The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EinglaNG, JULY 27,

on the contrary, it is considered as an aggravation.
But even the English kw allows that in Mme eases
the fact of a man being in liquor matt be taken
into consideration. For premeditation is au impor-
tant element in crime, and without premeditation
—malice aforethought—murder ceases to be mur.
der. It is trim that the jury have, under the
direction of Mr. Justice BracLatrair, pronounced
PARKER guilty of wilful murder. But this verdict

is accompanied by a recommendation to mercy, on
the ground that "the prisoner was in liquor when
" he fired the gun," and this furnishes conclusive
proof that the jury felt the necessity of drawing
some distinction. There is every difference between
a stranger deliberately planning the destruction of
a fellow-creature, and a passionate half-drunken
man first quarrelling with the people about him,
and then suddenly shooting them with a gun
which he finds ready loaded. Capital punishment
must be regarded as the most severe penalty
inflicted upon criminals by law, yet it ought to be
restricted to cues of the most aggravated cha-
racter. In this case of PARKER it is clear that he
was not physically capable of forming a deliberate
intention ; and certainly his conduct, both before
and after the shot was fired, negatives any idea
of deliberation. If we aro not mistaken, it
will appear that of late years no person has been
executed unless some deliberate intention to
murder has been distinctly brought home to him.
It is upon this principle that the authorities of the
Home-office have lately acted. The principle is
sound and intelligible, and deserves the attention
of the Duke of RICHMOND and his colleagues. In
the meantime it is tolerably clear that, unless this
principle is to be ignored in the cam of RICHARD
PARKER, he ought not to suffer the extreme
penalty of the law.

be Coun.

06BOILNE. JOLT 26.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louis of
Here and Prison, Louise, w►lked and drove about the
grounds yesterday.
The Donets= of Catoctin bas been eneoesdrd by the
Dowager Countess of Mount Unmet%) as Lady in waiting.

A deputation from the corporation of the on, of London.
consisting of Mr. Deputy Bone, Mr. Dollard, Mr. Stewart,
the Chamberlain, and the Reenembrenear, had an interview
with the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at
hie official residence in Downing•street, yesterday, on the
subject of the Holborn Valley Improvement Act.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were sent
to the Governors of Malts, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong
Kong, Laboaa, the Australian colonies, and Gibraltar.

• LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(aom% TELDIRAIIII.)
AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BALtXMORE.
The Inman steamer City of Baltimore, feign New
York on the 16th inst.; arrived at Queenstown at
9.20 a.m. this day. She brings the mails, 127
passengers, and 226,524 doll. in specie. She
landed 17 passengers, and proceeded at 9.50 a.m.
(Par the City of &Maws, viA Ciookltavea.)
NEW YORK, JULY 16, Montilla.
The invasion is at an end, the Confederates
having retired from Maryland and from before
Washington.

Telegrap hio communication with Washington
has been restored.
Unofficial despatches report Sherman to have
crossed the Ohattahoochie, and to have arrived
within six miles of Atalanta.
After the battle on the Monooacy the Confede-
rates marched straight to Washington, and burnt
Mr. Francis Blair's residence near the city.
On Monday and Tuesday they made a demon-
stration against Fort Stevens.
On Tuesday afternoon two divisions of the 6th
corps, which had arrived from Grant's army, drove
the Confederates one mile beyond Fort Stevens.
On Tuesday night all the Confederates retired from
before Washington, and recrossed the Potomac at
Poolesville and Edward Ferry with enormous stores
and a large number of horses. It is reported that
the Federal, have crossed the Potomac in pursuit.
The accounts concerning the strength of the in-
vading force vary from 12,000 to 30,000 men.
General Franklin has made his escape.
The Confederates have made a demonstration
against Grant's left to get into his rear.
General Price is reported moving into Missouri.
The American Consul at St. John's has tele-
graphed to the Governor of Maine that a small
party of Confederates had left to depredate on
the Maine frontier.
Mr. Fessenden is unable to arrange with the
banks for the loan of 50,000,000 dollars.
The steamer Little Ada has been captured off
Charleston.
The Caledonia has been intercepted at Cape
Race.

