The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1851. LITERATURE. humiliation at the hands of the Pope ? Has he been a rated mans, the mouth was wide open, and the I violent polemic ? Ilea he exhibited a spirit of fierce tongue reached beyond the jaws. The chest was , j f a c „„ii„„, i s E..gand „ cu .., and anta g onism ? Just the contrary. And the return burnt to an equal, but the neck to a smaller extent , Ms which Home makes for all this meekness is the min- and the left side of the head and body were farther thee Leyilhawv. IS) ROC, ALIAANeta Maaece, sion of a purpled Goliath to defy him in the very consumed than the right. Below the region of the 1p It. Lountb.n. precincts of his palace at Lambeth, and to %%larger heart the traces of fire were inconsiderable. So many books and i so aphl e t s have be e n pat forth, before him in all the superiority . of quasi royalty. The terror of the count was complate, and Stauff and so many thacuamons have taken place on the sub- this the ea/dinars business in England ? Will was at powerfully affected by the mere thought of jeer of the pipit aggression, that it is difficult to the Fs:testa:eta of England suffer an aged and the catastrophe, that he was compelled to retire be believe anething worth reading sir hearing venerable Christian pastor to be thus insulted fore the dour was even opened. The remains of the u ranlithla to be written or said. The pamphlet hefore at the very doors of his dwelling-place ? countess were removed with reverential cure by the I us shows, however, th a t th e su bj ec t has out be en Will Lord John Ha-sell suffer it? Will the servants to her bed chamber. The ianouldering fire' exhausted, and that one of the must important lightsin t Queen of England, who was baptised, crowned, and u was put out, and the doors fastened. A coaster- ; which it should he regarded has been ahnuat entirely married by an Archbishop of Canterbury, thus suffer ; nated crowd gathered in the streets, and the magis overlooked. The question which lona its title is the see to whichnhe is bound by the tenderest and tracy thought it right to place the scene under the answered by showing that the presence of Cardinal most powerful ties as Christian, matron, and Queen. protection of a piequet from the garrison until a ju- Wineman in England is nut required for the doe to be robbed of its metropolitan mitre by an in- dicial inspection of the spot could be made. Morn prrfonrunce of any of the :Tiranal rites of the treader front Home' Would such sufferance be con- ing had nearly dawned when this had been done, ]tarnish church ; that lie is in PasS4 ,, hat of a Slettlar, lament with the coronation oath, in which the cove- and in the tragic excitement not one of the house and not a spirituel' dignity ; that he is considered by reign promise% to maintain to her utmost---' The laws hold thought of sleep. his own poly to have a rank equal to that of our of God, and the protestant reformed religion este- At au early hour, on the morning of the 14th, the QOM' and supciiur to that Of the Prince Consort, fetishes! be. law; to maintain and preserve inviolably magistracy of Darmstadt, accompanied by a func- the Prima- of Wales, and ull the primas of the blood; the eettlement of the united church of England and Penney skilled in medical jurisprudence, repaired to I that he is exempt from all laws of the laud, and Ireland, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and the mansion of Count Gorhtz. The count received demands precedence of the Archbishop of Canter- government thereof. as by law established within them at the entrance, and conducted them through bury; that there is a strong probability of England and Ireland, and the territories thereunto the ante-chamber into the sitting-room, so frequently his being here as a legate 14 haters., or con- I belonging; and preserve unto the bishops of England mentioned. Besides these, they were shown a little fidential ambassador from the Pope without our and Ireland, and to the churches there committed to cabinet, entered from the sitting-room. and lighted sovereign), cons nt, or that he is tarhaps even their charge, all such rights and privileges, as bylaw by its own window, in one corner of which, fitted up regarded by the Pope us us a pupal pro-consul, govern- do, or shall. appertain to them, or any of them! as a divan, the countess was accustomed to recline RI ing England as a papal province. Monstrous as The last question considered is, whether Cardinal the afternoon. All the rooms were in great disorder. these assertions ut hrst appear. hr. M•Caul shows Wiseman. if looked upon as a legate from the court Among the ruins of the secretaire the hack and two them to be well grounded, by quitting the writings of Home. is entitled to honourable reception in Eng- of the sides remained unconsumed; where it had of Homan eatholies themselees, and then calls upon land. We find that an attempt at eetablishinga stood the floor had been burned nearly through, the Queen, the gmermi n ent, and the pecade, to resist perpetual legate in England was openly resisted n hut on that part of the floor on which the the insult uttered them by the creatime, in the heart the days of Henry VI., when the kings proctor de- body had been found no trace of fire could be disco of their kingdom I , ore dignity which sets its sovereign clared • that by a particular prerogative of the kings verid. The window-hangings had been set on fire, and its law% at &Name. The pamphlet is ill itself l ot England, which they had enjoyed ever since the and the bell-rope was lying on the floor ; a deep hole so clear and einule he ased, that it will difficult to memory of man, no legate from the Pope could come was burnt in the divan of the little cabins ; the tire abridge its contents, so as to give a just idea of the I into England without the king's leave,' and that the had consumed the mattress just in the spot where grounds upon which these maertiona rest ; but we I Cardinal, against whom the protest was male, pro- the countess would lay her head, if resting; the will ends meta to take upon each point, the most mired befere bt large council, that he would not exer- thick plate of a mirror hanging in the sitting-room, striking proof, leaving it to those who are interested' rise his suffice of legate, without the king's leave, at a distance of fifteen feet from the seemtaire, had on the subject, to refer to the pamphlet itself for the and that lie would in no way infringe or derogate been cracked, and two stearine candles, which stood remainder. I from the rights. immunities, and privileges of the on a chiffenniere nine feet from the sumo object, had The first point insists-el upon he that neither the office king and kingdom. It seems strange indeed, that wholly melted away. nor dutyufii cardinal is spiritual : that it is eonnected the Homan catholies of those days, should have been From these chambers the count conducted the entire ly ith tha Pope•sdignity us a tempos - al rime; more jealous of papal power. than the prottatants of authorities to the bedroom, where the remains of his and that its duties are pelitead, civil, and diplomatic, soma While t h ey probated against a legate whose wife lay. Upon entering this apartment, he antici and ;answer to them- of the privy eseuncillora, states- lower