The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, JUNE 1, EVENING.
The ( Ca:cite of this morning publishes a
royal decree authorising the 111iniste ofethe
Colonies to accept the propoeals of a company to
lay telegraphiz cables between Cuba, Porto Rico,
the Mexican coast, and Panama.

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, JuNE I, EYF.SING.
line Chamber off Peens jwasiconstituted Ito-day
as a tribunal of justice to arrange'the preliminaries
for the trial of Count Peniche for treason.
Troops continue to scour the country near
Torres- Vcs:lras, but no further tumults have
occurred.

OUR PARIS LEPTER.

THE EMPEROR AT ROCEN.
(raom oua OW'S CORIIMPO7sTANT.)

PARIS, MONDAY EVENINC.
In consequence of the Whit-Sunday holiday no
Muniteur or other paper appeared this morning,
and there was no chronicle of the sayings and doings
of the imperial visit to Rouen yesterday.
The speeches have now conic to hand, and I sub-
join translations of them.

At the railway station the mayor on receiving
their Majesties addressed them as follows :
Sire,—The members of the administration and municipal
council of Rouen have the honour to present you
the keys of their ancient city. These keys will he
tegarded by your Majesty as something more
than a symbol of the respectful deference and
faithful attachment of a population which is delighted to
see you among them. These keys have been held in the
hands of Napoleon 1., and we have religiously kept them
as a xour( nir of the benefits by which that great sovereign
marked his two visits to this place, and especially of the
decree ordering the construction of that magnificent stoue
bridge which replaces the one the loos of which the city
had deplored for centuries. We have received from you,
also, sire, precious evidences of the interest you take in
us. It is to your generous support that we owe the
splendid streets by which your Majesty is about to pass
to the Donjon, is front of which .Joan of Arc was burned,
and the defence of which cost our Alain Man-
chard a shameful death— those streets which tra‘crhe
the old quarters of our town, now embellished, rendered
healthy, and supplied with spacious markets ; while at the
same time the monuments left us by the industry and
taste of our fathers are seen from favourable points of
view. Our port is connected with railways worthy of our
commerce. It is to you, sire, that our commerce is in-
debted for that railway which opens new communications
with the North—those works ou the Lower Seine which
afford good hope that we may maintain our natural and
secular communication with the sea. On all these ground■
the people of Rouen ardently longed far the honour this
day conferred upon them, and which gives them an oppor-
tunity of offering your Majestyatribute of their just grati-
tude. The members of the administration and the municipal
council are no less pleased at this occasion to express the
same sentiments, and to assure you, sire, of their loyal and
unalterable devotion to your person and dynasty.
Madam,—Your Majesty's presence cannot fail to embel-
lish any fete ; it completes the happiness of our popula-
tions in prosperous times, and consoles and encourages
them in the hour of affliction. But their hearts know how
to return your gracious reception and admirable solicitude
by true affection and profound gratitude. Such are the
sentiments of our city towards you, madam : deign to
accept them, with the assurance of our respectful homage.
4Shis,—We beseech Providence to return to your Majes•

ties all that we and Francelowe you by bestowiag talinue
favour upon the Prince Imperial, and thus sainting the
salvation and hapi Mem of our dear country.

The Emperor replied :

Monsieur le Maire,—The Emprew. auu myself were par-
ticularly anxious to come among rm. We desired to show you
our great sympathy with the industrial and agricultural
populations of this department. We grieved over sufferings
which were courageously supported, anal we applauded
the efforts which you hare made to alleviate them. You
know how much I have at heart the prosperity of this city.
I shall do everything in my power to accelerate the mealures
destined to complete its development. Now that the evil
days are over I hops that a favourable era for the agriculture
sod manufactures of this rich province is about to open.
The Empress and myself fully appreciate the expression
of your devotedness.

On the steps of the cathedral Cardinal de
Bonnechooe, Archbishop of Rouen, thanked their
Majesties on behalf of himself and his clergy, for
their visit to the ancient place of worship, and
more particularly for having come on Whit-
Sunday, " a festival from which dated a new era
of true civilisation for humanity, and of a progress
which would never stop till time should be lost in
eternity."
The Emperor replied :

1 _
Monseigneur,—lt is sever without profound emotion
that the Empties and myself ester these ancient basilicas,
when so many illustrious heads hare bowed dews, sad
where every day the faithful find support aid conga
latlon. The church te the sescluary in which the great
principles of Christie& morality which raise man above
material interests are maintained Wad. Let us then ally
the faith of our father with the sentiment of progress,
and sower segersie the lore of God from the love of
soustry. It is thus that we shall be less unworthy of die
divine protection, and shall march with erect heed in the
path of duty, end overcome all obstacles.
I thank your mines*" for the southoest• you have
impressed towards the Empress, and for the Worse& which
you lake is my see. The bessiiidiss et his illustrious

'godfather, the Pete. sad the prayers of the clergy 4
France, /Ali portcront ionhenr.
The special correspondent of the Liluro writp
from Rouen, with en evident consciousness of the
abolition of " warnings," that the Emperor
looked " sad and tired," and very rarely saluted
the crowd, but th it the Empress was particularly
gracious, as if she had laid herself out to redeem
the " morose air" of the Emperor.
The Pays says that "three persons suspected of
meditating a murderous attack on the Emperor,',
were arrested at Rouen yesterday. This lieWB IA
little known in Paris, and has hitherto eauseii no
sensation.

