The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-01 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen
and Prince Albert walked in the Blom end grounds around
the Castle. Their RR. HH. the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice took their
accustomed walking and pony exercise. H.R.H. the Princes
Helena was also taken for an airing yesterday.
H.R.H. Prince Albert, accompanied by Count
Alex. Mensdorff, and attended by Lord Camoys, Hon. Col.
Phipps, and Col. Seymour, enjoyed the sport of shooting
yesterday morning.
The Earl of Liverpool, Lord J. Russell, and Sir H.
and Lady Seymour arrived at the Castle yesterday on a visit
the Queen.

Thiemorning her Majesty and her Royal Consort
took their usual early walk. The Royal Family took walk-
ing exercise in the grounds adjacent to the Castle.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gen-
tlemen of the Court, and the domestic household attended
divine service this morning in the private chapel of the
Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
IL R.H. the Duchess of Kent also attended the service.
The Duke of Cambridge visited H.R.H. the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House.
:PRESENT FROM THE KING OP PRUSSIA TO HIS
Rbesh HIOHNRSS THE Paine. OF WALES.—His Majesty
the King of Prussia has had manufactured a shield destined
a a present to his godson, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
T is superb Nadeau is now exhibited to the public in one
o the royal museums at Berlin, previous to its being for-
rded to England. The shield vof silver, and covered
wth bas reliefs from nrsdels by the renowned Fischer. In
t centre stands prominent the Saviour's head in gold,
ring on • cross, around which are four female figures, re-
, p eating Faith, Charity, Hope, and Justice. The other
is divided into compartments inlaid with precious
stones, the compartments containing subjects from the Old
and New Thtantent. This magnificent piece of workman.
ship bears the following inscription :—" Fredericus Guile--
mus lit x Bores: won= Alberto Eduardo Prineipi Waling, in
memoriam diei Capt. XXV. M. Jan., A.M. DCCCXXII."

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A cabinet council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign•office. It was attended by Lord J. Russell,
'lie Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir G.
Grey Viscount Palmenton, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir J. Hohhouse,
Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Marquis of Clacri-
card..., the Earl of Clarendon, the Right lion. 'l'. B. Macau-
lay, and the Right Hon. H. Labouchere. The council tad
two hours and a half.
I.ord J. Russell left town after the council for
Wirkawr Cattle. Mr. Labouchere let. town after the council
for Brighton.

Count St. Aulaire, the French ambassador, and
Moon de Cato, the Bavarian minister, transacted business
at the Foreign-office on Saturday.
Mr. Oswald, M.P., and the Hon. Mr. Bout erie had
' an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Sa.
turday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The
Registrar General had an interview with the Right Hon.
T. M. Gibson on Saturday, at the office of the Board of
Trade. Mr, Buckingham had an interview with the Earl of
Clarendon on Saturday, at the Board of Trade.
Lord J. Russell will have a parliamentary dinner
party on Saturday neat, Feb. 6, at his residence in Cheatham-
Place
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THE main HON. THE SPEAKER OF TIIE HOUSE
or COMMONS had his first parliamentary dinner this session
on Saturday last, at hi mansion in Eaton-square.
VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS PALAIERSTO7i enter-
tained his Excellency the Russian Minister and Baroness
Brunow, the Marquis Villa Franca, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Clanrirarde and Lady Emily De Burgh, Lord
and Lady Beauvais, the Hoe. Spencer Ponsonby, Mr. Har-
court, and a select party, to dinner last evening, at their re-
sidence in Carlton-gardens.
The Earl and Countess of Mints and family arrived
at their new residence, in Eaton-square, on Saturday.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early terries
yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
Lord Howden left. London for Paris on Friday
evening. The object of his lordship's visit to the French
metropolis is to receive the final assent of the cabinet of the
Tußleries to the modifications which may be necessary to
terminate, satisfactorily to all parties, the hostilities on the
River Plate. Lord flowden's departure for South America,
as British minister at the court of Brazil, was deemed a
fitting opportunity for the two governments, acting in con-
cert, to arm him with powers and instructions to bring the
quarrels of the belligerent republics to a peaceful adjustment.
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APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—WO
kern that the nuptiah of Lady Eleanor Paget, eldest daugh-
ter of the Earl of Unbrido, and grandaughter of the
Marquis of Anglesey, and Ur. Graham, eldest son of Sir
Sandford Graham, Bart, are to be solemnised on Thursday
_

