The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-24 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(TROY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, SI7NDAT EWnNG.

The Presse, whose loyalty to the dynasty is un-
questioned, laments that the government, instead
of profiting by the lesson in the Jura, is about to
provoke another defeat in the Nievre. In that de-
partment the candidate of the opposition will
be M. Gambon, a member of the Constituent
Assembly of 1848, who is a man of
large property there, and is extremely
popular. Common foresight and common
sense would dictate to government that if it must
have an official candidate to contest the seat with
such an opponent, some staunch adherent of the
empire should be selected who is known to the
constituency and has extensive local influence.
But the announced intention is to put up M. de
Bourgoing, one of the Emperor's equerries—a
young man who has the double disadvantage
of being a total stranger in the district,
and holding an office at court, which very many
people, including even several members of the
majority of the present Corps LEgialatif, think
ought to be a disqualification. In the present
temper of the country the Prase thinks it the
worst possible policy to give the opposition a
plausible excuse for saying that the government
candidate is one who cannot possibly give an inde-
pendent vote. It is, moreover, exposing the
Emperor personally to a check such as his agents
have just met with in the Jura.
The Marquis de la Rochejacquelin, who is
attempting to canvass the Deux Sevres with a view
to the next general elections, writes to a local
paper that not only the Prefect and his satellites,
but the sitting member and hie son, go about
threatening mayors, postmasters, tax-gatherers,
and everybody in any way employed by the
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with dismissal and all sorts of ven-
geance if they in any way whatever coun-
tenance him. Such threats, he avers, have been
made in several instances against people guilty
only of having received his visit or pronounced
his name.
It seems that the Prefect of the Jura is to be
punished for his failure by translation to a less
important department.
be fact, which has been denied, of M. Oviedo,
General Prim's private secretary, having been
forced to leave Paris is repeated with details. It
was on Wednesday last, at seven in the evening,
that police agents went to the Hotel Canter-
bury, Rue de la Pain, where Id. Oviedo was
staying, and gave him an order to quit France.
Several eminent Spaniards have lately gone away,
and among them MM. Olozaga, Zorrilla, an ez-
deputy ; Sagasta, editor of the Iberia ; Colonel
Campos, an aide-de-camp to General Prim ; and
an intimate friend of the Marquis de Salamanca,
in whose house he was staying ; and Castelar,
formerly editor of the Democracia, one of the most
eloquent men in Spain.
M. de Villemessant, the editor of the Figaro,
who only returned on Friday evening from a trip
to Germany, writes that at an early hour yester-
day morning his domicile in the Rue Rosaini was
invaded by a commissary of police and several
police agents, who said they had come to look for
numbers of the Lanterne. He took the opportunity
of telling them that he had read the No. 12, which
had been published in Brussels, and was circu-
lating in great numbers in all the German states
bordering on the French frontier ; but that as to
No. 13, it was not yet out, and he had not in his
possession so much as a proof. The police ac-
cepted M. de Villemessant's offer of his keys to
make a search, but they did not find what they
wanted.

Two high functionaries of the Ministries of
Foreign Affairs and Finances. M. M.eurand,

Director of Consulates and Commercial Affairs,
and Y. Barbier, Director-general of Customs,
leave gone to the Hague,.where an international
conference is to be held to-morrow for the purpose
aruing the tree construction of certain articles
of a treaty on sugars concluded on November 8,1864,
between France, Belgium, England, and Holland.
Before the oonvcntion was acted upon, several
conferences were held in London, at which certain
typos or standards were agreed upon, and experi-
ments in refining, in order to ascertain the nett
yield of the various hinds of raw sugars,
were made on neutral ground, at Cologne,
under the inspection of agents -from the
four contracting powers. On August 1, 1864,
the convention began to be executed by the
four powers. But recently the cabinet of London
has raised difficulties in, regard to several articles,
which if alleges are interpreted by France in such
a way as to give an undue advantage to French
trade. This disagreement having been notified to
the Belgian and Mitch governments, it has been
decided to submit the points in dispute to the
decision of a conference. There is some expecta-
tion that Prussia will adhere to the convention ; it
is announced that two oommissionors from Berlin
have been instructed to attend the Hague
conference.

