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FRANCE . _jjEGTJSB OP MUB KArOLEOs ' S _POPDLARIIY . The following from the ¦ correspondence of the Times shows that the President ' s popularity is already waning—at least amongst the population of Paris ;—• 'Thefeeling of dissatisfaction at the conduct and the want of energy of the President of the Repubiie £ _s , I regret to perceive , on the increase . The _damplaintsone hears on all sides are nor . founded on anv question of his foreign policy , but rather wise out of the distressed state of the population and the embarrassments tf tbe _Treasury . Domestic _suffering makes those who murmur almost entirely regardless of what ia passing in foreign countries ; and if one may jadge by tho nature of the charges against the
President and his government , it would _eeem as if tte French peeple , _coraplete _' y intent on their own condition , had _beac-ma careless whether a republic or monarchy existed in any _roratry of _Earopa . They have plenty to _ooanpy them at home without _troubling _themselves * with the _bniineas of theie _ce-ghboare , ft is useless to ir quire of those _wh- » express discontent the precise charges against their new chief . There js no particu ' ar act censured _, so far a « can b 3 observed ; no accusation brought against him for any specific fact . It it _precissly what the _dif _Contented term his want of energy , his apathy , his indifference _totbeBtateoftbe country , hia originating no measure to relieve its condition or _r > nder its embarrassments less , that have « cit ? d a feeling so _different from _, that which _ex-sted Bcarcelya fortnight aince .
* It . may he that great _snfferirg tend * to render meni _* tpail * ntand unreasonable ; bnt tha fac'is , tba * . tbe discontent is great , the suffering pernios ' still greater ; the extrication f . on tve-whflm ' n ? evils believed to be , if not _possible , at least difficult in tfco _f-xtrame . _^ The situation is sad indeed , and one which reqnirea no ordinary _amout-t ot energy and skid to eambat or relieve ; and it is uselfss to conceal the fact that Louis Napoleon is not now . whatever he might have b * en , believed to be the man vho is dettinel to save tbe conntry . ¦
The best reputations and tha greatest popularity ate not proof against revolution . To those who beheld the Triumphant passage ofthe new President through Paris not many daya since , it must be strange to _witness the change which bas taken place _eince then . _TTI 1 I it be believed that bs ( 6 were Offered this day , and in a place of publio resort , that , before two months , tbe _Prasident would be at _Vinenass , _either in consequence of an unsuccessful coup d ' etat , or of something still more formidable V The _foYSowisg is the celebrated _letter of Prince _j-ouis . _tiapoteoa to M . L % o » da _Mellerlile , wbich caused the resignation of ihe latter : — Elysee . Deo . 27 . 1848 .
_Honeiesr le MinUtre—I bave asked the _Preftctc-Police if be did not _somefinug receive reports on diple . ma < y . He has replied in ihe affirmative , and has added that be yesterday sent tbe _coplei of a _dlepatch on Italy . These dispatch's , you will understand , ought to be sent to me directly , and I must express to you my discontent at tbe delay whioh you have allowed to elapse in con * - _DTimca'tog thtm to tae . I bfg ol yoa also to send on tha lixteen cartoons _whici I bave demanded . [ These are tbo documents
relative to tbe _sSdts of Strasbourg and Boulogne . ] I do nst _understand , either , wby the Minister of the Interior should draw up tfae articles which exe _personal to me ; that was not done so under Lids Philippe , and it _mu « not be so now . Por some dajf , also , I have not received ttlfgr-phfc despatches ; lu short , I perceive very well that tbe _Minicters whom I have named wish to treat me as if the famous _CaBsti ' uticra of Sieves were in force , but I will DO * suffer it . Receive , _Moacleor la "diautre _, tha _assurance of my _sentiment-, of high dlsticotlon .
L . N . _Bpojiafabte . P . S . I forgot to b _»> that there are still at St _Iszarre _t'g'aty _"on * _- * _i _»**•» stats ef arrest , of vtbam only one has been brought before a conneil of _«•« • tell me "flhavy tie right to have them set at _liberty ; for in that _cas-. . I _ehtU give the ordtr at this very icetent .
APFOIXXMEHTS . The Monitbeb of _Tnarsday published a decree of the President of the Republic , dated 2 nd inst ., ap pointing Vice Admiral Cecilia _Ambassador ef France to the Court of Great Britain ; and M . Lagrene Plenipotentia-yof the French Republic at the cmfere noes about to be opened / at Brussels tor the settlement of the Italian question . THB PAPAL QUESTION . The Spanish and Portuguese governments have made a proposition , in common with the government ofthe Republic , with a view to the holding of conferences between the three government * , as to tbepresent position of the Pope , and the be 3 t mode of restoring him to his dominions . The two governments _prooose that the conference should be held either at Madrid or _Barcelona . Tho French government has not hitherto given any reply in this respect .
THK ASSEMBLY . At the conclusien of the sitting of the National _As ? embly on Wednesday , an interesting discussion to _' jk place 01 the laws with _respect to tho combinations among workmen , for the purpose of raising traces' & : In FraEce the combination laws ar * - still ia force , and that in the most stringent Bens * . By tbat p rtion ofthe penal code which has reference to combinations , a difference is drawn betweea a combination of workmen and that of masters . Io the caw of workmen , the very fact of their having combined is considered as a delict , independently of all aggravating _circnais _' _ances , each SS the emptor ment of _threats or of v : o ! en e _. Both acts are offences in the eyes of the la *; but where threats or violence are employed , the amount- of punishment is of coarse considerablv greater . In the case of mastera _.
coaiition or combination is not ot itself considered as an offence ; it only becomes so when the object of it is to reduce wages unjustly aijd unduly . Sucb i * the state of tte law as ic has stood Bince the time of the Empire ; bnt M . Morin _t-rought forward a pro position some _months aeo , whioh , after bavin » been considered and amended by no less than two committees , was brought before the Asse . rn . bly . The _principle of tha measure _CODMntB 111 8 UDplBgsing the difference _, established by the penal code , and reestablishing a perfect equality between workmen and _master ? . It proposed simply to strike the offence called combination out oi the penal code , and not to punish coalitions , whether on the part of workmen or masters , in any case , unless when Ihey were ' aceoapanied by the aggravating and really unlawful circumstances of violence , threats , or other illicit _rmrmivres .
The measure was strongly opposed by M . Leon Faucher , tbe new Minister of tbe Interior , MM . _Ayles , Baroche . and Ronher- They each insisted oh the grave inconvmienees which might remit , not only in the interests ofthe masters , but of the workmen themselves , from proclaiming the complete and absolute liberty of coalition among workmen . The reason given by M . Fancier for a different law in the two countries is carious . * In England , ' said he . ' withont doubt , tbe liberty ef combination is
absolute ; there is in the coalition an enormous _concoiirence ; bnt thera the remedy is by the side of the evil for if the English workman refuses to work , the frontier is constantly open to all foreign products , End these products may replace those which the natural industry does not give . In France H is not the ? ame case , To authorise coalition wauld be to _Csnstitnte tbose armies of _workmen _almost always in 0 state of open war againat the heads of the wGrk-Bhops ; it would be to organise insurrection in the ateliers ; it would be the organisation of permanent
war . ' [ 2 _S- This Leon Faucher fs the chief ofthe French Free / Traders ! Tbese plunderers and oppressors o . the proletariat- * are tha same hear . less crew all tbe world over . —Ed . N . s . ) Faueher and his supporter , * insisted that the _question shonld be referred to another special commission , asd the majority of the Assembly went with thera . The conscqaenca is , that farther evidence will ba taken on the subject , and another report made ; orin otLer wordsthe measure is shelved . j
. , A sharp contest took place on Thursday between tha moderate party and the ultra-democrats , on the occasion of the monthly election of the president , vice-president , snd secretaries ef the Committee ol Foreign Affaire , ill , de _Mornay has been elected president , his opponent being M . Basfcide , late Minister of Foreign Affairs . M . _Ayliea has been elected lice preeident , aeainst M . Baune , one of th . 9 most xslted of tke _Montagnards . MM . _fle'ckeren and Edmond de Lafayette , bath , moderates , have been elected secretaries , the competitors being MM . Zavier Darrieaand _Buvignier , ultra-democrats .
