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The Express. — 1867-03-09 (London, England)

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.  (111011 OUR OWN CORIMPONDINT.) PARIS, FRIDAY EvrnNc.  Cirardin carries on the war against the goventment, which he declared yesterday, by publishing the Liberte without any leading article in order to infer that there is no Liberti of the press. He borrows articles of small moment from the Temps, Opi,4iuot Nationale, and other journals which he presumes it is safe to reproduce since they have not been prosecuted. It was observed with surprise that the Liberte was the only evening paper which did not publish last night the text of the judgment of the correctional tribunal, which is the only lawful report. The Ltherti explains its reticence to-day by saying that it did not think it "prudent" to give the judgment until it had appeared in the authorised legal journals, for fear of getting into trouble by a mistake in a line or a word. I do not disagree with those who think this sort of warfare puerile. M. Girardin has, perhaps, reasons unknown to the public which induce him to think it safe and expedient and dignified to carry it on. 130 far from waking for the public prosecutor to appeal against his light sentence he triumphantly announces that he will appeal himself, and get the most able counsel he can find to plead his cause. This is a very daring course. The appeal court may, if it pleases, aggravate instead of diminish his sentence, and, unless he is far more influential in the highest quarters than the public suppose, there is every probability that he will be condemned to imprisonment.  The Senate, as you will see by M. Troplong's long report on the proposed S,liatles Constatum, is not satisfied with the augmentation of its privileges with which the Emperor proposed to endow it. A simple suspensive veto upon bills sent up from the Corps Legislatif it thinks incompatible with its dignity, and M. Troplong demands that any bill of which the Senate may not approve shall hang over till the next year. That would seem to me a very absurd clog upon legislation. Better give the Senate (albeit the pensioners of which it is composed have little weight indeed in the country) the privileges of a second chamber at once. It is understood that Prince Napoleon, in a council of ministers, argued very strongly against the power which M. de Lavaletto proposes to confer upon the prefects to authorise and control that liberty of public meeting which the Emperor promised on Jan. 19. According to all indications, this liberty will be a far worse sham than the liberty of the press. Lemaire, the cynical young murderer, was executed at 6 o'clock this morning. He was cool to the last, and while the executioner was cutting off his hair said that his birthday was on March 18, and that had he lived ten days longer he would have been twenty years old. He never expressed any repentance or changed the attitude which he assumed at his trial ; but the evening papers say that the prison chaplain induced him to confess and receive the sacrament.
The Express. — 1867-10-26 (London, England)

OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.)  The Times assumes that if the new Italian government are seriously determined that there shall be peace, Garibaldi will become utterly powerless for evil to any but himself. Had matters proceeded one step farther there would beyond question have been war with France, and this fact destroys all probabilities of any successful insurrectionary movement. The Emperor's language was firm and explicit beyond all precedent. " I shall not intervene at Civita Vecchia, but my expedition will make for Genoa." The Times seems to incline to the opinion that there will be a renewed invitation of the great powers to a European congress, and urges that if such a meeting takes place neither Italy nor France need scruple to submit the case of Rome to European arbitration, and there are difficulties in the East which can hardly be adjusted in any other way. In another article the Times shows the absurdity of supposing that the United States is likely to adopt any proposal having the slightest tendency towards repudiation. The Daily News observes that the ferment in Italy increases as it is perceived that Victor Emmanuel can make no movement without previous communication with Paris. The French government is every day reinforcing the fanatical bands of the Papalini, and offices are open throughout France for the enlistment of Frenchmen willing to kill Italians in the cause of the Pope. In the treatment of their prisoners, the Pope's soldiers follow, it appears, the precedence of Mexican warfare. Meanwhile the Italian government fear to present Garibaldi in the light of a victim to the Emperor of the French. The state of things upon which the week is about to close is thoroughly unsound. As, however, we live under a dispensation of surprises, perhaps the improvement may come as suddenly as the events which have caused the depression. The Daily News continues to question the wisdom of sending working men to parliament as the special representatives of a special class. The new house will not be complete without them, but they must go as other men go, on the rme footing with their constituencies, and with the same claims on the attention of the house. In the opinion of the Post the failure of the movement in the Papal States is mainly attributable to the fact that it was distinctly a republican movement,  The Standard says things must have come to • pretty pass with the reform leaguers, when they hold Baxter Langley to be too timid and Beale' • reactionist. The murderers of Brett, the Manchester policeman, are the type of men with whom the reform leaguers have thrown in their lot. It concerns the honour and the fair fame of the English work;ng man that they should henceforth stand alone in such infamous associations. Why should not Mr. Beale, take the initiative in this matter ?  The proposal of a oonferenoe is condemned by the Star, which strongly advises Italy to have nothing to do with it. Let her, on the contrary, wait and grow strong.
