The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-24 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

faction.
The Star attaches much importance to public demonstra-
A graceful compliment was on Wednesday paid
ties on the subject of reform during the remainder or '
the recess. It thoroughly agrees with Mr. Forster in ex. to the Right Hon. W. Hutt by hi coostithenteby the pre.
pecking to find in most of the new representatives sincere iontation to idr• Hutt, at a Public meeting largely and in-
finentially attended, of en excellently executed bust of the
and advanced supporters of reform, and in thinking that
the ministers seems to be right hon. gentleman. Mr. T. E. Headless, M.P., was the
the nay danger threatening
" that they may make the opposition greater than they seed spokesman on behalf of the subscribers.
by want of boldness." Should the report that Mr. Forster is I Ripe strawberries were picked a few days since
to be the new Under-Secretary for the Colonies prove well in a garden at Wellington, in Somersetahire, and ripe wild
founded, the ergot would be welcomed as of signal meaning. , strawberries were picked at the nine time in the hedges in
, the same neighbourhood.
IRELAND. I A man named Thomas Dunford has jut died
The Times is glad that the application for a writ of near Evershot, in Dorestabire, 105 years old. lie retained
certiorari to remove the Fenian cases into the Queen's all his faculties to the last.
Bench, that change of venue might be obtaioed, hes been I The town of Shauklin, in the Isle of Wight, is
refused. The court holds that an impartial trial can be sow lit with gas.
had is Dublin. In whatever way the prosecutions During the heavy gale of Wednesday, the Rev.
may end, the object of the government and of all quiet J. A. Brained& vicar of New Wortley, sear Leeds, and •
people will be practically attaloed—Fenisoism has failed, friend, were imprudent enough to bathe in the North Bay
Episomal Visitations are commonly a cause of weariteis at Scarborough.
A heavy sea was running at the tine, and
and disoorefort to the English clergy, but is Inked, the the rev, gentleman had been but a few momenta is the
Times se", they eze abhorred. They ere not eelY die. water before he was washed away and drowned.
liked is themselves, but in procuratious, and synadals,'
Festivities have just taken place in North Notts,
and fees for bishop, registrar, and spperitor, the clergy
upon the coming of age of the Hoe. George Edward Milner
are made not only to take the visitation but to pay for
Moonton, only son of Viscount Galway, M.P., of Serlby
it. There has been quite an emote on the subject, nom- Hall, Notts.
mencing with a memorial presented by the clergy of .
Two boys, each about eleven years of age, were
Derry to the Primate, complaining of an increase of the '
visitation fees by certain rules and orders published cutto pieces, aWednesday, in a windmill, situate at West
Hartlepool. In the top of the mill, where the tug were
in pursuance of a recent act. The Times thinks,
s literally a playing, there was an co unvered upright revolviog shaft, to
however, that the pence, for it i
which, by some means unexplained, theyihad got fastened,
of pesos, are less the cause of dispute
and before an alum could be raised, they were literally torn
than the fact that these people don't love one
another. In such cases we usually incline in England to to Plum*.
think the greater man most in fault. We argue that he ' A Diarbekir letter of Oct. 26, quoted by the Levant
had mare power to put things on a better footing, being Herald, reports the conversion to Mussulmanism of Dr.
the larger, ...a, we must conclude, the better man of the Bonnelli, the guru& ne doctor in that town, whohad alio
two. Surely it is part of the bishop's work to be the elder induced his children to follow his example ; and M. Ponce,
brother of his clergy, the head and heart of the diocese'. the French Consul, had protested, but of course without
Surely, then, he must be responsible for its oosditiou in • result. In the meantime the incident had occasioned great
higher degree than the general rank of the clergy! If be excitement amoreget both the Christians and Musulmano.
finds it is utterly impossible to induce a good mutual feel. ' A Paris correspondent writes under date of
big, that strikes us as a very grave testimony against his Wednesday :—" A trial was terminated to-day, which
position altogether. created considerable interest in a certain world. One of
The Herald thinks it possible to treat even Fenianiam too the anonyms of last season, whose reel name was given
lightly. Outrages during the winter which may keep in court as Charlotte lirthier, was summoned before
Ireland in constant slum and cost many valuable lives, the Tribunal Correctionoel by the parents of a
els , minor,
and
are not out of the range of possibility, and raids io Canada whom she robbed as extensively in money, jew
must be guarded against. The American government dress, as members ofthat her sisterallowhood usually d
o.
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should remember that the permission of such proceedings parents complained they ed theirn 01.
as the latter would clearly be a rases belli, and the ex- I per annum as pocket mosey, although eves hie tallor's
asperatios which they would produce would render the bills were paid by
he them, buturre that sincebtai his
the Imoacunt aintance
maintainancs of peace impossible. with Berthier bad incd de toof
several thousand pounds. The president related in roust
the list of the achievements of this fair enchantress, which
, would startle the moat blasé. A Russian prince, a Spanish
count, sod two French sons of marquises are among than
whose ruin she accomplished ; to say nothing of a young
officer who at the end of in mouths, finding his bust franc
gone, volunteered for Mexico and was shot leading a
forlorn hope. However, these victims having all been over
age, the court had nothing to do with them ; bat do ourne-
meat Sc &linear is severely punished by the Code Na-
poleor. Chariot e Duthie. alias Con-t, is oondemoed to
six months' impriereament and costs, her flagrant crime
having been ioduoing this boy to hand over to her certain
shares be bad io his possession."
Mr. William Johnson, brother of the President
of the United States, and late collector of Vii,,aeia, Texas,
has died from the effects of an accidental gunshot wetted.
The deceased was an only brother of the President, and at
the time of his death was about 65 yeas of age..
THE SECRETARYSHIP OF IRELAND. —SIP Robert
Peel, we understand, has refused the peerage which the
government offered for his accepteoce. He judged. and
rightly judged, that the title of no nrage would be
fraught with such influeotial memories,ew pee
or emaciated with
sun peamfal triumphs as the honoured name he inherited.
He departed for Leedom on Monday night, having pro•
vicinity resigned his offloe. His someseer, Mr. C. Fortesene,
is expected to undertake the duties of his arduous end
important office almost immediately. Mr. fOKIIIICIII4
Sool3planOS of the Secretaryship of State for Indeed mom
lames a new election for the county of Loeth.—/risk
Times.
On the 13th instant, whilst hunting, the respected
muter of the Burton hounds, Lord Dmeraile, had the
misfortune (gays the Stamford Mercury) to meet with a
very serious accident, owing to his horse huts, fallen with
him. and while down another horse with its rider fell epos
him. His lordship was confined to his bed for several days
dm, tbe aseident, sad on Wednesday in last week great
lean were entertained by kis medical attendants (Dr. Backs
FIRALS EDUCATION. sad Mr. Broadbent) for his recovery. We are happy to
While men's knowledge of natural philosophy has been I
datutecase that ; Skase_ 'teatime now think more favourably of
and we sibearlal hop. that his lordebi 'aWoo-
rapidly growing, we see is too =ay worms. nye the verymay be both speedy sad permanent,P

