The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-15 00:00:00

the Uri of Radnor in Berkahhe.

Lady Manekid has left Mee. Mansfleld'a home in
Cbarlerureet, for India, to juts her husband, O. Sir W.
lbeseeld.

Sir George Peehell, M.P., and the Hoe. lady
Par.bell, hay* arrived at tteir houme to HiII-OmA beta
&awn.

We (Poet) understand that a marriage will very
shortly taka place between Major Thal.lusion, Coldstream
Gear& only sot of the late Hoc. Arthur Theihmeon, and
Mime Henrietta Versos Wentworth, Betted and yoangast
denekte of Mc. and Ley Augusts Vernon Wentworth.

Tie authorities at tie gorse Guards have decided
ea maim oat some of the tele. a sad feminist of those troops
now sawing ta India on the nest despatch of reinforcements.
By dm month of lane nest, several thogmad onvelry sad
Whist", troops will be ready to embark.

TM Omit Eastern was yesterday registered at
the Cesteerlesss Is ills name of the " Gnat Ship Caw
pay" se WWII fie* from arambreaaw.

- Reed, kits of Oa Portsmouth Dockyard, is a
mast tang of the Maio d the amy, reprerated Ito strength
u fellows :—Lisfrof-tattle ships, 61; blockabipa, 9; frigates,
29; tormase, 13; manor commis, 6; maim frigates, 4;
6ostieg bettertim 6; ikon $7; apeavenk/s, le; gunboats,
163 ;-4stal, 337. After kiss vessels than knew wo tower
than 76 @Mature propalkd by paddleo—• matidamy
rases oat of fashion, bat which 10, nevortiniese, considered
by tkr Howard Dooilaa ot pmeeming not only tally, bat,
potably, earn meant adreateses. To complete the tiee wo
bars 201 oaks; mink of war, making as sigregata of 613
'skein sops, bonebn 16,1411 runs, sod carillon smug
Mara mesas of nearly 100,000 bone power.

The brawls lot;iope;sdance sayit:--" The appeas-
ers of Ur boulevards daring the splendid aft., ao et of yes-
Wiley (lianday) wee entraordharily animated and Mllliatt.
The crowd was gnat and gaily dressed, and the eurieges
art notarise. All the royal family honoured this spring
fits with their peeress—the Mai in his carriage, the
Dueler of Irebeat also In acerri.ge, and their Royal High-
newel lie Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders on
foot sad amongst the crowd of promenaders.•'
Countess Walewska held a reception at Paris on
Setarday sight. She gar's Inelwled Count Kissoleff, M.
de Hubner, Primers Mara', the Ttacher d'istr:e, the
Marquis of Hertfunl, &c.

Prince and Priam. Edward of Saxe-Weimar
Date arrived is Per*.

Intelligence from Berlin of the 11th states that
the coati ball amen by the Printer of Brassie on the pre-
vious even*, wet the term of a malascholy incident.
Mdse. de Kanter, wife of the former Minister of Prumis to
Naples ant to Munich, was struck with apoplexy and died
the bel-room.

The Shah of Persia intends, it le maid, to have a
resident ambeimader at the Court of Prance; and Mina
Makooks, wt.° accompanied Peruktt Khali in hie visit to
Frame, sad who bad before Besidet for strcral years in
Psi* Y mestioncd for the poet.

The military sod carat resources of the Austrian
empire me minutely described by the Ifendestr de la Plate,
The pnessl mai of the Austria% anny empties :-4 field
merebel. (namely, the Archduke Jobs Baptist, Prince Win-
&saltines, Baum Nugent, and Coast Soros Wratielaw) ,
18 cavalry general and "fdil :ere ssidres." 112 "heti.
intastfialskestreAais;" 130 major-geserela, 6;1 24800lonele.
Assuming that the particoLtre given by Ohs above journal
are comet, tha allimey etresgtb. of Almada in thus of
peace is repremeted by 400,000 min, and in time c.f war by
780,000 sass. The Asatrin eery, which is of very moist
areation, is *ahem in etresgth to the asides of the two lead-
ing lashes powers' 8 old We ant Naples; it is composed of
176 verde isnot with 842 ma, as 4 inennted by 8,707

DI4TII OP MR. W. R. PAsscorr, TBS

HIIIZIMIA.V.

(Pros ibs New York Auras, of Coosoooreo, .1s a. 31.)

We regret to unseen°, the death of William
Hickling Prescott, one of the met distinguished historic.'
writers of modirs time., and one of the most celebrated
literary man in Acourica. Hs died suddenly of appepiesy at
Ids rsaidasse in Hmtos on Friday sight, 28th ism., is the
a;sty-third year of his age. _

Prescott was liora In Sakin, You., in 1796. His
father we. en eminent 1 my. , end his rearm' gradfather
was the famous revolutiosary amoral who ooruman lad the
American troop. at Hanksee-hilL The deceased histories
gradated with distiaotion at Harem] University is
1814, sal Intended to estirecs the legal prJfessite ;
but the accidental loss of the eight of one of his
era, and tits atria. weakness of the other from over
esortion, oblige I him to recousoe rho 'station. After
several yews travels in Swope, sad long and abarioss
historical resserch, rendered more palatal by bit almost total
blather an I conquest obligation to rely cis a reader tad
an amassessis to collect his mara's sod commit hie
thoughts to paper, he brought out his first work is 1838,
"The History of Ferdinand and babel's," w►ic► was
ethereally commanded, so well in Humps as is
Amalie., was translated into German, Freak,
Spanish, and Italian, sod Is sow rauded as •
teat book is every historical library. Prescott'e sat
work was the "Coattail cg Mexico," published in
1844. &,on alter its ptib'icatioa hs reoilved the high
Weary hamar of beteg elected • member of the Frisch
Institute. In 1817 be published the "C iniseet of Pero,"
sod at the time of ►ie Math was espied in finishing •
History of PIOT 11. It le • eunerkabie coincidenra that
almost at the hour was the sews et the great historia's
death reached as by telegraph trim &tam, the Lanka
pyre errad numbing coanstadatery solioes of the
recently pabliebed whims of his Philip 11.
Darien' Mr. Prescott's visit to ragtag In IbSO the Usl-
varsity of Word cos/erred on hlm t►e bosor•ry deigns, of
Doctor of Civil Law.
Yr. Prima isms • widow and arse °Wm.