The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1847.

a day or two beck, having on board his excellency Lord
Dalhousie, the newly appointed governor.general of India.
The Elidea has since lett for the Mediterranean. A few
lays dam a sharp signal was made from the admirers vessel
to a lisiaothattle ship ; " Less noise on board the
Ithe ships being something like a half mile apart, and her
eepteln on board.
Mercantile matters teem to be getting better. There ate
no new failures, and it is hoped, now the storm has blown
over, that confidence and enterprise will revive. Exchange
on London 30 days, 63, 534; 90 days, 64. Sovereigns at
4490 ; dollars, 920.

Oared A. W,Willisiss

from erd Den. Oda, to b.

cornet, vice Poz.
9th F.—Major B. V. lewd, him the 37th P., to be snapr, 'doe
who
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MWlNl.Lnitel‘V. 61141.10rt0 be Boot-, by per, vice Um.
to_orWoelte *free; W. Iheee. pet., to Be sea, by pro., vice

1100 i IP.—Lat. J. S. imorkr, hem hkip. 63rd F., to be lieut., vice
15111Mejledilarloillogion, C. 8., from 9th P., to be major, vies
lanuati VIM Esa G. F. Luau; from 17th F., to be ass.,
vine ssmt.
40th lifw—brwr. J. Stanford, to be lieut.-ooL, without
par., visa /2191014.; Cwt. J. Mae Dulf, to be jor, Ace Stop-
Wrd.• Lent H. to be wt., vice Mac Duff; Gent. Cadet IL
C. Wise, tram the MIL COL, to be ens., without pur.
53rd P.—lhat. 0. Cos., from 63rd F., to be lieut., Oise Grey,
who
34trliMt. A. 8. Craig, from Glad F., to be lieut., vice Hewett,
who ex
Sind Mt. Z. W. M. Hewett, from .54th F., to be lieut., vice
Craig, who exchanges.
63rd F.—Ensign J. Lawrie, from Sled F., to be lieut., by pm,
vice Nomad, who ret.; Lieut. F. D. Grey, from 53rd P., to be lieut.,
vise Cox, who exchanges.
73rd F.—Eaaign H. IL B. Rannaryne to be lieut., by per., vice
Owen, who ret. ; T. Walsh, rut, to be ens., by pur„ viceßannatyne.
75th F.—Lient.G. W. Muriel, from 114th F., to bs hem., vice Keats,
who en
82nd :..L.r.Barros, gent., to be ens., by per., Ow Lawrie, prom.
In 83rd r.
84th P.—Llenk W. MiGesaby Keats, from 75th F., to be lieut., vice
Muriel, who exc
Lad W. L R .tit4ant. E. J. Gardlner, from 17th F., to be tout.,
vice Dickman, who exchanges.
Hooves'. &rm.—W. F. Daniell, gent., to be smilit.aml. to the
forces.
Moniasersok—The exchange of Lieut. J. Lawson. from 7lst F.,
to b..p. unattached, on sth Sept., 1835, to without the difference, be
having paid the amount to the credit of the public. The commiesion
of Lieut. W. IL. H. Ellison, in the 88th F., bas been antedated to
12th Jag., 1847, in ender to place him in hit proper position in that
corps.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 10.
Corm of Royal Marinas—Sec.Branch, to be first
Beek, vice Denman, dec.; See. Lieut. J. Crochet, to be first lieut.

