The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-21 00:00:00

TILE LATE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL.

Maria da Gloria, daughter of the late Emperor of
Brazil, Dom Pedro 1., by his first o-ansort, the Archduchess
Leopoldine of Austria, was born at Rio de Janeiro, April
4,, 1819. On the death of her grandfather, John VI., she
was designated successor to the crown of Portugal, by
virtue of the act of renunciation executed by Pedro, one
of the provisions of which was that, upon coming of age,
she should marry her father's brother, Dim Miguel, whom
it was desired, as a dangerous competitor for the throne, to
satisfy by such arrangement. Another condition was, that
she and her future husband should acknowledge the new
constitution. When Dom Miguel had accepted of this
arrangement, had sworn to the constitution, been betrothed
to the child Donna Maria, and received the regency, the
young queen left Brazil, in 1828, to sail for Europe.
Miguel had, meanwhile (June 30, 182 S), declared himself
absolute Kiog of Portugal, and forbade the Queen to lend.
She was now compelled to come to England, where she
was received by the court as lawful Queen of Portugal,
but found no actual support, the ministry of the day
secretly favouring the usurper. In 1629 she returned to
Rio Janeiro, with Amelia of Leuchtenberg, her subsequent
stepmother, and lived there until 1831, when her father
found himself compelled to resign the crown of Brazil to
his son, Pedro 11. She then resided in Paris, while her
father waged war for her rights in Portugal. After the
taking of Lisbon, in September, 1833, she made her entry
into that city. On the 29th of May. 1831, Miguel renounced
his claims, and retired to Italy, where he recalled hie
renunciation, and was acknowledged by the Pipe King of
Portugal. Pedro now administered the government as
regent and guardian of his daughter. His power, however,
was soon exhausted ; sod when, on the lbth of September,
1831, he announced to the Cortes that he was no longer
able to conduct the government, that assembly declared
the Queen of full age, by which means the intrigues of
the competitors for the Regency were defeated. Maria now
occupied herself with thoughts of marriage. Her choice
fell upon Duke Charles.Augustus-Eugine-Napoleon, of
Leuehtenberg, who already had won her affections. On
the Bth of November she was married by proxy, at Munch,
to this prince ; and on January 27 of the following year in
I person. Dom Augustus. Prince of Portugal as he was
named, was made commander of the army, and was likely
to become popular, when he died suddenly, March 28,
183.). On the 9th of April, 1836, she was married a second
tiwe to Duke Ferdinand, sun of Ferdinand of Sale.
Cobourg Cutlery, who. upon the birth of a cruwo prince,
was named king. In the cants, of the next ten years the
corruptions of the government, which had fallen into the
hands of the Cabral, the suppression of the liberty of the
press, and the increase of taxes, irritated a large portion
of the nation. In May. 1816, civil war broke out in the
Upper Miaho, and in a few weeks several districts were in
arms against the Cabrai ministry. The Cabrals resigned,
and retired from the kingdom. The Chamber of Deputise
was dissolved, the Grand Cortes extraordinarily convoked,
and a number of concessions were made. The Duke de
Polmella was called to power, suit held office with &hawks
for four months, when his cabinet was succeeded by a Lew
ministry under Saltiachuts premiership. Civil war, mat-
while, continued. P 26 Antes, the commander nominated
by the Juntas, and sulaported by Bandiera, Louli, and
Fa urnos, gained several successes; and it was feared that
th,. Queen and King would have to leave Portugal and
seek safety in England. In November, however, the
popular party were in tarn defeated, and lost two whets
regiments by desertion. In the ensuing year the mediation
of the British government was offered, and accepted by
the Queen, hut declined by the Junta. DU Antes sole
prepared to evacuate Oaarto. The British fleet, unite
Sir Thomas eluitlairl. was off that city. Steamers belong-
ing to the Junta went pormitted to enter and embark 1)01
Antss's troops. On the 31st of May, 1847, a corvette and
three armed steamere. oafs barque, one brig, two actioners,
transports, containing in all about 3,000 Ire°• s, lett the
port. On crossing the bar, they were summoned to sus-
rende r ti the British; and as resistance would have t-een
useless, they did so, without firing a shot. As soon as he
was on board the British ships the Conde dos Antes
seined to tire commander a protest in the manse of the
Portuguese nation against this act of hostility, without
declaretioe of wur. in any pretext for the same. By these
meons resistance to the royal authority was suppressed.
The Queen, in return fur services rendered by land
Britain, signed an agree no. fit excluding the Cabrals noes
pewee ; and this wa• all the opponents of the clan gained
by the insurrection. A. soon, however, as quiet had 'seen
rerun:J. the Conde de Thomar, the eldet of the Cahrals,
&Awn ~came premier in :he face ef Great Britaius sad
continued a career of oppression and corruption until, is
18d1. the Duke de Salda..ha carried out a military revo-
lution aid reconstituted the government. Donna Mane
yielded with a very bad grace to the necessities of her 'wee
tion. Her husband had been appointed commander-use
chief at the commencement of the outsmeak, and actually

