The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1859.

ensiblii people are seldom in a majority,
Folly rims to the surface in a froth, while common
sense sinks, a sediment, to the bottom of the public
mind. Now what is the real truth about this old
yet ever new question of the mutual feelings of
Frame and England towards one another? We
think our correspondent has put it fairly and com-
pletely in a very few words, the sum and substance
of which is that, speaking generally of the French
people as we might speak of the English, there is •
certain jealousy " such ea might exist in one
" village against another village on account of
" the last cricket match that was lost," but that this
is sot greater than has existed for notaries ; that,
making allowance for the idolatry of " glory " which
is pert of the French temperament, for the reckless-
ness'( those who have nothing to lase, and of throe
vibe pant for desperate adventures, still "all the
"intelligence, all the property of the nation, is
" envinced that no valid reason, no plausible
• pretext could be found for plunging into a
war with England." The of ultra-
inealane fanatics (ultramontane, it should seem,
limanie they are detested and despised beyond
the Alps) sio wan enprehends the French Clergy
than the Ancient Pistols of the Menaces com-
prehended the army. M. Louis Vetru.ter is, be it
said without disrespect, professionally 'Meted with
acute mania ; but be is about as likely to get up a
holy war against Protestant England an Mr. JOHN
Mrreitu., the exelarobolder, to lead the legions of
the &AMOR to the "liberation " of Ireland. Is it
supposed that M. Venittor, though he is suffered
to run amounted even In the dog-days, how Is him-
self hoarse in decent company ? He is loose in the
streets it is true, because his bark is found to be more
amassing than dangerous ; but if be were not the
desperado of a party ear aboia, he would reason
and ressoastrate in merely human accents, like
any other scurry politician. We have le
' pettedly shown in figures how closely the interests
of the two nations are identified, and as to the
intelligence of France, we recommend our readers
to read an article on " the English Alliance," in the
last number of the Besse des deux Mendes, by M.
Ds HENCIAT, who, it should be remembered, is not
oely an admirable philosophic thinker, • brilliant
Writer, and an Academician, but one who hes is
happier days often risen from the study of political
nonce to the bracing contests of public life; who
is the Chamber has combated for principles of go-
vernment, defended or resisted acts of national policy,
and as a Minister hem laid his band to the helm
of the State. How does this thoughtful and ex-
perienced man, who loves Franoe, who honours
England, who believes in liberty and the laws of
progress, contemplate the relations of France with
Ragland ? He declares that the wisest policy of all
French Governments from the time of HtNll IV.
has been a policy of good understanding with
the English ; and that now, and for the
future, there can be no pretext for the
interruption of the natural and necessary intimacy
of neighbours who should be rivals only in the
works of peace. Many circumstances have con-
spired within the last few years to makeYEngland
almost a wand country to French Liberals, and
the more we are known and studied, and the closer
an more frequent our intercourse becomes, the more
difficult will it be for reactionary fanatics of any
party to rake up the animosities of a time when
France wee • land of ogres and England a nest of
pirates. Bat we are told that the security of Eng-
land is at the mercy of "one man," though that "one
" man " is the monarch who, on his own showing,
was obliged the other day to retrench ear his pro-
gramme of an Italian campaign because he was
fighting against the w ill of Europe, and with only
the acquiescence of France.
And, after all, is it the interest of the present Sove-
reign of France—we say nothing of his sentiments or
his assurances—to annihilate those material interests

which he has so exclasively cherished and exalted P
Yee, it is replied, for did he not tell the Court of
Peers that he represented " a defeat" as well as •
principle ? The principle, at all events, is on the
throne of France; and as to the defeat, has
he not avenged it as all defeats are most
triumphantly avenged, by shaking hands ?
What then is our feeling on this aide of the Channel?
" I believe," says a correspondent, " I repeat the
" language of 99 Englishmen out of 100 when I say

I di) not fear the Frenchman—that I do not hate

" him—that I wish to prove to him that I can and
.4 would rather learn to esteem and love him as my
" neighbour. It will, therefore, give me the greatest
" pismire to be easared that the question of peace
• err lief does not Be se exclusively in the mind of
" ewe man as anent would have ae believe."

