The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-14 00:00:00

int Court.

WINDSOR, Nov. 13.
The Queen aid Princa Albert took their usual
early walk.
Tee royal family took walking and pony exercise in the
sloppees and eastern terrace.
Hu Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this
morning, accompanied by their Royal Highneases the Prince
de J..inville and the Duke d'Aunude. and attended by
Lieti..-Colonel Hon. C. 13. Phipps and Lieut.-Colonel Hon.
A. Gordon.

There is no addition to the royal dinner ratty this
evening.
Lord Dufferin has relieved the Marquis of Ormonde in his
duty as lord in waitiiig to the Queen, and Capt. lion. Joseph
Dcoman has relieved Sir Frederick S:ovin in his duty as
groom in wailing to her Majesty.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.
". Tee Psiory, Nov. 13.
"The Qucen I)owager slept for several hours
during the night, and her Majesty is tolerably comfortable
tilts morning.
" DAVID_DAVIRB, li.D."

Sir Thomas Fremnatle, Chairman of the Castoms,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes•
t.rday. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had al-o an interview yesterday wit► the right
hon. baronet, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Bishop of Guiana had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial office.
The Attorney General had an interview yesterday
with the Chancel:or of the Exchequer.
The members of tl.e General Board of Health,
Lord Ashley, Mr. Chadwick, and Dr. Routhwood
accompanied by Dr. Sutherland and Mr. John Griffiths, the
architect, yesterday visited and inspected the Kemal Green
Cemetery and Catacombs.

Mom last night's Gasetfej
Foneios-oince., Nov. 9.—The Queen hue been
pleased to approve of H. Antoine Schembri u Consul at
Malta for his Majesty the King of the Belgians.
DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 13.—The Queen has been
pleated to appoint Henry John Glanville, EN , to he Chief
Justice for the island of St. Christopher; Henry Isles Wood-
cock, EN., to be Chief Justice for the island of Dominica;
and Archibald Paull Burt, Esq., to be her Majesty's Attor-
ney-General for the island of St. Christopher.

IMPERIAL BRAZILIAN MINING COMPANY.—The
half-yearly general meeting of this company was held rater.
day at London Tavern, Joshua Welker, EN., in the
chair. Mr. Thomas, the manager, read the report for the
last half year, which stated that the prospects of the associa-
tion were such as to justify every expectation of success.
The ametunt of gold realised from the company's two mines
in the entree of the halt year was in value 9,1484 135. ltd.; the
expenses had been reduced to the extent of not less than
2,0001. on the half year, and the balance of receipts over
expenditure was 1,7401. 19m. 4d. It was the intention of the
directors, under the most favourable auspices, to prosecute
vigorously the works at Gongo Soko, where the extent
of auriferous matter was still very large. Capt. Hitchin,
who had gone out es chief commissioner an the plop
of Mr. Euwood, hail cent homes • despatch, in which
he expressed the fullest confidence that his highly favourable
expectations of the prospects of both Selene! and Gongo
Soko would be realised, and equally favourable expectations
were entertained by the Messrs. Trsgony, who wore pro-
ceeding, on the most liberal conditions on their part towards
the company, to superintend the workings et Gongo Soko.
The report having been adopted, and a vote of thanks given
to the directors, the meeting maraud.
EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE AT CLAY GATE
wean Eurna.—Slisoe Sunday morning last a great sensa-
tion has been occasioned in the villages of Esher and Thames
Oaten, and the surrounding neighbourhood, by the dis-
covery of the dead body of a man in a pond at Clay Gate,
with his throat cut in two places, and his legs tied together.
That a murder has been committed was and continues to be
the belief of many people; bat the following are the facts,
so far as could be collected by the reporter, of this strange
affair. On Sunday morning, about half-past nine o'clock,
a farmer's labourer was creasing • field in which there is a
deep pond, when he observed the upper part of a man's
body floating on the surface, and almost at the same time
discovered an open clasp knife, with the blade covered with
blood, lying on the gram, within • few feet of the pond.
The labourer went immediately to the Old Griffin, • public-
house half • mile distant, and, having obtained assistance, the
body was got out, sad it was then that the fact was made
apparent that the deceased's legs were tied together with
a silk handkerchief and very tightly, as also that there was
• deep incised wound on each side of his throat immediately
below the neckerchief. Upon comparing the knife found
on the margin of the pond, it was evident that that was
the instrument with which the wounds were inflicted. The
body was afterwards taken to the Old Griffin, and examined
by Ilr. Watts, a surgeon, who will, it is presumed, give his
opinion ea to the manner of the death at the inquest. The
deceased appesrs to be about 30 years of sie, five feet five in
height, of dark complexion, and wearing large whiskers;
he was dressed in a blue pilot coat, black buttons, cotton
cord trousers, black vest, blue cep, black silk neckerchief,
s and half boot, not nailed. There was no money or property
of any description found upon deceased's person ; he was a
stranger to this neighbourhood, but it appears he had been
seen near the spot late on the_previoue evening. Information
has bean sent to Kr. W. Carter, the coroner for Bart
Bung.

