The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-18 00:00:00

Ibe Qroutt.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY. Yesterday her Majesty
walked in the slopes in the afternoon, attended by the
fdarehionesa of Douro. . . .

Count Sehimmelpenninek, the Netherlands Mi-
nister, the Saxon Minister, and the Baroness de Beust,
Viscount Palmerston, and Sir H. and Lady Seymour, took
their departure from the Castle yesterday.
The Marquis of Douro arrived yesterday at the
Castle, and had the honour of joining the royal circle at
dinner. The band of the lit Life Guards attended during
dinner at the Castle.

H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent had an evening
party yesterday at Frogmore House. The Queen and
Prince Albert were present, and also several ladies and
gentlemen of the royal suite.
This morning her Majesty and her Royal Consort
took their usual early walk.
Their R.H. the Prince of Wales and the Princess
Royal took walking and pony exercise in the grounds around
the Castle.

Her Majesty and H.R.H. Prince Albert, H.R.H.
the Duchess of Kent, and the Ladies and Gentlemen of the
Court, attended divine service this morning in the private
chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. G. Leshe Courte-
nay officiated.

Her Majesty and H.R.H. Prince Albert will leave
the Castle this morning (Monday) for Buckingham Palace. I
Her Majesty is expected to return on Thursday.
The Queen held a Privy Council at 3 o'clock this
(Monday) afternoon at Buckingham Palace.
A Cabinet Council w7w7l7eTrat 3 o'clock on Satar-
day afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present
were, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, Sir G. Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir
J. Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl
of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon.
T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Mon. H. Labouehere.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town from Windsor Castle
previous to the meeting. The council eat two hours.
The Bishop of Tasmania had an interview with
Earl Grey on Saturday at the Colonial-office. Sir G. Gipps
had also an interview with the noble earl on Saturday. Mr.
.1. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday at his official
residence in Downiag.street.
The Austrian, Russian, and Prussian Ministers,
assembled yesterday, and had a lengthened conference with
Viscount Palmerston. It is understood that the meeting
had reference to Prince Metternich's answer to our foreign
secretary's protest against the incorporation of Cracow with
the Austrian dominions.
Mr. Tufnell, M.P., Secretary of the Treasury has
left town for Wrothain.park, Barnet, to attend the funeral
of the late Mr. Byng, this dal7.
Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from
he Colenial-office for the Governors of the West India
Colonies.

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The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
in the Chapel Royal, St. lames's, yesterday.
ROYAL VISIT TO RELVOIR CASTLE.—The Duke of
Rutland was honoured by the company of H.R.H. the Du-
chess of Cambridge and his Serene Highness Prince
Frederick of Hesse, at Belvoir Castle, from Monday last,
when the illustrious guests came from Belton House, near

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Grantham, *here they had been visiting the Earl and
Countess of Brownlow.up to Friday lust.
TIIE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—Lord John Rua-
as premier, will give a grand full-dress parliamentary
entertainment this evening at his official residence in
Downing-street.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord Pre-
sideot of the Council, as ministerial leader in the House of
Lords, will receive a numerous circle of peers to dinner at
Lansdowne House this evening.
Lord Stanley, as the recognised leader of the Pro-
tectionist opposition in the House of Lords, gives a sumptu-
ous entertainment to his political friends this evening.

