The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-09 00:00:00

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Till iIiNCROPOLIS Gas ACT AND TNI CITY or
Lennox—lt is proposed to introdows an ad in the ensuisi
smith to moth the Mtherlltan Goo tht, so ea to exclude
the tllce of Lidos sad its libeetlep. Sawdust with the
Chartmed. Cheat Csstasl, City cd ladilem sad other emu-
=siseek ppllytes lee Oily with gth from he one mkt
sod to vest tbe power exclusively in the Com-
sothionth 4*
_Sawars, whose jurisdiction extends over the
paving ail RAU" of the City. According to the existing act
W parties amiliothed to act for the consumers of gas and
the pablie lighting in the City the designated ea •• the local
nitherby," and as these terms are condoled as intended to
Mein& the Metropolitan Board of Works, thetas; and
district boards, the amendmeet is deemed expedient sod
indispensable.
GRRAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—Tbe plans de-
posited by this compare y contemplate an improvement in
what is known as their loop line, which commences by •
junction with their main line near Peterborough, passing
th h fipaldiog, Boston. nod Lincoln, and tertheatiog et
Gains gh, said whore it is not directly connected with
the main line • and with this view the coinpeny that
the loop line ;hall be extended to Rossisgton, in the weigh-
bourhood of Dosimeter, and there join the main lies. The
lavabo( the loop line between Gainthorough and :Mashy
are to be altered and improved, and the estimated oast of
the proposed works i 5330,000/. The company also propose
to acquire additionallands at Doncaster.
Tai TRAFFIC .OF Till THAMER.—Considering
the position sssumed by the Metropolitan Board of Works,
and the softened temper of the Government as regards the
right of the Board to lead the way in the work of embank-
ing the Thames, together with the various proposals for
Thames valley railways, lathed by joint-stock companies, we
may fairly anticipate that, before the Metropolitan line is
open for efficient communication between Paddiogton and
the City, that some important works will he commenced for
improving the transit across and along the Thames. The Lon-
don, Dover, and Chatham lines of communication are being
pushed forward with rapidity : the requisite cuttings
haveadvanced far beyond the point where it crosses the Crys-
tal Palace line ; mid the bridge which is to span the 'Pharisee at
Blackfrian will doubtless be made to harmouise with the
new Bleckfriara-bridge to be constructed by the City. The
most momentous question to be settled is the embankiug of
the north shore from Bridge-street to Westminster, for
which a fund in already accumulating. We may expert to
see the first practical step taken for the construction of •
river wall, a gigantic sewer, and • roadway, some time
early in the forthcoming summer—perhaps earlier—if
parliament will be gracious, and take iu hind quickly the
respective bills sent in from the Boaralitof Works, the
=tion, and the new railway companies. But the
ment must evidently not be undertaken in haste.
London is like Mr. Briggs ; one work of improvement
opens the way to another, and what is begun for the
accomplishment of a single object, often ends in •
complication ; and half the town has to be rebuilt as the
coosequence of removing • turnpike, or giving • swifter fall
to an ancient sewer. In the ace of the Thames embank-
meat, it will be urged that the disturbance of the bed of the
river, and the tidal correct on the north side, will probably
unsettle the foundations of wharves and landings on the
south side. The removal of shoal deposita from the entre
of the stream will cause a settling from the south bank
towards the mid-stream, which may bring with it a consi-
derable amount of walling, piling, and other riverside sub-
structures ; so that the north side will be improved at the
expense of the south, unless both banks are reconstructed
simultaneously. It is no small argument for embsoking the
south side, that lame districts abutting on it are already
below the level of the river itself, MA any extra flux of
water to the right shore will mum inundations, not only of
publiouis cellars sod other underground stores, but also of
the highways nod dwellings of a thickly-populated region,
where floods are already sufficiently destructive and disas-
trous. Granting these points, it is further urged that the
south side is as much in need of improved means of cora-
muoicetioe as any part of Loodoo abutting on the Thames,
and the transit between Nine Elms and London Bridge re-
quires a river-side mid, for the relief of the inland thorough.
fares and the necessities of commerce. In plain truth, the
question of Thames embankment has, like most other
tons, two sides : and unless both are impartially con-
sidered, it will be impossible to do justice to the noble
river, which now loses itself on dreary mud Bats, nor to the
traffic of the metropoliu which converges largely towards
the stream at Bankside, Bermondsey, said Lambeth,
equally as on the line of the Strand and Whitefrisurs.—Carg
Pren.