TEI PRI PIM CIE WALSI,-.0. Thursday afternoon,
b Royal aighears he Prime of Wales kindly acceded to
the Nabs le Mai by hei bloair of Oxfoed (T.
E.). by plesithgtwo of the ash
sham,us 4,N at. Giles's. &OWNS o'clock MS=
h4linese, scoomphied by ha Hem. Colonel Brae) red the
Hon. Camel Kenna, the extremity of
the avast" at de anal es
to
of St. Cameo, opposite
he noldehe of Mr. Ablerman Ward, where he wee
snot by he Mayor, Alderman Browhieg, Alderman Spier',
Ala.., Dam", sad magma. Ward, end the potted
baring been prepared, sad the plane tree deposited in its
place, ha ray.' Whams threw in the earth with •
beFwhich be handled h a truly workmanlike 111,1111:14l.
Mayor in • sellable and eloquent ad tram, thanked his
royal blears+, cm When of the city, for his hindered in an-
&ethic, the twat of planting the trte, which would remain
be many Kenerstiotte as a mark of his residence In Oxford;
after which the Prince pleated • rand Ore at the south
• end of the armee. oppuote th. Taylor-buildings. Veer Iser
pee* wen prima to wttams the ceremony, se It was the
apnoea 'wise of Ws royal Winne that it shoold be pew-
leneed r gaiety r peeeible, and without any public demon-
sambas whesever.—tlrferd Chronicle,

Illatmonb VOLeiTdde Ittr Le CORPS.—The divi-
sion lately termed for the diMuct of Paten. Reek-Atropos,
Woodworth, sad Wimbledon, mustered en thw.day
even-
itW Is, lasi drill, in be !alma &hook et Putney. For eld-
=boorl asemerkml atm tit ads divides promises to be •
esatiagest is the >ikiaai norm with whom it im
steeeiemd

ROYAL COLLIGI OT Ilosozoss.—The following
patina haulm" underdone the snowy osaroinatkes for
the diplanin man admitted ambers of the nolkp at a
AWL of the Pot of szantinars out the dtli feat., TM. :
Sfissim awry idallsar4l, Plymouth, Thames Miller, Borylos,
Inist Homy Rimy. Croydon; Mop Red•
' nab, mall; Freak Psat, Told's., lest; Priosals Orda
Bing Wither, Maier ; Thomas M Hales Oman, Wor-
cestaratdm; llaelal lsararry, Marini.; Sheldon Fem-
me, Cimarron ; earamil Boorh, lieddirrsdaid; Richard
ykophens Bircateiheam ; Loosard John Lee, London ;
Retry Ikons lintsbeas, Aberdare; Alban Lk , Briatol;
Chords Kkhant lrsiw, Portemooth ; Monad Comer
Board, Brirtol ; Joseph Neerom, Bradford; Charism John
Trotter, lioloserth, Yorkatura; Jamas Merrimac., Belfast;
John Bookie, Chester; Willmar' Murray, Durham; Walton
Barbera:as Pell, Northampton, and John Richard Thomas,

THE MIDDLL-I.tveL Stsftn.—The Piccadilly
breach estenda, from the main line at the janctioa
of Kineeiriod and Theotaid'a-road, eking bedfoed-
row, flyounlote-stre,t, Holborn (for a ehort dietetic.),
std Great Tursetils, Lincolee.toniSelds, north side,
Gnat Quern • swot, Leagiscre, Cranbouras street, Co-
veatity-etreet, sad Piccadilly, to Half Moott-etreer, sad
slaw that street sett part of Coma-wee' to the caner
of Cliesserfleldistrset, • hingth of I mile 6.240 feet. Fee
lap ',peter pontos of Ibis distance, or 8,820 fret, wan
new the point when Beritele)•etrret joins Piccadilly, the
awl will Mmonied is tunnelling through the blue clay.—
Paikkr.
The Imayearle public examination and diatribu-
Sea ofprkes .o die iodate Military College se Addis-
combs took plan yesterday. ender the presidency nt the
Hight Hon. Sir Clio/Ise Wood, bast , her Id=
Ptincipal Secretary of State foe the Affairs of ladle;
whom owe preesint his Grua the Archbishop of Crialarbary,
Sir Frederick Corr* Bart., Vier Pre...idiot of the Coanell of
ladle; 54r Retort Vivian, 'C.C.S.. She Pram Caw*,
I.C. IL. fad W. J. Letwick, Eeq. restabire rtt the Cosset'
of India as wall am the mambo* of the Coma of Maw,
aleoatien; Liest..Gcneral Sir Frederick Smith,
the public szaininar, sad Major-Oessral file paalariak
Abbott, CB.. the lieutenant-governor of the collage; .ad a
cabsiderable amber et n.ilaary aad genera Talkie.

gr zis tteurt.

