The Express. — 1862-02-19 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A ROYAL COMMIWONER IN  HUNGARY.  A letter from Poath, iu the Nord of to-day, says :—" The sudden death of two royal commissioner,, Messrs. Salkovsky and Petrak, has made a great sensation here. The following are the circumstances under which Y. Balkovsky committed suicide. The government sought in vain • functionary whom it could make chief of the comitat of Routh. Who could have the hardihood to mei& over this comitat as a simple governmental agent and to take the place which was once occupied by the unhappy and chivalrous Count LadisLius Teleki, and by a Majlath, the jet/ex curio, that honoured and upright magistrate? It was in the son of the gaol governor of this same comitat that the government at length found the functionary so much sought after. But scarcely bad he been nomivateil when the royal commissioner found himself abandoned by hie friends, isolated, and shunned by his acquaintances, in spite of the official honours obtained from the government. " Beset with gloomy thoughts be wrote letters upon letters to the Chancellor, with the view of being released from the office of royal commissioner. He had no longer confidence to present himself in public. He excused himself in his letters, sad enough to break one's heart, by declaring that be had not expired to the honours, that he had only accepted them io the belief that he would be enabled to render himself useful to his country. In another letter he announced to the Chancellor that he could no longer bear the oppro. bium attached to his functions, and tlmt he bad revolved to put an end to his life of sufferings ; he implored him, there. fore, speedily to appoiut his successor. lu a third letter he mid *at he would already have committed suicide if the snivel of his wife and the sight of his childreu had uot restrained his hand. lie wished to die an honest man, and while living to see himself relieved from all responsibility and all suspicion, but he much feared, he said, that if his successor did not arrive immediately, he (the writer) should not have streugth to wait. And, in truth, he did not gait; • pistol shot terminated his sufferings. In his last letter he prayed everyone to have pity on his wife a•d children ; as for himself, he hoped that God, in his Divine goodness, would pardon his fault. The concourse at his funeral was innnense. This sad expiation has recouciled all hearts, no longer to the living, lint to his memory. His letters are the judgraeut of a dying man, and their publication fixes on his colleagues the stigiva of the mine opprobrium to which H. Salkovsky succumbed."  It is Bahl that the Princesseampello, • member of the Bonaparte family, was entering the theatre at Rome the other day, with her beether•iu law, the Prince Musignano, when a bouquet which she Uhl in her hand was snatched from her by a shirr°, under the pretext that the dowers formed a tricolour. Prince Campoßo was highly indignant at this insult to his wife, and upon the instructions of M. Thouvenel, the 8E111.Q1114 de L ivalette has, it is said, asked the Roman government for explanations. A Florence letter of the 13th says :—" We have a large influx of English now en route from Rome to parliament. I maw one 'milord° ' yesterday, who travels with Ave English servants. John and Thomas, in powder, were reading (laligrugni; while the courier, in broken language, was retailing Italian politica to the ' gentleman in black' who assists the other gentleman (his master) to dream."  The publication of the confidential letters of Count Cavour, addressed to M. Itsitazzi, has produced • sensation in Italy. The Countess Alfieri, niece of the count, and who was honoured with the particular affection of that statesman, has protested, in • letter addressed to the Rirista Cmdemporanta, against those disclosures, which are " evidently made leas with the view of rendering homage to the memory of the deceased minister, than of serving the balaresta at a party."