The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-22 00:00:00

NICE.

The following is an extract from a letter, dated
Nice, May 14 :
The annexation has led, here, to an increase of local tax-
ation for which the people of Nioe were hardly prepared.
The municipal revenue which a few years back averaged
but 70,000 f., or about 3,0001. (the produce chiefly of octroi
duce), has this year to be raised to 600,0001., and it is said
that to meet the expenses of next year 800,0001. will be
required. To get together this money the old local imports
are being extended to every conceivable article of consump-
tion. Eggs and chickens, which were exempt, are
now to pay, the latter 21 each, and the
former 2d. per dozen. Shopkeepers are to pay for
their sun•blinds, at the rate of li franc per month for
every yard of blind. Lime is to be taxed, dogs are to be
taxed, fruit barrows in the street are to be taxed, and even
seawater is to be taxed, when fetched in barrels for a bath.
Of course, the few people in Nice, once favourable to
annexation, have now ceased to be so ; and the extra police
for which these taxes are imposed, including a large secret
service of spies, is exceedingly unpopular. Scarcely a night
passes without some rioting between the townspeople and
the crews of the French ships stationed here. The
manners of the French sailor are coarse and offensive, and
when he talks of "oft cochons de Nixon" within the hear-
ing of the parties concerned, he naturally gets a blow for
his pains. Arrests are °optionally taking place from this
and other causes. Prior to the annexation Nice had doubled
its size and population within ten years. Whether its
prosperity has net noir received a check time will show.
The promise is th►t Nice shall be "la ville la plus belle et
la plus police. de IA France," and the promise will doubt-
ees be kept ; but, strange to say, there are people to
whom the beauty of the French police system offers no
attractions.

It appears from a despatch, printed this morn-
ing, from Mr. Crawford, her Majesty's judge in the Mixed
Commission Court at the H►vannah, dated Feb. 5, 1861,
that the slave trade carried on from Cuba is more extensive
than ever. During the year 1860, 24,895 slaves ►re esti-
mated to have been landed at Chiba ; 3,642 were captured.
On Monday Mr. William Dayton had an audi-
ence of the Emperor Napoleon, to deliver to his Majesty
the letters accrediting him as Minister Plenipotentiary of
the United State, of America, and was afterwards received
by the Empress. Mr. Dayton was conveyed to and from
the Tuileries in a court carriage, and with the usual
oeremoniaL

A letter from Florence of the 15th asps :—" The
weather here is now delightful, and Florence is arrayed in
the full beauty of summer to receive the swarms of visitors
that always come here 'en passant' at this season. Eng-
land, Ireland, France, and Germany—nay, Syria, Turkey,
and even China, have sent their represeatativis this year,
and Florence rejoices. Among other notorieties are Alex-
andre Dumas and Mario. There is to be a great ' Mies
National Exhibition' here in September and October,
which will make amends for the rather bad season which
we have had up to the last7influx of foreigners."

The Madrid Gazette of the 17th contains a royal
decree which sets forth what dignitaries of state ghat' attend
at the palace on the occasion of her Majesty's confinement,
which is now shortly expected. It also announces that the
little Infanta Donna Concepcion, who bad been exoeedingly
ill, is oat of danger.

