The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-13 00:00:00

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

OXON ova OWX

PARIS, MONDAY Eva.rtmo.

Several independent candidates intend to contest
some of the seats now vacant in the Corps Legislatif.
At Vire, in Brittany, M. de la Borderie, a legitimist,
and M. Theo, a republican, the son-in-law of M.
Gamier Pages, have come forward. The Debate
publishes, with a short introductory notice by M.
Prevost Paradol, an address of a M. Ceased to the
electors of the great commercial city of Nantes. At
Lisieux, M. Target. tits son-in-law of M. Duvergier
de Houranne, is in the field. He wrote simulta-
neously to M. Onizot ►nd M. Emile Wirer, asking
for their ialuence. M. Onizot, who perhaps enter-
tains a sensitive recollection of some hard hits dealt
to him in M. Duvergier de Haurnone's historical
works, does not seem disposed to abandon the
entirely neutral position which he has long mourned,
for the sake of recommending M. Target to the
notice of his former constituents of Lisieux. But
M. Emile 011ivier at once responded to the appeal
made to him, by addressing a letter to a republican
elector of that town. As this letter gives a clear
idea of the present views and tendencies of the most
active and numerous section of the modern republi-
can party, I subjoin a translation :
My Meads and myself would be very math pleased to see
the oaadidantre of M. Target accepted and supported by you.
AU anxiety &haat this or that particular form of government
sear Wes out of place at the present oonj unman. when the
on great thing to be thought of is bo beet to mover
liberty. Whoever sincerely and honestly rallies to the liberal
standard belongs to as. No matter where he come from, nor
whither he is going. Yoa are much too Intelligent not to
have abandoned the fruitless doctrine of abstention, which
hiss now scarcely any disciples here. We mast act—act at
any price, so far ea we can within legal limits. Ttiese limits
are still anMaiently wide to enable as to do much. With
' such a powerful arm u universal suffrage in our bands, it
would be Mazonsable if we were to give way to disoatuage.
mint. Send us, then, fora colleague as honest, independent
man like M. Target, since there is no candidate la the dad
who represents oar opinions more closely.
Parts, December 10, 1859. E. °marina.

There has ban large businem done at the Bourse.
The decidedly upward tendency quickly obliterates
the effect of repeated salsa to realise profit'. The
Nente rose 350. for cash and 15c. for the amount,
closing at 70fr. 53c. and 70fr. 65c.; the highest
prices of the day had been 70fr. 60c. and 70fr. 85c.
Mobilier rose 13fr. 75c. Spanish 31obilier, in which
less is done than when it first came oat, left off
without change. The Orleans and Lyons railways
roes 7 fr. 50c. each; Southern, Kr. 75e.; Eastern,
sfr.; and Northern, 2fr. 500. Western unchanged.

Garibaldi is still at Fino, in the neighbourhood of
Como, where on the 3rd he met with en accident while
riding on a restive horse. The news at Brat omalioned
WWI alarm in Milan; but a letter from ►ie medial atten-
dant, published in the newepopero, removed all apprehen-
*km. Further evidence of the light nature of the injuries
is found in the fact, that on the 7th the gallant general wee
married to the eldest daughter of M. Italmondi, an Italian
patriot, who pOIMIIIISI one of the moat beautiful of the
residenota on the Lake of Como. In 1818 M. Raimondi was
obliged to take to Bight; hie property was conlicated, and Ida
palace need by the Austrians as a barrack. Under the new
regime, however, everything has been restored to him.
Great rejoicings fork pleas at Como on the occasion of the
marriage of Itis daughter to Garibaldi.
Madame Ducheytard, sister of Marshal Pelissier,
he. just died la Parts, at the age of .53.

