The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-05 00:00:00

NORTE MIDDLAVII ToLUNTEITR BALL.

A ball in aid of ihe band fund of the 29th
Middlesex Bile Corps, which is commanded by Limit.-Col.
Vimount Enfield, M.P., took place on Monday evening, at
Freemasons' Hall, and was completely successful both in a
pecuniary point of view and as an agreeable volunteer re.
union. Between four and five hundred persons were present,
the male sex including (in addition to most of the officers
and a large number of members of the regiment), repre-
sentatives of the Hon. Artillery Company, the 'a ictorias,
the Six-foot Guards, the Middlesex Artillery, the West
Middlesex, the Queen's, the Blooinsbury, the 19th and 20th
Middlesex, and other leading metropolitan corps. About a
hundred ladies and gentlemen sat down to supper. The
musical errangementa, under the direction of Mr. Corduroy,
were very satufactory, comprising a selection of the newest
quadrilles, waltzes, ; and the charm of the scene was
enhanced by the tasteful and gratuitous floret decoration of
the ball by Mr. Salter, nurseryman, of AmpthilLsquare.
Two volunteers, Mesas. Humphrey and Johnson—the
former remarkable as the winner of no lees than three
prizes at the annual shooting competition of the 29th last
autumn—ably officiated as marten of the ceremonies. Bo
sustained was the interest of the ocration that no lase than
240 persons partiCipated in the final dance.

THE CCVET•MARTI4L ON CAPTAIN
ROBERTSON.

At the court-martial on Monday, Sergeant-
Major M'Claughey was briefly examined on behalf of the
primer, sad stated that he never knew the prisoner to
attend morning and evening stables in 1881, except in
August and September. The prisoner then intimated
that he bad coneluded the evidence for the defence, and
requested the court not to call on him to read his defence
until all the evidence was closed. The president said
that the prosecutor had announced his intention to im-
pugn the credibility of his (prisoners)
_wituemea, and also
that the court intended, after the defence, to recall some
of the witnesses to explain certain points which have
arisen during the trial. The prisoner would then be at
liberty to call other witnesses, and to make a second de-
few* if he pleased, sad the prosecutor would be at liberty
to remark on the entire man Captain Robertson thanked
the court for the intimation given him, and requested
an adjournment for two days to enable him to pre.
pre a statement by way of comment on the evidence.
The court granted the application. Captaiu Henry, Colonel
Dickson, Colonel Bentunek, an Cornet Farqur were
then recalled, and examined at considerable length by
the president on various matters deposed to at previous
sittings, relative to eocansunications between the pri.
soner and Colonel Dickson. Captain Henry stated
that he did not consider himself responsible for Cap-
tain Robertson's honour after the conditions imposed
pon him. The prisoner bad said be would not meet
'llifolonel Dickson until he had lodged the price of his
commission. Colonel Dickson, is his examination, stated
that there never was any legal impediment to the meeting,
and he characterised that plea as a wilful lie and mil.
statemeot, invented by the prisoner and his friends to
screen himself. When &eked, What did you mean by
raying, on the 17th of October" 1860, ' When I have
settled with you legally I will settle with you personally'"?
Colonel Dickson replied, " What I meant was, that when
he had signed a release, which he might have done the
next day if be chose, I would thee horsewhip him. If
be had called me out, I was ready to meet him. I
may add that my quarrel with him was of a per-
sonal nature, and had nothing to do with legal or
military matters at all." Colonel Hentinck, in reply to the
Ti.:,..drast, denied that he ever gave directions to Adjutant
to obtain agitators' to • dommiset reflecting on the
prisoner's ebtradirr. Oclosel Dickson said his quarrel
with the primmer trees frees circumstances long prior to
1860, and that he would have given him satisfaction for
the insult offered to him at the club if it had been demon.
ded. Colonel Bentinck assigned as • meson for showing the
document previously referred to, that he wished to support
the statement he had previously made to the Deputy A.dja-
faint-General relative to Captain Robertson. The proceed-
ings were then adjourned to Thursday morning, when Cap-
tain Robertson's &Mires on the evidence will be received.

It is said that the 18th regiment of the French
line bee received orders to hold itself is readiness to leave
for lf sties, and that it is to repair to Cherbourg for an.
berkation. . .

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Prince Napoleon's two speeches are going to be
translated into Italian unarm the inspection of the prince
himself, and 100,000 copies of this translation will be struck
off and sent to Turin. His imperial highness dined on Situ-
day at the Tuileries, and had a long conversation with his
imperial cousin.
Baron du Jardint Belgian Minister at the court
of Holland, three days back gave a magnificent ball, at
which were present the King and Queen, the Prince of
Orange, Prince and Princess Henri, Plume Frederick and
the Princess Mark, his daughter, the Duke of Saxe-Weimar,
end the Princess Anne.

