The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-28 00:00:00

ENGLISH TRIMS IN BIICSSELS.

A clever and daring robbery was committed last
Tuesday afternoon by English thieves in the shop of X.
Coutel, a Brasses jeweller. M. Coutel received family
diamonds of the value of 8001. in order to set them as a
necklace. The necklace, having been finished, was placed
in the shop-window for a few days on show. It was
handsome and attracted notice, as well-set diamonds do.
On Tuesday a group of English, travellers apparently, and
respectably dressed, stopped before M. Canters window,
very much interested in the less costly jewellery exhibited,
and utterly regardless of the diamond necklace. The
group consisted of three men and three women. The
former entered the shop, and asked to see some trinkets.
After a good deal of huckstering, they bought one. In
the meantime the three ladies entered the shop, and
ranged themselves near the window, the one covering the
others, but all deeply interested in the purchase that
was being made by the gentlemen. They ope-
rated so effectually, however, that the slip board
of the show window ran in its groove without the
least noise, the diamond necklace was adroitly removed
and concealed under a shawl. The group then quietly
left the shop. It was only when M. Coutel went to
replace the trinkets be had removed to show his English
customers that he became aware of the robbery. He
went to the door, ran down Rue de la Madeleine, but the
thieves were nowhere to be seen.

Madame Victor Hugo died yesterday morning
at Brussels, of an apoplectic attack. Her illustrious hus-
band and some of her children were with her at the time.
She was the sister of M. Paul Foucher, a well known
French journalist.
M. Victor Pradier, 26 years of age, a cloth
manufacturer at Seamlens (Tarn), was waking in the
streets of Toulouse three evenings back with some friends
whom be bad come to visit, when he was suddenly stabbed
in the right breast by an individual who bad followed him.
The assailant was arrested by some soldiers after a
violent struggle and conveyed to prison. He has been
recognised as a liberated convict named Pierre, 21 years
of age, who has since declared that he Ina mistaken his
victim for a police-agent, against whom he had vowed
vengeance. He enty discovered his error after the blow
had been struck. M. Pallier lie, in a precarious state.

OUR

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(ram OUR OWN 00SURRPONDENT.)
TIitNiDAY I.:VENTWI
War rumours are again exciting alarm, and uavn
affected the Bourse. The effect of Itaadrilart
article in the Cobstitutiortnel, which has lr.en sur.
mulled Laikrrmus, is neutralised by lb.. reiterated
war proclamations of M. Paul a,•
newly-decorated) in the I'ay*. It is 'intl.— I !,y
the frau that the weekly political review in
terda)'s Monitrur du Soir does not strik.• t Iv. pa :ill
note which it has for some time been wont to krp
upon, and this silence, it says, can only Fetgln-st
the uncertainty caused by the conflict betwomi
the Pays and Corisfitationnri. The /),604 print,
Berlin letter, stating that, although despatOssi
from the Prussian embassy in Paris reprosenl th..
'Emperor as most pacifically inclined, inforni.ition
reaching the Prussian government from oth,d•
:sources does not tally with lhe official corunetin.
cations ; and that the staff officers in the Cktiont
camp talk openly of war as at hand. Although
the Prussian government does not take all th,,s
officers ray for gospel, and knows well enough that
a camp is not a congress, it cannot overhs.l: t:,..
symptom, and feels considerable uneasinoss
it.

There was a report at the Hour,. ,1,41.
the Emperor was unwell ; but in all
the only foundation for it was that bii .1..1, ,rt.,r.
for the Chalons camp, announced fur 8:11.1•1.
August 30, is put off till September :2 TL.,
Count and Countess Oirgenti are
Fontainebleau on Saturday.
The physiognomy of the Reuxie ws, t..' ,:',•
different from yesterday. It was found t:
were no serious takers for the Rent.. ,t tl. • pn
to which it had been screwed up by M. 1641),...)
able mancenvres. Under the pressure of .•1... t)
realise profits, it fell 40c. for cash; and 3: f•r
account, closing at the lowest prices of th, .1 ty
70fr. 80c., and 70fr. 75c. Cridit Fonci r f.. 1!
10fr., and fifobilier lfr. 23e. Italian, iu !...11
there is much speculation, rose 121 c.
It was rumoured this afternoon that Ow ',;•••• •
had been seized. That is not true, but at :1 k
in order was issued withdrawing the porml3,len
it has hitherto enjoyed to be sold in the str•rt;.
I see nothing in the new number to aPcmint for
this severity, unless, perhaps, an article by ',eau
Mbach in praise of men who, like General Cavaig-
nac, " keep their oaths" and leave power poor and
with clean hands ; and extolling the " young;
rebel Cavaignsc" as a model of the virtue la Mt
wanting at the present time.
The Figaro by no means carries on a systematie
opposition to government. Its queer editor,
M. de Villemessant, lets his numerous staff write
pretty much as they like, and only a few days yr)
one of them blamed the conduct of young Cavaig-
nac severely. M. Pittard is fast making it a gm.-
ral rule to exercise the arbitrary power which the
law gives him in such a way as to prohibit the sale

