The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1867.

A LADY desires to RECOMMEND a But if Austria is in such a state that a great
-CIL. GOVERN:EMS, of unusual imalifiratioom who has lived
war would be too fatal to her interests for any
Use yearn Pa her family. and Just completed the educe- ,
lion of her only dam :titer tw her eittoe la:Wm:thin. I idea of it to be serio The Governess Is perfectly conipetmt t educate with or with. usly entertained, the internal
out masters: speaks French and German fluently, and alas Vi condition of Russia demands more inipera-
the orilitiary English routine, Italian. mode. aini singing. iti e 1 that peace should I 3 cautiously preserved.
Terms Ll5O per aroma—Address A. K A., Estonian*. y
BelgraVe-aqUare. As to the report that General Besse harargued
Pthe Russian troops under his command, perhaps
LANTS and BIILBS.—Mr. STEVENS' SALES
or in; rem autua. rnoi Roses. and hardy Shruls the least said the betier about the possibiliq or
will take place every WEDNESDAY ant sA itliAV. and fee-
....vantage of making a speech to men who
anenus on Monday, at the Auctionvimmis. as. King-street,
Cfvent-garden, Conlon—Catalogues on application. certainly could not understand a word of it.
But if any General wished to amuse himself in
that way, there could be no harm in his doing so.
It is difficult to believe that General BESAiI did
it simply because he is one of the most distin-
guished and highly-educated milita,/ men in
Europe. He has been long marktd for Minister
of War in Ramis, and the sooner he becomes so
the better it will be for the army. General
BESAC is one of those able and brave German
soldiers whose gallant and generous actions in war
are equally balanced by their good sense and admi-
nistrative capacity in time of peace. For several
years past he has held the difficult poit o: Go-
vernor of Kiev, on the Lontier of
Poland, the most disturbed portion of
the Empire, and he has held it well and worthily.
Few, indeed, are the resident Poli.h families who
would not gladly bear grateful testimony to the
kindness he has shown them in their affliction,
and relate gentle and merciful acts without num-
ber, made sweeter by the good words which
accompanied them. General BESAC belongs to
the same honourable band of German officers in
the Russian service as LUDERS and TODLELEN
and if he is by no means likely to lead Fs troops
into Galicia, he is still less likely to indu%e in the
silly bombast of telling them so, knowing, as he
vety well does, that he would be addressing
merely a useful body of nal, ...es, who are now
employed with increased pay and rations, to their
infinite content, in making the railway between
Kiev and Balta.

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Ryder, ‘l'lntyre, Barrett, J. Johnrtmio, .1/4c %I‘.• 1:110i'S
matt Venn. It. and A. Conk.—Mel TH I LLEtt AND
HIS MEN. lir. E. Phelps Mae Edith:Wart.

11AVIIARKr.T.
TII RVIDIFINO, Till WINNING CARD. Mr. Compton.—AN
VNE4/CAL MATCH. Messrs. Buck stone, Mims° I de. Rogers,
Kendal, Clark. Compton. he.: Vex lames Amy ardgwisk, D.
White, 11.1tswiltLuti, Ms.—Amt A KISS IN TMs DARK.

"mink's.
Tuts Rotuma, POOR PiLLICODDY.—After which ARRAff
NA NIECE. Ilessrs. Boni leault,Murry. J. G. snore,
G. F. Neville, ,te.. Mine Nimbi:. and WA. Bnicieault. -And NU
ONE. ROUND TUK CORNER.

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NT" EVIINTNO. ont Dam lOSTICA.D. Means. Paraelle, Thorne,
and James; Mesdames Johnstone and Wmtnereby —After which
WILLIAM TELL WITH A VENG a:ANL E. deans. James and
Thorne ; Maw Ada Swanhorough„ 8;e. —Aml DEAF AS A 11MT.

LYCEUM.
Tins ErRNTN4, TUE VIAFEEi3 OF THE )TILL.—THE
IA DV OF LYONS. nr. Fechter, Mews. Juntan, Emery,
Callum. Daltun, Stuart, and Vraurua ; 11 loss Ms-
.urthy and Carlotta Leclerc% Mn. Ilarstuu.

