The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-15 00:00:00

KING CHRISTIAN'S ADDRESS TO HIS

CILYSTAL PALACE SNARE CLUBS EICCESIOIC.—
The armed excursive of the members and friends of the
Crystal Palace Share Club took place yesterday, when
about 6,000 visitors entered the Palace and grenade with
free ticket., granted. in accordance with annual custom, by
the directors of the Palen, to the committee for gratuitous
distribution amongst the member' and their friends. The
doors of the Palace were opened at 1.30, aid before three
o'clock the greet balk of the visitors had arrived. consisting
chiefly of respectable animism, their wives and families,
with a tole/able sprinkling of middle-class people. There
was also a stronger muster than usual of the higher
classes of shareholders who obtain admission every
Sunday in right of their shares. All the regular
amusements of the Palate were of course in
abeyance, but the Picture and Sculpture galleries and
Fine An. Courts were open, and these, with the ever-
driwing termer and grounds, were well patronised, and
evidently highly appreciated by the greet body of visitors.
There was also a performance of sacred music on the great
organ in the metre transept during the afternoon. Betimes
6ve and six o'clock the committee and a large Dumber of
the company sat down to tee, in the saloon dining.room,
at the conclusion of which some short and appropriate ad-
dre,ees were delivered on the usefulness and importance of
throwing apes the National Maoism sad Fine Arts
Ga.leties free to the public oe Sunday afternoon.
CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS (COMPANY.—The first half-
yearly meeting of the shareholders of this compsey was
held at the offices, 9a, Bridge-street, Westminster; on
Saturday last. Earl Vane in the chair. The report, after
me;yetulating the shareholders upon the income of their
efforts in the last session of parliament, aid upon the
mane of policy which had been pursued, steed that the
Ortrestryand Newtown. Llanidloes and Newtown, Oewsetry,
Ellesmere sad Whitchurch. and Newtown and Madly..
Rath railways. hitherto under ',perste boards, bad been
amalgamated wider the title of the Cambrian Railways
Company, and their agreements with the London and
North Western Company bad been sanctioned by parlia-
ment. By those means the public interests would be better
served by the opening of the Aberyrtwith and Welsh
Coast line, so that the railway system was
amulets between A herystwith and Lancashire and the
mannfacturing districts of the north oa the ass band, and
to 1.-rodoe and the moth of England on the other. The
NirblVales line mead shortly be opened, by which means
they should have direct comninnicatioo with South Wales
and the north of Rutland. After referring to the deposi-
tion by the shareholders of the late chairman and some of
the directors, the report states that in au act authorising the
leasing of the Welshpool and Shrewsbury line to the North
Western or to that company and the Great Western Com-
pany, the Cambrian emptily obtained the insertion of
a clause preventing scything being does prejudicial to
their arrangements with the North Western Company.
The report was adopted, and Captain Johns, Mr. H. Hart-
side, Captain Pryce, and Mr. David Williams were elected
directors. The chairman then proposed that a dividend at
the rate of Ifs. per cert. per annum be declared upon the
ordinary capital of the company, sod upon the preference
stock at its respective rates of istereetraranteed, payable
on and after the 511. of September. This was carried. Mr.
Finney, of Manchester, proposed the 'decline of Mr. George
Lewis as secretary. Ceptsio Jobb 'evaded the proposition,
which was tarried. The meeting was then adjoureed to the
2ed of September. At a etthemeeet meeting of the hoard
Earl Vase was elected chairman, and Captain Jasper Wilson
Johns deputy eibidnartin of the oompaoy.
CITY OP LONDON HOSPITAL /*A DIZZARIER 011
?Et CHM?. VKIVIUA•PAIK.—Tae number of patience
relieved at this institution during last week was 848, of
which 182 were Dew era

ARMY.

COPENHAGEN, Acoore 13.
The King baa addressed the following procla-
mation to the army :
The war calla for ►eevy sainifices, and peace has been
purchased at 'till heavier ones, but the safety of the country
requires pesos rather than a 000tinuance of war. lam
well aware that the army wee ready to renew the struggle,
bat the final result does not depend on us, and
during the coolest a conaiderable part of the coun-
try which is in the power of the enemy would have
had to support an oppression which would have led
to its ruin. That is why we ware obliged to put an sod to
the war even by 'lrian up • part of the territory which from
time immemorial has belonged to Denmark. All our hopes
of ariataime have been deceived, sod the superiority of the
enemy has given them the victory. The King has been a
witness of the courage and of the fatigues of the army. and
has witnemed its brave deeds. Preserve that love of the
King and of the country which has hitherto guided you.
The proclamation is not oonetenigoed by soy =Mater.

ANOTHER DRAM FROM STARVATION IN BETH-
NAL-GIME:C-0n Saturday evening, Mr. Richards, deputy-
eorocer. holden inquiry at the Lord Nelson Tavera, Half.
Nichol-street, Betheatgreen, respecting the death of Henry
Nash, aged 8 years, from extreme privation. The body of
the demised was pitiably emaciated, the bones almost
coming through the skim The one room in which the de-
ceased and the rest of the Nub family, numbering eight in
all, lived, was the picture of utter poverty ; and Its pestilen-
tial state at once accounted for the fact that the whole
family, with the exception of the deceased, bad taken
" the fever," and were dill suffering from it. John Nash,
15, Half-Nicholetreet, who was so ill and weak that he
could hardly speak, said that be was a labourer. He had a
wife and five children, besides the deceased. He used to earn
22.13 d. a day, but he had been bed a fortnight and could not
work. He bad not applied to the parish ;he had hopes*, get.
ting better, and that prevented him. Three years ago he
was in great distress, and be applied ; sod at first they gave
him Is. a week and a loaf of bread, but then they insisted
that be and his whole family should enter the house, at
they would give nothing. He went away, and did not go
there again. On Wednesday night the deceased was taken
with " squeaking convulsions," andihe wash, great gain. He
died next morning . The deceased bad got his share of
whatever was to be had, but there was very little ou ac-
count of povert7. Ellen Nash, who, like her husband,
could hardly articulate, was suckling a child when she came
into court. She mid that the deceased had not got the
fever when he became convulsed. One of the children was
sow in the isilrmary. The rest of the family had pretty well
recovered. Dr. Orsyton said that he had made a post-mortem
examination of the body of the deceased. It was dreadfully
emaciated. The lungs, stomach, heart, to., were all healthy.
In the stomach there was only about half an ounce of fluid
gruel. The caused death was convulsions, from privation
and want of food. The rest of the family had typhus fever.
Witness doubted whether the permits were yet recovered
enough to understand distinctly what was paining round
them ; they were all in utter poverty. The coroner advised
the father of the deceased to make application for immediate
admission for himself and family to the workhouse es the
only means of saving their lives. The jury returned a ver-
dict "That the deceased being of tender age, and is charge
of hie parents, died from the mortal effects of convulsions
caused by want of nourishment." A small subscription was
leads up is court for the unfortunate family.