The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-07 00:00:00

THE BURGLARY IN LOMBARD,STRIrI.

Messrs. Baum have published a circumstantial
&coast, filling two sides GI a folio sheet closely printed,
of the various bills of exchange, the gold, silver, and notes
represented to have been stolen, and offering a reward of
503/. to anyone asordin4 information leading to the reco-
very of the property. This document resites that the pre-
mises in question were burglarionsly entered between
the hours of 9 p.m., December 3, and 9 a.m., Der
comber b, and property, of which a list is given,
stolen, and it slates that the reward will be given to
anyone affording mob information as will lead to its re-
covery. The primary object with Mews. Baum, and not
onuaturally, animism to be the recovery of the lost treasure;
but it is usual on such occasion to make the payment of a
reward depend upon the apprehension and conviction of the
thieves. The robbery excites much public' interest, and
the prevailing impression appears to be that it was com-
mitted by some one or more persons familiar with the pre-
mimes, andl was the result of a long and careful premedita-
tion. The general belief also is that the thieves bad con-
cealed themselves on the premises before they were closed
for the night on Saturday evening: The character and
appearance of the crowbars found in the house after the
disoovery of the robbery puzzle the police not a little.
They are not the nest little, but still formidable, instru-
ment of that kind which burglars can camel about their
clothes, and can often put in the breast pocket of •
coat ; but they are ponderous weapons—three of
them at lest—being about 4ft. in length and of
enormous thickness and strength. They are, in feet, regular
crowbars, ouch as masons use; but they appear to be
quite new, or to have been little used, if at all. Then,
again, what is to be said of the door of the iron safe having
been removed by the hinges, and the lock inside of it
broken in pieces, and yet no marks having been found about
the safe to lead to the inference that the crowbars had been
need in priniof it open ? The whole affair, in fact, is • mys-
bay from beginning to end. The firm have published • list
of the bills of exchange which have been stolen, with the
names of the drivers and acceptors and the days on which
they will arrive at maturity ; but a regular, professional
thief never encumbers himself with articles of • nature
rilculated to connect him with a robbery in which he has
been concerned, and which, moreover, he could never, as
in this case, ton into money, or only at greet risk to him-
self. That is another circumstance, among others, suggest-
ing the belief that the robbery was not committed by pro-
fessional burglars, but rather by novices, and, if so, then it
will be all the more easy to discover the thieve., sooner or
later. It is needles to state that the detective police of
the City have been put in motion. By them, or for thew.
credit is often taken for being far more salute and skilful
than their rivals in Scotland-yard.
Messrs. Biome write to us aa follows :—" The report
of our lola from the late robbery on our premises is
much exaggerated. We are glad to say that most of the
securities, being negotiable by transfer only, will eventually
'be replaced. The actual loss in coin, notes, lc, will not
exceed 3,000/. In the meantime our boast« proceeds as
usual ; and the insertion of this will reaseure our numerous
friends and connexions as to our position."

THE Hales P 0180141140 Cosa—A letter from
Berne, dated Dec. 4, after giving en amount of the disco.
very of the bodies of Dr. Hermann Demme and Miss Flora
Ticmpy, says that several letters written in pencil were in
the room. One, addressed to the landlord, assured him
that the small debt due by the travellers would be paid by
their family. Another, written in German, was directed
"To my poor Father, Demme," and requested pardon for
the sorrow the writer bad brought upon his family. A
third, in the handwriting of the young lady, contained
only a single line—" Hermann has killed himseß, and I will
follow." Other poplin proved the identity of the parties.
The Swiss government has claimed the bodies, which will
be removed for interment to Berne.

