The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-17 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

GERMAN PREPARATIONS.
(raom ova OWN COBIESPONUINT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

The Bulletin International of Brussels, a journal
very seldom admitted into France, contains an in-
teresting letter from a Frenchman, M. Pierre Ba-
ragnon, dated Munich, April 11, from which I
extract the following :

I understand now the angurs' h of Prince Napoleon. It
is impossible to travel in this Germany—so pendent, so
fine, and so patitiotio—without seeing what a formidable

rival we have; contributed to raise up spinet ourselves.
Neither in Northern nor Southern Germany do people
desire war. " What have we done," they say,
"that the French should wish to attack us? Let
them only leave us to settle our own affairs
among ourselves." " We are not Proemial:a," say
the Wartembergers sad Bavarians, with one voice ; " but
it is our business, sad not that of Prance, to resist the
absorbing tendencies of Prumba." I cannot help observing
a repo fear of a sudden attack from France. The Gee.
mans know, for she berets herself, that she is " ready"—
that her navy especially is ready—and they are apprehen-
sive. It is known that Prussia has lately sent as many as
sixty more military spies to Mets, ThiOnville, and likes-
burg. On the other hand, the Prussian government is well
aware that numbers of French officers are making their
observations on the Main and all the lines of defeat). of
Northern Germany. The situation in this respect is so
Undue on both sides as to have produced a sort of recipro-
cal toleration. Neither Prussian nor French officers
employed in this secret service are allowed to make pho-
tographs or drawings, but otherwise they are not inter-
fered with. Whether war is at hand or not, of course, I
cannot say. But the preparations for it ere very evidse.
At Strasburg akum I counted four regiments of infantry,
four regiments of artillery, two labialises of showers
and two batteries of home artillery. Although, 'weever
Sheehan in slaw eptieally speaking, only a reserve dap;
I sew there a gust Piny engineers and poniettniers.
Fer Meador itre pig as spa the whole Rhine frontier.
In win lidsl balmy so secrets, for the Premien offieers
with Weir telessopes see what is doing from their own side
of the Kehl Bridge, and count every stroke of the pick-
axe. The Prussian admit that the Clisesepot is superior
tet their nesdhrge3 in length of range and precision ; but
they my the ealibee of the bore is too little, and the
wounds the bullets make are not effective. The
/Vanden soldier, they flatter themselves, will
beat the Oheesepots by firing coolly at short
dietanoca, and following up their fire with the bayonet
and even blows from the heats of their =oaken at dose
quarters. They think the Fremek Chameepote too light to
maids charge. As le artillery, they boast that in spite of
our nierealeueee theirs is the superior arm, and they rely
greatly upon the wsperier education of their soldiers. The
general impressica in Germany is that France is in a state
of decadence, and that French soldiers are not much to he
feared. It makes me sit* to see the small consideration in
which my nation is held in (Ramsey ; but I will hope that
the half of what is said may be set down to lanegadocia.
The ooncootors of the petition against the anti:
catholic tendencies of certain profaners in the
University, which will be the occasion of a fierce
debate in the Senate next week, are terribly scan-
dalised by the news that M. Sainte Bence, a
senator, gave a dinner on Good Friday, at which

Her Majesty the Queen has been pleaseti
name Wednesday, the 13th of May, at half•past 11 o'clock,
for the oemmony of laying the first stone of the new St.
Thomas's Hospital.
It is stated that the Duke of Northumberkcd
will be the new Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex.

A large meeting of the inhabitants of Lambeth
was held last evening, at the Horns Tavern, Kennington.
on the question of taxation. The meeting ads called by
the London Financial Reform Association. Mr. T. II ughe,
M.P., presided, and made a speech in support of the oh•
jests sought to be attained by the association. The other
speakers included Mr. S. Pope, Mr. J. Beal, Mr. J. lcoMe.
Mr. Dresser Rogers, and Mr. Alderman J. C. Lawrence.
Resolutions were paned unanimously in favour of the
association, and a petition to parliament on the question
was adopted.
Favourable news has been received in Paro
of the journey to the Holy Land of the party who em•
barked at Marseilles nearly a month ago. Four :,dies
from the Faubourg St. Germain were among the
company, the Countess de Guebriant, Viscountess de
Rouge, Count's. Lembeurs, and Viscountess de to
Panelize. The ladies bore the fatigues of the journey
well, and arrived in time to spend the Holy Week in
Jerusalem. The Princess de la Tour d'Auvergne remained
in the sacred city to receive the arrivals, who profited by
her kindness as well as her thorough knowledge of the
country and the holy places. _ _ _

