The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-15 00:00:00

SPAIN.

thee, on account of his being ordered to the Crimea.
Monsignor Talbot performed the nuptial ceremony.
Amongst the English catholies who bore tapers
before his Holiness at St. Peter's last Friday, it
being Candlemasday, were Lord Levet, Sir James
Fitzgerald, and Mr. Stonrton. Sir James's sister
took the veil at the Convent of the Sagro Caere, the
same morning.
The British authorities here are on the look-out
for two English swindlers, named Davidson and
Gordon, besides a host of aliases, who have made
away with the genteel sum of 500,0001., chiefly by
forgeries of dock warrants, and have been traced to
Genoa and Civita Vecchia.

It is with great regret that we find by the reports
of the Spanish Cortes that the cause of religious
liberty is not to be immediately benefited by the
restored action of that body. On the Bth. the
dimension of those passages of the constitution which
recognise Roman catholicism u the religion of the
state was proceeded with. M. Ruis Pons moved, as
an amendment, that liberty of conscience and of
worship should be allowed to the same extent as in
Rome. The measure of freedom enjoyed under the
shadow of St. Peter's chair wan thought too liberal
for Spain, and, accordingly, the amendment was
opposed by M. de Los lleros, in the name of the
committee on the constitution, as unsuitable to the
present situation of the country. The amendment
was summarily rejected. MM. Orense, Saris, Juan
Batiste Alonzo, and other members of the Cortes
immediately presented another resolution placing
religious liberty under the guarantee of the conatitu•
tion. This was at ones rejected, the votes being, for
138. against 73. We read in a letter :
The-111121*ton of War and of Foreign ALL,. waited ea
the Chime the day before yesterday to usseast ems huh
use. Her Majesty took advantage of their jelethee
declare that her de she was that, to fire bees Kee au&
takes relative te relleles the et welsh* Nimbi
mot Iss direst, or isdireelly sod Yet Catholic
ismatizeresheald be Italy established hi Oda. The two
replied that they sews et "phis that that was
what sepia le be 11160. ea lt mewed le be the isseral
',Wise tbe easstry. Bat they added dot they swag
set make it a /shiest aycubes, as they had den with
respect to the royal

AFFAIRS AT ROME.

Au interesting inscription wu recently discovered
in the excavations around the Pantheon, referring to
the corporation of tavern-keepers instituted in /tome
daring the reign of Aroadins and Ronorius, when
Lampadius was prefect of the city, A.D. 366.

THE CRIMEA.

A letter from the roadstead of Kamieseh, of the
30th ult., in the Moniteur tie la Fide*, says:

Oa Sunday, the 28th ult., the first detachment of the
Imperial Guard urived by the English steam transport the
Ripon ; General de brigade thlrich, and all his staff, were
cm board. When the Ripon entered the port, the band of
the Napoleon, which was in the advanced guard, played the
favourite air of Reins Borten:, and the sailors manning the
yard. shouted with enthusiasm " Viva l'Empereur !" The
soldiers and °Moen warmly replied. The Ripon continued
her sours to the bottom of the bay, when the cut anchor•
In passing before the Montebello and the Marengo she was
sainted by acelamations and cries of "Vice l'Empereur !" to
which the soldiers responded with increuing energy The
arrival of this ungallant force has predund where
thy mat favourable impression. By order of Admiral
Brest, the sailors immediately effected the disembarkation

