The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13. 9.

frpe Court.

BALMORAL, OCT. 10.
Mx Majesty, accompanied by du Prins Consort,
the Penes of Wales, and Princess Alley, drove to Bolleub
Buie, where the nieces shot, ths woods being driven for
deer.

lier Majesty end Princess Alice mounted their ponies at
the Bridge rd DM and rode Is the Falls of the Garrvelt.
The royal party retained to the Collis in the evening.

Hu Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
by Major Teesdale sad sake, is expected to arrive to-morrow
at Bei-Mashers Palace from &rotlead. His Royal Hightails
will have Balmoral with the Quern sad the Prince Cowart
to-day foe Holyrood Palace. The Prime of Wales gose to
Oxford early in neat week to plume hi. stadia@ at the uni-
versity.

His Royal Highness the Doke of Cambi Age will
ebottly Mans to his resident:wet Bt. James's Palace, frees
risk's, Sir George Wombwell, Bart, at the tallest baratet's
seat is Yorkshire.

His Rim Henry the Marquis d'Azetlio, Sardinian
mhilairre, in oxpactad to antra at the Sardinian legs, ioa, from
Paein to mamma Ids diplomatic ditties after a brief Imes of
anew&

The Duke and Duchess of Somerset and fernily
imbed at his grare °facial reeideere at the Admiralty yes-
wry, trees Maiden Bradley, their country 01161.
The Dowers Marchioness of Lothian and Lord
Welter Ken tad the LAIN Kerr have wird as
Clarideifa Borst Iran Blicklieg Hall, Norfob.
Lard and Lady loan Russell and Mims Rowell
left Abageidie Caidecia Yearley, on a via& to the Earl of
Ahaggar, at Heide House, Aberderahlre. The sroble
kid wed lay NM &roily were to leave the following day
lefahergh, *smuts for town.

Lard sad lady Taunton, who bars been making
•metas of visits ha Scotland, have arrived at Dr-trobia
Cade, N. 8., se a visit to the Doke sad Dachas' of Surber-
hod.

Lord and Lady Gardiner have left town for hig
lordship's tivhiag gnaws la 9c0t1e44. .

The-Right Ron. Sidney Herbert , M.P., and Mrr.
Sabre Lire orrlood la Brlara•e•rgoaro from Wilt=
Naar^ Wine.

Ilir John and Lady Pounefathar have arrived at
amides Hotel from Malta.

Tib; Lord BishopoTthe diocese has conferred the
pressed la the eathrdral elturelt of Hiner, recent by the
death of the Rev. George Hole, on the Rev. Wm. Wendt,
Hervey, M.A.. renor of St. Idery'r, Tier*. Hie tord•hip
bee (manned the prebend, recent by the death of the arr.
Nutcombe Omahas, ea the Rev. Freston Tate, 1.A., near
of Anatomise..

The Rev. I)r. Wilsoo, Professor of Biblical
c,i, id= in the Preebyteriert College, Belfast, died early pa-
tella rooming.

Me. and Mrs. Charles Kean's engagement of throe
night' at the LaMar Theatre terminated on Monday. The
hare wet erred es each eight. On Monday night It
was es MI that the arestirea were compelled to evacuee the
memos sad retreat behind the sores with their Maas-
neer Tie playa in which Mr. and Mrs. Kean sppeneed fa
Isere IMO the Ganeeier, Louie 11., and tee Wiles Secret,
la an elf whic✓k they were most warmly applauded. Their
art eagegarest is at Plymouth, atter which they return to
Tatter sad play Hamlet.
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YesterdaT, a hastily summoned meeting of finan.
Hal and parliamentary reformers was held at Newatrwbnilde
lissebeecer. The olj.-ct was to reed a junction be-
twee. the Northern Reform Union, the Lentsehirs Reioneers'
Union, and the Futsociel Reform Amociation of IdeerpooL
Mr. Jtffery, from Limerpol, undertook to promise the
attendaace I.( a deputed ot from the Financial Reformers at
the (Central Reformers' Union in Manchester on the 27th
blatant, when the principle. of the tint ...dation would ha
fully explains& Ile. Jos. Cowen, jun., rept...sled the
Northern Reform Umics.

