The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1846.

being the system adopted by them, and tolerated
by us, we are not surprised at their attacking Tam-
pico. It may oast the Washington treasury some
dollars, but these dollars will find their way back
immediately into the pockets of the New Englanders.
'The Mexicans will not suffer much. It is only Jam;
NULL ; who, as usual, bears the blows of both, as of
all belligerent parties in every quarter of the globe.
Meantime, whilst the Americans are sailing against
Tampico, less bent upon carrying its fortifications
than its custom-house by assault, SANTA ANNA is
declaring against the machinations of his predecessor,
who conspired, he says, to introzluce an European
monarch into Mexico. It is very possible that
PAREDES and HERRERA may have been so foolish;
very possible that, feeling themselves and the state
drowning in the troubled waters of Mexican disorder,
they might try to grasp, like ITURBIDE, that straw
sceptre which LEAR brandished, and which betokens
monarchy. It is however but idle and transparent by-
pocrisy,—this rousing of the popular indignation against
a visionary and a mad project,—while the stern and solid
reality of Anglo-American conquest is actually on the
threshold, nay, within the precincts, of the Mexican
empire. We know not what to think of SANTA
ANNA. Whether he be BauTus the fool, playing the
idiot before his oppressors, or BRUTUS the patriot,
meditating his country's liberation, remains an enigma
for time alone to solve.

THERE is no situation in which a mild though firm
disposition, and a temper completely under the con-
trol of reason, is more indispensably required than in
the keeper of a House of Correction. Every glimpse
of passion or vindictiveness which a person in that
situation allows to escape from him, diminishes his
authority. Every infliction of pain or privation that
prisoners can ascribe to his anger or personal pique,
counteracts the effect intended to be produced by
punishment,---by justifying them in their own eyes.
They are taught to look upon themselves as
only the weaker parties in a struggle ; not as con-
strained by a passionless and impartial law. These
remarks are applicable to all entrusted with
the charge of criminals, however subordinate their
position ; but they are of most consequence in the
case of a person entrusted with the management of
a penal establishment.
The appearance made by Mr. SIBLEY, governor of
the Brixton House of Correction, when summoned
by Mr. NORTON on Friday last to hear the state-
ments made by MARIA ROAST to his prejudice, was
hardly such as to inspire much confidence in his tem-
,' per and judgment. Mr. NORTON'S object in sending
for him was friendly: to afford him an opportunity
of explaining statements, which certainly were sus-
' ceptible of explanation, and which as certainly re-
quired it. Mr. SIBLEY, however, appears to have
felt his dignity outraged by the mere supposition that
anything a prisoner might say could affect him. lie
haughtily complained of being "taken away from an
important duty" to attend to such a trumpery case ;
interrupted Mr. NORTON more than once, with remarks
characterised alike by petulance and levity ; and, in
short, so conducted himself that the brow-beaten
magistrate declared he would beware of again incur-
ring such treatment by sending for Mr. SIBI.EY on
any future occasion, to let him know when anything
was said against him.
Mr. SIBLEY'S wilful and obstinate misapprehension
of Mr. NORTON'S motives, would of itself afford reason
to question his fitness for the office he holds ; and
his admissions respecting the treatment of the girl
ROAST, render his qualifications still more doubtful.
The prisoner stated that on account of her violence a
tight pair of handcuffs were put upon her, an easier pair
she had previously worn not being removed. Her
hands were by these double ligatures fastened behind
her back ; and in this condition she was allowed to
remain from mid-day, to eight o'clock on the following
morning. In this condition, as if to tantalise her,
some bread was placed in her lap. The girl, it is
obvious enough, is a violent and untractable cha-
racter ; but confinement was the only punishment
she had legally incurred. The restraint of the
handcuffs was necessary to check her destructive
propensities; but that end having been attained, the
double handcuffs, the hunger, the privation of sleep she
was compelled to endure, were mere wanton inflictions
of pain, or the vindictive expression of the gaoler's
offended dignity. Yet while Mr. NORTON was dwelling
upon the impropriety of such treatment, Mr. SIBLEY
interrupted him to observe that " it was very often
done ;" and when Mr. NORTON enlarged upon the
cruelty, Mr. SIBLEY coolly remarked that he " knew
instances where prisoners were kept one, two, and
even three days in the state of which the prisoner
complained."

