The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-01 00:00:00

AMERICA

The Royal Mail steanish::Pll.t.i,i ar:-
Queenstown at 2.30 a.m. to-d'. (May 1 •
cabin passengers and 310,000 dol3. in spect-.
landed 95 sacks of mails and 11
proceeded immediately fur Liverpool. Ali .
She performed the passage in eizl:t I:‘,, I:

NEW l'01:1:,
The impeachment trial continued
,:-;
and yesterday. The defence renewed Ow c•:!: •.•
introduce the testimony of Secretary .•,
to the cabinet considtatimis ;I;.mi tne Tel' !- • .
Act and the case of Mr. Stanton :...r
the ability to disprove the intention ;!.I.
dolinson to violate the laws. •.
decided that this testimony was auu:iaaiidc. t
Senate by 2u against 20 votes overruled hi; de: •.

The Senate by the same v.de reit•eted •
mony of Postmaster-(:enral Ran.l3ll...:Fere.i
defence, to prove that the cabinet had ad...,
President that the Tenure Law did n..•
to Secretaries of State appointed by Mr.
Mr. Evarts announced that this rulimi.
the testimony of Messrs. Se. ward, Mac..
Browning, and others, which the defence I— : •
tended to offer. A radical witness •s: •
the removal of Foster Blodgett, the p..stir:i,
of Augusta, which had been charactt r:•
as an unwarrantable action of Mr. dolitilon,
made by Postmaster-General Randall without :
knowledge of the President.
The bill for the protection of Latiiralised
jects abroad was amended previoas to its Foss,; •
so as to exempt from seizure as hosti;es
ambassadors and their servants, and to
the President to suspend tile commercial reiat..,:.•
with nations refusing to conform t, tLe
ments of the measure.

The returns of the electors in South Car....
Georgia, and Louisiana are as yel I
radical successes are indicated.

Mr. Buchanan has ordered the TC:.ZIFS Co..'- e
tion to meet on the 15th June.

NEW YORK,
The House of Representatives, hy agarm: ;
votes, refused to consider the resolution 0'1....
by Mr. Robinson, a democrat. viz., to recall :!
managers and rescind the impeachment pruceoi
ings. A resolution was introdeced providi: ;
that a committee be appointed to Mvestigate t!.
reports of tho inanageri refrained fr
examining General Sherman dur:rg the trial.
conseluence of the result of a
nation ; no vote, however, was ta!ien
resolution.

Late reports indicate the success of the dela
crats in the Georgia election.
At Nca• Orleans a democratic mayor has
elected.

The new constitution will probably be ad ';'

in Louisiana.

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRE,:,,NDENT.)

PARIS, Titun.it Ecns!:.

Although the government means to make r.
Senate pass the bill rendering possible,
always to the veto of the executive power, a VC:,
limited liberty of public meeting, it shows
singularly petty spirit in preventing the sligh:..”l-
- of the new law. The opposition ea!
dilate in the Dordogne, the Marquis de Ma::e•
ville, having applied to the Prefect for leave
hold an electoral meeting, was toll by that I
functionary that he did not think the re•l
could be complied with, but he w.,
refer to the Minister of the Interior. It. t
few hours the anticipated answer came front
It was to the effect that the government el,d
think it respectful to the Senate to act upon ts,l
new bill before it had received their ihhuction.
excuse was most miserable in every point
The bill now about to become law by the c '....-
mandect vote of the Senate, only makes e:ectorii
public meetings a common right, unless speudd:::,
prohibited. The government is enabled
existing law to authorise au electoral nteezi.:;
if it pleases, and therefore the auth-n• k•
tion of a meeting of the Marquis de Male•
vale's friends would in no way have trenc! el
upon the prerogatives of the Senate. I,'e.
wretched reason for the refusal was the fear,,,t
losing a single seat,
.and the participation on
part of the Minister of the Interior in the dis,:e
1 of the very small liberal measure which the Sec3:e
is about to vote against the grain, and with the rd.-
tention of throwing the whole responsibility of
it upon the Emperor personally.
M. Eugene Pelletan, being lately at Bordea,
was asked by the editor of the Gironde to nag:
some friends in his office. Three hundred invita•
Lions were issued, and the desire to see M. Pelle:an
was so great that 282 of the number attended. lief
it was with fear and trembling that M. Lavertepni
of the Gironde surrounded himself with his friends
on Chia occasion. Every invitation was personal,
and nobody was admitted without rrerenfing his