Expedities tripe to Holyhead are being organimed
I. various part el liaised. Steazornit will start in a few days
from Belfast, Newry, Li., and a large aerobes of visitors
will erne to Holyhead eel Kingstown.

.
King Victor Emmanuel, after attending the mama
sear Man, his returned to Tarim. Hie 31.jesty .111 pro-
ceed to Gomm on Saturday to meet the Empress-Dowager
of Russia.

Count Cavoar arrived at Turin on the 10th to act
u presidia* the committee oh the electaral law whit h
mu to meet ea the followtog day.

The Coast de Flandre, says a letter from Amster-
dam, wee in that city on the 9ih, and made so excursion Itt
Smack, Waterless!, and other places in the environe. The
next day Ids royal klehoses was to go to the Byte.
The Marquis E. d'Aseglio, Sardinian Minister at
London, hes arrived at Paris.

There has latterly been some excitement in the
•reincea embassy at Berlin, on account of the west, is
Hanover, of M. Chriatian Ernst, a native of Germany, who
bed emigrated and become a citizen of the Halted States,
bet who, os his return to t:sit lila friends, woe kid bold of
that be might reader the military mercies for which he was
thought to be liable. The matter ha., hswever, been finally
arranged by the release of M. Ernst, and it is now under-
stood 'hat in inch CAWS the Ameri, in claim of citizenship
is to be hell paramount to that which may be made in Ger-
many on account of birth.

The 31441144 Times of the 6th says :—" The governor
is amain to be restored tlweeets of arm. of the Knights of
St. John, of which they,, ars many in d thornt parts • f
Valetas mid in the other tettee of the island, diefigered sod
some almeet dertroyed by the French daring their had
poseeseion of Melts. This sort ft will be remembered was
eounorncsot by the late Sir Willis's Reid."

The Espa- Na of Madrid declaresthat the enthu-
siasm ehtch the provost of a War telth Manceo excites is
tackerrittattle," sad that loamy young men had tabu:airily
maimed.

It is stated that, notwithstanding the capture of
St:bawl, the CGOC•411111 is far from b-ing entirely subdued.
The Jerelode Rusts eonounurs that the moontelneers have
souther chief, mimed 'debunked Amin, not less latmod
sod fenatieol them Lamy% and who may still moist one or
too aviator,. The Rostiao army in the Cencesos, whirls is
rsomposed of 60,0110 tom, cosset he Mimed for some time to
comma

A telegram from Leghorn, received by a merean-
tlk h u•e to /tw•he.ter, aeys —" Seepend all order., ea
the Panamint, Lard is put in examine hen."

RIGI.Tp RFD LETTZ*II.—A corroopoodeot of
c,atensourary writes —"Om the 17th of September I seat to
toy wryest. Cleo I. .gird, from Ireland, a registered
letter, costaisieg • awls, for YU, and Wf-aotee for •
similar ism of m etty; that letter own worldly destinti
Ws. sad, alter tntliteg Inquiries ter a laded •f at heat 14
dorm, the recreAory to the Cameral Peat-etas le Dobbs
writes to mr. under date October fa •—' The latter I. 'lac.-
Ws sat duly t tsarded from Ile•try to the meting brtoeb
of ob.. d.lar twat, where it ••for'usately Oloysi I I b.
heave! et • restistered Ist.r, sad so farther trace MD sow
be thernerred.' If the shore b. trot, where is the use of the
regiitry .y.t.m. or ►"w es. war olNotolll of resittry be
elltemet, soles. the prate, Mc.. give large esearityr
LONDON GENERAL 01INIBCe COMPAXT
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ttiT•a). Trak ttreiyta fur the emit eliding Oct. 9
12,11021. Ito. 11d.

DEATH OF MR. ROBERT STEPHENSON.

