The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-19 00:00:00

human lying that meet the eye increake rather thou dimi-
nish the dismal ctf,‘et of the scene ; a• wpulehral loo!.ing as
the spectacle around them, their palid countenanti a said
emaciated forms seem so many incarnation• of the c .roc of
desolation which still hovers over the ruin• of Old flea.

I count, and perplexed all who had taken any part in
its conduct. Justice. long defrauded, was at length
avenged. Hut was it certain after all that she had
!uot mistaken her victim? The conclusions of the
jury, careful and slow, were drawn from an infinite
number of facts, minute, and, except in the artificial
and perhaps arbitrary connexions into which they
had been wrought, unimportant. At all events it
was felt that some direct confirmation of the decision
was wanting; and this could only come from the
convict himself.
Front the hour of his arrival at Marienschloss,
where he was to spend the remainder of his life,
Stauff had assumed a devout and submissive
behaviour. Re ligious books were supplied to him in
his cell. On the Ist of July he addressed a memorial
to the Duke, conceived with much affected frankness,
but containing only an assertion of his own inno-
cence and a tissue ot untruths concerning others. The
rejection of his memorial made a real impression
upon him. which was betrayed both in his counte-
nance and acts. On the 14th August he sent for
the governor of the prison, expressing a desire to tell
the whole thith. Upon the mils-amine of the go-
vernor, he was so overcome that he could say no-
thing. and the interview was adjourned till next day.
Hy the following morning he had awsumed a certain
boldness, and alluded to his crime. which he no longer
sought to deny, with indifference. adverting every
now und then to frivolous and irrelevant topics. lie
called the countess his benefactor; said she had fully
forgiven him. having appeared to him in a dream
and conversed with him w a friendly manner. • Ile
trusted,thertfore, that men would forgive him, seeing
how much he had suffered. and that what he had
done had not been premediated.
Ile stated that on the eventful afternoon he went
up stairs to inform his mistress that he was going to
fetch his master from the palace, and found her door
open. Ile entered, but saw no one. The lid of the
seeretaire was down, and on it lay a number of
jewels. The temptation was ton strong ; the blinds
were drawn; he hastened to fill his pockets. While
KO engaged. the countess came out °fate cabinet, and
detected him in the act. She hastened towards hint.
What she said he could not recollect. The horrors
of his situation overpowered him. and without know-
ing what to do. and fearing that the countess would
raise an alarm and have him seized. lie took her by
the throat. In this position. unwilling and afraid to
'I kill her, hut not knowing what to do, he held her for
five or six minutes, until he was horriliisl at lx•r-
ceiving she was dead, lle then let her fall, stem
her head struck the sharp edge of the sceretaire.
He now hastened to shut and lock both the doors,
and ran out of the house to the palace. On his way
lie called at a tavern. and hastily drank halt' a pint
of wine. Ile came back with his easier, and was,
not disquieted when his master went up stairs, us lie
knew that no attempt would then be made to form,
the locked door. After the count had again gone
I out, just before eight o'clock. he hastened to oblite-
rate all trace of his crime. Ile letehed bunting
coals front a fire in another room, and laid them on
the ground in front of the secretaire, with fresh
wood, paper, &c. Ile then set a chair with its hack
to the twerctaire, and laid the stiff body of the
countess on the two. the head hanging over the fire.
Ile next took a bundle of wood, lighted it. and threw
it on the divan in the cabinet, went out, locked the
doors, and threw away the keys.
Such are the facts of the great Gorlitz ease, as we
have collated and arranged them front Dr. Grall's
publieation, a work consisting almost exclusively of
of memoranda, reports. and letters, written vet
yruions times, and now thrown together in admired
disorder. The precision with which the precise
• mode of the countess's decease was eliminated front so
I much obscurity. and so long after the event, entitles
the trial to a prominent place. whether in the next
" l'itaval," or the graver records of German juris-
prudence.

