The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-15 00:00:00

MAYNOOTIf COLLEGE.

This morning the report of a vinitation, held at
the College of Maynooth on the 4th of June last, was issued
for the information of the House of Commons. The total
number of students on the college books at that date was
524. The visitors state that, in answer to their inquiries,
no complaint was made by either the superiors, professors,
or students. Every student now iu the college has taken
the oath of allegiance with the exception of seven who
were absent at the time of the last January quarter see-
sloes, and seventeen who have entered since that date. The
sanitary condition of the community was below the over-
age, and the projected improvements are considered abso-
lutely necessary by the visitors. With this exception the
general condition of the college was considered by the viai-
tors as " very satisfactory."

Mr. T. J. Hutchinson, formerly Consul at Fer-
nando Po, has been appointed to' the Cotundate of Rosario,
in the River Mate.

Mr. J. C. Fitzpatrick, barrister, of the Temple,
has been appointed judge in British Kaffraria.
The roses in Kew Gardena are now in their great-
est beauty and perfection. Ikea oentifolia (or the hundred-
leaved roes), the damask nee, Provence rose, and roes
ally are blowing profusely in the be& on each aide of the
grand promenade. An avenue of pillar rases (French) in
the garden behind the old museum is • splendid sight.
On a trellised wall in this garden there is a tree with many
hundred Bowers on it. The dug rose, the wild rose, the
eglantine (or briar rose), the China rose, and many other
varieties of this favourite flower, are in the large renal=
near the pagoda.

THE CHARGE AGAINST BARON DE VIDIL.
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The Baron de Vidil, it appears, was arrested on
Wednesday morning at his house in the Rue St. Ware, Paris,
by Thornton, a London police-officer, assisted by a French
agent. Thornton was provided with a warrant granted by
the British Secretary of State for the Home Department,
charging the baron with having assaulted his son with in-
tent to murder him. On an application being made to H.
Thouveuel, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to permit Thorn-
ton to convey Baron Vidil to England for trial, M. Thou-
semi refused to do so, saying that the French law does riot
authorise him.

The Tempe contains the following on the subject :—" The
Baron V., well known in the upper ranks of society in Paris
and London, has been arrested in Paris at the demand of
the English authorities. The Baron V. had arrived from
England, and is accused of an attempt to assassinate his
step•son." The Te,omps adds that Baron Vidil left Paris for
London on Friday, guarded bypolicc agents ; but the Prase
on as latest news, " Front fresh information we learn
that the announcement of Baron de Vidil having been sent
to London is premature. Baron de Vidil is in custody, but
the question of his extradition is not yet settled."
The Patric also mays that Baron de Vidil is in Mazes
prison at this moment.

THE EITBAORDINARY AFFRAY IN TIE

STRAND.

The lapse of two days hits thrown very little
light upon the Northumberland•street tragedy, but the
following facts may be relied on : —ln the first place,
there is no ground whatever for the suppositioe that a dis-
agreement in respect to money matters led to this fearful
encounter. Driven, therefore, elsewhere to search for a
motive, those who are engaged iu watching the progress of
the osse seem inclined to think that in this, as in many
other tragedies, the provocation to violence has been
the usual anon teterrista bells. In confirmation of this
theory is the statement of Mn.. Roberts, the wife of the
patient Robert; that a lady, passing by the name of Murray,
has been in the habit of calling upon her husband at his
offices in Northumberlend.street, ostensibly on Maine.
matters. The visits of this lady whoever she may turn out
to be (it is certain she is not Major Murray's wife), were so
frequent that they excited the astonishment of Mrs. Roberts,
who on more than one occasion inquired of Mr. Roberts
how it was that Major Murray did not himself call in-
stead of iutrusting his business to a female, but she never
got, from him a satisfactory explanation. On Friday even-
fog,when summoned to Miring-cross Hospital to see her
husband, finding that the/nava was a mystery in every
circumstance attending it, she turned to Major Murray and
said " Why is not Mrs. Murray (meaning the Dalai.
already alluded to) sent for, as she perhaps may be afile to
give us some explanation of this I' Whereupon Major
Murray turned round upon her and told her she was at mad
as her husband.

The house surgeons at Charing-cross Hospital, Messrs.
Skegg and Short, state that there is no sign of delirium
about Major Mormy. He persists In his statement that ha
never knew Mr. Roberta until he met him on Friday morn-
ing and accompanied him home, but he has not given' any
explanation either as to the origin of hie acquaintancewith
Roberta, the motive he had for accompanying him home, or
of the circumstance' which provoked the assault. It
however, generally supposed that Major Murray, instead of
meeting Roberts in the street, and accompanying him home,
called upon him "in the way of business." 'What that
business may have been is known but to the two tdfortu-
nate men themselves, but it is pretty certain that it kin BUMS
way related to documents or correspondence, for Mr.
Robert's escritoire was found broken open, anethe jivers
which ft contained scattered in fragments over the floor in a
pool of blood and wine. This circumstance throws some
discredit upon the account which Major Murray has given of
the transaction, that there bad been no altercation in the
mom previous to Roberta firing the pistol at him. At
first the two patients were placed in the same room, but they
have sines been separated, audio the course of Saturday Mr.
Canton, the surgeon in charge of them, finding that Roberts
was able to make his wante known to those who were in at-
tendance upon him, forwarded a message to Bowatreet that
the poor bruised and battered creature was able to make •
deposition, and wished to do so. On receiving this nunounce-
meet, Mr Carrie, the presiding magistrate, at once hapned
to the hospital, but on his arrival he found that although
the patient could call for a sup of tea, lie wee either unable
or unwilling to enter into any explanation of the frightful
conflict in which he had been engaged.
The dialogue between the patient and the magistrete was
as follows :