in the streets and railway stations of any opp,,,i-
tion papers except two or three old estabh.li
ones, such as the Sie*Tle and Temps.

The director of the Maritime Exhibition At
Havre, having read in the PeGI Figure that the
concern had been declared bankrupt, came to
Paris immediately, and commenced a progoontion
for libel against the journal.
It is suggested that the bankruptcy of M. Annan,
the deputy for Bordeaux, may very po.eihly le
superseded. He was made a bankrupt by al,'
holder of a protested bill for l,2ottir. only, ant
about which, according to report, there some
mistake. It is unfortunate, indeed, for a gro,it
house that such a mistake should have ovourrod.
An unsuccessful attempt was made yesterday to
lay down the great metallic tube called a
" syphon," destined to unite the great main drains
on the right and left banks of the Seine. At the•
moment when the signal was given, a nunibor of
boxes laden with iron, which were plaved on
the syphon to sink it, slipped off and wont to
the bottom. M. Gouin, the manufacturer of the
enormous tube, who was standing on it at the•
time, slipped off, and got an unexpected cold bath
in the Seine. He was immediately rescii.al, but
sprained a foot on coming ashore. This accident,
taken in connexion with the rupture of the liar at
Nettilly, is very unfortuate. The navigation
the Seine in Paris will be suspended for sour•
I time.

An explanation offered by the semi-offici,d
of the reason why the public is rigorously ex-
eluded from the War-office is by no means cal. ii-
lated to dispel whatever uneasy suspicions the
news originally excited. The order, we are told,
is not a new one, but only the revival of an old
prohibition which had fallen into desuetude. Tho,c
who believe that Marshal Niel has some terrible
secrets to conceal within the precincts of his
ministry will not be much reassured by this way
of putting the use.

The Emperor and Prince Metternich visite!
on Monday Count de Gott!, who still remains at the
Pavilion Sully, which forms part of the palace. Later in
the day the count and some of the guests, among whom
were the Prince de Metternich and the Duchess de Mala-
koff, went on a rural excursion in chars-a-baucs to
Thoinery, celebrated for the best description of trained
vines known as the cliental, de Fontainebleau. The
Emperor was presented with a basket of grapes, several
bunches of which weighed each four pounds.
A suit brought by the jeweller Harry Em-
payment against Colonel the Marquis de °stifle.. to obtain
for articles supplied, was heard on Wednesday
at the civil tribunal of the Seine. The tradomanappeari
to have had two accounts open with the martuis : one
amounting to 2,381 fr., the sum claimed in the preseut
action, for goods furnished to Madame de ; and
the other, for over 60,000 fr. for articles not supplied to
the defendant's wife, and which, as the plaintiff's advocate
remarked, the jeweller had included in a second bill, in
conformity with the practice of his trade, which eNiuns
great tact and much discretion on certain delicate points.
The larger account had been settled, but the marquis bad
refused payment of the 2,381 fr., the bill for which had
been subsequently presented, believing that the
forms
s
had been comprised in the sum of 60,000 fr. gi
discharge in full of the other claim. The articles were,
however, shown to be not the saint as those eX down in
the account paid, and a verdict was consequently govea
for the plaintiff, with costa.—Grthgeaae.
THE VINTAGE DI FRANCE.—The Courri,r
Sajwe-et-Loiee sap :—" According to the infonnation
which we receive the vintage will commence throughout
the Chalons district towards the 10th of September. The
weather has been variable and somewhat interfered with
the crop, but generally the produce will be greater thin
usual ; it will be so likewise in the COte-d'Or, the Micen-
naia, the Rhine, and the Beaujnlais. A fair vintage will
be given in the Yonne, the Marne, Haute-Seise, Jun.
Drfte, and Ardiche; but in Provence and Lower league-
doe the yield will not surpass half an ordinary ono. LM
rain and Alsace promise a magnificent crop, but that in
the Charente@ will be deficient. In the Bordelais the
growers are are satisfied, although they do not anticipate nil
exceptionally large amount. On the whole, the year
will be reckoned among the good ones, because there Will
be at the same time quality and quantity, and, in certain
districts, even abundance.
ACCIDENT AT CHELSEA PIER.—Yesterday, 311.-
Humphrey! held an inquest at the Town of Rainat,ilw
Tavern, Wawng, respecting the death of Mr. Joseph
Baum, 34 years. Mr. N. Baum, 58, Lombani-strect,
bullion -dealer, said that the deceased was his brother.
He was a naturalist. In conse9uence of his being an in-
valid his family looked after him very carefully. Ne ..1!a
not know anything about the occurrence which ended in
his death. Mr. Thomas Prince, 73, Narrow-street.
Chelsea, said that on Friday evening, at 6 o'clock, the de-
ceased came to see him. They had a long conversation on
the dummy barge of Chelsea pier, and whilst decearl
was talking be leant against one of the chains of the p
aw
ier.
He kept swinging backwards and forwards, and the h
of the chain suddenly slipped oat, and he fell into the
water. The tide carried- him down the river. A water fit
man proved the recovery of the body of thedecened
returned
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floated down the river, off ShadweU. The jury
a verdict of accidental death.