The Express. — 1867-01-25 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AT SURBITON. —Yesterday at Kingston-on-Thames, Cornelius Kane, a private in the led Husain, stationed at Aldershot, was charged on remand with attempting to murder Agnes Adams at Surbiton. Agnes Adams, a Scotch woman, 23 years of age, said she was engaged to be married to the prisoner, and the banns had been twice published for the occasion at Aldershot and Surbiton. On the night of the 9th of January, while she was staying at her sister's at Sur' biton, the prisoner came there from Aldershot. She and her sister were then washing. He appeared the worse for liquor, and said they did not appear to make hint very welcome. He had come to know why she wished to postpone the marriage. They wished to get him away from the house, but he would not go. He was then told that he could sleep with her brother-in-law in the bedroom, and that if he would go to bed they would tell him in the morning why they wished the marriage postponed, as he was then not in a tit state to be told. They induced him to go into his room, but he cams out again, and kept asking the reason. She then told him that her sister did not wish her to marry him while he re- ' mained in the army, and that she advised her to wait till he came out. He again went into his bedroom and le-1 mined about ten minutes, and then her sister opened the door and took the key out to lock the door from the sittingroom upon him ; her sister then began to undress, but she remained sitting in a chair. He shortly afterwards knocked at the door again, and on her sister asking what he wanted; he said a light to light his pipe. Her sister took the candle to the door to prevent his coining into the room again, and ' he then rushed past her, and stood in front of the fireplace. After an • his forehead he threw complainant down on . the floor, and to cut her with a razor. He made a severe wound on her forehead, and then tried to cut her throat, but she held his hand and struggled with him for Rome time, but the razor cut her hand and went through. . She could not tell when he cut her on the left side of the ' nose, or inflicted the other wounds she had received. Her sister was by, but she ,lid not know that he had • razor till complainant screamed out, "He is cutting try throat." Her sister then came to her assistance ; so did her brother-in-law, who knocked prisoner down and knelt upon him. The bands of the complainant, her brotherin-law, and the prisoner were frightfully cut with the razor in the straggle. Dr. Price Jones sad the complainant must have led to death in a few minutes had he not been so quickly fetched, one of the arteries having been divided. The prisoner, who said be had nothing to say, was fully committed to take his trial at the next seizes at Kingston on the charge of attempted murder.