HOLBORN.
THIS EVEXEIG. DANDELION S DOIXIER.—And FOR LOVE.
Messrs. H. J. mmitasrue. Mee, OaPten, Westland, and H. Wld-
dicomlo; Mesdames Stephens, Ilenrade, Jenny Willmore, and C.
haundera—To conclude with A.P.M. Mr. J. W. Ray.

BRITANNIA.
Tars Enrstso, BREAK BUT NOT BEND. Mrs. S. Lane
The Ainerfran Minatreb Japanese Tommy and Stomp.
Orator West and Mho K West, Nigger Delineators. With
BELINDA 'it:AI:RAVE. Miss M. Henderson.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25.

A STATEMENT has been published by some
of our contemporaries which is calculated to
increase the apprehension now beginning to be
felt as to the probabilities of a general Eu-
ropean war. This news is to the effect
that, " on the Russian troops leaving Volhynia
" for their winter quarters, General BEmac ha-
" rangued them ; thanked them for the energy
" they had displayed in the last Polish revolu-
" lion ; and exhorted them to show the same
" bravery if they were ordered to take Galicia,
" that eternal refuge of revolution." If this
news be true, it would not only seem to suggest
that serious differences have lately arisen between
Russia and Austria, but that both Prince GORT-
CuAKoF Y and Baron Beusr have entirely forgotten
the real state and resources of the countries they go-
vern, and have obstinately refused to listen to the
opinions of every sensible man in both empires.
Wo cannot believe that either supposition repre-
sents the state of the case. Baron Bsesr
certainly owes his present high politicol
position, and the success of one of the most
singular careers of any modern statesman, almost
entirely to his moderate and conciliatory views.
No Minister who had not been possessed of great
tact, patience, and good humour could have steered
Austria through so many and such serious diffi-
culties in so short a time. But a very little while
ago that great Empire was shaken to its founda-
tions. It had a treasury which had always been
impoverished, and was then in a chronic state of
collapse. The Estezeoa was, perhaps, the most
unpopular Sovereign in the world. He had been
defeated in Italy, defeated in Germany. He had
himself led his troops, against the advice of his
wisest counsellors, to one of the most terrible mili-
tary disasters which has been witnessed by the
present generation. He had seen his capital me-
naced by an enemy which it had always been the
fashion there to despise rather than to hate, and he
had been publiclysecn byhis subjects to weep in the
bitterness and anguish of his heart. Even the loyal
and good humoured Viennese hsdgrown gloomy and
discontented under the sceptre of a despotism
wielded by hands so feeble and unfortunate. No
Sovereign of his house had been so persistently
and uniformly unlucky. His nobles—the proudest
and most unreasoning aristocracy in the world—
were deeply offended. When Prince Fade
SCHWASTZENBURO died suddenly, it was said that
the heart of the great Minister had been broken
by the ingratitude of his Sovereign, and that when
the Prince went forth from the last stormy coun-
cil at which he ever assisted, the EMPEROR had
dismissed the only man who was able by the
weight and authority of his name to uphold the
honour and dignity of the throne. From that
time also everything went wrong with the Court.
The concessions which began again to be demanded
by the people after the short lull which followed
the disastrous events of 1848 were never made
either gracefully or in time. When made, there-
fore, they only provoked further demands, coupled
with a growing opinion that it was necessary to
insist upon better securities than those which had
hitherto contented the Liberal party for whatever
could be obtained. History seemed about
to repeat itself, and the events which oc-
curred in England during the reigns of
the last STUARTS were confidently expected
in Austria. A succession of Ministers at once
feeble and obstinate in the wrong had plunged
everything into confusion ; and the deputies from
the provinces used language bolder than had
ever been heard by any monarch of the ancient
imperial royal-house of Hapsburg. In Hungary
it was quite clear that all the acts of the Crown
since the accession of FRANCIS Josern must be
immediately repealed ; that the EMPEROR must
be crowned king with the public consent of thel
magnates, and in every respect acco:ding to the
ancient Constitution and traditions of the coun-
try ; or that some other ruler would be elected
in his stead, and the fertile provinces of the Lower
Danube would throw off all semblance of alle-
giance to Austria at once and for ever.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

