The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Gold, 1481. Exchange on London, 1601. 5-20
Bonds, 1121; Illinois, 127 ; Erie, 91; Cotton, 41.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

PROSECUTION OF DUELLISTS.
(rams OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS. FRIDAY EVENING.
The government has determined to prosecute
M. Clement Duvernois and his seconds for cutting
and wounding M. Sarcey. Before the correctional
police a conviction will be easily obtained,
although if M. Duvernois had killed his man a
jury would have doubtless acquitted him with
flying colours, just as was done in the case of the
Duke de Gramont Caderousse, who killed Mr.
Dillon, and very many other cases. A prosecution
might do some good, as showing the opinion
of high authority, which the French moutons de
Panurge are always prone to follow, if there were
any settled intention on the part of the government
to discourage duelling. But this is far from being
the case. A prosecution is so rare that principals
and seconds, so far from standing in fear of the
public prosecutor, always make haste to send their
names to the papers for the admiration of their
friends. I have already expressed my opinion
upon the particular duel in question; but in a
legal point of view it is no whit worse than the
many silly rencontres that are constantly taking
place between vain writers in the daily and
weekly press. Unless the government means to take
notice systematically of every duel that is fought,
the imprisonment of M. Clement Duvernois for two
or three months will do nothing towards crushing
the system. It would only show, and lam afraid
that is the real motive for the exceptional action of
the Procureur-Imperial, that the government is
glad to take any opportunity of suspending the pen
of an opposition writer. M. Clement Duvernois,
who, when an editor of a paper in Algeria,
was a thorn in the side of the Governor-
General, who knows already the interior of a
political prison, who started a journal in Paris
which was very quickly suppressed, and who both
in the Presse and the Liberti has written telling
articles against the Mexican " folly," is marked
for a scapegoat. I venture to think that it would
be very easy to put down duelling, an institution
which now scarcely exists except among newspaper
writers, if the government were seriously to take up
the matter on principles of public policy. A month's
hard labour for principals and seconds as a
minimum whether blood was shed or not would be
a sufficiently deterrent penalty.
Another journalist duel occurred yesterday.
Two gentlemen named Rossignol and
Maxime, who write in some of the scores
of publications belonging to the petite presse,
had a paper war which culminated in a challenge.
Their seconds send to the papers an account of the
meeting, in which they say that, " seeing from the
manner in which they crossed their swords
that they intended to act vigorously,"
they at once interposed, and expressing
the opinion that the articles in question
contained nothing affecting the honour of either
party insisted that the affair should have no "further
consequences." These seconds were not very logi-
cal. They alleged an excellent reaaon why they
should not have brought their men upon the
ground, but, the theory of duelling being admitted,
one cannot understand why the manifest disposi-
tion of the combatants to use their swords
" vigorously " should be a reason for taking them
out of their hands.
The trial of the Etinernent, on which its existence
is imperilled, came on to-day. The result is not
known at the hour at which I write. The question
for the court is whether the expression of an opinion
bythe Etinement that the tax levied on theatres for
the poor had ruined many establishments was
an allowable criticism in a journal not
licensed to discuss political questions. Nothing
is more elastic than this word " political." The
whole thing comes to this, that the government
can suppress anynewspaper when it pleases, whether
by the machinery of multiplied warnings, by simple
decree sic rote sic jubeo, or by i.rosecutioL. T
think the government on the whole would be
sorry to suppress the Refitment and therefore
I think the public prosecutor will give a hint to the
judge to acquit.
The Bonne is again bad. Rent. fell 10c. for
cash and 17c. for account, closing at 68fr. 85c. and
68fr. 821 c. Mobilier fell Bfr. 750. There were no
political rumours.

