The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-09 00:00:00

praying for the pardon of her son. oow

ut Toulon and undergoing his s.•!::,
the murderous assault upon his 1111
not the coachman very cleverly turind i .•
short round, the old won tan won]:
crushed. Ido not know what succor, ty ..t.t.
this irregular mode of approaching tli.•thr et.
it appears that the Marquis d'Orvault...,
in-law is already exempted front th.•
to which he was condenutill, and is eini,l„y,
clerk.

AL Charles Hugo is ill Purls to n1:lk0• Art
ments for the publication of a n,•W Wolk 1,,
father, to be called " The Exile..•'

OUTRAGES IN THE SOUTH SEA INLAV:,

Some time ago Captain Luce, of her 114 j....
ship Esk, then be naval officer on tie
station, addressed a letter to Goveniiir Sir U. F.
announcing the loss of several vessels and the nue
several Europeans at certain of the isiNedm
South Sea group. The alleged jusfitieation of this v
on the pert of the natives was, according to a letter w•
by a trader in those seas, that these atrocities we,
ictratod by the natives in revenge for the loss in
of their countrymen, who had been c•irried awiy •

years previously to Queensland and the Fi!fi I i. •
Europeans, who hired them as laboun•rs, and pt.,
to return them to their homes in twelve tumuli.. i
facts relating to the murder of the European: .1". !.
disputed; but in the iiffiei.il ,pc„
has taken place upon the subject. and come: of is.
went published this wnting, it does not app.ir
the plea of justification let le.•n supported. In this c.
respondence there are two irms,rtunt statements. on
addressed to the Governor of New South Wales (I.or
Delmore), by the Ifebrisles missi.4l, awl another
by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Soci•t.
to the Duke of Buckingham. In both
assertion as to the abduction of the natives is rope.o
and the missionaries say they were credibly informed t:..
several of the smaller islands in the northern part of
group had been almost entirely stripped of the in
population. The Anti-Slavery Society made the fin....
assertion that, although certain of the natives appear-•I :
have been engaged under some written form of agreem,;...
considerable numbers of them had been kidnapped
forcibly brought into the colony. They also alleged
this traffic, known as it was to the government, &Rho,.
not directly sanctioned by it, was earned on by priv
individuals without any public control or supervi,l
whatever, and that persons occupying responsible pub..
positions were also engaged in it.
In a letter addressed to the Anti-Slavery Society, slat-
the 19th ult., Mr. C. B. Adderley shows that, accord.;
to the evidence laid before the Colonial Minister, th•.
statements are unfounded, and he expresses his curl.: •
that such charges should ever have Leen made.

We rend in Ualijnani :—" A. 14 Al,uk,•u
been seriously ill; she is, however, better, ;iii.l sill apt,. ,
again as Mazeppa, and in the Acuff Saran,.

A letter from Vienna says that a gnat
of workmen has just been held in favour of tle
sional laws, and that mo-d of the speakers ',rot—.
strongly against the papal allocution.

'Verdi,
the composer, accompanied by hi; wii
arrived last week at Milan. A few hours after alightin_
at Lis hotel, he was presented by the Comae:, M. T t
Manzoni. The maestro subsequently left fur the LL
of Como.

Some of the Paris journals state• that throe day,
back, just after the Emperor and Empress had left an .•:,:
the rooms of the palace of Fontainebleau, in which they
usually nit, an immense chandelier suspended from th
ceiling fell with such force as to break in the flooring.

"The deputies," imp the Patric, " notwith-
standing the gravity of their functions, do not fail to
indulge now and then in some agreeable recreations of the
mind. A curious album is now in emire of formation,
wherein the humour of the parliamentary gentlem,a
is freely displayed. On one leaf we read, •Ju
dige're pas toutes lee leis qu'on nous donne—Java;
On another, M. de Tillancourt, in the dress of a
captain of pompiers, being present at a banquet given
Chatean-Thierry in honour of Lafontaine, drinks to th.:
health of his company, and says, " Je Lois a von pomp- r
et I vos ceuvres.' A third presents a landscape in a
of neutral tint, drawn by Emile L4gris, the deputy I,
Angers, with this legend, Est-ce blanc Est-cu noir
Non, dear owe.' " _ _ _

An encounter with swords took place two day;
back in the Bois do Boulogne, near Autenil, between is
Bourse speculators, MM. Eugilie Norzy and Henry
Cremieu, the former being the uncle of the latter.
seconds of M. Norzy were his clerk and a writer in th,
Charivari, whilst those of M. Crimieu were two
the line. After a short combat the nephew was slilttly
wounded in the breast and the affair terminated.

Professor Mahan, of the United States Militiry
Academy, West Point, speaks as follows of Grant, the
cadet:—" He was what we termed a first section mut .:1
all his scientific studies; that is, one who accomplishes tli:
full course. He always showed himself a clear think
and a steady worker. lie belonged to the class of com-
pactly strong men who went to their task at once. an!
kept at it until finished, never being seen, like the Ale k-
twisted class, yawning, lolling on their elbows, over tin .r
work, and looking as if just ready to sink down smw
mental inanity."

. _
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton says, in the P.
/sties (an American paper), that she has " taken care
several babies," yet has worked in the cause of worno
twenty years or more. "We have addressed our
tune many times, spoken on education, temperance, slayer!.
and written many articles for the press. When we neat
to Albany to address the Legislature, we took oar
nurse and babies to the Delavan House, left them safe in
room, went to the Capitol, found it filled with ladies, all
made our speech. It takes no longer to speak
listen. When we finished we shook hands all around.
and went home to our babies, and the rest of the wowed
to theirs. If we were a member of the Legislitunt
we could spen I • few hours every day in the Capital
which other women spend in fashionable calls, shol'l44'
gossiping, dining, dressing, and riding."
Such a dry hot season as the present has not
been known in the south of England for the last 1.)
years. There is not the slightest trace of dew at night-
This excessive dryness is owing to the prevailing petit
currents. If we could get equatorial currents they
would be loaded with vapour, and we should
get rain. In all parts water has to be taken la
sheep and other cattle. In the neighbourhood of Salis-
bury and other places where there are great numbers of
sheep, water carts are in use from morning to night. It
is found more advisable to take water to the cattle then
to drive the latter along hot dusty roads to watering
pleas. It is curious that large quantities of rain have
Wm in Net Yak.