The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-13 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(71011 0431 OWN

PARIS. MD V71:217110.

The Libert4 states that M. de Bismarck is so well
satisfied with the peaceable professions of the
Marquis de Moustier's circular that he requested
the most influential members of the liberal national
party not to ask any question relative to the Salz-
burg interview. The policy of Prussia is evidently
to " gang its own gait," and assume that France
has disclaimed any intention of interfering in
German affairs.

The Liberte contrasts the quiet practical tone of
the Bing of Prussia's speech, carving out no pro-
granume but that on the immediate order of the
day, with the rhodomontade and uncartainty and
contradictions which have long distinguished all
official declarations in France. There have been
successively the theory of grand agglomeration ;
the theory of the three frescos.; the theory of the
freedom of alliances ; the theory of non-interven-
tion ; the theory of nationalities ; the theory of
attentive neutrality ; the theory of strict im-
partiality ; the theory of the equilibrium ; and
the theory of natural frontiers. "We know,"
says M. de Girardin, " to what point practice has
brought Prussia. Where has theory led us, and
whither will it lead us 1" Rivarol said of one of
his colleagues, " Just as some people are always
about to sneeze that man is always about to be
witty." In the same way it may be said the French
government is always about to have a policy.
At the Bourse the Rente was relatively firm, but
all other securities declined. The Three per Cents.
fluctuated between 70fr. 12ic.. and 69fr. 5c.,
but closed with the figure of 70fr. both for
cash and account, falling only sc. and 211 c.
Credit Mobilier fell 18fr. 76c., closing at
286 fr. 25c. All its dependent securities were
in great disfavour. It is not known what
M. Rouher and the Bank of France may have
decided to-day ; but the prevalent opinion among
speculators was that no advance could prevent the
winding-up of the Credit Mobilier, and at the
utmost could but render the " liquidation" some-
what more easy. A good many speculative sales
of Italian funds were made for the end of the
month, in anticipation of a movement in Rome,
which it is said that Garibaldi, who suddenly left
the Peace Congress, is more decided than ever to
attempt.

A correspondent at Vienna 'writes :—" You
come and go to and from Austria, and you move about
as freely as you do in England ; no one alike you who you
are, and what your business is. For anyone like myself,
who has only known the old system, it seemi like a dream.
As censorship is abolished, books and newspapers come
in as freely and, as far as my experience goes, as regularly
as in any other country on the continent. But the most
extraordinary thing is the change in the press. The
Rona Gazette and the Osterreichische Beobachter, which
was edited by the Foreign-office, were once the only papers;
now not only Vienna and provincial capitals, but small
towns, have their own local papers, and, especially in some
of the organs of the different extreme fractions of the
Austrian nationality, you find things which very likely
the boldest organ of Fenianirm in Ireland or England
would hesitate to insert, while in France, Germany, and
probably Italy, such outbunta would not be tolerated
for an instant."

A letter from Homburg, dated the 10th, says :
" This place is not so crowded as it was a fortnight ago.
but is still vet/ full of company of varied character. The
Duke of Cambridge, the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
Strelitz, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Mar-
quis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Hartington, Viscount
Hamilton, and scores of fashionable M.P.'s may be seen
daily at the wells and the green tables.

The annual two days' athletic sports and games
of the gentlemen cadets at the Royal Military College at
Sandhurst, commenced yesterday, and will be concluded
this day. The weather was all that could possibly be de-
sired, the rain of the previous night having rendered the
turf springy and excellent " going." There was a large
number of spectators, including the Ilite of the neighbour-
hood and many friends of the cadets from town.

