The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1858.

" jealousy. But he overlooked it, IS 11110 COM.
" tinned to bear him children, and managed the

"home well." At length, on the 211nd of January
last, the revelation came. The unhappy woman,
with a cruel candour, eased her own removes
by making a full confession to her husband, and,
with her children round her, on her knees implored
his forgiveness. He promised it on one condition—
she shaald make herself the instrument of his ven-
geance on the adulterer : ss Luca had lured her to
Whitstable for the gratification of his passion, so
she should lure him to Yate, for the purposes of her
husband's revenge. The woman promised and per-
hrmed. The plan was at mice concocted. On the
very next day there was written, under the hus-
band's dictation, the first of those three letters with
which the public is familiar, informing Lea=
that Saturn wee deceased, and that his old
mistress passionately desired a renewal of
the old intercourse. This was on the 23rd
of January. The day for which the meeting
was finally fixed, and on which the murderous
smolt took place, was the 3rd of February. Swiric
declares, in hie defence, that hie purpose in assign-
ing the rendezvous was only to avenge himself by
inflicting severe personal chastisement on the man
who had wronged him. It is rather inconsistent
with this statement, that, on the very day before, he
should have taken care to provide himself with a
six-barrelled revolver, which we picked up ready
capped and loaded on the scene of the deadly assault.
The remaining facts of the case are too
fresh in the public recollection to need or
even to bear repetition. The meeting of
Mrs. Suns and her old paramour at the railway
station, the glimpse caught by LEECH of the husband
while waiting for the train, the pitch-black night,
the wild common, and the murderous waffle in the
dark, are too firmly impressed on the popular
imagination to be easily forgotten.
Sach is this singular cue. Let it at ono be ad-
mitted that the principal offender (in a legal, though
not, perhaps, in a moral sense) is in many respects
an object of pity. Yielding to • rash passion, he
had made an alliance at once below his station and
above has means. It is creditable to him that he
seems to have honestly accepted the responsibilities
he had thus entailed on himself. Just u better
days were dawning, when the passion for the mistress
had merged into a more enduring attachment
for the mother of hic children and the
active manager of his household, be learnt for
the first time, that the woman for whom he had
borne so much, and perhaps renounced me much, had
been repeatedly false to him. True, if the wife's
statement were to be believed, the last instance of
infidelity was of no recent date. Bat could bar state-
ment be implicitly believed? Were those children
his? Had she really renounced the puska she pro-
hued to hel reasons for ? He would at once put her
to the proof and gratify his own revenge. This (and
it le not without some weight) is what may fairly
be urged in extenuation of his offence. On the other
hand, hare is a Christian minister, an educator of
youth, a man bound by position, and, it might
have been hoped, taught by religion, to restrain the
ammo of revengeful passions, 000lly and deliberately
planning, through the instrumentality of his wife's
shame, a dark and secret scheme of vengeance. He
mends lying letters ; he arms himself with the
deadliest weapon' ; for ten days he nurses his fell
purpose, and at last he is kept from murder rather
by the superior strength of his adversary than by
any exercise of self-restraint. If Joni Lazes had
perished under his bludgeon or by his revolver, could
the crime of SAMUEL Swint have been redued
below murder P It is impossible to ignore
these considerations ; it would be dangerous not

to give them due weight. The sentence of four
years' penal servitude is undoubtedly severe, but,
under the circumstances, we are maroely prepared
to say that it is too severe. It is im-
possible not to feel that the woman and her
paramour are, in a moral point of view, not lees
blameable than the husband ; but the administrators

of the criminal law meet mete out punishment ac-
cording to the fixed standard of legal retribution.
In its moral aspect, the cue is bat a new illustration
of the old truth that " out of our pleasantest sins
the Gods make sourges to afflict us." It is an in-
structive example of the disorders arising from law-
less lore, and of the misery that too often results
trees ill-assorted unions.

MUTILATIONS.