Lieut. Burton is quite at home in a deseripti.m of
society of Ooty, or more properly Ootneamund, the
Cheltenham of India. This sanitary station, sitante
on the Neilgheries, or Blue Mountains. was esta-
blished no earlier than 1821, before which date- the
eligibility of any part of the Chant chain as a site for
a sanitarium, appears to have been unknown. The
town, which is now much frequented by officers on
leave and other Europeans, in search of health and
relaxation, is built on n plateau, about 5,000 fv t in
height. Lieut. Burton states that the maximum of
temperature here in the shade is not more than
degs. F., at the very time when the degree of
heat in the plains is between 90 and 100 degs.
The following is the author's description of
_ _ SOCIETY IN OWIACAIIIIND..

Two presidencies—the Madras and Bombay—meet here
without mingling. Officers belonging to the former estab-
lishment visit the hills for two objects, pleasure and health;
those of the latter service are always votaries of Ilyge•ia.
If you ask the Madrusser how lin accounts for the dearth
of amusements, he replies that no One can, how he gets
through his few weeks of leave. The Itombayitc, on the
contrary, complains loudly and bitterly enough of the dull
two years he is doomed to piss at Ooty but modesty, a con-
sciousness of inability to remedy the evil, or most likely that
love of a grievance and lust of grumbling which nature has
implanted in the soldier's bread, prevents his doing anything
more. Soule public-spirited individuals endeavoured, for the
benefit mf poor Ooty, to raise general sulawript• from
the Madras service, every member of which has visited, is
visiting, or expects to visit, the region of health. The re-
sult of their laudable endeavours—a complete failure—in-
stanced the truth of the ancient adage, that " everyhouly's
business is nobody's business." Besides the sanitanans and
the pleasure-seekers, there are a few retired and invalid
officers, who have selected the hills as a permanent resi-
dence, some coffee-ph•nters, speculators in silk and mul-
berry-trees, a stray mercantile or two from Madras, aml se-
veral professionals, settled at Ootacamund. With all the
materials above alluded tu, our circle of society, as you may
suppose, is sufficiently extensive and variml. Among the
ladies, we have elderfies who enjoy tea and delight in scan-
dal: grass widows—excuse the tent', being very in itch era:lied,
it is routine rl fried in this n giOn—and spinsters of every
kind, from the little girl in bio and tucker to the full blown
Anglo-Indian young lady, who discourses of her papa the
colonel, and disdains to look at anything below the rank of
a field officer. The gentlemen supply us with many on
original. There are ci-drrant young men that pride them-
st•lves upon giving ostentatious feeds which youthful :pts-
venom.% make a point of eating, misanthrope, and hermit,
who inhabit out-of-the-way Oxides, civilians on the shelf,
authors. linguist., oriental students, amateur IliVines, who
perifslieally convert their driming-nouns into chapels of
ease rather than go to church, sportsmen, worshipp. of
'lambus in numbers. juniors whose glory it is to escort hair
dames during evening rides, and senior who would ratht r
face his satanic majesty himself than stand in the dread
presence of a " woman." We have clergymen. priests,
missionaries, tavern-keepers, school-master, and seho-
' lass, with pr.,ri,a.r and pr.'. blear oldie aka of all
I descriptions. But, unhappily, the said circle is divided into
several segments, which do not willingly or neatly unite.
lu the first place, theredemarcation
is a line ut demcation oceasomally
broken through, but pretty clearly brawn bytes run the two
presidencies. The Mulls the Idadrateces are 'Nally
called) again split into three main bodies--I, the very
'serious; 2, the prtil-s4irax ; and, 3, the utegmetitied. No
do the Ducks; but these hying upon strange ground, :ire
not so exclusive as they otherwise would Ity. Subdivision
does not end here. For instaiwe, the genus seriou, will
contain two distinct species, the orthodox and the hete-
rodox serious. The utesauctified also furor nnmerous little
knots, whose bond of union is some such accidental mat-
ters us an acquaintance previous to meeting on the
hills, or a striking conformity of tastes and 'tumultt. A
brief account of the Neilgherry deny will &mein r yam
inquiry about the existence of amti,ement. We ',sundae
that there an. two Iltrmulas— one for the sanitarian, the *Ater
for the pleasuredintater. And first, of 11 !','sense, cr the
lle rises with the sun, clothes himself aceording
to Dr. Baikie, and either mounts his pony, or more prolstbly
starts stick in hand for a four-mile walk. Ile returns in
time to &nob' the suit's effect upon an empty stomach,
bathes, breakfast-, and hurries °nee Mote into the open air.