" THE rOREieS POLICY OF THE KKW GOTERKHESI . ft Ic ths _Assembly on Monday M . Beaune ascended "the tribune to address _qnestiona to the Cabinet _res tive to Foreign Affairs . M . Beaune said that he _-iid not object to tbe passage of the ministerial _programme in which it waa stated that the government srould Hot lightly engage the _•* ' _*«••*•>' _™^ _- Bn _» _fteCon-tUutionteing now voted , and 6 000 , 000 of » ffrage = havin _* : elevated to the presidency the iephew ofthe Emperor Napoleon , France should co finger htvean anonjmouep-.: iey . It _^ » d _Wl ¦ able that thec _. nduct of _^^ be _worfbv of her . Although _Brusiels had been fired _&
fcr _these ' at of mediation on Italian _aff «« i ,-- _« thoog _IfLLi-reneehad been appointed to replace M . de ¦ _fotqaeville as the Plenipotentiary ef France , the WnfcKnces . be affirmed , would not take place , be * lu-e Austria refused to recognise the mediation , and " | hat England had no interest in Italy common with ttat of France . What course diJ the Cabinet mean £ parsue towards the Rmun peorle ? Did _itim-Jfed to Join Austria in reinstating the Pope , who hid inferred , to the _haspitality cf France , that of _Ifeking who was now only known by the mamc e * his people and tho conflagration of his cities ? As _rejected tha Sicilian Question , wag war to
retwmenea . or was the armistice conolnded on me ikbs of Messina to be _contmaea ? Un _demanded * eategoKaJ yepiy to those questions in the inter « 85
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M _CSri ldth , ? _J 0 ,, oarof _F" _««* Fromthenoe M . Beaune travelled to Soain _R « » 7 _aiT « _4 iu _^ _Sf-W _^ _SSB SM _oT _^^^ A _^ lf Utter , he maintained , w ? s the soul of Sf HoIt if _liance _, and to show the ill-will of her _« _lm _tS-ft France , he cited an _explosion of _Zr S plomatiate , whoreoommend ed that _'then _? r « L * l " lotion be left to slew in ff _^™ ' The _ema _' _rT eipatun of Italy , the alliance wiS ? _ftee ( W _^" and the _reconstruction of Poland , Sid _Khe ' _ma-n objects 0 f tbe policy of Fnn » - 1 ftcurs on to Con 9 UBfc _* , ni e Vnd f _^ _-m _,,- n ex send a _F-nch _/ . _eeW p _^ O toman Empire , M . Beaune d _. _ecendTfrom _S
J _^; ° ! 5 , _^ , hBy 5 ' _Miniatee for Foreign Affairs , _wS _" _* ' _Z iTe _2 * PBndiB « n-Votiation lmpwed upon bim the utmost _reservl He maintewed that the negotiations opened at _Brnsge _' _s were r br _5 u . > a _? d that the mediation had not been refused by Austria . The question _atissne was one ol peace and war . There were two policies in presenee sine * February ; one favourable to peace , and tne other inciting to war . II _& advocated tho former , and should never be a partisan ef the latter . M . Lamartine here ro 38 and justified tbe foreign _polioy pursued by the Provisional Government with the fuli concurrence of aU its members , Bnd invited its opponents to a public discussion on its merits . M . Lelru Rollin , who followed , contended that the policy of the Provisions ! _Government had been
pacific and fraternal . He was ready to repeat the explanation he had already given _re-pectinj * the expedition to _Rigquoaa Teat . The manifesto of the 5 sb March proclaimed the propaganda of ideas ; it deolared the treaties of 1815 at an end , at the same time that the boundaries of the different states , fixed by those treaties , should be respected . He then examined the poiiev pursued with regard to Sicily There , also _, negotiations were at au end , in contequence cf the protest of Spain , and the declaration ofthe Emperor "Nicholas that he would defend with the gword the treaties of 1815 . What was the conduct of Franoe in R me ? She knew that AuBtria was marching her troops towards the Pontifical dominions . She knew that a compact existed between Austria and
Naples to restore the Pope , and he understood , but oould not believe , that France had joined the league . He had heard tbat a Cabinet Council had been held at tbe close of December , and that it wonld allow the intervention of Austria and Naples to be proposed for the restoration of the Pope , Ue _Rl _° 0 W 8 B 111 * formed thai on the first of January , tbe President of the Republio went up to the Papal Nuncio , and , in presence of the whole Corps Diplomatique , bad given htm an assurance that the Pope would soon be reinstated in bis temporal pewer . If it was true tbat Austria and _Naptes were preparing to eater ths Roman sfai-a , the _governmer t was bound by the manifesto of the 5 th March to oppose that inter venlion , for that manifesto declared thst France
would cause Italian independence to be _respected . The Reman revolution was legitimate , The Roman people were iaetified iu rising against a temporal sovereign . Ministers , when asked what was the coarse pursued by the Cabinet , replied , negotiations were pending , instead of acting . The situation was grave in the extreme . Russia baa declared that sbe wonld maintain by ber arms the treatiei of 1815 . A _Rwaian fleet was at present in the Adriatic , supported by 80 , 000 men of the Moldo-Wallachian army , _Prussia was marohing _iroops to the Rhenish pro * _vinceo , and a Prussian General had lately proposed _^ at a dinner given to his offiofW , the following _toagt' To our next meeting on the banks of the Rhine . ' England herself had been alarmed by these military
mov . meats , and had lately sent one of her ablest statesmen to Belgium to inquire into their object , after which be repaired to Paris . M . L _? dru Rollin maintained that energetic measures were indispensable , in presence of the military movements of Russia aad the otber Absolutist Powers , and the recent declaration of tbe Efflperor of Russia tbat he would defend with arms the treaties of 1815 . Napoleon had said that Europe would be either Republican or overran ky the Caesaeks in the eourse of fifty years . The Czar appeared disposed to realise tbe latter part of the prediction . It was not only tbe cause of the republic , but that of civilisation . France had
received the mission to protect . By following aBother darre , the government wonld betray the country and promote the eause of barbarity . M . Drouin de _Lhuys _, having risen , called on M . Ledra Rollin and his friends , if they wished to _sobstUute a question of war for a question of negotiation , fo bring forward a proposition to that effect . ( Cries of' The order of the day' from all eides . ) M . Larochejacqaelin said that he oppr . _sed the order of tbe day because it was _cecetfsry that the Ministrv should tell tbe Assembly if the facts denounced by M . Ledra Rollin shonld be impmed to tbat Cabinet or to the preceding one .