This incautious admission of Mr. 'SIBLEY esta-
blishes the necessity of inquiring into the treatment
to which prisoners are subjected at the Brixton House
of Correction. The charges of MARIA ROAST might
have been disregarded as the vindictive calumnies of
a violent and profligate woman. But the truculent
deportment of the governor towards the magistrate, and
the extra-legal additions to pun: shment which he admits
he is in the habit of inflicting, render inquiry into the
general management of the institution under his
charge inevitable. Where prisoners are, at the dis-
cretion of the governor, tied up with two pairs of hand-
cuffs at once; kept one, two, or three days so manacled
that they cannot sleep except from exhaustion, nor
cat except by grovelling on the ground like dogs ;
insubordination is inevitable. Prisoners are always
insubordinate when they know that they are made to
suffer more than the law warrants, to gratify the
spleen or self-will of the governor. When such a
mood is engendered among prisoners, it is by brute
force alone that turnkeys and warders can keep them
in subordination. In a House of Correction, where
discipline such as Mr. SIBLEY confesses to is
enforced, the scene described by MARIA ROAST
is quite conceivable. The mockery of laying a bible
and prayer-book beside the inmate of a cell too dark
to read in, is quite in keeping. There is not only pro-
bability but possibility, in the crescendo grotesque
brutality of the struggle through all its gradations ;
from the sending a male turnkey into the cell to re-
move the woman's clothes, up the whole gamut of
her Billingsgate, to the frantic tearing of her raiment,
leaving herself scarcely enough for the purposes of
decency, and to the grand finale of her assaulting the
turnkey with the same weapon which PALLETT, in
Perep inePickle,is made to brandish against his French
prototype. Much of this may be the invention of
an angry and reckless woman; but after the manner in
which Mr. SIBLEY deported himself in the police-
court at Lambeth, and the cool revelations respecting
his system of prison discipline which he made there,
investigation is necessary to re-assure the public.

We have received the Paris journals of Friday
with our private correspondence. Those of the Court
show little disposition to relax their vehemence on
the Spanish question. A telegraphic despatch, dated
Madrid, 7th October, which reached Paris on Friday,
states :

" The French princes entered Madrid, on horseback, at
three in the afternoon of yesterday, the weather being most
beautiful. Their royal highnesses were welcomed on all
sides with marked respect and sympathy. The Queen and
Infanta received them admirably. Madrid had yesterday
the aspect of a day of rejoicing. Perfect tranquillity reigns
there to-day."
The Journal des Deficits continues its itinerary of
the French princes more in the style of a writer of
romance than of a journalist. M. I)uniiis, the most
prolific novelist of the day, who went in the suite of
the princes in the official character of historiographer
of the ceremonies, seems to have had something to do
with the picturesque articles which adorn the columns
of the Debats from day to day, and which bear the
date of the Royal procession. The Dada replies to
the article we quoted from the Constitutionnel. It
acknowledges that Lord Normanby read to M. Guizot
on Monday a copy of the note which Mr. Bulwer was
authorised to transmit to the Spanish Cabinet, and in
substance admits the purport of that document. But
it insists that the conditions of the treaty of Utrecht

are fulfilled by the renunciation of the French crown
by the Duke of Montpensier.
" We doubt much," say, the Wait, "that the recent
note of the British pummel:it demands the renunciation of
the Spanish crown by the Infanta. No foreign government
whatever could think of making such a demand on a sove
reign and independent state. Neither do we believe that
the British cabinet has expressed its persuasion that all the
great powers of Europe would take the same view of the
cowequences of the Montpen,ier marriage. The British
cabinet can only speak in its own name."
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The National says that it believes that
" M. Ouizot must have received last night a sort of ulti-
matum on the Spanish question, for he sent, at a late hour
last night (Thursday), to awaken one of his secretaries, who
came in all haste to the Foreign-office, and laboured with the
minister until this morning (Friday). It seems also that a
note of no very agreeable sort has been received from Austria
on the same subject. The old and decrepid treaty of Utrecht
is the around of these discussions. We are thus, after two
revolutions, which have established the right of the people
to rule themselves, being brought hack into the pretensions
of a past age. Such is the fate of powers that are unfaithful
to their mission. The treaty of Utrecht is a dead letter with
tree nations. It is, however, a living fact for royal preten-
sions, and we may regard it as a merited chastisement that
as Europe should combine against a dynasty which has
separated its personal interests from the interests of the
nation."
La France states that—
" The expected visit of King Leopold to Paris is connected
with a contemplated mediation on his part between the King
of the French and the British Government, with a view to
assuage the irritation produced by the Spanish marriages."
The prefects of the different departments of France
have intimated to the government the necessity of
employing a considerable portion of the population on
public works, in consequence of the insufficiency of
the harvests. The Ministers of the Interior, of Com-
merce, of Public Works, and of Finances, are, ac-
cordingly, taking the most active measures with that
object.
The battle between the Free-trade party and the
Protectionists in France has regularly opened. Each
day one leading journal or another takes up the ques-
tion. Free-trade societies are everywhere starting
up, and as soon as the excitement of the Spanish
question has subsided the commercial question will
become prominent, The Nationd, of to-day, takes
up the Protectionist side, which will, probably, be
that of the leading organs of the opposition. The
ministerial journals, it is needless now to say, have
already sounded the trumpet in favour of free-trade,
although in a very moderate and cautious tone. The
National declares its intention of advancing again
and again to the charge, and, as it has begun with the
old arguments of the English Protectionist party I
which have been listened to and refuted even to
weariness, we may expect that all the discussions
which have filled the English press for several years
back, and especially for the last two or three years,
are now about to be reproduced on the one side and
the other in the Paris journals.
'fhe French government, with the view of tran-
quillising the apprehensions arising from the high
prices of corn, is said to contemplate issuing an order
to all contractors for the supply of the army and navy,
and the public service in general, that they must
derive their supplies from the foreign markets. This
will cause a slight augmentation of the budget, but
it will be the means of giving much relief to the
working classes.
Nothing can exceed the scandalous abuses of the
Paris post-office. Our correspondent states, that up
to the time of closing this dispatch he had not re-
ceived a single provincial or foreign journal or letter.
The English journals of Tuesday were not delivered
until seven o'clock in the evening of Thursday. Re-
monstrances have been vain. The French press exerts
little influence to repress official abuses.