When Italy was gone, and Hungary was gone,
and Bohemia was known to be ripe for revolt, it
was thought that the chief of the HAPSBCROR might
not improbably sink into a petty duke again,
permanently kept down by a mighty German
empire on the one aide of him, and on the other
by a new Kingdom of Hungary which must soon
absorb the distracted provinces of European
Turkey, and stretch from Presbourg to the
Bosphorus. If this state of things appears
now to be rapidly progressing towards changes
more hopeful than any which could have been ex-
pected but a short time ago ; if Hungary has
been contented, Bohemia pacified, the Concordat
revised, liberty of thought and religion, free
speech and free writing allowed, and the EMPEROR
restored to a popularity which he has never en-
joyed since the first months of his reign, the
honour is greatly due to the wise and prudent
administration of Baron De BRUM', and it is im-
possible for a moment to admit that he would
now risk a war which might be a death blow to
the Liberal party, and with it to the rising for-
tunes of the new Constitutional Empire, and
which would almost infallibly plunge it into utter
and irretrievable ruin.

(IRIXERR'S TELEGRAMS.)
ITALY.
FLORENCE, OM N.
The insurrection alleged by the radical journals
as having taken place on Tuesday evening in Rome
was confined to an attack on the post at Caritali,
by a band of 50 armed men, and during the time
of their attack another band, leas numerous,
attempted to carry a post of &wives at Borgonovo.
The assailants were dispersed and several captured.
One hour sufficed to re-establish tranquillity,
which had not been disturbed up to the morning
of the 23rd inst., the date of the last advice..

THE BLOOMSBURY MURDER.

EXAMINATION OF MrOGERIDC:E AT ROW-
STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

Samuel Muggeridge, of No. 7, Pulteney -court,
Silver-street, Golden-square, storekeeper to a co-operative
society, was placed at the bar before Mr. Vaughan,
charged upon his own confession a-th shuotiv the bands-
man, Edwin McDonnell.

The case excited considerable interest, r-id the street
was touch crowded.

BADEN AND PRUSSIA.
CARLSRUHE, Ocr. ?A.

The Upper House of the Baden Diet has unani-
mously approved the customs and commercial
treaty, the Salt-tax Bill, the bill for Elections to
the Customs Parliament, and the Treaty of Alliance
with Pi (Haiti.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.

OALLE, Ocr. 22.

The Delhi, from China, arrived on the 12th inst.,
and the Geelong, from Australia, to-day, the
latter having been detained by bad weather.
The Bengal leaves for Suez to-day. She may
be expected there about the 7th Nov.

OUTWARD MAIL or JULY 20-26.

The Avoca reached Melbourne on the 11th, and
Sydney on the 13th Sept.

OUTWARD MAIL or Aumre 20-26.

The Bombay arrived at King George's Sound on
the Bth Oct.
OUTWARD MAIL or Barr. 4.10.
The Golconda reached Gene on the 9th Oct.

VICTORIA.
MELBOURNE, SEPT. 27.
The difficulty in reference to the grant of 20,0001.
to Lady Darling continues.
The Victoria Parliament was prorogued by the
governor, after having voted temporary supplies,
but has now re-assembled.

The Australian colonies are preparing an enthu-
siastic reception for his Royal Highness the Duke
of Edinburgh.
The shipments of gold to England during the
month amount to 80,000 osa.

AMERICA.
QUEENSTOWN, Ocr. 91

The royal mail steamship Scotia from New
York on the 16th inst., arrived here at 1.45 a.m.
to-day, with 139 cabin passengers. She landed
10 passengers and 97 sacks of mails, carrying on
those for Liverpool and Scotland, and proceeded
immediately. All well.

NEW YORK, Orr. 16, 6 A.Y.