LAW INTELLIGUat

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This wee an application for relater., awe
cumstances. The debtor, a gentleman of 4
Chelsea, had executed a deed of arranweeet
under which he had
position of fin in the pounTel Peeeralr,
six, nine, and twelve months.
Twasteti.h-eneotlicredi,set. =Winer, had returneYti-iilis died
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taken the debtor in execution, notwit mes
iron given him under the deed. °l* pmts
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court and disputed the validity of the de he=g4l
*aft
mange ; notwithstanding this a twelvemonth Am
he bad inverted the debtor in &flame of the Ps
the court, baying previously indemnified the isbeetN mo
application was supported n the ground tled
cotu;: was bound to uphold o
its own Juisdisshe.
were cited in which the asurt led :IL that power. It bad been decided by
Lord Clissoallor, in the case of Overead, Waters, aid
that the Court of Bankruptcy was the rope seem to
' effect to a deed of arrangement and it had been the ed
form practice of the court to uphold its proteedee*
grented.
His Honour doubted whether a sip* No amdi
found in which the court had interferred to
bankrupt who had been arrested in the face of tree=
Non of the court. The course had always beet se
to the court under whose process the bankrupt hat
sanded. There had been hundreds of such cams is bed
TAI , and it had never been held that the Genii,
•• • in inch asses.
Hr. Reed was of opinion that the court audit GI..
snob jurisdiction.
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it regraded the merits of lyee
the deed had been ully carried out.
Hr. Gray, who opposed the application, called forst
deuce that the deed complied with the required,*
of the sot. Many of the statements in the 'Resit a sts
debtor were capable of disproof. Though bills bad
tendered ender the deed, they were not paid ehe
due ; application had been male for the money willed
effeet ; and the deed was therefore void.
His Honour said he could dispose of the applied a
without going into the question of jurisdiction
the covenants of the deed was that the compaeske wh
should be tendered to the creditors forthwith, smut
was no evidence that this had been done in Mr. PGA

lir. Reed said he understood that the bills to 4 hum
tendered within three weeks of the exeeuties of the
The Commissioner—That is not " forthwith.' The
plication must be dismissed, with costs.
IN HE PHILIP ANLET.
The bankrupt was a builder, of Whitemmesirest
case hu been before the court 14 months, time be*
been some unsuoceseful attempts to take It oat rimy
The debts are 19,369 E., out of which security is kell fa'
10,396/. A dividend of ss. in the pound has tees Min
the unsecured debts. . . _

~This was the sitting for examination and dada". • •
Mr. Godwin, for the essignees, offered no appends.
Mr. Perry supported, and stated that a companies d
Bs. in the pound had been offered in the first iambs%
and afterwards 6s. Bd., which would have bees yid, y
for the difficulties that were interposed.
His Honour granted the order.
TN RE CORSET.
The bankrupt, a livery-stable keeper sad emaily
agent, of Warwick-mews, Helgrave-wpare, appitniht le
order of discharge from debts of 1171.
Mr. Sykes appeared for the official assignee. It we
stated that the bankrupt had been 45 years is ham
He had been once insolvent before, but never lisino;,
He was in custody at the suit of a Mr. Tyler, to visa le
had sold a horse, taking 101. deposit, and by millsks
horse had been sold again, in his absence, to raw
person, by whom it was taken away. Proceedings wee
thereupon taken by Mr. Tyler, and the liankrapt bed Isa
in prison four months.
Hie Honour granted the order of discharge. TY is-
lease from custody was ordered to stand over, the aft
not being rofficient.

IX RE EDWARD THOMAS AKEFICRST.
The plaintiff was a horse dealer, of St. limbo
Debts, 9591. ; assets returned at ;W. The official nom
stated that nothing had been received.
Mr. R. Griffiths oppcsed for Mr. Freeman, a *pot
creditor for 18W., for horses and carriages, and gaol fig
cash, goods, and deficiency accounts.
An adjournment was ordered for the additional Kali
to be furnished.
IN RE WILLIAM CLIFFORD.
The bankrupt, described as a commuiriorei4
merchant, of Leadenhall•atreet and the Meg
his discharge from debts of 1,5141. Ile gym"
of 900 f. due to him as bad debts.
On the application of Mr. Sykes, an adjournmie ni
ordered for mqur•y into those debts.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