=MSS ISOM PARIS.
r. k; (non ors ovra enuarommarr.)
?AIM, TUIRIDAY
The general ingsission that two recent astiersa
in the Pays were supplied direct from Vichy,
receives pregnant confirmation from the fact that
the Pays now complains of their having been
misunderstood--• misfortune which almost in-
variably happens to compositions emanating from
that oracular source. It appears that the inter-
pretations are on this occasion most diverse. The
first article having been misrepresented, the Pays
published a second, in order, as it says, to do
away with "all possible ambiguity." But
it succeeded so badly in its object that the
perverse independent press insisted that
the second article contradicted the first. Not only
that, bat they were not agreed as to the tendency
of the contradiction, whether backwards or for-
wards. The Mots said that the Pays retracted,
while the Opinion Nationale congratulated it on
having made a forward step. The provincial
press was as much at fault as that of Paris. The
Salta Public of Lyons saw a 'contradiction, while
the Gironde of Bordeaux interpreted the second
article as a repetition of the first. The Pays now
affirms that it has neither advanced nor gone back,
and that both its articles "emanated from a deli-
berate and unshakable conviction, and were the
offspring of the same thought and the same aspi-
rations."

lam afraid that this proud declaration will not
aid the public to any practical conclusion as to
what the articles really mean. The following
criticism of the Dibats pointedly shows the diffi-
culty of understanding them :

What must be thought at the ankle published by
the Pap wader the title of " Franos and Europe'" One
would eartaioly be very clever to discover! That journal
bogies by expressing its satisfeatiou at the exosllent
tion which the French governmeat Ma obtained by its im•
partiality and dialatametedesss ia the question at the Damo•
German Duchies. It goes on to show, or attempts to show,
that this disiaterastedness wires to the cabinet universal

sympathy in England. It does not fail to bout,
casu►'Jy, of the Ang'trireme& animate, but at the
name time remarks that, after all, there is not
• state in Europe which does not seek the alli-
ance of Fame with the ease ageism@ ; sod concludes by
declaring that "Frame has not to trouble herself materially
with the plane men or less opposed to right and equity,
which Austria and Preemie appear to pursue, with the com-
plicity of Rose* relative to Danmark," but that u "the
position gives at the present moment to the court of the
Tuileries an immense political ariendancy and • considerable
moral infineoce, that court will plea that ascateducy and
induces at the service of usivereal prep os end nal liberty,
which still appear to ha►e in old Europe stubborn and in-
, corrigible adversaries." People may, therefore, find every-
tang they please in this harangue to old Europe, which
shows toes lectorrigible tanneries is quiet of the alliance
of France, and Temente the same events as being indif-
hearth to France, and yet not indifferent. However, in com-
paring this article with the article in the same journal
three or four days before, the **Rios meet be arrived
at that the Pau, other having rammed see step, draws
beck two.

The government is negotiating a commercial
treaty with the Pope.
The Prance gives a positive contradiction to the
news vary widely circulated that the Emperor is
preparing an important political pamphlet at Vichy.
The programme of the arrangements for the visit
of the King of Spain has received the addition of
two " princely bites," one of which has to be given
in the Palace of Versailles. He will stay four
days, instead of three, in Paris.
The Bourse was tolerably firm, notwithstanding
the rise of discount in England. What is now
chiefly feared is that the Bank of England will go
on from 7to 8 per cent—a course which would
compel the Bank of France to raise its discount
also. Little business was done to-day, and the
closing quotations of Rents show no clangs.
Mobilier rose bin.

