The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY

returned, but only, it was maid, because it I
wanted the husband's signature. This being
and no more heard about the matter, CHERI wan of
course confirmed in his belief u to the balance of
4,000/. Besides, how could he doubt? There wu
a railway receipt (forged) for his wife's luggage,
which had been sent on to the Paddington Station—
enumerating among other articles a pianoforte and
two horns, one white and the other black—par-
ticular pets of mamma's, her own wedding gifts to
her beloved child. Had CHERI been disposed to
doubt, here was proof to confirm an infidel ; but he
was all hope and confidence and love, and away he
whirled with his ELLEN to spend the honeymoon at
Malvern.

At that charming retreat • little hotel bill for
KIL wee soon run up, payment was asked, and a
cheque on Courts's tendered and taken. When pre-
sented for payment, the short answer was, " No
" effects." The undaunted ELLEN was not beaten
yet. Producing a man of papers, which ohs made
CIBRI and his friend believe to be title-deeds, she
induced that unhappy friend himself to go up to
town to present the dishonoured cheque in person.
Then the bubble bust; the faithful .4cliiriss had a
narrow escape of being arrested. The luckless CHERI
was committed to Worcester Gaol as a foreign swin-
dler. Had it not been for the zealous and disin-
tweeted exertions of almost the only performer in this
strange tragicomedy who is not anonymous, and
whose name it is right to mention to his credit—
M. Bauman, of the Penton Hotel—then is no say-
ing how poor Cuzafe troubles might have termi-
Asked. Rescued by M. BRUNIZZ'S exertions he
Ibastened back to Pan. The woman had the auda-
city to follow him there and claim him as her hus-
king. The father, acting under legal advice, served
her with a citation to show cause why the mar-
riage should not be annulled.
The nese cameos to be tried before the Civil Tri-
bunal stPain The facts came out substantially as ws
have stated them, nor was there much difficulty in the
application of the law. The express provisions of
the Code Civile, Art. 170, left the matter entirely
free from doubt. On the general principles of jun*-
, prudence, the rule may be taken as settled, that the
validity of marriage, except in cues of polygamy and
lincest, is to be judged of by the laws of the country
where the marriage ceremony is celebrated. Accord-
ing to this rule, se the marriage between Cum and
ELLEN was celebrated in England, and regular
according to the law of England, there would, on
the general principles of jurisprudence, have been no
possibility of declaring it void. But the 170th Article
of the French Cods substitutes express legislation
for the vagueness of general rules, and declares posi-
tively that a marriage celebrated abroad between
French subjects, or between a French and a foreign
subject, shall be void, or voidable, in the same cases
as they would be, if celebrated in France. Now, a mar-
riage contracted in Francs by any Frenchman under
the age of 23 is ipso facto void if celebrated
without the consent of the father. CRIRI
was under twenty-five; his father, the Court
found, and rightly found, had never consented to
the union, for consent obtained by fraud is no con-
sent in law; and the tribunal was therefore enabled,
without violating the strict letter of the law, to
pronounce a judgment which was certainly in entire
accordance with the equity of the case. The
marriage was adjudged to be void, and Canal was
declared to be free from the consequences of the
contract into which he had been so scandalously
entrapped. Had this young Frenchman been a
mere fortune-hunter, the satisfaction caused by this

result would have been of course considerably ;modi-
fied; but this was not so ; the case on his side was
one of sincere attachment. Even when writing frost
the prison at Worcester to the woman from whose
fraud he knew himself to be suffering, he declares it
is she and not her fortune that he has married—that

his own means are sufficient for their maintenance,
and that he has nothing to ask, except that she will
tell him the whole truth. Bach is this very singular
came. Who is Miss Mace ELLEN B--, of Led-
bury ? The name ought to be known, not indeed for
honour, but for infamy. The state of the French
marriage law which has thus been disclosed, can
hardly, it may be hoped, operate as a warning, for
we cannot believe that there is another Englishwoman
to be found who would disgrace her country by such
a bass and unwomanly fraud as that which was prac-
timed on this young French gentleman by Mims ALICE
Bung B—, of Ledbury.

