The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1860.

able as they could on the chair by the fire, taking
off his shoes, and placing a chsk for his feet. In
a quarter of an hour afterwards he called to his
son for a light, saying he wanted to come to bed.
His wife went down and stooped to stir the
fire for a light. 'While doing so her husband said,
" Give us a kiss, Pouv," and, as she turned,
stabbed her with a long clasp-knife in the side.
The boy heard his father deliberately
close the clasp•knife, and 'ay aloud, "Now
" I am rationed." The poor woman died
the following night. Drunkenness is the only ex-
cuse offered in this cane ; but there is a collected-
nese and savage deliberation about the guilty man's
procedure that shows he had not lost his self-
command, and suggests that he acted quite as
much under the influence of vindictive passion as
of drink. His wife refused to comply with his
unreasonable demand, and, roused by the disap-
pointment to a fury of passion, he threatened her
life. That might easily enough have been done
by a drunken man. But after his wife and son
had tended him with their good offices, and all
seemed to be made right again, he still cherished
his murderous purpose, and matured a plan for
its execution. During the interval while his wife
was upstairs she heard him open the clasp-knife,
and when she returned to give him a light,
he never paused for a moment in his
fatal purpose, but plunged it at once into
her heart. Five wretched men lie at this
moment under sentence of death for crimes similar
to that of Twioo, and in each case the sentence
will be carried into effect, there being no grounds
in any of the cases for a recommendation to

mercy. During the last week there were four
murders nearly committed, one of which may still
result in the death of the victim, while in all life
was the object directly aimed at. Justice will in
all these cases overtake the criminals, but the cause
of this sudden increase of crime is a problem well
worth the investigation of those who would probe
to the bottom the less favourable symptoms of our
social state.

THE MII3BIIIG ENG iiISHMSN IN CHINA.

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FOkEIGN-0171C18, Dsc. 18.
A telegram has been received from her Majesty's
Minister at Bt. Petersburg, dated this afternoon,
and stating that the Russian Government have
received no news of the fate of Remus. Bowlby and
Brabazon.

BANQUET AT MERCHANT TAYLORS' HALL TO

GENERAL LORD CLYDE.
-4,--

On the Bth of January, 1868, the court of
arsistants of the Merchant Taylors' Company unanimously
Medthe following resolution That the honorary
om of the company be presented to Lieutemant.
General Sir Cohn Campbell, Knight, Grand Crass of the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath, commander-in-chief
in India, in testimony of his long and faithful services, and
particularly in effecting the pßant relief of the late Major-
General Sir Henry Havelock, Bart, with the women end
children, and the sick and woondad, at Lucknow, and the
total routing and annihilation of the Glwalior mutineers near
Cawnpore.”-
The noble and gallant lord having vreterday been for.
wally admitted an honorary member of .the company, was
entertained in the evening at a magnificent dinner in the
ancient hall of the oorpozation. Upwards of 150 gentlemen
sat down.

The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, in replying to a toast to the
army, disclaimed much credit in rendering the Chinese ex-
pedition efficient. "That credit " said lus royal highness,
is due to my noble and gallant friend who sits on my left
(Lord Clyde). The expedition came for the most part
from India, and tho merit of putting it in a date of effi-
ciency devolved upon him as the general officer in command
of the Indian army. I have not the pleasure of personally
knowing much of Sir Hope Grant, but I consider that he
deserves well of his country, and I understand that such is
the opinion of all who have had the honour of *erring under
him. (Hear, hear.) And, my lords and gentlemen, I think
it wouldill become me if I did not pay a passing tribute to
the valuable assistance which the Chinese expedition has re-
ceived from the recent important invention in, gunnery.
(Hear.) Sir WillianiArnistrong, who is present this evening,
has the merit of having invented a inert efficient and power-
ful weapon ; and although this is not the time or place for
drawing comparisons between the claims of other inventors
—valnabie and important as their inventions may be—dill,
as his invention has now been tested in the field„ and has
well come out of the ordeal, I am glad thus publicly to be
able to express in his presence my sense of the peat vane
which the army and the country has received from him
weapon." (Hear, hear.)
Lord Cm; ou his part, would not accept the oompli.
meat. " I lay no claim to such credit, for I was but
an instrument in the halide of the Governor-General.

