The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-29 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(FROM erg, OWN OORRIMPONDM.)

PARIS. THURSDAY WINING.

afternoon, in the Corps Legislattf, M. Gres-
,., I,r, sented his long-delayed report on M.
loan. All tho rumours of a reduction
:..r .011, as might have been expected, fallacious.
reporter accepts the sum of 440 millions origi-
..,::, /.1,,i oAed, which, with 22 millions, allowed
lk uses, makes 462 millions. This relatively
• will merely stop a gap, and by no means
• !he Nuances of the empire in a healthy state.

the street row with the students on
11 lob,. a sergent-de-ville was stabbed with a
o instrument and very seriously injured. I
however, that all the students who were ar-
,, •‘...1 are released. as the Emperor, who will meet
i..rdii .0 de Itoimechose at Rouen on Sunday,
the v,lnde affair to be reduced to the state
..t ancient hist,ev before that time. The Pays
griatl of the leniency shown to the
students, i.ays that a battalion of troops should
: ve been cailed oat, the Faculty of Medicine shut
••. and all the pupils sent home to have their
1-, shaved.
I.euter'a tele4rains, 1 see, announced in Londoa,
the authority of the France, that the Empress
oing to Ireland. " Iceland" was;what the

. _
said ; but as the one news is as untrue as
• ..ther the mist tke is no consequence.

>Lulamr de Ali anu,u, the widow of the Mexican
oral, who a•as executed at Queretaro with Maxi-
had a private audience of the Empress

n'rday. Her Majesty conversed with this lady
- more thin an hour, and asked her numerous
cations about the Queretaro tragedy. Before

:ing leave the Empress was pleased to inform
olarne de Miramon that a pension of G,ooofr. a
,r would be granted her from her Majesty's
~ite purse. As Madame de Miramon is already
?...ceipt of a pension from Vienna the total loss
r f.,rtune is compensated for to an extent which
•l hardly have been hoped for, but some of her
la think the court of Belgium ought to con-
tm•.

ti Uriharren, the gentleman who was knocked
by a horse last Sunday, while imprudently
• I: a ing to cross the Chantilly race-course during
in the Chantilly hospital in a desperate
lie is au American, of Spanish origin,
wai at one time envoy in Paris from the

. republic.
. I;mirse was very firm. The Bente left off
• ..arcely any change. Italian rose 3iic„
Pot,-;.. says that Baron de Bcust is doing his
.t to prevent the tax upon the Austrian funds,
:Ica there is good hope yet that the efforts of
:I! 'linter will prevail against the impolitic
in contemplation.

