The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-08 00:00:00

THE EXP:

arrest to have been, as it was enttendetl to have
been, illegal. With regard to the first suggestion,
via., that the act was not premeditated but asoi-
dental, that was very properly dismissed by the pre-
siding Judge, on the ground that it had absolutely no
fomsdation in the evidence. The other point created
little more difficulty. It has long been taken to
be the rule that resistance to an illegal arrest, even
if it involve fatal results to the party putting the
arrest in force, is not murder but manslaughter ;
the limitation upon the rule, as )fr. BODKIN very
properly reminded the Court, is this, that the
fatal act of resistance must be committed at the
moment of the attempted illegal arrest ; if it
is deliberately committed afterwards, with a view
not of resisting such arrest but of reviving it,
the cue is one of murder and not of manslaughter.
The mode in which Mr. Baron MARTIN left this
point to the jury, was in the highest degree favoura-
ble to the prisoner. " If," said his Lordship, " they
" believed that the act was committed by the
" prisoner out of a feeling of revenge against the
" officer for taking him into custody, and, as he eon-
" sidered, breaking faith with him by placing hand-
" cuffs upon him, when he had promised not to do
" so—then he was bound to tell them the offence wee
" murder. If, on the other hand, they should be of
" opinion that the prisoner—who was no doubt taken
" on board the vessel against his will—had committed
" the act while smarting under the impression that he
h had been wrongfully arrested, and that the act of
handcuffing was such as, under the circumstances,
" would induce a reasonable man to commit an act of
" such a description (as shooting the officer)—
" they would in that case be justified in finding
" him guilty of the lesser offence of man-
slaughter." The jury took the former of these two
views of the case, and found the man guilty of
" wilful murder."

There cannot be a doubt that this verdict wu a
most just and correct one: no other conclusion, in
fact, is rationally oonsistent with the proved facts of
the case. A more deliberate murder, prompted by
mere revenge, it would be difficult to conceive, nor
could any leniency be more mistaken than that which
would practically concede the right of shedding
blood with impunity to every villanous offender
against justice who may fancy himself aggrieved at
the circumstances of his arrest or the mode of his
detention.

THE OVERLAND MAILS.-11.M.5. Caradoc most
probably conveyed the Calcutta and China mails
from Alexandria to Malta, as well as the government
telegram ; in which ease they will leech London on
Sunday night or Monday morning. Considering
the importance of the intelligence, we trust the Go-
vernment will stiffer no detention to occur at Mar-
seilles, and will give directions that these mails be
forwarded the whole distance from Kamilla to
Boulogne or Calais by special trains. The Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's steamer Valetta will
convey to Marseilles the Bombay portion of the
Indian mails.

rbt Court.

WINDSOR, lAN. 7.

Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday Included
the Dueler of Kent, the Prince of Wane, end the Prhicons
Royal, the Marchioness of Abwears, the Bari of Clarendon,
Lady Anna Mena Dawson, Colonel the Ron. C. B. Plana
and M. and Madame de Lebedoyere.
The Band of the Ikon Feather Guards played during
dinner.

Her Majesty's Priests Bend afterwards performed in the
drawing-room.

Overture, " Col
lAtrolactioot„ "LePaz CIT,"

ita.l7pr«tliu;; 7. 7:117r:
The Close, with the Prlnora Royal, worked in the Rom-
park this soornlng.
The ?rhos Consort went out
M. de Causal the Right Hon. C. Forester
(coos odor Royal Homo Chards), and Lient.-CoL
the ROD. J. Jocelyn (Scots Familiar Guards), had the
beam of socomprinylai his Royal Highness.
The Prism al Wales his
on the is in the Homo-park.
ware raceind youbseday at the Colonial-ofßos
frcoaDirbssOcovurnors of Rang Hoeg, Ceylon, the Mauritian
the Cops el Good Hope, and Malta.

[Advertisement.]—Thu Earl and Countess of
Caithness are expected to arrive in London from
Caithness on the 23rd, to be prevent at the marriage
of H. R. H. the Princess Royal.
The Duchess Dowager of Norfolk will return to
town on the 18th, from visiting Lord and Lady Foie" at
Worksop Manor, Notts.

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington will return
to Aptly Howe to-morrow, from Btrathieldiaye.
The Marquis of Lansdowne is expected in town
se* next week, has Bowood. The Barl of Shinano,
isms to town as Monday.

Thb Marchioness of Ely and her youthful family
win hare town to-day, for Wahnor Castle, Deal.
The Counter of Pow is and the Ladies Herbert
and the Karl of Fowl. are expend In town on the 18th
iota, frees Powis Cagan Monayeeniryshiro.

The Countess of leney and Lady Clementine
Villiers will Milli to tone at the latter end of next week,
frees llidelleke Perk, Ozos.

The Earl and 6nateas of Roaebery are gaming
the noon at Dahomey Park, Lialithgowaltire.

The Earl of Durham has arrived at Copeland
Cottle, from Ireland. The oountme and her yonthhil family
bane loft town to join his lordship at Copeland Cattle.
Lord and Lady Ribbleadale have left the St.
Osorge's Hotel, fur Brighton.

Lord and Lady Waterpark will come to town on
the 18th inst., from Doveridge, Derbyshire.
Lord and Lady Ernest Brace will come to St.
Georgerplaos, oa Monday neat, from Brighton, and on
Wedneolsy will leave town on a visit to the Earl of Cardigan
at Dam Park, Northamptonshire.
8;r Edward Herrison has taken a mansion in
Piccadilly, lato the residence of Lady Eassaden.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanfield have arrived at the St.
Chorea Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Pool have left the same

The Persian Ambassador and suite occupied the
Quesa's box at Dram-lane Theatre last madam His Elba-
Weep, with his &Mindsets, appeared Wetly delighted with
the eistertahuseat.