OSBORN.. Dan. 9.
Prince and Princess Ledniagen arrival yesterday,
and remain on a visite, her Manny.
Mr. C. W. Dille, Vice-PreeiMat of the Horticultural
Society, Profaner Lindley, end Mr. Nokia bad an later-
new watt the Prove Consort.

The Qinee and Prince Cowart, with Prince Leopold and
Princess Lorain, drove out In ea epee cerriese.
The Dasher c Atholl, the lbw. Eleanor Stanley, and
Captain Du Pled were to attendeetse.
A &Wads% mneiet'a at Mr. W. Williams, 24. P., Kr.
Ratapeit, M.P., tie Rev. 8. Ornery, Mr. Burnett, Mr. Lin-
ton, Mr. Z. Jaw, sad Kr. Bpsr hed an interview with
Berl Oreavills, on Thursday, at the Privy Connell-cam

His Royal Highness the Dab of Cambridge has
bean staying daring the past week at Loweby, en a obit
to the Earl and Countem of Derby. Tbe Weds Invited to
meet hid royal highness competed ask arose Illehearts
Prime sad Princess Edward of Saxe We tlis Karl of
Malinesbury, the Earl of Witten sad Lady latherlas Grey
Egerton, the Earl and Counties of Chesterfield sad Lady
Evelyn Stanhope, the Earl sad Lady Comenneis finteeemer,
Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Lord LasetWersagth Hos. Algurnos
sad Lady Blanche Egerton, Mr. Oeorp itesesA swi Coked
Tyrwhiu, is waiting on the Due of Caantaidip. The lid
of Derby, socompanied by the Doke of Cambridge, Prime
Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Earl of Wiliam, and the caber
gentlemen of the party, eajoyed the sport of shooting ea
Wednesday, when about 1,300 head of game fad to their
vac On the next day there was another banes.
_ _ _

Toeir Imperial ilighoeame the Duke of Leach.
Moberg and Prince Rogow Rosesoffeky, attended by Oen.
Rebbinder sad their prompters, have removed from Cla-
ridge's Hotel, Upper Bro,k-street, to the Bedford Hotel,
Brigtvon. _ _ .

The Marquis of Exeter has left town for Burghley
Howie, Limodekko.
Lord and Lady Cranworth have arrived at their
redhead in Upper Brook-Wed, from Hobrood Park, Hank
The Earl of Carnarvon has left Tarim after a stay
of some days,

His Excellency the Russian Miniettr and the
Baroness Brunson entertained et dinner et Cheat= House,
on Thursday evenlai, the following pasty:—The Duchess
of inserneer, hie Exordium Coast Umatilla, ids Excellency
Dan hum* his Excellency Kb Centurelear and Madame
Teeniest, M. le Chevaise nand Madams d'Andrade, Coast
sad Countess Bleudoe, Ilemisie Portman), Count Corti,
Corot Csepel, Croat Timm, Vision* de Lebeardesaeye,
M. le Chiseller Meeks de Itylve, K. Is Chiseller Km del
Val, Mr. William Pad, Caplan Pella Osisuel Trimikelf,
N. Babonroff, and K. Teliary. Aka Mauer the kermess
received • select drily isaisikei mewl edam
Rialliency the Turkish Arobssarkr, hie Exediesey the
Bavarisa Minister, his Excellency the Austriest Kinkier
sad the Cannier Apponyl, his Eieellesey the Humeri=
Minister, his Excellency the Greek Minister, &c.

His Imperial Higioess Prince Lucien Buonsparts
strived fa Ulnwston on Stutday last, sad after putaldng of
breakfast at the Btto Hotel, posted on to Coniston, and
throb to Ands Wide.

A letter from Rome of the 3rd says:—Arrivals
madam het slowly. The French senator, Count Sintion,
Mind bin yesterday. It appears that his visit le not un-
scansoted with the present complicationa. Visoonnt Perm-
say, M.P., hes pissed through from Naples to Ragland, eid
Twin. Lord Pollington to still is Rome. Lady Augusta
Hosts sad Lady Gibson Carmichael have gone on to Napier.
M►. T. F. sad Lady Fremantle, and Colonel and Mrs. Da-
rysepte White me now in Roma."

