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The Express. — 1863-06-29 (London, England)

COBRISPONDUIL) WHIN, JUNII 23. Thereseeme to be a mania for duelling juat now, just as there is sometimes a mania fur suicide. I mentioned in ray last that it was probable the President of the Council, Signor Minghetti, would accept the provocation offered to him by Signor 'Lattanzi, and the event proved me to be right. Signor Rattaszi has now been beaten both in and out of parliament. The sabre wound he received was alight, but it was sufficient to give his adversary the ,victory. Another duel was spoken of between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and ore of the leaders of the Left; and it is almost certain that 1 the editor of the Opinion will measure paces with Signor Corte, or Signor ICcetera. It seems that the party of action ; want An redoes the constitutional print to silence by intimidation. Meanwhile the rumour runs that 1 another duel between two ex-Garibaldians has had a ' fatal termination. It is said that both combatants I are dead, and this is not unlikely, as they were each Ito fire six times at ten paces. One of them, named Deus, is a colonel in the regular army ; the other bad been expelled from the risineent. A eassiadttee lof officers had decided that Colonel Dena ought not to accept the duel, but being provoked by the offensive tone of the challenger be could not resist. The encounter took place in Switzerland. Does it not seem as though there were something in all this closely akin to madness 1 The national rifle contest for the prize of 100,000 francs and smaller sums still continues, the attendance being very great. Prince Humbert presided at the opening day, and accepted an invitation to be present at the Swiss Federal contest. Everything went off well, and excellent taste was displayed in all the details. The fireworks were good, and could not have been displayed upon a better spot—near the river, with verdant mountains behind, and a vast piazza and a wide and splendid street in front. It a that since the questions of Bertani, Ri • p • and Manch', and the unexpected and violent attack of Signor Rattazzi, the old majority has been reconstituted, and that the government can rely upon an amount of support in the Chamber which will enable them to act, with more certainty than before. The ministers have thus been benefited by the very violence of their own adversaries. If this state of things continues, the country will advance in the path of organization, and the measures it needs will be permed. It is thought that Parliament will sit for three weeks more, or perhaps a little longer, and then be prorogued to the commencement of October.
The Express. — 1863-02-03 (London, England)

MEXICO. NEW YORK, JAW. 24.  Advioes have been received from Vera Cruz to the 3rd of January. It was rumoured that Gen. Doblado had committed suicide. It was also reported that there was a serious misunderstanding between Generals Ortega and Comonfort, and that numerous desertions from the Mexican garrison at Puebla were taking place. A conspiracy had been discovered in the brigade of General O'Horan, and five Mexic►n officers were shot. 35,000 Mexican troops were at Puebla, and 10,000 more between there and the capital. There were 12,000 troops at the capital, 8,000 in Queretaro, and 12,000 in Guerrero, mostly badly armed. The fortifications of Puebla are mounted with 200 guns, and those of the city of Mexico with a like number.  The Courier, which arrived at Mazatlan on the 3rd instant, reported that the French were encamped at Puebla, and were disposing their forces for au attack on the city.  Au elict has been issued by the governor of Rome establishing a tariff for cabmen, which is to come hate force on the Ist of March. The Correspondanee de Rome. a • French journal published there, is enthusiastic in its praise of the measure, unimportant as it may seem, and winds up • long article on the subject by the follow* reflections : " Such is the wisdom of the Pontifical power ; we like to detect it and demonstrate it in little things. That wisdom which directs the spiritual affairs of the world necessarily retains some reflection of its heavenly inspiration in the regulation of affairs of an inferior order. And Do think the wicked, for we take as a proof their rageruces to assert the contrary."  The railway from Rome to Napimi, with its omnibus conveyance between Ceprano and Presensano, continues in operstion, but the traffic upon it between the two capitals is as yet very moderate, not exceeding twenty or thirty travellers a day, chiefly 6nt•claw foreigners. The principal train is hitherto from each city to and from its own intermediate stations ; but the completion of the line, which will be in about three weeks, will tempt more travellers.  W. N.V.-Z:O7.W and soarLAND. N.
The Express. — 1863-07-07 (London, England)

