The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, Mon EVECMG.

The T, laps cannot understand how the Monitt r
can have printed Lord Pahnerstou's speech in
favour of the press without appending reserves and
explanations. Is the Mostito, r converted i Does
it share Lord Palmerston 's opinion t D ›es it think
with him that "the press is the true support of
civil and religious liberty, and that without a free
press liberty is but a dream; and a delusion t" Or
.toes it suppose that the French public is so degraded
that liberty may be safely lauded without awakening
au ezho iu its breast ? The Tta,ps particularly
calls the Monitores attention to this, that Lord
Palmerston's doctrine is general, and not appli-
cable, as the Duke de Persigny would pretend, to
England alone. Ile must be either right or
wrong, and the .11,ntitt rin promulgating doctrines
so diametrically at variance with the practice of the
French government, should let its readers know
whether it approves or disapproves of them.
The diplomatic relations between Russia and
R,me are getting worse and worse. Baron de
Meyendurff, after being given to understand that
the Pope would not see him, has suddenly left
Rome. It does not, however, appear that there is
as yet an official rupture.

The Munitcur only to-day announces the robbery
of Lady Cowley's diamonds, which occurred up-
wards of a fortnight ago.
Yesterday afternoon, during mass at St. Severiu
Church, a woman dressed up iu man's clothes tired
a pistol at 31. Rankle, the curt;, who was officiating
at the altar, and wounded him rather severely. She
was at once arrested. The curd had frequently
given her money, and his neglect to answer recent
begging letters was the cause of the crime.
The Palace of Industry destined fur the Univer-
sal Exhibition of 1861" will be erected on the out-
side of the triumphal arch of the Etoile, on ground
between the Avenue de Neuilly and the Avenue of
the Grande Armee. An American railway from
the Champs Elys...,cs to the bridge of Neuilly will
be made for the convenience of visitors.

We have had a Cale dry frost in Path for three
orfour d us. There was a heavy fall of snow last
night between Boullgne and Abb-ville. Mathieu
de la Drome is triumphant. Several ships have
been wrecked in the Mediterranean on the very
dayfor which he predicted a storm 14 months ago.
The public excu,e his many false prophecies, and
buy up his altliallaCk6 as fast as tiny eAn be printed.

The notorious Ueneral Mirainuu has arrived in
Paris from Mexico, and is suing to Vienna.
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31. E. de Girardiu gave a dinner last Saturday
to Prince Napoleon, the Duke d,. Persiguy, M.
Nigra (the Italian Slit:data), and M. Alex. Dumas.
A more heterogenous company could scarcely have
been assembled. It is related that one of the
guests put to the host this posing question—
" Since your constant doctrine is that the press
is impotent why do you write P The answer is
not recorded ou this occasion. But I remember
that M. de Girardin looked this difficulty iu the
face long ago, and attempted to meet it by saying,
" I write for the same rea..tn as roses blow ; be-
cause it is my nature. I never supposed that I
was doing any good."

M. Barthet, the author of the U,dwnu de
was called out the other day for a lampoon. The
meeting took place in Switzerland, and 31. Barthet
received several severe sword wounds. The report
that his life was in danger is, however, contra-
dicted.

It is said that tho revenue derived from news-
paper stamps has been lately falling off at the rate
of lOU/. a day, owing to the Momteur du Soir, the
Petit Jortnial, and other prints issued at the small
ct•st of one sou.

Lady lecturers are becoming the fashion. Mdlle.

Esther Seth has been authorised by the Imperial
Council of Public Instruction to lecture in the Rue
de la Pain. She will make her debit on Christmas-
eve, Les Femmes Paurres being the subject.
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The Bourse is firmer. Rents rose Sc. for cash
and 10c. for account, closing at 65fr. 30c. and 65fr.
40c. Mobilier rose 111 r. 25c. It is asserted that
the Company has signed a contract for a Spanish
loan. The bullion in the Bank of France is under-
stood to have increased since Thursday from 351
millions to 367. This shows that the demands for
accommodation at the end of the year are less than
waa predicted.

AMERICA.

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NEW YORK, Du. G.