The despatches of our Paris correspondent of Satur-
day's date have also arrived by our usual express,
and with them the French and other foreign journals.
The Debuts has taken time to breathe, and has
filled the blank left is its columns by the momentary
suspension of the marriage question, by an article on
the state of Ireland.

The Presse returns to the charge, and fulminates
another article at Lord Palmerston. Admitting that
it is impossible to deny that a very grave misunder-
standing has arisen between France and England on
this marriage question, it asks—" What is to be the
issue ?" France, strong in her sense of right, cannot
yield to a resistance justified by no international en-
gagements. After referring to the state of Europe
at the end of the 17th century, and drawing a parallel
between the position of Louis XIV. then and Louis
Philippe now, in relation to England and other
powers, the writer concludes with answering the
question, " How will it all end ?"
" Evidently, as it ended in 1711 by a change of policy in
England, the Whigs desire to reserve the right of war on this
ground; they claim to forbid absolutely to the dcscendsnta
of a prince of the reigning house of France the right of as-
cending the Spanish throne; they reject now, as they did in
1700, a 3 compromise. But the Tories de:ire peace.
They do not claim unreasonably to forbid the exercise
of a legitimate right. They are satisfied with securing the
object of the Treaty of Utrecht, by separating the crowns of
France and Spain, as they were in 1713. Louis XIV.
resisted the Whigs, and as he had on his side right, reason,
and the desire of peace, he prevailed. Louis Philippe
will resist the Whigs like Louis XIV., and as he
has on his side, besides the right, the Treaty
of Utrecht and the public opinion of Europe, he will like-
wise prevail. Queen Anne changed her ministers, and peace
was signed. Queen Victoria will change her ministers, and
peace will be maintained. Behold, how it all will end !"
We find the following in the France:
" We are able to announce in the most formal manner that
diplomatic declarations, emanating from Paris, have been
communicated to the Great Powers, confirming former and
adding new guarantees that the crowns of Spain and France
can never be united on the same head. It only rem 'ins to
be known whether this declaration will be deemed sufficient,
or whether England will persist in exacting a renewal of
the renunciation made by the Treaty of Utrecht, so far as
may relate to the children to be born of the marriage of the
Duke de Montpensier and the Infanta Donna Luisa of
Spain."
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The Dues de Montpcnsier and d'Aumale are ex-
pected at Bayonne on the 2:3rd or 24th, on their
return from Spain. They will pass a day in that
town, where a grand file will he given to them. The
next day the Due d'Aumale will leave for Paris, and
the royal bridegroom and his bride will proceed to
Pau, where they will stay two or three days.
M. Damon, Minister of Public Works, has returned
from England, and Vice-Admiral Mackau from his
tour of inspection on the coast.
The Patric states that the Minister of Foreign
Affairs is about to make some diplomatic changes.
Several ambassadors and ministers plenipotentiary
are, it is said, to be placed on the retired list, and two
young deputies are spoken of as amongst the succes-
sors. M. de Barante, jun., it is added, is to be a
secretary of embassy. According to the same
account, there are to be, on the return of the Minister
of the Interior, several changes in the prefectures.
M. Le Vcrrier, the discoverer of the new planet,
member of the French Academy of Sciences, has been
promoted officer of the Legion of Honour. M. Galle
of Berlin, who first observed the said planet, has
been nominated member of the same order.
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Letters from Geneva, to the date of the 6th, have
brought accounts of serious disturbances in that city
arising out of the disputes with the Catholic Can-
tons. Four public meetings were held in the church
of St. Gervais, attended by about 2,000 persons, at
which violent harangues against the measures of the
Grand Council of the Canton were delivered, and re-
solutions passed to the effect that " the decree of the
council was unconstitutional, and would be null and
void until the confederation shall decide upon it.
At the meeting held on the evening of the sth, Mr.
James Fazy declared that, although the moment to
act had not yet arrived, since the government had
scarcely a hundred men under arms, yet that it
behoved them to be vigilant The meeting, with the
most furious shouts of "Liberty or death!" resolved
to assemble 300 armed citizens to guard the Faubourg
during the night.
A report prevailed in Paris on Friday night and
Saturday, that a revolutionary movement had taken
place in Geneva on Wednesday (the ith). The
council had called out six companies of militia.
The Epoque which, on subjects of public policy, is
understood to express the sentiments of M. Guizot,
devoted its leading article on Saturday to the subject
of free-trade, giving all the well-known arguments
which demonstrate the benefit arising from a free
interchange of commodities between different coun-
tries.

