The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-18 00:00:00

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Prince and Princess Leiningen dined with her
Majesty yesterday.
Ilapr.Geseral Sir Beery Stories arrived at Osborne Iron
London, and returned to-day.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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THE CALCUIa A, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN
MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 18.

JULY 17.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Poonah, with the above mails, has arrived
here.

The Queen, anoropanied by the Printings Louise, Prinossa
Beatrice, and Princess Louis of Haus, went oa baud ►he
iron cased ship Prince Consort, off Osborne, yesterday
afternoon.

She brings 75 passengers, 2201. in specie, and
precious stones to the value of E. 3,500 ; jewel-
lery, Rs. 2,570 ; musk, Ra. 1,800 ; coral, Its. 1,000.
She brings also a cargo, including 1,204 bales of
silk, which latter are estimated at the value of
115,0001.
On the 13th inst. the Poonah spoke the ship
Patrician, of Newcastle ; on the 14th inst. the
schooner Pride of the Isles ; and on the 16th the
steamer Peninsular.

The Queen embarked in the royal yacht Fairy at the
Osborne pier, and was conveyed in the barge from the Fairy
to the Prises Consort, after inspecting which her Majesty
returned ashore in the same mauner.
The mite in attendance consisted of the Counter of
Caledom, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lieut.-General the
Hon. C. Grey, and Major-General Seymour.
Earl D. Grey and Ripon arrived yesterday, and had the
honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family.
Prince. Helena is confined to the hones by an attack of
scarlatina, but in a mild form, and all the symptoms attend-
ing the complaint are very satisfactory.

Exchange on London, at 90 days, 5O ; exchange
on Paris, sfr. 31c. ; Marseilles, sfr. 32c. ; Madrid,
at 8 dap, par.

The Prince and Princess of Wales left Marlborough•hocae
on Saturday, for the White Lodge, Richmond•park.
Meese. E. Emanuel, of Portsmouth, had the honour of
submitting, for the inspection of the Prince of Wales, the
gold vans manufactured by them for the Goodwood isce
meeting of the present year.
The Prince sad Princess of Wales have honoured Mr.
Demme with an inspection of tie picture he in now
painting of the royal wedding, sad with sittings for their
portraits.

AMERICA.
CROOSHAVEN, JULY 18.

The extra steamer Sidon, which left New York
on the afternoon of the 6th inst., was intercepted
here this morning.
Her news has been fully anticipated by the
Africa.

A deputation from' the City of London, introduced by
Mr. Thomas Weguelin, ILP., and oonaistiog of Mr. Charles
Bell, Mr. Richard liestlsy, Mr. Percy Davies, and Mr.
John Horan, had an interview with Earl Rummell at the
Poroign•ofiice on Friday, on the subject of the seizure of
the Cbiocha Wands by Spain.
A deputation from Liverpool, introduced by Mr. Thomas
B. Holmdel!, M.P., and Mr. J.C. Evart, Y. P., arid colloid-
ing of Mr. Charles Turner, LP., Mr. Charles Holland,
Mr. Charles Rowe, Mr. Darcy Duman, Mr. Thomas Wilson.
and Mr. Ralph Brocklebank;also bad an interview with Earl
Russell at the Foreign•o®ce on Friday, on the subject of
the seizure of the Chincha Minds by Spain.
A deputation from the Norwich Union, consisting of Mr.
TRW; Mr. SiMMII Reeves, Mr. T. E. Watson, and Mr.
Priest, had an interview with the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers,
at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, on Saturday.

MARRIAGE OF THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS
AND LADY FLORENCE PAGET.

(From the Morning Post.)

It will surprise many of our readers to learn that
Lady Florence Cecilia Page, only daughter of the Marquis
of Anglesey by his second marriage with Henrietta, fourth
daughter of the late Right Hon. Sir Charles Begot, was
married on Saturday last at St. George's Church, Han-
over-square, to the Marquis of Hastings. The marriage
was • hurried and unexpected one—more particularly,
it would appear, to the connexions of her lady-
ship, none of whom were witnesses to the ceremony. The
marriage took place by license. the Rev. Jahn Knipe,
curate of Wellesbame, Warwickshire, officiating.
The bride was given away, in the absence of her noble
father, by Captain Frederick Granville, a mutual friend-
Lady Edith Abney Hastings sad Lady Bertha Clifton, gaiters
of the noble bridegroom, were present, together with Vis-
count Nualaun. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Granville, Miss
Conyers, Mr. Williams, Mr. F. J. Blake, dm Mr. Blake
was the marquis's best friend on the oocsaion. The attesting
witnesses to the marriage register were Lady Edith Maud
Abeey Hastings, Mr. Frederick Granville, and Viscount
Manham. After the ceremony the noble marquis and bride
eft town by special train for his ancestral seat, Doenington
Park. near Ashby-le-laZonch, Leicestershire.

SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR
NEWCASTLE.

An accident of a aeriotts nature, though happily
Dot leading to lose of life, occurred to the express train
which left King's-cross station at ten o'clock on Saturday
morning. The riceident took place •t Washington, on
the North Eastern line, a few miles south of
Newcastle. The train was • very heavy one,
and wee twenty minute; behind time when it reached Learn-
side, when the Durham and Bishop Auckland section
branches off. There is a considerable incline between
Pusher station and Washington, and when the train ap-
proached the latter station the crank shaft of the engine
broke, the train ran off the lines, and the rails to •
considerable extent were ton up. The train was proceeding
at the time at the sate of about forty MN/ an hour. It
was at first reported in Newcastle that one person was
killed and that several were seriously injured, but on inquiry
this was contradicted. One lady appears to have been
rather seriously injured, and some of the officials stated that
her arm or collar-bone was broken. The other passengers
appear to have escaped with • severe shaking and some
bruises. On the news reaching Newcastle • special engine
was sent forward, to bring the passengers, and
those of them who were proceeding northward were sent
forward. Sir J. Fife, Mr. Heath, Mr. Annandale, and
another medical man, went to the scene of the accident, but
as the telegraph wires were broken by the accident no in.
formation has been received from them. The train contained
many persons who were going to the agricultural show.
Amonpt the passengers were Lord Loraine, M.P., and Mr.
K. Hodgson, M.P. The train was due at Newcastle at five
o'clock p.m., so that the accident must have taken place
about that hour. _ _

NEWCASTLE, SUNDAY NIGHT.

No passengers were dangerously hurt in the accident to
the down express train last night, though several were
severely cut and 'braised. The fore axle of the engine
broke, but the engine kept on the line. One of the coupling
chains, however, snapped, and three first-class carriages ran
off the hoe and were much crumbed. It is marvellous how
the passengers escaped with their lives. With the excep-
tion of Mr. Mark Philips, of Snitterfield, Warwickshire,
who has been removed to Tynunouth for quiet, nearly all
the paiseogers coming to the Royal Agricultural meeting
escaped without injury.

THE STARVATION AND NEGLECT OF A
FAMILY IN BT. LUINS. - DEATH OF
ANOTHER CHILD.

COMMITTAL OF THE MOTHER FOR MAN-
SLAUGHTEIL—(TIiLS DAY.)
This morning Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex
coroner, maimed at the Green Gate Tavern, Cityroad,
the adjourned inquiry respecting the death from starvation
and neglect at the hands of her mother, of Sarah Blake,
aged two years, and the second inquest was opened oa view
of the body of Blake, aged 2 months, who died from the
ums cause.

It appeared that the mother of the deceased children was
a married woman living apart from her husband, who co-
habits with another woman. She was an artificial florist,
and she cohabited with a person of the same trade. Her six
children were left by her in • room first in Bishop's-court,
elerkenwell, and then in Barites-street, St. Lake's,
without furniture or bedding, and almost without food.
They were found by the perish authorities dying from
starvation and neglect, and the child Sarah died almost
immediately.
Mr. Dixon said that the infant deceased was the daughter
of Mn. Blake and was unnamed. It was an illegitimate
child, the father being a potman.
Honors Lyous, our,. at the workhouse of St. Luke's,
said that the infant was admitted on the 25th of Jane, ill
and exhausted. The under clothing was pasted to the :kin
foe want of waking. Everything was done to save it. life,
but it had not a chance of surviving, and it died on the 12th
inst. . _ .

—fiery Ana Blake, • little girl 10 years old, mid that alas
used to get enough to eat. She used to get bread and butter
and water, and sometimes a little sausage or bean. But the
two little children that were dead could not eat the bread
and water. Until Sarah got the small pox she could eat the
dry bread. They slept on the boards.
Dr. E. C. Harris, surgeon to the workbox's., said that he
attended the deceased infant child on admission. It was
very thin sod its eyes were sunk. It was weak mid ill.
Witoess did all he could to save its life, but it died on the
12th July. The body was very destitute of fat, which was
quite unusual in a child of that age. All the organs were
healthy except the mesentery disease, which was the
immediate cause of death. The mother's neglect was the
cane of the loss of the child's life. These was no diatoms to
cause death if the child Mid been carefully tended and fed.
Being allowed to lie on the boards of the room was destruc-
tion to it.

