The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-15 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARK

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PARTS, Meson Rvissst
It is happily beyond a doubt that, 'Weft,
have been the intention • few clays ago, the
peror now means to preach peace on his fsi.y.
This evening's Pays, speaking mon yisis4
its twin brother the Constitutionnei (whom
paragraph of yesterday is a theme for vritskiimb
all the morning journals), says :

It is certainly not at • moment when the I._
given to Europe the most convincing much as;
and disinterested love of pesos that he would &skin
merit of his devotedness to the cause of imps
humanity, which prolongation of the war Lou
ma., by putting forward personal claims, boormoi;
mate Frauds has a power of metal, intellectual, Lidos
sing expansion which renders her strong ens*
no diminution of her influence from the sggets4.l74
her neighbours.

God keep the Emperor in this happy pig II
friends of humanity will say. The doctrine k ;
doubt widely different from that of his oienhigo;
M. Drouyn de Lhuys, and miehanta ler;
may, perhaps, talk about sour grapes, bee hal
good doctrine in itself, it is none the woos lit
being a second thought. Indeed, a timeroftert
proverb says that " second thoughts are hie
It is amusing to see how the most furious Tramiel
in the French press, seeing the course mattes,.
taking, show their ingenuity in inventing ea%
for eating humble pie. That whilotn deter*
fire-eater, Gueroult, of the Opinion Nationalc4
kisses that whereas he was for war two menthe%
he is now for peace. The reason he give ith
the Emperor mimed his opportunity two suety
ago. Then, according to M. Gueroult, he *
between two opinions, listened too much to h
peace orations of M. Thiene and IL leeeeke‘
and neglected to make a bargain with Prose h
the Rhine frontier, when Prussia would have%
seated to any terms to obtain French rids
ante. Now that Prussia has shown he
self able to do without France, it veil
be inopportune to insist upon French claim lh
is about the truth, and all the circumlocutioe
euphemistic phraseology of the semi-official jte
nals amount to nothing else. M. Guermilt feseg
admits that the frontiers of 1814, even if*
could be got, would be a miserable satistactios*
unworthy of France to accept, because they ell
fall far short of restoring that balance of pcarehl
disturbance of which she complains of. Wily
waiving the claim for the entire Rhine frosts,
he reoommends waiting for the time when Pieh
will be involved in a war with Russia, sad vine
glad of French help. This respite at a long dr
is very comforting.
Prince Napoleon left Paris yesterday snug
for his property at Pranging in Switzerland.
Among the new generals created on the es
sion of August 15, I observe the name of Ida
worth de Mallet, Colonel of the 49th Raga*
who is half an Englishman, and whose rinks
are three-fourths English ; he is the se ci
English lady of the Molesworth family, sad a
wife was a Miss Sykes, from Yorkshire.
The Journal du Havre says that me d the
attractions of the Universal Exhibition of rat
year will be a prize for the best singer ia ths
world of 10,000 fr. I predict that this will he
failure. No first-rate artiste will risk his
tion on a sort of Vauxhall, or cafi &Want
form for the chance of a sum of money not
ing his standing weekly salary in London or •
The idea has the vice common to many
schemes which adopt the Chinese system of
pctitive examination as an infallible test of tie
highest merit. Prizes are very well to enemy
students, but the public is the only Jody I
excellence in a singer or composer. It would I
impossible to constitute a board whose jars
men like Lablache, Rubini, Tamburini, Row(
Verdi, would consent to abide by.
The Tribunal of Correctional Police is skeet
.
be regaled next week with a swindling ore s
which a prince is a defendant. M. Beeline,
tl
cashier of the Sous-Comptoir des Chemins de Fr
M. Duprey de la Maherie, and the PrineedeCror
Chanel, are accused of embezzlement to the eta
of three millions of francs. The twofust-mai
defendants are in custody, but the prince kale
sconded, and will be tried by default.
The Bourse continues dull, but there vs 1
alight improvement in quotations. Rents Mal
for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 69(t.
si
69fr. Sc. Italian rose 25c., closing at Mfr. .4k
Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c., and Credit Fenner Ift.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Jurtioe Keating.)

