The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-14 00:00:00

WINDSOR, Ocr. 13.

Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales,
and Prince Alfred, attended by the Viscountess Canning,
Lord Byron, Colonel Buckley, Colonel Seymour, and the
Rev. Mr. Birch, left Windsor by a special train of the
Great Western Railway, at 5 minutes part 9 o'clock this
morning, to visit the Exhibition of the Works of Industry
of all Nations, Hyde-park, and arrived at that place at 10
minutes before 10 o'clock. The Queen returned to the
Castle at 25 minutes to 1 o'clock, having quitted the Exhi-
bition at 10 minutes before 12 o'clock. ller Majesty was
accompanied by the Prince of Wales and l'rince Alfred,
and was attended by the Lady in Waiting and by the Lord
and Equerry. in Waiting, and the Res. Mr. Birch. Later
in the afternoon, Prince Albert returned to the Castle from
presiding at a meeting of the Royal Commission in the
l'.xhibition. The Prince was attended by his Equerry in
Waiting.
The younger royal children took their accustomed walk-
inF and pony exercise to-day.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party yes-
terday.

The Earl of Clarendon had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday. The lliAtoit of Norwich had also an
interview with the noble lord yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
The Marquis of Lan•downe (Lord President) returned to
town yesterday, from hi:, scat, 114:tweed-nark, President
Lord Monteagle had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing.street.
Sir Gcorge Grey arrived in town last evening, from his
scat, Fallixion, Northumberland.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the North American provinces, and
also from the Governor of Malta.

TILE RECENT ROYAL VISIT TO MAN-
CU}:sTEIt.

MosaiAv Ev rts
The weather, which held up oo opportunely during
her Majesty's visit to this and the sister lyToughs, has now
fairly broken, and "Manchester mud and smoke" lord it
over us in their old way. Triumphal arches, and here and
there a bedabbled and drooping banner, arc seen—the soli-
tary relics of our holiday rejoicings of Friday and Saturday.
We may be likened to a mm who has made rather too
merry over night, and looks faded and a lithe dilapidated
as he creeps through the streets in the morning.
It is matter of regret that the royal pageant did not pass
away without some few accidents to embitter the memory
of it, though, perhaps, con-idering the crowdol state
of our streets, it is wonderful the casualties were nut more
numerous. A young man who was firing a cannon in
Church-street, ou Friday, shot a girl in the eye with the
wadding, and it catered the brain and proved fatal. This
morning he has been committed on a charge of man-
slaughter. A mother ventured into our crowded streets at
night with an infant at her breast, to see the illuminations,
and the child was squeezed to death in the crowd ; and a
man was al,o crushed between a cart wheel and one of the
street barrier,.
_ . . . .

The Recorder of the borough, in opening the quarter
sessions this morning, thus alluded to the royal suit '
lie said they had scarcely yet recovered from the excite-
ment which the stirring and gratifying events of the last
week had kept them in; and they could not but be thankful
that the fears!of the more timid, that the great and extensive
preparations which were made to give a fitting reception to
their gracious sovereign would be attended with some mis-
chance, had proved to be unfounded ; and that the antici-
pations of those who believed what they wished, that all
would go off well and be sueeessful, had been more than
realised. That their gracious Queen was well pleased with
the reception given to her in the Exchange was apparent, he
believed, to all who luvl the happiness there to see her.
The honour which her Majesty was then pleased to confer
on their chief magistrate in the presence of his assembled
fellow-townsmen, was felt by most persons who had the
good fortune to be present to be not only un evidence of
her Majesty's gracious approval of his conduct, but also as
a compliment to the borough at large.. They now knew
such to hay:: been the fact. They knew, also, what he
thought would be attended with unvarying good results to
this great community—that the most imposing sight her
Majesty witnessed was the peaceful awl orderly conduct
and exemplary demeanour of the countless thousands, who,
pouring out of their numberless hives of industry, and
ceasing front their labour, quitted their various occupations
or employments to line the road on each silo of the Royal
prugre,. for miles and miles together. They who lived
amongst them knew that peaceful, orderly conduct in gene-
ral, and the power of controlling themselves on any occa-
sion when they felt it right and seemly to do so, were dia.
tingui4ifirt characteristics of their working population.
That was now known also to her most gracious Majesty,
who observed it. Ile was quite certain that the
men of Manchester, now that they had, by such
conduct, gained the notice and admiration of their
gracious Queen, would feel themselves bound by a
zealous adherence to the like good conduct igiU to deserve
that !need of approbation. Ile felt most confident, as all
ri Electing men would, that the qualities which had been
exhibited by the working people of this town, and the esti-
mation in which they were held, would greatly increase the
true importance of this great community. lie had thought
it right, and not unfitting the iieeesion of their meeting, to
take this brief notice of the events which had so recently
occurred, though they were now assembled to take cognt-
sane: of those instances of exception from good conduct, and
to vindicate the law in cases where it should be proved to

