The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-08 00:00:00

THE PRABLIN MURDER.

The instruction of the affair* Prostin gives full
employment to the clerks of the Court of Peers. Numerous
ernploiir are hard at work day and night in transcribing the
documents seized at the Hotel Sebastiani, at the Chateau of
Vain, at Mdlle. de Lures, and elsewhere. These documents
consist chiefly of letters of Madame de resell's, which were
not made public out of respect to certain personages whose
names are mentioned, and from other reasons of ano lees
serious nature. There are also some letters from M. de
Prsslin to Mdlle. de Luzzi, and from Mdlle. de Luzzi to the
duke, which, it is said, prove that a connexion of a most
intimate kind existed between her and the duke,
and which was a source of the greatest unhappiness
to the duchess. These letters are said to be of a
nature greatly to compromise Mdlle. de Luzzi, as some of
them contain most harsh language when speaking of the
duchess. There are also some letters written by the daugh-
ters of the duke which speak very unfavourably for the
education they must have received, as their contents are said
to contain most disrespectful remarks on their mother.
Mdlle. de Luzzi is also said to have written to the young
ladies in a manner to give them a bad opinion of their
mother. The whole tenor of these letters indicates the fatal
influence which Mdlle. de Luzzi exercised on the entire
family. The whole of this correspondence is most curious
arid interesting ; and if, as is generally believed, Mdlle. de
Luzzi will be brought to trial, the publication of the letters
will throw a great light on the mystery in which this ter-
rible drama is still involved. _ _

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A journal announced on Thursday, and several other
repeated, that the chancellor had just transmitted to the
Parquet all the proceedings commenced against Mdlle.
de Luzzi ; and that she was to be again interrogated by
the Juge d'lnetruction, M. Bronson", who interrogated
her for the first time on the 19th of August. This account
contains a double error ; Mdlle. de Luzzi was not and
could not be again interrogated; the chancellor has not
transmitted to the Parquet, and was not celled on to
transmit, the proceedings commenced ; for the chancellor
cannot have official and direct relations with the Par-
quet of the Tribunal de Premiere Instance, or of
the Cour Royale. According to the rules of hier-
archy, the chancellor will transmit the documents of the ax
minatioe which has been commenced to the Keeper of the
Beals, Minister of Justice, who will cause them to pass by
the intermediary of the Procureur-General to the Procureur
du Roi, on the requisitory of whom the examination will he
continued by one of the examining magistrates. The time
indispensably necessary for causing authentic copies to be
made of the numerous documents which have been seised,
and which concern the part of the prosecution still remain-
ing to be tried, the delays which the transmission of the pro-
ceedings by the different degrees of the administrative and
judicial hierarchy will necessarily occasion, sufficiently ex-
plain why the examination which has commenced has not
yet been transmitted to the examining magistrate, who, con.
sentiently, has not been able to announce the intention of
proceeding to an interrogatory, or of hearing a trim'''.

PRUSSIA-RESULTS OF THE CENSUS TAKEN

AT THE CLOSE OF 1846.
According to the census taken at the close of 1846,
the population of Prussia at that time amounted to
16,112,948, exclusive of Neuenburg and Valendie, which
number 68,247 inhabitants. Including that district the
whole population of Prwsia amounts to 16,181,195. Since
1843, ',darling Neuenburg, the population has inereaaed
641,864. The Increase from 1840 to 1843 amounted only to
642,583. From 1840 to 1843 the increase was 3.7 per cent. ;
now it is 4.16 per cent. The increase during the last three
yrars is also greater than it was during the three former.
This is the more extraordinary, because the year 1846 was
not at all favourable to an increase in the population, and
the greater increase, therefore, must be taken an occurring
In 1844 end 184,5.
The increase in the population a occasioned partly by the
exceesof births over the deaths, and partly by the excess of the
immigrantsover the emigrants. The increase of birth, over
the deaths may be learned from the annual account, of births
and death, made up from the church registers ; but the in-
crease of immigrants cannot be ascertained annually with so
much certainty. It is tree that returns have been ordered
of the number of thou who have emigrated by permis-
aon more 1844, and of those else who, after imrai-
ration, have taken out patents of naturalisation.
But, neverthelem, these lista do not yet give quite satis-
factory information as to the real numbers of the population;
for many immigrations from and emigrations—into the
neighbouring German states in particular—take place with-
out patents of naturalisation or permission to emigrate. The
increase which the census of 1846 shows over that of 184
according to the accounts, mast be derived from the exam
of the immigrants over the emigrants, if that excites be not
fiqualiaed ly the exams of births ever deaths. A part of this
gauss may certainly also be attributed to more accurate
'Sumer' t ion. And yet, owing to the relations of the
Customs Union (Zellverein), the regulations for the tax
ca dual and the military conscription, more security is
rafor the correctness of the returns; and the returns of
may, therefore, be considered as tolerably accurate.
That part of the bureau caused by the nom of births over
ikethe is by hr the most important.

