The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-19 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Jeicuh Chronicle says:
An arourrence lately took place at blysloviez, a frontier
town of Prussian Poland, which strongly reminds us both of
the some enacted at Bologna eighteen months ego by the
Papal agents, and the stirring incident narrated In " Uncle
Tom's Cabin," when a female slave, pursued by her teak-
muter, in order that her child should not be snatched front
her, crossed • river on the floating toe. The heroine in this
ease was • Jewess, who having bosoms the mother of an
illegitimate child by a Christian, had the boy circumcised,
and resolved to bring him up in her religion. Suddenly the
police appeared to take it from her by force, in order to bring
it up in the Christian religion. A most exciting scene now
ensued. The despairing mother, her infant in her anise, Bed,
bat wss hotly pursued by the police, like a here chased
by a number of dogs. On, on she sped towards
the Russian frontier, but bee purulent constantly
gained upon her. She had just reached the brink
of the liver that forms the boundary between the
two countries. No friendly bridge spanned the Mom, no
boat palled from the shore. The fete of the child seemed
unavoidable; the polio. had all but laid hands on her. Bat no,
her infant was not to be snatched from her. With
the courage of derpair she plunged into the fool, and,
holding with one hand the child slots, she swam across the
river and safely ruched the opposite bank, where her pur-
suers dared not follow her. Now, the iniquity of these pr..-
ceedings consists in the fret plan, in the circumstance that
as the Christian father neither supported nor recognised the
child he clearly bad forfeited all paternal rights; and re-
eondly, in the injustice of the Prussian law, which, whilst it
fusee that In all cues of illegitimacy the child is to be
brought tip in the religion of the mother, prescribe. that in
the case of Jews the infant should be brought app in the
Christian esliguat, wheisevir the father Of re,ther happens
to be a Christen. We understand that, roused by this lei-
nnity, a large number of Pumice congregations have peti-
tioned the goesrameat for the repeal of this unnatural law.

AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MAILS.—The British
sad North American Royal Mail weamer Canada railed front
the Merry for Boston with the United &wee and North
Ameneas mails, and 62 peasenggers. On Wsloseday next
the Quebec sad Montreal (Mean Steentship Ottepaey'a
steamer Bohemia will be despoiled from Liverpool for Port-
land with the Canadian mail. The box at the Liverpool
Post-office will be open on that day till 11.45 a.m., iris
Queenetnern till 9 30 p CU.
TIIE MAILL—hOOTHAIICTON, SATURDAT.—The
steam ship Tasmanian. Captain Jellione, leit this day with
the Wed India and P.m& mail. and G 2 parewasere, amen
whom are Major eaund.ra and Et elan. 0,. sad M'Core
mac. She takes 1,321.1. in specie, and 4,6161. in jewellery.
The steam ship Euxine, Captain W.e.dirate, left this thq
with the usual Peninsular rasU and 16 paiesagers, among
whom is Mr. Lisidasy, M.P.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(710 N OVAL OWN

PARIS, SPNDAY EVINTXO.
The cold in Paris is most intense. At 6 o clock
this morning Chevalier's thermometer marked
11 degrees below zero. The Seine is blocked up by
heavy muses of ice which, if the present tempers.
tore should continue bat a few hours longer, will
adhere together, and the river will be frozen
over. There is every prospect of another severe
frost to-night. It is quite as cold in the South of
France as in the north. To-day's letters from Lyons,
Marseilles, and Toulon all speak of frost and snow.
At Lyons last night the temperature was 10 degrees
below zero, and the &One was covered with icicles.