Yesterday the officers of the 85th Regiment, now
stationed at Shorn°liffe, played a match with the
Paris Cricket Club on the Madrid-ground, in the
Bois de Boulogne. The officers gained an easy
victory in one innings. A scratch match is going
on to-day, in which the officers take part. The
Parisian public oontinues to show itself indifferent
to these matches, which are extremely pleasing to
the performers and the very few English residents
who go to look at them. To-day, as on the occa-
sion of the interesting match with Sir Robert Clif-
ton's Nottingham men, there was a sad lack of
spectators. One reason for the paucity of attend-
ant* is that the ground is not very ac-
cessible. No omnibus is allowed to tra-
verse the Bois de Boulogne, and the privilege
which that promenade lately enjoyed of being
reckoned as part of Paris in regard to cab fares has
been capriciously taken away, so that a ride there
now costs Ur. 600. as being outside the fortifications.
It would seem impossible to put cab fares in Paris
on a reasonable footing. The tariff has been changed
continually, but never yet made equitable between
the cab proprietors and the public. At this moment
you may take a Aim with two horses from Berry
to Auteuil for lfr. boc. The journey occupies two
hours, and the horses after crossing much rough
Paris pavement and mounting several hills, arrive
panting, sweating, and ready to drop down with
fatigue. Take the same carriage from the gate at
the end of the Avenue de I'Lmptfratrice to the J4r.
din d'Aodimation, a ride of tour minutes, along a
smooth macadamized road, and you will have to

pay Mr. 50c.
The Imperial Court of Paris has just given
judgment in an appeal front a decision of the Civil
Tribunal in an action brought by M. Hirsch against
against Mdlle. Cora Pearl, a dashing young lady of
the demi-monde, to recover a cum of 7,993 fr., the
balance of an account for goods delivered. It
appeared that the whole bill amounted to 23,256 fr.,
towards which 15,2631 r. had been paid at different
times. On the bearing of the awe the defendant
pretended that she had p►id another sum of 7,028 fr.
to the plaintiff's daughter, and produced what
appeared to be a receipt. The tribunal, considering
this receipt valid, condemned the defendant to pay
only the balance of 965 fr. M. Hirsch now appealed
against that decision, and produced evidence to
show that the 7,028 fr. had never been paid, and
that the receipt produced had been given in mistake
by his daughter. A careful investiwation having
proved this to be really the case, the court quashed
the judgment under appeal, and col:dammed the
defendant to pay the 7,993 fr. demanded, with all
coats of suit.

"We learn," says the Union, "that Don
Miguel bad a serious fall a few days beak at Brom-
hada. Two of his ribs were broken."

ABDIEL-KADZIL —The Emir Abdel-Bader, oa his
Mara to Daman= from his' pilgrimage to Mum, was
visitedby the Goireroor-General of the tows sod the pria-
cipal MAJ.& authorities, as well se VI the soma& el
Frame, Maenad, aad Russia. Os the day follow* his
arrival he soot his oomplimects to the cease of Frames, sad
bawd to be exemmd attending is porno% in it wee the
Itaasuloiao nosy not to Isere the bourn for a Metal, sum.
bar of &yea/tor retusoirig from a pilgrimage. la the visit
which he received from M. Hilogeord, Abdul Mader
warmly expressed his gratitude to the Emperor Napoleon far
having ao kindly heatable' hiejeuraey is Moan sad added
that he hoped some day to hare the opportunity of Mask-
ing hie Majesty la pen= foe ell the favours oosterred
bin.