MADRID, Nov. 19.
On Tuesday night a dreadful crime was committed
is the palace of the Queen Mother, in the Calle de las Rajas.
The housekeeper of a chaplain, who lives on the second floor,
was Sound bathed in blood with a deep gash in her throat.
She was quite dead. It appears that this unfortunate woman
had lately arrived from Valencia. She is said to hare been
young and beautiful. Apparently the was employed in
g a stocking when the crime was committed. The
amaisin, after washing his hands in the bison, locked the
door and carried off the key. The corpse was taken to the
general hospital where the autopsy was made.
The session of congress yesterday offered nethisg remark-
able beside the two communications of Senors Salamanca and
Ortega. The former petitions congress that he ma not be
declared subject to se-election till the ehemee
to impugn the acts of his ministry be beesshe blew the
house. The petition was handed over to do latamidee
caws of re-election, of which Olosaga is nopident. In the
'snood document Senor Ortega complaint" sif the violation of
privilege by the government in sending Its. a national
deputy, to quarters in Cerunna. The potato& peeped es the
sections for the nomination of a special committee te ea eider
the same. The rest of this session, which only lasted half
an hour, from two till half-put two, was taken up with the
despatch of business of no particular interest. Contrary to
expectation, the motion made for the documents which aro
to serve as the ground of Salamanca's impeachment, was net
read; the ministers, although informed that the same
motion had not been read on a preceding day on account of
their absence, having preferred to accompany their Majesties
on their hunting expedition instead of attending to their
duties in Congress. After infinite offers and coallastmela. IS
seems that it has been definitively settled to setessais• tie
reconciliation of the moderado factions by the sacrifice of
one victim, and that victim is to be Salamanca: his
colleagues are to be let off. Meantime the ex-Minister of
nattier, is not in the least daunted. He holds his
head high, defying his accusers, and is no doubt pro-
pariag heavy retaliation. The documents moved for are:
Report upon the Conversion of the Treasury Bills of the
Royal Patrimony; Report upon the Claims made by the,
Bank of Ardoin, and Resolution of the Government is
tom quence ; Report and Royal Order on the Bank lending
to the Madrid and Aranjuez Railway Company Money upon
their Shares, making the Public Treasury responsible ;1
Report and Royal Order on granting Pardon in the Trial foe
Smuggling connected with the Casten-house of Alicante;
Certificate of the Liquidation Fund concerning the Values
hailed in Three per Cent. Bonds since Feb. 17, 1847, with
Declaration of the Issues, Rea ons for the same, and Persons
to whom the Bonds were delivered. The Clamor wants
the following documents to be also called for :—Acconnts
relative to Colonial Expenditure, with the History of a
certain Royal Order issued by the Minister of Finance ,• a
Satisfactory Account of the 400 Millions not included
in the Budget, expended by Senor Mon; the Tobacco
Contract; the Quicksilver Contract; the Will of Ferdi-
nand VII. ; and the Marriage Contracts of the
Queen and her Sister. The earns paper adds ;
" Since France is our model, it would be well that we should
imitate that country in a famous instance, highly honourable
for her, in which neither the rank, nor the social position,
nor the services of the accused, sufficed to avert the inflexible
doom of the law."
The tergiversation of the Rzpeclador have furnished the
coffee-houses with a fertile topic of discussion lately. That
paper, formerly the organ of Espartero, published, on Satur-
day, an article, the tenor of which was so completely mode-
redo that one looked to the top of the first page to see
whether it was not the Faro that one had got hold of by
mistake. The consequence was, that the proprietors lost no
time in expelling these agents of the enemy from the
editorship. The Ileraklo of yesterday gives out that the
Union Bank will resume business in a few days. A
general decree of amnesty to criminals whose term of
imprisonment does not exceed four years has been published
in the Gazette. The more atrocious category of offenders
are excluded from the list of pardoned.
Letters from Catalonia report that General Concha has
declined the government's offer to him of the embassy to
Paris.

ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS IN SEARCH OF SIR J.
FRANKLIN'S PARTY.
(Fmm the Athemaisc)
We were the first to announce, a few weeks ago,
that government purposed taking immediate steps to send
out expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and his
party, and have since been earnest in presaing, on the plea of
the public anxiety, that nothing might be omitted or port-
posed which the real circumstances of the case demanded.
We are now enabled to present our readers with the follow-
ing particulars, which proceed from the highest official
authority. Three expeditions will be sent to the Arctic re-
gions:—One will be despatched in the course of a few days
to Behring's Straits; the second will sail early in the
ensuing spring to Baffin's Bay, and will be under the com-
mand of Sir James Ross and the third will consist of an
overland expedition, to be placed under the direction of Sir
John Richardson.
The boats, with their crews of twenty men, belonging to
the last-named expedition, went out to Hudson's Bay during
the late summer ; and intelligence of their safe arrival at
York Factory and departure for the interior has reached
this country. They were to winter at Cumberland-house, or
at Saskatchewan River ; and as soon as the navigation opens
in the spring are to resume their voyage to the Mackenzie
River. Sir John Richardson, and another officer, will
leave England in March next, for Canada ; and by travel-
ling iu light canoes by the usual route of the fur-traders to
the north-west they hope to overtake the boats in July, and
with them to reach the Arctic Sea in the beginning of''
August, with an ample supply of nutritious and solid food.
The intention of this party is to track the coast to the east-
ward of the Mackenzie River, to communicate with the
various tribes of Esquimaux, in expectation of gleaning some
tidings of the discovery ships, to examine Wollaston
Land, and trace, as far as practicable, any inlets that may
lead to the north ; to erect land-marks on various head-
lands, with written communications buried underneath,
and when the season closes to repair to winter quarters
at Great Bear Lake, by the Copper Mine River. The boat
parties to be sent out from the vessel which is to winter
within Behring's Straits, together with parties over the ice
in the spring, will, it is hoped, fully explore the sea to the
westward of the Mackenzie ' • and, as one of Sir James'lloss's
ship. is to be stationed in Lancaster Sound at the north end
of North Somerset, parties sent out from thence, both to the
northward end southward, will explore that neighbourhood.
Another of Sir James's ships will push on to Banks Land, and
in like manner send out exploring partite in every direction;
the one sent southwards having the prospect of intersecting
Sir J. Richardson" route, and, if thought expedient, of com-
municating with him by the Copper Mine River. The search
of the coast and of Wollaston and Victoria Land will be re-
sumed by Sir John Richardson in the summer of 1849, if
neCBll6ll.l 7.
Notwithstanding that the Admiralty have judged it pru-
dent to make the preparations for these extensive researches,
we are gratified at being informed that most of the officers
who, from having acquaintance with the navigation of the
arctic seat and the intentions of Sir John Franklin, us
qualified to judge in the matter, continue to hope that Sir
John Franklin has succeeded in passing Behring's Straits.
Had his vessels been nipped in the ice, or stopped in Lan-
caster Sound, he would, we are assured, have returned to
England about this time ; and as he has not done so, they
consider it pro'sable that he had succeeded in getting so well
to the westward the first year that he bee been enabled to
clear Bebring's Straits this October—in which case they look
for tidings, either through Russia or by the Isthmus of
Panama, in February next. He had provisions eaough, it
seems, to eullo"e him to winter this season in the Arctic Sea,
if he had penetrated so far to the west as to render the pro-
spect of his passing Behriag's Straits next eummer such as
to make his stay a third winter expedient.

ATHENS, Nev. 10.
The last act of Otho served to destroy what little
confidence the people still ensertained of a change for the
better. They see now that there are no hopes for Greece.
They see a Chamber of Deputies unanimou‘y consenting to
all the despotic orders of the government ; Ith ignorant end
illiterate ministry chosen by France and Austria; a senate
compelled by force to renounce ita acts; the sionatitution
violated in its most important parts; Greece everywhere
infected by brigands in the service of the government ; the
rights of the electors laughed at; and fraud, deceit, torture,
and murder constituting the actual picture of this unhappy
country. The law sleeps while brute force prevails. The
despotic systems of Austria ere here in full force. Com-
plaints, protests of illegality are of no use ; Grease must be
silent for ever, and suffer her fate with resignation, unless
indeed " one" of her protectors will raise hevroice in her
behalf. She may then get justice, but not till than.
The accounts from the provinces are heartrending.
General Gardikiotis, in moving his camp from Eubea to
Thebes, made the inhabitants feed his soldiers at their own
expense. The famous Tzinos has been plundering the
people in Western Greece. Gen. Mernonria is employed in
arresting such persons as the ministry consider liberal. Since
the creation of the senators, the senate has been perfectly
idle. The president and the ministers are waiting until they
lare properly drilled and have taken their seats. Some of
them, it is said, have not the qualifications required by the
coreWtution, and that others Inuit be chosen instead. The
follo*lng are already named: Rear-Admiral A. Kriesis—he
is also Marshal of the Palace ; General J. Staicos—be is
father-in-law to the daughter of the King's aide-de-camp ;
Gardikitotas Grim, General D. Plapoutas, General Ant.
fdayromichalis, G. Notaros—these three last are all related
to persons in the King's household ; General Nikitas Stem-
atelopoulos, Col. J. Joldamis. Nothing new respecting the
difference with Turkey. The Harlequin is the only English
man-of.war in the Pirseus. Nine or ten cases of cholera
have occurred at Constantinople, and our authorities hers
have extended the period of quarantine from thence to
Greece.