It. is reported that President Johnson has sour
moncd Generals Pope and Ord to Washington.
The War Department has refused General
Sickles's request for a court of inquiry.
Mr. Hunnicut, Judge Underwood, an Irish-
man, and two negroes, have been nominated dele-
gates to the Virginia Reconstruction Convention
by the Richmond radicals.
The white radical candidate at Williamsburg,
Virginia, has been mobbed by the adherents of the
coloured radical candidate.

It is reported that Mr. Thaddeus Stevens has
announced that he will urge Congress to pass an
impeachment law defining impeachable offences
and providing that no officer will be permitted to
exercise the functions of office during trial under
impeachment, and that he will also present a bill
prohibiting any state preventing citizens from
voting on account of colour for national officers.
A mass meeting of Republicans at Philadelphia
took place on Monday, when General Grant was
nominated for the presidency.
Yellow fever is rapidly abating at New Orleans,
Mobile, and Galveston.
Galveston was overflowed during a storm on
Sunday, when half a million dollars worth of pro-
perty was destroyed.

(BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Oct'. 24, 6 P.M.

The Cunard steamer China arrived out to-day.
Closing Prices :—Gold, 142 i. Sterling exchange
on London, 1081. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882,
1121 ; ditto, 1885, 104 Illinois, 122; Erie, 71i.
Cotton—Middling Upland, 20.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 24.
Petroleum, standard white, 35.

Erie ellurt.

BALMORAL, Oct. 23.
The Queen drove out, accompanied by Prince
and Princeu Christian and Princess Louise.
Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Duckworth, drove to
the Burn of the Vat.

The Prince and Princess of Wales drove out yesterday
afternoon.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to tho Governor-General of Canada.

According to present atrangements the Queen
will leave lialmond for Windsor on Friday the lit of
November.

The Prince of Wales and suite honoured the
Olympic Theatre with their presence last evening.
A public meeting of the inhabitants of Warwick-
shire was held at Stratfordon•Avon, yesterday, to promote
the completion of the restoration of Worcester Cathedral
begun many years ago. The lord bishop of the diocese was
to have presided, but in his absence the chair was taken
by Lord Leigh. Lord Lyttelton, the Right Hon. Sir 3. S.
Pakingtoe, Sir R. N. C. Hamilton, &c., were also present.
Mr. Chester, who was a member of the commit-
tee which the Society of Arts appointed last year, under
the presidency of Mr. Henry Austin Bruce, M.P., to
" inquire and report respecting the Food of the People,"
advises people to buy the cheapest imported Liebig's
extract of beef, and to use it as much as possible, instead
of English beef, in soup., broths, and gravies, and to buy
largely the Australian stewed beef, free from bone, ready
cooked, at 7d. the lb. If they will do this, they may be
quite certain that before long Australia and South
America, and other distant lands, will find the means of
supplying our wants from their superfluities.

Mr. H. J. Turner, of Richmond (Yorkshire),
says our northern wheat, generally, is an excellent sample.
It has all been got in sound ; and more than that, the
whole crop is dry enough to grind now. It is bis firm
belief that the whole crop of English wheat is this year
worth more by several millions sterling than was the crop
of last year.

The Cosmopolitan of this week perpetrates the
following joke :—" We learn from good authority that a
minister of King Theodore, charged with plenary power
to represent the government of his English-hating Ma-
jesty hoe gone to Now York for the purpose of issuing
' Letters of Marque' to prey on British Commerce, and that
• whole fleet of American Alabama. will soon be let loose
upon the ocean. The feeling M the United States is ripe
for this sort of retaliatory enterprise, and it is a vety sig-
nificant fact that Mr. Seward has recently stopped the
male of government war vessels. If Abyssinia is a recog-
nised government and a belligerent power, then the Abys-
sinian King is competent by the laws of nations to grant
letters of marque. The United States, smarting under
their losses from Confederate privateers, made and fitted
out as they assert in England, are only too eager to play
the tit-for•tat game. Insurance at Lloyd's upon English
bottoms, we are inclined to think, will advance consider-
ably within the next sixty days."