AI . Drouyn de Lhuys replied that the mediation relative to Sicily was said to be at sn end . This warnot the case ; tbe negotiations were still pending , and no declaration of the nature described _^ by M . Ledra _R"l-in had beea made to the English and French Governments . Tbere was no trutbi either in the meeting of a Cabinet Council at which a _Cffflbiced _invasion of Italy with Austria and Naples had been agreed to . The veto of Russia had net impeded the Sicilian negotiation ? , and if another Power wished to participate in them France could not ob jeet to it . If two handred thousand Russians menaced France , which he denied , France had five hnndred thousand men to oppose to them . It was notexact , either , to say that Prussia was arming . The Government having applied to the Cabinet of Berlin for information on the -subject , was assured that , eince April last , so increase had taken place i _» tbe _Pros-iaa army . On the oontrary , ita effective force had been reduced .
M . Ledra Rollin again rose , and maintained the accuracy of tbe fact he had adduced , and whioh w * _re furnished to bim by foreign diplomatists . In reply to an allusion of M . Larochejacquelin . M . Ledru Rollin said that be waa so _sineerely converted to the Republic tbat be offered , on the 25 th of February _, to accept the _embansy to St Petersburg . M . Larochejacquelin replied , that when the Revolution occurred , he had been sent for by M . _Larrartine " . who had offered _hirn an embassy . M . Lamartine confirmed that statement . After a few words from _Pronyn de Lhuys and Da Tracy , Minister of Marine , _Vae Assembly passed to the order of the day .
_Dl'SOMJTio ** or Tax _assemblt . Petitions continue to crowd in from the depart ments , ur | ing ( and 8 omein very strong terms ) the National Assembly to dissolve . The feeling on that point appears to be Btrongin the provinces . The Courier de ia _Girosds goes so far as to recommend tha President to dissolve the Assembly by force , and reminds him that he has determined military chiefs to support him , if neoessary .
_PERSECOIIOX e ? ths mmocbats . A married couple , named Leclerc , were tried last week before the court-martial for taking part in the insurrection of June . ThehuBband . a journeyman painter , commanded the insurgents at the capture of the post on the PlaceManbert , and he then set it on fire by meansof straw and turpentine- Tho woman _whowasaeanttrwereof the 12 th legion , also acted with the insurgents , and went round to tradesmen to compel them to give the materials for bnrning down the post . Sbe was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment , and her husband to two .
The CossriTpriOKNEt ( _Thiers's paper ) , give * the following : — 'Lettersfrom Caen state tbat about fifty insurgents lately amnestied , and ooming from Cherbourg , _manifesfcsd on their way , by tbeir Ian . gnage and oondaot , snch an evident disposition to _create new disturbances , that the National Guard ef Caen as-em bled of its own accord , and surrounded and escorted theBe dangerous men . The exasperation became bo great , that the prefect and the other magistrates found it prudent to place the offenders in _oonfinemeat , and send to Paris for instructions as
to the ultimate disposal of them . ' f There can be no doubt tbat the allegation as to the * dangerous langaaee and conduct' ofthe amnestied insurgents is a lie , get up * , to cover this in _' amous attack of the Caen bourgeois npon the unfortunate democrats . These villains of the shop will not allow the government fo show mercy , eve * when eo disposed . —Ed . N . S . ] M . Thomassin , one ef the _iouaders of the famous banquet du people , which was to have taken place at Vineennes , has just been released after a captivity of sir months in forts and on the pontoons .
filGNXFICAltT I General Changarnier visited the Military Hospital of Valde- Grace en Taesday . On that occasion some National Gaards repeatedly cried ' Vive General Changarnier . ' The operatives in the Fanboure then quitted their workshops , crying ' Vive la Republique _Zhnsocratiqve et Sociele . IBS LEGITIMIST * , The Times _correspoadent says : — ' Is is observed that the hopes of the _legitimists Bra becoming higher every dayi It wai remarked , for in these
times nothing passes unnoticed , that at the last reeeption ef M . de Falloux , the concourse of Legitimists ef ancient family , such as the Montmorencies _, & _-3 , was _greater than at any period since the revolution of 1830—at least in the salons ofa Minister . Two of the most distinguished statesmen of the day , who were present , are aaid to have declared openly that the _Republic had now had a fair chance , and it was evident that it was a form , of government inoom * _patible with the charaoter or sympathies of tbe French people *
H . PB 0 _UDH 0 ** . Nl . Prondhon is _serionsly in 0 f typhus , fever . JHE BSUBOKOISIB . A carious faet , illustrative of the determined hostility of the _bourgeoisies Paris to everything apper _taining to Republicanism , occurred on Sunday , on the eccssicn of the election of a Colonel of the IQth Legion of the National Gnard . General _LaariBten , personally unknown to the inhabitants of _thatqaar-
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_hiiMr " « * lavin _R nothing to recommend him 1 ftso ** _* ' * r' _' wn Legitimist -prinoiples , obtained » i _03 i 5 votes ; while M . Ramond _, who was _pOTBOiallj _suown to the _arrondisfiement , aad justly beloved by hia comrades , polled only 1121 .
GERMANY . PAKIC OF THE . R 0 TAL 18 T TEBaoBKTS OF Y 1 _BHNA . It is asserted in a proclamation issued by the Go ' - vernor of Vienna , that ' a club of _evil-designing knaves * has been formed for the purpose of storming toe bastions by night and of spiking the cannon thereon . The governor ( Field-Marshal Welden ) adds that , shonld any attempt of that kind be mad *? , all the troops in garrison will be ready to act at a quarter of an hour ' s notice ( the alarm to be given ' . by three cannon shot ? . ) , and informs the public tbat the sentinels have received orders to fire on all persons approaching the fortifications by night ami in s . body . It appears that the conspirators are distinguished bv wearing black feathers in their hats . All persons found wearing guch emblems , or glased bands , or white buckles in their hats , are immediately arrested . DIVIDE AND OlfQUEB .
According to letters from Lemberg , the Austrian authorities are still doing all they can to put down the Polish' element' ( that is to say , all Polish tendencies ) , and to foster the _Ruthenian one . Those Poles who some time ago returned to Galicia , from their respective places of exile , havo received orders to leave the country again . THK _DELICACV OV THK ' TIMES . ' The Vienna correspondent of tbe TiMK 8 , after de * tailing the atrocities of General Weldea ' _a terrorism
adds : — One cannot in justice bat say that it serves them right . They are indeed very wroth , and take their revenge by making the most _atrooioua puns and conundrums on the score of the Emperor , Prince _Wiudfachgratz , and _ibeJBaii of Croatia . Nor c » n _respect fcr the sex induce them to spare the Princess Sophia , for that lady and the Ban are made the subj _*? ct of a disgusting caricature . I will not shock the _deccnoy of your readers by a detailed account of it , but I will merely * ay that it is much admired by the Viennese . '
PEB 8 KCUTI 0 N . The first steps of the proBecution of the deputies who endeavoured to incite tbe people in the provinces to refuse tbe payment or taxes have been taken . In addition to the arrest Of M . Temme , Otber measures of the government show that the prescription of the deputies of the left who joined in the refusal of the taxes vote will ba an active one . M . Bredt _, Commissary of the distriot ef Elberfeld _, ba 3 been suspended from his office . M . Fischer . _As-• _easor of the Upper Court of _Pqlmen _, haa _« lBO 1 ) 690 arrested .
