The Express. — London, England, 1853-03-10 00:00:00

o r the onl:itary triban.thi was luminously debated, but no public investigation of the matter has taken p ee , to this day, and people are wholly ignorant whether the conspirators are transported to Cayenne without trial, whether they ore yet in prison, or at Large and again emp lo y ed u p on "a particular service." Th e forty fifty arrests of Feb. 6 were solemnly announced as a measure of public safety called for by s fearful c onspiracy. That affair has ended in smoke. AU but two of the conspirators have been released, maw of them, for the sake of !ippearances, having first been called upon to give bail to answer charges w hi c h will never be made. It was indeed be ' fiend and generally stated several days ago, that all the state prisoners of February 6th had been I - c l e ared, but it appears that Count a. CoCtlogon and m . vi rme itre, ot the suppressed journal, the C'orsair, me TO in custody. If it should turn out that these rnilemen are really guilty of . the heinous s in-offence o w ho s o Mittly were accost 41 it will be a curious stance of the efficacy of fishing for political prisoners with a cap:mita* , net. An estraorilinary instance of the exercise of arbi ow power has just occurred. Two shoemakers, ms ll Cliapital and Brayet, inhabitants of the Puy de Hume, were lately sentenced by an ordinary court dins:ice, the one to six months, and the other to two months' imprisonment for having been affiliated to a secret society. The minister of police, of his own thereauthurity,lMS asse nt ma decree directing that at xpiration of thei ence both these men *hail be transport' dto Cayenne for ten years. Yon will naturally think it impossible that in a country now professing to be regulated by a law see Oohs ideal shened possess the power so enormously to' increase the punishment awarded by the na tural judges of all citizens.. It appears, however, that by one of the dictatorial decrees made during the period when all laws were suspended on Decem ber 9, In.ll, power to transport for five or ten years ant individual, without ti Hal, who should have broken his ban, or " belmged to any secret society," was conferred upon the police minister. This decree re mains unrepealed ; .rod by an article of the coned tutim, although an act uf illegal violence when passed, it has now the force of law. The decrees of 14:4 are full of such traps. This decree was made at a moment when end war was raging. It is now —at a penal of profound peace and tranquillity — acted upon under circumstances to which it is mani festly inapplicable, to the monstroas extent of inflict ing the maximum of the arbitrary punishment in ad dition to a legal sentence. Sid el Hadj Ahmed ben Mohamed el Mokhrani, Caliph of Medlar's, in Algiers, lately came to Paris from Marseilles to pay his respects to the Emperor, on his return from a pilgrimage to Meets. He was created a commander ot the Legion of Honour on the occasion. On his was back to Africa, he died sud denly of apoplexy at Marseilles on Friday last, and his funeral oluequies were celebrated there with great military pomp. Lord Stratford de Itedeliffe, English ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, has just arrived in Paris, where he will only remain a tew days, and then proceed to Constantinople, sin Vienna. GERMANY. The telegraph informs us that in its sitting on the 7th, the Second Prussian Chamber rejected the third article of the law for abolishing the exemption from the payment of land tax at present enjoyed by the nobility. The abolition had been previously voted by the chamber; the article in question referred to an indemnity to be granted to the nobles, and this being rejected the government withdrew the bill. THE PANIC IN THE COURT OF VIENNA. The following is translated from a letter written by the present Archduke Rainer at Vienna, on the day of Libeny's attempt, to the Archduke Albert, re sident at Pesth:— FIB. 20. Dear Albert,—ln the greatest hasto I seize my pen to write two or three lines to you upon what has lately happened here. On the 18th I was sitting in my chamber reading, about half-past 12, as my Jager shed into the room and cried, " His Majesty is coming up stairs bleeding." I told him to get a basin and cold water, and was running out of the door when his Majesty entered. His first words were, "They've tried the Milan game on me at last." I was stunned when he showed me the handkerchief saturated with blood, which he took from the back' of his head. O'Donnell and I applied cold water, and afterwards I left him to continue the work while I went out for the nearest surgeon. The wound extended over an inch of surface, gaped, and bled very much. His Majesty's shirt was drenched with blood down to the hips. O'Donnell's handkerchief, as well as his, was full of blood. When all was in order I ran out into the town, found See burger (a physician) on the way, and told Urunne (the Emperor's chief aide-decamp and mignon). Dionne turned as white as snow, and could hardly As I was coming back Karl (another Arch duke)e came in, and was sent immediately by his Majesty to Sophia (an Archduchess, and mother of the Emperor). We then placed his Majesty in the carriage, and took him to the Bella:is. While I was applying the cold water to his neck his Majesty told me that he had received a shock on the head like that of a pistol shot, and that at the moment a flash like lightning darted across his eyes. The next moment as he looked round he saw O'Donnell who had got a man on the ground. O'Donnell told me that he suddenly saw a man springing upon his Ms jeelly with a knife, and at the same moment he sprang at the man and dragged him to the ground. [This does not agree with the prom verbal, according to which Libeny was aiming a second blow when captured.] His Majesty observed to me, "O'Donnell has saved my life." O'Donnell had already half-throttled the man when several people came to his aid. They were about to strike him, when his Majesty told them to hand him over to the guard. All was in a moment in commotion. The lines were daft& mili tary possession was taken of the railway station, the troops were consigned , and orders telegraphed for two batteries to be sent at ones to Vienna. I hope it ali goes well with you in Blida. CONDEMNATION OF PROFESSOR OER- (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII) MANNHEIM, MAacm 8. M. Gervinns has been acquitted on the charge of high treason, but convicted of seditious libel, sad sen tenced to four months' imprisonment His " Intro duction " is to be publicly destroyed. ITALY. 