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The Express. — 1861-12-27 (London, England)

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.  Ivor ou. owl,  PARIS, TIMADAT Evmac.  The Cm•ruporulamee Bet'her speaks of a rumour that an attempt had been made to assassinate General de Goyon at Rome, and that one of his aides-de-camp had received two poniaril wounds. It is curious, if this news is true, that the telegraph should have said nothing about it—but sometimes telegrams are suppressed. Prince Napoleon, whose journey to London has been repeatedly delayed by various circumstances, will, it is now amid, positively go early in January. IL Le Play, the president of the French committee, cannot make his arrangements for the Universal Nahibition until the prince arrives. The rise in Consols, occasioned on Tuesday by M. Thouveners despatch, has not been reflected on this Bourse, which shows great weakness. The Rent: opened with a rise of about 10c., but lost it when Consols came I lower, and closed at 67fr. 15c. both for cash and account, with a fall of 10c. and be. Mobilier fell bfr., and the Italian Loan 35c. In railways there was scarcely any change ; Lyons fell 2fr. 60c.  The weather yesterday and to-day has beeu more favourable to the vendors of toys and ,Itrennes on the Boulevards, than they have had for many years past. There is a cheerful dry frost, not intensely cold, with a blue sky, and little wind. But, although a great many people are out, complaints of the dulness of business are general. The stalls where cheap articles are sold do better than the shops. There is skating in the basins of the Tuileries.  A banker of Rennes, M. T—, committed suicide in a bath on Friday last. According to despatches received to-day in Paris the Spanish force before Vera Cruz consists of 36 ships, and 8,000 troops fur landing. It continues to be supposed that Marshal Serrano suddenly quitted Havannah in ignorance of the convention by virtue of which France, England, and Spain were to act together. The Corriere Mereantik of Genoa announces the rare occurrence that all along the coast of that province the fruit-trees, having previously blossomed for the second time this year, are now laden with a second crop of fruit. As the country people, however, do not expect to see it ripen, they are now gathering it for the purpose of selling it to the confectioners for candying. I Apples and pears have attained the size of a walnut, and plums h►lf or a third of their usual size. Under the mild climate of Genoa the circumstance of fruit-trees blossoming a second time is of frequent occurrence ; but there are a few instances on record of such second blossoms becoming fruit
The Express. — 1861-04-13 (London, England)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE  POLAND.  A letter from Warsaw of the 9th says :  Yesterday, between 5 and 6 o'clock, a nrimerons crowd again assembled before the royal palace, in accordance with the intention announced the previous evening to repeat its demand. At the same moment, a post-chaise crossed the square, and the postillion played on his horn the national air of Dombrowski, " Poland hes not yet perished !" This, so to speak, electrified the people, and though without arms, they attempted to force their way into the courtyard of the palace. Then the cavalry charged and the infantry fired. Several young men, some of them carrylag crucifixes, attempted to separate the people by leading part of them into the streets in the vicinity of the Podwalc and the Senatorska, but they found the entrance to the streets occupied by infantry. New volleys were fired at the people. The number of persona killed and wounded is not yet known, but it must be considerable. The soldiers carried many dead bodies to the palace, and other victims were sent to St. Roch's Hospital and the European Hotel. Whilst these sanguinary scene" were taking place in front of the palace, between 3,000 and 4,000 persons, and among them many women and children, collected round a statue of the Virgin at the opposite end of the square, and on their knees began praying and singing hymns. Detachment. of infantry made several attempt. to disperse them, but without success. At length, at nightfall, the troops were withdrawn, and the crowd quietly retired. In the evening a deputation of the citizens went to the palace and requested to see Prince Gortchakoff, but he refused to receive them. General consternation prevails. It is feared  that bad news will come in from the provinces, as the die• solution of the Agricultural Society has there caused great  exasperation. In the course of the demonstration of the 7th, an aide•clecamp of General Chrulow committed suicide by blowing out his brains at the palace. The director of Mince, M. Lenski, the director of the bank, M. Miepokojaryscki, and the governor of Lublin, M. Maekiewics, sent in their resignations on the morning of the Bth.  (sztrruis  THORN, RwruitoLT.  Three generals havo arrived at Warsaw, from St. Petersburg, to assist the Governor, Prince Gortchakoff. The Council of Municipality of Warsaw has not been dissolved, as was stated, but is functions have been restricted.  Troops are continually arriving at Warsaw. General Chruleff has proceeded with troops to Lublin. It is said that serious agitation prevails in that city.  BRESLAU, Ann. 12.  A proclamation of Prince Gortchakoff has been published to-day at Warsaw, in which he accuses the inhabitants of having hrown stones at the troops, and thereby caused the death of two soldiers and wounded ten others.
The Express. — 1853-05-18 (London, England)