We have onr usual communications from Madrid to
the 4th instant. They do not bring any information
of importance.
The Herald° alludes to an assertion of some of its
contemporaries, that, in the dispensation granted by
the pope, the Queen was called the Princess Isabella,
daughter of King Ferdinand VII. and Queen
Maria Christina. The Herald° declares this to be
unfounded, and gives the following os the words them-
selves of the document in question :—Dileetiasima

Ifispaniarum Regina Elizabeth. The same journal
adds that, according to its private letters from Rome,
negotiations had been renewed between the Holy See
and Spain, and that several conferences had taken
place between M. Castillo y Ayensa and Cardinal
Oizzi. A letter from Carthagena of the 30th, in the
Herald°, says:—
"An English steamer and a transport entered this port
last evening. The steamer left the same evening, and the
other vessel is to leave to-day. There are several vessels of
war on the coast, all appearing to belong to the squadron."
Mr. Bulwer was at Aranjuez, and it was supposed
that he was about to proceed to Valencia. The
government, though desirous, it was said, to give an
amnesty, was unable to do so, as the moment was
considered an unpropitious one: it will not, therefore,
take place at present.
The long-talked-of weddings in Spain will be
destructive to the poor bulls of the country. To con-
ciliate the ill-humour of the people of Madrid there
are to be brilliant (.'prides de Toros. Moves, Sevilla,
El Ariclanero, the most celebrated artists, are to dis-
play their courage and address. Fifty bulls are to be
given up to slaughter, forty horses are to be embowel-
led, seven or eight picadores are to be wounded, and
some matadors will probably be killed on the arena,
as happened once at Cape Milo, and then the fete will
be complete.

When our express left Paris the Madrid mail of
the sth inst. had not arrived there. It was reported
that the ceremony of the royal marriages would take
place in the Hall of Ambassadors in the palace, and
that on the following day the newly married couples
would set off for the Escurial or Aranjuez.
El Heralla positively denies the rumour that the
Infanta would renounce her rights to the Crown of
Spain, to satisfy the desires of the British cabinet.
Leo del Cwucrcw and Clamor Public° protest against
any idea of coalition between the Carlists and the
Progressists.

' CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 23.

