The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-11 00:00:00

Cbt Court.

ARDTERIKIE, SEPT. 7.—Mr. Macpherson, of Onny,
and Mr. Popham, who joined the Prince's shooting party to.
day, had the honour of joining the royal dinner party this
evening.--Serr. B.—The Prince started early thie morning
to see the psr.llel roads at Glen Roy. The Marquis and
Marchioness of Abercom are expected to arrive on a visit to
her Majesty this evening.

The Duchess of Gloucester arrived in town yester-
day from her residence at Richmond.
Rear-Admiral Shirred' had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday. Mr. Temple and Mr. Noyes had
also interviews yesterday with the right bon. baronet, at the
Home-office.
DOVER, SEPT. 10.—The Prince of Leiningen ar-
rived at Birmingham's Ship Hotel last night, and this morn-
ing embarked on board her Majesty's packet, Onyx, for
Ostend. The Count Chreptowitch and Mr. Craven sailed
in the same packet. Don Manuel de Moreno with his son
landed here on a mission to our court.
The Earl of Dalhousie, the newly-appointed
Governor-General of India, has gone to visit his estates in
Scotland preparatory to his departure for India to enter on
the duties of his high appointment. The noble earl is
expected to leave England in about a month. ,
Count Flabault, the French ambassador at the
court of Vienna, returns to London in the course of the
ensuing week from the countess's (Baroness Keith and
Naive) seat in Scotland, his excellency having received
commands from his government to proceed forthwith to the
Austrian capital.
The Earl of Durham has arrived at Montreal on a
visit to his Excellency the Governor-General and the Colla-
tes' of Elgin. The noble earl returns from North America
in the spring of next year. The Countess of Elgin's health
was greatly improved when the last accounts were received
from Canada.
The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel has returned to
Drayton Manor, Staffordshire, from 'Lilting in the north.
Lady Peel and Miss Peel have also returned to the family
seat from a visit to Mrs. H. hating at Cromer Hall, Norfolk.
In consequence of the lamented demise of Lady Jane Yates
Peel, the right hen. baronet and Lady Peel have declined
all invitations, and will not receive company at Drayton until
Christmas.
Count Chreptowitch, who after acting four years
as the Russian chargé d'affaires at Naples, has just been
appointed minister plenipotentiary by the Emperor of Russia
to that court. The countess, daughter of Count Neaselrode,
is at Ostend. His excellency leaves Mivart's Hetet for
Naples next week, to eater on his diplomatic duties.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll have arrived at
Dunrohin Castle, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland, from Inverary Castle, Argyleahire. The Earl
Grosvenor has also joined the family circle assembled at
Dunrobin.

(From last night's Gazette.)
WHITEHALL, SEPT. B.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Lord Wrottesley ; Pro-
fessor R, Willis, M.A. ; Capt. H. James, R.E.; G. Rennie,
Esq. ; W. Cubitt, Esq. ; and E. Hodgkinson, Esq., commis•
sioners for inquiring into the conditions to be observed by
engineers in the application of iron in railway structures.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Lieut. D. Oat-
ton, R.E., to be secretary to the said commission.
DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 10.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint fdsjor-Gen. Sr H. G. W. Smith, Bart.,
K.G.C. ((having the local rink of Lieut.-Oen. in South Africa),
to be Governor and Commander-in• Chief of the Cape of
Good Hope, with its territories and dependencies, and to be
her Majesty's High Commissioner for the settling and ad-
justment of the affairs of the territories adjacent or con-
tiguous to the eastern and north-eastern frontier of the
.said
settlement.