letter, lest a private party in a private house should
be held by authority to be a public meeting.
M. Alaboisette, the attorney of Evreux, has
given to the poor-box of the town the 3,001./fr.
damages which he recovered for the slanging given
him by M. Janvier, the Prefect of the Eure, and
which necessitated the dismissal of the prefect,
notwithstanding the great favour he enjoyed at
the Tuileries. It is now rumoured that the dis-
missed prefect will be made the editor of a govern-
ment journal ; and it is even suggested that M.
ktouilrillares imperialism not being thought suffi-
ciently enthusiastic, M. Janvier may perhaps
supersede him in the Constitutionnel. The soli-
darity between the government and the semi-
official press could not ho better illustrated than
by the transfer of an editor (M. Paulin Limayrac)
to s prefecture, and of a prefect (M. Janvier) to an
editorship.
A duel with swords was fought yesterday in the
Bois de Satory, near Versailles, between Count do
la Jara Collier, an attachis of the Peruvian legation,
and a Monsieur P. de Rivuire. The combatants
fought for half an hour, at the end of which time
the seconds thought the fatigue of their principals
a sufficient reason for leaving off, although two
slight wounds received by M. de Rivoire were not
judged to incapacitate him from fighting.
The A relti a• Vat ;rnl, after giving copious extracts
from the article of the Debate which I analysed
yesterday, says :
Those who feel reassured by the indiscreet revelations of
the Deeets must be very obstinate optimists indeed.

An old edition " Montaigne's Essays" (1538)
was sold yesterday at the auction mart for 860 fr.
(34!. Bs.).
The following racy and essentially French para-
graph appears in the evening papers :

Yesterday a young man and a lady took supper at a
fashionable restaurant on the boulevards. In the course
of tue evening the yono; man plunged a knife into his
bosom. He was carried home. The blood which he boat
produced a salutary impression upon him, and ho now e:-
prc•sea a firm intention to go on with life.

The Bourse was heavy, and for the first time for
several months the quotations of the Rente on the
settling day were not the highest of the month.
Rente foil 1; lc. for cash, and 121 c. for account,
closing at ii!Pfr. 25c. and 69fr. 275 c. Italian fell
40c., closin; at 48fr. 30c. ; Credit Funcier
ifr. 50c., and Mobilier llfr. 25e.

The Emperor and Empress of the French have
prouduAl to visit Orleans on the 9th of May, to be present
at the Agricultural Show. Some say their Majesties
have another object in view, viz., that of making friends
with the famous Ultramontane bishop of that district.

The head of the Berlin police is now in Paris,
ing arri ed there, it is understood, to study the work-
,l the police Ig-stein in this capital. This Prussian
i;:i—tiouary has already had several interviews with M.

Next October, it is expected, the journey be-
t%,,( n S.lll Francirco and New York across the American
continent will be made in ten days, viz., six days railroad
travelling and four days' staging.

- -
A monument to the memory of Luther at Worms
is to be inaugurated on Thursday, the 25th June. The
files will last three days—the 24th, 25th, and 26th.
; Or Au E OF THE it OF WORCESTER.
—l'3 e:,,r aloes are being made on a grand scale at Badmin-
ton the approaching festivities. There are to be two
grand balls—one on the ltith and the other on the 20th of
May. To the first the nobility, gentry, and principal
farmers of Gloucestershire and members of their families
arc to be invited. The ball on the 20th will be on the
sonic brilliant scale, when the company will be chiefly from
Wiltddre. The splendid marquee that was used when the
l'rince of Wales was at Badminton, and which is 300 feet
long, will be pitched on the lawn where the dancing is to
take place ; while the noble suites of apartments in the
house are to be thrown open on both days. We believe
that a third day will also be devoted to festivities, which
will be chiefly in the open air, almild the weather permit.
—t%