MIDDLE TEMPLE.--The following gentlemen wets
called to the degree of the utter bar on Friday, and pub-
lished in the Middle Temple Hall on Saturday evening
T. Sier, A. 8., T. S. Badger, A.B. J. W. Bittleeton, G. C.
de Trafford, B. Cutle, D. Barton, A. 8., W. J. [beat, W.
H. Stewart, C. W. Richmond, .1. J. Cahalan, C. W. Dare,
P. Stewart, J. Smith, J. H. P. Leresche, A. Jenkin, M.
L1o!d, T. Oldfield, and C. 0. Snow.
MARYLEBONE VI-876Y. —'raz REGENT'S CANAL
RAILW4Y.—At the Marylebone vestry, on Saturday, the
committee appointed to oppose the formation of this railway
brought up their report, by which it wu stated that the
property in Marylcbone to be tunnelled under and removed
would amount to 3,8891., and the rental of the property im-
mediately affected by the
that
railway amounted to
6,400/., besides the injury that would be done to the chapel
in Aberdeen-place. The report also contained a statement
that a deputation, consisting of crown tenants and others,
.jtaited upon the Right Hon. Lord Morpeth, and his lord-
ship, after hearing the various complaints, informed the de-
putation that he would consider the application, both legally
and morally, and then decide upon the principles of justice.
The following communication was read from Mr. Edwin
lAndater:

Myl„,;rds and Gentlemen—l:Laving been Informed that the pro.
jetted railway front Eustonaquare to Paddington has claim. d your
attention, I beg respectfully to represent to you the injury which I
am likely to swalain if such project should be carried into effect. Me
house in whim& I reside was built by myself at a great extareet, and
rmy peollankral pursuits require sn.l and other aceoinamods.
tins vat I • tome with in ordinary houses, no compensation with& a
be likely to give would be an equirslent he the
ITeethribeelleha be the event of a railway, or any other norms
sr Mega the Nelgthrewhood. I *elected this locaUe
teestjecVmeetirement which it
sad shish b et peat According to the plea ere.
I negratead weft et a tunnel will he at
et mg RA" ow dial he amatinually annoyed hy
the miss et Or wegine ead retheey wroth_ , beanies rang
at wry green end a New Waft the bay
aonlYdampremisa I hay Met Oda wield dime
tee to leave the be welsh ease I be whir de
neoessity el balks south eiselltor been, sa eslertekthe Ala
would involve • ney gnat awn, as well as a eider weedlhe el
time. ely brotbse,l/z.Tlmmes Ineasee, who relies M
ham-place, will she he asrpdleg le leer he prandese, as rid%
has built a Audio at a corldwahle apnea as the want
it tamale:bed, will pre meet his Men, which it
theretwethe his lethal; rein rem my owe, make We aparallin
vestry in support of the writhe to the proposed rdlway.—l ham
the honour to be, my leads rod gentlemen, your obedient Male
servant,—E. LANOSIZIL
Atter a few word. from Sir P. Laurie and other., the report
was put and carried.
MORE DELAY IN OPENING THE. NEW Houas
or Loans.—lt would appear, front the ittlieneum, that the
new Houses of Parliament are, in truth, being built for pos.
terity ; foe the present generation of senators will not, it
appear, have much opportunity of benefining by their use.
Tbe hope so confidently held out that the peen should as-
' seeable in their new chamber for the parliamentary business
of 1847 has been, like all former anticipations of the like
kind, disappointed. The Commissioners of Woods and
Forests have just issued a report, showing the condition of
the whole of the works at the new legislative palace on the
30th of last June; and Mr. Barry's report to then-
pelves, in which he states that, the joiners' work of the
librane., committee rooms, refreshment-rooms, and corridors
of access thereto, of the Houses of Lords and Commons are,
for the meet part, prepared ; but the fixing of those finish-
ing., and the preparations of the joinen' work for other por-
tions of the building, cannot with propriety be proceeded
with until a decision is come to in respect of difficulties con-
nected with warming and ventilating arrangements.
MONEY ORDER OPPICE.—On Saturday, a notion
was given that the extensive building erected in Alders-
t, which the entire of the memprenier
ldepartment to
of the General Post-office will be treneihred.
is to open for business on the let March.
A NEW CLUB.—Some gentlemen belonging le
the East India Company's service, while at the Cape d
Good Hope, projected a new club in London, be Ile
called the " United East India Service Club." All other
bodies have their respective clubs, and it is thought that es
large a body as the Indian government servants should have
theirs also. The club is to be very reeaonable as to fees, ea
it is expected that the number of the subscribers will belays,.
It is to consist of all the covenanted and military pervants of
all the presidencies, and is intended to be not merely a con-
venient place of resort to iliac who require society, but to
be a rallying-point for Indian interests.
DEMOLITION OP UPPER ST. MARTIN'S-LANE.-011
Friday the whole of the Mathes on the net aide of Upper St.
Martin's-lane, vested in the Mercer's Company, were being
demoliehed for the formation of the new street from the
west-end of Long Aere to be carried into King-street,
Covent-garden, and ultimately extended to the point ofjuoc-
tion of Holborn, New and Old Oxford-streets, and Totten-