A flagrant breach of international law has just
been committed here by the Austrian power, which I doubt
not will fix public attention all the more, on account of the
grave charges which have lately been brought forwtrd in the
British parliament against that government. The same
sinister unscrupulousness of means, and skulking treachery,
which mark the acts then held up to the reprobation of
Europe, arc no less visible in the instance I am about to
mention. An Armenian Catholic priest and rayah has been
snapped up by the authority of the Austrian minister, and
whisked off in a Trieste steamer to Aucona, for trial before
the Dominican tribunal at Rome. The pretence alleged for
this outrage on the personal liberty of a subject of the
Sultan, is that the priest has a Vienna passport,
that biz life has been unholy, and that he has
changed his religion. In the meantime the prisoner
managed to make his escape at Smyrna. But for
this, probably, the man would have been handed over
by the inquisition at Rome to an Austrian dungeon, and no
one would have heard a word about the matter. Johannes
Serapian was brought up at the Catholic Armenian Convent
of Mechtar at Vienna. From thence he came to Turkey, and
took charge of a Catholic Arufbnian congregation at Angora
in Asia. Two years ago he was accused of having formed a
connexion with a woman of the place, and was expelled by
the Catholic Armenian patriarch to Sivas. From Sivas he
came to Constantinople, where he has relatives. Here he
formed acquaintance-with the American protestant mission-I
aries, and having embraced their religious views, was received
into the small establishment which they maintain at Bebek,
a village five miles up the Bosphorus, on the European side.
During all this time, the Austrian authorities had not lost
sight of John Serapian ; and were only waiting, it seems, fur
a convenient opportunity to pounce upon hint. A visit which
the converted priest was paying to his uncle at Pera presented
a favourable moment for putting their designs in execution.
While he was conversing with his uncle, a message arrived
from the Catholic Armenian patriarch. Two kavasses of
the Austrian embassy waited at the dosr ; and, securing his
person, led him by the elbows down to Galata, and conveyed
him on board the Imperatrice, an Austrian government
steamer. In vain John Serapian protested against this vio-
lence ; in vain he asserted that he was not an Austrian sub-
ject, but a rayah subject of the Sultan, and showed his
teskery, or permit of residence, and his receipt for the
Handel', or capitation-t ix, which he had paid, as a proof of
this. On board the steamer he was treated as a prisoner.
The Imperatrice arrived at Smyrna on the afternoon of the
10th ; and, during the captain's absence on shore, the pri-
soner made his escape through the cabia window into a boat.
No sooner was he landed than he took refuge in the house of
an American missionary. The captain, as soon as he became
aware th it his prisoner was flown, set on foot a strict search,
and succeeded in tracing him to the missionary's abode. He
called upon the latter in the name of his government to
deliver up the refugee priest, whom he claimed as an Austrian
subject and his prisoner.
The missionary affirmed that John Serapian was not an
Austrian subject, but a rayah subject of the Porte, and
refused to give him up. Both then appealed to their Con-
suls, But Mr. Oflley, the American Consul at Smyrna,
taking up the matter firmly, and being warmly seconded by
the English Consul, Mr. Brant, the priest was placed under
the temlairary protection of the American flag, and the
Austrian captain was obliged to sail without his prisoner.
Meantime these gentlemen have written to the Ministers of
their respective nations at Constintinop/e, and the matter is
being debated with much animation at head-quarters. Count
Sturmsr, and Mr. Carr, the Minister of the United States,
have sent in notes to the Porte upon the subject; and no
doubt Mr. Wellesley gives as much support as the nature of
the question will allow him to the representations of
the latter. The Porte has to demand reparation
from Austria for a gross outrage upon one of the
Sultan's subjects, and will, it is to be hoped, do
so with becoming spirit and firmness. Finally, it is
desirable that an illegal stretch of arbitrary power,
stamped so strongly with bigotry and tyranny, and conducted
in to underhand a manner, should be discountenanced as much
as possible by the organs of public opinion in all civilised
parts of the world. Thus alone some shame will be struck
into that l'ower that seems less touched than any other with
the liberal influences of our time, and continues to vex the
fairest portions of Europe with the mint barbarous police the
world has yet seen.
Letters of good authority have been received from Cireassia,
stating that a considerable fort in Abbassak had been taken
from the Russians. The Circassians, it seems, fell in with a
foraging party of Russians, and putting them to flight, pur-
sued theta so closely that they entered the outer precinct
of the fort with them. They then turned upon the Russians
their own guns. After some firing, a powder-magazine in
the fort exploded, and the main body of the structure was
blown up. About 200 Russians were killed by this acci-
dent, among whom were 30 officers. The loss on the part
of the Circassians is not stated. In fact, the side on which
the loss occurs depends entirely upon whether the news is
received from Tagabroe or Circiussia. Bulletins from either
source only mention the enemy's loss. But I believe that
no doubt is entertained with regard to the destruction of the
fort, the name of which I understand to be Asahjek. It is
one of the latest built. There appears to be every ground
for believing that the whole of the last Russian expedition
against the Caucasus has turned out a complete failure.
An enormous expenditure of men and money has resulted in
mere discomfiture. The successes of Schamyl have
roused the flagging spirit of the Ahasians, and united
them once more in stera4, watchful, and impetuoue
bonds against the common enemy. The last brays
feat of these hardy mountaineers may probably be
traced to the nfluence of the mission which Schamyl lately
sent from Daghestam into their country to excite them to a
more effective co-operation with him. For this purpose he
despatched six cadis, with a body of 800 men to attend them.
These were to disperse into separate valleys, to reconcile
conflicting clans in a hearty resistance to the common
enemy, and rouse them to an emulation of the deeds of
their brother-warriors in Daghestan. l'rince Woroezoff is
perhaps not sorry to exchange such rough neighbours for
the Court of Vienna, where he has been appointed Russian
ambassador.
The joint expedition of the Pachas of Mossul and Bagdad
against Ressoul Paths, hereditary governor of Rawandouz,
has been so far successful. The chief town of the d.strict
has fallen into their hands: and 400 or 500 Kurdish
prisoners have been taken in the engagements which have
taken place, who are to be sent to Constantinople.
As for the other expedition, which is to be organized at
Diarbekir, under the chief command of Ismael Pasha, before
it takes the field, the Porte has d. termined upon sending a
commissioner, named Nrzim Effendi, through the disturbed
districts of Kurdistan, to inquire into the nature and grounds
of the opposition which in offered to the central government ;
to survey the state and wants of the population, and to show
them their interest in the reforms which are sought to be
established by the Sultan's government, and which have
been so widely adopted throughout the empire.
Some changes are contemplated in the composition of the
cabinet. It is said that Khosref Pasha will be elevated to
the rank of Grand Vizier, and that Riza Pasha will be re-
stored to the office of Grand Seraskier, which he enjoyed
before his late fall.

FRANCE.—The opening of the llavre and Rouen
Railway fur the transport of merchandise is announced for
the beginning of November.
GERMANY.—PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, Ocr. 2.—One
hundred and twenty Poles have arrived at the new prison.
Some of the pleadings are, it is said, to be carried on in the
Polish language.
BERLIN, (icr. 3.—Aocounts just received from Italy
state that the Princess Louisa of Prussia is dangerously ill at
Genoa, and that no hopes are entertained of her recovery.
The account is signed by the private physician of
and two Italian physicians. Chevalier Bunsen is about
retiring from office as Ambassador at the court of England.
D. Neuniont has been appointed Secretary to the Legation.
SEPT. 27.—The opening of the Hamburg railway
makes an honorable exception to the usual custom, fur it is
to take place without any ceremony or an official dinner;
this is certainly a distinction at the present time.
RATISBON, SEPT. 26.—1 t is reported that the
Bavarian government has purchased corn at Odessa, to the
amount of 2,000,000 of florins, to be distributed among the
several circles.
VIENNA, OCT. 2.—Sir Robert Gordon intends leav-
ing this place on the 15th, and Lord Ponsonby is expected
on the 20th.

