The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-07 00:00:00

ITALY.

Her Majesty Queen Mary Adelaide of Sardinia
was safely delivered of a prince on the night of the
2nd. The christening took place on the following
day, when the royal infant received the following
names : Charles Albert Ferdinand Maria Eugene,
Duke of Chiablese. The Duke and Duchess of Ge-

not were sponsors, and represented by the Queen
Dowager and Prince Eugene Carignan.
The King of Sardinia has just named Baron James
de Rothschild. of Paris, a knight of the Order of St.
Maurice and St. Lasare.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The following further extracts from the Graham's
Town Journal, of April 1, will be read with in-
terest :

Accounts from Fort Peddle, received this morning. state
that heavy firing had been heard there in the direction of
the Keiskamma, leading to the inference that Major Wil•
mot's patrol was engaged with the enemy in the neighbour-
hood of Line Drift.

Tissifo7ll;Wi4alfecting regimental order on the subject of
the defection in the Cape Mounted Rifles, has been issued
by the colonel of that regiment Major-General Somer-
set, who has served with it for more th.o thirty years, with
high honour to itself, and great advantage to the colony.
Stall the prompt decision of Sir Harry Smith must meet the
approval of every one. The Cape Mounted Rifles is, par.
haps, u at present constituted, one of the most costly regi-
ments in the Queen's service. With its loyalty stained even
by a suspicion, it was meet that such on example should be
made as might tend to arrest decidedly the growing mis-
chief:

C.D. AND L.B.

Mitch 10

" 1. The commanding officer, Major-Uencral Somerset,
has this day hod the paainful duty of reading to the regi-
ment, arewmbled at head-quarter, the general orders of the
army, of the 16th March, No. 61, announcing to the regi-
ment, and to the army at large, the defection of the row-
ment,by the desertion of 47 native soldiers, with their arms
and ammunition, to the enemy, at the time of our utmost
need, and the consequent deprivation of their arms of the
remainder of the native soldiers, at King William's Town,
serving under the immediate eye of that great soldier and
distinguished othccr, Sir harry Smith, the commander-lu-
ckier

The major-general most truly and deeply sympathise.
with Lieut.-Col. Napier and the ofßceri who were present
at Kin; William's Town, at this most distressing occur-
rence; and the commandiLg otllcer has also to sympathise
with all the officers, son-commissiencd officers, and soldiers

of the regiment, European and native, at the disgrac' c that
has fallen upon the regiment by the desertion of so many
men, and at the consequent necessity the commander in-
chief has felt himself under of marking his displeasure and
his distrust of the regiment in so signal a manner. It was
but a few days ago here the major-general had the pride
and pleasure of notifying in regimental orders, in the most
marked manner, his sense of the distinguished conduct of
the regiment, directing the same to be recorded in the re-
cords of the regiment. This sad disgrace that has now
failed upon us must also be entered in the records, only to
' be wiped off by a long series of loyal conduct in quarters,
and gallant conduct in the field, fur which, up to the period
of this late disgrace, the regiment has been proverbial in
the British army and in this colony.
The Major-General endeavoured to address the "regi-
, met on this subject this morning. but he felt it to be im-
possible ; he, therefore, requested Lieut.-Colonel Sutton to
explain to the regiment what his feelings were, and that of
all his officers, at this most sad defection and disloyal con-
duct of a part of the regiment, and he called upon the
regiment to wipe the sad stain off by their future good
conduct, to enable hiss to solicit the commander-in-chief to
restore, at some future time, the arms of those men who
had been deprived of them, by the assurance that the
old soldiers of the regiment would be answerable for the
future conduct of those men.

" The Major-Ocneral then emphatically demanded of the
soldiers if they understood him, to which they all replied
they did, and that they would die with him.
" lu this assurance the major-general closes this order.
" No soldier ought to wash to live one hour after he lusts
his honour.

" The honour of the regiment has been tarnished by this
defection by a portion of the native soldiers—but the ge-
neral would fain hope that the character of the regiment
will yet be rctriervd by future loyal and gallant conduct.
" By order. (Signed) C. 11. Hsu.,
"Lt. and Adjt. C. AI. Itilletnen."