A Berlin letter in the Calorie Gazette states that
seine of the best penmen of that capital an sow engaged in
maids( copies, In German, English, and French, of the
marriage contract between Prince Frederick William of
Froths and the Princess Victoria of England, the rattles-
Mem of which were lately exchanged in London. Copies
see also being made in German, Portuguese, and French, of
the marriage contract of the King of Portugal and the
Princess Stephanie of Hohenzollern.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS AT CLUMBER. —On
Tuesday afternoon a special train arrived from London at
the Great Northern Railway station at Retford, with •distin-
guished party of erste on a visit to the Duke of Newcastle
at Clamber, near Worksop, consisting of her Royal High-
ness the Dachas of Cambridge, the Princess Mary of Cam-
bridge, Lord -Rolzeby. Lady Geraldine Somerset, Colonel
Parris, the Count de Persigny, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister-Plenipotenthry from the Emperor of the French;
the Counties de Persigny ; and M. Van de Wryer, Envoy
Extraordinary sad Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court
of Belgium; and Madame Van de Weyer, with their in-
✓ective Puttee. The Duke of Newcastle and his son, Lord
Arthur Clinton, were Maw station to receive the illustrious
vielawe, who were eamdlacted to the private carriages
of the duke, sighs in mewther, two with four horses each and
=nid= his grace's seat. There ina a
e gir people at the railway station, and
the ef the *Minn en which the visitors had to
rad pees to lbe duke's carrieges, was covered with
ahem ANL The Date of Newcamie accompanied his
grab beseslask, end the party arrived at Clamber at
about wither past four, pm. The dinner party in the
mentos enesistai of the Dockers of Cambridge, Prime's
Mary of Cembridge. Colonel Porde, Lady Creraldine Somer-
set, Count and Countess de Peraigny. M. and Madsen* Van
de Weyer, Earl Cowper, Earl and Counties of Cork. Lady
Harriet de Burgh, Lord and Indy itokeby, Lord F. Paulett,
Coloael Baring, Lady Suess Pet hem Clinton. Lord R. Clio-
li.e, Lord Edward Clinton, Laid Albert Clinton, and Mr.

INDIA.

- -
We bars received from Malta, by Submarine
Telegraph, the summary prepared by oar oorreepon-
dent at Alexandria of the Calcutta news brought to
Suez by the Nubia. It agrees with that we pub-
lished yesterday, and adds the quotation of exchange
at Calcutta, viz., 2s. 2d. to 2.5. 21d.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(710 W 0171 OWN

PARIS, THLRIDAT ETINDIO.

The Paris, in announcing the sad news of the
death of General Havelock, says :—" We are per-
suaded that France, who sympathises with all that
is glorious wherever it may be found, will share
the mourning of the English nation on the occasion
of the loss of this general, whom heroic conduct in
the war in India is present to every mind."
The Pays, in contradicting a statement in a Lon-
don journal, to the effect that a vessel belonging to
the MM. Regis, of Marseilles, had been captured as
a slaver, by an English cruiser off Madagascar, takes
the opportunity of defending the French disguised
slave trade, as to which it says :—The London press
systematically misleads public opinion in England.
The French colonies being in want of hands, on
[that means somebody or the other] has conceived
the excellent idea of transporting free labourers
from the Western Coast of Africa, " an idea which
the marine department seconds, with its well-known
zeal and devotedness to our colonial interests." It
continues :

The carrying out of this idea has given rise to a misunder-
Mending camel by the pretaimions of semeal ofiloers of the
English navy to assimilate the tree emigration of African
blacks, publicly, and in the face of the local authorities, and
acoomputied by all possible guarantees, with the slave trade.
Our milers maintained the true principles in this matter with
as much flnoness as propriety, and these principles of course
prevailed.

The paragraph is, I suppose, meant as a contra-
diction to the assertion made originally (if I re-
member rightly) by the Nord of Brussels, that one
of the Regis ships having been prevented by an
English cruiser from taking on board its living cargo,
had returned empty to Marseilles. At all events,
the Pays says the vessel it is now speaking of ar-
rival safely at Martinique. It does not, however,
affirm that it took any negroes there, but merely
denies that it was captured. It concludes by reite-
rating that the French government is resolved to
persist in carrying on the traffic :
Experience hes completely decided in favour of the emigra-
tion carried on by us with ea much loyalty es success.
The Bourse, although not so buoyant as yesterday,
has closed with ► further rise. The Rent* rose 30c.
for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 70fr. 15c.
and 70fr. 450. Mobilier rose 26fr. Some of the
railways improved considerably. Orleans rose 10fr. ;
Eastern, 15fr. ; Lyons, 15fr. ; Western, 12fr. 50c.; the
other lines from 2fr. 50e. to dfr.

M. Pecoul, formerly representative for Martinique,
in the Legislative Amembly, has just died in Paris.
M. Mires has sent a communication to the journals,
contradicting an announcement which has appeared
in several telegrams from Athens, that the Piraeus
Railway had been conceded to a M. Terald as his
representative. M. Mires has no representative at
Athens, and has neither asked nor obtained any
concession from the Greek government.
Colonel Bertrand, the nephew of the celebrated
general of that name, who was with Napoleon at
St.lielena,hu been appointed director of the Arsenal
of La Fere.