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DVSSELDOR.F, Ocr. 3.—One hundred and thirty-
three boats have arrivad at Dusseldorf, laden with Russian
corn. The price of corn is beginning to diminish.

BAVARIA.—The price of corn contined. „ream
at Munich and Augsburg.
SPIRE, Our. I.—A notice has just been publig*
by the Ministers of the Interior and Finance for the ha
ruin palatinate, which orders : lit. The abolition of the ,
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port duty on corn, pulse, and flour. 2od. An export du;;
2.50 fr., of the current price of all the articlea on their env—
tation beyond the frontiers of the Zollyerein, ref
entire entire prohibition of exportation. 3rd. It coufirraCta;
renewal by the government of the palatinate of the prohici.
tion of potatoes beyond the frontiers of the union
Holland Belgium, and France.
The 'Deutsche Allyemeine Zeitung of the 7th jai_
says that the negotiations of the Court of Derunark
some of the German courts, relative to the marriage it( z .
Prince Royal of Denmark, have completely failed. h ••••
that a matrimonial alliance of the Prinee Royal without%
formal or tacit consent of the reigning Grand-Duke °row,.
burg, would not have the desired effect as regards
and Holstein, as to the right of succession by his efte4"4
descendants. According to eh, laws of the house of tieldei.,
and Holstein, the senior of the Oldenburga, descending NZ
the two lines of Gluekstadt and of Gottorp, has to glee
yk
consent to the marriage to make it v.ilid. The present
whilst C hris
is the reigni
tiangn XIII. was born in 1786. Grand-Duke of Oldenburg (born u
The Leiriger Zeitung of the sth inst. states th 4
the King or Saxony had accepted the resignetios of th
Minister of State, Kiinneritz ; he is succeeded as khan*
Justice by the President of the First Chamber, Cerlowita.
DENNIARK.—The divorce of the Crown Prince ot
Denmark from his second wife, Princess Caroline of )4,4.
lenburg Strelits, may be regarded as concludAt Coot
Moltke has carried through the praimiaary Remit
and Strelits. The Princes wife is, it is sdil, to lee !Infidel
Princess Royal, and her apanage. Two‘t.idents Eiat
sent a challenge to the officer who cnnimanded
that dispersed the public meeting at Noctorf; but the etut,7
having come to the ears of the rector, the affair is skt,
examination, and the two bellicose studieits will 4 bow
over to keep the peace.
Sreceived,
the
p.al—Ctotwi Int
Norway,s of SA, SEP ft
where be zit
elastically
all
thelr E
the King returned to Christiana re di
evening ofln
24th, and was received with Quin*
rejoicings.
STOCK HOLM, Sun.. 29.—The trade in rye it; rem.*
ably different from what it was before the harvest. &fortis
ppr i
::e
time all the supplies from Beanie, Ru•sia, &c , wen
sufficient for the capital and the neighbouring maim*
Cargoes of rye are now sent, in consequence et kirtip
orders, to Norway, Holland, and even to Stettin. hips,
bible that, according to the example of England, all ho
restriction on the corn trade will be abolished ;at them,
time, it is thought that a sliding-scale for the importers
will be introduced, also in imitation of England, when it
has been found pretty satisfactory.