ISTBAOIDIII.IIr PROM
RIWCASTLA

We have reeehled from a corresponded at New-
oatl►ea-Tyse the Moving sanative of some extraordinary
proovedlap of white that town hoe this week been the
nee :

•
prospect of the municipal eleefficme in Newcastle-on-
Tyne a great deal of popular excitement exists, especially in
the Westgate Ward. Mr. Wm. Dunn, a Ronan catholic
gentleman of considerable influence and wealth, repopulate
that ward, and a strong feeling of antagonism hes been
aroused 'grind him on account of his faith. The Daily
Arpreia has taken up the case in thin sense with great mho-
mince, and letters and articles have appeared commenting
with unqualified severity on its opponents, and the means
adopted by them to further their electioneering purposes. On
Tuesday morning lest a lever appeared in the Daily
ihrprets, attributing to the French Consul, the Count de
Marioourt the agent, as it celled him, of the
arch-traitor and plotter against his country's liberty,
Lads Napoleon—an interferesos with the canna, in the
ward. The son of the consul, lately an officer in the French
army, who wee staying with his father at the time, called at
the office end left a card for the editor of the Deily Erprus,
=Ohthat that gentleman would meet him at the smoking-
ba Central Exchange next morning. The letter
further threatened to chastise the editor so his own house if
be did not keep his appointment. Of wane the appointment
was not kept, and M. de Maricourt returned home.
Bhortly afterwards he obtained a copy of the Daily
Bores. of Wednesday, and found an article in
It reflecting on the count in the most violent
manner. " Now," says the Daily Ezpress, " there are
two kinds of French oounta—if a proforma of anything from
language or legerdemain comes from America, the chances are
that he m a major or something between that and a general ;
If on the other your necrimanoer or dancing master comes
from Fenno@ he is pretty certain to be a count. There are
no doubt real counts sa well as pinchbecks, but whether M.
de Maricourt belongs to the one clue or the other,
whether his affinities connect him with the Count Monta•
lambert or Count Barmen, the most impudent Impostor on
the treadmill, he isoity precluded from interfering with
the course of an E election." The article concludes
with this deice" endear moat follow Maoism." To
understand the last allusion it is necessary to explain that
" Madame" was the keeper of a notorious house In Newcsatle,
so notorious that she was handed out of the town by the
police. On the publication of this article, M. de Merl-
court, the eon of the consul, proceeded to the alio of the
paper, demanded to see the editor, end on the hesitation of
the people to tall him where he could be found, the young
man pulled out a pistol, and threatened them if they would
not inform him. On kerning the place where the editor could
be found, he drove thither in a cab, and entered the library
where the editor was sitting ; on inquiring if he were the
editor, ha ordered him, with similar threats, to come to apo-
logise to the count, his father. A mod humble apology was
made, and the editor of the Deily Rcpt.'s. wee nlsasd from
detention. On investigation, we learn that the count denies
having ever interfered in the Motion, and that he was, more-
over, entirely ignorant of his son's movements till the editor I
was brought Into his room In captivity. An address of sym- I
pathy and confidence to the count is in course of preparation
by some respectable inhabitants of Newcastle.