At the Italian Opera, Paris, on Saturday night a
fashionable audience, thickly sprinkled with musical critics,
sad patrons of the lyrical deems generally, assembled to
viten. the first appearance of Ginglini, whom name end
fame have long been familiar to the Parisian". The open
Moan wee the favourite Trovatore, in which Mario and
Tamberlik each sang with great success last ennui. Giugbal
sang throughout the everting with a we, Oath, sweetness,
and intelligence which invited universal approbagion. The
pepalu "Di maks ping• and the "Alt cite la morn,"
obliged Giuglini to think the audience for their rapturous
congratulations,

IitARILI AU II OFFERS IN SWEDEN.--The following
ream sing olar project has just Men presented to the
Chamber of Nebke of the Swedish Diet. Baran Cleats
that, from the age of fifteen, 'mu gide should
C9Pait 'mum
ed to answer of their accord, yes or no, to say
suitor for their hand. M. Montgomery opposed the re-
ject, declaring that at the age of them love, though
strong, was too blind; and that the age of twenty-five was
=dispensable to be able to see clearly on so important •
questica. Boon Alstrowner treated such an objection se mad-
ness, and proposed to ON chaster to decide who wait in the
right, Baron Chintz or the Apostle r.ai. The berm
replied that the words 'of the apoetle applied to paternal
aathority, which was very revere &rump toe Jews and tae
Mesmsmond Gould not sow be intuited when manner. and
mama Wea mush changed. Baron Alttreenier said that
If the Chambw were to adopt the 'inject Mormonism would
become geseraL Berea Creels r. plied warmly that it was
ridloaloss to talk of Mormonism, that Lis project was a
rarities one, and calcalsted to have • salutary Mort on
manages and idolise. The project was teferred to • oosamittes.

THE LEMOINE CAS&

At the sitting of the Court of Tours on Sunday,
the Lemons ease was proceeded with.
' K. Savvy, the local Komatsu-general, addremed the
jury in support of the indictment. After some ob-
servations on the enormity of the owe, he proceeded
to notice the vandslously negligent manner In which Muse.
Lemons had brought up her daughter, allowing her to go
out alone into the town, to frequent 'bops in which men were
employed, to talk loosely, act bAdly, and read immoral books.
He also accused Mims. Lemoine of not having given her
daughter any religious etnoetion. 8o negligent was she of
her daughter, thit even after she was Informed of the reports
torrent shoat her, she did not place any watch on her, and
I the ovisequence wee that the relations between the girl and
the coachman continued sa before. The pink's conduct had
been truly standalone, and by it she had degraded hermit
eves below her paramour. Her mind had been formed and
her imagination precociously excited by the works of Georges
Send, and the "Confessions de Morton Dolortne." These
works had taught her to regard marriage as • mistake—the
most foolish of soc al institutions. By her favourite and
daily reading she learned to admire adultery and the lawless
gratulation of the panicles—to resist the impulse of the
parkas was to her perverted mind a cares, and thus this
child, tossed about without a compere, was lost In an omen
of filth. Behr* the judge of instruction ahe attempted to
pasties her dietitian, saying, " When I reelieed to myself
the mints nature of my fault, my mind fluctuated between
shame for having committed it and mists:Lion at having
ideated a man who was in a lower social position than
spelt." That sophistical sentiment was • quotation from
• nerd. Away with it! Lather know and feel that far from
raking her accomplice she sank to his level, and even lower.
Novels had recently been closely connected with crime in
courts of j adios. In a recent celebrated case (that of Leads
Chereau is the one referred to), a letter was red with great
effect by the prisoner's Gouged, which, from the elegance el
its style, exalted the sympathy of the audience. It tumid
out to be • mere piety from • very loose modern play. That
letter might perhaps have conduced to the acquittal of the
robber of M. fines child, but the manceovre, If repeated,
maid net meet wit► like success on the present =salon.
The procurer than paved in review the facts of the case,
and contended that when Wee. Lemoine found she could
IV, by the violent measures she employed on her daughter,
produce • misearriage, she had deliberately resolved on
getting rid of the child by burning, whether it were alive or
dead. He described the horrible c des with which the crime
was effected, sad Melded that the child had been born alive.
He concluded by preeslng earnestly for • oonvlotion of the
mother, and by contending that the girl had clearly been her
accomplice, and most be convicted also.