MADAGASCAR. REPORT OF THE FRENCH CONSUL. PARIS, JULY 7.  The official report of the French consul st Tamatave, dated May 15, has been published to-day. This report explains that the cause of the political revolution in Madagascar was the rivalry between the nobles and Nenamaso. The young men who, at the accession of King Radama, took power and monopolised all favours, suggested to the King measures disapproved of by the people. They were accused of injustice, of being open to corruption, and great immorality. Under their influence the King published a law authorising duels, and even combats of tribe against tribe and village against village, without any other formality than the consent of the two parties, thus proclaiming civil war and furnishing a pretext for hostilities. The officers and principal inhabitants begged of the King to recall this law, who, however, refused, and the preparations for the conflict then began.  The French consul assembled all his fellowcountrymen, and the English consul wished the Methodist missionaries to take a similar course, but they did not respond to his invitation. The King, having again refused to revoke the law, the people, slaves, and soldiers assembled in the public places to search for the thirty-three individuals belonging to the King's court who had been proscribed by the conspirators. Eleven were killed by the multitude. While this was going on negotiations were entered into with the King, who asked mercy for the unfortunate men remaining, who, he promised, should be exiled for life. This was refused by the conspirators, who demanded that the guilty should undergo perpetual imprisonment in chains. The King would not at first comply with this demand, but, after much parleying, ended by accepting it. The following day the King was assassinated, and the council proclaimed Queen Robodo, announcing that the King, disconsolate at the loss of his friends, had committed suicide. The Queen accepted the constitution, which stipulates among other things that she shall not drink strong liquors, and that the right over life and death belongs to the council. It also abolishes the Tanquin, and maintains religious liberty. The Prime Minister informed M. Laborde that he had sent orders to the governors on the coast to protect the whites.
The Express. — 1848-01-17 (London, England)

ARTIST. —By Mr. Wakley, at the Queen's Head, Kiag'f-road, Chelsea, on the body of Mr. Joseph William Brett, aged 34, who committed suicide. The deceased, who was an artist, was the son of the Rev. Joseph Brett, a clergyman of the &lurch of England, and heel with his aged parents in a ore tage, Ne. 4, Keppel-street South. The deceased was ene of the large numb. r of artists who competed for the prizes offered for cartoons to embellish the new Houses of meet, and, like the majority of his compe, re, was an unsuccessful one. Deceased chose for his theme the historical subct of " King Richard pardoning the soldier who had shot him," which it will be recollected was exhibited with the others in Westminster Hall in the summer of 1843. De. ceased, although he never complained of his disappointment, was never afterwards in such good health, end since April last had gradually been getting weaker. On Tuesday last be was last seen alive by his parents about hale-past 10 o clock at night, when he was in bed, and wished them good night. The next morning (Wednesday), about 9 o'clock, his father, on going into decenyet's bedroom (a front parlour), found him still its bed, and saw what he thought was a red handkerchief round his neck. Being near-sighted he examined closer, and then found that it was blood, and that his son was dead. He, however, made no alarm beyond telling his wife, up to one o'clock, when he informed a neighbour, who advised him to tell the police, which he slid, and Mr. Smith, a surgeon, was fetched, who pronounced deceased to have been dead some hours, and found th..t he mat his throat lift-handed, with a razor found in the bed. The coroner at d jury, on viewing the body, were struck ' with its attenuated condition and the wretched state of the room and house, and appeared to commiserate greatly with the impuverish.d state to which the family were reduced, which was unknown to them before; and, after a lengthened inquiry, a verdict was returned—" That the demised was found dead, w i h his thrust cut, supposed by his own act, bnt that there was not sufficient evidence before the jury to show them what was the data of his mind at the time he did it."
The Express. — 1848-07-12 (London, England)

