The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-04 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, SUN DAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen
and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk. Their
RR. HR. the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and
the Princess Alice took walking exercise in the forenoon of
yesterday.
Her 'Majesty and the Prince Consort proceeded to.
the Lake, at Frogmore, this afternoon, for the purpose of
his Royal Highness enjoying the exercise of skating. lice
Majesty's sledge-chair was taken to the Lake, but not used ;
the Queen promenading with the lady and maids of honour
in waiting on the borders of the ornamental water.
H. R. H. Prince Albert, accompanied by H.R.H.
Prince George and the Earl of Lincoln, and attended by the
Hon. Col. Phipps and Col. Seymour, enjoyed the sport of
shooting yesterday morning.
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 Bishop of Oxford officiated, assisted by the
Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay.
The Duchess oflient also attended divine worship this
morning in the Queen's private chapel. Her Royal High-
ness remained at the Castle to luncheon with her Majesty ,
and the Prime, and returned to Frogmore at three o'clock 1
This morning her Majesty and her Royal Consort
walked in the grounds adjacent to the Castle.
Their RR. HH. the Prince of Wales Prince Alfred,
the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice took walking
exercise on the Eastern-terrace and slopes.
Their RR. HR. the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Prince George, and the Princess Mary, lefrthe
Castle yesterday for Kew. H. 8. H. Prince Frederic of
Hesse accompanied their Royal Highnesses.
The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caroline
Lerman Gower, the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, and Capt.
Francis &morn, also took their departure from the Castle
yesterday.
The Bishop of Oxford arrived at the Castle yeabv -
.
day, on a visit to her Majesty.
Lord Waterparh arrived at the Castle yaster day,
and succeeded the Earl of Listowel, as Lord-in-Wai%jag is
her Majesty.
Mr. J. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom-in-Wai,,ing, sad
Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk-Marshal and Chief Ec,uerry, have
also arrived at the Castle.
The day fixed upon for the deriarture of the
i court for Claremont, there to remain until within • few
days tithe opening dike Naios of jurdistalmt, is Thursday

next. Her hfsjesty and the Prince Consort will be acwom-
ponied by the royal family, and attended by a Urn .c 1 suite.

Lord John Russell arrived in town on Saturday,
from his residence at Chorleywood.
Mr. Bagshaw had an interview wilt the Right
Hon. T. M. Gibson on Friday, at the uffi ,f the IL.rd of t
Trade.
The Conde de Montemolin and suite wit ne‘se I tlos
performances at the Lyceum Theatre on ••;atur,lay. TM
Conde expressed a previous wish to see Parent* an
Guan'ians," with the pantomime, to which the sx .1 a
acceded.
Sir G. H. Seymour, her Majesty's P! t. .• . -
at the Court of Belgium, is shortly,expeccd t. .s s
land, on his way to his mew post us Minister I 0,.
at Lisbon; and the Lords Commimoners of
.okr •
Treasury have cowed the same to be notiticd
of the revel,. at the voious packet ports, in • •
usual attention -hown to persons of his Esce
mar be observed :n his case.
It is confidently stated in military cirri.
heilithit Lodi House—and we believe there
inn Teed any, doubt of the truth of the report— r.t ',9id
Has ding, has bees recalled from India, and that to be
„um. rded in the Goveroor Generalship of that country by
the Mn rquis of Clanricardo.—Uniled Service Gazette.