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THIRD EDITION.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.--alllB DAY.)

Aoseeing to notice served to Me►s+na Lewis and Lewis
Mr. U . It. liotelt the solicitor for the defendant, the
.1 Davi, :red shtek were to appear to justify
h for ltor nryearstice at the neat sessions of the
• 013! CI twitial Cont. The hour appointed was 12
Aid 11 1 no appearance was made, notice of
•thdr,a:d hAving been served.
10.,,t,r.e. The het, tlocefore, remains in Newg.ite.

(11.. t..- Mi. S.rjeant Cox Deputy Assistant Judge.)
2111. EN'INAtemeiNANY CHARON OF lINENF STILLING, AND
Tilt: Ni MENCE OF AN INNOCUNT MAN TO PENAL 9E8,1-

.
, Winder, 21, was indicted for stealing 39 sheep,
, • , ty of Henry Cook. There was a second indict-
, , i,t against him for stealing and driving away 12 Limbs,
0,, property of Henry William Edson.
)Ir. Bewley, instructed by Mr. Ricketts, prosecuted; Mr.
Ti! Williams, instrurted by Mr. Miles, appeared for the
.oner ; Mr. Inspector Thomson watched the case on
half of the police.
This case was rendered remarkable, in consequence of a
; ,an named Bell having some months ago been tried, con-
octed, and sentenced at this court to five years' penal
rvitude fur an offence which there was good reason to
• Neve another person had committed ; and on a petition
,ng presented to the Secretary of State on behalf of
II by Mr. Duerrier, a talesman at the Metropolitan
atle Market, the ewe was investigated by Inspector
I I ••teson. of the Detective force, on whose report Bell
s ~ lberated. and from what transpired in the course of
.• itol.iry the prisoner was apprehended.
la ear on being placed at the bar pleaded not
Al: I, .ley, in opening the case, said the prisoner was
, .• •,,,1 with stealing no lees than 39 sheep on Saturday,
sib of March last, belonging to u Mr. Cooke, a

.., from a field near the railway-bridge, 'in
• o.i st-lanes, near Tottenham. These sheep were
•i under the care of a shepherd named Oliver, and
• whole number was 107 ; he counted them on the
.urtlay night, and locked the gate of the field with a
'lock. On the next (Sunday) morning on the shepherd
• ..g to the field he found that the lock had been broken
he gate and 30 sheep taken away. He followed the
k of the sheep as far as Stoke Newington, where he lost
'.iit it was afterwards discovered that these sheep bad
taken from the field to a stable owned by a dairy-
. r:imed Edson, near the Great Northern Hotel,
~..'e-crose, in a street leading to Ashby-street. The
r there engaged the stable, and represented that
...di it to put a hone and cart in, and that his name
, ; ale, and that he was a carrier in Newgate-
, He agreed to pay 4s. a week for the stables,
~,.1 not a word that he wanted it for the
- slaughtering sheep. He should show by the
, •N. of two convicts, that the prisoner was present
it he took part in stealing the sheep, was present
ghtering them, and that he received some of
• 1,..,ney. The owner of the stable finding.
. I -.Lipp, through an aperture, the use his
was made of, told them that he let the