otflow.t So'lash,, but was forced to stake
irlrunced
rtdy d® vitary retreat to Lisbon, hie troops haring
dr,fttd hii taint,
the g ,verantent bas since bete coadueted ouster the pre-
witaty of Se:ilgabs.
rn
it., 11. .e
'tl has left seven children ; nesly, Itori Pedro
A • enter.. Doke nt Droasor•, bora Sept. If,, 1837 ; Don
Loan Philippe, Duke of Oporto, bona Oct. 31, 1838; Don
Jam, Dike of Sale and ot Bija. bore Mirth 16, 111-12;
IM,Du Matie•Anne, born Joly 211843; Dim& Antonia,
bora Feb 17,1,413 ; Don Ferdinand, burn July 23, 1846;
Lim Ausustu, born Nov. 4. 1847.

.4NOIIIER MURDER IN NORFOLK.

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Another liarborone murder, noenSapinied by high-
way robbery, has been committed at noon day, in West
Norfolk, abut 12 or 14 miles from the spot where • lama
dm clown and robbed by Groom, who was executed
erwich last year. The person whose untimely end we
have now to record was a silversmith and jeweller, who
r....ed in the parish of St. Stephen's, at Norwich. Hie
name was Loreatto Beha. He was • native of Baden Bade',
and is supposed to have no relative in this country. He
ha l two assistant. in his shop at Norwich, to whom he left
t, care of his businen while he travelled through
the county to obtain orders sad to sell hie
senility. He tinnily carried a boa of gold and silver
Silvan and other jewellery in • bag, suspended
from • stick on his shoulder, and his custom was,
when be sold goods to the country people, to take payment
in mall instalments. Amongst other places which he thus
melted at regular intervals were Wellingham and Tittle-
Mall, villages in West Norfolk, about two mile. apart, and
about nine miles from Fakentiam. Of the two villages we
have mention, d Wellingham was the first which Beha
sassily visited in the elder of his route, and he was last
seta slice walking un the road from that place towards
Tittlishall about one o'clock on Friday afternoon last, by
some labourers who were ploughing in an adjoining field.
At this time, according to the calculation ot his assistants, he
must have had with him, about 301. in mote's, which he
usually carricd in a double purse, besides his box of jewellery
sad one or two watches which he was accustomed to early
in his pocket. About midway between Wellingham and
'lath shall the road is bordered on one side by a plantation,
acd on the other side Tittleshall-common and a plantation
meet. Between one and three o'clock several persons
paging this spot on their way to Derethammarket observed
• quantity of blood in the middle of the road, but continued
their tourney without stopping, having no suspicion that •
brutal murder had been committed on • spot se much fro-
(limited, and i the middle of the day, and supposing
that a hone Or SOWO Other animal had been taken
ill and been bled there. At half-pastthree, however,
on the nos afternoon, John Robinson, a butcher, residing
at Tittleshall, who had walked over to Willingham,
reached this spot on his way back, and his attention beig
arrested by the great quantity of blood on the road. he
stopped to look at it, and he observed that some portions
of it had been partially covered by din scraped from the
toad. Just at this moment two young gentlemen, suns of
the Rev. Mr. Diet y. of Tittleshall, canto riding up on
ponies, and two ladies in • gig, a Mies Shepherd and Mn.
Digby. The whole party stopped, and their attention was
directed to the blood. One of the young gentlemen observed
that there was a trail of blood to the hedge, and the butcher
jusieng spot the hedge, saw that the nail was continued
through the fence into the ditch of Tittlesball Common, on
the other side, where a horrible spectacle presented
itself
The body or Mr. Beds was found with the legs towards
the hedge. and the coat collar turned up as if the murdered
ram hen bees dragged by his coat through the tence. By
thi side of the b.dv lay Mr. Beha's box of jewellery, no.
opened, but removed from the bag, and his stick and
umbrella, and also • large hatchet, such as is need for
felling timbers. The blade of the hatchet was covered with
blood and hair, and it was evidently the weapon by
which the unfortunate man had been murdered. Hie
masers pockets were turned inside out, and rifled; but in
his waistcoat pocket a watch was found, still going. His
head had been nearly severed from the body by a blow at
the back of the neck, and there were four deeply-cut
wounds across the temples and lam, any one of which