WAR-OFFICE, Seer. 10.
4th Lt. Drage.—Lieut. T. Hutton, from 13th F., to be lieut.,
Montgomery, who exc.
6th F.--Capt. W. F. Vincount Chewton, from 3rd W. I. Beg., to be
alPts vice (trilby, who exc.
15th F.—Lieu.. C. Montgomery, from 4th Lt. Drop., to be limit,
rice Hutton, who our.
62nd F.-Berj.-Mnior T. Boyd to be quaz..enast., rice W. Guy, who
retires on balf.pay.
67th F.—CapL D. Campbell, tram 11:p.11th F.. to be capt., repay-
ing the cliff., rice Derrell, prom. Lieut. W. H. Homey to be cap?,
hy Puri, rice Campbell, who rrt. R. Rlakesey, to be bent., by
par., vice
by ; Gent. Cadet V.A. Webbe from the Roy. 1111. Col,
to be em., by pnr., vice Blakeney. Gent. Cadet J. T. N. O'Brien frail
the Boy. MIL Cot, to be ens.„ without put., Tice An, Epp. wij•
3rd W. I. Reig.—Capt. D. F. Ogilhy, 6th F., to be ca D. ,10e Vim.
Cbewton, who
TINATTACHIMA—Toexch. be opt., without par. -Lieut. P. Bolton, of the
16th F.: Lieut. A. With, from the St. Helena Regt.
Honorer,.. STAPT.-I'. H. Roe, gent., to he aaaint..nurg. 0 the knee.
Bawer.—Melor.Gen. Sir H. G.W. Smith, Bart., 0.C.8., to boon the
local rank of lieut..gen. at the Cape of Good Hope and its dependence.
Major D. Campbell, of 67th F., to be lieut..-coL in the army; Capt. D.
Campbell, 67th P., to be major in the array.
OFFICE OP ORDNANCE, Sees. 7.
Roy. ArtiL-2nd iLleuL H. T. Boultbee to be lot lieut., vice Burrell
deceased.
The &dee of the commissions of the under-mentioned caters him
been altered IS fOLIOW6, vin.: Capt. F. B. Hamilton, July I, lot?;
2nd Capt. IL Lempriere, July 1, 1817 ; Liellt. W. IL Mara
22, 1447; Lieut. L. Martineau, April 9, 1847 ; Lieut. C. Hunter,
April 22, 1047; Lieut. A. J. kbeDougall, May 7, 180 ; Lieut. J.
Bpuriray, May 26, 1847; Lieut. G. It. C. Young, July 1, 1647.

COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH TUSCANY. Last
night's Gazelle announces that the provisions of " An Act
for granting Duties on Customs," passed in the 9th and 9th
years of her Majesty's reign, has been extended by an order
of Privy Council to the grand duchy of Tuscany.

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.
Yesterday a special court of the Middlesex magis-
trates was holden at Ilicks'ehall, Clerkenwell, for the pm-
Nee of taking iato consideration a code of rule*, pro pmed to
be adopted for the government of the new county house of
detention, preparatory to their being laid before the Secre-
tary of State for approval and confirmation, Mr. Palma
presided. Mr. H. Rose handed in 27 rules which he pm-
posed should be read to the conrt.—Mr. Mande, the
clerk of the peace, read the rules, but they disclosed no new
principle of prison discipline. One of the rules was is re-
gard to the cleanliness of the prisoners, and it imposed upon
the surgeon of the prison the power of ordering the dodos
of any prisoner on admission to be burnt, fueugated, or re'
placed by others, should he consider them to be in a state
likely to contaminate the cleanliness of other prisoners—kir.
Rotch said this rule could not be made too stringent,
and he hoped the powers placed in the surgeon.' hands
would remove a reproach which be was 'Mg
to say had been cast upon the NVestminster Bndewsii.
—a reproach, he was sorry to find on inquiry, merited-1'
alluded to the state of untried prisoners, when they wee
transferred from Wentminsterßridewell to Newgate. (Sem)
He had been over the last named prison the previous day.
and he had been told that the prisoners from Westminster
were often tuna covered with vermin. He considered Met
this court could not be too anxious in or adopt too impera-
tive measures to remove so great an evil, and he hoped that
the proposed rule would be an effectual remedy, Some 40-
cussion arm and the rule received the unanimous eancum

of the court.
SIiAM derroawars.—The 24th role was in reference to the
admiasion of " legal advisers" into the prison to consulting
the prisoners. It ordered that at any reasonable hour a.prr
Goner's " legal adviser" might be admitted to WI his chmt,
and if necessary to confer with him (or her) in private. Do