The rumours from Sherman, for they are only
rumours, are still conflicting, but there seems to be
no doubt that he is already near Savannah, if not
at it. The Richmond papers sometimes announce
that he is " floundering about in the interior of
Georgia," "that he has been checked," "that be
is making no progress," &c. ; at others, that "he
is meeting with very little resistance," and will
"doubtless reach the coast." I think it probable that
all the means of resistance which the Southerners
possess in that quarter have been expended on the
defence of Augusta and Macon, and that the open
country has been abandoned to the invader, so that
if, as seems likely, Sherman has passed by these
places, and bent all his energies on reaching
'the coast, he can march on as fast as
the necessity of living ou the country will
let him. There is a report in town since yester-
day that his cavalry were within six miles of Sa-
vannah four clays ago, and it is confidently believed
at Grant's headquarters. lam told that he is by
this time already in communication with the Fede-
ral forces at Beaufort. Foster has been making
demonstrations in his aid, against the Charleston
and Savannah Railroad, but so far, I think, with
very little effect. The force be can muster is too
small to be able either to advance very far inland,
or to hold its own against the troops which the enemy
can at any moment bring by train from either
1 terminus of the road.

People are asking now, more earnestly than ever,
what Sherman will do after he gets to the coast, fur
clearly upon this depends the value of the wonder-
ful march which he has doubtless ere now success-
fully accomplished. As a raid it has not been
thoroughly successful, for it has not destroyed, as
i people here generally expected, the arsenals and
storehouses at Macon and Augusta. But even if
it had accomplished in this direction all that could
possibly have been expected of it, it would still have
been hardly worth while to undertake an expedi-
tion of such magnitude, and risk a whole army for
such results as these. In short, from a military
point of view nothing will justify it, except the
exercise of a decided influence on the situation at
Richmond. Sherman must make himself felt by
Lee, or the public will think he has marched
across Georgia in vain, and there is,
therefore, and naturally enough, a general
disposition to believe that he does intend to make
himself felt by Lee, and that that has been Lis main
object in coming to the Atlantic coast. A gentle-
man who=e position gives Lim unusual facilities for
knowing
military matters I have always found sound and
trustworthy, assures me that Sherman will, after
establishing a base on the sea, either at Beaufort or
at Savannah, move up along the coast towards Rich-
mond, keeping in communication with the fleet,
which will accompany him, destroying the railroads
as be goes. Another opinion is, that he will, after
reaching tee coast, turn back to Augusta and cap-
ture that place, and make it his base for ulterior
operations. Which of these is the correct view
time only will tell. Probably even Sherman him-
self has as yet no fixed plan, beyond that
of moving against Lee from some point or
other. But in calculating what is to occur in the
neighbourhood of Richmond during the next two
or three mouths it does not do to overlook the I
Virginia mud, which is now beginning to show
itself, and will probably by the first of January
render all movements of much importance on the
James impossible. I do not believe, therefore,
that if Lee is not disturbed before that time, he
can be disturbed after it by actual fiLtliting. Any
pressure which Sherman can bring to bear on him
will be through the severance of his communica-
tions with the South, which now consist of a single
line, the loss of which at any point this side of
Georgia, from which he is Lirgely supplied, would
undoubtedly render Ricbn:ond, I will not say
uuteuable, but very diNicult to hold, even
without any active operations against it on
Grant's part. The condition of Sherman's
army when it makes its appearance on the coast is
another point that must not be lost sight of. If he
Las suffered serious loss in men ou his way, or if
he has suffered much from fatigue, or exposure, or
underfeeding, the continuance of Lis operations w dl
of course be for the present impossible. He will
Lave to rest, recruit, refit, and organise traLs-
portation. But about this we are of course, as yet,
in complete ignorance. Ad we know is what the
Confederate newspapers tell us, and this is not only
very little, but such wild nut that it is impossible
to extract anything from it sufficiently solid to
afford bases for a prediction.

The Duchess Riario•Sforza is about to purchase
the hotel of the late Signor Pi amain° at Passe. Fioren-
tino, as musical critic of the .lfoui tc r and other journals,
made a large fortune in Paris ; his hotel at Nagy is a
princely residence.

The Emperor of China has decorated with the
order of the Dragon several Freoch officers who took put
in the capture of Nankin. This decoration, which is sus-
pended to a yellow riband, rerresents the tee-clawed im-
perial dragon, and has the following inscription in Chinese
characters :—" Before it the 1:m turns pale, and the tier
is silent !"

The Minister of Public Instruction at Turin has,
by a decree of the 14th, definitively closed the college of
Piave di Cento, kept by the Szolopians, on account of
immodest conduct on the put of the reverend fathers.
This is the fourth institut:an condurted by a religions
corpor►tion among those comprised within the late Papal
provinces, which it has been found imperative to suppress
foe the reason above mentioned.

The peninsula of Lunkoran (Asiatic Rudaia)
contains numerous springs of naphtha. No less than 100
are now worked, and yieLl annually about 4,000 tons of
naphtha, similar to that brought from America. There are
also many springs of the kind in the Isle of Taman.

