The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-09 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAIUB, Moxn•t Evianza.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa inaccurately
represented the state of things when it said that the
battle of Capua was won by Piedmontese reinforce.
meats coming up at the end of the day, when the
Garibaldians were tired. The credit of that victory
is due to Garibaldi alone. The Piedmontese
bersaglieri who were seen upon the field formed part
of two battalions which landed at Naples in small
parties some time ago. Their position is somewhat
equivocal. But, unless they were fighting as
volunteers, one does not see what political object
Victor Emmanuel can serve by his hesitation to
cross the frontier and render effectual aid to Gari-
baldi. If those two battalions are not treated as
deserters, if they and their officers still draw Ser.
(Union pay, the King is as much committed to an
act of war upon Francis U. as if the whole of
Cialdini'a army bad entered the Neapolitan States,
and yet the capital fact of the day is that the fron-
tier which separates the Boma from the Nea-
politan States has not yet been pained, and
there are those who think that if the Sardinian
army goes forward, Austria will at once declare
war. Meanwhile it appears that General Cialdinf
has had a private interview with Garibaldi. All
the latest news is favourable to the progress of
Garibaldes army. Besides a telegram speaking of
a new victory gained on Oct. 7, it is said by the
Pays that the Garibaldians had succeeded iu
throwing a bridge over the Volturno beyond the
reach of the Capira artillery, that they had fortified
the trite du pond, and thus prepared the way for
cutting the line of the royal defame in two.
According to the Opinion Nationale, Cialdini's
army was to cross the Neapolitan frontier this very
day.
The Nationalities of Turin gives the text of the
convention, dated Caserta, and signed by Garibaldi,
by which the Dictator concedes the railways of the
Two Sicilies to K K Adami, of Leghorn. This
is the convention of which Count Cavour said in
the Sardinian parliament that he had no AMA/
knowledge, and in the existence of which he did
not believe.

At the Bourse the Rente, after opening at Battu..
day's prices and even advancing for a moment to
the extent of 50., retrograded and closed at 69fr.,
with a fall of 10c. Hobilier fell 10fr. The
Orleans Railway fell 10fr.; Northern, sfr., and the
other lines from lfr. 250. to 2fr. 50c.

A horrible discovery has been made within the
last two or three days at the church of the village
of Boulogne, between Paris and St. Cloud, which is
now under repair. Underneath the altar of the
Virgin there has been fouud the body of a young
girl of 14, who disappeared three years ago, and of
whom her parents, inhabitants of the place, have
newer since had any news. The neighbourhood is
in a state of great excitement on the subject, but I
believe the Peril, journals will not be allowed to
speak of it. The girl is described as having been
very beautiful and precociously developed. She
had been to her first confession shortly before her
disappearance.
We read in Golignotti:
It was mentionsd lately that a blind man, who for some
years hex implored charity at the entrance of the church of
the Petit Pares, had been arrested for deceiving the public
by pretending to be in great indigence, when in reality he
possessed considerable property. This man, whose woo is
Lambert, and his age 38, was brought before the correc.
head police on Saturday, and evidence having been given
that he had purchased the goodwill of a teraished hotel for
Xt,ooofr., and was besides possessed of other property, he
was condemned to six months' imprisonment.
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The above paragraph does not quite accurately
represent the features of this very extraordinary
case. A beggar in Franoe is a licensed professional
man, and has as good a right to be rich as any other
person. Many beggars are notoriously rich. In the
case in question the blind man was not condemned for
"deceiving the public by pretending to be in great
indigence," but for begging at all without a regular
permit from the police. It is true that on account
of his infirmity the police had for years winked at
his infraction of the regulations, and that he was
only prosecuted on account of the success with
which he had pursued his calling. I cannot think
the prosecution just. The man ought not to have
been punished for the want of perspicacity of the
police. When it was found out that be was in
diluent circumstances it would have been enough
to have warned him off the station. Whether, how•
ever, my opinion on this point be agreed with or
not, it is clear that the evidence of the amount of
the man's realised property was quite immaterial to
the issue in a legal point of view. He was not con-
demned for "false pretences," but for the mere
fact of begging without a license.