The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1863.

JC. and J. FIELD, original manufacturers
• Oh England) of PARAFFI NE CANDLES, to whom the p.
medal (ISM has been awarded, and their candles adoptey
her Majesty's Government for use at the military stations abroad.
These can lea can be obtained of all chandlers and grocers In
the United Hlngdem. Price U. WI. per pound . also Field's cele-
brated United ce Soap Tablela, ad. and ad. each.
The public are cautioned to see that Field's label Is on the
r 4,4. or boxes. Wholesale only, and for exportatlon.—Upper
Lambeth, London, S.
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MILITARY CANTEENS for OFFICERS.
CS each.
Comprising TABLE It SIVE:4, ststoNS, FORKS, Re., de.,
NO CHARGE MADE FOR THE OAK PLATE CIII2TS.
Every other site and Price up to the Sum of 4200 each. kept
In
Stock.
MAKIN BROTHERS, SILVERSMITHS and CUTLERS,
es, REGENT T
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,
LONDON• amt ns, KING WILLIAM-
STREET, BRIDGE.
Same Piicea charged at both Houses as at their
MANUFACTORY—QUEEN'S
SHEFFIELPLATE and CUTLERY WORE%
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OBSERVE THE ADDRESS.

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91, lalgeerare.road, Ifyde.park, London.
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VOTIOE.-POCKET BAROMETER.
N EaIRETTI and ZAM BRA'S orlglniu Instrument Atte of
a watch: for foretvllltig weather, and for mountain measure-
nenta, as supplied to her tlajeaty's government, to be had only
at 1, Hatton.garden 59, Cornhill ; and 112, Regent-street
• -
EVERYBODY KNOWS Mr. MILES.
Alfred Webb Miles REMOVED FROM BOND/ITEM=
to TS, BROOK-STREET, Hanover.square, In 1E59.
The 16a Trousers lorignated by him) In all the New Patterns,
"BETTERTUAN EVER."

• the Crown to be an offence against the'
laws of the country, and as such a
deep injury to a friendly State, is happily
without a precedent in our Parliamentary history.
It marks the lowest point in the spirit and temper
of an indifferent and retrogressive House of Com-
mons, and we may hope, for the credit of repre-
sentative institutions as well as of the English
name, that such a point will never be reached
again. Anything like active sympathy with the
feeling of the country as a whole, and especially
of its active and industrial classes, would not only
have saved the House of Commons from such
indecent displays, but have stimulated it to engage
in really useful work.
Some indications of a movement in this direction
have happily been made even during the past
session. The necessity of retrenchment has been
practically recognised, and the debates on the ma-
nagement of the Admiralty hold out at least a
promise of effective action in the direction !
of wise and rational economy. Nothing has
been done, and from the present Parliament
nothing is indeed to be expected in the
direction of political or even of social reform.
The proposal to inquire into the Game Laws, for
example, was clamoured down, without even a pre-
tence of discussing the merits of the question.
But the cause of Ecclesiastical Reform his gained
something this session. The debate on
the Irish Church, and the debates on the
grievances Dissenters still suffer in this country,
have raised questions which will not be allowed to
sleep again until something is done to remove
the injustice which ecclesiastical privilege still in-
flicts on large classes of the people.

Cbc Court.

OSBORNE, JULY 28.

The Queen, Princess Helena, and Princess
Beatrice, attended by the Dowager Countess of Mount
Edgcumbe and Lord Alfred Paget, drove out yesterday.

A Cabinet Council was held yestenlay at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke
of Newcastle, Earl De Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somer-
set, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right
Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley,
and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

A deputation, consisting of the Lord Mayor of York,
Mr. Alderman Leewan, Mr. Alderman Meek, Mr. Alderman
C►lrey, Mr. Weethead, M.P., and Colonel Smyth, M.P.,
bad an interview with the Right Hon. Sir George Grey
yesterday, at the Home-aloe, on the subject of the York-
shire assizes.
A deputation of tradesmen from the Tower Hamlets,conrist-
ing of blown. Reynolds, Smith, Wall, Osborne, Sapetead, Lye,
Exeler, and Hood, introduced by Mr. A. S. Ayrton,
had an interview yesterday with Secretary Sir George Grey,
at the Home•ofice, regarding the late summoning and
fining of tradesmen for exposing their goods.

VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP
WALES TO HALIFAX.

As at present arranged their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Princess of Wales will leave London for
Halifax on Monday morning by the ordinary 10 o'clock
train, to which ■ state carriage will be attached. This
train always travels at express speed, and no stoppage will
be made until it reaches Peterborough, a distance of
seventy-six miles from London, at 11.35. After a delay of
five minutes the train will proceed to Grantham, twenty.
nine miles distant, which will be resched'at 12.33. Three-
quarters of an hour more is allowed for the distance be-
tween this station and Retford, about thirty-three miles.
On leaving Retford at 1.13, the train will proceed to Wake.
field, and then on to Halifax, distant 202 miles, arriving at
3.49. There, as previously stated, their royal highnesses
will be received by the mayor and corporation, and will be
the guests of his worship during the night.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princeee
of Wiles are expected to arrive in Edinburgh on Thursday,
the 6th of next month, and to leave on Saturday, the Bth,
for Balmoral. _ . .

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princesa
George of Saxony, accompanied by Baron Gersdorff, hare
left the G[01•01301. Hotel. for Scarborough.
Prince Serge Obolensky has left Claridge's Hotel
for St. Iwonardaon•See. . .