RETURN ..F LORDLYTTELToNFILONINFAVZFALAND.
—After a :iva months' absence from home, Lord Lyttelton
returned yesterday to his seat at Ilaglev, Worcestershire,
and the event elicited quite a demonstration in that quiet
little place. His lordship left England for New Zealand on
Dec. 2 the object of his excursion to that colony being to
visit thei Canterbury settlement, where there is a large
number of immigrants from the neighbourhood of Higley,
and with which Lord Lyttelton is connected, through his
family, Ly ties of property. Ile was accompanied by his
son, the Hon Spencer Lyttelton, and Mr. Selfe, London
magistrate. He arrived at Hagley yesterday after-
noon, and there was a large throng outside the railway
station tai meet him. A troop of yeomanry escorted the
carriage in which he drove to the hall, and on entering the
i; cannons were tired in honour of the event. His lord-
ship was received by the members of his family and other
friends, including the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Sir
phen f :lynne, the lion. Carolina Lavinia Lyttelton,
Miss Pole Carew, Miss Mary Gladstone, Mrs. John Gilbert
Talbot. the Hon. I'. G. Lyttelton, Hon. and Hey. W. H.
Lyttelton, &e. His lordship delivered a short address from
the terrace of the hall, thanking his friends and neigh-
boa: a for the kind welcome they had given him.
Mem. ~N SUNDAN'S.—Mr. Clapham, proprietor
of the " I:oyal Park," was summoned yesterday before the
hmough magistrates for an infaingement of his license,
in lt,ving allowed the performance of music in the
Pal 0:1 Easter Sunday. The information was laid
un kr se,,. lilt and 102 of the Leeds Improvement Act,
and the offenco having been proved, the defence
set up was that Mr. Clapham did not know be was
prohibit from performing sacred music on the
Sunday. The magistrates held that there was no ex-
cue whatever for him, and intimated their intention
o! im:ictiug a fine of 51. It was seen, however, that,
to the sections under vahich the information
a... laid, the penalty was to revoke the license. This, the
a.agistrates stated, was a more severe punishment than
th,y intended to impose. and they resolved to suspend
:u.i p..rnt until June IS, with the distinct intimation
.t if, in the meantime, there was ar.y further violation
01 the law, the license would be withdrawn.—Leeds

him It:)Elt AT ST. HBLEN'A.-A brutal assault,
which has resulted in the death of the victim, has been
committed at St. Helen'r. In Lord-street and Rack
Ahiert•street, Gerard•bridge, there are a number of
houses which have been untenanted for some time, and
which have been allowed to fall into decay by their
owners. Theae premises have been lately occupied by
vagrants, and some of the most disreputable people in
the borough. Night after night the cry of " murder "
has been heard issuing from these dens, and so common
had this cry become that at last is was unheeded by the
neighbours and the police. A woman named Phillia He yes
has been living in one of these houses in company with a
man named Anthony Fillingham, a drunken fellow who
has followed no regular occupation for several years past.
Only recently one of this woman's children, a boy four
years of age, was sent by the county magistrates to a
reformatory for five years, he having become a nuisance
to the surrounding neighbourhood by begging for Fil-
huAtiai.is support. On Monday, the 20:11 of April,
this couple, while under the influence of drink, oom-
toe:iced nghting, and Fillingham committed a shucking
ase.ult upon the woman. Not only did be gouge her eye
with a i)ker, but broke her breast bone, fractured her
skull, threw 'her down stairs, and tore off the hair of her
he The woman lay in this mutilated condition until
the foil 'wing Thursday, upon a bundle of straw, without
r..cei slug any medical attention. On that day, another
oc—vant of the house, a vagrant, informed Dr. M'llicholl,
• of Cie medical officers of the Prescot onion, of the
w.f111'41:.3 e•odition, and be attended her up to the time of
h. a d.!..th. As soon as information was given to the
doe: , is:Hingham decamped, but he was subsequently
••ri•:.ll••adcd. On Tuesday last he was taken before Mr.
tri Pilkington, ..T.P., and remanded until this morn-
• ras woman died yesterday morning at 11 o'clock.
The stairs and the walls of the house are besmeared with
th • of the unfortunate woman.—Manchester

