The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, Nov. 1.
Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke of Cam-
bridge a/d Prince Hermann of Hohenloho, went out shoot-
ing this morning, attended by Lietst.-Colonel F. H.
Seymour, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, and Major
the Hon. J. Macdonald.

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Lieut.-Colonel the Ron. A. Gordon has relieved Lieut.-
Colonel F. H. Seymour as Equerry in Waiting to the
Prince.
The DA° of Cambridge left the Castle this afternoon for
London.

The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury hare been invited,
and are expected to arrive to-day, on a visit to ha Majesty.
His Excellency the Baron Bentinek, Minister of the
Netherlands, returned to his residence in Lowndes-square,
last Sunday, from the Hague.
The Hon. William Ityam, Mr. Francis Shand, and Mr.
Joseph Liggins, delegates from Antigua, had an interview
with Sir John Pakington yesterday, at the Colonial office.
Despatehes from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office.

Despatches were sent off yesterday from tho Co!onial-
office for the Governors of the West India Colonies.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon,
at the Foreign-oltice. It vas attended by the
Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl
of Lansdale, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Secre-
tary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir John
Pakington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Duke of Northumberland, tho Right Hon. J. W.
Henley, the Earl of Hardwiuke, and Lord John
Manners. The council sat three hours.

FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

A conference took place yesterday, at twelve o'clock, be-
tween Lord Hardinge, the Lord Mayor elect, the
Dean of St. Paul's, Sir Richard Mayne, and Mr.
Daniel Whittle Harvey, upon the subject of the arrange-
ments to be observed upon the octagon of the funeral
of the Duke of Wellington. The consultation lasted
electuar sod commissioners of an hour, alter
wthheiclytahned Lord
drozoldlra
polies had a sitting at the Dean's house, in St. rout's-
churchyard. The orders awl regulations to be observed
upon this solemn occasion will be published se soon as they
shall have received the sanction of the respective authori-
ties. It is understood that the procession will leave
Apsley-house at 8 o'clock in the morning, and will reash
St. Paul's Cathedral not later than 12.

A NEW DOMESTIC MATERIAL.—In the hall were 1
an umbrella and hat-stand, a slab, and a standard lamp. all
of slate. The weight is a favourable quality in the first
and last of these articles ; but, greet as is the advantage
of the lamp not being liable to be upset, the colour of slate
is too dark. Dark lamp-stands absorb too much light. In
the dining-room was a very handsome round table of elate
—variegated somewhat like marble, and delightfully clean-
looking,
smooth, and level. Its weight makes it all but
immoveable, and this may be an objection ; but there is no
doubt of its beauty—with its moulded rim, its well-turned
stem, and finished pedestal. At the Knight of Kerry's
house we had seen a carved mantel-piece, with fluted
pillars of slats ; and here we saw other mantel-pieces, va-
riously carved. The fenders were delightful;—smoothly
turned slopes, which invited the feet to rest and be warmed;
simple, effectual, and so neat as to be really pretty.
There was nothing that we liked so well as the fenders un-
less it was the paper-weights, simply ornamented; or the
bookshelves—perfectly plain, with their rounded edges, and
their evident capacity to bear any weight. No folios, bow-
-1 aver ancient—no 'Oulu, however magnificent, can bend a
shelf of slate; and I very much doubt whether the spider
can fasten her thread to its surface. No insect can pene-
trate it; and this indicates the value of slate furniture in
India, and in our tropical colonies, where ants hollow out
everything wooden, from the foundation of a house to its
roof-tree. Hearth-stones of slate were a matter of course in
this house; and we wished they had been so in some others,
I where there has been repeated danger of fire from sparks or
hot ashes falling between the joins of the stones competing the
hearth. Then, there were a music-stand, a what-not, a
sofa-table—and probably many more articles in the bed-
rooms, kitchen, and offices, which we did not wt.—Dickens's
Household Words.

