The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-08 00:00:00

WAR ON BOOKS IN AUSTRIA.

A correspondent, dating Vienna, Sept. 1, says :
" To-day the censorship of books commences de
jure throughout the entire Austrian monarchy, not
excepting those provinces exempted from the state of
siege. '1 he legal establishment of this supervision
can add little to tho actual inconvenience suffered by
the trade and the public, for de fade the censorship
of bosh' has long been in vigour. Every bale and
package of books arriving from Leipzig pares straight
from the custom house to the police, who look through
it, and having carefully taken out all suspicious wares,
hand it to the consignee. The discretionary power
allowed the police is so wide that they are ordered to
confiscate not only every book set down in the pro-
hibitory index of the superior censorial authorities,
but also such as they may imagine, from peculiar or
local circumstances, may not be circulated without
disadvantage. Thus it happens that books which pass
current with the sanction of the official of onegz
vines are decidedly contraband in another. T
is, indeed, a resource provided for parties aggrieved ;
they may appeal to the powers above. But
what man in his senses would impeach in this
manner those agents of the government with whom
the mass of his transactions will after all
have to take plate, who will have every
week a thousand chances of increasing ar-
bitrarily. his inconveniences, and who, after all, are
only acting in the spirit of instructions received from
those to whom the appeal lies P The state does not
hold itself bound to indemnify the unfortunate book-
seller for the loss he sustains by these seizures, and
when it is remembered that the greater number
of works which a man with any considerable trade
sells must be novelties, this ussometknee of the gas
vernment must be regarded as a gratuitous hardship
inflicted on the public. In the same spirit the
tovernmeat refuses to allow the bookseller to
send back the property seized, and in this
respect acts with lees uprightness than the I
Char, who gives back to its owner what he cannot I
allow to be sold. Besides these regulations, the
government has entrusted to the polies minister the
power of refusing registry of copyright to books
which do not snit his fancy. Lient. Meld Marshal
Inn Kempen is just the sort of man to perform this
service with • relish, for be honestly believes the in-
vention of printing to have been a • of the
devil, and would only be happy to up all the
Stories in the world and set them taw Alexan-
drian blase. And rex, Wit area The ha-
perial royal a identisa les Inn =noels:el
of gradually the higher slims of Masi
with miaow sass mad already mamas civilians
have Imes pasiwsaofffor this rwpose or superseded.
The pal& me, thus judge far themeless what are
IV pupal' el silence and literature in Austria un-
gig go ids d the (Sr.—.iorie In the last days
et the old ameorship,
_whim the chief officials, being
either well to do, bad yawn somewhat sleepy, it
ASS happened that a bosh we, circulating for six
minthe es mare below its mama had dawned upon
'the lammassalls Wad. whisk only awoke to forbid
%jug le pm* had hardest its title, and were
looldng od hie =MMus-lash. All that is to be
changed. The Ambits anal in Leipzig is
charged
with the especial =est informing himself of
the character and of every new book
immediately that it is pu listed, and if possible
before. As this is a work of immense labour the
aloe has been advanced in rank and emolument, and
its working staff greatly strengthened. It need not be
said that under this treatment the book trade, which
has picked up somewhat since 1848, is now again at
the lowest point of depression. Cookery books and
missals are now the only safe ventures. Tho people
estrange themselves from the practice of reading, far
better to read not at all, say they, than spell the
lesson of a master. Many attempts are Meal made
to smuggle in the forbidden ware, but the good old
times arse past when for a few quiet :Irminger, the
officials would shut their eyes, and the lowest details of j
the autocrat's service are carried oat with military
rigour."

UNEXPECTED WARNING TO TITE Parrs.—We
have to announce in all seriousness that Herr
Munchmeyer, consul of Hayti at Hamburg, has de-
termined to protect the august person of his sove-
reign against the derisive allusions of our press, and
against all caricatures, printed or otherwise, made
public. For this purpose, Herr Manchmeyer has
already addressed himself to Dr. H. Merck, Syndicus
for Foreign Affairs, representing the injurious conse-
quences which such sarcastic reference may entail on
the commeihe of Hamburg as well as on the natives
of that city resident in the territories of his Imperial
Mikjesty.— Weser Zeigusig.

Abe Court.

BALMORAL, Ssrr. 6.
Her 'Majesty and Prince Albert attended divine
service Una morning in the parish church of Crethie.
The service was performed by the Rev. Mr. Anderson.
The Countee! of Desert, the Hon. M• Seymour, Col.
Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Lisut.•Colonel Hon. A. Gordon
were in attendance.

Mr. Secretary Walpole, accompanied by Mr. Wadding-
ton, the Under Secretary of State, and Captain Williams,
the Inspector of the Home District, visited .event of the
metropolitan prisons yesterday. including Newgate, the
Middlesex House of Correction, Cold Bath Fields, the
loon City Prison at Holloway, and the Model Prison at
Pentonville.

Lord and Lady Stafford and Lady McDonald were
among the paseangera who arrived on Monday morning at
the St. Katharines wharf by the General Steam Naviga-
tion Company's steamship Ramosbourne, from Antwerp.

