The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR Or AUSTRIA AN/I Tux
GERMAN RIPENS

A Viana letter, of the 314 July mays Not-
withstanding the violence of the wind, which even New
down came trees the Emperor Fratieis-Joetph mid 3 vewt
yesterday to the Schutren Park. His Majeety arrived at
about half-past 5. in an open carriage. wearing We us.
dress uniform of the regiment which beware his name, %DI
accompanied by Count Parr adjutant of the 'Weep Tb,
enormous crowd was ranged in two compact 1113134%
extending from the principal entrance to the grand h.o.
at the door of which stood MM. (liiikra,
and Chorinsky. Prince de Lichtenstein, the member, et
the committee and some ladies of the aristocracy. Ti,.
Emperor, on alighting from his carriage, asked the two
presidents and the rice-presidents to accompany him. Oa,
of these latter is a former chief of the academic legion
1848, was condemned to death by Witithschgtheti ; sat
was even hanged in effigy in 1849. He has a jovial lip.
pearance, and looks as if he did not mean to leave
world for some time yet. The fact of his oceupying
present position shows what progress Austria bas made
in a liberal path since those events. When the
Emperor entered the hall. one of the prendeate
presented to him a golden flagon half filled with
an Austrian white wine called for the oceaaion echutzeii.
weir (shooters' wine), Francis Joseph took the sup, tad.
before raising it to his lip said, in a sonorous yoke, winch
might be heard by all, ' I drink to the health of all th.
riflemen present,' then at one draught he took off the
contents. Hie physiognomy began to lose a cannwors
septet which it had at find, and I heard him say very du.
tinctly to Doctor Kopp, ' I begin to be well pleaeel
at having come here.' He then proceeded, is
the midst of loud cheers, to the shooting-gallery,
where he remained for as hour, and betels
quitting took up a rifle, and almost without an aim loritte4
a ball in the black circle of the target. Let us now g%
to the breech-loaders,' he said ; and then, still followed
by the crowd, he wont to the shooting stand in the fird
angle at the right of the gallery. The Emperor was shows
successively the Venzel and iVrendl rides, and then oss
made by a Norwegian named Larsen. The inveatut
himself fired, and each of the spectators, watch la
hand, could count the shots In this. minute,
Larsen had dischami 53 bullets, of whirl,
21 struck the target. His Majesty then took the
gun, had its mechanism explained to him, and fired
himself. In the evening _24. Larsen was sent for to the
Miniatry of War. The Emperor did not leave the gallery
until he had seen everything. He then returned to nit
ball, which in the meantime had been brilliantly boded
up. A member of the committee presented to hem a glad.
of Vienna beer. ' But I shall get intoxicated,' said hu
Majesty, laughing; ' however, as I have begun, I will
go on.' He then raised the glass in the German maims
to salute the assembly, and drank off the content, at
draught. The evening was setting in when the Emperl-
:' left. This august visit has given the greatest pleasure t
the marksmen, those from abroad especially."

EBEADFUL DISASTER AT A REHEARSAL or
SIEGE OPERATIONS.

The rehearsal of the siege operations to tali..
place at Chatham garrison on Wednesday unhappily tor.
ininated with a fatal disaster yesterday. The whole of
the troops of the garrison were engenad as attackers or
defenders, under the command of Major-General Freemen
Murray, the commandant of the garrison. The general,
accompanied by Major-General Simmons, C. 8., H.R., and
many other officere, rode round the trenches. When the
men were in position an attack was made on Prince Henry'
Baetion, which was escaladed; but the besiegers were
eventually driven back. A mine was exploded, torpedoes
fired in St. Mary's Creek, electric telegraph lines laid, X,.
Late in the afternoon a pretended attack was made on
stockade near the river, which was supposed to be blowu
in with gunpowder, and a force entereer the works at s..
Mary's barrier. Another attack was to be made at ti. •
Bedell, where a body of engineers were to put a bridz.,
aErose the trench, over which the besiegers were to make
an entry. Here the disaster occurred which brough.
the mimic display to a tragic ending. During the
afternoon a body of engineers, under the command
of Lieutenant his Royal Highness Prince Arthur,
K.G., bad prepared a framework for the bridge. Th.•
supports for the platform of the bridge were formed o;
three long poles lashed together by transverse,' pieces.
two other poles being attached at the centre to &occur
into the ditch and support the platform. This tram,
work was carried to the ditch by the men under the
command of Prince Arthur, safely put into position, and
then boards were laid across to form the roadway. Over
this the prince passed with his men. Then large num-
bers of men pressed forward to enter the fortress, too
eagerly, despite of officers urging them nut to load the
bridge too much. Unfortunately. as the men were crews.
ing, they fixed their bayonets. While this rush of men
was going on, the bridge broke, two of the three lougite.
dinaipoles mapped on the inner side of the ditch. and
some twenty men were hurled a considerable depth into
the ditch and from their having their bayonets heed, a.
well as from the depth which they fell, the results were
most lamentable. Many wounds were inflicted by tho
bayonets, many of the men who fell being sadly cut on
the face and body. One poor fellow, a marine, we
killed either instantly or he died shortly after, w
believe from a bayonet wound in the neck or breast.
Seven or eight others were badly hurt in various wipe,
and had to be carried to hospital. Everything that could
be done for the sufferers on the spot was promptly done,
and the Prince was active with his brother officers in ren-
dering aid. The men who fell by the breaking of th."
bridge were Royal Engineers or Royal Marines. of
course this disaster put an end to any further proceedings
at this point of the fortifications. IS o doubt at the inquest
a strict investigation will be made in regard to the mate-
rials used in making the bridge, and the actual cause of
this fatal accident.—/bat.