The Express. — 1867-11-22 (London, England)

THE FENIAN CONVICTS.  Tho Times supports the decision of the judges in the ease of the appeal by the prisoners' eounsel, and reminds Mr. Maguire and others who took part in the debate of last night that, if those who defy the law may plead for • merciful interpretation of it, those who defend the law at the peril of their lives have surely • right to be heard. Were Mr. Seymour's view upheld, the risk of the policeman in executing his duty would actually exceed the risk of his lawleu ssesilants. A single flaw in his warrant might actually place him in a worse position than en ordinary subject of her Majesty, and make it possible for his murderer to escape with a simple fine, while he might actually be liable to the penalties of murder for using his own revolver too recklessly. To expect that policemen would continue to do their duty against such odds is to expect of them • devotion more than human, and had our courts affirmed the rule for which Mr. Seymour contended, it would have been necessary for parliament to repeal it by express enactment. With regard to the Clerkenwell meeting, the Times deduces, from the paucity of numbers who attended, the inference that the London working men do not support the movement. Indeed, if, as seems probable, the Fenian declare open war against the domestic peace of Englishmen, the determination of some classes of Englishmen to put it down may be stronger and fiercer than has yet been thought of.  The Daily News observes that the lateness of the period at which the announcement of the respite of the convict Shore is made, appears to indicate that it is a final resolution, and that no further remission of the sentence of the law may be expected. Shore is a born American. The Post assumes that the apparent decision of the government to proceed with the extreme rigour of the law meets with the general approbation of those able to judge. The Standard wishes to acknowledge the loyalty and generosity of Mr. Gladstone in supporting the government. His interposition was effective and opportune, and some of his colleagues may profitably take example by it. The Star enlarges on the consideration that the news will fly over Europe that an appeal solemnly sealed by four counsel was contemptuously refused even • hearing. It can now only hope against hope that the prerogative of mercy will be exercised in a case which will otherwise be one of the most lamentable episodes in our annals. The Telegraph says, if in the case of Shore's companions it could have been shown that some of them were not armed with deadly weapons and did not act with premeditation—every humane man would have rejoiced in the mitigation of their punishment. But the safety of society would be at an end, and the bulwarks of English justice would be thrown down, if, in coming to their final decision, the Ministers of the Crown were iniittenced in any degree by clamour and intimidation.
The Express. — 1863-08-04 (London, England)

HUNTER. It is surely difficult to understand why the Government should display so much hesitation in such matters —and if Parliament were still sitting it would be interesting to hear from Sir Georgia Gary upon what principle the Government interferes in some criminal cases and not in others. In conanental states tiler° is a public officer whose duty it is to put the criminal law into operation, bat in this country there is no such officer as a public prosecutor. The facts in the present case prove the defects of our present system. It is idle to suppose that unless the advisers of the Crown had entertained a very strong moral conviction that CLAILKE murdered the girl HUNTER they would have instituted proceedings for indecent assaults committed more than two years ago. And yet it is equally clear that if this conviction is well founded, and if the prisoner had been prosecuted and convicted of the minor offences, he would not have been in a position to commit the greater crime. It is perfectly true that the parents of the girls who were assaulted might have persisted in their accusation, and might have brought him before the magistrate. But people in the lower ranks of life cannot be expected to take so much trouble ; and even those in the higher ranks are too glad to relieve themselves from the nuisance of having to appear in a court of justice. The only remedy, therefore, for the present unsatisfactory state of things is the appointment of a public officer whose duty it should b 4 to insist upon charges being pressed against offenders. The chance of punishment should not be made to depend upon whether a complainant happens to be goodnatured and apathetic or is inspired with a stern sense of public duty. If any such officer as this bad existed it is probable that -the poor girl If crisrer might still have been alive, and that no question would have arisen as to whether the man CLARKE committed the alleged crime.  But as matters at present stand it is difficult to a•oertain the principles upon which the Government interferes in such cases. It is scarcely possible to suppose that they have laid down the absurd rule that they will not interfere until the prisoner has been committed. For it is obvious that it is qnite as important for some competent person to fnrnish aid and counsel in the collection of evidence as in the conduct of tlis 1 trial before the grand and the petty jury. Again, it is scarcely possible to suppose that the Government are to wait until their attention is aroused by articles in the daily papers before they think it necessary to intervene. Those who have been wronged are entitled to the protection of the Government, and one of the best modes of furnishing protection is by inflicting punishment upon those who have violated the law. And to this protection every person is entitled who con- ,
The Express. — 1848-08-19 (London, England)

