The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16. 1848.

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The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of Douro
and Col. Buckley, honoured the Dachau of Sutherland with
• visit at Btaford•hoaee yesterday.
The Marchioness of Douro has succeeded the Vis-
countess Jocelyn ea the Lady.in-Waiting to her Majesty.

Mr. Justice Patteeon had an interview with Sir 0.
Grey yesterday. Mr. D. Pugh, M.P., had oleo an interview
with the Right Hoe. Baronet, at the Home-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday, and resumed the hearing of the appeal " The
preoentatives of Count de Wall v. the Commissioners of
French Claiuu " The Lords present were the Muter of the
Rolls, Lord Campbell, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Corn-
wall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court.

(From last night's Gazette.)
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day
of February, The Lord Archbishop of York and the Right
Hoc. W. G. Hayter were sworn of her Majesty's Privy
Connell, and took their respective places at the board accord-
ingly.—Lord Sudeley, appointed Lord Lieutenant sad C wins
Rotulorum of the county of Montgomery, took the appointed
oaths.—The Rev. Frederick Temple, M.A., to be Principal
of the Training School for schoolmasters at Knellar-hall.—
The Rev. William Henry Brookfield, M.A., to be Inspector
of Schools in England, vice the Venerable John Allen ;
and J. D. Morel' end Z. C. Symons, EMITS, to be
inspectors of Schools in England and Wales ' • and
J. Gibson, Esq., to be Inspector of Schools in Scotland.—
D. D. J. Harmer Esq., to be Standard Bearer to Carps of
Gentlemen-et-Arms, vice M. Wyatt, Eaq., promoted ; M.
Wyatt, Esq., late Standard Bearer to Corps of Gentlemen-
at-Arms, to be Lieutenant, vice Sir H. Robinson, Knt.,
retired ; W. M. Hughes, Esq. late Captain Ist (the
King's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards, to be one of her Ma-
ty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at• Arms, vice Tyrwhitt
WWalker, retired.
Ducity or LANCASTER, Feb. 11.—The Queen hue
been this day pleased to appoint Sir Thomas George Hes-
keth, of Rufforsi-hall, Bart., to be Sheriff of the county
palatine of Lancaster for the year ensuing.
PRINCE 01, WALES'S COUNCIL-CHAMBER, SORER-
avr.Houen, Feb. 14.—Augustus Coryton, of Pentillie
Castle, in the county of Cornwall, Esq., has been appointed
Sheriff of the county of Cornwall.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 11.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. Victor Weber, as Consul at Rams.
gate. and of Mr. Thomas Jenner, as Consul at Rye, for his
Majesty the King of Hanover.
ADMIRALTY, Fm. 14.
The following promotion has this day taken plese, consequent upon
the death of Rear-Admiral the Hom J. W. King : Css. V. F Hatton,
to he rear-admiral of the bane.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH
WESTERN RAILWAY—INQUEST.
The inquest on David Markland, the engine-driver,
was resumed yesterday at Woking, before Mr. Wood, the
coroner.
David Fleecy proved that the spot where the accident
happened was in the parish of Woking.
The Coroner then proceeded to charge the jury, and after
summing up the manner in which the accident took place,
he directed the consideration of the jury to the regulations
which existed and might have been adopted to prevent the
accident, and as to how far they were wried out by the
officers of the company.
The room was then cleared of all but the coroner and
the jury, and after the lapse of about ten minutes, strangers
were re-admitted, when the coroner announced that the
jury had returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " against
Jones and Fleming ; but that they did not feel justified in
returning any adverse verdid against Brownsmith.
The Foreman having intimated that this verdict was una-
nimous, said he wished to take that opportunity to urge
upon the managers of the railway the immediate adoption of
the suggestions which had been uttered during the inquiry
fur the prevention of accidents, these suggestions being an
elevated guard-box on the luggage trains, the disuse of the
word " fog" as applied to the detonating signals, the teach-
ing of the railway servants the meaning of the different
rules, and the removal of the brake of the luggage-boxes to
the inside of the box.
Mr. Stavin stated that directions had already been given
for carrying nut the suggestions of the jury as to the position
of the brake and the guard's box in the luggage trains.
Mr. Dalrymple (the company's solicitor) begged to assure
the jury that the company were much indebted to them fur
their suggestions, being fully aware that what contributed
is the public safety, and consequently to public confidence,
was advantageous to themselves in a commercial acme.
A Juror inquired whether any means had yet been disco-
vered for communicating between the guard and the engine-
driver ?
Mr. Stavin; We are now trying bells, which appear to be
the best mode of communication yet suggested. Yr ears also
; trying electricity.
The Coroner then bound over the various witnesses to pro-
secute, and the inquisition having been signed, the proceed-
ings terminated.

