The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-15 00:00:00

TO THE ENGLISH PEOPLE.

I kaew very well that amongst the persons employed in
the administration of the government of the Popo there

were men whose hearts could still be opened to Mercy to-
wards the unfortunate. Now I have a fresh confirmation of
this, for it is through one of thaw very men I succeeded,
my nation, in letting the voice of my sorrow arrive as far
u thee.

Three long, eternal years have elapsed since I am suffer-
ing all the misery of confinement in a papal dungeon ; yet I
beggel for mercy. Had I felt myself guilty, I could
have easily escaped any persecution whatever, being pos-
sessor of a regular passport. But my conscience being pure,
I thought nothing but rejoin my family to Ancona. Being
guilty, should I have twice renewed the prayer of being
judged by an Austrian commission of war? Mr. Moore,
the English consul at Ancona, may testify it.
Oh, my sufferings are beyond all understanding. I re.
mained during six months shut up in my dungeon, where I
become soon affected by a serious infirmity. My judge,
Pauli, would not permit me to be transferred to the infir-
mary. So that I was condemned to be devoured by fever,
in the furthest corner of my dungeon. And all that before
being judged.
Only when an energetteal protestation of my physician,
M. Monti, and a remonstrance of the English consul, Mr.
Moore, declared my life in imminent danger, upon those
extremities only I wu allowed to he removed to the infir-
mary. At length I obtained a more capacious prison.
Meanwhile grief was digging my father's grave. The poor
old man longed to see me on more before shutting his
eyes for ever. My mother begged that permission from
Prelate Bedini, the papal commissary, and from my judge,
M. Paoli; they h.d nothing to do but take me, under
a good guard, from the prison to my father's house. Juri-
dical reasons there were none to contrast that act of hu-
manity ; my process having long been finished, and I being
no more in strict seclusion. Such a favour was of no con-
sequence for the government to be granted, and could have
perhaps prolonged the existence of the old man. It was
refused. My father died without spreading the paternal
blessing over my head !
The epoch of my judgment now approaching, Mr. Moore
advised me to go to Rome, in order to go iu person before
my judges ; and he obtained that for me.
Fresh sufferings were continually added to the old one.,
Often they refused to give me some wood, under pretence
there was no order from the government. When
at Spoleto, the chief of the gendarmerie—a man of
the most ferocious temper loaded my hands
and my feet with heavy iron chain.. When
in Rome, I wu confined in the horrible galley of
Termini. While still uacondemned, had they the right to
stamp a mark of infamy on my name, associating my exis-
tence to that of rubbers and murderers ? My process had
been completed a year ago, since a year I had no more
been kept up in • solitary duageon, but in a common
prison. Cousequently, according to what laws could they
shut me up again in so horrible • prison, or I should ra-
ther say, in so horrible a grave? kor such it was. A very
damp lurking place, seven feet long and four wide, un-
wholesome and completely dark, no breath of air pene-
trating into it, for there was no window at all. At length
I was removed to the infirmary, but with very little advan-
tage of my health, my illness being chiefly occasioned by
long want of air. My physician declared half an hour's
walking every day to be indispensable to me, but they re-
fused it constantly.
Were I to mention my moral sufferings I should say
they were far beyond physical tortures. I was innocent,
but unable to prove it to the world. I had no moans to re.
move from my face the mark of ignoixiny the vengeance of
men I never offended had stamped upuu it. Of men who,
by an extraordinary refinemeut of cruelty, granted me to
see my family, but at the presence of ignoble spies, who
were there to catch every word, to interpret uveq sigh of
the afflicted Gaut !
And all those sufferings I could have easily spared to
myself had I but retused to be present to my judgment ; all
those sufferings were they of any advantage to my cause ?
I went before the tribunal, but with no guarantee of any
kind. I did not know neither my accusers nor my wit-
nesses; even their very names were stranger to me. I
never beard the voice of the man they entitled my de-
fender. After • constitute much like all those 1 bad
sustained is my prison, I was sent back to my dungeon long
before any discussion.
Consequently what could I tell about my trial? Igno-
rant of proofs, scarcely aware of the accusation, I could but
venture supposition. Notwithstanding, I shall mention a
single fast chance alone made me acquainted with. Two
witnesses had been produced by me to confute an accusa-
tion. My judge Paoli assured- me they had both contra-
dicted themselves. But some time after I could be con-
vinced that it was not true. For by means of Mr. Moore I
could get a declaration from them they had never been
interrogated. I produced that declaration before the
tribunal.
'f he notion of this single feet is sufficient to me to think
as false many others which unfortunately I cannot pre-
sent in all their evidence for want of proofs.
II some day impartial men would examine my process I
have no doubt they would proclaim my innocence imme-
diately. But who can obtain such an act of justice from
the Roman prelates? Thou canst, English people, and 1
entreat it in the name of humanity, in the name of my
honour so outraged. Should Ibe a victim of the sickness
that consumes my body, or should I experience all the
weight of sacerdotal tyranny, English people remember
this the prayer of an unfortunate countryman of thir e. I
shall die contented if followed into the grave by the hops
that one day my process being revised through thy powerful ,
interference, my innocent son will be liable to cry to the
face of my base calumniator","Na, my father was Oat a
murderer!" EDWARD MURRAY.
From the Prison of Ancona, June 211,1862.

