The Express. — London, England, 1849-08-29 00:00:00

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Os $ II di. 121 Rai 4 it d.. 42 4 4114. 29 II 10 II ex 61v. 6 6 d le I n 8 n die. 91 LIVERPOOL, depot 28, - Itroctc-F.acauroz.—The !Wig to-day may be uid to Yee been better, altboust priCel Wen liaCy clanged. Great Nor thers ;sr cent. ped. am 1.o.), if d.—letto (L and lr. ext.), d. —Leserstettre sadtorkshire (1111.11 Awes), 31 d.—lanssater sod Pres. 14a rarc., to. at 111. die.). 13 p.—Lorkse sod North. Wester, 14.4 —Ditto (raw ehares), e. *LOOM, 3,11 7.-111dIrsd (1 Plum. .1:) 13 d.—Tort, Newcastle, sad Said* (13.N.E. 111 per es. bll*:4J, tt t es. MANCHESTER, August 28. Senra-Eafaiuswa.—The market was firm. LARDS. August 28. BTOCILYONANGL More busmen bad been dons On I 'Chance, Ode awning, at about yesterday's rater. The tram:takes quoted ae—New East Encabo?, 121—Lasesabire and Tort... Wye Fifth.% 4 a a.. —Minsk Extendana, 2 at 60.66. dta—Great Northern Prefrroor, 37a. 6d. eta—East and West Torlotbire, 71—Leeds and Mink. 14. BIRMIIitiHAM, Astput 28. grOnr-Er Ma:Wt.—Thera wag sore bnsineig translated in this nuak. , t to-day. and prim trete Omer. South Stafford' hare, proapect of the Wee alluded to a few day ►ince, gone ap shoe' •'hare, they haring been done to-day at 4 dia.; blatetestairy and lir aalart-o, am" done at tddie.; and Bristol and Birmingham (11vdland per rer.c.) at 11St._ The WIN offered to the South Stafford by the Lavl n and North-Wotan Comps, are rid to be a gunnies if per cent. fur 21 yearn. BRISTOL, August 28. eincx-Esoßeweß.—Ths market remised do 1. lsd with tank does& 7M pritte.ired tanotectkes were fa MAU and }'seta tiara eturoa waka let off at Sot dis. Then Inn bolero at Greet Wr•tern quaar awes at Oi di'., Out hoiden Wail tee else t toe price, ead ao tforaernon wen cmpiwea. YORK. Aerial 28. STOCK VICILIIIIOI.-Bslea : Great Northen t 8i ; Innk, Neweastte, ast isn't& Miramar tztessiaB), COTTON.—LnrsapooL, Arovss 28.—ns market to day ern , dull, end the Woe wee* abut 4,000 balm Including 1,000 talen -gee. sad mart MA"ICMprnl, AVOVST 28.-I(anufsetunn teatime then in .letn,natest the hierenerd Met of last week, which ham a ten dems to heck is beam% esesequently there is eiry little doing in the goads TIVITift. seurlet be yarn also eery quiet. India homes continue to hold okla eke sapsetatica of the arrival or the (method Man. CLOTH.—LUD., Loom 28.—The advance is indtb gow 0.11110 NMI for balk elothq oparannor prep= an the marlets. We Ws beal a eat market today. The merchants I. get upettoir dor Is "Mai in arum cc mint prise. the ergirtoo. OUTGOING MAILS. The nigh for the British North America and the United States will be made up on the everting of Aug. 31. The West Italia pleas, including Bermuda, If wanes, Num, Mondani, New Orleans, and Keaton, and excluding those for Madeira, St. Juan-de -Nicaragua, New Granada, Chili, and Peru, will be made up on Sept. 2. The mails far Madeira , the Snails, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on Sept. 4. The it/ h airs Marseilles , to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Caylts, Hocriong, ie., will be made up oa the evening of silt. 7. The mails Wei igo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up en the morning of Sept. 7. The mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands , bEgypt ! Cs, lon, Inir.s, and China, via Southampton, will ~be mada up on the morning of Sept. 20. AMU WATER AT LONDON ERTDOR. Tun DATash& 43 =la put lu. Aftenbece. al ads. pre 11. To-roam. --Mlduralft,llll•lta. past 11 ; Aftessega , O W. p ast O. INDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29. THE general belief throughout the continent is, that the Hungarian general surrendered with his army to PA.snlzwercu on a pledge being given by the Russian commander that his master, the Czar, would guarantee the independence of Hungary . . Should this be the explication of the tni g ma—and it is a very natural one, for the Hargarians, in disgust of Austria, have latterly been not unwilling to fling themselves into the arms of Russia—then will this power have achieved a wry great stride towards ttat universal empire, wielded either de facto or by influ ence, which NAPOLEON foretold to Europe. Such a conclusion of the war places Hungary in the same posi tion with the other Danubian rrincipallties, which re main each of them under the nominal sovereignty of one power, but under the real suzerainty of another. Wallachia and Moldavia Wong to the Porte, yet we have seen in this campaign Russia treating them alto• getber as her own provinces, cccnpying them, and making use of their men and money towards the te duction of Hungary. Servia some time since has passed from looking in any way to Austria, and to a total dependance on Russia. And Hungary may now be considered another of those Danubian principalities whom independence Russ:a guarantees. If the Hun garians have any cause to complain of Austria, it is to Russia they have to look for support. And rro aided the Hungarians forswear liberalism, they will get this support. Every ens is aware of the strong tendency of the GaDimas to effe.t the Lame transference of their hopes, their sovereignty, or their pmts aerate to Rue sia. The Russian troops and officers have of late been welcomed in Cracow: and the Cr tcovians Lave taken part with theme 'Russian soldiers iu their many l and serious quarrels with the Austrian commander. That a large number of the Poke themeelves are re lapsing under the lame despair of recovering their own nationality, and that they look to attaining this henceforth rather by a reconciliation with, and adhesion to Russia than by cherishing vain lnpes in the sympathies of the west of Europe—this also is well known. So that Russia has played a deep, a politic, and a successful game, whilst Austria lute played a suicidal one, giving up her best province to that enemy which has most in its power to absorb i:. As to an Hungarian or a Danubian respecting Austria, or looking upon it with any feelings save those of aversion and contempt, that surely is hop, less. The Mute of LORRAINE has ceased to reign in the hearts of any one of its subject races. Abhorred by the Italians; contemned by the Hungarians; mis trusted by the Bohemians ; the wholesale murder of their nobility by the orders of METTERNICH being still alive in the breasts of the Gallicians, whilst all that is German in Austria waits but the first oppor tunity to throw off its degrading and dishonourable yoke ; what is Austria in the rank of nations, or how does its dynasty subsist except in name ? But indeed of Austria it will be henceforth useless to speculate or to speak. It is now blotted from the list of the independent natione, the result indeed not more of the incapacity and