The Assize Court of Limoges has just con-
victed a shoemaker's wife named, Baudinand of
;the murder al her husband. After a quarrel,
which did not greatly disconcert the husband, as
be went to bed at ten o'clock leaving his wife
sitting up, she resolved to be rid of him. She got
a rope, put it round his neck, and strangled him
with it, and then with a carving knife began to
cut him to pieces. For four days suc-
cosaively she went out into the woods and
lanes about Limoges scattering little bits of her
husband's body in various directions far and wide.
Every night she returned to her house and lay
down to sleep by the side of what was left of the
carcase. Six days after the murder she put on her
beat gown and danced at a villege fete. It was
some time before suspicion fell upon hor.
Fragments of the mangled remains were
found from time to time by various per-
sons, and taken to the police, who could find
nothing in them to establish the identity of the
deceased. At length part of a callous hand was
found on which the mark of a tool used
by shoemakers was discovered. The cobbler
Baudivand being missing, his wife was arrested,
and she confessed her crime with all the horrible

circumstances above narrated. The jury giving
her the benefit of " extenuating circumstances,"
she was sentenced to penal servitude for life.

The departure of the Emperor and Prince Im-
perial for the Camp of Chalons is said to be postponed un-
til the 30th August, in consequence of the heavy rain
having softened the ground so much as to render it not
very suitable for the grand manoeuvres proposed. On
his Majesty's return from Champagne, the imperial
family are to proceed to Biarritz, where they propose re-
maining until the middle of October.

A communication from Brussels, in the Courrier
deyEteaut, says :—" The news which reaches me from
the camp at Beverloo is not very favourable to our im-
proved military armament ; the new muskets are certainly
loaded at the breech, which is all very well, but some of
them also discharge themselves at the same place, which
is not precisely advantageous for the soldier, who thus
receives the projectile which he wished to send to the
enemy."

The Prussian musket factories are actively en-
gaged in completing the armament of the Northern
Federal troops who are not yet provided with the needle
gun. The whole of the landwehr of the kingdom has
been supplied with this weapon since December last.

Ads ices from Dresden state that the grand mili-
tary manoeuvres in the vicinity of Chemnitz have begun.
Several Prussian officers have arrived to take part in
them. King William is said to have been several times
invited by the Sovereign of Saxony to be present, but was
unable to accept, being obliged to visit those that are to
take place near Warsaw, at which he had promised the
Czar to attend.

A communication from Naples states that
Vesuvius is again showing disquieting symptoms; for
some days past eruptions have taken place at the upper
cone. Deep rumbling sounds are followed by jets of
incandescent matter, thrown to a great height. The lava
frequently appears at the brink of the crater and then
stops. About three in the morning of the 17th the
spectacle became imposing. Columns of thick smoke rose
high in the air, followed by burning stone. After
shining a moment they fell and rolled, still red hot, down
the side of the mountain. This eruption lasted so long as
the darkness permitted it to be seen, as at daybreak the
Are paled. The smoke was, however, still thick, and stowed
that, even alter sunrise, the same volcanic phenomenon
continued.

Stene-fruit is wonderfully abundant this year at
Lyons. Apricots have been given away, so to speak, at
Mr. the 100 kilogrammes (each 21b.), and peaches are sow
falling to as low a price.
The Court of Assizes of the Bouches-du-Rhino
has just tried a postman accused of having stolen eight
hundred and seventy-six letters, many of them containing
securities, postage stamps, &c. Being found guilty, he
was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