PRODIJCE.-Aterwear, August 16.-Ceffee con-se imtreetive volume. Delo which an accurate him of Russian immediately, and in the greatest hest', thought of the mean, meeting of the National Assembly, and ef convoking the me to persist in my system. If only one of ml• p.g.n Es..ening.-Common State Flour is in mall supply and firm tinues in regular demand. The better qualities of Brazil are =MI- Ills, he mined; -Critic. of freeing tue Assembl.. But we heel one fear-that of ex- electors immediately. The other members of the Provisional -vd51.,,1 •kncrimo life in Reada welL"-Obeerser. mpanies were disarmed, I would shoot mysel . at 5 don. vi 5,525 dors, with, if anything, a etill upward tendency. getting scarce ; ahout 1,800 bus sold from 18c. to 194 e. ; e A nem etleutateal to eullchten and mousg."-Em, posing the members of the Amembly to danger-perhaps to Government declared that they did nut consider the nopu- ei:et - the National Guard attack the barricades. If Pure Geneeee 5 dole. 25c. to 5 dole, 621 e. Sales; Rye at 70e. deli- and 4,000 bags Domingo from 201 e. t0.21c.-Cotton : Prices "Tee suth, is I...teeth. converant with hi, subject ; and his know- Murder. Hence the necessity of gaining time. Some mem- lations to be sufficiently prepared. They were in tbe right ; it is beaten I would rather retreat into the plain of St. med. are well supported, but the demand is limited; 600 bales yip is cateragve. n-Ineeirer. here had come to the Luxembourg, M. Beeville among they were ill prepared by the circulars and the bad choice a D • Flat white corn was sold this morning at 33e. ; since the news not 1 there Rive battle to the emszste. I do not know Mobile found buyers at 241 n, an.l 300 bales Georgia, at 244 c. eyen,oeue a. to It, *ma., lively and intert,ting.--Nonconfenalat. other., who had told us that the Assembly was dissolved, commiaseires. It was to such an extent that a gal,:rien was roennee, ant much him bete done. Some flat yellow roil at .57e. There nre plenty Sugar • The sales of the week consist of uthout 2,000 boxes, loniton t smith. El•ler. and Co.. 015. Cornhill. - 'b th d b fth h cause to attn ute e suppose a sence o e of buyers of round vellow at tiOc but holders Lave not tleci,ed what -- P • yid that it would be neceseory to assemble it in =otter named central comminary at Havre Ile has since then en wle ddb th tee commiesion. I was to • - ' at prices ranging from 13411. to 1411. The arrivals amount NO MAE MEDICINE f.or Coii.tinAti,.n lit-i,eyin ,iii.liateUou tor .000 men or ere y e execu i • ' f s 'lit B r bborket. illemtioni. Scrofula. Net, ;stones.. aowpts. t ea . place. Our first thought was to prepare all things for its reassumed his firet part-he has turned aesssain. under the conviction that that force was in Paria. I ta about 5,000 bexes, part of which is in tramit for the swans e.her of the great kenily of discase. oririnating in one and the reception at the Luxembourg. I then came to the Assembly. General
The Express. — 1848-01-08 (London, England)

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.  Outrages on property and person continue throughout the south, though, happily, to-day the personal violence recorded has not in any inst time terminated in loos of life. The County bears its crop of these criminalities. A few la,y• Lo pas Ly ..f .1.1•• ....-...ppusred brfOre the residences of several gentlemen near Shinrone, in this county, and demanded food or work. Amongst other persons thus visited was Mr. French, of Caergort Park, an active and improving landholder. He assured them he had as many men employed as he could find work for, but he stated he would endeavour to obtain admission for them into the workhouse at the next meeting of the board. The men were not satisfied at this, and proceeded to drive away thirty of his sheep. A party of the police pursued them and they abandoned the property. The drainage of the river Brusna, in this county, which has been stopped by the recent freshes has thrown a great many labourers out of employment. The practice of sheep stealing, the local journal states, is very prevalent in many parts of this county. Arrests of accused and suspected persons are frequent, and the gaol of the county contains 94 prisoners. In Limerick the same state of things continues. There are two cases of conspiracy to murder mentioned in the Limerick Chronicle. One was discovered by the ruffian who was paid to commit the assassination—the fee was to have been 31. 10s.—but who denounced the parties to a magistrate, of course for a further fee. The intended victim was a Mr. Boland, residing in Clare. to the second case mentioned—that of Mr. Congreve, of Mount Congreve, Waterford—he escaped, by withstanding an inducement held out to him to place himself within r:ach of the assassins. The arrests proceed with great rapidity, and while the commission is proceeding, parties are being made amenable for murder and other crimes. Two men have been arrested in Limerick charged with the murder of Mr. Watson, who was beaten to death sonic time since near Killaloe. Two persons named Madden have been arrested for the robbery of Mr. Coffey, payulerk. Meantime, the social duties are not all in abeyance while justice is attended to, for the Knight of Glin is employing 300 men daily under the land improvement act in Limerick county; and in Clare, near the city of Limerick, one gentleman has applied for 15,0001., under the same act, while the Board of Works has undertaken to complete the works on the road between that city and Ennis. The Limerick papers mention the cue of a mercantile concern in Limerick which paid 3001. a year rent, now let at 1501. a year without fine. There were shipped from that port last week 14,300 quarters of oats and 8,880 guarten Indian corn imported tar home consumption. A letter in the Limerick paper announces that " the boys " are piling their arms and transmitting them from the proclaimed districts to friends in those places not under. the provisions of the life preservation act.
