The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-05 00:00:00

but he attributes it to the hall being tip, an,i
some of the speaskera too prosy. It is vs-) fee... 17
said in Paris, and inainuatNi by swwra!
that pi:ibis. agents kicked up the raw in nel..r
to
diwredit public meetings.

The administration has reful.4 to allov. t!..
Theatre du elatelet to revive Noir, Node th Purt..
The stupidity of this interference with caterer, f,Jr
public amusement is idiotic. The Guignol Popt,-0
Theatre, in the Champs Elysi.es, which every d
represents, amidst the approving laughter of ,
multitude, adult as well as juvenile--bum-b.iiht,
levying a distress for rent being kicked out of tfj,
place by the lodgers, is far more damaging to tb.
" principle of authority " than any drama of
Victor Hugo.

M. Emile 01'frier is going to Rome to pry a
visit to the father of his late wife, formerly
pianoforte player, now a priest—the Abbr %,,,
As the Abbt*: is a great favourite with the Pop.,
and lodges in the Vatican, M. Emile 011ivier
sleep under the same roof with his Bolin.~ ;
should the Pope think it worth while to Riv,
him as much encouragement as the Emperor dot
a few days before January 19, 1867, thnro
no knowing what a defender the Church may full
in the French Chamber next year. All M. 011iver,
old friends know that he was, when first el-ntol
for Paris, and for a long time afterward,, a rsoi
Voltairean, and they wore astounded to hear hill]
talklunctuously a few days ago of the beauti.•,
Popery and the necessity of an alliance bet w..:n
church and state.

Extraordinary efforts were made at the It ,urn,
to keep up the Rente with a view to the loan, but
the success was less than yesterday. The highoit
speculative price obtained was 70fr. 65c. ; brit thu
closing one was 70fr. 50c., with a fall of :et'. Fur
cash there were persistent sales which brunb,
down the final quotation to 70fr. 35c., with 3 ft::
of 23c. Italian fell 10c. ; and Mobilivr Mr.

ATROCIOUS BRUTALITr OF .1 SOX
HIS MOTHER.

An atrocious case of ill-usage tunic beim-- Mr
Richards, deputy coroner, last evening• at the Mark,
House, Poplar, where an inquest Was held ou the b.sly
Mrs. Elizabeth Brent. aged 52 year,.
Before the witnesses were examine,' a yountt twin,
of the deceased, and named Daniel steer Brent. was
in and told by the coroner that as the evidence wont!
possibly implicate him he might listeu to the witnesses at.
cross-examine them. He was a powerful young feltw.
andvarried many scars on his fare. He had been a e 4 i.
digger in Australia, but upon the death of hi% fitls.r. %s!:,
left his mother a house, he worked his wAy Cal.-
and thence to England.
Elizabeth Orifiltlis, a married daughter of the • •
deposed that the deceased's son, Daniel, arrived
October, and had ill-treated his mother ever siiwe. li •
constantly and systematically knocked her ale. it.
was always drunk, and he had not worked more th
months since the time he came home. He was di Auk
his mother's death on Saturday, and he pulbsl her Jli -
and out of her coffin, whereupon witnes.•;
"served his face as it could now be seen." Whrii
could not get money from deceased for drink it %V i. I.
habit to knock her about and take away her thin/.
force, in fact steal them, and pledge them fur 1,1,
He used to spit in her face and swear at her. and .at
said, "I will not be happy till I see you in your gra,
in the workhouse." Two months ago he puslusl
when scarcely dressed, into the street, and kept I.
there all night. He poured two gallows of w e
mixed with mud over her as she stood iu the tiara iv
She said that was her death, for she never felt warts
that night. His treatment of her, indeed, dray.•
drink, for she was not a drinker before. She W 3:, •
well treated by her husband.
The son—Then who broke the bridge of mother's n • •
Witness—You did.

The son-1o; it was fattier

Witness—You know very well it wa.s you broke th•
bridge of her nose. And there arc two cuts on her he 3
uow.

The sou—l did not give them to her. And then
say I put mud in the water I chucked over her; I n
put mud in it. But I had a deal to put up with. w,
she not a drinking woman
Witness—Only since you knocked her about. She u-e.I
to tremble at your very knock when you came to the .1,1
Mrs. Charlotte Allwright, 79, Augusta-street, pv
corroborative evidence.

Mr. A. Nelham, M.R.C.S., said that he was call.J in
to the deceased six days previous to her death. She Wl'
dying from sheer exhaustion. There was slight Minim'
and he thought she had taken a certain amount
stimulus. He knew her formerly, and she was. not then
drinking woman. No doubt the excessive brutality t
which she had been subjected had hastened her en I
There were bruises on her legs, arms, and body. In
cuts on her head, but they were not recent. and h-•
could not say they contributed to her death. T 5•
cause of death was effusion on the brain from
natural causes. Her son had kept her in a state of on-
tinual suffering, torturing her " just as a cat weulil
mouse," and then she suddenly died out, hut in suili •
way that witness could not conscientiously say th it •h
died from his brutality. Witness knew all about tli •
cause of quarrel. The son thought if he could TuaL,1,...-
give him the mortgage deeds be could raise twaney 'lt
them. He was never sober.

The son listened to all the evidence with pelted e.,w-
posure, smiling occasionally, but otherwise unmoved.
The coroner said he regretted that on the medical evi-
dence it would be impossible to send the party whi w(-
beyond doubt morally answerable ivr the devea,ii%
death to take his trial at the Old Bailey.

The jury returned a verdict that deeel,ol aka it
effusion on the brain from natural tutu., and the prr
consider that the continued and brutal ilt-tr.•atw••ut •1
the deceased by her eon Daniel Steer Brent, a. pro. I .t
evidence, deserved the gravest censure.
A gentleman said to the jury that last SatuoLis
the son bad taken his mother's body out of th.• cuaiii
was going to fling it downstairs, until his
energetically stopped him.