An opportunity is now offered, of which those
excellent persons who demand belief for unanthenti-
Wed rumours of mutilations perpetrated by Sepoys
upon English women should be swift to take advan-
tage. There is an obvious difficulty in asking
" E. E. C.," " An Indian Meer," or any other news-
paper correspondent, to satiety public incredulity by
naming a living person who has suffered muti-
lation, but this is now unnecessary. At the
meeting of the Town Council of Edinburgh,
on Tuesday, the Lord Provost of that city announced
that " he had been requested to state that a benevo-
lent lady was ready to grant an annuity to any lady
who might have suffered mutilation during the late
unfortunate occurrences which had taken place in
India. This was the second application which he
had had to know if he could point out any lady
in Edinburgh who was in these circumstances.
He bad made every inquiry in his power, but he had
not been able to find out anyone who would be en-
titled to the annuity. But if any individual in Edin-
burgh knew any lady who had suffered mutilation
in India he would be glad to receive a oomniunleation
as the subject, and to be the medium through
which the lady's benevolence should be dispensed."
Probably the Lord Provost would deem requisite
something more taible than the assuranceof as
informant that he had" heard of a letter" describing
' the case, or that " his daughter wrote some time ago
from India" of a fearful mutilation. But any really
credible evidence would doubting, be deemed suffi-
cient to reedy the liberal purpose which dictates this
offer, which, we submit, is such a challenge as those
who have assured the public that mutilations were
within their knowledge cannot ignore.

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embebroblipa all oral be dee i• aurbor, amo d 401. mod Gm
et Illt,ira maw They ere ila Iles slit el the abroad
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Wive redly ef IL Illsoy, Ida , bead • weld =adds
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Imams. Thee modem of he Wahl bard were agyeared,
da. Yr. lobs tOtodirilk Mr. her Mara mrd Mr.
norm Jams. Tb sorry rhea pearled re raider he
aeuelea et ado he the belf-yoer albs ltileimehoes lay
ask : • sae el VAL la he posed hr dr Mid el
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ended h Loral likregereat art, ad • dumb-
model's sole ef !Maw la the peat. An.. sore
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Maser:

tit Court.

WINDSOR, APRIL 7.
The Prizes Colbert, accompanied by Prince
Gawp of (Many, the Prime of Wales, end I*Woe Alfred,
rode out on hoteebeck yesterday afternoon, sliaded by the
Equerrise In Welting.
_ _

la She evening 1!a dinner party incladd the Duchani d
Kest, Prima George of Saxony, the Preach Imbaseedor,
the Sanaa lthalater, Earl De la Warr, the Bad of Wilmer
bury, Lady Fanny Howard, Mir Victoria Stuart Wortley,
Colonel the lion. Sir Charles B. Philip', Lieutenant
General Reichardt, Captain von Thislau, Dr. Carus, Lieu
tenant-Coload Passonby, Captain and Mn. F. Sayer, mod
Captain Tarlatans, R.N., who srrivad in the afternoon on a
visit.

Tbs band of the Booes Familiar Guards played daring

amid Yank "L'ltatfarttd*Frattorr M. Debars Bright.
Overtn Menelelmottri.

=Fine Love"
"II Dublin di Siviglia "
Polka
The Peewee private bend aferverde pertermed ha the
Dreviarrome the following election :
Overture, " Frometha: Beethoven.

netOaTog sad Fissile. Presto—Con- I
carte. in F Mlaor fiteradale Berman.
Pianoforte—Mr. W. 0. Callas
8010--" Vows Mollimass"
Finale (let Act)—" Marts"
The French Ambassador (Gnat Purstgay) bad an
sodium* of bar Majesty this madam to which hie ILlosl-
limy was lahoduced by the Earl of Mainwebury.
Count Persigay, the Berl of Mahmsbary, and Earl De la
Won, left Windsor be the irratoos.
To-day Whig Prime Leopold's birth-day, the Duchess of
Et at paid a visit of ocapratulatiou to he Majesty, at the
1 Castle.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, in Downing-street The Ministers present
were:—The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor,
Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke,
Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Mslmesbnry,
Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Pakington,
the Earl of Ellenborough, the Right Hon. J. W.
Henley, and Lord John Manners.

Mr. J. G. Chnrehward and Captain Breithett, of the Royal
end Imperial Mall Pool* Bowleg, had an interview with
Mr. ritagetald, at the Fordo-Moo, yederday, on the sub-
ject of Fesepart regalalkes.

Thsparess wore realised yartadsy at the Coloalsi.odk
from the Goma= al Boath Amtrak sad Now Zsamd.

The Queen and the Prism Comet, accompanied
by dr Pawnee Alice sad Prince Grego ef ematny, geld a
visit to Bt. George's Chapel yeersday efteroce. Tbs avid
pry were redone' err the seared 'dice by tits Rev.
Wm. Canning, macs of Mawr. Dr. !Ivey attended
sad performed renal pieces of erred mono whits die royal
party were priesat.

- The CoOntess of Rodeo sad Lady Maria Forester
hare arrived at the Quesiee Hotel, tipper Norwood.
_ . _ _ _

Lady Mica has retnreed to Claridge's Hotel
from Brighton.

Lady Chantrey has left Claridge's Hotel for
lieluocad.

