The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-01 00:00:00

age, was brother of Count Anatole de Montesquien.thevalier
01 honour of the Queen.
EPIDINICII IN FRANCE.—For some days past, we
have remedied in the neighbourhood of Compidgne several
mem of diamboaa, dysentery, some of native cholera nimbus,
tlidenrolliss • some ems of inflammation of the bronchial
s'the throat; intermittent fevers of a mild
leatism, but still requiring to be immediately attended to, or
ebb they might become dangerous. There is also another
disorder, which is very prevalent and peculiar to infancy,
awe dangerous than the croup itself, and much more dit,
Galt l• be stopped, as its march io Ilene rapid, and it attacks
m. younger children. This morbid affection bean a great
analogy both to native and Asiatic cholera.—DeUts.
MURDER.—A man named Martineau, aged 24, was
some time back condemned, at Valenciennes, to ten months'
imprisonment for stealing some hay. Pretending some
affairs to regulate, he obtained permission to remain at large
for a short time. He was heard to utter threats against
several persons to whom he attributed his condemnation,
and particularly against his wife, who, in consequence, took
refuge at the house of her brother-in-law, named Courriere.
The latter was, on Sunday night, sleeping with a man named
peon, when Martineau privately entered the house, armed
with a cutlass and a hammer, and knowing the locality, pro-
ceeded at once to the bed where they lay. Ile struck Cour-
riko repeatedly on the head with the hammer, and wounded
him mortally. Meanwhile Mignon had awoke, and was at-
tempting to escape when Martineau struck him with the cutlass
in the throat, and deprived him of sensation. lie followed this
attack up by a shower of blows, and desisted only when he
conceived his victim to be dead. He then proceeded to the
room where his wife was sleeping, and struck repeatedly
what he conceived to be her throat. He only at last gave
over when he conceived her to be dead. He wandered about
during the night, and in the morning entered a wine-shop
at St. Amend, near the house where the crime was commit-
ted, and had something to drink. Meanwhile his wife,
whose arm it was that had been *track, and not her neck,
had given the alarm, and the police agents, being put on
Martineau's track, arrested him in the wine-shop spoken of
above. Courriere died at once ; Migeoa is very badly
wounded, but hopes are entertained of saving his life. The
woman is not considered in danger. Martineau has been re-
moved to the prison of Valencieanes.
GERMANY.—AUSTRIA.—LEMBERG (IN GALICIA),
Ara. 16.—The pilgrimages to the gallows-hill, where the
persons executed for taking part in the late insurrection are
buried, have been put a stop to. The last was dispersed by
the military, and several who took part in it—ladies among
others—were arrested, but dismissed with a reprimand. The
Countess o—, who had been very active collecting signa-
tures to a petition for the pardon of the condemned, has re-
salved orders to quit the town. The grain harvest promises
well, but the potatoes are again a failure.
PRUSSIA. BERLIN. The fourth meeting of
the Association for the Promotion of Trade and Manufac-
tures was held on the 17th of August. Dr. Asher read an
interesting paper on the system of differential duties. The
main object of the essay was to show how prejudicially the
English navigation act and the protective system had ope-
rated upon English trade and shipping. The learned essay-
ist illustrated his propositions by copious extracts from the
first fear reports of the evidence taken by the House of Com-
mons' committee of last session upon the navigation
law. The Pruseian Allgenteine Zeseung publishes this
part of the doctor's paper, to warn against the blind
imitation of the English navigation law and protective sys-
tem recommended by the journals of southern and western
Germany. The Augsburg Gazette states that it is the inten-
tion of the King of Prussia to proceed from Ischl to Trieste,
and thence to Lombardy. He is expected to remain some
time in Upper Italy, and to make while there an excursion
to Genoa.

MOLDAVIA.—GALATz, AUG. 24.—0 n the 24th
alt., Galata, in Moldavia, was visited by a violent storm,
preceded by immense flights of locusts, brought by an
easterly wind from the Russian province of Bessarabia. In
an hour afterwards there was so heavy a fall of rain and hail
that the town was in ten minutes converted into one great
lake, the hail spreading destruction around. Sheep were
killed by it in the fields, and more than a hundred head of
cattle were drowned in the Danube. Windmills were blown
down—a man was killed, and a woman had both her arms
broken.