FAMINE rx leztrita—A eirctille has •
add id b
In, to his clergy, in which he recom• • nth
or
Long.
the Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Roman C tin.. a
made from the pulpit of every chap.' for
t or relieving the distress in Ireland aad is
The. money collected in consequence
oled into two equal portions, of which
othe poor in London. And, as it is
eachthi:hil: I::waPnciPlir tftb‘i . .
Lebet2thi„,ndteidnth'fne, money collected for the Irish poor
very
rteyh emdtepyrr
ib l
should
'drained to Dublio, he recom-
mends be-ore Sunday, the 17th, to the
l placing be insme e
each
at e c
ti co t r um.
6, Henrietta-street, Covent-
agecoarduennt. at the Commercial Batt k,
PROJECTED RAILWAY THROUG 11 HEG:INT'S PARR.
—On Saturday a deputation presented a memorial from the
inhabitants of Regent's-park and its vi 'Unity, praying the
park. The memorial stated that the railwa which was
made nest esvenron tot° fooprrea raanilwaPaPylitel:roti°4‘ rhnedlLgel to
intended to run along the water-course or on the hank of
the canal, would be injurious to the health arte comforts of
the inhabitants of the park, would deteriorate their pro-
perties, and consequently lessen the rates, and a 'cold be a
direct violation of the c ivenant made by the Wo silo and
Forests, which those who sunk large sums in build cog the
princely mansions with which the park was stu Iced. Mr.
Laurie hoped that the vestry would lend them the it assist/mow
in opposing the projected railway, which would be alike
destructive to the comforts, the interests, and the health of
those residing in the park, and would also deprive the public
generally of that recreation which the park at present
afforded. The speaker having produced a map of the park,
together with a copy of the agreements upon which the
' owners of the houses erected them (and which agreement
secured to them a quiet undisturbed tenure of 99 years)
stated that 150 crown tenants had prepared a memorial to
the Woods and Forests against the proposed railway, which
they would present to Lord Morpeth as soon as hi. lordship
arrived in town. Mr. G. Daniel assured the vestry that a
railway through the park would reduce the rat ss 10,0001.
a year. Mr. Thackeray moved that the memorial it: referred
to the committee appointed to watch the proceedings of the
railway company, which was carried.
°raisin FOR TUE POOL—It ie said that a company
is about to he formed for the erection of public or. ma on the
same principle as the baths and witahhouses. The labouring
poor will then be enabled to make their own bread, of what-
ever quality their means will permit; and as pans and other
requisites will be provided, and the baking performed at a
very trifling expense compared with the preso t bakers'
charges, such a plan bids fair to answer. An establishment
of the kind has been for some months in operation, near the
Hotel de Ville, in Paris. Considering the annual ansump-
tiou of bread in the metropolis amounts to above 850,000,000
11w., or 15 ounces daily to each person, the system, it adopted,
yield a large remunerative profit.
WINTER IN TTIE PARRS.—We are in St. James's-
park it seems a grand object of attraction. Wa•ch the
gaunt, skadowy trees, rearing themselves like vegetable ske-
letons in the mist; see dimly, and as through a glass, the
hazy lines of surrounding ranges of houses. The grass is
crisp, and powdered with a dry flaky snow, through which
the hardy evergreens burst out in sturdy, prickly jangles.
The hard frozen esplanade, behind the Horse Ouesils, is
thronged with moving figures, all rushing to or from the
eastern park entrance, with its sentinels in green standing
at the door of their Cockney pagoda. There are portly,
stout people, evidently walking for an appetite, and thin lade
with skates, and be} s with buttoned jackets and comforters,
and ladies all muffs and tippet., with a strong suspicion of
red about their noses. We enter. Everybody leaps the
slight east iron fence, and makes directly for the water, or
rather the ice. Frost seems to suspend the laws of the Woods
and Forests, and bind up the energies of their ordinary of&
eery. Lining the water's edr, there is a shouting, shifting
fringe of people, through which you see the cloud of moving,
crooning, darting figures, which shoot here and there,
backwards and forwards, passing and repealing, hither
and thither, on the dull, bending, crackling sheet of ice.
Such a confused, ceaseless hubbub; such endless, slippery
scrambles along the brink; such a clamour from the men
with skates, who are boring people's hoots; and the men
with drawers of brandy-balla rotted their necks; and from
the ceaseless rows of boys, who go screaming and laughing
down slides ; and from the skaters to get out of the way ;
and from the people, who are stumbling and staggering
along the ice, half walking, half sliding, to keep out of theirs.
From bank to ice, from ice to bank, such a ceaseless, inter-
change of inquiries, shouts, invitations, warnings, broken
every now and then by a burst of laughter, as a gentleman,
who has been skating backwards, suddenly comes down
with a crash, which instanter produces a cobweb of cracks
beneath him, and accompanied throughout by the low, hol-
low, deep-tuned rumble of the ice, as the thousands it sup-
ports go careering along its scratched, scored, bending
surface.—Jervold's Magazine.
" THE BATTLE OF LIFE" IN FRENCH.—The
fenilleton of the National, of the 31st ult., contains the first
portion of a translation of Dickens's new work, " The Battle
of Life."

