The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-11 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FROX OUR OWI

PARIS, SUNDAY EVIIIING.

The Emperor returned to St. Cloud last night
He was greeted by the Empress as he crossed the
threshold, and by the wonted crowds of oourtiers,
after whose dismissal came the dreary task of
perusing those unwelcome desp►tches which
the telegraphic wires have twanged with discordant
notes for some days past. The Emperor learned
that the impetuous Garibaldi, brooking no re-
straint, regardless of his sovereign's appeals and
the menaces of minister', had actually set forth
on his rash enterprise. Whither does the hero in-
tend
to lead the enthusiastic hordes who have
so readily obeyed his summons 1 Austria and
Turkey tremble on the Adriatic littoral; the Pope
shivers in the Vatican. The man who is de-
scribed by M. de la Guerronnitre, in his newly-
established journal, as a " Fanfaroni," and " red-
shirted adventurer," has contrived to turn the
world topsy-turvy. The unpleasant sensations
which have disturbed the repose of the rulers of
Rome, Austria, Greece, Turkey, and Italy, have
now forced an entrance into that little cabinet of
St. Cloud, where Napoleon HI. sits hushed in
grim repose. Garibaldi has not vouchsafed
to communicate his intentions to the Em-
peror, but the ominous words, "Rome or
death 1." must excite anxiety. The imperial
mind is skilful in piercing strange loopholes whence
to escape a disagreeable inference from a self-evi-
dent proposition, but how can the Emperor, whilst
Pianori's bullet and Orsini's shell yet linger in his
memory, stave off the home question that is
pressed upon him 1
Come what may, the protectoral occupation of
Rome by the French troops has placed the Em-
peror in a false position. M. de la Guerronniere, in
describing the arrival of the two battalions of the
89th French Regiment at Rome, 1,200 men, says
that they were enthusiastically received by the
Roman population, who have unabated confidenoe
in the French, and no sympathy for Garibaldi or
his senseless schemes. He takes occasion to indulge
in some further insults against the honest hero,
but how little do these st►tements tally
with those of the Roman correspondent of the
Tempi, who describes the excitement at Rome as
utterly beyond control ! Bombs are flying about in
all directions, and the unfortunate Romans hope
and believe that, in presence of the difficulties
which he has created, the Emperor will consent to
the joint occupation of the Campagna by French
and Italian troops.
The OpinionNationale of to-night says :—"A situ-
ation so perilous proves the fault which we have com-
mitted by continuing our occupation of Rome, and
refusing Italy her capital ; so palpable • truth
must force itself upon every eye." The Opinion
expresses the sentiments of the great majority of
the French people; yet, in the face of this palpable
truth, M. de la Guerronniere urges the Empe-
ror not to withdraw a single French soldier from
the capital where the presence of one is a scandal.
Strange news comes to us from Madrid to-day,
The Epoca has published • violent philippic against
the Portuguese, threatening them with an invasion
should they attempt to indulge in any revolutionary
tendencies. " The Marquis del Ducio," it says,
" will have the road to Lisbon and Oporto." The
marriage of the Portuguese monarch with Victor
Emmanuel's daughter seems to have bereft these
haughty hidalgos of their small store of reason.
The power of the church party in that country
ea crescendo. The fishermen of Vigo had been detained
on the coast for some days, by • terrific storm
which had deprived theni of the means of pro-
viding for their starving families. A gleam of calm
sunshine shone forth on Sunday week last. They
attended high mass in a body, then put forth to
sea, and returned with ample store of fish. The
authorities seized not only the fish, but the fisher-
men, on landing, by order of the clergy, who forbid I
fishing on Sundays. The fishermen have petitioned
O'Donnell, who will tell them that they are
amenable to higher authorities than himself—
" Coma de &pans."

DETROIT AND MILWAUKEE RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)

This day at noon a meeting of the first and
second mortgage bondholders was held at No. 6, Old Jewry ;
Mr. Limon in the chair.

The first report of the bondholderl committee, which
has already appeared, was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN said the bondholders after agreeing to
fund five half-yearly dividends had been asked to fund two
more. To that they had also agreed, but they bad stipu-
lated that they should be allowed to take friendly steps for
a foreclosure, so as to avoid the law's delay. That armage.
meat had also been assented to ; but et the last moment
the Great Western of Canada had refused to come into it.
Under these circumstances hebegged to move the following
resoliatious :

"I.icai this meeting has learnt with regret that the
board of the Great Western of Canada dissent from the
arrangement made with the board of the Detroit and Mil-
wank'. Railway Company, as mentioned in the report of
the bondholder,' committee, whereby the coupons for another
year would have funded as desired by the company, while
the bondholders would have been placed in a position t, en-
force, if necessary at the end of the year, their rights as
mo t without the delay and expense of hostile
" 2. That the committee be requested to take all nacre:ay
steps to enforce the legal rights of the fast and second
bondholders on default in payment of the coupons
which
become doe in November, 1862, unless in the
meantime arrangements can be made satisfactory to the
committee for carrying out the recommendation contained
in their report.
" 3. That, in order to ensure unity of action, all the bond.
holders be invited forthwith to send their coupons, which
will become due in November neat, to the committee, with
full authority to enforce or fund the same, and generally to
act in the premises as to the commutesshall seem meet.