THE ()NITER/31TM.
Al=rain that what the speakers at the late Oxford
meeting really want, some for one purpose and some for
another, is to see the influx of two or three hundred men
who will get through the university for half the expense
usually incurred, the Times contends that the way of meet-
ing the proposition lies in reviving the ancient academical
institution, which included servitors or rims as one of the
orders of students. These would be relieved, as formerly, at
every point, of aconsidersble portion of the ordinary charges,
and by being placed visibly in a position of a poorer student
would be exempted from the social obligations presumed to
attach to men of larger means. If the Oxford reformers
would be prepared to see a poor class of students openly
recognised and distinguished as such, the institution of ser.,
vltors would be as little obnoxious as a poor man's college,
sad far more practicable. Generally, however, It cannot be
denied that the wish is rather to obtain all the advantages
of Oxford without all their natural cost. Wbeu we are
j asked, as we seem to be asked at present, to admit to the
advantages of superior society • large class which is not
rich, and yetis not to be treated as poor, the problem be-
comes very difficult indeed.
The Post, treating of this extortion of college servants,
says that all the necessary waste of an undergraduate,
either at Oxford or Cambridge, might be supplied at
lust from 25 to 50 per cost. cheaper. The remedy
is in paying the cook, butler, and all their subordinates
fixed salaries, acid making an arrangement by which AIL
articles supplied from the kitchen or buttery shall be
charged out price as at the clubs. trefortunately the cook
sod the butler are not the only offenders. Porters, gyps,
scouts, bed-makers, markers, ell carry ea the same game,
and vie with each other in trying what they can screw out
of the too easy young men around them.

(nos 001 omit 001AB110IIDINT.)