BUENOS AYRES, APRIL 2. The stagnation of the past month can hardly be ex. needed. The transactions of the wholesale market, besides a very limited demand for local consumption, were confined to a few unimportant remittances for the Paraguay market. The demand for the littoral and interior Provinces, that gave a character of comparative buoyancy to the month of February, was completely checked, first by the hopes of peace, and latterly by the fear of war. Its these circumstances, and with the heavy arrivals of March, and, we may add, the alarming announcement of forthcoming cargoes, it is impossible that prices can rally. The supply of manufactured goods on hand is already enormous. Besides our Custom-house stores, long ago filled to overflowing, there may be in this City alone, 100 private deposit stores. Montevideo, we presume, is pretty much in the same predicament; not to mention the stocks sccumulatcd at the Rosario. end other points of the Parana and the Uruguay. In the face of these facts, which no impartial observer can doubt or question, and which we consider it our duty publicly and solemnly to proclaim, it is a voluntary suicide on the part of foreign Importers thus to force promiscuous cargoes into the Plate. It is to aggravate the past and forestall the future, at the expense of the present ; to add new combustibles to a conflagration that has already attained formidable proportioaa. There is nothing in our overheat situation, or immediate prospects, to justify this reckless speculation, that must derange all interests, and ultimately recoil with unmitigated severity on those most interested in preventing the catastrophe. Exexwerez.—Spanish dollars and patacons, 21} ; Patriot ' doubloons 310; Spanish do., 340; bills on England per doubloon, 665. to 665. 3d. Highest rate of exchange on England during the week, 68s. per oz.; lowest, 666. The amount of sterling bills drawn by this packet has been very large, considering the condition of the city—say more than 100,00 W. (the rates have varied from 66e. to Ws.), a small amount having been also passed at a higher figure. Bills are still offered at 665.
The Express. — 1853-05-19 (London, England)

DREADFUL REVENGE.  The Boulogne Gazette publiehes the followir t narrative :—On the afternoon of Saturday last, a .. servant of from 50 to 55 years of age, in the service A' an English perfumer of the Rue de l'Ecu, No. 22,1 using received warning to leave the place she was in, on ai of her being addicted to inebriety, went out with the . hill other employers, a little girl of two or three years of ago, to seek, as she said, another place. Evening came at. 1 eho did Rot return ; eight u'elock, nine o'clock, and et. was still absent. It may easily be conceived that the nr. her's uneasiness was increasing every moment. The serves.: and child were sought everywhere, but in vain : the polie% Were applied to, but their researches were equally unsuce—ful; and that night was one of anguish and unit ..inty for the parents, for they remembered that the s. ?rant had threatened to be revenged on them for dismissing her without a good character ; and dark forebodings haunted their minds, alas, to be r, :Hoed with the dawning Sabbath. Early on Sunday mi taing, something was perceived floating in the watt r of the „Ant, near M. Julien's brick-kiln, by some persons who were passing along the Capecure bank, and the inanimate ,ssdiea of the missing servant and child were soon drawn teem the river. This double crime of suicide and murder—fa the act must have been intentional, as the child was has ad to ' the servant that it might not escape the fate she dentin, it— has created the greatest honor and sensation, am'. deep sympathy is felt for the parents who are thus bereavis: of a dear, end, we are told, only child. The second ...thincholy event is en accident, suicide, or murder, but wh.gh of the three is not yet ascertained. On Sunday mornteg the corpse of an old beadle, named Isaac Dicuset, was found drowned in a pool in the mote of the Chateau. Lu:,iy he has been employed as a night-guard, and on yening left his home to perform his accustomed watch. The police are investigating the affair.
The Express. — 1853-03-29 (London, England)