would end with his lita, we submit tamelv to pated every observation of his visitors with the re mem and civilian:, of other gueenementee In proof out whsssc privileges will descend to his SUeeeSsOrs, mark that, under no circumstances would he permit of this, we have station s Te Irons Cuhrlli, Hellanume, I for a s he lareselr says in his lecture on the supre- a section of the body. He was told that it was too and ethers, Meowing Mat eardinabi have ever been mail of the church, "It has always been under- soon to enter upon that question ' and the inspection a-whisk-red expressly in this light, that their office; stood from the beginning that whuteser prerogatives, proceeded. The appearances obs erveddid not differ has always emesiated in "assisting the pouted' to: though prsonal, of jurisdiction, were brought to a from those remarked when the catastrophe was dis execute the busimaa of the :epistolic use, for which' see by its first bishop were continued to his sue- covered, except that one of the arms had been dislo ?ninon they ought nut to he absent front Home, cx- I censor. cated in the first attempt at removal. a li t us ' w r o t e . ; " th a t they hues suemeled to the i Not only have the kings of England lead this pri- Having drawn up a protocol of the inspection, the place of the whaler , Or the Homan maim;" that I vilege of granting or withholding leave to the ap- magistrates withdrew, and on the written opinion of their doniinien and government is not in spiritual !minimum of legates within their realms ; ether the medical jurist on the facts, Dr. Gnat who drew thinas ; " and. further, that the business submitted monarchs have claimed the same right, a nd it is in- up the report, came to the conclusion, that since the to the dins-ti tttt of the eurdinala has laves such US be- I dessl the law of all nations, that no melbas. countess had been Seen so late un the previous day in long expreasla to statesmen to wit, "of the state, !guider shall he allowed to enter it, without full health and vigour, and from the locality and of water, of alrecta, of the treasury, of good reed public- consent. We read in Du PeYrati (1:Ori- position in which she had been found, was most num., 111111 Of curing of grievance% of the mint. iyin , (hos Cordinort.r) that when the l'ope resolves to likely oceupied at her writing desk when Mush more tie same purpteas goes to prove that car- send a legate to Frame !leis compelled to inform the the catastrophe took place, and since fur dinals um the Pope's Matt amen. privy councillors, king of the pareoae of the legation , mid ask also ther it was to be supposed that if she cabinet lliuissten., diplomatic maims, and governors whether the- person appointed is agreeable; and that had been accidentally set on tire, she could and of pnivinns, rather than spiritual dignitaries, an is upon his arrival the legate is compelled to submit would have called for help, or raised an alarm at the • lull welly supposed iu England. I his bulls to the ex: • ,etien and modificution of the window, neither of which apparently had been done, The sesaind pant is, that in ull Romanist treatises parliament ; "for, in such manner, - says h e , "are the it was highly probable that in the present ease, the nem-ming cardinals, they ure stymie to hold high film-etas or the Gallitsm church. the rights of the tare, but well authenticated phenomenon of spon rank in the cluureh and • court of Reme ; us, hi g h, I crown, and the pet eogutiet sof the king &f e nd e d talletalS emnbustien had taken place. Dr. Graff, of indeed. that they are said to be of quell milkagainst ally enterpriata of Home." e xercis ea also mutat- supoaed that the theme had afterwards ex iting," Many undoubted autherities are brought j gives the King letters, promising to his thne. tended to t he- arlatan- of the room. A few hours forward neon this pant, und the very _words are used I times only us long, and in such manner, us the king reflection opened his eyes to several difficulties in . . . . - or • • - unflinchingly by all alike -there cuts be no doubt of the fact. Kin:villas the l%th, says, "that it is, enacted by the seared c.anons, that they who lay violent hands on a cardinal, or hanish, or persecute him. ir gi‘r counsel for this purpse, are guilty of the crime of high in.awni, and art to be smitten with very great and %mimes punishments, an if they vio- Mt:4 the majesty of the apostolic thrum." And therefore. that the personal' a car• dinal is so privil. god that even the Emperor, wM. is five Input all human law, if he offend cardi: nal is made guilty of the same crime of high trewmn. And that the children and gninalchildren of him who, +Minds a cardinal. art by the law itself deprived of all lawful acts, and from till benefit and ahanitati.:e, of the pwitive law. There can be no doubt, there 6m•. that the tunlinals are high dignitaries, at least equal to kings and empen.rs: some may possibly think superior to them, if kings and emperors can by offending them bemine guilty of high treason, and are therefore. liable to he tried and punished." The third airsertion as a natural inference from the seemi.l. Cardinals far exceed in rank bishop+, unit bishops. 'sari:wells. and all other ecclesiastical dig - !Manes. A quotoioit fr , in rope Eugenius the whi c h is h.a long to hi• given hen., proves thin to be the +mon op i n i on the Itish church. ulli on o . . oin. pleases. Hare legates are sent to govern papal provinces. and as we know that, in the eyes of Rome, England if" a iStpal province, having kill surrendered up by Kim; John, it is highly probable that it is in the office of pro-consul that Nicholas Wiseman is sent among us. II is own language justifies the conclusion: "So that at the present time, and till such time as the Holy See shall think fit otherwise to provide, we govern, and shall continue to govern, the counties of Middlesex, Hertford. &e." With a hearty wish for its wide spread we eon ; chide our notive of this interesting pamphlet, which cannot fail to awaken, wherever it inuy go, a fresh impulse in the thigging energies of those who have an important part to play. either in allowing, or withstandiag, the imposition of a functionary s hose presents: must. swine'. or later. protium great results. DO. Todetnel der lbsibra Aroma !Almaden, Gratin von lieritoup . non coo Dr. Graff. Palm unit Enke, Erlangcn. Inviiry into the manner (1 the !Meth of the Cotalit,is rou toortetz, The 13th of June. 1847, was one of the brightest days of a glorious summer, and it was the day of rest. In the little capital of Hesse Darmstadt Lutheran laudor and cathodic pried had blessed and disinim4ed the ways his explanation, and on the following day he wrote a postscript to his report, in which ho stated that he only inferred the probability of apron- 1 Limon). combustion, from the absence of all trace of the violence of a second party. He added, that the possibility of a violent cause, in this case, was un deniable, the burnt state of the head and throat must then be regarded as produced to mark the true cause of death. Supposing that the countess had is en strangled, the open position of the mouth, and the unnatural projection of the tongue would be, accounted tar. The magistracy of the city, upon these reports, applied to the superior authorities for