M. Cli•11.1i'll TRAVALS.—A letter of Dr. Gray,
in the columns of the Alhentrum, has elicited the following
from M. Chidllu :—" I hope that neither in my book nor in
my lectures I have pretended to be infallible as a naturalist,
artist, or traveller ; yet I maintain that I have discovered
in Equatorial Africa the new mammals and binds given
as such in the list at the end of my volume. All of
these were described in the published proceedings of
two of the most scientific societies in America (with
which Mr. Gray ought to be acquainted), some of
the birds as far buck as 1856, and I defy him to
produce specimens existing in any European museum before
that time. My map, at which he sneers, is a mere sketch
map it is true, but it was carefully prepared from dear-
, Tenons made on the spot with the compass, and I will
vouch for its general accuracy. My illustrations, prepared,
not in this country, as he averts, but in America, were
taken either from my own rough sketches or from the actual
objects, with the exception of four or five out of a total of 74.
Would it not have been mere fair of Mr. Gray, before
giving vent to insinuations that I had never visited the
countries which I describe, nor collected in Shoes countries
my natural history specimens, to have applied to my friends
at ()orison sod on the Gaboury ',hoe names are mentioned
in my book Mr. Gray pretends to be in communication
with the missionaries and traders in those parts, and there.
fore this course would have been the more obvious, as be
would have gavel himself from the imputation of uttering
mere calamine—l am, sir, your obedient servant, B. P.
Du CHAILLU.—May 21."
CRYTraL PAL/XT.—The Whitsuntide festivities
drew 15,706 persons to the Palace yesterday. They will be
continued this day and to-morrow, when they will he
brought to a close. The fourth opera concert of this
semen will be given on Friday ; and Mr. G. W. Martin's
National Choral Society will perform a selection of glees
and part-songs on Satarday.
Durrsuerrne Frig AT • LITZZPOCIL Comma
WAll6lloo3G—Early yesterday morale; a Are broke out in
a block of warehouses in Sefton-street, Liverpool, la which
• large quantity of cattea belonging to Messrs. lase Lowe
and Co.' Leech, Harrison, and Co., Marriott and Co., and
other merchants and brokers, amounting to 8,000 bales and
upwards, was either wholly or partially destroyed. Up to
the time of the despatch of our correspondents parodied
evening the damage dOOO was estimated at 10,0001., bat as
an adjoining cotton warehouse bad become ignited that
time, the extent of the damage will probably far maid
the shove sum. The loss will fall on the Royal 101l1111=41
Company, the Liverpool and London, the Queen's, the Lan-
cashire, Scottish Cokes, Provincial and General, San,
Phenix, Unity, Royal Exchange, London Corporation, and
other

SUICIDE or A BOY. —The town of Halesworth
was thrown into a state of great excitement on Wednesday
morning last, by • report that a youth named Burgess.
about thirteen years old, boarder at Mr. John Msanall's
academy, bad committed suicide by drowning himself in a
pond near the Gas-house. The boy partook of breakfast as
usual, and it is supposed that on going out of Mr. Memnon
house lie went direct to the pond and committed the tub
act. It is a melancholy fact that within the last twelve
months four persons have committed suicide in this town,
three out of the four having been drowned in this pond.
An iuqueat was held on Friday, when the following verdict
was returned :—" Found drowned, but ho• or by what
means no sufficient evidence to show." The coroner and
jury requested the attention of the surveyor% to the pond
where the accident occurred, as it does not appear to be
sufficiently protected. They consider that no blame was
attached to the schoolmaster, Mr. Mannall.—lpseeirk
Journal.

FATAL FlauT NEAR SHIZIPEILD.--011 Monday
morning, at an early boor, • brutal content occurred at a
place called Hollins Bush, which is • few miles from
Sheffield. The combatants were two men, named Thomas
Thorpe and Thomas Holland, who reside in Sheffield. and
they met, accompanied by several other persons, at four
o'clock In the morning, at the place named to fight a pitched
battle for • sovereign aside. The contest had proceeded
about an hour, each combatant having during that time
been much bruised, when Thorpe received a blow which
deprived him of consciousness. He was carried (bearing
marks of severe punishment) by four men to a public•howie,
and on his arrival there was found to be dead. The four
men declined to leave their names, and the police were
soon afterwards in search of them. Holland is in custody.

