The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-20 00:00:00

TUE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

A Queen's messenger left (Moran at 9 o'clock Olt
Friday evening, after the arrival of the Earl of lh:by trot
London, bearing a letter from her Majesty addr,,,ed to the
Earl of Aberdeen. The letter was delivered at Argyll-
house at half.past 9 o'clock on Saturday morning.
Tho cane Queen's messenger bore a letter from bee
Majesty to the Marquis of Lan,downe.
Oa Saturday foreuoon the Earl of Aberdan paid visite
to the leading members of the reelite party. The noble
earl had a loi g interview with Sir Jame: Graham at the
right hon. baronet's residence in Ciroevenar.pjaca, Lord
Aberdeen heal also an interview with Viscount Canning,
in Grorrenor-,quare.
The noble earl we regret to learn was x. unwell oft
Saturday afternoon as to be obliged to call in Dr. Helloed.
On Saturday evening Mr. Gladstone, who bad just pre-
viously arrived in London from Woburn Abbey, call, .1 at
Argyll House, and had an interview with the noble earl.
Telegraphic messages front Osborne addre,,,d to the
Earl of Aherdeca were received at Argyll 11,use on Satur-
day evening.
Yest, ?day morning the noble earl left town by the 10
a.m. train on the South Western Railway rn rwoe for Os-
borne. His lordship crossed from Southampton in the
Firefly, government steamer. The noble earl war expected
to return to London last night.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT BI.AUSWALL.—On Saturday
ever.ing Mr. W. Baker, the coroner, held a lengtheatil in-
quest at the London Hospital, on view of the holy of
Oeorge Settles, aged 49 years, a forge foreman, lately in
the service of Messrs. Mare and Co., the extensive iron
steamboat builders of Blackwell. The deceased and
other workmen were engaged in the smiths' shop at the
N:rel Orchard-house, on Thursday afternoon lest, about
fete o'clock, while the steam hammer was at work, ellen
a man named Henry Stone was directed by the deceased to
"gag up" the hammer, to prevent its movie There
were several noon at work in this part of the feet,ry, and
the deceased was standing on an iron plate when the gig or
iron pin, two feet ifs inches in length, suddenly :tipped
out, and struck one end of the iron plate, whereby it won
tilted over, and before the deceased could get out of the
way his left leg became jammed and crushed under the
ponderous mass of iron, which weighed nearly eight
tons. The deceased hail no control over the machinery
which worked the steam hammer, and was only
foreman at the forge where the accident took place.
The brother of the deceased, a practical man, intormed the
court that he hail examined the steam hammer, and found
that it was out of repair. The gag was worn :end inccm-
plate, so were also parts of the hammer. Ile thought that
his brother had died from the want of timely medical aid,
for the deceased had bled to death. It was wrung to convey
a poor fellow in such a condition so far as (rem the mwu•
factory to the London hospital, without calling in a sur-
geon to stop the flow of blood from the wound, as it might
have saved the deceased's life, or, at least, prolonged it
considerably. Mr. Alfred James Dale, the house surgeon,
said the deceased was admitted on Thursday evening,
shortly before six o'clock, and died in thrce•gnarters of an
hour afterwards from severe hemorrhage. Tue right thigh
bad sustained a compound fracture, and the bone was ex-
tensively shattered. If the deceased had hoed the limb
must have been amputated. The deceased certainly died
from the excessive loss of blood, and had had no chasm ren-
dered him of surviving the extensive injutirs he had sue-
tained. The hsemorrhago should have been stopped with
all possible haste after such an accident, as otherwise he
would consequently die from exhaustion. The jury, after
considerable discussion, returned the following verdict—
" That the deceased met his death accidentally, and we rie-
quest the coroner to write to Mears. Mare and Company,
of Blackwell, representing to them the necessity of that
work being properly supervised by some competent perm
to see that it is is order. Alan as to the r.ectse,ity ofn
medical man being called in in cues of accident to their
workmen.'

GAROTTE ROBBERT.—On Tuesday night, shoat
alias o'clock, as an old man, aged SO yen., ws• in the act
of entering the close leading to his dwclling•houee is
Pitt-street, Glasgow, he was suddenly set upon by two
miscreants, who compressed his throat until Wood issued
from the mouth, and then plundered their frail victim
of 141. in bank notes and a silver watch.—North
Daily Mail.
THE AUsTRIANS AND riti GAROTTE.—The niti-
nierte of Turin, of the 14th, states from 31.m.n.i that the
late exezutions there were:effected by the Spanish garotte,
but that, owing to the inexperience of the sicutioner,
several of the prisoners lingered f•r many minutes in great
torture, which caused such horrid contortions that the
cutioner was obliged to conceal them from the eyes of the
public. The same paper adds, that the Austrian gov.ra-
rnent, having di sired to have the oeinion of u cominiss.,n as
to the expediency of adopting the garotte, the it,edical men
declined forming part of it, and suggested that the nutter
should be laid before the University of l'avis. The latter,
on being applied to, declared that death by the garotte was
not instantaneous ; nevertheless tho military authorities
insisted upon trying it. The priest Tannoli was the first to
mount the scaffold, which he did with great fortitude, ez-
hortiog his fellow-sufferers to follow his example.

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GERMAN BaNDS.—Tho mw4niticent music of I
splendid German military band COW, pealing in Omagh
the open window, tilling the room with mat,i4l radii
and my imagination with all sorts of heroic th withts• 0
those German bands, how much have they to answer for
1 look upon them, for my part, as the very bulwark and
strong tower of defence of the military despoti.ms. Palo
stands poor freedom, cowed and brokenapirited, slandered
and insulted ; while shivery goes by, in such Flap lad
glory, a ith such a braying of trumpets, and such a 61034
of cymbals, that no wonder the crowd lore til.e
better than true worth.—Dwieris's " Iloasseho:d lIS rd.
ltAlLw STO TILE NORTH Or DEVON.---At tt"l
full nteeting of the Sutton Harbourlrnprovemeut Compallyi
one of the most important dock companies in Plymoatis
held in the Chamber of Commerce a few days since, W
Hawker, Esq., in the chair, convened "to ts'..• into
deration the different schemes proposed to provide Seam
Harbour with railway accommoilAtion, and to adv.•ark
measures as may be considered most disirablc to insure ill
sums. of the line, which, in the opinion of the tuerragt
will most promote the trade and °lmmense of the harh ,11/.
On the motion of John Wyly. Esq., s condcd hy W. Aelv
land, Esq., a r, solution woe adopted approving of ff.( PO'
jetted I as from Plymouth to Tavistock, Okehonl ton. eel,'
ford, and Exeter. It was also resolved to pelage p.
ment on halal( of the line referred to.
DEFICIENCY THE IN MILITIA.—On Saturday 8
return to parliament respecting the new militia a as printed.
Out of the 50,000 men to be raised in the several icannesot
England and Wales the return shows tl at only 29.321),_
volunteers have been enrolled, leaving a Celleietwy w•
preload year of 20,813.