power to order a section of the body, and the further prosecution of the inquiry ; especially they desired leave to appre hend the whole of the Gorlitz household, including the count. An answer was siwedily sent down. A ,supreme order was eummunicuted, commanding the caseation of all further inquiry, and leaving the dis position of the remains to the count. Only a tkir or two before her end, the countess had completed the minutest instructions for the di rection of her burial. Some of these betray in a most affecting manner the hidden workings of her sensitive but blighted heart, and reveal the loneli ness of her domestic lot. Lair mu (said sin) with • • . , seam y their Meeks to enjoy fur the reit of the day the trim- D em i s t Cbvhunard. Let no inst . liption mark my quil amenities of a German Sunday. The light mid- re,tingplace ; undjr none but her loved name do 1 desire duv uwal over, the shelter of the house was quickly to lie; my few faithful friends will not forget me there. des, :rust, and the population poured forth to seek • r t st ". t i o u' r er ' tira " A r c: l l . L e ti ar . t m rn doicf'tkel me lac - the fields, the wine wardens, the favourite singing- and ovr S my gr av e let the hymn o f patient ri.sigivati,l =ions, and the railway station. under affliction be sung. As the Palace cluck struck three, a chariot. in Her directions were complied with : the earth which sat a pale looking gentleman about fifty, closed upon the unhappy lady, and it seemed as if issued from the port.. ntehere of u moderate-sized the mystery were scaled up for ever. But where in- mansion in the main street of the city. ('ount vestiwition ended. speculation began. Comparisons, Gorlitz was setting out to dine with the sovereign were instituted. The Duke de Pmslin had been a' Duke. Ile often went to court, almost indeed lived frequenter of the count, and nevertheless murdered them: it was his idea of enjoyment. The gates his consort. The interference of the sovereign to dosed; • servant utter another went his way, and suspend inquiry which affected his friend the the old house was surrendered to the stillness of count, was suspiciously interpreted. The first tut death. But it was not empty. The count had gone invited refusal tops:runt an autopsy was remembered, to court ; his consort was left behind. The countess and the cause of the countess's secluded habits can of Gorlitz m), a lady of forty-six, childless, highly cussed. The strangcbt reports circulated, and dark educated, acutely sensitive, but nevertheless of great allusions continually appeared in the press. The self eommand and inclined to reserve. Being aversed count was rendered extremely uneasy, and at length to mixed soeiety, she never aecompinied her husband ventured to petition the authorities that in justice to to court ; but spent her days within doors, and himself and his servants the investigation might be re visiting. but rarely, a few friends with whom sonied. The public expected that the affair would now she had formed an intimacy in her girlhood. be thoroughly examined ;but in this they were disap. Of an active turn of mind. and well endowed with pointed, fin' the petition remained without effect. the faculty of system, she bestowed on the economy Suspicions of a collusion between the duke and the of her household a degree of attention unusual among count became current, and continued so until upon: ladies of her station. Iler mornings were generally the prayer of the latter, presented towards the mad occupied with these cares. About two she would of October, 1817, with the allegation that the pe'ti dine with the count, and after dessert retire to her tioner could supply material evidence for the prose own sitting-room on the first-floor, where the re- tion of the inquiry, the High Court of Criminal mainder of the day was spent in reading, working, Jurisdiction directed its resumption. or keeping her act:omits. On Sundays she would Ott the same day that the functionaries of the take out her will. written with her own hand, and high court visited the house of Count Gorlitz, as a sit fur hours alone considering, altering, and adding first step in the revived proceedings, the sauce pro to its dispositions. To this chamber the countess sided for the count's dinner was poisoned with 18 tired on the' day in question, after her husband's de- grains of verdigris. The cook saw Johann Stuff! parture for the palmy; and. excepting, her favourite add the powder to the condiment while he believed' attendant. Johann Shinn', no one remained with her that he was unobserved. Stauff was imprisoned. in the house. The whole set of opinions formed at the earlier! At half-past six the count returned home, and stages of the inquiry had now to be revised. The having put off his court divas. ran up stairs to the , hypothesis of spontaneous combustion became less sitting-room of his wife. found the door of the and, less tenable. Instead of that maws of ashes, re ' ante-chamber fasteed. and when no reply was made mining the human form but falling to dust t the to his knocking. h e came down stairs without sur- I slightest touch to which the observers of that ',hello prise, as the same thing had often happened before. nwnon had deposed, the body of the countess was solid, Ile threw himself on the sofa in his own room, situ- though formless. The ground beecuth her had not ' aced immediately under that of the countess; and as been bumf. our were the remains burning when dis ,he he-art not the slightest sound of motion. concluded covered. The human body cannot be burned but that his wife had gone out. At the end of an hour with great difficulty, and to account for spontaneous I he arese, and went out to walk on the promenade in combustion an extraordinary inflammability of the the cool of the evening, and remained absent until system. produced by a great development of fat and Dim o'clock. Stauff was thus again alone in the the excessive use of ardent spirits, had been assumed: I bow* for the space of hour and a half. At the but the (minnows was a very temperate as well as a and of that time. the count.retuening and hearing no very spare made wouum. Lastly, while spontaneous tidings aids wife, the door oilier room remaining still combustion had been always described as consuming secured, skin to everyhousewhereshe had at any time it. subject in a few minutes, here had a conflagration been known to visit inquiring for her. AU search 62C111 going on long enough to destroy a pier of ma , proved frail leas.. The count was pale and agitated. and hogany furniture, and yet the human body near it gave all kinds of strange directions. The servants had was onlyinciverated, and that but partially. The by this time returned, and one of them lancied he hypothesis of a cause of death by a self-engendered gout an odour:as of something burning. Workmen fire was then generally abandoned, and it remained were et last sent for, and at eleven o'clock the door to :seek the origin of the fatality in another di of the ante-chamber was forced open. The room rection. was filled with smoke. As soon as possible the same The aspect of the scene, and the circumstances! process was rep euttd on the second door, that of under which the body was found, were re-exatnined. the sitting-room. The vapour was here far denser and It