Star. — 1826-01-06 (London, England)

SWISS .ASSASSUIS. ; • . LUCERNE, Demise* 113. For several v eeks the inquiry into the death of 'M Keller has been continued, and a great number of per• sons have been examined. Clara Wendel and her sister, before their journey to Zurich, were conducted to the spot where the crime was committed. The following is an extract from the depositions made at Lucerne by the own now detained at Zurich.- .The day on which the,crinse was committed, Krusi Hans and his accomplices had met at one of their places of rendezvous, about half A league &Om Lucerne. They then went to tavern outside of the walls, and drank; afterwards they were summoned into the town, and to a cabaret, where they found Doctor Corragioni, and, according to some depositions, Eine other Gentle Men. Towards the evening they left the town in two parties, and re-. pelted by. two different roads to a little wood not far from the country houses of MM. Keller and Pfyffer. They were afterwards summoned by a servant to M. Pfyffer's, who was then Prefect of Lucerne. On arrive ing at h's house, some drink was given them; some of, them blackened their faces. On their leaving the' house, M. Pfyffer reminded them of their promises and engagements. They then watched for M. Keller; two of the assassins, piecing themselves as sentinels on the road to Lucerne. At a given signal, when M. Keller appeared on the road, he was seized by Krusi Hans, and two of his accomplices, and forced over a perpendicular precipice, at the bottom of which runs the river. The crime being completed, the assassins re. turned to the house of M Pfyffer, where they again received some drink ; some of them afterwards went down t:, the river, the 'teas, to see if the body had been cast on shore. One r f the Womenassertsthat she was in the house of the Prefect, when the daughters of M. Keller came there, deploring the loss of their father in accents of the greatest despair. The murderers then • returned into the town, and went to Dr. Corragioni, where they again received some drink. The Doctor drank with them, and then paid them. This is differently stated in some of the depositions ; some say they received five Innis, others say they nar=y received a few florins. The depositions vary als) as to the time when the asassinsuon was committed ; some say that AI. Keller was thrown into the river by day-light, as he was walking and reading a book ; at a later period to ey declared .that it was done in the evening, and even in the night. If these stories are accurate, two Magistra ec, generally respected,must have associated with a bad of robbers; they must have called to the meeting won:en and children; two of the persons detained were then only fourteen and fifteen years of age; tley hav'e made ct:n. tideuts of one of their servants and a geadat me, and generally have net four or five scoundrels in different cabarets, and drank with them ; they have braved the suspicions which their conduct must have inspired, and in these public places they concluded their agreement., • —Their borises were open to this horrible band ; and . these, under lire eyes of their own family and domestics. they encouraged them to commit the crime for which they prepareti.drem by wine. Finally, it was in an open apothecary's shop that their wages, were given them ;. and it ways in drinking that they celebrated the success of their horrible crime. We do not think it is 'necessary to add a single word in'explanation of these circumstances.  Mr. etEws, allritish. Cabinet Messenger, passed t`-tough Berlin on the I.lth ult. on his way from Lonalon to St. Petersbuigh. Vie Liverpool Albion says—" According to the state. scent published by the hrokers, the st-ick of cotton in this port on the 31st 44. would have been 20,700 bags • but, from the returns, made on Sat day morning gom the holders, it appears to have *en-41.000.1U import,'dtiring the past-year, into this pr rt alone, amounted to 706,303 bags. The returns of the stocks its Landau and Glasgow have not yet been received." ()a the 7th of November the steamboat Bake, towing don the ship Virginia, from New Orleans,. bound bi New York, tonic the below, and the flame, spiead with such great rapidity that the crew barely had time to effect. their escape on board of .the ship. The Virginia was cut loose and drifted asliure, but was got off in a short time,without suffering mirth daniagt.