treachery, and bloodthirsti ness of its menti o nd its statemen, than of the unna tural agglof people under its sway, and the utterly false and insupportable basis on which blind chance and stupid bargaining put together such a heterogeneous monster of an empire. It remains now to be eeen what use Russia will make of her undoubted and incalculable triumph. Will the Czar wisely confine himself to the building up, surrounding, completing and establishing that great Sclavonic empire, which once seemed reserved for Austria, but which it has thrown away ? Or will Russia, buoyed up by BUCCellf, put forward Austria as a tool to works re-action in Germany ? Reaction there is, no doubt, already in that dis tracted land. But still the movements of 1848 have left a great many benefits and free habits in Ger many, on the preserving of which depends its pre , eet development and fuluas greatness. The liberty of the press, for example, still exists in Germany to a very great degree. A Berlin journal can, at this moment, give utterance to sentiments which would cause the instant suppression of a Paris print. The Prussians may call the present chambers sitting in Berlin the parliament of the minority, whilst a French editor durst not tell M. BARROT that be had broken the coneitution. Truth may be told in the German press, whilst nothing but falsehood is tolerated in the Parisian. Will the Emperor NICHOLAS bear this development of free opinion at his very door ? It is known that, to preserve his em pire from its effects, he has hermetically sealed the frontier, forbidden any Russian to stir from home, and forbidden every foreigner to visit Russia. How Russian nobles bear to be thus consigned to the nur sery, and treated like big children, as they are, we find it difficult to imagine. But so it is. The Emperor sees Germany inundated by a kind of political heresy, and it is to be feared that his first step will be to try and prohibit it. He will put forward Austria's claim to be the prominent German state, and is its tame demand the restora tion of that old system of the German diet, in which the envoys of courts met and decided on the dearest interests and liberties of the German people. Should the Emperor NICHOLAS enter upon such a crusade as this, he will find it a much more serious undertaking than even an Hungarian war. We are by no means certain that he will be so foolish ; for we are confident that it would merely tend to the consolidation of German liberties. The Germans are now divided, utterly divided, which constitutes the weakness of the national or liberal cause. But let it be plain that the Russians march to the attack of German liberties, and then there will be one standard and one opinion to rally to throughout the country; and a war of opinion will commence, for the result of which we will tack the liberal ideas and wishes of the Germans, against all the legions of Russia., with the Croats and the court 'tableau to help them. Tax select committee appointed last session by the House of Commons to inquire into the state of our public libraries and into the best mode of improving and multiplying those institutions, have made their report. It is a plain, succinct, and matter.of-fact doessnent—little more, in fact, than an epitome of ties chief topics adverted to in the evidence. We can na lay that we re:ognise in the list of witnesses all visas we expected to find there. We should have desired somewhat more of diversity both in meet and intellectual condition; and upon the wants of a realm so dissimilar as those of the United 'Kingdom confes sedly are, we should have wished to learn something more of the desires and deficiencies of the remoter and I l leas favoured lccalities, though we grudge not consi duration devoted to details of metropolitan establish ments and to the general contrasts which the testi mony of foreigners enables us to draw with the na il timal provision made by oar neighbours for the I ncision of taste and knowledge. On the hat-named topic the evidence given by M. °vizor, M. VAN DE WET ER, and M. LIND, regarding the public libraries of France, Belgium, and Italy, is fall of interest and instruction. We are thus reminded of the fact that while London, with all its boasted wealth and intelligence, possesses but one collection of books worthy of the name which is publicly accessible for the purposes of study, Paris contains no leas than seven, open to all classes at all hours of the day and at all seasons of the year. &ill more humiliating is the comparison with the less populous and affluent capitals of Europe. Flo rence rejoices in no fewer than six open libraries, Dresden in four, Vienna and Copenhagen each possess three, while Brussels, Berlin, Munich and Milan are respectively endowed with two. Nor does a more general comparison redound more to our credit. Scotland may indeed be said to be better provided THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1849. which it is than either England or Ireland with this essential ttr quisite of modern civilisation, having teside the col lections at her four universities, the valuable one well known as the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh. Ire land's deficiency of literary resources kr but too much its keeping with all the other maidens cf her long misrule. The library of Trinity College has bees I accumulated since the last wave of confisanks and destruction swept over her devoted Odor' and to the privileged acquaintance of tho hest et that exclusive body, as well as to such as have ob tained tho degree of M. A., it affords ample mecca l el historic, scientific, and theological research. But I the other libraries in the Irish metropolis are wholly unworthy of the epithet of national ; and beyond its precincts intellectual famine reigns so fax as public granaries for its mitigation are concerned. In all England there are absolutely but three libraries whose names one can recall es national institutions without a blush or a bitter laugh. They are the British Museum, the Bodleian at Oxford, and that of the University of Cambridge. The northern half of the kingdom can 188IY show one venerable pile of circumscribed dimen sions, which wes stocked by the private munificence of Humpartze Crtirmss at Manchester two hundred years ago. Analogous gifts to the public were made indeed by Dr. Wirtre, rector of Sr. Dunstan's, in 1836, and by Dr. WILLIAMS, also an inhabitant of the etty, in 1716. The former is preserved for the benefit let the select few at Sion College, London-wall ; and the latter is somewhat less reservedly maintained in Red Cross-street. In some half-dozen of oar Icathedral cities, there are moreover to be found the diminishing re mains of the typographic wisdom of oar ancestors. But all these