The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-17 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—The accounts from Berlin are still no I
later than the evening of the 13th.
In the sitting of the constituent Assembly at the
Schitren Bans, on the 12th, an address from the
deputise from Mecklenburg was received, assuring
the Assembly, in the name of the people of the two
duchies, of their entire co-operation with it. This ad-
dress, dated Schwerin the 11th, was read amid
thunders of applause. The report of the committee to
which petitions and addresses are referred, gave notice
of the reception of a document of the latter character,
in support of the Aseembly, from the constitutional
club of Msgdebnrg, and from esvtral district societies
of the environs of Berlin. From Stettin also, from

Grabow, Hapfermfilile, and Pomerania, simiiar ad-
dresses bad been received, as well ma from Anehus,
Soren, the provincial society of Silesia, from
Pasewalk Halle, Leber, Kolbe, Demnin, Branden-
burg, Ftirstenwalde, Glean, Schonebeck. Luckau,
and Potsdrm. The election for president having then
taken place, and Von Unruh being elected, that
gentleman rose and said :—" Gentlemen, this is
not the moment for making a long speech :
I can only my th'lt I shall never abandon the position
which you have given me." The member 'femme,
from his seat then cried out, "We all swear not to
allow ourselves to be removed except of our own free
wilt" (Cheers.) A vote of thanks to the Mecklen-
burger representat'ves was then carried unanimously.
Nothwithstanding the state of siege proclaimed by
government, the Assembly met next morning, and
proceeded to the business of the day with the usual
formalities. Several addresses and deputations from
the provinces were announced by the president,
amidst loud acclamations, amongst others from Breslau.
IThe most important proceeding of the day was the re-
port of the committee relative to the impeachment
of ministers. The conclusion of this report was that
the Chamber, not being a legally-constituted judicial
court, could not take upon itself the trial of the
accused, but that it was empowered and entitled to
bring acts of accusation against the ministry ; and,
this being the case, it moved that an accusation for
illegal acts should be drawn up and referred to the
Attorney-General, in order that he might take such
steps as the law permits. Among other announce-
ments made to the house by the president, was, that
the towns of Breslin and Liegnitsiad sent a donation
of 5,000 dollars to defray the expenses of deputies
during the suspension of their allowance from the
state. The proceedings were about this time
interrupted by the entry of a messenger, announcing
that a battalion of infantry occupied the whole
Linien-street, and that an officer had arrived
with a summons to the meeting to disperse. To
this the vice-president, who had taken the chair,
replied that he and his colleagues would only yield
to the force of bayonets. A pause then took place,
when, as the mob appeared to threaten the soldiers,
a aseand battalion arrived to its support, and the
eassmilseary of police entered the hall of meeting,
and summoned the vice-president and members to
quit the premises. To this the whole house reso-
lutely replied, "Never, until forced by arms."
Upon this, two or three officers, with a party of sol-i
diers, entered, and, repeating the summons, received
the same answer. Thereupon the officers exclaimed,
" We will not use bayonets, but other means; " and
the soldiers advanced, seized the chair upon which
M. Plonise was seated, and carried him gently
into the street, where they deposited him
safely. The remaining members, upon this, rose,
and the vice-president having declared that the
dignity of the Chamber could not permit of their
remaining to be exposed to further violence, proposed
adjourning, after solemnly protesting against this act
of violence. The deputies, on leaving the place of
meeting, were literally carried upon the arms of the
people who stood outside, laughing at or greeting the
military with ironical shouts of applause.
General Wrangel has under his command, at Berlin,
26 battalions of infantry, 12 squadrens of cavalry, sod
18 batteries of artillery, in all 25,000 men, with 64
field-pieces. There are also within a short distance of
the city, and revered to advance when required, 18
battalions of infantry, 8 regiments of cavalry, and 12
field batteries, with 96 guns.
At Treves, on the 12th inst., meetings of the
electors of the district, of the democratic club, and
of the Lsndwehr Verein, adopted addresses in support
of the National Assembly.
Since the foregoing was in type there are accounts
from Berlin to the evening of the 14th. At 8 P.M.
the city was quiet. Not above 500 stand of arms had
been delivered up to the government. The National
Assembly had again met; de sitting was uninterrupted
until regularly adjourned.

