The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1853.

LATEST FROM ABROAD.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, OCT. 25.

The aspect of this Bourse is still very unfavoura-
ble, the funds continuing to decline, and the ex-
change on London to rise. Five per Cent. Metal-
Brines, 00. Exchange ou London, 11.14. Bank
Shares, 1,273.
Letters from Bucharest state that the becediction
of the colours, usual is the Russian army before a
battle, took place on the 10th. The hospitals aro
full of sick soldiers. The Sara Hospital contains 300.
In Bucharest, besides the military barracks, 23
houses of Boyars have been converted into infirma-
i ries. Forty wagvne with sick arrived from the
camp on the 13th. Most of the houses in Slativa
have been made hospitals.

Bucharest, Oct. 15.—The Turks have already
I occupied an island of the Danube, near Widdin.
By a private telegraphic despatch from Trieste,
intelligence has been received from Alexandria to the
lath. The prohibition of the export of corn from
Egypt has been postponed until after 40,000
ardebs of wheat should have been sent away. (The
ardeb is equal to 2 hectolitres 76 litres).

FRANCE.

(ny ELECTRIC TELZGRATIT)

PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING, HALF PAST 9.
The Moniteur announces that the two cabinets
have despatched orders to their respective Hems to
pass the Dardanelles, and that by this time they will
have anchored in the Sea of Ilarmora.

The Moniteur also contains an article on the
Eastern question, which it declares has entered a
new phase. In the fifth paragraph the Em-
peror, sensible, it says, that peace is the lasting
interest of the people, has given his solemn assur-
ance to ce-operate cordially for the preservation of
the peace which Europe has hitherto enjoyed; but,
it adds, that peace would be wanting in an essential
principle if it ceased to be based on the balance of
power necessary to maintain the rights and secure
the interests of all. The last paragraph runs thus:—
So many circumstances united in favour of a cause
which is that of all Europe, allow us to regard the
ultimate issue with a feeling of security and con-
fidence."

PARIS. IVEDNLSDAT EVENING.

A terrible accident occurred this morning on the
Versailles railway (right bank). In consequence of
a rail breaking, the seven o'clock up-train h•om Ver-
sailles ran oft' the rails between Courbevoie an I
Asnieres. The train ran with great ciolencc against
the iron columns of a bridge. Tvi oof the carriages
were dashed to pieces. There are various reports as
to the number of the passengers injured. Some
speak of three mortally, and nine very dun-
gerously wounded. But I am assured that
' accident was still more serious, and that several of
the passengers are already dead. Among the suf-
ferers was an aged 4k change, who had a leg broken.
I have also to mention another accident on the ill-
fated Orleana line, of a character similar to the last.
Yesterday, while a passenger train was waiting at
the Etampes station, a luggage train ran into it
with tremendous force, dashing several carriages to
atoms. Fortunately, all the passengers were ac the
moment in the refreshment-rooms, and it is said uo
one was hurt.

Tho Eurotas, which left Constantinople on October
15th, has arrived at Marseilles.
_ . _

Piince Napoleon hoe left Paris this evening for
Stuttgard.
The Bourse opened well in consequence of a tele-
graphic despatch reporting Consols at 12 o'clock at
to -,. This rise was attributed to the circumstance of
parliamet being prorogued, and also to Lord Palmer-
ston's absence from the last Cabinet Council, a fact
from which some speculators inferred that the Aber-
deen party bad prevailed. The Threes opened at
72.60, but subsequently declined to 72.10 in con-
, sequence of a further decline in Metallics being tele-
graphed from Vienna. Later in the day, however,
it was said, although the fact was much doubted by
many people, that the Consols had reached 93. So
great a rise was thought to indicate some favourable
ems of a decisive character, and the Threes rose to
72.75, closing at 72.65, being a rise of 25c. from yes-
terday. The railways all left off at higher pi ices.
The Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Pub-
lic Works, has addressed a circular to the government
engineers, in which he recommends them in their
operations to pay the greatest possible respect to
private property—not taking possession of any with-
out having obtained all the necessary authorisations
and observed all due formalities—and carefully re-
fraining from committing any. needless injury on
property which they may require to occupy tempo-
rarily. The circular recommends also that the
engineers of companies that have obtained the con-
cession of public works and of railways shall act in
the same way.
' The name of the general alluded to by theltullelin
de Paris as having been assassinated at Chaions our
Marne is Count de Neuilly. Tho following account
of tho affair is given by the Concorde of Rheims :
It was reported at Rheims yesteriLy morniag that ef enerat
Count de Ncuilly, Commandant of tee Department of the
Marne, had been assassinated by an officer of the garrison
of Chs.lons, but this crime appeared to us so monstrous that
out of respect for the epaulette we abstained from all refer-
ence to it in our yesterday's number, notwithstanding the
positive affirmations which had reached us. Unfor-
tunately doubt is now no longer possible, and although
the military character cannot be damaged by the crime of
an individual hitherto honest and brave, it is with the
deepest grief that we announce that General de Neuilly
has indeed been &geminated by M. de Laporte, a captain
on the staff, and one of the general's aide-de-camps. For
some time past rumours were in circal stion respecting the
conduct of the Countess de Neuilly, who was represented as
keeping up criminal relations with Captain de Laporte, and
frequently repairing to the private rooms of that officer.
These rumours, it must be declared, at first met with gene-
ral disbelief, particularly as they had commenced a little
after the death of the only child of the countess, a charm-
ing young woman, whose lose had plunged the countess
and the general into the deepest affliction. At the same
1 time persona were unwilling to suppose that an officer to
whom the general had acted in the most paternal manner
could act with each base ingratitude. However, the cap-
tain and tho countess acted with so little reserve, that their
intrigue was soon the public talk of the town, so that
some of the general's friends determined to put a stop to
it, by mentioning the matter to 'he general. Perhaps,
it would have bees better to have appealed to Captain
de Laporte himself, but the gentlemen who had
undertaken to enlighten the general as to what was
going on adopted the course of denouncing the intrigue to
the husband. Accordingly, on Sunday morning, just as
the general was going out shooting, a secret intimation
reached him to the effect that the Countesede Neuilly had
just before left the hotel, and that she was at that moment
to be found at the lodging of Captain de Laporte, on the
first floor of a house in the Rue St. Nicalse. The
general proceeded at once to the house mentioned, and
knocked loudly at the door of Captain de Laporte's
rooms. Re heard inside the words : "It is he ! It is he!
we are lost! " pronounced by his wife in an accent of the
greatest alarm. " Open ! open at once !" cried the general,
'or I will burst open the door ! " At the same moment
Captain de Laporte appeared on the threshold with a pistol
in each hand, and barring the general's passage, threatened
to fire at him if he attempted to advance a single step. A
rapid and terrible scene of altercation is said to have fol-
lowed, and then both pistols were fired nearly at the
Isame moment. The general received both balls in the centre
of the breast, and fell heavily, rolling from the top
of the staircase to the outside door, bathed in his blood.
The report of the pistols attracted some persons to the spot,
and they found the unfortunate count at his last gasp.
" The coward ! the wretch ! ho has assassinated me !" he
exclaimed, and then expired.
According to other accounts Captain Laporte
attempted to justify himself; but the general, with-
out listening to him, struck the young officer vio-
lently on the head with a cane. Captain Laporte
was immediately arrested, and is now in the Chalons
'prison.