RIOT AT WREXHAM BETWEEN VOLUNTEERM •141111
MILMA.—On Monday evening a painful collision occurred
at Wrexham between the 7th Lancashire Artillery Volun-
teers (tanbark Hamilton of Liverpool, commandant), and
the Denbighshire militia. The volunteers were on a holiday
excursion, and the militia, having on Monday closed their
allotted number of days for drill, &e., fraternised with the
volunteers. No hoe ile feeling was manifested mitil the
latter were marching to the station in the evening to pro-
ceed homeward, when they were assailed by the militia,
and a violent encounter took place, during which sticks and
stones were so freely used that one of the militia was, it is
feared, mortally injured, and many men on both sides very
much hurt. The pollee interfered, but without avail. At
length Captain McGinn arrived, and fortunately his in-
fluence was powerful enough to withdraw the militia, when
the volunteers returned home. The men had no bayonets
else the scene might have been a most sanguinary oise.
ALARMING AC:CIDENT TO A VAN OP LUNATICS.—
On Thursday the female lunatics of the Bodmia Asylum
were sent. as is usual in fine weather, to Polseath beach, in
At. Mincer, to enjoy the sea breezes. On arriving at the
top of Poluath hill the driver of the van, owing to a sudden
jerk caused by loose stones on the road, was thrown
out, and broke his leg. One of the nurses, who was sitting
by his side, immediately jumped out, and the reins were
left dangling. The poor unfortunate souls inside, finding
something was wrong, began to be uneasy, and their cries
and gestures must have frightened the two horses, who set
off at great speed down the hill leading to the beach. The
van was upset, and many of the inmates bruised and
damaged. We hear one woman had her ribs broken. The
driver was removed to Mr. Wilce's inn, at At. Waver,
where the limb was speedily set by Mr. Trevan, of Port
Isaac. The medical oak& of the Bodmiu Asylum soon
arrived. under whose are the sufferers were removal the
game night to Bodmin. We certainly think that in these
salutary expeditions more than one man should accompany
the party ; nut only in case of accident, but in the event of
sudden violence on the part of any of the unfortunate crea-
tures who form the party.— Wester'. Naming New..
Three of the indigenous inhabitants of the Andii-
nun Isles have been taken to Rangoon. They appear to be
oriental negroes of the same race as the degraded aborigines
of Pspua and Australia,

THE REV. MR. HATCH'S CASE.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning the Rev. Henry John Hatch, M.A.,
who in the sittings after last term obtained a verdict against
Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, his attorneys, for negligence in
conducting his case (when he was indicted at the Central
Criminal Court), attended at Westminster Hall, in
company with Mr. Holt, his solicitor, and other
gentlemen, and had a lengthened consultation with
Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., the reverend gentle-
man's counsel. It is the intention of Mr. Hatch through
Mr. Chambers to move the court for a new trial on the
ground that although the verdict was io his favour it
ought to have been accompanied with substantial
damages, when the charge of negligence was proved
to the satisfaction of the jury. The sum of 40s. awarded
by the jury does not entitle the reverend gentlemen
to costs, unless upon a certificate from the Lord Chief
Baron, who tried the case. It is understood that the appli.
cation for the new trial will be made tomorrow morning,
and there is a rumour in Westminster Hall this morning
that Messrs. Lewis and Lewis will not offer any opposition,
inasmuch as it was their intention to move for a new trial,
on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against cvi.
dente, and in direct opposition to the summing up of the
judge.

CHARGE OP FORGERY AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.

At Bow-street yesterday, the Rev. James Roe,
a clergyman, about 40 years of age, was charged with forgery,
and with having attempted, by forged instruments, to
defraud George Hartwell Roe and others of the sum of
8,000/. . _

