The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-24 00:00:00

TRIAL OF RISK ALLAH BEY FOR MURDER.

OD Monday morning the trial of the above
whose case has lately been described in our
cesmosted at the Pedals de Jnetios, Brussels.
nos we newly fifty witnesses to be examined, of whom
the ont day's proceedings have disposed of only six.
/beach of the forenoon was taken up by the read-
ing/. ode d'accezatioso and the interreption of the
own. He is man of prehpossessing 6ppextsnos
sad bet nocann
r the recent has 'ehanasge oef jet-b states iltickisati
tem Con grey, with patches of almost positive white, he
void look not a day older. When he took his place at
the in he bowed with a grave self-pcooesodon to the
ewe; and presently catching the eye of some
avoidance smiled and nodded quits as easily as
if Is bad 'been in his stall at the opera. His
hot was covered with a fez of soft red cloth,
eith e purple silken tame! ; and he pushed back this
eemieforith a hasty movement now and then, so as to
keret§ brows quite bare. On the braided front of his
mein., frock coat he wore the star of an Alter of the
Orris of the Medidji, the cross of a chevalier of the
oeds et Isabella, and a great number of medals
wad decoration& Several magistrates, high flint:-
imuip, and persons of distinction—among them
t being 1115 Russian ambassador, Prince Orloff, and the
cup d'Affaires of the Sublime Porte —sat behind the
ha& Risk Allah is accused not only of murder, but also
of as latitay distinct offence of utterongswo forged cheques
oc Magnolia Bank of London. A motive for the crime is
.0011 the circumstance that lay the death of the young
the accused became entitled to a large sum of
me m and, ill fiett socording to the indictment, he received
Left portion of at under a decree of the Court of Chan-
cery, tided the 21st of July, 1863. It appears also
that he insured young Readly's life for 1,000!.,
and obtained payment of this sum in February last.
iron Cps = neer in which the wound was inflicted it ap-
pear', by medical testimony that death must have been
iustsataneoes, the charge of the gun having perforated the
heed. But the two arms were found under the coverlfd,
the right hand resting on the stomach, and the left arm
ezted by the aide of the body. It is pronounced to have
been almobately impossible that after firing the gun the un-
formate youth could have put his hands under the bed
&her.

It is announced that the Secretary of State for
Wm is prepared to receive proposals for breech-loading
odes, to replace the present service rifles. Prizes of
930 f., WU., 8001., and 400 i. are to be given for the best
amidge. Them is to be a competition for the breech-
lagers, and the successful rifle is to bear the inventor's
BMW. The aim of 3001. is to be allowed to each oompeti•
is for expenses.
The Admiralty have accepted the tender of the
fee of George Smith and Co. for the extension of Porte.
south Dockyard. This contract, under the provisions of
asset of parliament, involves an expenditure of upwards
els million in the next four years.
It is positively stated that M. Merimde, who
sttospanied the Emperor in his recent journey, and who
msy be said to have an official reeidence in the imperial
leasehold, hu been married to the Countess of Montijo.
The title of the Disc d'Atimale's expected new

pamphlet is mid to be " Le Balm de Is France."
The death of Count Giulay, who commanded the
lattrian army in 1559, is reported from Vienna. General
Gidaty died of apoplexy.
The Vienna Gazette announces under the heading
ebssgee in the Army," the retirement of Generals
Fonda, lienikstein, and Krismanicz.
Victor Hugo asks no less than 20,000/. for his
see novel entitled " 9.3," which is to come out in ten
whines. There is some fear lest the French government
Meld prevent its being published and sold in France.
Patti has made a great hit at Paris in Ceispino e
k Cowart. bambini, the buffo, was also ►dmirable.
b. few days since died at Vienna, Madame
Trances von Saar, the "great niece" (goss•nitlte) of Eve
Veigel, who in the year 1749 was married to Garrick, the
actor. Eve Veigel, a Viennese, whose theatrical nano was
raalstte, was considered ono of the beat dancers of the