Mrs. Weptaffe, 4, Bishop's-eoart, said that the children
livedfor three weeks in a room at that house. They were
shockingly neglected and starved, the mother leaving them
for three or four days together. The girl Sarah was quite
wolfish with hanger. The infant was quite as badly neg-
lected.
It was stated that the man with whom the mother of the
children cohalAted, and whom she emulated in his business
made N. or 41. a week, and that she had the management
of the money for housekeeping purposes. The bread which
she gave to her children—four loaves every Wednesday—
wee furnished by the parish to her. Her husband was in
prison.
The Coroner summed up at length, and
The Jury, after a brief deliberation, returned a verdict of
"Manslaughter against Mary Ann Blake for feloniously
killing and slaying Sarah Blake and another daughter, un-
named."

The Coroner then issued his warrant for the detention of
the mother in Newnan, until her trial at the Central Crimi-
nal Court.

PALL OP A WALL AND LOSS OF LIPS.
(THIS DAY.)

This morning Inspector Frazer, of the S division
of police, forwarded to Dr. Lankester, the coroner for
Middlesex, the particulars of the death of Alfred Walter
Copeland, aged 9, residing with his parent. at 8, Ann's-
place, Onsulstooutreet, Somers-town, who was accidentally
killed by the falling of a wall of a house on him.
The portion of the house that fell is situate at 17, Lower
Cambridge-street, Agar-town, and is ewe of a number that
is in coarse of demolition for the foundation of the Midland
Railway Melina. Since the houses have beset in the course
of pulling down, the workmen have been much annoyed by
numbers of boys getting into the enclosures for the purpose
of picking up pieces of wood, iron, or something else that
would fetch them a halfpenny, and many of the boys have
had very narrow escapes of injury, and perhaps death, by the
falling timbers and bricks.
Yesterday evening, about a quarter pest 5, the de-
ceased was at the back portion of the house, 17, Lower
Cambridgestrest, with three other boys, their ostensible
purpose being the palling up of some firewood. Not con-
tent with the small pieces that were lying about, it wee
elated that the deceased and his companion endeavoured to
take out the Bill of the back window, and in swinging it
backward and forward loosened the bricks to such an extent
that a large crack was made in the wall ; and before the
deceased and his companion, could get oat of the way, it
fell, burying the deceased under the debris.
A working man of the Dame of Pavett was at once on the
spot, and with commendable zeal set to work to release the
deceased. This he did in a very short apace of time, and took
the child to Mr. Jackson, the surgeon, of Brewer=
Illesasratown, who pronounced life extinct. The d
was lot much bruised, and it is surmised that suffocation
was the muse of death. The three companions of the
deceased had a very narrow wove, bat fortunately without
injury. The inquest, it is said, will be held to-morrow.

THE CONVICT MUTINY AT PORTLAND PRISON.—
The feeling of insubordination among the convicts at the
convict establishment here, in consignee°, of the introduc-
tion of the new dietary system, still °options, to be ex-
hibited, although no outbreak has taken place since Friday.
Every day large numbers of the men refuse to work, al-
leging as an excuse that not sufficient food under the sew
dietary system is given them to keep their strength up.
Os Tuesday a large body of men refused to leave their
sheds after dinner and resume work, and it was
not until the aid of the military was obtained
that they would resume work. Almost every hoer men are
marched back handcuffed to the prison, and from inquiries
we have made we are informed that about 230 have turned
refractory and are Pow confined in their cella. The ring-
leaders of the riot of Tuesday are recovering from the inju-
ries which they received at the bands of the civil guards. It
was expected that on Thursday. Friday, and Saturday the
men would vain turn mutinous, as a number of them were
severely whipped on those days, but such was not the case.
This is no doubt attributable to the fact that the guards have
received orders to fire upon the convicts should
another outbreak take place, and also to the ex-
cellent arrangements which have been made by Captain
Clay, the governor of the prison, and Captain Du-
cane, director of convict prisons, the latter of whom is sow
engaged in instituting inquiries respecting the outbreak, and
la awarding punishment to the evildoers. Every precau-
tion has been take° to suppress a revolt, should one unfor-
tunately take place, two detachments of the 64th Regiment
being stationed in the vicinity of convict labour, one over-
looking the batteries ou the east side of the island, and the
other near the West Quarry, where the outbreak on Tues-
day commenced. In addition to this force there is a strong
picket of the civil guard in the tower, should their assist-
ance be needed. The insubordinate convicts are ocialined to
their cells and dieted on broad ad water ; bat while thus
treated some of them are very violeet.
THE Illatugo FIRHERY.—The Cornish boats en-
gaged in the herring fishery on the Irish mast were very
fortunate last week, having made from 501. to 1351, per
boat. Corsbie, salesman, of Newlyn, Omewall, reports
having disposed of 2,5001. worth of herrings. The Irish
and Scotch boats have also had good lush, but their prim-
, anal catches were taken Miectly shag the coomamicanent
'd the saaon.