The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1848.

heart as well as her fremtiers to Frenchmen. I thiak she did
right in doing so. Eke did right far her own interest. A
noble wreatry lake Basiaad, in order to he admired and
blamed, weals only to be known. The beet answer she eta
slake to still existiag, though every day vanishing, preju-
dices is to show herself to every eye. Let ea, my
lewd, enjoy let Europe let all the people of
Europe enjoy eke Wads, said the bloats et Uri sistail
good andoestanding which is and will ever be the best seen-
why far the maintentuthe of the plea of the weeld. We se
more entertain, neither in Basked nor in Fran" the [she
*ales that the prosperity of our oesatry is honied upon
SU gamy of the other. We this's, on the wriasry, that
the beet guarantee of sack one's lisfilia/14 is UN
happlaess of all. (Hear, hear.) Allow me, la
consindles, and apoicerialing for my bed Butch,
to tell yea that it win be in my eou=trymea the most
happy and delightful day when a visit—a much desired
tint isf Englishmen to Paria—will afford the Parisians an
opportunity of expressing better than I eta do by words
the feeling. of gratitude and sympathy whisk they enter-
tain for England, and particularly for the City of London.
(Mach cheering.)
The Loan btavon thee pro the health of the Duke and
Duchess of Northumberland. 111, grace returned thanks.
air GIORGI Gary proposed the health of the Lady
Mayoress, and having expressed hie regret at the absence of
his noble caleasue, Lord John Rumen, bore whammy to
the efficient manner in which the duties of the mayoralty
had been performed during the last year, expressing,la tea-
elusion, his conviction that, under whatever era mercy
might arise, the present Lord Mayor would be treating
is none et these essential qualities which had masked his
predecessor. (Cheers.)
The Loan MAYOR having acknowledged the compliment,
preposed Lord Denman and the judges of the land.
Lord Dantean' returned thanks, and said it had been
his peculiar privilege, that during late events, the 00stia of I
duty bad not oil upon him to act in any of the painful
circumstances that had occurred. Ile was happy to
say that the dignity of the law and the safety of
the community bad never been more efficiently tied
effectively upheld than la those proceedings. He hoped the
same determination would always be shown to administer
justice with the same thrill administration of the law. (Cheers.)
The next toasts were the " Attorney-Gerseral sad the
Bar of England," for which the Attorney-General returned
thanks; and the " Members for the City of London," to
which 111 r. Madam= replied. The usual formal toasts
were then drunk, end the company dispensed.

CHOLERA.—Yesterday the Board of Health re-
ceived information of the following new eases :—Stepney, 1;
Lambeth, 2 deaths; Greenwich, 1, fatal; Battersea, 3;
Hackney, 1; Hackney-road, 13, 3 fatal; Sunderland, 1,
fatal; Edinburgh, 14 new cases, 20 deaths ; Leith. 14 new
CARER 4 death.; total new cues, 41 ; 31 fatal.—Arroutr-
MINT Or MEDICAL OFFICER/I.—Yesterday. the board of
guardians of Newington appointed five medical gentlemen
resident within the parish to attend the poor who might
be attacked with cholera. The guardians directed a fee
of 10a. Bd. to be paid in each cue of attendance.
AMALGAMATION OF TilE BOARD OF STAMFS
AND TRIES WITH TKO Excise DEPARTNINT.--11
understood that the long uncompleted union of the excise
and the stamps and tuft department will shortly he carried
into effect, the preliminaries for that purpose having hem
arranged. Mr. John Wood, the thalamus of the Beard of
Rube, has been for some time put In daily comm_._...efli
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the realest, end '
it now appears to be defiratively settled that these twe
national revenue establishments shall shortly he carried on
ender one head. The change has been pressed famed
with some baste, in consequence of the large number of
e miss officers, who by the operation of the Spirit LiCSMES
Act are now rendered unnecessary. To &turista the push*
number that can he neared, a set of questions have been sent
from the Board of Excise to every supervisor througheet
the kingdom, to state to what extent the officers in each dh-
trict may be reduced in the altered state of the law, and
without injury to the public service, end the answers that
have been received show that number to amount to upwarda
of 800. These oaken have for the present been
"dropped" to barley, and it is expected, shoal I
the plan proposed take place, that they may be
employed in the collection of many of the taxes,
at present received by local tax collectors, such is the Income
sex, taxes for horses and carriages, &c., and, in fact, the
whole 01 those known as assessed taxes, without the charge
et poundage for collection, as is in many ewes allowed. Mr.
John Wood, the present chairman of the board of excise, is
2.:Arof se the proposed chairman of the new board, and
. Wickham, Zoe., the present chairman of the boxed of
sump and taxes, vtrochairman. Two commissioners of
mime ere expected to retire on the superannuation allow-
saws, and other alterations are anticipated. It appears to be
KM an open question whether Somerset. hones or the Beeler-
idles la Broad street, City, will be the most convenient site
he the purposes of the joint service ; yet, taking the central
miteation of the latter into consideration, it is generally re•
gaoled se the moot desirable. A saving will by this scheme
arise to the public, seat present the excise, has to carry its op.-
redone into effect, a eheurman with a salary of 2,0001.; deputy
chainue, 1,5001.; and five commissioners at 1,2001. per an-
num each ; the chairman of stamps and tales, 1,6001. ; the
deputy-chairman, 2,0001, with several other officers with es-
laries varying between 1,0001. and 2,0001. From the close
connexion between the rpecies aureoles hitherto collected
separately, there is every reason to believe that but a compa-
ratively small additional number of persons to the present
excise staff will be able to collect the revenue of both do.
