The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-15 00:00:00

[Stamped, Id. AdditiossiO

SIGNOR MAZZINL

TO THE IDITOE OP TILE EXPIEEE.

8114—Accusations of every description have been,
since the arrest of four Italians at Paris, charged
with an attempt against Louis Napoleon, heaped on
me by the organs of the French government, and
repeated by the English press.
It has always been my known habit to not discuss

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accusations put forth against me by avowed ene-
mies, and I feel a speoieJ dislike to do ao when the

accusations come from the agents of a man who, as
far as in him lies, is by mere brutal force depriving
my country of the unity which she claims, and
making of Rome the Immix of operation of the bri-
gandage infesting the south of Italy.
Yielding, however, to solicitation of dear friends,
I do declare :

That I never did instigate anybody to kill Louis
Napoleon.
That I never did give to any man booths, air
guns, revolves, or daggers for that purpose.
That Trabuoo, Imperatori, and fiaglio are en-
, lively unknown to sae.
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That, therefore, the meeting summoned at Lu-
gano, the absurd place of under-lieutenant given to
Imperstori in • brigade of four men, and the
giving of the photographs to the men, are absolute
falsehoods.

That my photographs, with my autograph at the
bottom, are sold for the " Venice Emancipation
Fund" at the office of the Unifd Italian, at
Milan, and elsewhere.
That no letter, with or without money, has ever
been addressed by me to Greco in Paris.
Greco I know. Hundreds, I might say thou-
sands, of young men belonging to our National
Party of Action, are known to me. Greco is an
enthusiastic patriot, who took an active part in the
enterprises of 1860 and 1861 in the South of Italy ;
and be has bad, as such, contact with me. Any
note of mine in his possession, if there be any, must,
however, belong to at least nine or ten months
back.

Enough in reply to accusations hitherto merely
grounded on French police reports.—l am, kc.,
Jan. It JOSEPH MAZZINI.

THE CRAWLEY COURT-MARTIAL

REMARKS OF THE COYYANUER-IN.CHIEF.

The following are the remarks of hie Royal
Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief
on the general court-martial held at Aldershot on
the 17th of November, 1863, for the trial of Lion-
tenant-Colonel T. R. Crawley, 6th Dragoons :

Hans Citatda, Jae: 14, 1884.

After a wildcat sad protracted trial the court-inartial on
Lieutreant-Colourd Crawley has been brought to a close by
the full sad honourable axiuitial of that °Moor.

TIM Jodle•Advooate•Geoeral has submitted to her
Majesty to confirm sod appro►e the proceedtage, sad the
Field-Marahat Commanding-hi-Chief hes reeommoded to

her Majesty that the verdict of the court should now be
he carried out.

Lieut.-Col. Crawley will therefore TIMM the command
of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons with the least possible
delay, and his royal highness trusts that he will prove by
tact and judgment in the performance of his duties that
ha appreciate* the importance of his position as a com-
mending officer, and that the painful experience of the past
has not been lost upon him.
For it is only by a happy combination of temper, judg-
ment, and discretion, united with firmness, that the com-
mand of a regnant eau be properly conducted, and the
more difficult the elements with which a commanding
officer may have to deal, the more requisite it is for him to
possess and morals* those qualifications for command.
The mart has remarked on the seisms displayed by
Major Swindley in giving him evidence, and has further
noticed the evasive, hesitating, and unsatisfactory charac-
ter of the evidence of Surgeon Turnbull and Lieutenant
and Adjutaet Pitsaimon.
" • "

In the proceedings of the Mhow court-martial both Ma-
jor Swindley and Surgeon Tarobull were similarly reflected
upon. . . . .

His royal highness wu disposed on that occasion to give
these officers a further trial, and did not remove them at
that period from the loniskilling Dragoons, but he feels
that he cannot again treat them with a like leniency.
Hajor Swindley has, unfortunately, not availed himself
of the forbearance then shown to him. He has not ceased
toentertain feelings which strike at the root of all discipline.
His coetiouance in the 6th Dragoons can therefore no
longer be permitted, and be will be removed from the regi-
ment accordingly.