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THE U Barren.—We have been favoured
(says the Dinsdee Adret User) with the following excerpt of •
letter from Mr. James Bremner, civil engineer, Wick, to a
gentlentaa in this quarter .
I la the Great Britain is the thew at Octant (laston, the sae
sagke dinetear, who is o Wang hr Bakeird quarter with taw"
sandal op. sod dui, mil bake, ex. It a. Mr. Bra wl%
10.:11..11 In Est son a Ito sibals; bet 1 bop there will be matte
tee pc at Yr mil vim Input to ascaanoe orerations to zeise
lac_ die kw Cm dB Boer of Ps solid rack, and tuns(
up it a heword. Theo area llist et send &bore the rosk—ft
▪ 111 la OW wet be ulna 13 hat pepesdloolar Bak%
pdand .
Ikon Yr bawl pitied, handled, sal token prelate le Uwe.
bet. tt pailllt. le M s. TM ored new Is
her, whelk the water Is ewer,ad, wimake herslosson fully 300 tor weight, eie
that yen co WIZ wtll be no joke.

THE PACKET-SHIP COLUMBIA.—The crew of this
vessel have not been arrested, The cabin was certainly
robbed, after the captain had been lost, but the charge
cannot be sufficiently brought home to any of the mew.
When Capt. Cropper, with the police went on board, the
men willingly submitted to be searched, and nothing to
criminate them was found.

COOKING OVENS FOR TUE WORKING CLASSES.—
It Must be laid down as a general axiom that our modem
cities have grown up to an incommensurate size and popula-
tion ; but the Solon or Lycnrgus to legislate for (organise)
these huge masses has not yet come. It may be stated,
however, at once, that public cooking-ovens are but the ne-
cessary complements of public weshhouses ; as it stands to
reason, that while the poor but industrious housewik is
occupied in her cleansing avocations, the other parts of*.
household must, necessarily, come to a stand-still; provided
the above acc,unmodatien be not added thereto.—Builder.

SELLING MACKAREL ON SUNDAY.—Yeaterdsy, a
notice was posted at Billingsgate, signed by Mr. GoldhaM,
the clerk of the market, informing the dealers that, by the
9 and 10 Vic., passed the 3rd of August, 1846, the sale of
mackerel on Sunday was now illegal.
RATES OF POSTAGE.—Sir,-1 was just going to
employ government about a little job, for which they ask
kurpenoe, and I found that by splitting it and giving them
twice the trouble, they only ask threepence. I send a small
parcel, weighing a little leas than an ounce, by the post, and
a letter of explanation under a separate cover : postage
twopence and one penny, making threepence. If the two had
been put under one corer, the single packet would have cod
fourpence. I have often heard-that in tusation two and two
Jo not make four. Iwe now that two sod one make bar,
provided twice the trouble is given I suppose that I have
a right to make my creditors give twenty-five per cent
discount, if I only oblige them to call twice for their
money.—B. E. N.
DE. LYON PLAYPAIR ON BEET-ROOT BREAD.-111
the Gardeners Chronicle, Dr Lyon Playfair publishes the
following account of experiments he has made to test the
relative economy of wheat and beet as materials for making
bread. In the present dearth the caleulanians and opinion*
of so eminent a chemist on this vital subject will be read
with interest " The average quality of flour contains from
10 to 12 per cent, of audited principles adapted for the
formation of flesh. The average quality of beet contains
from li ti 2 per cent. of the name constituents. Let
us assume 12 per cent. for wheat, and 2 per cent.
or beet for our calculations. Now 1 stone (14 lbs.)
of in hcat contains 1.681 b., and 1 stone of beet
0.231 b. of flesh.forming matter, from which the market
vslue of all the material• fitted for the production of flesh
may be calculated. A stone of wheat c 5..•., 2.. 10d., and
-he same weight of beet, 2d. But the relative value of
wheat to beet, as regards true nutrition, beiee 6 to 1, it
follows, that 6 stooge of beet, coating Is., are equal to 1
stone of ti 'tar, coating 2s. 10d. In other words, the economic
value of wheaten flour to the consumer, at pre., rat price',
is 2.5 G times less than that of beet for the same amount el
food. This, however, is only one elm, lit in the calculation,
as there ax-' two functions in the animal economy which food
has to perfl.7ca. One is, to preserve the parts t f the animal
machine, a¢.l restore those which are WIWA d ; the other, to
sustain the *.e..:peratuse necessary to keep it in action. The