M. Lashsad comatecoed his defence of Madame Lentolns
by an impetuous attack upon the coachman. "My heart is
full," be said; "1 teapot yet bring my mind to grapple
with the eau& One tiling I know : I am a father and a
man; and Fells—l say It with shame and humiliation—ls

also • hum being." He endeavoured to show that up to
the month of March Mdme. Lemoins had good monde,
founded non the state of her daughter's health, for beilewhig
that she was not enceinte; end that afterwards, the feet of
her inetesaing very little in size—none of her deems bed
been enlarged, es in the slightest degree altered—jostified the
mother in supposing that her pregnancy was of as irregular
bled, and that she was not likely to bring forth scything bet
an embryo. To the reproach of the Procureur-thmerel,
that Udine. Lemoine, when warned so early as No-
vember, both by common report end by the ex-
press revelation of an inhabitant of Chinon, that bee
daughter was enceinte by the coachman, was content to
take the simple denial of the young lady, allowed Nth to
main in her service, end took no measures to prevent the
Intrigue from going on—he replied that a village of calumny
vu not so novel a thing that the story should not be rejected
as incredible, that to have discharged the coachman would
have been to give confirmation to the calumnious repartee
and that it wee not proved that Mdms. Lemoine had been
writing in any reasonable or possible surveillance of her
daughter's conduct. Hs denied that Angelica had reed
improper books with her mother's consent or knowledge, sad
cited the fact of her having regularly received the sacrament
ones • year ever since her confirmation, se proof that bee
religions training had not been neglected. In answer to the
(Merge that the mother had made the daughter rids an
donkeys, roll down hills, and take violent exercise with a
view to provoke abortion, he said that more direct and simple
moue existed for effecting snob • purpose. Teem were plenty
of midwives ever ready to do the work for &email fee, and where
habit it was to oak no questions—not even the name of the
party who pied them. lie reminded the jury that the law re-
quired them to decide exclusively upon the oral evidence de-
posed before them in the open mart, and not upon the written
eXama.stlun taken down by the acne of Instruction.
Angelina had in the fine instance accused her mother to shift
responsibility from herself. Tka poor child had told lies
eager dee very natural influence of intense fear. What else
had meil 1n court was mob fainter, and amounted to uothiag
Mrs tam a conjecture that her intact was nut quite deed
at the instant of it. birth. There was an emotively in the
e :premien Imputed to her, that she and her mother bad
agreed to get rid of the child (1. faire disparaitre). That
mute well mesa, as Madame Lemon insisted
le dad, that if the child should be born alive
It should be sent to nurse • lung way off.
Angelina bed never said in so many words that
thing or deed the child arms to be burnt. He in-
Mated that the burden of the proof that the child was born
alive lay upon the prosecution; and upon that vital point
the Tesesunn of the Procureur-General, so powerful In
other respects, Wad moat weak and inconclusive. M. Lacbud
concluded a most eloquent smash as follows You have
been told that public opinion to outraged and amends satis-
faction all the more because there prisoners are rich. lem
astonished to hear such a sentiment from the Precursor-
Geeenth Does the law know any difference between rich
and poor ? Unaware', emcee Format' I see here in court,
said, ' What, than, is puleic opinion? Justice knows nothing
of it, end misjudge who is influenced by it commits a creme.'
111 y [AWL is dons, gentleman ; yours commences. I may he
mistaken; but if you mak., a mistake, gentlemen—you
understand we'."—(A buret of applause followed this
With-)
M. nether (of the Tours bar) shortly defended Angelis'.
If the mother was not guilty, and atter the mageuffenst
"-- they had just fumed he was unnamed she ---

pleading 11•111101,
how was it possibko to convict the daughter ? lie wee sate
she at lam was in no danger from thou verdict, and would
net poses observations woich sous; strike every oath
Tae Procartur-Genatal, in reply, said that, as he expected,
lachaad had sought to maks the coachman Faun the
scapegoat In this odour. Bat why woe he so very infamous!
Because he had tallied about his amours, " But," said Ms,
apostrophiaing Angelina, "if you wanted a diameet lover, it
was not in your neuhei's stables that you shoald haul looked
fur one."