BOW-STREET.  William Bishop, a private in the first battalion of Grenadier Guards, accompanied by his sergeant, attended haunt Mr. Hall to state the particulars of the following lamentable •  Bishop said that he was walking backwards and forwards on Waterloo-bridge, between twelve and one o'clock on Saturday night, in company with a girl, who went by the name of Elisabeth and lived in Catherine-street, Strand ; and that, having Gordon,reen compelled to leave her for a minute, she suddenly raised herself to the parapet of the bridge, and leaped into the river. Ile heard the splash occasioned by her fall in the water, and, on looking over, and listening, he heard her voice, exclaiming " Bill." She always called him by that name. He had known her, on ' and off, for several years; but he had not had any quarrel with her that night. The sergeant stated that Bishop made a similar statement at the barracks in the morning, but it was thought very extraordinary that he did not raise any alarm ai the time, nor tell the police or toll-keepers what had happened. It appeared that he went to the house where the woman lodged, and gave information of the occurrence to the landlady, or some person living there. Under these circumstances, witness had been directed by the commanding officer to take Bishop before a magistrate, to state his own version of the story. Mr. Ball—Was he sober when he returned to the barracks ?  _ . The sergeant—Yes ; quite sober. Bishop—l had been drinking all the evening, but I knew what I was about. I was not drunk.  _ Mr. Hall—You my you had not had any words with her. Was anything said in conversation which might induce you to think chit she contemplated suicide Bishop—No, sir. The sergeant said that inquiry had been made at the girl's lodgings, but nothing had been seen or heard of her since Saturday. Mr. Hall directed the eergeant to communicate with the police upon the subject, as, if the body should be found, Bishop would be ?squired to give evidence at the coroner's inquest. In the course of the afternoon Inspector Wilkinson re. eeived information et the Bow-street station that the body of a young woman, answering the description given of Elizabeth Gordok, had been taken out of the river at Wandsworth.  Edward Jackson, a porter in the service of Mr. Wyld, newsman, of Cetherine.street, Strand, was charged with stealing 22 copies of the Illustrated London Alms. The ease was proved by John Kelly, one of Mr. Wyld's swistants, who detected the prisoner in the set of concealing the stolen property under the counter, while engaged in folding papers. It appered that the prisoner had formerly opened a small shop in the same line, in consequence of which he was required to give up his situation, but subsequently he was taken into the same employ again. Mr. all committed him fur trial at the sessions,
The Express. — 1853-12-01 (London, England)

FRANCE.  PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. •Advices have been received from Trieste, which state that the Ottoman forces in Asia have followed up their successful defence of fort St. Nicholas by the capture of the fortresses of Usurgheti and SouchoumKaleh. The Georgians, it is also stated, are favourable to the Turks.  Letters from Constantinople contradict the statement of M. Magnan's departure. He has received orders from General Baragnay d'Hilliers to remain. A communication from Vienna of the 24th announces that the Austrian corps of observation in Transylvania is to be placed under the command of General Schlick, whose head quarters are at Klattsenberg. It is stated in the most recent despatches which have reached hero from Wallachia, that several skirmishes had taken place between the Turks and Russians at points on the banks of the Danube, in which the former had been uniformly successful. A report wu in circulation yesterday that the Emperor had been fired at in the wood of Fontainbleau by au usassic, who having succeeded in inflicting a wound on his Majesty, subsequently committed suicide. The rumour, however, has no other foundation than the occurrence of a trivial accident to the Emperor during one of his hunting parties. The 23rd anniversary of the Polish Revolution was celebrated yesterday by the performance of religious services at the churches of the Assumption and of St. Elizabeth.  Letters from Constantinople state that Omer Pacha has intercepted and sent to the Porte a letter from Menehikoff to Gortschakoff, advising the latter to keep as quiet as possible in Wallachia. The Weems have offered to furnish gold and silver from the treasuries of the church for the use of the  government. The Sultan has dec'ined this offer, not wishing to do anything which would give a religious character to the war.  Scrim Pacha is appointed to the post of diplomatic ,uncillor to the Turkish commander in Asia.  On the 24th ult. Ismael Pacha and Schamyl were to make simultaneous attacks on the Russian lines. The Porte has resolved for the present not to accept the offers made for raising a Hungarian and an Italian legion. The Polish legion, however, will be organised at once at Scatari, and then proceed to Kars.  It is announced from St. Petersburg that the Czar is about to issue another manifesto.  The closing prices at the Bourse to day show a decline of lOc. to 13c. compared with the closing rates of yesterday. The Four-and-a-Halt per Cent. Bentes left off at 99.93; and the Three per Cents, at 74.16; Bank shares, 2,890.
The Express. — 1853-07-16 (London, England)

JULY IS. The meeting convened for the purpose of paying a tribute of respect and gratitude to William Dargan, who originated and got up, at his own sole expense, the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853, was held yesterday in the round room of the Rotunda. The object of the meeting, unlike that of a political assemblage, was not one for which popular passions were enlisted, and the proceedings were intended to consist more in actual business than in speechifying, so that the great hall in which the meeting was held was far from being so crowded as we have seen it on many other occasions; but the attendance wasneverthetas very numerous. The Lord Mayor took the chair, and the resolutions were respectively proposed and seconded by the Duke of Lcinster, the Right lion. Francis Blackbourn, the Governor of the Bank of Ireland, Sir William Hamilton, Sir Edward McDonnell, Sir Robert Kane, the Marquis of Westmeath, Mr. John Ennis, D.L., Mr. J. Perry, Mr. Lentaigne, Dr. Gray, Mr. J. F. Maguire, M.P., &c. It was proposed that the subscriptions be limited to one pound, but an amendment to the effect that they should be " from one shilling upwards," thus setting no bound to the liberality of individuals, was carried by a vast majority of the meeting. Yesterday, at the Limerick assizes, on the judge, Baron Greene, entering the court, a policeman, named John Mulligan, who was described as a young man of respectable appearance, and who had been convicted the preceding day of the murder of his own illegitimate child, was called on to receive sentence, when the gaoler announced that the prisoner had ' just committed suicide, having hanged himself with a handkerchief over one of the pi ison staircases. ghAt the Monaghan assizes, the jury have not been alio to agree to a verdict in the trial for the murder of Mr. Bateson, but although kept twenty-four hours without food, they had not yet been discharged when the last account left yesterday evening.
The Express. — 1853-09-27 (London, England)

