The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-29 00:00:00

DEATH OF LORD M.

ANTRIM, 11.30 r.r.
Lord Massareene expired at 10.45 this night.

EXTRAORDIFREN
NARY ATTEMPTED SUDE BY A
CH OFFICER IN THE CITY.

The polioe authorities are engaged in iavestigr
ting the circumstances of • mysterious attempt at
sande, by • French gentleman named Hyppolio.
Linde, who has been for • month past residing at
Fiveash's Hotel, Alderman-Anat. It appears that ea
Monday evening the snowiness., of the (sty and
of the Metropolitan polioe received rimnitansonaly Were
stating that by the time the tenon dame to had the copes
of the writer would be lying in a room in the above hotel,
as he would have shot himself with • revolver. He cen•
eluded by eerie; that the police would be rewarded for any
trouble they might be put to in consequence of his act.
When the letter was received at the Old Jewry, Inspector
Hamilton, Sergeant Penman, of the detective force, sad
eve constables were despatched to the pleas indiseted,
and they were fib'' a sim
_ilar body of the metropolitan
fords, who had &natMed by the authorities is Soot-
lad-, and who, finding their services were not required,
withirre+ww. The City police proceeded spans to tie
emend door front room and found the door fastened
It required their united exertion to form it man
• few mho'. They then found Most ell the furniture bed
been piled against the door, mod that the room was perfectly
dark, the blinds hiving been drawn and the abutters
aloud. The writer of the letter was not deed, sad ben
the tone of his remarks Impeder Hamilton judged ft
neemary to be very circumspect in order to pnossit
casualties. The Frenchman said that be was • ruined
man, and that he had been dimppoiated M the
object of his life. Sergeant Boekmea WA, 'We are Eng.
lishmen, we do not wish to injure you," and be offend to
shake hands in proof of frindlinen. He pmt is his bead
sad found that the unfortunate man's body was wet with
blood. The Frenchman shook bands, when Penman sail,
" Let us shake bands ie the English =KIM with both
bands" The proposal threw the man eff his pard,
and while be was held fad the doer
•wee boost
is. Upon the light being let in • necking
some preeented itself. A tall young man of abdomen sail
military beast:4, and of dark orimpleziee wee clothed
merely is hie eon and treason, and was severed with
blood, which was pourum from three bullet wends in the
keen and side. Upon the Boor lay • revolver,
of French man of actors, and near wen some
military orders and dessoratien one of which appeared to
be of greet nine. Three of the en barrel. of the psalm
had been meetly diasharged sad reloaded. The shut,
waistcoat, and two bonsai shirts were picked up
on the floor, and were seek found to menu three
bullet boles, and to be attuned with bleed.
A surgeon was sent for, who tempoessily ionised the
wounds. and ordered the sneerer to be forthwith conveyed
to St. Hartholonon's Hospital, where he lies saber the
can of Mr. Lonna. The police is seining the reem
discovered • number of)documente and Mims in the Freon
language, the erstents of whin have se. ins allowed
to ninepin but which it is enemies& as
dolman stainments as to the rents for the eniside. IL
Linde is uselenotood to be a member of • bmWef Wealth
and position, and to have been an eSeer in the leen* en
vies, is whin it is believed be obtained the elesentiorn
already mentioned. Upon isquiry at the bombs/ this non.
in it was morneined that, though the nnfortssete testis
nosn's lase had been peostrated end fearfully injured, be
still survives, bat without bops of recovery.
•