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ACCIDENT ON THECH•ILINO-CROIE RAlLWAY.—Yes-
terday morning an accident occurred on the Charing-mom
Railway, by which the life of James Hartley, employed in
the construction of the viaduct near the Illackfnare-mad,
is plated in imminent peril. It appears that Hartley wee
crossing • plank which was placed over the excavation,
when an adjacent lofty stack of bricks that had been under-
mined fell, burying the unfortunate 01110 beneath the pon-
derous meas. The bricks were quickly removed. and the
man extricated and removed to a surgeon's in the Black-
trimmed, when it was seinertained that one of his care
had been cut off, the skull fractured, sod that he had sus-
tained such serious internal makings me to render hi reco-
very extremely doubtful. He was conveyed to St. Tho-
mas's Hospital, where he remains In • very precarious
condition.

THE GIRAT ICANlllAN.—Different anangernenta
have been made rrepeetiag piaci,' this vessel on the grid.
iron at Neylaod. That important minim will not now take
plowuntil the AM spring tides in Febrinry—somewhere
about the 14th of that month—until which period she will
lie at anchor a Milford, as she is.. BO safely done during
the severs weather el the past autumn lied twister. 0111
internal repairs are prevailing satidactorily.

(Stamped, ld. Additional.)

CONDOLENCE WITH HER MAJESTY.

THE FREEMASONS OF ENGLAND.

Yesterday a special convocation of the United
Greed Lodge of the Fres and Accepted Masons of England
and Wales was, pursuant to summons to that effect, laced
by lb. M.W. the Grand Muter the Earl of Zetland, held
la the Masonic Temple, Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-
street, a chamber reserved for the more solemn proceeding'
' of the order, and never desecrated by any secular business,
for the purpose of expressing to her Majesty the Queen the
enedolence of the members of the craft on her recent be-
movement. The brethren met in very large sambas,
and the dais was crowded by provincial Greed Masters
and pest-grand aloes. The death of their hoeoured
Brother, the Earl of Yarborough, who had so keg rabid the
brethren of England, as deputy to the Grand Master, east
additional sorrow upon all who were prieset. Br. Frirl De
Grey and Ripon, as D.G.M., occupied theoremic throes in
the Rheum of the Earl of Zetkod. Br. Algernon Perkins offf•
dated as B. G.W., and Br. !Covello se P. G. W. There were also
present—Br. Hugunin, representative of the Swiss brethron
Br. Hyde Pullen, Br. Hall, Br. Shute, Br. Havers, Bt. S. B.
Wilma, Br. Udal, Br. Blight, Br. Gregory, Br. Harvey, Br.
Adams, As.

