The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

THE CASE OF THE HATZFELI) FAMILY.

The family affairs of the house of ltatzfeld hare
been for some time drageed into painful publicity by the d it-
ferenc e, of the last count and countess of that name. These
different, le first to a separatioe, and then to an attempt
on tha 'art of the count to obtain a divorce. The divorce
was net granted; the cennt I.'S children were placed under
the sole .are of the oanet, and he enter, d into a liaison with
one Bailees' Von M. yelidort. The deprivation of her
children first led the eouotess to the commission, through her
agents, of arts involvieg, had they succeeded, bribery and
breach of trust: endeavours having been made on her part
to bribe the el rants eif the count and that of his secretary, to
obtain for bar copies of certain letters relet've to her chil-
dren. The liesivw of the count with the irnroness von Me) -
ender! led, however, to more serious attempts on the part
of the countess or her agents—attempt, which have caused
some of them to become amenable to the laws of their
country
The chief agents of the Countess of Ilatzfcld in the divers
attempts which she made were Lasalle, assessor at the
eaprtme court , (justice, in Berlin ; Oppenheim, tic ntiate in
philosophy; and Mendelsohn, doctor of medicine. The latter
airs 11C Nasal to Franca, Opveihei,ce was imprisoned t. r a time
but ultimately set hoe. d Lasalle became the object of
wend prosecution. lie was tried in 1847, and acquitted
ea a point of law. The aentetce was reversed, and en the
4th of the present anonta his trial again came on at the
swim held in Calogee.
Tits chief witnesses 'grin. him were hie own valet named
Hoppe, aid two of the countem's servants, father and
sea,nam.d Kurz. The facts of tile case, as detailed in the seri
dame of eo lee than 45 witneoes, were as follows : In Aug cur,l
11145, th Counters of kiatzfeld, with her three advisers,
Lasalle, o,,,enleie, and Mendelsohn, was stopping at Air
la-Chapelle. The count was alas at Aix, in company
with the Baretem of Meyendorf, the latter being on
her way to D eve ldorf, for the purpose of getting certain
documents signed there, bring deeds by virtue of which
an aneuiry of 24,000 Lanes was tu settle! on her by the
count. 'I tuotjzce welch the confederates had in view was
to ',revert the passing of this eawract, and also to obtain cer-
mie 'eters and documents re halve to this subject, supposed
to be in the posse sion of the baroness. The movements of
the boom's Mier watched closely, 'he cone dcrates were
apprized by Kurz t5-at she was about to start for Cologne,
end they fl. ttr.intd to follow Ler. The reason fur so doing
was stated by Kurz ou the trial to be the abstraction of a
menet contaudeg the papers they wished to get piano Mon of ;
butLaselle e.nps:aticerly denied this, stating that their only
object waste watch the movements of the baroness. Lasalle
at all events took no active part in the affair, with the excep-
tion of furnithieg money to the others. Kurz went in the
seine train as the bareness dt Cologue, aseerteiumi that she
wept to the lie 'el de Mayenee there, returned towards Aix,
eed mretinv 31eud, leohn at a station half way, told him
where the haror.csa hod put tad. On Karat's arrival at Aix
he pined °poor:helm and Las alle, and whilst the latter re
Waled there the t others returned to Cologne
by the night train. Men:else:lm, Oppenhi inn, and Hum,
tlun went to le. ge ..t tin. Mayence. Motel under higned
tam-s, and su corded in obtaining apartments adjoining
those of the II oones. You feleyendoel. On the following
naming the determined to leave Cologne, arid her luggage
being prefer, ef by tier servants, was placed temporarily in a
Passage missile her room. Oppenherm, rrizing a favourable
°Pportunity, teak away the ea ket which he supposed to con-
tam the droned documeht", and carried it into the room of
Hendele,hti, who placed it in his trunk. They then bah
Ott the hotel in a carrage, ordering the driver to go towards
the Rhine. On the way, however, Oppenheim got out, and
Mendelsohn drove with the joint luggage to the station of
the Bonn Itrawee. This was early in the morning of the
.eels August. :A earlwh ale tl.e casket had been missed, and
'Neaten initaetlately tell upon the two men who had so
entirely left. The valet de place by chance heard news of
thee, and went in search to the Bonn Railway station.
There he found Mendelsohn who, under his assumed name
of Ktoneeker, was already seated in a carriage. The valet
dc place went up to him and asked him whether he Ind not
b,Blatskt carried away a casket not belonging to him. lie
decriedh it, and the valet de place determined then to go with
la in the same train. On their arrival at Bruhl Mendelsohn
Rot out, Lavine him luggage behind. The valeede-place
‘4lB on o Bonn, and gave the trunks into the hands of the
aVronties, who found in that of Mendelsohn the casket,
which_ as it appeared did not contain any of the documents
W/Bch it wan I uppo.eil to hold, but some old family papers,
sod 3.000 francs in French gold. In the meanwhile Oppen-
hem had already arrived on the evening of the 21st at Aix,
wcth the Ines of their success ; but a short time after Men-
delsohn refereed to tell of his misfortune, and forthwith fled
censr the frontier. Oppenheim and. Lasalle then went to
ctoCce: and introduced themselves to the procurator at
requceting the return of the luggage which had
;78 sequertr-d. Opp nheim was however talon into cm-
ted7, la we Lave before stated, but subseouently set at
,wrtY• Lssalle took up his residence at Deutz, with the
sesounteurot liatzfeld. and was subsequently arrested when
augment and theft of the wings* tamed Approvers. The