BOW-STREET.
MEETING AN OLD A/AiI:AMA:ICE.
Louisa Aelacrod, a young woman of OF
pearance, who would hardly be supposed to- besprodhidl
but that she so described herself. was charged Maeda.
ing la. 2d. from Mr. Edward Frank, a private pedals,
residing in Lloyd-square.
The prosecutor stated—l was passing glom theatre'
about an hour ago when the prisoner came and ergot!
me. She reminded me that I knew her about &mu MI
a half ago, and asked me to treat her. She led nsiste
the Wellington Tavern, and I treated her to some sig.
called in some friends', who also had some drink, Midi I
paid for. I did not chink
anythinganhmysell- I pi!
down a florin to pay for wh d Meads
taken, and the barmaid laid down Is. 2d. chasm The
prisoner took it up, and put it in her pocket. I doessied
my money, and she said, Why you owe me a pedant
of money. You are in my debt, and I shall not mire
anything." Ido not owe her anything. I called syli
man to give her in custody, but told her if she weld
give me my money I would say no more &boat it. as
refused to do so, and said it would just pay for &cohost
I gave her in custody.
Cross-examined by the prisoner—l did not give Ryes Is
pay for a cab. I did not say I was very limey
ad
only ot that two shilling piece d ask you whet rebel
for dinner ; but you asked me to an
go home to dimwit&
you, and said you had boiled leg of mutton sod oPlo
sauce.
Emma Corbett, the barmaid, corroborated the Add
went ea to the prosecutor pre) ing for the drink yid a
florin, and the prisoner taking up the change, la 2d.
A companion of the prisoner )also a prostitute) mid Vet
the prosecutor gave the prisoner the money to pay fad
cab, as he was going home with her to dinner,
was afterwards spent in drink, of which the preemie
partook.
This the prosecutor denied. He had formerly bend&
mate with the prisoner, but they had parted oa tams
a year and a half since, and he would not have camsld
to go home with her.
him Vaughan asked the prosecutor if he really vista,
press the charge, observing that his object en/melds
not so much to execute justice so to get the modelle&
The prosecutor said that was not so. He did sot ero
to submit to robbery, and therefore he determined to Ys
his own, whether le. or 11., or popish her. He Of
care about the 14d., but he did not like the insoleat Soo
of what belonged to him.
Mr. Vaughan asked the prisoner if she would TOW
should deal with the case, or send her for trial'.
The prisoner said sbe would rather be dealt wick Ism
Mr. Vaughan need not ask the prisoner whether sbe
guilty or not guilty, as the amount being so small oef
deal with the case, however she ploaded. lie limatlif.
justice of the ease would be met by sentencing ee
her
day's imprisonment.
The prisoner was locked-up till the rising of the coot
CLERK ENWELL.
GROSS DESERTION OF A ‘‘ltT. AND FAVILT.—nows,
NEXT WITHoIT A FINE. -LA
lasses Castle, aged described on the clime
a shoemaker, having no home, was charged oofr4
Barker, at the instance of the authorities of the MM.
St. Mary, Islington, with deserting his wife sad IP'
children, and leaving them chargeable to that Falk,.
From the evidence of Mr. Messer, the ItheviSi
and Mr. Moss, the warrant officer of the parish 01.7...
ton, it appeared that the prisoner has left his to d
family on three previous occasions. In the wail !TA
August of last year the prisoner, without giving*. ",:ji
warning, absconded, leaving his family in amass f
plight. The wife at once applied to Mr. Messer or=
and she and her family were admitted to the w011T.70
Mr. Moss then commenced a series of inquiries ea 1" 04
whereabouts of the prisoner, and ultimately 401
he was following his trade at Northampton 0e
a warrant from this court, Ile. Mom
above town and there found the prisoner In follil7,'
owing to the small price that was paid for the r"...„,k
per pair for children,' hoots, he was not earsolE7i
money. When the prisoner was told the cluoleeX.s.
that he was aware that his family were in the we0r"....;
that he bad written to his wife telling herwlieror,T,
and that as soon as he could earn mow WT4,
tended to send for her, as it was his wish to btortiol
family in a respectable manner. From jogai*.
beau made, it was ascertained that the
wife weitio
working respectable woman, and on one oemsMlP.l.l,
only kept her family by her industry but
the ala
tog
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, Isia;el
out of employment he left his family✓
fur
seeking work. Had he stopped with them they,ol
been Marred, and therefore be went to Notelessei
having then got work be intended to smid
004 for liiii"majg
family at the earliest opportunity. He did 17-0
that he had deserted his family uhe bed wri".
wife nearly every week.
anyM arranger. Barkerei essakedwithif thheepaprirsieohnearulthcaitim era.—

Mr. Messer answered in the neptive.
Mr. Barker said the came had been made oat, and
sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to bard
labour in the House of COITIIdiOn for on. akmda month.

WORSHIP-STREET.
♦ QUARRELSOME BOY.

