The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-23 00:00:00

cers fall killed and wounded around him, he was

obliged to retreat." It is complained that a native
Mexttlan regiment sent against the Juarist general
Corona " rallied to him." All this is now admitted
by the French official press, which a short time
ago spoke of Maximilian's empire as strongly
rooted in the unanimous affection of the people,
and of Juarez's partisans as a few scattered bri-
gands not entitled to be treated as belligerents,
and only good to hang in the rare cases of meeting
with any of them. All this " enormous lying " is
now about to be so exposed to the world that there
will be but one opinion about it.
The famous ironclad frigate La Gloire, which
figured at the great international meeting of the
French and English fleets at Brest last year, has
been put out of commission, and now lies a hulk
at Toulon, under the jurisdiction of the maritime
prefect. I presume that, like many of her English
competitors, she has been found wanting. The
new frigate La Savoie replaces La Gloire in the
squadron of evolutions.
A very extraordinary case came before the Civil
Tribunal of the Seine this week. Some months
ago an old woman, Widow Tamizier, died in Paris,
leaving, as it was supposed, no other fortune than
the poor furniture of a small lodging. Her effects
were sold by auction in that rapid way that the
property of the poor is disposed of ; and among
them was a little box containing skeins of thread,
which, with several other things classed under the
head " sundries," was knocked down to a dealer
in marine stores, named Audebert, for the small
sum of 4fr. Audebert shortly afterwards made
a present of the box to Mdlle. Fricotteau,
a dressmaker, who was his mistress. She,
making use of the skeins of thread to hem some
towels, found concealed in them twenty Bank of
France notes for I,ooof r. each. She, having small lite-
rary acquirements and being utterly unaccustomed
to the handling of large sums of money, doubted
at first whether the discovery was of any value.
Nevertheless she sent a friend to the Bank of
France with one of the notes, and, receiving in
return for it 50 golden napoleons, could no longer
doubt about the treasure trove. Separate
enjoyment of the find never occurred to
her innocent soul, and she at once took
the notes and gold to her paramour Aude-
bert, who had given her the box. He, on
the strength of his acquisition of fortune,
proposed a tour in Auvergne, his native depai t-
ment. Had ho gone anywhere else in France he
had been secure from any inquiry about the con-
tents of the box of thread. But in Auvergne his
expensive way of living, so far beyond the station
of himself and family, led to the belief that he and
Miss Fricotteau must have come by money
unlawfully in Paris. A judge of instruc-
tion who, it may be presumed, has little
to do among the honest inhabitants of
Auvergne, pricked up his curious ears in response
to public rumour, and after making inquiries
I thought himself justified in arresting Audebert
and Miss Fricotteau. They at once confessed the
whole story of the box of thread, and produced 17
notes yet unspent out of the original 20. The tri-
bunal of correctional police acquitted them on the
criminal charge of misappropriation, nevertheless
the seventeen thousand-franc notes were im-
pounded in court to await the claim of the pre-
sumed lawful owner. A nephew of Widow Tami-
zier, one Louis Cochois, appeared the other day
by his counsel, M. F. Thomas, in this character.
Neither Audebert nor Miss Fricotteau made any
opposition to his claim, and it was adjudged that
the 17,000 franca in court should be paid over to
shim.
An advocate at Dresden has been arrested on a
charge made against him by the Germania Life
Assurance Company of Stettin of having poisoned
his wife with a view to obtain the amount of a
policy on her life. The lady died suddenly shortly
after her husband had insured her life for 24,000
thalers (about 3,6001.). It appears that insurance
offices in Germany, or at least this part of Ger-
many, stipulate that a post mortem exami-
nation shall follow the death of the assured.
This examination took place without any
objection being made. But ten days after
the funeral the company showed sufficient cause
to obtain an order for an exhumation, and then a
Berlin chemist, named Dr. Sonneuschein, certified
that he found in the body traces of acetate of
morphine. The husband is said to be in em-
barrassed circumstances, owing to disastrous
speculations, and the allegation of the public
prosecutor is that he poisoned his wife to raise

money.
The Bourse showed some activity in Rente and
Italian, but all other securities were neglected.
Rente rose 30c. for cash and 25c. for account,
closing at 69fr. 80c., and 69fr. 774 c. Italian rose
33c.1 closing at 56fr. 40c.

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ARRIVAL FROM THE WEST INDIES.—LIVERPOOL,
THERSDAT.—By the arrival of the West India and Pacific
Steam Navigation Company's steam ship West Indian,
Captain Miller, we have later news from Colon and
Jamaica. The leading topic of discussion in the Jamaica
papers is the stoppage of a public meeting which had been
called at Kingston on the 2fith ultimo by Mr. Robert
Osborne, for the purpose of memorialising the government
to remove from the oommission of the peace Dr. Bowerbank,
the chief magistrate of Kingston, who will be remembered in
England by his advocacy of Governor Eyre. The grounds
stated for the memorial were " the illegal and arbitrary
arrests made in her Majesty's name by Dr. Bowerbank's
directions, and the subsequent imprisonment of peaceable
and loyal subjects during the troubles in the parish of St.
Thomas-in-the-East." This affair bad stirred up very
angry feelings, and the newspapers are filled with articles,
some denouncing Mr. Osborne for attempting to gratify
his personal feelings and inflame the public mind, others
deprecating any attempts oe the part of the authorities to
interfere with the right c public oaths&