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latter function you. are well aware is pa by the mate-
rials destitute of ramie's. Both wheat rad beet vary much
s the proportion of their eciadltaent,, according to
their varieties. Flour, on an name, contiins 70 per
ant. of starch, 5 per ear. et espir, and 3 of pm ;
is all, 78 of matter garret ea the yawn a wawa
haat. Beet has suss WOW of Or* grandly abort 8
per cent, and 2 per emit of Warr raw Mei fee die sere
prria, id ail U 1 par ark Sm. iikeyrrilmilwo yaw of
wheat compared with her he die iupafort papas ef rep-
Feting animal heat is r 71110 : 1, (my in round numbers,
2 : 1). But the economic value can only be obtained by re
lemma to prices. Now lame of wheat eats 2s. 10d. and
yissivalent in micaargy value to 8 stones of beet ct,sting
lima, so that in riot of view also, beet has a superior
eassaiaie value. To redoes these calculations to a con.
Mimi firm :—. One stone of wheat costs '2s. 10d., and is 1
sin value as true nutriment to 6 stones of beet, eating
Is, std,ia respiratory value, to lees than 8 stones of
east rag Is. 4d. In genera terms, the economic valise
Si ilia as an article of food, at present market pricer, is be-
spa 2 and 3 times greater than the economic value of
Gear.
WASTING EFFECTS OF YEAST IN BREAD-WAKING.
—la connesion with the above paragraph, we add another
kw the k:nroomist, for no practical suggestion for ceo.
spiking the national stock of had at this adhering aids
area be overlooked : " It is a positive fact that through-
out Great Britain and Ireland a quantity of dour sufficient
for the supply of many thousands Is every day destroyed,
=bud, and lost utterly to human use. This is the
le result of using yeast in the composition of bread.
Aportion of flour becomes decomposed in the aeon of
natation, and passes off into the atmosphere in the dupe
it sarbonie acid gas. As it escapes it puffs up the tenaciom
Spepk, and stakes it spongy and light. This is the only end
hr which yeast is employed in bread-making ; hut the same
4get an be effected quite as well by other chemical pre`
mars whir de not occasion any loss of salaam's to the
lisse. Dec. Aram Thompson has ascertained, by
.experi-
soma ea a 'urge sale that in a sack of flour titers is a dif-
ference in favour of tined made without yeast to the amount
of 30 pounds 13 ounces ; a is round numbers a sack of
dour would produce 107 loavesof unfennented bread, and
only 100 loaves of fermented bread of the same weight.
Hence it appars, that in the sack of iloar by the common
proem of elt. 7 loaves or 61 per cent, of the dour are
driven into the air and lost. _ _

