The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1866.

will serve its author's purpose if it only
postpones to a more convemient time
financial catastrophe whisk is inevkablet
together with the outburst of dissatisfaction which
is certain to attend it. It is impossible that the
Emrsaoa should be under any delusion as to the
probable execution of the Convention, and equally
. impossible that he should contemplate a renewal
of the expedition, to insist on its maintenance.
Allowance should be made for his position. He
has given up very much lately which it was er-
roneously but generally supposed he had bound
himself to maintain, and there is no fear that he
will make, for the sake of this Convention, sacri-
fices which he has wisely declined when they were
supposed to be required for much greater inte-
rests. He and France have the satisfaction of
knowing that if the Mexican Empire has not suc-
ceeded, its failure is due to causes inherent in its
conception, and not to any overbearing foreign in-
fluence. The Empire is falling of its ownweight. So
grand and respectable • scheme of filibustering as
this Mexican enterprise the world had not seen
before. Had it succeeded, " Men of Provi-
" deuce" would have sprung up on every hand,
for there are many countries which want regene-
rating as much as Mexico. The independence of
nations is more likely to be respected now it is
found that invasion and usurpation do not pay.

must hock for the great constitutional change which has
become a neeessity.
The Star attributes the unfortunate war on the Routh
American continent to Brazil, who, in the first instance,
took afieentage of a domestic struggle in Uruguay to in.
terfere in the affairs of that republics The defeat of
Brazil appears to be so complete that it will not be our.
prising to find the Argentine foroes withdrawing from
their alliance with Brawl. And the latter power, if she is
wise, will accept the defeat as a warning of the hopeless no-
two of the task upon which she has embarked. On the other
hand, thebrilliant telecom of the Paraguayan army may tempt
Lopes to renew his policy of invading the Argentine ter*
tory, or that of Brazil, and thus he may throw away the
fruits of sueceas which are presently in his hands. In
countries so thinly populated, and so destitute of every_
thing necessary for large armies, the invader on either
side is almost certain to find his teak too bees/ for him.

The Opinion Nationale, while reserving a more
extended criticism for another day, thinks the cir-
cular " a very clear, very sincere' and very oaks-
plots manifesto of French foreign policy."
The Aeenir National says :
This state paper is a great innovation upon ministerial
customs. Hitherto no interim minister would have taken
upon himself to comfit his colleague who had not assumed
ills portfolio to such an extent. No interim Minister of
the Interior ever addressed a circular to the prefects.
Since the Marquis de Monstier will be in Paris by the
end of the month, the public might surely have been
patient a little longer. However, this objection is, per-
haps, only founded upon our inveterate and bigoted
regard for chaplete parliamentary usages.
The Gazettederrance, lifter speaking of the extreme
importance of the circular, and the unmistakeable
clearness with which it recognises " German
nationality" as achieved by Prussia, re-
publishes, in four columns, the debate in the
Corps Legislatif, of June 12, for the obvious pur-
pose of showing that the Emperor has abandoned
the theory broached in his letter to M. Drouyn
de Lhuys, of June 11, that whenever any greet
Continental power extended its frontiers France
was entitled to territorial compensation.

The Pays, only within these two days once more
under the dominion of K Granier de Cassagnac
professes to think that the Emperor is only waiting
for "his own means and hour" to assume an ag-
gressive policy ; but this is a forced and jesuitical
interpretation of the circular which everybody else
thinks "clear," and I believe that Cassagnac re-
presents the defeated party in the Emperor's
councils.
The Liberti does not agree with the passage of
the circular which speaks of a reorganisation of the

army as absolutely necessary, and re-edits its argu-
ments that " armed peace" incurring all the cost
of military glory without its profit is, above all
things, disastrous. It occurs to me, however, that
military reorganisation does not necessarily mean
increased armaments.
The Bourse was decidedly firm.

EXTRAORDINARY SWINDLING CAREER OF AN
EX-OFFICER.