The English mails arrived to-day in due course,
although a great deal of snow has fallen in the
north. The commandant, of the garrison towns
hare sent large bodies of troops to clear
the lines. The Morning Post, Sun, and Globe,
which were seized yesterday,have been released ; the
Daily News and Express of Friday remain impounded.
The action of the French government upon the press
is not of a repressive character merely. While on
the one hand it is swift to punish writers who offer
unwholesome political doctrines to public apprecia-
tion, it is not slow to recommend to readers works
which it thinks may be perused with pleasure and
profit. The very prefect who narrowly scrutinises
every independent publication, to me whether he
cannot find in it matter for a warning or a prosecu-
tion, does not think it beneath his dignity to write
a pnffdirect ofan official newspaper or review. Thus,
as we learn by the Cowrie,. 4 Limoges, Count E.
de Coetlogon, prefect of the Haute Vienne, an officer
of the imperial order of the Legion of Honour,
&c., &c., has jut issued a circular to all the
mayors of his department, calling their par•
ticular attention to the Revue Contemporaine
as a review " under government patronage,"
which, owing to the "happy selection" of writers
whose mission it is to defend " salutary doctrines,"
is in a highly prosperous state, and has rapidly
"taken a high rank among its elder contemporaries.'.
The mayor are desired to give the " utmost pub-
licity " to this authoritative opinion as to the merits
of the Revue Contemporaine.
The oommon remark th►t an unprecedented crime
is often followed by another closely resembling it,
seems likely to be further illustrated, in reference to
Madame and Angelina Lemoine. The Journal de In
Niirre states that at Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, near
Cosne,everybody is talking of a case of child burning.
A pretty girl of 20, named Heloise G;tenet,
after having unsuccessfully attempted to account
for the disappearance of an infant to which she had
given birth secretly, confessed at length that she
had burnt it ; bat she alleges it was still-born.
Remains of the calcined bones were found in the
uhes, and in consequence of statements made by
Heloise, her mother has been arrested as an accom-
plice. Both mother and daughter are in prison at
Crane.

It is said that Angelina Lemoine has been placed
in St. Michaers Convent—a sort of Magdalen Hos-
pital.

PARIS. Du. 17.
The Honiteur publishes a narrative of the execu-
tion of three Englishmen by the French commandant
in New Caledonia, M. Seised, which does not differ
'materially from that of the Sydney Horning Herold,
except that the fact of their being Englishmen is
suppremed. They are simply called whites and
Europeans.

The Emperor and the Empress went yesterday to
visit Prince Jerome. The bulletins published at the
Palau Royal were as follows:
Nine in the Morning.
The state of his Imperial Highness bee not undergone
any material change during the night; the expectoration has
been frequent, and slightly tinged with blood ; his situation
contbzute grave. . _

Six in the Erasing.
The state of Prince Jerome it still grave. A lamina
awn in the left ea has rendered the spoliation of a fresh
blister naosesary.
Saturday, 9 am.
The state of his Imperial Highness has undergone no
change for the wane. The night has been rather quiet.
RATEIL CRUVILLIEkt, LE HELLOCQ.
Up to three o'clock this afternoon the Prince will
much the same, and no further bulletin had been
Matted. There was to be a consultation at 4 o'clock.
The Daily News, Morning Post, and all the
London evening papers, were seized to-day.
The government has suppressed the report of the
trial for a separation between Count Migeon and his
wife on account of a well-known political personage
having been mentioned by M. Jules Fevre.
The Bourse opened heavily, and was decidedly
weak during the greater part of the day. A fall of
Ith in Consols was attributed to an article in a
London journal supposed to be semi-official, which
says that the English government will continue to
oppose the isthmus of Butz scheme. A late telegram
reported that Consols recovered to yesterday's price.
Towards the end of the day the Bente for account
became very buoyant, and recovered front 70.40 to
70.60, at which price it closed, with a rise of 5c.; for
cash there was a fall of 16c., the last quotation being
70.30; Mobilier fell 1.23. The upward reaction in
the Rents did not occur soon enough to have much
effect upon the railways, which closed at nearly the
lowest price of the day. The only lice which
realised an improvement was Orleans, which rose 1.25;
Northern tell St.; &stern, 3.73; and Western, 5;
the otter lines, of which Lyons was the favourite,
left off without change.
M. de la Bourdonnsye-Montluc, a deputy under
the Restoration, has just died at his chateau, De
Ladle, at the age of 93. He was one of the moat
impassioned orators of the "royalist right." It wee
of him that the famous mot was said: "II eat phis
royaliste qne le roi." He definitively retired from
pouueal hie in 1830.

