The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-21 00:00:00

E.TTILIOILDINdIY Titdoß.DT dT SBA.

The Cork /braid giros the particulars of a series
of horrible, and almost incredible, occurrences which
took place on board the Dutch vessel Finnechina, Captain
Hots. commander, just arrived in Cork from South
America. A Londoner named Rogers was one of the
crew, and either from insanity or cupidity (as he knew the
captain had a large amount of money on board), he seems to
Lave formed a plan for getting possession of the yowl by
wholesale murder. On the fourth day after the ship left
Buenos Ayres Rogers took a favourable opportunity and
pushed the first mate overboard. The cook, in response
to his cries, ran to throw him a rope, when Rogers seized
Lim by the legs and threw him into the sea abio. Both
these men were Dutchmen. The second mate, also a
native of Holland, ran to help the drowning men, but
Rogers endeavoured to kill hiin with en axe. He
ran towards the cabin, and jumped down the hatch.
way, upsetting the captain, who was running up, and both
tolling on the floor, Rogers secured the hatch above them,
and made them prisoners. Two men remained on deck,
one a Yankee, the other an Llama, and thee. Bogen
kept apart—one fore, one aft—by threatening to murder
them ; and compelling them to steer vessel in turns. For
four days the murderer remained master of the deck, not
sleeping during the time. The captain fired twice
at Lim during that period, but without wounding him
seriously. Owing to a dead in the compass, he sup-
posed the vessel was steering straight for the land, when
in reality she was moving parallel to the coast At the
end of the fourth day sleep overcame him, and the Irish-
man, waiting for the opportunity, seised the are, and at
one blow nearly severed his head from his body. He then
relieved the captain and mend mate, and the venal made
for Rio. After an investigation a fresh crew was shipped,
and the Finnechina arrived in Cork Harbour on non.
day.

THE NEW MINIMIZE OF WAN.—The Right Hon.
Edward Cardwell and his colleffigne, Mr. Vernon Har-
court, Q.C.. will be entertained by the mayooretTr. Joseph
Castle) and oomorabon of the city of Oaf at • bou-
quet, to be held in the council chamber of tha city this
afternoon. The new Lord Chancellor has been invited
by the ancient order of Druids at Oxford to meet his old
constituents in company with the present members, at
their annual banquet, but has been reluctantly compelled
through pruritic of business to decline the invitation of
the Orford Toes.
It is undmatood that Mr. Baker, of Roar-
crescent, Cambridge, will accompany the Prince of Wale.
in the ca ty of a naturalist on the occasion of the
g viit of tho Prince to the PAIL The Bev. W.
e Onslow, rector of Ilandrincham,wlll also accompany
the mthee and his suite as private chtmlM.
The Now York papers of the .10th publish
President Johnsoa's Message, and condemn it la very
severe teems Aiwa( to the refusal of the donate to,
hear it reed, the !Wane says that " °warms never az-
=Lame the spirit of the Ratios than when it
y upon this miserable sewage.
it to.. swept up with the dust and at, as
westapaper et the fees."

ROIMANLL
DITCHARZBT, Imo. 90.
The Romania of to-day asserts that the polioy
adopted by the Turkish government in the Greek
question, is due to the counsels of Count Beast.

OUR PARIS LETTER.

THE TITRICO-GREEK DIFFICULTY.
(mom on °lnt 00211111POIThiff.)
PARIS, 81111,1 MT ET/311110

It will, I believe, turn out that the contradic-
tion of the rumour of a Bung= " despatch" on
Eastern affairs turns only upon a technical word.
and that the Russia* government has in another
form manifested a difference of opinion with
France on the affairs of Ovens and Turkey. Ac-
cording to credible information M. de Talley-
rand, the French Ambassador at St. Petersburg,
having had occasion to talk with Prince Efortoha-
koff on the subject of the existing conflict, the
Rumba minister expensed a fear that the
attitude of France in the matter was
not so straightforward as Basta could
desire. " If," h• is reported to have said,
"Turley is so sousetiag she must think herself sup-
ported by a great power, and then Bassia would
be entitled to show some resort's in complying
with the invitation made to her to wooer in com-
mon measures to pre►ent an explosion." The sub-
stance of this conversation telegraphed by X. de
Talleyrend is thought to account for the panic at
yesterday's Bourse.
To-day a good deal of irregular business was
done cm the Boulevards, and, notwithstanding the
assertion of this morning's Moat..., that the
difficulty is in a fair way of settlement, not at im-
proved prices. Route was done for a good while
at 69fr. 30c. ; and the last and highest quotation
was but 69fr. 80e.

The Gasdois lays that M. do Roon, the Prussian
Minister at War, has actively resumed the warlike
preparations which ho had suspended in Sep-
tember, and that Prussia is completing the arma-
ments of the fortress of Sunderburg and Duppel.
The Marquis de Moustior is so ill that ho cannot
be removed from his bedroom in the ministry of
foreign affairs. It is stated that the Emperor,
when informing him by an autograph letter
that be had been provided with a suc-
cessor, added that his weak state had
been noticed by his Majesty at the last minis-
terial council, that in relieving him from the cares
of office the Emperor thought to do him a ser-
vice, that he was gasetted a senator, and that
when be got well a foreign embassy would always
be at his service. The marquis is said to have
been as much annoyed as surprised by this com-
munication.