. •• ur a very different purpose, but he was told
t itt consequence of the stable commonly used
.ruder repair, and that the use of it as a slaughter-
wtoild not be continued. It would also bo shown

',beep, when slaughtered, were taken in a cart
• \ s ~ate-market, and there sold, and a portion of the
r • wys received by. the prisoner.
loirneil counsel then proceeded to examine wit-
.ed Mr. Serjeant Co: having summed up, the
41tRi a brief consultation, returned a verdict of

~rjPent Cox sentenced the prisoner to be kept in
r% dodo for 14 years.

Wirt lc, a barrister, whose extraordinary conduct
11:.,' was noticed, rose this morning, and, ad-
u Mr. Serjeant Cox, said the time would come
r I. eons of noblemen would be able to practise
bar at that session. ; but they would
• I. able to do that until he (Mr. Bricrly) hal
•.h in purging the court of the wicked attorneys
infested it. precincts. Be had not yet succeeded
ceping them away, but he hoped in a short time to
inplish that great work.
Cox hoped that Mr. Brierly would succeed in ins.
the law.

POLICE COURTS.-(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL.
aAJILEAROUS ABLIATJLT.
; I:,,,xlahle, a powerful young man, well known
Pict hy the brutal assaults be bas been h
mining from time to time, wan placed atethaerZ
Thomas Gabriel, charged with brutally assault-
..miplamant by knocking him down and stamping

a a ht •aial he no,. a hair-dresser in Duke-street,
1.0 night about half-past 11 he was in a
in, time.. m I.ittl Itritain, when the prisoner came
nl,l ally 1. r”roention knocked him down.
• i,i.. it ,•t the 111,11,1u:use. and the prisoner followed
k ham several tames on the head, knocked him
'hti kiaasl him on the head injuring him so
•! ,t he is 4". obliged to be taken to the hospital to

• 117, *aid he saw the complainant, the
...1 -.renal others quarrelling outside the public
I ; AIIM,11(11.11 them to go home, as they were
• •-. 1.. r drink. Ile parted them, sending com-
wry and the prisoner the other. hey were
• : .:tcr each other, and when they got about 20
• th, complainant said to the prisoner, " Your
• I- urioner," and then the prisoner ran
• . the complainant down, knelt on him,
in in the face, causing great injuries to his
' .• If witness had not been there, he had no
I..;.ener would have killed the complainant.
•., rin defence said the complainant was the
,i,.1 insulted his family uy saying that his
• pensioner.
41,6..1 sentenced him to one month's line
wait hard labour.
BOW-STREET.
rfAMMIIT Eatkit a Warfrirel-1008.
living at N 0.9, Romney-terrace, Green-
reveetably-dreesed old lady, was charged
a bodice, value 7s. 6d., from one of the
at Charing cross Railway station.
• •.I. y. an attendant at the first-class waiting-
'l that she had occasion to leave the room for
• She Owed the bodice on the table with
th of coppers. Prisoner was then sitting on
the room. On witness returning she missed
the bodioe, and coppers. Witness then pro-
-1,. the platform, where she found the prisoner
• ,h.no. She wap not sober, and, when accused of
og tle piop.-rt‘, she kept repeating, " I'm sure it
lee. You an mistaken. It is a case of mils-
.. hi .wit

tidiee detective, specially eniployud
.r311:4-CIU
K, took the prisoner into custody. She
• • • tml) been drinking.
I .:.•",1r to the charge, the prisoner stated that she did
• qtc b•Alice, she had plenty of her own. It was a
• '.,.taken identity on her part. She had to carry
••,, pareele to ma fro, and thought that the bodice
'L' (Me of the attendants had known her for many

•—• nt this stage was placed beck fora short period
• ti: inquire into the character of the prisoner. tier-
' 4..111.1tt0n ascertained that she was the widow of a
• • Aid was receiving a very good pension, but owing
• dial of trouble with her sons recently. one in
• •ifkring from sunstroke, she bad taken to drink.
• :nagistrate said that the poor old lady was evidently
• 'ions of what she was doing, and as the company
t wish to press the charge she was discharged with

CLERKENWELL
SIZAIJNO A DIAMOND RING.
• Smith, aged 14, of A. Payne-street. Copenhagen-
aici charged with stealing a diamond rum from
I'. nton-4trect, Islington, the property of Mr. John
•,. fruiterer.

