The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1867.

what it did : what degree of responsibility it
would like to assume is of less consequence. The
Committee of Council certainly gave this book a
status which it would not otherwise have obtained.
Mr. NEALE'S singular presentation of the facts of
English history harmonizes so well with the
ecclesiastical principles held by the most active
of Church parties, that it is not likely to
disappear from elementary schools until superseded
by something even more outrageous.

AFTER THE BATTLE.

The correspondent of the Morning Post gives
the following perfienlan of a visit to the field of Menem*
after the battle :

" Manteca is situate in a hollow, surrounded by wooded
heights, vineyards, and olive grounds, through all which
the Garibaldians retreated fighting. and I found people still
occupied in finding and burying their bodies on the spots
where they lay-53 having been buried that morn-
ing. A French captain, who obligingly accompanied me to
the principal positions round the village, showed me in a
vineyard, at the summit of which his company was sta-
tioned, the hastily-dug hole into which his soldier@ had
thrust 15 corpses, the sight of which immediately
round their corps de garde incommoded them. The cap-
tain belonged to the 80th Regiment, which had been sent
from Rome as a reinforcement on the Monday morning
before the capitulation of the Garibaldians, but arrived
too late for the fighting. He seemed disgusted at the
whole affair, especially as he did not consider it une
guerre,' and did not sympathise with the cause for which
it was undertaken. ' C'est au mois d'Avril prochain que
nous ferons la guerre, quand now irons en Prime,' said he,
with a bellicose twinke in his eye. He wore the Cross of
the Legion of Honour, and had gone through the Crimean
campaign. Under • group of oaks on the right of
the road, not far from each other, were three still
unburied corpses—fair specimens of the different cate-
gories of enthusiasts led by Garibaldi to achieve the unity
of Italy. The first was a robust—almost Herculean—young
peasant, who had evidently not feared exposing himself,
for be was literally riddled with balls through his head,
his face, his ample breast, and even down to
his hip ; the round red holes were visible, but the placid
expression of his features indicated no suffering, but
his death must have been instantaneous. The plunderers
of the dead have left only • shirt on the corpse, which was
thus nearly all visible in its vigorous proportions. The next
victim was of a much more delicate type. A fair young
man with long curling hair, and blue eyes, half open,
with the sepia placid expression as the first. His shirt
was open at the breast, which was perforated with balls ;
a striped flannel tunic and a long pair of fine linen
drawers had been left on him ; but his stockings and boots
were gone, and the whiteness and delicacy of his feet
showed that his life had not been one of labour. Who
know to what respectable or noble family he belonged, or
what anxious mother's heart was yearning towards him as
he lay with his fair face upturned in death to the azure
sky. The third corpse was that of a fine lad of about 17
apparently, whose chin revealed the first signs of incipient
virility. He looked like a young artisan, and was com-
pletely dressed, with the exception of hie shoes, a circum-
stance perhaps owing to his clothes being saturated with
blood from a large wound in his right side, over
which his left hand had closed in death. Signs of
the desperate struggle which had taken place
were evident all along the road and on both sides
through the brushwood and around every farmhouse or
building of any kind which could give a momentary shelter
or • point of prolonged resistance for the Garibeldians to
maintain against their determined and superior foes.
The pasteboard cartridges of she Ch•ssepot rifles
strewed the road for miles, showing the immense
amount of ammunition the French soldiers expended in
the course of the engagement ; and the effect they pro-
duced in determining the fate of the day against the 3,000
valorous but undisciplined followers of Garibaldi is
acknowledged by impartial Papal officers, who do not pre-
tend that the unaided efforts of the Pope's troops would
have proved successful."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(TIM DAY.)

KQUITY COURT.
(Before Viee•Chencellor Sir W. Page Wood.)

RAUL V. nil ILITIMPOLITAX ILLLWAY comrattr.
'Phis was a suit by the owner of a house situate near the
front of the Great Western Railway Hotel, Paddington, for
an injunction to restrain the defendants from
' interfering with • vault underneath the plain-
tiff's house. The railway company bad been
pat under en undertaking not to interfere with the plain-
tiff's premises in November, 1866 ; and in March last he
had obtained an order for leave to inspect the company's
works, they having violently interfered with an agent of
, hie who had climbed up a hoarding erected by the corn-
puny in order to see what was going on. The breach
having been, as the plaintiff alleged, folly made out, he
moved last July for an injunction to commit the con-
tractors, which motion was ordered to stand to the hear-
ing of the cause. The hearing was commenced on Monday,
and concluded to-day.
The Vice-Chanoellor reviewed the evidence, and said
that notwithstanding the conflict of testimony. he felt no
doubt that the footings of the walla of the plaintiff's cellar
had been really attacked by the company. His Honour
did not wish to believe that the company had any design
of injuring the plaintiff ; but it seemed that they found
the 7 could not carry out their plans without touching the
plaintiff's walls, the very thing which they were restrained
from doing : and then, instead of applying to the
court for leave to have the injunction relaxed in
any way, they preferred to run the risk of committing
a breach of the injunction. As to the oontraotors, his
honour should certainly not allow them any costa; he
should not order them to pay any ; and, se to the rest,
believing, u his honour did, that the plaintiff's cue was
fully established, he should order the plaintiff's cuts to be
paid by the company, and the injunction to be continued.
Mr. Kay, Q.C., and Mr. Rawcliffe, appeared for the
plaintiff ; Mr. W. M. James, Q.C., aniMr. Bovill, for the
defendants.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Sittings in Banoo.—(Before the Lord Chief Justise and
Justices She. and Lush.)
THE FICElpf !SS OF 1116 COURT. _

The Lord Chief Justice announced, for the Information
of the bar, that Mr. Justice Blackburn, having concluded
his labours at Manchester, would be in court to-morrow
(Thurelay), when motions for new trials in cases tried
before him would be taken before the ordinary motions.