Surgeon TMObeli, in like manner, has laid himself open
to the gravest censure. Hie conduct with reference to the
entries in the hospital records will become the subje of
farther inquiry, and, should his explanations not Move
satisfactory, most serious notice must necessarily be taken
of his proceedings; but, at all events, his continuance is
the Inntekilling Dregoons has become impossible.
Lieutenant and Adjutant Fitreimon has by hie replies
and erosive answers proved himself utterly unfit for the
post of adjutant, the duties of which be carried out in so
oasatidectory a manner, as proved by his own evidence.
. . . .

It is further most undesirable that he should continue in
the Bth Dragoons. He therefore will likewise be removed
from the regiment. . _ .

The genjul tone end temper evinced by a portion o/
the officers of the Issiskilling Dusgoons is most deplorable.
When the Field-blanhal Commanding-in-Chid issued his
memqrandam on the Ilbow court-martial he was not, as
he is now, aware of the extent of ill-feeling which actually
prevailed.
Discipline cannot be maintained wile° such views ere
entertained by any portion of the officers of the regiment,
and it greatly redounds to the credit of the corps generally
that its efficiency did not suffer wore by she insub-
ordinate and defiant tone manifested by some of its leading
member'.

The sad and painful isms which bee been experienced
by all will, it is hoped, not be forgotten by those who have
*mewed censure.
.. . .

Without discipline an army is worse than melon,
aid, under all circumstances, it must, therefore, be main-
tained.

His
royal highness, having bad a personal and intimate
knowledge of what the Inoiskilling Dragoons were is former
days, is most painfully impressed with the altered tone of
the regiment, in respect of too masy of its officers, which
is now brought to hiy notice. Bad elements must bare
been introduced, which have tended to this lamentable
change in a corps mond to none in former days, both as
regards discipline and efficiency.
The Field-Marshal Oommanding-isZbief haste that the
decisive steps sow taken may at awe and for ever put a
stop to similar pratitims, alike destructive to the interests
of the corps and to these of the individuals concerned.
His royal highness ascot ooeclade these remarks with.
out observing that be considers it due to the eoronianderin-
chief in India to state that, while be is still of opinion that
the character for sobriety of Sergeastellafor Utley op to
the period of his arrest was supported by the evideeee
before the court, statemeets ware subsequently mode to
Biz H. Rose. borne out by the opinions of the medical
officers of the regiment, which explain to the Field-Marshal
Commanding-in-Chief the grounds upon which that distin-
guished general officer made the observations on that portion
Of the case included in his remarks on the Mho, court-
martial. _ _

By oommand of hia Royal Hishous tits Fiold-Karalaal
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W. F. Fauna, Military Secretary.

The Dublin Express understands that Mr. J. J.
Murphy, Q.C.. Nutter io Mammy, hue resigned his picot
at the Baud of Naimoli Edoot%oa. Matte, Murphy was
oat at the ink Rama Catholic' Oomailioaara.

