The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-20 00:00:00

ARREST OF GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN,

PARIS, SCNDAT EVEMNG.
The Empress has returned from her sympa-
thetic visit to the Princess Baciocchi. On her
return from the model farm, where the Emperor's
cousin rears prize cattle with great success, the
Mayor and municipal council of Rennes waylaid
her at the railway station, and presented an
address. They said that on her Majesty's arrival
in Brittany they had not presumed to interfere
with her desire to travel incognito, but that they
could not allow her to go away without presenting
their humble respects. The Empress graciously
answered that she had not forgotten the re-
ception she met with at Rennes when she was
last there, and she left with the Mayor
1,000 francs for the poor. The accident to
Princess Baciocchi happened at the door of her
own house as she was stepping into her carriage ;
the horses suddenly moved on, and she slipped
down and broke her thigh. Dr. Ndlaton was sent
for from Paris, and the Journal d'llle-et-Vilaine
states that he arrived with all speed by a special
train, reduced the fracture under favourable con-
ditions, and that the princess is going on as well
as possible. It does not seem to me credible that
in the large city of Rennes no surgeon could have
been found capable of setting a broken
limb, or that any amount of metropolitan
skill could have compensated for the de-
lay while Dr. N3laton was coming from
Paris. There must be some mistake in the
narrative. Dr. Hasten in all probability arrived
only in time to approve of what had been already
done. The suffering lady could not have been
allowed to remain without surgical assistance for
several hours.
There is a new and most unexpected chapter in
the Schumseker romance. The venerable Marquis
de Maubreuil d'Orvault, tired of his rich wife, who
it was supposed by an evil-speaking world he had
married only for her money, has instituted a suit
against her for nullity of marriage. The case is set
down for argument and will bo heard very
soon. The grounds on which he relies, and which
1 think it extremely likely will turn out valid in
law, are that the marriage was celebrated in
Luxembourg without the observance of those
formalities which the French code requires. Very
many marriages have been set aside on a similar
plea, as English young ladies, who have been
married in London churches to " distinguished
foreigners" know to their grievous cost. A case
very analogous to the present one occurred some
years ago :—M. Peacatore, a French subject
domiciled in France, resolved, shortly before
his death, to marry his housekeeper. He was
residing at the time on an estate in the Pyrenees,
and as ho did not want his relations to know of the
step he was taking he went across the frontier and
got himself married by a Spanish priest. After
his death the next of kin disputed the right of the
widow to his property, on the ground that the
marriage was a "clandestine' one, and that the
only reason for solemnising it abroad was a desire
to defraud the French law, and avoid the whole-
some publicity which it requires in such matters.
After much litigation the next of kin consented to
a compromise, and the lady still lives at her late
husband's splendid chateau at Celle St. Cloud, near
Paris. It is more likely than not that a French
court will hold the Marquis d'Orvault's marriage
not to have been a geed one.
The important Sainte-Barbe School, containing
250 scholars, has been broken up in consequence
of a generous protest by the students against the'
expulsion of their schoolfellow, the adopted son of
the Marquis and Marquise de Mautreuil d'Orvault
(aged 10 years). The following is a copy of the
protest which the leading boys sent to the news-
Mora
Preparatory School of Sainte-Barbe, Jan. 15.
The deplorable measure taken by the administration of
this school against an unfortunate child, whos. only fault
is his birth, calls for a public and unanimous protest from
the pupils of this establishment. We beg you, Mr.
Editor, to publish this, in order that it may be severally
known that we, the students, preserve intact the liberal
traditions of the Sainte-Bache school, which the autho-
rities have unfortunately forgotten.—Receive, tee. (signed).
The five halls of candidates for the Polytechnic and
Normal schools ; the hall of candidates for the Ecole
Forestiere ; the hall of candidates for the central school ;
the hall of candidates for the Basile de Saint Cyr ; the
two halls of elementary mathematics,
The council of the school held a meeting to con-
sider what steps should be taken to meet this re-
volt, and decided upon closing the school until
the authors of the letter to the papers sign a retrac-
tation. It will probably occur to most people that
they would have shown a wiser discretion bad they
winked at the Schumacker case. It is one thing to
examine scrupulously the social conditions of •
pupil before receiving him, but quite another to
expel one once admitted for no fault of his own.