An extraordinary act of suicide was oommitted a few days ago at Erfurt . A soldier , who had been _degraded from the rank of a non-commissioned effioer , placed himself in front of a twelve-pounder , and blew himself to pieces . One of hie anna was picked np in a publio _equare in the town . The ball in its progress considerably damaged five houses . Disaffection of the _Viuans "*! . —The same _correspondent writing on the 2 nd _inat ,, says ' , — New Yf _ar _'» Day has broaght another severe proclamation
from General Welden , informing us that there ore still people who defy all military and civil anthority , and announcing the General's resolution to banish from Vienna all foreigners , and all Austriana oot Vienne ? e , unless they give the moat _-atisfastory reasons fcr the _Beeessity of their stay in this town . Now , it is true the people , especially in the _subutba , are refractory snd disaffected , but the gallant General ' s Seasures are not the less vexatious and unadvised . e cannot banish the real enemies of the Government , viz . the Viennese themselves .
The censorship is re-established in eabstance , though not in name . The state of siege , far from being relaxed , ia likely to be enforced with greater severity . The year 1848 was a year of destruction and misery , bnt this 1849 threatens to be worse , at least aa far as _Austria _ig concerned .
THE WAR IN HUNGARY . After the capture of Presburg , Prince _Windischgr & ' zordered the Austrian standard to be _displaved . To tbis some Hungarians objeoted , and their Field _Marshal answered . — 'The Hungarians bave themselves declared the pragmatic sanction abolished . They cannot , consequently , be surprised that Anstria should agree to tbat , and henceforth treat Hungary , like Bohemia , aa a province of the monarchy . * According to the Daily News , intelligence from Vienna to the lst , states that Prince Windiecbgra ' z on teat day sent in a dispatch from the Ban of Croatia , reporting the rencontre ofthe Ban ' s division with a troop of Hungarians , commanded by General _Pewasl . Being informed of the presence of General _Perfzsl'a forces in the vicinity ot Moor , Baron
Jellaehich marched on the 29 th ult . from Kisber up ? n Moor , where he found tbe Hungarian *} , about 10 , 000 strong , in an advantageous position . Baron Jellachich ' _s division 13 23 000 men strong ; nevertheless , he thonght it advisable to wait for some reinfomments . At length he orden d the Hungarians to be attacked by the brigade of _Grsmaontandby the _Wsllmoden Cuirassiers , who , with General OttiKger , had joined him from the corpsd ' armee of Prinee _Wiediachgral z . The _WallUWueil Cuira ** 8 ier 8 forced the enemy's position , and captured six pieces of artillery , and a good many prisoners . ( The bulletin mentions several thousands . ) The _Huneanans npon thiB commenced their retreat , which they effected in good order , in the direction of _Stuhlweissenburcr . .. . ... .
Notwithstanding theie bulletins of victories gained by the _Aostrians the Vienna correspondent of the Times , intimates that the victories hitherto gained have been of little moment . This _preciouB correspondent significantly adds : —* I _ehall be happy to see the Magyars Conquered ; but until they are conquered I will not say they are _« o . ' Impartial atd generous man 1 The Vienna correspondent of the Timks , writing on the 2 ad instant , says : —* Yesterday ' s bulletin , containing the account of Baron Jellachicb ' s victory , is more _sailsfactery than any _t » f the former ones . Its _stylets less pompous , and it seems to be more true . There is , _indeed , a slight mistake abont the numbers , for it seemB strange that the Ban fought with from eight thousand to ten thousand Hungarians ,
several thousands of whom were captured , and many mora slain , _aed that as many as eight _fbousand ot the ten thousand have effected their retreat . To make amends we bave a splendid bulletin frora the other Bide , in which the battle and retreat at _Wieselburg is held ud as a signal victory . I sent you all the news I could collect about the _Wieselbarg fight _, and that the Hungarians made a smart battle ana covered their retreat . Prince _Windischgralz ' s bulletin says , they ran away in a ' wild flight , and I thiok ; i mentioned how destructive that 'wild flight proved to the Austrian division . Now , General Georgy , the Hungarian leader , will not even confess the retreat , but begins his report , * Vivat the Mag . yar ! To-day we have conquered ; ' and tben comes a long description of the battle , in which , if General Georgy is to be credited , the _Austrian ran
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SIKOH OF C 0 M 0 RS . It is stated in the _conespondance of the _Timss , that the army commanded by General Wrbna _, arrived before Comoro on the 30 th of December last , and summoned that _fertress to surrender- This request not being complied with , the Imperial troops surrounded Comoro on either bank of the Danube . The siege is now being carried on . Comow i _» commanded by tjeneral Me ' y theny , formerly au officer of the Imperial army . The properties of several of the Hnngarian Dobles have boen confiscated , inoluding Count Louis Batthiany , Count Anton _Zsppary , and the CountB _Casimir Batthiany and Vidos .
HUNOAaiiH TACTIC 1 , The correspondent of the Times says : I have had some interesting conversations with Maeyars from the conquered distriota of _Preabnrg . Raab , and Tyrnau . Their account of the campaign are far different from those which have been published in the bulletins . They protest it was never Kossuth s plan to make anything like a stand in the so-called German Comitats , that is to eay ; in those Hungarian _cauutieg in which the majority of the inhabitants are German ; but to draw his troops baok as the enemy advanced , and to carry the stores away where
and to destroy them . But they say , - over the Magyars did find it necessary W make head aeainst the Imperial forces , they fought with great gallantry . _Thue , at Tyrnau , 3000 Magyars held out againBt 17 , 000 Austriana for " stove three days . They say , further , that the whole peasant population of Hungary ia for Kossuth and againat t & e Emperor ; that the inhabitants of tae cities are indeed lukewarm in the cause , but that every Magyar on the Moors is resolved to make this a Russian campaign for Prince _Windiscbgraia . in which Buda-Pesth is to stand in the place of
Mobcow . austrian ubs _unmaikbd , The Timbs correspondent says :- _« In a former letter I commented on part of a bulletin in which it was asserted that General Urban , after hunting the Maeyars through the whole of _Siebenburgen , and driving them over the frontier , had returned , in four forced marches to _Klousctbur _* . I took the liberty of pointing out to you now absurd it would be ina general , after the fatigues of a long : pursuit , ito carry hb troops i _« forced marches back to a place _wfi ch was nTln want of protection , leaving the frontier open to fresh inroads . A report from Hermannstadt ia Siebenburgen , in the _Wibhbb , _Zeitusq , _lBVahdatea the statements of that bulletin , for in it mention is made of General Urban and his corps , and it is quietly asserted that that brave General was for a long lime surrounded and sorely pressed by the Hungarian _Szekler Hussars . The practice of writing the bulletins all on one Bide is as impolite as _odiouB .
ITALY . Letters from Venice of the 23 rd nit ., state that the _AUBttians , hating attacked Malghen , were repulsed at the point of the bayonet , by tbe Pontifical troops ia garrison at that fort *
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Itis stated in a letter from Pisa , of the 23 d alt ., that oni that day three hundred Hungarian deserters trom the Austrian _ar-rjj bad passed through that city , _ on _thmr way to Tuscany , to enter tbe Italian service . They were the advanced guard ef a larger body . _ It is rumoured that the Congress is not to take place at Brussels , and Sir H . Ellis , M . deTocqueville , _Signo . r 7 i > and the other Brussels sprouts are to abstain from _protocoling for the present .
