The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1864:

ministers to the constant guide, philosopher, and
friend under the shadow of whose fifteen thou-
sand bayonets its more or lees inspired author
reposes. There can be no doubt that whoever
may be the Harlequin of this ecclesiastical panto-
mime, the Eldest Son of the Church is the Pan-
taloon. It is the Emperor of the FsExcir that
gets the smartest and the surest blows, and that is
almost from one end of the Letter to the other
made to look as sly, silly, and uncomfortable as
possible. It is the 'worded champion of the
" principles of 'B9 " that figures in this brave and
noble epistle, not as the master of legions and
the lord of war, and the arbiter between Rome and
Italy, but as the prime author, abettor, instigator,
promoter, patron of all the depraved, false, cor-
rupting, deplorable, plague-stricken, horrible, per-
verse, impious, deceitful, fatal, delirious ideas and
" machinations" of " this sad epoch." For does
not the Emperor NAPOLEON'S government repre-
sent the tights of the State and civil society,
liberty of conscience and of worship, the
sanction of fact as opposed to legitimate hereditary
right, the secularization of Church property, the
subordination of ecclesiastical functionaries to the
secular government f All these principles are em-
phatically condemned by the Encyclical Letter
as absurd, impious, destructive, insane. And in
their stead doctrines of legitimacy, of Papal supre-
macy, of intolerance, are affirmed with a decisivenesa,
a thoroughness, a sincerity, which, for our own part,
having no fear of the Holy Office, and looking at
an Encyclical Letter as a very seasonable and
welcome [pleasantry, we heartily and honestly
admire. After the conciliatory moonshine of
M. DE LA GEERILONIERY9B elegant prose, the
tones of this virile base voice from the Vatican
are positively invigorating and refreshing. It may
strike some timid readers that such principles of
government and society as this Letter lays down, if
we may judge of them by what it condemns, would
throw back European civilization three hundred
years, shake all the thrones in Europe, and make
regicide an act of faith, as in the days of JACQUES
CLEMENT and Rsyszuse. All we have to say in
answer to such fears is that the compliments of the
Church were certainly not addressed to England.
The HOLY FATLIER had no need to waste words of
condemnation upon a country excommunicated
three hundred years ago, and still withering, as all
the world may see, under the blight of that awful
penalty.

cognisance of breaches of international law. There
is a panic in Canada. The commercial interests
are all alarmed at the prospect of non-intercourse
with the United States, which is expected to take
place unless the Canadian government takes action
to allay the excitement on the borders.

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.

EXECUTION OP THE CHADWELL-HEATH
MURDEBER.-(THIS DAY.)

The execution of the wretched culprit Francis
Weise took place this preening at 9 o'clock, at Springfield
gaol, Chelmsford.
The fads connected with the crime for which the pd.
loner suffered will be fresh in the recollection of the public.
He was convicted of the murder of a woman named Amelia
Blunt; aed it appeared upon the trial that the prisoner
and the dammed had cohabited together for a conaidamble
time, but in consequemos of hie ill-usage of her the de-
ceased had left him and gone to live with an old man
named Warren, to whose son she was shout to be monied
at the time of the murder. The prisoner had bean rev
peatedly heard to utter threats that this marriage should
never take place, and the evidence at the trial proved that
he had deliberately cut the throat of the unhappy woman
while she was engaged in washing, and then modeavound
to make his maps. He was, however, speedily taken
into custody, and the evidence was so conclusive against
him that the jury almost immediately found him guilty of
the crime of which hew accused. Shortly after committing
the dreadful act the prisoner appears to have beenesized with
remorse, and It was stated that he would have *soled
guilty if some of his relatives had not retained counsel to
defend him, and on that account pressed him not to do so,
but he evidently, from the moonset of his apprehension,
made up his mind as to what must be the inevitable result.
Immediately after the verdict was returned the prisoner
seems to have made a full oonfessioe of all the circum-
stances under which the crime was oommitted. With regard
to the actual murder, he appear to have mid that he ex-
pected the unhappy woman was to have been married on
the following day, and he was determined that the marriage
should not take place. He states that he watched
until the doomed was left alone in the wsahhouse, and
that he wept quietly behind her, and she was not at all
aware of his being there until he put his left arm round
her neck, and then with a knife he had in his right hand
ha, almost at the same instant, cut her throat. At the
instant as he put his elm round her he stelae that the
deceased turned round and saw Dim, and with a look of
horror exclaimed "Oh, faddy—(this was the nickname
the prisoner wee generally known by)—what do you do
her!' and, without saying a word in reply, be immediately
cut her throat. She struggled for only a brief interval. and
then fell forward into the position in which she was found
by the old man Warren, who had gone to an adjoining pub.
lie-house to fetch some her for hr.