must have caused instantaneous death. The right eye was
also driven inwards to the depth of nearly an inch. Indeed,
the poor man appeared to have been felled like an on and
dragged through the fence into the ditch. On searching
the clothes of deceased more minutely his account-book
was found, soaked with blood, in one of his pockets, bat
the keys of his box were gone.
The party of ladies and gentlemen returned to Tittleshall,
and gave information of the murder to the rector, who sent
• cart to the spot, and with the assistance of the butcher
and the two ploughmen before mentioned, who were sent
for, the body was conveyed to the Griffin Inn, at Tittleshall.
Nn suspicion was generally entertained as to the perp•-
trator of the murder until late is the evening. A man
named William Webster, also • butcher, while -driving is
his cart from Tittleshall to Wellingham, shortly
before one o'clock on the same day, had seen
a man in the plantation adjoining the ditch
where the body was found, and he observed
that the man stooped down to hide himself as be (Webster)
approached. Webster stated this circumstance at Wellies-
ham as soon u he heard of the murder ; but he did not say
that he knew who the man was. At ten o'clock at sight,
however, be went to the residence of Mr. John Booby el
Tittlesball, one of the pariah constables, and said be OW
not rest until he had informed him that the man when he
had seen in the plantation was William Thompson. •Itp
boater, who resided with his father at Tittleshall, mien,
frequently employed in felling timber.
Mr. Hooke, and Mr. John Moore, another Midi S
stable, proceeded to Thompeon's house, fouled lift in
bed, and ordered him to 'impend dress himself. He AM so,
putting on different clothes from those he had worn &Ming
the day, with the exception of his slop, on which spirlsof
blood were observed. On the bed, and not at all secreted,
the constables found a pair of trousers, the legs of which
and the left pocket were soaked with blood, and in a
lower room, they lensed • pair of high-lows,"
in the lace holes of which blood was observable.
They asked the prisoner for his hatchet, but he
could not produce it, and be made no statement in explana-
tion. He was apprehended and taken to the Griffin Inn,
Tittleshall. there being no police station nearer than
Fakenhans. On the following day Webster identified the
prisoner as the same man whom he had seen in the planta-
tion jest before the murder was committed; and two
men, named Roper, who wets at work on Friday
some little distance from the plantation, stated that
they met the prisoner coming in the direction
from the place where the body was found. He
seemed to be in great haste, and perspired profusely.
They asked kin what o'clock it was, and he led out a
hunting watch, which was locos in one of hie trousers
pockets, and said it was half-past one. This watch km not
yet been found. When the prisoner and the house were
searched the keys of Beha'a box were not discovered, nor
wee any money found ; but at 4 o'clock on Friday'
after-
awn the prisoner went to Moore, the parish constable, and
paid him a debt of 11. 2a. 6d. He also paid several other
email debts the same of ernoon. When at Moors's
house his face was tied up, and he stated as
• reason why be was not at work, that he
was ill and had bees to the doctor's. This statement
turned out to be false. Mrs. Moon observed when he paid
the money that ha had a purse similar to that which Mr.
Beha carried, lad that in the purse was • quantity of gold
and silver. Information of the murder was given at the
different police statious in the neighbourhood, and the
polio, were at onto on the alert, but ao communication was
officially made to the police at Norwich until
Sunday morning On Saturday morning, however,
Mr. Superintendent English, of the Norwich force,
having heard of the murder from an independent source,
hastened, a. companied by two experienced officers and Mr.
&ha's assistants, to Tittleskall, to render all the aid in
their power. On that day the prisoner was taken before
Mr. F. Keppell end Mr. Harwell, two of the county magis-
trates, at the Buil Inn, Litcharn. Several witnesses having
been examined, the prisoner was remanded till further
evidi nee could be adduced. Thompson is about twenty
years of age, and his appearance is superior to that which is
generally characteristic of his clam. He listened atten-
tively to the evidence, but appeared to be quite calm and