have been violated.
etio far as can be gleaned from general conversation there
is but one feeling, and that of general gratification, at the
opportunity afforded the public in the route fixed upon fur
the royal progress through the borough of seeing and enjoy-
inf the pageant of the day.
he route which her Majesty pursued through Manches-
ter is not altogether devoid of historical interest, whatever
it may have lacked in other respects. A modern historiun
intimates that though wo have not much which could
deeply interest, the town is not altogether without a past.
He says—" King% have passed orer our pavements; imposture
have flourished in our land ; a Ridley and a Latimer have
preached within oar houses; martyrs have perished
amongst us ; and the great reviviliers of Shakspeare's im-
personations have been of us and amongst us." We can
say " there did the ancient Romans fix their camp—from
this spot did the descendants of the Caesars dispense their
law • here dwelt the famous Dee, to whom English nobles
aneforeign potentates bowed wit's reverence— in yonder
building did he converse with spirits, and beneath the shade
of that roof did he perform his divination ; there flourished
that impostor—alas . that we should use so harsh a term—
the famous Booker ; and here, where now stands this green-
' grocer's shop, resided one of the prowl Earls of Derby." But
the improvements effected in the town within the last
twenty years have swept away many of the older buildings
connected with its feudal and political memories. Aldport
Lodge, up to the days of Queen Elizabeth the family resi-
dence of the Earls of Derby, was situate near to the royal
route through Deansgate. A lofty pile of warehousing in
Market-street, passed by the royal tor/eye, carries one's
thoughts back to the memorable '45. For here it was, on
the site now occupied by Palace-buildings, stood the hotel
till very recently, which the Pretender made his heart-
quarters, whilst he remained a few days in Manchester to
recruit his little army, before setting forward towards
Derby. It subsequently bore the title of the Palace Inn.
The venerable fabric whose legrimed and blackened walls
would be amongst the first objects to attract the attention of
the royal Nifty as they entered the town by the Victoria-bridge
—the cathedral church—is one of the oldest material links
connecting, the present with the past, and has certainly
played no insignificant part either In the political or eccle-
siastical history of the town. It seems scarcely possible to
brieg one's mind to comprehend the fact in these peaceful
times, when we see a monarch entering the town close be-
neath those towers—her only guard a people's warm attach-
ment and devoted loyalty—that the gel.y heads of decapi-
tated martyrs once disfigured their pinnacles; and that a
haul perhaps as fair, though its owner did not weer a heart
so warm with the gentler influ meet human susceptibility,
had affixed its signature to their death warrants. It is a
much more pleasing reflection to think that hereabout, too,
stood the residence of one of the earliest feudal lords of the
town who figured among the " iron" barons at Runnymede.
But Manchester *ever was a stage on which kings and queens
have been destined to play very important ports. What-
ever may be its present wealth and position, it owes them
to the active industry and commercial enterprise of its in-
habitants. Royal and noble patronage' however they may
have ads antaged other places, have had but little to do
with its advancement. It has thriven without the aid of •
either royal charters or protective monopolies ; and the few
royal honours which have been conferred, however well
intended, have been singularly unfortunate in their re-
sults. The last was the charter of incorporation granted
about a dozen years ago ; though intended to improve
the local government of the town, it was accompanied with
so much legal bungling as to encourage protracted litiga-
tion to decide its validity—which was only affirmed by a
bare majority of the judges—resulting in expenses so enor-
mous as almost to drive into private life or to ruin some
of our richest and most prominent public men.
tames the First presented us with a warden in the person
of Dr. Murray, whose mental disqualifications were so
patent to the monarch himself that he is said to have bluffly
reproved him, after hearing him menet from a favourite
text, in words but too well preserved in a well-known anec-
dote : " Thou art not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, but
by the gospel might well be ashamed of thee ! " Again
if we go further back, Henry the Eighth had a boon to be-
stow. That monarch conferred upon the town the very
questionable privilege of sanctuary; but happily he was
open to remonstrance, and in the following. year a statute
(the 33rd Henry VIII.) transferred the privilege to Ches-
ter—the preamble sagely and pithily setting forth as a jus-
tification of this change that by reason of "its great wealth,
credit, and great oceupyings, ' Manchester was a place
which it was desirable "honest, true, and creditable per-
: sons," and "not any manner of light persons," should in-
habit. But it is pleasanter far to trace the commercial thaw
in the politico-religious history of the good old town. There
is more interest attached to the progress of the loons and
the spindle, and the steam engine, within the last 80 years,
, than to all the relics of feudalism and the barbaric struggles
for power, which could be scraped together over a leri,el of
800 years. Or if we would point a moral in any of the past
struggles, of which our town Iris been the theatre, wo
would prefer the peaceful to the physical ; we would rather
a thousand times point to the Free Trade Hall than the
'field of Petcrloo. And well diet those cheers sound which
I were so heartily bestowed on her Majesty and royal consort
, as they passed under the walls of the memorable building ;
because they told the sequel of a story which sounds