MMUS LARCOM." Oa Saturday afternoon the remain of the unfortunate gentleman, who passed by the name of Webster, and who committed suicide in French-street last week, were disinterred for identification under the following circumstances : Oa Friday afternoon a lady of middle age and highly respectable appearance, who said her came was Forbes, and her residence 23, Portland-place, London, called on Mr. Feenimore, police inspector, to whom she had previously written relative to the deceased, inquiring among other matters if the mark of a large scar was observed on the right leg of the deceased. The officer replied that there was some suck mark upon the tight leg ; but it would appear that Mrs. Forbes left London fur Dublin before the answer could have probably reachcdher. She now stated she had reason to consider that the deceased was her son— that his name was Julio Forbes, his age thirty-five years, he had lost some of his teeth, had been a wild young man, and fond of purchasing quantities of wearing apparel. She stated that her son had left London three years ago and proceeded to Australia, where the had heard he was engaged as a shepherd; but she was not aware of his return from that country till she saw the report in the newspaper she now produced. She accounted I for his taking the name of Webster from perhaps the fact of his having cousins of that name, and his stating that he was a native of Aberdeen might have arisen from the circumstance of the family poesessing an estate in that shire. She then left She was accompanied on the occasion by a young gentleman, her a in. Having received an order from the Commissioners of Police to the Secretary of the Cemetery for the disinterment of the body, she, on the following (Saturday) afternoon, accompanied by Mr. Forbes, proceeded to Mount Jerome, and the remains were exhumed. The coffin lid having been raised, she gazed briefly on the face of the corpse. Neither the features nor any other portion of the body presented the slightest symptom of decay. After a minute or two she exclaimed repeatedly, "'Tin he; 'tis he—that's my bey." Then, looking at his feet and placing her bawls en:them, she said, " It is not my boy—l think it is not my boy." Again, examining his face, she observed, " I feel it is my boy ; lam certain ; I am satisfied of it." Mr. Forbes said he thought the reaming were those of his brother ; but he had not teen him for the last ten years, he (Mr. Forbes) having been absent for several years in India. This concluded the examination. The body was then recommitted to the grave, and the parties left the burial ground. Mr. Forbes gave most respectable references both in London and Dublin, and thus the MO stands fur the present.
The Express. — 1853-04-13 (London, England)

THAMES.  Mr. E. H. R. Coleman, of the General Register and Record °Mee of Seamen, applied for a warrant of committal against John Charles Beale, late of No. 20, St. Vinoentstrect, Stepney, who was convicted on Thursday last in the penalty of 51., for a violation of the Merchant Seamen's Protection Act, in obtaining the sum of 31. from an engraver, named Thomas Rockington, of Rider's-court, Leicester. square, under pretence of obtaining for him a; berth as cuddy Errant on board the ship Lady Flora, bound to Australia. Mr. Coleman said that since the conviction of Beale, it had come to the knowledge of the Board of Trade, b whom he was deputed to act in this matter, that Beale had obtained money of many other persons who were desirous of emigrating to Australia, under pretence of obtaining berths for them on board ships, and enabling them to work their passage out to the gold regions on wages. Five of hie dupes were now in attendance, and of 351. demanded of them, he had received 111. These were all cases of extreme hardship. The persons of whom Beale obtained the money were in good situation., earning from 255. to 30s. per week They had broken up their homes on the representations of Beale, that he could procure them good berths on' board a ship bound to Port Phillip. One man, a tailor, who had been in the receipt of 30s. per week for the last tire year., had thrown up his place, and was now in a destitute condition. Mr. Yardley said, he convicted Beale on Thursday afternoon, and, on Friday morning, when he came down to the court he received a letter, signed John C. Beale, stating that by the time it reached him the writer would have ceased to exist. It might be a rate to obtain compassion or otherwise. He sent for inspector Smith of the K division, and handed him the letter, and he was informed next day that Beale was in custody, or. a charge of attempting to commit suicide, and that he had been taken out of the canal under circumstances which left it doubtful whether it was not a ruse. The magistrate then signed the warraat committing I Beale to prison for two months.