partments
TEE NATIONAL SOCIETY AND THE COMMITTEE OF
PRIVY COUNCIL ON EDUCATlON.—Yesterday, a meeting of
the National Society was held at the Central School House,
Westminster, for the purpose of taking into consideration
the means to be adopted with reference to the pending
dispute between the society and the Committee of Privy
Council, on the " management eleuees," and the manner in
which greats are hereafter to be made to church and other
mamba Theme gustione, which have excited much contro.
way, have been under discussion since May, 1848 ; snd a
lengthened correspondence has token place between the
Archbishop of Canterbury on the part of the National
Moiety. and Jr. Kay Shuttleworth on behalf of the Com-
mitres of Privy Council. Several suggestions were made on
either aide, and the Committee of Council having declared
their ultimatum, the meeting of the National Society was
yesterday convened to consider it. The Archbishop
of Canterbury presided, and there were present the
/Mope_ of London, Salisbury, and St. Asaph. The
Rev. W. J. Kennedy, M.A., the secretary, read a length.
axed correspondent* which had taken place between the
eseiety and the Committee of Privy Council upon the matter
viadsc dispute.—The Archbishop of Canterbury said that the
epostion which the committee would now have to decide was
whether the National Society should accept the terms pro.
wed by the Privy Council, or whether they should be re-
paid The whole of the correspondents' was before the
emetraittee. who would be able to yudge of its merits—The
Rof Landon, the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop ot St.
Arehiracon Sinclair, Archdeacon Harrison, Mr. W.
eek M.P., Mr. Colquhoun, and other gentlemen
iselmmeed the meeting, and the discussion lasted
antly the bears. It was eventually arranged that
the farther consideration of the question should be
&Burned until a fella meeting could be secured.
The Rev. W. J. Kennedy laid before the committee a large
number of letters from different part of the country, de-
manding a general meeting of the members to take the
question at hens into consideration, mad urging upon the
society the adoption of certain resolutions proposed by the
Bev. G. A. Denison, vim of But Brea', Somerset.
The resolutions alluded to deprecate the compulsory inter-
ference of the state with the discretion of the local founders
and promoters of church schools, contending that all such
compulsory interference is inadmissible, because unjust, un.
necessary, and dangerous to the church. After a lengtheued
dismission it was decided that it would be injudicious, under
present circumstances, to call the meeting which had been
requested by se many members of the society. The meeting
thee majorated.
LORD MAYOR'S SEOW.—City, Nov. 9.—Sir,—There
mime was a finer day for the Lord Mayor's Show, and there
never WEIIIIIIOThe exhibition than that of yesterdt is time
that the symbol' of by-gone ages should be replaced in our
modern pageants by other.; moos apt to the:Top feelings of
the day. It would be impossible to abolish them ; but they
might be reformed, and an appearance given to them more
in consonance with modern ideas and less chivalrous, at a
time when chivalry is anything but the order of the day.
What a contrast exists between the show of yesterday and the
more comprehensive commemoration lately held at Brus-
sels. There the symbols were significant of the pro-
gress of the age in which commerce, industry, and
manufactures have taken such a stride. Representa-
tions reminiscent of large and wealthy towns which con-
tain the prosperity of Belgium,eoupled with emblems
of that agriculture which is also so largely carried on there,
were presented and understood by the people. The only
symbol practically illustrative of enythutir in yesterdays
show was an imitation of a boat, rigged without even the
merit of faithfulness of imitation, and drawn laboriously by
six horses. This was a personal reminiscence, and one more
ridiculous could scarcely be imagined. No doubt the boat,
which represented the early career of the Lord Mayor, had
been lately balancing itself on the Thames, with a broom
stuck on the end of its mast. It has been taken from its
native element, deprived of its keel (for which wheels have
been substituted), and, decorated with ribbons, it bore tri-
umphantly a few boys from the Marine School, the men who
mounted the animals that drew it being, no doubt, some of
those horse-marines whose existence has been hitherto so
problematical, bat of which it is impossible from henceforth to
doubt. All this is ridiculous enough in itaelf,but the ridicule was
enhanced by sundry other characteristic'. The wonderfully-
liveried servants looked ashamed of themselves. Several
were lame; all bore cotton umbrellas. Now, for what pur-
pose these umbrellas were to be used, considering the fine-
ness of the day, can scarcely be guessed at, unless it were to
Wagainst showers of memento{ which fell from neigh-
og houses, in the shape of potato skins and other refuse.
The man with the axe was abeent. The vulgar have it that
the axe usually borne on these occasions was that with which
Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded. I cannot like upon
myself to decide whether this is so or not, but its absence
was remarked and severely commented on by divers boys
who lined the road. The absence of the man with the axe
was, however, amply compensated by the presence
of four men in armour. The mode by which
these warriors mount their steeds is known. Those
clad in brass bore themselves triumphantly, as their titles
comport ; but east shall be maid of those dad in steel / The
first seemed borne down by the weight of his misfortunes,
and it required the assistance of two men to keep him in an
upright position. The second bore himself better. In aspect
he was peculiarly fierce, but this fierceness was put on for
the occasion. His black moustache and completion were
produced by art, and a maiden irritation of the akin causing
a desire to scratch, had laid bare the secret of the knight, and
left an indelible mark (at least for half-an•hour) upon his