Jam Stoker, a diminutive, thin, ragged boT, not nine
Toof age, was charged with being ooncernred in aasaidt-
George Walker, two years o'der.
mplainant's face was plastered on the left side, and
blood was trickling from • wound of some kind about
the rise of • half-crown, while • slighter injury was ar-
permit on the other cheek. He said—My father is a
and I live with him at No. 8, lant-street,
)Borough. This morning he sent ma to George-street,
Bethnal-green, and on my way I stopped to look at
a man in the road making pots. This boy and
others came up and pushed me about. I spoke
to him and complained of his doing so, upon which
li. mid, " Come on, Fenian' ; let's pelt him ;" and so they
did. I was struck several tames with stones they picked
up from the road, but he struck me first ; indeed, he Bung
do ant stone, which was so sharp as to out my face. I
wuccmtruastno have it dressed by a doctor.
• is father—lf you plena., dr, the persons
mending round said the boy ought to be locked up, his
conduct was so bad. Two women promised to be here and
ten you so, but I don't see them.
Constable—The boy's mother is here ; no one else.
The mother came forward, by direction of Mr. Ellison,
who said to her—The wound your child has inflicted on
the boy is likely to be serious. I must remand him, young
as be is, until I see how the injury gets on.
Mother—My child is now very sorry, sir. The others
ran away. If you let me have my boy, bring him up
when you like.
Mr. Ellison—Then let me have him here this day week.
If you don't he will be brought up on • warrant. Where
do you live
Mother—No. 2, George-street, Bethnal-green, air. Thank
you sir. I'll be lure to bring him. Thank you.
The mother left the oxirt with the little Fenian, who
kept rubbing his eyes and the tip of his nose with the cuff
of his coat

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
PILLODS ON JEWELLERS.—GILDING RUSSIAN OWN&
George Robson, of No. 8, Princes-row, Bedford-row, watch-
maker, was charged before Mr. Knox with uttering a coun-
terfeit Russian three rouble piece, with intent to defraud
Mr. Henry Gramm, jeweller, of No. 50, Great Portland-
street.
Mr. Greavee said about halt-past 6 yesterday evening
the prisoner came in and threw the produced on the
counter, and asked what it was worth. I directly picked
it up, and as soon as I had done so a friend of the prisoner
sped in and said " Oh, it's gold. I should have a ring
mane to it if I were you and attach it to my chain." I re-
tained the coin, having previously had a communication
from the police respecting frauds with similar coins, and
drained the prisoner while I sent for a constable,
and on one arriving gave the prisoner into custody.
I believe there have been a number of similar coins
pried at jewellers'.
Inspector Garforth, E Division—l was at the station
when the prisoner was brought in by police-constable 35E,
and he said he bought the coin in Hatton Garden, at a
refiner's, for 81. 6d., but that he did not know the name of
the refiner. Information has been given by the police to
jewellers cautioning them against purchasing the coins.
Mr. Knox—There is one difficulty in the case. In the
fist place the prisoner did not tender the coin for the
purpose of changing it—he merely asked its value ; and in
the second place there is no proof that it is a counterfeit
of a Russian coin.

Mr. Garforth—l have a person here who purchased one
d the coins, and if the prisoner is remanded I can produce
twenty others.
Henry Ashman, assistant to Mr. George Pickett,
jeweller, of 2d.5, Oxford-street, said—On Tuesday
lad the prisoner offered me one of the coins
for sale. I asked what it was, and believe ,
the prisoner said it was gold. He said he
bad had it by him for some time, and he wished
to get rid of it as it was of no use to him. I judged from '
Hs weight that it was genuine, and took it up to Mr.
Pickett, who, believing it to be genuine, said I might give
235. for it, and I did so, and the prisoner left. I identi-
fied the prisoner last night at the station as the person I
purchased the coin of. I have had the coin tested, and it
nplatina. I have compared it with a Russian coin at a
mooeychanger's, and it is similar.
Mr. Knox—l should like to see a genuine Russian coin,
if one can be procured.
Mr. Griffiths left for the purpose, and returned and said
—I have been to a money-changer's, and they state that the
coin is a genuine coin, made of platina but gilt over. Its
original value is about 7a. lid.

Mr. Knox—The priioner will be remanded, and the
Russian Consul can be communicated with.

THAMES.
SINGULAR COMPLAINT AGAINST A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST.

James Hutton, a bout-closer, of No. 13, Dudley-street,
St. Giles, came before Mr. Paget and complained that his
daughter, Harriet Hutton, was detained by •
Roman catholic priest named Ring, who was con-
nected with the chapel in Great Prescott-street,
Whitechapel, and dwelling next door to it. The
applicant said his daughter was between seven and eight
Jean of age, and that he and his wife had always been pro-
testants, and never attended the ministrations of the
Roman catholic church. His wife lately died of cholera in
Ratcliff, and in the course of her Illneu she sent for a pro-
testant clergyman, but some officious persons about her
brought in a Roman catholic priest, who took the girl to
his house after her mother's death. He had applied twice
to the Rev. Mr. Ring, and asked him to restore the child,
which he refused to do.

Mr. Paget—On what grounds?
Hatton—He says he is the father of the child.
Yr. Paget—Her father ? Do you mean to say a Roman
catholic priest admitted be was the father of an illegiti-
mate child?

