The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1860.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 29.

WL do not regret having hitherto abstained
from commenting on a fact which for several day,'
east has attracted public attention both at home
and abroad, and called forth not a few indignant
observations from our contemporaries in Paris and
eliewhere. We allude to the seizure of Count
TELEICI by order of the Saxon Government during
his recent visit to Breeden, and his illegal deten-
tion and transmission to Vienna on the demand of
the Government of Austria. We frankly own that
we were in charity willing to cling ea long as
possible to the belief that some show of explana-
tion might be made by those who are accused o:
perpetrating an act so ineffably base at the Vdding
of our apostolic ally. But in their silence they
arc self-condemned ; and we can no longer, there-
((Pe, hesitate to add our protest to those already
ut..eied against one of the most wanton and
wic'ced violations of public decency and of public
right for which even Austria and her minions are
answerable.

Count iLLEKI is a Hungarian gentleman of good
family, and once of good fortune, who, for the
crime of having loved his country but too well,
was driven into exile several years ago by its
Imperial oppressors. To say that his sympathies
and opinions are not what they fo.ntr-ly were
would be to impute to him personal and political
dishonour. In common with his many banished
countrymen, he has doubtless often sighed for the
time when he should be permitted to return to
Hungary ; and remembering as we all do the per-
secutions and humiliations which every man of his
race has been subjected to during the last ten
year& who was suspected of sufficient intellect or
Mailiillelllll to feel his country's degradation, it
cannot be thought surprising if expressions have in
sneech or writing sornet'mes escaped from him
inimical to the janismary rule beneath which Hun-
pry has groaned. So long, however, as he
abstained from any overt act against the dominion
of Austria, and so long as he took care not to cross
the precincts of her territory, he was justified in
colsidering himself safe and free. In Piedmont,
Switzerland, Holland, Sweden, France, and Eng-
land, he had never dreamt of molestation ; for
these are independent countries where the unfortu-
nate men who have been worsted in political strife
elsewhere may dwell in security and peace. Count
Tetzei seems to have fallen into the error of sup-
posing that .he minor governments of Germany
recognised the same public law of civilization and
humanity ; and that, if not animated by the same
virtue of self-respect, they would at least evince
enough of the vanity of independence to avoid
the public acts of kidnappers and informers.
Poor illiterate Turkey, that never pretended to be
ranked as a land of poeta, philosophers, and states-
men, had proved a secure place of refuge for
Polish and Hungarian refugees, at a period of the
greatest exasperation against there on the part of
their Imperial pursuers; and any one who had heard
the pretensions of German governments to be con-
sidered independent and enlightened, and their
importunate claims to ho considered on that ac-
count worthy of the protection and support of
other and greater states, might well be forgiven if
he supposed it impossible that any of them should
in the face of day enact the dastardly part which
the Porte in 1849 instinctively spurned. Saxony,
moreover, pretends to be a constitutional state,
having a certain representative form of liberty,
and a certain phantom freedom of speech and
print ; and Count TILLZKI, having occasion ou ac-
count of private business to visit Dresden, pro-
ceeded thither with as little apprehension for his
personal safety as he would have felt if about to
visit Berne or the Hague. Ho had not been many
hours in the Saxon capital when he was surprised
by a visit from the police, and informed that he
was a prisoner: In reply to his remonstrances
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and denuusla for •specitc statement of the charge
against him, he was given to understand that his
arrest had been made in compliance with a requisi-
tion from the Government of Vienna. Urgent re-
presentations were made on his behalf by persons
of station and character to whom he was known at
Dresden ; and the Minister, by whose orders he
had been seized, was reminded that even were he
not a German nobleman, and thereby possessing
peculiar privileges which it was not legal to
infringe, he could not, in accordance with inter-
national law, be given up to the Austrian Govern-
ment without having first been tried and convicted
of some specific offence against the public peace by
• Saxon tribunal. The Minister hesitated, and
communications by telegraph were addressed to
Vienna, the purport of which we can be at no
loss to imagine. The outrage had been com-
mitted, but the scandal and shame were yet to
come. Could not Austria afford to give her abject
dependent time and opportunity for consideration
as to what she should do further in the buxinees,
or at least for a semblance and make belief of
deliberation I The prey had been snared ; any
undertaking would be given that it should not
escape ; no foreign diplomacy should be allowed
to pick the lock of the state prison ; only let
servile Saxony be suffered to do its work without
openly wearing the badge of the Vienna police,