Then took plea in Prussia, is
Births. Deaths. Excess of Births.
1144....-.693,711
1645 647,30
161.3 626,494

466
Total Inensis from 11143 to 1846 being 0ta1........
641,,464916
The eaves of Immigrants over the antipasto be... 64,936
This shows very plainly bow unfavourable the ear 1846
tees u compared with the years 1844 and 1845. The births
in 1846 were but few more than in 1844, while the inermuied
population of 1846 ought to have exhibited more births than
1844. We see, however, an important increase in the num-
ber of deaths in 1846. It cannot well be doubted that these
appearances are connected with the scarcity of food and con-
sequent privation and want which commenced in 1846, in
coalmines.* of the bad harvest. Althoup, in The whole
kingdom, the masa of births one e..;;Xls u tae r6o3i import-
ant increase, yet in the large towns the excess of immigrants
is by far the more important item of the increase in the
population.
In Berlin there were in

1844 IBirthso33. Deaths. Rues&
3,
1843 12,246

Total 39,141 29,119 10,043
According to the census of 1846 the population of Berlin had
increased since 1843 about 5,5,353. It must, however, be
remarked that included ill that increase are 6,291 so-called
lots fireside persons, id est, persona whose names have been
removed from the lists, but have not been replaced, because,
possessing no lodgings and in debt for their rent, they with-
draw themselves from the eyes of the authorities. As they
are neither dead, nor is it proved that they have left Berlin,
they must be supposed, as, indeed, they may be felt by other
signs and tokens, to be still in the city. In earlier censi, thee*
vagabonds, who were then much more numerous, and who,
in -1843, were still numbered at 12,379, were not reckoned
among the population of Berlin by the statistical de-
partment. 'Deducting these 6,291 from the total in-
crease in Berlin of 56,3.53, the increase in three
yearn will still remain 49,062, of which 0n1y10,042
are derived from the excess of births, and 39,020 from
the excess of immigrants : 39,020-54,936th5, or more than
71 per cent., nearly three-quarters of the excess of immi-
grants over the emigrants in all Prussia, occurs, therefore, at
Berlin. That Berlin as the centre point of all the railways
to the north, east, west, and south, and that in consequence
and by enema of its canal communications there is a direct
goods traffic carried on, which is always the eroundwork of
a flourishing trade ; industry increasing with its natural
development ; the growth of knowledge and art, which
draws a number of young persons to Berlin—all
these may be keys to these interesting figures.
The greater number of persons settling in Berlin belong
undoubtedly to the working classes ; and it may, there-
fore,
be adduced from the above figures, that the labourers I
expect to find a greater and easier-earned reward for their
labour in Berlin than in smaller towns. By way of in-
formation, it may be added that among the present popula-
tion of Berlin, numbering 408,502, there are 19,914 persons
connected with the military profession, of whom 13,720 be-
long to the army, and 5,4,4 masters of families, servants,
&c.—making a total of 91,194.
The population of Berlin has increased during the last
3 years from 15 to 16 per cent. ; on the average it may be
calculated that the town increases, at least, 17,000 annually,
of which only 3 or 4,000 will arise from excess of births.
Next to Berlin, Stettin has increased most, according to
the percentage calculations: in three yearn more than 10
per cent. Other signs are visible which confirm a particular
Increase in the trade of Stettin.
Elberfeld, rich in factories, has also increased very much,
more than 9 per cent.: then come Breslin and Cologne,
which have both increased in population since 1843 more
than 8 per rent Two towns in Prussia, Berlin and Breslau,
already number more than 100,000 inhabitants ; and it is ex-
tremely probable that at the next census Cologne will be the
third on the list; for Cologne has already above 95,000 in-
habitants. Assuming that the population of the whole king-
dom has increased 4.15 per cent., and comparing that with
the increase in the individual states, it will be seen that
Potrdam (particularly. from its vicinity to Berlin), Bromberg,
hdarienwerder, Stettin, K6slin, Oppeln, Frankfort, Posen,
Deotsic, Breslau, and Dusseldorf, have increased in a ranch
greater proportion.
In the agricultural districts of Pomerania, West Prussia,
Posen, and Brandenburg, which are not yet very thickly
inhabited, the population increases in the same degree as the
cultivation of the land advances. The population in Oppelu
is increased from its mines. It is extremely remarkable,
however, that in Brealau,!and particularly in Dusseldorf,
the most thickly peopled district in the whole kingdom, it
having 9,028 inhabitants to the square mile, the population
has Increased in a greater ratio than the increase in the
population of the whole kingdom. This increase in a
neanhbourbood rich in industry, by the gradual development
of its industrial resources unaided by artificial stimulants,
proves the many opportunities for gain which must increase
with the naturally increasing activity in trade and manu-
factures.

The districts of Cologne, Magdeburg, and Stralsund ex-
hibit an increase pretty nearly equal to the average increase
of 4.15 per cent. in the population of the whole kingdom.
Iderseburg and Konigsberg have increased in a smaller
ratio, somewhat above 3 per cent. Arnsberg, Leignita,
Erfurt, Treves, Gumbinnen, and Aix-la-Chapelle, have in-
creased above 2 per cent. A still smaller increase of be-
tween 1 and 2 per cent. is exhibited in Coblents and Min-
den ; the district of Munster has increased, last of all, only
a little more than 4 per cent this province has usually
*Mown in the cease the lowest increase. From particular
information concerning emigration, it is known that, espe-
cially to America and to non-European countries, emigrants
have been most numerous from the western portions of the
kingdom, particularly from the neighbourhood of Coblentz,
Treece, and Aix-la-Chapelle . for this reason, these nistriets
exhibit a smaller proportionate Increase than in 1343.