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Trte BOOK-TRADE AND THE FAMINE IN IRELAND.
—The booksellers of Dublin having formed themselves, as a
body, into a Relief Committee for the purpose of oontribut-
Us to the alleviation of frith diatrus, have addressed an
=to the Publishers of Great Britain for assistance.
is in the terms of the circular by which they invite
•e so-operation of the London trade, • curious suggestion,
1p which the claim of human nature in her hour of real
agony is made binding upon those who have so often profited
in their business by the fictitious agonies that genius has
drawn. They who have been fed by literary starvation are
eilltd on to feed the actually starving. Out of the profits of
OVe suffering a portion is demanded hark for the
of suffering life. The passage is as follows :
testimony of an eminent judge, speaking from the
BM& of Justice, without prroudios or passion, is of
illiesdal value at this moment. Writers of fiction,' he ob.
wee, . have drawn the terrors., the desolation, the suffer-
rMim
es ath ndant un the plagu of former times ; but these
of the imagination, highly coloured as they may be,
at equal those simple recitals of real misery and suffer-
• which the chronicles of the present hour present to us
in Ireland. Robust men, worn and gaunt with famine—
weak women and children, sinking down faint from want
of food—famished human beings uttering the cry of hunger,
until that cry is stopped by death! Even the decent forms
of burial obliged to be dispensed with, and the unshrouded
victims consigned unooffinisi to the grave!" There can be
no doubt about the issue of such en appeal to the liberality of
the English publishers.
SHORT COMMONS FOR THE ARIBTOCRACT.—It is
Rated in the Ti.”ea that the following document hat re-
mired the approbation, if not of the WO.* peveoeage of the
realm. at least of a largo mother of the Memel ranks of our
nobility:—
" Wa the weictiPli Engle Mermen will Or debate which
tannin a peat steseher dear allewasenwaryien In Ormt
WM& sail Om dr yeti atneeeseary ennielesee, and ob.
am** id the ef Oil ere dins, Mit It ow duty to pledge
smile' le Twine In ear imam vier sap be neadican* the
ref bind and lbeir awl we belie the mewed= of all
the e= inay saner with as in Oar NNW. of the precast 0ar-
...,,,..
We" observe that, when anything partisdirly stnpid w
pea with reference to the condition of th. people, and the
Mem of remedying that condition , it is as constant habit
albs projectors to attribute to the highest personage in the
realm a sanction of the folly. And in this special instance,
whilst we can readily believe that her Majesty would, at
any time, and under any circumstances, lend the aid of her
influence and name to rebuke mere waste or excess, we
give no credit to the suggestion that she has suctioned this
ridiculous expedient for adding to the general stock—it Is
too absurd. Fur what do the " highest ranks of our no-
bility " intend? Are they about to eat less than is ones-
vary ? or to CCOUOI2I6e at the expense of the kitchen pantry ?
of have they been hitherto eating more than is necessary ?
or suffering bread and flour to rot for lack of use ? Is
another precept to be added to the code of nursery
morals in the families of the highest nobility, and shall
Miss Stiffback lecture on the piety of one half-round
of bread and butter the less, for each juvenile lord
and lady, in order to reduce " the distress which pre-
veils among a great number of our fellow-citizens In
Great Britain and Ireland, from the want of necessary
subsistence ?" Why what trash is this ! Our highest
nobility hare a marvellous way of recording their here-
ditary claims by the exhibition of such drawling fatuity. It
is quite in keeping with the little French Princess's short
stake and sweet cake, as • substitute for a deficiency of black
bread. They tell, in effect, pinched Great Britain and
famished Ireland that pnoes may be kept down, and distress
alleviated, by the w thy eating no more bread and flour
than is necessary—for, of course, we cannot suppose they
intend to eat Is.. A kindred folly is that of a correspondent
to one of the daily papers, who, belonging to a club, lectures
the members on the wickedness of keeping horses to eat
that corn which the people want! Would he have the
owners cut their throats ? To hear this, one would suppose
we were reduced to eating them.-- Weekly Chronicle.
MEXICAN OBTUSENESS.—The late Lord Cantle-
mph was accustomed to rail at the people in a very lordly
way for their ignorant impatience of taxation. The New
York Sun beat* the peer, Recapitulating all the American
conquests in Mexico, it adds, rather complainingly : " Not-
withstanding our triumphant progress, however, our enemy
'till holds out the vain hope of recapturing the conquered
territories. Such is the immobility of the Mexican charac-
ter. Long subjection to tyranny has blunted their finer sen-
sibilities ; and reverses which would persuade any other na-
tion to sue for peace, induce them to reject propositions of
peace. With strange infatuation they persist in courting
destruction. Stranger yet, the conduct atheir leaders, who
impel them on to reattonal suicide I" This is charming.
If their " finer sensibilities " were sharp, they would submit
of course, to the invaders. As the are " blunted," it would
appear that " they persist in courting destruction." As their
leaden encourage the Mexican dart not to be conquered,
the New York editor charges them with impelling them
"on to national suicide.' If this moan anything, it is, that
to resist the semen's knife, really is not self-lefence, but
wilds.—Weekly Tines.
THE LAND OF LIBERTY. The Hutchinson fa-
mily having advertised one of their concerts to take place
on the 30th December, at the Music el Fund Hall, Phila-
delphia, they were warned by the mayor that if they per•
sista in singing anti-slavery songs, and in admitting co-
louredper one, there would in all probability be a riot. The
IL would make no alteration either in their per-
t:mimeo or in their custom of admitting coloured auditors.
In corequence, the trustees of the fund had refused the use
olds. ma, and the concert was abandoned.
ONE THOUSAND CATS.—A Mr. Riway advertises
in the CentreriU• (Md.) Tunes for 1000 black cats, for
which he will pay two cents a piece, on delivery at Poplar
Wend, Talbot county, Md., or at the store of John W.
Ridgway, of Hayaide. Here's a chance for speculation.—
U. S. Gazette.—Mr. Ridgway does not explain for what pur-
pose he engages in this wholesale feline speculation.
SUDDEN OEATIL—Capt. Francis lead, R.N., died
suddenly at his residence in Woolwich yesterday. The de-
ceased or was seated at breakfast with his family, when
he was Seized with a fit of apoplexy sad expired before me-
dical riddance could be procured. Capt. Fed was a justice
of the Peace for the county of Kent.
Fllta. —Last night, shortly before eleven, a lire
Wm sot on the premises of Mr. Rouse, straw bonnet maker,
Bermemdsey-road. The fire spread through the shop before
the Inmates of the building, consisting of four or five farm-
net,could be aroused. The whole stock in trade was de-
stroTed,
EMBEZZLEMENT BT A RELIEVING OFFICER.—At
the Ilford Petty Sessions (Saturday), Mr. Samuel Richard-
son, the clerk to the guardians of the West Ham union&
applied to the magistrates for a warrant for the apprehension
et a person named Joseph Lindsay Barfoot, the treasurer to
a temperance building society at Stratford, and formerly
one of the relieving officers of the West Ham Union, for
feloniously embezzling certain monies, the property of tho
guardians. It appeared from the information of Mr.
Richardson, that it was Barfoot's duty to pay sums of
money to the out-door poor, indeed of doing which he
appropriated it to his own use.