The Count de Mericourt, the consul. has addressed the
following letter to She Newcastle Deily Chrooiois
" Mr. Editor,—lt is well understood by the enlightened
classes that diplomatic agents in all countries are forbidden to
intermeddle in the affairs of the internal government, or I
to appear before the tribunals of the state where they are'
accredited. Oa this amount theme agents are surrounded
by that kind of immunity which protects women and
members of the clergy, to whom custom and propriety hare
prescribed that they should remain without defence in the
reseece of attacks which may be directed against them.
During all the time of my residence at Newcastle I never
had cosh to complain that, with treed to myself, tote
privilege hes been violated. On the contrary, I have
always enjoyed, in my relation with the authorities and the
hthabitanta of the town, not only the consideration and
Zrwhich my official position demaads, but the esteem
fetTiendshit of private life. I am only attribate tbie
kindness to the mutant oars which I have taken to con-
form to English kinitutices submitting myself at the •ame
time to the rides prescribe/ by my government. I think it
therefore isanasseser y to repeat that the &mention directed
refer me by the Neralern Doily JO:press of having Interfered
la the munialpi error is otathistel without foundation.
It Is the with as mare as pain that I
me myself is ens of the }euraele of a estratry it which I
chair a predrill area the odgeot of a grenadier attack
against which I trace &dead myself by mess which are
open to others. trader these eirmarteasse I contented
myself to submit in siker to the personal attack directed
agairt me, in the full cosildere that the good sense and
loyalty of the English people weald do me justice, which
has indeed ready her deur. Bat, cioupkd with the attack
on me personally, were words weeping aa outrage upon
the Emperor, which I should bass tlergbi It my duty to
submit to his Ifejerty's Ambassador hi London, swatting in
Alsace his instructions. This disuse I should have pre-
served, suer for a chassises amerced by me. I
ha,, a son who fought aide by side with your country-
men in the Chimes, and who boo, Is oar enamor, learned
like myself to appreciate their good qualities and to cherish
/or theta the same esatiments of esteem mid affection with
which I myself am animated. Stung by the insult offered to
his sovereign, whose uniform he wore, as well as that offered
to his father, this young man of two and twenty has thought
It eight to take lath his awn hazels the duty of avenging
these harts. Carried away by the teensy of youth, he has
committed an Infraction of the laws of this country, which
kali, both on a diplomatist end • father, I must deplore.
The only which I as make la to plead his youth
red view which has already been taken of
his radar by • jolter' like yours, capable of appreciating
the Eseta, end mime ty le admitted by the public.
—I have the brow to ko., the Consul of Prance, Cte.
be MAILICOUST:'

The Royal Naval Club of 178.5 will commemorate
the Mg-third anniversary of the memorable viotory off Cape
Trafalgar, on Thursday, at WI IWI Room, King-Wrest, Bt.
Jews's, the Tbatraid Howie Tavern being gill occupied
by the United SWAM Clab. Vioe- Admiral the Bel of
Egmont, who was a midshipman of the Orion, at Trafalgar,
will maids en the easeeks.

At the time of the demon of the Great Dube,
pabbo attend= inn Mamie& to the possibility of the duke-
dom of Wallington bimodal( satinet, sod it was suggested
ekes the title sheold be ioderged sad nude beredirable by the
°distend brenshen of the home of Welliebry. " The ang-
motion," .eye the Awe, " will probably receive fresh atten-
tion in conampiente of the bumeted death of Lord Chicks
Wellesley. The Marquis of Douro is not Malty to have a
family, though the oristiegusey h net itopeedble, and pre-
servation of the title el Wellington will feebly depend upon
the lives of the two sees of the noblesse thorium& The
Amities of Marlborough sad Nelson wire male permanent
by the wishes of the mike, sad • Wellinglia' is a title that
ought to be preiervid ea one of the mead glories of the
Mimeo."

On the evening of Thursday last Preform Creasy,
ILA, toperri the anion of the Chkbeeter Literary daelety
tad liseheake lastlase for 1156-611, b 7 (layering it leave
4, Oa la Prudes] sad Ikisettde Study of Blakey,"
Oa Mouday evening Protestor Owen delivered &
looters ia the Albseacus, Leassatir, "0. the ocuttezion
between eeketiAo reran* in the deperteteat of natural
history, sod the reekriale apes which met of the Dem-
Berko, cavaisra, sad duteaciss dills depend."

The Middlesex Aitereloglial Society bold their
mat aseether ea Weasee M BMW& The chair Is to be
takes it ON o'clock by Load lbw', sad the amebae
ellaireale dime tesethir et as..

A eostriliatiei to litorarybkitory by been brought
to VA In the elope of Pope's Carrespinkses with Breese.
The. MU.. ties in the heads d M. Peek* mad
Simms, d Pireeldly, tee .s by andisa, eiselel et seer
see hooked kW" sway el the In the heel at Pope, and
- oil Waft le the Sembilied el Se Odyaily.
ere sell to thrOW new Held en the relative sham k that
sort ot Pope, the is% Mr. Bsosaiik sod Kr. helms.
The Sunday Taw was that Mr. E. T. Smith
Is mond the oandlisleo kr becoeilei has. of Her
Keyser" Theatre.

John, revived lay Mr. Merles You, will
he wawa! at Ilar Pets ar's Main au Ikeda, moist,
wltk an the splandow yid& abaraeawlasd las tottmatioo to
dap Nap at the period referred

law Ilettry dhe liftA is spoken of ea the Shake-
poise play to be revleed at Baer's Welk dada( the pre-
sot mom

Mr. Nolo= Li. is osistrot by Mr. Basjonik
Wastar to oonty Ns emote moo fir r. .w Add*
Natkathes.