. 8 IATB OF ROMS . The Pope having published a protest _egainst all that haa been done by the Roman government sinoe he thoiitht proper to * cut and run , ' the said protest was placarded at Rome , but the _people immediately tore it . down . , _TheAiBA , of the 2 Sth ult . contains a report of the sitting ot the Chamber of Deputies of the 26 th ult . The _muristty having promised a deputation of the clubs that the eonstttuente ot the atat } should be pro . _olaimed on that day , at the opening of the sitting the minister read a letter from tho Junta , in which it declared that if the ministry and tbe chambers should not immediately proclaim the eonstttuente , the Juna would _tske the initiative with regard to it . The minister then read his report , and a project of thfl electoral law . He then delivered a speech , in which hes ,. pointed- out the necessity of immediately calling the _constituent , in oriler to prevent popular movements .
The deputies thui found themselves obliged to oome te _BomewSeciBiou . The majority would not hear of a HotuMuente ; but ae . on the other hand , there appeared to be imminentdanger in refusing it , a medium course ought to ba adopted . Several deputies asserted that the chamber was incompetent , and on that and other pretexts the majority declared against the constituente The agitation in the publio tribunes now became very great , when one of tho deputies contrived to quit the chamber , leaving it in _inBufB-ient number to deliberate . The chamber then deolared itself unable to _continue Hs discussions , notwithstanding the pro'esfc of the deputy _Audiuot , who rtquired it to proceed forthwith , to save the country from anarchy . The people in the tribunes then became exasperated , and _hissed and booted the deputies , ' who immediately separated . Thus ended the sitting . The ministry has declared thst to-morrow it woald act on its own responsibility .
. DISSOLUTION QV THE CHAMBERS—A CONSTlTt / EM _ASSBMBLT . C 0 HY 0 KBD J Advicos from Rome of the 28 th ult .,. announce that tbe Minister of the Interior on that day read the decree far the dissolution of the chamber ? , whioh broke up accordingly . _Tfie decree for the convocation of the Constituent of the Roman . States was published at _Rofflo 011 the afternoon " j > i the 29 th ult . The Castle of St Angelo _sa'nted the event with 101 discharges of cannon , and tbe people exhibited the greatest _enthusiasm , Tbe Assembly will be eleoted by universal _suffrage and the ballot . There will be 200 _raembera _. paid at the rate of two _crowna a day , without property qualification . The Assembly will meet at Rome on the 5 th inst .
BIONB OF A KBNKWAIi OF TUB WAR IN _WMBABDY . The _Piedmonikik Gazeits cf the 2 d publishes an address of the Committee of the Provinces of Parma , _Placenoia , Modena , and Reggio , to the President of tfae Council of Ministers , praying for the resumption of hostilities . This addre & _a waa presented on the 24 th ult . The Gbkoa _Gazehs , of the 1 st , states that the Genoa and Milan courier had returned with the letters and _journals for the latter city , the Austrians having refused to let him pass the frontier . It was said that Radetzky intended to resume hostilities himself ; he has concentrated troops on the frontier , and particularly at Piaai-ncia .
SPAIN . THK QOKKN _ABIlBSTED , We take the fe'lowtne choico story frem the _Mobj * - _iho Post : — ' Madrid , Dec 30 . —The Queen of Spain nnd the Indies arrested 1 Wfco would have thought it ? And yet such was the ove the other night . It is a favourite _cuBtom of her Majesty to leave the palace in disguise after dark , and visit one of her favourites , for the fun of the thing , as sbe says . Narva' _ziB as well aware of this as any member of tho royal household , and winked at the frail monarch ' s escapades , until he discovered that tho Grandee cabal bad gained such an influence over her , tbat Bhe was actually in the habit of repairing to the residence of a certain noble , where the hostile coterie met to
revel and plot , This of course opened ihe eyes of the Dictator to the excessive impropriety of Isabella's nooturnal vagaries , and he determined to disgust her , if _possible , with such proceedings , and at the same time gratify his own _vindiotive feelings , now fully roused bj her enmity—an enmity which some time Bince wonld have reduced him to hU original insignificance , if Madame Muncz bad not considered hia maintenance in power necessary , In _t fleet , he stationed police agents near a secret door of the palace on the night the Queen waB expeoted to go out , with orders to arrest tbe first person who opened it . At about half-past ten o ' clock the Queen , little suspecting what w & s in store for her , quitted her residence by the private door , and was almost
immediately made a prisoner , and that too in suoh a rude manner , for her captors wete ignorant of her rank , that she got frightened , and cried out ' I am tbe Queen ' . ' Suffice it to say that sbe was taken back to tbe palace by an officer in the confidence of Narvats , who was in waiting close by , whils' the Dictator got out of the scrape by pretending that the police had made a mistake , whilst waiting to surprise an individual who was suspected of robbing the palace by means ef a false key that fitted the secret deor . Occurrences like this may appear incredible in England , but here they are matters of notoriety , albeit they are not commented upon as thev deserve to be in society and by the _pres ? , for fear of the vengeance of the government .
_TUlt CARL 18 T WAR . In common with our contemporaries we published in our last number a report ot a great victory gained by Cabrera over General Concha . The said report turns out to be a fabulous invention .
INDIA . THB WAB IN MOULTAH . The following is from the summary ofthe Bombat _Twas : — ' At the date of our laat , the _troopa which had oroahed the Ravee had been directed to advance , and we have now assembled on the Chemub , under tbe command of Lord _Gout ; h in person , an army of 20 , 000 men , with seventy pieces of artillery—including three regiments of dragoons , five of regular _ftud fsur of irregular native cavalry , seven troops of horse -. nd as many companies of foot artillery , with five field batteries of European , and fifteen of native infantry . These are expected to advance to the northward in two divisions , in quest of an enemy . One body of insurgents , about 15 , 000 strong , are said
to be poated a little way beyond the Jhelam , under Shere Singh and his brother , and a brother of Moolraj ; Chuttur Singh is somewhere near Peshawar . The troops at the last-named station have mutinied . Major Lawrence and L eutenant Bowie were ot liged to seek safety in flight ; they are now in Kohat . The troops in Attock remain faithful , and Captain Abbott is still able to hold hia own in the _IlBzireb oountry . Of the Jamoo division , under Colonel Steinbach , we have heard nothing since onr last . After some days of severe skirmishing before Moultan , an attack waa _ssado on the field-works established near our camp , and by the fire from which our troops hsd been for some time greatly annoyed . The arrangements seem to have been admirablethe conduct of the troops beyond all praise . The enemy were broKen and driven back at all
pointsfive of their guns remaining m our hands . This oc _curred ob the 7 ih Nnv . Since then everything bas remained as formerly . The first portion of the Bomba y oolumn , above 7 000 strong , with twentytour guns , left _Rnree on tbe 21 st nit , and would be all on their upward march within a week afterwards ; they would probably reach Moultan between tbe 12 th and 20 tb inst . A detachment , consisting of tbe 3 / d Native Infantry , _Turnbu'l ' _a _fcaMery , and 500 of Jacob ' s horse , had got ss far as Ooeh , but when within a week ' s march of Moultan were directed to halt . All the troops now in the field , _amounting to above forty thousand in number , including Whieh ' _sarmy and the garrison at Lahore , and including some 15 . 000 of our allies' seem in excellent health and the highest spirit . It is doubtful whether any operation of importance will be commenced until all oat twops shall have arrived at their
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. UNITED STATES . ( From the American papers . ) _THBQOLDMASU , The excitement with regard to California continues unabatsd . Every day we hear further _aecour-te of tbe productiveness of the gold regions , Indeed _, the first class of diggers are beginning to tftlft of returning home to enjoy their fortunes . Letters are constantly published trom individuate _eonneated with the army , and well known here , which state that they have money enough , and they are about to return . One person talks of thousands of pounds of g old being stored up by himself atd his associates , Others speak of the mountain ores as being still richer than the rivet sands . Rich silver mines are known to exist in various parts of the _coantry , but they are not worked . Quicksilver mines are found at innumerable places , and many of them afford the richest ore . Tbe new Almaden mine at Santa Clara gives the richest ore of which we have any accounts .