Don Giacomo Mergotti, director of the Turin
journal Untie Cattolica, has collected and forwarded to
the Pope, since 1860, offerings in money to the amount of
' 3,000,000 francs, without reckoning gifts in jewellery asil
precious object'. Besides many valuable trinkets and
jewels, be has presented to the Pope 49,762 francs in cash.
and an album containing obliga:.-ioni of the national los.
and other Italian securities, illustrated by Latin inscrip
tions, due to the pea of Professor Vallauri, of the Turin
University.
Tag RUSSIAN prima/rte.—The Mentor;al DT
lostatigne has the subjoined :—" Baron de Budberg Lavine.
by several well-ascertained facts, arrived at the convictios
that the insult was premeditated and given by Baron de
Meyendorff in full enjoyment of his intellectual faculties.
believed a vindication el his honour, publicly outraged, to be
due to his personal dignity. The Emperor Alexander 11.,
appreciating as it deserved the motive which determined
Baron de Budbarg to give up his post, accepted, althongl
with regret, the resignation of his ambassador at Paris.
As soon as the Baron received official intimation of this
acceptanse he presented M. de Tchicelternine, first secretary
of embaany, as interim chargé d'affaires, to the Marquis
de Heartier, to whom he explained confidentially the
reason of his resignation, begging the Minister of Foreign
Affairs to keep the matter undivulged until the result of
the duel with Baron de lfeyendorff should be known. The
rencontre took places at Munich on Monday lase Accord•
kg to a despatch received at the Boseian Embassy at
Paris, Baron de &Ahem war slightly wounded ; but be
was able, the following morning at 6, to take the tags
for fileaaberty, where he slept, and whence he arrived in
this city en Wednesday at 10 o'clock."
WIDDINCI Ili WielltfleffYlZ A/MP. —Yesterday
morn* the marriap of the Rev. R. Brown with
BortlMck, of Crookston, wee solemnised in Westminster
Abbey, with a full choral service. Mr. Arthur Sullies
van one of the groomsmen, and he composed an anthem
specially for the occasion, which was rendered by the choir
with beautiful effect. The Bishop of Aberdeen conducted
the service, waisted by the Dean and the Precentor if
Westminster, and the Rev. Francis J. Holland.
DISCOVISY or MA.RBLZ AT Rorer.—Rich as the
soil of Hems may reaseeably be expected to be in relics 04
ancient art and areltitecture, the recent discovery of the
ancient Roman wharf denominated Emporium, and the
immense quantity of marble of different qualities dr
posited there, has surprised as well as intereeted
antiquaries. On a length of the wharf now excia•
vated fee rather mere then 50 yards, 493 blocks have been
aherdy
Roue Ys Afrisano, 30 ; 10 F
aimied-1.1147 • ,of the qualities °winrnan 14
*
mats, 10. Giallo Antieo, 40 ; Alamitos, Gm"
deli. media, 6 ; Porphyro,2 ; Romeo Antioo, 3 ;
SOO ; Spatadoere, e ; Verde Ando°, 2 ; Brooostello, I ;
Beeteeis Ocrallina, 1 ; and Grew blaaeo statuario, 2.
As be small frognassts they are almost numberleas,
email of 4,000 having been already emoted, and deism
And no difficulty in marrying away specimens, which
they gel cut and polished in the marble 211=1
Use. The heavy stay tribute existed by the
and the subjoin provisoes of Africa and Greece,
and unemployed in the Papa fabrics of heathen Rens,
bat nonlicenesd after an icemossice et 18 centuries in the
noaddy hank of the Tiber, sad will furnish material' for
the renewal et the variegated Marble pavements of all the
°bunches in Rome for °eateries to come. —Lidice in the
P.m.