A QUEEN'S LETTER FOR THE STARVING IRTSII.—It
gives us much pleasure to state that a Queen's letter will
shortly be ismed for the relief of the distressed population of
Ireland.—Observer.
IRISH SUBSCRIPTION FUND.—Sir,—I beg of you
to read the following paragraph :
DI.PAInI'OF OF A STEAMER 1405,1 Mini FOOD MD iftFl.AND.—On
Saturday morning at as early hour, the powerful government +reamer
Dragon, engaged by the "British A‘ronation for the Relief of the
Distressed Poor in Inland." sailed from Deelfonl for the Irish coa.;
having on hoard a cargo of several hundnd ton, weight of food,
clothing, flannel blanl.eta, and other nivemariee, for di.tribution us
the mint dktresaed dkriete. This is the lint ve.ael despatched by
the araociation, but others will follow in AUCCerAiOII as speedily al
practicable.
No port is, you perceive, indicated, and it is a question to
say whether it he, advisable that so much of the money ex-
pected to be subscribed should he laid out in hiring such
steamer, and keeping her going from port to port, indefi-
nitely, or whether it would not he wiser for the articles
wanted to be bought at Bristol, Liverpool, or Glasgow, and
other towns opposite the Irish coast, and immediately for-
warded to the harbours ne crest to the scenes of distress. Tho
paragraph in question has induced many to trust to tha
natural course of trade for sanding over asaietance to the
poor in Ireland, rather than trust to the chance of one iron
steamer performing the voyage safely ns well as speedily
round the whole island.-1 ant, Sir, your obedient servant
A. J. F.
IBRAHIM PACIIA AND THE POOR OF LONDON,—
Ibrahim Pacha was so highly gratified at the reception
given to him by the late Lord Mayor, Alderman John-
son, that he transmitted • cheque for 500/. to his lord.
ship, with a request that the eistrioution of that sum might
be made among the poor citizens when any emergency should
take place. The time has arrived when effect can he given
to the kindly dispo-ition of the Pacha greatly to the relief
of the numerous indigent families in the City of London,
which, with all its means of administering relief, partici-
r et* severely in the general distress; and we trust and be.
hove that Alderman Johnson will exercise his usual judg-
ment in superintending the distribution.
BARRISTERS AND ATTORNEY'S CLERKS.—A corre-
spondent has forwarded to Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper a
statement that en attempt is being made to establish a lite-
rary and scientific institution for the use of this body exclu-
sively, The endeavour has originated with a fewl aw clerks who
have joined together to carry out the necessary steps fur the
successful formation of the project. There can he, says the
correspendent, not the slightest doubt, but that the want of
an institution of this kind has long been felt by them, and
now that an opportunity presents itself to remedy this long
complained of evil, I cannot but think that they show
by their exertions their determination to render ell:1.y assist-
ance in their power.
Two NEW THEATRE?.—Private information, not to
be gainsaid (says the .4thenerum), apprizes us that the move-
ment in promotion of a theatre under Mr. Macready's direc-
tion is going on,—so well sinesred (to coin a verh), that,
sooner or later, it must gain its point —The 06serrer an-
nounces that shares to the amount of 10,000/. have been
taken for the erection of another new theatre in Leicester.
square, to be under the direction of Mr. Buckstone, the
comedian ; and when a sufficient number of proprietors is
secured to place the completion of the building beyond a
doubt, the operations will commence.
THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A LADY AT
TWICKENHAM.—On Saturday morning the body of Mrs.
Elizabeth Smith, who, it will be remembered, obsoppeared
in a mysterious manner from the house of her husband,
Pope's tills, Twickenham, on the night of Sunday, the 27th
ult., was picked up in the river Thames, off Lambeth, and
taken to the dead house of that parish, where it awaits a
coroner's inquest.
INQUESTS, SATURDAY.—MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A
FEMALF.—Before Mr. W. Payne, at the vestry-ball of St.
John's, Horsleydown, on the body of a female unknown,
apparently about twenty-eight pears of age. A witness
proved finding the body, entangled by her clothes, in the
chains of a ballast-engine, lying off Hoialeydowis. She had
no bonnet or shoes on. Mr. Makin, stirecan, said he had
examined the body, and found the temporal bone on the right
side of the bead fractured. The injury had been received
during life, was the result of violence, and sufficient
to cause death. The coroner said the case must stand
adjourned for a week, in order to afford time for inquiry.
The police had been informed of the cirturustances.—
DEATH RT THE. FURZE CHARCOAL.—On Saturday,
before Mr. Bedford, at the Valiant Trooper, Oxford-street,
on the body of Hannah Hallett, aged '23, servant to Mr.
Carrington, horse-dealer, No. 255, Oxford-street. The de-
ceased had been three months in service, and on Thursday
last her mistress gave her leave to have a pan of lighted
charcoal in her bedroom, to air it; but at the same time
gave her a caution of its dangerous nature. In the afternoon,
it coming to the knowledge of her master, he made her
bring it down into the kitchen, but before going to bed she
