The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-15 00:00:00

arena. But hi saratiesed it without concealment ;
be took a situate with his when he west to buy h.
This Words a strong presumption of the asses of s
any guilty iateatioa. More than this:. Role se-;
counts for the massif in whisk he disposed el thel
arena: he says he Ore it to m
ast
Boaetri,l
Swiss pareissei it for her at hat Moist.
Manua Buono? on the trial denied this spot
oath ; but the slue of this oath is much di-
tainiskoel by the Asides's elaea_aollected.
GILL has sworn that Mourns &mous_ applied
to him for mesa* sad when le rftisM to
eell it to her. dusted she could get ft elis
where. Janll Rase heard Moons Bran= elk
her brother, when he went to Asthma, to get
ors
for her, sad saw her give him • sixpence to bay .
Wn.rur Burrow sew Wittier Roes go into
/Ltarna's house to deliver • small parcel he had
laot from &Moo for her. ANX Tun was told
by MARTHA BUOILIE that she had got arsenic,
thosigh the droggist had refused to sell it to her.
Between the aeafficting statesman of William
ROM and MARISA BUCKLEY, the balance of pro-
babilities is obviate in favour of the truth of his.
Again, it is satisfactorily established that Wit.
LUX Ras sad his wllb lived together on the east
affectionate terms. It is also dearly established Ihst
he had a strong basset in the preserved's d hoe
life. Like too many men is the sanufateekig Me-
tries, he was enable to procure employmeat, slims
dependent for hie maintenance ea the weekly Ws-
[ earned by ha wife. MAUNA BUCILIy, on the
con-
trary, had no interest in her riser's surviving, and
the language attributed to her by a number of ensue.
woad witnesses implies anything but a sisterly affec-
tion for hen
Bat we repeat that the exculpation of Ross doer
not depend upon thesimination of MARTHA BUCKLEY.
The fatal powder may have been administered acci-
dentally, unintentionally. In this cue the criminality
of Mantis Humus is Wafted to the ',recipes
accusation of Ross in order to relieve herself from
suspicion. It is perfectly eousivable that ignorant
people like MARTHA and her relations might imagine,
even though the draught was unintentionally anis.
istered, that the only way to save her from hang*
was imputing the set to another. And considering
the characters they bear, and the interest that the
mother and brother of Maas= had in keeping Ross
(the principal witness against them on a charge of
burglary) out of the way, it is but too possible that
they may have sworn falsely against him.
We have stated that the imprison left upon our
minds by the evidence collected since the trial is that
Roes is innocent. The considerations that appear to
have weighed most with the jary appear to have been
their belief that Ross had lived on bad terms with
hie wife ; that he would come into possession of a
small sum of mosey by her death; and that he had
given a false account of what he had done with the
arsenic. It now appears that he was much attached
to bis wife; that be sustained a serious loss by her
death; and that there are strong reasons to believe
that he told the truth about the arsenic. Matters
steadies thus, we think that even those disinclined to
go so far as we do, who exculpate him from the charge
will admit that there is sufficient doubt of his crimi-
nality to render the responsibility of ordering him for
execution ko great for any properly-constituted mind
to incur.
In these circumstances it appears to us that the
very least government can do is to extend a respite
daring pleasure to the condemned man. This would
be virtually a commutation of his sentence. The
reasons that recommend the adoption of inch a mea-
sure are these : —lf the man is hanged no future com-
plete substantiation of his innocence can render it
nomible to do justice to him. If the sentence of death
s commuted, a heavy punishment may; still be
awarded to him if guilty, and if his innocence is
made clearly apparent, compensation for his un-
merited sufferings can hereafter be made to him.

FRANCE.
PARIS. WZDNISDAT EVIINING.
The British claims in Tuscany are in a fair way of
arrangement. Lord Palmerston reduces the indem-
nity to one thousand pounds.
The first part of the Lyons Railway terminating at
Tonnerre, the President continued his journey from
thence to Dijon on the same day by the common road.
His party was conveyed in eight carriages, and a te-
legraphic deepatob, received in Perim yesterday after-
now', announced, as I mentioned at the close of my
despatob, their arrival without accident at Dijon. M.
