The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-06 00:00:00

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.
A letter from Frankfort says :—" The project of
the new Austrian loan has been communicated to the

house of Rothschild. The period of the publication
of the programme is not yet fixed. The project is
based on a lottery, the last drawing of which will
take place in 1903."
A letter from Lemberg, in the Post Ampt Gazette
of Frankfort, says The Archduke Ferdinand-Maxi-
milian, brother of the Emperor, has just been named
Governor-General of the Polish provinces, of the
kingdoms of Gallicia and Lodomeria, of the grand
duchy of Cracow, and of the duchy of Bukowina. He
is to arrive here before the end of the year, to assume
the superior administration of these provinces. Count
Goluhowski is to retain his functions of civil governor
of Gallicia."

Negotiations have been entered into between Aus-
tria and Russia for a postal treaty.

PRI SSIA.

A letter from Berlin of the let states that the
Bank of that city has raised its rate of discount to 5
per cent.

FATAL AOCIDENT TO A RAILWAY PORTER.—An
inquest wu held at Manchester on Tuesday, before Mr.
Herford, the coroner for that city, on the body of George
North, of 63, Bradford-road. The deceased was a porter
in the service of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Company, and on the previous day was engaged in coupling
together two waggons, which were being drawn on to One
of the branch lines out of the warehouses at the Oldham.
road goods station. When the first waggon reached the
turn-table it ran against the scotch, which caused it to re-
cede, and deceased going between the waggons to apply
the break, was caught end crushed between the buffers.
He was taken to the Royal Infirmary, where he died the
same afternoon. lie was 42 years of age, and has left a
wife and six children. Tie jury found a verdict of "Acci-
dental death."

Vie Court.

BALMORAL, Ocr. 4.

Her Majesty went out walking yesterday morning,
attended by the Viscuun•ess Canning.
In the afternoon Her Msjesty, with the Prinetss Helens
and Prince Albert, drove in the open carriage.
Sumo et the younger members of Mr. Farquharson's
family came from Invereauld, to pass the afternoon with
the Prinees and Princesses.
The dinner party yesterday included the Ducheestif Kent,
Lady Augusta Brute, and the Hun. Mrs. Gordon.

The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town on Tuesday
night from the continent.
The Lord Chief Justice of England has arrived at Stra-
theden-house, from his seat in Ruzburghshire.

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.—We have been in-
formed that her Majesty the Queen has, with her characte-
ristic liberality, presented to that old and valuable society,
the Royal National Ins•itution for the Preservation of Life
from Shipwreck, 1001 ,in aid of its diminished funds. The
season of the ye&.r is fast approaching when our shores will
be strewed with wrecks and the corpses of our mariners ;
we therefore trust that the public, following the liberal
example set to them by their beloved Sovereign, will come
forward with their contributions to assist to lessen, by every
human appliance, the frightful amount of loss of life from
shipwrecks (on au average between 700 and SJO lives thus
perish) which annually takes place on our iron-bound
coasts.

LITERARY PENSIONS.—The Queen, on the recom-
mendation of the Premier, has just granted a pension of
1001. to Sir Francis Head, and of 1001. to the widow of the
late Mr. Moir (Delta).

HOTELS-ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EXPRESS.

SIR,—It would appear from the rejection of the
following communication which I humbly submitted to the

consideration of the editor of the Times, that even the
slightest defence of one solitary English hotel is not deemed
worthy of admisrion to its columns. It may be that I have
put the case feebly, tl.ough I hope not unfairly. You will
be a better judge than I can be.—l hays the honour to
be your obedient servant, C. E.

" TO THE EDITOR OP TRH TIMIS.
Sir,—May I trust that if you have space to spare, your
sense of justice to all parties will secure the favour of the
insertion of the few remarks lam about to make. lam no
apologist for high charges or extortion, indeed being, myself,
one of the travelling and consuming public, I am a strictly
impartial witness. Much of what your various correspon-
dents, and of what you yourself have stated with regard to
English hotels is true in the main. Having just returned, how-
ever, from the Continent I think that the lair thing is to place
before the public the comparative charges, and to show that
at kast in one English hotel, the balance is, if any, on the
side of my own country versus the Continent. Af your
readers know, of course, the relative value of shillings and
francs I need not reduce the one to the other. I take the
case of a single gentleman without a servant, but the having
one merely makes the difference of a franc for his bed in the
one country and a shilling in the other.