was asked—Might nut the life of the countess .znore suffixoting,but all was dark ;no glimpse of time have been destroyed by accidental fire ? To this was visible through the gloom. A pane of the win- solution many difficulties opposed themselves. It ' dow was then broken, and the draught thus created would be adm . issible where a great fire was already.' brought new nourishment to a small fire, then first burning into which the unfortunate pirsonmightfall, perceptible, w hich *tuned front the floor of the or in a room on fire, when all communication is cut roots. As soon as the state of the atmosphere per- off: or by a small fire if the clothes could be sup- 1 1 mined, the count and his servants rushed with lights posed to have taken fire from below. All these ctr-' into the room, where a sad scene met the eye. The cumstanees were wanting. Suicide, by a death so body of the countess lay on the floor, about two feet painful as fire. was out of the question. And since, front a smoking heap of embers• the remains of a with such means as were at hand, it seemed limas pet:retain: iit whit!' she was accustomed to sit. Hee Bible that any one could have killed the countess by heard had been reduced to a black formless incine• fire, the inference was inevitable, tporitaneeus corn- own dtor, dear mother, M the The fourth point limited is, that he being made codinals they ate set free from the laws of their clattstry, though ler an oath to maintain and in crease the power of the Pope. Ilem ugain Ochelli come. to our aid : he tell , us that the cardinals are hood by a Wll'lllll tilde to shed their blood, if intll be, for the welfare of the Christian Republic; and as the sixth lan% a:a of the >stem' college, lie emu merates exemption front obedience to the laws of the country in u hick they may be placed. ..•1 he law 0f their country." says expires in a cardinal. Hy assumpt ion to the dignity of the ea rdinulate, laceration from the Laws of his country follows." And again, quoting from Nlaidecili. he "It is not be g that he ulna is made a HOU of .%Itna Mater the chinch. a brother, assistant, and counsellor of Christ's ‘lyegerent on earth, should be subjeet to the ismer of his count ry." tiolk and last point shows that cardinals. and cardinal, only. ate employed 04 legates a halter. or confidential nenhassidors. With regard to the Pope's legates. Iteittenstuel sa y s -" Every legate of the upcutulie weith respect to the province committed to him has ordinary jurisdiction. The reason is, that the legates of the Pope destined to any office are • 'kr to the proconsuls. and tither governors, who are twist by the Emperor to woven' a certain pro vince." these live points haying been satisfactoiik proved, Nl.Caul goes on to inquire wherefore a (ordi nal w sent to us. Ile is clearly . nut required for any spiritual futwtion. Five of the sacraments of the Moorish church can be mitt li ll istered by priest.. and the rem: • g two by a bishop. If his offiav hi' not spiritual. has ha• been sent to Mb c by virtue of his regal dignity, an insult to our protestant Queen and her naval Consort ? The cardinal, as being on a per with binge,. is• in the t; es of Itonianists, of higher rank than the Prince Consort. of equal rank with her whom we iteknowlaslge a. Mir sovereign lady the Queen : and if ever the pro-Romanist statesmen tab- ' 1 tain the reins 1 , 1 government, will lw lie Well at court, taking precedence not only of our native nobility,. but of Prince Albert, the Vrinee of Wales, and tfie r oyal family. sitting in the !we'd:nye of the sovereign I, covered, u bast princes of the blood arc uncovered I and stand ? Is it fur this that a cardinal has been', teat' Is it necessary to the religious liberty, of the Roman catholic that the sovereign and her family should thus dishonoured by the emissary of an Italian priest ? If it be ' necessary. is it expedient? 1, it to be endured ? Cardinal Wiseman has already proved that this pre cedence and exemption from the law is not merely nominal. He has already set our government ut defiance hi' bringing in bulls and acting upon them. and by assuming territorial dignities to which he loot no right. Is this du• development of Roman catholicism u Melt liberty of conscience requiscs ?" Dr. M'('aul relates that in the reign of Henn a cardinal, who was created in Elighind. claimed pre cedence of the Archbishop of Canterbury in parlia ment.; and that, after a long dispute between the latter and the Pope, the question was settled in favour of the archbishop. on the plea of his being within his own diocese, while the new cardinal. who was also Archbishop of York, was, while out of his di o cese, only a private person. Now the Pope has forestalled Otis objection by sending Cardinal Wise num with the title of Arathishop of M•estnainster so that he can claim precedents, iu parliament, not only by virtue of his dignity as cardinal, but account of being m his own jurisdic tin. Apropos of this, I /odor 111.Cuul says: No ouc that has marked the astuteness of Rome in general. cord the new cardinal in particular. can doubt but that both reties have been conferred iu order to lower the Archbishop of Canterbury, and in him the prob.-taut elitinh. Whit has the present Primate of all England done in order to merit this bastion having been rejected, that the action of firo tnok place after the countess had ceased to live. Then, had the lady taken poison, • before kindling the flame which should conceal her ' deed ? This was rendered improbable. not only by the religious resignation of her whole character, ' but by the consideration that while the stilness of ' her sitting -room and other circumstances made it probable that she was dead at half-past six, when I the count returned from court, no trace of the fire Iwas seen till about eight o'clock. Had she fallen ' into a swoon or a fit and then caught fire, a taper stand or similar means of light should have been standing near her, but no trace of such was • discovered. Suppose, too, that a light had stood near the countess when she was struck, with apoplexy for instance, the upper part only of the secretairr should have been burnt ; but it was clearly shown that that piece of furniture was set on fire from beneath. Suppose, further, that the swooned, fainted, or dead countess had been in a sitting posture before the seeretuire, her lower garments I should have been first ignited; but these were not at all burnt. It seemed then an inevitable conclusion that the hand of a murderer must have been present at this tragedy. The loss of the keys. never since found, the torn-down bell rope. the strangled appearance of the mouth and tongue favoured this idea, which was still little more than an elaborate guess. In this difficulte,the position of the household andof the count on the fatal afternoon and evening were reverted to. The absence of all the servants, excepting Staudt up to about ten o'clock in the evening could be proved. The count was in the house with that per son from half-past six to half-post seven, when Staudt' was again lett alone. Three witnesses came forward, two of whom saw about eight o'clock a dense smoke rise from a chimney in the count's house, which led from the servants' room. Within a few minutes of the !QM, time the inmates of the opposite house saw through the drawn