AWARCHT IN CALIFOflNU . Something should be done here at once for the establishment of _peacs tnd good order in the country . All law , both civil and military , is at an end . Among the mines , aud indeed most parts of the country out of _the villages , no authority but that of the strongest exists ; and outrages of the most _di-graceful nature are constantly occurring , and the offenders go unpunished . There are now about twenty-five _Tessels in tbis pott , and i believe there is not one of them that has a crew to go to sea .
Thb Divobcb Case . —One of the nine dava' wonders of the press is the ease of _Mta Btttlor . It ia now asserted that Mr Butler haa withdrawn _hiasuit , has settled a proper income upon the lady , and permits one of the children to reside with her .
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THE MAIL ROBBERY ON TEE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY . _Exbibb _, _Satvbvav . —The prisoners charged witb having , on new year ' s night , _brokea inio tho Post Office tender , while the train wasin motien , between Bristol and _Bridgwater , were _brought up thia _mining for reexamination before the magistrates . Ihe spacious Guildhall wbb densely crowded . Tbe chairmen and secretaries of the Great Western , South Devon . Bristol and Exeter _Railwaye _, were among those present . —Christopher Arden , Eeq „ th /; mayor , preBJ _«? ed , and on tbe bench were Dr Miller , Mr Barham . Mr II . Hot . per , Mr Ixccnaway , Mr Cartw , Mr Harris , Mr D . B . Divy , DrShaf er , and other magistrates . — -The prisoners , on being placed at tbe bar , looked anxiously round , but betrayed no further signs of emotion .
The Clerk of tbe Court opened the more formal proceedings by addressing the prisoners . — rf hat is your name : H « nry Poole . —What is your name ( _addresBingthe other prisoner ) ?—The prisoner ? I decline to give my name ; at _leatt , for the prexunt _. Mr W . Peanock , brother ot tho solicitor to the Gs . neral Post Office , s » id that the aot under which the prisoners -rare charged made the stealing of _leiters from a post bag liable to transportation fir life . On the evening of the 1 st ol January , the guard Barrett reoeived from the _Pdat Office a large Dumber of bags of letters , which he conveyed to the Great Western Railway at _Paddifigton . They were conveyed quite safe to Bristol , but on tbeir arriving at Bridge water it waa found that the bags had been broken open . He immediately made search in the other carriages , and thn two prisoners we ; e found in a first class carriage . Under the peat where the _pri-Eoner Poole was sitting a number of registered and unregistered letters were found _.
Mr E . II . A . Fwher _, of London , a clerk in the inland department of the Post Office , deposed , that on the evening of the 1 st he made up the Tavistock and Truro bags . In one of th se bags , the Tavistock _, there was a registered letter . ( Letter isrodueed . It was addressed . ' II . P . _Dwarris , Ivts _Ractory , near Cauington . _' ) LetterB for CallingUm are put into the Tavistock bag . Io the Truro thero was also a registered letter , it was addressed ' Re v . J , Harding . ' Both tbeletters bore the _ic ' and stamp of tbat _ci _^ ht . After the letters were put into the bags tho latter were tied and sealed with wax in _witness ' s presence . The Tavistock bag was givon to Mr _Collinson , another clerk in tbe office . The Truro bag was put into the mail cart .
Mr J . Collinson , of London , was next examined . — lam a clerk in the inland department of t & 6 _GeUQfal Post OrBee , London . On Monday evening I made up the Plymouth post bag , la that bag I plaoed two registered letters , addressed to Mr J . A . Rogers , 11 , George Street , Plymouth , and Mr Robert Morris , Bank of England Branch , Plymouth . I forwarded the usual noticed to tho postmaster concerning them . They _araihasaoie _^& sj _^ ese produced . I saw that the let - ters were duly placed in the mail bag . They boro the inland date stamp of the l * t inat . The Plymouth . ' ' > t
bag I saw sealed and tied up with string , and it was taken out to the mail guard . There were other lotters addressed to Plymouth not _reeistered . I find amongat the letters produced six of them bearing the inland _ata _^ p of the lst of January . In regular course those letters would be pieced by mo in the Plymouth bag . I also made tip the mail bag for _Devonport . I fiad amon _^ fc the letters produced two addressed to persons at Devonport . Tbey bear the inland date stamp of the evening of tbe 1 st . After the letters were deposited in the Devonport bag it was sealed and tied in my presence . _i ' I ) f * > i * t
_Leonard'Barrett was then called . —I Jive at 1 , Mary Street , Davonport , and am a mail guard regularly employed in her Majesty ' s Post Offioe . I waa the gnard of the sight down mail train to Devonport on the 1 st . On that night I received at the General Post Office the Truro and _Peczinoo sacks , the London and Plymouth sacks , agdtho London and _Devon port bag . I accompanied the bags to the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway , and they were deposited in the Post Office tender . rode with the bags to the railway station at Bristol Arrived at Bristol ten minutes past one , and I there took out three bags . I put in the Taunton and Exeter bag , and I then got oot of the Post _offise ten der , aad kcked the door . I left the bags as I had placed them , and they were in tbe same Btate as whe
I received them in London . When I left thc tender at Bristol I took with mo Bixteen bags iato the travel ling Post Office van . On leaving Bristol the train consisted of two second class carriages next to the engine tender , next the travelling Post Office , then the Post Office tender , and next a first class carriage . I rode in ths travelling Post _OfBoe , Thero was ao guard in the Post Offica van . After leaving Bristol the first Btation we Btopp & d at was Bridgewater . tben went to the PoBt Office tender , and I observed my bags had been misplaced . The Plymouth bag had been shifted , and on examining it , I found had been cut open . It was tied vrith a piece string , but not sealed . I then left the tender , and went to the travelling Post Office , and made a _oora muniaation to Mr Burebel , the PoBt Office olerk
Mr Burohel accompanied me into the tender . He got out , and Mr Silk , another clerk , oame . We looked at the Devonport bag . It had been opened and tied again . Tha bags were re-tied with very small string , sot the same as tied at the Post Office I left Mr Silk in chirge of the tender , and I then walked down to the h ' _rsi _oiass carriage . In the first compartment I saw a gentleman lying down . The next body was the ladies' carriage . I did not Bee any one in tbat . In tho third _compartment the Winds were so closely drawn down that 1 could not see the inside . I then went to the fourth compartment , and saw another gentleman lying down asleep . I called the guards and policemen . Mr Silk went out . lie came back and gave me two pieces of string . I pro duce them . I then ' went upon the platform , and