The Express. — 1848-06-21 (London, England)

HINA.  By the overland mail, via Marseilles, waived this i morning, we have accounts f-om Hong Kortr 2ith April; and from Calcutta, 3rd; Madras, 9th; and I Bombay 12th May. The moat important news communicated by the present mail i, that conflrning the reported murder of two British officers at Moulton. It will be reinembend that the governor of that place, Dewan Moolraj, in consequence of a spirit of disaffection which he had manifested to the Sikh government, had been ordered to settle his accounts and pay I up lis arrears of revenue. This order he evaded, on one pretence or other, so filet it became trzessary to name a successor, Khan Singh, who set nut from Lahore on the sth of April, accompanied by Mr. Vans Agnew, of the Bengal Civil Service, and Lieut. Anderson, of the Bombay Fthiliers, and arrived at the seat of his government on the 18th of that month. They were well received by the former governor, but a quarrel was soon picket with some of their folowtrs, and both the Englishmen were wounded. S. eing themsaves about to he massacred by treachery, they retreated, with Khan Singh and their wort, to a small fort cuteido the walls of Moulton, where for twenty-four hours they maintained themselves, but tie rebel troops hastened to attack the fort. Licut. Anderson, being severely wounded, was unable to rise from his bed. Mr. Vans Agnew shook hands with him and I bade him an eternal adieu. lie then prepared to defend himstlf, and as the soldiers, with which his escort had by this time fraternized, entered his room, he drew his sword and cut down the first assailant. Ile was instantly shot, and his body, as w,ll as those of Li, Anderson and their ap carp, Mr. Wilainerin, was hacked to pieces, and treated with every indignity. The new governor, Khan Singh, was wounded, and made prisoner by the troops of Moultan. As seen as news of the insurrection arrived, orders we re instantly issued at Lahore to send a corps to Moultan; but they were countermanded when the death of the two officers was known. It was said that a force of four regiments would be despatched from Bombay to Karrachee, so as to form a disposable force in Scinde; but it was feared that they would not be able to reach that place, in consequence of the south-west monsoon. The Indus was then in a fit state for navigation by steamers and flat-bottomed boats, which could reach within a mile and a half of Moultan, by going up the Chenaub (Acesines). Capt. Christopher, of the Indian Navy, who is well acquaint( d with the river, was to proceed to Kurachee from liombay on the 13th of May. There was a number of boats ready at different stations on the Indus, and a heavy battering train was ready at Sukkur, which could be conveyed with speed to attack .Moultan. Time only was wanted to prepare the expedition before the monsoon set in. There was no doubt that proper arrangements would be adopted for rending two strong corps against the rebels, the sae from Ferozepore and the other from Kurrachee, as soon as the season allowed the troops to move. There was no truth in the various rumours current Isapecting a combination amongst the Sikh troops,