(TROY 0011 OWII CORAISPONDINT.)
CORK, SUNDAY 1,, taw'.
The well-known George Francis Train was sr.
rested on Friday night on board the homeward
bound Cunard steamer Scotia, off this harbour.
Tho arrest was made at a late hour of the night by
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detectives, who went out to the Scotia in the
Cunard's Company's tender, for the purpose of
making the usual scrutiny of the passengers, and
the first intimation of the event received in
Cork was a telegram of Mr. Train himself
to the editor of the Cork Examiner in the
following terms :—" I sin under arrest for wonls
spoken in America and on the high seas. This
reminds me of free America and Fort Lafayette."
Travelling with Mr. Train there were two gentle-
men, one of whom described himself as Mr. Durant,
an American railway conductor—the other as 'Mr.
Gee, an English commercial traveller. Both were
taken into custody at the same time as Mr. Train,
and brought on shore in the tender under a lar,e
escort of police. The three prisoners were
removed to the house of a local raagii-
trate Mr. John Newman Beamish and
a second magistrate, Mr. Tasman, was sent
to moist at the examination. Messrs. Durant and
Gee explained satisfactorily the business which had
brought them to Europe, and were immediately
released. Mr. Train alleged that be had conic
I a mission in connection with some railway specula-
' turns, and made an energetic and characteristic
protest against his arrest, which he denounced as
a gross infraction of the rights of an Ameri:an
citizen. lam informed that he threatened imme-
diately to lodge a complaint on the subject with th,i
American minister, and said this was the only •
thing necessary to precipitate war between England
and the United States. " You have arrested
George F. Train, sir," he said to Mr. Beamish,
" and the cup is full." Mr. Train, however, was
detained all night at the police: barracks.
The police seized a large bundle of papers,
containing, I understand, several hundred
speeches made by Mr. Train in various parts
of the l:nited States. In some of these speeehis
he speaks in very strong language of tic
British government, and offers warm sympathy
and encouragement to the Fenian. Mr. Train had
not the slightest idea of disavowing any of these
statements. On the contrary, he seemed to cam-
Bider them very creditable productions, and ask, .1
the detectives whether they would indulge hint with
their attention while he read a few passages which
had been greatly admired by his Trans:elm:ol
friends. This offer was, however, declined by the
officers. Other matters more compromising than
these papers are said to have been found with
Subsequently Mr. Train was removed to Cork is
I charge of two policemen and lodged in the county
I gaol. Ile promises that the British gevernmert
will hear of him shortly.
The Boston Pilot, which arrives to-day, brine s
one of Train's last productions. It is a let t crwrittett
in reply to the request of certain persons in Cam-
bridge that he would deliver an address on behalf
of a benevolent institution in that town :
MR. TRAM'S 112111•040,111.
Dear John Conlan, Eeq., James Cot, Esq., and my
numerous other Irish friends in Cambridge:—Yes:
God bless you. The revolution Das commenced ; the :iron
gun is tired ; England has sent the Irish troops to Al'),.
sinia for fear of revolt ! Do you suppose England
would spend fifty millions for two Eir;li,h.
missionaries? Seventeen millions of Fenians .4
, Irish descent, in the world ; two hundred 'Hilliest
cifenTn%dVi Fta.eanicane Fenian in
severallia;hufonZeilu(illitetsenoltnlXibcm.44
more of all nations, who do not love England with Christi. ,n
fondness. America is gong up. England is pi:4
down. Buy Ireland for Alabama claims, or tiAt!
George B. l'pton made the speech At Feneuil MAI
1' l', 4,11 WAIL Yes, I will speak at Cambridge for icy Iri.k
friends. Tell Cox to take the chair. Regards to Forb,.
Two live men ought to make a lire paper. Almost a
quarter of &century since I graduated at Cambridge— furs
a grocery store—since I was known to all the collec,s—
getting in flour and potatoes at the back door ; ,4,1114 C
fastest horse of all the students—in Holmes' grocer's
waggon. While the students were learning dead langusws
I was learning living languages. Have met many a 'chola
abroad with Hebrew, Latin, and Greek who had to use my
Spanish, Italian, and French to get a beefsteak or keep
out of the hands of the police.—Sincerely.
GE4,. Fa.sas ts Tasty.

