The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-19 00:00:00

SUICIDE OF A ROYAL COMMIWONER IN

HUNGARY.

A letter from Poath, iu the Nord of to-day,
says :—" The sudden death of two royal commissioner,,
Messrs. Salkovsky and Petrak, has made a great sensation
here. The following are the circumstances under which
Y. Balkovsky committed suicide. The government sought
in vain • functionary whom it could make chief of the
comitat of Routh. Who could have the hardihood to m-
ei& over this comitat as a simple governmental agent and
to take the place which was once occupied by the unhappy
and chivalrous Count LadisLius Teleki, and by a Majlath,
the jet/ex curio, that honoured and upright magistrate?
It was in the son of the gaol governor of this
same comitat that the government at length found
the functionary so much sought after. But scarcely bad
he been nomivateil when the royal commissioner found
himself abandoned by hie friends, isolated, and shunned
by his acquaintances, in spite of the official honours obtained
from the government.
" Beset with gloomy thoughts be wrote letters upon letters
to the Chancellor, with the view of being released from the
office of royal commissioner. He had no longer confidence
to present himself in public. He excused himself in his
letters, sad enough to break one's heart, by declar-
ing that be had not expired to the honours,
that he had only accepted them io the belief
that he would be enabled to render himself useful
to his country. In another letter he announced
to the Chancellor that he could no longer bear the oppro.
bium attached to his functions, and tlmt he bad revolved to
put an end to his life of sufferings ; he implored him, there.
fore, speedily to appoiut his successor. lu a third letter
he mid *at he would already have committed suicide if the
snivel of his wife and the sight of his childreu had uot re-
strained his hand. lie wished to die an honest man, and
while living to see himself relieved from all responsibility
and all suspicion, but he much feared, he said, that if
his successor did not arrive immediately, he (the
writer) should not have streugth to wait. And,
in truth, he did not gait; • pistol shot terminated
his sufferings. In his last letter he prayed everyone to
have pity on his wife a•d children ; as for himself, he hoped
that God, in his Divine goodness, would pardon his fault.
The concourse at his funeral was innnense. This sad expia-
tion has recouciled all hearts, no longer to the living, lint to
his memory. His letters are the judgraeut of a dying man,
and their publication fixes on his colleagues the stigiva
of the mine opprobrium to which H. Salkovsky suc-
cumbed."

It is Bahl that the Princesseampello, • member of
the Bonaparte family, was entering the theatre at Rome the
other day, with her beether•iu law, the Prince Musignano,
when a bouquet which she Uhl in her hand was snatched
from her by a shirr°, under the pretext that the dowers
formed a tricolour. Prince Campoßo was highly indignant
at this insult to his wife, and upon the instructions of M.
Thouvenel, the 8E111.Q1114 de L ivalette has, it is said, asked
the Roman government for explanations.
A Florence letter of the 13th says :—" We have
a large influx of English now en route from Rome to par-
liament. I maw one 'milord° ' yesterday, who travels with
Ave English servants. John and Thomas, in powder, were
reading (laligrugni; while the courier, in broken language,
was retailing Italian politica to the ' gentleman in black'
who assists the other gentleman (his master) to dream."

The publication of the confidential letters of
Count Cavour, addressed to M. Itsitazzi, has produced •
sensation in Italy. The Countess Alfieri, niece of the count,
and who was honoured with the particular affection of that
statesman, has protested, in • letter addressed to the
Rirista Cmdemporanta, against those disclosures, which are
" evidently made leas with the view of rendering homage to
the memory of the deceased minister, than of serving the
balaresta at a party."