consist in chief part of divinity or scholastic works, good and useful as ele• ments of a whole, but no more 'applying the wants of the day and generation than the Norman armoury in the Tower is fitted to supply weapons or accoutre ments to a regiment of guards. In a word, it must be freely owned that our utter neglect of all public provision for the great purpose in I question, has hitherto been unparalleled among civilised communities. While parliament has been session after session squandering the taxes paid by the people on powder and pensions, ball cartridge and colonial bribes, one of the most sacred duties of a representative legislature has been, if not totally forgotten, uniformly slurred over as a dull matter of routine, or treated with a hnxter's hand. It is stated in the report before us that France contains 107 open libraries; Austria, 48 ; Prussia, 44; Ba varia, 17 ; Belgium, 14 ; Tuscany, 9; Saxony, 6 ; Denmark, 6. As for us, we know not where to turn for class-fellows in want of public spirit unless it be to Russia, for Spain retains the splendid monuments of her ancient learning, and the Turks are learning to read. Tax military executions, of which at Rastadt, wo read daily, are very diegusting and dirgraceful. After the first Emerges of the Prussian troops com mitted in some towns, there was a cessation of such brutality, and we were glad to see that in the cam paign, conducted by the Prince of Prussia, such scenes were not repeated. But if the outrages of a rabid soldiery are horrors to be denounced and pre vented, the cold-blooded sacrifice of noble lives re flects even more dishonour upon the government of a civilise] country. We have shown no sympathy for the insurgents of Baden or of the Palatinate. The folly of their attempt, the appeal to arms after the middle classes had been disgusted by the use which the mob of Berlin made of their arms and their momentary success, could be only looked on as madness. But still these insurgents were not without claims both to pity a- d to respect What did they rise for? They rose for German unity, and for the constitution of Germany, voted by a legally summoned and recognised repr . esentative assembly. The reigning powers of Prussia and of Austria acknowledged this assembly ; the former nego tiated with it, feasted with it, and the King of PRUSSIA himself (lid, perhaps, more than any other man, or brdy of men, to induce Germans to look to the Frankfort parliament as that bcdy f rom which 1 the constitution of Germany was rightly and duly to proceed. This parliament does vote a constitu tion. It is accepted by a large number of German states, when the King of PRUSSIA thinks fit to demur to it, and to issue another constitution. Now, although we think that the King would have acted more honourably and wisely in accepting the Frankfort constitution with all its defees, and trust ing to time and the good sense of the Assembly to mcke the necessary alterations, instead of undertaking to do these himself, nevertheless we sincerely desire that the Germans should accept the imperial consti tution of the three kings, as it is called. But although we entertain this opinion, we must admit that every German had a right to entertain a contrary opinion, and to prefer the Frankfort constitution to the Berlin one. And having this opinion, to take arms in its favour may have been a fcolish proceeding, but not a criminal one. M. Von VINCKE is precisely of the same opinion as the insurgents of Baden and the Palatinate, except that he rejects physical force. If ever, therefore, there was a case in which the suppression of rebellion ought to have been followed by indulgence, it was this one of the Baden insurrection. And yet we find a court-martial of cfficers, in the midst of peace and conquest, sitting and sending day after day to execution the most honourable and con scientious men. A strong feeling may have existed of the necessity of making an example of any Prussian officer who had led this revolt against the arms of his country. But the victims of Rastadt comprise men of all classes. Tnrevzscitsza, for example, was a man of great wealth and intelligence, and upright reels, and a civilian too. TIEDEMAN, the son of the celebrated Heidelberg professor, bas been another victim. Professor KINKEL would have been sacrificed but for the great interest made for him. Although the majority of the Germans saw at once the folly of the insurrection,neverthelees there is great and general sympathy felt for those who were carried away by it. It was no deep laid conspiracy, but a kind of sudden and spontaneous movement , which seemed so natural and legitimate a consequence of the opinions previously expressed by all, that simple men,like Kismet, thought they were but doing their duty ; and high placed men, such as Seamen, the Court architect of Dresden, deemed it disgraceful not to act up to their opinions, even whilst contemp lating their hopeleasnees. These are not victims whose slaughter will strengthen a cause, or whose blocd will cement a throne. On the contrary, their fates bare excited strong aversion against government in the breasts of many not inclined to take part in politics. When we consider the attempt of a few foolish Irish to get up a rebellion, the lenient way in which they were treated, admitting of a royal visit and a popular re ception the enthusiasm of which was unparalleled and unexpected, we have a strong example of the wise policy of avoiding to shed blood, or of making a rigid and ruthless use of conquest. The King and the Prince of PRUSSIA ought to have left such bar barity as this to the HAYNALS and the WINDISCII- Gunn, nor sought to rival the Austrian murder of Bum by the Prussian sacrifice of TRUETZSCIILEV And had the victims of Rastsdt been confined to one or two outrageous cases, and mercy been shown pro portioned to the facility and certa inty of conquest, more would have been done to conciliate disloyalty and prevent disaffection than by the wholesale deci mation of a gallant body of men, provoked or betrayed into insurrection by the bad faith, and false promises, and criminal vacillation of their prince'. The news of the execution of Temerzscrmsre, with the affecting circumstance of his wife's attendance upon him, reached Leipzig at the same time that the King of SAXONY went thither to review the regi ments jest returned from Schleswig. Solemn and ominous was the silence, and universal the expression of contempt and aversion with which his Majesty was received. His vacillation indeed it was which pro voked the rising, and then caused the slaughter and execution of his subjects. The King of PRUSSIA himself, though girt round with legions, is not the less amenable to the terrible tribunal of public opinion, exasperated