and its fidelity might be absolutely depended on.
But the heart of despotism is hardened and its
eyes blinded, so that it cannot walk warily in the
way of its wickedness. Nothing would satisfy
Count Race BERG but that Count Tat axi should be
given up ; and given up he accordingly was by the
spiritless and shameless Government of the craven
King of Ssxosrv. He is now the inmate of some
of the dungeons whence so many of his hated race
have been led to the scaffold. We do not suppose
that such an event is imminent, for the precedents
are the other way, and Austria likes to enjoy the
protracted misery of her victims, and the repeated
pleasure of refusing their release, when faintly and
feebly asked for by well-bred diplomatists, before
she suffers the final blow to descend. It was so
in the case of a still more illustrious Hungarian
patriot, Count Lours BATH PANT, a man whom the
EMPEROR had acknowledged and consulted with
as Prime Minister of Hungary, but whose acts in
that capacity he subsequently repudiated, and
whose life was the sacrifice Imperial consistency
exacted for having been temporarily betrayed into
the weakness of confession. Let no man weakly
or thoughtlessly say that the kidnapped and be-
trayed nobleman whom the Saxon Government
have thus iniquitously dealt with is in no danger
as to life or limb. The Government of Austria
must be born again before the imputation of tor-
ture as a means of extorting political information
will cease to cling to it ; and the blood-red roll of
Italian and Hungarian victims is too familiar to
one eyes to warrant us in cherishing any delusion
as to the peril of a man unhappily circumstanced
as Count Timm is at this hour. Nothing but
the indignant voice of Europe can loose his chain.

Ur Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 2a.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party
yesterday.

The Queen and Prince Consort, with Princess Helena,
went out sleighing {in the Park this morning. Princess
Alice, Prinoem Louise, and Prince Louis of Hesse, followed
in a second sleigh. Major-General Seymour and Colonel
Ponsonby attended on horseback.

The Prince of Wales went out shooting, attended by
dentenant-Colonel Keppel.
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The Queen and PrinceComart have done Mr. Devick the
honour of inspecting the bust e:Aeatol by him of the Duke
of Newcastle.

DEPARTURE OF ERR COURT FROM WINDSOR.
On Wednesday, Use 2nd proximo, her Majesty, the Prism
Ooneort, and members of the Royal Family and suite, will
take their departure from Windsor Olathe sad proceed to
the Isle of Wight, where the Court will slay ten days, and
afterwards return to Windsor. Her Majesty will remain
here until the 4th of February, when she will proceed to
Buckingham Palace for the same.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to per-
mit the Horticultural Society to bear henceforward the
mimeo( the Royal Horticultural Society. Consequently the
Utters alined to the manes of fellows will be P.R.H.S.
Instead of F.H.B. .

The Duke and Ducheea of Ariall have been un-
able to meet at Trentham this Christmas, owing to the
duchess toeing confined by a severe cold 4 Reeeeastb, Dvm-
bartonebire.

The Earl and Countess of Warwick and family,
who came to town a few days idace from Warwick sty,
Lam shortly for Torquay.
The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland have
arrived at their new residence in South Auclley-street, front
Apldtorpe Hew, Northamptonshire.

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Count Jaucourt has left Albert-gate House on a
visit to Sir Anthony and Lady de Rothschild, at Mentmore.
Lord and Lady Forester have arrived in town
from his lordship's hunting-box in Leicestershire.
The Dowager Lady Cliutou has returned to the
Brunswick Hotel, Jennyn-street, from a Mut to the Earl
sad Countess Spencer, at Althorp Park.

The President and Council of the Photographic
Society have resolved, fa consequence of the arctic state
of the weather, to postpone the annual winter *Ulric,
which had been previously announced for an early day in
January.

The reception evenings of the Artists' and
Amateurs' Coaversazione for the coming season have been
Iliad for February 7, March 7, April 11, and May 9, 1861.

During the seven days from January 1 to
January 8, the British Museum will be closed, as usual at
the beginning of every year.
It is rumoured that The Black Domino is to be
rehearsed forthwith at the Royal English Opert, Covent
Gallen ; and that the rehears is of Paue, which were
interrupted a while since, will shortly be resumed. Pre-
p:mattock too, are being made for The Amber WeteAbh her
Majesty's Theatre.

