The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.—'I`IIE " INFERNAL MACHINE" NOll
ousel IN PARM.—The Rue St. Rewire was again annoyed
some nights since, not by an emits*, but by two infernal
machines, which went off pretty nearly at the same instant,
one at the entrance of the Rue du Roule, the other near the
Rue do Coq. Fortunately no one was injured. The broken
pieces of these machines have been picked up and examined,
and present a combination very different from those already
' let off, and which we have before described. These, the
detonation of whisk %Mier to that of • blunderbuss, are
composed of a kind otioillf leaden shell, or rather of a essioe
of hemispheric form, hollow, and of the size of a large wal-
nut. In the flat part is a bole in which to fix the match,
the top of the shell is covered with a cowl of zinc, fastened
with a piece of wire, and perforated with holes, so as to
afford a free passage of air, and to p the match from
being extinguished. At the extremity of this covering is a
hook, to which is fastened a piece of twine, by means of
which the person whom busineas it is to place these dange-
rope things on the public road, can let them down without
appearing to move. At a quarter before nine one of these
was let otf in the Palais Royal, under the peristyle of the
Galeria de Valois. No other inconvenience ensued than a
moment of alarm for the persons passing through it. A
fourth infernal machine, similar to those we have just de-
scribed, was also placed on the Boulevart Poimannfere, near
the Restaurant Vachette. On going off, it threw about seve-
ral small bits of paper.—Dedars.
CURIOUS RESURRECTION. A person, named
Piffady, died lately at St. Martin-do-Mont (Ain), aged 91,
whose early life was marked by a curious circumstance.
When about 30 years of age, and in the army, he was taken
ill at Lille, and to all appearance expired in the hospital of
that town. lie was taken to the burial j/ronad in the usual
way, and was on the point of being consigned to the grave,
when the volley fired by his comrades over his coffin roused
him all at once from his lethargy, and caused him to strike
against the wood loud enough to attract notice. The lid
was raised at once, and Piffady stood forth on the burial
ground, before the eyes of his astonished comrades. What
was also curious is that be found himself cured of his illness,
by the sudden shock his system had received.
WARNING TO SPORTSMEN.—The carelessness with
which fire-arms are sometimes bandied is certainly
unaccountable; inexperienced sportsmen would appear to
think that all precaution is unnecessary. A young advo-
cate of the Lyons bar, a few days back, presented himself
ready equipped, for shooting, at one of the diligence offices,
and took his place for a property near Roanne, which was to
be the scene of his amusement. He got up into the imperiale,
leaving his gun below, and then stretched out his left hand
to take it from the conductor. The man, never supposing
that it could have been left loaded, took hold of it by the
lock, when the piece went off, lodging the whole charge in
the young man's arm. The wound is a very severe one, and
it is doubtful whether the um can be saved.
MURDER OP MADAME DALES.—At the Court
of Assizes of tne Seine, on Wednesday last, the persons im-
plicated in the murder of Madame Dalke, whose case excited
so much attention in Paris in December last, were brought
to trial. One of the accused having hung himself in prison,
the number was reduced to six. Their victim was 70 years
of age and had an income of between four and five thousand
francs, but did not spend more than 2,000 L, thus laying by •
considerable sum annually. The woman Belannoy, who
had been in her service for nine years knew that
her mistress had money in reserve, and also that as a
recompense for the zeal and devotion she affected in her ser-
vice, her mistress had in her will bequeathed her a sum of
10,000 francs. For fear the influence she had acquired over
her mistress should be diminished, Delannoy gradually sepa-
rated her from her few friends, which separation greatly
affected Mme. Dalke, who had often been heard to complain of
the treatment she received at the hands of Delannoy, whose
influence, nevertheless, she was unable to cast off. On the 21st
of Dec. the deceased was found dead in her bed, all the
money which it was known she had by her having disap-
peared. Suspicion was attached to Delannoy, and it was
shown by a woman named Dubois, one of the accused, that
Delannoy had told her, on the day following the murder,
that she had suffocated her mistress. The statements and
evidence implicated the other accused partite chiefly as re-
ceivers of the money stolen. After a lengthened inquiry the
trial was adjourned till the next day (Thursday).
ITALY. SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS AT VENICE.—
The annual congress of naturalists is &beat to meet at
Venice. Count Gioranelli, .President of the Venetian
Society of Naturalists, has, it is said, disbursed 1,000,000 f. in
making the necessary preparations in his palace for the sit-
tings. A great number of savant from different parts of
Earope, and upwards of 10,000 foreigners, have already
arrived at Venice.
BELGIUM.—THE TRIPLE MURDER.—The woman
arrested at Brussels for the murder of Mlle. Evenpoel and
her two servant girls, has been set at liberty, it having
been shown that she had been merely endeavouring to
turn the event to account, by going from house to house,
and representing herself as the mother of one of the
girls. As yet everything relative to this crime is involved
in mystery.
RAILWAY MA NAG EMENT.—A travelling friend writes
from Brussels; —" Trains take their time in this country.
Conductors, not content with the regular stations every fine
or ten minutes, make a few supplementary ones of their own,
at some hedge ' public,' where good beer or gin, I suppose, is
to be had."