ANOTHER SUP ON THE GREAT NORTHERN
Raievrar.—Early yesterday (Monday) morning, another
slip of earth occurred in the Spittal-gate cutting, on the
main line of the Great Northern Railway, within a short
distance of the place where a 'huller accident happened on
the 13th ult. Since that time watchmen have patrolled the
cutting day and night, in order to keep a constant and vigi-
lant inspection of the embankment, and to give timely
notice of any probable casualty. The recent heavy rains,
it is supposed, bad loosened the soil, which is of a
treacherous character; and yesterday morning, about an
hour before the daily passenger traffic commence., one of
the men on duty observed the scarp next the up-line give
way, and presently a considerable quantity of earth fell
upon both lines of rails, completely blocking them up.
Notice was immediately given to the stations' above and
below the cutting, and as soon as possible a large force of
men was collected, and set to work to clear the obstruction.
It was not expected, however, that this would be effected
before last night or this morning. In the meantime the
through passenger truffle between London and York,. and
nice versa, has been sent round by the loop line from Peter-
borough to Retford. 'the trains between Grantham Stam-
ford, &c., draw up at each end of the cutting, and Ate par
wagers are transferred from one side of the clip to the other
by a temporary road across the buried rails. The chairman
of the Great Northern visited the cutting during the
morning.
A POLITICAL SAVANT.—The great body of natura-
lists in this country will bear, with great regret, than an
appeal is now being made on behalf of Rees von Rseenbeck,
one of the most distinguished botanists in Rumpe, who hav-
ing lost his professorship in consequence of his political
activity in 1843 and 1849, is now literally threatened with
death from old age and hunger, and is residing in a loft,
over a cow-shed, in one of the lowest suburbs of Ilreslau.
His extensive library has long since been sold to pay his
debts, and his large collection of plants, which in some
parts is described as unequalled, be has in vain endeavoured
to dispose of. At a recent congress of the German natura-
lists at Wiesbaden, none of his former colleagues could
make his miserable case known, deterred, no doubt, from
political motives. A subscription has been opened in this
country by the editors of the Zoologist and the ilkdscal
rims.