- -
Mx.Backatque and the Haymarket company have
main received the honour of a command to give a comedy
Weaning to that theatre, at Wisdom. Castle, as two ma-
tions. The performances will take plats shortly after
Chrietome. We (Bensday noses) hear that An UflOpei
astcA, la which Mies Sedgerick plays her minim, character
of Hester Grasetwook, will be the Bret selection.

Oa Tuesday Miss Amy Sedgwick made her first
appearance at the St. John's Wood Literary !agitation as a
reader, and with complete success. Her selections in tragedy
and comedy, chiefly from Shakspere, Tennyson, and Sheridan
Knowles, elicited ent►u.iastic applause from • crowded
audience.

Two historical anecdotes connected with two
illustrious pereoaages in English history have just come to
light. Tho correspondence of the Preach Ambassador to
the Court of Quer Elizabeth reveals to as what Elizabeth
maid of Kassa. "He took pleasure," she said, "in insulting
her perms; but she hail warned him to take care how he
temoked bier sceptre." Ihe other anecdote ram to King
George IV., sod is told in the diary of Kr. Rose, who wet
mach with King George 111. and more with Mr. Pitt.
Rose was talking to the King in his own bowie. " I thank
God," said King George 111., and with warmth, "there le
bat one of my children who wants courage, as I will not
name bun, because he is to succeed roe." Here, than, (says
the I littatrotai Loudon News) is anew bit for Mr. Thackarg's
" Pour Georges."

During the Christmas holidays Professor Faraday
will deliver, in the Theatre of the Royal Institution, six
lectures on " Varions Forme of Matter," In the style of
Christmas sad to the capacities of a juvenile audience.

We (Atheneum) announce with great satisfaction
that the Intakes of the British Museum h►ve at length taken
into eeri,us consideration the difficulties 'a which they are

placed by our via

of literary rued scientific
restores. Something will now, we trust, be dons. At a
very foil merinos of the board--sfter ommidershle diecossion
as to the principle of separation—the terlterni have app.:doted
a sub•eommirtee to consider and report on the 'abject. The
*lndus of the hour of Commas, u representative of the
powers that pay, is to act sa daimon of the sob-comtabtee.

The Atacama's' matte that at the meeting of the
Royal Academicians on Moniay, Mr. Cope's proposition as
to its main principle of an increase in the number of the se-
ws:lake, may be considered to have been carried. The de-
tails of the ineware bays still to be considered. Meantime,
in accordance with usage in such case., Sir Charles Eastlake
suggested a reference to the council, which suggestion was
taken by unantiuous consent. In the hands of the council,
therefore, the matter now rests. Report will be made to •
general meeting of the academicians, JO soon se the vise
gentlemen of the council shell have ,named theer decidon in
WOW ad proposal.

The British government lately sent a traction
locomotive engine to the Viceroy of Egypt Alter recitals! it,
Said Paella ordered the seoiarer to get up steam, and hod the
halt dozen carriages of the personages attending and his cars
attoohed to it; then requesting them to get into their cur•
elegem, be started off with theca—the locomotive at fall
spied—es the great dismay of its unwilling pesoangers. Tb y
thee passed through the principal streets of Cairo to the
pat amenstosat of its Arch tohabiteals, and through the
isberrob. sr Grand-piaor, on the way to the Palace of
Laser-al-NU. The laropeam collected in front of Bhep-
pent's Hotel to Menem the some were highly mimed at this
newel peasesser train, this exhibited through the city of the
lialesfs, in the waits of its preesat rider. But Said Parka is
notoriously Fond of a practical joke.

