The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-08 00:00:00

(PROM tsar NIGHT'S GAZETTE.)

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 7.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to Rive orders for the appointment of
Major• General William Marcus Coghlan, of the floral Ar-
tillery, some time Political Resident and Commandant at
Aden, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of
the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Moat
Hoooonbie Order of the Beth.

Sr. JAMES'S PALACE, JUNE 7.—The Queen has
been pleased to appoint Miss Florence Catherine Seymour to
be one of the Maids of Honour is Ordinary to her Majesty,
in the room of the Hon. Lucy Caroline Lyttelton, resigned.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY Z.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to appoint Ainslie Grant Duty, Esq., now
Attache to her Majesty's Embassy at St. Petersburg, to be
a Third Secretary in her Msjesty's Diplomatic Service.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 26.—The Queen ham been
graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. William Stuart, now
Secretary to her Majesty's Leption at Washingtoo. to be
Secretary to her Majesty's Embassy at Constantinople.
Fonmos-ornce, JCR! 6. —The Queen bee been
phased to approve of Don Enrique Fox as Vice-Consal at
Plymouth for the Republic of Guatemala.

Tilt GIIN-ClTtoli EXPLCkSION AT STOWYARKET.—
The inquest on the body of Elizabeth Barnard, the second
person whose death hod been caused by the explosion at
Messrs. Preutice's gun cotton factory, was resumed on Mon-
day morning at &earmarked. Mr. F. B. Marriott, the
coroner, stated that the Secretary of State for War had in-
structed a competent officer to inspect the works and give
evident* at the inquest. After several of the workpeople
had been reexamined Mr. Manning Prentice stated that
he bad visited various scientific gentlemen in London to
endeavour to ascertain the cause of the explosion. Pro-
fessor Tyndal, to whom the knife used in cutting the
cotton, with its notches, was shown, at once expressed his
opinion that it arose from this bode coming to contact
with the copper wire employed in the cotton which is
cut. Mr. Prentice also read • series of new regulations
for the factory, prepared with the concurrence of Mr. Abel,
the chemist to the War Department. Dr. William Allen
Miller. Professor of Chemistry at Kin's College, London;
Dr. Edward FrankLaod, Professor of Chemistry at the
Royal institution, London ; Dr. Thomas Richardson, tech-
nological chemist. Newcastle-00-Tyne, and Professor of
Chemistry at Durham University ; and Mr. J. Scott
Russell. C. E., were thenrexamined. After • consultation
of about three quarten of an hour, the jury found " That
the said Elizabeth Barnard died on the 29th day of May
last from injuries received by her clothes baring been acci-
dentally set fire to by an explosion Meseta Prentice sod
Co.'s gon.cottoo factory on the 21th day of May last. The
jury wish to state that they are catinsly satisfied with the
manner in which the recommendation for a scientific inquiry
has been carried out."

GOLD DIIZINO AT BOKDS►UL—Bortiesux is at
present labouring under a fever for gold-seeking. No in.
dications of the precious metal have been seen, but all is
founded on tradition and legends. In 1791, the monks of
the Quatrain being driven from their peaceful abode, are
said to have buried two barrels of gold and a peat quantity
of sacred vessels under the room of the Prior, but the
biding place was afterwards changed to the back of the
grand altar in the church. A lay brother is said to
have revealed the secret to a locksmith, who, on
his deathbed communicated it to his family. In
1818, the cur.; of the Church of St. Bruno, which
stands on the site of the old convent, hail excavations
made and some sacred vases were found. and as his charity
to the poor far exceeded his known revenue, the suppo-
sition was that be had also discovered the gold. He, how-
ever, hail • private fortune which threw discredit on that
ides. In 1833 fresh diggings were made by tas locksmith's
family, bat, after seven years' useless labour, abandooed.
The work was then continued by a company, which cave It
up in 1542. A fresh company was authorised in 1845, but
obtained no better result. Somnambulists and so-called
sorcerers were consulted, but all to no purpose. At present
fresh digger have come forward to continue the search, sod
an order of the mayor declares that the demand for authori-
sation i• based on serious and rational data.

HSA LIB OF LONDON. —lt appears from the weekly
return issued by the Registrar-General, that the deaths in
London in the weak that ended last Saturday were 1,213.
The average number for the terentysecond week in ten
years, 1354-63, is, with a correction for increase of popu-
lation, 1,169. The deaths in last week, therefore, exceed
the number estimated for the first week in June by 44.
Measles has shown a clear increase in the last three weeks.
I From 50 deaths referred to it in the second week of May
it has risen to 80 or more in • week. lost week the number
was 86. Of the 86. there were 4in Kensington-town sub-
district, 4 in that of Gray's-inn-lane, 6 in Islington, 6 in
Holborn, 7io $t George-in•the-Esst, and 5 is Mile-end
.Old-town. Whooping-cough, which was fatal to about 80
children in a week in March, has gradually declined, and in
the present return the number is 38. Phthisis, which carried
off 187 persons in the previous week, has declined to
148. Two widows died at the age of 94 years. One permit
died of intemperance; and there were, besides, five deaths
returned as ceased by delirium tremens. The daughter of
a letter-sorter, aged 2 years, died at 20, Ann-street, Pen-
tonville, on the 30th alt. of typhus. It is stated that this is
the third death in the family from typhus within a fort-
aid t. Eight deaths were registered in the week in the
anb-district of Woolwich Dockyard, all of them from cam-
plaints of the symotic class. Three were from measles,
three from scarlatina, one from diptheria, and one from
diarrhcea. A woman aged 29 years was suffocated by lean-
ing her mouth against the bed clothes. Last week the
births of 919 boys and 974 girls, in all 1,893 children, were
registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of
the years 1054-63 the average number (corrected) was 1,830.