The present intensely cold weather is being
severely felt by the troops at Colchester, the greatest diffi-
culty being experienced in maintaining the temperature of
the huts to anything like a comfortable degree of warmth.
By the aid of a liberal Nubia' iptiou among the officers, the
various depota were well supplied with Christmas cheer and
plenty of old ale. The proposed reduction of the Indian de.
pots to the extent of 100 men per regiment will considerably
reduce the streuath of the camp, at present numbering over
2,000 men. It is thought this change will be effected by
the suspension of recruiting for the devote after the enrol-
meet of a strength 100 less than the present number. It is,
however, currently reported that Colchester will shortly
cease to be a depot station, and that the camp will be occu-
pied by entire regiments of infantry.

A Florence letter of the 22nd aaya :—"The
interest in political events and characters is at the present
moment completely absorbed in the general sorrow felt in
the city of Bouvenuto Celled at the great and audacious
robbery perpetrated, late but Monday night or at a very
early hour on Tuesday morning, il3 the Sala Dille (lemma,
or Hall of the Jewels, in the National Gallery of the
Uffizi. A hundred and ninety-one rings, of which many
are amongst the most precious known in the world—me
the work of Benvenuto eellini ; the head of a warrior,
enamelled and set in diamonds; vases ornamented with
rubies end diamonds ; the ricldy wrought handle* of other
famous lapis lazuli and jasper cups ; the celebrated green
cameo, with its ruby setting—a booty, in short, which the
°facial journal represents as nut leas than a million of franca
in value, but which, it is whispered, may be rated at thrice
that sum—all this has disappeared ►t one fell swoop,
and as yet no traces of the plunderers have been dis-
covered"

The sale of the late El Hami Paella's stud was
commenced at Cairo on the 10th instant, and is continued
at intervals of two days. The horses have been selling at
amazing prices. Among others a stallion, 15 years of age,
and described as having nothing in his favour but a tolera-
ble pedigree, fetched 730/. Agents went to the sale on the
part of the Emperors of Austria and France, the Kings of
Wurtemberg, Mazony, and Manbide. No bidden appeared
for England ; indeed, it is more than doubtful whether
English amateurs would have found anything in the stables
to tempt them.

A Paris letter says :—"Delegates from the work-
ing men in Nome parts of England h►ve just come to Paris
with the view of organisuig a grand excursion, or visit, to
their fellow-workmen in this capitaL It has nothing to do
with the volunteer project which so signally failed some
short time since ; neither has it any political signification.
I am assured it is simply to introduce the English opera.
tives to the acquaintance of their Parisian brethren, with a
view to mutual improvement and to the advancement of the
more friendly feeling which may result from personal ac-
quaintance. It is proposed that the visit shall take place
about Easter or Whimuntide, and that the married MS
shall be accompanied by their wives, and the time allowed
no more than will enable the strangers to see the curiosities
of Paris. Measures are to be taken to provide beforehand
every accommodatioo, and prevent the recurrence of the

mistakes which signalised the visit of the (*Ow-mists to
England. lo this the dotards* will be greatly assisted by
the intelligent workmen of the Faubourg, whose aptitude
for organisation is well known. With the Parisians who
are as yet aware of the plan the excursion seems tot only
feasible but popular.*

for the protection of public property. The Pre.t-
dent, for prudential reasons, was opposed to such
a ineasuse.

It was understood that Kansas would shortly be
admitted into the Union.

It was rumoured that Senator Douglas would de-
clare in the Senate that it was the duty of the Pre-
&Wort to resist secession by force.
. .. .

The Louisiana Legislative had passed a bill for
electing delegates to the Southern Convention.
The Peruvian Congress had granted extraordi-
nary powers to the President for carrying on the
war against Bolivia. Castilla was to raise 30,000
men.

The steamer North Star, from Aspinwall, had
arrived at New York with 1,000,000 dollars in
treasure.

Advices had been received from Ran Francisco to
the let inst. The news was unimportant.M The
markets were dull.

NEW YORK, Dec. h.
Financial affairs are improving, more especially as
foreign exchange, in which a large Janine*. has beeinsorit
Commercial bills on London are quoted lo2i to 103 i.
Money is more plentiful. Stocks are lower. Illinois scrip,
581 ; New York Central, 72; ; Erie, 28i. The cotton
market is steady ; sales to-day, 2,800 bales ; middling Up-
land, 10c. Flour—State and Western descriptions show a
declining tendency. Wheat is steady. Corn and pork
dull. Lrtl, whiskey, and rice firm. Sugar and coffee
steady. Freights for cotton to Liverpool, 9.32 d.