The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-19 00:00:00

MURDER BY A BRAZILIAN SAILOR

Irmterday, at the Li l Polioe-court, Joaquin
Francisco, • Studien sailor belonging to the Spanish ship
Antonio, in the Victoria Dock. was charged -before Mr.
Raffies with having murdered a Spanish sailor, who was
known as Francisco, on the previous night. From the
evidence it appeared that in the course of the evening the
prisoner, who is an athletic looking young man, apparently
about twenty-five yews of age, went to the boarding house
kept by Florentine, in Carpenter's-row, where several other
Spanish sailors lived. On arriving at Florentine's, the
Test:lw passed at ones into the inner kitchen, where
were several of the boarders at the time, and
as he went to he in some way pushed against
the servant girl, who made some complaint, on which
the deceased called out not to make a noise there, as the
master would not allow it. On this the prisoner said it
was none of his (deceased's) business. To which deceased
replied that he would make it his bushier. The prisoner
then challenged the deceased to fight, and the latter saying
" Very well," went out into the street. Two or three
others followed, and soon afterwards the prisoner came out.
Without saying • word be rushed through those who were
standing by, and made a cut at the neck of deceased with
something having a white handle, which was in his hand.
Neither the prisoner nor the demised had said a word out-
side of the house up to this time. Immediately on being struck
blood gushed out in a copious stream, arid the prisoner ran off.
Ina minute er two the deceased fell, and died in lees than
ten minutes. It appeared that the prisoner had boarded in
the house of amen named Philip Joseph, in Frederick-street,
and that this man Joseph was at Florentine's at the moment.
Suspicion at first fell on him, and be was seized as the mur-
derer, his wife being also present ; she proceeded home, and
in a short time after her arrival there the prisoner came in,
apparently quite cool and collected, sad went up-
stairs to where his box was kept. Here he
changed his shirt, putting the one he bad taken
off into the box and locking it. When he had done this
Mrs. Joseph accused him of having committed the murder
of which her husband was accused, and insisted on his being
detained till her husband was exonerated. This was about 9
o'clock. The prisoner did not say anything, and while Mrs.
Joseph was endeavouring to detain him, a police-officer ar-
rived and took him into custody. So soon as he saw the
officer the prisoner made a violent effort to get away, and
finding that he could not do so, be drew a knife from the
sheath, which hung at his hack, and made two or three
desperate attempts to cut the officer across the abdomen.
He was at length overpowered and secured, but not before
he had succeeded in putting a razor which he had on him
into the fire—it is with this instrument that he is supposed
to have committed the murder. The razor was subse-
quaintly got out, but not before the handle had been con-
sumed. He was then secured aud taken to BridewelL—
Mr. John Edward Thorneley, house surgeon at the Southern
Hospital, said on examining the body he found an exten-
sive incised wound extending along the side and front of the
throat, cutting right down to the hone, severing both the
external and internal carotid arteries, and the other large
blood vessels, together with the larynx. The wound was
of so extensive and fatal a nature that death must have
ensued almost instantaneously. After hearing the evidence,
which being given through an interpreter necessarily occu-
pied • long time, the prisoner was formally remanded till
today, when he will be committed for trial at the amine
on the charge of " Wilful murder."

The Northern Bee of St. Petemburst lately made
a violent attack against the temporal power of the Pope.
We alio find in the Innatide Reese a eulogistic article on
Napo/eon lIL and Victor EramanueL

The Opinion of Turin says :—" Lord Seymour,

on leaving Venice, bad his luggage passed at the custom-
house as usual, and was about to enter Use railway
station, when he was stopped by two custom-house officers,
who began to search his pockets, and asked him whether he
had anything liable to duty. The English diplomatist was
so indignant at this treatment that he struck one of them
in the face with his fist, and called them vile myrmidons.
Notwithstanding the apologies of the commissary of polio",
who hastened to the spot, his lordship exclaimed to good
Italian that the Austrian government was worse than the
Turkish, and that the journals only told the truth in re.
lasing the vexations to which foreigners were exposed. It
is said that Lord Seymour also sent off a telegraphic message
to the English ambassador at Vienna, requesting him to
demand satisfaction."

Baron Tecco, the Italian Minister at Madrid, on
entering • tribune of the Congress • few days ago, was, says
the Noreciadu, minted by all the persons in the other tri-
bunes, and the journal dsseribes this as • " testimony of
the interest which the cause of Italy inspires in noble
Spain."

In reading over the minutes of the sitting of the
14th of the Chamber of Deputies at Turin, we find that the
two votes given against the bill for imaferring the title of
Kim of Italy upon Victor Emmanuel were owing to a mis.
take, the President having announced that one of the demi,
ties had put his white hall into the black compartment of
the ballot-box, while another had voted both ways, and
thus accidentally annulled his rote.

A bill has been presented to the Italian parlia-
ment, fixing the first Sunday of Jane for the annual cele-
bration of a festival in honour of the proclamation of the
kingdom of Italy.

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The first number of a clandestine journal, under
the title of " Italy an I Rome." has just appeared at Rome,
but fictitiously dated from Perugi►. ➢fany thousand copies
o it have been sold. It predicts; the speedy emancipation
of Rome.