The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
The President's arrival at Strasbourg, on the after-
noon of the 21st, was announced by the ringing of
bells and the firing of artillery. A tent, tastefully
decorated, had been erected at the railway terminus,
where the authoiities received him in all due form.
He immediately mounted on horseback, and proceeded
to the prefecture, surrounded by a numerous and
brilliant staff. The streets tbrotigh which he passed
were crowded to excess; every window was occupied
by elegantly-dressed ladies. The national guard as-
sembled in great numbers, and received the Prea,ident
with frequent cries of " Vice la Republique!" mixed
with those of " Vice le President!" Altogether his le-
ception has exceeded the hopes of hie party, particn-
larly after the conduct of the municipal mined, who
refused to vote a son towards defraying the expenses,
and after the daily exhortstioas of the democratic jour-
nals to prevent the national guard from coming out.
The President gave evident signs of emotion;
probably the souvenir came across his memory of
the last time he passed through the same streets as an
exile, whereas now be pranced gaily lorward as chef
de l'etat. Immediately alter his arrival at the pre-
fecture commenced the official visits. A member of
the Chamber of Commerce, M. Erekmann (one of the
persons that figured late:y in the republican process at
Metz), took occasion, like M. Noieot, of Fixin, to call
the attention of the President to the condition of thorn
who had been condemned to imprisonment, thus mak-
ing an appeal to his clemency. The President replied,
that " coos better than he knew the pain of being a
prisoner, but that it was necessary that order should
be re-established before he could think of recommend-
ing their being set at liberty." In the evening there
wu a grand dinner of 60 covers at the prefecture. A
display of fireworks took plaoe opposite the windows
of the prefecture, on the ramparts. The tswn is
crowded with strangers; amongst the visitors is the
Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden and suite.
The Grand Duke of Baden, I am just informed, has
sent a special envoy to greet the President.
I have learned to-day some important particulars,
which it is necessary to add to the account of the
Preeident's journey from Besangen to Strasbourg. At
Thane, near Muhlhausen, there was a very strong
socialist demonstration. 6,000 workmen assembled
to join in this. Among other cries was heard " Vivi
le suffrage universe !" " Vies Cavaignac !" The
other part of the population were cold, silent, and
indifferent. The corps of pompiers and the artillery
of the national guard were remarkably vehement in
their clamorous protests against the policy of the
President's government.
The review in the spacious meadows outside Mal-
hausen wu accompanied by similar democratic mani-
festations. At Colmar, the lieutenant-colonel, the
major, and the greater part of the officers of the
national guard resigned, in order to mark their dis-
approbation of the President's policy.
Along the roads throughout Mardis, bands were
organised to give the President a charieari as he
passed. The greater part of these were youths armed
with whistles. The moderates attribute these con-
certs to the presence of M. Flacon, member of the
provisional government, at Colmar, who gate the
mot d'ordre to the socialists of the department. At
Malhansen, • brawny fellow, armed with a cudgel,
was arrested on the charge of deterring the well die-
posed from crying " Vivo le President !" Another
democratic bully, of the same typo, was imprisoned

at Colmar.

The reception at Schlestadt was more satisfactory.
Ths weather was highly favourable to the entrance of
the President at Strasbourg.
The Posivoir has seen a letter dated from Paris,
the 13th inst., bearing the postmark of lhle, the 15th,
addressed to Lyons, to the President of the Repub-
lic, and conjuring him not to stop at Besangen,
where a conspiracy had been organized against his
life.

The Monileur du Soir 1111D01111Cei in ll corres-
pondence from Strasbourg, dated on the 20th, the
detection of a plot against the President's life. The
chief conspirators cams from Ninety. One came
from the far Booth. Several a►rest. have taken place
in conecgcanoe. A socialist had denounced the plot
to the po • .

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DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

SCIILESWIO HOLSTEIN.
RENDSBURG, Ayourr 19.
Yesterday a alight rencontre took place midway
between th.s town and the city of Schleswig. Our
10. h battalion moved out of its position, and advanced
towards the north, drove the Danish fore-posts out of
Kropp, and, atter a complete reconnaissance, returned
to its farmer situation. The belief gains ground that
before long a more serious meeting of the armies will
take place. From Eckeraforde we learn that the
Orfion is completely blockaded ; the garrison obtains
its supplies only through ready money purchases
from the Danes; the people of Eckernforde dare not
furnish the soldiers on board with tho most trifling
article. The Pruslian flag now waves alone over the
vessel. From Capreln we learn that the Manes have
thrown a bridge of boats across tho &Wei at that
place : gun boats lie at Missunde.

THE DANISH QUESTION.
At the confiner:co held yesterday at the Foreign-
ale • the Court of Austria signified its adhesion to the prin•
elpies lard down in tho protocol of the 2nd of August, relat-
ing to the Danish question, without prejudice to the rights
of the Germanic C infederation.

This adhesion has been accepted by the Danish Plenipo-
tentiary, who, on the part of his government, has declared
that it is well understood that thew federal rights 'stand
only to the duchy of Holstein and of L tuenburg, forming
put of the German Ct siderstion.
The atom declaration has beim received by the repress.
Wives of Franco, Great Britian, Russia, and Sweden, who
have unanimoutly rendered full justice to the intentions
which have induced the court of Austria to gine Its adhe-
sion to the principles stated in the protocol of the tad of
August as bring in conformity with the general interests of
peace and of the European
Thu protocol was signed 17 the plenipotentiaries of the
respective powers pretest. Lie document is Iwportaat, as

