The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE GARIBALDIAN EXPEDITION.

ANGRY OORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE
FRENCH AND ITALIAN GOVERNMENTS.
MOM OUR OWN 001111SPONDINT.)
PARIS, TVESIDAT EVINING.

This evening's Moniteur announces at the head
of its leading column that, according to a despatch
from Florence, Garibaldi has been arrested at
Asinalunga just as he was about to enter the pon-
tifical territory.
The Patric publishes a despatch from Florence,
dated this morning, stating that Garibaldi, who
was at Arezzo on Sunday evening, had ever since
been lost sight of, and that the belief was that he
had taken a mountain path to the Roman frontier.
Ricciotti Garibaldi arrived in Florence on Sept.
20 with 12,0001., which was speedily distributed
among volunteers. The expedition was so openly
preparing that crowds of people assembled every
day on the Piazza Santa Trinita to look at ten or a
dozen shoemakers hard at work in a shed making
shoes for Garibaldi's soldiers. M. Crispi's mission
to dissuade Garibaldi from his project decidedly
failed. Garibaldi told him that the die was cast ;
that he suffered so horribly from his wounds
and his rheumatism that death would be a relief
to him, and that he was determined to go on with
his work come what might. Be can neither walk
far nor ride on horseback. His sons were to take
commands under him, and it was thought tha
Menott'. would lead the expedit;on against Rome.
If it be true as reported to-day that all the French
officers of the Antibes Legion have thrown up their
commissions much of the difficulty of the enterprise

disappears.
The note of M. Rattazzi, published by the
Florence Gazette, was the consequence of a long
and animated negotiation between the governments
of France and Italy. In the first instance the
French Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote an
" energetic " despatch, insisting upon the strict
execution of the convention of September 15, and
demanding categorical explanation. as to the
inaction of the Italian authorities in presence
of the notorious preparations and speeches of
Garibaldi. M. Rattazzi instructed M. Nigra to urge
the great latitude which Italian laws allow to public
meetings and private societies ; the delicacy of
Garibaldi'. exceptional situation ; and, finally,
the inviolability of his person as an Italian deputy.
The French Cabinet did not admit the force of
these objections ; reminded that of Florence
that the least breach of the convention would
restore to France her liberty of action,
and threatened to send a fleet to Civita Vecchia,
and two divisions to Rome. M. Rattazzi at first
replied with spirit that if a French army appeared
in the Roman states, an Italian army would enter
them at the same time. Further and more em-
phatic threats on the part of Frsnoe induced M.
Rattazzi to lower his tone, and to issue the pro-
clamation against Garibaldi which everybody (mows.
The Dugnesclin affair at Dinan, which, for more
reasons than one, no Englishman can speak of
without blushing, has inspired a local poet with
the following untranslateable lines, which seem to
me far better than those commonly seen in a jour-
nalistic " poet's corner :"

81, dans ea pion taciturn.,
Qualque Auglais, ine de brandy,
Etait encore asses Nardi
Pour (*lifer d'an rue noetsarm
Ina nommen; de no. hens;
Ne sersit-11 pas i propos.
Pour maitre un Lenin 1 son audace,
De 1.1 downer on pen la chasm
Area on keit ehawe•pot

At the Bourse Csedit Mobilier sustained the
further heavy fall of llfr. 26c., and is now quoted

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at 215 fr. Many of the sellers of to-day bought at
1,800 fr., and have hitherto held on, not being able
to resign themselves to a lam In Rente and other
securities there was little change. Italian rose
25fr.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

Won Mr. Justice Dag.)
THE MURDER AT LIMEHOUSE.

John Wiggins, 32, waterman, was charged with the wil
ful murder of Agnes Oates.
Mr. Poland and Mr. Collins conducted the prosecution on
behalf of the Treasury ; the prisoner was defended by Mr.
Mibton and Mr. Sleigh.