AUSTRlA.—Letters are stated to have reached
Vienna from Servos announcing that the Magyars
bad attacked Sir* and Temezigt, but that they had
been twice repulsed by the Servians. The Magyars,
however, bad succeeded in capturing the fortress of
Eseek. The Servians were flocking in large numbers
towards Dalja, where Kossuth had arrived, at the
head of a considerable body of troops.
Our own correspondent, writing from Vienna on
the 12th, states that the number of secret executions
which had taken place within the last few days in
that city had excited general apprehension.
The fate of Messenhauser was uncertain; accord-
ing to some accounts he bad been shot; ac-
cording to others, his sentence had been commuted.
Fribel, one of the three delegates appointed by the
left of the Frankfort Assembly to proceed
to Vienna with an address of sympathy, had been
sentenced to death, but was pardoned through the
intervention of the Swiss ambassador.
SAXONY.—The intelligence of the murder of
Blum, et Vienna, was known at Dresden on the 12th,
and Leipzic on the 13th inst. The Deutsch* .41440-
I melee Zeausg, of the 14th inst., says, under date
Dresden the 12th : " Blum has been shot. This fear-
ful news reached us through an official despatch seat
by the Saxon ambassador. The intelligence has been
spread through the town, and caused the greatest in-
dignation. A. number of the members of the left of
our Saxon Diet, in conjunction with several deputiee
of the Frankfort Assembly at present on leave, met,
and prepared the following proclamation, which wss
sent forth to the people. It is IPA follows : 'An
unheard of occurrence has taken place. Robert Blum,
the leader of the decided party of freedom in the
Frankfort Assembly, the most faithful friend of the
people, has been murdered in cold blood, in ogees-
queue. of his high-minded participation in the birds
fight of the Viennese. The horror of united
will be excited towards the perpetrators of thin:l
which did not spare the head of a representative d
the people. The German people will know its duty,.
and will declare its own the chil3ren of him who wee
the most honoured upholder of its liberty.' The
matter will be brought to-morrow before the Diet.*
A letter from Leipzic, of the 13th, says :—A pla-
card has just been published to the following effect:
Fellow-citisems,—Tha national representative, Roast
Blum, has been shot at Vienna. The holiest right of the
National Amenably has been violated. Such a violation
mat cause all party feeling to disappear. It is necessary to
unite in a general sepal= of the central power sad the
National Assembly, that this violation of their sovereignty
lacy be punished. We consider it abe our Dolled day to
all upon every one to take all necessary steps la the 'natter.
—Signed by the evident and secretary of the enemata, of
the German CIO (Dertsche Verne), Dr. Guano—
Votnia•xn.

ST. CIROSIL—Sir,—I COSCOZ mort
al hilly with your
oorrespondent 0., as to the present -administeation o
the income 31this noble charity; and as an admirer of the
zeal you bays ever shown to remedy public wrongs, and ex-
pose public abuses, would man the favour to hi allowed
ones again to call public attention to the present manage-
ment and income of perhaps one of the noblest monuments
of the benevolence of our anosetries. My object in doing
this is a cwindent hops that by attracting public attentioe
to this valuable and much abased charitable endowment
through the instrumentality of the Express, a reform

