The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TI:1111DAT

The controverted question whether Baron de
Beast saw the Emperor so early as Saturday is
nettled in the affirmative, by the announcement in
the Monitew, which also confirms the news that the
baron dined with his Majesty yesterday. M. de
Beast left Paris for London to-day.
K Krieger, one of the Danish plenipotentiaries
in the conference, arrived in Paris yesterday, but it
is believed he has seen nobody but Count de Moltke,
the Danish Minister here, and that be goes back to
London to-night.
The Pays says as " Latest News" that pacific
impressions tend visibly to prevail, and that it is
almost certain that the conference will come to an
agreement on the basis of an appeal to the popu-
lation, with a view to detach Holstein and
Southern Sleswig from Denmark, the Dannewerk
being taken as a frontier line.
Bad news of the Pope's health is said to have
arrived in Paris.

The Bourse, under the influence of a rise of in
Consols, and rumours that England had consented
to a plebiscite in the Duchies, opened with great
buoyancy. Rente rose to 66fr. 80c., but the rise
was not sustained, the last quotation being
66fr. 65c., with a fall of sc. Mobilier fell Ur. 25c.

The Assize Court of the Haut Rhin was occupied
last week with the trial of a revolting case of
parricide. A well to do peasant, named Stein-
kampf, being impatient to inherit the S,ooofr. or
4,000 fr. which his mother had saved, conspired
with his wife and • bravo, named Haas, who was
bribed by a few francs, to murder her. They seised
hold of the old woman while she was milking a
cow and held her head down in a pool of liquid
manure till she was dead. The crime was clearly
proved, and, moreover, confessed by all the
prisoners. The Procureur-General, M. Bigorie
de Laschamps, being thus relieved from the
necessity of arguing upon the facts, delivered a
speech in justification of the punishment of
death generally, against which there is ► strong
feeling in Alsace. He controverted at great
length the opinions of Beccaria, Lamartine, Victor
Hugo, Mittermaier, kc., and exhorted the jury, as
practical men, firmly to do their duty to society
and to observe their oath. As to Beccaria, he told
the story that some relations of his having been
robbed in the Calabrisa, the gentle philosopher
begged the judges to torture the robbers and have
them broken on the wheel. He trusted that the
jury would not give to Alsace, to France, and the
world the desolating spectacle of an indulgent ver-
dict to an assassin capable of taking the life of the
mother that bore him, and that they would repu-
diate "extenuating circumstances" as an "impiety."
Notwithstanding all the eloquence of the public
miniater,• the jury did find extenuating circum-
stances, and in consequence Steinkampf and his
wife were sentenced to imprisonment with hard
labour for life, and the sicaire Haas to imprison-
ment for 20 years.

Mr. James Stuart Bowes, who for aometbing
like half a century wrote the theatrical criticisms
in Galignani's Messenger, died this morning at the
house of his son, Mr. Hely Bowes. The deceased,
who had attained the age of 75 years, was univers-
ally respected, and is much regretted by a large
circle of friends.

Letters b•ro been received in Paris from the
French pilgrims in the Holy Lend. The pilgrim. who
paned Easter at Jerusalem arrived at Beyrout on the &Nu-
ncio° of the 25th of April. after having aoootnplished their
tour through the Holy Lend. They were all in steeliest
health sod were preparing to return home—come through
Ooestantinople and others through Italy. The pilgrims
were joined at Jerusalem by the reverend Father Haseberg,
superior of the convent of Munich, and another mask of the
mass community.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
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