as it is against German princes; and we cannot but warn him, that - I even his imperial constitution, were it steeped in Pali" • The only son of a rich old aristocratic family in Gotha he studied law at Jena and Heidelberg , entered afterward. into the service of the Kin? of Saxony. and became asses sor of the court ofjusticc at Dresden. He married a young lady of a noble family. Elected as deputy to Frankfort, he sate as member of the extreme left, and went afterwards to Baden as commissary of the revolutionary government. His wife after his arrest paid out of her own fortune whatever money he had levied as comminaey. In their last inter view he made her promise that she would emigrate with their two children to America. Hie old and very respectable parade are still living at Gotha. sagacity and wisdom . wo uld fail of success i I bedded with blood. ►r from being. executions and RUSSIA. The anette du Commerce says The stock cf coin kept on band for the purpose of cashing bank notes having diminished, it has been thought necessary to replace what is wanting by trans p o rting 5,000,000 of roubles from the fortress of St. Petersburg. On the d‘y sppointed for this pur pose, in the presence of MM. the assistants of the comp troller of the empire, the members of the committee of revision, the delegates from the bourse, and the foreign commercial charges d'affairee, the entn dos tired to be removed was taken front the Veldts of the fortress. It consisted of 2,000,000 roubles in gold, ann in silver. This sum, under guard of the above-mentioned per sonages and escorted by infantry and cavalry, wee transported to the depirt of the Bank. The council of the Bank, in full sitting under the presidency of Prince Alexander Ivanowitsch, Tschermycsheff, and in the presence of the above gentlemen, assured themselves that tke sum was the same as that taken from the fortress. The act relative to the removal was then signed by all present ; this act, among other things, establislPs the fact that there remained in the vaults of the fortress of Peter and Paul, after the removal of the five million roubles, 101,528,595 HUNGARY AN]) AUSTRIA. The following memorial, drawn up by Lord Fitz william, was in course of signature when the late dis astrous i n t e lligence arrived from Hungary; it would, probably, otherwise, in addition to the names of those with whom it originated, have had appended to it the signatures of many other peers and members of parliament : To the Lord John Russell, First Commitsioner the Tressury, and thiliiscount ralraerstoo, Principal Secret of ary of State for Foreign Affairs. The undenigned (being peers, or members of the House of Commons) deuce to express to yout lordships, and through your lordships, to the rest of her Majesty's confidential ser vants, the deep interest which they take in the contest which is now carried on between the Hungarian nation and the Emperor of Austria. It is their anxious wish to ace this contest speedily termicated in the manner, which they con cave most conducive to the interests of the Auttrian empire, viz.—by the recognition of the just demand' of Hungary, the most important of the hereditary dominions of the• house of Hapsburg. The undereignei are of opinion that it is both the interest and the duty of England to contribute, by every legitimate means, to the tranquillity of Hurg.ry. They are of opinion ; however, that this object, so desirable, cannot be obtained, so as to ensure its permanecce, unless the terms upon which it is accomplished be consistent with the ancient laws and ' constitution of the country. While so many of the nations of Europe hove engaged fn' revolutionary movements, and have embarked in schemes of doubtful policy, end of still more doubtful success, it is VA. Wilzig to the undersigned to be able to assure your lordshlps, that the Hanzarians demand nothing but the recognition of ancient righb, sad the stability and iategiity of their ancient constitution. To your lordships it cannot be unknown that that constitution hears a striking resemblance to that of our own country, King, Lords, and Commons are as vit al parts of the country, as of the British Constitution. So far, therefore, from the undersigned being animated by a revolutionary spirit, or being actuated by principles incon sistent with regu'ar government, and with the established order of things, they beg to assure your lordships that it is with the view of maintaining regular government, and of per petuating institutions which, though occasionally modified, have hito an unbroken series of existence since the founda tion of the Hungarian monarchy, that they venture to in yoke the interference of the British government. They have whitened with great alarm the application of the Austrian government for the assistance of Russia. They conceive that this assistance will not be granted upon terms consistent with the integrity of the eaten:lt dominions of the hours of Austria; their alarm, however, is not confined to the apprehension that some encroachments may be made upon the present boundary between the two empires. They apprehend that a powerful intervention on the part of Rus sia, a state in which the existence of a constitution is not acknowledged, cannot be effected without danger to the free institutions of the country in which it is invited to interfere. They conceive that the military occupation of Hungary by Russia must be necessarily subversive (for the time) of all• regular government, and they know not what terms &Meting the internal condition of the country may bs ultimately im posed by a power, whore intervention has been invited for the express purpose of cutrolling a people which is struggling for the preservation of long established and undisputed rights. The undersigned conceive that the essential charac ter of Russian intervention must be to disregard rights which the spirit of the government of that empire does pct recog- Wise ; and that, if effectual, the intervention must 1. at to the subversion of the ancient constitution of Hungary, must de stroy her prosperity, and endaoger the security of stator in whose welfare and independence England is deeply inte rested. It is to avoid this fatel result that the undersigned feel im pelled to entreat her Majesty's government to use such means &ashen seem to them most effectual for producing a recon ciliation between the Emperor of Austria and the people of Hungary, on the basis of those rights which the Hungarians have never ceased to demand, and the firmest attachment to which has hitherto been found not only to be compatible with, but to promote, the most farrow. loyalty to the House of Hapsburg, and has enabled them to render such services in the hour of danger as could never have emanated from the