-oner had been in the employ of the prosecutor's
time, and on Saturday she left her employ-
n6 sunday the prosecutors wife went to a box
—1 the ring, and gave information to the
-trilby the police went to the revideuce of
is mother, and asked her about the ring, and

'•itivcly deidel that she had seen anythrig of
nh,•r ten burn into tears, and said to the pri-
1. II the truth; that is thering you sold you found
t.t.i.eille-ro id, and which 7 pawned this morn-
Th. I'ri-.au•r was them taken into custody, and she
11".1 wlt.-114..: was cleaning under the bed she moved
and the ring slipped out. She took it
thinking th.it it was of not much value.
i.ri•ote -41.1 She was sorry for what she had done,
` • ic.dlii r ,aid she was a very honest good girl.
isici Was remanded.

NEw CoNiMIssIONEIt OF BANKRUPTCY.—
, are authorised to state that the Cominimrioner-
;okruptcy for the London district, vacant by the
'lt St.ri.ant Goldburn, has been offered to and
I,y Mr. Flacon, Q.C.
..r.s tx si on-ANIL—In the year 1116,1, for
.i.ttinlb Live recently been issued, there were
, .• in Svotland—one in every 23,479 of the esti-
; .dution. 49 of these deaths were by banging,
l 7 by poison. 12 by drowning, two by
by pre. Oration from a height, two in ways
The bee of shieides in England in the
v,as 1,392 or one in every 15,090 of the esti-
-I..ostion ; no that to two suicides in Scotland
• three in England in a like number of popula-

IR 1. P. kstrume. , Sea,
Z. ~T. 18 I
W. 'ate W. IR. 3
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Nairn 48.46 r 53 50 W, 8 7 S. ere 0.15 2
Aberdeen r 66 63' W. $ 4 6. W. Ire ! 0.01 2
Leith 19.81 r 6660 W. , 7 7 N.W. rb 0.12 -
(Shields
Bearboro' 2807 r 54 51. W .N.W 6 W.N.W. be 3
Yantiouth '30.08r 56 53 W.N.W 4 4 B.W. eb 2
Helder
Arthurian_ 22.94 r 55 60 N.N.W. 8 9 11V.N.W1 to 0.19 G
Grceneatle. 30.00 r 61 461 N.W. 6 8 W. !or 0.12 -
Holyhead -
Lirerposl
Valentia
Cape Clear J0.27 r 56 37 N.W. 6 7 W.N.W c 4
Ea Ws Pt 3O.Mr 66 61 W.N.W, 4 6 W. c — 3
Penzance
Plymouth 30.29r 57 64 N.N.W. 2 3 N.W. I eb, 1
Weymouth 29.16 r 56 54 W.N.W 3 5 W.B W. c —
Portsmouth 30.25 r 57 51 N.W. 14 6 W.S.W.I c -- 3
London 30.18x5650 W.N.W 4 5 W.8.W.• rob •-•-
C. aria Nea 30.18r 565011 N.W. 8 8 W. oe I 5
Brest
Lariest 30.35r St N. I 4 4 i R.W. lb 2
Bacbefost
Biarrits 30.31r 61 61 N.B. I - be 2
Brumels
Pans
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TLoulon j30.11 f 75 75 R.W. 1 4 8. W. eb 1
Itesit'sors 1110.17 r 47 48, N.W. 1 1 I N.B. rb 0.22 3

Barometer corrected and seduced to la deg. as see lee& The
letter r ;tidos), f (falling), • (weedy), indicate direction of motion
of the mercury within last 14 bonne. Thermometer exposed in
shade. Extreme force with ire direction dunag last It hours.
Z.—calm. Weather: b.—blue sky; e. (detached)
t.—fog; h.—hail ; L—lightning ; (hazy) ; o.—overeast
; r.—rain ; s.. mow ; t.—thunder. meow or hail
(melted), during last 24 lotus. Sea disturbance.