The Express. — London, England, 1864-10-31 00:00:00

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THZ iiTifasiiii/TING CHILD. Nn. 8. Line. - Sinning by Y•. Albert Steele and Mlle. DontL —And AWE ROY.--Commence at 61. WOE WATER AT LONDON7I,IIIDOL MID DAT Morning, th. ISm....Attersocs, 2h. Slm. TO-3101MOM Morning, th. 47m....Aftemoon, lb. Sm. LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31. TUE case of Mum.= will add one of the strangest to the list of our remarkable criminal trials. It exhibits in a singular degree the differ ence between direct and circumstantial evidence ; the testimony which cornea from an eye witness of the deed, and the testimony which build, up con viction through a series of separate and, at first eight, disconnected facts. Who could have dreamt that when Mr. BEIGGS, on the one hand, and iNIULLER, ou the other, each purchased some months before a new bat, they were doing an act which should ultimately lead to the identification of the one as the murderer of the other Or who could have thought that the transmission of an ordinary tele graphic message on the fatal day between two per sons entirely unconnected with the deed should be the means of fixing the presence of the murderer in the close neighbourhood of his victim on their common journey homewards? Yet from the com parison of a number of such slight and trivial cir cumstances a conviction was at last wrought in the minds of the jury that Mum.x•—• man of quiet and harmless habits, whom none had seen that night within many miles of the scene, on whose person and clothes no signs of guilty violence had ever been remarked—was the one man in all Lon- don by whom a• most violent and ruthless murder . had been committed. We shall now try to lay before our readers the chain of evidence by which his guilt was established, changing it into a more natural order than that in which, by the counsel l on both sides, it was adduced before the Court. On Saturday, the 9th of July, Mr. Bamos, whose residence was at Clapton, dined in the house of his nephew, Mr. BocaLN, at Peckham, at five o'clock. He left, accompanied by his nephew, at half-past eight, and entered an omnibus in the Old Kent•rosd, on his way to the Fen. church-street station, whence, according to his custom, he would take the North London Railway to his home. He carried a heavy stick and a black bag, and being fearful of missing the train, he several times in his walk to the omnibus pulled out his watch—a gold one—attached by a gold chain to his waistcoat. At Fenchurch-street he was recognised by FISHBOIALSR, the ticket collector, who marked his ticket. The train ought to have started at 9.45, but it was five minutes late, con sequently the guard Ames did not examine the tickets in the carriages before starting. It left the Bow station at 10.1, and three or three-and-a half minutes more brought it to Hackney Wick. At this last station two clerks in the same bank as Mr. Demos seated themselves in an empty carriage. But almost immediately they found their hands marked with blood, and called to the guard. He brought a light and discovered spots of blood—not large, for the largest is described as not exceeding the aize of a sixpence--sprinkled on all the cushions, and one or two on the windows of the side next the platform, and nearest the engine, or on the left in entering the carriage. This blood was afterwards proved by Dr. LE-runty to be human, and to have been living when abed, and the spots on the window were mixed with particles of brain matter. On the seat next to this window was found Mr. Baloos' black bag, marked with blood, and his heavy stick also smeared with blood, except about six inches from the top. On one cushion was a mark like the wiping of a bloody hand. The outaide handle of the further door was bloody, and there was a little blood also on the wheels and atop. His hat was not in the carriage, but there was a strange hat much crushed. Soon afterwards the guard of a train coming from the opposite direction observed something lying on the way between the two lines of rails, about seven hundred yards from the Hackney station. It was found to be the body of Mr. BRIGGS, still breath ing but insensible. His head was lying in the direction in which his train had been going ; from which the LORD CHIEF BARON drew the inference that he must have been pushed out feet foremost —not, we may remark, quite a necessary conclu sion. On the top of his head were several wounds, extensively fracturing the skull, which in the opinion of the surgeons must have been com mitted with a blunt instrument, and near the ear was a wound which they thought might have been made by a stone on the ground. In his pockets some gold and silver were found, on his finger a diamond ring. Hs died the following night, without having spoken coherently. _ _ The train of facts which connected MCLLIER with this mysterious and terrible deed were as follows : —lle was a German tailor, who had been several years in this country, but had lately formed the in tention, which he expressed to several persons, of going to America. A week or so before the 9th of July, HAFIA, another German tailor, had seen gold and silver in hie hand, and it was proved that the weekly wages in his trade might be 30 or 35 shillings, but he was frequently reduced to the necessity of borrowing sm►ll sums, and of pawning • gold watch and chain that he possessed. They were in pawn on the 9th of July. For several weeks prior to that day he had lodged with Mr. and Mrs. Ihrrwr, Old Ford-road, very near to the Hackney Wick station. On the morning of that day he went out to work at the shop of Itxrauf, also a German tailor. RUSCH and his THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1964. wife deposed that MULLER changed bis boots for slippers when at work, and on leaving in the even ing he still wore one slipper, as he had hurt his foot, but he took his boots wits him., He also in' the morning changed his trousers, a new green and black mixture, for an older pair, but again put on the green and black before leaving. This was about 7 o'clock, or, according to 11/mu, at a quarter to 8. He told the latter that he was going to see a prostitute of the name of ELDRZD, whom he visited, at CambarzalL Both this girl, and her landlady, Mrs. JONES, were called, sin gularly enough, by the counsel for the defence, to prove an alibi. But what they did prove was that Mum.