Mr. Stephens, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Archibald,
applied on behalf of Mr. Sheppard, • parishioner of
Frome, in Somersetsbire, for a rule to show
cause why a mandamus should not liens com-
manding him to proceed against the Rev. W. J. IL
Bennett, vicar of From., for the purpose of making in-
quiries into certain charges that bad been made against
him of heresy committed within the diocese of London,
as well as within the diocese of Bath and Well', and con-
tained in two publications, one entitled " A Plea of Tole-
ration," is a letter to the Rev. Dr. Posey : and the other
au may on "The Church and the World, 1867."
The Lord Chief Justice—How do you bring it within the
cognisance of the Bishop of London?
Mr. Stephens said the application was made under the
Ist, led, and 4th Via, chap. 86, wee. 3. The mooed pub-
lication complained of was an essay entitled " Some Re-
sults of the Traotarian Movement of 1833," and
that bed been published in Frome as well
as in London. His reason for applying to
the Bishop of London to proceed in this ease
was th►t the Church Discipline Act could
only be put in force by the bishop in whose diocese the
offence had been committed. The bishop, by the 3rd sec-
tion, had a discretion to exorcise, but he must hear the
application, and by the sth section it was provided that
the report of the Conimissioners to be appointed by him
should be referred to the bishop of the diocese in which
the beneficed clergyman resided. whether there were sut•
/lent prima facie grounds for further proceeding.
Mr. Justice Lush—Then your argument, Mr. Stephens,
that unties the Bishop of London takes cognisance of
this change there is ao means of proceeding against Mr.
Leonel'?

The Lord Chief Justice—But is not the foundation of
ippcoptil jurisdiction over the clergy confined to the bishop
within the diocese where the offending party is an
oaici. slug minister? _

st:phens apprehended not. A bishop had general
tk,tiuu over the clergy, or else a non-beneficed clergy-
c..te might publish heresy without the means of being
If that principle were not conceded bow could
br is rubiAtivtl
Ti.c Lon! Chief Justioe—That is what I should like to

ton. be,itte• it might help the court to construe the
cords .4' the act, which are somewhat =bloom'.
Dlr. •tephess said that unless the court held that view
a la atticed clergyman of the diocese of Hereford might
rove to London—and if they could suppose a clergyman
-.turded with sin—publish a pamphlet denying the
divimt of our Blessed Lord and Saviour in every diocese
etc l t Hereford and escape eoclesiasticsl punishment.
nosy on the " Church and the World" had been
r' I ~,sly published in London, and consequently
t • 14shop of Bath and Wells could not corn-
- proceedings spinet Dlr. Bennett, but upon receiv-
• !, port of the commissioners to be appointed by the
.4 London to examine into the charges that there
••• s• pt ...I facie grounds for further proceedings, the Bishop
al, and Wells could proceed further.
. o”tiee Lush—ls the charge for holding or publish.
~ I olical opinions?
ntephens—For publishing and maintaining them.
It di I not follow if the commission was issued that he
s.,ould be able to prove the publication of the " Plea of
Toleration," and :dl be now asked was that the bishop
should exercise the discretion which he had declined to do.
In the correspondence that had passed between Mr. Dale,
the applicant's solicitor, and Mr. Lee, the bishop's secre-
tary, the latter stated that " the bishop does not feel
larurelf called upon to comply with the re
. u..,t thus toad, to him." This refusal to be
tae m,dium of proceedings against Mr. Bennett has no re-
frelic, whatever to the question as to whether or no the
netrioes propounded in the works referred to are at
Ono with the articles and formularies of the church.
b, which the bishop does not deem it necessary to ern-
nat• the books, but he declines, unless under legal oom-
pulnuf . to be made the prosecutor of Mr. Bennett, or of
.1 other derv/man not connected with the diocese of
I. 'mks, who may happen to publish in the metropolis
•upposed to contain unsound doctrines.
The Lord Chief Justice—What is the heresy charged?
Db. Stephens said it was this. In the " Plea of Tolera-
bo, occur the following statements asserting a real,
visible presence of our Lord upon the altar.
' Toe greater part of the priesthood does now
•••,-Lie and set forth without flinching those
• til•rb which were then (1830) to say the
Irat hehl in abeyance. To speak only of myself I
winked steadily onwards as far as my humble powers
k,b• • ‘bleil me, cheered and instructed by the ' Traci
for ter Times,' and your (Dr. Piney's) own more special
• tat Oxford, to contend honestly for the faith ono*
I unto the saints. That truth seeming to me
• ve its whole efficacy front the right
aloe primarily of the doctrine of incarnation, and
L.og on that the real, actual, and visible presence of
upon the altars of our churches. Without that
' • ~.• as containing and inferring the mumrdotal
the priest and the sacrificial character of the
there would seem to me no church at
..ould not but be that somehow the words of our
• a Lord must be true, ' except ye eat of the flesh of
,f Man and drink his blood ye have no life in you.'"
Lord Chief Justice—l think you need not go further
~.to the °outwits of the work.
51% otephens said that no doubt their lordships would
•‘• loote the part about "the adoration of the comm-
. .1 ..Irtnents, ' Mr. Bennett " believing Christ to be in
lie says " Well, I do not know what cabin of
:wren in the priesthood may think. I do not wish
• olopronlise them by anything that I may
o, do, but seeing that I am one of those
burn lighted candles on the sitar in the day
use incense at the holy sacrifice, wbo nee
is vestments, who elevate the blessed
mho myself more and teach the people to
consecrated elements, believing Christ
Nem. believing that under their veil
body and blood of my Lord and Saviour