SUICIDE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—Last evening an inquest was held by Mr. Bedford, in the Westminster Hospital, on the body of Elizabeth Britain, aged twenty-eight, of No. 24, Cowper-atreet, City-road. Mr. George Sievewright said, that en Saturday morning last he was crossing St. James's-park to the Admiralty, and when near the gate opposite the Horse Guards, he saw the deceased leap over the iroa fence which borders the ornamental water, and plunge in. At the distance of about thirty yards behind her was a man she had just quitted, and wk., leaping into the water after her, endeavoured to save her. She was, however, beyond his reach, and to rave himself he was obliged to return. From further inquiry, it appeared that the deceased lived in an unmarried state with a man named Clement, who had quarrelled with and beaten her on the Thursday previous. 'Verdict—Temporary insanity.  Is the House OF LORDS yesterday the Bishop of Oxeoati moved the third reading of the Protection of Females Bill, upon which question a discussion ensued, in the course of which the noble and learned lords present, though concurring in the objects of the measure, expressed their belief that it would be impossible to carry out its provisions, and therefore thought it undesirable that it should proceed further. The right rev. prelate, however, having the support of other noble lords, persevered in his motion, and on a division the third reading was negatived by a majority of 7, the numbers 28 to 21 ; alter which the other bills on the table were advanced a stage, and their lordships adjourned. In the HOUSE or COMMONS, Mr. BERNAL brought up the report of the resolutions on the sugar duties, which was agreed to, and a bill founded then on ordered to be brought in.—The adjourned debate on the amendment of Sir L. GIInIEN for extending the operation of the Incumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill to England and Scotland was resumed, at the termination of which the amendment was by leave withdrawn, and the holhee wont into committee on the bill iwo.forma, with leave to sit again on Thursday next.—The Corn Markets (Ireland) Bill, after some complimentary observations from Mr. OsBORNE, as to the usefulness of the measure, passed through cornmittee.—Mr.G.THOMPSON, in a speech of details relative to the case of the late ex-It ijah of Sattara, moved for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the conduct of Lient.-Col.Ovans, of 0 a Bombayarmy, while British political resident at the court of Sattara, and into the proceedings of the Bombay government and the court of directors of the East India Company in relation to certain charges preferred against that officer, Mr. HuME seconding the motion, which was also supported by Mr. ANSTET and Mr.
The Express. — 1848-04-21 (London, England)

SPECIAL CONSTABLE IN BOW-STREET POLICE STATION.—By Mr. Bedford, at Evans's Hotel, Covent-garden, touching the death of George Charles Thomas Barrier, who committed suicide on Monday last in one of the cells attached to Bowstreet police-station. The father of the deceased described his son to have been of a very irritable temper and subject to violent pains in the head. When excited his mind frequently wandered, and he would sometimes fall down in a fit and remain insensible for • considerable period after the exhibition of any passionate feeling. During the late excitement he had been sworn in as a special constable, and having through his activity apprehended two or three bad characters he had become known to the police. Mr. C. J. Smith, police surgeon, who had been called to see deceased on Monday evening, said he found pulsation had ceased though the body was quite warm. The usual meats of restoring suepended animation were resorted to, but without effect. There was the mark of a ligature round the throat, and witness had no hesitation in secri bin his death to hanging. The gaoler at Bow-street Police Court said he took charge of the deceased. He was about to lock him up in • cell with two or three other prisoners, but the deceased begged to be placed in a cell by himself, and this was done. Before the door was locked deceased coked for a messenger to send to his father in Great Queen street. Witness sent • man to him who received his instructions and brought au answer back in about a quarter of an hour. On going to deliver the message the deceased was found hanging by his black silk handkerchief from a wire guard put up in front of the iron bars in the window of the cell. This guard was put up expressly to prevent prisoners attempting to hang themselves from the iron bars, and it had hitherto been considered impossible to insert anything between its interstices. The deceased had effected it by rolling up one end of his handkerchief into a very small compass, and then clipping it into a knot. Verdict—" Temporary insanity. FATAL ACCIDENT AT BCC/LIM/11AM PALACE: By Mr. Bedford, at St. George's Hospital, on the body of Richard Waterton. The deceased was a potman at a public-house in Pimlico, and had been supplying the workmen employed at Buckingham Palace with beer. Tuts lay afternoon last he bad been supplying the workmen employed at the top of the new front wing of the building with beer ; he hail descended to the first story, when, instead of descending to the bottom by the ordinary staircase, he went to the end of the building, and was in the act of going down an unfinished well staircase, when he slipped, and there being no banisters he fell to the bottom, a depth of forty feet. He was picked up in a senseless state, and conveyed to the above insthution ; but the injuries he had received were so extensive that he died early on the following morning. The immediate cause of death was an extensive fracture of the skull and laceration of the brain. Verdict, " Accidental Death."
The Express. — 1848-04-22 (London, England)