The Bright lion. S. Cardwell, MX., accompanied
by his private secretary, visited the Quotes College, Cork, on
Wade...day. Hs strived at the college at tea o'clock, and
proceeded to the Creek lodine-rooms, when be heard Ike
haters of the vice-rreetdeet. He was eubsegriently present
at the lensees of Dr. Boole sad Dr. Blyth. Mr. Cardwell
ceretelly impeded every department of the college, sad made
meat* larpdries es to the actual condition sad progress of
each. Hornig stayed several homy at the collage, Mr. Card-
well whited the county prison, sad haviug paid his nispeees
to the lord bishop at the palace, proceeded to Queenstown.
Dr. Marian), the titular Bishop of Kerry, has
it est the way to save the Populous. He divalged the
Nerd sit • meeting held is the ohapel-yard at Yillalsey on
Weineedey. "To return to the *Jayvee," said Bishop
Moriarty, " we hove reason to fear that it will deal with the
Pepe in • hostile spirit. Can we bring say influence to bear
se its deliberations T Ym, sad I will prove it by a promos
of removing se simple as that which we find in the history
of the Lou.. that Jack built. Lied Palmerston will influ-
ence the onigrime—a pralianteatery majority will influence
Lewd Pelaeretos—the mambas for the county of Kerry mid
he lorciegh ladoence the majority—and you can toff imam
them. (Loud erne of We will.')"
The Rev. Dr. Jarbo, chaplain of the Tyne Sailors'
Neese, hue reorived the offer of a chaplaincy on the
Bengsl setablioltroent, from Sir C. Wood.
Tan N tw J uDG g.—The vacant seat on the bench, in
the room of the lots Mr. Justice Crowder, hos been filled by
the appointment of the Solieitor-fhaerel, &r Henry Rea-
*. No decision, h.. we believe, been at prevent arrived at
as to the suocomor of the S ,licitor•General, but the names of
Mr. Idyls James, Mr. Wilde, and Mr. Rouradell Palmer
ere mentioned as likely to be appolated.-2nosse.

LAMEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE AUSTRIAN INVITATION TO THE
CONGRESS.

"We fled," says the Dibats of to-day, "in the
/vernal do Dm& an analysis of • despatch sent
by Count de Rechberg to the various powers, to-
gether with the letter of invitation to the congress.
According to this despatch France yielded to the
wishes of Austria, in oonsenting that all the powers
which signed the treaties of 1816 should be repre-
sented in the congress. Count de Rechberg believes
it to be indispensable that the plenipotentiaries of
Rome, Sardinia, and the Two Sicilia, should be
also summoned. He adds that, from a just respect for
the rights of the princes interested in the questions
which will be discussed in the congress, the repre-
sentatives of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena should
be admitted ' immediately these countries have re-
turned to a normal situation, which will guarantee
their complete independence.' We call the atten-
tion of our readers to this passage. After the
eekron declaration of the French government
that the former sovereigns of Central Italy shall not
be re-established by force, the language of
M. do Rechberg may well create astonishment.

This astonishment is yet increased, when we come
to the last part of the despatch, and especially the
passage where M. de Reohberg declares that 'the
re-establishment of the princes, expelled by factions
and the restoration of the pontifical authority in the
insurgent provinces, is the first object to be attained
by the congress.' Stich, if the analysis of the
Journal de Deis& is correct, are the means which
Austria believes to be necessary to assure the tran-
quillity of Italy. We doubt if these pretension.
will be supported by France, and we have for
guarantee the known intentions and the formal
declarations of the French government."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

mom Otll OWN youissrommarr.)
EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

' This morning there came on at Tours a trial which
excites immense interest throughout France. The
few last months have been unusually fertile in
causes cekbres both in France and England ; but I
doubt whether anything more extraordinary in the
juxtaposition of crime of the darkest dye with youth,
1 beauty, social rank, family, and fortune ever occu-
pied the attention of a court of law than the case of
Madame Lemoine of Chinon and her daughter,
faille. Angeline, who this day appeared at the bar
of the Assize Court of the Indre and Loire on a
charge of infanticide. The undisputed circumstances

of the cue are that Mdlle. Angelina, a young lady
of sixteen, of extraordinary beauty, having carried
on an intrigue with the coachmen, became enceinte,
and that as soon as her child came into the world it
was burnt to ashes by the unhappy girls mother.
The latter allege. that the inf►nt was still-born, but
the daughter confused to the Judge of Instruction
that it was born alive, that it had long beforehand
been agreed between herself and her mother that it
was to be destroyed, and that while she was in the
pangs of labour her mother prepared a funeral pile
of wood, which hai been laid in store for the dread-
ful purpose.

Madame Lemoine, whose m►iden name was
Meojot, belongs to an old family in Touraine. Her
father was a judge at Chinon ; her grandfather sat
in the Convention, and voted for the death of
Louis XVI. Her ancestors, the De Champignys,
have worn the judicial ermine in Touraine time oat
of mind. She her►elf, when in the bloom of youth,
made what was considered in the country a metal.
home. She fell in love with and married M.
Lemoine, an attorney of Chinon, who had scarcely
any fortune. The marriage was not a happy one,
and after a few years she obtained a decree
of separation, which !eft her in custody of
her two children—a son, now a law student
in Paris, and Mdlle. Angelina. Her fortune, about
14001. a year, was considerable for the little town of
Chinon, where she inhabited a handsome house, and
ranked as one of the great ladies of the place.
Mdlle. Angelina Lemoine was universally ad-
mitted to be the prettiest girl in the town—no small
reputation, when we consider the proverbial beauty
of the ladies of Touraine.