spirit of a subdued or servile people. (Signed)—FITZWILLIAW, NORTHAMPTON, ZETLANH, BRAVMONT, KINNAIRD, NUGENT, it. M. MILNEB, F. MOWATT, J. A. SMITH, H. SALWET, li. M. WILLCOX, W. PINNEY, J. TOWASHEND. A SPANISH DRAMA OF REAL LIFE. The Porsenir, a journal of Els ille, hat published the following account of, perhaps, one of the moet sin gular criminal processes that ever eccuped a Spanish tribunal Joefs Martin, an inhabitant of Almodovor del Campo, was killed in 1827 by Diego Himojo, !caving a widow and five children in extreme misery. The murderer was condemned to ten years' confinement in a convict station (presidio), and • short time afterwards Joaquin, one of the sous of the de ceased, having been drawn for a conscript, joined hi* regi ment, and behaved in a meritorious manner. In 1841 Mar tin, at the age of 28 years, having served his time in the army, returned to Almoduvar covered with honourable fears received in the field of battle. There be found Diego Himojo, who bad completed the term of his punishment. It was not loop before the ineuleirg beerieg cf Diego announced to Martin the presence of the ariusin of his father. Every occasion was taken advantage of by this wretch to provoke the young man, by recalling to his mind the melancholy event, and menacing him with • similar fate. Martin, it appears, avoided meeting him as much as possilele, and more than once lamented to his com panion the terrible persecution of which he was the victim, exclaiming, " That man is the demon who will drag so into the commission of crime." On the let of May, 1841, WSJ the anniversary of the death of Jose Martin, and aa the morning of that day Diego presented himself at the late residence of the murdered man, where one Candid° FOSIS had established a tavern. " Come," cried the miscreant, give me a glass of brandy, fir this day fourteen years I killed the master of this house." Ho drank the liquor, and went away. A few instants afterwards Joaquin Martin passed the same spot. and learnt the eimurenec. Although violently seemed, he went away to look after come private affairs, corryieg in his hand • knife, with which he war cutting tobacco. To this fatal coincidence is to be added another. A few paces in ad-1 wance he met Diego Himojo conversing with two or three persona, and he , rtl, or imagined he heard him, boasting all being the slayer of his father. The scene in the tavern, the eyries of vindictive insults he had suffered for so long a time, and the present provocation, crowded in a moment upon his mind witk unoible intensity, and, no longer able to control his feelings, he threw himself upon Diego, and, with the knife he carried in his hand, continued subbing him until he fell and expired. Martin, as soon es he saw Himojo ex tended on the ground a corpse, went quietly away to the spot where the occurrence commenced, and after throwing away the knife he continued to grasp , entered a neighbour ing house, and in • tone of anguish exclaimed, " A glass of water; I barn !." Immediately afterwards the Aleade pre sented himself, and upon his summoning the butanders to aid him in capturing the culprit, Martin replied, *' No, sir,' I will go alone to the prison; there is no necessity to forte me." And so he went. On examining the body of Diego it war discovered that he had received six wounds, all mortal. At the trial of Martin, the Fiscal demanded ten years' con finement in a convict station, with detention, w'r.ich was a ddged without detention. Tie accused Appealed against this sentence, and at the second trial the Fiscal demanded six years to the presidio instead of ten, whilst the counsel Iry the prisoner solicited that this punishment might he isemmented into serving in the army for the same term. On few occasions had • tribunal appeared more solemn and august, or shown itself more philosophic, than in this process. Everything appealed to the heart. Hardly had the proceedings been read, when tears filled the eyes of all ; emotion reached its height when the defendant's counsel, turning towards the bench exclaimed, in pathetic accents, " Magistrates! which if you has not had a dearly-beloved father ? Which of you not have acted as a Martin has done in the same circumstances ? al you understand me worthy judges ? Consider the situation of an honoured son, of a valued soldier, and re.nember what are the miscalled laws of honour imposed upon men." The government at Madrid refused to commute the sen tence to military service, and Martin was sent to the con vict station at Grenada, from whence he escaped, and en listed in the gendarmerie, where he revved two years, and gained the confidence of his officer; by undeviating good con duct. Denounced by some informer, the unf otunate young man was arrested, and delivered over to the civil authority. He then petitioned the Queen from his prison, and her Ma- I jest, was pleased to direct that he should be admitted info the Presidio of Seville as a returned deserter. Last March Mattis again appealed to the royal mercy, and it is supposed that he w7ll be fully pardoned. gbe Court. BALMORAL. AUGUST 26.—This morning her Ma jesty end the Prince, attended by Viscountess Jocelyn, Run. Miss Dawson, Lord John Russell, Colonel the Ron. Alexan der Gadoa, Mr. Anson, and Mr. Birch, uttended divine ser v.ce at the parish church at Crathic. Service was performed by the Rey. Mr. Anderson. INDISPOSITION OF DR. BOUTGWOOD SMlTlL—Yes terday information was received at the office of the Metro politan Commission of Sewers. Soho, Greek-street, that Dr. Southwood Smith had been takeu so suddenly ill at his residence at Hlglsgate as not to be able to attend to the beg et-as of the finance committee, appointed to sit at ten o'clock, of which he was a very punctual attendant. OPENING OF TUE COAL EXCIIANGE.—WO are authorised to contradict a statement which bas appeared in several of the newspapers, to the eficet that the new Cool Exchange loth be opened on the 3rd of September. The building wiU not be completed at that time, and it nOt be publicly opened until it is finished. (From last night's Gasetle.) DOWNINO.STREET, AUGUST 28.—Tio Queen hila been pleated to give orders for the appoiiVment a Thomas Nicholas Redington, Esq., Under Swetary_ to the of - Lieutenant of Ireland, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Ctn., or Knights Commanders of the Moat Honourable Order of the Bath. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY TILE LORD-LIEUTENANT op LINCOLNsHIRE.—Ayscoghe Bouoherett, Charles John Henry Mundy, William Elmbirst, Henry Smyth, Edward Wright. Frederick Chaplin, Maurice Johnson, Matthew Clark, George Augustus Moore, and Joseph Gleed, Ent, to be Deputy-Lieutenants. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. Mr. Mosey, the superintendent of the Edinburgh police, was prepared to turnUtt the jury at the inquert on Monday with some important evidence respecting Mrs. Maiming, but the Coroner for some remelt refused to slow him to give it. Mr. Mosey informed our reporter yesterday that, in course of a conversation he had with Mee. Manning, he told her that it was asserted that the murder had taken place on Thursday night the 9th of August. She said, " Well, if a murder was committed in the house on the Thursday it must have been during my absence, for I went out at 4 o'clock, and did not return till let's in the evening." Mr. Mosey said, " You are charged with going to Mr. O'C inner's lodgings, and stealing his property on the Friday, and it is statcd that it wee impossible for you to have got at that pro. perty without Mr. O'Connor's keys, which he always earned with him." Mrs. Manning said, " Well, I know he was missing, car. twin noth iy in w g e a n b t o i n 9 t h t ie be h k oluv eys, s b o u hearing d t tov, property, which w 9 my own." Mrs. Manning, while sitting in the charge-room at S3Wh. wark police-court on Friday lut, was observed by oar of the conatablca to be nadir g the bill offering a reward for her husband. The cm.stables asked her it she knew where Mr. Manning wu. She said, "No ; but it's no use you looes ti atter him, for he's a long way from here, in fact, he is out of the country." The following letter was reccirt:d by the Lord Mayor is the course of yesterday: No. 5, Church-court, ClemenCe-!atie, Aue. 27,1549. My Lord,—l think it my duty to Worm your lordship that Manning, who is now being sought fer by the poLer, was at My office isquirit g the. charge fur a plumage eer the Constant for himself and hie wife. 'lbis was just before the discovery of the murder took p ace. I need not add I have seen notaing of hint since, hut the re is a probabLity of his hanging about Plymouth, to which port the ship le now on her Journey ; ani he stated that he wished to joie her there. lie did not give me his name, bat I have a perfect recollec tion of him, and have made it my tininess to go over to the Town-hall and read again the description of bit which is correct ; and I havo so doubt on my ming t 7A being the Pam: person. 1 have the homur to be your Lordship's molt obidieni servant. To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. H. konzanux. His Lordship immediafly sent tie oretnunicat'on to the ce3pistrate at the pol!c:•c , Jurt at 1 , 44'.:h the femde accused of being acceseary to the murder of O'Cktutu has b:ev. examined. . . . _ The Constant ie en emigrant ship bound for Australia. There appears to be no uenbt that arrangements were made for perpetrating the murder on Wednesday, the Bth inst. It will re recodected that Mr. O'Connor was OR that day invited to dine at Mincer-place, tut fur loose ranee at present unexplained he did not go until the erneitg, when he was accompanied by Mr. Welsh, which circumstance, of course, presented them from carrying out their design. The supposition that mit was their intention is borne out by the fdlowing letter horn Manning to Miss Massey, sister to the witness of that name, in which it wi:l be seen that he strorgly impresses upon her the necessity of lettitg h im bare the money Le claimed by Wednesday, the Bth inst : London, Anvil 5,3, lllnver-plece, New Weston -street, Bermondsey. "Deer Miss,—l called at your brother's lodgings on Saturday evening, and he informs me that to intends to to home on Msnday. The reason, I believe, for bit delay in London is, be eou:d not register. Repecting the 10a. I paid to Mr. O'Connor, your brother knows he was indebted to him for that nmouns and Mr. O'Contor called went times at my house for the money, which I paid bim, know. leg that y nur brother )'cd to money. 11 you wish for a re ceipt from Mr. O'Connor, I can obtain one feces him imme diately. 1 trust you will net fell in forwarding me the money on Wedne4hy. " I am, Mies, your mist respletfully, " FREDERICK GEoRGE MARRING. " Miss Massey, Swanatone-hall, Derbyshire." Miss Massey did not send the mount, hcr brother (who had in the meantime arrived is Derbyshire) having advised her not to do so. an the bid. which was originally 13/., had been altered by Manumit to 161. On the morning of the 9th Mx. Massey received the following letter: " 3, blinver-place, New Weston-street. Bermondsey, Aug. 8. "Sir,—l had a letter from your sister en Monday morning, stating that she would remit me the env not of my bill on Wednesday without :ad. She bas not acted to her word. I must really be candid with you, for I think you arc the insti gator of it by false representations to your friends. You're we:l known ta:ieg guilty of ter& g great falsehoods. ' lies' regards the 10s. I paid to Mr. O'Connor, ycn know you were indebted to Lim for th,,t amount, a.id also is. 61. due to me. If the bill is nut paid by return of poet, 1 shall take imme diate proceedings, end then I shall prove to your friends what you are capeble of doing. " Your; respectfully. Funutaicx Guonon MANNINO. "Mr. W. Massey, Swanstone-ball, Derbyshire." Manning. it appears, bad endeavoured to nice from Bain bridge, the broker, a few days prier to the murder, 101, on Massey's hospital certificate, but Mr. Bainbridge refused to have an )thing to do with it. The following are copies of notes written by Mrs. Man nieg to Patrick O'Contre, on the twe Wednesday's preceding the murder. They bath bear the Borough post-mark, and are stamped as delivereu re spectirely on the Ist and Bth invent, as directed The letters are copied rerbatini d lileruliiis; it wilt be lean that the first especialt g e n tr i a g y: the writer's imperfect knew:cap of the Eighth It runs thus: "Wednesday Morning. "Door O'Connor, " I shall be must happy to roe u this day to my House to dinner at 5 o'clock. " Yours affection, " 51.trax DlAutuo." It is not krown wLether the deceits* d dined with the Menninge on this dey ; but on the following Wednesday received the Annexed note: " Wednesday Dloming. "Dear O'Connf r, We shall bp happy to see you to dine with us to-day, ►t half-past 5 o'el.ek. " Yours affection, 0 Mama MaNtnc." This note invit , .d the deceased to dinner on the thy pre. ceding his murder. It will be recollected that he did not dine in Mi,iver.place on this day ; but accompanied by Mr. Walsh, went there at a late hour in the evening, and left after baring had his temples rubbed by Mrs. Manning with eau do Cologne in consequence of his feeling rather faint. The Meanings, it will be observed, did not ask O'Connor to dine with them on the following day in the presence of Mr. Walsh, but delay,d inviting him until the following morning, when Mrs. Manning again wrote to him, at the London Docks, a note which the unhappy man is proved to have shown his frient's Messrs. Keating and Graham, oa meeting them on London-bridge, as be was on lin way to be murdered. This note was of course des royed by his amanitas, as nothing has been seen of it since. 