M. Leland had the last word, wording to needs

The President's summing up lasted two hours.
The jury, after retiring tor halt an hour, brought is
verdict of Guilty with eztenue, lag circumstances against
Madams Lentiane, and -acquitted tangoing.
On the verdict of acquittal being announord to her,
Angeline smiled.*
Accordiug to the invariable form, when an acquittal is
re?;neeced, t
at thb.erl;lntt"ittit th"Let e
pre'eathae yrie t
ionrAL:gimme-
el
astietaction was probably damped by the judge going on to
say, However, she meet ne taken buck provisionally to the
Penitentiary, and let her be brought Into my priests room
in rte meentrlida."

bldams Lemoine was then brought in. She heard, with-
out fliocuisg, Use carrion sentence of twenty year** imprison-
ment with hard labour. She than bowed to toe judge., and,
lesaing over the bar, talked ler sows seconds to ed. Lachaud,
without betraying the least emotion.
A letter from Tours soya Feu', the coachman, bee
dm tame time been intimate of great no ono consent-
ing to give bum a plats. hie unacluct la remade.' dim mom du-
gum that the crowd amen:l64d oateide the court neve hired
hiltl more than oust. It lam been abated that the MAXI took
Moons on the violin ; the mice woe peid for each lesson was
only 25c., but he did nut even pay that, and yet alter his
discharge from the sternes of MII2. Leinuine, the music
sewer wrote for him (lee he min only ergo hot name)
several letter* to the young lady, and ate, delivered them.
The mimic master, oao Sunman by tonne, is somewhat
grotesque, having a large red note and a yellow oompkniun.
It appears to be true that the reason wny Lieubray, the
tailor, attempted suicide warn that he tat motor.. at having
written anonymous lawn. to the law authorities denouncing
Ydme. Leuudne end her daughter. lie spielers to haws
long premeditated the act, as three weeks back he pun:thawed
a brace of pintas; but hie son took them I rota him; he
afterwards, nowever, bought anomie pad:, and had them
loaded. When he bred he only broke hie jaw, the trigger
beteg stiff, and the lute of eirecuon being In eunsequenos
changed."

• It 4 only just to oheerve that As did not know at the
thus that her mother wae ■et saittitted as well.

Nils CATHEDRAL AT HoNG K0:40.-A proteethat
cathedral bee lately been entoad at Viaturia, Hoeg Kong,
end a very handsome oral& ham been built for the edifice by
Meson. Br}ceson and &m, of the Esidoe-road. Daring the
pat week rye. el grand performances have taken place on
the organ, and the concluding performaoce was on Saturday
sight by Mr. J. Hallett Itheyperd, the organist and wa-
gger. In the mine of the week Mr. Eicher, Dr. Steggall,
and Mr. Sheppard played on the inertasseat to well spaded
sod musical audiences,. On Saturday night Mr. Haller
Sheppard performed emend are* from Maidelmohn, He-
art, Beach, Spits', Horsley, Mendel, Beethoven, and Mar-
beer. He introduced a piece of his own orupwing (Andante
and Fugue E Maur, oy. 10), and gave general saletecami

THE UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY NIGHT.

The steamer Canada arrived at Queenstown this
afternoon, and after landing the mail*, &c., proceeded
for Liverpool.
She sailed from Boston on the 30th ult., and from
Halifax on the 3rd inst., having been detained at
the latter port 36 hours by a dense fog.

She brings 24,000 dollars in specie and fifty-nine
paseengere._

Steamer Europa artived out.

The following sammary of news was telegraphed
from Queenstown to the Liverpool agent of the New
York Associated Press :

Steam ship Bohemian, from Liverpool, arrived at
Portland on the 29th ult.

The total loss of life by wreck of the steamer
Indian is now asoertained to have been 24.

Wubington Irving, the celebrated author, is dead.

Californian dates-to Nov. 5 had reached New
York. The shipment of gold from San Francisco for
the month of October was 3,620,000 dollars. An
association waa in course of formation throughout
the state of California for the purpose of depriving
the Chinese of all employment, except such as is
of a menial character.