= had really been that evening at Camber well, which is contiguous to Peckham, where Mr. Barnes was dining, and whence, on their way home, both individuals would, if they took omnibus and railway, follow exactly the same route. It was, indeed, sought to be proved by their evidence that MULLIS had been so late at Cam berwell that he could not have taken the same train. But they only proved that, according to their cluck, ELDRED had gone out at nine ; and Mrs. Jolt's thought Moose called half-an-hour after, but he did not stay. A time so vaguely and unsatisfactorily fixed by witnesses for the defence of not doubtful character, could not be taken by the jury as proving the impossibility of MULL= being at Fenchurch-street at 9.50. That he actually was at Camberwell that evening between 7.45 (when he left HArra) and 9.30, was fixed by FAnsan's recollection of receiving a tele gram, the date of which was procured from the office. But after that hour MuLtaa was not seen that night. His landlady sat up for him till 11 o'clock ; but he had a latch-key, and it is not known when he returned. He was there, how ever, on Sunday, and remained in all day, only taking a walk with his landlord and land lady for three hours in the evening, when he wore a slipper on one foot, and, in their belief, the same clothes that he had on on Saturday. On Monday morning he left their house, as usual, at 7. Just before 10 he was at the shop of Mr. DEATH, a jeweller in Cheapaide, exchanging a gold chain which was afterwards identified as Mr. Baran'. Between 10 and 11 he came to Rarsca's shop, wearing boots on both feet, and a light pair of trousers. The green mixture trousers were not seen again. He then showed a new gold chain and seal, the same that he had just got from Mr. Deem in exchange. He said that he had bought them at the Docks for 41. 2s. He also showed the chain to HAP, and, with his assistance, pawned it, as well as some clothes, to raise the passage money to America. He first used the sum, however, to redeem his owa watch and chain, and then pawned them, and sold the ticket to a companion, raising altogether 41. 54., the amount of the passage money. On Wednesday, the 13th, he took out his passage in the Victoria, and wished to leave a canvas bag in the gbh-ping-office, but this was not allowed. He sailed on the 14th of July, and was captured on the 24th August. In his possession was found Mr. Batons' watch, and a hat which, with that found in the railway carriage, was the main element in hia conviction. The history of these hats must now be traced. Mr. Sanwa had his last hat made to order by Mr. DIOANCE, who was his usual hatter, and who was in the habit of marking the customer's name inside. The hat found in MrtLeit's box was proved by Mr. DIGANCE to be one of his ; and still more decisively proved by the wholesale ma nufacturer to have been made for him. It dif fered, however, from that made to order for Mr. BRIOOB in the one particular, that it was lower in the crown. But it was found that this arose from its having been cut down an inch or more ; the lining also being cut, and the piece removed in which the name would have been written. After this was done it had been neatly sewn, not gummed, as it wail said a hatter would have done. This alteration, however, it was urged, was fre quently made in the second-hand trade, and some evidence was brought to show that, if the workman was in a hurry, he might stitch it only, without gumming. But then it was answered that the hat in the ordinary course of trade would be only cut down so as to make it the fashionable height, and that which we found on Mutten wig reduced below that height Moreover, he bad been seen by several of the witnesses to have a new hat on the Monday after the murder, and they did not observe that it was lower than is common, though they did observe that it looked like a guinea hat Minims then stated he bad bought it for 14s. 6d., and that be had crushed his former hat and thrown it into the duathole. But his former hat was a very remark ' able one. Marruews, • cabman, got it for him at his desire at a Mr. WALKER'S, in the Edgware road. Mrs. Rerseu had seen this name on the box in which MULLES brought it to her house. Both swore positively that it had a very singular lining—a blue, black, and white stripe; and both identified the hat found in the railway carriage with this of MuLtrit's. Mr. WALKER and his foreman swore that it was of their make, and that they had never made, according to the former, more than one or two, or, according to the latter, more than three or four, with such a lining, and had never seen it used by any other maker. It was, in fact, a pattern which had been sent only to them with many others from France. And this hat, on trial, fitted Mum.