DIRECT TELEGRAPHIC COMNIUNICATION
BETWEEN LONDON AND PAPAS.
Towards the close of last week the new line of
telegraphie wires lately being laid down in troughs over the
old London road to Dover, and so corm.cting the sub-
marine telegraph between Dover and Celtic, which again
is directly attached to the line of telegraph between Calais
and Paris, with the batteries of the Submarine Telegraph
Company, whose Almeria in Cornbill, wascompleted, ',ea
yesterday, for the first time, messages were exchanged
direct between London and Paris, the message being trans-
mitted from capital to capital instantaneously, and as in.
stantaneowily being replied to. The signitieunce of the
1 event has been somewhat antedated, since the submarine
telegraph across the Channel ie now a familiar weeder;
1 and the break which, until yesterday, existed at Dover,
however seriously delaying the messages of men of business,
did not operate to diminish or to postpone the congratula-
tions of the civilised world. Yet—not merely technically,
br
but really—London and i'aria were only yesterday ligbt
into absolutely perfect telegraphic intercommunication;
and the directors of the English public company to wheat
Europe is indebted for the consummation of the submarine
system, seem to have taken a proper view of the importance
of the work they had finished, in calling together at their
offices in the City the large and eminent party of m ntle-
men—cemmercial magneto, railway notabilities, and me..
tinguisbeil foreigners, proximately aud indirectly repremmt-
I log other nations—who yesterday out to " aseist' in and
celebrate the great fact.
Very little need be said, in recording thee result, termini
the pujilic of the circumstances in which the Submarine
Telegraph Company originated. The submarine telegraph
across the Straits has been in work shout fourteen month.,
bat until yesterday—completion of the line bet wren Beier
and Ostend being the rendition of the incorporetion—te JP
!separate companies, now at last amelgantated, have been
carrying on the telegraphic business between London and
Paris. The chattered company which now tsists Inie a
concereiin from the French government of a monopoly of
the route, as far u France is coucerned, far a period of ten
years; and it is proper to state that this conevaien, which
was made iu 1849, was to have been null and void if the
parties had failed to effect the work they had undertaken
by October, 1851. In fact, August ofthat year hail ar-
rived without the English Company hitting obtained the
requisite money ; and it was only at the last moment that
Mr. Crampton (who with Mr. Wollaston it the engi-
neer of the line), witk a bolduees which does bins
honour, and will be remembered, came forward with a lance
sum of money, and, backed by the directors, offered to
complete the line—completing it, too, in good time to save
the concession. The break spoken or at Dover was secs-
eioned by the messages entrusted to the :Submarine Cora.
pany being hitherto conveyed as far as Dover by the wires
of the South-Eastern Itailwey Company. That com-
pany insisted upon terms which the Submarine Com-
pany refused to pay: and hence the trough-line
over the highroad, and the direct intercommunica-
tion at lent established. What was done yesterday
was terlinically no more than making this trough a line—a
line which Mr. Macgregor, the chairman el the South
Eastern, predicted recently would he a failure, inasmuch as
the system had been a helmet; in l'russia ; but. as before
said, the importance is to be attached simply : , tl ,:. pi r-
feeted completiun of a submarine telegraph. 1 Lis lea, the
solo view token yesterday by the engineers, M. sos.
Crampton and Wollaston, who have succeeded iu their
work, in spite of all the hostile predictions of mest of
the great engineers of France, not to mention some seep.
tical authorities at home; and it could not but occur
as a matter of fair national pride to the Englishmen assem-
bled to exchange congratulations and exclamations that this
European enterprise, so potent for great pulitical, metal,
and commercial results to the whole world, has been en-
tirely in the hands of Englithmen, who have depended on
their own capital and their own energy, and have received
the pecuniary aid neither of the French nor of the Eaglith
governments. We have, indeed, in considering the subject,
to bear in mind that had it not been for the selt.relionee of
the two engineers we have mentioned, the submarine tele-
graph system might have been retarded fur many years,
since the early efforts to throw wires from the English to
the French coast were dimetrous while the sub-
sequent experiments to connect intend with Ire-
land have been failures. The cost of the sub-
marine line from Dover to Calais has been about 75,000/.
The cost of the trough line has been, we understand, about
5,0001. The "Submarine and European Telegraph Cum-
pany "is now in a condition to afford to the public the
transmission and delivery of despatches to and from Great
Britain and all the telegraphic stations in Europe (several
hundred in number) by a single payment fur the whole
distance. As between Paris and Loudon the direct com-
munication gives a saving in time of one hour, the saving of
money to the public being proportionate. In the last report of
the Company the following paragraph occurs ,—" With the
traffic to be received on the opening of the Belgian line,
added to the great increase of telegraphic intercourse
between London and Paris, which may reasonably be ex-
pected to follow on the opening of the uninterrupted land
line, and the consequent almost instantaneous corameffica-
tion between the two capitals, the managers confidently
anticipate that a dividend of from 81. to le:. percent. will
be immediately realised on the capital of the twocotapanies,
irrespective of that graded], hut certain, increase which will
arise as additional foreign lines are opened, and the inter-
course by telegraphic agency becomes more and more a
matter of social necessity."
The experiments-at the office in Corahill yesterday com-
menced at one o'clock, and from that hour till evening a
stream of messages poured along the wires to and from the
Place de la Bourse at Paris.
After the first messages of instructions to the officials at
the different stations came the following inauguration mes-
sage from the directors to the President of France. Oar
readers will probably think that a commercial body of
Englishmen would have shown more discretion if they had
paid their compliment. to Louis Napoleon without so em-
phatically anticipating "the empire," which it was not
exactly their business to take for granted ; but it was the
proper occasion for an expression of amity and peaceful
Food will, and we hope that the courtesy will have its
influence :
"The Directors of the Submarine Telegraph Company
beg leave to approach his highness the l'rince President
wish the exprossom of their best thanks for the assistance
which he has uniformly given towards the estahlishment of
this instantaneous means of communication between France
and Great Britain. May this wonderful iqvention serve,
under the empire to promote the peace and prosperity of
the world.—Dated Nev. 1, 1852, 30, Cornbill.
There was some hope that an offiaial answer to this ad-
dress would have been returned, bat none arrived. '1 he
Prince President was motions.
A message by. Brett's Printing Telegraph was transmitted
by the Submarine Company's intelligent superintendent,
Mr. G. V. Robinette, at 7 30 p.m., to (Wail, as follows :
" Cernhill to Calais.—Permit the end asement of the
sentiment—' When France is content, the world is tran-
quil. Viva la Ligne !'"
At 10 minutes past 2 (London time), the question was
asked of Paris, " What time is it ? " The answer was
"2.10 p.m."
A question was then asked of Arras, a French town be-
tween Calais and Paris, as to the state of the weather.
The answer received immediately was, " overcast and
dull." _ _