PARIS, THURSDAY Einunito.
The France, noticing the revival of a rumour that
the Emperor intends to strip the Corps Legielatif
of the right to discuss the address and to grant a
limited right of interpellation during the whole
course of the session by way of compensation, says
We knew very well that the suppression of the debate
on the address is called for by these men who believe that
the empire and liberty of discussion are incompatible. But
when we study the policy and action of the Emperor we
that it he advances cautiously in the path of reform
he never goes beak. The opposition has no doubt somewh
at
tit
abused the right of speechifying upon the sddrems.e
for
has so used its privilege ea to make it more profitabl
the government than itself. But that would be a strange
mason for abolishing the right.
Yesterday I mentioned the condemnation by the
correctional police of the great Jew financier, M.
Mollaud, for having organised an illegal ottery,
although he alleged in his defence that ho was
doing a patriotic thing by splitting up shares in
I the Mexican Loan so as to enable a larger number
of Frenchmen to invest their savings in a specula-
tion patronised by government. To-day the
Moniteur notices a lottery on a smaller scale,
which has brought the originator of it into trouble
—not, however, eta much trouble as he deserved. A
young man named Petri, being invited to a
wedding, was at a loss for wedding garment&
His only available security whereon to
raise money was a silver watch, which he
could only pawn for 10fr. or sell for little
more. In this extremity a friend said to him,
" Put up your watch for a raffle. You may very
well have 70 members at a franc each. The person
who gains will be greatly pleased, and all the
others will only have lost a franc." This advice was
followed. The 70fr. were actually raised and laid
out at a French Moses and Sous in a new suit of
clothes. It does not appear that any of the sub-
scribers to the raffle complained. It was quite
natural that they should not do so. Every sane
man who puts money in a lottery knows that in
all probability he is throwing it away.
The impulse which makes a man take
a lottery ticket so far dies out before
the drawing that in a very large proportion
of cases he does not take the trouble to look over
the lint of the winning numbers. In every
lottery of the many which, to the shame of
the Empire, have been authorised within the
last fifteen years, a large number of prizes
have been unclaimed. In the case in question,
it appears from the Monitettr's report, that the
" authorities" got wind of the speculation of the
owner of the silver watch. Not only was he prose-
cuted, but his friend who gave him bad advice was
included in the indictment. The Court dealt gently
with them, and for a scheme which, if high example
did not so greatly encourage it, would have looked
like a bad swindle, merely inflicted a fine of
100 fr. The present government is very guilty in the
matter of lotteries. They were abolished by Louis
Philippe as essentially demoralising, and the law
remains as it was in the time of that sovereign.
But the exceptions to the rule patronised by the
empire are an numerous that the moral effect of the
law is completely obliterated. It would be better
that lotteries should be absolutely free than that
a monopoly of them should be continually granted
to an extent sufficient to absorb every halfpenny
that the public can be induced to risk in them. On
one pretext or another there are always lottery
tickets on sale in Paris, and the persons who get
the direction of thew plunder the public
to an enormous amount every year. The
taste for this sort of gambling, which the
law prohibits, is thus fostered by authority. At
best a lottery is classed among maki prolukita,
when not authorised, and the public is encouraged
not to think a lottery nuttem in se. The courts of
justice, ever humane, have come to regard illegal
lotteries as venial as counterfeited bulletins in a
ballot box.
M. °dyne Barot, a writer on the staff of the
Prose, avows himself in a letter to the Erenetnent
to be the author of the biography of the author of
the " Idaudit," signed "0. B." He alleges that
very many pages of the " Maudit," and more par-
ticularly chapters 3,4, and 6, were read to him
ten years ago as personal memoirs, and he gives it
plainly to be understood that IL &den, in
whose behalf M. Nefftzir and a dozen other
Paris journalists yesterday took up the cudgels,
' was the person who read them. M. Barot fur-
thel r affirms that to his certain knowledge the
I person described in the novel as Archbishop
T—, was a bishop of P—, and that " Ver-
delon " was an Abbe He therefore
concludes either that MM. Lacroix and Verboeck-
hoven are mistaken in asserting that a priest
known to them is the author of the " Maudit,"
or that the person alluded to by him (namely,
M. Erdan) must have furnished the author not
only with documents and personal souvenirs,
but with whole pages in his own handwriting.
As a matter of course, M. Banat says he replies
only by "disdain " to the hard language hurled
at him by his confreres.
The Bourse continues firm. The rather unex-
pected announcement that the Bank of France had
reduced its discount from 5 to 4 per cent. was no
doubt at the bottom of many purchases yesterday
and to-day, but it did not produce any great effect
when made known to the public. The amount of
business done was not large. Rents rose Sc. for
cash and 10c. for account, closing at 68fr. 70c. and
68fr. 72}c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50e. Mexican rose
The Daily News is seized.

At Naples, on the 19th, there were 159 cases of
chairs and 92 deaths.
BIoUWAT ROBBERY. —A ticket-of-leave man
earned Fleury Allee was oe Tuesday committed for trial at
the West Cornwall Ailing, 05 a charge°, attacking on the
highway and robbing John Siastberam, a farmer Woggles
to St. lees. Prisoner knocked the prosecutor off his bores
with a slick, and then robbed him of his pens sod saseey,
and left him on the ground in a state of iseansibility.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT IN CANNON-STREET.—
The cireamstances attending the death of one of Messrs.
Luoss's workmeu nsmed Nerinentry, who was killed during
the storm on Wednesday moraisg by a plank blown frees
the top of the railway•statioe is Cannon-street, was requited
let° lrut night by • coroner'sjury. Death was lease
his skid' being utterly awaked. A vwdict ri " Ae=
Death" was ',Weed.