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It is with sincere regret that we unmakes the
death of this eminent engineer, whoes Rams is inse-
parably connected with so many of the great enter-
prises of our times. Mr. Stephenson died yesterday
about noon, after a short illness, at his residence, 34,
Gloocester-square, in the 56th year of his age. From
a biographical memoir of him in the " English
Cyclopedia"• we learn that Mr. Stephenson was born
at Willington, Northumberland, on the 18th of De-
cember. 1803. We are told that his father, who had
felt toe want of an early education, resolved that his
son should not suffer from the same cause, and ac-
cordingly, though at the time he could il. afford it,
sent him to a school at Long Benton, and in 1814
placed him with Mr. Bruce at Newcaatle. Robert'
soon displayed a decided inclination for mechanics'
and science', and becoming a member of the New-1
castle Literary and Philosophical Institution, was
enabled to take advantage of its library ; so that, as'
the Saturday afternoons were spent with his father,
the volume which he invariably took home with
him formed the subject of mutual instruction to
father and son. Robert's assiduity attracted the
attention of the Rev. Wes. Turner, one of the secre-
taries to the institution, who readily assisted him in
his studies, and was also of much service to his
father, with whom he soon after became acquainted.
Under Mr. Bruce, Robert acquired the rudiments of
a sound practical education, and under his father's
direction wee always ready to turn his acquirements'
to account. There still exists in the wail over the
door of the cottage at Killingworth a son-dial of
their joint production, of which the father was always
proud. In 1818 Robert was taken from school aad
apprenticed to Mr. Nicholas Wood as a coal-viewer,
acting as under-viewer, and making himself tho-
roughly acquainted with the machinery and pro-
cesses of coal-mining. In 1820, however, his father
being now somewhat richer, he was sent to Edin-
burgh University for a single tension, where he at-
tended the lectures of Dr. Hope on chemistry; those
of Sir John Leslie on natural philosophy ; and those
of Professor Jamieson on geology and mineralogy.
He returned home in the summer of 1821, having
gained a mathematical prize, and acquired the most
important knowledge of how best to proceed in his
self-education. In 1822 he was apprenticed to his
father, who had then commenced his locomotive ma-
nufactory at Newcastle, bat after two years' strict
attention to the business, finding his health failing,
he accepted, in 1824, a commission to examine the
gold and silver mines of South America, whence be
was recalled by his father when the Liverpool and
Manchester Railway was in grass, and he reached
home in December,lB27. He took an active pert in
the discussion as to the use of locomotives on the line,
and, in conjunction with Mr. Joseph Locke, wrote
an able pamphlet on the subject. He also greatly
resisted his father in the construction of the anomie-
, ful engine, which wee entered in his name,
though he himself ascribed the merit entirely to his
father and Mr. Henry Booth, on whose suggestion
the multitubular baler was adopted.
Robert Stephenson's next employment was the
execution of a branch from the Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway, near Warrington, now forming a
portion of the Grand Junction Railway, between
Birmingham and Liverpool. Before this branch was
completed e undertook te survey and afterwards
' the construction of the Leicester and Swannington
Railway, and on the completion of that work he
commenced the survey of the line of the London and
Birmingham Railway, of which he was ultimately
appointed engineer, and removed to London. Under
his direction the first sod was cut at Chalk Farm on
June 1, 1834, and the line was opened on Sept. 15,
1838. Fully aware of the vital importance of ob-
taining good means of rapid transit, he still con-
tinued to devote much of his time to improvements
in the locomotive engine, which were from time to
time carried out under his direction at the manufac-
tory in Newcastle, which for some years was exclu-
sively devoted to engines of that class, and still sup-
plies larger numbers than any other factory in the
kingdom, independent of many marine and station-
ary engines. His engagements on different lines of
railway afterwards became very numerous, but he was
more remarkable for the magnificent conceptions and
the vastness of some of his successfully-executed pro-
)pets, such as the High-level Bridge over the Tyne at
Newcastle, the viaduct (supposed to be the largest in
the world) over the Tweed valley at Berwick, and the
Britannia tubular bridge over the Menai Strait—,
form of bridge of which there had been previously
no example, and to which, considering its length and
the enormous weight it would have to sustain, the
objections aad difficulties seemed almost insuperable.
With the assistance, however, of Professor Hodgkin-
' son, Mr. Edwin Clark, and Mr. Fairbairn in experi-
' meets on the beet forms of the various portions of
1 the structure, the difficulties were triumphantly over-
come, and in less than four years the bridge was
opened to the public on March 18, 1850.
Mr. Stephenson was also employed in the con-
struction of many foreign railways. He was con-'
salted, with hie father, as to the Belgian lines; also
for a line in Norway between Christiania and Lake
Miosen, for which he received the Grand Cross of the
Order of St. Olaf from the King of Sweden ; and
also for one between Florence and Leghorn, about
sixty miles in length. He visited Switzerland for
the purpose of giving his opinions as to the hist
system of railway communication. He designed
and was constructing the Victoria tubular bridge
over the St. Lawrence, near Montreal, on the model
of that over Menai Strait, in connexion with the
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, for uniting Canada
West with the western States of the United States
of America. It is not long since be completed the
railway between Alexandria and Cairo, a distance
of 140 miles. On the line there are two tubular
bridges—one over the Damietta branch of the Nile,
and the other over the large canal near Beaket-al-
Saba. The peculiarity of the structure is that the
trains ran on the outside upon the top of the tube,
instead of inside, as in the case of the Britannia
Bridge. lie was lately constructing an immense
bridge across the Nile at Kaffre Azzayat, to replace
the present steam ferry, which i
ts found to interfere
too much with the rapid transit of passengers.
In addition to his railway labours Mr. Stephen-
son took a general interest in public affairs and in
scientific investigations. In 1847 he was returned
as member of parliament, in the conservative in-
terest, for Whitby, in Yorkshire, for which place
he continued to sit until his death. He acted with
great liberality to the Newcastle Literary and Philo-
sophical Society, paying off in 1835 a debt amount-
ing to 3,1001. in gratitude, as he expressed it, fur
the benefits he derived in early life from that esta-
blishment, and to enable it to be as practically use-
ful to other young men. He most liberally placed
at the disposal of Mr. Piszzi Smyth his yacht
and crew to facilitate the interesting investigations
undertaken by that gentleman at the Island of Tens.
rife, and very valuable results have been obtained.
He was an honorary hut active member of the
London Sanitary and Sewerage C3lllMilillOtte j
Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the In-
stitution of Civil Engineers since 1830, of which in-
stitution he was member of council during the years
1845 to 1847, via-president during those from 1848
to 1833, and president during the years 1838 and
1837. He received a great gold medal of honour
from the French Exposition d'lndustrie of 1833, and
is said to have declined an offer of knighthood in
Great Britain. He was also the author of a work
"On the Locomotive Steam Engite," and another
"On the Atmospheric Railway System," published
in 4to by Weals.

