The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MARCH 5.
The new Lord Lieutenant is expected to arrive in
Dublin on Wednesday next; and according to the
present arrangements a levee will be held on the
18th, and a drawing-room on the 17th, St. Patrick's-
day.
The Duko of Cambridge leaves the Irish Staff on
the 18th inst.

It is denied that Sir T. N. Redington has any
intention to offer himself for the representation of
Galway.
The liberal electors of Cork will hold a meeting
on Monday next, to make a selection from
among the numerous candidates of their party, and
so prevent a division of the liberal interest. Although
there are four or flee liberal candidates, Mr. W.
Fagan seems to be decidedly the general favourite.
The conservative party, encouraged by the division
in the liberal camp, are, it is said, prepared to put
forward • Mr. Frewen, an English gentleman, on
the protectionist interest. Mr. Scully, it is ex-
pected, will address the electors as a moderate pro-
tectionist.

The Northern 117sig, on the subject of the repre-
sentation of the great county of Down, says :
The liberal electors of Saintfleld see resolved to give their
votes to no man who does not advocate the claims of the
tenant, and support the principle set forth in Mr. Craw-
ford's bill. Mr. Crawford himself, sad Lord Cactlercaith,
are the men for whom they are likely to record their votes,
should they come forward. We understand that a great
meeting of the electors of the district is to be held in the
open Square of Saintaeld, on Monday se'naight, when
pledges are to be given to the above effect.
Tho nomination of candidates at Enniskillen takes
place to-morrow, and the polling on Monday next.
Mr. Con= still perseveres in his opposition to our
new Solicitor-General.

Thomas Bernard, En., Castle Bernard, Konnitty,
is in the field as a candidate for the representation
of King's County. The vagueness of his address
does not enable one to form any opinion as to his
political principles.
The Lunerick Examiner says:
We understand that Colonel Vandeleur, of Kilrush, is
actively engaged in canvassing the county of Clare. On
Sunday last the colonel was in the neighbourhood of Cal-
laghan's Mills, Broadford, Tull., &c., accompanied by Mr.
Butler, of Cmtlecrine and Mr. Walton. We have heard
that he canvassed all the Catholic clergy of them districts,
and amongst others the ltev. Mr. Quads, P.P. We have
not heard as yet that any canvass is proceeding by or oa
behalf of any other candidate.

TIIE AMAZON FUND now amounts to above 11,0001.
It will be kept open for about another month, and it is
most probable that it will ultimately reach 12,0001. The
final disposal of it will be made on the 10th inst., by the
united committees of Southampton and London. About
150 persons have to be assisted or supported by it; amongst
them are 70 children and about 40 widows. Most of them
have received temporary assistance from the fund. The
Southampton committee have resolved—aubject, of course,
to the approval of the London committee—to relieve a
,number of the sufferers by giving them their allowance, in
the shape of sums varying from Si. to 2001. each. The
widows will be divided into three classes, and will receive
201., 15/., and 121, a year respectively. The children wiU
also be divided into three dames, and will be allowed 251.,
201.. and 151. each respectively, to place them in schools or
to put them to trades. About 30 of the children will be
placed in orphan asylums. Seven trustees will bo appointed,
of which the Mayor of Southampton will be a permanent
one, to receive the income derivable from the fund. and to
pay the annuities and allowsnces. They will have power
to stop the pay of mothers and guardians when the children
are not taken proper care of. The annuities and allow-
ance* will be increased, if a fortunate investment of the
fund will admit of it. Mre. Symons, the widow of the com-
mander of the Amazon, has declined assistance from the
fund. A son of the commander by a former wife has been
taken charge of by Captain Engledue, the Southampton
superintendent of the l'eninsular and Oriental Company,
the committee providing him an °nat.

Zig Court.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at
three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
The Bart of Clarendon, K.G., had an audience of her
Majesty on resigning hie office of Lord Lieutenant of
lehind.

Lord Edward Fite'laa Howard had an audience of the
Queen, and delivered his Gold Key as Vice-Chamberlain.
Lnrd Newport had an audience of her Majesty to kiss
hands on being appointed Vice-Chamberlain of her House-
hold. His lordship received from the Queen his Gold Key
and Wand of Office. .

The Earl of Beseborough had an audience of her Ma-
jesty on resigning his office of Muter of the Buck Hounds.
The Earl of Roselyn had an audience of the Queen to
kiu hands on being appointtd Muter of the Buck Hounds.
Count Kielounsegge, the Hanoverian Minister, had an
audience of the Queen on his return to England, after •
temporary_ absence. The Prince di Carini had an audience
of her Majesty, and delivered his credentials from the
Doke of Parma. Their Excellencies were respectively in-
troduced by the EOM of Mahnesbury, the Queen's Princi-
pal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted
by Colonel Cornwall, her Majesty 'm Assistant-Muter of the
Ceremonies officiating for MajorHeneral lion. Sir E. Cwt,
Master of the Ceremonies.