The Snit appearance of Madame Jetty Tref& at
Covent Garden is announced foi Monday next.
THE MEDICAL SCHOOL.S.—The Winter Session of
the Medical Schools will commence on Tuesday, October
Ist The inaugural addresses will be delivered as follows :
—St. "nartholomew's Hospital, by Dr. Odling, at 5 p.m. ;
Charing-cross Hospital, by Mr. Canton, .t 3 p.m. ; St.
George's Hospital. by Mr. Holmes, at 2 p.m. ; Guy's
Hospital, by Mr. A. E. Durham, at 2 p.m. ;
King's College, by Dr. W. A. Miller, at :i
p.m. ; London Hospital, at 4 p.m. ; St. Mary's
Hospital, by Dr. Broadbent, at 8 p.m. ; Middlesex
Hospital, by Dr. Swaim. Cobbold, at 3 p.m. • St.
Thomas's Hospital, by Mr. Holly, at 3 p.m. : University
College, by Dr. Orally Hewitt, at 4 p.m. ; Westminster
Hospital, by Mr. Teevan. at 8 p.m. In the
provinoes, the following introductory lectures will
be given :—Queen's College, Birmingham, by Mr.
Pemberton, at 3 p.m. ; Leeds School of Medi-
cine, by Mr. T. P. Teak, jun. ; at Liverpool Royal In-
firmary Szhool of Medicine, by Mr. A: B. Steele, at 3 p.m. ;
Manchester Royal School of Medicine, by Dr. Thorburn, at
12 noon ; Newcastle-on-Trine KNollege of Medicine, by Dr.
Humble, at 2 p.m. ; She Meld School of Medicine, by Mr.
W. Baker, at 8 p.m. At the Royal Veterinary College,
the session will be opened with an inaugural address by
Professor Jewnsal.

AN A

FAR MURDER.