like a romance more than a veritable modern his-
tory. A few years only is it ago that indomitable
hearts here unded to tight the battle of labour against a
tax upon its bread—a tax levied not for the use of the state
but to pamper a wealthy and powerful elass—and her:: we
have, at the end of so brief a period, the monarch herself
from the throne, after manifesting the deepest interest in
the rights of labour by patronising the Great Industrial
Exhibition of All Nations, crowning her many other acts of
sympathy by coming amongst us in the metropolis of in-
dust and commerce itself, to pay a graceful and well-
timed compliment to the sons of labour ut their peaceful
homes.
The rejoicings in honour of the royal visit close to-night
by a public hall at the Exchange.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

PIMORAWME OP illt PROCZEDINOS ON THE PRVAEIRA•

TIDY OP TUE JCLUILS' REPORTS AND VIE CLOSING 07
TILE EXLIIBITION ON WEDNESDAY, 15 rtt °crones,
1851.
1. All the doors throughout the building, in-
cluding the exit doors, except thole at the south central
entrance, will be opened at 10 o'clock, cm., and closed at
half-past 11.
2. The doors at the south entrance will be reserved cx-
chusively for her :Majesty's cotnmissiancrs, the foreign and
local commissioners, the jarorn, and the lady exhibitors.
3. All exhibitors and members of the Society of Arts,
chairmen and secretaries of local committees, are to enter
at the doors at the western or tlritish side of the building.
4. Members of local committees, and all other persons,
are to enter at the doors on the eastern side of the building.
5. At 12 o'clock precisely his royal highnczs, with the
royal commissioners, will take their seats in the centre of the
transept.

