The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-01 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY ritraz IN FRANCE.

AOQUITTAL OF A BRLF-CONFMMED MURDERER,
The Court of As•ises of the Aveyron has this
week tried • young man, named Gland Bar, aged 24, on a
sharp of having. oa the 9th January last, mardered a
year farmer named Treaty, both c 1 them midis' at
It appears from the ladietieset that an improper
latimasy ked for some years subsided between Treaty and
the prisoner's doter Gabrielle. The prior, or mash
annoyed at this, and gave Treaty to understand that be ,
mast either discentinsie his visits or many. In May lust
the prisoner threatened to take summary Tragemice cm
Treaty if be did not do one or the other, sad moreover
basked up his threats by the great arguments of • double.
barrelled gun sad • braes of *tole, which he said
be was prepared to ass. Thus pressed, Treaty um-
seated to be marled, sad the niarriege eostreet
was duly drawn up sod dyed, but, though
Treaty reasived I,ooofr. of the 2,700 fr. farming
the young woman's wedding portico. bill censtently deferred
the wedding. The Friers& w►o bad bra soar mouths
resat from Folsom, retuned thither in January last, and
demanded a private larder with Treaty, at • coil,
when he happened to meet him. Treety, however, re-
fused to see him in private. The prisoner then withdrew,
sad era after Mari with • gun and other sporting so-
eoutrecoents. Ile rein pressed Treaty to grant him • few
admire' ocinvenallos, sad they withdrew together Into •
private non. Boos after two shots were heard. sad
Trott, was foaad lying deed on the door. The prisoner
had made his ewer& He was, breve& soon arrested, sad
when istorregated preesseled that the first barrel had
gone of aceidestally, woundisg Treaty in the bask, sad
that the other had been dierarged by his (allies
against It. Tr directioa of the wooer, however, showed
that this story could ad be boo ; and rued wirers
stated that the or/our bed boasted to them of having
shot Treaty latest/sally. In °Dart the *poser retracited
his first oceforsion, and Imlay reed that he had find at
Treaty under the excitement oared by his insulting la&
gases, but without intend* to kill him. The jury,
carried away by the eloqtames of M. lechaud, who was
brought from Paris to nadir to defend the prisoner.
brought in a verdiet of absolute acquittal, sad the court
had no alternative bat to set the murderer at liberty.
Oar Paris cocresposdent olmerves I,—" This is or of tray
shocking lustiness of the cheaper at which human life is
held in Prim,* whatever the, is the slightest bar of
roma/ about • murderer. It is very pretty, no doubt,
and the their will always bring down the gallaiss at the
Theatre of the Porto Si. Martin, to erre the 'wirer-
able sager of an ingenuous youth jealous of his mister's
honour. Bat io this case the country ler is question bad
had an lea than three illegitimate children by her lover.
Bra admitting, therefore, the dreadful doctrine of the
legitimacy of assassinatiou to revere private wrongs in ex-
treme mar It is very hard to show any priming ascreilv
for a murder in this particular tartar. The charger of
his sisters long tarnished honour only attained • positive
promise of marriage by the display of • pistol—that pistol
which be ultimately used. A dorm car of deliberate
/teat was never proved before any jury, sad although I
would be sorry to go against trim' by jury, eves in France,
I must say that such acquittals as that at Rhode& where
the setting at large of • murderer is the crowning enter-
tainmeat of the fir which the presses to the provisoes of
a brilliant advocate of the Paris bar always provokes, argues
a lamentably loose state of public morality. The redid
in Sec's ease is • marfest temearagernest to all these, sad
there an many who fancy that every individual is the
proper judge of the remedy for his own wrap. It is a
palpable rteograde step towards that lawless state which
always commands poetical admiration—whoa wild in wore
the noble soup ran."
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Arrangements have been made for carrying into
effect tome important 'Bastian la the workmen's Wain.
on the Metropolitan Railway. On and after to-day the
charge to the workmen will be cue shilling per week, or
twopeses for the doable tourney daily, to mid from any
station on the line. For the greater convenience of the
men, the trains will start at 5.15 and 5.30 a.m., Instead of
5.30 and 5.40, u at present.