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, as Anna
I:irion, aged seventy-aix, of 63, Gray's-inn-road, was
,11 iriug a horse and cart with her daughter along the
I;:ay'a-innocad, the horse stumbled, and she was preei-
o.t.:l into the road. Before she could be got up a two
1.. or o waggon belonging to the Great Western Railway
orvi both her legs. She was picked up and eon-
to the Royal Free Hospital, where she was attended
14 by Dr. J. li. Hill, who found both her legs badly frac-
and that she had sustained .other severe injuries.
rh, unfortunate woman died an hour after admission.
5'11...-1; LNG ACCIDENT.—SEVEN MKS KILLED.—
WolLesday evening, about five o'clock, intelligence
that a dreadful accident had occurred at
shaft on the Caerphilly branch of the Rhymney
During the dinner hour a man had been work-
il.l; to the shaft, and asked to be pulled to the top of the
Shortly afterwards six other men joined him to
'"n" Ito their work in the shaft. When the engine was
P'e.„ t,"‘ t,.otion it was found that the gerring had got onto(
I before it could be remedied the whole of the
!`' '"er.• thrown from the top of the shaft to the bottom,
u"lgli of 117 yards,—Cambrian Leaden

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

HOI7BR OF LORDS.
APPEALS.

(Present : —The Lord-Chancellor, Lad Cranweeth, Lorl
Chelmsford, Lord Westbury, and Lord Colonely.)
ROOTLEDOE AND OTHERS 2•. LIW AND OTHERS.

The arguments in this appeal from the decision of the
Lords Justices were concluded to-day. The facts have
already appeared in our columns. The question was
whether an alien acquired an English copyright in • book
composed by him or het which was first published in Eng-
land during his or her residence in a British colony or
dependency. In this WO the authoress, • subject of the
United States, had gone to reside at Montreal, during the
publication of her work in England. The appellants,
Mourn. Rontledge, contended that an alien author
(the subject of • country between whine country
and the government of this country there was
no convention concerning international copyright)
could not be permitted to acquire copyright in Great Bri-
tain, Ireland, and all the colonies, by means of a conoertel
sojourn in a colony merely for the purpose of and during
publication in England. On the other hind it was sub-
mated by the respondents that the term " author" as used
in the act 5 and 6 Viet. cap. 45, ought to receive a wider
construction than had been put upon it, and that an Eng-
lish copyright attached to all books or works first published
in England, whether the author was or was not an alien,
and whether resident or not at the time of publication
within the British dominions.

Their Lordships reserved judgment.
Sir R. Palmer, Q.C., Mr. Mellish, Q.C., Mr. Shapter, Mrs
Hardy, Mr. Sehomberg, and Mr. Speed, appeared for the
parties.

EQUITY COURTS.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Giffard.)
LION V. HONE.

