The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-27 00:00:00

A PAPAL DUEL.

A letter from Berlin in the Precentor of Antwerp
relates the @abided :—" Cloud de Fuersteaberg Stamm.
beim hoe jars fought a duel with M. d. Hoch ter sear
Vaea, on the Dutch territory, when the latter was mortally
wooded. The following are some details of this affair.
Some years ago there lived at Dente, DOW Colamas, a Major
li— who bad two very beautiful daughters. The count,
who pieseasd a very large forted, eras • toastant visitor
at the bows. Some time after, M. de Hoeherasehter,
brother of tbedeoemed, and first equerry to the oouot,
married one of the daughters, and the count pee the
young couple es. d his chateaux as a pima of resi-
dence, furnishing it with great elegem. The hooey-
move bad. however, scarcely pared, whim Coast
de Faersteaberg received from his equerry a letter,
in which the writer stated that his wife had confessed to
him that before her marriage she had bad intimate rela-
tions with the count. The equerry loaded the latter with
reproachd sad caseload by asking bum what remained for
him to do seder deb circumstances. The Gaunt, who bad

jut married a Primer d'A showed the letter to his
wife sad to easel his friends, Coact de Homposch, and
protested his inamenos. That gentleman was of opinion
that the affair was an attempt to extort mosey, and that
no Dotice ought to be Limo of it. The matter, however,
became boons, sad the nobility of the province was con-
voked as • commit of honour. Their decision was in ac-
cordeace with the advice of the Coact de Hompeach. Y.
de Hochwaechter some time after meeting that
gentleman near the railway station at Col e, &s-
-mashed him with a whip. He was brought before the
Correctional Tribunal for the offence, bat acquitted. In
the meantime Major is coneequenos of proceediogs
taken by the body of officers at Cologne aid the rumours
which accused him of a guilty imenimme lo the affair was
obliged to resign his commission. *dine. de limb wee:Ater,
after atteruptiog to commit suicide, declared to a catholic
priest that shed id Dot know bow bar husharid bad been able
to extort from her se avant which was completely false. A
civil seta«, was afterwards brought by Y. de liochwascliter
against Count de Fuerstonberg, who bad dismissed him
Dotwitbstanding a written engagement for • metals ameba:.
of yaws. Al, however, the roust firmly refused to give
him any satiefactioo, the brother of M. de flochwaschter
decided on publicly insultiog the roust. The latter wee
obliged to meet the brother, and the Wait proved fatal to
this latter."

The Vim-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
has given notice for Monday next, 31st inst., of a motion
in council for the endowment of the Greek chair. Arch.
deacon Deaisos writes : —"I pray God, for the sake of the
Puivernity of Oxford sad the church end people, that every
member of convocation who ►oted against the endowment
of the man [Professor Jewett] in March last, and many
more besides, will be found at their post to vote against
the endowment of the chair, if, unhappily, the proposal of
the nine-Chemallor should page the council and the con.
grelatioe."

From the Dublin Frerman it appears that by the
death of Captain Howard, nephew and heir to the Earl of
Wicklow, several of the life •arranoe class in Loudon will
be heavy sufferers. The demised gentleman was well
known in the city, having os various occasions appeared
before the Insolvent Court pending an arrangement of his
pecuniary difficulties. The creditors, knowing his expecte.
time, were unwilling to proceed to extremities, and repeated
adjournments of hi ohm were agreed to, in order to enable
him to streets eettleenest by charging hie reversion in their
favour. As • m11'6441111 secority alearames to • large
monist were effected on his life, and it is said that • former
proprietor of Creosotes Gardens is the holder of policies to
the extent of nearly 40,000/. The unfortunate man, It
seems, has left • eos—a mere Child—end hie widow, it is
said, in enceinte.

Hourriwee nu ie elioico sad strong, moderato
la peka aad wholesome* to sae. These advantages love secured
for thiS Ms a moral preformece. It la sold be geckoes by 2.1111
agenea—ladvartiossosall

To-night, as ► relief to Mr. Phelps, and also by
way of giving variety to the performances, the met of
Othello will be altered, Mr. Oreswiek playing the Moor, and
Mr. Henry Mambo, logo. Beth imipereemathene us wail.
known and geminated by the mak.
ifisokai—the 'met revival of the mason at t►is hones—
will be produced as Thursday next, the 3rd. of November,
with Mr. Phelps as Macbeth, Mr. Creserick as Macidnff, and
Miss Helen Farhat as Lady Macbeth. Miss Pausit has not
played Lady Macbeth in London awe her abort engagement
with Mr. Charlet Dillon at the Lyman is 1868.

The degrading and aucceuf ul exhibition of in-
decency, vulgarity, and inownpetenoe at daisy's theatre,
peopled with Rise Raysham's ambition to mire the plain
vacated by the late lamented Robson, doubtleve led to the
revival at the Strand Theatre last sight of Mr. Byron's
Olympic burl•gue, Kesepps. Mks Reptile's (who made
bet first spree:met at this hour) played the chief charao-
ter. This beriesque was Dover cossidered to he ono of lair.
Byron's cleverest prodactioss, and it owed much of its
popularity at the ether house to the great actor we have
sawed. What its sumer will be now it is transplanted we
are not Galled upon to prophesy. As it his bees
cleverly retouched by the author to modernise Kele ci the
soap and allaidess, it will probably enjoy a new lease of
life, and Mies Rayshans will, perhaps, have t►e pleasure of
dancing " eellar-Hap " "tape and fighting broad-sword com-
bat' for many nights to come.