• " Tba &Ninth Cyclopedia," oondacted by Chair
Kuight (Biography, Vol. N.). Bradbury and Evens.

Rertax or THE Rev. T. HINECY.—The Rev. Mr.
Blaney mann to England with 'hi. wail. He lectured for
the out time in Victor,. on Monday set ning last, the 16th
I Aug., in the Exhibition building, Mitloonrne, to an audience
d newly 3,000, who sat with Lnigibless •trention for three
boors li.tesiog to the teaching of this wonderful into. His
Eloallesty the governor presided, and et the cuumiu.ing of
the lecture delivered • feeling speech. The Hon. Mr. (ling-
uists, ettorory-genersl, reed an oddreas to Mr. Biopsy,
lecoudwl by the Hon. Dr Wilkie. .red prorated to thrm
litol■ll by Child Justice Sir Wilh,ou hburell. Mr. His-
wry ',turas bouts a new 121•13—pb 'wally and mentally re-
,ne.gorated. 1 mover maw his look Letter or beiird hun with
nor,. pleasure thus on Monday irgbt bet. If We visit bas
'lnci himself good, it hie also cosic•r-d vouch benefit nn
thitee colonies, as wee go imelimgly moulted by Sir Henry
Bully, in prnmotisz a 'twit of union, fal....rance, mod
brotherly kindotee amoingdifierust sections of lb. Christian
Church btre.—lustralkm and New Zealand Caulk.

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