" 4. Thit all expenses incarred by the committee shall
be paid pro rata out of any mollies which may be recovered
by the contemplated proceedings.
' 5. That under existing circumstances it is not desirable
to entertain the scheme which has besot proposed for the
re-organisation of the comppaanoy, but which is neverthelm
worthy of the careful oonsidstetient of the bondholder 4 and
ma hereafter serve as suggestions for an arrangement."
After a short conversation, these resolutions were agreed
to. A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman, and
the meeting broke up.

ROYSTON AND HITCHIN RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was
held at moos, at the office, 61, Gracecharoh-street, City;
Sir R. W. CARDER hi the chair.

osiaiithrasreeAdtite only business they were called
upon to transact was of a sat actory nature—namely, the
declaration of a dividend. He would not detain the meet-
ing with any observations, but content himself with moving
the following resolution :—" That a dividend at the rate of
6 per cent. per annum, lees income tat of 9d. in the pound,
and Id. per pound 6/. is, of stock, for expenses of the ma.
segment, be and is hereby declared on the
Hitclain, and Shepreth Consolidated Stock, for thel=tyceesir
ending August 1, 1862, and that the same be paid forth-
with."

The nrolution was adopted without any discussion.

MURDER NEAR DURHAM.

A murder of a moat atrocious and horrible cha-
ncier was perpetrated at Nettlieworth, about four miles
from the city of Durham, on Sunday morning. About two
hundred yards from Nettlesworth colliery are two detached
cottages, called Nettlesworth New Houses, in one of which
lived a woman of the name of Halliday, about sixty years
of sge, and in the other an Irish pitman, named Conon, and
his wife. The cottages belonged to Mrs. Halliday's husband,
from whom she had been separated twenty-two years, sad
who keeps a public-house in the adjoining village. Mrs.
Halliday was allowed to live in the cottage rent free, and
her husband besides allowed her a sum of 3s. per week.
Between) three and four o'clock on Sunday morning, Mn.
Cocoa went to Halliday's publiehnuee, and said she had
beard Mrs. Halliday crying out during the night, and she
was afraid she must be very ill. Mr. Halliday's house
keeper and some other penons then proceeded to the house,
wheo they found Mn. Halliday lying on the floor, covered
with blood and bruises, and Cocoa in the act of
raising ber up in his arms. She was at that time •pp
randy dead, but on being lifted on to the bed she suer`
wards recovered her consciousness, and in sowers to yew
Lions which were asked of her, she said she bad been
I shamefully used by the Irish. She made a number at
I gesticulations, bat her articulation failed her, and those
who were attending upon her were unable to obtain any-
thing more specific as to her knowledge of the persons who
had oommitted the terrible outrage upon her. Between
five and six o'clock the poor woman breathed her last. A
coal•rke and • of tongs were found covered with blood,
and the dseesed was cut in a most dreadful manner on the
right temple. Other wounds were found upon her head,
and her arms were fractured sod covered with a mane et
bruises, as if she had done all she could to ward off the
murderous attack. Strong circumstance of BUSPiCkoll nark
upon Colon and his wife, who have both been apprehended,
and are now in the county lock-up at Durham.—Lceis
Mercury.