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MR. DANIEL O'CONNELL.—The Limerick Es-
aminer, a repeal paper, says: " We are glad to hear that
Mr. D. O'Connell, Jun., is about to receive an appointment.
The consulship of Boulogne is the one named to us ; the
salary attached to which is said to he about 8001. a year."
A new writ for Waterford was moved ron Monday night.
THE DEATHS IN LONDON during the week ending
Saturday last, Feb. 12, were 1,324 ; the average being 1,107.
Bronchitis, typhus, influenza, and pneumonia are still the
nines of the excessive mortality. Mean temperature,
4.5 deg. 4 min. The births registered during the week were
1,157. The registrar makes a note in reference to two fatal
cases of typhus in Lambeth, as follows .—" The father of
these two boys stated, that it wsa the opinion of the medical
man, as well as bis own, that the fever was engendered by
the state of the premises. It appears there is a drain run-
ning through the house, which emits mast unpleasant efflu-
via. The privy in full to overflowing, and his been so for
some time, while the landlord will do nothing to remove the
evil. The house is generally in a bad state. On the death
of the children, the doctor ordered the remainder of the
who were all ill, immediately to quit the house."
Why do the parish authorities allow such fatal nuisances to
exist ?
INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—ALLEGED CONCOCTION OF
A WlLL.—Before Mr. Csrttar, at the County Terrace Tavgrn,
Kent-road, touching the death of Miss Alice Henley, &young
lady of considerable property, whose demise has given rise to
various strange contours in the neighbourhood.—About six-
teen months PRO the deceased lady went to board and lodge
at the house of Mr. Chandler, No. 5, Webb County-terrace,
New Kent-road. The family consisted of Mr. Chander, his
son, and daughter, and a part of the hones was let out to
lodgers. Three weeks previous to her death,-Miss Henley
became indisposed, and Mr. Waterworth, a medical practi-
tioner in the neighbourhood, and Mr. Hughes, a phy-
sician, were called is, and the former gentleman attended
her up to the period of her death, which took place on
last Friday week. Mr. Waterworth-gave a certificate which
attributed the death of the deceased to natural causes—pul-
monary apoplexy he thought ; but the friends of the
deceased not having been apprised of her illness until after
her death, and being informed also that the deceased had
executed a will on the day before her dissolution, they com-
municated with the coroner. end requested the present
inquiry.—Mrs. Morton, residing at the house of Mr.
Chandler, stated that on the Thursday preceding the death
of the deceased, she saw her in her bedroom, whea she
appeared in a weak state, but nothing to lead her(witness) to
suppose that her death was near at hand, or so fast approach-
ing. On the next morning she again saw her, when she
appeared in a state of utter prostration and insensibility,
and died between 11 and 12 o'clock on that day.—
In her cross-examination by Mr. Cartier, as solicitor for
next of kin, the witness said she saw the deceased about 9
o'clock on the day of her death, and was present when the
doctor came and ordered her some hot brandy and water,
and other remedies. Miss Chandler and her brother. Samuel
Chandler, were also present at the time. Miss Chandler
asked her brother whether he thought the deceased could
write. lie replied, it was no consequence; and witness said
that, if deceased wished to write anything, it must be done
immediately, but Mr. Waterworth made the remark that she
was not capable. The conversation related to a will, and Miss
Chandler said:that, if deceased did write, she should guide
her hand. Witness did not see anything done in the matter
of the will on the day Miss Henley died. —Mies Elisabeth
Chandler said she hid known the deceased for about six
years, and fur the last sixteen months of this time she lived
in her lather's house. On Thursday, the 3rd inst., the de-
ceased, while ai bed, said she was afraid it was all up with
her, and requested to see and sign her will. Her (witness's)
brother Samuel, who is 28 yens of age, brought in the will,
read it over to the deceased, and she signed it. Witness and
Mazy Radson, the servant, also signed it as witn
theses.
The
will had been written by her brother, to whom e deceased
had left all her property, and it was dated on the same day,
the 3rd of February. The deceased, when she signed the
will, was perfectly composed and sensible, but in the
course of the same evening she became somewhat
unease in her mind, and said she wished to add
a codicil to her will, in her (witness's) favour. But
her brother begged that she might compose herself,
and said that the following day, would do. In her
cross examination by Mr. Carttar, this witness said that the
deceased was obliged to be supported while she sat up in the
bed to sign the will ; but she did so with her free will, and
without coercion. The deceased had been anxious to make
a codicil to her will in her (witness's) favour. Before it had
been taken to the deceased, the will was placed in her
drawer, and she bad the curiosity to read it. la it the de
ceased left the whole other property to her brother Samuel.
—M. Radson, the servant before spoken ot. was next
examined at some length, and her evidence differed in one
or two material points from that of her mistress. For
instance, she swore that the deceased signed her
will on a small desk, or she thought so; while Miss
Chandler raid it was on a prayer-book.—The jury returned
a verdict of " Natural death." When the verdict was re-
corded Mr. Cantu said he felt bound to mention • fact
which came to his knowledge since the inquest had been
called, and that was, that Mr. Samuel Chandler, who he be-
his
lieved to be a respectable young man, had been payiug
addresses to the deceased, and that had it net been for her
state of health in all probability they would have been mar-
ried. He (Mr. Canter) felt satisfied that Mr. Chandler and
his family would not regret the present inquiry ; and which,
in Ins (Mr. Cantu's) opinion, was a very proper one; for
had the deceased been buried, and if the will said to
be executed on the day before her death was to be
set up, her friends would most undoubtedly have
felt it to be their duty to have the body ex-
bined, and an inquiry like the present instituted.—'
THE CONSEQPRSCES OP BRUTALITY.—Before
Carter, at the White Hart, Richmond, on the body of Daniel
Bremer. The deceased, coachman to an undertaker in