The warrant had been placed in the hands of Inspector
Whicher, of the detective force, who succeeded, after dili-
gent inquiry, in tracing the prisoner to Hatton-garden,
where he was taken into custody. On being placed in the
dock the prisoner did not present • very clerical appearance,
having cultivated a large beard and moustache. He was a
gentlemanly locorrb% person, but mid nothing during the
examination,probably by the advice of hie attorney. He
was defended y Mr. Abrahams, solicitor, of Bowatreet.
From the opening statement of the solicitor for the prose-
cution, Mr. Humphries, it appeared that the prisoner was •
nephew of the late Mr. Edward Roe, of Sutton, io the
borough of Macclesfield, Cheshire, who died on the lit of
January, 1830. The deceased left • will, dated the 25th
Dec.,l&sB, having a codicil dated the 30th of thou-tine month,
and appointing George Hartwell Roe and John Orm Roe,
the prisoner'a cousins, as residuary legatees. By this will
legacy of 500 i. was bequeathed to the prisoner, who, how-
ever, claimed a much larger inheritance, alleging that foul
play had been enacted, as by a former will, in existence
shortly before the death of his uncle, he (the prisoner) had
been made a residuary legatee. He went down to 31andes•
field to inquire into the circumstances attending the death,
and the alteration of the will so immediately preceding his
death, and he caused an inquest to be held on the
body. of the deceased, which resulted in • verdict
of ' Natural death." He then commenced
oeedings against the residuary legatees, and thtrial was
appointed to take place at Chester, when the validity of
the will was confirmed. Administration of the estate was
then proceeded with, but pending these proceedings, namely,
in June, 1860, a most extraordinary letter was received by
Means. Brocklehtust, the bankers, of Macclesfield, from
Messrs. Johnson and Cooke, the prisoner's London solicitors,
apprising them, as the bankers of the deceased, that a cheque
for 6,000%, in favour of the prisoner, and drawn by the
deceased on the day before his death, had accidentally
turned up, together with a letter written by deceased to
the prisoner, as follows :—" Macclesfield, Deo. 30, 1&,8.
Dear James,-1 am being made to do what Ido Against my
wish. If I am gone when you oome do use this money for
your family." This letter purported to bear the signature
of the deceased, and the enclosure consisted of a cheque
purporting to be drawn by him in favour of the prisoner fog
the above amount, being dated the same day. The executors
under the will were at the same time apprised of thin
discovery, and continued to be very careful indisposing
alleged
feestate. Some correspondence ensued, the genuine.'
nese of the letter and cheque in question being disputed p
but the solicton replied that, after investigating the markt,
they had reason to believe that the documents were genuine,
and • bill in Chancery was accordingly Sled. The answer
was put in And the litigation proceeded. Now, it did so i
that there was • very extraordinary paragraph in the will
of
the deceased to this effect " I also direct ray executors to
take up all cheques that may have been left unpaid at the
time of my decease ;" and it would be open to consideration
if this very paragraph had not suggested the course of pro-
ceeding subsequently adopted by the prisoner to obtain •
large sum of money out of the estate, as much at least as
may have been in the hands of the bankers at the time of
the uncle's death.

The following depositions were read by Mr. O'Brien :
George Hartwell Roe examined—l am a jeweller, residing
at Market-hill, Cambridge. I was executor to the will elf
the late Edward Roe, deceased, late of Sutton, Mucks.
field. The will is dated Dec. 25, 1858, and the codicil
Dec. 30 1858. The damaged died Jan. 1, 1859. At the
time of his death he had a balance at his banker's of between
1,660 f. and 1,700/. John Orm Roe and myself were
residuary legatees under that will, and the Rev. James Roe
was left a legacy of 5001. In or about June, 1850, a claim
was set up by Johnson and Coote, solicitors, of 5, Gray's•
inn-square, on behalf of the prisoner, in respect to •
certain document which had turned up, likely to affect the
residue under the will. In October, 1860, a chancery bill
was filed by the Rev. J. Roe against myself, which set up
a claim for 6,000 f. upon a cheque purporting to have been
drawn by the late Edward Roe on Messrs. Brocklehurst
sod Co., of Macclesfield, and to have been enclosed in a letter
by the deceased to the prisoner on the 30th Dee., 1854
After the bill was filed I called on Mr. Johnson
at his office, and he showed me the cheque purporting to
have been signed by deceased, and the envelope in which it
was said to have been enclosed. I believed them to be •
forgery, and filed my answer to the said bill about the 7th
December. I had frequently seen the deceased write, and
I still believe the letter, cheque, Ike., to be forgeries, sad
from information since received I believe the stamps, par.
porting to bs the Post-o9les endorsing stamps, on the en-
velope, are forgeries also. I have seen the letter, cheque,
and envelope which are now filed in the Record and Writ
Clerke.office, Chancery-lane.
James Penzton, examined—l em a stationer, of =. King-
street, linow•bilL About the third week in June, a permit
whom I supposed to be Mr. C. J. Wyld, of Cbeltenhare
(the name and address given), called on me, and gave me an
order in writing for an endorsing stamp. He afterwards
sent another onler for a second %temp, which I employed
Mr. Barrel:, of 15, Fleet-lane, to execute. The stamps were
sent by rail to the above address, and other orders having
followed, I declined them, and referred him to Mr. Surrey
himself.