The Melbourne Ara of July 27 contains tho
falowing narrative
The elands of Vistseka have just afforded a striking in-
stance of what the old writers called "God's revenge
errmarcher." On the 14th July, 1862, on the banks
River Coliban, an escaped convict named William
Henry Terry murdered • as Dutchman named
Peter Reddick was arrested at the time for the crime,
confessed it, was not believed, was discharged, and now,
five years al ha being charged with bigamy, the bones
end skull of the murdered man are found in the dry bed
of the Cabin, on the beaks of which the murderer and
the murdered were last seen • old suspicions are revived,
circumstances are fitted together ; and, lastly, Terry lies
cast for death, having been convicted of his crime on
the 10th instant. The long series of collateral
facts adduced by the police at the trial, to sheet home
the guilt of the accused, need not be recounted here ;
but we will give an outline of this remarkable
atm, taking our readers beck to July, 1862. Then
Terry—who was known by different names, and at
that time pared as Maguire—was living with • freed con-
vict woman from Tasmania of the same name. He had
bad two children by her ; but that, and the fact that ten
years before he had married under the name of Mitchell
one Eliza Gill, at Geelong, did not prevent him from desir-
ing to marry Elizabeth Hockey, the daughter of James
Hockey, a miner living at Taradale. Like most convicts
from Tamale, Terry was a woodsman, and as much had
agreed with Reddick to work with him. Reddick had
been • farm servant, had saved money, bought land, and
was known by his peculiar narrow retreating forehead and
prominent eye-bone. The exact circumstances of their
partnership are not known, but at this point Terry's par-
mour gives some evidence. She stated at the trial that in
July, 1862 Reddick was living in a tent closing to theirs,
and that Terry had no money, but that Reddick sup-
plied him with some, with which he bought • horse.
Whether she knew a or not, Terry at this time
wanted to marry this Elizabeth Hockey, but
lacked money for the purpose. He bad
himself to merry on Monday, and on ell'ogiTAl
night he came to his tent, and having lit a candle
went out to go where Reddick was lying in his tent. His
paramour had beard him say be wanted money, and " If
I ever shake (rob) any man, I'll shake him" (Reddick).
Fearing something, she followed Terry out of the tent,
whereupon be beat her, and pulled her hair out, but gave
up his design for the time. The next day Terry and Red-
dick went to work, came back at noon, had dinner
together, and again went out together. Reddick
was never seen after; and Terry, who had pro-
mised to return to his mistress that night or next
day, never again came bask to her. The scene then shifts
to Hockey's next day, where Terry appeared, not at
8 a.m., as he had promised, but at 4 p.m., to marry Miss
Hockey. He had money (he had days before acoomited to
those who knew him for having money by raying he
got it from a Mr. Frazer, which was a false-
hood), and deeds conveying titles to property,
which, together with his clothes, were wet thrOugh.
This he explained by • story about his falling
into a waterhole • the Coliban, where his horse was
drowned, and he narrow escaped with his life. He was
then married under the name of Reddick, and so assumed
the possession of all Reddick's property.. It was not long
before the police began to make inquiries for the missing
man, and here the strangest part of the story.
Terry was ermined, and then and there confessed the
murder, which be said was • job concocted between him
and Hockey. They murdered Reddick together, be said;
and afterwards, when be married Miss Hockey, it was at
Hockey's suggestion that he married under the name of
Peter Reddick, • deoeption not then detected ; an impro-
vised story of his having gone under • false name
previously was deemed suifiment explanation. The de-
tectives even then doubted his story, believing him
to be implicating an innocent man in revenge for
some injury ; and as their prisoner varied in his account,
took them to different places where he said the body
was buried, and finally declared that Reddick had
gene to New Zealand, they gave up their accusations, and
he was discharged. No trace of Reddick was discove.ed
after ; and there were then left in the hands of the police
a curious waistcoat with glass buttons, • sugar hag
weighted with stones which fitted to a piece of rock over-
hanging the river at the point where Terry and Reddick
were last at work—both articles fished from the bed of the
river—and • white hat, with a curious hole in it, found in
some rashes near the last-mentioned place. The hat and
waistcoat were known to be Reddick's, but their discovery
proved nothing. Five years elapsed ; and some miners
found in the dry bed of the river, 100 yards from
the place where the rocks had been broken, human
bones and a skull. They were suspected to be
Reddick's, for the shape of the. skull closely resembled
his well-remembered • bead ; and when the old
white bat was brought from its receptable and fitted to it,
there WM► deadly hole in the skull which exactly corre-
sponded tothat in the bat. The suspicions against Terry,
who still lived in the district, were revived. He was
arrested, sad tried on the 9th and 10th inst. ; the old
evidence was reproduced, and siientific evidence having
proved the skull to be that of • European, and the bole to
be a necessarily fatal injury, probably inflicted by • pick
found near the place, the jury, after half an hour's deli.
beration, brought in a verdict of " Guilty." The Chief
Justice, who presided, then sentenced the prisoner, who
seemed unconcerned, to death, without hope of mercy.

CHILDREN LOST IN THE BUSH.

(From the Mdbourne Argie, July 27.)