• Possibly, between the hours of twelve and four, his diva r-
time, lie may allow himself to rest awhile in the library, to
I play a WOW' at billiard., or to call upon a friend, but Ul,Oll
principle he avoids tainted atmospheres as much as possible.
At g pan. he re-VOMMelleet. walking or [Wing, Ilente
' laudably in the exereise alerted till the falling dcw
drives him home. A cup of tea. and a 1100 h or it. es-
] paper, finish the day. This even tenor his elasf (110:
Is OreaNiOnany vaned by some such eseitement as a
pie-nit' or a shooting-party, but late thinners, lulls, and
parties know hint not. Secoodly, of L'Allvgro, as the OHM
who obtains two months' "leave of absence on urgent priiate
affairs" to the Neilgherries. smiths: Penseroso lx-conte a ro-
bust nitivalesei nt, may classically and accurately Is tented,
L'Allegni dresses ut mid-day; ke has spent the Ilsreneon
either in bed or tot rkthabillr, its dozing, tea-drinking, and
smoking, or, it' of a literary turn of mind, in perusing the
page, of "The n 1 s oteil," or "Delliente4oln...• lie alhitcA
breakfast tut spite old 'now, and asks Linear the fn quo nt
question, What shall Ido to-day i The lathier an, generally
at Lome between twelve and two; but L'AUegru, consider-
ing the oetupatiOn rather a " slow" one, votes it 41 " bore."
But three is the club, and a couple of hours may be
vent profitably enough over the newspapers, or plestsautly
enough with the asststaucY of billiards and whist. At three
o'clock our Joyful returns home, or arc: meanie. a party of
friends to a but and sulsdantial meal, tenne4 tiftin, followed
by many gigantic Trichinopoly eigars, and glasses of palo
• ale in proportion. A walk or a ride round the lake 13 now
deemed necessary to recruit exhausted appetite' who is CA-
petted to he ready at seven far another but ;mil substantial
meal, called dinner. And now. the labour,' of the day being
happily over, L'Allegru concludes it with prodigious facilityn. mean
lof cards or billiards, with whiskey and weeds.
, fhis lire is broken only b) such interruptions as
a shooting party, au excursion, u pic-atie, a grand dinner,
roirt'r, or a dell.

Goa and the Bine Mountaini; or, Sir Huntlfs of Sick
Learc. By Rommel) Iliderox, Ideutimat Bombay
Anny. Bentley.
A good book, containing a popular account of the
famous old Portuguese colony in India, has long been
wanted 1 for little is known of the peculiar races
by which it is peopled. and, indeed, of the west coast
ot the Indian peninsula generally. If Lieutenant
Burton's work does not present this desideratum, it
at least includes its materials. 'fhe [triter losses
Theulties of close observation and graphic description,
which, urftnrtunately, he is apt to use less often
than a talent for iiersillage, and an exceeding ap-
titude in the employment of slang phraseology, both
which he exercises without restraint on the green-
horns, or griffins, who frequent the city he prot'esses
to describe. ,
It is not generally known that there are two Old
Gras. The more ancient town stood on the south coast
of the island, about two miles from its more modern
namesake. In the time of the Moslem annalists it
was a great and celebrated seaport. govenied by its
own rajah. who held it in fief from the Belga-
nagger and Carnatic princes. Betbre the arrival
of the Portuguese the inhabitants had begun to
migrate to the second Goa. No truces of the old ,
Ilindoo town now remain. The second Old Goa was
built about nineteen years before the arrival of Vasco,
de Coma at Calicut, May 20, Moth About thirty flow* do Jury a Documents it< L. LepOSitits. de L'ht-
years after its foundation, it was taken from the Mtstric Delye calBl7. Ilaylz, Brno:ids.