MILITARY FLOOGING.—On Saturday morning at
half-past eight o'clock, the whole of the troops in Woolwich
turison were mustered in the riding school. to see the sen-
tence of ■ district court-martial, held on Wednesday last, on
Gunner and Driver J. Beaty, of Capt. Grant's company
(10th ban.), carried into effect. The prisoner was convicted
10** time since by a district court-mortal of the crime of
desertion and of stealing half a sovereign belonging to Cor-
Ponl Frazer, which the latter had entrusted him with to
t changed. He was then sentenced to six months' jai-
Divnenent and to be branded with the letter 1), This Inv
tenet was carried into effect, and the prisoner was sent
the military prison at Fort (licence, Chatham. Whilst in
meanie:kat he attempted to injure his eyes, with the view
of indurine a deprivation of sight for the purpose of being
td,ismholted. Being detected, he was sent up to Woolwich
1* tried for this offence, technically called " tampering,"
and the district eourt-martial sentenced him to receive 60
lashes. The sentence was carried into effect on Saturday
rooraina, under the superintendence of the field officer on
,doty• The unfortunate man received the 60 lashes at the
"ads of two d-umnieni. The prisoner, though evidently of a
weak (rime of baiiy, bare the inßietint with flrruni ss, and
at its cumin.' r •fused to slim any of his comrades to
autdot on hi • clothes. On returning in'o the open
"' became Rine, and sses supported by three mvii up the
‘, ••
P, of the Royal Ordnance Hospital.
held D (411AnFtS Mans FROM BAD.—At an inquest
th.t Waning in St. Giles's, Mr. Wale, to'd the jury
badhs 44 discovered a manuilictory of oranges. cat which
°emitter could M m sit into apparently good ones. The

proem employed was submitting unripe and inferior oranges
to the action of steam, or parboiling them. This made them
filled out their rinds, and made them thin, the usual
external sign that the fruit was good. Tu give them the lest
polish, and heighten their t utward attraction, they were
rubbed with a gressy piece of damsel, ur with something
more objectionable.
bIQUEST, SATUIDAT.—SUICIDE.—By Mr. Mills, at
the Victoria. Copland, on the body of Mary Anne
Lambert. The deceased, who had been wealthy, was of a
goculative disposition. and Mat June she purchased the Bull
Tavern, Hoddesdon, wh:ch proved a decided fa lure, and
where she lost the greater portion of the wreck of her pro
petty. Since that period she was in a desponding state, &e-
-1 quently telling her servant that she would destroy herself.
When her son-in-law told her of the late fatal accident on
the Great Western Railway, she said she wished she had
been one of the sufferers. She dined at her son-in-law's last
Thursday, and returning home she lighted her fire, sod
then tied herself to the MIS rail of her bed, not more than
thus feet from the ground, and thus strangled herself. As
ehe had locked herself in, her door had to be forced open,
when she was found quite dead. The coroner thought that
Mrs. Lambert was decidedly insane.—The jury expressed a
similar opinion, and returned a verdict of " Insanity."