Late on Sunday night, the 30th of last June, the
Daylegion' police were told • sad story of missing children.
At 10 o'clock that morning three boys, William Graham,
aged 7, Thomas Graham, aged 4 and Arthur Burman
aged 5 years, the sons of respectable persons, started fromi
their homes, in Connell's Gully, to search for wild goats.
They did not come back to dinner, and the fathers, some-
what alarmed, started with some neighbours to look for
them. By aon.o means or other it was ascertained
that they had gone towards the junction of two
creeks, but all traces were lost on the ranges
between Sailor's Creek and Blanket-flat. Night set
in, and the anxious fathers spoke to the police, three
of whom turned out at once and joined the parents and
Blanket-flat police in • search which lasted till 1 o'clock '1
in the morning. The night was cold and dark, and as no
good could be done by looking, further operations were
suspended till the morning. Then further inquiries
elicited that a storekeeper named Muteh had seen the
children four miles on the Ballan-road, and bad directed
them to follow the telegraph wires back to Daylesford.
They must have been afterwards led astray by the beaten
track to Specimen-hill, on which, about dusk, they met a
boy named Quinn, who told them that they were going
train Connall's Gully instead of to it. The eldest boy did
not seem at all alarmed ; but since Quinn left them they
have been lost. This information was the fruit of Mon-
day's search, and becoming known it caused • feeling at
wide-spread excitement. The mince of the Specimen-
bill Company's claim put aside their work and
began • search, in which !bey were joined by the
MOO on the Corinella mine, the telegraph saw-mills, and
Clarke's mills, and nearly all the splitters in the terrible
forest. The weather was boisterously wet and cold, but
though it obliterated tracks it did not deter the zealous
searchers, who at last found impressions of two different
sized children's shoes, two miles from Specimen-hill, and
in the direction of the source of the Werribee River. This
is all Bullazook forest, and a nearly impenetrable region,
the scrub growing high and abundantly, so that a man
might securely hide from his pursuers a very few feet from
them. Even the searchers themselves got bewildered, and
when night set in the task was absindoned in despair. The
party returned to Daylesford on Tuesday evening ; but so
violent was the ebullition of public feeling at this want of
success, that a public meeting at Bleackley'a Notel was
called that very night. The town crier went round, the
fire-bell rung, and at 8 p.m. the large room of the inn was
filled to suffocation. The mayor presided, and with
one voice it was agreed that business should be
utterly suspended next day, that the search might
be prosecuted by the inhabitants and the police, who
had obtained the services of black trackers. The rendez-
vous was fixed at the Specimen-hill works, the manager of
which kept the whistle, which could be heard two mike,
sounding to nightfall. The fire-bell was also rung at given
hours, and all day long the work continued, under the
guidance of experienced bushmen, who carried bread and
wine for the revival of the lost ones if found. Altogether,
600 or 700 persons joined in the search. Though all was
in vain, the labour of love wee not suspended. Next day
the shops were still kept shut, 500 persons went out, and
in the evening 70/. was collected and offered as • reward
for the recovery of the lost children. The reward was
subsequently increased to 200/.• and tbegovernment offered
• reward of 100/. more, but this was for the encouragement
of bushmen and others, not the people of Day.
lesford and neighbourhood, who continued their
exertions all through the week with such utter
unselfishness that it was only to remove a peat
public inconvenience that shops were partially
opened on Friday. All was still in vain, however, and
a month has elapsed without furnishing the faintest
clue to the fate of these poor children. The two fathers,
Graham and Bureau, have written to a local pair to
express their sincere and heartfelt thanks to the inha-
bitanta of Daylesford, and their satisfaction that all that
human aid could do has been done. The children cannot
possiblyhave survived, although they were accustomed to
travel about the ranges, were familiar with their father's
stories of camping in the bush when he was a trader
among the Caffres, and the eldest one bad often talked of
what be would do if benighted in the bush. The pecu-
niary sacrifice made by the people of Daylesford, beside
their offer of reward, cannot be less than 1,5001. Melan-
choly as this story is, it has • bright side in its exhibi-
tion of an unselfish public spirit, which we are con-
vinced is not confined to Daylesford, and of which we as
Victorians have good reason to be proud.

REVIVAL OF COVIIIITNO IN VIZ HONE PARR.—
The refusal of the Duke of Beaufort (Master of the Horse),
in his official capacity as Chief Ranger of the Home l'ark,
Hampton Court, to allow coursing clubs to sport in this
royal demesne last season, is this year withdrawn, and the
sport will be resumed under more favourable auspices.
The hares have bred prolifioly this summer, and, with
certain stipulations, coursing will commence in the Home
Park early in the mace.

WRECK OP A YACHT.-POUR LIVES LOST.

DONAGHADEE, THURSDAY Evzimia.
The schooner yacht Tana, from Greenock to
Kingston, has been wrecked off the coast, near //msg.
hedee. The owner, Captain Knowles, of the 83rd Rep.
ment, his wife, child, and servant girl were all drowned.
The Grew were eased.