Moslems by Albuquerque, and, governed by a sue- ltt•di:retant Just now for all those persona who are to
he i i -ea in the jury fists of the Great Exhihitiou, to
cession of viceroys, many of them the bravest muff ; enter upon their dune, with as perfeet a mastery of the
wisest of the Portuguese nation, it soon rose to a practical caperienee of other countries as they are all; to
height of power, wealth, and magnificence almost i obtain. This expo rimes ci tbe more safely, inspedi-
and ethetwilly gained than by conisulting the re-
incredible. But the introduction of the Jesuits and I tiouslY,
.payees which the French and Belgian junco of natoonal ba-
the holy inquisition commenced flue work of ruin ;
it was jwrfected by the wars widch 30011 sprung up duoti sal exhibition. have from time to time made to their
resin cave governments. 'these documents are important
both with Europeans and native powers, and above in many respects. As lucid critical essays on the coalition
all, says our author, "by the slow hut sure working 1 of national manufactures, they may claim to rank with
of the policy of the Portuguese, in intermarrying • more ambitious works ; and as furnishing direct
and identifying themselves with Ilindooe of the' e"d'lle's 01 thebeneficial results of industrial cumpeti-
I '
• lion una national wide they may be consultsdby
lowest taste." n less titan a century after De Goma w all chows with adva g nta e! With the exception of the
landed in India the splendour of (lon had departed ' French report on the exhibition of 1814 (which, both pier
for ever. Lieut. Burton thus describes the tonally and in its matter, was a masterly performanco ), tho
natiodder AFFECT OF GOA. Belgian report for 1817 may lie pronounced to be the most
Old Goa ha' few charms when seen by the light of day. carefully-compiled document of this dna:notion whlett
The places usually visited are the Se Prim:win,' (Cathedral), nations exhibitions have yet called forth. Brawn olio
the nunnery of Santa Monaca, and the churches of St. the heart of a dense manufacturing population, chiefly by
Francis, St. Gaetano, and Room Jesus. The latter contains the 1 men engaged in manfacturo, it appears to bear the stams)
magnificent tomb of St. Francis Xavier. His saintship, and force of high and recognised impartiality. In this nhowever,
however, is nu longer displayed to reverential gazers, its great charm mod must rest its power. If the judgments
in mummy or "walded pig " fonn. Altogether we of juries are once held tap to public contempt, us the n-salts
reckoned about thirty buildings. Many of theta were fall- of animosities, jealousies, or personal interest—and it it
ing to ruins, and others were being, or had been, partially easy to make any of these meantime,. the force of
demolished. The extraordinary amount of havoc corn- I these judgments mid the good which would otherwise
mitted during the last thirty years is lowing partly to the j lie in them full to the ground. And here peeps
poverty of the Portuguese. Like the modern Romans, they I forth a point which undoubtedly causes conaiolorablo
found it cheaper to carry away cut stone then to quarry , uneasiness in the minds of those who, while they
it; but, unlike the inhabitants of thu Eternal City, they , hope for a satisfactory issue to the great 6,4041.6
have now no grand object iu preserving the ruins. At Pan- , which is almost to h tried, are nevertheless alive to the rhea-
jim we were informed that even the woodwork that deer cultic, which surround the proper porlionuance of the elution
rates some of the churches had been put up for isle. The of the juries. It is to be hoped, however, that the large
edifices, which are still in good repair, may he described body of unsuccessful caudidatca for industrial boa is will
in very few words. They are, generally speaking, large I hear their failure with a becoming and modest spint ; and
rambling piles, exposing au extensive surface of white. I even when they feel that their claims have not received duo
washed wall, surmounted by stooping roots of red tile, with! consideration, that they will he restrained be a sense of the
lofty belfries and small windows. 'f he visitor will admire' difficulties which have Inset the honourable labour of their
the vastness of the design, the excellence of the Position, ! judifek,norseek to lower the tribunal to which they have been
and the adaptation of the arehiteeture to the country and , sulgo•cted in the estimation of the world, Only those per-
climate. But there his praise will cease. With the ekteta.! sous WhO have been engaged in the distribution of prizes) fur
tion of some remarkable wood-work, the minor decorations meta, eau fn rm an ootiante ,of the thankleseneha which too
of paintings and at dues are inferior to tho`4, of any Italian . generally follows the awards of the judges ; far every tom-
village church. As there is no such thing as coloured , Hen's,
unless he be a man of great strength of reason, be.