'CHF COST OF PROSECrTIONS —A Committee wsl ately :ippointed by the Town Council of Sheffield to con eider the subject of Assize Proscutions, and suggest tome means for dimin'shir g their coat. It appears that the an, nil number of prosecutions at York Amines from the Writ Riding, during thesis years from 1843 to 1618 was as folows: —6OB, 147, 167, 193, 17G, and 167 ; and the average cost of each prosecution in those years was 481. 17c, 551. 38., 431. 145., 441. 195., 511. Bs., and 581. 2s. The average yearly number from Sheffield was 19, and the average cost 651. 8.. The West Riding Finance Committee of 184.5 deplored the increasing cost of prosecutions, but admitted its inability to " discern the cause, and consequently to suggest a remedy." The Sheffield Committee suggest—lst. the appointment of a public prosecutor for each I.r4e borough or petty sessions , division thereby pre%entiog the cost of employing private attorneys : 2nd, Refusing the expenses on all second or subsequent indictments for the same offence, un- less with leave from the judge or clerk of assize. 3rd. Re fusing the charges for a second brief or counsel where the witnesses do not e:ered ten. 4th. Disellowing the :Irma of all witnesses net bound over to prosecute. unless the clerk of assize certifies that they are material. s:h. Taking the eases in which medical vnmesses are required at a fixed ps' rood of the amines, so as abridge the attendance of that expen sive class of stimesses. 6;11. Mors strictly investigating the constables' bills of costs, so as to deter them from running op large bile. And, finally, sending as many cows as possible to the sessions, where the cost of each prosecution is orgy 81., instead of 581. at the anises. Whatever cheapens the administration of juatir.e will be an advantage, pros.ded it does not impair the means ol convicting the guilty.—Lads Mercury. OFFENCES AGAINST TITS GAME-LAWS.—By a par• liamentary return, issued in the spring of 1847, of the flambee of persons consisted of offences against the game.laws, tor the five years, from Ist January, 1842, to lit Janusre , 1847, we find that the number for Nottinghamshire was SI. Three hundred and thirty-seven prosecutions for offences against. the game-laws, in the small county of Nottingham, at the instance, principally, of the gentlemen, or their agent), who have determined that the dwalings of four encond-rsts shopkeepers, in the towns of Newark and Minefield, ortbate of twenty stocking-makers in Radford and Buford, and Bid well, and Arnold, and a number of other villages, of 'gala description to these, ought to pay—shall pay—as mach to the county expenditure, for these prosecutions—the repair of county bridges—the clothing and pay of the pol'ce—elPem el of judges' aceommodation—the salaries of county officers &c., &c.—as Wollaton and Clumber, and other of the cost splendid and valuable palaces in the county. Well may the great proprietary of the county be so indifferent to the amount of these and other expenses—well may they be so lavish of the public money—so ready to engage in f er cutions for damage done to hedges and trees—a "N• cutting of a stick to make a bow for a poor man's scythe — et taking a few rotten sticks from a hedge bottom to mete fire to roast two or three potatoes by, when they pay tolled+ —more especially in comparison with the burthen they in" tail upon others—towards these prosecutions! Did they Pal on a scale for the property they occupy, as humbler melt pay- there is little doubt that the expenses for game prosecutions alone would be diminished full fitly per .:Fat R is, we verily believe, solely because they pay noM in g' or next to nothing, towards these barbarous prosecutions - : these prosecutions by which the mind of the peasantry she lower class of farmers is roused and irritated to an incura ble degree—prosecution's which fill our gaols with criminaltha m ; our workhouses with beggared wives and ohildren, — OT they are undertaken in such almost countless numbersol Nottinghamshire, in comparison with other places in th e kidgdom.—Nottinglueas Mercury. WEST SURREY ELECTION. RETIREMENT OP MR. BRISCOE, AND ADOPTION OP Mu. EDI:MU —A meeting of the liberal electors was held at the Crown Inn, Gui'dford, on Saturday last, H. L. L,ng, Esq., in the cheir, which was well attended. Mr. Eamon explained the mast o' Ma retirement, which had reference to the expenses of the election. The mentor in which he bad, however, come forward, elicited enthusi astic approbation. O. T. NICHOLSON, Esq. of Waverley Ahtty, then pro posed as a candidate H. W. Edgell, Esq., of Milton-place, Eghsm. 0. BEST, Esq., seconded the motion. Mr. EDOELL euldiessed the electors, stating that until lei:bin a few hours he had had no expectation of his he camieg a candidate. He explained his political views on the current topics of the day, width, with his replies to ques tions from Capt. Mangles, Mr. Hockley, and other electors, were highly satisfactory. Resolutions were prt , ezd in Mr. Edgell's favour, who, after the meeting, canvassed the farmer. in the market, and ob tained many promises of support. The Speaker's warrant has been tatted, and the election ix fixed for Monday, September 10th. PARLIAMENTARY AND FLNANCIAL REFORM. MEETD.:Ci AT DEPTTORD, Yesterday evening a meeting of the National Par liamentary and Financial Reform Awociation for the boreueh of Greenwich took place at the chapel, Church-street, Dept ford. The chair was taken by Mr. Masrmts, who ex plained the objects of the meeting. Mr. Sir al moved the first resolution, viz, :—' That the report of the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association, now remi to the meeting, meets with the fu:lest approval ; and this meeting hereby pledges itself to carry out the principles therein enunciated to the fullest possible extent." Mr. PEPPEIICOIIII seconded, and Mr. WEBB supported, She resolution. Sir F. linows.ns said that an.egonist journals had stated that there were symptoms of disunion among them. There was not a single fact to justify such an ass.rtion. Mr. T. WENrsaa having addressed the meeting, the re solution was c►rried. Mr. F. Garaust then moved the second resolution, " That the Daily News and Morning Advertiser are Erni nendy entitled to the gratitude and support of all re. formers, for their advocacy of the principles of procrea tion, and the ample reports of reform meetings given in their columns." Mr. Rule tecondcd the resolution, which was carried unanimously. The thanks of the meeting were next voted to the Rev. Mr. Squire for the use of his chapel ; also to the Chairman and to the deputation fro n the National Association. SWINDLING LAND SALES.