window curtains of the cabinet a flame several feet in height, which remained for a few seconds on one and the same spot and gradually. expired. The fin. thus burned in the absence of the count and while Stauff was at home. The with of the footman deposed that at a quarter-past four she called at the counts house to inquire for her husband, of whose previous departure she was not aware, and found all still as death. She walked about looking for one of the servants, and heard the footsteps of some one coining down stairs. It was Stauff ; his appearance, unsuited to a Sunday afternoon, surprised her ; his shirt-sleeves were turned up, an apron hung befine him, and he carried a towel in his hand. flat. still more than his dress, a wild, strange air in StaufFs countenance struck the attention of the witness, who • instantly felt that she was in the way. About a quarter to six the count's coachman saw Stauff at the ducal palace, where he had gone by appoint ment to fetch home his master. As she near e d the house on their return Stauff jumped down and ran to the street door, and was about to ring the bell, notwithstanding that all the servants were gone out. The count observed this confusion. and asked him if he was mad. Suspicion scented now to be hitting upon Stauff. It was further remembered that a strange delay had occurred in procuring tile work men to force the doors in the later period of the evening, and that Stauff had been sent on this errand; The footman and his wife remembered that on the fatal night Stauff came to them trembling violently and asking to be allowed to sleep at their house, as he was ill. This was permitted, and ho 1 perspired so violently in the night that it was newes t sary to change the whole of the bedding. Next day he bought a dog, which he sulssequently took nightly Ito bed with him llis behaviour was eccentric : one hour he would go whistling uud singing about the house in an unseemly manner, and the next, espe . eially towards eve , e. his mien would betray the deepest dejection and ^ auxiety. Stautf's attempt to poison the count was accepted on discovery as u welcome promise of a clue to this hseplexing and entangled question. The day after e had been imprisoned word was brought that his father, a poor old miller of Upper Hesse, had been arrested at Cassel on suspicion of having stolen cer tain articles of gold, which he had been ottleing for sale there. These, armlets, bracelets, rings, and !other ornameatul and costly objects, answered the! description of those missing from the casket of the deceased lady.. A point had been gained. It was now known who had profited by her death. Stauff maintained in prison a more composed be- haviour than he had exhibited in the tidal scene. I To the interrogations put to him respecting posses sion of the jewels, which he admitted having given ! !to his father to sell, he replied in a long story. 1 “ Doubtless the count had not given them to him for I the sake of getting hint into trouble; he would do ! him that justice. For his part, he had accepted I them out of regard to his dear departed mistress. His master hail given him the whole, saying that they were no longer of use to himself, and would • make a rich man of hint (Stauff). He now believed they were intended to bribe him to silence. When the count handed them to hint he took an oath of him never to say how he' came by them, and told him to I bustow them out of the house. When he reproached I the count on the apprehension of his father, for ,et- I ting him into trouble, the latter replied that he need not be afraid; all would go off; but, at the same time, I threatened that it' he told what he knew, he, the I count, would deny the story." The investigation dragged through two years and a half, until March 11, MIL when the ease against I the Stauffs was considered tit for trial. A special assize was appointed, and the High Court received on this occasion an accession of two members, consisting then of seven judges. More than a hundred - wit nesses were examined, among whoa were the Pre mier Jaup, president of the last Peace Congress, held at Frankfort, Count Gorlitz, and a number of per sons who could speak to his presence at court and on the promenade on the fatal day. ' In the dock stood Johannes Stauff, the chief at- I cused, Henry, his father, and his younger brother Jacob. The first was charged with murder, rob bery, and incendiarism, as well as with the attempt upon the count's bk. Ile was of the middle stature, slender, and of pleasing address. His father, a vulgar-looking man, slept nearly the whole time occupied by reading the very long indictment, in which he was charged with phis younger son as ac cessory to the crimes of Johannes. A jury of ex perts or professional men were sworn to assist the court with its opinion upon the value of certain me dical facts, and included men such as Lichig, Bis choff, Buchner, known throughout Europe for scien tific proficiency. The examination took a range of whose extent the practice of our courts gives no idea. The sehoeiltnaster of Stauff was called to give an account of his natural dispo sition ; his former commanding officer, his fallow servants, his tailor, even his sweetheart, were examined on his habits and mode of life. In this way an immense collection was made of what the Germans distinguish as "subjective facts," which 1 with them bear a larger proportion to the evidence lin criminal proceedings than with us. The witnesses agreed that Stauff was exceedingly hypocritical and mean. He had borrowed fifty-four florins of a poor hard-working girl, whom he had seduced, and who for years had done his washing without recompense. He was deeply in debt. His favourite reading was the " Intrigues of Napoleon," " Memoirs of the Disc de Praslin," and "The Life of Courvoisier," subjects on which he would frequently talk. The objective evidence was, of course, entirely of a circumstantial character. The remains of the cowl teas had been exhumed, and by comparison of the slims of violence with the state of her sitting room when discovered, the bell-rope lying on the floor, the marks of blood on the remains of the secretaire the fire and the absence of the keys, led to the con viction that, after a struggle, the lady had been killed by strangulation, aided perhaps by a blow on I the head, and that her corpse had been laid on the! see:retake, which had been set on fire in order to mask the crime. No other person than Johannes; Stauff could be suspected; This only had been the opportunity of ctime, and his certainly the profit. In the end, after a trial which fisted exactly a , month the prisoners were severally convicted on the ' indictment: Jolantnes was sentenced to imprisonment and convict !tabour for life ; Heinrich to six months', and Jacob to three months' hard labour, all in addi tion to the confinement of nearly three years already endured. Thus terminated an investigation which in its progress had embarrassed the authorities, scan dalised tbe court, blackened the character of the human lying that meet the eye increake rather thou dimi nish the dismal ctf , ‘et of the scene ; a• wpulehral loo!.ing as the spectacle around them, their palid countenanti a said emaciated forms seem so many incarnation• of the c .roc of desolation which still hovers over the ruin• of