The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-07 00:00:00

Vbe Court.

WINDSOR, JAN. 6.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning
in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took walking end pony exercise in the
grounds around the Castle.
His Royal Highness went out hunting_ this morning,
accompanied hy the Duke de Nemours, and attended by
Lon; "awn: I r unoy ace i;oloael F. ii Seymour.
The Bishop of Manchester arrived at the Castle this
nada&
The Royal dinner party this evening includes her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highness'. the
Duke and Duchess de Bemoan, Lady Fanny Howard,
Baroness de Spetb, the Bishop of Manchester, Colonel Hon.
C. B. and Mrs. Phipps.

JAN. 6.

The Queen and Prins Albert walked this morning in the
Slopu.
The Royal Family took their lung airings.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her
Royal Highness the Priam& Royal, the ladies aad gentlemen
of the court and the domestic household attended divine
service this morning in the private chapel. The Bishop of
Manchester preached the sermon, the prayers being read by
the Hon. and Rev. G. Wellts6y.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also attended
the service.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
visited her Royal Matinees the Duchess of Gloucester at
Gloucester-home on Saturday.
His Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse
honoured the estaalishment of Mr. C. F. Hancock with •
visit on Saturday.
The Lord Chancellor will sit at Lincoln's Inn on
Friday next, the first day of Hilary Term. The judges and
Queen's counsel will not assemble at his :ordahips residence
:Afore going to court on that day.

Ills EXCELLENCY COCNE SCIIIMMELEENNINCK,
plenipotentiary to his Majesty the King of Rolland, em-
barked on Saturday morning at the St. Katharine-wharf, on
bound the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-
ship Columbine, for Rotterdam.
COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS.—Thomas Horne, Req.,
Attorne•General at Van Diemen's Land, is promoted to be
I'uianeJude
cf the Supreme Court in that colony, vacant
by the removal of Mr. Montague ; Valentine Fleming, Esq.,
Solicitor-General, succeeds Mr. Rothe as Attorney• General;
A. C. Stonor, Esq., is appointed Solicitor-General in the
room of Mr. Fleming; Francie Smith, Req., is appointed
Crown Solicitor for Van Diemen's Land; Sidney Stephen,
Esq., is appointed Judge of the Supreme Court at Ottago,
New Zealand ; R. T. Jarvis, Esq., is appointed Superinten-
dent of Convicts at Bermuda; Algernon Montague, Esq., is
appointed Stipendiary Magistrate at the Falkland Is.ands ;
S. Fraser, Esq., is appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate in
British Guiana.— Observer.

COLONIAL CHANGES. • From g source on which the
most perfect reliance may be placed, we are enabled to state
that Sir H. Smith, the hero of Aliwal, defied and defeated at
the Cape of timid Hope, will very speedily arrive is Eng-
land. The gallant governor is in very bad health, arising,
it is said, from mental causes, and his return is at
his own desire, and not at the wish of the Colonial-e,ffice.
We have reason to believe that no successor has yet be, n
named ; and probably the backwardness in doing so arises
from the necessity that is felt of altering measures as well as
men. Two more changes in the colonies are also whispered ;
but the greatest change, and that very speedily, will take
place at home.—Sunday Times.

APPROACHING MARRIAGES LN HIGH LIFE.

Wears enabled to announce the following approach-
ing matrimonial alliances in " high life."
We understand that a maniage is shortly to take place be-
tween Lord O.eulaton, M.P., son of the Earl of Tankerville,
and Lady Olivia Montague, only daughter of the Doke o:
Manchester. The fairfahae is in her 20th year.
A marriage is arranged to be solemnised shortly between
the Hon. and Rev. Walter Peneonhy, third surviving eon of
the late, and brother of the present, Earl of Bessborough, and
the Lady Louisa Eliot, only daughter of the Earl and
Countess of St. Germans.