AU feeling or excitement in regard to the con-
troversy about the island of San Juan had nearly
died out; and it was generally thought that General
Scott would initiate an amicable adjustment between
the two governments. General Harney had quitted
the territory.
Havannah dates arm to the 26th Nov. General
&rano, the new Captain-General of Cuba, had
arrived out, and had been inaugurated at Havannah
with considerable splendour. The sugar market at
Havannah wee inactive, but prices were thin.
The most exciting topic in the United States was
the approaching execution of Brown and his accom-
, pikes in the Harper's Ferry affair. Governor Wyse,
of Virginia, had ordered out a large military force to
overawe any attempt at rescue that might be
threatened. A proposition had also been started to
establish martial law. Brown had expressed entire
resignation to his fate. Money was being liberally
contributed in the north-western states to support
his family.
Advioee from Mexico are to the 19th ult. The
Constitutionalists had lost at Querelso 21 cannon and
a large number of prisoners, including Generals
Alverx and Alpia and an American officer. The
latter is reported to have been shot against the re-

monstrances of the British minister. A battle had
occurred at Indanango, in which 400 men were
killed ; and half the town is burnt. The Liberals
were victorious. It was reported that a compromise
had been proposed between Juarez, Roble., and Mi-
ramon, Jure: to be the Provisional President at
Mexico, and the constitution of 18.57 to be restored,
and the laws concerning church property to be
annulled.

AFRICA.

LIVERPOOL, rtiISDAT MOINITfO.

The royal mail steamship Ethiope arrived in the
Mersey at one o'clock this morning from the West
Coast of Africa, Teneriffe, and Madeira.
Her dates are Fernando Po, Oct. 28; Cameroons,
30; Old Calabar, Nov. 1; Brame, 2; Bonny, 7; Nun,
2; Benin, Oct. 23; Lagos, Nov. 10; Accra, 19;
Cape Coast Castle, 14; Cape Palmas, 16; Sierra
Leone, 21; Bathurst, 25; Teneriffe, Deo. 1; Ma-
deira, 3.

The Ethiope brings 1,667 ounces of gold duet, 6
boxes of specie, e full cargo, and 34 passengers.
The Cameroon was in a very unsettled state, in
consequence of an anticipated rise of the slave popn-
ation. Great sacrifice of life feared.

Dysentery very prevalent among the Kroomen.
At Bonny the Regent Illollah Popple had mur-
dered a woman accused of witchcraft, and a civil war
wu feared in consequence.
A large number of soldiers and emigrants had
arrived at Fernando Po from Spain.
Another attempt had been made to fire Lague.
Business in palm oil brisk.
Noe, Ring of Accra, had been taken prisoner and
confined in the fort.

Trade dull at Cape Coast.
Her Majesty's steamer Spitfire had captured a
slaver at Jacknel, with 468 slaves on board.
Her Majesty's steamer Sharpshooter had left Sierra
Leone for the Gambia.

Captain Walker,. of the American schooner Wil-
liam, bound from Savannah to Smyrna, had been
picked up at sea in an open boat with four men.
He states that he was deserted at eta by his mate,
who made off with the whoopee, and 27,000 dollars
in cub, which was on board.
_ _

The barque 31tdras, from London to Sierra Leone,
was abanduued at sea on the 22nd November, and
the captain and crew picked up and taken to
Madeira.

CRYSTAL PALACB COMPANY.