TILE REGISTRATIONS.
loNnott.--Fftwait.—The revision of the house-
' bolds" llamas again proceeded with this morning. After
u„uut through the list for the parish of St. Martin Outwkh,
Mr. Arnold disposed of the lids for the following
eggs in the ward of
A CLonnppdolegate-within : St. Alban,
oodetreet ; St. Iphage,n-wall : St. Mary Mag-
anion, Mille-otreet ; St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbnry ;
St. Michael, Wood-greet; and St. Olave, Silver-street. Rev
sult of the day's revision : Liberal objections, sustained 15,
failed 29 ; Conservative objections, sustained 46, failed 74 ;
double objections, sustained 12, failed 4 ; Liberal claims,
augained 4, failed 24.
On Saturday, Mr. Arnold went through the lists
of St Giles's, Cripplegate, and St. Augustine, Christ-
! church, and St. Faith, in the ward of Farringdon-within.
I. the case of Henry Fendt, who was objected to by the
Tories as an alien, the question whether he was born in
England was put to him directly, which he refused to answer.
—gr. Ledger contended that the question, being one which
might invalidate the man's own vote, could not he put.—Mr.
Arnold held that the question was a legal one, but said he
Ina bound to inform the witness that he had no power to
compel bins to answer, if he declined to do so.—Mr. Fendt
of course declined, and the name was retained. In the
parish of Christ Church a number of Liberals had 'tent in
claims to he rated, in compliance with which the overseer
End entered their names on a separate page, prefixing to each
the proper number of the assessment, there being no room
for them in their proper place in the rate. After a long
argument on the sufficiency of this rating, Mr. Arnold
decided that it was sufficient, and all the claims were allowed.
The result of the day's proceedings was as follows:—
Liberal ohjeition, sustained, 4; failed or withdrawn, 22.
Tory objections sustained, 9S; failed or withdrawn, 126.
Double objection. sustained, 9 • failed or withdrawn, 1.
Liberal claims sustained, 1 ; failed' or withdrawn, 9.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.—LIVERPOOL, OCT. 10.—
The following litter from the agent for Lloyd's has been
received by Thomas Court, Esq., secretary to the Liverpool
Underwriters' Rooms :
Warreepoint, Oct. 9th, 4 p.m.
Sir,—By tetter received this morning from Tyrella, the Great Bri-
tain steam-ship ha„ altered her position. She now lies east and west
on the shore, and is making much water : it wan above the deck of
the saloon. The rivet is higher up on the bench, and is labouring on
the tide.—l am, sir, respettfully, your obedient servant,
Thomas Court, Esq. LEONARD WATSON.
People have, by general consent, abandoned the Great Bri-
tain to her fate; and the general talk is, that she will never
be got off—that the real cause of the disaster was correctly
stated by Captain Claxton, and that the compass was in no
way to blame. The leas, it is said, will be immense; that
the vessel cost 110,0001. ; and that she is insured for a sum
far below a moiety of that amount. Great sympathy has
been expressed for Captain Hoaken, and those who have seen
him describe him us much altered and dejected. The last
report on 'Change was, that the Great Britain has drifted
dill further on the shore, and that the bolts had begun &o
give way. The engines, four in number, may be got ou •
but the machinery will be of little value. Liverpool
Journal. .