The preliminaries are definitively settled for the marriage ol
the Hon. Oeo. T. 0. Bridgman, second son of the Earl of
Bradford, and Miss Bagot, daughter of the Bishop or Bath
and Wells and Lady Harriet Begot.
Major H. E. Fane (4th Dragoon Guards), eldest son of the
Rev. E. Face, Prebendary of Lincoln and Salisbury, and
cousin of the Earl of Westmoreland, will shortly lead to the
hymeneal altar Miss Williams, daughter of Sir Jas. Haenlyn
and Lady Mary Williams, and niece of the Earl Fortescue,
Lord Steward of t cr Majesty's II ousehold.
The nup•ials of the Hon. Sareh Copley, eldest daughter of
Lord Lyndhurst, and Mr. Selwyn, son of Mr. George
Selwyn, of Down Hall, Essex, are to be celebrated in a few
dive, when Lard Lyndhurst will give a grand d.jraster to a
select circle, at his lordship's residence, in Gcorge street,
Hanover. square.
The precise day is not yet appointed for the marriage of
Mr. J. Tollenrche, M.l'., and Miss Duff, daughter of the
late Mr. James Duff and the late Lady Renolesham, and
consequently step-daughter of Lord Rendlesham, M.P.
The marriage of Mdlle. Mary Suellen, daughter of his
Excellency the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, and
Mr. Jahn Harfotd Battersby, &dem sots of Mr. A Harfned
Battereby, of Stoke Park, near Bristol, is to be celebrated in
town, but the day for the wedding is not yet determined on.

THE GORHAM APPEAL.—The Judicial Committee
of the Privy Council will give judgment on the appal of
Mr. Gorham against Bishop Ptapotts, on Tuesday week.
It is reported. says tne Weems Times, that 1 ord Lang-
dale, Lord Campbell, Judge Parke, and Dr. Lushington
are for Mr, Gorham; and that Sir Knight Bruce and the
Right Hon. Pemberton Leigh are for the bishop. The three
spiritual lords unite for Mr. anthem.
M. COBDEN AT SHEFFIELD.—Mr. Cobden pur-
poses visiting Sheffield on the 22nd inst., when he will submit
to his financial and parliamentary reform friends an outline
of the measures which, in conjunction with Mr. Bright, he
has made up his mind to submit for adoption by the lcgisla-
lure during the approaching session of parliament.
A PROTECTIONIST's CONSISTENCY.— MR. DIN-
RAMA HAS RAMS) HIS RENTS. —B. Disraeli, E•q ,
M.P., is at this moment receiving an advance of about tis
per acre upon his farm land. Two of his tenants have let
th-ir farms. He will not, however, abate one single far-
thing of this 6s. per acre advance. Sir Robert Peel may, if
he chooses, come down 20 per cen.., and the agricultural
interest may be in such n fix that land is becoming useless
lumber, but it is nevertheless a bread fact that the mighty
alarmist himself recently purchased land from the executors
of the late John Norris, Esq., of Hughendea House, upon
which he is now receiving the advance we have stated.
The rental of the farm occupied by Mr. Abnhain Gillett
was raised no less than 501., and Mr. Redrup, the present
occupier, is r.quired to pay down the increased amount. II
this is false, Mr. Disraeli will be pleased, p: rhaps, to come
to the County Hall on Wednesday night, and c mtradict it,
face to face, with Mr. Cobden. It it is true, as we declare it
to be, then farmers may judge of the sincerity, patriotism,
amid eloquence of the Bradenham hero.—Buckg Adrertsser
and Aylesbury News.
THE ORIENTAL COMPANY'S STEAMER SULTAN,
Captain Brooke, arrived at Southampton yesterday, from
Cmistantinople, Malta, and Gibraltar. She left Malta on
the 26th ult.; and, owing to her leaving that island before
the arrival of the Alexandrian packet there, she br,mght a
heavy snail from Malta. Amongst the ear= of the Sultan
, is specie to the amount of about 40,0001. The Sultan left Gib-
raltar on the Ist inst. Her Majjeaty'a steam sloop Janus
was in Gibraltar Bay. The British steamer Hellespont ar-
, rived at Gibraltar on the 30th from Liverpool, having made
her passage in five days and a half.
TYPOGRAPHICAL WIDOW, ORPHAN, OR NOMINEE
FUND.—The fiat meeting for the enrolment of members in
this newly•formed Benevolent Institution took place on
Saturday evening last, when ab nit 400 compositors, by
their names and subscriptions sanctioned its principles. We
s =deists= the committee anticipate a large accession of
I members on the following meeting nights, which for the
, present, will take place every Saturday. The great import-
, mice of self-reliance is rapidly gaining ground amongst the
working elaistes of this country, and it should therefore not
f be surprising that the compositors of Laadon, the men whin
s energies are taxed for the information of the reading public,
should be of the first to establish a society for life insurance.