)READFUL ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON

RAILWAY.

BRIONTON, TIMMY, JUXI 6.

A dreadful accident happened this morning on
the lino of railway balms Brighton and LAM/WA, in smear
quenee of a train ramming age being thrown of the rade,
by which the 1t,.. of four possess worm sacrificed, mad •
fifth is not expected to wryly*. The names of the deceased
ars Mrs. Chatfield, about 60 years of ege ; her daughter, 30
years of ago (person, in the aiddls mink of life ; Mrs Chet•
field has a son who antes on the business of a baker in
Bond+trmst, Brighton); George Chose, the stoker; end •
young mom, sass• unknown, whose linen is marked
" Lawrence."

The train which met with the accident was a short train
from Brighton to Lewes, leaving Brighton at five minuted
past twelve, and consisted of the engine and tender, a first
elms carriage, a second clue carriage, and a third dam car-
riage ; two persons were booked for the first elms, three
for the second, and four for the third ; three out of dial
four in the third class carriage were killed, and the other
persons in the train comprised the engine driver, the stoker,
and the guard, whose name is Earle.
The distance between Brighton and Lewes is eight miles,
and halfway between the two towns is a tunnel called I
Films: tunnel, which is about 100 yards in length. On
either side this tunnel the railroad is on the declivity for at
least two miss; in short, the declivity is so great that
it has induced the directors of the rails ay company to place
boards on each side, on which arc written instructions feel
the drivers not to proceed more than 20 miles an hour,
apprehending danger from an increased velocity and from
the curves with which the rail abounds on the Lewes side of
the tunnel. This precaution has always been taken by the
public as a very proper one. I am bound to say that the
instructions have not generally been complied with, for the
trains shoot down these inclined planes at a most fearful
speed very often, and the public arc probably remiss in not
reminding the directors that their servants do not at all
times obey thee instructions; but whether this melancholy
accident was caused by any want of attention on the part of
the driver, who is suffering severely, or from any act on the
part of a miscreant, time alone must show. A coroner's in-
quest will in all probability be held on the bodies of the
unfortunate deceased this day, when the facts connected
with this melancholy event will be thoroughly investigated.
With regard to the speed of the train, I can only say, that
the station-master at Fulmer, which is about two miles from
the spot where the accident happened, stated that the
engine driver was going at his ordinary speed, and not
faster than his instructions warranted him going. That
was at the brow of the hill, and the speed might have
been increased. But it is right to add, that a report was
current, which would exempt the engine driver from blame
as far as speed was concerned, and that was, that a
sleeper had been placed upon the rails, which threw the
trails off the line. Then, again, on the spot it was said that the
tender preceded the engine, and that a sleeper on the line
would naturally enough throw the tender off the line ;
whereas, if the engine had been fired the accident would
not have happened. It seems feasible that the tender was
first, from the position in which it was observed after the
accident, it being some eight or ten feet in advance of the
engine. The spot where the accident took place is within
a couple of miles of Lewes, over an embankment about 30
feet deep. The engine appears to have been off the line
about 00 yards from where the catastrophe happened.
Three of the third clan passengers, Mrs. Chatfield, her
daughter, and the young man, Lawrence, were thrown out
and killed on the spat. The unfortunate stoker was jammed
between the engine and a brick wall below, and was lifeless
when extricated. All the four bodies were, by direction of
Superintendent Flannagan, taken to the Black Horse Inn,
at Lewes, to await the coroner's inquest.
The engineer, Jackson, is so flinch injured that his life is
despaired of. Just as this report was despatched it was
ascertained that the unfortunate man, who had been re-
moved to the Sussex County Hospital, had, with the advice
of the medical officers of that establishment, consented to
have both his legs off.
Mr. Chase, the chief officer of the Brighton police, Mr.
White, his principal superintendent, and Mr. M'ltae, the in-
specting officer of the railway, were all on the spot endea
vouriog to find out if the accident had been occasioned by
the malignant act of any individual ; hut, up to the time
this account left Brighton, no clue of a satisfactory cha-
racter to such a proceeding had been obtained.