The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-17 00:00:00

NAPLES.

A letter hos RosZOltl;eii;lt, in the Piemonte et
Torn. says :—" The King of Naples has cows to a
definitive understanding with the Holy See. His
Majesty consents that the celebrated privileges of the
Sicilian monarchy shall be nearly all abolished 1 and

bas the brief in virtue of which the Holy
Father the secular prerogatives of the Eccle-
siastical Tribunal of Sicily."

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, MARCH 14.
A further reduction in the Austrian army is an-
nounced.

PRUSSIA.
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BERLI, Pinner.
The Hinckeldey duel is still the engrossing theme
of correspondence from Berlin. It is ascertained
that on leaving his house on the morning of this day
week M. Hinckeldey gave his people to understand
that he was going to Charlottenburg to have an
audience of the King. Having arrived at Charlotten-
burg, he bade the coachman drive past the palace, then
drive off to the right, along the road leading to the
wood. The place selected for the duel being reached,
Hinckeldey ordered his servant to wait for him where
they were, whilst he himself went into the wood.
After a few minutes one of the servants beard two
shots fired, he instantly rushed in the direction of the
sound, and arrived just in time to see his master
at his last gasp. The dead man's second, Privy
Councillor von Munchhausen, repaired immediately
to the palace at Charlottenburg in order to report the
event to his Majesty, and at the same time to band
him the key of the casket containing Hinckeldey's
secret papers, which the latter had entrusted to him.
The police director of Charlottenburg sent immedi-
ately a mounted policeman to Berlin. The grief of
the fsmily is deur:bed as piteous in the extreme.
As Hinckeldey during the previous week had had
no interview with his Majesty, his near relative.
soon heard of his alleged visit to the King, and
were rejoicing at the news, when in less than a
couple of hours later the intelligence seined that
he was a corpse.
A oorrespondent of the Cologne Go:ette thus relates
the more specific causes of the duel :
At a frshionable club hers, called the Jockey Club, some
young officers had been playing so high that their financial
resources had berme seriously affected. The matter was
reported to the King, and Hinekeldey received orders to
put an end to such proceeding,. The cfficiel charged by
Hinckeldey with this duty msy not have proceeded with
the requisite tact and delicacy ; that is very likely. The
gentlemen felt highly indignant, and some of them, Hen
von Bocbow among the rert, demanded from Hinckeldey
ea explanation of the treatment they bad sew rienced.
Hinekeldify,lin consequence, informed them confidentially,
f. r this he /spite tly dwelt upon, that he had acted in
obedience to orders. This confidential communication

was taken advantage of, for the parross of com-
pelling Hinckeldey to state the alleged order either
by signing a document or in some ether official
way. This he refused t 3 do, and because the
affair was to become official, denied that he had made
sac►a communication, since, in an sfficial point of view, it
would be considered non avenue. Upon this he was accused
of having uttered a lie "—an emphatic insult, which was
made without the slightest qualtfication, and with some ad-
ditional twee remarks on several occasion.. The manta
word was also used, it is mid, is a document personally
handed to him. The affair to sk dtfft.rent turns for months
after thin, Main the meantime the bearing of several gentle-
men of high position towards Httckeldey grew more end
more untourteous. If •Itt y chanced to meat him in company
anywhere they cut him, so that all direct social intercourse
was at an end. In the Carrousel, that lately took place,
some additional insults were 'fitted him, and matters had
come to such a pitch that liineksliey determined on bring-
ing them to a crisis by means of a duel. Far mare than a
week his intimate friends were aware that a hostile meeting
was imminent, nor, indeed, Is there a doubt of the fact, that
had the duel of the day before 3 eeterday lett him ocotillo's,
ether duels would have succeeded. Prevented from taking
part in one on a'count of his official poeition, Itiackeldey
sent in his resignation a week before his death. At this re-
situation at the end of a week was not accepted, Hinckeldey
oonsidered himself to be no imager tied down by official COZO
@Horatian*, arid so the duel took place.

The National Gazette, and the People's Gazette,
were both confiscated at Berlin on the morning of
the 12th. The provisional director of the police had
on the previous night requested both the papers in
question to publish nothing more than the bare facts
of the case, and not compel him, through any com-
ments of theirs, to order a seizure. The conductors
of the National Gazette replied, expressing their
belief that their leader upon it wss within the letter
of the law, and they should feel obliged to let the
seizure be made.

Two or three of the Berlin papers stated lut week,
and the allegation has been made in the correspon•
deuce of some of our English contemporaries, that
M. de Hinckledy, having formed his resolution to
fight, sent in his formal and final resignation to the
King, together with a statement of his motive, and
that thus the King knew of the approaching duel
tour days beforehand. The National Zeitung has
since withdrawn this allegation upon fuller know.
ledge of the foots. The King, it is now admitted,
knew nothing of the duel until he was informed of
its terrible termination.

