The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-25 00:00:00

TEE IMPERIAL PIRG-EATER.v,

The Beilletio tiational, having extraebst
the llovilovr de Armee the announcement of the
lion of 31. Puyau, who commanded the att. k •,• •• .
electoral meeting at Nimes, by which the life of M
has been jeopardised, added to the announcer, •
they made it " without comment." Lieuteuim.
Captain Puyau sent a challenge to M. Pierre Ito .„
the editor of the Bulletin, demanding utiste•th,g;
insult or the insertion of a note dictated by 11. • .
M. Bangnon offered to insert the following 1:•.• •
"In our number of August 29 we
comment the promotion of M. Puyau to the e• •
tads. M. Puyau informs Ili that ho •
this promotion for a long time, and that the o, •
29 had nothing to do with it. We fool bo•a: .
this denial, and to confess we did nnt know • •
promotions were regulated by a hot which •
beginning of each year."

This did not satisfy M. Puyau, who in
meeting. M. Baragnon on thi, h •
told him that the affair at Nimes wa., •
legal tribunals and the public ennvcieur.•, vi l
not bound in honour to tight. Ili• t 1..; ,

TILE REPENT

lIARMOITTII, NORTH WALI:s. 1•
About 3 o'clock this morning a
was seen at anchor about seven miles to th,• ,
this place, and two miles from the shore, with , • •
distress flying (says Mr. Jenkins of h,•r
Customs). The wind was blowing strong at th.• • ,:: • • • ~,,
the north-west. The Ellen lifeboat, of the Nat., I.
boat Institution, was promptly launched and
the ship which was found to be the Favourit.•. c I : •.
wood, bound from Liverpool to New Orh•ant e
general cargo. She had been dismasted iu .•.•
Saturday last off the Irish coast. The masa:6, •i tti
lifeboat informed the master of the vessel of h t.
and the boat then returned to the shore with a 11,
the assistance of two steam-tugs from l'ortmad.. .
the steamers is now alongside the ship.

PORTFIDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES, Acs Z • !:.
Yesterday, about noon several vessels left Ow. h.(
while the wind was blowing a hard gale from the w •
south west (states the Rev. J Hughes). Suddenly iu•
wind shifted to the north north west, accompani,•.l by
heavy !quells ; two schooners and a smack put back.
in coming into the bay one of the schooners ran upon ; •
Chwslin Rock. As soon as the dangerous position w
seen, the Cotton Sheppard lifeboat, belonging to •
National Institution, was launched ; but before she coo; I
reach the spot the crew had come ashore in their own boat.
Shortly afterwanis the vessel shifted to another rock, and
soon became a total wreck. She was the Witch, of Holy.
head, and was on a voyage from Dieppe to ltuncom,
a cargo of flint stone.

The lunatic 'Wood, whose eccentricitioi gay.•
to the report of a Fenian design to assassinate the tt, 0,11,
ham, it appears, been sent to England at his own
His insanity had nothing to do with Fenianism

The Austrian Emperor will stay at Li‘,.:ll-
- 01 the end of the present month and efa•rwvl,
proceed to the camp of Bruck to witness grin.' nJu.
mune. there. General Kuhn, General Gablenu, 3:, (14.•
Archduke Albert will accompany his Majesty.

The Bavarian government has decided th it t 4 •
fortress of Wurtaburg shall be immediately rived.
The Italie of Florence states that in r .11.,-
quence of the damage done to the ]tout-Conti.. 1,1 I II
the late rains, many travellers, on their way from It dy
to France and England, are going by way of Avoo, th
Simplou,and Geneva.

The Italian deputy Genero, accused of t otu-
plicity in an extensive scheme of forgery, has just bo
seized in prison by mental alienation.
The Inralide Busse says :—" From St. Pet,:
burg to Bologov. on the Nicholas Railway, the fort •
on fire. The station of Orinda is completely 5un,.,,, ;
by flames. Some troops have arrived there to en,i
to circumscribe the conflagration. The wood. 1•10, S, -
compass Malovichewka and Gradninsk are ads. '
The cattle disease has broken out in t ili ,!.
some of the districts of Brody, Hamierika. awl /I- • *.
A sanitary cordon has been establi-lied.