The report of the directors to the general meeting
of proprietors on the 20th ineteut, shows that the gross in-
come of the year has amounted to 184,0681. 12e. ld., and
the expenditure to 68,763/. le. 6d., leaving • balance to the
credit of revenue for the twelve month. id 45,3161. 10e. Bd.
Whilst the net earnings of the year 1867.58 were 35,0741.
17e. 10d., those of the pert year are 46,316/. 10e. Bd.; the
improvement arising almost entirely from the reductions
which have been made in the charges against revenue for the
year. The sum now available for division amounts, with the
rewire brought forward, to 67,91 W. 10s. 11d., which the
directors propose to apportion as follows :—To the payment
of preference dividend and interest on debenture stock for the
year, 26,6631. 6e. fld.; to the payment of a divideed on the
ordinary shares of 2e, per /lore, which will amount to
20,0891., leaving a reserved 11,2181.6 a. st. to be carried for-
ward to the next years. mount. The whole of the debenture
stock has been allotted. The balance of the purchase money
for the land, 61,2381. 4a. 4d., which under the °Oils.] agree-
metit with Mr. Bchuster became dee on July 31st, 1869, has
been paid, and the property conveyed to the company ss their
freehold. Orly ono item is sad C 4 t. the capital amount, and
that is a cum of 3,400/. paid to the refribbment contra:dors
for additions made to the plant. The valuation war made by
the company's own valuer, end the present contractor fa
bound, under respoasible security, to maintain this plant at
its improved value, and to bandit over to the company at the
expiration of hi. agreement.
In the refreshment department, careful attention has
bum paid to the wants of the mama* of the public; end at
the same time the demand for accrmroodation for more pri-
vets refreehments has bre so great as to reader necessary
the construction of additional dining-rooms in the tower of
the south wing. Toe erection of times has been already com-
mand, and will be continued in the spring, ro that they
shall be 6t for um at the comme.ncement of the new season.

The Steel number of v.eitora dating the period embraced
by oh, amounts hie been 1,984,163.
. .

exhibitors' department itowinuss to show steady pro-
grew The increased accommodation spoken of in the last
report hoe produced the result which wee then sntielpeted ;
not only does the rental from this source show a eatiriscosy
advance (more than 15 par mg. on that of the preceding
twelve months), bat the whole dew-taunt I. in a sounder
and more healthy condition than it has ever before been.

The direct ire'have continued to use every effort to keep
down the working expenditure of the eritaelishment, but
while carrying these redactions into effect, they have not
neglected the necessary repairs to the fabri3 ; the whole ea-
tenor of the mein building hem been repainted (an operation
which will not recur for some time), and its stability fully
maintained, aa indeed was remar►ably shown during the
severe storm. of this autism. A coondemble Improvement
in the interior has been eff-cted in the screen separating the
tropical end from the rest of the building, by subdituting
glass for the greater portion of the curtain formerly ern plot i 4
The materiel. for this were obtained from the alterailine La
the south tower rendered necessary by the works above
alladed to for the refreshment de t, so that while a
greet improvement his been made, It km bee effected at
Rule more than the cost of the labour. Alterations and re-
pairs to the concert room having become necessary, the di-
rectors have taken adventage of the opportunity to ontetitate
a wooden ceiling for the temporary miming hitherto employed.
and also to snake other changes in the smaosementa which
will give a more permanent character to the room, tortes.
its capabilities foe round, and add materially to the cones-
:doom of the visitors ; and will also permit of illastrattel Im-
bues and other eakibitiona being given there with advantar,*
sad effect.

An agreement has been entered into between this me7i-
' piny and the Lomeli of the London It.fte Brigade, by which e
portion of the grounds at the lower end of the park is
appropriated to the brigade as a prudes ground. The spot
chosen has received the unction of the government Inspee•
tor, and all the cap/Mauro requisite to sit it for the purpose
in view is to be defrayed by the brigade; while, on the other
hand, the directors have reduced the price of admisaion to
all the members of the brigade when in uniform. !mango.
manta of • similar nature are in progress with other
metropolit corm and thna the palms will become identift.d
with the movement.

The construction of the Victoria Station, and of the this
for connecting the West End Railway thereto, is proceeding
rapidly, and there is every prospect at their being opened
early in the corning summer.
The Crystal Palace An Union was very maccessfrd during
its first semen, and there is every prospect of a onmidenble
increase in its operations for the coming year. More promi-
nence will in hums be given to ;Actives moons the prises,
and such arrangements have been made for this as will bo to
the mutual benefit both of the company's picture gallery and
the Art Union.

A resolution will be submitted to the proprietors empower-
ing the directors to consolidate the shores, both ordinary and
preferenoe, into stock, in ezerrive of rye powers conveyed by
the company's act of 1856. By this op-ration the registration
of transfers will be greatly eirephiiii, while additional seen-
rity se well se increased convinience and economy will result.
A resolution will also be submitted for (-standing the time for
closing the transfer books previous to the meeting from
seven to fourteen days, the former period having been found
too limited for the purples.