[TWOPENCE

THE rowituar 0/B).-THE 017101 AL DOCU.
IMAM

The official papers in the above cane have now
been published. It appears that oc the day following the
coeviction of the prisoner Mr. Baron Martin, who had tried
him, mat the following letter to SW George Grey :
" Nottingham, Dec. 13, 1863.
Sir,— Gemp Victor Townley was convicted yesterday
before me at Derby of murder, sad seemed to be exe-
cuted. I have directed a oopy of my wire to be roads for
you, should you desire to have it : but there is a full report
of the trial in the newspapers. The conviction wee, in my
opinion, right; bat Mr. Forbes Winslow and Dr. Gisboroe
were examined at the trial, and both deposed in the
strongest tawnier that the prisoner is now of diseased mind
and absolutely 'imam 1 think it right to call your attention
at once to the subject, with a view to a correct opinion being
formed as to the propriety of his execution.
" I have, fcc., "Smolt. MARTIN."
To this letter Sir George Grey, slier a lapse of three
days, replied in terms Implying that he himself could see
nothing in the report of the trial to call for fresh investiga-
tion, and he begged the judge to give him his own impres-
sion on the subject. Mr. Baron Martin answered that he
"could not say that he had formed any decided opinion on
the point," but that he thought there should be further
inquiry. Sir George Grey then addressed Wasn't to the
Conandasiooers is Lunacy, avowing his conviction that the
verdict was right, sod that the prestige had been sane lathe
time of the murder, but satin the quesliou which had been
since railed as to his present moity, and commeediog it to
the cousideration of the commissioners. Them gentlemen
lost no time in proceeding to Derby and imitating the ia-
gairy
with which they had thus been charged. On the
98th December they made their report. In this document
they communicate their own conclusions to the 'Mat
which the following words will indicate :—" In view of the
extravagant °pinkies thus deliberately professed by him
(the meat), of his extraordinarily perverted moral sense,
and of the hereditary taint alleged, and apparently proved,
to have existed in the lazily of the primer's greachnother,
we cannot consider him to be of sound mind ; but his views
of right and wrong, falai as they are, appear to have been
coherently acted upon, and with a full seam of what they
involved. He reasons now as he acted in committing the
murder. Upon the point of hie alleged belief in • conspiracy
against him we pressed him my closely, but we could not
satisfy omelets that this was in the nature of •
delusion. Is seems certain that some members of
the deosuied's family objected to his engagement
with her, while others favoured is, or were in-
different; sod that the former had obtained an it:t-
ermer* over her isms little time before her letter was
written which was meant filially to put an end to it. Hence
he believed that she had been acted upon by a con-
spiracy, which was meant 'in the tenderest point' to injure
him ; and all the questions we put upon this part of the
ease failed to draw from him anything that could bear ether
construction them that be had taken • disordered and morbid
view of an actual oricurrenoe. Being of opinion, therefore,
that the prisoner continues to be now in the same mental
state as when be committed the murder and underwent his
trial, we think that, applying the law as laid down by Mr.
Baru Martin to this cue, the prisoner, George Victor
Townley, was justly convicted."
Meanwhile, on the day before the date of the commis.
mimes' report, a antifioate was forwarded to Sir George
Grey, signed by three justices of the peace and two medical
practitioners, briefly Watifyieg, in such language as • car-
tale act of parliament demanded, that George Victor
Townley was insane. And on the day after the 601110241.
closers' report a similar certificate was forwarded, signed
by two justices of the peace, one of whom had signal
the first certificate, and two medial practitioners,
being identical with those acting in the first in-
stance, to the same effect as before. There were,
therefore, three reports mule in as many days—one,
in the form of • certificate, on the 27th of December,
another,. from the CRouninnonars of Lunacy, on the 28th ;
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and a third, io the slam AA it were, of AO 'inmoded cacti:
fiats,athe 29th. fate at Townley was decided by
the certificate. Upoa this, and this ooly, Sir George Grey
trained hie warrant. Two justices of the peace and two
medical practitioners caa compel hen to do the same is
1101 other cue and at any time. The Derbyshire
Crates, upwards of forty of whom reinoastrated agoin=
proceeding, asked for an investigation into "the origin and
cooduct" of the ioquiry which produced such results.
They distinctly alleged that every member of this self.
constituted commission, magistrates and smtgsoas alike,
had not only formed conclusions bewrehand, but had
rammed them conclusions oo record. Hut Sir George Grey
replied that sa Use certificate bad been "is accordance
with the provisions of the statute," the antecedents were
" immaterial." _ _

Mr. Owboree, surgeon to the Derby Comity Prison, and
his partner, Dr. Goode, have published statements in justi-
ficatiou of the part taken, or alleged to have been taken by
them. Dr. Goode says that the local commission ap-
pointed by the justices to investigate the state of mind of
Townley wore is no way interfered with in their examina-
tion by the friends or legal adviser of the prisoner; and
that the reprieve arrived before the report of the 10-ml
commission was despatched from Derby. "Is has been
objected," says Dr. Goode, "to the iodividnabi who we-
ducted this examination that they were all already cow.
witted to maintain the prisocer's insanity, through having
already signed petitions fur the prisoner to the Secretary of
Beata. This allegation is not true. Doubtless two magis-
trates had signed a petition, but the third had refried to
do so, though he had signed a document prayiug for a
commission ; and neither of the two medical men had
signed any document whatever." Dr. Goode concludes his
statement by adducing the reasons already made public
for consirleriog Townley insane.
The following is a copy of the memorial to Sir
Grey, signed by the foreman sod eight of tbeinryinitlsr
found 'Townley guilty of " wilful murder —" We= the
undersigned jurors who sat upon the trial of George N biter
Townley for the wilful murder of Miss Elizabeth Gooderfa.
at Wigwell Grange, beg to solicit your kind end merciful
oonsiderstion of the prisoner's case. We believe the verdict
to be perfectly legal and just, but owing to as abeam* of
premeditation ou the part of the prisoner, his previous good
character, and the state of his mind as described by the
medical evidence, we venture to suggest that the extreme
penalty of the law should Dot be carried into effect without
further eoesioisration being given to the ease."
la the communication road* to the Koine Secretary by
Mr. W. T. Cox and two other niegistratte, aad by Dr.
Goode sad Mr. Harwood, there was at all events cow
important ewer.
It is stated :—" Upon the trial of the prisons,, Mr. J. H.
Sims, the governor of the gaol in which the pnwaer was
emil:led, deposed to the fact of the primmer heirs theme
at that period, viz, on the 11th December." Mr. Sims now
writs :—" I was at the trial asked by counsel whether
I coesidered the prisoner sane or sot. Immediately after
counsel bad elicited as opieioa of ioseritty from Dr.
Winslow sod Mr. Gisborse, I was asked whether I coo-
sidered the primmer was is the same state then as he was
when be same into the gaol ; my =UM wen is the aMnnis-
tive, not that I meant to imply the* I considered hint
i 01651114 for I never have does so."