VERDICT OF MURDER AGAINST
W. S. SHERIDAN.
Yesterday, Mr. Baker and a jury again met to in-
veatigats the death of Mrs. Frances Sheridan, the widow of '
an officer in the army, lately resident in Mare-street, Hack-
ney. The evidence taken was precisely similar to that'
already given before the magistrate at Worship-street polies
court. The clerk of the London Life Assurance Company
proved that the son of the deceased surrendered his life
policy for 6001. on receipt of 961. 2a. 6d. within 24 hours di
his mother's death. The daughter tithe dammed severally
repeated the testimony thty had predoolly given. likr.
Randall, the deceased's landlord, prowl frogpatbe t mom-
race of the most dreadful quarrels between*" semeed
his mother and sisters. Mr. Evans, the isisiffividsgadipse,
deposed to the state of anxiety which the party Mimed to
exhibited when it had been determined to make a poet
mortem examination of his mother's remains, and to his ex-
premed desire that all publication of the fact in the news-
papers should be suppressed ; and Sergeant Hawkes depoeed
Ito baying made an examination of the prisoner's desk at the
Baciee-office, in which he found three Banknotes of 201.
each, one sovereign, and other monies.
Mr. Baker said the prisoner was • young man of drunken
habits, and Mid from "Ray's Medical Jurisprudence" several
attracts showing the effect of excessive indulgence in virile-
ous liquors on itertain minds. Among the illustrations quoted
was that of the celebrated Sheridan, who " never spoke la
the House of Commons without the inspiration of half a plat
of brandy."--The learned coroner, after remarking on the
'feeler coincidence that that once great man should haw
been the very beacon held out by the author to warn other
tithe vast elf intemperance, said, it was a no less painful fact
that he wan the graadaire of the unfortunate man now ins-
stared within the walls of a prison on the dreadful charge it
matricide—Mr. Baker here read an extract descriptive silks
latter days of Sheridan, whose " death took pleas amidst •
complication of difficulties, fears, and sorrows," and seiti,
bitter indeed mast have been his reflections if he could bat
have been conscious of the legacy he bequeathed to hie
posterity. The hereditary inheritance of a broken constitu-
tion, a debilitated body, and an emaciated and attenuated
frame. What did the jury now sea before them 1 A whole
family immersed in the lowest depths of intoxication, their
minds debased, their morals impure. So fatal have been the
Miens thatthe mother has died • victim of filth and disease ;
aseofthe daughters, unable to beer the last closing scene,
Torimod forth on the evening of her death, not knowing
mimeo the was going, aced only returning when driven back
meetration of her physical energies. The son, in-
simi of *aim his parent's eyes, having first plaid the
pima *Am to her lips," hurried to the °Moe la which
ills life had been insured on the very day of her deal, sad
.marred the paltry pittance of 961, to lead his depots=
tits for future revels of intoxication. After ease
remarks, in a tinnier strain, Mr. Balm rodadoi tie Jon
that they must not allow their toollogolo the Woe it
*dr judgment, but carefully snide afttio obouostostoo
attending the case.
The jury remained in deliberation for about half an hour,
when it was announced that twelve out of thirteen jurymen
had agreed to a verdict of wilful murder, the diseatient ob-
jecting on some peculiar opinions entertained by Mama—
The Coroner said their verdict must be ea Malailmes sae'
and, after same further deliberation, the YONIINS
that they had all agreed to a verdict d swam
against William Stewart Sheridan."

FRANCII.—LoB6E6 IN THE FRENCH NAVY.--
A French journal gives the following u a correct statement
of the losses of the French navy within the last two years :
" The state has lost the Berceau, corvette of 30 guns, which
went down at sea; the Colibri, of 4 guns, advice-kat, which,
like the Berecau, was on the Bourbon station, and was also
lost at sea ; the Doris, schooner of six 18-pound carronades,
which sunk on sight of Brest the Levrette, cutter of 6 guns,
wrecked on the coast of America ; the Seine, sloop-of.war of
24 guns, which was driven on shore at New Zealand ; the
Glove, frigate of 64, and the Victorieuse, of 24 run, wrecked
on the rout of Gores ; the Greenland, steam-frigate of 460-
horse power, ran on shore on the coast of Africa u she was
returning from the expedition against Hogador ; the
Caulk, of 450-horse power, lost at Senegal ; the Pepin,
steam-sloop of 160-horse power ; the Sphynx, also of the
same power ; and the Ridden, of 60-lions power, wrecked
at Guyana."
SWEDEN.—STocKnoim, Nov. 16.—OPENING OF
THIS SWlRDlBllDlZT.—Yetterday at 12 o'clock the Diet was
opened with the usual formalities. The states have been
summoned to appear in the chamber on the 23rd, to receive
the royal propositions. Count Gaeta, Adolph Spree, presi-
dent of the Royal College, has been nominated by the king
Grand Marshal of the Diet. Yesterday, attended by the two
wake waste, Brake and Lewenbaupt, he repaired to the
royal regime. The king has appointed Archbishop Win-
gird to be quaker of the oceleeiestica, and Dr. Hendren to be
vice-speaker. The speakers of the burghers and the peasants
have not yet been appointed ; it is generally inferred that
Magmata's Holm will be speaker of the burghers, and
Haw Jensen of the peasants. The ecclesiastical burgher
and put were called together to-day to receive
dui/fall powers. The knights and-nobles reckon 19 counts,
90 lamas. sad 48 nobles, in all 90 enembers. The revisor'
of the ilkit have sengleted their work, have been admitted
to a royal ariffientee, and have given en official dinner to
their speaker.