STABBING BY A BOY.-00 Saturday afternoon two
lads, named Smith and White, in the euip;oyment of Mr.
Robins o, cigar manufacturer, Cross-lane, St Dunstan's. hill,
quarrelled. and grappled with each other. After a short
struggle White said, "If you don't let me go I will stab
you, and immediately fulfilled his threat, by stAbing Smith
in the &Monica with a knife, which he took up from a
bench. The wounded lad was taken to St. Thomas', Hos-
pital, where he now lies, and Whitn is in custody.
11111SDES OF THE COMMANDER OF TILE F.GTPTI.4,N
Srearaa SIIAIRIE.—We are informed that Haus Bey,
the Commodore of the Bhatkie, has been sent to the White
Nile—i. e., to banishment ; which was speedily followed
by his murder, as customary in such eases. The alleged
ground of this, and of Bey's degradation, is the long time
that the Sharkie was detained in England to have her
engines fitted, the expense consequent thereon, &c. The
punishment is most unjust, for neither the Egyptians nor
the engineers who fitted the engines were able to dispatch
the work in the time required, owing to the great pressure
of engineering work in England at the time the ship was
here. The whole seams to have been instigated by intrigue.
Hanle Telegraph.
LOLA MO,ITES AND unit HUSBAND.—ESTRACT
OP A Lentos VOWS CADIZ, plc. 27.—L01a Montes and Mr.
Heald have bcon hero for the last tea days. Th. y came from
&Melons. She is much attend and aged, nut so good-
looking as when here in 1842. Her temper is nut at all im-
proved, end her delight seems to be to keep Heald in the
greatest terror and dread of her. Heald made his escape
with his Hagliali servant from the hotel laments (where hey
wen staying on Christmas morning), and is supposed to have
gone to Gibraltar. Lola was furious. She wilt in a French
steamer that evening with her two friends, foreigners, who
are in her p irty, to Algeciras, and sent laments and another
man by land; so that if Heald does not succeed in getting
on board the Paths, she hopes to cateh him It is rep TOW
on good ity tn-day that Heald hen ensb.rktd this
morning •n hoard the Paths, at d he will now be einshird to
reach England in safety, and no doubt feel grateful to his
aunt for all she hag done for him. The Waterer states that
Mr. Heald has arrived in London, and put up at an hotel is
Cork-atreet,Budington-gagan.

THE FINANCIAL REFORMERS AZ
THE ARMY.

. Up, Otuu•dp, aLd at them."

St. James's-street is in a state of intense exelte.
ment : the gentility of the army is in danger. The
aboliti n of commissions purchase, the adoption of ei
system of examination of candidates for commi•nioas,
and though last not least the curtailment of the
ieges of the Guards, threatens we army µliii kin in-
road of low-born and consequently vulgar officer,
The alarm trumpet has been blown vigorously and
sonorously by that intensely genteel organ of the
military a mills the British Army ii•epqed,
and West End Courier. In his exasperation the
champion spares neither enemy nor snap d friend.
His giant indignation can only tied vent in broken
and distorted imagery. He labours like a Pyt./.osen
and like " pale mouthed prophet dreaming." .

THE ICE IN THE PARKS.-ACCIDENTS
AND LOSS OF LIFE.