of the 'Adler*, and the latter now occupy the camps pre-
pared for them. This morning other vessel* bringing troops
have also strived. The brigade Duval, which forms part
of the division of General de Saes, has been completed by
these new arrivals. The vessel, the Loser, which brought
ow. General Niel of the engineers, side-de-camp of the
Emperor, bas left for France with despatches for the go-
vernment. All these movements take place with the same
promptitude and regularity that would be displayed in the
midst of pease is the ports of Brest or Toulon.
A letter, dated from before Sebastopol, of the 29th ult.,
says :—Every on. is now at work and preparing for a deter-
shied war, notwithstanding all we are told about peace.
The English have again set to work, and arming the bat.
teriee is going en everywhere. Some Russian deserters
have came over to us during the last few days, and they
have, I am told, given 1101110 valuable information as to the
positions sad manner of living of the seamy's troops. With
the exception of the reserves ef the corps which are here,
they have received no other reinforcement. These reserves
aro for the moat part either young recruits or
soldiers worn out by long service. The Remiss
has here the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, and
17th division, and a division of cavalry. Oat of this
number the 13th division has only its reserve battalions, the
14th only one brigade, and all of them, with the emotion
of the 12th division, entered severely in the battle of the
Alma and at Inkiness. The 13th, 14th, and 17th di-
visions as within the town ; the 11th and 12th are on the
plasm between the Tehernaya sad the Belbeck; the 16th
five leagues distant on the road to Simferopol, sad the 10th
at Itsklitehi Seral. All the cavalry are la the neighbour.
hood of Emmons. The bad state of the roads causes them
to suffer severe privations, which an Increased by the ex-
haustion of their Sled stores, and the difficulty they ex-
perience in re-supplying them. The garrison of the townie
generally better fed and better treated than the troops of
the army of operation. This difference, instead of emit.
lug emulation, causes murmuring and discontent. I am
weU aware that the Russian generals, suck as Meatehikoff
and Ostan-Secken, do not hesitate at any kind et adminis
tredve trickery ; but the mesas drawn from illusory pro-
mises sad palliatives, invented ed As, are soon exhausted,
sad the seedier tads that he le without boots, without
brandy, and without bread. The difilealties are so serious
that Prince Mentelsikoff has been impelled in the Crimea
to have recourse to the same means of requisition as would
be permitted to an enemy's general. The day before yes-
terday we made a trial of some new resists, which are said
to have a wonderful offset. The first experiments, made
sae time eines, were attended with but very poor results.
Those now made are much better, and to-day they are
again to be tried In presence of the general-In-chief. The
health of our soldiers and everything else go on as weU se
possible.
A letter from Constantinople of Feb. 1 in the Prom,
says : “letelligesse from the Crimea states that the soldiers
who have served ia Algeria are delighted at the arrival of
Generals l'eliesier and Niel. The latter, in particular, is
looked on with peat favour, first, because his reputation
se an of In siege operations Is well known, and nest
because hi conduct at Bomaround throws a certain prestige
round hi sass. Sim his arrival he has visited all the
Franck works, sad has declared them to be moat admirably
executed. It is the 3rd divides (Prince Napoleon's) and
the 7th divides (of Gen. Hulse) who have aided the
Mulish by soupying (part of their trashes. The feet is,
that the English were not numerous enough to man their
own lines. The Russians, it appears, sestinas to forti y
themselves strongly on the side of the Tammy", where
they have raised formidable redoubts. General Triple!, of
the French engineers, who is with the troops before Sebes- I
Spot, has jest bad a fall from his horse, and Mks his leg.
The weather in the Crimea is represented as exesdingly
fine, and the seeks of the monastery of St. Osage affirm
that the severe weather is over for the present year. Here,
at Constantinople, the state of the patine* in the hospitals
is decidedly better. The floe weather whisk has prevailed
for these last few days has had an sanest effect on the pa-
tients, and the eases of convalesesses are becoming mune-
tons. From Eupateria the news amounts to this, that
nearly the whole of Omer l'acha's troops have arrived
there, and that a vessel has been seat ter himself and his
staff. He will net, believer, leave Funs until all his stem
and materiel of war shall have bees mated

An ofilosr in the Black See Fleet writes:—
Off Sobestopol, January 23.

We have lost 5,000 baggage aainials Si.., leading In the
Crimea, No weeder, for they were supposed tejlied them-
selves. No puma that I have spokes to ethe saw a COM.
misseriat male feeding. Homo, being considered superior
animals, are sew and thus indulged with a shovel fell of
barley throws ea the wet and starkly ground, and la their
scramble ter this morass, It is trampled into mad knee
deep. Well, it will grow green over phair unfortunate
skeletons sometime is May, and be cropped by the mon
fortunate latremaing survivors. Just as I write, a vast
number it wend waggons, draws by two lanes of
bullocks oath, have arrived from the northward, and aro
galas late the north side of fithestopoL I masted 80, but
they are still arriving; this will peeking the reeletuee.
Now straw that we cannot get waggons along la the Baas
manner, oe keep ear rattle alive to canny ear clothing and
previsions to our suffering soldiers on the heights over
Sebastopol. rely eight miles off. These Itemiens mut
have some frees flimpbuopol, 30 Wks off.