THE biuus.—This vessel, with the Southampton
portion of the India mail, arrived at Southampton last even
ing, at 6 o'clock.

irk court.
The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Ste-
phens, returned to his reel eves at Kew yesterday, from
honouring Mr. William and Lady Gertrude Shame Stanley
with a visit at their seat, Paulions, Hants.
A deputation, headed by the Hon. F. H. Fitz-
herding. Berkeley, had an interview with the Right Hon.
T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the office of the Board of
Trade. The Right Hon. Sir William Somerville,
Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Attorney-Generel and the
Solicitor-General for Ireland had an interview with Sir Geo.
Grey yesterday at the Home-office. The Rev. Mr. Lloyd
had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-
office. Mr. Chadwick bad an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street. Mr. Maurice O'Connell had en ioterview
with the Right Hon. H. Labouchers yesterday, at the office
of the Board of Trade.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office, from the Governor of the Gold Coast. Despatches
were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office, for the
Governor of Gibraltar.

FIELD-i.ANE RAGGED SCROOL.—Let evening the
sixth anniversary meeting of the friends and supporters of
this school was held, at the Furingdon-hall, Hingetreet,
Snow-hill. Lieut. Blackmore having taken the 'hair the
secretary read the report. It stated that the district in
which the school was situate had long been known u the
most depraved in the metropolis, and the character of the
children attending it might therefore be judged. The Nisei
wee now open every day in the week, the IMMO IOW&
ante being 70, and the instruction given entirely fru The
committee, after much consideration, suggested that bell
should be giien to the children, many of them, dependent
as they were upon what they casually picked up in the
streets, end turned out by their parents to shift for them-
selves, often tasted nothing from morning to night. It
could not be expected that these children could be improved
in mind while they felt the pangs of hunger. The mu-
mittee also suggested that the hal:
mould be taught NOM
trade, the knowledge of which amble then to sort
their living in an honest and ateasser. Ten
receipts for the support of the school aateented to 871., and
the expenditure to 701., leaving a Winos not equal to the
liabilities.
THE ATTEXPT TO OVERTIME A RAILWAY TRAIL
—lt will be recollected that William Ashcroft was Ns
victed, at the last Criminal Coast esesiessa, for having, is
the 26th of list month, placed lane Moshe of granite men
the rails on the Easter's Counties litalimey, wee dee Tar
bridge station, just before a down tubs was dm The per
sugars were so much pleased with the Imam oi obi red
judgment displayed by the engineis WW
Mimi,
in stopping the train, and by the subs
eagerdese et the
firemen and guards in capturing Ashcroft, that they Tiled a

[Frau last night's Gazette.]
WINDSOR PALACE, Nov. 22.—This day the Right
Hon. Richard More &Ferran was, by her Majesty's com-
mand, sworn of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Coun-
cil, and took his place at the board accordingly.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Nov. 23.—The Queen has
been pleased to appoint Dominic John Carrigan, M.D., to
be Physician in Ordinary to her Majesty in Ireland.
WAR.OFYICE, Nor. M.
9rd Drag. Oda—Lout.-Gen. C. IL Earl Cathcart, 8.C.8., hum the
Ilth Lt. Dram to to 001., vies Lieut.-Oen. E. Narbmy, dn.
"Lb LL prga—Lleuto•Orat. H. Wyndham to be col., vice Lieut.-
Ore. Earl Cathcart, app. to 3rd Drag. Oda
12th lA. Draga.—LW.A. Placosall to tol apt., by par., vice
Clark, who ra. ; Cornet W. Paz tabs Bah, by par., via Maabaell;