The prisoner is considerably taller than Groves, and the
alleged likeness is very faint indeed. His hair and mous-
tache are much darker, and he has bushy ',bilkers, wbieb
Groves has not.

Police•ergeant Henry Wi'liams, 11 City police, deposed
—Yesterday afternoon, about 20 minutes to 4 o'clock, the
prisoner OWN into the Bishopagate-street police-station,
and stated to ins and the inspector that he wished to give
himself up for shooting the bandsman.
Mr. Vaughan— Was he perfectly sober?
Witness—There is no doubt that he bad had something
to drink,bnt be was quite sober enough toknow what he was
saying. I asked him what was his name. He said it was
William Brown. He afterwarks said it was no use
telling a story, and that his right name was Samuel
Muggeridge, and that he lived at 7, Pulteney-
court, Silver-street, Golden-square, and was a
storekeeper. Afterwards, in answer to the inspec-
tor, he said he had been to the Holboto Theatre on the
night in question, and that on the way from the theatre
he Bred a pistol by way of a lark between two men, and
accidentally shot one of them. He said it was on the 26th
or 27th of September. He was also asked by the inspector
if he bad any pistols about him or at home. He mid he
bad none about him ; he had two at home, bnt the one he
shot the man with he had thrown away into the Thames.
Being asked by the inspector if he still adhered to that,
he mid " Yes." He was asked if he bad any further state-
ment to make, and he .aid " No." Before be was
brought to Bow atrec t station he was searched at the Bishops-
gate-street statios, when there were found on him •
pocket-book, • pen knife, a key, and a small quantity of
powder. He did not mention the name of the man that
was shot, or the place where.
Mr. Vaughan— You have heard what this witness has
said. Do you wish to ask him any questions
Prisoner—No, sir.

Inspector Brannan, of the F division, said—The last
witness brought the prisoner to the station at
Bow-street, between half-past 5 and 6. I heard his
evidence that he mentioned to me in the prisoner's
presence. I Raked the prisoner if what the sergeant said
was correct. He maid, " Yes, It was." I told him it would
be my duty to charge him on his own confession with
hav'ng murdered McDonnell. Re said, "I did not murder
him ; but accidentally shot between them. I had been
drinking at the time." I told him that I was going to ask
him a question, but he need not answer it unless he liked.
Whatever he said I should have to repeat to the magis-
trate. I then asked him when it occurred. He said, "On
the 2Gth or 27th September last, but I am not certain about
the date." I then asked him where it took place.
He said, " I don't know where It took place, it was
not far from the Amphitheatre in Holborn, where we had
been." I asked him if he was alone? He said " No, I was
with a friend of mine. I object to tell you his name. He
had no idea I was going to fire a pistol. He tried to atop
me when I fired the pistol. But I, not intending to hit
one of them, shot one of them and ran away." I asked
him where the revolver was. He said " Over London-
bridge ; I threw it away for that reason ; it has
been a source of such misfortune to me. That is
all I have to say, and it is a volvntaii state-
ment." IS gen I read it over to him be said,
" I have not murdered him, I shot him accident.
ally." I ',lced him where he got the pistol from. He
said "I have had it about five years, since I came
from Constantinople. I bought it of one of the sailors on
board the ship I went out to Constantinople in. It was a
six shot revolver. I threw the pistol over about the
centre of the bridge on the left hand side, about two
yards, as far as I corld guess in the dark." After reading
this statement over I asked him if he had any objection to
sign it to prevent contradiction. He said he had no
objection, and ho signed it. I now produce it. I directed
the last witness, Sergeant Williams, to make out a state-
ment of what the prisoner bad said to him at the Bishops-
gate-street station. I read it over to the prisoner. He
said they were both perfectly true, and he had no objec-
tion to sign them.

Mr. Vaughan—Did he appear to you to be labouring
under excitement when he made the statement
Witness—He seemed quite calm then, but he had the
appearance as if he had been drinking in the earlier part
of the day, and bad just recovered. He seemed flushed,
and there was an appearance about his eyes am if he bail
been drinking. He said he bad been at the docks tasting
wine.