GERMANY.—PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, SEPT. 7.—
Innumerable rumours about ministerial changes are in circu-
lation. Almest all of them, however, have their origin in the
approaching gazetting of M. von Eltidelschwing, as chancel-
lor, and imply belief in petty personal jealousies among his
colleagues at the promotion. Whether there be any founda-
tion for these reports must anon appear. One story will
have it that Muses. Thile and Bother have given in their
resignations. Another announces the appointment of M.
von Schaper, director-genera; of the post-office, to be bead of
a centralised department having control over the posts, com-
merce, manufactures, public works, and railways. A writer
in the ETherfeldt Gazette affirms that the ministry of finance
had been offered to. M. Hanemann, but declined.
TRIAL OF THE POLES, SEPT. 4.—This day the
connect for the crown, all the witnesses having been ex-
amined, summed up in the case of Dr. Liebelt and his asso-
ciate', Mielzynaki and Lacki. He admitted that there was
no case against Ostrowski. The -counsel for the prisoners
having been heard in reply, the court adjourned.
BADEN.—A Heidelberg student of the name of
Blind, and a lady belonging to Mannheim, named Cohen,
have been arrested. They were on a visit to the baths at
Durekheire, and were in the habit of driving out, and
throwing from the carriage, as they passed along, copies of
a pamphlet, said to be of an incendiary character, entitled,
"The Hunger of the German People and the German

Princes." -
BAVARIA.—MuNtert, SEPT. 3.—The Discount and
Mortgage Bank of Munich bas just made the French govern.
ment the offer of lending the sum requisite for the completion
of all the projected railways, at a very low rate, but with the
condition of being authorised to augment the sum of the bills
emitted by this hank. This proposal is to be the object of a
project of law, which will be presented to the Chambers at
the opening of the ensuing session of the Diet. The King
has commissioned Schwanthaler, the sculptor, to cut a bust
of Lather, and another of the late Archduke Charles of
Austria, which are to be placed in the Walhalls.—Dehatr.
DENMARK.— COPENIIAOEN,_
c SEPT. 4.—ABOLI-
TION OF SLesERY IN The DANISH OLONIES.—Two royal
proclamations of the 28th of July have just been published,
by which the decrees of the States of Denmark in 1346, for
the emancipation of slaves in the Danish West India islands,
are brought into force. Both proclamations are addressed to
Major-Oen. Von ficholten, governor of the Danish West
India islands. The first states—" That from motives of justice
and humanity, as well as considerations of the welfare
of the West Indio colonies, and the interest of the planters,
the reculations (Raadighed) respecting the slaves, in the
possession of which the proprietors of the slaves now
are, shall cease : in such a manner, however, that the compkte
emancipation shall not take place till after the lapse of
Itwelce years, so that meanwhile the proper measures may be
taken for making the necessary arrangements for the con-
solidation of the necessary changes. On the other hand, all
children of slaves who shall be horn after date of the decree
shall be free. The second proclamation commands the
governor.general to constitute a commission which shall
make proposals relative to the necessary administrative and
legislative arrangements consequent upon the procliusiations. '
RUSSIA.—ST. PETERSBURG, AUO. 31.—Mr. Cob-
den has been here for the last two or three days. The cri-
minal code for Poland has already been received at
Warsaw. It is divided into 12 parts, 68 chapters, and 1,221
paragraphs, to which is subjoined an appendix, containing
the laws far those persons who are not liable to corporal pu-
nishment. It is expressly stated in the introductory law of
this new code, that its fundamental principles are especially
to make the law of Poland as nearly as possible conformable
to that of the empire.

AFFAIRS OF THE RIVER PLATE.
Snt,—ln reserving, as you do, any expression of :
your own opinion upon the statement relative to this subject
which appeared in your journal of the Bth inst., you appear
to me not merely to wish to act in consistency with your
well earned character for impartiality and caution, and with •
the line you have always taken on this question, but slue to
invite these who dissent from the tendency of that statement '
to lay their views before you. Under this impression I ven-
ture to make a few remarks, which, I trust, will help your
readers to form a more correct notion of the question than •
that statement wilL
The writer of this document, whilst admitting that Gen.
Oribe had *greed to an armistice for six months, but that
the party in Monte Video would not, goes on to say. that
" of the particular motives which may have led Lord How-
den" (on this refusal being notified to him) "to remove the
blockade of Buenos Ayres we cannot pretend even to con-
jecture." Extraordinary simplicity on the part of this, in
other respects, not very simple gentleman! Why, air, it
is well known that one of the main objects of
Lord Howden's mission to the River Plate was to
remove this blockade. It had been nearly two years
in operation. It pressed with cruel severity upon the British
interests and property concerned in the trade. Memorials
(which you thought of sufficient importance to transfer to
your columns) from London, Liverpool, Manchester, Glas-
gow, Derby, Nottingham, and other manufacturing towns,
urged its removal. Lord Palmerston himself bad said it
was high time it should be put sit end to. His predecessor.
Lord Aberdeen, a year before had sent out Mr. Hood in a
first-class steamer for that especial purpose. And yet, in the
face of all these facts, the writer of the statement cannot
" even conjecture" why Lord Howien should be anxious to
remove it.
As a reason for the blockade being maintained, the writer
of the statement alleges that the terms of the armistice were
inadmissible ; but he neither states in whet respect they were
so, nor what was wanting to make them otherwise, nor, in.
deed, what they were. Who would dream after this that
they were simply—l, that there should be an atmistice for