M.. James, Q.C., replied on the case for the plaintiff
this morning. He commencing by expressing his regret
at the foul and malignant charges which bad been made
against the plaintiff, charge. which the evidence had
wholly failed to justify, and which amounted to nothing
beyond the basest slander. The decision of the
case must turn upon the view which the court
would take of a few broad taco. The account which the
defendant Home gave of his peculiar powers was by no
means clear or intelligible. In the preface to his work he
is called a " mystic sensitive." Inn later passage, at page
74, there was n story about a handkerchief, something
similar to that which had been introduced into this case.
Part of the story was that the word "immortality " was
written by the supposed spirit with only one " m," which
Home said surprised him at first, but he afterwards re-
membered that the deceased was much versed in black
letter writing, in which such elisions were common.
(Laughter.) In another part of the book there was an
account of a miraculous cure by Home of a deaf child.
There were stories of Horne being raised from the chair in
which he was sitting, sometimes unconsciously. He
(Mr. James) would read as pail of his speech
a letter of Sir David Brewster, in which he said
that so long as Mr. Home confined himself to the
character of the " Wizard of the West" he should view his
exhibition with the same pleasure as that of any other
conjuror. rut when he pretended to bring people into
physical contact with the departed, and to reveal the
secrets of the grave, he insulted religion and common
sense, and tampered with some of the most sacred
feelings of his victims. In that view he (Mr.
James) fully concurred. He would now proceed
to point out some of the uncontradicted facts of the case.
First there was the story of the handkerchief, all in
Home's handwriting. Then there was what took place on
the 7th. Nobody could question the truth of what was
stated by Mrs. James Fellowes and the boy, who deposed
to hearing the hysterical scream of the plaintiff, and the
exclamation of Home, "Do not interrupt me. I cannot
proceed." Why was the husband's spirit introduced
upon the scene at all? Without hesitation be
(Mr. James) would say, this was no case of mysterious
physical phenomena, of mystical manifestations, or of
hallucination on the part of Home. Where a man was
found going to a widow woman, and playing these tricks
with a handkerchief, pretending to communicate with the
dead, and so forth, what could be the result, except that
he must be convicted, in any court of law or equity in the
world, as a cheat and an impostor? He (Mr. James)
had never said that • spiritualist, to be either a
knave or a dupe, could not receive • valid
gift—all he said was that if spiritualism, in the sense of
pretended communications with.the dead, were the motive
of the gift, it must fail. The entries in the book in Home's
handwriting were a part of the case so damning to the de-
fendant, that his learned counsel had made every effort to
get rid of the effect of it. They bad gone so far as to say
it was written by Home at the plaintiff's dicta-
tion. Several extracts were read. One of the
passages were—" We both then heard the voice
say, ' Jane.'" In another place the writer says, "Mother
was speaking of me, when the spirits came." Was it pos-
sible to suppose that these passages could have been die-
toted by Mrs. Lyon? Up to this time what had been the
character of this lady ? She was proved to have been pos-
sessed of an income of i,OOOl. a year, of which she
spent 500(. Then, having witnessed these pre-
tended communications, within nine days of their
first meeting, this penurious old lady was found
to have made over to a stranger a sum of no less than
24,0)0!., having seen no ono in the interval, except Mr.
Hall, who was equally a stranger to her. He (Mr. James)
would pass over the circumstances of the will, andof the deed
of gift, with the remarks that bad been made upon them.
They were all proofs of the influence under which the
plaintiff was acting. There could not be anything more
corroborative of Mrs. Lyon's story than the character
of her instructions to Wilkinson. There WWI to
he observed iu them that extraordinary mixture of
shrewdness and folly which marked the whole of her con-
duct. At the very time whilst she was guarding against
the possibility of Daniel's changing, and so forth, she was
making a purposeless gift to him of 3),0001., which was
wholly irrevocable. At the time when she believed she
was obeying the dictates of her husband's spirit, her old
shrewdness came over her, and she said she would
not be an aznuitant—at least she would keep
this life interest for herself ; she would not
so far put herself in this man's power.
Another confirmation was her statement that it
was the execution of the mortgage deed which first
opened hsr eyes. Her account of this was very natural.
She says that upon reflection she could not conceive that
her husband's spirit could have wished her to execute such a
deed as that ; her suspicions increased ; and she filed this
bill. He (Mr. James) thought it not extraordinary that
an old lady who had been living so long in an atmosphere
of fraud, falsehood, and forgery, should be found
to have made some lapses of memory, and to have fallen
into some contradictions, but considering the facts that
had been proved in this remarkable case, he (Mr. James)
hoped his Honour would come to the conclusion that she
had been grossly deceived ; and coming to that conclusion
that he would make a decree restoring to this lady her
property, and protecting the public from a new and dan-
gerous form of fraud.
Upon the conclusion of Mr. James's speech, at about a
quarter past 11, the %lee-Chancellor said the case must, of
course, stand for judgment. He should probably be able
to give his decision on some early day in next term, but
certainly not before.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Bitting* in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice
Cockburn, and Justices Blackburn and Batmen.)
HOLDSWORTH V. DAKIN.

This was • special case arising out of two demurrer?, one
by the plaintiff to the defendant's plea to the declaration,
the other by the defendant to the declaration itself. The
plaintiff, it appeared, had been • bankrupt, and obtained
a certificate under the Bankruptcy Act, end subsequently
the defendant, who was one of the sheriffs for Mid-
dlesex, arrested him for • debt which had
been contracted prior to the bankruptcy. When
arrested he produced his certificate, and ()Limed his dis-
charge; but the officer refused to let him go, and took
him to prison, alleging that the bankrupt must not only
produce his certificate, but serve him (the officer) with a
copy of it. That was the question now raised for the
opinion of this court.
The court was of opinion that the authorities were In
favour of the defendant's view, and gate judgment ac-
cordingly.
Judgment for the defendant.

COITRT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
SHELDON e. 1111:11LDON.
Mr. Inderwiok for the petitioner, the wife of a publican,
at Spooldin, Staffordshhe. She was married to him
in 'gm They Herd together for about five years, but
their union was rendored unhappy by the respondent's
drunken and violent habits.