Abraham Surrey, engraver, proved that he hail occasion-
ally done work for hiat witness, and remembered the order
in question. Witness executed two endorsing stamps, and
' afterwards had interviews with the supposed Mr. Wyld„
who, on two or three occasions, Peet back the stamps to be
altered. The gentleman called at hie shop first about the
Bth Au,gust lust, producing the stamps and fittings, and says
ing he was sent by Mr. Perraton. Witness said--He raked
me if I would mind puling an hour or two with him, as one
two heads might be able to accomplish what he wanted. I
had criginally formed the stamp in a semicircle to contain
ten letters. He now said he wanted it altered to contain 12
letter. He remained with me, in my shop, the whole el
four days while I was trying to make the alterations. Tali
were completed, and I gave him the stamps ou the lltk
August. The two stamps contained letters which would
make—one of them, Macclesfield," and the other,
" Bath." The letters would spell these words, if so placed.
I also made him figures " I," " 59," and also "2." The
letter " J." wax also made. During the time the gentlemal
was with me my son William was in the shop. "
also. In December last be called upon me againirndsid
asked if the stamps arrived, and he said " Yes."
William Surrey, son of List witness, proved that he saw
the gentleman, in August and December, and in January
last. On being taken to Doctors' Common, by Mr. Johnson
he saw the same gentleman. Mr. Johnson said to witness,.
" Is that the person your father made the stomps for?' amd
witness replied " Yes." The gentleman shook his held sad
put up his hand. I understood he was the 11ev. J. use.
The witnesses having identified the prisoner as the person
in question who paned as Mr. Wyld,
Mr. Humphreys said he would now apply for a remand.
These depositions, upon which the warrant was granted,
sufficed for this purpose, and he would go into the ivilence
at the next examination.

Mr. Corrie—'fhat w quite eoongh for n remsnd.
Mr. Abrehame—l can offer substantial beil if onr worship
will swept it.
Mr. Carrie declined to admit the prisoner to Luil.
The as wee then remanded for a week.

UNWHOLEEONE consequenco of tho
discoveries recently made at Chatham of the unwholesome
character of the meat furnished on aeverel recent n•raeieoe
by the army butchers fur the troops at that garrison, the
moat stringent regulatioua have been adopted, under the
direction of Major General Eyre, commanding the district.
to prevent • recurreuce of such practices on the part of
the contr►ctors. With this view, the aasislant-conimimry-
general of the garrison, accompanied by an offi Nom:idly
selected for that duty, and one of the sergeants
connected with the barrack departmeut, will ate
terd at the slaughter-houses of the contractor each
morning, and, after inspecting the animals select"' to be
killed, 91 order to ascertain from perwinal inspection that
they are in all reelects fit for fool, will witness their being
killed, and as soon as they are dressed will place his seal en
the carcase of each. On the arrival of the meat at the
several barracks for distribution to the troops, the seal,
will be examined, in order to ascertain that they lass not
been tampered with, after which it will he cut up for the
troops. By these promutions nothing but really good meat
will in future be allowed to be sent to the barracks for the
use of the soldiers. Assist.-Commissary-General Ibletson
has not only condemned meat at Chatham on several mass
micas, he has also condemned meat at Sheernma, and both
bread and meat at Maidstone. Fresh supplies in those
mem were purchased at the cost of the contractor'. The
beef thus condemned wars not diseased. It was, how-
ever, of inferior quality.
DEATH ►aoat TIM BETE Or A VICIOtIi
The Liverpool borough coroner held an inqueet yeatenlay on
the body of Thomas liglio, • oowkeeper, who died us the
Royal Infirmary on Saturday from lockjaw, Wiring been
severely bitten on the arm on theSth instant by a pony. In
the course of the inquiry it transpired that the pony was of
• most vicious nature, and that another person is now con-
fined in the infirmary from injuries received from it.