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The Duchess of Inverness entertained at dinner
last evening, at her apartment' in Kensington Palace, the
Printer of Servia, the Prince Ysenberg, the Duke and
Duchess of Saldanha and Donna Emily, his Excellency the
Portuguese Minister, his Excellency the Saxon Minister,
the Duchess of St. Albans and Lady Diana Beanolark,
Visoonnt Falkiand, the Earl at St. GUMMI, Viscount
Dunlo, Lord Llanover, Chevalier Oliver* the Right Hon.
H. T. L Corry, M.P., the Hon. Misses Sidney, Mr. Edward
Dutton, Mr. Armar Corm Mr. Stepney,
The Earl and Countess Russell and family have
left Chesham-place for Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park.
Viscount Amberley is on a tour in Scotland.
The Countess of Desert and Lady Alice Cuffe
have left town on a visit to Mr. and Lady Caroline Dun•
combs, at Waresley Park, Cambridgeshire.
Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for an
assembly on Friday next at Cambridge House.
Viscount Hamilton and Lady Georgina Hamilton
have left town for Goodwood.

Lotd and Lady Abercromby have left Claridge's
Hotel for Scotland.

Lord and Lady Huntingfield have left Claridge's
Hotel for Heveniagritam Hall, Suffolk. . _
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.. .

Lord and Lady Farnham have left Claridge's
Hotel for Abet7atwith, North Wales.

The Dowager Lady When:reliffe has left Stratton-
street for Scotland.

Lady Howard has issued cards for a small and
early party on Friday evening neat at her residence in
Belgravoequare.
Sir Frederick H. Bathurst bas arrived at Mau-
rigy's Hotel from Clarendon Park, Salisbury.
Sir Henry and Lady Do Hoghten have arrived at
Mauna's Hotel from Walton.
Lieut.• General Angeratein has left Maurigy'a
Hotel for Westing Hall. Brandon, Norfolk.
The Misses Hawkins havo arrived at Maurigy'a
Hotel from Paris.

Her Majesty in council has appointed Horace
Waddington, Esq., M.A., of University College, Oxford,
to be one of her Majesty's inspectors of schoola.—Oa.ettc.

THE "FEMALE BLONDIN" CATASTROPHE.

LETTER FROM THE QUEEN TO THE MAYOR OF
.
BIRMINGHAM
. . . .

The following are copies of a letter received by
Mr. Charles Sturge, Mayor of Birmingham, written by
command of the Queen in reference to the late catastrophe
at Aston-part, and of his worship's reply thereto :
(CM; )
• Osborne, July 25, 1863.

" Sir,--The Queen has commanded me .to eipreia to you
the pain with which her Majesty has read the account of a
fatal accident which has occurred during a fête at Aston-
park, at Birmingham.
' Her Majesty cannot refrain from making known through
you her personal feelings of horror that one of her subjects
—a female—should have been sacrificed to the gratification
of the demoralising taste, unfortunately prevalent, for ex-
hibitions attended with the greatest danger to the per-
formers.
" Were any proof wanting that such exhibitions are de-
moralising. I am commanded to remark that it would be at
once found in the decision arrived at to continue the festivi-
ties, the hilarity, and the sports of the occasion after an
event so melancholy.
"The Queen trusts that you, in common with thereat of
the townspeople of Birmingham, will use your influence to
prevent in future the degradation to such exhibitions of the
park which wasgladly opened by her Majesty and the be.
loved Prince Consort, in the hope that it would be made
serviceable for the healthy exercise and rational recreation
of the people. —I have the honour to be. sir, your moat
obedient humble servant, " C. B. *Patera.
" The Mayor of Birmingham."
(Copy of Reply.)
" Borough of Birmingham, Mayor's Office,
July 28,1863.
" Sir.—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 25th inst., written by command of her
Majesty the Queen.
the first place I beg you will convey to her Majesty
my bumble assurance that there is not in the kingdom an
individual who laments more sincerely than myself not only
the melancholy accident to which you refer, but the de-
praved taste for a barbarous species of unmet lent which
unhappily has become popular, not only in the metropolis,
but is all parts of her Majeaty'a home dominions.
"It is only a short time since, and during my mayoralty,
that it was proposed to exhibit a similar performance
within the borough ; but, though I was not empowered by
law to interfere, I ventured solar to interpose my authority
SS to prevent it.
"In this unfortunate instance my ORM appeared in con-
junction with thoseof the lord !tauten aaaaa and several magis-
trates and members of parliament as patrons of the fete,
which was for a charitable purpose • but I believe not a sio-
gle gentleman whose name so appeared had any idea that a
dangerous exhibition would be attempted.
" For the future I have every reason to hope that not-
withstanding Aston-park is beyond the jurisdiction of the
authorities of Birmingham. their influence and that of their
fellow townsmen will henceforth limit its use exclusively to
the healthy exercise and rational recreation of the people.
so that the gracious intentions of her Majesty and her
revered consort may nct he frustrated but realised.
" In the meantime I trust that exhibitions of so danger-
ous and demoralising a character may be interdicted by
parliamentary enactment.—l have the borrow to be, sir,
your obedient Berme, " CHAFILU Stem; Mayor.
" Colonel the Hon. Sir Cbarlea B. Filippa, ko.,
Osborne."

ARRIVAL OF PRINCE ALFRED AT GREENOCIL
Her Maiesty's gun frigate Ramos, having on board his
Highome Prince Alfred, arrived at the Tail of the
Bank on Monday afternoon, at four o'clock. Upon coming
in sight her Majesty's ship Hope dipped her ensign in
honour of the prince. A regular canoonade was kept up
oo shore aa the vessel passed Gourcek, and flags were hoisted
on the Customhouse and other public buildings in town.
The provost and other gentlemen went on board to welcome
the prince as soon as be made his appearance. A whole
fleet of small craft ant out from the shore to welcome our
sailor prince, but no demonstration of any kind was made
by the ships in the harbour. The Racoon left Campeltown
early on Monday morning, where she arrived about seven
p.m. on Sunday. The prince did not laud.