The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-14 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, JUNE 12.—Yesterday a vessel
arrive i here from St. Doming.), bringing the in'elli-
gence of a complete deft at of the Hayden militai y
power on the frontier of St. Domi' g) ; the
bringing this intelligence were dated April 30, and
state that General Ssntina, with an army of 800,
latticked the Hay tian army on the 22nd of April at
Savanna Numero, where, after a fearful slaughter,
they were completely ron'ed. The Domingans gave
no quarter, consequently they tank no prisJners of
war, but the number of the enemy's dead who re-
mained on the deli were not lets thsn 600. Three
generals and several superior Haydn') officers were
killed. The Damiligans fought most valiantly;
finding their muskets quite useless, they threw them
down, and made an attack sword in hand. This un-
expected attack threw the Haytians into oonfush)n.
Af.er the engagement, the Haytians fell hack to Agin,
i and after reducing the city to Wits, they rect.:imbed
the lisytian boundary.

THE COURT.
THE STAI E BALL.
The Queen gave a slate ball last evening in
Buckingham Palace. TllO invitations comprised the whole
of the diplomatic corps, the ladies and gentlemen of the
royal household, and tbe_principal nobility and gentry, and
numbered about 1,900. The suite of state saloons were all
opened. In the White drawing-100m, the Queen and Prince
Albert received the royal guests; the ball room and the
throne-rooms acre prepared for dancing, elevated seats being
placed at the aides of each for the accommodation of het
Majesty and her illustrious visitors, and orchestras being
erected in both for the quadrille hands. The Green draw-
ing-room was used as a refreshment room, and the dinner-
room for the supper-room ; the picture gallery serving as a
reception room for the general company until the ball corn.
mowed. AU the apartmen's and the two ball rooms in
particular were brillian,ly lit with hendsame chan-
deliers and lus'res, and the reess.cs were filled
with rare and beautiful shrubs and plants. The I
guard of the Yeoman Guard lined the grand hell,
under the command of Sir Seymour Sadler, the Bum in
Waiting. The officers present were Sir George Lee and
Captain Phibba. A guard of honour of the Foot Guards was
on duty at the garden entrance.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester arrived,
attended by Lady Georgina Bathurst and Colonel the Hon.
A. Liddell. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
and their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of M. eklenburg Steeds, were attended by
Lady Augusta Cadogan and Mr. Elm,nl Mildmay. Their
Royal Highnesaes were received by the Hoe. Caroline Ca-
vendish and the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Maids of Honour in
Waiting, Colonel Berkeley Drummond, Gratin in Waiting,
Colonel Wylde, Groom in Waiting to Prince Alpert,
Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Pliipps, Equerry in Waiting,
and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting to his Royal
Highness.
His Royal Highness Prince George was attended by Capt.
J. Macdonald. His Royal Highness Prince Leopcld, Count
of 83racuse, was attended by his Excellency Prince Cartel.
cicala and the Chevalier de Colonna. His Serene Highness
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar was also present,
Her Royal flightiest the Duchess of: Kent was prevented
from attending her Majesty's hall by a slight indisposition
ander which her Royal Highness has been suffering for •
some days.
Aft, r the arrival of the royal visitors, the Queen and
Prince Albert, accompanied by the royal Circle, entered the
saloon and afterwards proceeded into the ball room, the Lotd
Chamberlain, the L :rd St.. ward, the Vice Caamberlain, the
Treasurer of the Household, and the Co notroller of the
Ilousehlld preceding her Majesty and the Princa—the
His-
teess of the Robes, the Lady in Waiting, and the Maids of
Honour fallowing in the royal suite.
The Queen wore a blue silk dress covered with blue tulle
en ruche, and ornamented with bouquets of sweet per and
diamonds. Her Majesty's head-dress was composed of sweet
peas end diamonds to correspond to the dress.
The general company followed the illustrious party into
the Ball-ro :m, The National Anthem haring been played,
her Mejeaty opened the ball at ten o'clock in a quadrille,
others of the royal circle joining in the dance.
Hirr Strauss's band was stationed in the Bill-room. The
folio:vine waltzes, polkas, and quadrilles, amongst others,
were danced in this apartment
Waltz-s: Wanderers Lsbewohl, Linde'. Farben, Friedens-
bothen, Lsndlich SAtiieh.
Polkas : Alice, Friederike, Damen Souvenir.
Quacdirniligelce:mAmiennaccekd sooni' after ten o'clock Martha,
Huld'li:k illeisn.
Din the Throne-
room. where Coate 's and Tinney's bend of 30 performers
(conduced by Mr. Charles Cont.) were stationed.

The Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Prinass Alice, visited her Royal
Highoiss the Caches+ of Kent yesterday, at Clarence House,
St. James's. Her Majesty honoured the Duchess of Suther-
land with • visit, at Stafford House. Hee Majesty w a
attended by the Hon, Lucy Ktrr and Lieut.-Cul. the Hot.
C. B. Phipps.
The Princesses Helena and Louisa visited the Duchess of
Kent yesterday.
His Rtyal Highness Prince Albert visited the studio of
Mr. Teornycrott yisterdey, ti inspect en historical group of
" Queen Osburga encouraging her sort, the future Alfred the
Great, to the pursuit of Literature "

Her Itlral Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
suited the Isuke and Ductless of Cambridge yaterday at
Cambridge-Lome.

A deputation, coreisting of Mr. Plumptre, Mr.
Dcede•, Mr. Fader, Mr. Frewen, Mr. A. J. B. -Hope, Mr.
Dodd, Mr. Hodges, and Sir Edrat.nd Filmer, had en ioter-
view with Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday at the official residence of the Fint Lard
of the Troasery in Downing-sweet.
Csiartin btanley Carr had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday. Mr. Charles Boyle had ►lso an interview
with the noble earl yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Sir Thomas Birch, Bart., M.P., Mr. Cardwell,
M.P., Mr. 11. Tindal Atkinson, and a deputation of work-
in; operative p 'nee' of Liverpool, had an interview with
the Right M.o. 11. Labouchere yesterday at thy office of
the Board of Trade.
The Chairman of the Board of Inlaid Revenue
had an interview wi..h the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yestt r 'ay.
Mr. Meant, M.P., had an interview yesterday
with L nd J .hu RWA. 11.
Deapwches from the Gavernor of the Gambier SA-
dement were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE IlusrlTAL.—ller Majcst:
hos gist n 1001. in aid of thia charity.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF THANET.—Henry Tufton,
eleventh Earl of Thane., a xpired on Tuesday, at his re sidence
in Gloucester place. His lordship was hen ciliary High
Sheriff of Westmorelsn I, also High Sheriff of Ken•, but
resigned in 1816, nd I,lrd of the Min .r of Skiptin-in.Cra
yen, Yorkshire. He was di needed from one of the DVS!
ancient and illustrious families in England, through the Chi.
•ords and Veteriponta (whose descendant he WiLP, and whose
Property in the north he pursesse4). At the battle of
Hastings, Sir I.eiwis de Talton, his lordship's ascestor,
figured as one of the commanders of the Saxon cavalry.
Toe first baronet of this family woe high sheriff of Kent in
the reign of Einintb, d the first peer was among then who
met James the Fired at Newcsstle. The late earl was the
third eon of the eighth earl, by the only d .ugh•er of Lord
J din Sacked'.. lie w.uburn in 1775; iu 1832 he 1111C.cedet1
his brother, previous to whose death he was M.P. for Ai.-
piety. The earl was p .tron of eleven linage. Both hie eider
broth, n, as weal se himself, having died without Made, the
peerage becomes extinct.