= We have in this summary left out of view the discrepancies in the evidence of MArrnsws, be cause they are at the worst explicable by his irregular habits, and by his wish to withhold information till the highest reward bad been offered. For though 2001. was offered at once by Government and the Bank, the Railway Com pany did not annonuce their intention of giving 1001. more for several days, though the news papers frequently declared that it was expected they would do it. We have also not adverted to the falsehoods told by MULLEa as to his having possessed the murdered man's watch and hat for several years. Nor need any remark be made on the evidence of Mr. THOMAS Lae, who being, according to his own account, the last friend to whom Mr. Bemis ever spoke, sod having seen him within two minutes of the murderous assault, at the last station at which the train stopped, could not be " bothered " to come forward to tell of two strangers he saw in the carriage till many days after the occurrence. For the leading facts, established by indisputable testimony, are these : That Muurit and Mr. Bat.A.s were in the same distant neighbourhood at about the same hour on the night of the murder, the homes of both being on the North London line; that 1111;Ltra did not reach his home till at least after eleven at night ; that being in want of money to pay his passage to America, he raised it by pawning Mr. BRIGGS' I chain on Monday morning ; that although so poor, Mr. limos' watch was found in his box ; that a hat made by Mr. Baicos' maker, but altered in an unusual manner and just so far as to get rid of the name, was also in his possession, while a hat of • description of which only two or three had ever ' been made in England, and identified as his, was found beside the murdered man. Against these facts the jury could not give heed to the sole favograble carcunistanne that no spots of blOod were noticed on his dark dress, nor to the allegation that he was too slight to pitch his victim out of the carriage. We mus 4 remember the strength which excitement gives, and we may fairly ask where Mamas was during the whole night, of which his defence gave no socount, and which therefore might, on the supposition of guilt, be employed in removing the appearance of a few spots of blood from a pair of dark trousers and a dark cost, never recovered •so as to be subjected to critical examination. These bale possibilities of innocence cannot overcome the irresistible conviction in duced by the concurrence of so great a variety of independent circumstances, each of which is naturally capable of explanation only by the fact of his guilt. It is this combination which gives circumstantial evidence its damning character ; and the verdict of the public will, we think, concur with that of the jury in regarding it in Muxxxx's case as conclusive. ebt Court. BeiLIKORAL, OCT. 28. The Queen went out yesterday morning accom panied by Prints m Beatrice, and attended by the Hon. Emma Lasesßal. In the afternoon her Majesty drove to the Fails of the Garbhalt, accompanied by Prioress Helena, and attended by Lady Augusta Stanley. WINDSOR CASTLE, Oct. 29. Her Majesty, accompanied by Priories Helena, Prince's Beatrice, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, and the in fant Prince Albert Victor, arrived at Windsor Castle this morning at half-put nine o'clock, from Scotland. The suite is attendance consisted of Lady Augusta Stanley, the Hoe. Emma Lemma lies Lord Alfred Paget, Lientenant-General the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps Primer Louisa, attended by Viseouttess Joselye, Colonel the Hoe. D. de Roe, and Dr. James stopped at Carlisle so sleep, and will arrive at Windsor Castle this evening. Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell and Lieutenant Haig, left Windsor yesterday for the Continent. The Prince will proceed direct to the University of Boon, where be will prosecute his studies, a hones having been en- gaged there as a residence for his royal high's= for some months. _ _ OCT. 30. Princess Lords*, attended by Vicomte's Jocelyn, Lieu. tenant-Colonel the Hoe. D. de Roe, and Dr. Jammer, arrived at the Castle last evening shortly before 8 o'clock. The Queen, Princess Helena, Prisms, Beatrice, Prince Arthur. and Prince Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentle men in Waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. C. Terror, chaplain in ordi nary to her Majesty, officiated. Lord Cremorne and t h e Hoo. Mortimer Sackville West arrived yesterday as Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. The Countess of CaWoo has ationeeded Viceonntore Joeslye u Lady in Waitirm to the Queen. Dermilehee were reeeived ea Saturday at the Coloeial office from the Governors of the West lodia Woods, 'Van couver's Mood, and Canada. Dequtchee were lent to the Governors of the North Americus Provinces and Bermuda. DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF BRISTOL We have to announce the death of the Marquis of Maid, which took place yesterday morning shortly after 5 o'clock, at Ickworth• park, near,Bary St. Edmueds. For the lest four weeks the respected marquis had bees considered to a very critical oondition. On his arrival home from a tour in Germany he was in such indifferent health that Dr. Gardiner saw him when he arrived at the family residuum in Bt Jarnes'esquare. The Earl and Countess Jermya and the nearest members of hi family were with him at his death. Lady Georgians Grey and Lady Augusta Seymour had been staying some days with the marquis at Ickworth. Oo Saturday and yesterday her Majesty the Qum met to in quire after hie health. 