ARRIVAL OF JRNIST LIND IN LONDON.—Madlle. Jenny Lind arrived at Blackwell yesterday et 4, A.M., by the Countess of Lansdale steamer, from Hamburg. She appeared in excellent health and spirits. Tom STEELE, " THE PACIFICATOIL"—An evening paper has published the following letter, written by Mr. Steele to one of his most intimate friends, immediately prior to his attempt at suicide :—" Wednesday, April 19, 1848. My dear —,—Tou will, I well know, read this letter of your old friend with deep pain. But when you contemplate the dreary and heart-breaking. present aspect of Ireland, and contrast it with what it was in its majestic peaceful movement, under the sublime and benign moral sway of my everdeplored friend and leader, august O'Connell, you cannot be surprised that, with a complication of private ills upon me at the same time, the ties of life are with me dissevered, and in disruption for ever. Tne highest aspirations of my nature were, that I should be O'Connell's principal instrument of peace. his ' Head Pacificator of Ireland,' in his efforts for the peaceful, bloodless regeneration of his own country, and for setting an example to other realms, as was nobly proved in England by Richard Cobden and his League, how revolutions may he achieved by the consolidated organisation of public opinion, and withoutthe pollution of carnage, bloodshed, and convulsion. Before you receive this to-morrow I will have ceased to live. lam quite weary of existence, although, of comae, as a matter of manly firmness, in private society I deport myself as if I were without a care. I shall manage the matter in such • way that there shall be tio cause for the ceremonial of a coroner's inquest and post morferri examinatioa. When a thing of this kind must be done, the more quietly and lets theatrically it is done the better. —I am, with most grateful; feelings for all your kindness to me for so many years, as a private friend and public journalist, my dear affectionately yours.—Farewell for ever! —Tuomas Mitsui."  MR. COCEIRANIt'S
The Express. — 1848-01-25 (London, England)

SUICIDE ATTER A FIRE.—By Mr. W. Baker, at the Five Bells public-house, Limehouse, on the body of Caroline Ruston, aged 19 years, wbo commit ed suicide in the river Lea. Mr. F. Wood, • pawnbroker, of Ratcliff, stated that the deceased was his servant, and had been so for the last nine months. She sways appeared low-spirited, and seldom spoke to any one. On Saturdey morning lot, about two o'clock, the deceased, while sitting by the bedside reading, fell asleep, and tke bed-clothes caught fire. Witness was first alarmed by the house being full of amoke, and went to her bedroom. He found her standing by the window enveloped in flames. She was in the act of throwing her dram, which was on fire, out of the window, but made no alarm, It was with great difficulty that the flames were extinguished. The deceased said she had fallen asleep while mending her dress, and ILI soon as she discovered she was on fire she seemed frightened, and was unable to speak. There was a child of witness's in bed, but was rescued before the flames could reach him. While the clothes were burning the deceased appeared very much agitated. She was undressed and placed in bed. She got up jut before six o'clock, and when witness's apprentice came down stairs she asked for the keys to open a side door which leads into • court. She then left the house, and was not heard of anti: her death. Witness never rebuked her, and considered the tire was entirely accidental —Henry Walker said on Saturday morning last, about eight o'clock he was going to .cork, when he met the deceased by the side of the new cut of the river Lea. Witness passed her, and when he locked behind he saw her poll her bonnet and shawl off and place them on the towing-path. She then jumped into the river, and witness went for the drags. She was on the top of the water, and when taken out appeared not to be quite dead.—Mr. W. Giles, a surgeon, said he tried the usual means to resters animation for needy four hours, hut without success. Witness was of opinion that the brain was affected by the sudden shock of the fire so as to cause her to be in a deranged state. The jury returned • verdict of "Temporary Insanity Love
The Express. — 1848-01-03 (London, England)

