The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-25 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The D 'bats says
We learn from Constantinople, under date of the 10th,
that Fuad Eliendi was expected there the next day, from
his mission to Abbas radio. Alit Bey was to set out
for Egypt, and thence to Jerusalem, immediately after
the return of Fuad Effendi, in order to carry a
firman from the Porte approving of the arrangements ea-
tered into with Abbas I'acha, and to have the twin, meats
of the Porte withyrance relative Mite holy sepu:chre car-
ried into execution. The financial question continued to
occupy men's minds. Whilst the bank was endeavour-
ing to come to some understanding with Europe to rive
more stability to its operations, the Porte was taking mea-
sures to improve its credit by reducing its issue of paw
money, and on the 10th the Sultan was to proceed to the
hotel of the Minister of Commerce, where 12 millions of
piastres of that paper were to be burnt. Sir S. Canning
had not jet kit Constantinople. At a dinner pie, him
on the ,th of June by the Englidt merchants, lie had
made a speech, in which (with about two or three ex-
ceptions) he had comprised in the same accusation of ve-
nality and corruption all the font tionaries of Turkey, and
drawn a most melancholy picture of the Ottoman empire.
This outbreak of the Bsitannic representative had excited a
great sensation at Constantinople.

THE INNOCENCE OF MR. MURRAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE DAILY NEWS.

SIR,—If you can spare space in your valuable
journal for the insertion of the incloecel letter and cat&
cats, I should feel greatly obliged, u they go far to
prove the innocence of my unfortunate and unhappy
nephew.—l am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,

, .
FRANCIS RAY L'EST RANGE.
15, 31ornington-road, June 23, 1852.
_ _

Corfu, June 3,1352.

Madam,—having been given to understand that you
have greatly interested yourself in the fate of the unfortu-
nate Edward Murray, the intelligence of whose condemna-
tion only reached us yesterday, I hasten to transmit to you
a certificate in duplicate from Signor Mattioli, late Presi-
dent of Ancona, under whose orders Mr. Murray acted in
the affair which has led to such an unhappy termination.
This certificate most fully proves the innocence of Mr.
Murray, of which no doubt exists in the minds of all those
who are acquainted with the facts. Indeed, Mr. Moore,
the British Consul in Ancona, with whom I have had much
correspondence on the subject, has from the first &elan
himself that no other culpability could be attache d to him
but that of indiscretion. You have, of course, been duly
informed of the details of this business, as well as of the
inhuman way Mr. Murray has been detained in orison for
more than three years, suffering the most cruel privations,
notwithstanding the great interest exerted in his favour by
numerous and powerful friends. If Mr. Murray hail ben
fairly tried in Ancona, as was originally the intention of
the Roman government, I thick a different result
might have been anticipated ; but the jealous, tyrannical, and
arbitrary way in which all legal processes against suspected
persons is carried on in Rome could lead to no other
conclusion than the present; but I do hope that although a
sentence of condemnation has passed, execution will not
follow, as the circumstance has interested too many
Englishmen for the Roman Government to hazard con
witting such a gross act of injustice. The enclosed certi-
ficate may have some weight in causing the influential per-
sons in England to take a greater interest in Mr. Murray s
fate. In Rome I fear it would have little effect, as Signor
Mattioli from his republican principles would not be much
credited, but here be is considered OS a gentleman and an
honest man. I regret that I have only within these few
days become acquainted with the termination of Mr. Mon
ray's trial, and as I have been absent from England a per
many years, I do not know into whose hands I can con.
sign Signor Mattioli's certificate than to yours, leaving it
to you to make the most advantageous use of it you may
deem proper. I have the honour to be, Madam, your most
obedient, humble servant,
(Signed) Wm. DIXON,
Late Captain Royal Artillery.
In the name of God.

Corfu, June 4,18 R,

Being requested by the relative, of Edward Murray to
express my personal opinion concerning the alleged culpa.
bility of their unfortunate kinsman (who having bees
arrested in April, 1819, while I was governor of the city and
province of Ancona, has since been condemned to death by
the Supreme Pontifical Tribunal of the Ck.imaltal, I locl
that I should be wanting in the homage due to truth, am
well as to the dictates of my own conscience, were I not to
repeat the declaration made in my certificate, dated Otto-
ber 10, 1849.
It is then my firm and intimate conviction that Edvesnl
Murray had no part or complicity in the deplorable assn•
sinations which, for a brief period, dishonoured the rey
of Ancona, and which the arm of justice rigorowly

repressed.
The gentleness of his obaracter, his unwavering tenni!,
the diligence and amenity which he displayed in the die
charge of the delicate duties pertaining to his office as in-
spector of the police, make me confident that the atrocioss
and cowardly crimes of which he has been accused ate
utterly foreign and abhorrent to his nature.
If, upon the murder of Signor Servanti Collin de Sas
Severino (perpetrated unhappily as Murray hall remind
carders from me to be upon his guard against all ireidione
attempts), it was thought necessary to institute a prom*
against the above.named inspector of police for not having
guaranteed the security of Colli°, this was hearse it usa
thought he might have been wanting in eirearespt colt
and vigilance, and not in any measure because he
peeled of being privy to the crime.
In an interview which 1 had with Murray at his oes
request, in the prison of Ancona, he protested his innocent*
in the most sincere and earnest manner and afterwards,
when released from distance, and at liberty to go whither
he chose, so strong was he in the confidence of his blase
lessness, that lie remained at Ancona after the fall of the
Roman Itepublie and the restoration of the pontifical autho-
rity, and constituted himself a prisoner for the 1411 01
meeting any charge which could he brought aguitOt 1.34'
I know not the grounds of the long and mysterious pro-
cess which has been protracted through three years wit"
result so fatal to Mr.Murrny. I would hope that the pontifical
government has confided it to men both skilful and pure,
but it is not the less impossible for me to avoid the raise
tion that in carrying on au investigation, rendered so di loa;
by the confusion and distance of the events concerued. sod
yet so momentous in its issues to the accused, the Jwls"
have been conducting their inquiries in a light whiA,
ds
rived from political circumstances, is little tivoural'i, to
the discovery of the innocence, however real, of acs
cured. U IRtrrt: CAMILLO MATTIOLL
Ex-Governor of the City and l`nivince of Ancona.
Office of the Lord lligh Commissioner of the lonia
Islands, Corfu, June -I, 1832.
The foregoing certificate is in the handwriting "i
Cimino Mattioli, and bears his signature.
J. Fasinuft, Secretary of the Lord nigh Com-
missioner.