1110112 AUSTRIAN EXECUTIONS IN ITALY. The Opinione ofTurin quotes letters from Milan elk 3rcl, announcing that three persons were to be hanged at Mantua on the same day, namely, a M. Speri, of Brescia, an amnestied refugee • Count Mon team, of Verona, and the mitred abbo t of Revere, lisithirty. Twenty-five more have been condemned death or to twenty years hard labour in irons at *atm ; 108 more are still under prosecution. The court martial at Milan has set about sixty pri soners at liberty. To nearly the same purpose is the intelligence re ceived from Venice by the Trieste Gazette. Among the many . condemnations pronounced by the military commission of Vienna (says the Doha • Popoto) we notice the following: Anna Celzera, a young woman, aged 22, for in sulting expressions towards the military authorities and the German nation, twenty-five stripes with rods. Placido Sivero, for possession of a subversive com position, six weeks of arrest in irons. Gaetano Cisarini, Ferdinando Berne°la, and Andrea Conati, for having sung subversive songs, 14 days of arrest in irons, and in the case of Conati 10 blows with a stick. Pietro Guiso di Campofontans, for having held subversive conversations, forty blows with a stick. Francesco Tarmigioni, gentleman, for anti-political demonstrations and subversive expressions, three months of arrest in irons, with two days in every week on bread and water. The Piedmontese government denies, through its constituted organ, that any restrictive change in the laws regulating the press is intended. IrtERLAND. The .I*. f or ZuritshGL;clie orthe Pith states that the Arran troops on the frontier near Ticino have been reinforced, and now amount to 1300 men. SPAIN. The first act of the Spanish Senate is one of oppo- sition to the lioneali cabinet. In the sitting of the 2nd, it was announced that four of the new senators were about to take the oath, when the Count de Lu aus rose and protested against an act which was contrary to the regulations, as the Senate could not receive oaths until it was definitively eon , stituted. The President of the Senate insisted, alleging that ho had consulted the bureau, who i were of opinion that the reception might take place without waiting for the definitive constitu tion of the Senate. The Count de Lucena replied, and the discussion then assumed by degrees the impedance of a serious question. The Count de Vefle and MM. Hunt, Rodriguez, and Vahamonde supported the views of the President, and insisted principally on the point that the Senate being a regularly constituted body, it did not require, I like the Chamber of Deputies. to wait until a defi nitive constitution had taken place. On the subject being pal to the vote, it was decided that the four new senators should not be admitted until the bureau had been definitively formed. A ballot afterwards took place for the four secretaries, when M. Ruiz de la Vega, the Marquis de San Felice., General Messina, and M. Canter°, all belonging to the opposition party, were ekcted. TURKEY. The Vienna Gaulle contains intelligence from Constantinople of the 20th ult., according to which Admiral Prince Mcnzikoff, the Ruasian Commis sioner, had arrived at Constantinople. His mission concerns the still vexed question of the "holy places," and the Porte has resolved to propose the submission of the whole dispute between France and Russia, on the subject, to the mediation of Prussia. The Vienna Gazet'e should, from its official charac ter, be exempt from error on this topic. The King of Prussia has of late years maintained the best possible relations with the Porte, and, moreover, stands well with his relative Nicolas. But nothing has yet transpired to show that a quiet and honour able solution to the difficulty would answer the pur pose of the Czar. 151)e Court. Lieutenant P. A. Pleydell Bonverie, by Colonel Ben eerie. PRINCE, ALBEtttS LEVEE. Prince Albert held a Levee by desire of the Queen yesterday efiernonn in St. Junes s Palms. The Prices arrived coon after 2 o'chiek from Bucking ham Palace escorted by • detachment of the Life Chards, and was received at St. James•s Palace by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chotaberlain, and the Master of the Hors*. H. G. Boldero, M.P., es promotion, by the Mr. Bagley. Deputy Lieutenant of Laseaster, by the Earl Granville. Captain W. Birch, by Bir C. Wood. The Rev. Alfred Bummer, Chaplain to the Sheriff of Surrey, by Mr. Sheriff Grimell. Commander Arthur A. Cochrane, on return from foreign service, by the Earl of Discloseld. Lieutenant W. H. Clifton, by Major Palmer. Lieutenant Cuthbert, on his return from India, by lieu tenant-General Sir John Grey. Lieutenant J. W. Clayton, on promotion, by Lieutenant- Generrl lion. E. P. Lygoa. Mt. W. Carew Cocks, by the Earl Somers. Major larnaby Caine, on appointment to West Kett Mili.ia. by Viscount Sydney. The Rev. Walter P. Creyke, on going abroad as Chaplain to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, by the Archbishop of York. Comet J. A. Clarke, on appointment to 10th Hunan, by Lientenant•General Earl Beauchamp. Mr. Bond Cabbell, on his appointment as Deputy Lieu tenant, county of Middlesex, by the Marquis of Salisbury. Mr. Under-sheriff Clesbury, by Viscount Palmerston. Major Clarke, by General Sir Edward Harrison. Lieutenant C. H. Spencer Churchill, by the Earl of Shaftesbury. Mr. Cogan, M.P., by Mr. Maisel], M.P. Mr. Victor Drummond, by the Earl of Clarendon. Lieutenant Drummond, on return nem India, by the Earl Beauchamp. Cornet Davis, by Major Palmer. Lieutenant-Colonel Drought, on his return from foreign service, by General Sir Howard Douglas. Captain lion. Richard S. Dundas, R.N., on appointment to be one of the Lords of the Admiralty, by Sir James Graham. . . . Mr. Stratford Duodale, by Viscount Lewisham. Lieutenant do Moleyns, on return from foreign service, by the Inspector General of Fortifications. Dr. Chas. Douglas, by Sir C. Wood. Lieutenant Downes, on obtaining his commission, by Lord RdKlan. Lieutenant Wm. D'Arcy, by Sir Arthur B. Brooke, Bart. ' M.P. Sir Claude C. do Crespigny, Ban., by Sir John T. Tyrell, Bart., M.P. Lieutenant H. M. Douglas, by Viscount Drumlanrig. Lieutenant F. Byars Davies, on his appointment to the Grenadier Guards, by Sir Byam Martin. Captain Edenborough. on promotion, by Major Palmer. Viscount Eimier, by Viscount Combermere. Captain Elmslie, on appointment to thu Royal London Militia, by Coleus! Thompson, M.P. Governor Elliot, on his return from Bermuda, by the Duke of Newcastle. Mr. Esmonde, M.P., by Mr. Monsell, M.P. Lieutenant-General Eilin, on return from foreign".ser vice, by Viscount Harding.. Cornet Hugh H. Elliot, on lean of absence from India, yCidverndr Elliot. Cornet Fawcett, hp Major-General Jackson. Professor Edward - Forbes, by Sir H. Do la Beebe. Mr. William Roller Fryer, by Lord do Maule. Captain Fanshawe, R.N., on return from service, by Sir B. Martin. Captain Forster, by Major• General Jackson. Lieutenant Fitzmanrim, on obtaining his commission, by Lord Raglan. Cornet A. Fletcher, on appointment, 12th Lacers, by General Sir H. J. Cumming. Colonel Fludyer, on promotion, by Colonel Thornton. Lieutenant C. Flower, by Mr. Deeds, M.P. Cornet D. R. Gill, on appointment, 10th Hussars, by Lieutenant-General the Earl of Beauchamp. Mr. Thomas Gri.eell, by the Duke of Newcastle. Major Ormsby Gore, by Lieutenant-General E. Lygon. Lieutenant-Colonel Darby Griffith, on promotion, by Major General Money. Major Grime!), on return from India, by Lieutenant- General Lord Gough. Mr. Richard Gardner, by the Earl Granville. Lieutenant liardinge, 13. N., on return from foreign ser vice, by bin father. Captain Charles Hope, R.N., on his appointment as Cap tan-Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard, by the Earl of Iladdington. Mr. Illammond, by the Earl of Hardwick,. Major 11. Huddleston, by Sir C. Wood. Ensign C. A. Hand, b Lisotenant-Oeneral Kermit. Lieutenant Holdawort h, on obtaining his nommimion, by Lord Raglan. Captain Hirst, on appointment to the West Essex Regular Militia, by Roar-Admiral Sir George Wes:pbal. Mr. Frederick H. Hint, on appointment as Deputy- Li, unseat fur Es•ex, by Viscount Maynard. Mr. Samuel Hobson, lam Captain 10th Foot, on his ap pointment to be one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentle man at Arms, by Lord Foley. Mr. Horsfall, M.P., by the Marquis of 131andford. Second-Lieutenant A. H. Hutchinson, by Lord Raglan. Captain G. B. Hobson, by Sir C. Wood. Lieutenant Hartwell, on obtaining his commission, byLord Raglan. Colonel G. Higgins, on return from sonic* at Quebec, byLieutenant-Gonenl Sir Hew Rosa. Colonel Hankey, on his marriage, by