The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-11 00:00:00

CAUTION TO THI PUBLIC.

John Fmneis, a fashionably dressed young man, a mer-
chant's (dark, who gave his address 14, Penton-place,
Walworth, was brought up in custody and placed at the
bar, charged with travelling on the South Eastern Rail.
way from Lewisham to Londombridge without having
paid his fare, and attempting to defraud the company by
presenting • false ticket.
Mr. Hall, from the solicitor's office of the company, at-
tended to support the complaint, and called his worship's
attention to the numerous frauds committed on the com-
pany by such persons as the defendant, and the difficulty
in some cases of detecting the offenders.
Charles Read, a ticket collector at the London-bridge
terminus, said that he was on duty at the barrier on the
arrival of the 12 o'clock train from Strood, when he saw
the defendant pass through without giving his ticket. He
called upon him to stop when he said it was all right,
and went on. Witness followed him, and stopped him
going out of the station, when he demanded his ticket of
him. He said he bad given it to the other man, but after-
wards he pulled out half a return ticket from Lewisham,
and said, " There, that's all right." Witness, however,
woeived that it was numbered 2,000 whereas the num-
bers he was then collecting were 4,000 odd. He then knew
that it was an old ticket, and that be was attempting to
defraud the company, therefore he told the prisoner that
he must go before the station-master. The defendant
then offered to pay the fare, but he told him heeould not
take it.

Mr. Dyne, the station muter, said that the half ticket
given up by the defendant was issued from Lewisham a
week ago, and he had no doubt defendant had evaded giv-
ing it up then, and when stopped thought to deceive the
ticket collector. When brought to the office yesterday be
asked him his ouldresa, which he gave as 14, Penton-place,
Walworth, but afterwards said be had not lived there the
last six months. As he refused to give any other address
he gave him into custody.
The defendant admitted purchasing the ticket a week
ago, and as he had not used it be thought he was doing no
harm. He offered to pay the fare.
The magistrate severely censured his conduct, and fined
him the sum of 30e.
The fine was immediately paid.

One of the doubtful grounds for hope of peace
(says the Times City Article) to which some parties cling is
the imperfect stata of the French armaments. According to
these parties, the French government have not at this time
10,000 breech-loaders, and even up to April, PIOS, they will
not have so many as 200,000, while Prussia is improving
her needle-gun and issuing the new patterns which take
the old cartridge. At the same time, it is asserted that
the contracts for the French sword-bayonets have to a great
extent been entered into with parties in Prussia, and that
they would consequently, in the event of war, he stopped.
It is assumed, moreover, that the French troops would re-
fuse to face the Prussian breech-loaders unless they were
armed in • similar manner. " France," it is contended,
" will not strike any blow till she is ready, and she will not
be ready with breech-loaders till 1861"

It is remarked of the Paris Exhibition building
that it is constructed with a view to circulation, and all
the arrangements of galleries and pathways tend to pro-
duce circulation. " You go round, and round, and round
the building in one circle or another. If you are tired
of one circle, you go into the next, or, like the hymns at
the Zoological-gardens, if you are tired of making the
circuit one way you turn about and make it the other.
No chance of seeing a man twice in this building. If your
friend has passed you, he has passed like a ship at sea—
you will never see him more. He has gone off to gyrate
in ceaseless circles of which you have no conception. Alas
for the fond youth who in one of these encircling galleries
may fall in love at first sight with some fair face. He will
never see that face again. Away goes the damsel in her
orbit. The fond youth may follow her, but be will never
meet her."