The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-29 00:00:00

Vte Court.

WINDSOR, Oar. 2S.
The following had the honour of dining with her
Majesty yesterday: The Prince and Princ, I Outdone
Laagenburg, this Princess Adelaide and Prince Herm ,nn
of Hohenlohe, tho Earl of Malinesbury, and the Va.t .uut
Harding,
Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince IL rm sin of
Ilehenlohe, went out hunting this forenoon, uttend,d 1,1,.
Lieut.-Colnnel F. H. Seymour.
The Earl of blahnesbufy heft the Castle this marling f )a.
Louden.

A deputation from the L Loud of Health of Dews-
bury had an intervi. w 1. sterday with the Gcnorai Board of
health, at their office, Whitehall, with respiet to the supply
of water to the above-named district. 1 lic deputation (who
w. re nttended by the Engineer to the I. .cal Board, Mr.
Hanger) consisted of Mr. Johu Tweedide (the Cbsirreae
nC
I the L c.l Board), Mr. Thomas Cook, Mr. James Howell,
and Mr. Benjamin th.y.
Mr. Henry Clue, M.P., had an interview wi:b Mr. Si-
erioary Walpole yesterday at the Ilenne•olllem
General Campbell had an interview with fair ;Art PIP
kinirton yesterday at the (7olo,tial•,,flica,
The Finance Committee of the Royal Commission t.r the
Exhibition of Iti i 1 ILI t at at. Palace of Westmiest..r at four
o'cluck "'esti relay alternoor, Sir William Cuhitt in the
chair ; Mr. T. F. Gibson, Sir Alexander Spearman, and
Mr. Dowries (Secretary), attended.
Ili .patches from the Governor of Malta were received
yesterday at the Colonial-oMee.

A Cabinet Council WWI held yesterday afternoon,
at the Foreign-office. Tlor n l 11l eters prescut were;
—The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor. the Earl
of Lonsdale, the Marquis of sali,bury, Nlr. Stun.
tarp Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir Jo
Pakintiton, the Chancellor of the Esenequc•r,
Duke of Northumberland, the Jtight lion. J. W.
Henley, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Right lion J. C.
Herries, and Lord John Manners. The council sat
three hours.

We hear that the addreto will Le moved in the
110114 C of Lord, by the Marquis of 133 th, and v.ill be
seconded by the Earl of I)onoughtnore.-3/miAttrill
paper.

ROBBERIES ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.

TUESDAY, Ocr. 2G.—The two prisoners,
Derma and Delateuebe, the particulars of whom, aptork-u-
-sion and first examination before the insulate:in a
have already appearia, w• re again brow ..ht up to-
day. Mr. Skinner, of the Wes•ern Cirr•u•', instruited
by Mr. Aildi-on, solicitor, of Gloomier, appeared fur the
mosecution, and the prisoner., as before, were defended '4
Mr. Done and Mr. Crosby. The police court was erowil,d
during the examination. It will be nby the subjoined
particulars that so cleverly have the different robberies bean
arranged that it was necessary for the prosecution to hue
Delatouthe discharged and bring him forward as a Wi!Delli
against the other prisoner Dernat ; and in ord, r to convict
th,. letter the company will be put to a very beaey exper.e.
Mr. Skinner having detailed to the bench the guts
of tho case much as they have already appeared,
called Mr. Josiah Blunt, who pro►ed ferwarilit.g by tee
Midland Railway sewing silk and silk twist, to the value of
38., to Mr. Lindrea, of Bristol. The twist produtx•d had
their privai.e mark on it at the bottom of each reel, but the
same would be the ease with all twist sect iron! ;heir esta-
blishment. The sewing silk was of the same description as
that packed fur Mr. Linares.

William Spickett, clerk to Mr. Bland, agent of the Mid-
land Railway, proved the receipt of the package at Begot
at nine o'clock on the morning of the 20:h of Septenaer.
It was then in good condititm, and had no ap;a_arance of
having been opened. It was missed the same earring. The
prisoner D..rretes house was immediately opp,,ite sta-
tion; it was a beer shop, and they sold grocery. In crow.
examination the witness said he would not swear complaints
had not been made of packages delivered from the railway
having been fouod opened. Claims were made on the
Midland Company, and not on the Gavot.
The evidence a Delatouche was to the effect that he got
the silk Irom the prisoner Derrett on Wtduesday, the 20th
of October. At the time he was ill in bad, but he gat tap
and went down stairs to Laren. The latter raid " Shut
the door," and produced a parcel of silk. which, as be said,
the witness, being a taii:or well known among the trade,
might go and sell, and it would do goad for both of them.
Ile added, " You nted not be afraid, for, by my God, I
paid ready money for this ; I came by it es tt, restly as ever
I came by anything in my life." ii, also maid witness
could have 20/. more of it if he liked, and he farther &sin,'
him to say it was part of his own stock. flu received it
every bit from Derrett in one parcel. Oa crow-examination
the witness admitted that he had twice been committed to
take his trial for felony, but he had been acquitted on both
occasions.