Old flea. I count, and perplexed all who had taken any part in its conduct. Justice. long defrauded, was at length avenged. Hut was it certain after all that she had ! uot mistaken her victim? The conclusions of the jury, careful and slow, were drawn from an infinite number of facts, minute, and, except in the artificial and perhaps arbitrary connexions into which they had been wrought, unimportant. At all events it was felt that some direct confirmation of the decision was wanting; and this could only come from the convict himself. Front the hour of his arrival at Marienschloss, where he was to spend the remainder of his life, Stauff had assumed a devout and submissive behaviour. Re ligious books were supplied to him in his cell. On the I st of July he addressed a memorial to the Duke, conceived with much affected frankness, but containing only an assertion of his own inno cence and a tissue ot untruths concerning others. The rejection of his memorial made a real impression upon him. which was betrayed both in his counte nance and acts. On the 14th August he sent for the governor of the prison, expressing a desire to tell the whole thith. Upon the mils-amine of the go vernor, he was so overcome that he could say no thing. and the interview was adjourned till next day. Hy the following morning he had awsumed a certain boldness, and alluded to his crime. which he no longer sought to deny, with indifference. adverting every now und then to frivolous and irrelevant topics. lie called the countess his benefactor; said she had fully forgiven him. having appeared to him in a dream and conversed with him w a friendly manner. • Ile trusted,thertfore, that men would forgive him, seeing how much he had suffered. and that what he had done had not been premediated. Ile stated that on the eventful afternoon he went up stairs to inform his mistress that he was going to fetch his master from the palace, and found her door open. Ile entered, but saw no one. The lid of the seeretaire was down, and on it lay a number of jewels. The temptation was ton strong ; the blinds were drawn; he hastened to fill his pockets. While KO engaged. the countess came out °fate cabinet, and detected him in the act. She hastened towards hint. What she said he could not recollect. The horrors of his situation overpowered him. and without know ing what to do. and fearing that the countess would raise an alarm and have him seized. lie took her by the throat. In this position. unwilling and afraid to ' I kill her, hut not knowing what to do, he held her for five or six minutes, until he was horriliisl at lx•r ceiving she was dead, lle then let her fall, stem her head struck the sharp edge of the sceretaire. He now hastened to shut and lock both the doors, and ran out of the house to the palace. On his way lie called at a tavern. and hastily drank halt' a pint of wine. Ile came back with his easier, and was, not disquieted when his master went up stairs, us lie knew that no attempt would then be made to form , the locked door. After the count had again gone I out, just before eight o'clock. he hastened to oblite rate all trace of his crime. Ile letehed bunting coals front a fire in another room, and laid them on the ground in front of the secretaire, with fresh wood, paper, &c. Ile then set a chair with its hack to the twerctaire, and laid the stiff body of the countess on the two. the head hanging over the fire. Ile next took a bundle of wood, lighted it. and threw it on the divan in the cabinet, went out, locked the doors, and threw away the keys. Such are the facts of the great Gorlitz ease, as we have collated and arranged them front Dr. Grall's publieation, a work consisting almost exclusively of of memoranda, reports. and letters, w r itt e n vet yruions times, and now thrown together in admired disorder. The precision with which the precise • mode of the countess's decease was eliminated front so I much obscurity. and so long after the event, entitles the trial to a prominent place. whether in the next " l'itaval," or the graver records of German juris prudence. Lieut. Burton is quite at home in a deseripti.m of society of Ooty, or more properly Ootneamund, the Cheltenham of India. This sanitary station, sitante on the Neilgheries, or Blue Mountains. was esta blished no earlier than 1821, before which date- the eligibility of any part of the Chant chain as a site for a sanitarium, appears to have been unknown. The town, which is now much frequented by officers on leave and other Europeans, in search of health and relaxation, is built on n plateau, about 5,000 fv t in height. Lieut. Burton states that the maximum of temperature here in the shade is not more than degs. F., at the very time when the degree of heat in the plains is between 90 and 100 degs. The following is the author's description of _ _ SOCIETY IN OWIACAIIIIND.. Two presidencies — the Madras and Bombay—meet here without mingling. Officers belonging to the former estab lishment visit the hills for two objects, pleasure and health; those of the latter service are always votaries of Ilyge•ia. If you ask the Madrusser how lin accounts for the dearth of amusements, he replies that no One can, how he gets through his few weeks of leave. The Itombayitc, on the contrary, complains loudly and bitterly enough of the dull two years he is doomed to piss at Ooty but modesty, a con sciousness of inability to remedy the evil, or most likely that love of a grievance and lust of grumbling which nature has implanted in the soldier's bread, prevents his doing anything more. Soule public-spirited individuals endeavoured, for the benefit mf poor Ooty, to raise general sulawript• from the Madras service, every member of which has visited, is visiting, or expects to visit, the region of health. The re sult of their laudable endeavours—a complete failure—in stanced the truth of the ancient adage, that " everyhouly's business is nobody's business." Besides the sanitanans and the pleasure-seekers, there are a few retired and invalid officers, who have selected the hills as a permanent resi dence, some coffee-ph•nters, speculators in silk and mul berry-trees, a stray mercantile or two from Madras, aml se veral professionals, settled at Ootacamund. With all the materials above alluded tu, our circle of society, as you may suppose, is sufficiently extensive and variml. Among the ladies, we have elderfies who enjoy tea and delight in scan dal: grass widows—excuse the tent', being very in itch era:lied, it is routine rl fried in this n giOn—and spinsters of every kind, from the little girl in bio and tucker to the full blown Anglo-Indian young lady, who discourses of her papa the colonel, and disdains to look at anything below the rank of a field officer. The gentlemen supply us with many on original. There are ci-drrant young men that pride them st•lves upon giving ostentatious feeds which youthful :pts venom.% make a point of eating, misanthrope , and hermit, who inhabit out-of-the-way Oxides, civilians on the shelf, authors. linguist., oriental students, amateur IliVines, who perifslieally convert their driming-nouns into chapels of ease rather than go to church, sportsmen, worshipp. of 'lambus in numbers. juniors whose glory it is to escort hair dames during evening rides, and senior who would ratht r face his satanic majesty himself than stand in the dread presence of a " woman." We have clergymen. priests, missionaries, tavern-keepers, school-master, and seho ' lass, with pr. , ri , a.r and pr.'