THE SUICIDE AT BERLIN.

A letter from Berlin, of the 12th, &soigne the mum
for the suicide of M. de Reamer, which the electric tele.
graph hes 'beady essooticcrd:—"A fresh meleacholl

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*vent has thrown this city into

N. d.

Reamer, Dirfcter et the Ministry of the Household of the
Kiag, aid Chief of the Office of tu Archives of Prude,
committed suicide last night by blowing out has brains with
a pistol. He had been, it is said, chaeged by the Kieg to
interfere u a mediator between MM. de Hinckeldy and dl
Boehow, and not bating been able to effect a re cmciliadom
between them, to attributed to Matter the disastrous issue
of the duel, and in his holing of despair put an end to al
mistimes."

TRIPOLL —We have already announced in
former amber that the rebel chief, Oboums, bad accost-
'iodated matters with the Turkish gwernment. A aortae-
pendent at Tripoli, writing on the 2nd March, affords a tho
follewlag further putionlers :—" Sic ce 1 last wrote to you
the lender of the rebellion in this country (the Sheik
Clhorune) has come to terms with the Paha, which puts ma
end to the disturbances that have caused so much damage
to the agricultural end commercial interests of the regency
dark% tba last twelve mouths. °bonen& swept, a peados
from the Sultan, and a residence in Tani., under t►e pa-
-1
Patios sad surveillance of the Bey's govereinurnt, ea the
prim *this withdrawal from the cootst."—ifothe Time.
The tragedy of " Maria &lards," by Maffei, in
which lids*. Ristori obtained seen enthusiasm in Paris •

kit anasiner, bee jest bees reproduced st the boas* he
balsa Plays with an equal BOK M. 004111111 i says it
would be nest to impoesibk to de cribs the arc' premiered
by Mdse. Rietori. Oae scene was reetived literally with
shoats of apples', ; three times the curtain bad to be raised
few bee to some forward to acknowledge the jurors of the
audience, each bringing down a 'bower of magnificent
benesets.

M. Abbstuoci, the French Minister of Justice, guy
a grand dinner a few evenings since, to • numb.? of pawl
of dissiaethan. Maorogst the ecenpaor trete Lord Clarendon.
Coast Orloff, Count Buol-ffessuenstein, Agit Peoha, Omit
de Csvoor, M. Villein Monier, Count de Moray, Berea d•
Boorqueney, Marshal Valliant, M. Butch., M. Tropism
M. Billaafft, doe

CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATEL—This morning the
Civil/lonics Estimates emnected with law and Julies for
the year 1866 wen loud. The total of the law charges for
Begred is 464,2831., stowing an joiner as compared with
1856 of 7,3291.; for Elccolsnd, 135,710/.; increase, 9,943/.
and for Ireland, 745,7161.; ineveue, 1,6291, making the
total for the three breeches of the kir gdras 1,360 7691., and
Ice rename, r compared with 1855, 21,9011. Dui estimate
for prison and ton, at es Tykes is 906.3711.,"sibibiting a de-
e:ease, ea compared with 1855, of 11,0761. The total of the
estimates 6$ 2,267 0831., end the net i. emu, 10,8261. Is
.681181. to the above, *ere are same chargeable on the Con.
alididated Pond ander the head Corti of Justice, d 0.,"
Of 160,246/. for England, 96,6821. for Scotland, and
140,6821. for Ireland, leaking, env,. the estimatu, the total
damp of the year audio( 31st March, 18.57, for law end jeep
tier, amount to 2,664,6021.
TER AMERICA/I MAILS —LIvERPOOL, SATURDAY.
—The British not /4,,,th Artistic in It 7.1 Mai etossaatip
Canada, Captain W. G. C. Lute, soiled twin the Mersey
this &frana n fcr Boena an.. Halitas, wi h the tonal wails
for the United States and Brsh Itl=wth Am p resew.
Mons, 147 pioneers, and a lull cargo cf merchandise es
freight.