THE MIDDLE LEVEL,—An official report just
drawn up respecting the recent destruction of the Middle
Level outfall sluice states several fade of interest. The
report observes that although inundations such as that
which hes just taken place are of rare occurrence, yet they
have been found to prove beneficial to the crops in suom=-
big years. The expenses incident to the disaster already
paid and incurred are estimated at from 23,0001. to 25.0001.,
to meet which 20,0001. has been taken up by way of tens-
po easy In reference to the further drainage of the level,
Yr. wkshaw, C.E, having been requested to *amides
the subject, has recommended that for the next 12 or 18
months, in addition to such drainer es can be obtained
through Salter's lode elnioe,syphon pipes should be laid over
the recently-coostructed colfer-dask and that nothing
should be done as to the erection of • new sluice until the
syphons have been fairly tried. The expense of 15 syphons,
with sir-pumps, MEIMI-onsimlo, and mammy apparatus, is
estimated at hem 13,0001. to 14,0001. Six syphons only
have at preesmt bees ordered by the engineer, aod are ex.
parted to be shortly find. The necessary legal powers to
enable the osnimmsieoers to provide for the temporary
drainage and for the site of • new sluice or other work;
have been obtained by clauses in the Middle Level Drainage
Act, pared in the session which has just closed. On the
suggestion and recommendation of Mr. Hawksbaw, Mr.
A. G. Lion has been appointed resident engineer of the
works for one yea at • salary of 1,00 W., as Mr. flawkshaw
has heavy and important works under his charge
both at home sod abroad, and will probably not be
in England during the autumn. Mr. T. E. Harrison, of the
North-Eastern Railway, has also been Associated with Mr.
Hawkshaw as consulting engineer to the commimioners. It
may be added that the fifteen syphons proposed lobe erected
will have • diameter of aft. 6in. each, which will give the
water the same scope as it had in the three openings of the
ruined sluice. The whole expenses of the late casualty—
pest, present, and prospective—cannot yet be definitively
estimated; but the commissioners have determined on
exercising their loan powers to the further extent of 40,0001
They have already bonds outatandisg to the amount of
410,0001.; butt as the area of land to which their jurisdiction
refers is 130,000 acres, this is, after all, • matter of no very
urgent importance. It may not generally be known that
the 6,000 acme of land flooded are not comprised in the
Middle Level at all, and hence the claims for compensation
whit* have not yet been adjusted.
BAY WABHED AWAY.—A singularly unfortunate
calamity has been added to that which has already over
the manufacturing population of Carlisle from the
cotton famine. About a mile from the city a large bay bee
for years intercepted the river Caldew,and turned the water
I along a damooune, by which about • dose places of bud.
Dees were more or less kept going. The first is the beetling
works of Messrs. Ferguson Brothers, Holmehead, where
the bay was situate. The dam then ran along to the flour-
mill of Yews. Carr, next to another beetling establishment
belonging to Mann. Palmer and Co. ; from this it weed
successively Megan. Donald's steam looms, Messrs. Robin.
son's floor mill, Mears. Dixon's cotton factory, Mr. Blay-
lock's beetles, two breweries, an alabutermill, a woollen.
mill, and finally emptied itself into the Eden, about
two mile* from where it left the Caldew. For some
time the bay has been in • dilapidated state, and the
owners were only waiting for favourable weather to put it
into substantial repair. But on Friday afternoon the river,
which had been much swollen by heavy rains, made • breech
in the "apron" of the bay. The rushing waters were not
long in widening the gap, and eventually the entire stria-
tum was swept away. So complete was the destruction
that the month of the dam was left high and dry in • very
short time, the great body of water flowing to the other
side of the river. The whole of the works mentioned will
consequently be more or less affected by this catastrophe,
and some of them will have to stop altogether for a time.
In order, however, to make the stoppage as short as pun
sible, efforts will be made to lay down a cofferdam to direct
the water into the old dam course. This will be no may
teak in the present flooded state of the river; but it is
hoped that in a few days the tampons, structure will be
completed.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE NEAH
DONCASTER. —On Saturday night, at half-past 7 o'clock. ea
attempted murder was made at kbill, near Doncaster,
at the farm premises of Mr. Baker. A man named Wm.
Smith Savage, aged 26, • servant in Mr. Baker's employ,
quarrelled with ha female fellow-servant, named Charlotte
Tyne, and afterwards shot her as she was about to leave the
house to meet her master to complain of Savage's in
new to her. He took the gun and deliberately shot
her, and it is mid that he had dragged her upstairs,
and there attempted, or had actually assaulted her. The
gun-shot struck her on the head, and although she wee
set deprived of life, her case is very precarious. Hasa"
having shot her, and no doubt imagining she was dead.
went upstairs, and bringing down a razor, stood over her
body and cut his throat almost from ear to ear. He Imo
found alive by one of the farm Mounts, who sent his wife
for the assistance of Mr. C. N. Foote, surgeon, of Canehre.
Dr. Schofield, of Dososeter, was also called in, but the
self-Inflicted wounds sensed the death of Savage the sum
night. The young wont= is in great danger, and fears me
entertained for her mammy.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT 07 BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Xr. Comenkrioaer Holioyd.)
LE WINDHAM CARICUAIL A18T1071121, BAIT.

This was a sitting for examination and discharge. The
I.ankrupt had been described as of Upper Woburn-place,
of Boulogne-sur-Mer, and of the Euston Hotel.

The unsecured creditors arereturueirat 2,1391. ; cre-
ditors holding security, &5,923/. There are no available
assets, but the property held is valued at exactly the
:.mount of debts.

Mr. Aldridge, the crown solicitor, said on the last occa-
sion an adjournment took place for inquiry, and they
moertainal that the whole of his life interest had gone to
the secured creditors. There was no opposition on the part
of anyone.

Mr. Butler (J. and W. Butler), Tooley-street, having been
heard, the examination and order of discharge were ad-
journed formally until some trivial omissions in the ac-
counts were supplied.
Mr. Aldridge stated, u the friends of Sir William consi-
dered the present bankruptcy to be for his benefit they pro-
posed to pay 501. into court to meet the expenses.
Mr. Butler intimated that bankrupt's friends were willing
to take that course.
The subject then dropped.