The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-08 00:00:00

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VICTOR HUGO AIM THE GREEKS.
An appeal 'Maenad to M. Victor Hugo from
oseece Iles determined him to write the following in
support of the Candi= insurrection :
TRANSLATION.
" A cry reaches me from Athens. In the city of
Phidi ss and Echrylus an appeal is made to me :
my name is pronounced. What am I to deserve
such an honour ? Nothing but a vanquished man.
And who are they who call to me? The vanquished. Yes,
heroic Candiotes, the fallen of to-day, you are the victorsof
the future. POTOOMO. Even if you. are prostrated you
will triumph. The protestation of a dying agony is a
power. It is an appeal to God who crushes—what ?
icings! Those mighty ones who are now against
and stubborn
you, those coalitions of blind force
prejudice, those armed antique tyrannies, have as
their principal attribute a remarkable facility of
making shipwreck. The tiara is on the poop, the turban
on the prow, the old monarchical ship is leaking. It is at
this very hour founderingin Ilexieo, in Austria, in Spain,
in Hanover, in Saxony, at Rome, and elsewhere. Per-
severe ! You vanquished ? Impossible ! The insurrection
suppressed is not a principle destroyed. There are
no more faits aceomplis ; there is only right.
Fact is never completed. Its perpetual in-
' completeness is the opening which is left to Right. Right
cannot be submerged. The waves of events pass over it-
It re-appears. Drowned Poland floats on the surface.
For ninety-four years European policy has torn this corpse,
and the world has seen its soul floating above the
faits accompbs. Greeks of Quid* you have right
on your side, and you have Mao reason. Why a
Puha should exist in Crete is beyond comprehension.
That which is true of Italy is true also as regards Greece.
' Venice cannot be restored to the one without Crete being
restored to the other. That which is there a resurrection.
cannot be here a sepulchre. But in the meantime blood is
flowing, and Europe permits it. She gets accustomed to
it. To-day it is the Sultan's turn to exterminate a
nationality. Is there a Turkish divine right venerated as
the Christian divine right! Murder, robbery, violation,
are at this moment sweeping over Candle as, six months
ago, they dashed over Germany. That which would not
be allowed to Schinderhannes is allowed to policy. To
have the sword in hand, and quietly to witness these mur-
ders, this is called statesmanship. It would seem that re-
ligion is interested in what the Turks are quietly
doing—the cutting of Candian throats—and that
society would be shaken if, between Scarperto
and Cytherea, little children were not put to the
sword. There the ravaging of crops and the burning of
villages is usefuL The motive, which explains and tolion.e-
rates these exterminations, is beyond our penetrat
Alas ! one of the humiliations of men whom a long
exile has made stupid (I am one of them) is that they
cannot comprehend the great reasons of the present
assassins. Never mind. The Cretan question is hence-
forth clear. It will be solved, and solved like all
the other questions of this age, in the sense of deli-
verance. Greece complete, Italy complete, Athens at the
head of one, Rome at the head of the other—this is what
we—France—owe to our brother. It is a debt that
France will acquit; it is a duty that France will discharge.
When ? Persevere. Vieroa Huta°.
" Hauteville House, Dec. 2, 1866."

DECAPITATION OP A CHILD.

DIQIJYBT.-(THIS DAY.)

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This forenoon an inquest was held by mi.
Richards, deputy-coroner, at the Green
aleGliterTlAll 01,1
road, relative to Use supposed murder of ermis elk
found decapitated in Bun .fields, Burialsroond,
John Se ''giant, a musician, living Is the Aran
Bonsai city-road, said that, on last Thursday die,
noon, at telt-past 3 o'clock, he found the child is gawk,
wrapped up. in Burwhite cloth, lying near the pith imis
Bunbill ial-ground. He called the polies. ..A
Polioe•oonstable *organ, 272 0, took the bear te
statin.
Mr. G. E. Yarrow, police surgeon, oda that tie
ii,
called to emu nine thebody of the child. He feud si
head cut off from the shoulders. The skull was audio
in by violence applied at the back. The object of the im,
tilation of the bodyyss not apparent, for the chili iiii
been born dead. The hydrostatic test proved that the
i child had sever breathed
The jury returned a verdict of "Found dead."

A MAN KILLED BY HIS WIPIL-COMMITrAz
FOR MANSLAUGHTER.

Mr. Richards, deputy-coroner, held an'nquiri
last night at the Wellington tavern, Cannon
relative to the death by violence of Charles EuSei,

45 veers.
eheetee Emus, 4, Hungerfordetreet, St. Gecieweie,
the-East, son of the deoeffised, said that his lathe se.
000 per, and was employed at the Steam Cooperage(,
parry's works, in Hungerford-street. Lut Sam*
was paid 2/. wages, but 3s. 14. was stopped He .
mer t„, hie wife eed gars her 11. 17s. and told her net
three shillings had been stopped, and he could "pt Y
until Monday or Tuesday. There was a row, and deemed
called his wife a bad name, and she also; wss ship
However, they went out together afterwards to nuke,
They returned home about half-past 10 o'clock, who
DM was out. Upon witness coming in at 11 (Aka Is
found his father perfectly insensible, and his moths,*
a poker striking at the landlady and others. Sts wr
liquor. Deceased died next morning.
'Elan Eastee, a Side girl, now clothed in the worlds.
dress, deposed that her mother grumbled about 'ells*
enough money to pay the landlady. Deceased tali be
names. She told him to go out. lie went out as
steps outside the door, and she then went behind '
flung him out on his head in the street. lay
on the pavement. She then got a poker, but she 'l-81
strike him with it. She tried to strike other pm*
Maria Olive, the landlady, said that on the Amami'
question she heard a‘great disturbance. Wm &tee and
witness and said, 'A had a half-quartern e 4
sad
brandy and my husband drank half of it, lad -
me
.a bad name. Do I look like what be egi
me 1' Deceased said, " She won't believe that
stopped 3a. Id. of my wages, and that I sag
gee as till Monday or Tuesday." Witness took a One.
portunity of expostulating with the deceased whet hinge
was not present, and said, " Reniember when you*
' broke out' before it h
was troh aqu arrel. Toe ins
called her a bad name, and if sheug breaks out ussyee
know what you have to expect. She will tell mils.
to get money to buy drink, as she did before." They*
went out marketing together. Witness also went ost beim
coming home at half-past 10 she found deceased ling
nearly dead on the flags in front of the house. Wills
said to Mrs. Butte, " You are a wicked mama! Im
have killed your husband." Mrs. Eastee got a peer, and
saying, "Me a wicked woman ! I'll show you the
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renal ! rushed at witness and would have 'lan
well as the deceased only some persons iMederet
ceased was parried indoors and he died onfiandsysissisg.
Dr. IL Tainton rid that he was called in to the deessi
on Sunday morning last, and found him quite dead IS
post.mortem examination showed an extensive framed
the skull and consequent injury to the brain, sliistiai
caused death. A very heavy fall would have rudest the
injuries.
A witness stated that the deceased was tong has is
top of the steps on to the flags with each fora nett
out of the boss is
-.wed " as if be had been flung

sack."
The Coroner having summed up the evidence,
The jury returned a verdict of " Mandsaghtes
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Elizabeth Eastee for feloniously slaying Choice Bern,
her husband."
The Coroner then issued his warrant for the &Mail
the accused in Newgate to await her trial at the Cad
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