again took it ul to her bedroom, unknown to the family.
On the following (Friday) morning a female friend of Mrs.
Carrington went to call her as usual, and on entering her
bedroom she found her in bed insensible, and the remains of
the charcoal fire on the hearth, the chimney of the fireplace
being blocked up. Mr. Drury, a surgeon was called in im-
mediately, who pronounced her to have been dead some
hours. she cause of death arose from inhaling carbonic
acid gas, generated by burning charcoal.—Verdict,
" Died from inhaling the vapours of charcoal, ineau-
tiousl placed in her bedroom."—SitoeXlNG DEATH ON
THE. SOUTH EADTERN.—Before William Carter, Esq., the
coroner for Surrey, which occupied considerable time, at the
Lureber Inn, at Reigate, as to the death of James
Armaworth, aged 33. The jury upon viewing the body of
the deceased were horror-stricken at the appearance it pre-
sented ; the bead was nearly torn away at the top. and one
of the legs was severely fractured.—Jas. Robinson was the
first witness. He deposed that he and the deceased man had
been working on the South Eastern Railway line ; about
seven o'clock on Tuesday morning he was on a loaded truck
waggon with the deceased ; they bad been filling twenty-
eight trucks with draught chalk, which had fallen along the
aides of the line. Two locomotive engines were attached
on the London side of the Meratham tunnel, for the
of being taken to the station called Battle-
bridge.e s
An open truck was provided for the workmen
on the line, and the whistle was sounded when the train
was ready for them to get into the carriages. The men
thought this was awkward to get into, as they usually got
on the loaded trucks. He and deceased did so on the same
truck. After the engine and train hid passed the tunnel the
speed was slackened, and the train WAS apparently stopped.
' It was found that the train had not gone far enough by
twenty yards, and it was moved on. This canoed a jerk,
and the deceased was thrown out head first. Witness bad
just before asked him to remove the side-board, so
that they could begin unloading as soon as possible, and
he was in the act of reaching his spade when this occurred.
The train was stopped almost instantly, and upon witness
going back he found the deceased lying on the rails, and two
of the trucks had passed over his head, which was so torn to
pieces that he could not be recognised by his features. A
signal was always given when the men were to get into the
open truck, or when there was a stoppage on the line, but
he did not hear it that morning.—The Coroner What
were your orders as to riding in the loaded trucks ?
Witness; Our orders were, always to ride in the empty
trucks, but we wanted to get our work done as soon as pos.
sible.LCoroner Then you acted against your orders h—Wit.
nese Yes.—To the jury : The empty truck was very easy of
access—The Coroner said it would be advisable, he thought,
to discharge all the men who were in the habit of riding on
the loaded trucks, for there was no telling what might one
day be the loge of life.—The jury fully concurred in this,
and returned a verdict of "Accidental death," at the same
time recommending the suggestion of the coroner, which
Mr. Watts said should be laid before the directors.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, JAN. 16.
The meeting is the all-absorbing topic : it lingers
fondly on the memory of the landlords as something
of which they feel reason to be proud, and they
return to their homes satisfied in having laid the train
' for their own and their country's regeneration. Time
alone can test the truth of the sentiments. \WY
generous words were no doubt spoken, and all ar
peered conscious of the necessity of reconciling popular
confidence—a revolution in the proprietorial mind;
but when some touchstone is applied—for instance in
the question of tenants' compensation, or the taxation
of the soil for colonization, or some other national pro-
ject, we shall see how the syrup works. The meeting
was certainly an imposing and influential one. There
were, I should think, about 800 present—many from
the remotest parts of Ireland. The speeches were
generally brief and apposite—moderate in their tone,
and free from any approach to intimidation. Some-
times there was a burst of vehemence, such as
Lord Erne's denunciation of the " infernal Labour
Rate Act," which provoked loud acclamation. The
afrets.r silence was equally deep when he described
the position of the landlords as " half way down
the precipice." The tumbling metaphor was rather
confused. First, they were on the brink, then ova.,
next midway in the descent, and they would be soon
and surely at the bottom, without the remedy of
the ris inerliae. According to many, the essential
question of food did not receive that prominence in
the debate to which it was entitled. this may have
arisen from the difficulty of dealing with a subject
whose correct principles are so little understood, as
well as from respect to ministers, who are quite se
anxious for the preservation of the people as the
landowners themselves. The Irish representatives
will take counsel together in London when the inten-
tions of ministers are better known. The only
speakers who forcibly alluded to the food question
were Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Latouche, and Lord Bernard.
I give you a summary of the principal component