eaw two men Bitting in thc division nearest the plat form . They were tho prisoaers at the b » r . In the other division was Mr Andrews , who is present . A door divided tbem . Poole wore a cloak , with a col lar nearly up to his eyes , and had a broad brimmed hat on . He had a _handkerchief up tohis _' f & oe . The other prisoner had a Chesterfield Coat CIW I made communication to Mr Bartow , a director , who was travelling in the ladies' carriage . Mr Barlow came up to the door , and called out loudly three times Poole , ' but got no answer . Poole appeared to be asleep . Mr Barlovf shook _Ponle ' s hat , but Still no answer was given . Mr Barlow then took up his hat and said , ' Ah I _Poale , you are very sleepy to-night , Mr Barlow then left the door . Rhynard kept in the carriage . _GibbeaB , the superintendent of the
Plymouth police , eame np and announced himself to be a police officer . I told Gibbons what hid hap pened in the Post Office van , and that H must b them ( the prisoners ) , as it could only have been done by persons from the first class carriage . Neither of them made any reply . Gibbons and Rhynard got into the carriage . We then went on to Exeter , and the prisoners were removed into the superintendent ' s room . I went in . Whilst there something waa brought iato the room . It was a shawl and was examined by Mr Silk ; it contained a number of _registered letters and parcels- I ther * proceeded on toPlymouth , When I reached the Plymouth Post Offioe I saw the Plymouth bag opened . The Tavistock was inside it . It had been opened , and was tied up with different string to that used by the Post ¦
Office . It had no seal . I have known Poole aboat four or five years . He was a guard in the employ of tbe Great _Western Railway _Compmy . He was afterwards guard of tho maii trains of Sundays . I _fasien the Post Office tender with a key similar to those used by the company ' s seev & _ute . Poole left the service of the company about eight or nine months ago . When he was in the employ the lamps in the PoBt Office ran were fixed by the side of tbe door-way on the inside . I have made a trial to ascertain if any one oould pass from the first class carriage to tbe Post _Offioa tender . I did so yesterday ( Friday ) morning , on the down mail train , Between Bristol and Bridgewater . I prooeeded from the deor of the tMtd eom _^ Mtmttst o ? the first class carriage , alone the step , then over tbe buffers of the carriage and the tender , taking hold of tbe handles of the parcels department on to tha step of the Post Office
tender . I walked along tbe step , snd lifted the window up with my nail , and then got in . I did this while the train was in motien . I produce three parcels of string ; the first piece I got from the sacks and bags that had been opened , and re-tied with this string . Mr Burohel and Mr Silk wete present when I removed it . The _eeeoai piece was given me at Eseter either by Thomas , ihe guard , or Williams , the policeman . The third piece I got from some person I do not know in the superintendent ' s room , at Exeter . The _seeend piece I should say by appearanoe was the same as had beet removed from the mail bags wheu re-tied . It is very different to that used by the Post Office . I p icked up other pieces of Btring in the tender , which is the same j _> a ased in tying up the mails at the Post Offioe . It has _soalingw _* . x upon it . I have aome pieces of wax which , I picked up in thc Poet Offioe tender at Exeter .
Joseph Gibbons , superintendent of the Bridgewater police , was next called : I was a passenger by the down mail train on the night of the lst instant . On arriving at Bridgewater 1 was informed by Rbynard and Barrett that the mail bags bad beea robbed . I entered the third compartment of iho first-class carriage , acd saw tbe two prisoners in one division , and Mr Andrews in the other . I told the prisoners that they must consider themselves in cas tedy on suspicion of stealing the Post Office bsgs . They both replied , ' I know nothing about U . ' I asked Pooleif he knew the other man . He replied . The
No . other prisoner Baid , _« I am a respectable man , and have fifty men in my employ . ' I said , I think I have seen your face * He said , ' No , 110 , ¥ 011 ha _* re not . I am a respectable man ; ' I asked him his name . He made no answer . I proceeded on to Exeter with them . While we were going along Rhynard , the policemas , gave me a pocket book . I produoe it . 1 examined it . It contains a £ 6 city of Exeter bank UQt _«» < _ktfed Feb . tt , 1848 , No . 92 a . In the pocket book I found a pair of moustaches , some thread , aud a piece of Btring , also a gold chain and akey . On arriving at the Exeter railway sfcation the _priBonera were removed . I searched the > i i ; ' . . , i ¦ i
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other prisoner , and fouad a gold watch and e : ain , makfcr ' g rmme _, _Ntwton , London , No . 817 , _en-jruving on the liRck , G . M . in capitals , gold pin , diamond ring , and £ 1 8 u Gd . I received t « o _pim-a tf crape from Rbynard , which I _produc * . ( The cray . e was made up in the shape of two caps , wiih & ( all t » 1 cover the /" ace , ) The officer put them on , and ea & disguise tbey were complete . ) I had from _Rbjcard a piece of wsx candle . P . ole gave me a _kssile ongraved . Shortly afterw-rda a bundle was brought into tho waiting-room at Exeter . It was opened , and it contained thirteen packages , i produce them _. When they wero produced the person who brought them said , ' There they are ; I found thim _undse ' tbe seat where they vrers sitting , ' Poole said , ' Thit
Bridgewater policeman should be here cow ; he searched tbe carriage , and why were they not found then V I said , ' You sball _eee him presently . ' He said , ' Why you eaw the carriage _Bearehed ; didn't you put the light down V I replied , ' I did not Bee " the carriage searched . ' Burchtl and Siik w _« tj present . The _paekages were then marked . The prisoners wero then removed to the Gnildhali st Exeter , charged vrith having robbed the mail . Joseph Rbynard , a guard In the _eervioe & f the Great Western Company , was next sworn . —On tba night ofthe lst _ia * tant 1 was goard to the down mail train . At the Exeter station at _Brist . 1 I saw tbe two prisoners on tbe platform just before the train started , I let a paagcB 26 r into tbe fi .-st com .