The presence of some thousands of soldiers on
the summit of the Alban bill, at Rome, does not prevent
its base from being infested by brigands. A few daye ago.
Signor Santovetti, a landed proprietor of Frascati, was
driving by the Molars, five miles on the road to
Valmontone, when two brigands summoned him t.)
halt. His coachman, however, rushed on, resolret
to have a gallop for it, and the brigands, left in the
lurch, fired after their intended victims, wounding
Signor Santovetti in the shoulder, but not preventing hi,
escape.

In examining the papers of M. do Cormenia,
Councillor of State, reeently deceased, the following note.
dated January 1, 1868, wu found:—" 1 desire expressly
that nothing which I leave shall be published after my
death, as I have made noise enough while alive. Silence"
is the epitaph which suits me best.—DE Coitxxxvg."
His heirs have, in consequence, abandoned their intntaioll
of publishing his correspondence and literary remains.
Madame Alexandrine Bris has jit4 passed a
brilliant examination before the Faculty of Sciences at
Paris and obtained the degree of Bachelor. Her intention
is to study medicine with a view of obt.iiilin; a ph).-
sician's diploma.
TROP DE ZELE.—The Courri,.r
a devoted organ of the empire—has been seized for print-
ing the proclamation of the Central Committee of Action
to which the Pays—the journal of the empire pi;
—first directed public attention. The proclamation w
introduced by some editorial remarks to the effect that 1.
was published with a view of exciting abhorrence of the
doctrines professed by the Central Committee of Acti.n.
Notwithstanding this, the paper was seized on the grin
of containing au article exciting to the overthrow of :}r!
imperial government. The Ace...,
whether the Commissary of Police who made the seinio
will be promoted ; and remarks that the government 1,,
sometimes strange agent,. . .

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MURDER AT BRISTOL—A murder Juts been
committed at Wells. Early on Monday morning a
navvy, named Bisgrove, was found in a field kneeling
beside the dead body of a companion named Cornish,
who bad been killed by blows on the bead. Bei-
grove raid he went into the field to sleep by the side of
Cornish, and that while there a tall navvy came with a
large stone and dropped it on Cornish's head, smashity:.
his skull, and killing him. A stone covered with blood
and hair was found in an adjoining stream. The men
were engaged in making the Cheddar Valley Railway.
Three others have been apprehended—a navvy named
Miller, who had fought with deceased ; and a man name I
Sweet, and a proetitute, who had a row with deceased on
Sunday night near the scene of the murder.
A BEVISED SENTENCE.—Gunner Benjamin
Sheldon, of No. 3 battery 22nd brigade. A.A., was tried
lately by court-martial at Lucknow, for having murdered
one Elijah Wall by shooting him with a carbine, and was
found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. This sentence
of the court was afterwards " revoked," but the "revised
sentence" was also to the effect that the un-
fortunate man should be hanged. The " sea-
tense" and the revired sentence' are as follow :
Sentence—“ The court sentence the prisoner, No. 331.
Gunner Benjamin Sheld.m, of the 3rd battery, 220;1
brigade, Royal Artillery, to suffer death by being henget,.
Revised Sentence—" The court, Laying atteutireiy conn-
derid the observations of the revving officer, and the
whole of the proceedings, do now revoke their former
sentence, and now sentence the wisoner, No. 334, Gunner
Benjamin Sheldon, of the 3rd battery, 22nd brigade,
Royal Artillery, to suffer death by being hanged by
neck until he be dead." The virtue of the revision
teems to be in the words by the neck until he be dead.'
The sentence was confirmed by Sir W. R. Mansfield, anal
spproeed by the Governor-General in council.
The bodies of a man and woman cloeely tied
together by the waist have been taken out of the Seine
near Auteuil. The two had evidently committed a de-
termined suicide. Nothing was found on their persons to
lead to their identification.