THE ROYAL PEEROOATIYII or MILECY.—Lord
Henry Lear: baa sent the following notice for iasertionla
the wore of the Hear of Commons :—" Lord Henry Len-
nox, on an early day after the meeting of whiniest, will
all the atheetioe of do. hones to the present mode of ad-
mioietering the laws which affect capital punishment, and
to the circueatauces under which the crown ban on various
occasions been advised to exercise the royal prerogative of
merry."
CAMDEN-TOWN WORKINO MEN'S CLUB AND IN-
irriTorm—lwat night • public meetly( was held at Geodes
Hell, King-street, Cam&a.town, to explain the objects and
advocate the claims of the club. Alderman Sir R. W.
Card's, Kt., occupied the chair. The secretary of the club
reed letters of sympathy sod approval from the Rev. Cron
Champoeys, M.A., Rev. Charles Lee, M.A., Rev. Edward
White, ILA-, Professor Horne, Warren Hall, Er. (who
enclosed • donation of ewe rissi), Therms Hughes,
Le. He also read a report, from which we gather that the
club was established in the early part of December last,
end now nenthen over 100 members. Titre le •
reading-room, supplied with daily sod weekly
• small library (which bed been presented by two g=
friends), and a conversation room, Ac., and several Amer
for study el various thine Sr. already in operation. Back.
tire in accordance with the objects of the miring were
unanimously adopted. The meeting was addreeeed by
the Rev. H. Solly, M. E. G. Clerks, Esq., Mr. Ste-
vens, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Warn, &o,—A meeting weetheid
last week. for the purpose of oarryiog oat • similar
object, at Taylor's Repository, Southwark. which was pre-
sided over by A. H. Leiyi , who o:peered
himself as highly hvourable to the movement. Addreser
were also delivered by the Rev. H. Solly, E. G. Clarke,
Er.. Mr. Cosolly, Mr. Hairs, fce. ; and resolution, in
accordarice with the object were adopted unanimously.
SOCIETE 1011 TOR ENCOURAGEMENT or THE FINE
AlTS.—Last evening this society opened its sixth maim
with • conrerearione at the rooms M Coodultstreet, Heim-
Arrears. The atternisees of members and their friends,
artier and illeatilurs, was very numerous. The walls ware
covered with an interesting collection of pictures, chiefly by
British artiste. There were aho some pieces of sculpture
contributed by the Messrs. Bailie, Ac. Mr. F. F. Mod-
eler. president of the Society of British Artists, I. taking
the chair, lated the society upon the secession of
Viscount Stratford de Reich& as their president, and apes
the interesting prognunme of Isidore. and cornea:area
for the *ruing year. Mr. Ottley, the hoe. secretary, in
moving a vote of thanks to the chairmen, stated that an
event of especial and erniseing Interest in comeexion with
poetry sod the arts would distinguish the current yes,—
namely, the celebration of the tercentenary of Shakespeare's
birth, and upriser a hope that this society, in additioe be
what was done by the National Committee, would oar for-
ward and offer a prize for an ode with menial aocompaei•
manta in honour of the illustrious bard.