Mr. Skinner here intimated that he was afraid, altliouvh
there could be no doubt on the subject, that actual L videncs
of identity was scarcely sufficiently clear. lie would,
therefore, proceed with the charge relative to the package
of knives, which it will be remembered was found ir. the
prisoner's house on its being searched. Witnesses were
called who showed that a parcel of knives had been ordered
of a house in Sheffield, by Messrs. Hallam and Gillett, of
Yeovil. They were forwarded by the Midland Railway,
and traced to Bristol, where they were lost sight of. Sums
of the best knives, by desire, had Messrs. Hallam and
Gillett's names marked on them, and umong the knives
1 found at Derrett's house were a number so marked, and
which, when discovered by Summers, the detective officer,
the prisoner said he had had in his ps.ssosion a twelve-
month.

Mr. Wilkinson, the company's superintendent, said the
witnesses as to identity in this case were not in attendance.
They had to come from very long distances, and (messages
bad been despatched by the electric telegraph to Leeds,
Pontypool, Sheffield, l'lymouth, and various parts of
Somersetshire. The company had done everything in their
power to get the witnesses here, but owing to the distances
it could not be accomplished for a day or two. They might
be there that night or the next morning.
Mr. Dens elicited that the prisoner's house was fre-
quented by several parties in the employ of the Midland
Company.
Under these circumstances Mr. Skinner said ho svis in-
structed to apply for a further remand.
The magistrates said they had no doubt on the subject,
and remauded the prisoners till Friday next.

SHIPWRECK AT RAVEL—The Precurseur, of 111
tone burden, Capt. Roquette, with • crew of seven men,
was assailed on Mond• afternoon by violent north-wot
winds, just off Havre. She attempted to enter the port,
although a red flag was hoisted on the pier to indicate that
no vessel could enter. On arriving at the end of the
northern pier, some one cried to the captain to steer fee
Honfieur. Although he did not know the dangirs of the
coast, and bad no pilot on board, he followed the advice.
In so doing be committed • great imprudence, es the en.
trance into port, though against the regulations, would
have been attended with tar less danger. lie mameuvred,
with the intention of standing off, but the violence
of the wind and the current was such that the ves-
sel was driven on shore near the Poulier du sud, between
the first two ports. The crew rushed to the deck, and with
every mark of despair uttered loud cries for help. Several
persons heard then from the shore, but it was impossible to
render assistance. All at once the vessel went to piece'',
and • cry of horror arose from the spectaton. The whole
crew were swallowed up in the waves. Cords and ladders
were let down from the forts by different persons, and by
means of them two of the crew were rescued ; the captain
and the other five were drowned. The rescuing of one of
the men was a matter of great difficulty, as after twice
seizing • rope he was washed away. The life-boat pat of,
but could not reach the wreck. Five of the dead bodies
were subsequently picked up. The cargo consisted of wino
and spirits, and 93 casks were got on shore. The Jnorrial
du Havre rays that one of the two men rescued died after-
wards from exhaustion.

AN IRISH SLATE QUARET.—Iip to it we go, tinder
the guidance of the overlooks r, as soon as he has measerri
a block of slate with the marked rod he carries in his hand.
lle is a Welshman—from Bangor—the only person meg
the hundred and twenty about the works who is not Irish.
Is it really so ? we ask, when we are in the quarry. There
is nobody there—not one man or boy among all 11100
groups —who can properly be called ragged. Many bars
holes in their clothes' but all have clothes—realganneetS
instead of flapping tatter,, hung on, nobody knows boo.
Another thing. These people are working steadily and
gravely. If spoken to, they answer calmly, and with an
fair of independence—without vociferation, cant. tottery.
or any kind of passion. Yet these people are all Irish:
and Chu speak as they do because they arc indepen-
dent. They have good work, and they do their work
well. They earn good wages; and they feel independent.
These are the people who, in famine time, formed a middle
clue between the few proprietors in the island and the
many paupers. The receivers of relief, we have said, were
two thousand two hundred. The proprietors and their
families were two hundred. These work-people and their
families were the remaining six hundred. They look Like
people who could hold their ground in a season of
stress. This quarry was their anchorage. What a noble
place it is! We climb till we find ourselves standing
on the upper tramway, or the verge of a precipice of
slate, with a rough wall of slate behind us—of all
shades of grey, from white to black, contrasting
well with the orange lino of the iron mould caused
by the drip from the roof upon the tramway ; but the
ceiling is the most prodigious thing about the plate. It is,
in sober truth, in its massiveness, greyness, sranothscw,
and vastness somewhat like the granite roof in the great
chamber in the great Pyramid. It take' away one's breath
with something of the same crushing feeling. And then,
look at the groups clustered or half-hidden :in this enor-
mous cavern. liow small every one looks—the men with
the borers and mallets, making holes for the blasting; the
men with the wedges and mallets, splitting of great blocks:
some on shelves high up over head ; some in cupboards far
within ; 1100341 in dark crevices in the mighty walls ! Knock.
knock, knock go the mallets, with an echo following out
knock—far, near, ineessent; and the echo cll. the drip heard
through all—an echo for every plash.—bieliens's
hold Wore."
FRENCH REFUGEES IN JERSEY.—M. Roechot, the
sergent, who was a member of the French constituent as*
sembly which sprung out of the revolution of ISIS, ha
taken up his residence in Jersey. M. Sehreleher, th;
writer whose work has recently given such offence to the
rrendlriteldenti was recently a resident of Jersey.