The coachman, the third considerable personage
in this drama, Fetee by name, is described by all
the witnesses is a man of extraordinary ugliness—
awkward and ungainly, ignorant, and looking much
older than his real age, which is only 29. lie is
unaffected by the slightest suspicion of any com-
plicity in the crime. On the contrary, he believed
that he was going to marry his young mistress
until, on his asking her hand from her mother, he

was turned out of the house.
The indictment Ode d'accusation), as is amid in
each documents, does not confine itself to describing
the crime charged, but enters at very great length
into a variety of details conjectural, as well as re-
mote from the main facts of the case. It charges,
among other things, that the mother was in the
habit of reading Rabelais, and that the daughter's
favourite was the " Confessions of Marion Delorme."
Mdlle. Angelina is described as a singularly pre-
cocious young lady who, at the age of 16, openly
boasted that she was fit to be married, and it is dis-
tinctly alleged that she made the first advanoes to
the boorish coachman. Her object, it is said, was to
get married, and to enjoy the freedom of the
marriage state; she had heard a story of
a young lady forcing her parents to consent to a
marriage by becoming a mother, and she thought
she would do the same. One day the coachman,
while helping his mistress to lay down some wine in
the cellar, said to her all at once, " Madame, I ask
the hand of your daughter in marriage." Madame
Lollloillell only answer was, " Go and pat the horses
to immediately." The next day she discharged him
without a word of explanation, but, according to his
evidence, he said to Angelina u he was going oat of
the house, " So, Madame won't let me marry you,"
and Angelina answered, " No, mamma says she will
find means to get rid of it" (meaning the child with
which she was enceinte).
Rumours of the condition of Mdlle. Angelina
spread in the town. The discharged coachman told
all his friends of his emours, and said that he must
of necessity be married to the young lady in the
end. He imparted to many persons his idea of the
inoome he was likely to enjoy and the scale of the
establishment suited to his new rank in life.
Madame Lemoine, who was highly respected in
the neighbourhood, resolutely made up her mind to
brave out the rumours current against the honour of
her daughter. Thank* to the fashion of expansive
crinoline, she made her walk about while far
advanced in pregnancy in all the public promenades
of the town, without it being possible for the public
to perceive the young lady'. real condition. More
than this, she made her on one occasion roll down
hill, jut as people used to in Greenwich Park at
fair time, for the express purpose of negativing the
current belief. In spite of all these extraordinary
manoeuvres, the infant was, as Angelina asserts, born
alive, and after the full period of gestation.
The girl also further admitted that she had agreed
with her mother that the child was to be burnt as
soon ai born; but she says she made &condition that
it should not be burnt while alive ; she believes her
mother killed it, though she knows not exactly Low,
before putting it on the wood. Oa the other hand,
Madame Lemoine maintains that there was no
previous agreement to destroy the child, bat that
finding it still-born, she suddenly resolved to put it
out of the way, in order to save her daughter's
honour. Such, iu all its main circumstance, is the
outline of this remarkable case. M. Lachaud has
gone down specially to defend Madame Lemoine.
The counsel for Angelina is M. &filer, of
the Tours bar. Almost all the Paris jour-
nals have sent special reporters to Tours•
A despatch of this morning says that the
court, which is one of the most spacious in France,
was crowded with spectators from Blois, Ssumer,
Angers, &c., and that a large proportion of ladies
were among the audience.
A telegram, dated 1 o'clock, states that Angelina

in her examination retracts the confession she made
before the Judge of Instruction, and now says that

she only agreed with her mother that the child was
to be destroyed in case of its being born dead. One
of the witnesses, a NI. Lieubray, who had drawn the
attention of the authorities to the suspicious circum-
stances of the case, has attempted suicide.
The Bourse was sgain very animated, sad prices
rose in the early part of the day, but after maay
fluctuations the Rents left off at nearly yesterday's
quotations. The last price for account was 70fr. 45c.,
bring 23c. lower than the highest point of the day.
Mobilter rose Ofr.; Spanish Mobilier fell lfr. 260.
The Orleans Railway fell 10fr., and Lyons, 6fr.;
the other lines remain nearly as yesterday.
M. de Lamartinee paternal estate of Monceanx,
near Macon, is advertised for sale by auction at the
Chamber oeNotaries in Paris on Feb. 7. The upset
price is fixed at 1,000,000 fr. (40,0001.)
The evening papers contain nothing of ha-
-1 penance.

