The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-01 00:00:00

ItC i
Wl-
ca.
act
cc-

...
bed
ind
M.
ad.
per

V to
'.
and
to el-
It, the
tnha-
Ns ful-

et the
who,
!T
tished
know
fort-
es the
w that
an Di•
sled of
tits a

Germs cominsnista in London. With regard to Michaldury,
he himself has admitted that the baroness instigated him to
the attack on your husband, and that she had defrayed all
the expenses of the subsequent proceedings. Should it be
requisite I *II with much pleasure substantiate the above
statement by the production of unexceptionable evidence. .1
Trusting you will use your best endeavours in placing the •
illiterate she-impostor before the public in her true
character, and in tearing the mask from her unblushing
countenance, I remain, fic. "Casimir use Swine.
" Madame Theresa Puhky."
With thc)urpuse of establishing a charge against the de-
ceased woman's secretary, Mr. Smith called Mr. Geo ege
Dawson, who detailed many Lathe facts narrated above. Mr.
Dawson said that on the 6th of August the defendant (Con•
rant Deers) was introduced to him as the secretary of M.
Von Beek ; this person banded to him proposals fur a new
work to be published by " the baroness ; he (Mr. D.) was
subsequently introduced to her ; she described herself to be
a friend of Kossuth ; defendant was present at the time,
and on the faith of this declaration he gave her his signa-
ture as a subscriber to her work; subsequently obtained
other subscribers, ant paid over to the defendant four sub-
scriptions of 11. 4s. each on account of " the baroness."
Deceased told him that she had lost all her money and
estates by the Hungarian struggle.
Mr. Henry Tyndall swore to facts connected with his in-
troduction ro Itacidula (alias Baroness von Beck) and the
circumstances under which he bad been induced to take an
Interest in her behalf. [These are in the main detailed
above.] Mr. Tyndall further said that the woman called
Kossuth "her dear friend," and never m.ntioned Warms
without shedding tears. He (witness) paid to the defendant
on her behalf from W. to 201.
M. Paul Hajrick, a Magyar noble, who had represented
• county in the Hungarian Diet, swore that he wma the
thief of police over all Hungary and Transylvania under
Ferdinand V. and subsequently under Kossuth's govern-
ment. Deceased could not have been intimate with Kossuth
without hi, being aware of it. He (witness) once saw the
woman at Debreesin in April, 1849. She was there known
as Itacidula, and was a servant to a spy of the lowest class.
He knew the noble family of Von Beek, in Hungary, with
whom the deceased woman was in no way connected; on
the contrary, she was a very vile impostor.
Other portions of the evidence went to show that the de-
ceased had been assisted by charitable persons on the faith
of her representation that she was a friend of Koesuth's ;
'amongst others, Mr. Southall, chemist, supplied her with
medicines in consideration of that reprointation.
The defendant having bar salted epee presseted that be
err himself ignorant as to who the deemed ree, but that
he had met her at Liverpool, and being poor bed weeps&
her offer to be her secretive.
IL Harr stated that he knew the defendant to be a
member of a good family at Peeth, but that he bad been
shaadoned by them on account of his bad conduct; and
both Mr. Dawson and Mr. Tyndall drew the attention of
the magistrates to the painful position in which they were
placed in consequence of the woman's decease. They bad
been actuated by a benevolent purpose, in the first in-
stance, and by a sense of duty in allowing her to be taken
into custody; and, from the tun affairs had taken, they
wished fur no harsh measures against the defendant. In
their minds, the justice of the ease would bo fully answered
by its publicity.
The magistrates accordingly dismissed the charge against
the defendant; but the mayor intimated that in the
opinion of the bench great good. had been done by bringing
the charge forward, and in their minds M. Pulsky and his
Hungarian brethren were exonerated from all knowledge
of, or participation in, or blame for, the frauds which the
deceased had practised on the benevolent.
The inquest on the body of the deceased will be held this
(Monday) afternoon.
home rather important political documents, found in the
packages of the deceased, were, with the consent of the
magistrates, taken possession of by Mr. Toulmin Smith, on
behalf of the friends of Hungary.

BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
On Saturday the ordinary annual meeting of this
company was held at the central station in the lyel Ex-
cbange-buildiags ; Mr. W. W. PIIAMMIN in the chair.
The report stated :—" The directors, having obtained
an act of parliament, had taken measures to mean
a route for their wires between London and the north, with
the view of connecting London and Dublin with the prin-
cipal towns of the United Kingdom. On the 13th day of
December, 1850, they made application to the board of the
London and North Western Company for permission to use
their lines of railway for this purpose, and on the 18th of
January, 1851, meet red an answer from the secretary ex-
preseing the Ea.:elect willingness of the London and North
West, rn Railway Company to accede to that request, and
at the seine time stating that they were desirous of Meil-
ing to this company ' every facility consistently with the
safety and convenience of their general arrangements.'
The directors having urged the board of the London and
North Western Railway Company to name the annual pay-
mint that would be sausfactury, a communication was re-
ceived from the secretary, on the 17th of March, 1861, set-
ting forth in detail the terms on which the free use of all
their lines of railway was to be conceded. These terms were
accepted by the directors of thiscompany, but while waiting
for the formal confirmation of them by the London and
North Western hoard, they suddenly received a communi-
cation to the effect that the London and North Western
Company had resolved not to enter into any new or perma-
nent engagements ' with either electric telegraph company
at present,' and directing all negotiations on the subject to
be suspended—an announcement which virtually amounted
to a repudiation of the arrangement entered into
with this company, upon the faith of which
being carried out the fullest reliance had been
placed, and arrangements had been made accordingly.
It had come to the knowledge of the directors, in theeonne of
their application to the various leading railway companies
fur the use of their lines, that a system of treaties, hoeing
for their object the exclusion of the B Electric Tele-
graph
Company from thine railways, had been almost uni•
firmly pursued, and agreements in accordance therewith,
in some eases, had been signed ; while in other instances,
negotiations actually commenced had been suspended, de-
layed, or put an end to by the influence of railway directors
having deep pecuniary interest in the existing telegraphic
monopoly. Such operations had at present prevented the
establishment of communication with the great centres of
telegraphic business in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Ex-
clusive agreements entered into by the Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire, and the Eastern Counties Railway
Companies, had temporarily impeded the directors from
securing a route from London to the North
over the lines of the Great Northern Railway.
The directors had, however, the satisfaction of stating that
they hail made arrangements for the use of the lines of the
Lineashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, by which
access would be afforded to all the principal teems through-'
out the manufacturing districts, and that negotiations were
in progress with several other companies. The directors
felt confident that the days of exclusive telegraphic coin-
muuication in this country were numbered—the bare sug-
gestion that uegotiations were pending which would have
the curet of surrendering a monopoly of the district tea•
versed by the lines of the London and North Western Rail-
way Company into the hands of the old telegraph company
aroused the (can of the whole mercantile community of the
country, and memorials signed by nearly 1,000 of the prin-
cipal commercial firms in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds,
Huddersfield, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow were
addressed to the board of directors of the London and
North Western Railway Company against the exclusive pos-
acnion of that railway being giventosnytelegraphcompany.
The directors had the satisfaction of Informing the
proprietors that a sufficient amount of capital had been
subscribed for by influential and responsible parties, to
enable the company to construct a thousand miles of tele-
graph. In conclusion, the directors would observe, that
expiris nee had fully confirmed their opinion as to the large
profits to be derived from telegraphic business. Considering,
therefore, the reduced price of telegraphic work, and the
small outlay incurred for the act of parliament, the patents,
and preliminary expenses of this company, the directors
felt confident that their most sanguine hopes would before
long he fully realised, and that when next they had the
pleasure of meeting their proprietors, they would be able
to announce to them the completion of extensive and re-
munerative works."
'fhe statement of accounts showed that the receipts on
depoits and payments in Weems amounted to 12,4671. 10a.
There together with dee osseents, having been re-
ceived and Wiggled, the mooting esparated.

SUTTON HARBOUR COMPANY.

The half-yearly misting of this company was
held at Plymouth, on Psiisy. W. H. Hswass, Esq.,
. . . .

The CHAIRMAN man& lint the report, with the state-
ment of &mourns, be received eml adopted. An abstract of
tite.e documents appeared in the ispros of Thursday last.
Several sieseliems respeedet the islides of the company
having hew asked of the dkeeliem by shareholden and
satisfiable* esswered, the reedeilem was carried.
A dividend of 15s. was then deelered, a Tote of thanks
was puma to the chairman sad directors, and the meeting
separated.

/SPARTCRE OF TUE NIAOAItA.-00 Saturday at
boon, the royal mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Leitch,
left the 'Mersey for New York direct, having on board the
usual melts for the United States and British America,
and about 140 passengers, among whom was the Mexican
ucral harms and his lady. The Niagara also took out
• full cargo of fins goods, mostly from Manchester and
Sheffield.

NlosET ORDEBL—Clenernl Post-ollor. Meat,
The undermentiosed oiled will be owned se meant
snowy order Mikes on the following des des., en the LS
September : Leyburn, Yorkshire. Bth : Far-
singhsm, Kent ; Princes Bisborough, But
'flush., Berkshire ; Wye, Kent. Thorp Ards, Mid**,
is. Med in the list for July last, should b designated se
baton Spa, Yorkshire. _ _ _

MDukt`M.,—To-day the early closiji/
lours or the autumnal seams bra to be observed et
establishment The dean will -be opened to the public
deiiy (except oa Saturday) how tea to live o'clock moil the
end of September, when the establishment will be closed for
• yea, sod afterwards only open to Monday, Wednesday, I
and Friday, to kw o'clock.
APPOIXTMLITS.—Dominick formerly
Cormorant Secretary and member of Council in Canada,
appointed Lieutenant-Governor at Tobago, in the room
or D. R. Doss, Esq., deceased. IL Duncan Wilmot, John
Ilarailtos Grey, mil Clomp Hayward, Inn., art appointed
iambus of tke Inmates Cdmaila New Blllaowlek'
vnewrir.