chairman said a rule regarding one of the other county psi-
aoae had been 'Omitted to the Secretary of State, in which
th. term e legal adviser was inserted. It certainly was an
indefinite term, and Sir George Grey had intimated what
it was to imply. He then read a letter from Sir George Grey,
which stated that " by the term legal adviser is to be
aedierepod, a certificated attorney or his authorised clerk."
mr. Botch moved that the words " That is, • certificated
attorney, or his authorised clerk," should be inserted in
Bale '24 for the new prison, immediately after the words
adviser." A propos of this he (Mr. Butch) would
cell the attention of the court to a letter referring to the same
subject, which was in the News of that morning. It
was an article with the views of which he did—and he
believed the whole court would—fully coincide. The writer
eery ably dwelt upon the iniquitous system practised upon
prisoners and their friends, by a set of fellows who pre-
tended to be legal practitioners, and who under that guise
extorted money in the most shameful and barefaced mintier.
They prowled about this and other criminal courts, and would
Tepees:Fit to a prisoner's friends that there was • flaw in an
teaktment which would secure an acquittal (although they
had never set eyes upon it), And they deluded them
by saying that for three or four pounds they gould
set the prisoner at liberty ; and too often they suc-
ceeded in getting the money; but, as might be ex-
pected, they afforded the prisoner ao aid whatever.
By this means poor people who had the misfortune to find
A relative in trouble, were robbed—tortured to distraction
oho they saw they had been deceived—and wives, mothers,
aad sisters, were generally the victims of this cruel and heart-
lei• system of fraud. The writer in the Daily News urged
the magistrates to do something to remedy so crying an evil.
ea suggested that there should be power to tax the costs of
the defence as well as of the prosecution. Of such
112(41111le as that he (Mr. Botch) should fully approve.
He had mentioned the subject to Mr. Charles Peirsen,
hi I'., and he conaurred in it, too, and expressed his wil-
lingness to introduce a bill to that effect into parliament,
providing the magistrates would draw one up. Ile fully
believed that by such • power much misery and ruin would
be spared the friends of unfortunate prisoners. But it was
a difficult matter ; and were the magistrates to take upon
them the choosing of respectable professional men to watch
the interests of prisoners, the public feeling would
be that they bad pose under-motive in so doing. At all
events, he hoped the public would learn through the regular
and legitimate channel that the magistrates of this county
were resolved to put a stay to such a system as prevailed
now. Ile suggested that, as an experiment, a list of respect-
able legal practitioners should be kept at the New County
Prison, from which the prisoners should be left to select their
advisers. The list should be open to the profession, and
rigid care should be taken that none but the names of re-
spectable perms were entered, and that they should Rot
remain after say act of misconduct had rendered them inch-
frible. This suggestion received the cordial approval of the
mart, and the proposition was unanimously adopted.
No other business was transacted, and the court adjourned.

MARRIAI;F: OF JENNY LIND.—The " Swedish
Nightinuale has, it is reported. taken unto herself a mate.
Ins envied man is said to be a banker of Stockholm, an
Enelishman, and related by marriage to a gentleman in
whom are united the characters of • London banker and
'Grecian historian. The ceremony took place, we are told,
at Manchester.
SERIOUS CII.tRGE AGAINST A BARRlnTEß.—Yenter-
day, information was forwarded to the various police-stations
that a member of the Iri,h bar, lately occupying chambers in
Bymonds'•inn, Chancery-lane, had absconded, in consequence
of true bills having been found against him for perjury end
conspiracy, and a reward has been offered for his appre-
hension.
MARTLERONE DISTRICT COUNTY COURT.—Sir,--
In your paper of to-day, Professor Amos, judge of the Mary-
lebone District C,unty Court, is reported to have stated that
he should " in future commit debtors who disobeyed orders
of the court to the House of Correction, where they would
wear the prison dress, and be treated as criminals." The
99th section of the statute 9 & 10 Viet, cap. 95, certainly
gives power to commit to the common gaol or House of Cor-
rection, but gives no direction ►s to the parties committed
being treated "as criminals." That would, I apprehend, be
importing a power into the statute not granted by parlia-
ment. If any debtor he so treated, he ought immediately
to apply for a writ of habeas corpse, so the judges of the su-
perior courts will never countenance severity of an ins
proper nature; and it would be monstrous to imprison a
small debtor as a criminal, while large debtors may get 1
whitewaahel under an set pissed only last session, without
going veto custody at aft !—A LAWTER.-City, Sept. 10.
FIRE IN THE Iit..tCEFRIARS-ROAD. —Last night,
stoat a quarter-past ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the
midst of a large clump of wooden premises, situate in Crows-
street, Blackfriars-road. That part in which the fire began
was in the occupation of Mr. Nash, a cooper. From vie
highly combustible nature of the stock in trade, hardly five
minutes had elapsed before the cooperage and all it contained
were wrapped in flames. Engines quickly arrived, and be-
fore eleven o'clock the flames were entirely extinguished,
not, however, until the cooperage was levelled with the
ground, and the content• destroyed. The surrounding
buildings, owing to the exertions of the firemen, escaped
with trifling damage. The sufferer, it is understood, was
uninsured, but the building was protected by a policy in the
West of England office.