TIE ARTISTS' GEN
TERVTIA ON.L BENIVOLENT
TI

Os Saturday 'venial' the 41st anniversary festival
of the Artist' Oeseesl Benevolent lintitstios was held at
the Prtemeseas' Tanta ; Lord &TWILIT, M.P., ha the
their. As is stool tte
the
of these I gathers
lap" of the supporter. of the institution, the proceedings.
altheagh the amber attendiog we. cosaiden partook
mere of the eiaracter of a social setiag of personal friends
thou of a pied's: dieter. The arranginnota were is every
department eseseleat ; and the musical eatettaionamst,
which newels, tee 0•10‘0•11 of Mr. and Mrs. Loamy, Mr•
and Mrs. Woke, sad lir. Pration, seder tin esperiatend-
tan of Mr. J. L. Hatton, gave much satiefectios. Then
wen poserat, smolt ocher", Berl Stanhope, Sir C. L. Rut.
lake, Sir W. C. Ross. R A., Sir Castles Reny,
R.A., C. R. Cockerel', It q., R.A , R. Redgranti
ILA., R. J. Lane, R A., 1 homes Creswielt, 8.A., Mind
R. nits, 0174. W. be or. ft A., Sauced Coessik
R A., L M. Ward, R A., Alfred Elmore, ALL, W. L.
Frost, A.R.A., Hooey Week's, A ILA., W. Denali.
A.R.A., Augustus Egg, A R.A., J. C. Henley, A.R.A.
Mr. Allerisso Spier, of Oxford, Ge..ree Lead/ sr. M.
Jateb Bell, Ep, Georg. Christie, R.q., Beery Graves,
Esei , and B. W Phillip., Esq.
After the castommy 1..1.1 and pttriotic toasts hai bees
disposed of,
The CilLllllAll peel:wed " Prosperity to the Artists'
o.serat Boarvanat festinates," and in doing ao the sable
lord briefly nand the pr, gr. si of the sciety from
Vindation fa 1814—the name. of Tarn., sad Chastity
being aincropt thetas of its (*soden. It was now is the 41st
year of its canteen, and did not owe its foundation to the
sausifienne or desire f. r p isthesious funs of any indiri-
vilsal, hat to the pearrosity of members of the artistic pro-
hisioss. In C,l3C'liiiol3, the noble lord announced that'
the Bart of Yarb,roagh bad presented to the instil.-
tbe asyeight of the eagravimes by Mr. T. 0. Barlow,
of two retorts by Mr. J. W. M. Timer, KA.. "TM
Wreck of the Miecilaur " add " Vilest* in the Valls, of
Mae AI"
Sir C. Bauhaus. P.R.A , proiond The health of the
Chairman i" slid a remark he male, with referees to the
sable terra @forte to promote the Yeas iton of the people,
was noeived w.vi =sob applause
The nest toss woo 0 Tee Royal Academy;" in scknows
!edging which 8r C. EALIITLAII Sited that, by a decides
in the Court of Mastery, th Art, t.' B-oevolent Lonna-
tion would he entitled to a d. Datum of 5001. ceder the will
(.1 the late 3. W M. Terser, R A.
Earl Brasiers pronerd The S e chill established for
the promoilot of Art." Is the course of his address kola&
occasion to state that e p flies of the topers left by the late
Sir Robert Pei, under the ens et himstlf and Mr. Cud
well, would be published to a few weeks. TIN pnbliciatiom
would cossist of • pert of Sir Robert P,el'a sesoin,wrinse
he that statenasa hicarelf, and r. land to as important
period of his life—sem/Iy. the perod in which the Roman
Catholic Relief Bill was posed, and contained a fall scoonot
of his own op isions end coadoe in that trensiettion. Tot
late Sir Robert Peel bad directed hi. lit. rary 'secants to
apply the prollte erisiog from the pshlie ties of any of Mu
paten to the sas,stann of deserving sea in need, who had
followed the permits of art. littr.ture, and scissor. It might
perhaps be mentioned that the very last public meeting of
say kind Seidel Sir Robert Peel was pr. sent, wog the ass
gin nary festival of this lestitation, is 1830, over the pros
reeding, of which he presided. (Rear, bear) 1a virtue,
therefore, of the powers noted is them, be (Reel Staabope)
and Mr. Cardwell now offered to this institution the int
fruits of the iateoded publieation, sod be togged to tender
to the society a drift toe one l'undred rants, which he
trusted they weed creeps am another proof, if any other was
wasting, of the good-will that Sir Robert Peel ever lilt and
displayed towards art rad artists. (TMs communication
was received with every mirk of the greatest interest and
with applause of • pecolissly hosiery character )
The other touts. locluding " The Artists' Annuity arid
Benevoltet Food," were then disposed f.
The inabatriptios list announeed contained a nor total of
Mil. 13e. Assent the doret ow" were—The Chides's,
201 ; Lady Chen'rty, 201. ; Si. C Rattlake, 101. ;
Means. Webster, B A., Cockerel'. It A., Roberts. R A.,
see Haigh, each rot a sum of 100f,(81.),whick bad MOM
=prise gold medal awarded to then at Ks late
in Paris.
siseresy essessited about hell-past tea o'clock, after
at seahmaty medisi which. asswithetaading tka five.
Mtn, MINIM ITV vent of the IVAN.' @sprat= of the
istitatioe,twas very suconeful.