The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-06 00:00:00

• Petra autem crat CA.i•tu•. 1 Cor. cap. 10, v. 4.

"We ore indebted to the Port-otlice authorities for rele,sing yester-
day our Roroon dent's letter, which end.tles us to present
today the lewd news fm that interesting capital.l

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Anglemont, a young woman, who continued to work in the
open fields, as less dangerous than seeking, as her companions
did, shelter in an adjoining wood, had her right side para-
lysed, and is still in en alarming condition. At Portions, a
poor woman was killed while out harvesting, the brain being
affected by the electric fluid without any apparent external
Injury. Nearly the whole of the commune of Agecourt was
ravaged by the hail, which destroyed the grapes upon 35
acres of vineyards,
HORRIBLE ATROCITIES.—The village of Celle-
Dunoise, near Oueret (Creme), was on Sunday week the
scene of some horrible crimes. A man of the name of
Labetoulle, after having dissipated in debauchery the for-
tune which his wife brought him, obtained employment
on • railway; but as work woo not to his testa. he moan
threw up his situation, end returned to his village. His
wife, whom it is said he attempted to poison, refused, how-
ever, to receive hint, as did also his children, when he had
ruined ; and a woman named Bridier, with whom he had
long carried on an adulterous intercourse, though she was
the mother of seven children, would have nothing more to
do with him. Incensed at all this, he went to the resi-
dence of the woman Bridier, and, not finding her at home,
he proceeded to a field where he was told she was occupied
with one of her daughter'. What goosed between than
is not known, but the ruffian knocked the woman down
with a stake, and then stabbed her in the bowels with a
knife. lie next committed the most atrocious violence on
the daughter, fractured both her arms, inflicted wounds in
the abdomen, and cuther wrists with his knife to the bones.
The mother died on Monday, and on Tuesday the daughter
was in a desperate state. After the perpetration of Mess
crimes, he went to a place called La CeUe. Oa his road hs
snot his wife, and bade her adieu, stating that he was about
to kill himself. He then procured his gun, placed the end of
the barrel under his chin, and pulled the trigger with his foot.
The ball goosed through the flesh and the tongue, gad
[ divided the nose; it caused an eye to be pushed forward,and
finally escaped through the forehead. Notwithstanding
these horrible wounds the man is not dead, but it is sot
likely that he con survive. He his bi en lodged in the gaol
of °tient The gendarmes stated that, it they had not
captured hint, the infuriated people would have thrown him
into the river Creuse.
DOUBLE SUICIDE.—A young man, named Raulin,
lately released from the army, and living at Misfires
(Ardennes), long loved with great passion a young girl in
the service of a lady residing in the Faubourg du Pont
cretrches, and his love was warmly returned by the girl
The parents of the latter were anxious to see her married,
and the herself frequently pressed Raulin to wed her • but
he sheep found means to elude a compliance with be; de-
sire. At length he avowed with the most bitter grief that
he could not make her his wife, for that he was already
"harried to a woman at Brest. lie cursed his cruel destiny,
sad the girl shared hie sentiments. They then agreed, as
they could not live together, that they would commit
amide. A few days ago the man obtained a knife, a pistol,
vapowcier, &c. and they then bath went to an uninhabited
basis in the Faubourg du Pont d'Archee, where Rauha
dabbed the young girl, and thee set her clothes on fire.
Insmisdiately after he shot himself through the heart. The
stsgssrof the pistol attracted persons to the spot, but they
email render no assistance, the unfortunate couple being
deed.
PENITENTIARY CONGRESS AT BRCSSELS.—On the
20th of this month a meeting will be held at Brussels of dele-
gates from different parts of the world, to take into coed-
aeration various important questions connected with penal
reform. Several resolutions were pasted at the first sitting
of the congress at Frankfort.on-the-Maine, unanimosaly id
netting the necessity of the adoption of the principle of sepa-
rable as a mode of penal action for the prevention of the
smamarras evils connected with the system of amoriaties
as
present very generally in operation in prisons and penal_Is-
**Amiens. The subjects for discussion A the gunsmits"(
congress will be as follows The interior OrginlntiOil SS
of survea-
unproccons.
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ehitecture of prisons and penitentiaries suited to the lem ee
"operate imprisonment; arrangement of the edifices, !Dos'
sions of the cells, ventilation, mode of warming, distrtbutsca
water, ,water closets, exercising yards, places of "mesh*
&c. 3. Sanitary state of penitentiaries; means of preserving
the health of prisoners. 4. Organisation of societies ofgal
tronage for liberated pensioners. S. Asylums and
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ustice; causes of crime, &e. The period timed for the moot-
of the penitentiary congress coincides with that for
the
exhibition of the products of national industry and the feat
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be he d in the Old Gothic Hall, at the Hotel de
the civic authorities have placed for this purpose at d'
The Minister of Justice has consented to set as Modes!,
Deputies from the literary class of the Royal Acaderans
Brussels, the Belgic Royal Academy of Medicine, the
tral Commission of Statistics, the administrative counellm
the Free University, and the Prism; Administration Com.
missions sitting at Brussels—all those will be associated la
promoting the ofjects of the congress, and it is expected
tl
will be an important gathering of the secant of -Europe am