OP ZRI D&JLT irsirs.)
ROSE, Fas. 6.

" Money ! money ! money I" is the eoastant and
agonising cry of the Papal government at the present
moment, and the anxious endsevoure of Mousignor
Ferrari, the Minister of Finance, tend solely to die-
cover what " diggings " are likely to furnish the
requisite supply. The meal and faMl resource of people
in pecuniary difficulties---another loan—is already
on the lapis, to the amount, as is stated, of three
millions of eudi, but the mode of effecting it is still
undecided, as hopes are entertained, before realis-
ing the plan, of squeezing something out of
the King of Naples, as purohassmsoney of the
Principality of Pont. Corvo, which territory, like
that of the Duchy of Benevento, although sanounded
by the dominions of his Bourbonio Mojesty,recogoisse
Roman Pontiff as its temporal sovereign. How
to effect this transaction, without incurring the blame
of having diminiabed the patrimony of Holy Mother
Church, is what as yet puzzles Pio Noao. The
ultimate intentions of his Holiness's government with
regard to the finances of the country are totally
inexplicable, except on the pow CIMOII4I system,
which is content with patching up for the
time being. An annual deficit, an an annual loan,
must, ere long, bring on bankruptcy, anises the
enormous property of the church and religious ear•
porations be made to contribute to the
of the state, which would be only an act of adios
when it is considered that the salaries of car-
dinals, merely as ecclesiastical dignitaries, are Paid
oat of the temporal purse of the public, instead of,
ea one would suppose, the fat benefices of the church.
The ancient subterranean ohorch of Bt. Peter
witnessed this morning the unwonted spectacle of a
marriage, and that marriage an English one. Miss
Eaton, daughter of the authoress of "Rome in the
NineteenthCentory," was the bride, and in &wider-
ation of her recent conversion to catholicism it was
that Pio Nono granted the special dispeesation by
which she and fifteen other ladies were authorised to
penetrate into the venerable crypt for so igoal a
Mr. Lamb was the bridegroom. Captain
rirarlinte,eof the 7th Dragoon., had left Rome just
before, being unable to wit for his brother's mar-

ST. CROSS HOSPITAL.

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1855.

NAVAL AND MILIIARY:

POISONING AT

ADMIRALTY, FEB. 14..—APPoINTYE1 w.—Lionto-1
mate B. Carter (1812) to the lisokin, 50, at Chatham; W.
B. J. Browse (1847) to the Bassett, 60, screw steam-duo.
at Sheensees ; sad B. B. Purse (11161) to the Pembroke, 60,
mew steam-ship, at Portsmouth.
Master I. Command F. W. Batemsn (1837) to the Be-
sistalthe, 10, troop ship, for particular envies.
Chaplain G. C. Perches (1850), 8.A., to the Molise.
60, screw steam-ship, of 460-horse power, at Portsmouth.
Mates G. H. Bernard (1852) to the Nankin, and A. E.
Blase (1864) to the Pembroke.
Assistant Surgeoas D. G. Peadrith (1850) to the Obetos,
8, iron paddle-wheel steam vessel, of 260-horse power, at
Portsmouth; and G. C. Wilson (1858) confirmed to the
Majestic, 80, screw steam-ship, of 400-horse power, at
Sheerness.

Yesterday the inquiry into the circumstances at-
Medias the death of Mr. LIR Southgate, of Fmcbley, sou
resumed and concluded before Mr. Walley, in the Board-
room of St. Patens burial ground.
William Alkali, son-in-law to deemed, and one of the
ezecutore, produced the amount books, from which it ap-
peared that there had ham large bill transactions between
the deceased and varlets persons, whoe initials alone were
given. The cash book showed a balsam of 3401. on the
4ch December last.