it its management may be effected. The hospital of St.
Cross was originally founded and endowed by Henry de
Blois, Bishop of Winchester, in the 12th century, for the
maintenance of 13 poor men who were to be lodged and fed is
it. Large additions were subsequently made to the building:
and revenues cf the hospital h. Cardinal 13.aufort, whose en-
dowment provided for the entire rosint.esoca of thirty de-
cayed gentleman in addition to the thine. n poor men already
provided for by De Blois. The endowments in both eases
consisted of land in the immediate neighbourhood of the
hospital and the great tithes of parishes of very considerable
value in this and the adjoining counties. With few excep-
tions the hospital still retains the property then bequeathed
to it, the political storms which have swept over so man
similar institutions haying left it comparatively
It now maintains thirteen men (indifferently), and • chaplain.
who has &penmen"; in the li.spital with a garden and a
salary of fifty pounds a year. A similar sitar yis paid to a
steward, who has the entire control and care of the hospital,
the Earl of Guildford, the master, being not only a pluralist,
but, so far as St. Cross is concerned, a ainecurist in the fullest
sense of the word. Your correspondent " G." is not far
wrong when he stated the property of the hospital was worth
nearly ten thousand a year ! The expense of maintaining the
thirteen brethren, "as they are called—the repairs of build-
Legs (including the fine old Norman church), with oceadoca
" doles," that is, periodical distributions of bread at the
gate. of the hospital, together with the salaries of the chap-
's and steward, amount annually to a Nun avenging under
one thousand pounds. It will naturally be asked, how,
then, is the large property of the luepital disposed of, and
into whose pockets does ti go ? A few words will explain this.
The whole of the property of the hospital, with the decep-
tioa of some land adjoining it, which is let et eaek.rent,
consists, as I said before, of the grey tithes of valuable pe-
rishes. I may mention those of Crondall, famous for hops
those of Owslehury, near Winchester, and of Passions, near •
Portsmouth (the tithes of tee two last-mentioned have re-
cently been commuted under the Tithe Act at upwards o
2,0001. a year) ; of Up Hurstboome and Amport, near
Andover; of St. Faith, near Winchester; with many others.
These valuable properties have, I believe, been 'neatly
'commuted into money num. The revenues of the hospital,
are therefore easily collected, nor liable to much fluctuation.
They are now leased out on three lives. When • death oo-
curs, • fine is levied on the nomination of a new life, end this
Sae is divided in the somewhat curious meaner noticed by
your orereepoodent. To each of the thirties breekreainisirsz
pardoned yid. in the pound ; to the chaplain and st
ed. in the pound use • and the muter removes the remain-
log 16e. 10d. The Earl of Guildford received not many
years since from one finonearly 10,0001. as his share. Com-
ment on each a state of things is unnecessary.. The object
to be attained is how to ranee,' such a perversion of a public
' charity. With this view it may be perhaps necessary to
notice that the charity eommisaioners, when visiting this hoe.
pital some years since, declined to examine its management
and report upon its revenues, because by the will of the en-
dowers its management was placed under the control of the
Bishop of Winchester for the time being, • clause in the
Public Charities Act, excluding from the jurisdiction of the
commissioners all soca eneritable institutions. Why
ouch a clause was inserted in the set it is dif-
ficult to conceive ; for ,in the case of St. Cram
Hospital, the reason alleged for the non-interference
of the coeunisalomen is the very which of al
others rendered their control necessary. The mutership o
St. Cress Hospital is in the gift of the Bishop of Winchester.
It is a valuable piece of patronage which the bishop for the
time being invariably presents to a son, a nephew, a cousin,
or kinsman. The present master is the son of • former
bishop (North) who held the see when the mastership was
last vacant A similar feeling may naturally be expected to
influence future appointments, and when it is considered that
the effect of a Bishop of Winchester exenising the power
which he alone is mud to pawn to put en end to the scanda-
lous abuses of the hospital management would be to reduce
the value of his own property, it is idle to expect amendmen
from such • source. It is said that the Earl of Guildford de-
fies all interference on the ground that the hospital is an
ecclesiastical benefice—but such is not the fact. In an exa-
mination of its affairs by the celebrated William of Wyk*.
ham it was decided otherwise. The mastership is purely a
lay office, with no spiritual duties attached. That the hos-
pital is a charitable endowment, and as such open to be deal t
with by a court of equity, there seems little doubt The
mode of setting the machinery in motion is the difficulty,
and it is by calling public attention to the matter through
the instrumentality of the Express, that I hope such •
desirable consummation may be et cted. I believe no
charity in the kingdom presents a more glaring Intranet, of
public property diverted from its original intention to
the enrichment of a private individual.—WievoniameM
Nov. 13.