The general thaw which set in on Thuridsy pre-
vailed during Friday, but on Saturday morning the rear,
carry in the thermometer fell considerably, and dune g the
night was as low as 28, four degrees helow freezing
This sudden change in the weather caused the is in the
various ornamental waters in the royal parks, which Cain'
the [receding days had partied, broken up, to become awn"
united. The ice, however, was far from being sat:, tea;
porion under the immediate surface being wiceedina:y
rotten, and boards announcing that fact were stuck up a 1.,.
the several banks in the parks, which it was tap 'I w•oul
have deterred any one from venturing upon the sm..
However, several thousand persons amused themseiv.a eer•
leg yesterday upon the frozen waters in spite of the eecit,
The members of the skating club mustered in stror a num.
ben during the dey upon the log water in Kensinetch.
gardens. Amongst the parties who appeared to astonish c.
epectators uy his graceful evolutions, was a soil of Cap...,
Stevens, who cut figures on the ice of Turks' caps, ince,
boats, &c.
On the Serpentine a respectably attired young man, . •
was skating on the south side, near the aqueduct, broke ,
and became immersed in 12 feet of water. Superint. nl.
Murphy, and iceman Deze, immediately proceeded t, •
assistance. He was nut got out until he had been tr • .
four minutes under water, avid was quite dead. Tie • .;
was conveyed to theßoyalilumene Society's receivine'n•
where prompt remedies were applied by the surie,re
without effect. The body wee then removed by the •
chial authorities to await the inquest, and also to he
From letters found in his po. ket, and the marks e;,
apparel, hie name is supposed to be Thomas Du ytoo
In the Regent's-park the ice was also in a eanger,o. • •
dition, but, notwithstanding its surface during the e.se
'Refined by nearly 20,000 skaters and slides ; hatini) •
one slight accident from immersion accurred.
In Si James's-park, where the ice was equally on.„•
number of esters and sliders was :computed at 1,.s •..
course of the clay. There were about six accident, o ••
bresk:ng of the ice, none of a fatal character; hart a,. •
vet three o'clock in the afternoon three youths lor - • •
16 feet water, and were with considerable difficul•v ,
and conveyed to the Royal Humane Society's
where eventually they recovered so as to be able to ;.:
home. Shortly after four o'clock, although every en •
had been made to clear the ice, event again got o• • •
suddenly the ice at the sat end, near the
Ouar•.e, gave way in several parts. Seven •
broke into a depth of nearly nine feet of water • .
cases were of a very serious nature, and were a. !
Charles Stratford, of 2, Old Burlington-strtet, ear.
being under water nearly four minutes, was no • .
iceman Martin, and conveyed to the marquee w:.f •
apparent signs of lila; after receiving stimulants, - •
and the exertion of Mr. Surgeon bl.Cann's assistaa . • -
covered; but it was not until nearly 7 o'clock in
that he was well eno.:gh to be removed home. is
Carter, of 3, Cocks-court, Belvidere. road; Thome. (1
tireat St. Andrew's-street; T. Brown, of 71, M ..• • .•
street, Cavendish-square; and Cowles Robins., •
Dudley-street (the latter in attempting to save ode. r. •
much exhausted and benumbed from the length •,
were beneath the water; and Mr. Deputy P :••
whom thes were chiefly rescued, was in the ws., r
in such efforts for nearly eight minutes. The wh,..
received the same attention as tie muskeg,
with equal succe.s.
At Dane o'clock last evening ,he mercury was ral
ing, counteracting the slight relaxation of trost•; •
about midday (when the sun was shining with e. •
limey): Cons. quently the roads near Hyde Park
vicinity, and in :he suburbs of London central:3.. •
come as slippery as glass, which occasioned *es.,
accidents by the falling of horses. In the
tVaterloo. road was in so dangerous a state that it a .
necessary to cover it with fresh gravel to enable st•
vehicles to proceed to and from the South Western 1.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

ARE DRUNKARDS MADMEN ?—On Saturday
ing an investigation took place bi tore Mr. Wak.e.
the Thatched House, in the Lower-road, Islington. •
relative to the death of Edward Wilkinson, age
the following facts were elicited :
According to the evidence of the deceased's u.
been a drunkard fur more than twenty years, and
ported himself by hawking fish, relying on her
principally for a home arid other comforts. In A,.
he first complained to her of ins iv, and, notwi...•
every care on her part, he died on Wednesday las
to his demise he behaved in a very strange and w.. :
and she was desirous of baring him under c 'ate
workhouse, but Mr. Pearce, the surgeon of the psr.•
no: certify that he waa insane.

Mr. "ilkley seeing that gentleman in the c
him why he did not give • certain to of the uc. u:.
the man's mind ?—Mr. Pearce replied that he cm
a deficiency of intellect, although he uw him s.in
during his illness.
Mr. Wakky.—His wife has sworn that ke was 1..
and I hold that ‘ll such characters are mad, and •
placed in confinement. No one poaseased of a rat;
will get intoxicated.