The prisoner seems to have always borne the character of
an idle drunken fellow, who would not work when be
could. He has some relation who are pretty well off, bat,
during the time he and the deemed cohabited together.
he seems to have merely subsisted upon the produce of her
labour. The prisoner was very much annoyed at her
leaving him, and finding that she was resolutely determined
upon not renewing the connexion, he resolved to destroy
her life. It is not to be wondered at that under these cir-
cumstances not the slightest public sympathy was ex.
hibited for the wretched criminal, sod we believe that no
efforts whatever have been made in any quarter to obtain a
remission of the sentence.

The culprit was lamentably ignore:it. He could neither
read nor writs, and appeared utterly destitute of religious
feeling. His position in this respect wee, however, 'nota-
rially improved during his sojourn in the prison, and he
appeared to pay great attention to the exhortations of the
chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Hamilton. The only relative, who
have been to visit him since his conviction area brother and
• broths:An-law, and the former has upon several occasions
engaged in earnest prayer with his wretched relative.
Mr. Gepp, the under-sheriff for the county of Elam,
paid an official visit to the culprit yesterday, accom-
panied by Captain M'Gorrerty, the governor of the pima.
He appeared quite calm, and stated that he was prepered
to die, sad he hoped he should receive pardon for his crime
in another world. He at the same time admitted that his
sentence was a just one.
The hour fixed for the execution was 9 o'clock, and about
half.past 8 Mr. Gimp, the under-sheriff, arrived at the
gaol, and proceeded to the chapel, where the prisoner
had been for some time previously engaged in prayer. He
was quite calm and shook hands with the officials and ex-
pmseed his thanks to them for the kindness he had received
from them.

Although the prisoner bee deformed feet be mounted the
ateps leading to the sciffold without any unistence, and
when the drop fell he appeared to die almost immediately.
There was a considerable crowd assembled, but they con-
ducted themselves in the moat orderly and decorous moaner.

DEATH OF MR. EDWARD WHITE.—Many will be
sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Edward White, of Marl.
boroughetreet, head of the eminent solicitars' firm of
White, Broughton, and White. Mr. While, throughout •
long professional career, was mixed up with the aiktocracy,
political affairs. and the royal family, in the most delicate
manner. He was the Q11001).A private solicitor, and also the
Prince Consort's, and as such conducted the prosecution of
the publisher, Strange, for pirating the royal drawings.
lie conducted prosecution of the Prince Caste'cicala in
the Asir in the S ectio. with which Captain Waghorn was
mixed up, in the revolutionary attempts in Naples. He
was also solicitor to such families as the Earl of Lichfield,
Lord Sufdad, and Lord Vernon, and conducted his bolsi-
ness with the highest discretion and respect, alike among
the aristocracy and among his professional brethren. He
died on Friday, aged 69.—Post.
THE DEAN OF CARLISLE ON RAILWAY WHISTLES.
—Dean Close has published an appeal touching the fearful
yell of the locomotives, cap cially of luggage trains, sr they
enter the city of Carlisle. He says the screams of the
railway trains are increasing to a fearful extent, and nothing
but unavoidable duty would prevent him from flying out of
the reach of the screeches. He asks. " Have the citizens
of Carlisle no ears' Or are they content to be
finally deafened at the caprice of au impatient
engitie.driver ? Are railways alone to be allowed
to disturb the rest and probably shake the nerves
of hundreds, and is nothing to rule them! I
have known cease where a man has left his engine
to get up her steam, and to play upon her screaming-pipe
for •20 minutes, while be was regaling himself at a neigh.
bout's house. Is this justifiable? A runaway engine will,
perhaps, discover some of their practices. As I write,
three, now four engines are screaming. Our railways are
increasing ; and if it be a proof of increased trasc and the
enlarged prosperity of our city, I rejoice in it ; but as our
station promises to rival that of Crewe in magnitude,
in esgine.house, goods shunting, &a. surely the citizens
@honk' do something to protect themselves from the in-
describable disturbance of the railway whistle—far, fax
worse than all Mr. Bass's organ grinders and Italian monkey
boys put together."
GCN ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN.—OR Tuesday
last the Rev. Mr. Owilt was pheasant shooting with
Mr. May and • party of gentlemen at Cavenham, and
in the afternoon, whilst he was standing aphid the park
wall, near the corner of the Drinkwiltow plantation, he
had the misfortune to be severely shot from a breech-
loader, at thirty yards &strum. in the open road. Two
shots struck him in the leas near the right eye,
four on the left breast, one of the left arm,
one on the left side, one on the third finger of each hand,
and more idiot passed through his hat and left sleeve.
Thome* Wallace was deeding close to Mr. Gwilt, and was
struck by two shots, but happily be sustained no serious
injury. Great alarm wag felt at the moment. Mr. G wilt
was able to walk to the hall, where he received the kindest
attention, and was soon conveyed in Mr. May's carriage to
Icklingham rectory. Mr. Image and Dr. Shrill) were
speedily in attendance, and pronounced the woods not
dangerous. Mr. Gwilt's friends will be glad to hear that he
is gradually recovering frorn the effects of this distressing
accident.—Brew and Noririch