To that great man—for be is a great man--(applause)—
below the merit ; for he it was, assisted by his govern-
ment, who equipped the expedition, and to bim the
Fake blimp. While speaking on this subject, there is
one subject which I cannot forget, and that is the sisitle-
heartednem, the devotion, and the manly intrepidity which
animated the Indian army from the highest to the lowed,
and which was exhibited throughout the campaign. (Her-,
beer.) I must also, in connexion with this subject, pay a
tribute of admiration to the fearless behaviour nod indo-
mitable endurance of the civil servant' of :whom ex-
ertions, united with those of the army, were y in-
strumental under providence kinstoring tranquillity to that
great empire." (Applause.)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WiagsranAt MORNMO.

The biota/tut:says :—" On the Ist of January
next the Emperor wi l receive the diplomatic corps,
the constituted bodies of state, and deputations
from the National Guard and the army. Their
Majesties will not receive on the 2nd January."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom ODE OWN

PARIS, TUESDAY Eviaroo.
The Emperor's long-announced work—" The Life
of Ctesar "—is already in the press, and is expected
to be out by the middle of January.
Yesterday evening Lord Cowley and M. de Met-
ternich met at M. Thouvenel's, and those three
personages afterwards went to see the Emperor at
the Tuileries. It is more than ever believed that
negotiations pressing Austria to give up Venetia,
receiving a pecuniary indemnity, are actively going
on. There is no doubt whatever that M. 'ereire,
the great financier, is the author of the pamphlet
on the subject which has made so much noise. It
is also true that the Emperor revised the proof
sheets, or, at least, read them before they were
printed. The truth is, I believe, that the
Emperor having heard that M. Pereire was
about to publish this pamphlet desired to see
it. M. Pereire waited on his Majesty, and offered
to read the sheets to him, but the Emperor said he
should understand the matter better if he read it
himself and begged that the proofs might be left
with him. I am assured on authority which I
cannot doubt, that in one passage the Emperor
made a correction with his own hand. This passage
is the following one, which speaks of the cession of
Venetia as the object to be desired, and a congress
the means of arriving at it :
To revive the great idea of a holy alliance (says the
writer), and the reconstitution of it for the sake of popula-
tions and kings on bases in conformity with the wants of
the epoch, and to cause the present frontiers of France and
of all the states of Europe to become in the eyes of all and
for ever sacred—sach is the universal wish of nations and
of governments; ; such the grand enterprise of the century.
M. Pereire had written lea frontieres de France,
but the Emperor, wishing more emphatically to
declare his renunciation of all projects of further
annexations and extensions, interlined the word
"aetuelles." This anecdote is much commented
upon in political circles, and is considered as strong
additional evidence of the fact for which there has
long been much converging testimony—that the
Emperor whatever ambitious views he may have
entertained formerly, does now really desire peace
and good fellowship with all his neighbours. Of
course he wants a congress to confirm his appro-
priation of Savoy and Nice.
A very inaccurate assertion of the Constitutionnel
that since the decree of Nov. 24 the journals which
a month ago were clamorous for change, now dis-
tinguish themselves by an " eloquent silence," pro-
vokes the following retort from M. Nefftzer in the
Prase :
The great molt of the decree of November 24 is that it
has shown the existence of • party purely and simply
liberal—a party devoted to liberty for its own sake, for the
good it does to the country—a party ready to accept •
public good wherever it is to be found. This party taken
the Emperor at his word as he 'must wish to be taken, and
has shown • vitality which was thought to be extinct but
was happily only latent.

On the subject of an augmentation of the French
army, which is conventionally to be called no
augmentation, the Memorial de la Loire says :
The formation of a 4th battalion is actively going on In
all the military circumaciptiona. The moment it is com-
pleted the generals commanding divisions and subdivisions
will set about organising active divisions—that is to say
divisions always prepared to take the field. These divisions
will be 14 in number—two to each grand command. And
thus without any atigmantation of the effective, and with-
out extra expenditure, will be realised the Emperor's idea
of having, in time of pesos, an army always ready for war.
The Patric states that the existence of the Cercle
Impirial is not imperilled by the defalcations of
its manager, now under arrest, the members of the
club having subscribed the amount of the deficit.
It adds that the club has been re-organised on what
it calls a " liberal sense," and, as evidence of this
assertion, mentions that the new committee has
chosen Count de Morny for prasident, and M.
Baroche and General Allard for vice-presidents.
The Bourse remains in the same state of atrophy.
The Rente closed at 68fr. be., without variation
for account, and with a rise of be. for cash. Mobi-
lier rose 2fr. 50c. In railways there was nothing
doing worth noting. During great part of the day
the parquet was nearly deserted.

One of the Madrid journals says that information
hadbeen received that 30,000 tracts and other works defend-
ing protestant doctrines bad been printed at London in the
Spanish language, and that GO smugglers bad undertaken to
introduce them into Spain !