The teipsie University in the present term con-
tains 382 students, of who= GGI are natives of Saxony, and
318 forenoon.

The Turkish liue4-battle ship Peik Nusret—
which has been at Southampton for about five months—is
expected to leave that port in about three weeks' time.
She will proceed to Portsmouth previous to starting for
Constantinople. She will take out 10(4000 bricks from
Southampton, which are required to build an arssual in
Turkey.

Sr. Pat-ea.—The Bishop of Loudon bast eon-
(anvil the honorary canonry of St. Paul's Cathedral, vacant
by the promotion of the Rev. Ernst Hawkiae, 13.1)., to a
prebendal stall in Westminster Abbey, upon the Rev.
G. F. W. Mortimer, D.D., heed mister of the City of
Loudon School. Dr. Mortimer has for mace years taken a
warm and active part in the cause of education.

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S.E to S.W. and back COMBS. I. to S., strong to
to E. moderate to moderate, snow in
stromr, SelLe 100 W or places.
lain.
W. to N. and L. fresh Inertia. N.E. to S.E., strong to
to .tronr, some snow moderate.
or rain.
S.W. to N.W. and N.E. SOCTEMUL N.W. to \.E. and S.E ,
fre.h to strong, with fresh to moderate.
some rain.
n. E. to s. W. and back. LAMM E. to S.,streag to fresh,
tin iltrale to strvng,
some rain or snow.
Northern=deotJand. Wistarandreland. Weise, and adjs.
eenles. floathern= English Channel smiling of May. Eames
mgastward Lifland and North Sea.

ACCIDENT TO MR. JAMEH MURRAY, OF THE
roatik.s.orncE.—w• are informed that Mr. !Turray. Aa-
sistant Under-Secretary at the Foreign.offioe, met with a
serious accident on Saturday last, at Aldermarston-coort,
near Reading, while oat shooting with Mr. D. Higford Baer
and a party of friends. One of the shooting party, in firing,
accidentally discharged his gun, and one of the shots lodged
in the left eye of Mr. Murray. It is feared he has quite
lost the sight of his eye.

Ou Veducmlity last the Rev. William Vincent,
clerk, Mader of Arts, was instituted to the rectory end
parish church of Poetwick, in the county of Norfolk, on the
oreseLtation of the Right Hoe. Archibald John Earl of
ltosebery.

At a general ordination holden in the cathedral
chinch of Norwich on Sunday lad the following persons
were admitted into holy onien :—Descona : Goodwyn
Alfred Archer, A. 8., Emmanuel College, Cambridge;
Otbo William Steele, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin; Hirzel
Carey le Lisle, B.A, Trinity College, Dublin. Priests:
Jolla William Colvin, 8.A., Corpus Christi College, Oxford ;
Charles Henry Shaw, hang's College, Loudon.
THE PRWE OF LAND IN SWELAND.—Wo under-
stand that Mr. E. Horsman, M.P. the present lessee of the
Glenfeehie shootings, has purchased the flee little property
of Alvie from the trustees of the late Mr. Baillie, of Kin-
gman.. The purchase price, we bear, is 20,0004 Taking
the present restal. t,( 1., ass criterion, we would say Mr.
Harman has paid for his whistle ; but the property is
susceptible of much improvement, sod may, with • mode-
rate antler, be made a tolerably good and at tbe same times
mast deniable inyeetment It is not MOT years dace the
late Mr. Bsillie purchased from the late puke of Cordon
the above property. on which he never expended • simile
sitillink for 6,5001.-21 On Courant.

ANOTHER COLLISION ON THE NoMil
KENT LINE.

Yesterday morning a second accident ~r.
on this company's property, this time on the ,it:.-
with line. The scene of this fresh accident
Sanction where the Groenwich line diverge] a r
distance from New-cross, at which spot, shortly
8 o'clock, au engine was on the up-line prepsriL_
run on the metals of the North Kent line, when ;
senger train from Greenwich Male up, and a colloi
the consequence. The driver and stoker of to p
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train were much injured, the former haviox • !.,
cut and bruised, and the Latter his ear neatly ,
They were conveyed to Guy's Hospital. The c.OOO
accident is stated to have arisen from the signal
clear" being given at the last point which the pa
train passed, and the driver was prooeedi,q iu f,r. . 1
security through a dense fog which then prevailed ut...
very moment when the train came into collision er-.h •, .
engine. A large body of men was employed ti:l (1..1A
pairing whatever damage was dons to the hce,
traffic was resumed soon after the accident.

