The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-14 00:00:00

SUICIDE OF AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL.

A Vienna letter of the 9th in the Times says :
It .was yesterday'rumoured in the city that
Lieutenant-General Baron - Eynatten .had cora-
mitted_suicide, and the Wiener Zeitung of to-day
thus confirms the report :
" Not long ago the military authoritiei weie under
the painful necessity of arresting General August Baron
von Eynatten, and of bringing him before a court-
martial, it being strongly, suspected that he had been
guilty of gross frauds while at the-head of-the-military
administration in 1859. Soon after the proceedings had
begun Baron von Eynatteu was obliged to admit facts
which left no doubt that he had culpably abused, the
Powers entrusted to him.

" Although the authorities, had taken all the usual
precautions to prevent such an occurrence, Baron von
Eynatten, who vfas evidently suffering under the pres-
sure of a heavily burdened conscience, found means to
take his own life during the night between the 7th
and Bth inst., and so to escape the punishment which
awaited him. The deceased left a written document, in
which he, with the 'expression of heartfelt repentance.
repeated the confessiOns he had made, and implored his,
injured Sovereign to pardon him."
When Baron Eynatten was first taken to the military
prison he was subjected to the customary examination,
and everything with which-it—appeared likely that he
could do injury to himself was taken from him. He was
not, however, made to lay aside his uniform, which was
that of an officei of Lanceri, he being second proprietor
of the regimeht of Uhlans, which bears the name of the
present Emperor of Russia. During the night of the
7th the unfortunate man separated from the back of the
collar of his uniform these embroidered cords—in this
country they are about as thick as a finger—which
Polish Lancers wear round their necks, and hanged him-
self with them. M. von Eynatten had previously tried
to destroy himself by forcing a breast-pin into his
heart, but the attempts which he made failed, and
probably because he was a corpulent man. It is said that
thetodyhas three minute wounds on the left side of the
chest. In the document mentioned in the Wiener Zei-
tang Baron von Eynatten expressed a hope that the man-
ner of his death might not be made public, as he wished
his wife to think he had died of apoplexy. It is said
that the unfortunate man refused to mention the names
of any of his accomplices. On the 3rd inst., two officers
went to Mcfidling, a small town some ten English miles
distant from this city, awl their behaviour was so very
strange that it was believed they intended to commit
suicide. After dinner, on the 4th, the officers walked
out to 4. place called the Bruhl, and when in a wood
they pereeiyed Sow gendarmes advancing towards then.
Both, of them immediately dreg pistols from their ,
pockets and made us of them. The one shot himself
dead, but the other was, still alive the day before yester-
day. The names of the officers are not known to me,
but during the last two or three days it has frequently
been stated in my_ presence that a near relative of Baron
von 3rxiatten is missing.

SPORTING Tamaaa,44e.,--.4rrangements are in pro-
gress for erecting a telegraph ogee en the race-course
at New Market, and uniting it by a snliterparitean wire
with the existing telegraphic establishment at the rail-
way.station. nntil the last Spring meetings informa-
tion was conveyed through the town by hard riding,
and latterly tb,e results have been posted on the course
and observed with a powerful telescope from the tele-
graph station. This play has acted very well in clear
weather, but bas when A. atmosphere has been
thick and misty.

SNOW-STORM IN THE w 9 Yr- r 7i4RD-
BOUND SHIPS WRECKED.—POLILESTOWN, NiQE.day. —POT
several hours on Saturday night this district of coast
was visited by a heavy fall of snow. The wiod blew
'strong from the S.W., which carried the snow with
such force and density as to shut out all view of the
coast lights. Atrt.i4,t. the storm two fine outward-bound
ships from the Tharue2 were ashore between this
place and Dungeness, and it is feared that they will
become wrecks, thereby involving a yev serious loss.
The first unfortunate vessel which strande wcts the
ship Wagooja, Captain Jardine. She left the West India
Docks last week, ',laden with a general cargo of mer-
chandise for China, alio hao.clelred the Downs, and
was Making her .course down gin-1;nel when she
encountered the skrong fall of now on Saturday
evening, and eventusny WOO, ashore abont
,bailf-past
eleven o'clock in East" Wswe -Vv. The coast-guard, ,
on hearing of the wreck, reuelesred the most promP t
aid in the hope of getting her off, but alI their' elforts
failed : at low water she was high and dry on the
sand. Yesterday, two or three powerful steata-tegs
were employed at high water with a view of hauling
her off, but ,she could not be moved. Every expedi-
tion is now being "%lade to lighten her of her cargo,
and then another trial Trill be made to save the ship.
The tides, however, are faniq Aft: and as the weather
is threatening fears are entertained as ,t 9 her fate. The
other ill-fated, ship was the Woodcote, Oapt; Fiemirg,
bound to Adelaide (making the fourth vessel
'to that port witieb has been wrecked lately.) She
had genera !Za•rgo in the London Docks,
and
like receivedth a e
former ship, Ira making her course down
Channel when she was caught in the otorm, and amidst
the darkness went ashore yesterday morrizipg, at one
o'clock, near Dymchurch, a few miles to the eastward
of pungeness. Tugs have been engaged in endeavour-
ing to tow the ship off, but to no purpose. She
remains fast in the sand, and every despatch is being
used to discharge her. Like the Wagoola, however, her
position is most critical. She belongs to Mr, 0. Mar-
shall, the eminent shipowner. The ships and cargoes
are insured fora considerable amount. The coastguard
are keeping a vigilant watch over tile
stranded vessels.