. blear oldie aka of all I descriptions. But, unhappily, the said circle is divided into several segments, which do not willingly or neatly unite. lu the first place, theredemarcation is a line ut demcation oceasomally broken through, but pretty clearly brawn bytes run the two presidencies. The Mulls the Idadrateces are 'Nally called) again split into three main bodies--I, the very 'serious; 2, the prtil-s4irax ; and, 3, the utegmetitied. No do the Ducks; but these hying upon strange ground, :ire not so exclusive as they otherwise would Ity. Subdivision does not end here. For instaiwe, the genus seriou, will contain two distinct species, the orthodox and the hete rodox serious. The utesauctified also furor nnmerous little knots, whose bond of union is some such accidental mat ters us an acquaintance previous to meeting on the hills, or a striking conformity of tastes and 'tumultt. A brief account of the Neilgherry deny will &mein r yam inquiry about the existence of amti , ement. We ',sundae that there an. two Iltrmulas— one for the sanitarian, the *Ater for the pleasuredintater. And first, of 11 !','sense, cr the lle rises with the sun, clothes himself aceording to Dr. Baikie, and either mounts his pony, or more prolstbly starts stick in hand for a four-mile walk. Ile returns in time to &nob' the suit's effect upon an empty stomach, bathes, breakfast-, and hurries °nee Mote into the open air. • Possibly, between the hours of twelve and four, his diva r time, l i e may allow himself to rest awhile in the library, to I play a WOW' at billiard., or to call upon a friend, but Ul,Oll principle he avoids tainted atmospheres as much as possible. At g pan. he re-VOMMelleet. walking or [Wing, Ilente ' laudably in the exereise alerted till the falling dcw drives him home. A cup of tea. and a 1100 h or it. es ] paper, finish the day. This even tenor his elasf (110: Is OreaNiOnany vaned by some such eseitement as a pie-nit' or a shooting-party, but late thinners, lulls, and parties know hint not. Secoodly, of L'Allvgro, as the OHM who obtains two months' "leave of absence on urgent priiate affairs" to the Neilgherries. smiths: Penseroso lx-conte a ro bust nitivalesei nt, may classically and accurately Is tented, L'Allegni dresses ut mid-day; ke has spent the Ilsreneon either in bed or tot rkthabillr, its dozing, tea-drinking, and smoking, or, it' of a literary turn of mind, in perusing the page, of "The n 1 s oteil," or "Delliente4oln...• lie alhitcA breakfast tut spite old 'now, and asks Linear the fn quo nt question, What shall Ido to-day i The lathier an, generally at Lome between twelve and two; but L'AUegru, consider ing the oetupatiOn rather a " slow" one, votes it 41 " bore." But three is the club, and a couple of hours may be vent profitably enough over the newspapers, or plestsautly enough with the asststaucY of billiards and whist. At three o'clock our Joyful returns home, or arc: meanie. a party of friends to a but and sulsdantial meal, tenne4 tiftin, followed by many gigantic Trichinopoly eigars, and glasses of palo • ale in proportion. A walk or a ride round the lake 13 now deemed necessary to recruit exhausted appetite ' who is CA petted to he ready at seven far another but ;mil substantial meal, called dinner. And now. the labour,' of the day being happily over, L'Allegru concludes it with prodigious facilityn. mean lof cards or billiards, with whiskey and weeds. , fhis lire is broken only b) such interruptions as a shooting party, au excursion, u pic-atie, a grand dinner, roirt'r, or a de l l. Goa and the Bine Mountaini; or, Sir Huntlfs of Sick Learc. By Rommel) Iliderox, Ideutimat Bombay Anny. Bentley. A good book, containing a popular account of the famous old Portuguese colony in India, has long been wanted 1 for little is known of the peculiar races by which it is peopled. and, indeed, of the west coast ot the Indian peninsula generally. If Lieutenant Burton's work does not present this desideratum, it at least includes its materials. 'fhe [triter losses Theulties of close observation and graphic description, which, urftnrtunately, he is apt to use less often than a talent for iiersillage, and an exceeding ap titude in the employment of slang phraseology, both which he exercises without restraint on the green horns, or griffins, who frequent the city he prot'esses to describe. , It is not generally known that there are two Old Gras. The more ancient town stood on the south coast of the island, about two miles from its more modern namesake. In the time of the Moslem annalists it was a great and celebrated seaport. govenied by its own rajah. who held it in fief from the Belga nagger and Carnatic princes. Betbre the arrival of the Portuguese the inhabitants had begun to migrate to the second Goa. No truces of the old , Ilindoo town now remain. The second Old Goa was built about nineteen years before the arrival of Vasco, de Coma at Calicut, May 20, Moth About thirty flow* do Jury a Documents it< L . LepOSitits. de L'ht years after its foundation, it was taken from the Mtstric Delye calBl7. Ilaylz, Brno:ids. Moslems by Albuquerque, and, governed by a sue- ltt• d i:retant J u st now for all those persona who are to he i i - ea i n the jury fists of the Great Exhihitiou, to cession of viceroys, many of them the bravest muff ; enter upon their dune, with as perfeet a mastery of the wisest of the Portuguese nation, it soon rose to a practical caperienee of other countries as they are all; to height of power, wealth, and magnificence almost i obtain. This expo rimes ci tbe more safely, inspedi and ethetwilly gained than by conisulting the re incredible. But the introduction of the Jesuits and I tiouslY, .payees which the French and Belgian junco of natoonal ba the holy inquisition commenced flue work of ruin ; it was jwrfected by the wars widch 30011 sprung up duoti sal exhibition. have from time to time made to their resin cave governments. 'these documents are important both with Europeans and native powers, and above in many respects. As lucid critical essays on the coalition all, says our author, "by the slow hut sure working 1 of national manufactures, they may claim to rank with of the policy of the Portuguese, in intermarrying • more ambitious works ; and as furnishing direct and identifying themselves with Ilindooe of the' e " d ' lle 's 01 thebeneficial results of industrial cumpeti- I ' • lion una national wide they may be consultsdby lowest taste." n less titan a century after De Goma w all chows with adva g nta e! With the exception of the landed in India the splendour of (lon had departed ' French report on the exhibition of 1814 (which, both pier for ever. Lieut. Burton thus describes the tonally and in its matter, was a masterly performanco ), tho natiodder AFFECT OF GOA. Belgian report for 1817 may lie pronounced to be the most Old Goa ha' few charms when seen by the light of day. carefully-compiled document of this dna:notion whlett The places usually visited are the Se Prim:win,' (Cathedral), nations exhibitions have yet called forth. Brawn olio the nunnery of Santa Monaca, and the churches of St. the heart of a dense manufacturing