11014011711 Conner!, aged 27, inmate of St. Marylebone
Workhouse, wascharged with wilfully causing the death
of her child. James Connell, aged 10 weeks.
Mr. Martin, of the Society for the Protection of Women
and Children, watched the ease.
' William Roberts, qr and superintendent of the
casual ward at St. lebone Workhotuie, said—Be-
tween a quarter and h -peat 2 yesterday afternoon,
prisoner came to the workhouse gate with an order from
the overseer for her admission. I admitted her and her
child. She commenced crying and making a noise, and then
I noticed tlud the was the worse for drink. I sent and in-
formed Mr. Douglas, the master, of her state, and he gave
me directions to place her in the receiving ward till she got
sober. I told her to bring her child and come with me.
She refused, and I told her to give me the child, She
said she would see me -- first, and that I should not
have it. I managed to get her across to the ward and
shut her in with her child. About 3 o'clock I looked
through the wicket and saw prisoner sitting up nulling
the child. At 4 o'clock she was doing the same. On my
going in at 5 o'clock to take her out she was lying on her
side. The child was lying on its face on the pri-
soner's right arm. I gave her a shake, and told
her to get up. She made • move, and I said,
" What I. the matter with the child?" She
turned the child over, and I noticed its face was black.
She said, " The matter with my child ? Nothing." I said,
"My (led, the child is dead ; you have killed it I" She
said she had not. I took the child to the doctor and he
said it was dead. Prisoner was then given into custody.
Robert Wheeler, 245 D, said—At 2 o'clock on Thurs-
day morning I was on duty outside the workhouse
and saw the prisoner with her child in her arms. I asked
her what she was waking for, and she said to be admitted
into the workhouse. I knocked at the gate and asked the
night porter if be would admit her. Be said be had an
order against it, as she had • home and husband. Knowing
her, I told her to go to her sister, who lived close by. She
swore at me, and said she wished her —child was dead.
Prisoner—Good God I I was too fond of it.

Constable and went away. An
hour afterwards I saw per again at the owner of East-
street, close by the workhouse. She had the child with
her. I told her to go home. The child was eryieg, and
she said to it, " If I don't kill you before twenty hours are
over my bead, I will cut my own throat." She then
got up, and went away. Knowing her to be • bad chants-
ter, and that this was her usual way, I took no notice of
it. I afterwards saw her give the child the breast. I saw
her again at half-past sin the morning in a publiv•house
as soon as it opened. She then had the child upon her
arm. She was under the influence of liquor.
Mr. Mansfield—Have you aey question to ask the
akar
Prisoner—l cannot ask him any question after the lies
he has told of me.
Mr. William Francis Fuller, resident medical officer in
the Marylebone Infirmary, said—The child was brought to
me by Roberts, the officer, at sin the afternoon. It was
dead. I bare not made any examination. There were no
external marks of violence. The faros was slightly dis-
coloured.
Mr. Mansfield remanded the prisoner for a week.
As the prisoner was leaving the dock she shook her
bead, and said—You shan't see me any more. I will
hang myself.

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