The rise at the lk,urse continues with incrre,;n4
impetus. Rente closed at 70fr. 10c. for cash, and
70fr. sc. for account, with a rise of 35e.
rose 45c. ; hlobilier, 2fr. 50c. ; and Credit
20fr.

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

(FROM OCE si•EcIAL CORREmPoNDENT.)
IiELAC(I, 24)
The latest news fro:n inform-4 us I!,e
road through the pass has been rendered mit... for
carts by a sudden rush of water, tie-
damage having been received Leta,, 1:.,.ry
Guddy and Sooroo. The weather there is i‘qt
that the sappers can only work at the tie.l„;
pair for three or four hours a day.
The rains give us litany a soaking, On rr. in
showers of under half an hour's duration, '.ith
intervals of bright sunshine between.
typical English April, with the power of
and the amount of water falling ditrini: t, 24
hours increased three, and the average 1,L1,, ,r of
thunderstorms tenfold, the temperatin,
to the rarefaction of the atmosphere- T.
slig
pretty much the same, and you will lia%e cr
able idea of our present weather.
.......

Within the las't Iveek the aspect (.f the , • y
has undergone a marked improvement.
grass has commenced to spring up, clialig:ll_ the
prevailuig tint of both hills and plains 1.10111 o ,o 4
to a green, which daily deepens in hue.
stony lines which streaked and formerly r..d.er
disfigured the mountain sides have now 1,.
trickling rills. The corn, before confined t..
fields as were artificially irrigated, is spritigii..: •ip
with a rapidity surpassing the quick gn,A:.
Southern Europe. The climate is dela:ion, .•ti
exhilarating effects on the constitution hem 4 ;..4,.
timatoly its own, while any inconvenienc..s
we may have experienced may fairly be set do, 1, ti
the wandering tented life which we lead.

I know not what the country may- he 1;',„
June to September, but putting together
and the experience of others—experience
not on the health or feelings of a few hard( san-
guine travellers, but upon the sanitary ware of an
army made up of many different races. I Live
no hesitation in expressing my opim.a that
for eight months in the year this o.aiary
is gifted with as fine a climate as :my
in Europe. It is probably nut unwise tqi,,•, our
part to permanently quit a land to which by
in a just quarrel conquered its sovereign— for lit
even his enemies contested that Theodore was. the
only anointed King of Abyssinia—we have at least
a legal claim ; but in (king so we must remember
I that we are relinquishing a splendid field for coin-
nisation, and one ‘t Ilia other nations enlightened
upon this head by the expedition must covet.
Ifarely is seen a country where Cod scenic so
universally- to have blessed the soil and permitted
its inhabitants to bring down a curse upon them.
selves. Independently of its mineral resolve... ttf
which as a mere casual observer I am no judge,
though 1 believe that where the strata is as oared
as in Abyssinia these are generally consider:64e,
the plateau has immense capabilities both for pas-
I tare and agriculture. Wit bout any aid from the It.ted
I of man grass exists everywhere in great .prod,a,s.
The proof of this is, that at the most wady—liable
season of the year, March and April, we
!always found .rough for our thousands of att;,..tls.
I Save nt Magdala, w c have also never ex peti-ieed
!any difficulty in obtaieing water. With r..g.a.1
tillage, at least a third of the land is in a -mt.
I fitted for immediate cultivation. In ju
I what it could produce, we must remember that it
I is in the possession of men utterly unable to de-
velop its wealth ; still, in the markt is Re nil
cotton, coffee, and grain of all descriptiv its, ranglng
from wheat curl barley to the grant of Ind.
fact, Abyssinia might be at once transfeune it
I great grazing country, with every rosite • A
rs eventually It...coming an agricultural • ite.
To effect this a complete revolution n the
tical state of the nation is necessary : the I. .-ts
called soldiers must be swept away, ra' 1.
like the warrior castes in India, brought melt.: the
re draints of a molar discipline, altl t., a•,,
substituted for the Itemise to plunder !• .1
by the chiefs. This change is not like ly t • It in
internal one, as the people and titer ru tr. ..te
evidently going from bad to worse : Lind v iii
out of cultivation' t. ruined villages, fret ent i. h.,
in the princes, the
encroachments the -:tv t;:it
Ilallas and spoiling Egyptians furiii,h so litany
proofs of the decay ttf the A byssinian Hare.
The health of the army is gut al. There 1, lot
indeed the same extraordinary low p, rcentag of
sickness as it enjoyed before the privat ;mot neat
of 3lagdala, but still we have nothing to compan
of. As to food, the troops are receiving rot (et:, fall
rations but many !amities, such as sugir and
vegetables at an increased rate, the ottani! tstuint
having made provision for a more prolong,. 1 .-.tne
paign, and being 1101 W obliged not oith t
I items usually reserved for Europeans to th 11 in-
dostani followers, but also to leave behind a de-
stroy large quantities of the heavier ar ides.
More than 200 nude loads of ammunition !..tve
also been thrown away or exploded. It cone-tett
I chiefly of the older patterns used by the I :titian
troops, and which it it as calculated, besides t a in.;
the hands of the transport train, was not wort:: its
carriage to the coast. Although the lading i,l our
pack animals is thus somewhat diminished, certain
additions to it have also been made : for example,
90 mule loads of books which Theodore hail col-
lected from the numerous churches he hal ransacked
follow the first brigade.
The must palpable mistake, or rather the most
gtliartiinieg instanceexpedition,
sthlertbleueonuatheespense additionpe 'inting.
peti ounf , to
elephants and large guns. The ordnance borne by
them were perfectly useless at Magdala— 1 do not
mean to say that they (lid not make good practice,
but the elephants were unable to get near the
place, and even if they had done so the Armstrong
guns would have been unnecessary, as hal' the
mountain artillery would have been amply suf-
, ticicnt for the work to be performed. Whit.. the
elephant brigade, more than 40 strong, have
Cost must not be measured by the mere expense of
'their transport ; it is the delay which they !lave
I caused by adding to the necessity of road-ina.iing
that will chiefly swell the expenses of the expe-
dition. A week ago, out of the 43 elephants
which had advanced beyond Antalo, two had died
and 14 were on the sick list.
The Gallas still commit most impudent wh-
belies. On the Bth, as we were leaving camp. one
jumped ou a saddled mule and rode off; Captain
Bainbridge gave chase, and shot him, recut ering
the animal. Another played the same tr.ck yes-
terday : a mounted officer pursued, and tins two
rifle shots without effect, the Calla being carried
off safely by his prize.

