The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-14 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1867.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(wria's vitcaosaate.)
FRANCE.
PARIS, Acrourr 13, EvICCING.
The Emperor and Empress will leave the Camp
of Chalons on the 18th butt., will pass the night at
Augsburg, and arrive on the 19th at Salzburg.
The King of the Greeks has arrived here. He will
go to Chalons on the 15th inst. Baron de Ma-
laret, the French Minister at the Italian court, has
arrived in Paris on one month's leave of absence.
A telegram received here from Bucharest states
that M. Bratiano, the Roumanian Minister of the
Interior, has resigned.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIrT. Atrarsr 13.

The Crown Prince and family have .arrived at
Potsdam. Mr. Bancroft will be received in private
audience immediately after the Hing's return to
present to his Majesty his credentials as United
States Minister at this court.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

Orion cos owe comarosenn3
PARIS, TOZSDAT EVZWEING.
The (rosette de France, with a boldness encouraged
by the situation, begins an article this evening in
there words :—" France has no allies, and the
manner in which the imperial government conducts
our foreign affairs must necessarily prevent her
from hewing any. Our isolation is complete."
If she had allies she would not require a standing
army cif 1,200,000 men. The use of alliances is to
alleviate the burden of military service both in
time of war and peace. When France was allied
with England and preponderant in Italy, her voice
was of Isome weight in the. world. Now even
a Rataaszi thinks himself strong enough
to carP at her. The hanikidiate object of
the` article is to reply to one of those
stalely, elaborate, and mysterious essays which
appear occasionally in the Debate, signed by the
" Secretary of Redaction," and which are quite out
of keeping with the general tone of that journal.
The Dante argues that a close alliance with
Austria is probable, and that such an alliance
wouldottle imperatives all the great questions
now pending in mope. The Geniis`le Prance
says there is no chance of such an alliance. I
believe the Gaietee de France is right ; and the
shadowy personage, who for the moment speaks
through the columns of the Dibats, wrong.
M. Cornudet, the government candidate, has
been elected a deputy for the Creuse by 13,018
votes against 7,677, given to M. Sallandrouze de
Mornaix, the son of the deceased member, and
1,170 to another opposition candidate, M.
B6toulleLTAnhe peculiarity of this election was
that M. drouze de Mornaix, a great carpet
manufacturer, the son of his father, who was
elected on the recommendation of the prefect,
would net have had the least objection to be a
governmint candidate himself. He professes
principles altogether dynastic, but qualified with a
leaven of liberalism too strong for government
digestion' His father, at the bidding of the
prefect, vna always returned almost unanimously.
It is striking evidence of the rising power of
public °gallon that his son should have been able
to poll more than half the voting constituency
against the prefect's influence.
In the sure the prefect was less fortunate in the
case of at; election for the Councils-General. A
certain M, Vy, from whom he withdrew his pro-
tection, had the impudence, notwithstanding a
severe jobation and the assurance that if he had
been once 'elected it was not on his own merits, but
merely bonus° he was a government candidate, to
stand again "on his own hook," and he was re-
turned by a majority of two to one.

The apptarance at the Melun trial of Mr. Kelly,
the seconi husband of the murdered woman,
Madame Mertens, excited a great mouvement de
euriositi, bet there was little in his deposition to
gratify it. He was examined through an inter-
preter. His name was, he said, lilliams Kelly, so
that he was the Williams referred to by the prisoner.
He is a tall man, 54 years of age, with large whiskers
nearly white. On being asked his profession, he said
he was a barister, but had never practised. He had
no purlieu's plae►d abode, bet had last lived at
Boulogne. He believed he was married to Madame
Mertens on Feb. 2, 1862, but was not sure about
the date. He believed that he had left her and
not she him immediately after tho marriage.
He had received anonymous letters on the
wedding day, telling him disagreeable things
about her. The consequence was that after the
wedding in Boulogne his wife left for England and
he left for Paris. He never knew where his wife
lived, and was only made aware of her death by an
accidental communication from a friend of what he
had seen in the papers. Had no friend or
acquaintance of the name of Williams. The
proprietor of a furnished lodging-house in which
Madame had once lived said that a great
many gentlemen came to see her, so many that he
gave her notice to quit, but as to whether any
body of the name of Williams was among her
visitors he could not say. He gave it as his opinion
that five Englishmen out of ten are named
Williams. [By the way, the French spelling of
the diminutive of Williams as given by the prisoner
is Oulley.] The evidence reported to-day has all
one tendency, and the prisoner's theory becomes
more and more improbable. One witness deposed
that Madame Mertens was a cataleptic subject, and
as the prisoner practised mesmerism the prosecu-
tion will seek to establish that she put her into a
cataleptic state before strangling her. The impro-
bability of her being strangled by a weak woman
without resisting will be diminished by this theory.
The Bourse maintained the rise of yesterday but
barely. The latest quotations show scarcely any
improvement. Much incredulity is felt on the
subject of the great news which the Etendard
announced would be published by the Moniteur
on August 15.