712* late marquis, previously to succeeding to the title on the death of hi. father in 1859, as the Earl Jestayn represented Bury St. Edmund, in the House of Commons from 1830 up to the time of his father'. death. Consequently he was in that assembly prior to the passing of the Reform BM, and, is a tory, at that period voted against that meuure, and uniformly voted against the whig party. It wee not until the late Sir Robert Peal wee called upon to take the helm of the government, in 1841, that the Earl Jermyn was convinced of the necessity of going with the able men who adopted the progres sive course of their illustrious leader. The Earl Jermyn had accepted the post in her Majesty's house hold of treasurer of the Queen's domestic household. but on the retirement of Sir It. Peel he relinquished th►t aloe, and ever afterwards, both in the House of Commons end in the Upper House of the Legislature, supported the administration of the late Earl of Aberdeen, and of our pre sent Premier. At the division in the House of Lords at the close of the last session, the Marquis of Bristol recorded his vote in favour of the policy of the government. It was his last vote in that assembly. The late mar quis ia miceeded by his eldest au, Frederick Wm. Joha, , Earl Jermyn, M.P., born 28th June, 1834, and married in 1862 Miss Geraldine Amoy, the youngest daughter of the late General the Hon. George Anson, who died in India, as commander-in-chief, on his way to Delhi, is May, 1857. Be was Bret elected as member for the western division of Suffolk in 1859, which of course becomes vacant by his seesesion to the Howe of Lords. The Princess Louisa, whose indisposition de tained the court at Balmoral somewhat lowa than had been originally intended, broke her jams" son* at Oar- Mae on Friday night, when the Qeeen travelled to Windsor. Her royal Meioses stayed at the County Hotel, &mom ponied by Dr. Jenner, Visouuntees Jocelyn, and Colonel the Hoe. Dudley de Roe: and, having passed a tranquil night, resumed her journey south on Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Coro mandieg-in-Chief has bees plowed to approve of the fol. lowing officers being appointod aidende.carnp to Ilia Ezosl. loony the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in addition to those before mentioesd :—Lieutenant the Hon. T. C. Soot; Rile Brigade; Lieutenant A. Moreton Wodebeeae, Royal Artillery; Lieutowtat L C. A. A. de Oita, Royal Artil lery, and Corset C. F. A. Howard, 11th Hussars. The Hon. Ralph Harbord has been appointed Gestleman.at- Ltrill• Ilia Excellency the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergue has deferred his intended arrival in London fora few daya. the excellency at the eleventh hour received the Emperor Napoleon's commode to meat his Imperial Majesty at Nice. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings, the Earl of Westmorelaost, and the Earl of Glasgow has ar dred at the St. Georgia Hotel. The Sari and Countess of Air!ie, who are stay ing at Lord Stanley's town house In Dover street, will leave town in a few days for Aldiuley Park, Lord sad Leal Stanley of Alderley's seat in Cheshire, is order to join the party about to meet for the wedding of Visoolaut Am barley and the Hos. Katherine Stanley. The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith are with the Duke and Duchess of Biteelowth and family at Drumlin. rig Coeds, Dumfriesshire. Lord and Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Miss Theater are expected to leave town on Wednesday next for Rome. The noble and learned lord and family intend to pass the whiter in Italy. Lord and Lady Walter Scott are at present staying with Lady Hartopp at Four Oska, Warwickshire. The Right Hon. Sir P.obert Peel, Bert , sad Lady Emily Peel, arrived at their boom in Whitehall. videos on Saturday from Colonel P.. aad Lady Jane Taylor's residenoe at Sandia**. Mims Braddon is said to be at work ow a fire-act comedy for the Haymarket Theatre. The Phormio of Terence will be the Westminster OAT WI Ma. EXTICTED VISIT or Leap PALIIZILSTON TO BUR IIINGESII. IS ecpeeted that the Brehm:l.B.room in the sew building at Stepheason•plan will be opened towards the end of December, and the direeton of the company pro pose that it sboald be done with some Mat. With this view they have resolved to invite Lord Palmerston to van Birmingham. The mayor, the Chairman of the Exchange Baildsog Company and the Vial• President of the Chamb er of Commerce have been appointed to wait up= hie lord- Yap with the lavitetioe.—Dirseiegheit Awned. LATEST INTELLIUICOUL AMERICA. REPORTED DEFEAT OF GENERAL LONGSTREET. A private despatch has been posted at the Liver pool Exchange news-room, which is stated to have been received vik Cape Race, the China having called there on the 23rd. The telegram is to the effect that on the 18th General Sheridan attacked Longstreet, who succeeded Early, at his fortified position at Fisher's Hill, in I the Shenandoah Valley, where a previous victory was gained over Early. The fight is said to have been very severe, but the result was that the Con federates were totally routed, with a ices of 80 guns and 7,000 in killed, wounded, and prisoners. It appears that the China did call at Cape Race, and therefore may have brought two days' later news ; but the news of a Federal victory has not met with entire credence, as the near approach of the presidential election is considered likely to have stimulated the circulation of military news favour able to the North. The Manchester Examiner publishes a telegram agreeing with the above, supplied by its own tele graphic agent in New York. The information (it observes) is in entire accord with that furnished by the Reuter telegrams of the 19th. Our telegram of that date said that on October 14 Sheridan moved to attack the Confederates, near Strasburg, but that they retreated without accepting battle. Other telegrams say that on the 17th the Confede rates were entrenching themselves at Fisher's Hill, two and a half miles from Strasburg, and the scene of Early's recent defeat. According to the new telegram, of two days' later date, a battle was fought, probably at Fisher's Hill, on the 18th, in which Longatreet was defeated. The correspondent states that the fifty guns said to have been finally captured from the Confederates included twenty which they had taken from the Federals early in the engagement. This is significant. It indicates quick reverses and probably a bloody story, the details of which, supposing the news to be true, we shall learn by the next mail. (MIMI'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE LYONS, Ocr. 31. The Emperor Napoleon arrived here yesterday evening at half-past 8 o'clock. His Majesty met with a warm and enthusiastic reception. A grand review