A considerable portion of the land surrounding
Cheese', in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, is on fire.
In the excessively high temperature the peat ignited spon-
taneously, and has been burning for more than a week.
The heat is intense, and nothing less than twenty-four
hours' rain seems likely to prevent a serious disaster, as
all means of stopping the conflagration, such as cutting
trenches, &c., have been tried without avail.
MAKING THE MOST OP ROYALTY.—A Bale
paper states that the keeper of the buffet at the railway
station charged Queen Victoria and a suite of thirty per-
sons 700 francs for a breakfast of coffee, eggs, and cold
meat, being at the rate of 23 francs a head. The Me
people are very indignant at this extortion, but the
restaurateur would probably justify himself as the Eng-
lish innkeeper did who presented George M. with a bill
of one guinea for a slice of bread and one egg. The
king, while paying the money, observed that eggs must
be very scarce in that part of the country. "No, your
Majesty," was the reply, "eggs are plentiful enough, but
king's visits are rare."
HALF A TowN DESTROYED BY FIRE.—A letter
from Preran, chief town of the district of that name in
Moravia, states that half the place has been reduced to
ashes :—" At 9in the morning,' it says, " tire broke out
suddenly in the suburb, and spread rapidly under the in-
fluence of a high wind, so that the entare of the lung line
of the street which opens on the square was in a few
minutes in flames ; the finest buildings, as well as the two
towers of the church, fell with great noise. The hand-
somest quarter of Prerau, which was really an ornament
to the town—namely, the High-street, presented at
2 o'clock no more than a heap of ruins. The firemen did
not arrive from Olmutz until about 4 o'clock. Abiut 150
houses were destroyed. The origin of the disaster is not
known.

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A MURDERER DISCOVERED BY A Doo. —A murder
has just been committed under extraordinary circum-
stances at St. Germain, a village near Coulommiers
(Seine-et-Marne). An innkeeper had summoned a wheel-
wright to obtain payment of a small debt, and the latter
to be revenged, waylaid the daughter of his creditor, a
young woman aged 18, and cut her throat. The body
having been discovered, a dog was brought to the spot,
and followed the scent of the murderer to a pool in which
the wheelwright had just thrown himself with the in-
tention, as he acknowledged, of committing suicide. Ho
was taken out of the water and did not attempt to deny
his guilt. He wu of course lodged in prison.
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WILD BEASTS IN IM)U.—It appears that in
the year 1867 the rewards given for the destruction of
wildbeasta in the four divisions of the Central Provinces
amounted to upwards of forty-one thousand rupees. This
outlay represents the slaughter of nearly 3,000 beasts of
prey—viz., 902 leopards and panthers, 635 bears, 627
tigers, 475hywnas, and 467 wolves. The greatest amount
by far was paid fa the Bangor 7,136 rupees ;
end much more than half this sum (4,520 rupees) was for
the destruction of wolves (333). The item next in im-
portance is one of 4.250 rupees for the spoils of 86 tigers
in the district of Raepore fn the Chutteeegliurh
Five of the.. Raepore tigers are said been mea-
nders, as were three in the Nwpor
Mention is also made of
of a man-
fole=death a reward of 100 rupees was

KEPI:ORION OF FIRE !Mill' OP.-7-j(7------1
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An expansion from Are damp has juet 00eur,.,1
on board the Union &sem Oompany's mail ,t
Briton, which was to sail to-day for the Ca... of
Hope. The explosion took place the after 1,44.
way amongst some patent fuel. The flun
up half-mast high,. and it was that thought
the ship was on fire: Several engines were
iT
diately on the spot, but fortanatety wore not rop„,4
The explosion smashed the saloon table, tore
ventilators, fittings, skylight, ship'sbinnael m
e, and
and burnt socuilinen. • Fortunately two men only
injured, and they, it is supposed, but dightly. Thoy 114,.
been removed to the infirmary. The patent fuel
bar a
removed from the hold, and the company hope to q..t r 4.
ship ready foram mails, which can be vial), efie.i.4.,
that Slow ship can sail to oontract time, if the
will allow the made to be anbarlual hen A,l
Plymouth.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(TIIIB DAY.)

(Mote Mr. Serjeant Coz, Deputy-Assistant Judge.)
The August adjourned general sessions of the peace for
flu. county of Middlesex was commenced this morning at
th, &towns-house, Uorkenwell, before Mr. Serjeant
Ck N, and Mr. Payne.

The contains the names of 141 prisoners for
11.. d who are in custody, and about a dozen who are out
on bail, of that number 129 are indicted for felony, and
the renmitida for misdemeanour. The offences with
which the pid,uners are charged are of various kinds,
itialing from the person, stealing from shop windows
~tesjing lead. or as it is otherwise known, " flying the
blue pigl.oll," attempting burglariously to enter dwelling
I.,t.ace, indecent assault, &c.