— We (the 'Western Times) regret to state that several parties have been vic tiniised in a most cruel manner by purchasing land in Texas, in lots of 40 acres each, for which a consideration was paid down prior to their taii.ng. We have a letter before us from Mr. Edward Anning, from the parish of St. Edmund, Exeter, who states that after hiving paid their money in England, when the party arrived at Galveston, they found that there was no land to ba had—no " Lewis Goddard, Esq.," the alleged owner, to he found ; and at a house called " the Centre of Gravity," the landlord told Anning that one of the parties referred to as agent had served behind the bar of that very public helm, hat heel been obliged to leave because of a murder committed cn the pier, in which he was implicated. Arming end his friends went to the British causal for advice, but that functionary ordered them oat of the house, because they called the ILIUM who had taken them out a veleain and a swindler. Anning subrquently went to New Orleans, and afterwards to Cin cinnati, where his wile died of cholera. His letter is dated "Cincinnati, Ohio, June 24." Ile wishes, through the IVestern Testes, to have the public warned ardent a repeti tion of this scheme, as he says the patties ini.nd to try it once more in Devonshire. He names ens keel agent, but as it is possible that the later was not :.ware of the act to which tee lent his name, we forbear to publish it at present. Some cf the parties. in addition to buying land, had psi for a twelvemonth's provision in advance. RELIGIOUS FANATICISM IN SWITZERLAND.—The government of the canton Freiburg has just published the result of an inquiry into the case of Miss Clara Blafonit, who, it wee alleged, being left an orphen with some property, was unlawfully prevailed upon to enter the nunnery of fit. Ursula at Freiburg, and to make over the whole a her pro perty to the treasury of that religious society. The inquiry was caused by the rumour of cruel treatment to which this lady was exposed. The commissioners found her in a cell, lying on straw and with her feet chained to a post. Her food was scarcely fit for an animal. It appeaiis that the wretched woman had suffered this treatment for 14 years, and that she had become insane in consequence. The commis sioners ascertained that the abbess end the bishop were both privy to this di-graceful cruelty. The nuns displayed, ore their examination, the most revolting heartlessness, cunning, and reserve. The government of 'Freiburg, as a matter of course, decreed that the poor creature should be given up to the friends of her family. Another instance of religious perversity is reported from the canton of Unterwelden. M. Foster, the parish priest of 13noehs, thought proper to offer a young lady of delicate health an asylum in his house ; but in order to turn his charity t r account, he circulated a rumour of miracles of which the young woman in question was the object. He said she every Friday died, and des emended for some hours to purgatory, where she conversed with the dead. By the interposition of the Holy Virgin she was afterwards allowed to come to life again, with a full conscioeuness of what she had seen and heard in purgatory. This news caused the people of the surrounding districts to come in crowds to see the young lady, and inquire for the fate of their friends and relations who had passed the bourne from whence it would appear people do return sometimes. Of comes the young lady was not sparing in her deser;ption of the purgatorial torment, and she enunciated it as a great truth that there are but three means to liberate the poor souls from purgatory—viz., offerings to the church, legacies to the church, and pilgrimages. Of course this applied only to wealthy families, and large sums of money were consequently given to the Hey. Mr. Feaster. At length it was stated that the young lady intended to make a public death at one o'clock, p.m., on the following Friday, and that she wculd be carried to church, where the Virgin would wake her at four o'clock precisely. Crowds of people assembled from al! parts of the country to see the miracle. Virgins dressed in white, and holding wreaths of flowers, stood prepared to carry the sanctified maiden to the church. The church clock struck one, and time wore on, but the fair saint did not die. The appointed time was passed by half an hour, and rill she wish closed eyes, but as much alive as any of the bystanders. At length the Nev. M Faster leant over her and whispered in net ear. He receives an answer in the same tone of voice, and turning to the impatient crowd, he informed them that the Holy Virgin had left the maiden the option either to die at that hour or at a later hour, and that she preferred dying at a later hour. Some people thought this tco bad, but the crowd cried " Miracle," and marvelled vastly.— Dada& Zwehosee NEW SCYTHES.—A trial has been made at Geniis' (France), of a reaping -machine used in the north of France, under the various names of Belgian scythe, nape, quiet, &c. It is of the same form as the scythe blade, though a little smaller and more curved, and is fixed with a strap to a very short handle. The reaper makes use of it with his right band, by an easy movement, causing little fatigue. lie I has in his left hand a hook, fixed to the end of a small hanile, of very light wood, with which he holds the wheat while giving the cut with the nape. This insrument, worked in the above manner by a young man, 22 years of age, ap peared to all the farmers and intelligent labourers present to furnish great advantages over the sickle and rake scythes. It cuts as close to the ground as may be desired, does not shake the earl, and consequently does not cause the grain to fall out. The reaper does not wane.(as is the case in using the rake-scythe) an assistant to follow him to pick up what is left behind; his hook performs that office with the greatest facility and much better; it allows nothing to fall, and col lect+ the corn into bundles of the required size with sur prising eegtuarity. It offers in the most evident manner, a saving of hands, strcegm, fatigue, time, and acts better than the ordinary implements used. In corn beaten down, espe. eially, labourers at present spend much time and labour, and much of the produce is lost ; whilst the are of this instru smut offers the greatest advantages, as it works with just the same precision as though the corn were standing. The reapers in the Franche-Comte, who are the ordinary harvest labourers, were quite astonished at the action of this instru ment.—Broossels Harald. THE BERMONDSEY MURDER. Its Boni 0.111 Vef NOT Cen Cap' bon Rer Ct.c S.. Wc St. 6t..