EFFECTS OF VAPOUR OF ETHER its DEADENING
SENSIBILITY DURING III:ROICAL OPERATIONS.—Sir,—I
feel it would be wrong to withhold from the faculty and the
public in general that we have repeated the American expe-
riment of administering the vapour of ether as a means of
deadening the sensibility of the nerves, and with the most
perfect success. A young man was to lose his leg by ampu-
tation of the thigh at the Bristol General Hospital, and was
thought a good opportunity for the trial. The operation was
rather a long one, from several arterial branches having to
be taken up ; it occupied fifteen minutes, and during this
whole time the man was kept in a perfectly quiescent state,
without motion or sound. He afterwards stated himself to
have been conscious of the amputation, but without pain be-
yond that of a scratch ; and during the operation it was
found that with the assistance of wine on the one hand and
the vapour of ether on the other, he could be elevated or
depressed with the most complete control; his absence of
pain being continuous. The operator, Mr. lan•down, and
the other medical gentlemen present, will, no doubt, give
the public the details of the ease, and my duty is merely to.
show the very simple application of the agent. No compli-
cated apparatus is necessary, nor any extraordinary care in
purifying the ether. A common but very large bladder
should be fitted with a collar, to which an ivory mouth-piece
with a large bore can be screwed without the intervention of
any stop-cock. Pour in about an ounce of good common
ether, and blow up the bladder with the mouth till it is
nearly full, place the thumb on the mouthpiece and agitate
the bladder, so so to saturate the air in it with the aspostr.
As soon as the patient is ready for the operation, else his
nostrils, introduce the mouthpiece and close the lips round
it with the fingers. He must cow breathe into and out, of
the bladder, and in about one or two minutes the muscles of
his lips will lose their hold. This is the moment hr tb e fink
cut to be made •, in two or three minutes the effect begin
to disappear ; the mouthpiece should again be inymdoced„
and this repeated so often as required. If the pul',e should
iodinate a sinking of the patient a little wine w dl restore
him. I have no doubt but the inspiration of ni'crons oxide
(laughing gas) would have a similar effect upor , the nerves
of sensation as the vapour of ether, as I have noticed that
persons under its influence are totally ineensib Is to pain ; but
I do not think it would be advisable to ue .! it in surgical
eases, from its frequently producing an miff smamable dispo-
'Mon to muscular exertion, which would %ender the patient
unsteady and embarrass the operator. ^, ho administrator of
the vapour will of course take great oat' that no fluid ether
shall be allowed tube drawn into the l• ,Lccgs ; otherwise Buffo-
sation would result, or at the best a violent cough, which
patient.—W. HEILSPATIL—Briav A, Jan. 1, 1817.
must protract the operation and
coneiderably distress the

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEAR Ncit OF A LADY,—
During the put week much
conversation and excitement
ha* keen (:twinedOnnW ;bout the neighbourhood of
Twickenham and Riebmer
,d in consequemise of the mr
terious disappearance of lady 70 7,, of aq., named
Smith, the wife of ages tleman residing at Twicl,nhazia.
It appeared that she seer ,t to bed with her hitsbatir
usual health and spirit . on the night after Cb
On by awakening to ' the course of the night, he s47'e.',t
he supposed at the, V jne to he hi% wife's head on the pillow
next his, but on wetting up the following morning he
found that the p 7 .ow lhad been dressed up, ,t is supposed,
b 7 the lady nisi ,elf to represent her still lying there. and
although "pi search was made after. both on and off the
Riernieest ale was nowhere to be food. Ricer that time a
description 'of her person has been forwardel to all the
divisions of the metropolitan and city police, and the river,
both akars and below-Twickenham, has been dragged . with-
°it and' ' trace of her being discovered.—Siosday Tom .
at, LINO ArrEILPT TO ROB AND MURDER. —On
Saber day information was given to the police of • daring
%kw Apt at robbery and murder. On Friday morning
ekr rimpton, harness maker, of No. 64, Great HIT, left horns
I.r re of paying his quarter's rest ea Mr. Brier, his
ma~seiring adjacent to the Breathe Arras, St.
Prownweeall. Prior to hie gains be sabered a public...house
awl bed ems regresbassth _when Mtook nth Ws wee and
wig a Meet wham be bag asidethally meth Oth he wee
about to pay We. Dryer. There we the eathieleas-looking
fellows present, who sisamod to pay attention to what was
ot'og forward. After he bad paid the rent he wee proceed-
ing Yamawatda, throe Oapennagen-lialik, when two men
ems b mad basest a meat Warr an do head, and he
gril nearly stnanni. Ea, lawaver, willed with great
courage, but he was at evarpowaesi ma eaa in-
sensible, and he wee MEM Ism slinreramla weltering
in his blood, with hlepthkelle normallaaklroat. After having
been removed to a pablialiones neag the )(oriel Prison,