of the army of Lyons will take place to-clay. JAPAN. SUCCESSFUL ATTACK ON PRINCE NANGATO'S FORTS. FORCING OF THE STRAITS OF SHIMONO SAKI BY THE ALLIES. (By 441444raph from Suez.) BOMBAY, Om 14. • The French steamer brings news from Japan, announcing that the allies had forced a passage through the straits of Shimonosaki with trifling loss. The Japanese fought hard. SHASGHAE, Barr. 21. The allies have successfully attacked Prince Nangato's forts in the Straits of Shimonosaki, with trifling loss. The Japanese have sued for peace. It is reported they will agree to open the straits. TERRIFIC HURRICANE AT CALUTTA. SUEZ, Ocr. 30. Calcutta was •isited by a terrific hurricane on the sth inst, which caused immense destruction of shipping• The Nemesis lost her topmast and bowsprit and was driven on shore. The injury sustained was uncertain, but she was expected to be got off in time to leave a few days late with the next mails. The Bengal was also driven on shore, but was supposed to be uninjured, although it was uncertain when she could be got off. The Nubia was dismasted. No lives have been lost in any of the company's steamers. The workshops are uninjured, but other shore property has been much damaged. The British India Company lost five vessels. The Alphie (French ste;imer - ) was obliged to put back damaged. Behic and M. Baumann, which has been hitherto opposed by Y Fould. _ _ _ The Moniker de Boir notices that Count de Mensdorff Pouilly, the new Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, is first cousin to the Queen of Eng land, his mother and her Majesty's mother having both been daughters of the Duke of Saxe-Stilled- Coburg. The French government journals give out that, not Count de Mensdorff Pouilly, but M. de Schmer ling is now the leading man in the Austrian cabinet, and they claim him as a thorough-going convert to the French alliance. He is also, they say, ready to make great concessions—all concessions, in fact, compatible with the dignity of the empire—to Hungary. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nos ous ows ooasserososer.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Constitutionnel, by the pen of the imperturb able K Boniface, " thinks " itself able to contra dict the statement that M. Nigta's important de spatch on the convention of Isth of September was communicated to the French government before it was sent. The denial is, however, feebly worded, and far from endorsing the assertion of La France that K Drouyn de Lhuys has remonstrated with M. Nigra about that despatch, K Boniface hastens to quit the subject, saying that it is not yet ripe for discussion because the Italian parliament is about to vote, and it must vote "not only with a full knowledge of facts, but in all liberty." It is very kind, certainly, of M. Boniface to abstain from dictating to the Italian parliament. But as he must be quite certain that it will vote nothing contrary to M. Nigro:* despatch, his implied threat of • more profuse expenditure of eloquence at some future time is mere bombast. The Pays says that the Czar, after quitting Nice, was to be at Toulon before the Emperor left that port, and the Opinion Nationale pretends that his Russian majesty is, after all, coming to Paris. I do not believe a word of either of these pieces of news, much less the last. According to the best information the meet. ing of the Emperors has had no political re sult whatever. It would probably never have taken place at all but that the Emperor Napoleon, after much negotiation and much hesitation, came to the conclusion at the last moment that the least of the two evils would be to go to Nice rather than expose himself to the oonjectures which the renun ciation of a journey so much talked about would give rise to. Unless the Monitsur to-morrow morning shall succeed in explaining away the Duke of Magenta' s circular about the projected loan of 750 millions (so confidently ignored by M. Boniface), another panic at the Bourse is looked for. Money must be had in some form or another, for there is beyond all doubt a large deficit which I hare heard esti mated at as much as 300 millions. The increase of bullion in the Bank of France is in great mea sure factitious, and attributable to the rejection of large quantities of first class paper, such as has newer been refused discount before. I observer statement in the Temps that the Moniker will shortly publish a decree creating a cause, or bank of public works, and that this bank will be authorised to issue bonds at six per cent, redeemable "in a mode to be determined by the decree." This is, doubtless, a device for substan tially carrying into effect the grand scheme of M. MESSAGE OF KING GEORGE TO THE GREEK ASSEMBLY. ATHENS, OCT. M. The following is the official text of the message recently sent by King George to the National Assembly : George L, Bing of the Ha ll am, to the Second National Assembly the Hellenic nation. lirgeetly somincned by Greece, I yielded to ber voice, in the conviction that she, upon her part, would Will her obligations towards me. I abandoned Denmark • year ago, before the annexation of the lonian Islands to the Greek kingdom—a condition agreed upon in my acceptance of the Greek crown—had been accomplished, and consequently before the mastitution for the new State had been voted. In a few days a year will have elapsed since my arrival. No one, I think, is unaware of the patience with which I have endured the abnormal position of royalty in pre sence of an asseasby actin/ at the mole time as a constituent assembly and as a legislative chamber. The annexation of the lonian Islands to the remainder of the kingdom bag further been long accomplished. The pressen' in the body of the Assembly for the last two month. of the representatives of that country has gives the National Assembly every facility fortermiaating, with out fresh delay, the vote of the constitution