his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambrilgs. Mr. Heathcotr, M.P., by Sir Gilbert Heathoots. Mr. Hansard, by Lieutenant-General Sir John Doveten. Commander Edward A. Inglefield, on his return from. a search fur Sir John Franklin and appointment to command an Arctic expedition, by Sir J. Graham. Mail' George Jenkins, by Sir C. Wood. Ensign E. S. Jervoise, on return from foreign service, by Lieutenant-General Sir T. 11'Mabon. Captain Hops Johnstone, R.N., oa return from foreign service, and appointment to Realm Hospital, by the Duke of Northumberland. Lieutenant Jervis, on promotion, by Lieutenant-General E. P. Lygon. Mr. Undorshenff James, by Viscount Palmerston. Dr. Thomas T. Kelly, on appointment of assistant-resident magistrate, Port Natal, by the Duke of Nswatallo. Mr. William Knatchbull, by Lord Portman. Captain George C. Knobs% by Liantonant-Gmenl Sandwich. Captain Kinloch, on promotion, by Colonel G. Thornton. Mr. Lister Kayo, on his marriage, by the Earl of Cotten ham. Cornet George A. Lowndes, on appointment Essex Yeo manry Cavalry, by Major Palmer. Mr. Morrell D. Longden, by Lord Rune. Mr. Lows, by Sir C. Wo od.i Lieutenant I. rederiek L. H. Lyon, by Lord Raglan. Major Edward Lake, by Viscount Harding.. ar Mr. W. Leslie, of Wthill, by the Earl of Aberdeen. Lieutenant G. L'Estrasp on promotion and return from foreign service in West India*, by Lord Raglan. Commander W. J. Lake, R.N., by Roar-Admiral Fan shows. Lieutenant-Colonel Lake, on promotion, by Lient.-Gene ral Sir H. RON. The Lord Advocate, by Lord Palmentan. Mr. O. F. Leslie, Member of the Legislative Council of Now South Wales, by the Duke of Nsacsstle. Colonel F. Loftus, on appointment to the command of tlis 3rd West York Militia, by Major-General Robbins. Lieutenant C. J. Mitchell, on appointment to the Royal London Militia, by Colonel Wm. Thompson, M.P. Mr. Charles Henry Mills, by his father, Mr. Charles Mills. Lieutenant R. Morton, by Lord Raglan. Captain D. Moffitt, on Mara from India, by Lieutenant.' General Sir A. Maclaine. Lieutenant Mitchell, by Colossi Hanker , . Dr. IL W. Macaulay, b Sir C. Wood. Commander R. C. Mit chell, R.N., on appointment to the Coast Guard, by Sir J. Graham. Lieutenant-Colonel Hors. L. Maul., on appointment to the office of linneyor-Genoral of tho Ordnance, by Lord Raglan. Lieutenant F. Mackenzie, by Sir C. Wood. Mr. A. Mills, M.P., by slier. Dyke Acland, M.P. Lieutenant Moore, On obtaining his omunission, by Lord Raglan. Lieutenant F. Xmas, R.N., on promotion, by Rear- Admiral the Hoe. F. M. Berkeley. Mr. Mulling., M.P., by Viscount Palmerton. Colonel D. Macleod, by Limt.-Gen. Sir J. L. Lushiagton. Captain W. R. Mends, It.N. on promotion and return from foreign service, by his tathir, Rear-Admiral Mends. Viscount Newark, on his marri age, by Earl Mancini. Lieutenant Nisbett, on obtaining his ootamission, by Lad Helm the Levee, Viscount Dalrymple, M.P., had an sadism* of his Royal Highness, and delivered up the Rib- bon and Rsdge of the Order of the Thistle held by the late Earl of Stair. His Royal Highness was attended by the Lord Chain- Milieus the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, the Vice Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the Household, the Marquis of Ormond', Lard in Waiting; Viscount Torring ton, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Bigness ; Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Keeper of her Majeily's Privy Purse ; Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Privets Secretaay to his Royal Highness ; Mr. It. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting to the Queen ; Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting to his Royal Highness ; Colonel Bou eerie, Equerry in Waiting to the Queen; and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ras, Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness. The Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms was on duty, under the commanded the Right lion. the Captain. The Lieutenant, Sir James Tyler, and Mr. Joseph Skip Lloyd, Clan of the Cheque and Adjutant, attended. The sub tilises, ilentenaut-Colonel Neill' and Major Cooke were she The Queen's body guard of the Yeomen of the card was on duty, under the command of Captain Bickford, the Elton in Waiting. The Diplomatic Circle was introduced, when the follow ing foreign presentations to Prince Albert took place By the Portuguese Minister, Le Marquis de Lou!S, Pair de &lawns, et Minktre d'Etat Honoraire. By the Brazilian Minister, Lieutenants Braconot and Matins, of the Imperial Brazilian Navy. The Diplomatic Circle was attended by the Count We isman, French Ambassador; M. Jules de Sane, Secretary to the Embassy, and M. Veillet, Attaché to the Embauy ; Baton de Cetus, Bavarian Minister ; Baron do Brunnow, Russian Minister; Le Comte Andre Bloudoff, Secretary of Lslation ; Lieutenant-Colonel Schwab., Royal Im perial Engineers, and Captain Shestakoff, Russian Na' Count de Kielmansegge, Hanoverian Minister; Cheva li er Bunsen, Prussian Minister; and Count Flemming, Csancll lor of the Legation ; Baron de Rehausen, Swedish and Norwegian Minister ; and Baron de Geer, Secretary of Le. nation ; Senor X Isturis, Spanish Minister ; and Mr. P. Sonia, second Secretary of Legation; the Marquis d'Azoglio, Sardinian Minister; the Marquis Mummer d'Azeglio, and the Marquis Oldoini, First Secretary of Le • gation; M. Tricoupi, the Greek Minister ; M. Musurus, Turkish Minister ; Eased Bey, First Secretary; end Thie ne Effendi, Secretary Interpreter of the Legation • Baron Bentinek, Netherlands Minister ; Count de L;vradio, Portuguese Minister ; the Chevalier Pinto de Soveral, Secretary ; M. F. F. de la Flutist, ' Attache to the Lege . tion ; and le Vicomte d'Alte ; M. Maeedo, Brazilian Minis ter; Prince de Carini, Sicilian Minister; hi. de Bills, Danish Minister; and Count Reventlow, Secretary of Legs ' lion • Count Colloredo, Austrian Minister • Mr. Ingersoll, • Uni te d States Minister; and Mr. Tresoot, geeretary of Le . goat% ; the Earl of Clarendon, E.G., the Queer's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Atfsirsi and Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. The a rsal circle was afterwards introduced, and was asis the e Lord President, the First Lord of the Tres aney, the Isis of Lansdowne, Lord John Rueell, the Illenetarlas State foe the Home and Colonial De *, ,First Lord of the Admiralty, the ad War, the Marquis of Anglesey, Oil in Visiting ; General Viscount Combeee Olostable of the Tower and Lord Lieutenant of tie J<raee Hamlets ; Bishop of Oxford, Lord High AM** ser a Leal Avian, Master-General of the Ordeals's; Lard 71111 Comptroller-General of the Eseltenteart the 4 Arabes, the Vice-VW:atelier Ifnegenloy, Themes lisifeetra, /C.C.S., Secretary is tke us lati t it= Lord Alfred rept, Clerk Marshal ; Hew. Hoed, Clerk )(modal to Paws Alberti Limilesrandkilled Hoe. Robert Boyle, Gnosis Waiting W tile QOM ; ilk George Lee, Liesteseed - G ef the Tames ef the Gnarl: ing ibe MOM Has. Cecil lbws. the, Sliver finest is Welles ; IfeWkneral Beek. My; Menem to the gems ; Uestenait Coked the flea. Alexander Gordon, Equerry to Prince Alberti Colonels H. Bentinck, Broke, and Pennefather, Aid.-M. Culp to the Queen; )(ajar Hamar, Standard Bearer of W Mos. