The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-23 00:00:00

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view', sashed the tows : la the year 1844,whes has Minty
was the guest of Bur Robert Peel (at that Use Prima
Mlaister), at Drayton laser; mad eggs embody els yean
ago, his Royal Rights. um, dews gr the purples of
laspretiag W Bahibitioa of !Amsterdam*, that apes at
Easley Hall. To-day the Prises has COMO Gamin us to
glut Met to the sonneanneat eta work whisky/hes folly
weed out, mast fell to Os of the greatest adnatage to
the tows, end to the van ladastrisl sad Wang dietrist
earrasadiagit.
Although the aseralig was gloomy sad towards alas
*Aka the rola sane dews steadily, the beetle of the
iales.biteats engaged is gaily duaratiog their hones and
the peas from the bells, sponnsasod at a vary early hour.
The Gnat Waders Cespeay's station. was decorated sad
smartened as mach es eirounsusees would admit of ; sad up
Livery-sweet, along Ball-street, Rigketrest, New.strost,
sad Paradise street (tho lute by which it bad base smogs&
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the Prime should pass to tbe Tows Hall, sad the sits of the
sew beildiog), from every how there streamed handsome
benne= with various inscriptions, all impressive of loyal
sentimant sad of hearty sad kindly greeting. In all the
streets Weirdos the route beam= streamed from the houses
' far away in the distance in frost if Kiog Edward's Reboot
tbee goverson had caused a platform to be meted for the
scholars of that truly royal foundation ; end everybody who
weld contribute did reetribate is every possible way to
give tbe Prises a thoroughly hearty Bogliab reosptioa : for
his Royal Highness's eatiouragonieat of art a applied to
asaaafastuees is nowhere MIS fully appreciated or WWII
highly valued thee ia Birmingham.
As 12 Vale& draw near, shortly after which it was kaoline
the royal leafs would strive, the struts WAIN diesel,
thronged: a Novambeir Isla and fog did sot damp the
ardour of the people who thronged the streets. la Ball-
a reel this Bags Boated from the wiadows os sitber side
and formed °as vast triumphal aseb. Tbe front of Lis;
Edward's Bohool was decorated with overgrows as well as
dogs; so were neatly other of the principal houses, sad
througb the fog and wet the gay colours streamed gaily—
lee desperate effort of the weather to be eopleasant warmly
to say latent marring the enshasiasra of the people. The
pollee kept good order in the streets; sad a troop of the
98th Regiment, with the 6th Varabiasers, were in attend-
ee°, as WO guard of honoer.
The Great Western &atlas bad, as we have said, been
tastelally fitted up. Thus was a reesption room end a
retiriog room for his Royal Highness. Both of those were
elegantly fitted up, under the auspices of Mr. Smith,
of the Hen and Chickens Hotel; Mesas.

Leos and Bettridge @attributed a hindmost sate of
papier macho Waiters, sad many pictures were lett
to adorn the walls; in fact, altogether, the room
presented a very elegant apparent.. Mr. Asdrews, Mr.
Hewitt, and other *Moen of the railway company, made
completa the arrangements at the station, the platform of
which was covered with crimson cloth. The lumbers of
the Town Conned arrived at the railway stauon at 12
o'clock. These took up a position on ma aide the line of
the platform at which the royal carriage was to draw up ;
the soused of the Wanton, headed by Lord Dahltorp@ and
Captain Tindal, ea the opposite aide. Steady at 30 minutes
past 12 the chars is the distance announced that the train
waning his Royal Hightail was upon the viaduct by
wain the line sawn the town. In a minute or two the
sharing boom* louder and more distinct, sad the
royal train ran into the maim. As it did 0, the Mayor
(T. R. T. Hodgsou, Reg ) approached the royal carriage,
and the Prince followed his worship iato the reeeptioa•room,
in which were the Recorder (M. D. Hill, Esq., Q.C.), Mr.
Edmonds, *eclat of the pesos ; Dr. B Davies, the borough
coroner ; several of the borough msgistratos; Lientisaast-
General Sir Harry Smith, and his aide dircamp, Colonel
Hoolditeh; Colonel Slade, oommeadent of the district;
Colonel Gordon, Colonel Rainier, Lieut.-Colonel Bamford,
Major Wynyard, Lieutenant Demme, &n.
PfiaollAlbart retired for a few mowants and thee returned
to the reception room, wane the members of the Tows
Council were ; thin the Prime took his station et the
Mayor's right head, and the Reorder (it his °Skid robes),
adaussed sad read an address, to which
His ROTAL 111011111111111 replied as follows—Mr. Mayor
end Geatiemen—The cordial reaction I have sea with
from you demands my warmest acknowledgments. Too
only do me justice is giving me credit for • dap intense in
whatever ma toad to the advancement a either the moral
or material good el the people of this issuatry. But you
allude in toe flattering a manner, and attach too high a
vans, to any genius that it may have been in my power
to reeler in this cause. I teal it to be a high privilege to
be amsointed ion any way with those she are making smelt
noble sdkrts--end smiler with more energy and parsers.
ream that in the tows of Birmingham—for the boon:ne-
mesis of their fellowneuntrymen. And to be allowed to
whams the mass of those efforts will be a more than
sefielest award for any essistenes I stay myself have been

rabbi to afford.
The Tows Coulson thes retired, and the inemben of the
Conseil of the Institute were introduced to his Royal High-
SW by the Mayor, after which Use procession was formed,
aid the Prises proceeded Isthe royal earriage (which bad
arrived es the previous day), Gs hie way so the ball, his
Wonhip the Mayor and Lord Ceithorpe, r president of the
Institute, berg Nested is the carriage with hie Royal
Miser
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the erresiereato iamb were very _r, to plant wee hied.
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