Sir Henry Williams Wynn, her Majesty's Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Copenhagen,
had an audience of the Queen on his return on leave, and
receiving the cress of Commander of the Bath. Sir
Henry was presented to her Majesty by the Earl of Malmes-
bury.
The Duke of Northumberland had an audience of the
Queen. . .

The Earl of Lonadale had an audience of her Majesty.
Tho Queen held a Privy Council which was attended by
Prince Albert; the Earl of Lunsd.de, Lord President; Lord
St. Leonard's, Lord Chancellor ; the Marquis of Salisbury,
Lord Privy Seal ; the Earl of Derby, First Lord of the
Treasury ; the Earl of Malmesbury, Secretary of State for
Foreign Affair.; the Right. lion. Benjamin Disraeli, Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer; the Duke of Northumberland,
First Lord of the Admiralty ; the Eight lion. J.W.Henley,
President of the Board of Trade; the Earl of Hardwieke,
Postmaster-General • Lord John Manners, Chief Com-
missioner of the Royall Parks, Palaces, and Public Build-
ings • the Duke of Montrose, Lord Steward; the Marquis
of ixeter, Lord Chamberlain ; and the Earl of Jersey,
Muter of the Horse ; Lord Newport, Vice Chamberlain of
the Queen's Household ; and Sir John Trollope, Bart.,
First Commissioner of the Poor-law Board, were by com-
mand of the Queen sworn of her Majesty's Most honour-
able Privy Council, and took their place at the board.
.4 new florin was submitted to the Queen in council, and
approved of.
Her Majesty in council was pleased to appoint George
Hammond Whalley, of Plas Madoc, Ituabon, Esq., to be
sheriff of Carnarvonshire, in the room of Martha Williams,
of l'enamscr, Esq.
Tho lion. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council
in Waiting.
After the Privy Council, the Earl of Egliuton, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, had an audience of her Majesty to
take leave.

The Earl of Derby had an audience of her Majesty.
The Queen was attended by the Marquis of Anglesey,
Gold Stick in Waiting; Lord Claud Hamilton, Treasurer
of the Household ; the Right Hon. Cecil Forester, Comp-
troller of the Household; Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting;
and Major-General Berkeley Drummond, Groom in
Waiting.
Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday morning
attended by Colonel Bouverie.
Tho Royal Family took their usual exercise yesterday in
the grounds of Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended by the Mar-
chioness of Ely, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Lord Byron,
Major-General Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie honoured
the Lyceum Theatre wills their presence last evening.

The Oxford University Commission had a meeting yes-
terday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury in Downingetreet. Present—The Bishop of
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke,
the Rev. 11. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Her.
G. H. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (Secretary).
Mr. Francis Scott, M.P., had an interview with the Might
Hon. J. W. Henley yesterday at the Board of Trade.
Despatches were scat yesterday from the Colonial. office
to the Governors of the North Ansei icon provinces. Des-
patches were received from the Governor of Gibraltar yes-
terday.

(From Mat night'. GasrtlKl
LORD CLIAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 2.—Ao-
tiee is hereby given. that her Majesty will hold a drawing-
room, at St. Palace, on Thursday, the let of April
next, at two o'clock,
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, NlARcrt ller Majesty
in Council was this day pleased to appoint George Ham-
mond Whalley, of Plea Madoe, Ituabon, Esq., to be
Sheriff of the county of Carnartou, in the room of Martin
Williams, of Penanner, Esq.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MARCIE s.—ller Majesty'
la Council was this day pleased, upon a representation of
the Committee of Council on Education, to appoint David
Middleton, Esq., Bettor et the Grammar School, Falkirk,
and Charles Edward Wilson, Esq. M.A., one of the Cies-
'kW Masters of the Glasgow Academy, to be two of her
Majesty's Assistant•lnspectors of Schools in Scotland.
CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH s.—Members returned to
serve in this present Parliament.—For the Borough of
Wenlock : The Right Hun. George Cecil Weld Forester,
Comptroller of her Majesty's Household.—For the Bo-
rough of Droitwich Thu Right lion. Sir John Somerset
Pskington, of Westwood Park, in the county of
Worcester, Baronet, one of her Majesty's Principal Secre-
taries of State.—For the City :of Chichester: The Right
Hon. Henry George Charles Gordon Lennox, commonly
called Lard Henry George Charles Gordon Lennox, one of
the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High

Treasurer Treasurer of Cheat Britain, and Treasurer of the Exchequer
of Ireland.

