The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-15 00:00:00

ASSASSINATION AT MEDINA.

A letter from Djeddah, in the Levant Herald of
the sth, says :—" The latest item of news in this quarter
is the assassination of Djemal-ul•Eil, chief the Ultima, at
Medina, and a descendant of the Prophet. The incident
is looked upon by all classes here as an important political
event, and one which is likely to be attended with grave
consequences. It appears that &said 8/shim, Sheik of
the Duhub tribe, in the neighbourhood of Medina, ordered
his son to proceed with three men to the chief Ulem►'s
residence awl despatch him. The cause assigned for this
act is that the Duhub chief had some personal animosity
against his victim, but another version bas it that political
motives are mixed up with it. The young man and hie
three aasociates, who were sent on this bloody mission, on
arriviog were received with every courtesy, the ostensible
object of their visit being a friendly one. Narghilies and
coffee were duly handed to them, after partaking of which the
four drew their pistols and, firingtogethor, sliotthe venerable
Ulems dead. Two slaves, a male and female, hearing the re-
port, entered the room, where they were at once attacked,
the woman being mortally wounded, and the man killed out-
right. The murderers immediately afterwards took to eight.
Reookid Seghim is a pensioner of the Viceroy of Egypt for
anion rendered by him to Mohamed Ali. Without the
firmness of the governor, Just Pacha, and the Schmid
Abdulah Puha, a vast amount of intestine trouble would
have arisen in the holy places out of this outrage. and most
probably have obliged the authorities to ask the help of
Egyptian troops, which, doubtless, the Viceroy would have
readily given. Without having recourse to such a step,
hest Puha at once despatched a force against the Duhub
tribe ander Mahatma Suleiman Bey, who succeeded in
beating them into somet►ing like order."

Yesterday evening Signor Alessandro G &easel
delivered a Mote= at the I. Jemse's-ball aloe the present
positioa and seeped@ of the Masa kingdom. The large
hall was will tiled with sa stteative sadiesoe. sad oos
spearmatly easidatem is its sympathy with the muse
solveretsd by the lecturer.
Tax WARD OP LADOBOURX.—We are requested
by Kr. West to Mats that it is sot hi Mission to
rani@ • easdidats far the essarz6a this ward crested by
rodgsation of the lets Lord as spurted yester-
day. Mr. Waterloo is a amidst' 'dm vaamey.

[TWOPENCE

SINGULAR TRIAL-CHARGE AGAINST AN
ACTOR OP ATTEMPTED MURDER.

The Maim Court at Paris was crowded yester-
day morning by • well-dreesed audience, among whom
were several actors and actresses, to him a singularly
dramatle trial for an attempted murder. The prisoner,
• young rasa of 19, but looking younger, was a _Kane
wrestler (player of lover's characters) at the little theatre
of Mout Perrone. His name is Dumont. He appears to
hare been a sort of Clwrubino, sighing after every lady
within his km.. Tie actreeece to whom be made lore
laughed ►t him and treated him as a dild, and their
husbands or protectors never considered him as a rival
irorth notion. Is the course of the summer he became
very seriously in love with the wife of a brother actor,
earned Demongeot, with whom he was on terms of
intimacy. lie wrote her several amatory epistles, which
she never answered ; but she gave him no encourage-
ment, reproved him when they met, and although she
did not show the love letters to her husband,
only abstained, as it seems, in mercy to her
youthful admirer. Oa July 5, while Demongeot was
oa the Asp in ebsawiter at the Mont Parnasse theatre,
Dumont west to his drawing-room, took the key of his
apertassate from the pocket of the ordinary clothes which
be found there, returned to the body of the theatre, where