CENTRAL ITALY.

(mom OUR BPSCIAL CORRISPONDINT4
A BATTALION OF CHILDREN.
WANDIANO, Dec. 4.

On the southern side of Reggio—the Regium
Zvi& of Cicero, founded by that famous Marcus
Apulia@ Lepidna, who, after having conquered the
Bpi, opened the /Ernilian way from Piacenza to
Rimini—is situated the town or the " Nobil Terra"
of Beandiano, as the people of the country still call
ft. The Tresinaro, a narrow but rapid torrent now
swollen by the melting snows of the Apennines, runs
on the northern side of this town, still famous for
the exquisiteness of its wines, and once the splendid
seat of the Fogliani, Bojardi, Tiene, and Bennvoglio
families. It was within the walls of its formerly
magnificent castle that Bojardo planned his famous
poem " Orlando," which at a later period furnished
the argument to Arictito's grand poem. Be-
sides the poet Bojardo, this small town,
which has now a population of scarcely
• thousand souls, gave birth to other men
more or less illustrious, both in the annals of the
middle ages and in those of our times. The Capuchin
Magati, • famous physician, who flourished in
Bologna at the end of the sixteenth century; the
Cardinal Toechi ; the Cavaliers Vallisuen ; the
learned Laura Bassi' who in the year 1740 was
elected professor in the Archigimnasium of Bologna ;
and the physicians Oarofoli and SpaLlanzani are
amongst them. Nor are these the only men whom
Scandiano has the honour of reckoning among its
citizens. There is another, still alive, who, although
born in the Modenese village of Bresoello, wee
brought up by a gentleman of this town, Signor
Matioli, to whom he was related. This man, who
now enjoys an European reputation, is Mr. Panizzi,
of the British Museum.

After the assassination of the last Prince of Este,
a natural son of Ercole 111., which took place in the
very room from which I am now writing, &anthemo
lost the importance it had had during the middle
ages, and its castle was allowed to go slowly to decay,
till it became almost uninhabited. Two apartments,
one on the ground floor, the other in the upper story,
still bear witness to its former magnificence. The
gallery in the middle is adorned by splendid stuccos
and an elegant work of Primatticcio, and its noble
staircase is still in a fair state of preservation.
Its large rooms and spacious halls have been
almost ruined by the action of time, but its towers
and battlements still stand out firm and distinct
against the green background of the neighbouring
hills. It is within the walls of thin ancient castle
that the 400 boys of which the battalion of the
edokseenti is composed are now quartered. The
first idea of recruiting this legion of children belongs
to General Garibaldi. When engaged in the South
American wars, and in the defence of Rome in 1849,
this gallant leader had noticed that boys, between
the ages of 13 and 15 years, had proved useful in the
daring military operations he wu called to accom-
plish. At the beginning of the late campaign,
having found that the Lombard cities through
which he marched his triumphant legions had given
their contingent of young soldiers, he at once made
up his mind to have a battalion of adoleteenti orga-
nised. An intelligent young offioer, whom he had
known during the Roman campaign of 1849, being
near at hand, he entrusted him with the formation
of the legion, which at the beginning did not num-
ber more than 150. Austrian persecutions and
patriotism soon increased the number of the
adoleseenti, so that the battalion has now completed
its numerical strength. These little soldiers are
dressed in a dark green tunic, with red =ifs with a
white edge, and dark green trousers. On my arriv-
ing here this morning from Reggio I happened to
see them whilst they were manceuvriog on the parade
ground opposite to the castle. I was really at the
same time astonished and amused to see how
perfect and orderly their movements were.
They went through all sorts of military
evolutions with such steadiness and precision
as could scarcely hare been surpassed by grown-up
soldiers after many months of training and drilling.
Their commanding officer, Count John Arrivabene,
a young nobleman of three-and-twenty. He belongs
to an illustrious Mantuan family, which, since 1821,
has contributed a great many soldiers to the cause
of national independence. Although I really believe
that this battalion of boys will do good service
should it be calltd to fight against the enemies of
Italian independence, its chief importance is of a
moral kind, and is such as will be easily understood
by all sensible men in Europe. This gathering
of the representatives of the rising genera-
tion around the flag of their country should
be taken as a warning to Europe that
there cannot be any compromise, any temporary
solution of a question which has taken such hold
not only of all clause, but all ages. As I was wit-
nessing the moving spectacle of these boys parading
before their chief, a tremendous cheer made me
aware that something had occurred, which, being a
stranger to the place, I could not understand. An
old lady, apparently of high rank, had just crossed
the Church-square, and was hastening towards a
neighbouring house and it was for her that the
cheers of the boys were intended. I asked
• bystander what was the meaning of that demon-
stration, and he told me that the lady who had just
crossed the square was the Marchioness Valente
Gonzaga, the mother of the commanding officer,
Count Arrivabene. She had come from Mantua on
a visit to her son after her prolonged captivity in
the Austrian prisons. You will not have forgotten
how in September last the old marchioness had the
audacity, as the Austrians say, of being present at a
funeral mass performed in the ca. hedral at Mantua
in honour of those brave Italians who had fallen on
the battle-field of Solferino. Although she is nearly
seventy years old, she was arrested and subjected to
the most insulting treatment by the Austrian police,
being shut up with the lowest description of (lamer
our eamellas to be found within the walls of Mantua.
The noble appearance of the o'd lady, with her care-
worn face, impressed me deeply.

