The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-29 00:00:00

TICE =PRESS, FRIDAY EvErnich., JANUARY 29, 186 C:

It was regrettable to find even ottnipunkively'
independent French journals saying (Ist ne
under compulsion) that England and Spain
" deserted" their ally in saving their earn
standing by their word, and refuldbg to desert
truth and justice. Happily that absurd imputation
is now sufilciently avenged out of the months
of the most patriotic of Frenchmen. It is now
declared in the French Chamber, and not denied,
that while, or rather before, the French General
was signing proclamations to the Mexican people,
and declaring through pompous letters from the
EMPEROR that they were not come to impose any
change of government or to interfere with their
institutions ; negotiations were going on between
the Imperial Court and those refugees who
had been the very authors of the atrocities
and outrages which the French army went
out to punish ; negotiations purporting to esta-
blish a monarchy in Mexico on the ruins of the con-
stitutional republic, and by the aid of French arms,
and to present the Crown, under the auspices
of the Emperor NAPOLEON, to the Archduke
Maxtstuas of Austria. The Archduke himself
had been sounded on the subject by one of the
chiefs of those Mexican conspirators who bad
covered their own country with blood and ruins.
If our neighbours are astounded at these revels,-
tions, they have only to look back to the year
1849, and to read the history of the beginnings of
the French military intervention in the Papal States,
and they will find that the precedent has been only
too faithfully copied. In that instance the French
troops arrived at Civita Vecchia with the moat
friendly intentions towards the Romans, and in-
deed at their invitation, to aid them in preserving
their independence against the Austrians. General
OUDINOT dissembled the object of his expedition
until he had ascertained the true state of Rome
itself. He marched on Rome and was re-
pulsed, and then offered to treat with the Repub-
lican Government. M. DI Lun t. signed a
convention which disarmed the apprehensions of
the Romans, while reinforcements were on their
way from France. As soon as these reinforce-
meets reached the French General, he refused to
ratify the convention which be had agreed to, and
after notifying. day for resuming hostilities, broke
the armistice on the eve of its expiration, and
attacked the city. After a desperate resistance,
the city was taken, and ever since Rome remains a
monument to the glory and good faith of thei
conquerors. As at Rome, so in Mexico ; the
Treaty of London, the Convention of Soledad,
the Conferences of Orizaba, all declaring that no
interference with Mexican institutions was in-
tended, and all serving as preliminaries to • war
of conquest and occupation, to the destrvo- l
tion of the constitutional government, and the

subversion of the independence of the country by
force of foreign and hostile arms.
Now, we have faith enough in the French people
to feel assured that they would gladly blot oat
such pages as these from their annals. Yet this is
what the statesmen of the Empire call wrapping
freedom and civilization in their flag and carrying
it round the world. They are now about to confer
the privilege of universal suffrage, after the correct
Imperial model, upon "the great centres of the
"Mexican population," under the patronage
and protection of forty thousand French bayonets.
It is to the credit of the Liberal Opposition in the
Corps Ugialatif that from first to last they have
opposedthis disastrous and discreditable adventure ;
they have compared it, with just indignation, to
the assault of the monarchical coalition upon revo-
lutionary France ; and they are even more
ashamed of its false pretences and its shameless
bad faith than aghast at its ruinous and incal-
culable coat.

• unit lITTILLICIFINCLE.
TURIBLE CALAMITY IN CUILL

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TWO THOUSAND LADIES BURNED
TO DEATH.

(uuni's raffia )

IN, Jaz. 29.