day.
A Copenhagen letter states that a fire broke out
lut week at Fiskebache, the property of Prince Christian
Augustenburg. All the buildings, with the exception of
the &Mean, fell a prey to the flames.
The Cats has received front Volltynia information
tone effect that Russia continues to confiscate the ca.
Odic churches, in order to connect them with churches
tithe orthodox Greek religion. Such confiscations have
itattaken place at Dubuc., Targowits, Lysines, and other
Plans. The Governor-General Berm has addressed • dr-
edge to all the chiefs of police instructing them to take
sue that in the event of the death of a catholic cure •
pan of the Oriental church is immediately appointed to
caiste in the parish.
The following from Adrianople appears in the
Masiteur:—" The districts of &natty, near Deniotika, in
the province of Adrianople, are just now the centre of an
epidemic among horned cattle of a peripneumonic cha-
ncier. The first cases appeared at the beginning of
August ; they were few in number and attracted little
Mention, but recently the malady has assumed larger
proportions, and it is said that close upon seven thousand
Wakes and oxen have already perished."
The number of persons attacked by cholera
daring the present outbreak in Hungary has been, up to
theist's! date, 48, ?:4.1, of whom 21,556 have died.
THE FIRE AT THE STANDARD THEATRE.—Late
het night • meeting of the inhabitants of Biahopsgate
Raid was held at the Primrose Tavern, with the view
sf organising some plan whereby the people thrown '
eat of employment bv the reczint fire at the Standard
Theatre, in ShoreditCh, could be assisted. Mr. Church-
warden Stephens presided. Among those present were
Mr. Nelson Lee, of the City of London Theatre ; Mr.
Chula Pell, churchwarden of St. Leonard's, Shorediteh ;
Mr. B. Isaacson, Mr. Beck, Mr. G. J. Maryon, Mr. A.
levy Mr. W. Metcalf, Mr. J. Medcalf, Mr. T. Bibey,
Mr. W. Piper, of tho Union Tavern, Shoreditch ; Mr. FL
Merritt, Mr. J. Merritt, of the Brown Bear, Worship-
street ; Mr. King, of the Ipswich Anne, Shoreditch ; Mr.
S. Boyne, Mr. C. Hoare, Mr. Fennell, of 011 Broad-
street, !cc. Resolutions were passed unanimously decla-
rattly of the purpose of the meeting, and appointing Mr.
Wright, with some other gentlemen, as a committee, with
instructions to wait upon Mr. Chatterton, of Drury-lane
Theatre, and other metropolitan managers, to solicit their
cooperation. It was stated that Mr. Douglass would
not take any portion for himself of whatever might be
enbecribed, and he had expressed himself as determined
for the present to pay all the ladies thrown out of
employment by the fire their salaries from his private
Parse. There are 200 persons thrown out of employ.
" FREE" CRITICISM.—G« ligrum e, commenting
neon the production of Gluck's Alreste, at the Grand
°Pont, says :—" To enjoy thoroughly the music of Gluck
one must sit down to it as a scholar would to • tragedy
of Sophocles, to whose genius Gluck's music is more akin
than to the polished verses of Euripides. One must be
PrePtred not only to give oneself up to the pleasure of
blearing, but ohm to take the trouble of listening. As
m some of Haydn 's quartettes, to miss a single pas- ,
riP destroys all the enjoyment of those which follow,
bat it is difficult to give such sustained atten-
tion when cribbed, caballed, and confined in the
narrow space to which the rise of rental in Paris has re-
duced the stalls of the Academy of Music. With • young
gentleman on one side whose restless opera-lass ranges
constantly from one box to another, and an old gentleman
es the other whose measure was certainly not taken for
his stall, and whose elbows encroach inconveniently on
his neighbours' ribs, it requires almost superhuman
Writs of abstraction to enjoy the beauties of this
ores. An arm chair with plenty of room to roll
about in is almost an absolute necessity ; the ad-
dition of a long Turkish pipe filled with the choicest
Jibelee would render the enjoyment perfect. The opera is
"T 7 well performed, and has never perhaps, since Olnck's
days,, been so faithfully presented to the public. Mdlle.
'Attu sings the part of Alceste with a genuine pathos
which was hardly to be expected, and few artistes could
exceed the elegance of her personation of the heroine. To
She admirers of what in En4land is called classical music,
**performance affords a rich treat, but they must hasten
to enjoy It, for it will remain but a short time on the play-
Isll. The boxes yawn over it, end the is9e floternala
equivocally pronounces it a bore."