(From last alibt's (hurtle.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 3.—The Queen baa been
pleased to approve of Mr. J. 0. Dalgety as Consul at Mel-
bourne for his Majesty the King of the Belgian.; also
been pleased to approve of Senor Antonio de Almeida Cam-
pos as Consul at Liverpool for her Majesty the Quota of
Portugal and the Algarve..

CA)M MISSIONS SIGNED DT TBE LORD LIEDTENAN7
OF LANClLblillM—Janivis Rigby, Esq.; The Right Hoe.
the Earl of Burlington; Frederic Sewallia Gerard, Esq. ;
John Hargreaves, Esq.; sad Edward redder, Esq., vibe
Deputy Lieutenants.
_ _

COMMISSION SIGNED BY TUE LORD LIEUTENANT
or RUTLANDBHIRIL—The Ms. Henry Cecil Lowther to be
Deputy Lieutenant
COMMISSIONS SIGNED DT TUE LORD LIEUTENANT
co, RIEsIONZTUbRIII3.—Viscount Seabees; Si, Watkin
Williams Wynn, Dart.; John Lloyd, of Rheum, Esc( ;
Robert John Tottenham, Esq.; Edward Lloyd Edwards,
Esq.; and George Price Lloyd, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenants. _ _

WAILOPPICL Seer. 7.
4th Bert. at F.—Liest..CoL A. H. nitro'', from the Seth F., to be
tleut.-eoL, vies OtH, who rem. upon h.-p. unaL
17th F.—Lieut. D. L. Conretner to be rept., by per., vice Thwaytee,
who rein; Zee. R. Rama to be Heat.. by pur., ,tee Oolthurg.
44th 7.—Fase. B. IL 'tomes, Don the 61th V., to be ens., nor
Drecinebary app. le the Seth P.
Seth P.—Lime-CA. F. MAI/MARINO, from b.-p. anat., to be lieut.-
eel., vice Trevor, app. to the Ith F.
9 6lrd .—Lee, V. Mecum" to be lieut., by per., vide Entenon, who
Teti.
87th L—Aealtst Waif tnt. L W. Lerma, 11. D., hoe. IL.p., to be
ambit...tn., view Dundee. who pee
114t1 9.—Ene P. Cerra to be lieut. by par., eke Ilaebete, prom. to
an east. comp. ; Ise. L. ILIB•ACI.BCZT, hem etth P., to be ens.,
vice Chute.

171;;;;;Z:1—Lieut. W. n. T. PAITIMION, from ISM P., to be apt.,
bY Pm,
Mutants la Castile of I 7tb Awed, 1632.—Snd West India itewt.
For Lieut. MUMS John Patterson. to be edj, les.. reed Lieut. DATID
AIIIIILIN PAWKY= to be ed 1., be.
MIMJIANDVX.—Capt. D. Gamut, unaL, ban been permitted to reL
from the army by the sale of his oostalealoa, be being about to be-
came a et Wiz In New Brunswick.

THE MILITIA.
(From list stir►t's Gosstte.)

The following commissions have been signed :
Daniel Hillman, Gent., to be Adjutant, rote Captain
Spring, in the Staffordshire Militia.
Lieutenant William Fuller (late of the 52nd Regiment)
to be Adjutant in the Rumex Militia.
Adjutant William Fuller. of the Royal Sussex Light
Infantry Regiment of Militia, appointed to serve with the
rank of Captain.
Henry Forester, Esq., to be Captain in the Durham
Militia.

Charles Watkins Arthur Harcourt Wood, Esq., to be
Captain in ditto.
Henry John Baker Baker, Esq., to be Captain in ditto.
Thomas Dickinson Hall, Esq., to be Major in the Not-
tinghamthire Militia.
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., to be Captain,
vice Modocks, resigned, in the Denbighshire Yeomanry
Cavalry.

A CURIOUS WEDDING took place at New Church,
Isle of Wight, last week. The bride was 75 years of age,
and the bridegroom 40, and very deformed. The old lady
*hulled to church on crutches, and was desired by her in-
, tended benedict to " look up and not be ashamed; and to
1" mind being laughed at." On his return to Ryde,
the husband made himself so conspicuous that the police
locked him up (or the night in the station. The clergyman
that performed the marriage ceremony declared that he had
never undertaken a more palatal duty. The bridegroom
kept urging him to read louder, "as lane was deaf; and
altogether it wens moot disgusting affair.
1 EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAOE--The following state-
ment is acknowledged to be true by one of the parties
' chiefl Interested, and Is corroborated in a material point
yby a highly respectable and totally disinterested individual,
vie., that on Wednesday, the bit Inst.., at the pails church
of Holy Trinity in this town, there were aalhed in matri-
mony a pair of in
lovers, the bride being alramly the
wife of a third party, who was present at the ceremony, and
had previously given his consent. The lint mender took
place, we are told, thirteen years ago, the b on
that occasion being only fourteen years of age. ltis union
appears not to have been a happy one, and after existing
about four years the parties to it agreed to separate, and
they bad been strangers to each other's faces for nine
years up to the present week, when the lady intimated to
her first beloved her wish to be absolutely and for ever
absolved from his allegiance and control, and united to the
object of her maturer choice. The consent, we are in-
formed, was meet readily given, and the former muter of
the fickle dame had the curiosity to appear in person and
witness the ceremony, which nominally (but not in law)
handed her over to another lewd. The lint husband is i
daily dispenser of drams in one of the greatest thorough-
fares of Hall.—Hell Peale.