The Dowager Lady Dixie his arrived at the
Brunswick Hotel (81. Jams's) from Brighton.
-. . .

Lieut.-Colonel Alison, ialitary—Secretary to Sir
Colin Campbell, is obliged to Mum to this country on sick
ham, owing to his smut wound bomb(' brokan out again
after his miontag duty with the Caasseaudir-in-Chief.

Intelligence has -beau nestled by her Majesty's
gorteaseems st the time by the &WWII& goveratasat at
Yr. Hedge.

The fag miaow of the Simpson Mathematical
Prissod ibee Collage, Aberdeen, the other day, wee
Yr. Druid lelneleen. " Mr. Robertson," says the Bawl
Awned, "boa, fp to the last six months, worked ell the
smart at Oars labour, earning thereby referent to eatable
kir to Mir& dr College classes daring the winter."
_ _

We regret to leas of the death, onTt eaday,
after a short Ohms, ri the Rev. Dr. Rider, Head Muter of
the Charter He..

A sale of Marina Backers greets will take place
at her Let residence, No. 9, PIM Re*. Buts, an Ncesday
rat, red IN expected to eandass ex newel days. The
advatleemeat la Bahrseni states that swag the previous
emerseirs el the red togedina to be salseltted to table
weepallelea as sway preeente width eke reesived face
lloverelgas sad Mearloas pessosages "la the dew of
evatisea."

Lord Normanby has *dammed the following
Lew lo the 011setittiteerued:--“ lionsee, Areft 31„—I rer-
solve from rev journal, just receive% that s enterslpdoe Is
crud Se N. Laurens. If a lareleeer may be permitted
to Jaffa is a traits of oedema greeted*, IMO Of U. Lamar-
tads shiest trkeis, sod tee elhe les MI peetkohr °nor-
teddes of aerobe an that MI emu dee for the great
ease at weir, eat only Is Peep bet thronehost the
seers wale, may renters to esetribels. As et the dis-
taste, I do sot knew the emu of the seeselear, I Me the
liberty at maxis te yet I,olloh. es my seheelptles.—
Berstre, b., NORMANDY.

LONDON AND PORTS- WZITERN AND GIULA7
AND NANCIIIIIIIR. 8111PITILD,
RAILWAY&

AND LIZ

The joint committee of the Greet Northern and
ILessebtatar, SWIM, sad Larsdashbe Railway Ocespeabs,
had a met* man* at Rafe-cam station, at which it
wee proposed to alert the bareesall rata sad lira chews
la the sootopsaybi Bet, hearses plass whore the Lew
dot sad Narth-Westent Caspay sad the jars ear
- camps* ea esaditita, however, that the grabs
et the Msadrimr slakes be dealt with at are, sad
that the new itigelisa se to the erreiseat of Mid, shall
be rellevell to la Richard Bah& sad Mr. Poteadell
Polar, ee their soayka as mord by the degatetia ;
W that all ether idyl/est.'s esseamaild by Me ispia-
*a, " aunt each es Is atareary to deals the petits el
the Leaden sad Neeth-Weases aid ilbsdisid Cocepeedes hi
the Ittaabriair stalks" chef NOM They would aloe pa-
pal tad say dispute es to tolls over the South Jan ~
Mae, se ea to Matillas, or working, be aimed le the Basal
it Trade. la the begs Wei this prepaid may be esespeed,
the Mat esereitles have seared the de. awes hawses Lea-
ds. AIM lissebestar le arm afar Waft sea, the 10th
lasteat.

7daaebatr sod Least Postooger Para :—Pirst-olaw,
Ob.; ditto, two-day ittara *bib. th. ; aseced-elwa, 23a. ;
MUG, two-day Mum, It& M. ; ddr&ciaa, lda $&
Livarpool aad Lomita Patatagar Para :—Flrst-diata,
79x; ditto, two-day relax, 485.. waxed-chis, 26.,; elltta,
two-day Mom Th. M ; tidtd-oiaaa, Ilka M.

Idsaiirriar _4 1. i. Goode Saba :--11gedil.ebei,
Ik ld. per los ; ; Neal ams. ni.; third
Mile, 36a.; hare dile, Ma.; Mk dliks Ala Ispirt
rale readly), lie. pie lea. Limped lad Leadiii,
le eel Lan, mad other wide Nese le le laid
t. preperilea to Aim, eceordlas W the sietambast• of
the tatt• of the several places.