MIMI&
ifargaret Baker, TI, an unmarried woman, was charged
.rith the wilful murder of her illegitimate child.
Mr. F. H. Lwis conducted theibton prosecution
was defeended by Mr. R and Mr. Warner
517 i; case was one of some peculiarity from the fact
.61 the prisoner was tried at the last session
of court for the same offence, and upon that
coaaaion the jury after having been several hours
deliberation were discharged without giving a verdict.
Th. &gm lay in a narrow compeer'. It appeared that the
Fawner was in the service of a gentleman at Streatham,
sad the f.unily were no doubt ignorant of the fact that she
gas in the family way, but she appeared to have been
wry ill and left her service for a short time. Upon her
man, in consequence of information that had been re-
„owl by the prisoner's master, he had a police-constable
sttendance, and the prisoner waa told that she must
have her boxes searched. She made some objec.
go, but ultimately consented, and in one of the
woe belonging to her there was found the dead
boy of a child with • piece of tape tied tightly
„wad the neck, the tongue protruding, the
area staring, and the body presenting all the appearances
d death from strangulation. When the discovery was
made, the prisoner became very excited, and exclaimed,
" lam a murderer," and there appeared to be no doubt
that the child was hers. With regard to the muse of
death, the surgeon who was called in expressed a positive
Noumea that the child bad fully breathed, and that it
was born alive; and he expressed his assurance that death
had been occasioned by the ligature that was tied round the
seek. The medical man was crow-examined at consider-
able length by Mr. Ribton, and on being pressed upon the
particular point, he stated that he was unable to express a
positive opinion whether the child had ever obtained an
'independent existence, or that it was " alive " within the
definition of the law at the time the alleged violence was
Minted upon it.
Mr. F. R. Lewis. in summing up the case for the prom-
cation, observed that whatever sympathy might naturally
be felt for • young woman in the unhappy condition of
Mae prisoner, the jury ought not to lose sight of the fact
that numbers of children were undoubtedly destroyed,
and that they were eminently entitled to the protection
of the law. lie then proceeded to remind the jury that
the prisoner had never attempted to account for the occur-
ream in the way suggested by her learned counsel, but that
en the contrary she at once stated that she was a mut.-
&car, and afterwards when she was questioned by the
medical man, she repeated the statement that she had de-
the child.
Arreßibton made a feeling address to the jury on be-
half of the prisoner, and. he said, that while admitting,
if the evidence satisfied them that the dreadful crime of
warier bad been committed, they ought to say so by their
verdict, he should contend that in the present case
there was an absence of such conclusive evidence upon
two most important points, as must necessarily tend to
win considerable doubt whether the crime had been com-
mitted. The learned counsel then proceeded to contend
that, in the first place, there was no positive evidence that
the child was born alive, and, secondly, that
three was nothing to show that the ligature was tied round
the neck of the child with the intention to destroy its life.
The learned judge keying summed up,
The jury .4rquittrd the prisoner of the murder, but con-
victed her of the misdemeanour of endeavouring to conceal
the birth of the child.
She was sentenced to be imprisoned end kept to bard
Mom for two years.

(Before the Recorder.)
1101HIRT WITH VIOLS/MIL
Plato Sexton, 10, and Raymond Ayres, 19, were indicted
for robbery, with violence, on Francis Allen, and stealing
from him the sum of 21. 5e., his moneys.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted, and Mr. Harris defended the
en
The
evidence disclosed that the prosecutor, who is a
ertermonger living at Hounslow, was passing Sunbury
Cremon, in the direction of Feltham, in his donkey
cat about 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the l4th July
hst, when the two prisoners, whom he had previously
horn, passed him in a pony and cart. After they had
pee forward about 300 yards, they turned round and met
tits prosecut.r. Ayres knocked him down by a violent
Sew under the left ear, and then jumped upon
kir and kicked him in the short ribs and
bask. Ayres then called to Sexton, who rifted the
prosecutor's pocket, and then they both jumped into the
pay cart and drove off. The prosecutor followed as well
r be was able and came tip with tbem at the Railway Inn,
Feltham-bridge. lie sated them for his money, when
Ayres threw him two penny pieties, and while he was
!roping to look foe them the prisoner Ayres stabbed him
in the cheek with some sharp instrument, the wound pene-
trating the cheek to the gums. The prosecutor became in-
sensible, and did not remember anything further that
evening.