Boulogne. Folkestone.
H. de BMns. Pavilion lintel.
f. e. P. d.
Bedroom
Dinner (alone)
Wine (Bourdeaux) a whole (Table d'Hote, and
bottle, no half bottles given, excellent.)
which is a great mistake.) .. 3 0
Half a wax candle
.eharge.
Coffee
Breakfast
Service

14 75
I may here observe that the above English hotel pos-
sesses the advantage of a reading-room sad newspapers
gratis. I will now take a comparative ♦iew of some other
hotels on the Continent.
Paris. Vevey.
H. bleurice. 11. des 3 Couronnes.
f. c. f. c
Bed room
Dinner (done)
(Table d'hote)
Half-bottle of Bonrcloiaz .... 3 0
Wax lights 1 0
Coffee
Breakfast

12 0

Service

14 0

17 2$ _
At both the above hotels there are reading-rooms and
newspapers gratis. The charges at the Eva de Geneve, at
Geneva ; at the Faucon, at Berne ; at the Zahringuen, at
Freyburg ; at the Bellevue, at Than ; and at the Trot
Rois, at Basle, are, mote or lest, precisely the same as those
at M. Monnet's hotel, at Vevey, and at Basle there is a
reading-room, with newspapers. All the above hotels are
excellent. The chief accusation preferred against the
English hotel-keeper is, that he charges exorbi-
tantly for wax lights. In many cases he does so,
but this is not a charge peculiar to our own country.
I never yet entered an hotel on the continent, excepting at
Blulogne, and there it is a mere bedroom candle after all
without being charged a franc for wax lights. Then, again
year coy espondents complain of having to pay for sitting-
moms. Why they are always paid for, and very highly
paid for, too, on the Continent. The great discomfort of
lflaglish hotels is one of long standing, and resulting from
the habits of the people. We are not, certainly, so far as
the other sex is concerned, a coffee-room people, and the
old hotels are constructed accordingly. Again, as to the
bedrooms, John Bull has a decided aversion to a divorce
a tohro, and consequently, being bigoted to his favourite
four-post bed, the space will not admit of his apartment
possessing those attributes of a salon, which Mr. and Mrs.
Huggermugger find so very convenient on the continent.
The single man may, perhaps, complain of the want of this
adaptation to his comforts, but the married couple must pay
for a sitting-room, or sit in the coffee-room. I say nothing
of the viands, for although the meat in England is excel-
lent, the wine, in most English hotels, is execrable, and the
coffee worse, and for the latter there is no excuse.

I am, Si?, &a,

C. E.

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THE TELEGRAPH AS A POLICE AGENT.

The electric telegraph has been deservedly spoken
of as a wonderful instrument in aiding the police to appre-
hend offenders against the law, but the public very often
misapply it from an over-estimate of the powers possessed
by the officers of Justice in such cues. If a man hu been
robbed or swindled, and finds out the fact at the eleventh
hour, tracing the thief by railway, or gig, or some other
conveyance, he rushes off to the telegraph-offiee, and
transmits a message to Manchester or Liverpool,
or what other place the party has made for,
directing the chief officer of police to take hits
into custody on his arrival. Now it should be
known that the police cannot act upon such instructions,
It is not enough for Mr. Jones, of Birmingham or Oldham,
to telegraph to Manchester, and say to the chief officer—
.. Apprehend Mr. Smith immediately he enters your town
as a swindler." Police officers are as liable to actions for
false imprisonment, or the consequences for mistakes, as
other persons, and it will not do to take the word of Mr.
Jones, or Mr. Anybody, a; to what amounts to swindling
or what is felony : they must have the authority of menon
whose practical or legal knowledge they can place more
reliance. The best way fur the Juneau to act in such cases
is, to go to the chief officer of their own town, and get him
to transmit the message in his own name. For want of
this precaution the police in many parts of the country have
been unable to apprehend serious offenders.

RE UNION DES ARTS.—The soirees of this institu-
tion commenced for the season, at 76, Marley-street, last
night, when the members and subscribers assembled to en-
joy the intellectual entertainment provided by the directors.
A delightful evening was afforded by the excellent perform-
ance of some vocal and instrumental music, by Miss E les,
and Madame and Signor Ferrari ; Mrs. M. Thompson ate
Miss Kate Leder), as pianiste, Mr. Goffrie (violin), an M.
Payne (violoncello). There were also some interesting pic-
tures and drawings, and other works of art exhibited ; and
the arrangements were altogether of an elegant and attrac-
tive character.

SERIOUS CIURGE.—A report has been generally
circulated at Woolwich that a woman residing there had
been murdered by a marine. The report, on inquiry, was
ascertained to be not wholly without foundation; but,
although a horrid deed has been perpetrated, at present it
has not been attended with a fatal result. A female, of the
name of Susan Francis, widow, aged 29 years, living at
Green-hill, Woolwich, had been out drinking till two
o'clock on Monday morning, with a marine, when, from
some cause, high words ensued between them, which at
present is not ezplaiLed by the unfortuurte woman, when
he seized her round the neck, and deliberately drew a knife
across her throat, indicting a frightful gash, by which the
windpipe and carotid artery were laid bare, but not divided.
Having perpetrated this act, he ran away. The woman
being the worse for liquor, (lid not at the moment feel it,
and staggered home, her clothes being drenched in blood,
when her wound was dressed, and she was conveyed to
King's College Hospital. The name of the marine is un-
known to the woman, although she has been in the habit of
seeing him on several occasions.—Maidstone Journal.