TIM LORD CHANCELLOI.—The Lord Chancellor
sill receive, for the fret tiros since him the judges
mud Ober
beteg digaitarlei et the .s, at btu mut
Thursday, the trot day et guest hrs. Os
Isrdahtp ertll stt et Laeoh's-fas sot the new ?NW
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LOLL—We perceive that the Mende of
Dr. Melia hew taken the opportunity of hie redrafts&
Croft preellen the k daeltaing health. to mark lb* ass
of his rile prelladand aerftoft and the aftioalitft la
whisk be tea bid as a medloal adviser or ea a Idled. by
Maws enbeididen to purchase an annuity for la IMb. or
to ha etheridee wild for hie advantage.V di Mod
end 'Weer estellL ownwelly Andes the dodoes 1111; aft
EMI Mtnedenno ISL ;Ma 31bene lector lUt sash;
Bev. Cams Dees" IM; Mr Isderme ;
Mt Choi. Medbp, at Cirtwide.
DIME or ialoll uers M.P. roz
SPOSCrry to ennewese the aggli at Piajwe
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lanteas Fries, by Mr. Cenwelenimr Intillipt (who ob-
served the etweevene date di hie bsitl). tie end been
WM the Insolvent Oend, the ewe eijtsreed Ilsor
tsesilh. The plied me* wee tides I. Quash Priem
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eh. Ma wee sweidly edeneld le by the prisow asst lmentheridee.
bee so abill and eager hie Omen (bomb whisk he. et
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INDIA.

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, WIDMISDAY EVIIIING.

This morning, previously to presiding at a council
of ministers, the Emperor received at the Tuileries
directors of all the principal railway lines. Some
measures, intended to give a fillip to basins, are
still expected, although serious objections have been
raised to all the expedients hitherto suggested.
The Bourse has been even more depressed than on
Monday and Tuesday. The Relate fell 10c. for
cash and 15c. for account, closing at 89fr. 36e. and
89fr. 40c. Mobilier fell 18fr. 23c. The Orleans
Railway declined 16fr. ; Eastern, 7fr. 600. ; North-
ers, 6fr. ; Lyons, 3fr. 76c.; and Southern, 2fr. 50c.
Western remains without change.
The Imperial Prince being now upwards of two
years old, the loyal senators think it is high time to
provide him with a separate establishment ; and a
" project of dotation " is on the tapis.
Count Waleweki's grand fancy ball, which was
postponed on account of Orsini's execution, came off
last night with great éclat. The Emperor and
Empress and the Princess Mathilde were there in
disguise. About 800 persons were present. To-
morrow Count Walewski gives a diplomatic dinner
to the Duke of Malakoff, who will positively leave
for London on April 12.
M. Boittelle, the new Prefect of Police, has
selected M. Barrault de Saint Andre the Sub-
Prefect of Joigny, for his private secretary.
The following highly-flavoured specimen of the
flattery which is thirsted after by the present
Sovereign of France, is extracted from an article in
the Pays, en the opening of the Boulevard de
Sebastopol:

The him= mind is overawed at the sight of these
immense works, which were thought to be utterly haps-
eible in these days, and the secret of which ft wee supposed
belonged to antiquity. Ftve years since one would have said
that the wonders of peace in New Franco could never equal
the wonders of war. But Napoleon 111. gives to France
every sort of glory amidst the plaudits of the world, asto-
nished at the prodigies accomplished by this intelligent
will.

Its announced that the Neapolitan government
is about to send a memorandum to its representatives
at foreign courts in answer to the Sardinian note on
the affair of the Cagliari. The astounding mistake of
an attaché of the British embassy at Turin, in con-
sequence of which the Sardinian government was
left for two months under the erroneous impression
that England was prepared to support the demand
of Piedmont for the restitution of the ship, makes a
great sensation here.
Madame Ristori makes her first appearance for
the season this evening in her old part of Medea.
On Friday she will, for the first time, play Lady
Macbeth—a performance which is looked forward to
with intense curiosity.

The Tribunal of Correctional Police of Nevers
(Niivre), three days ago, tried two men, named
Buzelen and Simonnin, for having on the 11th
January last, made use of seditious language to the
effect that "before long there would be a grand
political disturbance, and then things would go
better." The tribunal condemned the former to six
months' imprisonment, the latter to one, and each
besides to 600 fr. fine. It afterwards condemned
another man named Rivaillon to forty days' impri-
sonment and 600 fr. fine, for spreading false news.
The same tribunal, the day after, tried six other
men for having, before the attempted assassination

of the Emperor, announced that it was to take
place, and was " concocted in England;" and for
having used seditious language. One was sentenced
to a year's imprisonment and 60fr. fine; two to six
months' imprisonment and 500 fr. fine; one to three
months and the same fine; and the other two were
acquitted.