iLatb intelltgence.
EQUITY COURTS.—YESTERDAY.
HICVORM 111.411 PCiLLLOR ha E• 1 PA tit 1.1.
T HON/I%MS V. Houma.
This was the d^rnurrer by the dere:ohm', who was the ;
oflirdsl manager apeointid by the Master to WllOlll the
winding-up of the Vale of Neat)) B,...wery C impiny was I
referred. The bill was filed by the plaintiff, who was the
assignee of former mirtgagoes of the lir...wery for 15,000/.
The bill stated the plaintiff's claim, and that he had gone
in before the Master and establi.hed his debt before the
court upon appeal, and then it sought relief against the
official manager. The question raised by the demurrer was,
whether the plaintiff had, es a creditor of the company, any
remedy in equity against the officio' manager.
Mr. Russell and hfr. Te•rell, iu support of the demurrer,
cited the 74th section of the Winding-up Act, 1848, which
enacted that proofs of debts were to ho made before the
Muter as in bankruptcy, and they contended that the
Winding-up Act gave no remedies by action or suit which
creditors had not before against the company, and except
by the act creditors could have no remedy against the official
Mrager.
Mr. Mains and Mr. Jewell were heard in support of the
bill. They relied on the 40th section of the oct,which provided
that suite by and against • dissolved company should be
brought in the name of the official manager.
The Vice Chancellor said that the debt had been este-
blioked under the proceedings in the winding-up of the
company, and he thought it might be sued for in this
court. It was to be considered whether ordinary proceed-
ings in this court were barred by what had taken place
under the Winding-up Act. It was true that the bank-
ruptcy of a debtor was • bar to any personal remedy against
the debtor. Under the Winding-up Acts a creditor wu
left to pursue all his remedies against the company. The
only restraint on the creditor was that he must prove his
debt before the Master. It was the obvious object of this
provision that • call might In. made upon the contributories
to meet the debt. The Muter had a discretion as to the
payment of the debt, nail if he did not exercise his discre-
tion in favour of the creditor and make a call the creditor
was left to his ordinary remedies at law and in equity. His
Honour wu, therefore, of opinion that the suit wu pro-
perly framed in all respects as an equitable demand, and
wan properly enforceable by slicing the official manager.
The court overruled the demurrer.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.-ABINGDON, JULY 13.

11,011 Z Ma. Jerfl, lc Clit,ell.l.l.
IttOT A\ll EOHEEET AT TOE READING ELECTION.

. . . ..
Wm. Broad'',66, aged 24, described as a dyer,was charged
with having on the 7th inst., at Heading, feloniously stolen
a silver watch, the property of Thomas Cross.
Mr. Skinner was counsel for the prosecution.
It was clearly shown that on Wednesday lest, the day of
polling at Reading, there was a continual rioting and light-
ing kept up in the Market-place between the rabble who
wore the favours of the two contesting parties, and there
were certain of the light-fingered gentry present, who were
unusually busy in their avocations when the occasional
conflicts occurred. In the early part of the afternoon the
prosecutor walked down the Market-place with a bundle
under his arm, when a crowd surrounded him, and the pri-
soner snatched his watch from his waistcoat pocket and took
to his heels. He was instantly pursued, and captured about
half a mile distant by ono of the borough police. When
first taken to the station he feigned drunkenness, and an
utter ignorance of the charge upon which he had been taken
into custody, but when introduced to the deputy governor
of the County gaol, where he had some months previously
been incarcerated, he was quite chapfallen.
The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses with a great
deal of ingenuity, and tried to persuade the jury that
having made himself conspicuous on the tory side, he gave
offence to the radicals, and he run away to avoid being in-
jured by a mob who seemed determined to wreak their yen-
goanco upon him.
Ile was found Guilty by the jury, and his lordship sen-
tenced him to one year's bard labour.

ANOTHER ROBBERY AT THE ELECTION.

wini,;;; having stolen
a gold watch, with its appendages, from the person of Mr.
Roberts, the manager of tho London and County Joint
Stock bank, at Reading.
A previous conviction was proved, and be was sentenced to
seven years' transportation.