CO11,418.40:I STONED BY VIE LORD LIEUTENANT
OP WORCESTERSHIRE.—Iienry Oiler, Oent., to be lieut-
enant in the Worcestershire Regiment of Militia.

COMMISSION SIGNED RE THE LORD LIEUTENANT
or MIDDLIISEX.—Sir Thomas George Hesketh, Bart., to
be colonel In the 2nd Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's
Own Militia. _ _

COMMISSION SIGNED BY TILE LORD LIEUTENANT
OP NOTTINGEAIIBIIIIII.—Henry Eyre, Gent., to be cornet
in the Sherwood Rangers.

The Duko of Wellington has appointed Lieut.-
Colonel Corbet Cotton, unattached, to succeed Lord de Boa
as brigade major to the cavalay.
CAPE of 000 U Hopi.—A parliamentary return
presented to the House of Commons, on the motion of Sir
James Graham, of the population of the Cape, including
British Kaffnins, gives, as the total number of inhabitants,
285,279, of which two-thirds are coloured people. Amongst
the whites, the males are about 5 per cent. more numerous
than the females, and amongst the coloured inhabitants
there is a preponderance of females to nearly the same
extent. The population of Cape Town is estimated at
23,749; that of the province of Victoria at 42,117, of which
712 only arc whites ; and of British Kaffraria, 67,358, of
whom about 700 are whites.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT KILBURN.—AR
accident happened on the London and North Western
Railway yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, close to
the new station at Kilburn. Five labourers were at work
on the line, between the new station and the coal wharves
at Kilburn.bridge. Two trains were coming in opposite
directions, and both engines were whistling. In order to
avoid one train the men moved from the rails where they
were working to the other line, and were caught by the
engine of the train going down ; three of the poor fellows
were killed oa the spot and the other two badly hurt.
CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST A FARMER.—OR
Saturday last the Brecon county magistrates were engaged
for several hours in investigating a cdarge preferred against
Mr. Thomas Phillips. of l'entrenaboth, in the hamlet of
Benny, Brecknockshire, by a discharged servant of his
named Hugh Williams. It appeared that upon Williams
demanding an arrear of wages due to him about three
weeks back, a quarrel ensued, when Williams accused his
muter of Mishit/ murdered his illegitimate child by throw-
ing it alive to a sow, who devoured the infant. Thu report
having obtained circulation, Phillips felt anxious to retrieve
his character, and caused an attorney in Brecon to demand
a retractation of the charge. Instead, however, of doing
so, Williams at once denounce. his muter before the
magistrates as a murderer, and brought a lad, who with
himself was in Phillips's employ, to prove the fact. Mr.
Phillips voluntarily appeared before the magistrates and
declared his wish to meet the charge at once. Hugh
Williams was then sworn, and deposed that in the month
of March, 1850, he was in the employ of Phillips. One
day, as he was coming up towards the fold, he saw Phil-
lips. An infant lay on the ground before him, being de-
voured by a tow. He saw the child in the sow's mouth,
and heard it cry. The sow was eating the lower portion
of the body. had seen the child at Phillips's be-
fore. There was a female servant in the house. Had
heard people say there was something the matter with
her. he previous night she was fainting. There was a
boy in the service then, named Thomas AVilliams. The
girl's name was Margaret Morgan. Whea the sow was eat
ing the child witness attempted to stop her. She ran off,
and had devoured it all before ho got up to the sow. Wit-
ness told Phillips of it then, and he said if he dated to say
anything about it he would kill him directly. The witness
was cross-examined at some length as to some delusion he
had lately laboured under of having been carried away by
a ghost many miles across the country, which he gravely
',admitted to have been the fact, much to the surprise
of all present.—Thomas Davis was then celled. lie
stated that ho was fourteen years of age. Last
March twelvemonth he was in the service of Phillips.
One day, about dinner time, he saw Phillips bring a little
child out of the house on a tilestone, and throw it down
before the sow. l'hillips fetched the sow from the cot.
Heard the child cry. Hugh Williams came up when the
child was half devoured. Margaret Morgan came to the
door. Witness was afraid of the sow, and ran away. Told
his other and " Peggy of the Post" of it immediately he
reached home. His mother's name was Ann Davis.
Margaret Morgan was the girl who was looking
at the sow eating the child. The witness, who appeared to
be au intelligent lad, gave his evidence in a straightforward
manner. After heariu the evidence the tang istratia stated
their intention of remanding the prisoner for further
examination to Saturday nest, when the mother of the
boy and other witnesses will be summoned to attend.
Heavy bail was tendered for the appearance of Phillips, but
refused.

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