Oa Moodae Cardinal Wiamea will lay the earner
Awe of a raw Roma cathelis sr Is Ilerseepi.

OPINING al THI VALI 01 CLWYD RAIL WAY.—
The epealag of the Vohs of Clwyd Railway, emtemdfig
batmen Ithyi mod Dmabish, took pine ea Thursday, with
• fa otesnosee of the gOluallYis ciabsaisey en mach sow
ebbs. Plemmtrelkos far the mutt had oetsrpledl the steatite
of the authoritime mad of the tahalitaato of Denbigh, It. '
Aryls, mad lthyl, for • commiderable period peke le the
gating. At Denbigh the eiremmesdel mom maenad d Ina
Valor* fa the worming by a pommies to meet Toonteltiod li
Malavartur, Fos, M.P., end Ms lay sad feta', The I
prosodic cousleted of the mmyor mad corperarima of
Denbigh, the director; of the Vail of MRS Dam% NM
the Waft Ishabltente et the Own. A y 106,1111 was
meted is treat ef the Town-WI, sad &Admires delivered.
M fa the mew there wee a pablie Maur.

EXPRESS FROM PARIb.

(MON OUR OWN 001Z1SPONDINT.)
PARIS, FRIDAY EVINING.
The sews which I gave yesterday, that M. de
Paiva was about to leave Paris for Lisbon, is this
morning confirmed by the Debots. I have reason
to know that the " ultimatum" will be kept back
until M. de Paiva has had an opportunity of pre-
venting the necessity for its presentation. A tele-
gram from Nantes, dated this afternoon, states that
M. de Paiva embarked from St. Nazaire for Lisbon
this day, in the Ville &Cadiz, and that the report was
accredited at Nantes thatthe object of his voyage was
to facilitate an amicable settlement of the difficulty.
This news is susceptible of an interpretation which
would conciliate all the principal rumours which
have obtained credit. It may be, and probably is,
true that an ultimatum has been prepared by the
French government to be presented in certain con-
tingencies, and yet it may be more than probable
that some concession to French vanity may be con-
trived to be made, while the substantial question
shall be left to the arbitration of a third power.
That—if (contrary to all present expectation) things
should come to the worst and a deplorable rapture
should take place —the withdrawal of the French
ambassador from Lisbon will long precede any hos-
tile act cannot, I think, be doubtful.

The Boone opened under very favourable
auspices. The revenue for the last nine months
was shown by the Moniteur to have augmented by
thirty-one millions. The bank returns were con-
sidered to argue a revival of trade, and scarcely a
doubt was entertained that the Portuguese difficulty
would come to nothing. Nevertheless the Rents,
after rising 20c. for account, became heavy, and
closed at yesterday's price, 73fr. 350. For cash,
there was a rise of 10c., the last price being
73fr. 26c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 60c. The railways
were all lower. Western fell Bfr. 76c.; Northern,
7fr. 600. ; Southern, 6fr. ; and the other lines about
2fr. 500.

For several months pest the returns have shown
an accumulation of specie in the Bank cellars, not
only without any corresponding increase in its dis-
count, but with a gradual monthly decrease to a
considerable extent. Now at length the Bank ap-
pears to be giving some assistance to trade. There
is an increase of 331 millions, under the head of
bills discounted.

It is stated very positively from Marseilles that
Prince Napoleon will embark from that port for
Algiers within a fortnight, on board the Reins
Hortense, whose arrival there to await his orders I
have already mentioned.

ITALY.

--.--
ROMAN STATES.

(11011 001 OWN 001

ROME, Ocr. 6.

Your readers will recollect the chivalrOns atten-
tions paid to his Holiness by the reigning Duke of
Modena last year, when Pio Nono waited the domi-
nions of Este, from the neighbouring City of Bo-
logna. The time has now come for a return of civi-
liues on the Pope's part, the Duke and Duchess of
Modena having arrived in Rome, on Friday, the
lit inst., when they were immediately waited on
by Monsignors Paco" and Borromeo, the Pope's
Maestro di Camera and majordomo. On the fol-
lowing morning their Royal Highnesses, with their
noble suite, were received at the Vatican with all due
benevolence by his Holiness, and the Doke subse-
quently honoured the Cardinal Secretary of State with
• complimentary visit. Yesterday morning the Pope
repaired to the Piazza del Popolo, with a cortege
of eight state carriages, and a double escort of dra-
goons (the noble guard, for some inexplicable reason,
not being on duty), to visit the Duke and Duchess at
the Hotel des Iles Britanniques, where he remained
in affable colloquy for some time before returning to
the Vatican.