epos the basis of the project drawn up a year ago. What has takes place in the Aseembly up to the present time affords me the con viction that its labours may still be prolonged for a con siderable period. . . . The prokagstion of this position, which neutralises all governmental solicitude, and paralyses all administrative actios, not only unquestionably deprives the nation of pre- Mous advantages, but will certainly one.. evils which it will be difficult subsequently to repair. The impatience with which the people suffers this irregular condition of affairs is known to me. Indispensable duty towards the Hellenic people, and even the interests which ought to be placed under the guarantee of the constitution, imposes upon me the obligation of re quiring the aeration of this state of things. For this pur pose I have desired my ministers to lay the annexed dra ft of the remainder of the constitution before the National Assembly, and to declare that I am ready to 'incept and sip the portion already voted, as well es that which shall be voted according to the plan I submit, the oonditioos al which in no degree differ frees the wishes expressed by the Assembly up the present time. I request th. Assembly to deliver its vote epos Ilia plan within a period of tea days. My ministers will also bring forward within a period of ten days a bill relating to the election of deputies. I re quest the Assembly to debate and vote upon this bill in the rune of this mouth. But if the Nati...sal Assembly does not conclude these labours eithin the above-mistimed periods, I remorse to myself fall liberty se to my future course, whittle will be such as shall be dictated to me by my deceived hopes, and I make the Assembly responsible for all the consequences. PliP•d) GLORGE. Athena, Oct. 6 (18), 1864. DEATH OP MR. JOHN LEECH. The favourite artist, Mr. John Leech, died, we regret to my, on Saturday evening, at 7 o'clock. Though he suffered much, his life wee not supposed to be in IMMO diet. dearer. He went out to 000aolt Dr. Quell: oe Friday, and there wee a child's party in his hones at the time of his death. Although Mr. Leech lived to be 47 years of see, the record of his life is abort and simple. He wee born in London is 1817, and was educated at the Charterboase. He left school to study medicine, and bad made oonsiderable prowess is that direction before he discovered what was to be his true path le life. His tint sketch in Punch, entitled " Foreign Affairs," appeared in the first week of August, 1841, and theamforward the his toryof his life is to be MID week by week in the pages of that periodical. Hs illustrated also almanacs and novels, books of travel end poems. He always took great mass ait Christ mas drew nigh, and year by year seemed to surpass himeelf in delicacies of touch, and In the charm of his humour. But it was through the weekly pages of Punch, far more than through the yearly almanac, that Mr. Leech was best known to the public. With characteristic generosity be made unusual exertions is aid of his relatives, and his labours were latterly mare severe then they need have been if he had had only to think of himself and his household. The Times observes that although Mr. Leath looked strong, le had bees long a sufferer, and complained of sleeplessness; his lainosant brainwork induced a peculiar irritability with which mast persons have a tendency to jest rather then to sympathise. "He was reach affected by noise, and wee literally driven from his house in Brunswick. square by street music. He hoped to get peace at Ken sington, especially ea heahut them out by the device of double windows ; but he had no pesos, and in addition to the torment of the organs he came to be afllietol at early dawn by the hammer of some small mechanic. His friends made light of it, and tried to Jed with him. ' You may laugh,' he would say, • bat I assure you it will kill ma.' He was so unwell that during this Let summer he was obliged to go thread, end he was forbidden to indulge in his favourite exercise of riding on horseback. He came back better in the autumn, bat still he was strangely susceptible to noise, and only a fortnight ego he spoke with more than his asual earnest ness, with something even of passionate **treaty in his topes about the suffering which the street organs gave him, and about the smallness of the sympathy which he received from people who have to work their brains in a mere routine. At last his adhering' have come to an end, and if any of his Meads were inclined to treat them as imaginary they will now be convinced. It is not a year since he stood in tears by the grave of his schoolfellow Thseksray, end now his friends will follow hiss, too, to his long home." THE REPORTED DISSOLUTION OF PRELIASITECT.--- Colossi Taylor, who has charge of the general elec• toad business of the conservatives, has given the agents of the party n the provinces the stimulus of an alerte. Abonetes days ago he sent out circulars bidding them prepare for a general election in No vember. The news spread like wildfire, and because of its source, does ant seem to have been doubted. One of the provincial sooservative journals in giving it declared that it did so on " all but official" authority, mouldering, we presume, that Lord Derby is "all but" in office. The announcement has canoed a good deal of trouble to the °Dusan, &tiros, who by this time are satisfied that ft had no foundation. The journals which at first encouraged the story now say that, if the dissolution does not take place, it will be because Colonel Taylor's exposure of the plot has destroyed the chalice of its atones. If, therefore, we get through the neat month in peace the gratitude of the country will be due to that gel:akin:as. It would be interesting to know how Colonel Taylor was led Into his singular error, since it is certain it the least basis in the sale or foliations of the go vernment. Lieutenant• Colonel Crawley, so famous in the Sergeant Lilly ease, has been promoted to a fall ooloeslcy. At a meeting of South Staffordshire colliers held at Conley, on Saturday, it wlli agreed to end the strike, which has been continued for sevecteen weeks. One exesteiew was made. it was determined to keep out the 4,000 men at Oldbury and West Bromwich till they get the ss. a d►y which they demand, but in all other plaose work will be resumed. The speakers at the meeting said their privatioae had been Weems, and with deep mortification they de clared that it was their starving families which had fecund them to yield. The district is quit* peaceable, and the 'sol diery have bee° withdrawn. RIPRISENTATIOX or Irsvncu.