evident* of these persons went to prove the facts we have
stated, and much more of a criminal description. They even
accuard Llsalle of hashg arranged a nhn for poivoning the
count. Stripped of the evidence of there me), the Me a,
against Lasalle would hove been too weak to support the
charge; and it would stem that the jury did not put confi-
dence in their statement, for he was acquitted on the 11th
inst., and set free.

RIOT AND BLOODSHED AT
ASHTON.

(By the Electric Telegraph tbmpanies F.eprees.)

News has reached us, that late last night a number
of chartists and repealers' armed with pikes and guns,
paraded the streets of Ashton. One watchman is
said to have been shot, and his body to have been
brutally stabbed with pikes. The soldiery were
sent for, and the mob are stated to have drawn up,
pikes foremost, to oppose the entrance of the military
Into the town ; but the rioters fled on the approach
of the red coats. Many prisoners were taken.
These facts, received by electric telegraph this
afternoon, explain the following statement, from
our Manchesterl reporter, published in the Daily lkews
this morning:
ALARMING STATE OF THE MANUFAC-
TURING DISTRIC CS.

Very considerable alarm has been created in the
manufacturing districts—more particularly in Manchester
and Ashton-under-Lyne—by rumours of intended outbreaks
by the chartists and the Irish confederate clubs. Our cor-
respondent states that he was Inclined to treat the matter as
an idle rumour, but that on application to the polies sly ho-
rities he found the ingestive, had been in consultation
during almost the whole of Saturday ni.hi, several of them
being at the town-hall indeed as late es 2 and 3 o'clock on
Sunday morning. The ground of this alarm to
the magistrates was not suffered to transpire, but
something of an unusual nature is inferred, from the circum-
stance that the police are enjoined to strict secrecy towards
the press, a course which has not before been adopted. The
answer of the police superintendents to the most simple
question is, " We are not at liberty to answer."
At Ashton, whither our correspondent went, in conse-
quence of the news from thence being denied at the police
office in Manchester, the same seeress, was adopted, but it
was there denied that any alarm has been occasioned by any
circumstance. from other quarters, however, it was ascer-
tained that some serious grounds of alarm had existed on
Saturday night, and that rumours of an intention to
barricade the principal streets, and to burn down the
factories, in revonge for the apprehension of O'Brien,
h-id caused the magistrates and military officers to
concert steps for the suppression of any outbreak, that all
the police were called together, in fact in readiness, and that
a strong military picquet, with bayonets fixed, was sent [own
to the netObourhooil of the chartist and confederate• meet-
ing-house on Saturday night, where a meeting was then
holdina. The contrite: ates, however, had been apprised of
the approach of this body. it w stated, and extinguished
their lights in great precipitation and left the building, hay-
ing been in secret conclave only a short time. Most alarm I
ing steria were agent yesterday, also at Manchester, where
it is said a ri-ing was to be effected f:uring the night, and the
town set on fire with a view to creatinz confusion' which
was to be taken advantage of to pillage the banks and other
depositories of money or valuables.
These rumours may turn out to be unfounded, as many
equ illy alarming ones of a similar kind have :teen, but there
is no Question but that the magistrates see some groun s for
apprehension, inasmuch as they have taken steps for assem•
bling the whole of the police, and keeping them in readiness
in lar3e bodies, ready for an emergency. Capt. Willis, the
chief comtable, it is stated, had been sent for by express from
Rhl I, a small watering place, where he had gone to recruit
his health.