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Anne ; Sir George Halley Entfin and K. S. L., Principal Painter of History sel l Perm& in Onlinary to her Majesty ; Sir William Mardis, Osetleman Usher to the Sword of State; Mr. Nome Maedesald, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Dee parlous% ; Lieutenant Colonel Fitunsurice, Adjutant ef W toomea of the Gaud; Captain Grant, Been of the Ifeemen of the Guard ; Mr. Siegerich Knelt, Com' for the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin ; Mr. Albert William Weeds (Lancaster Herald), Gentkmaa Usher of Use Order of the Bath; lir. Perlman (Clarinseeux), Mr. Alfred Montgomery, and Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Gentle ' =IS Ushers; Dr. Lyon Flaytair, C. 8., Gentleman Usher to Prises Albert ; Captain 0. C. Blake, R.N., Gentleman Usher is Prince Albert in Waiting; Lieutenent-Colonel Stephens sad Mr. Wilbraham Taylor, Gentlemen Ushers to the Queen ; Bares Knaselseek. The following gest/sum had the bosom of being re sented : Sir Archibald Alism ea being created a baronet, by the Earl of Benton and Wintoe. Mr. Joseph Arnoeld, by Lord Honeys. Lieutenant Anderson, to his return from India, by Sir C. Wood. Emirs Abercromby, by his father, Sir Robert Aber trashy, Bart. Mr. J. N. Abbott, by Mr. Warner, M.P. Mr. Abercromby. of Birken bog, by kis father, Sir He bert Abercronsby, Bart. Commander Aldllars, on return from foreign serene, by Sir J. Graham. Lieutenant Anstruther, on appointment to the Grenadier Guards, by Colonel Thornton. Captain Anderson, on re-appointment to Royal Homo Artillery, by Lieutenant-General Sir Hew Rom Captain Armstrong, by Sir Edward Bowater. Colonel Barnard, on his appointment to the command of the Monmouth and South Wales District, by Viscount Harding.. Lieutenant E. Stopford Blair, by Lieutenant-General the Hoe. E. P. Lyre. Cornet John Brosnan on his appointment to the Esse: Yeomanry, by his father, ' MT. Bramaton, M.P. Colonel Beresford, on his appointment to Commandant of Chatham, by Viscount Hardier. Mr. Boothby. on his appointment as Second Judge of the Ss eEme Court of the Colony of South Aintralia, by the ef Newcastle. Bateman, on his appointment as Lord Lieutenant of lienfordshire, by the Earl of Derby. Lieutenant-Colonel Piercy Bents, on return from foreign service, by Lord Reran. Lieutenant F. E. B. Beaumont, by Colonel Jones Lieutenant Hervey Bathur,t, on appointment to Ore soldier Hoards, by Colonel Thornton. Lieutenant W. H. Shiny, by Colonel Sir Charles Hop kiwis& ant C. Buckle, by Sir C. Wood. ent a nset Bowlby, on return from India, by General Sis Richard Bourke. Ensign Clinton Boyle, by Lientenant-General Hon. Hugh Arbuthnot. Viscount Boyle, on his appointment as Attaché to her Werety's Mission at Vienna, by the Earl of Clarendon. t....a.u. Ne. Alfred Buckley, by his father, Major-General xr. John Bridgeman, by the Earl of Bradford. Rye's. Captain Sir R. Newman, But., on appointment to Grenadier Guards, by Colonel Thornton. Ensign J. P. O'Loghlin, on appointment to 95th Regt., by Lieut.-General Sir A. Maclaine. Ensign J. W. B. O'Loghlin, 27th Regt., by Limit,- Geneial Sir W. Napier. Mr. Okeover, by Lord Guernsey. Mr. Ralph Oakden, on being appointed Deputy Lieute nant of Kent, by Earl Cowper. Lieutenant A. V. Palmer, on his promotion, by Major 0. Palmer. Major George Palmer, Commandant Essex Yeomanry Cavalry, on his promotion, by Viscount Maynard. Lieutenant-Colonel Palliser, on appointment as Assistant- Adjutant-General Royal Artillery, by Lord Raglan. Lieutenant-Colossi Noboru's, on appointment as As. sistant•Director.General of Artillery, by Lord Raglan. Mr. Peacocke, M.P., by the Hon. Colonel C. B. Pilling. Captain Walker Pitcairn (Trinity Hones), by Captain John Shepherd (Deputy Master). Cornet H. L. Payne, on appointment 9th Lancers, by Lissitanaot-General Sleigh. Mr. ?Quinton Pipon, on appointment as Deputy-Lieute nant the county of Sussex, by the Duke of Richmond. Admiral Sir Sam el Pyle, on promotion, by Sir J. Graham. Sir Erskine Perry, late Chief Justice of Bombay, on his return from India, by Sir C. Weed. Lieutenant-General Reeve, on his appointment to the 01st Rediment, by Viscount Harding°. Mr. P. F. Robertson, M.P., by Sir James Matheson, But., M.P. Mr. Ross, SoNcitor-General for Canada, by the Duke of Newcastle. Mr. Bendel, P.R.S., President of the Institution of Civil Ecaineers, by the Earl of Yarborough. Mr. Hamilton Roe, by Captain Stuart. Lieutenant Thomas Saunter's, on appointment to the Royal Yacht, by Lord Adolphus Fitsclarence. Major T. Seaton, by Sir C. Wood. Captain H. Stedman, on return from India, by Lieuto naattleneral Sir W. otton. Mr. John Stapleton, by Lord Beaumont. Lieutenant. Fitzroy Somerset, on return from service in Canada; by Lieutenant. Raglan. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY- EVENING -MARCH 10, 1853 Linitessut Sinege, on obtaining his trouentirsien, by Lord Raglan. Lieutenant Still, os obtaining his commission, by Lord Raglan. Mr. D. R. Smith, by his father, Mr. J. Smith. Bari Spinner, on his attaining the rank of Rear-Ad mind on the R escued List, by the lint Lord of the Ad miralty. Mr. Abel Smith, jun., oa appointment to the liens Teo manry, by the Earl of \ ennui. Major R. Taylor, by Viscount Rardinge. Corset Joseph Tartan, on appointment to 16th Lancers, by Viscount Lewisham. Dr. Tice by Major-General Wetherall. Linden:at R. Trower, on return from India, by Liente naut-General Brotherton. Mr. Thos. A. Teller, R.N., on promotion, by Sir James Graham. Lieutenant W. F. Taylor, by Sir J. Pakington. Ratio R. W. A. Torckler, by Lieutenant-General Ber keley. LientenantHeneral C. Turner, on promotion, by Vis count Hardinge. Mr. Smyth Wyndham, by Sir J. T. Tyrell, Bart, M.P. Colonel INhinyates, on appointment to the command of the garrison at Woolwich, by Lord Region. Captain C. Wytrill, R.N., on being appointed Naral A.D.C. to the Queen, by Sir J. Graham. Captain P. Watlington, on promotion, by Major Palmer. Captain Weston, by Viscount Ilar&oge. Hon. Wm. Wellesley, by Colonel Bentinck. Lieutenant-Colonel Wyndhans,on appointment us Keeper of the Jewels, by the Lord Chamberlain. Mr. Charles James Whitman, by his brother, Mr. Whitman. The Hon. Charles Wrottealey, oy Lord Wrottesley. Major Wilkie, by Sir C. Wade. Dr. John White, by Sir C. Wood. Mr. &heard Wallerstetn, Consul• General for the Re publics of Guatemala and Costa Rica, by the Earl of Clarendon. Lieutenant Wyllie, on obtaining his commission, by Lord Replan. Captain Robert Warden, by Mr. C. Cumming Bruee. Mr. Samuel Whitbread, M.P., by the Duke of Seaford. Lieutenant V. A. Webber, by Major -O I F. Swart. Colonel W. Watkins, on return from India, by Sir C. Wood. Le Chevalier Don Mariano de Saluda, by the Spanish Minister. COLLISION AND LOSS OF LIFE ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. BRISTOL, MARCH 9. This morning intelligence was received of another fatal railway accident having occurred within a short dis tance of this city, upon the. Bristol and Birmingham branch of the Midland Itiilway. It was ascertained that a col lision, which had been attended by the loss of two lives, and the serious injury of some other of the passengers, had taken place. The down north mail, which is due at Bristol at 6 a.m., upon reaching a sharp .curve near the Mangotsfield station, about five miles front Bristol, from some defect in the engine, broke down, and came to a stand still. The engine driver and stoker instantly got dr the engine to put matters to rights and ascerta'n the cause of the stoppage, and while doings°, the shock of a fearful collision was felt th roughoutj the train. It was found that au engine, which had gone up to Gloucester in the night with the goods train, was returning to Bristol, when not antici. paling any obstruction on the line, and the morning being very foggy, it ran into the mail train, which was at a stand. still on the line, with considerable violence, completely smashing the two hinder carriages, in which there were several passengers. Assistance was