M. Pinard, whose fate was signified to him
by General Fleury only two hours after
the Emperor's arrival at the Tuileries
from Compi4ne on Thursday last, sus-
pected what was coming, and prepared to " ad-
just his mantle" with dignity ere he fell. It is,
I believe, quite true that he has refused to be a
senator. But one of his flatterers in the Condilu-
ionNe4 spoils all by saying that his future career
will be altogether guided by the Emperor's
wishes. That is curiously inconsistent with the
rumour chronicled at the same time, that he
wishes to get into the Corps Legislatif as an " in-
dependent" member. I think I can tell his
horoscope better. M. Troplong, the President
of the Court of Cessation, will very shortly
attain the statutory age for retirement. A rumour
was lately circulated that, in order to meet M.
Troplong's case, the law—naturally very unpo-
pular among the seniors on the judicial bench—
would be altered. This rumour was yesterday
denied by an official communique'. M. Troplong
then will soon be shelved; M. Delangle (and a
fitter man does not exist) will be put in his place ;
and M. Pinard, having tint perhaps made a feint
of toiling as an ordinary advocate, will be made
Procureur-General of the Court of Cessation.
The salary of that place is much higher than that
of a senator, and there is no reason why (like M.
Delangle) he should not be a senator as well.
The government has no inclination to try any
more isolated electioneering experiments, and,
making a perverse use of its prerogative, intends
not to issue writs for the seats in the Bonehes-du-
Rhone, Aube, Aveyron, and Somme, vacant by
the deaths of Berryer, Auguste Chevalier, and
Rambourgt, and the appointment of M. Greasier
to office. The certainty of a defeat at Marseilles,
and the probability of checks in the Aube and
Aveyron have led to the extreme resolution of
keeping these four seats vacant for a whole
session.

INDIA.

TILE DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE IN THE

BAY OF BENGAL.

A tkrrific cyclone, which swept over Akyub on
the 13th ult., appears to have -caused great damage to
property of all kinds. The lines of telegraph to Calcutta
and Rangoon were both completely interrupted. The
mail steamer Busheer, which arrived at Akyab from
Rangoon on the 12th inst., was forced from her moorings
at the landing pier, and driven oa shore with oonsidessble
damage. The British barque Duke of Northumberland,
which was loaded, the British ship Naomi, shout two.
tl irds loaded, sad the British barque Volunteer, which had
lately arrived in balled, were all driven on shore, and
the latter so high that it seemed doubtful whether she
could be got off again. The native shipping and smaller
craft were all driven on shore os sunk, in some osses with
lose of life. A few days before the eyeless there was a
gale from the east, during which the British ship
Clannerden, 1,1911 tone register, soak at her Aachen out.
side the port, where she was waiting instructions from
home, and nine of the crew, annisting of twenty-nine
men, were drowned.

DAY.)

speotiesed se to
se slight
%Cab' • the
" el tke

emmory of
maids wink acaustemed.
sight of their NNW& temmente by themselves, their
Smug% W lese.th..itheegiste et.the said teammate, to
sudsy SWIM. aS the heath and wants hinds
of the mew et &air meemaisabie cattle
Wants ad sambaed ea WA load.
& Whether the espylsold iamb of mot
ttereed. from time whaled, Ste., bum ls sight al their espyheid tamemate by them-
selves, Gar tatmen, or knob, eemglers of the mid
tthessimb, eat the said
llama, aid carry
away gem Ulla.. and &ea, or say Gas or more
of each Skip, &sr ail eaciammelie endtte. beast and
amtheal, ea %dr emboli ►Maseniate. es to bo otherwise
Whitspent sgpait lb* emboli tememeate.
S.the emboli iamb of the manor of
=ham dm =lke.. have been accus-
slit of their teneemate sad theca-
Wray their fanners, te thank, ecespiers of the said
Iteameents, to dig in oonvadent pieces upon the mid waste
eads for and carry away gravel. mad, or loam, to be
used sad .pest in and epos their mid eopyhold tenements,
for the thereof.
4. Whether the eopylVrimerate of the manor of
ftesistead from time whereof, &e., have been scone-
ia right of their aopyhold tea 'anti b 7 themselves,
their isre, or lemmata, osimpins at the said tenements,
tow the waits had within the sea manor called Hamp-
stead Beath, krnavation by welldag and riding thereon,
sad
on at esemaaebie time elm far any* en lawful sports and pastimes then-
6. If say oath customs be found to exist, whether they
or an sad whisk of them are ezereisable by all the copy-
bold bomb of the armor, without regard to the time at
which their teammate may appear by the rolls of the
maim to have bees lest panted.
of Hampiliec
6. Whether,
of the to the
is custom of the said manor
k the homage necessar to
esti& the lord of manor to soaks • valid rent by
sow of mart roil of sayl part of the waste land with.
the said moor mot pssvtoo.te granted out as oopyhold of
the 'mace.

7. Mistime the homage in the cases referred to in last
pesesding kens have lean accustomed from tine to time to
rer say special tense or coedilione
earirenninft the iner sad enjoyment at Nish eopy-
tamenie.
11. Whether than is say auto, of the imam of Hamp-
stead to prom! tio left bola digging tar sad carrying
away used, pot* loam, or brick earth in and boa the
waste of the moor in quantities owe than saillaient for
Me ono of the domes lead of the lord.
9. Whothot tlio lard can any longer dig for and carry
away mind, ravel, loom, or brick earth in quantities more
than masked far the use of his demesne land without
unduly fatwfabg with and injuring the rights of the
"Tertannin.
eadieszegor more of the customary rights and
in the first issues shall be found to
:LT C& wbother suScient waste land haa been left for
the due ware's of do copyhold tenants of such customary
rights and
11. And 1:4111=nt common shall be found to exist,
then whether, by the custom of the manor of Hampstead,
the lord could, without the assent of the homage, enclose
as part of the waste.
imam will be tried in the Court of Exchequer.
Sir Bounden Palmer, Q.C., Sir Richard &galley, Q.C.,
Mr. Jellied. Q.C., Mr. 'Southgate. Q.C., Mr. J. Williams,
Q.C., Mr. Speed, Mr. Eddie, and Mr. Bedwell appear for
the several parties.

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