The Madrid Gazette says :-" t 1,.•
harvest has been for the most part less abundant rl,
than usual, the vine-crop promises to be nisgniti,ont. I
quantity of this fruit is so great that it
disadvantageous to the owners of the viney ~.1 ,se
price at which they will be obliged to sell no: -
ing them for the cost of cultivation."
PLYMOUTH, AVOCST 25.-The steamship N
from the West Indies, has arrived here with 121 1,•-:.
gen, treasure valued at 488,278 dole. and 83 sad,. •L
mails. Eight rassengers and the mails were landed 1,1.,
the mails being sent on by special train at 2 a.m. r. •
Neva proceeded for Southampton.
CROOKHAVEN, AUGUIST 25, 2.13 A.M.-Th., ite,1111.."
City of Baltimore, from New York, is now paging Brow-
head signal station, ea rade for Queenstown.
TEE COMET OF ENCEI2.-11r. J. R. ILIA writ-
ing to the Times from Mr. Bishop's observatory, Ten, len•
ham, Pays:-"The next few mornings will afford the
and only remaining opportunities of viewing this celebratol
body iu these latitudes during its present return to prole:-
lion. It is rapidly descending towards the sun'.l,lsoo,
though the intensity of its light increases daily. The fol-
lowing are the comet's positions at 2 o'clock, 3.M , with
the times of rising in London and also those of the 199.
Right North Polar rent
Ascension. Distance. he,‘.
Y. N. 5, /I S
Aug. 24 555 55. 817 ... 8I deg. 90min. ... co 1
26 - ..• 8 rti „ „ - 1
„ 534 ... 84 ~ 301 „ - 4
27 -...841 ... 85 „
so ... 860 eti „ 7 „ 5d ...
22 .- 868 .- 88 „ 65 „ 9 1
80 ... 9 7 „ 46 214 5I I
The passage through perihelion will occur on September
16, and the comet will arrive at its least distance trout the
earth on the 27th instant."
THE COLUMBUS OF TROUVILLE.—M. Alexandre
Dumas, son. writes as follows from Trouville: Tr ,u•
villa has become the fashionable sea bathing 03. e. I'
has beaten Dieppe, Havre, Etretat, and Villier, and mil, 4
Biarritz. I ought to be p_roud of this succeed, Ft ths
town is my America, and I have this in common sae
Columbus, that I have not given my name to my
discovery. That event happened in 1831.
The
tare
wwea re tar reach
s then at thet end oft ; thean dweirthlca,ktiw'
&dimes Aie tandem of the Parisian tourist. One
des j
commercial traveller appeared there, another dap an
artist. Neither history nor legend has preserved the mime
of the former, and the remembrance of the latter is ,aly •
due to its owner's celebrity. He was the idealist Psol
Hnet, who contends in every exhibition with the malts!
Cotc4. I was the third voyager who approached th., ,
locality. From the Tronvilleishich I found in 1431 to
that of to-day there is the difference between the
°tektite of Bougainville and that of Dupetit-Thnen‘
When I first went there the village containet
fifteen or twenty fishermen's huts, a dozen thatched c.a.
tages, a population of a hundred and fifty souls, stla
single inn, the Auberge de la Plage. At present re
el
are a thousand houses, 5,000 inhabitants at ordinary
times, and 16,000 during the bathing season,
people with twenty-
five hotels; some of them palaces. In 1831 wsle?.l
phiabout in shirt-sleeves or blouses, sometimes even •
less clad. At this moment the rule is to dress three nines
a day, and occasionally the actors of the Comadie.Fran.
calse come and perform there. In addition. the" ard
aK-
splendid races, concerts, promenades, picnics, hatis.
mficent toilettes; in fact, all the pleasures of the sat-
side."
A YOITNO MURDERER OF SEVEN PERSON.;
Binaries as TEM Lan Ifoknwr.-At Tainbeff, Iteimi.
south-east of Moscow, a young man named Gorski.
pupil in the college, and only 18 years old, who had been
convicted of assassinating a whole family of seven Per-
sona, was lately led out for execution. He was convey si
foonrathscazt'prisonerand guarwafeato bybe abangmair-wnseecortirePerTheaibllt -4
the
egrealat
wcro.wndehadjudgalamntblhaedvingto
beenwitnessresd,theihr.,,actl
was clothed in a long white robe, the hood of which was
placed over his head ; he was then placed on a high steel,
which was to be withdrawn from under his feet as soon as
the tope was adjusted round his neck. But
.at that
mosneot an official COMO forward and read an
decree oommufinOhe penalty of death into cue of bun
labour for life. The criminal was immediately clothed in
• convict dress and taken back to prison, whence be "I
shortly be sent to Siberia.
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THIRD EDITION.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(114.1010 Mr. Tayne.)

ER MTREF:I. OUTRACts.
0,1 , savage-looking youth. of Italian
aged 17, was indicted for stealing a watch-
, hon. tio. proportv of John Col. from his person.
Mr. J.Jin cos he kept the Mail Coach. Camomile-
t. tin the evening of the sth inst. he was in Shore-
edri,..p. i prisoner camo up and struck him in the chest
at hit chain and broke it, and ran down a
:mull:: • tiled Magpie-alley. He followed him, and wit-
t„•.. knocked down by two other men, who kicked
Lip, taped upon him. Prosecutor was much injured
sv ...hoer. The value of the chain was about 51.
1,1,,s 1.11 pII ,rman said she lived at the Mail Oomph,
tim0m,.,...t1t •I. She was in Shoreditch with the prose-
s iitor •ovi the prisonur run up and match at prose-
, „t„.•. icuu, and rush up Magpie-alley. She gave
/atoms: Ns, to the police, and identified the prisoner
mong other pri*Oneb,.
Mr. Voyue said the court was determined to put down
outruges. If the prisoner had been known he
• have given him penal servitude. He should there-
; him to prison for twelve months.