America.
CONGRESS OF POLITICAL ECONOMISTS IN BRCS*
eat.s.—The programme for the meeting on the 16th in
has just been issued. It is stated in it that toe cone.,
will discuss the following subjects .-1. The general
pies that form the basis of political economy, and the day
trines of the partizans of freedom of exchange. 2. TIN
dal
Pr'
tinnier interests orepecial reasons which each country
invoke for or against free trade. 3. The influence dims
trade upon the condition of the working classes. 4.
influence an the sciences and arta, end on civilientios

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/acrid, as well se on peace, which is the fruit of a good on-
Sarganding and of friendly relations between nations ; and
5. Some financial and purely economical questions columned
the preceding ono. It is stated, moreover, in the
programme, that men of all shades of opinion, and partisans
al the Mims systems of political economy, have been
;vita to attend the meeting, in order that the above topics
say bed
tediactused, and resolutions be adopted, with a
all kneel of all the circumstances. More than one
hundred viduals from various parts of Europe have
already expressed their intention to attend the meeting.
Parties desirous of taking part in the proceedings are required
to address their letters to M. V. Felder, avocet, 13, rue di
Quartier Leopold, Brussels.
BAVARIA.—LoII MoNT&. —a A letter from
Manieh of Aug. 28, in the Cologne Gazetie, lays:—" The
news of the intention of the King to create Lola Montes
Countess de Landsfeld was known here before the appearance
of the letters-patent, and the impression produced by this
intelligence wax serious. Oa the 25th, a certain number of
room belonging te the highest society met at the countess's
Alla, end celebrated the event. The King's health was
frank, and fireworks and other amusements lasted until
midnight. The following is the royal letter gestating the
new title
We, Loud, King of Bavaria, announce to all whom it may con.
an, that we have most granorly revolved to raise Maria Parr y
sgmirs. of a noble Spanish family to the countal dignity, under the
aka of Counter de tAndafeld. la granting her thus dignity, we
miler on her all the rights and prerogative* attached to it in our
kingdom. All functionaries and agents of the crown, and all our
mesons great and small, and all our subiate in general, are hereby
'formed, that they will not only have to recogniae Maria Counter de
Landsfeid av such, hat to treat her in consequence, for it is our will
that every person contravening the practicer attendant on this our
grant shall be preereuted by our law °facers before the tribunals, to
ahem moor for Me Infraction of our orders, and the rights now
acquired by a third party. In faith of which we have signed these
yr rut with our royal hand, and attached thereto our royal sesl.
LOCIA.—Ds hi or KILN us tirszeux—Aschaffenburg, Aug. le.
RUSSIA.—ST. PETER-Sift:SG, AUG. O.—Accounts
jut recviv,d from the Caucasus state that the cholera still
continues to rage there, though it has disappeared entirely
in come of the localities. The government, a few weeks
agr, sent from here to Tiflis M. Piryroff, the celebrated sue.
gical operator, as it was co,isidered that his extensive medical
knowledge might prove of the utmost advantage there. A
report has been circulated that he has fallen a victim to the
cholera ; but it wants confirmation, and we sincerely hope
that this excellent man, of European celebrity, may still be
alive, and spared to science and humanity. The whole country,
especially in the neighbourhood of Odessa, has been suffering
from the plague of locests, which, in spite of all known reme-
dies which have been applied to exterminate them, seem to in-
crease daily and completely devastate the land. They have
come from the mouth of the Danube and the provinces bor-
dering on that river. A private person living in Transcau-
casia, near Wiadiskowski, has lately discovered a silver mine
en his Property, from which he took eight pounds of silver,
and presented it, according to law, to the mint here to be
assayed. This is the first discovery of the kind in Trans-
caucasia. Within the last fortnight we have had the most
charming weather. Ihe hay has been very flue, and has
been all got in. The cutting of rye will commence imme-
diately in ail the northern provinces.