immediately rendered by the guards and paoisagers in the other carriages, and, spin ceasing away a portion of the debris of the carriages, it waa found that two of the passengers had been killed and about four others were more or less injured. The wounded passengers were removed to the George Hotel, Bristol, where they received assistance. The following is a list of the persons killed and injured : Mr. Thomas Jones, Gloucester killed; Mr. Wm. Antill, Gloucester, killed; Mr. James Moreton, injuries about the head ; Mr. Bennett, Post-office guard, head and face se riously cut; Mr. Chas, a foreigner, severe injuries of the ankle; Mr. Henry Thompson, fractured arm and other injuries TIM FATAL RAILWAY ENGINE EXPLOSION NEAR MANCHESTER. The Coroner's inquiry into the deaths of the four men killed by the explosion of a locomotive engine, on Tuesday, at the works of the London and North-Western Railway Company, at the Longsight Station, neer Manches ter, opened yesterday, before W. S. Rutter, Esq., coroner, at the Waggon and Horne Inn, Longsight. The names of the deceased are Thomas Gresty, fitter, of Gorton ; James Snowdon, boilermaker, of Manchester ; Wm. Black, boiler maker's assistant, Gorton Brook; and James Moore, boiler maker's assistant, of Ardwiek. Mr. Heel* of the firm of Slater and Beetle, solicitor., of Manchester, was present on behalf of the London and North-Western Railway Company, accompanied by Mr. Harrison, in.door superintendent; Mr. Ramsbottoos, the locomotive superinteudent ; and Mr. Ellis, the resident en gineer. Two of the directors, Mr. Wm. Rawson and Mr. Edward Tootal, were also present. The Coroner observed that in this examination the jury would have to endeavour to ascertain whether the accident was the result of the unlawful act of any individual, or gross negligence, or whether it was entirely the result of accident. It would he necessary to have some competent person to make an inspection of the boiler, and for that purpose the inquiry would be adjourned after the hearing of the erinesse which was now ready. The jury then proceeded to view the bodies, and also the scene of the accident, where the fragments of the engine had been left undisturbed lisle the accident. Francis Wheatley, of Hyde-rood, Manchester, foreman of general repairs at the Longsight station of the London and North Western Railway, said, I have been empLyed there seven years. I have been foreman for the last seven months. About 50 or 60 men are generally employed thew in the locomotive department, exclusive of smiths. The , four men who are killed were employed in the locomotive 'deportment. Thomas Oresty was the turner; he was about 36 years of age. Moore was 24 or 25 years old ; Snowdon about .22. The accident happened about five minutes to nine on Tuesday morning. I left the shop at lull pat eight to go to breakfast in Hyde-road, seven or eight minutes' walk. The engine was then standing over the departure, pit, in the shed, ready to go on to the main line. It was to go as • pilot engine to the Standedge tunnel on the Huddersfield railway. I did not see whether the steam was up. The engine was No. 1, built 12 or 13 years ago by Messrs. Sharpe, Roberts, and Co. It had been brought to be repaired about three months ago. I superintended the repairs. It le usual with me when I place an engine into a man's baud, in write a report of what a man has to do, and I gave instrnee l Lions in writing in this instance. John Richmond had in do these repairs. The eccentric gabe were to be filed out, the rocking shafts new ferruled, new bushes for carrying the valve spindles, the reversing lever rod, quadrate, its., refitted up; new lifting suede for the back gear eccentric rods, tha lithe ground out, connecting rods repaired, pistons repaired, new axle boxes, donee joint to be made, firebox safety-valve ground, three new stays in the firebox, new tires upon driving wheels, and fresh pair of leading wheels! These repairs were done &speeding to may orders, and to Saturday last. I examined the work as it was going on. I considered the engine quite fit for work. I den% remember how long it is sins it was in work. It was not powerful enough to draw a train of the present magnitude, but it has been put to assist other engines. The spring balance was 70 lbs. to the square inch, but the engine was seldom run at More than '5O, because it was not necessary to screw it down lower: It might have been mewed down to 70, in whith case the valve would be closed. •It is the duty of the fireman of the steam-shed, John Richmond, to press it down. He had to adjust it to 50 on Saturday. When we tried it on Monday, I believe it was above 50. We consider it our duty to go ourselves with an engine on its first trip lifter repairs. We noticed nothing wrong. Oa Monday morning it was blowing off the steam. I am constantly looking over the repairs during their exe cution. I have seen the engine sines the explosion, and I believe that over pressure caused the accident. It is my improonan that some one had been fingering the valve. On Monday morning the paint was somewhat damaged, and two of the painter's lads, George &holes, was sent to make it good, and he distinctly says he saw the engineman, Ed ward Herron, screw the valve down. Hefron was much Injured by the explinion, and I have heard this morning that he is dead. The engine was under the power we now usually employ. I considered the boiler quite sound and good. We can ascertain by sounding whether any of the stays are broken. Two or three stays in the fire box were put in in this caw, and all were found tight en Monday morning. I did net consider that the stays looked unsound, though old. Tiro iota oxidises more than the copper. The length of doe whisk the stays will endure depends on the quality of the water. Herron had been employed two years as en gine driver, and bad been fireman before. John Walker Richmond, engine -maker, employed at the words at Longsight, said—l have been employed in repair lag this engine. A great:portion of the work had been done before I commenced. I received my instructions a month ago from Mr. Wheatley. I had men to assist me. The re pairs were completed on Monday morning. I have been employed above three years at work on locomotive engines at these works. I considered the repairs efficiently done. The engine was taken into the steam shed on Monday. I mw the steam up on Mooday afternoon. It was blowing off at both valves. There wee a leakage at the dome joint, which I was called to remedy. I set the dome joint valve to 501 be. on Monday evening, which I consider a safe pressure. I did not notice the valve afterwards. I had to connect the parts together which had been worked in the shop. The fitting and turning had been done before. Heron took the engine out to try it on Monday. Hefron was with the engine when I last saw it, about ten minutes before the explosion. I was in the news room when it occurred. It was possible for some one to screw down the valve to stop the noise, hut I never knew such a thing being done. I believe it to be the duty of Mr. Rigg. the foreman of the steam shed, to see the steam got up, but lam not sure. There were several per sons about the engine when I went to the news room. I left the safety-valve over the tire-box loose, for the men who got up the steam to shut it down. I put in the three new stays ; all the others were tight. The stays in the water space were very little corroded. The thread screwed in the fire-box war defective. I generally find that the iron oxidises most. I have no opinion how the accident happened. If the valves had not been screwed down kowto thaw 40, there weld