_
The prosecutor was corroborated in some of the leading
features by a countryman named Clarke, and by the
Policecenstable Bolton, who took the men into custody the
same night. Mr. Reeves, a surgeon residing at Hounslow,
proved the nature of the wound on the cheek, declaring it
was produced by a sharp penknife, similar to one which
was found on Ayres when he was captured.
Mr. Harris addressed the jury for the prisoners, and
called several witnesses to show that there had been a
fight between the prosecutor and the prisoner Ayres at
the Railway Inn, and that no Instrument had been used by
Area He contended that the jury could not rely on
the unsupported testimony of the prosecutor.
The Recorder summed up the evidence, and the jury
found both prisoners Not Guilty.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
IMBEZELILMENT AND ROBBERY.
Williams Jaeks.,n, aged 15, a respectably connected
Tenth, was charged on remand before Mr. Alderman Lusk,
IL P., with embezzling and stealing on the 31st July last
e nim of 30a, received by him as servant to Mr. Thomas
lallwright, of 7, Wood-street, Cheapaide, mantle manu-
facturer, and also with stealing seven dozen handkerchiefs
std other goods of the value of 41., the property of his
We master, from his warehouse.
The prisoner has been in the service as driver and
errand hey for about two months, and on the 31st July
be ma entrusted with 30s. to pay an account due to
hem. Lipscombe, of the Strand. With this he ab-
ounded, and nothing was heard of him until he was brought
bike warehouse by his father, when the prisoner admitted
that he had spent the money by tripe to Richmond and
&where. During his absence the goods mentioned were
head to be missing from the stock, and on being interro-
pted on the subject the prisoner said he had taken them
!MI to time and sold them to s Mrs. Benjamin, a marine
tare keeper in Hops-place, Borough.
tinfi, the officer, deposed that he had ascertained
ninths goods have been purchased by Mrs. Benjamin at
Peres not a fourth the cost price, and he had summoned
Mk. attend today, but she was not present.
The father of the prisoner was in attendance, and in
'VI) to the Alderman said that he had reason to believe
tat his son, who had hitherto been a well conducted lad,
isd fallen into bad company.
itr. alderman Lusk convicted the prisoner of unlawfully
timing of the property, and sentenced him to pay a
y of 101., or in default two months' imprisonment LATEST PARTICULARS.
vti MEd labour. (From the Birmingham Gazette.)
BOW-STREET. The following sufferers by the accident are now
A SCENE AT MAI'S THEATRICAL EMPORIUM. inmates of the hospital :—Richard Simmons, Deepfields,
Pit Grey, foreman to Mr. May, the well-known I a married man, broken leg ; Joseph Brunswick,
limeades' costumier, of Bow-street, appeared to answer a Walsall, broken arm, very bad ; Joseph Smith,
amore
charging him with assaulting Robert Sandimin, Tower-street, Wolverhampton, general contusions - John
tIIIT in the same employ. Stoke, Daisy-bank, concussion of the brain ; William
it Abrams appeared for the complainant, who stated that Hand Portobello, concussion of the spine ; Joseph Taylor,
rthidaylast he received instructions from Mr. May to take I Lye-waste, compound comminuted fracture of the left
nitgoods to Highbury for a piece that was to be pro. I leg, and fracture of the right thigh—a very bad case in-
-7u Mere, andhisinstructions were tobe thereby half-past deed- Moses Benton, Ward-street, Bilaton, broken leg;
triock., Ahout 3 o'clock he went to defendant and asked John Bunney, Birmingham, concussion of the spine—very
toy Mood' were ready. Defendant said he was not going badly hurt; William Allen, Birmingham, fracture of theleg;
T 1.4 lathered by him, and desired him to leave the room. Five others, among them IVilliatu and Ann Walker, hue-