GARIBALDI TO THE LADIES OF ITALY.

Gemini Garibaldi hes just addressed the following
proclamation to the ladies of Italy :
When the ladies of Mien, Venice, and other Italian
tides, robed at evening parties, their children' friends, or
lovers, if they were not going to the holy war, and in this
way lammed the ranks of the liberating army with the
young, the brave, end the ill untrimas,—thee, I say, the
to the character of this epoch the brilli.nt stamp of
pamotem, which aceordirot to history bears wanes. to to at
the valour of the Raman, Spartan, and Carthagihien womee.
Well, these ladies, them women, worthy of the *nee of
ancient Italy, who rent th us their beloved ones, to us their
brothers by blood, wol they now refuee to throw their super.
Made. into the bettors for the redemptioo of Italy ? the
leder Cairoli of Pen., Martinez, Dewcht, Risori, Biancardi of
I Colno,Pallavicino, Syeel Pepolt, Sethi, bevethey no comrades
in heart In the huedred cities of Italy P Are there sot thlue
...ode of women, like the Vent, Conant, hleniegesze, AMA
Adatholo, I.oroellini, who will throw in the taco ot those who
wish to oppose us their superfluous ornaments, their jewels,
their hair, their children even as a holocaust for the redempe
two of this people which does not choose to he a else, to the
caprice of Meisel princes, but deetoes to be placed on the
same (Ming and to take it. seat by the Bide ut the other
nations of Europe, who are our eietere, and of whom we
feel ourselves worthy P
One lady then, one woman of every Italian city..lown,
and 'Mee, must invite the fair eex, invigorated by the cone
icioesness of having achieved • solemn and vital act for the
country, sad this woman must say to all the re.' :—Do not
e.,nie end offer collars or treeees (it is not yet come to that),
but for your eupee Bolted to this Italy, which eel form is
one day. Ds it without stint. . for the powerful ones
of the mirth will bow before the million. twit can be spored
from your meths.—before the toillionot armed ciontha. . .
We shall ere no longer our children exposed to the mastscres
of bettle•flelds . . . and God will Wee our most holy
work. ° G. GAIIIIIALDI."

THE GREAT BRITAIN.—A email tin canieter. with
soma pavers elm loped, .11 *Web wen writtom "Tbo Knot
otosultr Onoo, 13,i100s tofu:Wend f the Western Islands,'
wee found Solonz mow the eatranoe of the port of LiverpoOl
on Saturday morning. Thia ktaa teen the work of sows
rail-winded pro.tto. at, the Great Blitain only Mt th 4 port
on Surd.,, the 11th ,flifsw, and was left off Turku all well
at 4 a.m. on Koaday.

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(TiilB DAY.)

TY Diewebur sapwood makes ta the trial a pieta=
for Alma coutraitiad Is the aoaaty Ididdletan tee.
woad thle amuse a llt• Onikaak Womeninnew, banani
the Amami Judie and • bend of weitsanan
The alma, contaiii the aurae of lorty-live prima, for
hal, of whoa only SY Y AMU* with wholeanewear.
ne ideation a dr prima, le thee Isined :—Tbkamia
ma Wax mad not wile, mini asa mil deg= sea
mg mg mite ryar6etl7, nod twee. mai rid who "GIL
Tiit growl Pty baying bin b.il abargid WIN Mr
mimed so 1b deity.

SURREY SESSIONS.
(THIB DAT.)

The December adjoaradraufses four foressaiy of Berm
mellow ed this morning at the learicamo-beask
Were B. Johan% In., alkeirana ; Thamaa..=
E.l &pat,. rhairvars; smil a terszb of neeleirelles.
sander r mateheed sibs roma N tblrtretwe prim= tar
mil —twenty. Bre tor felony aad sir kr atiadrimeasar.
The degrees of edeeeto zi are Alba —Eight could Warr
reed see ; thirteen. ianartattly arm could ofaJy mad;
tad salt' three could reed and write well.