Mr. Currie—l am the magistrate. I understand you want
to speak to me.
Roberts—No ; I only said I wanted some tea.
Some tea was given to him and ho drank greedily.
Mr. Carrie-Now I am ready to hear what you have to
say.
Roberta (very indistinetly)—l can't speak; my face is
too had.
Mr. Currie—Do you feel able to say anything shout this
transaction •.
Roberbe—l am not able to talk about it.
Mr. Currie—Would you like to tell use how it took place!
Roberta—l can't talk about it.
Mr. Carrie—lt is useless for me to remain. If there is
any probability of his making a statement, I can be sent for.
The police-officers in attendance upon Roberta observed
that during the whole time be had been in their charge he
bad manifested the greatest unwillingness to give any
explanation of the circumstances under which the struggle
took place.
Question—Where was it Answer—ln my office.
Question—Do you know his name ? Answer—Oh, yes ;
it was Murray.
Question—How did it happen ? Answer—l am too bad ;
I can't talk about it.
From time to time, when be seemed able to respond,
similar questions were put to him. He answered readily
that the injuries were inflicted by Murray in his (Roberts's)
office • but when asked hcw it happeued he always repeated
that Ilia face was bad, and he could not talk about it.
Mr. O'Brien then proceeded to the bedside of Major -•
Murray, but finding, not only from the apparent condittou •
of the major, but also from the statement of the surgeon
and attendants, that Murray was iu process of reovvery,
and in no danger of death, Mr. O'Brien represented to the
magistrate that there could be no reason for taking Major
Murray's deposition as in oiliest° mortis. Mr. Carrie con-
curring in this view withdrew from the hospital, consider-
ing that there was in the case of Major Murray no occasion
and in the case of Mr. Roberts no opportunity for
terial interference.

AC icTiiWaUClLthis morning the report from the hospital
is that Roberts is not Lo well, and that Major Murray con-
tinues to improve. It is expected that cross charges will
be entered at Bow-street this day on behalf of either par-
ties. The police are in possession of the premises in Nor-
thumberland-street.

Cavonn MEmoar.a..—The following names of
contributors to the Gavotte memorial are to be added to
those published on Saturday:—Colonel Clifford, M.P.,
Colonel Pend, sod J. Milnes °oaken, Esq., M.P. The
lists having been forwarded to Turin and acknowledged,
may now be considered as closed.
"An eeraortlinary affair," says the &Wen-
dance "has taken place in the kingdom of Hanover. At a
banquet which followed a meeting of an agricultural society
at Osnaburg, M. de Lutken, fen inerly president of the
council, and now Lauddrost (prefect) of that principality,
who was in the chair, proposed a toast to M. de Barnes,
the minister, his loother•inslaw. One of the guests, a mem-
ber of the opposition in the Second Chamber, did not think
lit to rise to do honour to the toast, and M. de Latium,
flying into a violent passion, broke his glass on the others
hea, crying, 'lt is I who do that, to teach you the re.
pect due to • miuiste- !' The victim of this outrage left
the room, merely remarking that he had believed himself
in a meeting of well.bred persons, but that be perceived he
was mistaken. M. de Lutken, in the hope of escaping
ution, subsequently offered excuses to the outraged
ty."
de Macmahon has passed a day at Vichy
with the Emperor. It is supposed that the marshal was
sent for to receive inst-uctions ou the subject of the visit
which the King of Prussia, the King of the Belgians, and
even the Grand Duke Constantine, may possibly make to
the camp of Chalons.

By decision of the Grand Marshal of the House-
hold of the Emperor, the public will be admitted every
Thursday and Sunday to •isit the Palace of St. Cloud, from
twelve to three o'clock, without tickets, during the 'faience
of their Majesties. _ •

The Girunde, of Bordeaux, has received a warning
from the Prefect for an article on the budget and the I ,elis-
lative body, the mid article "attacking the state, and insult-
mg the institutions which Prince has given herself." This
is the first warning given to the press since the amnesty,
and the first application of the law of the 1:111, Jllll6, Islii.
Several of the Marseilles jouruals state that
M. Alexandre Dumas has just left that city for Naples,
where they say he is about to found an extensive culinary

The Prase of Vienna, of the 7th, Rays :—" A
quarrel lately arose at Maroth, in Hungary, between a gen-
tleman engineer and a Jewish butcher, who would not fur-
nish him with meat on credit. and the former threatened
the latter to box his ears. The butcher replied that if be
attempted such a thing be would threw a elve.pound weight
at his Mod. The engineer made a complaint to the autho-
rities, and the butcher was condemned to pay a Inc of
100 florins, bombe, being a Jew, he had insulted a gentle-
man and refused to give him credit."
Mdlle. Vanderincerach gave a performance on
Saturday of her " Oiseaux Merecilleux," at tho reddenco
of the Count d• Erhardt, the French Ambassador.
The telegraph between thin country /Mil the
Charmed Islands has failed in consequence of the exultant
breiskin of the submarine cable near Portland, from being
rolled over the rocky bed in that neighbourhood by the
strong tides and currents there. It is in contemplation to
lay down a cable between Alderney aixl the Isle of IVight.
the bed of the sea at the latter place having been examined
and found to be better adapted for that purpose than at
l'orthmiL