cat have hoen as implesiou. I believe Henry Buxton has to look after the nifht fires. There sienna appointed to get up the steam; it ts not the duty of the engint-man to get op the steam of the engine which he takes out. I considered it au old engine, but I can't my whether it was able to do its work or not. I believe the three new stays are in now. We should here detected by the sound if any of the stays were cracked. If a stay wad weak there would be a bulge inwards from the pressure of the water and stems. I don't consider it a bad place where there has been a bulge, when a new stay is pat ie. meg,' Scholes—l had to scrape blisters off the fire-box and boiler at half-past six o'clock yesterday morning. The steam was then up. The fire was in and the steam blown off. I remained till ten minutes to 9, then I went into the paint shop. Some of the boiler makers were about the engine with Hefron, eating their breakfast. He (Hefron) screwed the valve ou the fire-box down. lie got on the top of the boiler when I was there. lie got on the foot-plate several times when I went away. The steam was stopped when I went away. He went from the foot-plate to the top of the valve when he had strewed down the valve. I did not notice the figure he screwed it to. It was about 2i minutes to 9 that he screwed it down. I never saw him alter it afterwards. Mr. John Itigg is the foreman over the steam. I can't say where Hefrou was when I left the engine. The explosion took place about seven or eight minutes after I left. I had to finish the painting before I went to breakfast. The engine had been quiet for some time before I left. She was making a great noise before Helton screwed the spring-balance down. I heard no one complain of it. . . _ Taylor said—l am a labourer, and look after the clearers. 1 was breakfasting yesterday in the shed, at the pillar neat the engine, about 12 yards from it, when the explosion occurred. It was about nine o'clock. I saw Hefron, the ougineman, oiling the engine and examining the motion on the same side as 1 was on. The steam was blowin; off considerably at the funnel. At the fire-box valve it was only puffing slightly at the come. The ex plosion occurred after Herron had eroe.ed to the other side. The fireman came to rake out the ash-pan. I saw four boiler-men get off the engine when Hefron was oiling it. 1 did not see the bay who was painting. I did not see Hefren screw the valve down. Black, one of the men killed, was one of the men who came off the engine. The engine was brought on the pit about half-past eight. Robert Tab- Icy got off the boiler. George Schofield hail charge of the engine at seven o'clock. Henry Buxton said—l look after the steam getting up in the night. lam engineman. I had orders to have the engine which exploded ready by eight o'clock in the morn ing. I got the engine at nine o clock at night. I went to it at three in the morning and examined it. I found a little water in the boiler, and filled it up to the top. I examined both the safety valves. The one at the big dome was at 60, and the one over the firebox, on the footplate, from 55 to 60. 1 did not alter them, because I thought that was about right. I told John Blinston, the man who puts the area in, to put the fire in at 5 o'clock. Then I went to look after another pilot engine. I never looked at the en gine after a quarter to four o'clock, when I left it. I was not on the premises when the explosion took place. Mr. Rigg gave me my instructions. Before I went away I sent for Hefron. John ltigg—l an an outdoor foreman at these works. Before the engines go on the line they come under my care; and this engine did so on Monday, about nine or ten o'clock in the morning, when it was brought into the steam shed. We then had to prepare her for steam. I gave Hefron instructions to get her lute steam, and she was iu steam from 2to 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The steam was blow , ing off, and the valve was down at 50 to 60. I found the dome joint bad, and did not think proper to send her out. The fire was pulled out, and the joint was repaired that night. I left the men making It good when I went away at night. I saw the engine about half-past six o'clock next morning, and did not notice it particularly till half-past seven. There was a fire in then, but no steam. The valves on the dome was then screwed down to from 50 to 60 lbs., and the other valve was rather lighter. Helton was then in charge of the engine. He was Instructed to get her ready to go to the tunnel. I saw it again about twenty-five minutes past eight, when it was blowing off at the tire-box valve very fast, but not uncommonly so. I did not notice the other valve at the time. liefron was in the act of coupling the feed-pipes. I told him to get away as soon as he could with the engine, and get back in time to take As quarter-peat one train out. There was no one there but Nadia and a painter's boy, and all was right when I left Os my breakfast, about 20 minutes past 8. I did not re turn till the accident had happened ; I should have been dose to the engine if it bad happened five minutes later. I aside close to the railway and heard the explosion. When I got back the men were getting the bodies out. The men I saw pulled out were under the ruins. Both Hefron and algae, engine men had been warned not to have too high pressure on. I think the engine was calculated for the pressure it was in'ended for. A portion of the roof fell. I seat say whether the men were killed by the roof falling. I considered Helton a prudent driver. I thought the en gine was safe at a pressure of 60. 1 have been at the works about four months. I think the cause of the accident was excessive pees are, because when I returned from breakfast' the dome valve was screwed down to the bottom of *esker, when the steam could not blow off at anyeweesure. It was US if there was no valve at all. The lare-hme valve was blown off. The inquest was then adjourned till 3 o'clock this (Thurs day) afternoon, in order that Mr. Fairbains, C.E., and Mr. Richard Roberta, of the firm of Sharpe and Roberts, the 'oaken of the engine. who had made an inspection of the engine since the accident, might attend to give evidence. Several of the jury expressed an opinion that it would be desirable, after that, to adjourn again, in order that a government inspector might make an examination of the ✓emains of the engine, and give evidence as to the cause of the explosion. Edward Hefron, another of the sufferers by the explosion, who was the driver of the engine, died yesterday morning, at the Manchester Infirmary, from the effects of the inju ries he received. He had sustained a compound fracture of the right leg ; and was severely scalded on the right thigh, the face, and the head. The inquest on the body will probably be held to day, before Mr. Herford, the armee fur the borough of Manchester. ANOTHER STARTLING ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER. At an early hour yesterday morning, the exten sive plate and jewellery shop of Mr. (Meant, Exchange street, Manchester, was entered by thieves, and plundered of property variously rumoured to be of the value of 2,0001. to 2,6001. The premises are at the corner of Exchange street and St. Mary's-gate, with the principal door opening into the former at the corner, and a smaller door opening into the latter street from the room or shop in which watches and jewellery are taken in for repair. There are three shop windows looking into Exchange-street, and under the furthest is an upright grid, opening on hinges, through which the shutten are put into the cellar during the day. It