The inquiry was made of the name of the transmittiog
clerk. The reply was " Brassard."
A further menage was forwarded:—" Lord De Mauley
presents his compliments to M. Foy, and begs him to
allow experimeats with the needle instruments between
Paris and London."
Lord de Manley, it should be stated, is the chairman of
the board of directors.
The following are other messages which were forwarded
during the experiments :
" From Paris to London.—M. Fey (director genre.' of
French telegraphs) presents his compliments to the lion.
F. Cadogan."
Shortly afterwards a mestage was received, "Foggy in
Paris."
A menage was transmitted from London to Paris:
" Strangers are visiting the London office. Please send a
few wordy" The answer well, " Wait."
In a few minutes the following came for Paris "'lbis
day is very unfavourable for transmisaion between Loudon
and Paris. The atmosphere is very damp. We are to try
double-needle instruments in direct communication between
Paris and London."
The fogginess was shared by London, and in an explona-
tory communication handed to us, the superintendent sops,
" The rain and foggy weather of this day d.d not pi rant
of the apparatus experiments between London and Paris
taking place as favourably as we could have swished; nut
this single trial is sufficient to explain the facility with
which direct correspondence can be established when the
wires are perfectly right; the epee(' will then b, aug-
mented five times, and the two capitals will be able to com-
municate with each other instantaneously." The insult-
meet used was Breguot'e.
The experiments daring the day at Curnhill were per-
formed by MM. Gniehon and Deschay, on the part of the
French government; and by Messrs. A. D. Evans and
Banks, on the part of the company.
Among the party collected at the invitation of the com-
pany were—John Idasterman, Esq., M.l'.. Ssnaucl L
Esq., M.P., Earl Cadogan, W. Chaplin,
Count de Flahault, Baron Kubeek, Count strelcski. C. 8.,
Ernest Bunsen, Esq., Samuel Gurney, Esp., Sir Janie'
Weir !loge, Bart. (Chairman of East India Company), the
Astronomer Royal, lion. F. Byng, lion. Colonel Dawson
Darner, Chevalier Colquhoun, John Masterman. pm,
Esq , Sir James Carmichael, Dart., Hon. F. Cadogan, John
W. Brett, Esq., Meters. Davies and Campbell, W. Beebe',
I Esq., John Greene, Esq., M.l'., W. Gladstone,
Francis Edward., Esq., Major Dixon, Sir Claude seett,
Bart., J. li. Tufnell, h Dr. Colquhoun, W. 11. Smith,
jun., Esq., Charles Knight, Esq., /Award Willruer,
C. Surgey, Esq., Chevalier liebeler, Baring, Esq.. C.
Klinglerman, Hs*, lion. E. Cunard (member of the New
Brunswirk Provincial Assembly), Colonel Morse Cooper,
Captain Douglas Dalton, It.E., 11ev. James MI, A M.,
Flt.A., James ltamsay, EA., Colonel Chauncey. Major
Carmichael Smyth, Mr. Statham, Kr. Gsley, Mr. Park-
, hunt, F. Itickette. I:sq., Simpson, Esq. (of lA°l4
111 r. Hughes (Hughes, Kearney, and Co.). O. Keotters
Esq., J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., Messrs. P. Friend, Copper,
Ford, Godwin. Collins, Barclay. Gillman, Nicoll, Edmonds.
White, Maxon, Rairmay, Cox, Keathley, l'aimer. &C.

TIIR LIBERAL PARTY IN lIHREFoRDSRIRE hare
by the recent revision materially mended their position• la
Rise nod Ledbury their Increase amounts to 130. the
Ikr,fiiret Times states that, were the electoral roll in the,
sam., rate at the last elietien as it is onw, Mr. eJrne!ai,
Lewis would be is all probability one of the attic
members.

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