The mail steamship Atrato, which arrived here
this morning, brings intelligence of a most terrible
calamity at Santiago, the capital of Chili.
Since 1857, the year of the promulgation at
Rome of the doctrine of the Immaculate Concep-
tion, the church of La Campania, in Santiago, has
been the shrine of the devotion of a large number
of ladies of that city during the time of the celebra-
tion, lasting from the Bth Nov. to the Bth Dec.
On the evening of the latter day over 3,000
ladies and several hundred men had crowded into
the church. The ladies were mostly young, and be-
longed to the higher classes of the capital. Twenty
thousand lights in long festoons filled the church,
which was also hung with drapery of every descrip-
tion. The service had hardly commenced when the
crescent of lights at the foot of the image of the
Virgin over the altar communicated fire to the
drapery. The fire spread rapidly to all parts of the
building, and a terrible scene of horror ensued.
The congregation endeavoured to escape by the
door, which was blocked up by the multitude out-
side. Most of the men escaped, but the ladies
fell in all directions ; their arms were wrenched
from their bodies, and the passage became a
crumbed heap of mangled bodies. From the roof
a rain of liquid fire poured on the people below,
and in 15 minutes upwards of 2,000 ladies were
blackened corpses. They were mostly of the
richest families in Santiago.
Upwards of 200 cartloads of burned corpses
were removed from the ruins.

THE WEER:INDIA-AND PACIFIC id AILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, lan. 29.
The Royal Mail steamship Atrato, with the
above mails has arrived here. She brings 61 pas-
sengers, including the Confederate General Ma-
gruder, from the Southern States of America, on a
mission to Paris. 3,777,636 dole. in specie, and
1,602 packages of cargo.
The Atrato left St. Thomas on the 16th inst.,
having bean detained there 36 hours waiting for the
Solent, which vessel experienced terrible weather
from Colon.

Business at Valparaiso was unchanged. Ex-
change wan quoted 430. to 44d. The news from
Peru is unimportant. Exchange, 3611 d. per dollar.
It was expected that Masquera would gain his ob-
ject in Ecuador, the restoration of Colombia. The
government of Ecuador was without men or
money.

The Guatemala Congress opened on the 10th
December. The capital of Honduras had been
removed to Gracias.

In Salvador the agitation for convoking a Con-
stitutional Assembly and revising the old consti-
tution was increasing. The commercial news was
unimportant. At Jamaica sugar realised 18s. to
to 20s. for ordinary and 225. for fair. Coffee, 528.
for ordinary. Exchange on London, 90 days'
sight, 1} per cent.

SANTO DOMINGO AND MEXICO.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 29.

Advice. received here from Santo Domingo state
that General Santana was indisposed, and had
been temporarily relieved by General Antonio
Allan, who had surrounded 500 insurgents in their
camp at Guamuna. All the southern parte of
Santo Domingo, as far as San Josb de los ?datoa,
had surrendered to Spain, and were coupled by
Spanish troops.
Intelligence from Mexico announces that the
troops under Juarez had been completely routed at
San Luis and Morelia, by the Mexican forces under
Marquez and Mejia. Juarez, with three servants,
fled, pursued by the enemy.

Irma PRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE WITH THE
LIONS AT rex AGRICULTURAL HALL.

LAMM PARTICULABB.—(THIS DAY.),
The unfortunate sufferer by the ferocity of the
Iles at the Agricultural Hall yesterday, is in a most pre-
emies Mate His right hand has beat amputated by Yr
lawresee, the senior surgeon of St. Bartholomew's
tel. The lacerates of the arm though deep, were sot so
1111111111 u to neeseiftate amputation at the elbow ; the
diner is the severe 'book to the system.
His name is Joh* Beim ;he is 32 years of age, and re-
, sided at No. 35, leahera-ples Portlaad-town.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

YILIDAY, 'AWAIT U. 8 £K.

Nabf ..... 40.11
Asaaitf
Unit 10.21

Ostway
Valentla 10.25

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-40.371

LOoaTe 70.3
Dover 30.11
Tarmoulli 30.31
Scarborough 10.111
Shields 30.4
Heligoland 30. D

LAW INTBLLIGENCZ.
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COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lord' Juniors of AppeaL)

