.o per cent., seems to be arranged expressly
with a view to bind the applicants closely to their
bargain. It is a feature worthy of notice that there
is no sinking fund, though the Russian government
reserves to itself the right of redemption after 20

years.
There are many points which would have to be
cleared up before the general public would feel dis-
posed to lend active support to a transaction of so
enormous an amount. It is already rumoured
that but a brief interval will elapse before Russia
will be in the market again ; and if it is true that
the emancipation of the serfe involves a money
compensation of something like 300,000,000 or
350,000,000 silver roubles (say 50,000,0004
sterling), the report becomes less impro-
bable than might at first be supposed.
It is understood, too, that the Russian
government is very anxious to possess itself of an
iron fleet, and the secrets of its Seance are so im-
penetrable that the mode of application of any loan
can never be traced. In the next plane, rumour
does not hesitate to go so far as to assert that the
reserve of bullion, which is traditionally supposed
to exist in the vaults of the fortress of St. Peters-
burg, and which, though notoriously inadequate to
support the existing mass of government paper,
is ostensibly taken once a year on a solemn
promenade to amuse the multitude, has
no existence. Added to statements and rumours of
this sort comes the allegation in letters from Paris,
that the French government has resolved to pro-
hibit the quotation of the new stook on the Paris
bourse. Some of these reports may possibly be
exaggerated and others unfounded, but their circa-
lation and acceptance is a natural consequence of
the sullen wormy of the Russian financial depart.
menta, and, combined, they produce a permanent
feeling of distrust.

MUTH= RIPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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45Aiwsv 30.19 68 63 Z. 6 1 b
Ulnas 30.30 63 48 W. I - 31 --
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Uvinouut. 30.30 51 50 16.8.11. 1 1 is
gun:swot= . 30.14 66 66 8.8.2 41 1 b
Vaunts
TAZZOO2I4 $9.36 n 49 LK, 2I 1 b
1.01111302 MSS 60 62 ILK 3 3 b
Dom 3043 68 66 Na 21 1 b
90420900111 30.26 66 60 B.Z. 3
30.26 66 61 118.0.. 4 1 b
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JIMMY 20.21 45 60 N.N.Z. 6 1 b 1

PROBABLI.

WIDINIODAT.
Noltrifllarrato.—N.Ltolt.R., N.N.W. to E.
light to freak gm. moderate, tine.
lam.ann.-41. to N. and N.W., N.N.W. to K.N.E. and EgE,
moderate to trash, fine. treed to stroog, dear.
Crimitex..—N.L to W.N.W., W. to N. and E.N.E.,moderste,
light to moderate. varla'.le. to trash, fine.
E. Coder.—M.& to E.N.K.and N.N.W. to K NE. and S.E.
N., moderate to fresh, One, moderate to trash, doe.
S. SII9LUID.-11. to &, moderate LN.E.and S.& W., fruit
to fresh, One. to strong, line.

trial to

An interesting experiment wan made last week at
the reaklence of the Sub• Prefect of Seintes. A chemist from
Cognac demonstrated that he could, by menus of a elective,
distinguish pure Cognac brandy from mixed spirit, sod tell
whether the latter was composed of spirits of wine. beet-
root, or corn spirit. Various descriptions of brandy were
given to the chemist for his experiment. By pouring a
glum of his reactive into a bottle of each liquor he produced
instantly a particular tint, which indicated the nature of
the mixture. There were a number of wine mordants and
distillers present, who were astonished at the accuracy of
the experiment, which succeeded above 100 times.
A communication from Jerusalem of the 106,
in the Monde, says :—" Since the end of March, the Holy
land has been traversed in every direction by pilgrims Pm'
°adding to Jerusalem. The route by Jaffa is More
frequented than any other ; the French, Russian, sad
Austrian steamers land there long files of dissenting
hsdlw
On the 9th April a caravan of Coptic women, coming from
Alexandria, entered Jerusalem, raising singular shouts of
joy. This troop had been preceded by the Oonsul-General
of Greece at Beyrout, and a crowd of travellers of different

nations."
It is stated in the Australian papers that the
mercantile community are opposed to a more frequent mid
communication with England on account of the labour which
It would impose on them!
Between 1851 and 1860, the extent of land which
had been used wholly or partially by the gold diggers
the colony of Victoria was 640 square miles, for which the
diggers bad paid the Victoria government 3,975,02'24. a
101. per acre. If the pastoral tenants had pad the gown'
meat in the same proportion for the land they ocrwOi"l
during the same period, the government would haw ft'
°sired from them the mind 450,000,000 i.
The tench has been successfully introduced into
the colony of Tamed&