HUNGARY.—PgsTrt. A correspondent writes
from Peeth (Hungary) :—" The first subject that the Hun-
garian Diet, which is to be opened in November, will occupy
itself with, will be the repeal of an ancient law, in virtue of
which the direct descendants of any person who may have
sold a landed estate in the country may redeem it at any
time, on returning the sum actually paid for it to the ances-
tor. The existence of this absurd law is the only cause of
the low value of land in Hungary, and the lamentable state
of its agriculture ; for no one will expend money in the im-
provement of that whiclimay at any time be taken from
him at a reimbursement of a price which may not be equal
to one-tenth of its improved value. Only a few days ago
the possessor of a vast domain on the eastern frontier of
Hungary, worth at least 500,000 fr., was obliged to give it
up for only 50,040 fr., to a descendant of the person who had
sold it for this RUM, at the time when Hungary was at war
with Turkey, and an invasion was daily expected."
SYRIA.—BEYROUT, AUG. 6.—The approaching
departure of Kiamil Fuchs for Constantinople has occasioned
here a general sorrow, for, latterly, this part of Syria has
been quite tranquil, and this can only be attributed to the
administration of the paella. After his arrival there were
no more persecutions of the Christians, as formerly, and
their condition became much ameliorated. It is not known
what sort of a man the new governor-general, hlustafa
Puha, is. It is reported that he is a well-educated man,
and epeaks several European languages. By the last
Austrian steamer, Kiamil Pacha sent to Constantinople the
chief of the Ansari, the Sheik Abdel-Hanunid ben Sheik
Tounes, who was arrested respecting the affair of Meseta.
It is not known if he will return or not. This
exile to Constantinople of the chief of the Ansari has
created a great sensation in all his co-religionists; some of
them are afraid that the Ansari will quarrel with the Chris-
tians and disturb the public peace. Everybody here is
talking of the project of the Turkish government to make a
' military conscription from amongst the Christians. Thus,
ems poor people, especially those of the city, who cannot
be the smell of powder, are afraid to leave their houses for
At of being seized and turned into soldiers. A saddler of
Mt, a native of Damascus, was found murdered a few
o, on the mountain, in a place belonging to the ad.
lion of the Druse Caimakan. The murderers have
not yet been discovered.
THE RIVER PLATE.—The Liverpool Times pub-
lishes the following extract of a letter, dated Monte Video,
July 14, 1847: " As the Rattler will, it is understood, posi-
tively sail to-morrow, I proceed to give you as far as I am
able an account of the state in which affairs remain here at
this moment. My information will not be very full or very
satisfactory, and will, in fact, be in a crest measure formed
upon conjecture and inference. In the first place, the treat-
ment we have met with at the hands of Lord Howien has
been anything hut courteous. Oa his return from Buenos
Ayres, the chairman of thecommittee of the British merchants
here addressed him a note requesting an interview at his
earliest convenience, in order to pay their respects, and to
explain to him the embarrassments of their position. His
lordship replied that he could not admit to an interview any
' person or persons' who might seek information for them-
selves, or who might wish to ask his opinion on negotiations
yet pending. The chairman replied, setting his lordship
right in.hia interpretation of his first note, and ditelaiming
any intention of the committee thrusting themselves into
the confidence of his lordship. After some days, a reply
was received again, insinuating that the committee had
asked for information, at the same time volunteering an ofier
to give them all he might acquire the'moment he could do
so with certainty, and asking their opinion in writing as to
the manner in which British interests in Monte Video would
be affected by the raising the blockade of Buenos Ayres.
This question was found difficult to answer in conformity
with their permanent interests, as well as with their present
wishes, without subjecting themselves to the charge of
having, in giving their opinion, been actuated by interests
altogether unconnected with those of ale legitimate British
export and import trade with these countries ; they also un-
derstood, that if they admitted their trade to be injuriously
affected by the blockade, the necessary concomitant of the
political position of Great Britain in the River Plate, he
would take them at their word, and justify by their written
opinion, a measure that would have made the fall of Monte
Video certain. The committee endeavoured to avoid both
these difficulties, and replied in the form of a series of reso-
lutions, passed at a meeting called for the purpose of taking
his lordship's note into consideration." The resolutions
declared that the continuance of the blockade under existing
circumstances was essential to the safety of Monte Video and
fin independence of the Argentine Republic. To this com-
munication his lordship had not, when his letter was written,
. ; returned any reply.
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THE PRASLIN MURDER.
The committee of examination of the Court of
Peers met on Saturday. It does not appear that any inves-
tigation was proceeded to. The physicians and chemists
have depeeited in the hands of the chancellor the minutes of
their report. We are assured that the conclusion deduced
from the facts consigned in this report are—let., that the
Duke do Praslin succumbed to poisoning; 2nd that the
poisoning took place by arsenic ; 3rd, that, according to the
symptoms observed in the development of the attack, and to
the discoveries made in the body by the autzpsy and che-
mical analysis, the absorption of the poison took place on the
18th. The Droit says that " Two wills of the Duchess
de Praslin have been deposited in the hands of the President
of the Civil Tribunal of the Seine. One of these is dated in
1841, and the other in 1846. In the first the duchees speaks
of her husband in the moat affectionate terms. In the
second she does not, as has been erroneously stated, give a
life interest to the deke in all her property, but bequeaths to
him a part of her personal property, and a life interest in one
of her landed estates. In this last will is a curious clause,
by which she leaves her lewelo to noo m use sone with die...
hone ihat they 'hall be sold, and the produce invested
is government funds. The dividends of the stock thus
purchased are to be invested to accumulate till the time
when this son shall be about to be married, when the
whole fund thus augmented is to be laid out in the
purchase of diamonds for his bride. On Saturday morn-
ing the will of the Duke de Praslin was also depo-
sited in the hands of the President of the Civil Tribunal.
This will, as has been already announced, was in the port.
folio of the duke, who, just before his death, took care to in-
dicate that circumstance. Immediately after the decease of
the prisoner the portfolio was opened, and two wills were
found, bearing date 1841 and 1843. The first is not signed,
but the second, which is the exact reproduction of it, is per-
fectly regular. In this testamentary act of 1843, the Duke
de Paulin, after several liberalities made to his different
children, leaves par precipol the chateau of Paulin de Vans
to his eldest son. In a particular clause ho engages his sons
not to contract marriage before having attained their