was secured by • rusty old padlock. The thief his picked this lock, descended into the cellar, and from thence obtained access, by the staircase, into both the shops, through the unfas tened doors. It is supposed this man let in con federates through the shop door, in St. Mary's-gate (which had been opened by taking off a lock inside, and drawing • bolt only), and that when the booty had been secured, thee° parties had been let out there—for the bolt was shot back, though the lock was not restored—the leader escaping into the street again by the way he had entered. The glass cases on the counters of the sale shop, as well as the drawers and windows, have been cleared of all the smaller and more valuable jewellery, including 81 gold watches, makers' name " 011ivents ;" 30 gold brooches, set with amethyst, topaz, carbuncle, &c.; 250 gold guard riags, 2 signet rings set with blood and white cornelian, and black enamel ; 30 gold Albert chains, 50 gold seals, SO gold watch keys, 10 gold thimbles, 6 sets of diamond shirt studs, 200 gold pencil cases, some with gold pens, 24 dozen .silver teaspoons, 00 gold guard chains, and ether property. The shop was locked up at half-past eight o'clock on Tuesday night, and the robbery must have been effected between that hour and 4:o'clock yesterday morning, when it was discovered. It seems that no one sleeps in the shop, but that the porter (a man named Kay), his wife, and two female servants, sleep in the upper end bock part of the premises (third and fourth stories), at a considerable dis tance from the shop. In the cellar beneath the shop, a large dog, of the terrier breed, is always kept; and his watchfulness and loud barking, on the slightest noise on the onside of the premises, are matters of notoriety to the police on that beat. Besides the regular night police on the beat, the shopkeepers of Exchange-street and St. Ann's square maintain amongst them a private watchman, who patroles that limited round all night. Under these cir cumstances, it seems scarcely credible that Mr. 011ivaat's premises cauld have been entered from without, and robbed in the manner described. We have not heard that the police have any clue, but it is a remarkable fact that Mr. Beswick, chief superintendent of the detective force, had called on Tuesday evening and left a caution with Mr.ollivant that the town was unusually full of thieves, who were arousing at the public-houses which are their regular haunts, and that it was desirable such a shop should be well looked after during the night. A man states to the police that he was passing Mr. 011i vant's shop yesterday morning, between four and five o'clock, when a tall man (about six fret high), wearing a long coat, came out of the door into St. Mary's-gate, and, closing it after him, went through Exchange-street, and Bank-street into Craw-street. lie appeared to have something heavy in one of hie pockets, which weighed him to one side. This man was no doubt one of the robbers; hut unfortunately the person who gives this information, after following him into Cross-street, and seeing him approach a watchman coming is the opposite direction, contented himself with the reflection that the man might be a private watchman, and turned away without mentioning his first suspicion to the police watchman approaching him. It will be recollected that Mr. 011ivant was robbed a few weeks ago of 1451. iu notes, by a thief rushing into the shop and seizing them from his desk, as he was counting the day's cash receipts in the evening. The numerous audacious robberies recently committed in this town, with those at Stockport and Mac ; cleslield, have caused a deep sensation in the public mind. DEPARTURE OF THE AMERICAN MAlLS.—Yeater day forenoon, shortly after 11 o'clock, the United States mail team ship Atlantic, (7.irtaia Wcat, sailed from the Mersey for Nsw York with the usual bi-weekly mails, 44 passengers, and a large and raluablo cargo of merchandise on board. LlTElt.titY - FUND. • • The anneal meeting of members of the above In. stitution was held yesterday at the offices. Great Russell street, Sir }LIMIT ELIA* presiding. FfORI the Trea surer's Report it appeared that the receipts for the past year hai bees—Newton estate rents, 2081. 181. 3d.; ' dividends, 6691. Os. 8.1. ; subscriptions cad donations, 1,04.51. ffs. ; balance from past year, 2961 3.8. 4d.: total i 2,4191. 91. sd. Of the disbursements there had b e en forty-nine grants for relief, 1,3101.; rent, 1401.; were, tary:s salary, 2001.; anniversary taysrii bill, 1391. 75.; ,a us ,cfa n a, 71. is.; with other lesser items, makiug in al 1,9261. 10s., and leaving a balance for investment of 2031.5. ' ...5.1 and in handl299/. 14.. The accounts having been rea d and approved of, the following satisfactory revive of the affairs of the institution for the lest fourteen yam was submitted and approved of. The total income duels th last 14 years has exceeded the total income of the 14 preceding years by 7,4301. 14.. The total expenditure during the same period has increased by 2,816/. 3s. 11d. The inereasd of the, receipts has therefore exceeded the increase of th expenditure b) 4,6011. 19s. Id., being at the rate of 3281. 17s. 11d, per annum. The subscriptions and dona tions hare increased by 3,9901. 3.. 2d. ; the dividends and rests by 3,1935. 31. 41. The money funded from ordinary receipts, exclusive of legacies, by 1,919/. Ils. 9 I. ; the grant. by 3,0791. 13s. The dinner of loth cost 1391. ss. Gil. ; that of 1811 cost 1461. 1 la. Adding to these sums the fulleh-re of the printing, stationery, advtalising, end incidental expenses, it appears that by the sale of tickets, the cuntri; buttons of stewards and hmorary visitors,anil idiier dona tions directly traceable to the dinner, exclusive of the Queen's b. nefavion, and of all other annual subscriptions, the dinner of 11931 produced a clear profit of 5131.21. 6.1., and thatths dinner of 1912 produced a clear profit of 557/. 16e. Id. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society was held yester day at the rooms of the Institute of British Architects, Lower Grosvenor-street. Mr. Sydney Smirke ' A It.A., President of the Council, was in the chair. The following is an ab stract of the report :—ln the report the directors express their satisfaction at the position of the society, and congra tulate the members os the progress made ; aud in proof of prosperity the favourable balanceeheet is referred to—the list of subscribers having increased in the year closed by 14 per cent. During the year 11 donations have been received, and, according to the rule pursued, these have been invested without deduction in the public fonds. But as the recent favourable season, rendered more favour able by the extensive emigration, must be regatekd as ex ceptional, it is anticipated that in future periods the de mands will be inure numerous than up to this time they have been on the aid and sympathy of the society ; and hence the committee urge that there should be ne relaxation in exertion. The leper: proceeds to notice with regret that the council have not yet received that co-00010n from the provinces on which they ultimately rely; and members resident in Lyndon are therefore requested to avail themselves of their correspondence with the country to urge the claims of the society on the profession. It is urged that the charity at command is exercised without reference to locality, tied that provincial appli cant. are placed on the same footing as London cases. The general prosperity of the profession et this moment is spoken of, and providence and generosity are, in conclusion, recom mended. The chairman moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by Mr. A. Poynter, aud carried una nimously. Mr. Tite, as treasurer, then stated the accounts to the meeting. The balance-sheet, closed up to the 31st December ult., showed the former year's balance at the banker's to have been 341.195. Id.; the donations during the year closed, 591. 