Greed lodge haying been opened in ample form,
Br. G. Cunt; G. Bea, read, the rescript of the Y.W.
ths GA. soma* the *Ara.
The B.W. the D.G.M. the Zeti Dr Garr and RIPON then
addressed paled lodge, and said—Brethren, the masks
which has called us together this day la one of no ordinary
character. It is not to transact the usual masonic business,
nor are we met to express our grief for the loss cif a dig-
tipluithed member of the craft, but I feel thoroughly con-
fident you will agree with me in thinking that the
Grand Master only rightly interpreted the spirit and
Wing which pervades the craft when he summoned us
hare to-day for the purpose you have heard described ;
because, brethren, although we are a epeeist body united
by peculiar ties, and bound together by peculiar secrets, it
is nevertheless one f oedemata' rule of oar association
that every mason should be a good citizen and loyal sub-
, ject, and that we should not overlook those general public
duties which are incumbent upon as as much so as they are
on any other community. The late meet melancholy event
bee called forth from all parts of the land the o:perks
of that heartfelt regret at her lase, and of that respect-
ful sympathy for her Majesty, which asinine the heart
sad feelings of every per,* in these realms. Public bodies
of every description have already met together to give ex-
prendoe to those feelings, and there is not a maim in the
kingdom who does not feel that it is for the honour el
the area that we should not be behindband in joining
in the itiesral manifestation. It has pleased the great
Amide* of the flakiest to visit her Majesty the Queen
with this greeted earthly misted**. In the *Amy of
this simatry we lad that*, Sovereign of fleglead has bees
all all time rep** with respect and atasolusset, bat
those never was a *maga at whom it could be said so
tray. —although the phase is a ***del me—that she
=y the hearts cif bar rubja•Sa. It is, therefore, so
in
twain to whisk the people el these realm have
gives 'meanies • it • the wenn finellisg el amities and
____et is A. Queen whisk hie mode her sorrow the
paints domes* snieferteme of each of her subjects.
Although the alowitry lass geed muse to lune* the lose of
tie Prime Caret, it is sot only is that capacity the aatMn
sew deplores he des*; far *aria( the years herh
Mead earapt us he luid established let himself
pleseng emit *divided clime of no erdiaary elmacter on
W aleashmest al **people of this exuatry. He came
ming* in in rely yell* to undertake an arduous sad
delicate peeltiaa, sad bent that period until his latest hour
be sated with singular dime** and remarkable wisdom.
He became ekeely identified with the feelings of the
Natinialised, be became more than a naturalised eutjeZlB.
t.—
he bum* an Englislunsa in heart, and taking more and
more pert in public affairs se he felt his position assured.
he west an displaying the deepest interest in all that eon-
corned the welfare of the country, and evincing the moot
$ liberal desire for national progress sod human advancement,
being ever keenly alive to the interests of the c&
and the honour and reputation of the country.
fore it is not necessary that I should detain you
with a lengthened statement of the public service of his
Its Royal Blabber. They an known to every man of
you, and have been recorded on many occasions in more
$ eloquent language than any I can command. The public
feeling on thus occasion is the beat possible proof that he
succeeded in winning for himself, IPA an individual, a high
potation in the affections and respectful regards of the Eng-
lish people. Therefore you will, lam sure, concur with
the Grand Master in tbinkieg the present a proper occasion
on which to approach the foot of her throne, and lay before
her Majesty the respectful expression of our deep sympa-
thy. It is right as masoas we should make this declara-
tion, for attachment to our country end to our
Queen is only what is consistent with the fleet
principles of our order. It is right fur the
order itself that we should make known these sentiments.
But melancholy as is the occasion, and deep ea ia the loss
we have sustained—a loss which cannot be replaced, and
must be long felt by the people of this country—there is
yet one consolation in the midst of such melancholy *lie-
Con, that it has afforded us and the nation another oppor-
tunny of drawing closer the bonds of affection and loolyala
that bind together the Sovereign and the people
I,country.
Brother HALL, P.G.Y. of Cambridgeshire, then pro-
posed that the following address of condolence be presented
to her Majesty the Queen :

" TO THI POTEN'S MOST IMCILLINT MAJWITT.

"Most Gracious Sovereign,—We, your Majesty's most de-
voted and faithful subjects, the grad master, deputy grand
master, officers and brethren' of the United Grand Lo of
the Pres and Accepted Masons of England, with all humility
and respect approach your royal presumes. and beg on our
own behalf and that of oar widely extended fraternity, to
offer our uofeigaed and sincere condolence with your Ma-
jesty ou the sad bereavement with which it has pleased the
Most High in His inacrutable wisdom to afflict your Majesty,
by removing from this sublunary sphere your royal Consort
—an illustrious prince, whose amiable, benevolent, mad
patriotic conduct, bad endeared him to your loyal and
affectionate subjects of every grade and station, and whose
memory will be cherished by them to the latest posterity—
• devoted friend to his country, and a benefactor, not only
to your Majesty's realms, but to all nations. We will not
dare longer to trespass on your Majesty's time and feelinp
than to assure you, madam, that it is with the sincerest
and most loyal affection to your gracioas parsou that we
offer up our prayers to heaven that it may please the Al-
mighty Disposer of human events to grant to your Majesty
and royal children pious consolation under your severe sad
melancholy trial, and to grant your Majesty length of years
to reign in health and happiness over your devoted, faithful,
and affectionate people.°
Brother Hooros SMITH, in a speech too mystical for
publication, seconded the motion, which was unanimously
agreed to. . .

It was then ordered that the address, which was drawn
tip by the miserable Brother Whit*, 'so long the grand
secretary of the order, and the bosom friend of ber Majesty's
late uncle, the Duke of Sussex, be engrossed on
properly signed and sealed, and forwarded to the Earl of
Zetland for presentation.
Grand Lodge was then closed in ample form, and the pro.
needing. terniinatod.