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William Clayton, of 66, Waging-street, produced his
books to show that he had had considerable hill transac-
tions with deceased. Waimea said, lam a wholesale per
tumor, but dooms business in discounting. The last time
I saw debased was on Saturday, the 16th December—the
day previous to his death. He then wanted to renew a bill,
which I declined doing. Oa the 2nd December last, de-
ceased gave me an order for two ounces of hydroyeenie
acid and two ounces of essential oil of almonds. Not
having the former in stock. I sent an order for it to Messrs.
Tates, the druggists, of Thames-street. Mr. Southgate di.
reeled that they should be carefully packed, as they were
for • friend in Holland. The parcel was marked Private,"
as requested, and lent t, the private counting-house of
Mr. Southgate, in Old Change. I sold him poisons
before. He did not name a dishonoured bill to me on the
Saturday when he ninth It was about 3 o'clock. The
order for the poisons was given in writing. I do not know
• person named J. /garden. Some bills were accepted
t. W. It. Turner."
Alfred Owlet; ledger-keeper at the Commercial Bank of
London, Lothbuty, put in a statement showing that on the
day previous to deceased's death there was • balance in his
favour of 261. 17s. 7d.
W. Dodson, one of the executors, recalled. I believe de-
ceased was insured in two offices for about 4,0001. Ido not
know if these policies are affected in the case of suicide
being committed. I hays not seen the policies.
Peter Edwards—l live at 162, Houndaditch, and am a beer
shop keeper. Deceased was my landlend. I last saw him
about five months ago. Bills were often made payable at
my house, for various amounts ; notices of the bills used to
be left, and generally a boy used to call for them before
4 o'clock on the day they were left. Mr. finithgate used
cot to come himself. Some of the bills were presented
again in the evening, and were noted. I do not know any
°neatened J. Pardee nor ever beard the name before.
Wm. Dodson recoiled—l produce a letter from Mr.
T ,in which that gentleman admits having accepted
bills to accommodate Mr. Southgate.
John Joan sworn, said—l am • waiter at the rinse
Hotel, Covent garden. I formerly lived in the same capa-
city at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-bridge. I remem-
ber a Mr. Southgate coming there. • young woman used
to come with him; she was a very yaw% woman, and very
good-looking. Mr. Southgate might be 60 years of age, or
more. I should think the young woman must have been
under 20. They were is the habit of coming frequently
while I was • waiter at the Bridge-house Hotel. A young
woman whom Mr. Southgate used to call Jane came several
times, and asked for Mr. Southgate. She frequently came
and ordered a private room for Mr. Southgate.
This concluded the voluminous evident:o,sta an adjourn-
ment was proposed.
Mr. Payne said that, as the legal adviser of the family of
the deceased, he should claim to may a few words upon the
evidence which had been adduced before the jury. He
should release Dr. Neill from all blame, so that it would
not be necessary for Mr. Coprock to offer any observations.
An adjournment here took place, and on the re-assembling
of the nun,
Mr. Payne addressed the jury, commenting on the con-
flicting nature of the evidence, and the uncertainty in
which the whole matter was involved. He recommended

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the jury either to return an open verdict, or to ask to be
discharged without coming to any decision. Attar all the
information that had been elicited, the ease was still in a
state of the greatest doubt, sordid he believe that all the
facts of the case would transpire were the cue to be ad-
journed ad inSaitum. He therefore suggested the propriety
of the j_ury returning an open verdict.
The Coroner then summed up, cimmenting on the lead-
iog facts. He regretted the deplorable state of the law
which made It incumbent upon Dormers' juries to go into
private affairs in such oases as these. But he hoped the
law would soon be altered. The real object of such in-
quiries as these was to ascertain if there was criminality on
the part of any one. He quite agreed with Kr. Payne
that verdiete of fele do se were a disgrace to civilised society
and to the state of the law of this country. He could not
conclude without bearing his testimony to the seed and
ability displayed by Brett, the detective °Seer, without
whose cautions the most salient points would have remained
is obscurity, and he would take ears to report the beta to
the City Couansimiones.
The court was then cleared, and the jury consulted for
about two hours, after which they returned a verdict to the
effect that the deceased John Southgate died from the
effects of mall* acid, adminiatered by hie own hand while in
an unsound state of mind.