_partmeni next the lender of the first _oisss _c-. rrisge , 1 held the door open ior the two prisoners 11 enter . Thoy looked in , but did n * t go in . They went to tbe third compartment . There was a _, £ _ec'i « aian in the division next to the platform , Mr Andrews , j When I _opened the door they _Beemed to _htsitate \ _gaieg in . They did go in . 1 urged them '<> _s-o acd i complained of their d _« lay . They went in . _Tkatwas ! about half past one on the 2 nd . The n . x _; plies wa stopped at was Bridgewater , and there tbo uail-! guard made a communication to me . 1 wc . t to tha ! Post Offioa tender , and saw the bap scattered on tht j fbor . 1 saw ou the floor pieces of at « ng _im-A sealing , wax . 1 gave them to Barrett . I then wcr t to Mr . Barhw , who was in the train , and made a _communai ; _oa-ioa to him . I went to the compartm *' - * it where
, theee men were . 1 opened the door and found tba j prisoners seated inside , I _aaked them to f . llnw MB _tft i look at tbeir tickets . They were from Bristol to ; Exeter . Witness waa the first person wh <* entered ! that compartment after the train stopped . _B-jih 01 , prisoners wore awake . Came out and Bhut the door-1 shortly after returned and fonnd the do-r open and Mr Barlow there . The Carriage WU _DOt Searched , hi' vHt _& _fAa ot In his presence . He got info the 08 _**« Wage and the prisoners were _eepara _' ed . If ? _<>' _'ck tha one who refused to give bis name into tr . o farther compartment with an intention of searching bins , but found the plaoe too narrow . Policeman Wil * _liams and Mr Gibbons got ioto tho carriage and tha train _proceeded towards Exeter . He knew _Poola and recognised him at Bridgewater Did not know
it was him at Bristol on account of his beirw dressed rather peoaliar . On _po ' _iog along _towatda Exetet -witness asked Poole what train he went to Brlstel by . He said he went up by tha third elaaa . It waa an early train ; it was Jim Cla * k _«' s train . He if the man that goes with the early third class train * Witness asked him it he knew the other mar , ol : whether they both went up together , bnt he _wtid hS had no knowledge whatever of the other . The other prisoner replied : ' I knew you ; I saw you the _othert . day . and I knew you twelve months ago . ' This was 6 aid to Poole . Poole aaked how it waB the mail guard did not ride in the mail carriage , meaning the ; Poat Offioe tender ; he always understood he rode IB _r ' iti Witness searched the pockets of the division
- I . - n ' ¦ where the prisoners sat at Bridgewater and found ' '¦ the two pieces of crape and a piece of wsx candle * i produced by Mr Gibbons , into whose custody he gava I them . As they were going along witness put his •; hand under _Poole ' _a oloak , and in the _^ _flck et of _!"» -, found a pocket-book , which was the one produced bv ¦ : Mr Gibbons . He also found several pieces of sealing 1 wax in Poole ' s pocket , whioh he gave to Mr Gibbons . I j The coat tbe other prisoner had on could be worn _. _; either side ; it was dark outside , but he could BOt 3 tell the colour of tha inside . I' C . Williams , policeman on the Great Western * Railway at Bridgewater , saw the two prisoners in a i first class carriage , on tbe arrival of the mail txaatt a' on the _lit instant ; He got into the carriage and
- _, 1 it of r : came to Exeter with tbem . Last witness 1 . Gibbon ?/ l *! and the prisoners , got up , on thearrival ofthe train A *) _0 . Exeter . leaving him and Mr Andrews in the cat- * o riage , whioh was then searched . Thomas , tha a under guard , came to the carriage , and some _ortfl else stood at the door . Saw Thomas search it and _0 found a large bundle underneath the seat where Poo / a . sat . No one pud anjthing in the carriage after tha _1 prisoners left it . 1 . J . Andrews , solicitor , of Modbury , was a passenger % from Paddington to Plymouth by the dowa mail t train oa the night of the lst January , and rode ia f the first class _carriage . Just before the train started d from Bristol two persona entered the carriage ; hs _i- ! knew now that tbe prisoners were the two persona *
_. . :. j They did not remain in the compartment with him ,. c but went through by the other division , closed tbe e door , and pulled down the blind . When they fir 3 &" d . ' got into the carriage they dragged in a piece of 1 \ _t-wine , which wss left on the fl-or at witness ' s feet . . i Witness ooiled it up and found _psrtof i * abut in at i the other door . He broke is and _thrtw it n the t floor . On arriving at Bridgewater his _attention was 9 called to something that had oecurrf d . Part of tha V ' . _carriage was partially searched , but BO one examined s' under the seats . The parties before named _goj into a i the carriage and prooeeded to Exeter , wher e thty all 1 ' got out with the exception of him and Williams * 1 , ' Witness saw a msn ssarch t : e oarriageand pull a *; bundle from under tha seat . Witness did not leavfl
- - - a the c & mage _between Btistol ont ?* Exeter . 1 J . Thomas , a guard on tho Groat Western _Rall-• way , travelled by the down mail ti ain on the night 3 of tho lst January as under guard . He went to _ L first class carriage at Bridgewater and saw the two - prisoners in it . He saw a piece of string adherine 1 to the heel of Poole's boot ; he tor k it off and gave it _b ti Mr Silk . Did aot examine the _oattiafcu _pattic \ l _» _i hlfly at that time . He recognised Poole on entering a the carriage , and said to tbe po . 'ter ' that ' s Harry a Poole . ' On bis arrival at Exeter , witness went to
, , ' - _? , the waiting room with tse ptiaaners , and _aUerwarda 3 searched the carriage , under the sea * o' which be ) found a bundle , containing letters and _sma'l parcels . , He opened one corner of tho handkerchief and saw ' some registered letters . Underneath the same seat ) i and near the bundle he found an oil-case cap . Oa } the arrival of the train at Laira , be agaia searched ) > the carriage with a man employed at the station , and under the seat opposite whoro Poole was _sitting and 5 where the other prisoner had been sitting , he found i a _hoek , used in going from one carriage to another * f to hold on by .
\ i II . Olark , superintendent at the Taunton Railway ! Station , corroborated this witness ' s evidence . IL C . Silk , a clerk in the travelling Post Office betweea ! Exeter and Bristol , travelled by the down mail train i on the night of tho lst January , accompanied bj Mc I Burchell . Barrett rode with them , but on arriving i at Bridgewater he got out ' _, he shortly returned , and ; Burchell and witness got out and went to the Post _Ofliso tender . Witness observed tbe mail baga _i Btrewed about the floor and greatly _disarranged . He ; noticed the Devonport bag , which was tied up with a ; different Btnng and not sealed , lie ex » nvna . i the f parcels and letters produced , aad eaid they were tha I same as were found under the seat of the carriage , ha ' having marked them with bis initials .
i _George Burchell , also a clerk in ths travelling PoBt Office between _Bristof aud Exeter , _aqeompanied tho last _witnees bv the down mail train on the lst January . He msdo a list of _tho-Mwrs and parcels in the bundle , and put his initials to tbem . lie re-tied tbo bass that had been opened , and sealed them with the official seal . Robert Morris , of Plymouth , aaid he was agent to the Bank , of England Branch at Plymouth , Tho packet produced was ordered to him . He opened it , and found it to contain the letters of adminis * tration of a will in the estate ef Thomas Cull , Esq ., deceased . The _pucket was sent from tbe Bank of England . The witness marked it for the purpose of identification .
Mr Pago , of Plymouth , goldsmith , said the _lettes produced belonged to him . It contained three dia _» mend rings enclosed iu a small box . The value of the whole would be about J & 70 . It wag sent ftom Weatherstone and Rogers , Henrietta Street , Covent Garden , London . Samuel Grandell _, Devonport , jeweller , said tha paoket produced was addressed to him ; it contained a box in _whiohjwas enclosed a silver watch caB 9 value £ 2 , sixfaair ting geld mount ? , and two gold studs , Mr Charles C _* x , Devonport , optician , said his package contained a box enclosing a respirator of tha value of thirty shillings . The other parcels were not opened . . ..
James Ashton , a _poUcemau & t tad StatctGss station ofthe South Devon Railway , eaid on Monday evening about a quarter before eight o ' clock , two _per-oas came to the Statorosa station fer two first class tickets to Bristol by the up mail train . Witness issued two tickets to one of thero , who had a drab _soarf or shawl round bis neck , tie paid for both tickets . Ha believed the _prisoner Poole was tho man who took Vae tickets . John Fisher , policeman on the Great Western Rait * way at Bristol , recollected the up train arriving oa tbe lst of January . _Witueca coA _' _-ected the tickets . There were but two first class acd one second . He
produced the two first class tickets , which were from Star cross to Bristol , Ho did not see of the carriage , but the parties presented the tickets . It was about twelve , and ten minutes after first ticket presented was by a man oloak , a green felt _JimCrswbat , The man that presented the other wore a dark coat , he did not nefcica lar in hia dress . They had no _^ who were the moustache pnthis _** his upper lip for the purpose , a 0 _V down the mouslache . \ 7 aaondu y tbe same Btation when the down " _agentleraw in the first cempartBent
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 13, 1849, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_13011849/page/7/
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