A dreadful murder has just been commitud at
Conteen (Ain). iddine. Ferrand, 60 years of age. who, it
consequence of her husband being bedridden sob Para'
lysis, occupied a separate room, not having apptii: id as
usual three morning.. back, the door of her cb.duber
was blokes open, and she was found lyirg in a
pool
of blood with her skull fractured. The .fate tt the
room indicated that robbery had been the mo-
tive of the crime. Suspicion immediately fell on a Tni°
aged thirty-one, who bad been brought up by the de-
ceased and her husband, but whom they bad been rem'
polled to send away some years back for his misconduct.
The gendarmery were placed on his tracer, sod be was
arrested wish a quaatity of the jewellery and plate whisk
be had marled off still in his possession.

SECOND EDITION.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(TmB DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Won Vice-Clukaoelloe Sir O. M. Glffard.)
THE •TTORNET•OZHEILLL E. EDMUND&

This ease the facts of which have bees fully reported
.r. the Express, was resumed to-day.
The Vice-Chancellor, in giving judgment, said ho
should confine his observations to the materials
before him, and should not travel into the
,otraneous matters which had been introduced.
In one respect the arguments and evidence which had
Oren used and read on behalf of Mr. Edmunds,
bid been in his favour. They bad been in his Honour's
opinion complete in clearing his character from any
imputation and in showing that his conduct arose
from mistake, brought about partly by the eider-
-I.inate language of the act of parliament, end partly
to- the circumstances that he had been unable to
attain the audits he had asked for. It was therefore not
without regret that his honour bad come to the condo-
'-ion that the arguments which bad been used on
Mr. Edmunds' behalf upon the other points of the
ease were unsuccessful. As to the jurisdiction of the
court, relying ou the authority of a decision of Lord
Cottenham in the House of Lords, it was clear that,
bad this been a case betweeu subject and sub-
ject, Mr. Edmunds must be held to have been
a quasi-trustee, and as such accountable in this court.
It would be very strange if the rule as between subject
and subject should be found to be different in the case of
the crown and a subject. There was no authority for any
such doctrine, and on the other hand there was abundant
authority to show that the jurisdiction of the Court
of Chancery over accountants to the crown existed
and had never been ousted. That being so, there came
the question of the discounts for stamps. As to this, it
was clear that if the sums on which the profits were made
were Mr. Edmunds's own he would be entitled to the
discounts ; if not, he would not be so entitled, on the
well-known doctrine that a trustee cannot make
profit of his trust. As to the third ques-
tion, upon the construction of the statute, his
Honour was clear that the sums of 12s. 101. charged
for parchments was one of those fees and emoluments,
iu lieu of which the salary was given, and for these Mr.
Edmunds must accour.t. There would be decla-
rations in conformity with the ..cove rulings,
and an account, with all just allowances, and
without any disturbance of settled accounts. In conclu-
sion his Honour said it was not without regret that ha
bad come to the conclusion he had, and considering that
Mr. Edmunds had in the view of the court removed any
imputation which could be thrown upon his character,
and that a n of the charges made by the information
had es y failed he should not require him to pay any
coots.