VIOLENT ifiSArLT IN A RAILWAY CARRIAML
At the police court, West Bromwich. on Saturday, two men,
named James Dickens and Edw. Adams, were charged with
baying violently assanited Win. Moms, a carpenter, residing
at Wedneebury. in a carriage on the Great Western Railway.
Mr. Sheldon defended. Mr. Ledbrook. district inspector
to the Gteat Western Railway, appeared on behalf of the
company. From complainant's evidence it appeared that on
Monday night last he was returning from Birmingham to
Wednesbury, in a third-class carriage, on the Great Western
Railway. Defendants were in the same carriage, but is
another compartment. They appeared to have been drink-
ing pretty freely, and after the train had left West Brom.
with station they got over the seat to where complainant
was, and Adams commenced an attack, acid assiulted com-
plainant in a very violent . The latter affirmed that
he gave the accused not the slightest provocation for the
outrage. He, however, said to them, " You will hear of
this again." Adorns struck him again, and used disgusting
lasimage. while Dickies shouted, " Kill the ——; kill the
with the gun." Adams had • gun, both he mid his
companion having been shooting. When the train stopped
at the Wedoesbury station prosecutor gave them in charge.
Complainant's statement was corroborated by a witness
named McGill. a clerk, residing at Wadoesbury, who was I
likewise assaulted by the defendants and shamefully
treated. Mr. Sheldon for the defence said his instillations ,
were to the effect that Morris was the instigator of the '
Orem* in the first instance. His clients admitted the
offence, but asked to be dealt is a lenient manner, for
the reason before enumerated. The bench imposed a fine
on each of the defendants of 5/, and the expenses, or in
default two months' hard labour. Mr. McGill signified hie
intention of prosecuting the defendants for the smash upon
himself.— Wel Pertampton Chrc
SOrTH KENSINGToN MUM/EEL—The numbers
visiting the museum on "Boxing day " were 12.998„ the
average from the opening of the museum in 1857 having
been only 7,750.

VICTOR HUGO'S CHRISTMAS FETE.

(From the Guernsey Mail.)

M. Victor Hugo is now as popularly known for
his liberality sad kindness to poor children se for his lite-
rary teats and productions. Forty-one children are emit.
tamed fortnightly—say twenty on the Ilitueday of each
week—at Hanteville-houee, the residence of the poet,
where they partake of a substantial dinner, being waited
upon by Madame Hugo and her noble family with tied
courtesy and coodemeneion. In addition to this. these
children are entertained each year ton Christmas Ku.

