The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-26 00:00:00

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OSBORNE, FRIDAY, Jut.w 25.
The Queen, the Prince, and the royal family took
their usual exercise in the grounds at Osborne yesterday.
The Duchess of Kent remains on a visit to her Majesty.
Colonel the Hon. C. 13. Phipps had the honour of dining
with her Majesty and Prince Albert.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. fs was attended by Lord J. Rumen, the
Lord Chancellor, the Marquis cof Lansdowne, the Earl of
Minto, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Lord Broughton, the Right
Hon. Henry Labouchcre, the Earl of Carlisle, and the
Marquis of Clanricarde.—The Council sat one hour and
• half.

A deputation from Eton had an interview yesterday with
the General Board of Health, at their offices, Whitehall.
The deputation consisted of Mr. Cleave, Chairman of the
Local Board of Health; Mr. Stephenson; Mr. Voules,
Clerk to the Local Board; and Mr. Webber, Surveyor to
that Board.

The Ocford Cniversity Commission had a meeting yes-
terday at the official residence of the First Lord of the I
Treuury, in Downing-street. Present:—The Bishop of
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Muter of Pembroke,
the Rev. H. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. G.
L. Johnson, and the Rev. A. I'. Stanley (Secretary).
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re-
venue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ea-
chequer yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing-
street.

Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governors of the North American

Tho :Ministerial whitebait dinner is fixed to take
place on SAterday, the 2nd of August, at the Trafalgar,
Oreenwich.—Gfobe.

(Prom last night's ()Am(te.)
BOARD OP GREEN CLOTH, BUCKINGHAM-PALACE,
Jett 23.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint George
Augustus Constantine, commonly called Earl of Mulgrave,
to be Comptroller of her Majesty's Household, vice the
Right lion. William &bright Lascelles, deceased.

ADMIRALTY. JULY 25. —APPOINTMENTS.—Sur-
geons G. Yeo, A. Archer, G. Roe, to Ranger, and T. Lay-
ton, to Volcano. Assistant Surgeons ). Henry, ll.Weßings
R. Sproule, and C. Chambers, to Penelope. Master H.
Ellis, to Styz. Chief Engineer R. Taylor, to Centaur.
Assistant Engineers : J. Taylor, F. II•gg, H. Uplands, J.
Bishop, G. Treris, It. Madge, to Centaur, and A. Richards;,
to Myrmidon ' • W. Pitt and J. Comte, to Cormorant; W.
Donneron, b Locust._

ISSPECTORS O 4• FM-TORII:S.—The half-yearly re-
ports of tho Inspectors of Factories, ending the 30th April,
have just been printed by order of parliament. In the
period there were 446 informations laid for offences against
the Factories Act, of which 312 melted in convictions.
The fines inflicted were 4361., of which 231. was remitted,
and 5/. not recovered. The total amount of costa was
2841. 16s. Ild.

DEATII FROM TAKING QCACK MEDlClNES.—Yes-
terday the inquest on the boy Heary Stewart Davis was
resumed and concluded at the Bell Tavern, Itatcliff-high-
way. The jury having heard the evidence of Dr. Letheby
and other gentlemen on the character of the drugs adminis-
tered to the lad, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter"
against Mr. Stephens,CoMn's agent, by whom the medicine
was administered.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT TYNEMOUTIL—On Tuesday
morning last, Mr. Watt, of Irvine, in Ayrshire, shipbuilder
and shipowner, who was lodging at lynemouth for the
benefit of his health, went down to the beach to bathe, and
being ignorant, it is presumed, of the very dangerous
character of the beach at the south end of the Cullercoats or
Long Sand, was swept out to sea by the eddy, which exists
there during the flowing tide, and drowned. His clothe',
were found on the beach, and by this means his name was
discovered. A notice, painted in legible characterstsetting
forth the danger, and warning people from bathing in that
spot, was erected us the rocks some years since, elevated on
a timber stalk, and firmly secured by iron bars to the solid
stone. Some time last season the board disappeared, shot
away, most probably, in sheer wantonness by some idle
blackguard, who tied it as a mark fur his rifle or fowling-
piece, and from that time to this It has not been thought of
by any body to replace it. The stimulus of the loss of
human life seems quite necessary in this comitryto insure
the most ordinary precaution.—Nesocoalle Chronicle.
ENGLISH AND FRENCH FILM—At a public dinner
given last week at the Cutlers'-hall, Sheffield, to the Great
Exhibition Local Commissioners for that town, one of these
gentlemen (Mr. Overend) related the following interesting
anecdote: " There was a French gentleman among the
jurors, who very properly showed great zeal in protecting
the interests of his countrymen. He had admitted that Shef-
field had made the best tiles, but he maintained that there
was a house in France that could make better. lie chal-
lenged Sheffield to the trial, and he selected the house with
which he would make the trial, and it happened to be that
of which my worthy friend the mayor (Mr. Turton) is the
head. Ile sent to France to have files made for the purpose.
He brought over a French engineer to use them, and he
challenged Messrs. Turton and Sons to the contest. Two
pieces of steel were selected upon which to try the files,
and they wee, fixed in two vices. Mows. Turton accepted
the challenge, but they did not send to Sheffield to have
any files made specially for the occasion. They merely
went to a London customer whom they supplied with filen,
and took files indiscriminately from his stock. They chose
, a man from among the Sappers and Miners in the Exhibi-
tion to use their tile against the French engineer and the
French files made for the trial. The two pieces of steel
being fixed in the vices, the men began to work simulta-
neously. The Englishman, with Messrs. Turton's file, had
filed the steel down to the vice before the French engineer
had got one-third through. When the files were examined
Veesrs. Turton's file was found to be as good as ever, while
the French file was nearly worn out. The French juror
they said no doubt he was beaten in that trial, but Messrs.
Turton's file must have been made to cut steel alone,
whereas the French tile was better adapted for iron. A new
trial then teoie place upon iron, and the result was still more
in favour of the English file."
EARTHQUAKE AT COPIA CO.—A correspondent
writing from Copiapo on the 25th May, says While I
am writing this Ike house and all the city are rocking like a
cradle. About 2 p.m. we had the most severe earthquake
felt here since 1819 ; in fact, I expected the city would have
been entirely deetroyeal4 the earth was rising and falling
like the waves of the sea—everything in commotion, the
windows, doors, and roofs of the houses cracking and
breaking, parapets of houses thrown into the middle of the
street; several excellent houses entirely destroyed, and
others still standing that must be taken down, but ours has
stood to the amazement of every one, owing to the repairs I
had put about it two yaws since, when I bound the walls
together by iron bans, and which is now being introduced
throughout the place in nearly all the newly-built houses.
While I am now writing, 9 p.m. the house is shaking most
fearfully; we have a fresh shock every ten or fifteen
minutes, but notes strong as the first.—P.S., 27th, 10 o'clock
a.m...--We have had a continued earthquake throughout
the night, with scarcely any intermission ; if the house cease
for ten minutest° tremble, it seems only to recrldt strength,
and then it commences with renewed force, shaking the
walls to the very centre, but as yet we have suffered but
little injury, and I hope the worst is over. But few ven-
tured to sleep in their houses last night; in fact there
has been no sleeping at all—every one on the alert every
moment. This is rather an anxious time, but our house
will stand a great deal more yet."