mama went away, but before leaving the room he made band and wife, of Sidney-street, Wolverhampton, had
..I,l*.adkw noise with his mouth. However he did not do
mu to insult the defendant, nor was he looking towards their injuries dressed at the hospital, but were able to go
to their homes in the town. As will be seen above,
inlayi
atter when he did it. The defendant, however took
several of the cases are of a very serious elm-
.:.
meant for him, and kicked him in the seat.' I ratter, and it will be surprising if one or two recover.
permilant Paid that "Sandy" was bothering bin, with- The matter cannot fail to be one for very serious in-
put ocemion all the afternoon about the things for High- i uiry, involving pecuniary, if not personal, responsibility.
while he was engaged with other matters which 7low far these galleries are an improvement upon the
"'4lO Prior attention. Defendant in due time went to board and barrel abominations depend upon the strength
Xrl77 himmelf, and returned at 7 o'clock. le was st of their construction and so flimsy is the construction
tore that Sandy insulted him by making the clisgust_rine of most of them upon the course now, that if this sad oocur-
nheeribed, not, as he would make it appear, " aside, Tepee has not led to their being strengthened, the tragedy
?"tir in his face, and also by spitting at him. Upon of yesterday may be repeated to-day. The chief constable
PM provocation" as he considered it, he, defendant, • calledtheattention of aprincipalniemberof the race commit-
" !itted his behind.. tee to thericketty characterof these erections on Monday,and
..‘"Orndant called a witness, who, however, knew nothing it was understood that Mr. Cockerell, builder, should go
',_.,ilgitteasaction, but was ready to give a full account o down and examine them. From some cause or other it
faller squabble on the following Monday. ; would seem that this arrangement was, unhappily, not car-
.47°4°o_
up a of
.course denied defendant's statement, espe- tied out. Had the warning been promptly and efficiently
ashy to 'pitting at him. attended to, this occurrence, with all its lamentable con-
tam .'Warns said that even now, to show that his client sequences, would have bees prevented.
, .ust actuated by any vindictive feeling, he was content,
'mama would pay the costs and enter into recogni-
, not to call on the magistrate to impose any penalty.
ztil defendant consented, paid the costs, and was bound
1110 keep the peace.
CLERKETTWELL.
Itztlinnsn TO MURDER A MARRIED WOMAN TO INDUCE
HER TO LEAVE HER HUSBAND.
aftYPe Raley, a well-dressed man, who was described
a eatttur, residing at 28, Sidney-street, Clarendon-
' oar's, was summoned before Mr. D'Byncourt to answer
"'Plaint of Mrs. Whitehead, a married woman,
'war with her husband at 14, Brighton-sunset,.
A 4*ltn-road, which charged him with using threatening
mewing language, whereby she apprehended bodily
!Ir. Ricketts, on behalf of the complainant, said that
, id,
one of the most esitraordmary cases he bad
maid, for the defendant had for the past aloe or tae

017111REAK OF DISNASZ AMONG PIGS AND SHIM..
—Just as the agriculturists are beginning to congratulate
themselves upon the disappearance of the cattle plague,
the farmers in the Fist Riding are alarmed by the out-
break of a disease amongst pigs and sheep, which presents
some analogy to the rinderpest which has so extensively
decimated our herds. Several farms on the Woide have
suffered from the disease, which it is feared is spreading to
other parts of the district —Leek Mercury.
THE Nsw ACT ON CATTLE DISEASE PRIVZIFITON.
Yesterday the statute to amend the Cattle Diseases Act
wee printed. The expression, " Cattle Act expenses" ia
to mean all expenses incurred by a local authority
including say e4mpeoestioa payable in respect of elites
slaughtered, do. The punishment for forenu license to
remove cattle, or any other document, . or three
months' imprisonment.