Yesterday, at the Windsor Guildhall, before the
mayor, Richard /3egley was brought up on remand,
charged with mead cases of swindling and robbery.
On
account of the interest of the proceedings, caused by the
social ppoossition of the prisoner and the extensive nature of
his dLhon 4 course at several places. the pollee- ""t Imo
found to afford insufficient accommodation for the public,
and the examination of the prisoner took place in the large
council chamber. The career of the prisoner reads almost
I like a romance. His real name is Richard Albert Watkin
Bayley, late ensign in her Majesty's 35th Regiment (Royal
Sussex), and he was quartered with the depot at Col-
chester. He is a son of Major-Oeneral Bayley, who com-
manded the Bombay contingent during the Indian mutiny,
and who, having retired from the army, resides in Wales.
The prisoner enlisted as a private moldier, during a wild
freak, and served in his regiment nearly a twelvemonth,
when his father bought him out, and purchased a eomtnie-
/101l for him in the 35th Regiment. But his waywardness
and general misconduct were so incorrigible, that in June
last be was cashiered and sunerseded while absent from his
regiment without leave. During May and June he was
staying in Paris, at the Hotel de Ville et D'Albion, where
he assumed the name of Captain Watkins, of the Royal
Horse Artillery. In Paris he drew cheques on Sir John
Kirkland and Co the army agents, of London, purpo-ting
to be drawn by .
Ensign Bayley in favourof Captain Watkins,
Royal Horse Artillery, and uttered them, aster having en-
dorsed them with the rame of Captain Watkins. This being
a forgery, the French government, upon the applicaf on of
the money changers whom he victimised, have made an ap-
p"ostion for his extradition, that he may be tried in Pans.
After getting as much money as be could by means of false
cheques, and borrowing money of the gentlemen staying at
the Hotel de Ville, he bolted from the hotel, leaving
behind him an empty portmanteau and an unsettled
account to the amount of 1,100 or 1,200 francs. At this time
he had with him a companion whose real name is believed to
be Denny. This man, an Irishman, with a Yankee east of
maintenance, raised money and credit to a large amount
upon representing that his name was William L. Howard—
• scion of the Yorkshire family of Howard' ; that his
father had 20,0004 per annum ; and that he himself
intended to stand for the representation of the No-th
Rid"-ug of Yorkshire at the next election, as he would
shortly have 12,0001. a year. From one gentle nan this
individual borrowed upwards of 200'. On leaving Paris
the prisoner made his sppescanoe at the Horns Tavern, at
Kennington, cm July 9. He stated that he had been
play ng c. cket at the Oval ; and remaining at the house
usitil July 25, he ran up an account of 54 He assumed
the name of Captain Watkins. When he left be pretended
to be going to get a cheque cashed, and said that he would
return and pay his bill. He never returned, and soon
after he had gone it was discovered that he bad stolen
the landlady's gold watch from a drawer in her bedroom.
After his apprehension he told Mr. Wbitty, the landlo*d
of the houre where he had pawned the watch, and that
he had destroyed the ticket. At Kew, the prisoner got
a boat from a Mr. Williams, and rowed up the
Thames to Cave-sham, near Reading. At Omer-
sham he patro aged the White Hart Hotel, and
had only left that tabliehment a couple of hours when a
person, sent in search of him by Mr. Williams, arrival
from Kt r. Eton was the next place of rendezvous, and
Mr. John Harding, of the Crown and Cushion Inn, was
hoe oared with his company. The " captain" left end-
imply, without liquidating his bi". While here he was
" Captain Henesge, of the Royal Artillev," and he
casually made the acquaintance of Mr. Burrows, a London
met' cat gentleman, staying at Adelaide-square? at
Winesor, informing that gentleman that he was a visitor
at the house of one of the masters of Eton College. Mr.
Bui.rows invited the " captain" to supper on several man-
sions, and to join a fishing party. The " captain," 'in-
stead of joining the fishing party, went to Mr. Burrows's
apartments; obtained access by means of a plausible excuse
that he had permimion to write some letters, and stole 41.
in cash and several articles that could be easily appro-
priat-d. He was disappointed of a sum of 401. he knew
Mr. Bus. sws had in the house, but which that gentleman
had foi;unsitely removed. From Windsor "Capt. Henesze"
went to Kiham, and C.ayed at the house of Mr. Dickinson,
the Anglers' Rest, where he slept from Monday to W d-
nesday. Mr. Dickinson suspected his customer, and on
the Wednesday ni"ht locked him in his bedroom. Next
mo -ning it was found the " captain" had decamped, after
ransacking the room, stealing a clothes brush, and jumpin'
from a window 13 feet above the ground. Next the " cap-
tain" went to the Bells of Ouseley, at Old Windsor, where
he hired a cab and was driven to a good fishing spot on the
banks of the Thames, and he spent the remainder of the
day fishing. At this time Mr. Superintendent Eager,
chief superintendent of the Wir dsor borough police, was
on the track of the swindler, who was discovered by him
fishing in the midst of a pouring rain from a pure on the
Thames, midway between Chertaey and Weybridge. The
"captain" was brou"ht back in custody to W -door, end
was remanded yesterday.

WEATHER RE Pan. -mus DAY.)

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11.1211a2KE.
The increase of barometric pre .sure over the greater portion of
the British Isles since yesterday morring has been rapid and con-
siderable. For .her unse.tled weather to, however, probable, for
the winds have rammed to south-west, with rain and fal"ig
barometers on our we-were coasts.