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MrLLERISM AT BERLIN. —A letter from Berlin,
dated this ith, sue :—" Last night a public lecture was deli-
vered before a crowded audience, in a fashionable Numbly-
room, tinter den Linder, the subject of which was, ' The Re-
cant Judicial Murder of Franz Muller.' If Englishmen think
this subject has yet been forgotten in Germany they very
much mistake the character of the Germans. Not a day has
passed for the last fortnight but the most respectable organs
of lthe press in all parte of Germany have published some-
thing or other oo this topic, emanating either from
the German Legal Protection Society or from some
German resident is London. Extravagant statements
and ungueranteed sseertions of anonymous cor-
respondents are being published day after day on
this topic, and everything thus published is written by
people who are labouring under the firmed conviction of
Muller's innocence. The ignorant public, without any in-
dependent means of criticising what is thus laid before
them, accepts all se gospel, and has not a doubt now that
Muller's execution was a judicial murder. The Koluiuche
Zeg I ag but a day back bed upwards of three columns more
matter on this topic. To-day it again comes forward with
another critique, ending with the expression of the convic-
tion that ' the execution of Muller was • piece of
brutality which was perhaps only poe'ible in Eng-
land.' The Kkine Rertilionar, the won't)* comic
paper of the Feudal party, has two cartoons, headed • Al-
Woo's Satisfaction,' in one of which John Bull is looking
with indignation over the North Sea at Austria and Prussia
engaged in killing the Damn, while in the other plate John
Bull is represented as a hangman standing on the platform
of the gallows, front which a large capital letter "M" is
suspended over the heads of a drunken, riotous crowd
below. I thoroughly realised the full signilicaoce of
what the Frenchman means when be speaks of a querelle
d'Allenisods' until I had witnessed the manner in which the
Muller question has been treated in this country."
Tits TALW:D.—A Vienna letter of the 2nd says :
—" The College of Rabbis in this capital has just made an
important declaration. Is answer to an interrogation by
the Criminal Tribunal of Vienna, whether the Talmud is or
is not a canonical book of the synagogue, the College of
Rabbis replied that the Talmud is not a canonical book in
the sues which the catholic church gives to that word, but
that nevertheoew the part which contains the preersiptioes
(called lialaclaisehcr Mein, with the exception of the metric.
bons necessitated by the conditions of the State, has the force
of lam for the religious practices of the Jews ; whilst the
explanatory portion of the Talmud (called Hagadischer
Theft) has so importance except for arcbsiologists, who
study the social life and literature of the Jews. A new Jewish
Synagogue will shortly be built at Ottakviog, near Vienna.
This will make the third sew synegogiu in the course of a
year. If this continues, Vinous, the capital of a catholic
monarchy, will soon have as many sYnaffokosil as churches.
Judaism is making great advances in Austria."
CLERGYMEN'S Votes.—The parson throat is not
the malady of necessarily loud talkers or energetic speakers;
it is not induced by tad efforts in the pulpit ; it
is not brought on by tanßc denunciations delivered in the
trumpet-mil, or mild entreaties insinuated in the date-stop
of the human organ. It is simply and purely brought on
by men persisting is preaching in an assumed unnatural
voice—a conventiosel voice, imagined, I suppose, to be the
most appropriate tone to call sinners from their 'wicked-
DON and teach them to live better. Too are startled by
my explanation, but grant me a brief hearing. Who are
the victims of this throat affection ? Not the high-sad-
dry old rubicund parsons, with bright frank eyes and well-
rounded chins, neat of dress, knowing in horse-leek, strong
in horticulture. These hale and healthy fellows have one
voice, just as they have owe nature ; the same not, that
summons the gardener to look after the dahlias cries to the
congregation to take care of their soul*. They aro not
perhaps, out-and-oat divines ; there is a bucolic element
through them that makes than what Sydoey Smith need
to call qoarsone." They are, at all rousts, a very
noble set of fellows and thorough gentlemen. These men
ar• totally free from parsonitis • ease has sever beers
knout among them. Next come more muscular Chris-
tians, whose throats, attuned to the hunting-dud, could
pmform, if called on, the arms of a railroad whistle. These
have no touch of the complaint. All " Coleneo," lam
told, is exempt, which is the more singular, as the 111114
who deny everything and oppose everyone are necessarily
called on for vocal efforts of the most forcible
kind. This is remarkable. It is, then, amoogst the
more distinctively pious of the clergy that the
disease commits its ravages—thole who, by distioctive
epithet, are called Evangelicals. Now there are numbers
of these—vast numbers—who labour throughout their
whole lives, and labour arduously, untouched by the
affection. They are of all clause of the clergy the most
untiring, the most devoted, sod the most intensely imbued
with the duties of their collie( ; but there are others who
have all their seal, all their devotion, end a.l their sin.
merity, and now of their abilities. These men, eager to
emulate the usefulness of their superior brethren, but on
displaying in themselves the splendid success around them,
cannot rue to the intellectual heights of their more giftea
oeighboors, and are driven to imitate not the well-argued
statement—not the clops narrative of fsots—not the Ms-
pinioned appeal, or the startling exhortation, but simply
the to of voice in which these were conveyed. Haleit
is that these men, good and excellent men in every way, but
of very commonplace minds and unelevated views, Dopy the
one sole trait that has no merit or value—the tone sod d,-
livery of those whose manner is simply the offspring of
their own overcharged mind.. They denounce without foresee
they entreat without persuasion. They paint without
colour, and they mould, and leave no form after Them.
They rant, rave, and riot, sob, shudder, and weep; and all
the result is stunned ears to the congregation end sore
throat. to themselves. They are ineffective because they
are not natural. It is their own intense unreality deetroys
all their usefulness, and mars all their efforts at good.
Blackwood/ Magazine for December.