The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-03 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Four o'Clock.

Accounts have been received from Van Diemen's
land to the 6th of February. The late lieutenant-
governor, Sir J. E. E. Wilmot, Bart., expired on the
3rd of February. A Hobart Town pa pm says : " The
muse of Sir Eardley's death is stated to have been
complete exhaustion of the frame—a decay of nature.
This melancholy event, subduing all private and party
animosity, has called forth the usual demonstrations of
regret. We believe it was his expressed wish, pre-
vta to his decease, that his remains should be con-
veyed to England, to be placed in the family
• resting-place.'" The new lieutenant-governor, Sir
William Denison was actively engaged prosecuting
a variety of changes in the administrative system and
other public affairs. The value of wheat at Hobart
Town was 4a. 3d. to 4s. 4d. per bushel. Floor was
101. per ton. New grain was arriving at Launceston,
and sales had been effected at 3s. per bushel.
The Hobart Town Courier of the 30th of January
contains the following:
SALE or THE COLONI•L DANK Assers.—The sale of the
assets of this bank, consisting of bills of exchange and book
debts, or overdrawn accounts, took place at auction, by Mr.
J. C. Stacey, at his mart, on Wednesday, and attracted a
numerous attendance. The aggregate amount of assets was
about 10,00 W., and these were sold to variou.s purchasers, and
realised about 1,1001.

It is stated, from St. Petersburg, that the dispoei-
tins of the law constitutive of the mercantile navy of
Russia are, by an imperial ukase, to be continued, and
remain in force till the year 1851. The most import-
ant disposition of the law is that which allows ves-
sels to have captains, steersmen, and three•fourths of
the crew foreigners.

From Vienna, of the 23rd ult., it Is reported that
the government was not without uneasiness about tho
maintenance of tranquillity in that city; and that,
among other precautionary measures, the gates and
barriers of the town had been repaired, so as to be
able to close and defend them against the fauxbourgs,
if their population should menace the disturbance of
the peace of the capital.

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT.—
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, it is expected,
will take her departure from Frogrnote-honse this day, for
town, and on Tuesday next her royal highness will leave
England, for the Continent, accompanied by his Serene
Highness the Prince Leiningen, and attended by Colonel Sir
George Casper.

DEATH OP LADY DUDLEY STBART.—The melan-
choly intelligence has bean received in town of the death of
Lady Dudley Stuart, second daughter of Lucien Bonaparte,
Prince of Canino. The noble lady died at Rome, on the
19th of last month, after an illness of only two days.
A COUNTRY PARTY GOVBRNMENT.—There are

ample materials leftuncorrupted for the formation of an able
and honest administration; as such an assignment of offices as
the following, for instance, abundantly testifies :—First Lord
of the Treasury : Lord Stanley.—Chancellor of the Fiche-
per Lord George Bentinck.—Secretary of State for the
Home Department: Mr. Gladsteno.—Secretary of State for
the Foreign Depratanent : Lord Ashburton.—Secretary of
State for the Colonial Department: Sir R. ft. Vyryan.—
Firm Lord of the Admiralty: Duke of Northumberland,
Lord Chancellor Mr. Stuart.—President of the Council
Earl Talbot,—Lord Privy Seal Lord Fevershans.—Presi-
dent; of the Board of Trade Earl of Lonsdale.—Preei.
dent of the Board of Control : Earl of Powis.—Poatmaster-
General : Duke of Buckingham.—Paymaster•General of the
Fortes Mr. Colquhoun.—Woods and Forests: Lord John
Manners.—Secretary for Ireland : Mr. Disraeli.—Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster : Sir R. Inglis. (The foregoing
to form the cabinet).—Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Duke of
Cleveland.—Muter of the Mint: Marquis of Granby.—
Secretary to the Admiralty: Mr. Stafford O'Brien.—Secre-
tory of War : lion. H. T. Liddell.--JuniorLords of the Trea-
sury Lord March, Lord Ossulston, and Hon. F. Scott.—
Under-Secretary for the Home Department: Mr. Newdegate.
—tinder4ecretary for the Foreign Department : Mr. Milne•
Osikell.—Under.Seeretary for the Colonial Department:
Mr. Christopher.—Junior Lords of the Admiralty: Lord In-
gestrie, Mr. J. N. Gladstone, Hon. A. Duncombe, and Hoe.
C. Harris.—Joint Secretaries to the Treasury : Mr. T.
Baring and Mr. R. Mr.Hodson.—Attorney-General Pem-
berton Leigh.—Solicitor-General : The lion. Mr. Talbot.—
Vice-Presidant of the Board of Trade : Mr. P. H. S. Miles.—