1120011 1J:111111M-ANOTHEIt !HAAB QV TM BWINFLN

This wining ens of ifieinostf7;t7aordinary scenes ever
withstood in septet of equity occurred before Lords .lustkes
Kththt Braes and Tarim, who had announced their
feu ths of delivering judgment is another stage of the
Sadao' case, the principal actors in which are Mrs. Broth
(formed Mrs. Swinfen), and Mr. Charles Rann Kennedy,
the b , who acted as her professithal adviser. The
court was so closely packed that it would be impossible for
another person to obtain admithice. The object of the Ai.
t Master
their lordshipe was to reveres a decision of the
of the Rolls, by which he had directed a deed to be
given up to the plaintiff for the purpose of being cancelled.
The deed in question was executed by Mn. Broun in favour
of Mr. Kennedy, and conveyed to him the reversion in fee of
the Blria(9l estates expectant on the death of Mrs. Broun.
Lord Justice Knight Brace said that during the
years 1857, 1858, and the early part of 1859, the defendant
with the professional adviser of Mn. Swinfen (the present
plaintiff), and brought her affair, to • successful issue. The
deed in gaseliers wee executed on the 10th of May, 1859,
between Patience Swish's. and Charles Ram Kennedy, to
whom, he having lo well conducted her affain, she wished
to make adequate compensation. The deed samigned to him
her estates in the neighbourhood of Lichfield, to the extent
of 10,0001., subject to her life ioterest. That the deed
wee • men gift there was no evidence to show, and
sochacontreotooukl not be sustained between 'client and her
professional adviser. Moreover, it wan drawn by Mr. Ken-
nedy himself. Apart from all considerations of public policy,
he considered that the plaintiff bed reason to complain that
she laboured under want of suffienot advice when this deed
was executed. The deed itself was a great, substantial im-
propriety, front which the lady had a right to be delivered,
and cos which could not be withheld without discredit to
the administration of justice. Mr. Kennedy's appeal must
therefore be dismissed with oasts.

Lord Justice Tumor said he never entertained any doubt
upon the point. To reverse the decree of the Master of the
Rolls wmld be to unsettle a law which the best interests of
society required should be strictly adhered to. There was
nothing in the case which relieved Mr. Kennedy from the
costa which public policy required to be attached to trans-
actions of this description.
Appeal refused, with meta.
A large number of assembled outside to catch a
glimpse of Mr. Keeaedy as ha left the court.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
Sittings in Banco.—(Before Lord Chief Baron Pollock,
end Barons Martin, Bramwell, and ChannelL)
Bitowit r. —MX CREMORNE DOG DHOW.
This action was brought to recover the value of a dog
entrusted by the plaintiff to Mr. E. T. Smith, the de-
fendant, for exhibition at the Dog Show, held last year at
Aahburnam•ball, adjoining Cremorne Gardens. The trial
took place before Mr. Baron Bramwell, at Westminster,
when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the
amount claimed.
Mr. J. Beet, on the part of the plaintiff, now *bowed
cause against a rule why a verdict should not be entered
for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff, on send.
hag the dog, rigida a waved exonerating defendant from all
liability in the event of its being injured or lost while
Dim in his possessioo. The learned counsel contended that
notwithstanding this contract, the defendant was liable, as
there was evidence to show negligence on the part of his
servants.

Mr. Fierce having been heard on the other aide,
The court was unanimously of opinion that, under the
special contract, the defendant was not liable unless he had
been guilty of negligence, which bad not been proved, and
made the rule absolute.
Rule absolute to enter verdict for the defendant.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Wore the Judge Ordinary.)
SMITH C. MTH.

Mr. Searle appeared for the petitioner, the wife of a coach-
builder and miessonear in the south of London. She sooght
a dimolution on account of his adultery and hie desertion of
her. They bad been married nom 1833, sod there were sir
children living. In 1R44 the respondent had formed an
adulterous (=notion with soother woman, and he placed
one of his boys with her. The petitioner fetched him away ;
bet the respondent told her that unless she let the
child go back he would leave her. She refused,
and be west away. Sbe did not bear anything of him
again for seven years. She then diicovered that he was in
business at Truro. In answer to • letter which she wrote
to him, he pasted an envelope to her, inclosiog half • sore.
raga. She then sent him a son and • daughter, and ulti-
mately went to him herself ; hot the interview did not lead
to any reconciliation.
The case was adjourned for formal proof of the marriage.
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