Pages, the prefect of the Cote-d'Or, met the President 1
at the bridge of May, where the department begins,
and was invited to mat himself in the carriage of ho-
nour, with the Ministers of War and Commerce. The
road, which runs parallel with the railway from Paris
to Lyons, gave frequent opportunity of witnessing
the important works constructed on this line. When
the evening closed in, in order that the President
might losejnone of these, the numerous viaducts between
Aisy and Dijon were illuminated, and presented a
brilliant effect. At Montbars there were some
troublesome socialist parties, who attempted to drown
the welcomes uttered by their political antagonists.
At Viteaux the sub-prefects of Beaune appeared to
greet the party, and at Sumbernon some groups of
agricultural labourers had been krot ready. Between
Pont-de-Passy and Velars the gigantic viaducts were
brilliantly lit up. Girls with flower-baskets, mayors,
natio:al guar6, troops of the line, repeated their
compliments and evolutions at each station, and at 1
last the Burgundian capital hove in sight. The au-
thorities and functionaries of all classes were drawn
up at the viaduct. The Porte de la Liberte was il-
Ismisated with the President's cypher; and the
slashing of bells and roaring of cannon announced
the arrival of the Prince. The cortege was strongly
swotted by a detachment of gendarmes, of dragoons,
and lancers. Nor were these precautions altogether
useless. For, notwithstanding the exertions
of the club of ithe Die Decembre, The en-
trance of the President into Dijon, his passage
through the streets, and his arrival at the prefec-
ture, were attended with demonstrations of great op-
position and almost violence on the part of the &-
moorate, who had organised a reception after their
mode to dash the triumph of official parade. The
stunning cry of " Viva la republique I'l row on all
sides from these groups, and some eves carried their
audacity so far as to attempt, in face of the prefecture,
a repulse of the troops which served as escort Nine
of the nearest were seized, and conducted to prison.
The night before the President's arrival, one Le-
allot, an ironmonger, having attempted to suborn
the sentinel at the post, the soldier raised the alarm,
" Aux armeer The officer on guard, and a corporal
ran to the spot, and attacked with their sabres Le-
depot, who defended himself with a knife, but was
obliged to yield, and was then conducted to prison.
At half-past ten the President received the autho
rities in his apartmente at the prefecture. General de
Outshine, commander of the military district, and
the greatest man on the route, made his appearance
here with sewed military officers. Bledsoe, Pees,
the lady of the pretest, did brilliantly the hewers et
the illuminated hoe& The President was early the
next :morning on the alert, and, girt about with his
, the ministers, and the rest, gave a
d, at which first parson presented
Ethe sot was General de Casten's*. Presently
at Ni oe his grand vicars and clergy,
aidosadepa
followed. Among the host of functionaries who suc-
ceeded, the Jewish rabbis deserves an honourable
mention. People connected with every conceivable
sort of moodid,W, industrial, musical, pictorial, anti-
quarian, members of hygienic committees, profeseors of
belles-lettres, directors of charities, the telegraphic
functionaries were all admitted in turn to the honour
of presentation. The old veterans of the Grande
Armee were shown into a separate apartment The
mayor promoted an ex-grenadier of the imperial guard,
whom feet bad been frown in the Russian campaign,
and two "Egyptians," se the old soldiers of the oam-
paip in Egypt style themselves. To each of these
the President gave 201., and decorated the frost-bitten
grenadier with a cross of the Legion of Honour,
which he took from the breast of one of his aides-de-
'sap. After the reception, the Prince reviewed the
bugs la the park.
The nomileipal contention at La Onillotlere has
tenanted is the retirement of the majority of the
esunciL At fltrasbosrg the mayor has invited the
municipal omen to vote no grant for the reception
of the President, nor will any banquet or ball be of-
Owed to his. 41 member having proposed that four
thanked frame &odd be distributed- to the poor on
the weaka of this visit, the mayor opposed the
010-
01" and thought it better to defer these alms anal
the cold semen. Bwh is the wintery reception pro-
mimed to Louis Napoleon in the theatre oillis early
nom&