The medical practitioners announce, that a rather
strongly developed small pox iv raging epidemically at Parts.
It does hot attack children alone, but older people, who have
too long omitted to have themsulees rwvaccioated. The
Countess 8., who bears an historical name, hoe just het
attacked with this disease.

A grenadier on duty near the Thtitre dm Piro
at Brussels' a few nights back. picked up a roll of papers,
which he gave to the officer at the guard-home.
fis.on afterwards the sentinel saw • man rush out of the
theatre, and address several person u it to inquire whether
they bad found anything. On appealing to the grenadier he
we informed that his roll of papers, which. as it appears.
onntained 100,000 f. in banknotes, was In the hands of the
officer at the guard-hones. On recovering his lost property
he offered the soldier the magnificent sum of if. lific.

THE OUTWARD BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS.
—The stem-ship Avon, Captain novena, left flostbatopt=
yesterday enth the shove mails, 90 passengers, 62,0651. is
specie, and 19,9371. in Jewellery.

-r - -
FRENCII iNNRW CALEDONIA.—The startling
saws that three Englishmen bad been shot by the French
authorities in New Caledonia had ocoattioned great excites
:neut. According to his own statement, Captain Padden.
who had been a settler sod trader in that ',aunts" before the
assumption of sovereignty over it by the French, had landed
at Moreton Bey from a whaleboat, having crossed to that
place from New Caledonia in ten days with two white men
and three islanders. WA report was that the French go-
comment had accused the Eoglish residents of supply's(
arms and ammunition to the Rau's in de:lanced Melee.
elatostion forbidding this traffic; that three men in his (Pan
don's) employ who had been accused of this, having mire
rendered themselves tor trial, had been shot by the entre
order of the governor, after Laving been allowed but •
quarter of an hour to say their prayers; and that fearing
similar fats he had fled with his boat's crew, leaving not only
all his property, hot even his family behind him. There
are other statements, but so conflicting that ft is
Impossible to elicit the truth. According to one account, the
three mos who have beau shut were engaged in actual hoes
tilitise againet the French authorities, end were only con.
chinned slier a careful and impartially-conducted trial. At..
cording to another, they (or, at sit events, two of theca) were
quietly pursuing their way to a boat near the chore when
ey were *mats d, and the *fie evidence upon which they
VIM madenined was that of two native women—evidence
which would ...madly have been but of little value if It
stood alone. But the whole matter, it is understood, is being
fully investigated by the governor general. His Excellency's
report, we understand, u.O trammeled by the times to the
imperial government There is the same conflict of evidence
se to the attitude sesame(' by the French authorities in NM
Caledonia towards other Englishmen, and as to the genera
aspect of affairs there. Something more definite must be
known ere lose, bur, in any event, grim consideralona will
be aluitat sure t.l stripe out of them occurrenosa.—.efustra/iart
and New Zeeland Gazette.

LAW INTIRLLIGENCF..
pun DAT.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
UCON D COURT.

NOlap ee PnGe La L,'das.—(Bdors Mi. 'astir
BON sad COWL Jury.)

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