The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-16 00:00:00

THE RIFLE BRIGADE BALL.

The volunteer movement, as well as bringing us
seams than before to France in amount of military fume,
seems as if it were also &Mind to enable us to enter into
respectabk rivahy with our neighbours in • matter in which
their euperiurity has hitherto been just se commicnous as in
the numbers arid emanation of their soldiers. It used to
be said that out of Paris it was impossible to give • decent
pulls ball ; bet the volunteers are showing that the thing
visor be dome in • astute style in Loudon. The ball at
the Ploral•ball was • famous beginning, and it ham been
weetbily emulated by its successor at the Guildhall of
yesterday evening. The requisites for • ball are
plenty of light, plenty of room, plenty of rands,
end plenty of compeay ; and in all these pant-
SWIM the rile ball waa • grand snows. The annual
deuratisas of the Guildhall me well known, including the
realest der, the Prince of Wales's plume in spun glass, the
inemplawshis 'loaners, and the lavish display of the thaws
Uog and Magog. ponderous and obese,
=e Wows. s
at the turtle wershippera, smiled placidly down on
the company, while thousands of gas light. gave brilliancy
to the wise and nullified to some utast the habitual
Guildhall draughts. Fill the great hall, then, with the
young and gay, set the fiddles playing, and the company
dancing, anal them, what with the light and the colour, acid
the noise and the whirl, we have such an emu
Wage as • ball ought to be, with evei7 nag
happy sad elated, and nobody dreaming of being
quiet or comfortable. The gay civic soldiers in grew
and pe7, filled the Teat interior—theemalves mid that
fair and they ealaibited the Uniting' of room-
ier gymnastic training in the vigour with which they
dew through the waits and polka, and the precision with
which they exsailed the more
:inured quadrille. At
about llo'clock the moue was rapidly reaching its
the Lord Mayor and the other notab ties had arrived. and
the dancers had been fairly set going. There were about
2,500 persons peed, and all seemed to enjoy themselves
exceediagly.

Tas MIINDIR tit DualsAm.—There has never
been say doubt as to the identity of at least one of the
wiles implicated in the murder of John Baty, between
Bleydan and Winlabs, the other day. It was pretty well
known that the stranpr who acoompanied the unfortueete
man from the pablichouse no the night of the murder was
seen in the neighbourhood of the village neat amnia(
wearing liety's clothes, and great dissatisfaction has been al-
pressed that the local polite allowed the fellow to temps A
man has now come forward with a statemeat that the stranger
—who went by the same of timith—coulessed the murder to
him on the morning of its discovery—Tuesday, the 6th lest
Thee man, Edward Armstrong, was drink* is • ppiaW a-
hines at Blaydou em the preceding day, whoa a potisaas
alebesapial to arrest Min on a warrant lewd seals seenths
sot Ile resisted, and, by the aid of his ounpaaions,
assatak whom was Smith, he managed to escape. The
following day, rather early. Smith went to consult him
as to the best means of evading apprehension for
the resistance to the allow, and on hie that
his visitor wore a fresh suit al clothes, Smith him
they were Baty% and related all that had ooserred—
stating that he had knocked Baty down with the bldenikel
of robbing bin,, sod had no Wm* that he had IA Idea
dead until be beard it some hours afterwards. Amostrelig
fearing to be seen with his oompsaion after this easifessien
left ham ; but last night he surrendered Mama to the
at lillsydoe. It is a very singular elemmesese that
ie—nadir an waned same--ate of the men who
left the district without receiving his waged at the time of
Mr. &Wise's murder. South is a notorious poacher, and
Mr. eliding was shot sad dragged into a wood frequented
by sperlesses of that order—Nneramle ellsorsick.