The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-09-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PRINCE ALBERT'S FIRST RAILWAY JOURNEY IN ENGLAND.—Prince Albert travelled on Thursday, for the first time, in England. An express arrived at Windsor Castle, by the Great Western Railway, bringing intelligence that the Princess Augusta's illness had assumed so alarming an appearance that it was feared she would survive but a few hours. Her Majesty immediately urged the Prince to lose no time in proceeding to Clarence House. Accordingly an especial train was ordered to be in readiness to convey his royal highness to Paddington at three o'clock. At that hour the Prince arrived at Slough, where a train, to which waN attached the Sunbeam engine, with its steam well up, was awaiting his arrival. The Prince reached Paddington in exactly 23 minutes, and his journey back occupied 22 minutes. His royal highness more than once expressed the great delight he experienced at railway travelling. DISCOVERY OF CdlNs.—A gold refiner, in the neighbour. hood of Clerkenwell, lately purchased a quantity or old gold and silver, and, upon examining his purchase closely, after the person who had sold them had gone, he found amongst it some extremely rare Greek and Roman coins in a very fine state of preservation, amongst them were three "espasians, two Julius Caesars, and one Titus ; there were also some very curious English ones amongst them, particularly one Alfred, several William Rufus, Stephen, Richard 1., &c. Whether these are the produce of some late robbery of some collector or not we cannot state; the purchaser says the seller was a most respectable looking man. On Wednesday an inquest was held at Faannet, county of Donegal, to investigate the circumstances connected with the death of a female found buried in Ballikinard bog. It appeared that while some men were occupied cutting turf on Friday evening, the 21st ult. they discovered the body dressed in a dark stuff gown, and flannel petticoat, with a scarlet handkerchief round the head. The wretched woman had evidently been barbarously murdered, as her throat was cut in a most frightful manner, the hair, and a riband encircling the head, stained with blood, and the left arm broken. Several witnesses were examined, who clearly identified the body as that of Betty Thompson, wife of Owen M'Swine, deceased, who suddenly disappeared in the month of May, 1811, under circumstances of a most suspicious nature. It had always been rumoured in the neighbourhood from the time she had been missed, that the body had been buried in the bog after she hid been murdered, by the parties suspected, though, strange to say, no search was made, nor did any investigation ever take place. It was really astonishing to see. a human body, for thirty years inhumed in a bog, with the lineaments apparently perfect and unchanged as the day the unfortunate creature was murdered ; and the clothes of the deceased were Aninjnred by time. Even the smallpox, with which she was slightly marked, was clearly discernable, from the powerful anticeptic qualities of the bog. The figure was fully propor• tioned, and the limbs perfectly elastic and finely formed. with beautiful dark hair flowing down the neck, as if veiling from the eye of nature the horrid deed of an unnatural assassin. The jury found—" That the body was the body of Betty Thompson, who disappeared in the month of May, 1811, and that she came by her death in consequence of a wound inflicted on her throat with some sharp instrument, by some person or persons unknown."—Derry paper.