6. Lon' Canning, on behalf of tho juries, mill rlail a re-
port of their proceedings, and present a list of the names of
those eshibitors entitled to rewards, tog,ther with the re-
ports of the juries. The 113,111C1 will be published in the
London GazePe on 'Friday, Oct. 17, and the medals, re-
ports, and certilicates will be given out as soon as arrange-
ments can be completed, of which due notice will be given.
7. His royal highness will receive the reports, and read a
reply.

8. A prayer of tLank•giviog will bo offered up by the
Bishop of Lot.don.
9. The National Anthem will be sung.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
at a meeting of the Royal Commission fhr the l'romotion
of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of 01l Nations
in 1851. The meeting was held at the Exhibition building
at 12 o'Cloek. The commissioners present were his Royal
highness the Prince Albert, Earl Granville, Lord John

Itissel: Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir
Charles L. Eastlake, Mr. Baring, M.l'., Mr. Baxley, Mr.
C 'Wen, M.P., Mr. Cuhitt, Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. John
Gott, Mr. l'usey, M.l'., Mr. It. Stephen on, M.l'., Mr.
John Shepherd, and Mr. Hopkins, President of the Geolo-
gical Society. Mr. Scott Russell and Mr. Edgar llowrings
secretaries of the Royal Commission, attended. Lieut.-
Colonel Reid (chairman), Mr. Henry Cole, and Mr. Charles
W. Hit:cc, of the Executive Committee, were present. Dr.
Lyon I'layfair and Colonel Lloyd, special commissioners,
were in attendance. The meeting broke up at 3 o'clock.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.-
Colonel Francis ltugh Seymour, afterwards proceeded to
the terminus of the Great Western Itailway at Paddington,
and returned by a special train to Windsor.

The only noticeable feature in the supplemental
opening of the Crystal Palace yesterday was the unexpected
visit paid by her Majesty, who, accompanied by Prises Al-
bert, the royal children, and 14 rafter numerous suite, ar-
rived as early as 10 o'clock, and continued until 13 in close
inspection of serious departments. The royal party first
visited the Manchester goods, which her Majesty examined
most attentively, and subsequently repaired to the Sevres
room, where the bronze bust oldie negro girl attracted much
of her Majesty's attention. The royal party was received on
their arrival by Mr. Dilke and one or twu other members
of the executive committee, and Mr. Ilelshaw had the
honour of attending her Majesty to the different stands
selected for the royal inspection. The naves appeared almost
as populous yesterday as ever from the number of visitors'
friends admitted, but the galleries were almost deserted,
and the money tables di.coursed none of the eloquent music
which 1141 so continuously distinguished them ou previous
days.

The following shows the temperature yesterday, as
recorded by Mr. Ilennett's thermometers, being the nxcan
result of 100 readings :-10 o'clock, e. ; 12 o'clock, GO ; 2
o'clock, 61 ; 4 o'clock, 63 ; 6 o'clock, 62. Mean kuipera-
tore, 60.8. B.wometer at 1 o'clock, 30.

The following notice respectimg tultnission on the day
of the closing ceremonial has been issued by the exe-
cutive committee:

"NOTICE TO TILE rtllLlC.—Monday and Tuesday, after
12 o'clock, all persons presenting cards are to he admitted
nt every door, including tho exit doors; but red cards aro
to be admitted only at the west end. The corner of every
card is to be torn off, and the card given back to tho
bearer. No person is to be re-admitted on Monday, if ono
corner is torn off, or on Tuesday, if two corners arc turn off.
On Wednesday all the doors to open at 10 o'clock, and
close at 11.30. Only one person is tube admitted with each
card. No red cards are to be admitted on this day. Ladies
who present either a white or blue card arc to he admitted
at the central south entrance. Only the royal commis-
sioners, ladies, jurors, foreign and local commissioner•, ad-
mitted at the south central entrance, and no one is to be
admitted into the area reserved for them. No person ix to
stand oa any counter or stand, and exhibitors aro earnestly
requested to protect each others property."