, iii. Ow ebrle.e ON BOARD VAS LYDIA. —At the
' ...el l'ulke-coat:A yesterday, before Mr. Raffles, the
: ..1 y magistrate, D. F. Schofield, Anselni Larkin, and
. Carroll, reepectively the captain, first mate, and
. roe- of the British ship Lydia, were charged with
• .11.: trievous bodily injuries on several of the crew of
• • ~•e...1. The case excited intense interest, and the
• , :. ~•• Unclosed an amount of bestial cruelty on the
••t• the pri,ot.ers such as has been rarely heard of in a
, •of peuie.... An intelligent and youthful negro sailor,
• • I Williams, who joined the Lydia at Jamaica, said
: • U.ortly after the Lydia put to sea he was very sea-
..ad whit, in that condition Carroll forced him to
a miatute made of fat and molasses. Subse-
. 1y I. akin, after tying his neck and heels to-
. made him sing by puncturing him in
• • ....ob.r parts with a barge sail needle. This
to give hmi intense pain, and the punctures
- I hint to bleed severely. On another occasion Wil-
• ,n•I a sailor named Martin were tied together by
= rer ~. te puts and their necks, and while in that con.
...• . o they were fprced to dance and caper about the
..• ....el l.O to mug. The mate and captain were most
.. 1.• • ... • r cuticular act of cruelty, each carrying a sail
r • • .sit' which they frequently Nicked the two vie-
:•• • In fn t, the use of sail needles as instruments of
1.., t in. at. a common " lark" with all the three prisoners
.1 • ..; la, voyage. The witness Williams detailed several
..... , "As of cruelty. He was once hung head down-
.. t• nom the rigging for upwards of an hour.
,n 1 .another occasion Larkin deliberately wounded
i . rn the private parts with a knife, while
. , ...1, by way of variety, used to force his head
' and pour hartshorn down his norm. One day, while
' ..• a and Martin were tied together by their private
• .t -, they were forced to work at the pumps. Another
• ...wed sailor named Itlartin corroborate.' the evidense
• Williams. He amid that hartshorn had been poured
I .an his no.e by the prisoners, and he had also been fre-
..i. •r tly dogged in the wet ha utsl manner. The next wit-
.. a coloured item named Faller, substantially corroho-
. •..l the evidence given by the previous witnesses. He
-; ...1 that on one occa.sion the second mate knocked him
..., u a ith a large piece of logwood. On another occasion
I ...el two other coloured men were ordered by Larkin to
.• p thernaelves. after which salt pickle was thrown
. • dorm. After further evidence the case was adjourned
...•.1 s Atir day next.
:', I. lit oh' A GERMAN PHYSIcIAN.—A sad story
a - tevealed at an inquest held at the Middlesex Hospital
a. r•tday, concerning the death of a young man, aged 23
r tr. named Emil Albrecht. It appeared that the de-
• ••• .1 11,14 a physician holding a German
as di toms, aud had
it
.•...• time heeu an sistant to a medic residing
sidirg
Ilorneisditch. For some Cantle not ex explained he was
,r,,ted, and he then took a situation in a chemist's
r• in the Haymarket, hut only held it two
• r on.- days. Ihi Tuesday morning a constable was spoken
, Ili .1 y g man in John-street, Fitzroy-square, who said
.. mterl to give a young tnan named Albrecht into cut-
' lr tor stealing a gold ring from him. The circumstances
•-h a hich the robbery took place are, however, not
• red. The constable accompanied the young man to 93,
ulotte-street, and knocked at the door of the room we-
i by the ac -used, lie locked it inside and asked who was
1, Ir. to which the prosecutor said that ho had come to
. .. his ling. The deceased said, " I cannot get it back
1 •• I get money from my sister." Witness then told
• . .......,1 be should take him into custody, and that if he
r.l riot open the door a locksmith would be sent for. The
• •ae d said lie should not open the door, and the witness
, • irt .. the rattling of bottles looked through the keyhole,
...! -...5e that deceased looked very pale. The door was at
e.elt ..!.cued, and the deceased, who appeared to be very
,:. a ..t. removed to the hospital, where he died during
•'..• p sleep from the effects of a dose of morphia,
. I, he Lel taken. The )ury found that the
• • ...ea committer' suicide while in a state of unsound
~..1. A young lady present, who cried bitterly, told
, • • eoroner she had " kept company with the deceased for
'le' last twelve: months," and asked that her letters to de.
~......ed might be returned to her. Dr. Lenkester refuted
to make an order, but referred her to the pollee, and the
proceedings terminated.
.k r rt: m PTED Mt' g iir R. —Much excitement has
1.. • ti created at Cbichesterin consequence of a man named
winiara Cook, :18 years of age, a shoemaker by trade,
•• ••• ing 11111110 a most diabolical attempt to murder a little
.e! named Ph...be Cook. The girl's parents live at
'' '',l'...Y. and she was on a visit to her grandfather, at
c. • heater The accused was yesterday brought up for
: • ,:n: • Ation at the magistrates' clerk's office, before
• . lotyter Cffr. R. G. 'taper) and a full bench of magis•
' !a. William Cook, the prisoner's father, deposed that
' • ween 3 and 4 o'clock on the previous Thursday
• . erro-n he and his grandchild. Phoebe Cook, were
'-•,.; in the kitchen, when the prisoner entered
• .1 .1 knife in his hand, took hold of the child by the
:.. and draw the knife from the bottom part of the
now ink the throat, inflicting a wound of about four
• in length. He then threw her down, saying, "I
. .leite for you." The prisoner afterwards seized the
"r'.- -. and threw him down, when some neighbours
••••• I,:t and took the knife from him. Mr. George stone
I-•'• •. L surgeon, of Chichester, deposed that he was called
4. I- i. a the little girl. The wound extended from about
n'r ".'1• h. law the angle of the mouth, and extended back-
' ' 1- • • • re. the angle of the jaw, about four inches in
-- 'lad the wound been deeper at the back it mast
'• • t prov 1 fatal. He did not consider that the
• - ....aril's life wee now in danger, but she
- • :I riot be able to give evidence (or some time.
••; 11... th, a baker, deposal to hearing cries of
MI •ler." On entering Cook's kitchen ho saw blood all
rr tie floor, and the prisoner was wrestling with
. - fotther, whom he had on the ground. The witness
•-. t'.e knife from him, and handed it over to a police-
., and he heard the prisoner say to his father, " I have
. .. for the child, and now I'll do for you." Amelia
' -,... neighbour, deposed that the prisoner told her he
••••..1 not rest owing to his being about to murder his
-I, his mother, the little girl, and • young man. He
••I I.e should murder them because his father and mother
' . aeed better to them than they did to him. The wit-
'• - %rad, " Cook, don't say so, for your own good, or you
"...1 Ite hanged for it." He said, " That's my intention,
' • '....1i. me Cod :" He then went upstairs and sharpened
~ "Otis. The pilaster, who said he would reserve his de-
" La e, was fully committed for trial for attempted murder
the next Lewes smaktes.