VIRGIN GOLD SOVEREIGNS.—The circumstances
attending the charge erroneously made against a young man
named k rewen, at Marylebone police court, are of a very
curious character. It is the custom of the officers of the
Mint to coin a few sovereigns of virgn gold. These sove-
reigns are not intended for circulation—they are meant for
presents, and to be kept as curiosities. Of course such coins
are much softer than the sovereigns coined for circulation.
and, if one were tendered in the way of business, it would
naturally excite the suspicion of the party to whom it was
offered. It appeared that one of these virgin gold sovereigns
came into the possession of the Baroness Rothschild.
The baroness, in mistake, paid it to her butler. The
butler parted with it to one of' the tradesmen, and in this
way it came into the hands of Frewen. The shopkeeper to
whom Frewen offered it, finding that it bent like lead,
suspected it was a counterfeit, and gave Frewen into custody.
The mistake was soon discovered, and Frewen WAS of course
released. The sovereign is in the possession of Mr. Powell,
the Mint Solicitor. Many persons would freely give 30s. for
one of these curiosities; its intrinsic value is nut more than
20s.
FIRE AT A TARPAULIN MAN CFACToßY.—Between
the hours of six and seven o'clock on Saturday morning, a fire
broke out in Mr. Orchard's tarpaulin manufactory, Port-
pool-lane, Gray's-inn-lane. Owing to the great number of
sheets of prepared canvas that were hanging upon the racks
in the building, the entire structure soon became encircled in
flames, and the p. rsons living in the houses in 'rash-court
were oblige to make a precipitate retreat into the street in
consequence of the dense smoke that entered their houses. The
private engine from Meson. lteid's l,rewery, and the brigade
engines from the city and west-end stations were soon on the
spot and in full operation ; they were followed by the West
of England, and one from the Waterloo-road station. The
mains of the New River Company afforded an abundant
supply of water, but before any impression could be mien
upon the flames, the whole of the stock in trade in the
building was totally consumed and the manufactory gutted.
Some of the surrounding premises are damaged, hut, owing
to the exertions of the firemen, not to any great extent.
How the fire originated could not be ascertained ; it is stated
by the men employed in the place that none of the coppers
had been lighted tor a considerable period, and it is their
opinion that some of the canvas overheated itself, and
ignited spontaneously. The official account of the damage
states that the contents and building were insured in the
Royal Exchange Office. 'I he roof burnt off, and most part
of the manufactory destroyed; the whole of the conten scon
sumed ; the reunting.house and shed a joining damaged;
Tash-court, Niro. 3, 4,5, 6,7, and 8, have the back fronts
and skylights d .maged.
INial'hsTe.--De.arif OF A CABLIST OFFICER.—By
Mr. Bedford, on Saturday, at the George the Fourth, Leicee-
tir-street, Regent-street, on the body of Le Chevalier Cour-
tarde du Perez, aged 57, a colonel in the Spanish service.
Deceased was a colonel in the Spanish service, hut he had
been banished from his country in consequence of favouring
the pretensions of Don Carlos. Since he had been in Lon
don he had subsisted by teaching foreign languages, but in
which he had not been successful, and fur some time past he
had been in very indigent circumstances, which greatly de-
pressed his spirits, as he had a very handsome property in
Spain, but which he could not touch. On Wednesday even-
ing last he was in good health and spirits, and spoke in a
very animated manlier of the Duke de Montemolin, and his
prospect of more active employment ; hut complained of a
slight muscular pain in his chest. On the following day, be-
tween one and teo o'clock, deceased was discovered lying on
the bed of his room &corpse, life having been extinct some
hours. Mr. French, surgeon, of Great Marlborough-street,
deposed that he had opened and examined the body, he
found that the cause of death was extensive disease of the
heart, of long standing. Verdict : " Natural death."--
CART Accluevt.—lty Mr. Mills, at the University College
Hospital, on the body of J. White, aged 25, a carman. On
Wednesday evening last, deceased was leading a horse and
L cast into a yard in Stanhope-place New-road. The horse
' was a spirited one, and started beneath the gateway. De-
ceased, whilst trying to atop it, got jammed between the
cart and the wall, and then fell, one of the wheel. passing
over the lower part of his body. He died from rupture of
the bladder, and fractures of the bones of the pelvis, on Fri-
day morning. Verdict : " Accidental &nth. —Deatir
BY SCALDING WATEIL—By Mr. Baker, at the London
Hospital, on the body of Mary Lawrence, fourteen months
old, whose father, Thomas Lawrence, is the lamplighter at
the above institution. On Thursday afternoon, while the
father of the deceased was removing a saucepan full of boiling
water from the fire, the saucepan slipped out of his hands
upon the deceased, who was sitting on a c u'pet, and the
whole of the water went over her. A surgeon was sent for,
who applied fl.,ur to the injury, and the child was imme-
diately taken to the hospital, where it died the follow-
ing day from the siecident, being extensively scalded over
the head and shoulders. Verdict "Accidental death."—
&Acme OF rue SWISS GIANTESS.—On Fridria evening,
at the Red House Tavern, Battersea, by Mr. CarNr, on view
of the colossal remains of Eliza Laurence, alias Madame de
Letzi, better known as the Swiss Giantess, which had been
picked up in the Thames on Wednesday morning. On
Wednesday morning, about eight o'clock, Rock, a water-
man belonging to the Citizen Pier, near the Red House,
observed the body of the deceased floating up the river with
the tide, which he took on shore. On search.ng her pockets
• piece of paper was found, upon which was written, " No. 3,
Shorter's-gardens, Seven Dials,--knock twice and ask for
Emma." Rock called at the address, and on knocking twice,
as directed, was answered by Emma, a diminutive female,
who had been accustomed to walk with the deceased. On
taking her to the Red House she at once identified her old
companion, the Swiss Giantess. Deceased was seen on Tues-
day night, when she called at a public-house in Sherrard-
street, Golden-square, and asked for a penny, saying she was
in great distress, and had nothing to eat for 24 hours, or very
- little from the Monday before. She also complained of the
gate of abject poverty to which she was reduced, being
without a farthing or a farthing'e-worth of property to
raise money on, and said she was going over Waterloo-
bridge. and that she had a great mind to stop there and
make a hole in the water. She was, however, seen upon
Waterloo-bridge at ten o'clock on tho Tuesday night,
which was the last time she was seen alive. She was 51
years of age, and had never been married, but had one child,
a son, who dill not live with her. Verdict, " Suicide while
labouring under temporary insanity ." This woman, who
was well-known to the pedestrians of London, not only from
her extraordinary height, but also her proportionably bulky
appearance, passed many years of her life in a caravan, and
wu conveyed from town to town and exhibited, under the
title of Madame de Letzi, the SWIM Giantess. During this
time she naturally acquired idle habits, and when she was
turned out upon the world, in consequence of her want of
continued attraction, she adopted the dissipated life which
eventually led her to commit suicide. She more than once
went to Waterloo-bridge with the intention of destroying
herself, but was dissuaded from committing the crime.—
Deer,' rifest Fenster. —On Saturday, by Mr. Wm. Baker,
at the Cape of Goad Hope public-house, Limehouse, on the
body of borate Heeling, sped 68 years. It appeared from the
evidence that eke-pasta icsideded with her daughter in Five
Bell-alley, Limehouse. About two months ago, a woman
named Driscoll threw the old woman in a gutter, and injured
her very seriously. The deceased kept her bed more or less
ever since that period. On Monday night Driscoll again
guarelled with deceased's daughter, and in a furious passion,
armed with a poker, tried to break open the door and win-
dows of deceased's dwelling, and actually demolished a panel
of the door and window shutters. In the midst of the out-
rage deceased was seized with violent trembling, from which
she never rallied. She continued to get worse until Satur-
day morning last when she expired. Mr. Pritchett, a sur-
geon, said that when he was called upon to see the deceased,
she was in a nervous state, and nearly insensible. The state
was such as would be brought about by a fright, deceased
being. . from intemperate habits, predisposed to nervous
Cation- He attributed her death entirely to the shock to
e nervous system. Verdict, "Death from fright."