The children were received at Bedeville-bouts at
noon on Thursday het, when they were regaled with
an excellent luncheon, which th thoroufhly enjoyed;
after which they were conducted into another
apartment, in which, on a large table, never employed
to better purpose, were ranged different lota of warm,
useful wearing apparel, each lot hewing the name of the
child for whom it was intended. This distribution of
clothing having takes place, the folding doors were thrown
open, when the children, together with the Piteie
present. had the gratification and pleasure of the
Letter than "fairy sight" of a fine Christmas fir-tree,
gloriously lit and loaded with choice toys, beautiful flags,
and delicious oranges; the union jack—" the flag which,
for • thousand years, has braved the battle and the
breeze—being the top and crowning ensign of them all.
The tree was soon stripped of its gems. each child
receiving such toys as fell to its lot ; but although this
was a lottery there was not • single blank. eazli child
held a full ticket which infallibly drew • valuable pho.
The joy manifested in the happy countenances and
bright eyes of these young children on receiving so
many proofs of kindness may be well summed : it was a
most gratifying sight to behold. The children were waited
nom by Madame Hugo and Madame Cheney with hearty
goodwill, assisted by several ladies and the domeeti..a of the
home.
M. Victor Hu just before the distribution of the
clothing took place, gave an eloquent address to the
guests present, in French, of which in the following report,
we eV. only • brief and imperfect outline of its Los of
argument, beauty of conception, and forge of illustration :
—'Ladies, to you I would address myself for a few minute.
on the subject of this, what I call my little Christmas feast,
I admire charity .• it is a Christian virtue, and as such it,
exercise has done and is doing much for the relief of human
suffering. However, this little weekly entertainment
which I have established for children of poor parents,
irrespective of country and of creed, I look upon NA as
an act of charity, but of fraternity. This is the third
year of its anniversary, and each time I have only the same
thing to repeat. It is but a very small act, • very small seeds
which, however, may. and, I am happy to say, has home
fruit. The poor child is under • moral fatality, and we
should aak, ' What can Ido to remove it r Some take
one way, some another—l take this—to improve it. The
commissioners appointed by the Republican government of
France to examine and report on the nose of sickness and
death of ro large • proportion of the children of the poor
born in that kingdom, stated in their report that the chief
ranee was the want of nourishing food. They added that, if
even one good substantial meat dinner, with one glass of
pure wine were given monthly to each poor child, their
health and strength would be greatly promoted, and their
lives preserved. It struck me that it would be well for one to
carry oat the suggestion practically. But the public duties
which I had to fulfil in Paris prevented my doing so then.
I have to thank M. Louis Bonaparte that, owing to my
exile, I have been enabled to do so, now that I am away
from the bustle and political duties of Paris. Ile has thus
unconsciously been the means of enabling me to do what was
in my heart. (Here the guests were seusibly affected, some
even to tears.) Forty-one children, whom you see around
you, come in two divisions, to twenty of whom we give a
dinner each Thursday of the week, so that each of them has,
to my knowledge, not one but two substantial meat din-
ners every month of the year. lo allot them we see marked
improvement : their health is good. their strength ouch
greater. This physical improvement is, at the
same time, moral sod mental improvement. It is
a well-known fact that the robust and healthy child will
possess a superior degree of moral power and intellectual
development to the weak and sickly one. We further
insist that all those who would continue to be our
✓asts must learn to read, or else they will have
to be replaced by others: hence their anxiety to
learn. We wish to teach them the divine &atrium of
equality and fraternity. To do so we, the members
of my family, wait upon them and serve them at
table, so that finding themselves waited upon by those
whom they are taught to look upon as rich and noble,
they may in early life understand the sublime doctrine
of the equality of maokind, the divine fraternity of
the human family. There are some philosophers who
find sixteen or seventeen original Adams. I do not par-
ticipate in such vies, ; I bold to the Scriptural doc-
trioe of one Adam only, the father of all mankind. We
are thus one family. one sacred brotherhood, sprung
from one stock, partakers of one nature: hence them
is not, properly speaking, the rich and the price, for all are
from one original father; the difference being that one
brother has more of this world's goods than another, wikb,
however, is of an uncertain. fleeting. and transitory nature.
Indeed, I have sometimes thought r hat if ' one Adam' had
not been made known to us it would have been necessary to
invent or at least so desire one. limb children may be.
come poor men and women. Well, if daring their woe.
perity they have ministered unto others, and some of these
poor children may become rich and noble, they may then
remember these days ; and from these they may be
prompted to *et in a similar manner towards the poor chil-
dren of their future years. But we do not forget that the
children of the rich have their toys at this festive semen of
the year ; nor can we forget that poor children love toys
equally as much as their more fortunate brothers. We
provide them with clothes, as ou see; first, because nem-
aeries before all things should be provided and bestowed,
and when these have been distributed we shall proceed to
a distribution of toys. I said that this weekly meal wee
a mall seed sown, and that already it hes tonne fruit. I
am happy in being informed that from it similar institutions
on a large scale are in active operation in South America,
in Sweden. in France, in Switzerland, in Eeglend, and in
several other countries. A report of one established in
London by • worthy clergyman was sent me yesterday, with
• drawing of the room and children at table (the drawing
was then handed round for inspection to the company pre-
sent), in which, as you will find supported by generous con-
tributions, two substantial dinners are given weekly tol,loo
children." .