population, chiefly by Francis, St. Gaetano, and Room Jesus. The latter contains the 1 men engaged in manfacturo, it appears to bear the stams) magnificent tomb of St. Francis Xavier. His saintship, and force of high and recognised impartiality. In this nhowever, however, is nu longer displayed to reverential gazers, its great charm mod must rest its power. If the judgments in mummy or "walded pig " fonn. Altogether w e of juries are once held tap to public contempt, us the n-salts reckoned about thirty buildings. Many of theta were fall- of animosities, jealousies, or personal interest—and it it ing to ruins, and others were being, or had been, partially easy to make any of these meantime , . the force of demolished. The extraordinary amount of havoc corn- I these judgments mid the good which would otherwise mitted during the last thirty years is lowing partly to the j lie in them full to the ground. And here peeps poverty of the Portuguese. Like the modern Romans , they I forth a point which undoubtedly causes conaiolorablo found it cheaper to carry away cut stone then to quarry , uneasiness in the minds of those who, while they it; but, unlike the inhabitants of thu Eternal City, they , hope for a satisfactory issue to the great 6 , 4041.6 have now no grand object iu preserving the ruins. At Pan- , which is almost to h tried, are nevertheless alive to the rhea jim we were informed that even the woodwork that deer cultic, which surround the proper porlionuance of the elution rates some of the churches had been put up for isle. The of the juries. It is to be hoped, however, that the large edifices, which are still in good repair, may he described body of unsuccessful caudidatca for industrial boa is will in very few words. They are, generally speaking, large I hear their failure with a becoming and modest spint ; and rambling piles, exposing au extensive surface o f w hit e . I even when they feel that their claims have not received duo washed wall, surmounted by stooping roots of red tile, with! consideration, that they will he restrained be a sense of the lofty belfries and small windows. 'f he visitor will admire' difficulties which have Inset the honourable labour of their the vastness of the design, the excellence of the Position, ! judifek,norseek to lower the tribunal to which they have been and the adaptation of t h e ar ehi teeture to the country and , sulgo•cted in the estimation of the world, Only those per climate. But there his praise will cease. Wi t h the e kt eta.! sous WhO have been engaged in the distribution of prizes) fur tion of some remarkable wood-work, the minor decorations meta, eau fn rm an ootiante ,of the thankleseneha which too of paintings and at dues are inferior to tho`4 , of any Italian . generally follows the awards of the judges ; far every tom village church. As there is no such thing as coloured , Hen's, unless he be a man of great strength of reason, be. marble iii the country, parts of the walls are painted exactly I fieno, that under moire favourable cinamstanem, he would in the stole of a small cakiret in the south of France. The I have been a prizehulder. Few indeed in these instances frescoes are of the moat grotesque description. Pontius ! Wass the rod , many site apt to cry—tyranny awl injustice. kibition juries cannot Inc doubted; but it is well to caution That these cries will Mow the awards of the Great Bx- Pilate is accommodated with a huge Turkish turban; and I the great public, which will be looking on at the time, that the other saints and sinners appear iu costumes equally curious iu an historical and pictorial point of view. - 'Some I groups, a, for instance, the Jesuit martyrs upon the walls ; when it is necessary to single out one man for distinction of Saint Francis, are abaolutely ludicrous. Boiled, „fluted,' from a thousand, the result of the choke must inevitably grilled, and hashed missionaries, looking more like seals' he discontent among the nine hundred and nionity-nine than men, Rafe upon you with un eternal smile. A semi- I rejecteal lidatoo. It Mamma thus the Mite - of all who decapitated individual stands bolt upright during the pain. I direct channels of publicity to guard the public on Mil to st i ck another d art i n t h e eg i o k rm i s o f some un- O that of exhibitors, may new be . pertinently drawn—us ful process which is being pertionned by a wore of grim- . point- —to protect the joilge, againat the judged In the looking heathens. And black savages are uselessly nuke- . Belgian report—to which public attention, and particularly Touring fortunate, whose body has already betoime more chiefly noticeable fur the calm judicial frailness which Like an Lea puss torcuult characterises it. Herein will be! finial, in honnot language, than aught human. One may fancy what an exhibition it the moons for each decision of the jury ; lweefrads is from the following fact. Whenever a picture or fresco each exhibitor learned in what he was deficient, in parts fades, the less bri liant are immediately supplied' what his sucenisful rival excelled. alt received with a coating of superior vivioluess by tae hand of a corn. bin Isom for the future. That in romans, where mon houwadeconitor. 'they reminded us forcibly of the industrial calabitiono have been fairly estaMishial uuatc studio of an Anglo-Indian officer, who, being devotedly I ceowful exhibitors have bogie their (Attire with 3 proper fond of 'fictional pursuits, and rather pinched for time, spirit, e moot he more forcibly ;hewn than in their soca-or withal, u,ed to teach his black servant, to lay the blue, I save attempts to holier* their position. The failing coati green, and brows on the canvas, and when he could I date of one exhibition is Lund to he the prindiulder of the 'spare a Mame moment, return to scrape, brush, an d next ; and in no circumstance uan a clearer er more honour glaze the colour into sky, tree , and ground. Ver y . like able proof besought of the honesty of the riealry subsistiag I the paintings in the walptufb: it presents a series of among French and Belgian manufacturers. If oumther cherubimi, angels and saints, whose very aspect makeo one proof were wanting of the honourable nature of Belgian shudder, and think of Frankenstein. Stone is sometimes, Industrial rivals it might he given in an account of the Iweal the material generally, used. The latter is almost entituoiaoun with whirl the government proposition to I always painted to make the statute look as un lik e lif e u decorate skilful and p=hial workmen was received every poosible. Yet in spite of these disenchanting details, a where. The amide introductory matter which precedes ' feeffng not unallied to awe cream over one when wanderin g each section of the report, would alone furnish information down the desert aisles, or through the <vowelless cloisters. with which English jurymen would do well to furnish Ina cathedral large enough for a first-rate city ;, Europe, ' themselves* ; and in the forms of award, &e., details of ' some twenty or thirty native Christians may be seen at management will be found, modifications of which would their devotions, and in nu m asie r i es b u il t for h un d re d s of lin doothl) f ac ilitate the arrangement of the jury laboura in monks, a single priest is often the on ly occupant . Th e f ew Bade-Park.