The learned counsel for the prosecution, in ring the
use for the crown, said that the charge against primmer
was one of the gravest character known to the law, and the
circumstances under which the charge was preferred
would require their most attentive and serious considera-
tion. He then proceeded to give • brief outline of the evi-
dence, the material points of which will be fresh in the recol-
lection of the public. The prisoner, it will be remembered,
lived with the deceased, who paned as his wife, at
Limehoose, and the murder with which he was
was committed some time during the night of thlagedtli
of July last. The deceased was 22 years of age, and at
this time she had been living with the prisoner for about
six months, and that they had frequently quarrelled, and
only a short time before the period when the murder
was committed they had had • quarrel on account of
the prisoner having obtained • sum ofa4l;artrn •
watch belonging to the prisoner and there to be
no doubt that the latter was anxious to get ri of the de-
ceased. On the morning of the day mentioned, about 5
o'clock, an alarm of murder wee raised in the street
where the prisoner reeided, and the prisoner was seen par-
tially dressed with his throat cut. The deceased was
found lying dead in her bedroom with • terrific gash in
her throat ; and, according to the ease for the prosecu-
tion. she had at this time be= dead for several hours. It
turned out that the injury received by the prisoner was
of • very slight character, and he at once said that the
deceased had inflicted the injury upon him, and
that he went out to procure assistance, and when
he went back into the bedroom he found that
the deceased had cut her own throat. He afterward.
made several other statements, and eventually, at his own
request, he was examined before the coroner, where he
made • formal a4itement to the effect that the deceased
woman bad attempted to cut his throat while he was lying
on the floor, and that he got away from her, and that
shortly afterwards he found that she had out her own
throat, The case on the part of the prosecution was that
the deceased could not have inflicted the injury upon her-
self, and it was said that she must have been dead several
hours at the time when she was discovered, whereas
the prisoner said that she had inflicted the
injury . immediately before he made his appmr-
anoe m the street. The evidence also tended to
show that the body had been placed in the position in
which it wss found, and that It it had been • use of
suicide as was represented by the prisoner she could not
have been in such • position. The wound itself was also
of such a fearful character that the knife appeared to have
actually gone completely throught the neck end wounded
the opine, and the case on the part of the prosecution was
that this injury could not have been inflicted by the de-
ceased herself, and that the story
..of the prisoner was a
mere sham. The question, there ore to be disposed o:
waswhether the case was one of suicide or of murder.

The following evidenoe was then adduced for the pro-
secution

Rose Helen Oak*, a girl about 14 years old, said that
&Creed was her airier. They had no relations in London,
but c^rne there from the country, and were quite
strangers. Her sister had been living with the pi .soner
se his wife at Temperance Cottages, Limehoue, for
about six months before her death. On the Sunday
before she died witness was at their house, and
she heard them quarrelling about money, and
the dammed said she would go to a situation and would
not live with the prisoner any longer. She did not see
her sister again until she was in her coffin, dead.
Mrs. Mary Anne Windier deposed that formerly she
lived next door to the prisoner, at No. 2, Temperance Cot-
sages, Liaiebouse. She was well acquainted with the
deceased and saw her almost every day. On the
20th of July, four days before the murder, she
heard a shriek from the deceased, and the prisoner
made use of some foul language towards her, and witness
went out of her room and saw the prisoner holding the
deceased by the hair, end before she could get up to them
he kicked her on the back of the head. The deceased was
in a standing position at this time. Witness exclaimed,
" Oh, John, John, what have you been doing of ,• you
will be sorry for what you have done presently.' She be-
lieved the deceased had been throwing the tea things at the
prisoner before he struck her. There had been several
other quarrels before this between the prisoner and the
deceased, and the latter had expressed her intention tc go
to service, and wanted the prisoner to buy her some
clothes to enable her to do so. _ _ _ _ _

Cross-examined—The deceased had no doubt been very
violent before the prisoner attacked her on this occasion.
The deceased was of a happy disposition, but witness was
not aware that she was very unhappy at living in the
manner she was with the prisoner. The deceased fre-
quently told her that she could not continue to live such
an unhappy life. She never heard the deceased say that
she felt OA if she could make away with herself, but she
had heard her say that she would go to service, and hoped
she should sea happy days yet.
Re-examined—Witoem saw the deceased the day before
her death, and she then appeared to be quite comfortable
sad contented.

Tram, the landlady of the Golden Lion
public-house, St George's-road East, deposed that the
planner was at her house on the 23rd of July, and she
Wed him bow be was getting on, and he replied, " Very
badly," and be said it was on account of a young woman
be bad been living with who had not turned out what he
expected. Witness said they had better part if they were
not happy, and the prisoner replied that he was determined
to at z, of her.
examined—When the prisoner said this all she
thought the prisoner meant was, that he would part with
the deceased. Witness bad never seen the dwelled.

James Barney, assistant to a pawnbroker in the Com-
mercial-road East, proved that on the 20th May the pri-
soner pawned a watch in his master's shop, and on the
20th of July a woman brought the ticket and obtained an
additional sum of 11. on the watch that bad been pawned
by the prisoner.
Mrs. Martigny deposed that she resided at No. 3,
Rhodeswell-road, Litnehouse, and her house was directly
opposite the prisoner's house, on the other side of
the canal. On the morning of Wednesday, the 24th of
July, witness was awoke about two o'clock by screams of
murder proceeding from the direction of the prisoner's
pottage. Witness got out of bed and looked through the
window across the canal and heard the ay repeated
several times. She also heard some one call oat, " Yon
old —, you are murdering me." This was said in a strong
female voice. After this she heard the same voice say,
"They are murdering me." Witness got into bed and soon
afterwards the church clock struck two. Her husband was
asleep at the time and she did not wake him. She be-
lieved she beard the cry of " Murder " two or three times,
but the words "old were repeated oftener than the
cry of murder. Witness did not hear what had taken
place at the cottage of the prisoner until five o'clock on the
following evening.
The trial was proceeding when we went to press, and is
not likely to be concluded to-day.
(Before Mr Justice Smith.)