—Mr. J. £.lk Aontractor for the lotenisticsal &Albinos beans( is ens. nesiou with Meows. Laws Bronson) wee reassely A a conservative candidate for Ipswich, wed annomest Ide Ablation to offer hiswelf at the ohnolutios, V easeert with Mr. J. C. Cobbold, M.P. It app..rs that Mr. Belk has now changed his mind, and we his candidature. 14 is understood, bewsww, that she oesservaLives will, not. withstaeding Ale diaappaisaaseet. start • sesesd modidate for the basset, which Sam 1847 has been rapnessted by Mr. J. 0. Cobbold losowervatirei, and Kr. H. IA Adair OTT or LONDON HOSPITAL 701 DMUS= or Too CUNT, VIOTOINA•PAIL-1b numbs, et patients rebored at MINI Annan= during LA week was 936, of which 245 wipe now orsa FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN IRELA.ND. A TRAIN THROWN DOWN AN EMBANKMENT. (mom ous owl oosasepoiDurr.) (IT &LW= TELAGIAPII.) DUBLIN, MOIDAI. A fatal accident occurred on the Midlanurt;;;a t Western Railway, about 5 o'clock on Saturday evening, to the down train from Dublin to Galsay. When about two miles from Ballinaaloe, on this Dublin side, a third-class carriage iu immediate con nexion with the engine ran off the rails and wai propelled down the embankment, throwing tie tender off the rails, and breaking the coupling between the tender and train. The engine ran ;; considerable distance in advance of the train ; tit carriages following propelled the first carriage with so much force that it ran down the embankment into the adjoining field, dragging the others after it, and overturning the first and second class carriages which were shattered to pieces. Mr. Glanville, builder, of Ballinasloe, and a mason, named Henry, were killed. Five persons received serious injurie,-, and 20 others sustained slight contusions. EXTENSIVE FORGERIES AT HUDDERSFIELD. On Saturday a young man, named Henry Martin Haigh, who bas just completed his articles with a solicitor at Huddersfield, was apprehended at Cheater on a charge of forging cheques upon the Haddonfield Bank to the amount of 2,0001. At 3 o'clock oo Friday afternoon information was received at the Police.office, Hodder,, field, from the bank that cheques bad been forged I, Haigh upon that establiabmeat, to the amount alreads , stated, and that there were supposed to be other foi. geries, not then fully discovered. It was found o f inquiry that Haigh had left Huddersfield, the suppositi n being that he had gone direct to Manchester. Chid-o, stable Homes, in company with Detective Partridge, too,: train at 6 o'clock for that city, and on their annul they found that the fugitive had been is the company of a you .? woman of disreputable character, and that be had gone with her to the London.road station. Proceeding to that Mr., the odious diaeovered the young woman in question, who we. standing upon the platform, and, on interrogating she told them that Haigh had "given her the slip." i , • person of prisoner, description bad booked from the • citation, and the officers accordingly went to Longsight, where they found that he had booked for Crewe. Pro. reeding thither, the officers remained there all nigh:, and at noon on Saturday they went to Chester, arriving at the station just as a train for Holyhead was about to start. Mr. Hansen went to look into the carriages, sand in the compartment of a 61st-class one be tow the prisoner seated alum. On recqpising Mr. Haines Haigh made as attempt to wimps by the opposite dr.,e, The door on the platform side was locked, but Mr. Hamm, making use of • railway key be had in his possamicm, quickly entered the carriage and secured his prisoner. The prisoner resisted the efforts of the poli ce to take him to the lookup , and it was only after much dif. ficulty that he wee lod in prison. The o ffi cers proceeded with their prisoner to udderstiald on Saturday bight 0, being searched. there were found to Haigh's posquion a WI. Bank of England note, 101. in gold sad saver, • mew gold watch and chain (worth 301.), a Ant clams ticket iron Cluster to Cork, and a lore letter, couched in terms of en. doormat, and addressed to " Dear Liu" The prisoner, whose family is highly respectable, bad possessed himself of his brother's sherp•-book, and bad thus committed the forgeries upon the beak. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT SSA.-BIGHT LI VSS LOST. One of the most painful and heartrending inci dents which have transpired during the late gale vu witnessed by the crew of the brig Sovereign, Captain Jscksoo, as its passage from Wyborg to West ifertlapooL The Sovereign arrived at West Hartlepool on Friday night, and the captain reports that on Thursday, while his omen was some distance from Hartlepool, be was steering the ship in a heavy gale from the eastward, and about half-put 11 in the morning he was suddeuly startled by a voice calling out, " Brig ahoy." He called out to the man no watch to know where it proceeded from, and for a fee momenta they could not parody* anyone, bat looking behind they ered • small " dings," or ship's bet with seven men sad • boy in it. One of them bad a small Eag on • stink, waving it as • signal of diagram, and beckon. ing them to tore the vessel round. All hands were called oa