ASH WEDNESDAY AND THI CHAPELS ROYAL.
The morning the Bishop of London preached in the Chapel
Royal of St. James's Palace. The Lord Chamberlain
seated the Queen, the sermon being supposed to be
"before her Majesty." His lordship pissed a high
(Mogi= on the charioteer of the late Prince Consort, and
expressed the deep regret which the nation felt at his un•
timely death. In the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, the sermon
was preached by the Very Rev. Dr. Ullman, Dean of St.
Paul's.
ST. JAatze's PALACE, MAZCH 3. —Tho Queen
has been pleased to appoint Miss Harriet Lapel Phipps to
be one of the maids of honour in ordinary to bet Majesty,
in the room of the lion. Eleanor Stanley, resigned.—
Gazette.
MARTHA OF THE Homes Orrice, ROYAL MIT/I,
Pogue% Mama 3.—The Queen has been pleased to retain
the Serldooll of the following Equerries to the Prince Con-
sort :—Lieutemant.Colooll the Hon. Dudley Charles Fit:
Gerald de Res, lit Life Guards ; Major Charles Taylor Du
Plat, Royal Artillery ; Wooed Henry Frederick Ponseeby,
Grenadier Guards ; Colonel the Hoe. Arthur Edwin' Bar.
diage, C. 8., Coldstream Guards. Thane (Amos will per-
form the duties of extra equerries to her Majesty.—Gamftr.
FORILION-OfFICI, MARCH 3. —The Queen has been
to approve of Mr. A. Henry as oonsul-paeml at the
pleased
Good Hope for his Majesty the King of the Belgians.

-
Onowir-ornca, Maws 1.-311E16[1ER RETURNED
TO SERVE IN The PRYER' Peausnarre—Sir John
Charles Dalrymple H But., of Park-place, ie the county
of Wigtown, captsin, KN.,for the borough of Wskefield,
ic
the room of William HenryLeuathare, Esq., whose election
has been declared void
DEATH 01 SIR HUNOIRFORD HOSZTNE—We
have to record the death of Sir Hungerford Hoskyts. Bert,
at the advanced age of 86 ythre. Be was bora in 1766, and
succeeded to the baronetcy is 180'J. He is amended by
his eon, Bungerford floskyna, who was adulated at Oriel
College, Oxford, where he took a third class in classics in
1827.
THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT AND THE COUNT or
PARIs.—At the general monthly meeting of tai Boyd
Institution, held on Monday, Mr. W. Pole, M.A., F.R.S”
treasurer and vim-president, in the chair, the follow-
ing letter to the secretary, from the Comte de Parisi
was read:—" Washington, Feb. 2, 1862.-84,-1 have
ust received notification that the members of the Sofa
Institution, among whom my brother and I had the
honour of being admitted last year, were to meet on the
13th of January to draw up an address to the Queen en
occasion of the redden and irreparable lose of the Prince
Consort. While loyal England was offering to her afflicted
Sovereign the tribute of a unanimous mid touching sym•
pithy, ay man in the world felt the lima of the Prix"
whom inteUyteas, energy, and untiring exertions had been
darns, a too abort career exclusively devoted to the pro-
gress of civilisation and the benefit of mankind. But the
extent of that loss can only be fully appreciated by those
who bad many opportunities of witnessing that domestic
happiness so cruelly interrupted, and who will always
keep, with as much gratitude as regret, the vivid remem-
brance of one who proved, sot oily a kind relation, but s
friend to all their family. We therefore deeply regret not
to have heard of that meeting in time to send from this
tant country our sincere adhesion to the homage paid to his
respected memory by the illustrious society over which he
so often presided • and not to hove been able to avail our-
selves of our *Ales% as member. of the institution.
°MeV in the thwamsethos where we should have been most
anxious to do so. I beg you, sir, to convey to the presided
the expeeesion of these regrets, and I remain verb truly
yours, LORIS Pitmen D'Oattine, Comte& Peril.
A Lisbon journal, La Purify Industrielk,statei
that some men employed in digging a well at Seville some
days since, found a flight of steps, at the end of which sass
• door. This they soon burst open, and entered a milted
room, the ceiling of which was supported by six pillars.
At the foot of these lay four mummified hum°
bodies attached by a chain. Oes of there was a barefooted
monk. The shoes of the other three were in a good
state of preserratioa. The clothes wise all in the style d
the lad °satiny, bat all rotten, with the exception of oea
garment, which was silk. It is supposed
. that ibis room
was one of the dungeons of the loqualtioa, and that the
four prisoners bad been starved to death.