THE LAW OF Long Lists.—The subjoined.
from a cam recently decided by the Supreme Court of New
Hampshire, United States, is Interesting, both as a .Pea.
ISM et ressonieg. and as being the latest judicial exposition
at the law en the isilloct of love letters:—" Where a
writhes elliespesdessi Y kept up between an unmarried
gentlisman and *a siimmvied young lady, of suitable age,
who b Wide relative, the most common and natural in-
terim** is, that it is pea matrimonial subjects; since
w hem In magnolia aiesally exists, a correspondence
slowed iewsliMy dillems lit marriageable ladies,
at leaellrileme do set themselves to be en-
gaged a osivespendisee with unmarried men unless
the attioPaos a marriage distract exists between them
And unmarried men do set desire that sash a mew
speerisiso sigma be earriel en where en esesisment less
nth GAN unless it bs frith saw improper nisithis, er id&
the bare and apethstlai etas ultimata
That nide, or as oltheisCibinsileant =ld;
and a aserthassthenas bee take.* plus
between sea pardss as are dimetbei In this sass is, we
think, is moseamee with expielenee. which is one
of the usual and mast Isele at Muth evidence ;
end oltbeigli. when Slum same sad diesseaseted from
other fads. it my set be es strong as ism evidence that
might be 7104 pat we bold it compeeiat to be sub-
mitted to a amid from whisk they vsay Ind • promise
to marry, thither* Width them of tbs Ant —Ogden*.
bergh New.
DEAM Thole Polson.—An in_ guest was held on
Thursday on the body of Chula Mathes, • suit who
lodged In Albert -street, LiverpseL It append taws the
deceased cams home on Friday sad sonthistheil at bobi
I stating that he had both la • Aware table leen. sad a
woman gave him a aims otaseerk sines while be bad been
very unwell. He also aid be bid IN. robbed el as such
es would keep him a week or a hollidit. He UsliPialsed
of • path in his skeet, and a bowaig in kis inside, and
drank mid water esulisusity eva himself, swing
he wasted is sod lb sism•th. Time emptier con-
tinua, sad the domed banns sweluelly worse, sad died
on Tuesday nioraing Wt. The deseussd spoke of the
panels as Was of • dark akar, but Is bid newer said
where the beam bo bad bees in we. sitasts. A surgeon,
who made a peed omega exmaisaliss, it ea his opi-
nion that death bad ssenked from 'on of the
bowels, sit up by pillsea, but he was unable to my of what
kind. There wen M marks of external injury on the de-
ceased. Under these sughtiess circumstances the inquest
was sdatmensi km kilkme thlassee. Inquiries were imme-
with • vim he the discovery of a woman
Nam, palm to the deceased, and some in-
tameades was which it is expected will result in
her oppreitisies. The adjourned inquest was held on Fri-
day, when the jury came to the conclusion that poison was
administered, but It was not known by whom. Liverpool
Standard.

ROBBERY OF f-3/o.—Early on Tuesday morning
last it was discovered, by the Rev. Maurice Day, residing
in Westbury, fiherbonie that his house had been entered
during the night, and that a robbery had been committed.
All the rooms in the house, except the bedrooms, were
found in a state of extreme confusion • every case and cup-
board having been forged and ransacked. The large sum
of 3601. in notes and gold, which Mr. Day had recently
withdrawn from the Provincial Bank, previously to his in-
tended departure (rem England, was mimed from a desk
which had been violently broken open. Immediately
on discovering his loss, Mr. Day proceeded to the
police station, and to the bank, in order to have
the notes stopped. On his return he was met
by the servant with all the missing notes in a
wrapper which she had found on a heap of rubbish under
the wall of the garden. It would seem that the robber hail
inadvertently dropped it in getting over. The total pecu-
niaryi lose was thus reduced to about 161. It appears that
the entry was made from the back garden by a drawing-
room window on the first floor ; the Intruder having raised
himself on some trellis work and broken a pane of glees,
which enabled him to open the inside fastenings of the
window. Doubt, were at first entertained as to the pomi-
bility of effecting an entrance that way, but they were
satisfactorily removed by the experiment being successfully
made without leaving any traces. No suspicion attaches
to the servant, who been the highest character for honesty.
—sheroortse Mercury.
DELICATE ATTENTIONE---We understand that the
Earl of Fife has lately sent upwards of twenty sets of
Parisian fashions, for the use of the ladies of Elgin. These
have been distributed among the dressmakers of the town,
in terms of his lordship's request. A similar present has
been made to the ladies of Forms. We have no doubt our
fair friends in both burghs duly appreciate his lordship's
attention oa this and many past occasions.—hsveresese
Courier.