Mr. Vaughan—Do you wish to ask this witness any
question

The Hisoner—No, sir.

Inspector Brannan—l beg pardon. I have omitted one
point. I put the man amongst seventeen others, and
Furber thought be identified him.
__ _

Mr. Vaughan—We will take that from the man himself.
Superintendent Searle said that at 7 o'clock last night
he went to the prisoner's lodgings, accompanied by In-
spector Thompson. He saw there the wife of the prisoner.
She showed him into • front room on the first-floor, and
in searching the top drawers in a set of drawers in that
room two pistols were found. One wasloaded, the other was
not. They are ordinary pistols. The charge was drawn. They
are smooth barrels. The charge oonststed of • ball. He
had the ball that shot McDonnell fitted to the pistol,
and it was too small fur it. On returning to the
station in Bow-street he saw prisoner, and his wife
having said that he was in delicate health witness
promised that he should have some clothes. Witness
told him he had found the pistols, and he said the shot
was not fired from either ; the one the shot was fired from
he brought from Constantinople. Witness saw a man
named Ripley, who has been assisting a butcher,
and inquired of him whether he had been out
with the prisoner, and he said one Friday night
about three weeks ago but bad not been on this side of
Oxford-street on that occasion.

Inspector Thompson, Detective Force, Scotland-yard,
said that he wu at the Bow-street station yesterday. He
heard what the prisoner said to Mr. Searle, and witness
asked whether the pistol from Constantinople had six
grooves or not, and he said he did not know whether it had
live or six or seven. He said he could not say, there were
several. He told him what part of the house he occupied
in Pulteney -court—shop, kitchen, and first floor. Witness
accompanied Mr. Searle.
Henry Furber said he was with McDonnell when be was
shot on the 28th September. Yesterday he was requested
to go into the yard at Bow-street. This was a quarter to
8 o'clock. Inspector Brannan was there. Durkin was
not there. There were ► number of men in the yard dif-
ferently dressed. There were 16 or 17, more or less. It
was not very dark at the time. He knew he was going to
identify one of the men who was at Vernon-place when
McDonnell was shot. He did not see amongst those per•
sons anyone be could identify, except that the prisoner was
about the right height. The man be saw bad a long fair
heard. Ho should think the prisoner at the bar was not
one of the two men.

Mr. Vaughan—Prisoner, have you consulted with your
friends before you made the statement you did make last
night!

The prisoner—No. I can't imagine what induced me to
make such an extraordinary statement. I never was in
Holborn, I don't know the locality, and I don't know the
particulars of the murder. I have been home from Con-
stantinople six years, and I was there three years ; so I
could not have had it five years. I dare say my friends
will be able to prove that I was in the locality—in our own
neighbourhood—at the time.

Mr. Vaughan said it was a most extraordinazy thing
that a man should go to two police stations in an appa.
Tautly calm and cool state of mind, and make a statement
implicating himself in a charge of so grave a nature.
The prisoner said he bad been drinking, and had also
been very much worried in business.

Superintendent Durkin said prisoner's wife and mother
were in court.

The mother here came forward and said the prisoner did
not live with her. When he came home from Constanti•
nople she received his chest, and it did not contain any
revolver. He WAS • professor of languages at a college
there, and she did not think they were allowed to keep
them. The pistols found at his lodgings belonged to his
father, and he took them to keep the children
from getting them. He had several times suf-
fered from delusions, and especially after trouble

or disappointment. For tho last two months she
had not seen him, as his state was such that she dreaded
to meet him, it so distressed her. He bad been unsucess-
tul in business. Nodoubt lthe appearance which led the
police to think he had been chinking wee cceasiceed by
excitement.

The pi esoner said he had been drinking very hard.
Mr. Vaughan tepid after that statement he could only
conclude that the Prisoner was suffering from an hallacinse
tion. He must therefore be discharged, but he, Mr.
Vaughan, intuit call on the prisoner's friends for his own
protection and that of the public, to place him under
proper super e:sion.