MR. CHARLES DICKErisNS, OF PUBLIC irei. cuiriu.

The following letter on Public Executions atiag
in the columns of the Times this morning pp
"Sir,—l was a witness of the execution at lioni raa
lane this morning. I went there with the bite ,isos
serving the crowd gathered to behold it, and 1 bad
.ftAi""-
opportunities
esortounottileusuoufsldyoiforogm d
so,
.aytbrlneatek need e
rva/sallthrt,:ngthe tnespetwid.6.;
was over.
I do not address you on the 'eject with any i
of
ydis4ofumtbieg arthgeuaminet:tasc**ogfuuitstioonppoofnecants"lorildiv'beentaa
simply wish to turn this dreadful experience to saa,
account for the general good, by taking the reedisg sgs
most public means of adverting to an iutimigiaa ei,,a4l
Sir 0. Gre mighthe inducedon of parliament, that the
werement be t d give its support to a making the infliction of capitol punishment a pinta rut,.
City within the prison walla (with such guaranis.,
last sentence of the law being inert:l..l,ly Rand s
att.
far t.
nistered as should he utilactory to the public at 1ae0,..,
of most earnestly beseeching Sir G. Grey, ea a aaltouti",
which he owes to society, and a responsibility which hi:
not for ever put away, to originate such a legalrisa auto
himself.
I believe that a sight a inconceirably awful s 4
ft ick .dness and levity of the immense crowd toee,„
at that execution this moaning could be jrnicati
by no man, and could he presented in no heathen land utee
,he sun. The horrors of the gibbet and of the crime
brought the wretched murderers to it, faded in mesa da,
the ate Alone bearing, lucks, and laeguage, of tLe seen
spectators. When I came upon the scene at midnigit,by
aniline -a of the cries and bowls that were railed fess
to time, denoting that they came from a canteen* of ha
and girls already assembled in the best places, suds
blood run cold. As the night went on, saseching sad jaZ
log, and yelling in strong chorus of parodist on i;
melodies., with subetitu ions of " Mrs. Maniac
is
"Susannah," and the I,k were added to these IN
the day dawned, thieves, low prostitutes, toleaus,
te
vsgab- nds of every kind, fl'ektd on to the gtoeek,i6
every variety of offensive and foul beltotious,
logs, taintings, whiAlioes, imitations of Pune, emi
jokes, tumultuous demonstiations of indecent delakteas,
alro.l ing women were dragged out of the crowd les
de
police with their dre ales disordered, gave a new sesta la
general entertainment. Wh.n the sun Lee brightly—a,
did—it gilded thousands upon thousambi of upturned 404
inexpressibly odious in their brutal mirth tr calloossetku
a man had cause to feel ashamed of the shape he T104.1:4
to shrink from himself, as fashioned in the kluge siu,
devil. When the two =Bendel,' creatures who *Mutat;
this ghastly sight about them were turned quivering allay
air, there was ao more emotion, no more pity, es sal
thought that two immor,sl souls Lad goes to jedgasa,„
more restraint its any of the pr vi, lli obscenities, mangy
name of Christ had never Leen heard in the worli ay
there were no Iftlief among teen but that they pesigaraii
the beasts.
" I have seen, habitually, some of the worst seam
general contamination and corruption in this country, ail
think there are not many phases of London life that ad;
surprise me. I am solenr.ly e w diced that nobles tou
ingenuity could devise to be done en this cite, in the otxs
compass of time, could wok such ruin as one public memo%
and I stand astonished and sp, ailed by die waked's:lig
exhibits. Ido not believe that any community cm peep
where such a scene of horror and demcretzetiut uve
coated this morning ou•side Horsemongerline geed is pa
sented at the very doors of good citizens, and is pow
bl
unknown or forgotten. And when, in our prayers sal
thanksgivings for the season, we are humbly expeeftierbe
fore God OUT desire to remove the moral evils of the Ina, I
would ask your readers ti consider whither it .1 not I WI
to thick of this one, and to root it out.—l arc, Sir, nes
faithful servant, "CHARLES DICKENS,
" Devonshire:terrace, Tuesday, Nov. 13."

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