As might be anticipated, the passengers au .
injury, but no fatal case is reported ; the comp,. 7 ..„
however, received several communications from sub I :
who experienced "severe cuts and otherwise IL! .r..!,'
"much shaken and hurt," " bruised anti cut ."

The collision is described as the result of the fig, *J.
which it was impossible to see any impedimei.t.

THE FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT I:L.1,
HEATH TUNNEL-STATE OF THE LNJU!:i.

INQUEST ON THE FIRENAN.—(THIS 1).1 ,
This morning at 11 o'clock Mr. C. J. Cirtt.tr
coroner for East Kent, opened an inquest at the Freer...
Tavern, Woolwich Dockyard, on the hody of Edo n

;he flrsmaa of the 9.10 expren train from Ma,ulsvm. e. A

ran into the ballast baba Co Bleckheitth tuauel 04 tL

Kent Railway on Friday evening bat, by wii::11o.
people were killed and injured.
The jury having been errant,
• -• • •• •

The lesi'nesl 6roner said that on the previous err
inveetigatiou had been opened by bins at Llackl.,eL
the deaths of five of the unfortunate men who bet :

lives by this sad calamity, of which no doubt th;;l..:
all beard. Upon the present occasion he did net
to go into all the evident* again that was taken upon t_
previous evening. He would have the body ident-,.,/.
order that it might be interred; and after t..
medical testimony, be should adjourn for a sutc:-.:
time to allow of the other inquest to he romp.... •;
should require the jury to proceed to the Mare.le lie t,.
to view the body.
The jury then viewed the body, and
The Coroner asked Mr. Inspector Linvell, of r.
division of police, if he could inform the court as •
condition of the other sufferers?
Mr. Inspector Linvell said that Mr. and Mrc.
Windt's, who were taken to the Airtilican, at
oe the night of the collision, had been removed to
own residence, at 23, Terrace, GreeohitLe. 31r4.
Windus had sustained a very severe freest-
the leg, and being far advanced in pre:na..
the shock brought on the pains of labour. and :t
found Ili:ordure to remove her to her own home, as it ear
her desire. Mr. Windus was much contused, hut not
posed to be in danger. The other eases at the Marine MN.
pital were those of Randall. the guard of the ballast trod",
who had three of his toes amputated and is progro,:::g
favourably. and Callen, the plate layer, who ii is
a very bad state and considered to be to
hopeless. Another bad ease was that of Hurst, the drv-r
of the passenger train, who was frightfully scalded. M
!Tice, who also lays at the Antigenic:au, at Charlton. is ore
bad. At Guy's hospital. Miss Frances Gilliegbam, who
bas a broken leg; and Juliet Pledge, • platelayer, much
contused, are progressing favourably. fir. Browne •till
remains at the (,olden Cross, very prostrate.
The followieg evidence was then taken :
James Allan, of 3, India.rad, Albany-road, Camberwell,
said be wane stoker on board of • steamboat. He ideeti-
fied the body of the deceased as that of Edwin Allow, his
brother. He was 24 TOW/ of age, and was • stoker in the
service of the South Eastern R cilway Company, whore he
had been far ten years. He was • very steady man.
Mr. Alexander 3linnock„ surgeon of the Marine 11,1.34
Woolwich—The deceased was brought icto that at..hlish-
ment about 10 o'clock on Friday night. Ha was salaries::
from extensive scalds of head and face, arms and hands,
and greater part of the lower limbs. He ate t.ntfer•
deg severely from the shock and intense cold.
Ile was quite sensible, bat not able to give any
collected account of the shucking affair. He gradually ral-
lied, but the reaction was imperfect and ineffectual. During
the &hansom of the following day delirium set in, and at
half-past 11 there was a very bad sudden change. Ile died
about 12 o'clock on Saturday, or a little after. Had not
made any post-mortem examination. He bad DO doubt the
death was caused by the extensive shock, from the scalds,
and other injuries received. The ease was hopeless from the
first. The parts were all quite denuded of the skin.
Mr. George Claydon, the stet.otornaster of Charlton, was
the next witness. He knew the deceased. and last saw him
alive at 4.30 at the Charlton station on his engine. He was
performing hie duty with Hurst, the driver. That was the
2.40 train from Maidstone, and they were waiting for a bal.
hut train to be telegraphed from Blackheath as having gone
through. He received • signal, upon which Le sent on the
train after waiting at the station for 18 minutes. After the
train bad left &boat 12 minutes received a message from
Blackheath, statiug that the ballast train had parted.
Having got assistance he went up the tunnel, and on his
Lis return he saw the deceased, who was very badly injured,
and said, '• Oh, Mr. Claydou, I am so bad." He was re-
moved to the Marine Hospital.
By a juror—The deceased was removed to • cottage near
Aegerstein Junction, and placed warm in bed. He was
afterwards brought down to the station by the military,
and placed in an ambulance waggon. There were several
doctors there, and assisted the demised. The ballast train
bad the proper tail lights.
The inquiry was then adjourned for • fortnight.

