The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-18 00:00:00

27111 IXTILIORDIN4RY PROCEIDIEGS dr

liIWCAIiTLI.

A special sitting of the borough magistrates of
Gateshead we. held at the town-ball, on Saturday. at two
o'clock, the mayor (Bryan J. Prockter, Req.,) and Mr.
Alderman Smith being the sitting magistrates. The Vicomte
F. de Mariourt, who had been apprehended at Blyth
(North) by Mr. Seborey, the superintendent of police of the
borough of Gateshead, under a warrant issued by the bench
two days previously, was brought up in custody, charged
with having assaulted Mr. J. Bolivar Manion, the editor of
the IlortAarto Daily Express. The defendant, who is a slight
made but active young man, with a small light moustache
and imperial, bowed to the magistrates on entering with a
courtly air equally removed from the ferocious ruffian or the
crack-brained young soldier who might have been expected In
his pima. Mr. George Reed, clerk to the magistrates, read the
charge, sad Mr. Edward Glynn, solicitor, of the firm of Laws
sal Glynn, Nowoutle, wee sworn as interpreter, and explained
the eithetreos of the information to the defendant. The
bomb decided to hold the defendant to bail, Mr. Manson,
who was meant, offerings° objection. The defendant wee
then bound over, himself in the penalty of 2001., and two
sureties in the penalty of 1001. each, for his appearance et the
usual sitting of the borough magistrates to-morrow (Taw
day). The defedant expressed, through the interpreter, to
the beady his thanks for the courtesy with which he bad
hem treated, end both parties loft the court with their
Muds.

Mr. Sterling, of Westgate-bill, the tradesmen alleged to
hays been influenced by the Count de Idariooart, has pub-
Hand a letter, wherein ha, in the moot positive terms,
duties that the count ever eanramed him for his vote, and
so the extraordinary affair stands.

A letter from Munich, in the Casette de Cologne,
at that a courier arrived In that city on the 7th, with •
&speak to the Neapolitan Minister at the Bavarian Court,
dinoting hint to demand officially of King Maximilian, the
hand of the Pewees Maria, slater of the Empress of Atueria,
for the Prima Rcyal of Naples, ordering hint to sign the
marriage metro% provisionally framed. The marriage Is
wpm:Wl to take play at Naples on the 12th of January
next. The Prisms is 17 yews digs.
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The great development of ladies' dresses has
necessitated the °metrical= of trunks of extra else to convey
them on railways ; and me each trunks sot only take up peat
ream, but cost mock trouble, the railway compenbe eon-
templet* lasso...rill charging for them by Use leaned of
weight.—Oelirame.
Missne. &MADAN AND PAL/I.—lt appease from
the City article of the Tines, that a neenerial is about to be
mewed to the government, " through gene of the feet
houses in tondos,. praying for the pardon of Mews.
Strohm aid Paul, who yesterday completed three years of
the fourteen years penal servitude to which they were elm-
Mimed. One of the grounds is that, under an act pawed
last yaw any perms committing en offence melt es that far
Thick tliey are now sufferiag, will be liable at the eteesiemea
to only three years' punishment. The Tines compares the
relines course of the Wastes Back dinetere sad Mr.
Stratum. "The funds they equmedered of the 1,100 Imam
who trusted in their homier, amounted to more thee to
times thole width were involved in iltrelme's tam
While this wee goiter at they were shrewd tessah .
with respect to their own private affairs, and were
fortunes, which, se term& 11000 of them, It is said will •
be eneneone, even after they hem onetribeetel to all eel
mile now needs by the liquidators. iltrahan bed a primer '
'attune of 180,0001„ the whole of which he merged le tha
bank. The Glasgow rommasageneeet wee dellbeemetjurte
tied aa appears from the evidence lately pa
doting a long cedes of yams, and the parties to whom the
directors headed the funds were impostors who might Uri
been detected at any moment. When exposure took plus
there won• shaman! attempt to continue the des an at <
ell hazards • and finally, when every chance of that kW
wee washed. a disposition was manifested to knee ,
everything, and to intimidate the sufferers even from
complaining. In Btrehan's affair the whole mischief wee
brought about in less than two years. It commenced, es hes
often been the case, with an advance of 10.0001. to an artful
• who persuaded them that each heater advance wee
esseetial to prevent the lose of the firet sad wham the
fraud and delusion burst there wee no attempt at cowed-
meat or bravado. Then wee no meeting of dukes, hod' '
owners, merchant princes, ur eminent historians to peak AI
"ILBOma7edirpek"by.tttliThey.b:tatyysuearstnoierstmebirithtr:ediautfortvohito.:B4,dnibr:osst vi"inattft time theyt *
life, labour, and association of the Villa felons, aid them le
a prospect of eleven yet to oniall—a rearesee Thant, 1
death, ence neither ere likely to minim ft."