THE EXECUTION CF PATRICK FORBES.—The ex-
ecution of i'a rick Forbes for the murder of his wife at
Newcutli-u .on-Tyne, by penetrating hc•r persm with •
ulcer, is fixed to take place this day (Saturday), at 8 o'clock
in the morning, on a 'pot near to Carlisle-street, In immedi-
ate proximity to the gaol. The behaviour of the culprit '
since his trial and conviction hu been becoming the awful
position in whi It he stands. Ile has b en visited daily tey a
Homan cataolic minister, and since Sunday last kaa beer. oh.
staining from animal food and doing penanze for the offence
by which hie life has been forte iwd. He app are to be quite
reconciled to his fate, bat continues to assert hie innocence
in the same ambiguous form usumed at his trial, namely,
that if he did commit the set he did it when it, • state of
utter unconsciousness, produced by the drink he had taken
previously. His statement is to the facts precoiling the
murder is t the effect that he had teen many w,eke cut of
cm! loymens, but had gut a situation in which he heel been
one week, and earned lUe. 6il. ; that he received that
amount, and an addi tensel shitting, which h., bor-
rowed tr•era his employer; that he gave 9s. to his
wife to lay out in provisions for the family, and kept
2s. GI., with which he proposed buying leather to repair the
children's shoes. The wife, he states, went out on the
morning of the day the murder was committed to lay oat
the money, and some time in the afternoon Mrs Dees, who,
it will be remembered, was en import►nt witness on the
trial, came to his house, and said a person wonted tim at a
public house in the neighbourhood. He at first refused to
go, but ultimately did go, and there he found his wiw and •
Mrs. Wheatley drinking together, Dees being also one of
the party; that the money which he had worked for, and
intended tor his family, was thus communed, and that he
himself partook ol liquor (rum) to such an extent as to d,-
pries him of sli kr, °wieder, of what took One after he got
home tilt he awoke about I o'ecek in the morning, and bound
his wire dead, when he awoke his eon, and gave an alum.
There it, of course, not the least ground for emitting the
truth of the latter port of the statement. As illustrating
his character, it may be stated that a day or two ago be
confessed to a brutal act committed against his daughter.
She had been, he soil, at a dance at a rublic.house,
where hs had gone to seek her at a late hour, and found her
in disreputable company ; he seized her by the neck and
shoulders and dragged her home, and on getting her into the
house he threw her down upon the ft tor and jumped cn
her, with the intention of breaking her legs. She was so
much injured by his violence as to be laid up in the in-
firmary for several weeks, She now walks with • halt in con-
sequence of thew injuries. The circumstances were con-
cealed at the time, but t►e man who could so act, and in the
presence of death describe his conduct and admit his inten-
ti en, seems not unfitted to perpetrate the more heinous
crime of murder: There is no sympathy expressed for the
man in Newcarle, where he has for some yeats led a most
profligate life. _

EiECUTION AT NiONMOUTII.—Yt sterday morning
Patrick Sullivan and Maurice hlurp`ov, sgcd respective'y
21 and 22, who were found guilty at the lest ass.z,s of the
murder of an aged female piup. r on the high road near
Newport, were executed in front of the county gaol. They
were attended to the scaffold by the t rit at of the Raman
Catholic Chapel. and their sentence was carried into teem.
tion by Calcraft, who was brought down for the purpose.
After hanging the usual time thcir bodies were to be cut
down and interred within the gaal grounds. At the moment
of preparing to post off this despatch, the crowds of peopht
who witnessed the execution are rushing p fist, laughing and
shouting, many already intoxicated, and all appearitg as at
they hid rather Nen at a feast than an execution. The
respectable inhabitants of the town have kept
within their houses ; and they fear much for
the consequences which will result from the vast
crowd. of vagabonds and tramping fellows which the
execution has call,: together. The loud bawling of the
fellows with " dying speeches and confessions," already
strikes the ear; indee t before we left the spot there were
several unrolling tittle large quires of confessions and dying
speeches for sale to the credulous public. The culprit
Murphy eonleased yesterday that he was the man who
struck the it victim with a stone, and that they then carried
her, or led her, into the wood, where Sullivan finished the
brutal work. They had a filled her, he said, because, being
in a famishing state, from eating nothing for four or five days
but grass and vegetables stolen from the fields, they believed
eh* had victuals in her basket; and they did not intend to
kill her, but only to stun her sufficiently to effect the robbery
without detection.
_ _

THE CONVICT HANNAH CURTIS. --- RESPITE.-
OLOVCESTEIt, VIM/AV.—The execution of Hannah
113 W in Gloucester County Prison under sentence of death
tor the murder of her husband, at Frumpton Omarll, by
piens, was tiled for to morrow, an +!
t. all the awful peepers-
tions had been made. At a late hJur last night, however,
• Quesn'amessenger arrived poc-huts from Scotland, where
Sir George Grey 1. at present tojourning, with a letter e n-
umbing a respite of the execution until her Majesty's plea-
sure shall be known. The messenger only started from Lon-
don on Tuesday last, and had travelled night and day in
order to arrive in time. A consultation was immediately
held betwe,o the governor of the gaol, Capt. Mason, and the
d chap! iin, the Um Mr. Herschel!, when it was
arranged that In c insequence of the lateness of the hour it
would not he advi.able to disturb the convict, and the au-

nnuncement of the respite was acoordingly made to the
prisoner this day by the chaplain, in th• presence of the
governor. The rev. chaplain introduced the subject in a
few tiqing remarks, during which she was greatly agitated,
and on the final t.nnouncement being made she swooned
amy in the c. 11. Her behaviour has been since hir con-
demnation anything but what might be expected from a
creature whom boars and minutes were numbered. She
&clues her innocence, and although she joins in la ligi
devotion with the eltspi sin, she dors not appear fully aware
of her awful situation. Her pers. nt husband, Curtis, has
had frequent intercourse with her, and she enters freely Into
conversation with him, giving Instructions as to household
matters with the air of a parson about to Mara shortly to
her how.