The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-05 00:00:00

(Stamped, ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

NAVAL AND lIILITALY.

ADMIRALIT, MARCH 4.—Arrom-rmrsTs.—Chief
Engineer W. Hall, to the Cossack.
Mews. J. Mastermsn, A. W. Fox, W. A. Wynton, and
J. J. S. L. Long, have been nominated to nand cadetships.

THE VICTORIA. CROSS.
WAR-OFFICE, /limn 1.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify
her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross
on the undermentioned officers of her Majesty's Indian
forces, whose claims to the same have been submitted for
her Majesty's approval, on account of a* of bravery per-
formed by them in 1.011111, as recorded whist their names,
viz. :

Late 2nd Bengal Native Infaidty.,--ffiolonel James
Travers : For a daring act of bravery, in July, 1817, when
the Indore Presidency was suddenly attacked by Holkar's
troops, in having charged the guns with only five men to
support him, and driven the rumen from the guns, thereby
creating a favourable diversion, which saved the lives of
many persons, fugitives to the residency. It is stated that
officers who were present considered that the effect of the
ch►rge was to enable many Europeans to escape from actual
slaughter, and time was gained which en: Oiled the faithful
Bhopal Artillery to man their gene. Colonel Travers' hone
was shot in three pieces, and his accoutrements were shot
through in various parte. He conr.anded the Bhopal
Levy.
Late 46th Bengal Native Infantry. Lieut.-Colonel
Samuel James Browne, OH.: For having at Samporah, in
an engagement with the rebel forces under Khan Allis
Khan, on the 31st of August, 1858, whilst advancing upon
the enemy's pnitims, at daybreak, pushed on with ors
orderly Sower upon a blue-pounder gun that was command-
ing one of the approaches to the enemy's position, and
attacked the grinners, thereby preventing them from re-
loading and firing upon the infantry, who were advancing to
the attack. In doing this a personal conflict ensued, in
which Captain, now Lieutenant-Colonel, Samuel James
Browne, commandant of the 2nd Punjanb cavalry, received
a severe sword-cut wound on the left knee, and shortly
afterwards another sword-cut wound, which severed the left
arm at the shoulder, mt, however, before Lieut.-Colonel
Browne bad succeeded in cutting down one of his assailants.
The gun was prevented from being re-loaded, and was even-
tually captured by the infantry, and the gunner slain.