Tits ROYAL View TO ALDIMISMOTT.-011 the oo-
arias of the visit of the Prism of Wales yesterday, the
marching past commeneed under a clear bin, sky, bet atter
the cavalry kelp& aad one befesery brigade bad rimed tie
saluting point, rain and hail, in a furious storm, burst iser-
heed, and with mach violence as fairly to drive every ow be-
fore it. Here the review ended—for princen end genesis,
and whole regimenta, equestrians and pedestrians, best a
precipitate d
ust.rerlybeatee by en enemy
.ease relestime
then even the d In mingled sad pioturesque newer
the whole eressibiege dispersed in very Moment order sad
condition to that in which they bad tikes the field. The
royal and distinguished party subsequently partook of
barrios as the misdate of General Pesseinther in the
south aamp, and at I o'clock the Priam of Wiles sad Prince
Alfred, attended by Gasses' Enollys sae...Naomi the Roe,
H. H. Clifford, took their deparems far Farnborough, pro-
ceed* thence to town by squad tnia. Prime Lewis and
PAWN Alexender and Mary of Hanes visited the artillery
and cavalry barracks. the military unmashms, the huts
emegied by the 73rd Reginiest, the helpful bees, sod the
semmisseriet stores, shortly afterwards returning to Wind-
ier la two of the royal carriages.
BILIDAL PASSIM TO THE PRINCIDIB OF WALIII.—•
itestayeshiregad diamond Halbein which the ladies of
are about to preen; through the Duchess of Been-
=o her Royal Highness the Priucesa of Wales, was
on Friday arid Saturday at the Guildhaff, and was
viewed by • large number of citizens. The jewel will be
==hl au afierpriate address from the pen of Mr.
HIS, which his been beautifully
lea Yell= by Mims Fripp, of Reamed. The ceeket=il
mencase the jewel is composed of oak, takes frau that
ad aid soclmisetical pile, Bt. Mary Reddifii.
Tan LOGS OF THE °SPITED& —Her Majesty has
forwarded to Sir Michael Seymour. G.C.R. the sine of 501.
to he added to she fund now in coons of oollectioe for the
females of the crew of the ill-fated Orpheus corvette. Sr
O. Phipps, in transmitting the above saw., gives explosion
to her Majesty's deep sympathy with the widows and
orphans ie their affliction.
ZOTTTIAN HALL—Among those who have re-
cently accepted Mr. Edmond Woe's " Invitations" to the
Egyptian Hall are the following distinguished visitors
Dake and Duchess of Manchester and Viscount Mande-
ville, the Earl of Essex slid party, the Mantis of Cum-
riairde, Lord Dunkellin, M.P., Viesount Chelsea, Lady
Egerton of Tattoo end party. Lady Cornwallis, Lady
Como" Lady Howard, Lady Foremen, Lad 7 Marton
Peso, Sir Charlie Young, Sir Edwin Laedsser, Mr. Roebuck,
bL P., Mr. Charles Dickies, Mr. Frith, S.A. Mr. E. M.
Wsrd, Hr. Sheriff Hugh Jones, ha
Bastin IRIAN Soctart.—The annual meeting of
this society wee held last fivering at the Yetropablen Ta-
bassets ; Mr. Alderman MAW in the chair. The Seas-
terry read the report, the cash account of which stated that,
aatwithstanding thrLanceshire ilbtress had operated some.
what disadvantageously to the society, the receipts of the
year had amounted to 2,5701., out af which there
th was levt
eft
a babale**,of 67t The meeting was addressed by e R
Mr. Giles, of Dublin. the ev. M
Rr. Ilayeroft, the Rev.
J. IL Spurgeon, and Mr. W. Realest.
Nava OF CAPTAINS SPLICE AND GRANT.—Kr. Ley-
ord. the Under Secretary for Fissile% Affairs, bee received
Ow intelligens* leo gratifying to all geographers. that
Spoke sod Oreet have completed their arduous journey
across Fasters sod Central _Uric., from Zanzibar to Khar-
tum, on the White Nile, where they had arrived is safety.
"As the saws," writes Sir Roderick Murchison, "has oaf
reached the Foreign-office in a telegram from Alersedlit.
we are yet unacquainted with the exact lino followed by
them enterprising men in their endeavour to set at rest the
absolved problem of ages u to the true source of the Eike
EXPNRININTS AT SHOSBUSYNMOL —Another of
these experinuate which occasionally yield such important
remelts with regard sot only to armour-plates, but to the
still more difficult and important question of bow best to
appert them from behind, took place on Monday
at .ftoebmvnise This experiment was made by order
of the Iron-plate Committee, all the members
of which ware preset, together with moo 7 officers
and others ietereeted in the construction of 'moor
coated ships of war. The target fired at was ocnistructed
at the 1611 wall Iron Works, from the designs of lin
Chalmers, sad, in addition to its other qualificatioes, it pose'
seised the rare merit of having been built eatamly at di
inventor's ewe expanse —a most unusual circumstance at
Shoebury, when the crowd of investors and patentees
seldom ,vines sufficient confidence in the crotch/4i
they eompel the authorities to try to venture syl.
-
thing themselves towards the cost of the trisi
We MO bound to say that the result of the experiment. on
Monday showed that Mr. Chalmers bad not bees overeso •
guise in the anticipation he expressed as to the poem of
resists**, of his tercet. Though exposed for some boars to
a very severe battering from gaga of all kinds, it withstood
the attack batter than any target of the same compsratire
thickness that bse yet bees tried, not sees axcestioe the
first and moat famous target of all—that at the Warrior. -
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