16s. 6d. ; the subscriptions, 1841. 165., which, with dividends, 131. ss. 44., made the total receipts on the year 2921. 16s. ltd. • while the expenditure, inclu sive of donations, 514, an d cash invested in the funds, 74, showed a total of 1921., leaving the present balance at the banker's 991. 19s. 7d. The amount of stock (Three-and-a- Quarter per Cent. Reduced Annuities) possessed by the so ciety is 4,G1 . Ils. 6d . The auditors report having been adopted, votes of thanks were peered to Mr. 'rite, to the collective ceuncil (Mr. G. Mair responding), to the retiring auditors, Messrs. Gardiner and Hunt, and to the hon. secretary. There was a final vote of thanks to the chair man fur his conduct that day, and the meeting then : broke up. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Last night a public meeting of the working-classes of Finsbury was held at the Britkh School Room•, Cowper street, City-road, in favour of opening tho Crystal Palace;on Sundays. Mr. PRIDELUX. was unanimously called to the chair. The CRAIRMAN said they had determined to act in a dif ferent manner to that of previous enoetiegs, and allow any I person who might think proper to discuss the merits of the question. It had been asserted that the Crystal Palace Company had furnished funds for carrying on this move ment; hat this he most unequivocally denied. It was en tirely conducted and carried on by working men them selves, who were advocating a step in the progress of civil liberty. (Hear.) Mr. C. NICHOLLS said there were men who seemed to think that nothing can be done in the way of refinement and morels unless it had religion attached to it. This was not a religious question, but purely a moral one. It was one that would require no legislation if it were not for some old act of parliament that stood in the way. The mass of the middle sad working classes did not go to church or chapel on Sundays. They took advantage of ezeunion trains, chartered their pleasure vans, and went to tea gardens to seek for wholesome recreation of their weary limbs. (Hear.) And yet, because the Crystal Palace is built to enable them to have a more noble and refined recreation than they had at present, they were told that religion was to be overturned and annihilated. Recreation the people would have, whether the palace was opened or not; and he believed that those who now clamoured so much is favour of religion undervalued it in a way which would be injurious to it with the people at large. He con cluded by moving—" That in the opinioa of the meeting the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays would give to the working classes an opportunity of spending that day in moral recreation and usefal enjoyment, and would thereby promote great improvements in the habits of the people, producing a more moral employment of the day of rest than is now resorted to." (Hear, hear.) Mr. Batt/ seconded the resolution. I Mr. DENNISON proposed an amendment in terms directly opposed to the resolution, but the meeting expressed its disapproval by frequent interruption , . Mr. NEWTON, an engineer, supported the original resolution. The CHAIRMAN then put it and the amendment to the meeting, when the resolution was carried with but few disseutients amidst tremendous cheering. A petition to parliament in favour of opening the palace on Sundays was then adopted, and received a large number of signatures. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. The half-yearly meeting of proprietors took plate yesterday, at the Euston Terminus ; Mr. PRTO, M.P., in the chair. From the report, which was read by the secretary, it ap peared that the total income of the railway for the half year ending December 31,1862, amounted to 97,8091. lls. 6d., that of the corresponding half-year in 1851 having been , 85,3471.6 e. 7d. ; while the charges in the former period amounted to 66,0021. 6s. 10d., and in the latter to 40,7821. 6s. 4d. Under the head of steam-boats the receipts in the half-year of 18.52 were 8,7341. 65. 7J., and the charges 7,3981.2.. 71. ; in that of 18.51 the receipts were 9,9511. Is. 81., and the expenses 6,8051. 12s. Id. In. the last half-year the number of passengers was 307,257, the tonnage of goods 103,264 ; in the corresponding period of 1841, them items were rispestively 262.743 and 90,513. The gross increase of receipts from traffic was, the report said, 11,2451. Bs. 10d., the increase on the railway being 12,4621. 4s. Ild., of which a portion must be attributed to the opening of the line from Bangor to Carnarroo.. 8 de crease of 1,2161. 16s. Id. appeared on the steam.boat re ceipts, but the comparison u respected 1861 was with a period during which the attractions of the Great Exhibi tion were drawing an unusual number of passengers to London compared with the proceeds of 1850, the results were satisfactory. The increase of expendi ture during the half-year amounted to 14,2201. ; but ander this bead were included two items, which did not appear in the corresponding entry for 1851, being the amount estimated to be payable to the Bangor and Cunarvon Company, and the extraordinary charges incurred in opening the Irish merchandise traffic. With respect to the latter item, the directors, with the view of developing the resources o f line, had resolved to extend to goods traffic the system of through booking, which had heretofore been confined to passengers. In carrying :tit their views the directors had received cordial co-operation from the London and North Western beard, but not from the directors of the City of Dublin Stestu Packet Company. The accounts showed a gross balance lo the credit of reve nue of 44,7461.45. Id. ; et, deducting 23,7731. 105. 6J. as interest due on debentures, s nett balance iit 20,9721.135. 7d.; from which the directors recommended that a dividend of e., on and - after the 21 st instant , an d that the Se. 3d. Per 11 10 .'re should be declared on the first preference shares, p belly.ete should be carried over to the next half - year. able A Puoratirrog inquired why the dividend was to be only Bs. 3d., when the balance would give 90. 9d. ? The CHAIRMAN said the directors would leave the ques tion to the meeting. A motion was then carried for declaring a dividend of 9s: 9d. ; and, with that alteration, the report was adopted. The retiring directors were re-elected ; sea Mr. E. Humble, of Liverpool, chosen auditor in the room of Mr. Prevost, deceased. The meeting terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman. THE SECOND WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL INSTI TUTION, entitled "The Wellington and tiuited Service," seems likely to equal, if not outstrip, the one promoted by the ex-Prime Minister, since its object is not confined only to the officers of both services, but is intended for the relief of veteran soldiers and sailors of the Fast India Company's service, their orphans and widows, and the intention of the promoter, is to erect an asylum, with almshouses attached, bearing the name of " Wellington." The " men-at ' arm."—the work'ng soldiers—certainly seem more legiti mate objects of charity than their more arist icratic leaders, who as a rule find their way into the service on the strength of their purses. Ipur - Mc. ,ck !f at for A ;vats Kitt :.um- cl to i, it LOS,. have li of