ANTILICITIES.-At the meeting of the British not farther than the portion consisting of gold. The et. empathic vowels.. and the very rem* demand that Pm MIMI der teeortoesoess for stew., (mute, Bleached have been in fier demand. Grey. are net mo much wanted, requires no great penetration to discover that the signers of Archeological Amociation on the 22nd instant, Mr. Roach great bulk is of silver, in coin and bars. c a for it to pre eernee to every other kind of sauce, having_ Indeeed In London e- 1 Dubtln to manufacture sad sell SPURIOUS IC& ...21,7'"._-.Thestwe Ads her, w-demantle___f°r-astediehlmr,eirens and__aalee but holders are firm. The demand for shirting* has intlaenced the the second document were anything but free agents when Smith etatad that he had r.ecently viaited the escalations We have little variation to notice in foreign stocks. mloyee nee, of white puy hee..teeeteer, sue theeeneee, ere e. to tee egunt ea cc...iv mama ware oven emirs= at iv M. per wanary. ow being made on the lite of Verulanaum by the St tAgutrr f°r rdsdsgalwrnar whb'hses 'lse 14 d',..."4.,,.atib_betteL2k,ht they repudiated the first oue. The personal attack in the n . . eee_rooo rem_ e. iII dissopoinu.ent to those Wm are sot swam of the deception, L. tied p. &PM Is dull, and not Impend for at prevent. NM rod, teth mead et ewe mete there bee beee et, e.g.. --- --- -- '-- Kin 's swer on the o • inator of the addreae men yea Allean'e Architectural Society, under the superintendence of '" s' atn 17i to 18. Spanish Fives, 18! to bee reopeettuay to reconoamid tourcbasen on all °melons to ask or Fos:tram, is steady, but only • Pale ot 150 cantle* of the former re- better qualities of Lappets hieber. Red Twills ere improsing, being gan . rig . . •Is wet for at Re re. per candy. Of Meet, 60n bundiest hare been 'old e inquired for, and the stuck small- fl Th h 1 Holtzendorf Vatmunsdorf) is also Amu cant. ew u e le M Gi•eve Lowe and the Rev. Dr. Nicholson. They were 191 ; the Threes, 281 to 91, ex-dividend. Dutch LEA eND PERRIXS• WORCERTERSHIRE SAUCE, re. 9we prr mat.-thie dee-rimier, ir, either den tem now. Hoop carroa l'xi IsT.-111ule Twist.-A good cleat has been done in this affair is not over-creditable to the Prusenan goverament. commenced on the right side of the high road leadmst to 24 per cents., Uto I, en-dividend ; the Fours, 841 to 'an. and to em that their names am upon the label and patent me of the te steady, as are deo nail., bur in neither have we heard of my trans dmeription of yarn during the loot few days, and large sales are re- . . Oarliambery beyond St. Michael's Church, owing te the , 5! ex-dividend. Portutueee, 23 to 4. bottle. &aims. Swedish Meet et very dull, tine hae further receded in value, attention of 'Mr. Lowe being directed to a Man of flint It is stated from 8. or. ported at improved prima in Rome numbers. In Nos. 30, 40, and So, SUICIDE OF A TRADESMAN AND lIIS