This agreeable C'r reminded the guests present of the
conduct and commands of our Lord, who went about doing
good; and its affect cannot but prove an incentive to all to
go and do likewise. At the conclusion an unexpe:ted bat
highly appreciated act of kindness took place. The Wimp
present drew lots for a beautiful illustrated album of music.
in which the distinguished poet had inscribed. together
with his valuable autograph, a memorial of the fire.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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DONATO'S Cane.—G L V. CA 311 LLF.. —(rII IS Dar.)
—Mr. Bolt, Q.C., went down ..Lo worming to Rockwood.
park, Basingstoke—the private insideoce of the Lord Chan-
cellor—to get an immediate decision on this great one-legged
case. Mr. Bolt believes that Vice.Cbaneellor Kinder,-
ley 's ruling, giving Donato liberty to hop at Covent Garden
until the 11th of January, on the ground that the proceed-
ings bad been informal, is contrary to law. The Lord
Chancellor's decision has not yet reached us.

The new Charing•cross Hotel is approaching
completeness, and but a short time will elapse ere the
Eleanor Cross will be aerated. The hotel has excited ouch
curiosity among the visitors to Loudon this Christmas ;
and those who travelled in the " good old days" and put up
at Golden Cross, when visitors could "reside is privacy.
or mix with company, as Mclioation dictates,"
were able to compare the senior hotel with the
gigantic building opposite. The new premises of Messrs.
Gardor, in the same locality, are also mach admired. It
is now more thee a century since the Garduers cont.
moored Dominus on the site of their present extensive
bui2dieg.. _ _

Nearly 90 cases were landed yesterday at South-
ampton. from Ham, each caw containing from 30 to 40
fat gorse A large number of geese are consumed oo New
Year's-day.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Murray.)
IN RE NAVROGORDATO.
bankrupt was a glove manufacturer of Gresham-
- .tral of Paris. At the first sitting, held a few days ago,
:two was passed for winding up the am out of
-I. Aoki the was the sitting to confirm that resolution.
:‘blllties approach 1.43.0001. ; the amount of dividend
. • y nail). Mr. James Cooper and Mr. Kemp, account-
-. rare Appointed liquidators of the estate. The risolu-
. ata confirmed.

TN RE TRIGOTTI.
u, • ,nilar proceeding took plain in this case as in the last.
i,.ielcrupc was a wine-merchant, of Musoory•court,
. hill. Liabilities over 3,000/.
::afore Mr. Registrar Winslow, as Commissioner.)
IN RE HOLDEN.
I.lokrupt, a waiter, of St. Martin's street, Leicester-
pplied for. his releasel from custody. The debts
. , f trilling amount.
Penny opposed for a creditor who had brought ac
4ainst the backrupt for money lent, and he haring
. r. d a verdict the bankrupt bad gone to prison.
• 'hidley supported the bankrupts application.
honour said it was for Mr. Chidley to show that the
of the bankrupt would be for the advantage of the
and there being no proof of this, be must refuse
C.hntioc. It might be renewed after the choice of