Hutton—He says he is her father, but I believe I am.
I was married to her mother, and lived with her after
marriage.
Mr. Paget—Do you mean to say, seriously, that a priest
of his persuasion admits he is the father of a child?
Hutton—He claims a spiritual right ; he claims to be the
spiritual father.
Mr. Paget—That is another matter. You should be
careful how you speak of the character of a priest. You
should take care not to use such questionable language.
Was you living with your wife at the time of her illness
tad decease?

_ .
Hatton—No, sir. I had been separated from her six
JSLL

Mr. Paget—How is that ?
Hutton—l bad my reasons for not living with her.
IF. Paget— W hat reasons
Hutton—She walked the streets. She became a bad
woman, and I could not live with her. Thst is no reason
why
d. • Popish priest ahould interfere and take awn my
ebg

16: Paget—You must go to a judge at Chambers, and
obtain a writ of habeas corpus to compel the priest to
deliver the child to you. You have neglected your
daughter for six years, and that being so I must leave you
to your remedy before a judge. Show your right to the
custody of your daughter, and the law will interfere on
Your behAlf. I cannot ssaigt you.

WANDSWORTH.
THE ILIFIOT C,t-E AGAIN.
John Parvy was summoned for using abusive and
insulting words to Mr. Henry James Robotham, of Chat-
ham-road, New Wandsworth.
Mr. Haynes, who appeared for the complainant, men-
tioned that it would be within the recollection of the
magistrate that the defendant attended as • witness in
a case in which Mr. Robotham complained of two
or three persons annoying him by carrying about and
burning his effigy or a Guy Faux sort of thing. The
parjea were fined twice, and the annoyance had since been
repeated. The defendant, when called as a witness, re-
ceived some sort of censure from the magistrate for the
mode in which he conducted himself. Ever since the
complainant and his wife had been annoyed in every
Iv:sable way, so much so that they were rendered
disquiet in their home. It had been said that
the complainant shou Id be compelled to leave
the place, and that nmst be the ease unless he submitted
to the annoyance. The defendant bad represented
that he held an official position, and he (Mr. Haynes) was
therefore surprised that he should be guilty of such con-
duct. He added that at a certain public-house in the
neighbourhood a subscription was raised for the payment
of the tines, and it was boasted that they did not are for
them, for Mr. Robothain had to pay a guinea to his soli-
titer each time lie appeared at she police-court.
Mr. and Mrs. Roirotham were examined and they each
Poe an account of the language used by the defendant on
the night the 29th ult. The words were of an indecent
character, of
and were applied both to the wife and the hus-
band.
The defendant denied using the lanpage imputed to
him. He said that he bean! a noise in the street, and he
merely went over and told the parties to go home or they
Mould have some of Mr. Itohotham's summonses again.
Among the witnesses he called was one of the former de-
femlanta who was fined, and he confirmed the defendant's
account of the matter.
Mr. Daman then heard a cross summons against the
complainant's son by the defendant's daughter. He dis-
nimed the summons, as he considered it was a trumped up
mit He fined the defendant Ills. and 40e. costs, and also
%dered him to enter into hie own recegnizanees to keep
Pace.

I F. I Extreme. 1 !Sea,
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Aberdeen — '— - 1 - :
Leith 30.0 55 S.W. 1. 1 I N.E. o" ' 1
Ardromen 150-1-2 55 E.N. E. tt . 3 E. o 1 —• 2
Greencastle-130.53 53: W. 11 2 ' N.E. cm —' 1
Yakut's__ 30.49 541 N.N.E. 11 0 1 Z. ho : . 1
fNpe Cloar '30.46 641 S.& 3! 3 ; N.E. m'— 13
Liverpool._ 30.5:, 56 E.N.F. 2; 21 E.N.E. oc — 1
Bolybead '30.49 66 EN. E. 11 2 N.N.E. m , 2
Penssnos •30 49 581 N.E. 1i 2 , N.E. mt ' ' 2
Brest .. 30.4357 E N.E. 4! 3 " N.IN.E. ' for —l4
Lorient . 30.36 571 N.E. 214 ! N.E. o 2
Rochefort ;30.32 61" E.S.E. 413 I N.E. c 2
Plymouth . 30.47 58' N.E. 11 2 1 N.E. m 1
Weymouth 30.4356' N .F.. 5' 2 f E. N.E. em , 3
Portsmouth 80.4556' E.N.F. 3• 3 1 E. o 0.01, 2
London
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Yarmouth ._ 33.43 63 E N.E. 1 2 N.E. ob . 3
Scarborough. 30.54 51 N.E. 1' 1 N. N.E. to : 1
Shields . 30.57 55 S. i 2 2 N.E. o 2
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