THE CHOLERA AT WOOLWICIL—WO regret to
nut! that the chol. re has again broken out en board the
convict hospital ship I.7.ii•e, at Woolwich. Yesterday, Mt.
C. J. Carttar hell OWN! ST guests at the Salutation TATern,
Wco'.wich, on the b sof elohn Ful'ilovz, John William.,
and James Ilanbasin, three invali I prisoners confined in
that vessel. The deceased were infirm men, sent to the
hospital for medical treatment. The evidence showed that
death aro in ens case from diarrhee a—in another from
English cholera, and in the third from Asiatic cholera, and
the jury returned a verdict accordingly. No ease has yet
appeared either in the convict v. ssels themselves or in the
town.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAY. MORE DEATHS FROM
ASIATIC CHOLERA. —l.lelors Mr. Beim, at the Angel,
Droadvtreet, Ratchtf, on the body of Mr. William
aged 50 years, captain of the brig Jone sad Agnes, from
Newcastle. It appeared from the evideccs that the Jane
and Agnes arrived in the riv, r, and was moored off Stone
Stairs, Roteliff. Theme. appeared perfectly healthy, and
ea Saturday morning last the sleceawd emiplained of pains
in his bowels, and in the eve ning ho became much worse,
and was attacked with other symptom% Mr. Cle.and, sur-
geon, was called to him on the f towing Monday muting.
but the deceased died in the afternoon.—Mr. Cleland said
when he attended he found the deceased in a state of col-
lapse, and his appe .rance ed • decided MS of Asiatic
chul ra. Witness was cow atte:4ing the carpent'r of the ship,
who was suffering from the same disease. The rat of the
crew were all healthy. The C:rener Paid, if the deneased
had applied to Me. Cleland when fleet attacked, it was pro-
h.ible he might have been still living. Verdict, "Death
from Asiatic cholera."—Mr. Baker held a second irquest at
the Royal Oak, S'epney preen, on the body of Ann Con, len,
the wife of a sat or, who died from the effects of cholera.
Verdict aecor lingly.—A •hirl ease was taken by the same
coroner, at the Horn of Plenty, Mile-end. on the body of a
labourer named William Human, aged 25 )Cora, who was
found in a state o' insensibility In some fiolds near Mile-
end workhouse. He was removed to the union, where he
died shortly afterward.. The Coroner said, fr ,m the ap-
pearance of the body, he had no doubt that death bad been
calked by cholera. Verdict, " Natur Id. ath." The Copan( r
remarked that these 'you've made six which he bad held in
cases of cholera during the cue weak.
ATTACK OF A LION ON A WOMAN TN A MENAGERIE.
—An accident, very foolishly and incite imsly brought
shout, took place at Worabwell's collection, at present
ex-
kib'ting in Eirming'asen, en Saturday eveninz. Amongst
the crowds of h •lidsy forks tilt the fair had attracted was a
woman named Grumm•g , who, with a mile fsiecd, was
making merry, feasting eyes and ears, and not adhering
very strictly to the rules of temperance. The woman sad
her friend paid Womb eell's establishment • visit, and,
while there, she began to stroke the paw of a reenerk.bly
fine but an mpered lion. Toe keepers renannstrate d
with her, but she continued to pat the paw of the
gul.scent and apparently slupirg animal, when the
lion suddenly SlArt.d up, s iced hold of the woman wilt
uis clans, and drew her towards the bars of the den. A
I, mail scream imupdiably s•artle4 every one in the place,
and the ',must confusion prevailed. Same, supposing that
the lion had broken loose, fled to the doors; others shriek
in concert, and others again stood did in terror. The
keepers, however, immedi .tely ran to the spot, and found
the Wm:Pions woman's hand and arm bleedirg profusely
under the paw of the enraged inhale]. She was speedily
released from th, 'Maio t in whine she hod so fooli lily
placed herself, Ile not b: fore the iron had lacerated the
arm, and torn the skin and intealuments 'rota the back port
with its claws The injured female was conveyed t• the
hoispi'al. There it was d.smvered that the wound she had
sustained was e a more serious nature than was at first
suspected, and that it wiuld be necersary to amputate the
arm. Theo pera'ion was sccordingly performed, and borne
with much fonituele by the poor woman. She is going on
favourably, anc exp-esees a re/Mellott to " let sleeping lions
Iie;" whin may he followed will adynneege. by many
when who bore occar:-.m to visit menageries in future.—
Birminghans Journal.