marble iii the country, parts of the walls are painted exactly I fieno, that under moire favourable cinamstanem, he would
in the stole of a small cakiret in the south of France. The I have been a prizehulder. Few indeed in these instances
frescoes are of the moat grotesque description. Pontius ! Wass the rod , many site apt to cry—tyranny awl injustice.
kibition juries cannot Inc doubted; but it is well to caution
That these cries will Mow the awards of the Great Bx-
Pilate is accommodated with a huge Turkish turban; and I
the great public, which will be looking on at the time, that
the other saints and sinners appear iu costumes equally
curious iu an historical and pictorial point of view. - 'Some I
groups, a, for instance, the Jesuit martyrs upon the walls ; when it is necessary to single out one man for distinction
of Saint Francis, are abaolutely ludicrous. Boiled, „fluted,' from a thousand, the result of the choke must inevitably
grilled, and hashed missionaries, looking more like seals' he discontent among the nine hundred and nionity-nine
than men, Rafe upon you with un eternal smile. A semi- I rejecteal lidatoo. It Mamma thus the Mite-of all who
decapitated individual stands bolt upright during the pain. I direct channels of publicity to guard the public on Mil
to stick another dart in the egiokrmis of some un- O that of exhibitors, may new be. pertinently drawn—us
ful process which is being pertionned by a wore of grim- . point- —to protect the joilge, againat the judged In the
looking heathens. And black savages are uselessly nuke- . Belgian report—to which public attention, and particularly
Touring
fortunate, whose body has already betoime more chiefly noticeable fur the calm judicial frailness which
Like an Lea puss torcuult characterises it. Herein will be! finial, in honnot language,
than aught human. One may fancy what an exhibition it the moons for each decision of the jury ; lweefrads
is from the following fact. Whenever a picture or fresco each exhibitor learned in what he was deficient, in
parts fades, the less bri liant are immediately supplied' what his sucenisful rival excelled. alt received
with a coating of superior vivioluess by tae hand of a corn. bin Isom for the future. That in romans, where
mon houwadeconitor. 'they reminded us forcibly of the industrial calabitiono have been fairly estaMishial uuatc-
studio of an Anglo-Indian officer, who, being devotedly I ceowful exhibitors have bogie their (Attire with 3 proper
fond of 'fictional pursuits, and rather pinched for time, spirit, e moot he more forcibly ;hewn than in their soca-or
withal, u,ed to teach his black servant, to lay the blue, I save attempts to holier* their position. The failing coati-
green, and brows on the canvas, and when he could I date of one exhibition is Lund to he the prindiulder of the
'spare a Mame moment, return to scrape, brush, and next; and in no circumstance uan a clearer er more honour-
glaze the colour into sky, tree, and ground. Very. like able proof besought of the honesty of the riealry subsistiag
I
the paintings in the walptufb: it presents a series of among French and Belgian manufacturers. If oumther
cherubimi, angels and saints, whose very aspect makeo one proof were wanting of the honourable nature of Belgian
shudder, and think of Frankenstein. Stone is sometimes, Industrial rivals it might he given in an account of the
Iweal the material generally, used. The latter is almost entituoiaoun with whirl the government proposition to
I always painted to make the statute look as unlike life u decorate skilful and p=hial workmen was received every-
poosible. Yet in spite of these disenchanting details, a where. The amide introductory matter which precedes
' feeffng not unallied to awe cream over one when wandering each section of the report, would alone furnish information
down the desert aisles, or through the <vowelless cloisters. with which English jurymen would do well to furnish
Ina cathedral large enough for a first-rate city ;, Europe, ' themselves*; and in the forms of award, &e., details of
' some twenty or thirty native Christians may be seen at management will be found, modifications of which would-
their devotions, and in numasieries built for hundreds of lindoothl) facilitate the arrangement of the jury laboura in
monks, a single priest is often the only occupant. The few Bade-Park.