SECOND EDITION.
From Use GAZETTE of THIS NIGHT.

Warreamx, Nov. 18. The Queen bee been
pleased to present the Rev. Duncan M'Parlane, minister o f
the mimirmary church at Amulree, to the church and parish
of Kinloch Rannoch, in the presbytery of Weem, and county
of Perth, vacant by the deposition of Mr. Alexander
Macintyre, late minute: thereof.

WAR OYFICE, Nov. lf.
Std Drag. Goa:dn.—A. C. Shaw, gnat., to be vet. surgeon, vice
3113"IneHof root.—See. Lieut. T. Trent, from b.-p. Met F., to be
te, viiisot var. : A-Comedy, pat., to be eas., by per., vice Trail,
who maim.

73d P.V. Beene% gent.. to be ma., by par., vice Williamson,
perm. in the Nth F.
F.-13eut H. Hoiden to be edit., Mee Frith, promoted.
elad F.—Lieut. T. P. D. Hay, to be rapt, by par., Mos Douglas,
who rot. ; Ems. C. 'flood. to be limit. by pur., Moe Hay; J. O.
Campbell, gent., to be am, by par., Mee M'Leed
Nth F.—Ens. W. B. WMenem, from 39rd F., to be lieut., without
Mee O'Sullivan, who ret. ; Serg.-Ihnor to be Auer.
rise Ritatardmrs. the.
73rd F.--Serg. P. Ylatelma, from Borta Fodder Oda, to be adjut.,
with the rank of ens.. rim Swoop, killed at the Cape.
77WF.—B. D. OM% Gent., to be ena., without per., Tire Harley,
dammed. . ,

else P.-11siar T. et. Leger Akeek, hem b.-p. 'matt.. to be major,
vice brevetAlent..coL O.V. Cheek who exch.; Capt. 11. Ronny, to
be me*, by par., vies Akeek, who net.;Lieut. Austen, to be
apt, by par., vice Rimy ; Ens. P. O. B. Lake, to be lb•ut., by pur.,
vice Austen; H. L. Wears, Gent., to be ens., by par., vice Lake.
Usarracies.—Lieut. J. T. J. Erglialt, host the 71st F., to be wt.,
without purchase.

loyal lialinoo—H. P. Cooper 14.
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BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Joan Tnowrsox, Wallerow, Islington, stone-mason.
BANKRUPTS.
WILLIAM CRIBNALL, Tothill-street, Weatalioster, CUR
dealer
Joni! Rizzuto:ma, Wicklumunsrket, Suffolk broker.
Jonas kluwritturs, Grove-west, Hackney, furnishing
undertaker.
Jaime FABIAN WILLS, Portsmouth, wharfiager.
lone Barrairr, Bart street, Bloomsbury, artists' brush
manufacturer.
THOMAS WARD, Smethwick, Staffordshire, railway pin
and bolt manufacturer.
Gunton RADFORD, Aifreton, Derbyshire, builder.
Taowas MANION, Lloyd's Coffee House, City, under-
writer.
CHASSIS Joearw JOHN TURNER and WILLIAM AIMEE-
ION, Old Jewry, City, auctioneers.
Hewitt Pam, Woruester, clerk.
Tao/US LARXINS WALKER., JAMES MOODY WITHER,
mad EDWARD WILLIAM HELSALL, Nuneaton, Warwick-
shire, brick makers.
JAMBS THOMAS, Newport, Mr--
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Lonmouthahire, apothecary.

for the Week ending Nov.ll.

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