Ma WINDSOR GARElSON.—Yesterday morning
the 2nd Battalion of Coldstream Gnards, which has been
doing garrison duty at Windsor sines the 156 of September
last, was relieved by the Ist Battallon of Cloldstream
Guards, under the command of Coloael the Hon. Dudley
Carleton. The 2nd Battalion, nader the command of Colonel
Elardiup, proceeded by a special train wa the Great Western
Railway to Paddingtom, es route he St. Georges Barreelm
Marin-emu
Murree aao Woe:Metes AMA—Yesterday
a deputation from the Weds societies of the United Mea-
dow, scoompasied by several emiebers of parliament,
waited upon Sir George Grey, at the Home-ofliee, for
the purpose of bringing antler the aetioe of the govern-
:abut the preesot abate of the law effecting contracts
between masters and workmen. Mr. Clobbett, M.P., said
be had undertaken to bring • bill into parliament to
amend the present law relating to coatroom hawses
masters and workmen. The sets were three in number,
the filet weed is 1744, and the is 1823. This last
met was the ow geserally sited span, and by it any
workman breaking his embed with aa employer was
Sable to be apprehended, taken before • =shied*, and
lentwed to imprisonment in • common gaol, for any
not ascending three months, with bard labour.
Mkrl were thousaod: of rases in which this act bad been
thus Warm& Bat when the coat/tot was broken by
the master, the act only
action.empowe the workman to
=against him by civil This was an
any of which tb• workmen complained, and,
tee thought, very ; and the deputation were
there to ask the governs:sat to motion an &mead-
ment of the law, piecing both parties on qty.
Mr. Strachae, of the Glasgow Tnidetif Usicm, dated that
it 1861 there had been 11,000 proesoattou of workmen
nader the act, and menr conviction. Mr. Roebuck,
ILP., suggerted the propriety of the government's assent-
to • Wee committee of inquiry cia the question, with
ppower to examine both masters sad mere. All the other
members of parliament present echoed this enggestion. Sir
George Grey Baugh% that the prieciple of the bill brought
under his notice was fair and equitable. though he raw some
difficulty as to the details. Mr. Roebuck's proposition to
refer the bill to a select committee appeared
beet him the
beet course, and he did not think there would be soy
Um to it as the part of the government. TO Mr. Beik's
question, would the hoe. barest, ci the part. the govern-
ment, move far • saint eemesittee ? Sir George replied
" No • I Suck that lied bitter be bit to the boa. member,
Mr. dobbett, who has now charge of the bin.-
LICTI7III 07; AlatiCl.—tht Tbunday night Mr.
H. Tates Thompson delivered a I.stare ca Me "American
War." at the Gaildhall, OasDeNn. The B.'. W. G.
Clark, Public Orator, presided. Mr. mom. after Midas
his degree at this salvenier Is 1868, pretended to Ame-
rica, and there 'Mussed the battle of Obattamoge, sod
apes this boldest hie lectare wee mainly founded. The
loiterer eat misted by two vary large maw, by whisk he
led his bearers a very pleasant aid interestiag loamy.
Leer Pasaczess..—At her Majeetil- Chapel
Royal, St. James's, the swam to-morrow well be p
brz!!t.Lord Bishop of Ludas, the Dean of her Majesty's
Maya. MS woes eommemess at 12 o'clock. At
;Ejsety's Chapel Royal, Whitehall, the semen at the
moving servioe, whisk eassinisimmi at 11 o'clock, will be
prembed by the Very Rev. Dr. Jimmie. Des of Iblech,
Fraseeve DitY 111 the ifetrissity
esratoa at Ospr
and rector ef tionesabass. The at it,
durum mei" commeares at 3 each. will
Miethed the Rev. Dr. Tempts, heed master el Rushyhe
fielseil. The sieving ender the Wee of Fulb Catho-
dal, at the 'petal 7 (Meek essaiag service, will be
mashed by the Rev. Chubs Msnhab ,D. thapiala to
the Hesse of OtWialle, mad vim larelbele ram&

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