DEATH THROUGH PARAFFIN OIL.
INQUEST.-(THIS DAY).
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This morning Mr. Payne, liepuipcoroner for
the City sad Southwark, held am inquiry respecting the
death aliened' Pick, eked tau years.
. .

John Pick, -,'' Red-ley. Kent-street. Southwark, said
that he was a hawker, and deceased was his sou. Between
12 and 1 on Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, his
was standing at his door, when ho heard screams front the
deceased. He ran upstairs and saw the deceased standing
in a mass of &OWL Liquid fire was runnin; over the floor,
and the bed was burning. Witness seized a blanket and
B.ing it over the deceased to extinguish the tire, but his
skin and thigh seemed to be burning. There seemed to be a
sort of spirit in the oil. The neighbours came iu to has as-
sistance, and with some difficulty put out the fire. The do-
ceased said that as ho was going to bed he upset the paragin
lamp otf the mantel shelf ; the glass broke and the oil spilt
over him, and be found himself all in a blaze in a minute.
The paraffin lamp had been bought by witness for a penny.
Martha Hallam said that she heard the screen., of the
deceased, and upon rushing in sho saw the room on are.
and the deceased standing naked in the middle of the
room. He was horribly burnt, and be said, " Oh, Martha,
take me to the doctor's, for I am ilyiog.”
The medical evidence proved that deceased died a few
hours after the accident, from burns over the trout, Bea,
sad

The Coroner baying summed up,
The jury returned& verdict of •• Accidental death by fire."

THE BEsT OF THE LATE DCKE OF illeßttoNti.-...
Tins marble bust of the late Duke of Richmond was placed
in its position in the Assembly Room, at the County Hall,
Lewes. on Wednesday last. under the personal superintend-
ence of the sculptor, F. 11*Dowell, Esq. On the front of
the pedestal is the following inscription :—" Charles, fifth
Duke of Richmond, &c., KM. ; born, A.D. 1791 ; died, A.D.
ISO/ In earl life he served with distinction in the Penin-
sula, and at Waterloo, and retained to the last his love for
the army. As a peer of parliament, as • minister of the
crown, as lord-lieutenant of his nAtire county. as a warm
friend to agriculture, he per? cried honestly and Ably the
ditties intrusted to him and the work which he undeitook.
In every relation of life, his good sets° and energy, the
frank courtesy of his manners, and the kindness of bin he..rt
won for him the respect and attention of all who knew bim.
This memorial has been placed here by his Sussex friends in
grateful recollactionof hie virtues and his services."—S,,.B44
Adrcrtim r. _ _

DEATH OF ME. A LOEENON FREDERIcK GEE-
mtg.—This gentleman died on Thursday last at his
brother-in-law'. seat, at HiMeador), Middlesex. after a few
houn' illness. He was the second ems of Mr. Charles
Greville, by has marriage with Lady Charlotte. eldest
daughter of Williams Henry Cavendish, third Doke of
Portland. He was born January 29, and
married, April 7, Del, Charlotte Maria. dsumbkl
of Mr. Richard Henry Cox, the army banter.
The deceased gentleman was well known to society
from hie long association with the great Duke of Wel-
liegtos as private secretary, a post he retained up to the
death of that illustrious nobl.tuan. The deceased geode•
mem was father of the Duchew. of Richmond. His eldest
sou, Major Arthur C. Greville, was with his regiment in
the Crimea, but has retired on half-pay. liissoe Cavendish
Hubert, a promising otticer in the Coldstream Guards. was
killed in the battle of Inkerman in 144. The late Mr.
Greville was a brother of Mr. Charles Greville (for many
years one of the clerks of the Privy Council). and Mr.
Henry Greville (gentleman usher) and of the Countess
(Dowager) of Ellesmere.
ILLEGAL Woaos.—A journeyman turner, namml
Bouttenot, was the day before yesterday brought before the
Tribuosl of Correctional Police, charged with haring, on
the 24th November. written on the walls and other public
places in Paris the words '' Viva la Comte de Paris !'
which conduct was considered destined to disturb public
tranquillity, and leed to disobedience to the laws. He was
condemned to a fine of 301 r. end • fortnight's imprisonment.