The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-21 00:00:00

THE LAST WORDS OF MULLER.

Dr. Cappel has addressed the following letter to
the editor of the Hermann
_ _

" Honoured Editor—l hereby discharge the duty en-
trusted to me by Franz Muller shortly before his death of
thanking the German Legal Protection Society for the
efforts they made to save him. At the last moment the un-
happy man admitted his guilt, with a firm, clear via, and
in the fell pommies of his senses : and it has all the more
signification because of the carefully-chosen words he used.
The last words exchanged between him and me on the
scaffold are se follows :II
"Question—Mellor, is a few minutes you will stead
before your God ; I ask you again, and for the last time,
abrizausiguilty or innocent!
tehea Sic nor Gott ; (
icb Muller, i;icweanitnuatitgen.
unit
sum letzten Male, flied Si. echuldigraoder unaoh°coldig ?)
"Answer—l am innocent. (Ich bin nuenbaditt)
"Quake—You are innocent (Sie nod unechulifig f)
"Answer—God knows what 1 have dope. (Gott weir
was ich 'alma babe.
Queetion—God 'mom what you have done ; does he
also know if you have committed this aim.? (Gott weir;
was Sae galas baba weia such dam Si dies Ver.
bream goatee baba!)
" seem) Anarer—Yes, I have done it. (Js, ich babe se
" As hour and a half before' his execution Muller had
declared himself inecceek I then told him that I would
not press him further, but that my last words to him
would be • An you guilty or innocent With an meat
and pensive look be remained nos or two minutes
alai, standing before in.. He then suddenly cried out,
with kW/ in hie eyes, sod throwing hie arms round
my seek, 'Do sot leave ea—remain with in. to the
last.' fledged by this that he bad determined to make a
00•111•6011. That this resolution was formed only at the
last mama ie quite ia keeping with the firmness of hie
stamp reasecter, which kept steadily to a denial of the
aims with friend and enemy nail the very last
glim-
mssisg of hope bad disappeared. And really his uniform
quietude and hi mild tad seemingly open chapositioe were
emegh to enlist the sympathy of anyone, to disarm, di-
trust, sad to &Nave completely, even the most experi-
enced judges of ham nears. Tbe parsimony of Mull, g
in his denial was probably owing to his strong love of
and hie seeming tramlines partly explains itself
by the suppositioe—of chick I am fully waylaid—
that so murder bed hese intended, but that the robbery
lad to the death of the victim. Happily for him that eves
with his last breath he has atoned for his heavy sin to God,
to may ad to hi friends, through the acknowledgment
of hie guilt. I never could believe in his complete lega-
tions, but after be had repeatedly requested it I attended
him is his cal with the leseeet resolution of accomplishing
my duty with forbearance and humanity, and I carry in
my heart the grateful conviction that I have refreshed the
infortinate man in his sorrowful hours and prepared and
elaingtaireed him for eternity. The proof of ass is the
sincere love he bad forme, and in the Dame of which he
confided to my care hie last and dearest pouessions—a letter
to his father and a document be wrote in promo.
" I express my dearest thanks to all my German coon-
trysts for the great ad touching proofs of sympathy and
cosfideme I received from them on all sides. But to the
German Legal Protection Society, and you, Mr. Editors
who, pesetrated by the pennant:me of hi innocence, have
east eight amid day in eudeavouring to aye Muller, sad
have gladly sacrificed quietness, sleep, and halth—to you
before all are the tasks of Germans dos, and in the lama
every friend of humanity I warmly pass your bead.—
Highly respectfull your devoted,
Da. Locus Cara., Puna of the German Latham
Oberch, St. Gawp, is Little Alareinst, Good-
man's-fields.
" Loads" Nov. 16, 1864."

Tan LATE Dunn or Hanitrox. —On a certain day,
in the meson of last sentnier, the duke, with his sea. were
at a splendid party given by the Duchess of Bucclench. On
the erring of that day, 00 the morning of which the party
givesy A* duchess had broken up, his grace arrived at
I aria It was, I believe, hie iatentioo to proceed forthwith to
Bader-Baden, when the other members of his family were
than staying at his villa. Formerly be bad had a mansion in
Paris, bat now hie beedquartere were generally at the
HOW Bristol. The evening of his arrival the duke was at
the Opera ; and after the opera, in the company of a well-
keens ciaiiresd member of our Faris embassy, he went
to the human supper-plane, the Iltiaos Dore* cm the
Boulevards. The early dawn of the summer day was
break* as be prepared to go homeward. Be had to
damned a long flight of steps. Of the hurried events
that followed there are different versions, as ii always the
ewe respecting event. of peat importance and great
rapidity ; bat I believe that the facts are enbeteatially
these. A servant wished to assist the duke with Lie
overcoat, and the duke, declining hia asaistaoce, stepped
back somewhat hastily. In so doing he mimed his
footing, and was precipitated down the stairs. • He was
taken up insensible, and carried to big hotel. Medical
aid soon arrived, and a French course of treatment was
adopted. It wes concussion of the brain, and from the
first them was no hope. His family were summoned to
his Weide. To the same melancholy spot came the
most illustrious lady is France. The Emperor was at
Vichy, but the Empress. being at St. Cloud. soon arrived.
lam violating no confider's' when I mention, what woo
wall known in Pane at the time, how courteous sod
kind was the Empire= in bar attention to the sufferer, her-
self administering the prescribed medicaments, and kneel-
*in prayer by the bedside. Only some wenderio4 gleams
of maws revisited the sufferer, in which be recognised this
duchess and Empress. His body was conducted from Paris
to Cherbourg, and thew* to Scotland, by the Emperor's
commute, with almost royal honours.—Loudon Society for
November.

THu MELTING or "FRIEND.,. "—Maori friends,
on meeting after keg separation. are in the habit of
rubbing noses, line the Esquimau and the paling of memo
of the Manilas Islands, and shedding copious Roods of
tsar. We have seen two old fellows MU one another
by the shoulders, and try the power of friction on the
points at one anther's ones with suck vivacity t►at we
have awaited the result with some anxiety, dreading lest,
when the oweemoey wee over, little of a IMO should be
left to either; but we have never seen even a slight abra-
sion the skin seems to pt hardened like that on the palm
of a working man's hand. Whether the friction of the nose
exercises soy influence oe the WM yMOSO glauda, we cannot
undertake to say ; we can only vouch to the copiousness of
the team But we must not mistake those tears : they ■ee
not genuine proofs of affection. We should not exactly
say that they are crocodile's tears ; but tame to about as
much sincerity in them as in the salutations which ;weed
between two notables of our native parish. John Renzi*
and William Morrison wens sworn friends ; or, at lent,
you would hare 'apposed them to be so from the hearty
greeting which pined between them wlenerer they met,
They mixed on nother's hand., and held them in a tena-
cious gripe as long as the interview lasted. " Aweel,"
John would may, •, I has many kind freends, but ease I am
half so glad to see as William Morrisou." " And 1, John,"
would be the rejoinder, •• wad pais a long simmer mile and
mast to see your boost fan." John and Wiliam would
then part. On minting the former we would say, " Wen
that William Mortises you were talking to, John'."' •• Ay,
ay," John would say, " a puir silly body, easy lifted op,
and easy math dom." Os meeting William, we would nay,
"So you met John Menne to-day, 'William r " Ay, the
dooble-faced sold scooodrel I ken bini weel." Tbere is,
perhaps, as much sincerity in Maori embraces and tears as
in the salutations which paned between these two Scots
worthier,—Fraser's Mapri,iiu for -November.