P,Arce.—lt I were called on to certify in
there would be a clearaueeof ball the neje hbourt

Mr. Maktey.—The evil is rest and •.,
lamenttd. How. ver, I have no hesitation in u!
such unfortunate individual' ought to be coctin.d is
I ut. ics.

Mr. Pearce.-1 don't know what sort of a bu...
would construct, or when you would find spare e
erect one.

Mr. Waleley—Punish them thee (or a few Say.
on 'Felt and rater.

Mr. Pearce—You mutt bear iu mind, sir. th
to certify unjustly in a case of in<inity I shoidd m
liable to a penal/ of 1001., which I am sure we
forced were I to do u you wish. .

Mr. Wakl. y-1 contk.nd that yr u would be it:s.
Mr. Pearce, in answer to a further question by
said he had prescribed ined!eime and food to •

until orde rerd by the relieving—l:WT.B;W.; a,•

Utter.

--
Mr. Wakley kutonished)—Why, you ao not
that you, the medical (Mate, us dictatid to. a• 1

. •
to nice, and what to giwe, to the unfortunate pA
your care =—Mr. Pearce said he certain.] was :

mentioned,

Mr. Watley remarked that such OVUM
monstrous, adding, that in the Mouse of Cu, -..
other riaces for felons, the surgeons had
pre•crilve to its sick inmate/ whatever his pati,nt r.
Atter some other remark.. the jury agreed wi"- '
ner, that the power of parish surgeons should he at.
in ordering tor the itilicted poor, and in returnt,e
Natural death," said that Mr. Pearce had ren.rr,
assistance that his orders from the ,114r,listi toe.
allow him.

Tin FATAL Acctnaar turf Taff EAST LAN Sc
IiAILWAI.—On Friday an inquest was bed on tae
those who suffered by this accident at the Railway
short distance from the Maghull station. Aker the ••
viewed the bodies, they proceeded, accJmpani,^
coroner, to that part of the line where the accident •-•
and, by the ea of a well-ezecuted plan. provided
way authorities, were enabled thoroughly to widen'
pmitions of the diftkrent lines, points, sidinp.
carriages, Se., when the melancholy occurrence re.,
Mr. Rocking. general manager of the railway.
on behalt of the company ; and Mr. Nertill. 4 • '
this town, who was a passenger is the train a! •
of the accident, ales attend.d to watch the •ro
and give evidence. The first witnesses etsmn•,
Thomas Spencer, husband of 3 onion Spencer. an,:
of the other deceased, Jahn Spencer: 'S
another brother; and a nephew of the same
purport of their evidence was. that they. with the 2.
le.t Liverpool on New Year's-oa. to visit Wine
near Onnskilk. on their r. turn, in the evenine. ti '
all seated in out compartment of the cortiage. en •
ceeded as far as Maghull, a pleasant
occurrence described above took pt ice. Frern the -
etate they were in from the effects of fright an' •
the loss of their relatives, they were un.ble to
clue to the cause of the accident,
of time, distance, fog signals, &c. Richard l•
barrow, who was with his wife in sloth
partment of the carriage, and by jumping
trots
ill k the tatter oleo was killed,
-...ed, gave similar evidence. `•
side, the station master at libighull, was calamine!. o
j transaction of moving the train from the siding. &:
u respect to the luggage train, he said he WY cat sa-a-'
bring due ; but upon hearing the whistle, he •-:7••••
precaution available upon the ran, rgency--the usu.
signala red light) was shown up and down the I.' •
himself went forward with a red signal lanthore
thing appeared to have the slightest effect upon t!
for ho passed the station at a furious rate, earn •r-
-him the empty carrigge about being en"
the Liverpool train, and not stopping "'•
four hundred yards beyond the station. r,.'"l
drnes of Samuel Robinson, the guard of the
i train, it appeared that he was at the Maghull
pr per time, but that the lu g ge train was an !I-
hilt before it. time, and that it was travelling s. t '
forty miles an hour, when, by the regulation' e'
pray, right miles an hour is tke opted at
should be p •ftsel by thews trains. At the slat '; •
wituo.'s en.iitinatioh, the coroner adioutnA

and direr rot the police r at'endance I
custody this driver of the luggage train, Mo.'.
been present during the pi °carding', but who !..•
terror ate It! mantissas, and seemed to treat the
lightly.