bonne. After stopping eighteen months at Ans, the Abbe
Mallet took the girl to another convent at Frames, near
Tournai, and there she was repre.ented to be an orphan
named Dubois ; from Frames she was, after some months,
removed to • convent at Fronmeea, and from it was taken
back to Frames then she was conveyed t o one at Wodecq,
next to one at Itesmes, and afterwards was taken back to
the one at Douai, where she became insane, and had to be
placed in an asylum. At all these convents the Abbe Mal-
let visited her, and he took part in some of her removals.
Yet in l&19, on being interrogated by the magistrate at
Cambrai as to what had become of her, he, oat one
occasion, said that she had gone to England ; on
another that, " on his honour," he did not know where she
was and ou a third that, "on his oath," he could not tell
where she was staying. Such was the second alleged
abduction. The Abbe Mallet, on being interrogated, gave
equivocal answers, for which he was rebuked by the
president. He declared that it was false that any im-
proper intimacy had existed between him and Siena, or
that she bad been seen in his bed. Witnesses were then
called. Bluth, the father, who end that the Abbe,
Mallet had employed him to copy his sermons, declared
that he had never seen anything improper between
the abbe and his daughter, but that he had suspected
that the priest's intentions towards the girl were not pure.
Mdrne. Bluth on the cont, said, " I was indignant at
the manner in which M. Mallet acted tovards my daughter 1
They were together like husbandand wife!" She addedtbat
Siena is now mad ; " I ascribe her madness," she said, " to
her imagination having been excited, and to her connexion
with the Abbe." The brother, Adolphe, after stating that
he bad thrown np the situation in the college which bad
been found for him, was asked to what r. noon he 'scribed
Siona's madness, and he answered, but not without eon-
aiderahla " I hardly dare tell I But some per-
sons said that it was else was encicnte by the Abbff
Mallet ; others, because she bad been sequestrated ; and
others talked of • child suppressed !" A lady named
Douchies, of Valenciennes, said that she h Id engaged Siena
segovernees, but had dismissed herbecause she had observed
improper familiarity between her sod the Abbe Mallet.
Gabrielle Bluth, who is now a shop girl at Paris, said:—
"The reason why my father and mother left Cambrai was,
that the latter could not bear the conduct of the Abb6
Mallet towards Siena." "One morning," she added, "when
I was living in the house of the abbe I got up early, and on
pawing his bedroom I opened the door to say good day.
Ha was math confused on seeing that I approached the
bed. I there saw my sister, and cried ' What • shame !'
"Have you to complain of him personally '!" " One
night when I was in bed he come inkom
chamber and threw off the clothes. I struck
him. He was • little excited, having just dined.
The nut day I told him it was a pity he was
not married." The prisoner remarked, " What she says
is false." " False I" cried the witness, " why you came
into my room, not once, but twenty times!" " That is
also false !" "To what do you ascribe the madness
of your sister?" asked the president. "I do not know
exactly ; but no doubt to her connexion with the abbk..
Louise Bluth, after deposing to the facts mentioned in
the indictment with respect to her, added, " I Let roan- ,
dense in the Abbe Mallet because he took too great liber-
ties with me." Elizabeth Bluth, who has recovered from
the mental malady under which she was labouring last year, :
related bow she had been removed from convent to con-
vent ; and bow she had written a letter to her parents re-
presenting that she was at 'Jerusalem. A number of other
enemas, and among them the superiors of the convene',
related various circumstances in corroboration of the elle-
ptions made in the indictment : some of them declared
they had seen sets of peat familiarity, and even indecency,
between the abbe and Siena. The Abbe Ratisbonne also
gave evidence ; be spoke with ouch Irritation of the
manner in which his share in the affair was re-
corded in the indictment, that he was checked by
the president. He expressed an indifferent opinion of
Bluth, the father, saying that he bad only pretended to be
converted in order to get money. He also affirmed that it
was not true that the man bad been converted and baptised
within a week. Several other witnesses remain to be exa-
mined.

DOUAI, MAsca 4.

M 3 o'clock this morning the court found the Cam
Mallet Guilty, with extenuating circnt istances, and the
court sentenced him to an years' imprisonment.

THE SYRIAN QUESTION.

The Journal de Saint Peterabcnirg publishes the
following despatches of Prinoe Gortachakoff on the
military occupation of Syria :

TO PIM' LOBANOT-BOOTOTSICI AT CONATANTINOPLE.

St. Peteraburg, Jan. 'Levi.
The report of Y. Novikov, as wall as your letter of the
9th inst., have been read with all the interest which we
continue to give to the correct progress of our commis-
sioner, as well aa to the justness of his appreciations. They
have suggested to ine some observations which I think it my
duty to communicate to you, to make known to him every-
thing which concerns the object of lie mission. The expla•
=times:changed between the CUMlLlill•ilisers relative to the
duration of the French occupation have particularly fixed
oar attention, Peewee they touch on a very delicate ques-
tion, which we may expect to see started between the
eabinete. We entirely approve of the language used by
M. Nowlin. In our opinion the military occupation of
the Lebanon by the French troops ought to be limited,
except by the complete realisation of the object for which
it was undertaken, by the avowal of the Great Powers.
It is impossible for us to admit that its task
is finished until the country has been restored to
its normal state, which would render the duration of
it useless. We are on the contrary persuaded that the
salutary effect already wodneed is principally owing to the
presence of the French troops, and that their departure
would be the signal for a reaction mere violent against
the acts of justice and repression of which they
have been the support as agouti' of the Great
Powers. There is nut only a question of humanity
which must dominate over every other considera-
tion, but also one of paramount interest for Europe, whose
dignity and moral authority would be gravely attacked if
the execution of its will so solemnly expressed were to is
stopped before the object were fully attained. France, in
particular, who received and accepted this mandate, has
engaged her military honour in it, and she would comproe
mine it if her task were left unfinished. The Great Powers
would also render themselves responsible for any calamities
which might result. It is in that n age that we express
ourselves whenever we may be called on to declare our
opinion.—Acces., kc., GORTSCHAKO77.