THE POLICE COURTS.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Johann, rulentirt7 nue Clerken-
well, and George roelkmer, of the Dover-road, appeared
before the Lord Mayor, accompanied by an interpreter,
I under the following circumstances. The two foreigners
were not given in charge, although they had provoked ac-
cusation, but Mr. Baum, the bullion broker, of lenchurch-
. street, appeared to atato some part:culars in their conduct,
the repetition of which might render ulterior proceedings
necessary.
Mr. Bush, of the arm of Bush and Mullins, solicitors to
the Committee of Bankers for Protection against Felonies
and Frauds, appeared for Mr. Baum, and said that some
time ago a robbery had been committed at Frankfort,
and the gentlemen before his lordship had become
possessed of certain bonds, which there was reason
to believe funned part of the stolen property.
Those bonds they had taken to be exchanged for
cash to Mr. Baum, in whose hands they were
subsequently attached by a wooers from the Lord
Mayor's Court, and at the present moment a snit was going
forward en the question of ownership, so that it was impos-
sible for that gentleman to Five up either the securities or
their value until the action should be concluded. The
foreigners, however, regularly besieged the house of Mr.
Baum, and obstructed his business, under the impression
that they were juatitiell, under any circumstances, in
obliging him to make immediate restitution. Expostula-
tion had proved ineffectuil, and in the belief that the Lord
Mayor could de anything he wished in the Lard Mayor's
Court, they wished to be brought before his lordship.
The Lord Mayor—You mean that in the action pending
Mr. Baum is garnishee, and the property has been attached
in his hands.

Mr. Bush—Exactly so.
The Lord Mayor—These gentlemen may make any ex-
planation they think advisable, as to the manner in which
the bonds came into their possession.
Mr. Bush—Certainly; but Mr. Baum makes no charge
against them, and casts no imputation upon them. My
only object in making any statement is that he may be ae•
cured from future impediment in transacting his business.
Mr. Adolphus Baum said—l am an Exchange broker, at
No. 68, Fencharch-street, and in partnership with my fa-
ther. Mr. Roemer came on Saturday night, at 6 o'clock,
and demanded an amount which he said was duo to him.
Ito had entrusted to us for sale some Ire sign hands in April
last. They are Frankfort State Obligation , and are arket-
able. The amount being large, and the persons who presented
the bonds being strangers, we did ant choose to buy
them, but we sent them to Frankfurt. They are now the
subject of a suit in the Lord Mayor's Court, and we are the
persons in whose hands they are deposited. Mr. Roemer
I knew, from what had occurred before, that the case was out
of our power. We told him so, and he said he would do
his best to get the money from us. He stayed about a
quarter of an hour, and then he went away. Yesterday
morning Mr. Roemer came again, at 12 o'clock. Ile de-
manded the whole amount due to him. Mr. Voelkaer was
with him. I gave the same answer, and told them, if they
wished fur anything, to apply to Mi,ars. Push and Mullins,
who had the matter in hand. They refused, although
fifty times pressed, to go away, and I was obliged
to send for constables. But I did nut cause
them to be detained. Yesterday, at four o'clock,
they again came, and I was again obliged to get a con•
stable to remove them, and at half-past 11 this morning
they presented themselves. 'they upon all these occasions
obstructed me in my business, and spoke in such a manner
as was calculated to create a wrong impression injurious to
the credit of the house. .

Mr. Roemer said that he had not gone to Mr. Baum's
house to demand money, but merely to ask after the health
of that gentleman. Ile said Mr. Voelkner appeared to be '
satisfied with having bad the opportunity of seeing the
Lord Mayor upon tile subject, but
ilia Lordship said it was his duty, in order to prettnt the
obstruction of Mr. Baum's business, to bind over each of
them in the sum of 201. to keep the peace towards all her
Majesty's subjects for Bit months,and told them that if they
violated their own bond to that effect, he should compel
them to give security, nud, in default of security, send them
to prison.
The defendants then were bound over in their own secu-
rities. The value of the bonds which were stated to have
been stolen i. about 1.11001. . .

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Mr. James Anderton, the Common Councilman, attended
before the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of stating that he
had been, the day before, on a steam vessel, whirh was
crammed in the way he had previously described, and to
ntfer his active services to remedy the evil. Ile expressed
much anxiety to learn what had bcvn done in the Court of
Aldermen in the matter.

The lord Mayor blietly explained what had taken place
upon Alderman Wilson's motion, notice of which will be
found elsewhere ; and
Mr. Anacreon paid he would attend and give evidence
before the committee, and assist their endeavours in every
possible way.

LONDON AND NORTII WESTERN itA I LIV A Y.—
Return of traffic for the week ending July 11, IM2
l'assengers, parcels, carriages, horses, and mails,
31,7041. 3.. fal.; merchandise, 16,7411. 4s. 041. ; cattle,
1,0321. 18s. Dd. Total, 49,478/. 16s. 6d. Corresponding
week, lgol, 86,463/. 0.4. 1041. Ditto, 1860, 60,6761. 16.. Id.
Aggregate: 1850-97,0921. Is. 6d.; 11151-124,7P24. 16s. 61. ;
1h62-100,0981. ss. 2d.

GREAT NORTHERN NAlLWAY.—iteturn of traffic
for the week ending July 4, 1842:.- Passengers, parcels, car-
riages, horses, dogs, and mai15,5,864i. 2a. 10d; merchandise
and minerals; 4,2241. la Bd. • cattle. 2181. U. 74. Total,
11,29G1. tialld. corresponding week, 1861,13 2161. Oa. rid.

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