deck, wed the ship's course was speedily altered, sod is • short time the vemel was close to the poor fellows, who were being tossed about in their little craft in the mo mentary expectation of being swamped. On searing them it was saes that the occupants of the boat were sailor, and we, who was taken for the nptety wee steering the boat with an oar. They appeared to be quite exhausted. as though shipwrecked on the previous day, and had been fightiog be tween life and death with the surging waves, without food or water, in fact there was nothing is the boat but one oar sr! • life-buoy. A line was immediately hove to this boat, Ltd it was eagerly caught by the men, and with it they hauled themselves up to the aide of the ship. One of the men in the boat fraught hold of the chain fastenings of the rigging for the pompons of keeping the boat close to the ship, tic: heavy sea caught the vessel, and pitching it maids lifted the men out of the boat. On the man tiodiog Dinneen beirg raised up, be let go, and fall into the boat at the foremost part of it with his feet, his head going over into the water, On his companions seeing his danger they sprang forward to keep him is the boat. In doing so, they upset their craft, and the whole of them were pitched into the sea sod drowned. BAILWAT ACCIDENT IN AMERICA. TWELVE PERSONS KILLED AND BETWEEN THIRTY AND FORTY INJURED. NEW HAVEN, OONNECTWOT, Ocr. 15. A railroad accident, • ith fearful results, oc• warred es the Sher Ilse Railroad about U o'clock this forenoon. The train consisted of six pass age ears, coo. Mining 275 sick sod wounded soldiers, who were Mier tranaferred from the United States Haight Hawaii, in this city, to Reedville, If asrehomette. The train, aa extra one, left this city at 8 o'alock. Whs. ghost for miles rat et the Oossectiont river, and whil e oc E through a deep rock cot, known as " Rocky ," broken rail threw the satin train from the track sad the etre into the solid rook ledmi on either side. Or ear is the middle of the train was thrown up and woes the track. forming a empire arch some 20 fees high. The balance el the train was piled is all directioes, and three of the ears were smashed to such an extent that it would be horrible for a spectator to aseertala the number that was in the train, except by minutia' the wheels. !in)* of the unfortunate soldiers ware takes from the ruins deed. Two of the harksmen were instantly killed. Another woe so badly injured that he man hardly survive. Ti. or twelve soldier were seriously and some 20 wen slightly blared The dead and wain led were conveyed heck to Newham, and returned to the Government hospital. The more forts• ear were forwarded to their &dirties. Or of the killed was jammed betters a car sod the rooks in seek a mars that it was eight before the body amid he extricated. the cars beings perfect wreck. King Victor Emmanuel (says the Nord) appeaTi to have abandoned hia intention of visiting Nice at the same time as the sovereigue of France and Russia. 'Re important events now parsing at Tarim aafciestl• broom; for his Itrjesty's resolution not to leave his capital at net a grave conjuncture. Tan Mary or TIM EYFICROIt NAPoLEON TO NICE The Emperor Napoleon arrived at Nice at eight o'clock a the evening of the 27th. His Majesty wee moseyed at Os railway station by M. Gavial, the prefect, and eateries la open carriage with that functionary, Vies-Admiral Jon de Legraviare, and Gerieral Fleury, peened through the ton at a foot pace, amidst the loudest acclamations from the persons tremble& The Emperor was received at the foot el the grand animas of the ?selectors by the georeel ccm• mandiag the departmeot, the Mayer of Nice, and Mara Gavial. After the dieser, which occupied but • short tins, his Majesty, accompanied by General Fleury, took a walk it the town, which was generally illuminated. At ten o'c',,kk on the following morning, the Empeor received the cocoa:• poen' and the municipality of Nies, sad was pre*ol to proceed to the Vila Pellioe, when the Emperor Alexander oune in uniform, accompanied by the prawns a his suite, to pay a visit to the Emperor of the French. The Emperor Alexander wished to make the first visit, in cede to espies' his tbaake for the kied reception gives him in 'MOM At bait-past tea the Emperor Napoleon visited in his torn the Emperor and Brame, of Ramis. He after• wards took a walk in the town, and was everywhere received with soclarnatioo. At noon the two sovereigns reviewed the troops of the ganiecie. The rain coming on prevented the projected visit to Villefranclne, where the Russian squadron and the French Imperial yacht the Mee are at Ascher. The Emperor Napoleon dined with their Majesties of gpsia sod in the evening there was s grand representation at the Italian Theatre. OUTWARD AWZRICAN bfAlleramteres.--On Satur• day lad the Cunard Company's steamer Atria" was de 'patched for Halifax and Boston with the United Sato mails, also a large cargo and a►out 130 poseseprs. Or Wednesday oast the Inman steamer City of London wdi sail from the Hersey for New York, with mails for the United States. Letters, 3e., will be received at the post . "Sm, for dispatch by this steamer, until 11 o'clock fort mon, and emit Cork until 830 p.m. Osser.u. Pairos. HAI.r-•-Crows Day. B►rv*DLT, OCT. 29.—Adairious payment, 758; dap; by arra Wu* 2,893; 3,681. faw•o with train was Wm aad al him 31?". anae 16, were the tea had sod The .3( haring the de heard dowa, ihreatei boomplal althoolat ember I filthy au throws 0/ a alas did a Wu was I &beau Two w sod adds wee shoo 11b;ci; although amass. m &Tie b• 1 Mrs. sad had felony. for two c and pulli Mr. Mi Orls like r y. the Dien pro. artier the 10 be imp The del bread wit hones get halt. James before .111 • Sarah BUdl Penoo. Mr. We %elicitors Los for t Ban. the coal - 1;41ot It app., ialsreatioi widow. of • wow lode 10 o'clock. 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