The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-07 00:00:00

FRENCH HISTORY IN GUN CARTRIDGES.

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A singular discovery has just been made in France.
The Masan', says that the Minister of the Interior having
been informed that the grower part of the parchment em-
ployed by the artillery for snaking gun cartridges came
from the old archives disposed et different periods, re-
quested his colleague of the war department to order these
parchments to be collected and submitted to the examina-
tion of a special inspector of archives. Oat of 4,000 car-
tridges which have been examined at the artillery depot
in Paris, 3,000 produced very Important documents
connected with French history. Among them were
I.2oonages of the old manuscript accounts of the Kings
or Frain*, Charles VI., VII., and VIII., Lewis Xl. and
XII., Francis 1., &c. Them lists of ezpenses point out
the employment of the budgets of the different reign", and
thus throw light os many points of national history. They
interest at the same time the annals of diplomacy by men-
tions, the pesessweelof the envoys as well as the object
end the espouse of each minima ; the history of the arts by
stating the orders given to painters, musicians, statuaries,
architects, , pie:unique history of furniture, costumes,
ice., by giving the names and elect description of each
object, with the price affixed; and lastly, the history of the
habits of the court, and manners in general, by the detail
of the gifts.and alms granted to the persons of the mate of
the Kings or to them who met the royal corlige; gentle-
men, soldiers, and adventurer' wounded in war • girls to
merry ; pilgrims; hermits; poor persons affected with
King's evil. wetting for the King to tc.eh Oen ; and
others with all kinds of diseases. Among thinammilillsto
fortisately preserved, we may also maatini 1011 AIM
male almaised with the old chamber of semeaais of Daa-
**A min which comprises some very hopertua dome.
meeurs 44116 as far back as the 13th centime( hotel IF
• weekarie, tomesvial grants, accounts of emiftleagenturlt
asitar amps emanatieg from the Priam sad
41....:22.4 Savoy; seven hundred charters of the
ex; Papal Bulls; letters patent of the Kings
67.1eottie,Trilippe the Bold, Philippe le Bel, &c. ; 600 do.
mimesis frina,the archives of Artois and Flanders; budgets
of cities in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; accounts
of the artillery of Duke Charles the R.sh at the siege of
Liege ; military subsidise furnished by the communes, and
other curious documents connected with the history of the

FIiPTII or NOVEMBER.—On Saturday this
anniversary was commemorated in the usual manner in the
metropolis, and with considerable freedom in the suburbs.
Of late years it has been the practice to barrow the form
and lineaments of the doomed effigy from the meet unpopu-
lar public characten of the day, and on Saturday Nicholas,
Emperor end Autocrat of all the Remiss, might be seen
parodied in the chair which three years ago carried the
Mamma of Cardinal Wiseman. In the evening the
prlice In the principal thoroughfares was considerably
reinforced fee the repression of the fleawort oakum, but
crackers and squibs were nevertheless heard in Kr/ent-
ailed. alAsssural ovals were made. A serious explosion
Mt piss@ Is Casssilusse, Tower-hill. A pensioner named
Calloolom, orb* kap a small shop, had bought 71. 10s.
monk sf Am works of different descriptions; and Mn. Cal-
laghan, is order to show one of her customers the manner
in which squibs were let off, lighted one of them, the sparks
from which fell upon her whole stock. The persons in the
shop immediately made their escape, and the premises were
in a few minutes in dames. A considerable amount of pro-
perly was destroyed before the fire could be extinguished.
H MIEIBLE ATROCITY AT NEW YORlL.—Daring the
peat seek the most intake excitement has been masticated
111 consequence of a rape and murder perpetrated ex :the
person of Catherine Quigley, a very interesting girl of roar-
teen or fifteen years of age. The parents of the girl are
natives of Ireland, and came to this country some two
pan and a half ago. On Sunday Catherine went to school
in the afternoon; and her nunoirrival at home exciting
alarm. the whole of the next day wee spent in makirg
search. About sun-down the body was found in a pad
near Jamaica. A meeting of the citizens was called, a vigi-
lance committee formed, and subscriptions amounting to
flee huhdted dollars were obtained, sad offered as a reward
for the detection and conviction of the guilty parties. Th•
governor of the 'state has also offered a reward of one
thousand dollars additional. On Monday, a roughly dressed
Irishman, who is said to have been prowling about in the
woods for the lase day er two, was arrested. The prisoner
was brought to Jamaica, his clothing examined, and on
his linen were found spots of blood, and in other places of
his clothing traces of blood, as if water had been applied
in endeavours to Wash it out. A legal investigation is now
going en.—Nroe lurk Weekly Iltrairt, Oct. 12.
CIIIACIIE, AND SECIA IN RCSSIA.—The Russian
church affects toleration. Of the vast population of fully
60,000,1100, only about 44,000,000 are members of the re-
gale; church ; 640,000 are dissenters or heretics to that
church itself 3,500.000 Roman catholic. are found
tbri.utrhout Ilse wide domains of the Czar ; and
fully 2.00,000 Armenians. The prott stank of the
Augsburg Confession of Faith amount to 2,000,000;
these of tbs Reformed church to 64,000. There ere
10,000 Moravian', while no 1, se than 2,500,000 belong
to the )I•Eome tan creed. The J'ws are 600,000 in number,
and the followers of that mysterious potentate, the Grand
Lama of Thibet, amount to no !ens than half that amount.
Bat there are creeds still more extraordinary throughout
the enormous tract of territery which constitutes the Rus-
sian empire ; 170,000 are open idolaters, and no km than
600,000 arc addictrd to the disgusting practice of Fetichism,
worshipping bate, cows, and every uncouth specimen of
brute, as representative of the 4ivinity of heaven.—Parker's
Natio/sal Moicelmsg.