Joint-Secretaries to the Board of Control: Mr. Grogan and
Lord Clive. Muter-General of the Ordnaace : Sir
Howard Donalm.--Surveyor-Oeneral of the Ordnance : Lord
Hotham.—Clerk of the Ordnance: Mr. W. Bereeford.—
Lord Chamberlain : Lord Warde.—Lord Steward Earl of
Hardwicke.—Master of the Home: Martinis of Waterford.—
Orford and Cambridge Review.

ATTEMPTED MURDER.—Yesterday morning, at an
early hour, an attempt was made by an agricultural labourer,
named William Lambert, residing at Bitterwell, near
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, to murder his wife, while she
slept. It would appear, frem what transpired, that the
wretched man has for some time entertained jealous suspi-
cions towards his unfortunate victim; that he roes be-
tween four and five o'clock, deliberately' locked the hones
doer. concealed the key, and, having possessed him-
self of a razor, and returned to the room where his wife
slept, he there inflicted a wound upon the unfortunate
woman, extending from the bottom-of the neck below, the
Oft ear, across the throat to the right ear. She awoke, and,
by a sudden exertion, contrived to escape down stairs, when
she forced the door and reached the meet. The neighbour-
hood having been alarmed by her cries, assistance was im-
mediately rendered. The wounded woman wm promptly
attended by Mr. Sparkman, surgeon, and Lambert was
banded over to the custody of Mr. Deakins, superintendent
of police. The woman's wife is considered in great danger.

A YANKEE PATENT.—Among the notices of recent
American patents in Newton's London Journal of Arts for
June, is the following:—" To John Allen, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, for a method of restoring the &Inas or roundness to
the cheeks." The patentee claims, ea his invention, sod de-
sires to secure by letters patent, restoring hallow cheeks to
their natural contour and rotundity by means of metallic
bulbs, formed, fitted to, and secured in the month by any
suitable attachment between the jaw-bones and the cheek.
INDIAN PosicaE.--The following peat-ollice u-
ringemene with respect to letters and newspapers by the
E.I. Compan_y'a esprit. came into operation in London on let
of June " Persons in this country may for ward private cot,
rapondenee by the government express from Bombay to
Calcutta and Madras ; all persons desirous of availing them-
selves of this privilege, well be required to mark upon the
covers of their letters the words By express from Bombay
and, in addition to thisspecial address, it will be neemeary that
all letters intended tabs forwarded by the way ofBonthampton
should be endorsed as hitherto. The postage to be charged in
India on the delivery of letters sent by this expromt wBI be
in addition to the ordinary inland rates, viz., one rupee for
every letter not exceeding half a tole in weight ; two rupees
for every letter above half a tole, but not exceeding one tole
in weight ; (our rupees far every letter above ens tole, bat
not exceeding two toles in weight; two tau being the

I =azimut weiibt of lerCen to be conveyed by express. On
Newspapera—Mach nrrepaper.ofilee in Calcutta and Mares
will be allowed to receive two newspapers at the ordinary
rates of inland postage ; on all other newspapers forwarded
by express a postage of five rupees will be charged, and no
newspaper will be received-for the express exceeding three
toles in weight. N.B.—One tala and a quarter is nearly
equivalent to half an ounce avoirdupois. The rupee is about
ls. 10d. English."