CASTS YoR THE LONDON CRYSTAL PALACE.-1
M. Fileschenne, of Nuremberg, is now making nets of the
principal sculptures of this old Berman city, for toe above
establishment. Not ouly single statues and bassi-releivi are
undergoing that mow, but entire portals, and even the
Sebeldus monument of Peter \licher. In succession, all
the important plastic monuments of Franconia an to lie
moulded for the same Exhibition.—The Builder.
THE BLACKBURN BOILER EXPLOSION.—The sa-
journed inquest en the unfortunate men killed by the ex-
pleeion of a boiler at Blackburn (the particulars of which
have already appeared in the Daily News)' terminated at
halt-past 10 o'clock on Friday night, when 14 of the jury, •
after retiring fur as hour and a half, delivered the follow-'
lag verdict:—" The jury find a verdict of manslaughter
against William Heaketh and Edward Sharpies, conjointly,
relating to the death of Edward Sharpies and ethers,i caused ,
by the explosion of a steam boiler under their tare, in
&Ankle-street. The jury entirely exonerate Mr. James
Piekop from all blame. The jury recommend the inspee.
tam of boilers, sad suggest that the usayor call a met tiug
of no millowners and the proprietors of steam boilers in
Blackburn to consider the matter, as early as convenient,"
Mr. Heeketh being present, was immediately given into
the custody of the police, sad will Ye sent for trial at the
*egg ramps.

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EXTENstvg lishitiEßY IN THE LONDON DOCKS.—
Isforosatiun has been forwarded to the metropolitan police
station., respectiog a must daring robbery of cochineal,
valued at 200!. An application was made on Wednesday
night at the ducks by a carman who had been sent from a Mr.
Thomas Rudd, for four bales of cochineal; list, aa the
driver of the vehicle wee too late that night, law was re-
Tquested by the man on duty to call again on T.NIII"d•Y•
he order, Froperly signed, was kept, and, on the n.'ornind
in question, a man, devised like the first, came fur the* hales
of cochineal, n-il on the cart was written in chalk, onias
Rudd." The belies were accordingly given to the man, sad
he, having placed them in the vehicle, drove away. Ah, ant
an hour afterwards the original dam made his *ppm '
*ace with his horse and cart, when the robbery was de-
tected, but too late to gad the goods or the driver, who got
clear away.