The month of October is devoted by the Romans of
all classes, from the Sovereign Pontiff to theTrasteve-
rino, to holiday keeping and jollifications of all aorta,
previous to entering upon the lugubrious solemnities
of All Saints and All Soule in the beginning of No-
vember. The nobility honour their kends with an
annual visit at this period ; landed proprietors
migrate to their vineyards and caeini to ibperintend
the operations of the vintage, and to eat colossal
bunches of grapes ; whilst the plebs, with mando-
lines and tambourine*, crowd the suburban taverns
and oat/miss, drinking new wine and eating new
chestnuts to a fearful point of indigestion. The
clergy, with the sober hilarity consistent with their
cloth, emerge from the metropolitan cloister's shade,
and engage, according to their age, either in theolo-
gical discussions, or in boisterous bowls or football,
under the " nut-brown shade" in the gardens of
their country colleges; and the Pope himself de-
scends from the high and mighty regime of ponti-
fical etiquette and solitary repasts, to dine with his
ministers, courtiers, and noble guards at his country
seats at Porto d'Anzio, or Camel Gandolfo, or at one
°fpe many monasteries which rejoice in the presence
of the sovereign in their ample refectories.
The hospitable Benedictines, of whose dinners I
shall always have the most grateful recollections,
are annually honoured by a visit from the Pope in
the month of October, when the noble hails of St.
Paul are crowded with the gorgeous suite of the
palace, and the best of viand, keep up the reputation
of the order.

On Thursday next the Due and Duchess of
Modena are to share with his Holiness the Benedic-
tine hospitality, enriched with the culinary science
of the apostolic palace, and the claustral prohibition
against the presence of members of the fair sex
within the conventual walls is to be dome
away with, in the present instance, in favour
of her Royal Highness, by the Pope's sovereign
fiat. This is to be the commencement of
convivialities which are to last for the remainder of
the math, it being reported that the royal guests
will protract their stay in Rome foe that period.
We have travellers at present in Rattle who were
passengers in the Hennas, when that vessel ran
down the ill-fated Arcadia, in the Straits of Piom-
bino. The reckless determination with which the
two steamers bore down upon each other, in a
featly calm and bright moonlight night, is
as something inexplicable save by the sup-
position that each was expecting (until too
late) that the oast would deviate from her coarse.
After the first Lass doss crash there was a ghastl
silence; then officers, and crew rushed
es deck, and waittd with fearful anxiety to see
which weal was The downward tendency
of the Amain rocs this, and transferred
tha smismis palempos is eat Meg from their
labia tedetwthe leek of thalamus, all being saved
mime a pelmet, who was too late to escape the rush
of water tleaugh the battered midshipa. Even two
dogs were g$ over with their masters, and a refrac-
tory kitten we atm seer bringing to a watery
grave the 1111.1 r Mad who was hunting for him to
the last afiewat.

The seimgaent submersion the slaking vessel,
oteenehieg air dm maof theme
Sem and the
Maidiewm of peed ei geweinow to
Seel *eget me damoribod by eymeritnemes, at
Ss Ashman se a taw bet, es having an awfal and
eaver-tmbehrgatten effect.
Tee we rewired intelligeace of another
steamer to the same oompany being
wrecked botbe Straits of Boulfamio.

Moog elwe to be plencital bees, is elsewhere.
re:kbezirtikeasdoni),4;:ii.Ronuul Consols, 914.

The enigma German writer, Varaltagen von
Kew, died at Earl, suddenly and tuartpectsdly, os the
106. Alamos% the deeenand rewind the advanced age of
meranty-four yam yet he enjoyed good health tip to the
veep mument of hie death, whist eurprieed kW at s pow
erases, astl was bro.& to by a At al palmed, apoplay.

'G, OCTOBER 16, 1858.