The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-06 00:00:00

THE EARL or CARLISLE Olt THE AMERICAN

QU18TIOA:

At the inaugural banquet given by the Lord
Mayor of Dublin, on Tuesday evening. the Lord•Lientenant
of Ireiend, the Earl of CAELIBLY., in replying to the toast
of his health, was received with great applause. In the
course of his speech he said :—Oasting our eyes round the
wide horizon, we must all feel grateful and relieved that
we can *still, without soy sacrifice of natiomal honour, re-
tain the invaluable blessipp of peace. (Hear.) When it
appeared for a moment that Nader the shelter of our
honoured Bag the honoured right of asylum might have
been Volated, I believe the cour.try at large applauds the
spirite promptitude, sad the efficiency with which pre.
pontoon" were made to exact due reparation. That object
has bees fully
tr happily achieved, and while
we thankfully feel that we are not ourselves called
upon to draw avenging sword, woad that
we could plant the olive of peace between
the two contend* hands, both springing from
our own race. But as I think we have justly determined
to observe a strict neutrality, I feel it might be, perhept,
departing from a strict consistency with that course if I
were to seek to pronounce any formal judgiseat between the
combatants on both sides. One thing lam anxious about,
that in the shifting and changing relations which must
skimp wait upon such protracted struggle*, we shall never
suffer our motional conscience to be tweaked by losing
sight of those principles of right which am absolute and
'ulna (Hear, bear.) I may =ration, by way of illustra.
ties, that I trait no conceivable circumstances could lead
these free and imperial islands to recede one jot from
their undying abhorrence of slavery. (Loud cheers.)

LONDON AND COUNTY BASIL-(?BLS DAY.)

This afternoon the annual meeting of the above
beak was held at the London Tavern ; Mr. W. NICOLL.
ILP., in the chair.
The usual dividend of 6 per coot. Ills mimed to,
together with a bonus of 2) per cont., opal the paid•up
capital d the oompany (free of income tax), which leaves
the corn of 20,7031. 3a. 2.1. to be carried forward to the
neat account.

The two houses of Parliament will, of course,
assure her Majesty of their participation in the deep sorrow
which the nation at large boa expressed in so many ways.
It was contemplated to propose In each house an addreen of
condolence, but it seems that precedent is is
favour of limiting the expression of the feelings of
parliament to a paragraph in the address. This was
the course adopted at the death of Prince George of Den-
mark, and it will be followed on the present occasion. The
debate will, however, give the principal members of both
houses the opportunity of paying the doe tribute to the de-
mised Prism's high qualities.
THIS HARTLEY COLLIRRY RELIII, FUND.—Yes-
today, sotwithstiusling the statement of the Lord Mayor
on the previous day, the subscriptions for the relief of the
sufferers by the Hartley Colliery accident euntisued to flow
is equally as fast as or any previous days sad at the sod of
the day the sum received was LgAl., making an aggregate

total of 11,6301.
Dorsi Horn Corrawr.—The first half-yearly
ordinary general meeting of the proprietors of this com-
pany was held yesterday, Sir C. H. J. Rich in the chair.
The report having been read by the secretary, on the motion
'of the chairman, it was unanimously adopted. Several
shareholders remarked upon the satisfactory manner in
which the hotel was conducted, and that the influx of
visitors caused by the approaching Exhibition could not
but increase the huskier of the company, the hotel, the
Royal Ship, being in such a favourable position at the
terminus of the London, Chatham. and Dover Railway.
A dividend, at the rate of five per cent. for the part six
months, was declared on the paid-up capital of the com-
pany. Mr. Rees, a shareholder, moved a vote of thanks to
the chairman, and the same compliment wag paid to the real
of the board.

STRANOR &MIL Ix GRAT'S-INN-WALL. Fox..
ooURT Itamixo Bonnet.—Lent night the benches in Gray's-
inn-hall were crowded by such au assembly as never before
met under the roof tree of that learned society. On the
dais instead of the full wigged Leachers WITS sasembled a
large number of ladies and gentlemen, well brawn on so.
count of their philanthropy ; and yet in perfect harmony
with local associations they were presided over by on.
judge and addressed by another, for Mr. Bodkin ;occupied
the chair, and his deputy, Mr. Joseph Payne, exerted him-
self in hie usual felicitous manner to keep this extraordinary
" moot" in good humour. On the seats in the body of the
ball, where usually sit the members of the "utter bar,"
and she "messes" of the students, set the parents
and other relations of the children educated M
Ike Fox-court Begged Schools. Each had before
him or her, as the case might be, a plate, a knife and fork,
sad a mug, and with these little adjuncts of comfort they
contrived to fully enjoy a collation, followed by tea sad
coffee, provided for them by the liberality of the support=
of the institution, which trains up their children in habits',
of honest y end in the fear of God, thereby cbecidamaiths
growth of Ineseile mime is the metropolis, and
Moss, as they were pleaseetiv reminded, to spend a sem-
forhable jolly evening with the two learoed judges already
named, instead of having, with all bad passions predomi-
natio& to meet them, after breakfast, in the Court-house, on
Clerkenwell-green. The whole of the proceediup went off
in a most eattsfactory manner, and it WAS apparent that the
children and their parents were hods beeefitted by the
institution.
SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCISTY.—The fourth annual
meeting of this society wee bold yesterday at the offices of
the society, King William-street, City, Admiral Bowles in
the chair. Mr. Kendall Cook, the secretary, read the report,
from which it appeared that the admission of patients to the
Dreadnought hospital ship during the peat year had been
2,244, in addition to which 1,539 out-patients had received
medicines and medical atteedeoon, makrog a total number of I
patienta during the year of 3,783, a larger number than had
la ea recorded for several years. Legacies to the amount of
2,660 i. had been received during the year. The report
stated the Worn* of the society had fallen off within the
last few years, owing to the withdrawal by the government
and transfer to the mercantile marine department of the
Board of Trade, under the Merchant Seamen's Act.
of about 1,700 i. per annum. As showing how the benefits
tioeferred by this hospital were appreciated by the seamen,
the comities had received from the London shipping
offices, 3911.95. ld. ; from the Glasgow Shipping Master,
1301. 14s. 10.1. ; and from the shipping offices of the United
Kingdom, 22Sf. 15e. 3,1.—1 n all, TML 7908 21, being the
amount subscribed by seamen at their respective offices.
The number of men received at the hospital since Be estab-
lishment in March, 1521, to January 31, 1882, had been
87,165: of thee., 3,153 were from her Majesty's service ;
1,798 from the East India Company ; sad 51,902 from the
merchant vessels of different nations. The total expeodi-
, tare for the past year bad been 10,3894 Os. 10d. amid the
reeeipte bad fallen short el that amount by 977 L Bs, 11d.
The report wee resolved and adopted, sad the eoesialttee
and Akan of the society having bees molested, the meet-
tai Unabated.
ClTlrraf. PALACE.. ONE HIULLING
Winn:SPAT, Fin. 6.—Admissions as psymost, 961; ditto
by Halos thee* I,o7B—total, 2,087.