A letter from Naples, of the 11th, states that
King Victor Emmanuel was about to take part in a grand
bear bunt in the mountains of Castel di Sanyo, in the
Abruzzi, sad that Count de Castiglione, orderly officer of
his Majesty, had left to make the necessary arrangements.

A letter from Rome of the 11th says : "In pri-
vate conversation Pio Nouo alludes frequently to the deter-
mination to hold his mimed polt until the last extremity.
Such expressions were used by his holiness on Saturday but to
Mr. Justice Terry of Sydney,who with his lady was received
in private audience by the Pope, with the consideration due
to them, not only as good catholics, but also as zealous
benefactors to their cause, and co-religionaries in the Ans-
Malian colonies. Pio None presented a handsome silver
medal to Mr. Terry, and gallantly placed upon Mrs. Terry's
finger a gold ring, enriched with a jewelled moss. Mon-
signor Talbot was present, and acted as interpreter on this
occasion."

A now protestant church is in course of construc-
tion in Paris. When this is completed Paris will be able to
boast of no leas than 20 protestant churches and 104 pro-
testant clergymen. The number of children regularly
attending protestant Sunday-schools in Paris is 2,600.
Amongst the improvements about to be made in the Rue
do Faubourg St. Honore, it is intended to make a hand-
some square in front of the church of St. Philippe. This
causes the expropriation and consequent removal of that
well•known institution for poor English and American
children, called "The British Free Schools," of which
Earl Cowley sad Lord Cray are at the head. Prior to
leaving Paris, a few days ago, Sir Janisetjee Jejeehhoy sent
to Mr. Hamilton a magnificent present for this institution,
and many travellers remember the institution in the kindest
manner every time they visit the French capital.

A letter from St. Petersburg states that a topaz
weighing almost 201bs. was lately found in the river of
Urelga, province of Nevanek, in Russia, and was presented
by the finder, a tradesman, to the Emperor Alexander.

A PariB letter of the Nord of Brussels, ear::
" Arrangementa are being made in Paris for re•organismg
the service of the omnibusees. Your readers will smrcely
imagine that those carriages convoy annually nearly
70,000,000 passengers, or nearly double what they did five
or six years ago. The Government is inclined to lengthen
the term of the monopoly, increase the material, and add to
the measures necessary for protecting the interests of the
shareholders by rendering the action of the Prefect of Police
greater over the whole service."

bEEIOI7B AFFRAY ON THE TWEED. —About mid-
night ou Friday an encounter of a serious nature took place
between a party of ten water bailiffs, under Superintendent
Smurthwaite, of the Tweed river police, end a gang of
about thirty fishers, near Ashiestiel Bridge, on the Tweed.
The poachers were "burning the water," and on the officers
making their appearance and calling upon them to desist,
they raised a rallying cry, and a ...Mr immediately ensued.
The fight lasted forabout twenty minutes, +wd sticks, batous,
and other weapons were freely used. fwo of the
bailiffs were disabled by the blows of their usailants, and
it is believed that their opponents suffered to ►n equal ex-
tent; but their superior numbers enabled them to remove
their wounded comrades. (Me non, a fisher, wax in immi-
nent denser of losing his life ins deep and rapid current,
but was maguauiniously rescued by Mr. Smurthwaite, who
is a tall and powerful man. For the moment, Mr. Stour.
thwsite ►ppears to have forgot his OfliCial character in his
desire to save the mans life ; at all events, the fellow
managed to escape to his own party. Three fish were left
on the ground, which it is thought were all that had been
captured. An in meditation has been eutered on by the
Sclkirkshire authorities, but no apprebensious have yet
been made.—Edinburgh Courant.

ORANGE DEMONSTRATION IN LONDnN.

DERRY.

A great Orange demonstration took place in Lou.
donderry yesterday. A disturbance was expected, and g
military forte and additional magistrates were stationed ui
the town to preserve order. It appears, however, that the
affair passed off quietly. A telegram from Londonderry,
dated 1 p.m. yesterday, says :—" Up to this time every.
thing is quiet, crimson flags are flying from the usual piney;
and the effigy of Lundy is suspended front Walker's owns-
meat for conflagration in the afternoon. No firing has
taken place. Troops are placed at convenient stations to
act if necessary." A telegram dated 4 p.m. says :--" ju
rounds more were fired from the cannons. Everything is
quiet." This firing of cannon, we should mention, refers to
a display on the part of the Orangemen.