ABCIIBOI.OOI44I,INEITTPUTE O' GREAT
mainurr AND IRELAND.
WARWICK, TUMIDLY.
'he annual meeting of this body was opened here
Bala Waren under distinguidied auspices. The inaugural
meeting was held at the Coert•hocure, where a lugs number
of iltehatologista and ladies of Warwickshire attached. On
the piettorm were the Marquis Carodea, Lord Leigh, the
Bishop of Orford, Mr. Graves, ILP., A.reldesone Handfeed,
Dr. RookeST of Oof Chichester), Dr. Whewell (Paster of
Trinity Jol , Cambridge), Dr. Onset (Master Geaville
sad Cane lege, Cambridge). Mr. Beicebridge, Mr. Berea.
ford-Hope, Sir John Soybean. sad Sir B. Kirby, C.B.
The Marquis Camden having reigned the post of presi-
ded to Lord Leigh, and the corporation of Warwick having
presented as addrese of 000gratulation,
The Pasannarmacr (Lord Leigh) delivered • brief
ieaugural address. lie coesidered it • high honour to be
called up= to preside over the deliberatioes of a society
that had steed so many objects of interest in the country
from destructive, sod trusted they shoskl derive great
pleasure from their visit to Warwick and to the ancient
outle of Ksoilworth, which, in the "gables days," had been
visited by good Queen BON.
Dr. WMPTILL and Mr. Owens, M.P., added • few
words in commendation of the object of their meetings.
Mr. Iliageroan.Horn acknowledged the kindness with
width the society had been received.

Archdeacon fiANDroaro, for the clergy, welcomed the
moiety to the diocese of Woroestar, and spoke of the valu-
able senior rendered by arehreology in the restoration of
the sacred fabrics of the land, not only from ancient bar-
barism, but from the Goths and Vandals of modern times,
the mistaken mid of churchwardens sad clergy, and from
utißtarian selAshains. (Applause.)
The Bishop of Oxman roes to acknowledge the welcome
that had bean given to the society by various bodies, and
particularly by the clergy of the clime's. Coming there
m arelueologista, they looked back And thought of the long
will of worthies connected with the oounty that they might
refer to. He might begin with the groat name of Walston.
than which there was no greater name among Saxon
worthies, and, going rapidly down the hat, they came to •
medieval name, the great Dr. Parr, who certainly would
have astooished Walston if he had 'seen him. MI further
down the list they found Robert of Chichester—(i laugh)—
sad, uniting the three together—Pan's wit, Chichester's
fan, and the great Willits& crowning all—they might well
be proud of them. Then the great reigning Abbot of Leigh
had received them with more than abbatial hospitality.
It was not only in the gratification of those who
came to than meetings that they were service-
able, but it was also that they might engraft on
°them their peculiar inessity, that they might, se it
were, bite them and make them as road as tbemaelvea.
(Laughter.) Everything, he would sty, that tended to
make them live out of h. mere present, and to CUT, them
back to the past, had • tendency also to carry them on to
the future ; therefore, it was not as more old mites living
in some remote obsess, but as men loving the past and look-
ing on to the future, that they came among them and
heartily thanked them for the reception they had given
therm
Mr. BILACIBILIDOZ called the etiolation of the visitors to

o dungeooitidert-ie old poi which had boo. visited by the
phihuithropie Howard.
kr. BLOISOIII gave a short history of the onanty, and
showed that it had been visited hi many crowned heads—
Edward L, IL, aid IV.. Richard L and 111., Henry VII.,
Elizabeth, James L, Oharlee L and IL, William ILL,
George IV., William IV., and Queen Vioteria. Amoopt
its posts were Ira too, Shakepere, Somerville, and Walter
Savage Leader, still living. He wee glad to contra's the
Wines, of public eddies's' of the preempt time, such as
that they bad received from the corporation of Warwick
that day, with the language void i farmer times. In the
reign of Queen Elizabeth they would remember that the
people of Coventry, being told that the Queen admired
poetry, hired a poet to apostrophise her Majesty, and an
address coached in the following terms was presented to the
Queen :

We men of Coventry
Are nett..
Tour Majesty—
Good how fslr ye be r
To which the Queen
Our mo is
rons mid to hare replied—
Majesty
Is very glad to see
The men of
Good lack, what ye be r-a,lsughter )
This concluded the formal business of the morning, and
Mr. Prrrrr then read a paper on the painted glass in the
Beauchamp Chapel, after which the chapel wee visited.
To-morrow, Warwick and Kenilworth Cletlee will be
visited.