Miss Anthony, a "strong-minded" American
lady, who has lately paid a visit to Washington for the
purpose of procuring subscribers for a new journal cal
The Bern! haw', has detailed her adventures at a public
meeting in New Jersey. "I had almost forgotten"
sFe
said, "my interview with the President. I waited two
h°messursureinapitht.tooannet,:nr: mterriableonfiglththoef thehuge outer chambers,
where the smell of tobacco and whisky was pow°lefbr;unblu.,be:l:di.
I could but mentally inquire if the ante-room of the
Empress at the Tuileries in Paris, or (!treen Victoria—
two women rulers—were as condescending
guests as to put up placards at the entrance
of Buckingham Palace and the Tuileries—. Gentle-
men, please use the spittoons.' Johnson stood at
his desk. Said • No,' had a thousand such applications
every day ; more papers than he could read. I toll
bin
he was mistaken ; that he never had such an application
is his life. ' You recognise,' I said, • Mr. John
son,sn th
Mrs. Stanton and myself, for two years, hy toil
the republican party that they must give ballots to wouita
as well as negroes, and by means of The Rerob,tion we are
bound to drive the party to logical conclusions, or break
it into a thousand pieces, as was the old whig party. Ind sr
we get our rights.' That brought him to his p cketleat,
aad he signed his name Andrew
to Johnson,
of this wor_an th a tell
hand, as much as to say, anything get rid
and break the radical party."
The strike of colliers in the Ashton-under-LI, to
district, consequent upon an attempt on the part of the
masters to reduce the wages of the men, has actually cos.
silenced. About 2,000 men and boys are out. Some of
the masters have not given the notice, so that the strike
is by no means general in the district.
BELGIAN AGSICULTCRAL EXHIBITION, 18118.---
Norma TO BRITISH AGRICULTURIsTS.—We have grad
pleasure in inviting the attention of Bsitiah agriculturi.ts
to the following notice which we have received fromillel-
gium :—" The Agricultural Society of Brabant (Belgian)
will open at Brussels, under the auspices of the gores-
merit, on the 20th and 21st of June, 1888— l2nat. A
provincial competition of breeding stock. d. A
national competition for cattle of the Durham
breed. 3. A universal exposition of agricultural Mink
ments. The exhibition of agricultural implements ani
machines will be open to the competition of all the world.
Premiums and prizes will be offered of sufficient mine and
importance to compensate exhibitors for t
he I a
The
Agricril• ce s the!
have made in the interests of agricultur The
tural Society undertakes to defray the cost of transport for
the anlmab and the machines and implements on de
Belgianl State railways and the other lines heloeging
nd
to
Belgian tation. companies. Foreign agricultural implements
More.
a
machines will be free of duties on re-expor
over, it is proposed by the directors of the Exhibition to
organise a grand lottery, the entire proceeds of which will
be devoted to the purchase of such agricultural Mirk?
manta and machines as may be selected from the epee
mene exhibited." We trust that British cattle breede
ars mil
implement makers will be adequately represented t thil
great exhibition, which we have no doubt will be well
worthy of the reputation and resources of the count*,
which it will be held—s country particularly interesting to
Englishmen, and particularly deserving of the sympathy
of all peaceful and progressive nations.
Ma. CHARLES KLAN.—AII our readers interested
In dramatic matters will grieve to learn that Mr. Real
illness, now in its more acute form, of many months' dery
tion, has reached a 'tags at which no hope of recovery co
be entertained. For some days Mr. Kean has been
is s
state of extreme prostration, from which there is motel/
any expectation of his being able to ralManchOr
Examiner.
ANOTHER COLLIERY E XPLOSION IN Sall
WALES.—Another of these explosions, for which Sold
Wales has of late obtained such notoriety, has wend
at the Tylsoock Colliery, Rhondda Valley,
which seven men were burnt, four of them se'
riously. The cause of the explosion has not beet
clearly ascertained, but it is rumoured that It
was
dotted by one of the doors being left open fea
r!
time, and, ea the natural rerun of one of the men openati
his lamp, en explosion followed. Althoug
raedsad h the injuos
by the unfortunate sufferers ere more or less of $
aldose character, it is gratifying to learn that no brff
were searilked. About two years ago an n: at
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pee st the same whoa Mr. Bedlingtos, ;maid
eagiaser, and ass el the '
workmen, were killed while ens
e an examirtatlea of certain workings. lb'
ire
la the erepeetrif Mr. Thomas Jones, Cardiff.
Illinaroire- rum HcoriTAL, Divolturrso:
segAza, Col.—Tbs aggregate number of patients ratio
*Mai Om week ending fan. 18 was—Medical, 860 ; vin'
81.4, WS;totals 1,198 ; of which 740 were sew eases.

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