The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-25 00:00:00

Vbe Court.

WINDSOR, hit. 24.
The Queen and Prince walked in the Home Park
this morning.
The Prince of Wales and Prima Alfred enjoyed the
version of skating.
The Prioress Royal and younger royal children took their
moil exorcist
Msyor•Qeneral Simpson arrived yesterday afternoon, had
the honour of dining with her Majesty, and returned te
Loudon this forenoon.

A Cabinet Council (summoned to meet at 2 o'clock]
was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office,
Downing-street. The ministers present were the,
Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquil
of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmer-
ston, the Earl of Clarendoo, Sir George Grey, the
Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, Earl Gran-
ville, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir Wil-
liam Molesworth. The Council broke up at 10
minutes put 5 o'clock, and the Earl of Aberdeen
immediately left London for Windsor Castle, to have
lan audience of the Queen.

A deputation had an interview yesterday with Sir Beals_
name Hall, President of the Genstarßoard of Health, at itf.
office, Whitehall, from the District Surveyors appointed
under the Metropolitan Buildings Act. The deputation
was introduced by Mr. Thomas Alcock, M.P., and consisted
of the fodowing gentlemen :—Professor Donaldson (South
Kensington District), Mr. Pownall (St. George and St.
Giles, Bloomsbury), Mr. Clutch (Paddington), Mr. Kendall
(St. hintin's-in-the-Fields and St. Anne, Soho), Hr. God-
win (South Islington), and Mr. Hesketh (Bermondsey). •
A deputation from the Psddingt n Vestry, also Lad an
interview yesterday with Sir Benjamin non at the office of
the General Board of Health, Whitehall. The deputation:
caudated of Mr. Churchwarden Baylis, Messrs. Kemshead,
Bunlem, and Lambert Jones, and Lieut.-General Peter Do
N Motte, attended by Mr. Frederick Aveling, Vestry Clerk.
The Belgian Chargé d'Aff.ires had an interview yester-
day with the Esrl of Clarendon at the Foreign-office.
Despatchea were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the West India Colonies.

Among the officers returning to England in the
Harbinger are the gallant Sir Thomas Troubridge, who loet
both his legs et lokermann, and Captain Macdonald, of the
06th, who received in the same battle no less than 17
wounds, of which 16 were by the bayonet.

Yesterday, a deputation of district surveyors
under the Metropolttan Buildings Act, introduced by
Thomas Aloock, Esq., M.P., and consisting of Professor
Donaldson, Mr. Pownall, Mr. Clutch, Mr. Kendall, Mr.
Godwin, and Mr. Hesaeth, waited upon Sir Benjamin Hall,
the President of the Board of Health, with reference to the
allegation contained in a letter of the secretary of the
board to Lord Palmerston, of their having omitted to take
sufficiently stringent steps with regard to cellar dwellings
and nosious trades. They pointed out to him the imper-
fect nature of the data upon which the letter was founded,
and the incorrect interpretation given to them. They pro-
ceeded to show that the requirements of the act as to cellar
dw clings did not give the district surveyors the powers at-
tributed to them, and that no instance have occurred of
illegal establishment of new noxious trades and businesses,
the continuance of the said ones being permitted by the ex-
isting law till 1874.

We regret to learn the death of the Right Hon.
Sir Thomas Franklend Lewis, Bart., M.P.—a gentleman
who has for nearly forty years filled various offices of trust
and honour. Rs was a commissioner of inquiry into the
Irish us in 1821, and into that of Great Britain and
Ireland from 1822 to 1825; Secretary to the Treasury in
1827 ; Vies• President of the Board of Trade in 1828 ; Trea-
surer of the Navy in 1830 ; chairman of the Poor Law Com-
mission from 1834 to 1839 ; and a commissioner to inquire
into the turnpike outrages in 1843. Sir Fraokland Lewis
represented Beaumaris in parliament from 1812 till 1826,
Ennis from 1826 to 1828, Radnorshire from 1828 to 1835,
and Radnor singe 1847. There is now a vacancy in the re-
presentation of the last-named borough. Sir Thomas is
succeeded in the title by his son, Mr. George Cornwall
Lewis, formerly Secretary of the Treasury, and now editor
of the ledisbut glt Review.