The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-07 00:00:00

FATAL ALPINE EXCURSION.

On Sunday morning, February 28, a young Au,
mint gentlianan, M. B—, sad an English friend, Mr.
G—, set out on an alpine ascent of some difficulty.
Accompanied by low guides, and well provided with all the
noceasanas for a similar excursion, they left Sion at 2 o'clock
a.m., and proceeded to a village aided Ardon, whence they
commenced the uomision of the Dent d'Ardoo.

Owing to the heat of the inn, and under the influence of
the warm wind which prevailed, the snow was exceedingly
soft, and on nearing the summit it became almost impos-
sible to advance. Still persevering, however, in their
hazardous enterprise, tie travellers waded, so to er,
through the yieldieg snow, when suddenly the mar oo
which they were gave way and dashed down the side of the
mountain with fearful velocity. At the time of the acci-
dent all were properly attached by a seer rope, made on
purpose for the ascent. In some unaccountable manner the
rope snapped in two places during the deftest, so that when
the avalanche reached the valley below, after a slide of WO
metre, (or 1,800 feet), the travellers were no longer roped
together. The two gentlemen and one of the guides were
entirely buried in the snow, another guide partly so, and
the only two uninjured were the remaining guides, who
were attached to the two ends of the rope. Notwithstanding
the most heroic efforts of these two men, only two of the
pa
rty could be got out in time to seen their lives. N.
was toned dead in a recumbent position. with his
bead downwards, and it was only after two days' continual
search that the mining guide's body was found. This sad
affair haa thrown • gloom over the surrounding neighbour.
hood, and those who knew M. B— will long remember
the deep imprerion that his untimely fate has left behind.
The funeral took place on the 3rd inst., at Lausanne, in the
Oury burial-ground.

THE LATE Sil, W. BROWN AND TEN BANK Of
ENGLAND, —ln the summer of 1837 it fell to the lot of
William Brown to ask the aid of the Bank of England;
and to ask it wider circumstances of extreme peril. Almost
every bank in the United States had stopped payment.
Bills to the amount of some 750,009/. had been re-
turned upon the bowie, protested ; sod when a con-
ference is the Bank Parlour revealed the extent of
what might follow, it was clear that a credit of two
millions sterling would be required to carry through
the storm the house of Brown, Shipley, and Co. It was
given. For the tiers all rejoiced at a deliverance shared
by thousands; and afterwards the tale was told, as
it will hereafter be told, with wonder. But, as usual in
such cases, the weeder is much diminished when the
facts are known. The relief given was great. and the
risk was mall. The Bank of England had, more clearly
than on any other occasion yet recorded, helped to bring
about the pressure she was asked thus to relieve. —L. r• r.
pwl A/Won.
A FILIALLE POLVGAM IST. —Au extraordinary MAC
has lately been under investigation before the • lice at
Woolwich, is which a man named John Ogden, a har-
dier in the Royal Artillety, was accused of steely sundry
articles of households from Reuben Cox, a tarots. in
the Royal Arsenal. tolen furniture was discovered in
an apartment in William-street, Woolwich, occupied by the
accused and Cox's wife, who were provided with a certificate
of ' e celebrated two days previously in the adjoining
pireh of umstead. Thepolioe, acting on their instructions,
took polemical of the property, and have sin,* recovered
certificates sod ample proof showing that four men with
whom the woman has entered into the contract of mart info
are actually living. The case under investigation is not
the only one, it appals, in which the woman has de-
camped with one man's furniture and hes married another.
It is also proved that she lived as the wife of s fifth man
for some years, between the dates of the first and wood
certificates, and kept a cotfee•house at Barking. The certi-
ficates in the hands of the police-constable. Beer, who has
charge of the case, are a, follows:—No. I, certit; rote of
marriage oelebrated between Joseph Outer and Rebecca
Scarborough at the church of St. Mary, Stratford, on the
19th of December, 1642 •' No. 2. between George James
Wellington and Rebecca Scarborough, at Poplar, 29th of
May, 1856 • No. 3, between Samuel Cox and Rebecca Wel-
!instep (vrikow ), also at Poplar, 7th November, ; No.
between John Ogden and Reboot* Scarborough. spinster, at
St. Margaret's Church. Plumatead, January 8, lm;-l. When
informed of the many proofs of her delinquencies. she
replied "that when she bad done her bit of imprienurent
she had no fear of getting another husband or two to comfort
bar."

—•
The celebrated Colclough case, which excited so
much interest at the Wexford saline that a large pinery
woe set mart for the ladies. the admiessou being by tickets,
for which there was the greatest competition, came to an
abrupt and disappointing termination last Friday. The
plaintiff, Mr. P. 8. Colclough, claims the Tinteru Abbey
estates in the county of Wexford. value 10,001. W. a year, on
the !round that he is the true legitimate heir. The defend-
ant is Mr. J. T. Ressborough Colclough, who married the
widow of the late C 1131112 Colclough, to whom they were
bequeathed. An application for the postponement of the
trial was refused by the court, and the plaintiff, after con-
sulting his counsel, withdrew the record. This is probably
the lest of the oasis.

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