tbe meeting marquisses, d earls, 8 lords, 'of Burns, which adorns the same city. The
r;esunes, 33 baronets, 66 deputy-lieutenants, and tomb of Mary of Gueldres would have fallen
e 3 members of parliament. beneath the pick and crow-bar of the series,
A short letter has been published by the Lords but for the intervention of the Commissioners
Farnham and Erne, calling on the public to sign ire- of Woods and Forests; and as if to show that
meiately a petition to the queen, " praying her the metropolis has no monopoly in this kind
majesty to direct the immediate attention of pulls- of Vandalism, the disease has re-appeared in Glasgow,
meet to the absolute necessity of supplying the and commenced in Lochleven. The boys in Glasgow
starving poor of Ireland with food." This is the peti- are liberally " allowed the free run of the church-
tion of ,Ir. Iwtouche. Immense numbers have signed yard"—e privilege which they have improved by
it this day. It will be forwarded to London by this breaking the cathedral windows. It therefore will
evening's mail. be necessary for Mr. Blere to stipulate with the
Another fearful illustration of the suffering of the Glasgow authorities for the conservation of his in-
Mayo peasantry, and the shifts they are driven to to tend-d renovations before any expenses are incurred.
prolong life, as contained in a correspondence of the At Lochleven some on, hu been attempting to
Freeman's Journal—a twin fact for the talc of the destroy the only remaining steps leading to the top
dead ass. A horse had died in the village of Clare- of the castle, once tena'ted by the unfortunate
morris, and the carcase was thrown out for the dogs Mary Stuart. The local chronicler of this outrage
and carrion birds. What they had spared was ap- feelingly laments that the effortsof Sir G. Montgomery
preprinted by a peasant named Kelly in a neighbour- to preserve this interesting relic of antiquity arc not
ing Tillage. A basket-full was salted, and formed a better seconded by the public ; but unfortunately the
week's subsistence for six in family. The corre- same column of the county newspaper records the
'pendent of the Freeman inquired into the fact, and doom of five urchins placed at the bar of the Kinross
ascertained its correctness. The answer of the mother Sheriff Court for misdemeanors "at the chapel on the
was only one of regret that the loathsome supply had Inch of Lochleven (now a sort of farm-house forhorsea
been so soon wasted. "The Lord only knows," said and cattle,)" thereby showing that the work of legal
the miserable mother, " what I will do now for my 'degradation preceded that of unlawful spoliation. On
starving children since it is gone." the whole, betore works of art can be respected with
Strange enough it is that, while hunger rages, the us as they are on the Continent, we must
only remedies which mitigate its presence are over- pass the Continental training in poetry, music, and
looked, and folly takes the place of prudence. Clare painting ; but, in the process, might we not lose some
has a larger number of its poor employed on the of our boasted freedom and independence ?
public works than any other county in Ireland. In The threatened dismissal of Professor Syme from
no county have the officers of the board, with all their his surgical ward in the Edinburgh Infirmary has
anxiety to do good, encountered more resistance. On led to serious considerations regarding the complete-
Monday last a remarkable instance of ruffianly auda- nese of medical equipment in the university. Is a
city was perpetrated in the open day, and almost in professor of botany appointed, he finds large and ele-
the very presence of the magistrates, on Captain gant gardens ready for his use. In natural history,
Wynne, the inspector of works. As the captain a splendid museum is at the command of the
passed through the court, one of the crowd banded teacher ; and in anatomy, a collection of pre-
him a letter in this refined style: parations and casts is provided. But when the
Opt.an Wynne—cupt.un atarhght rend+ you notice to bare is,, professor of clinical surgery receives his commission,
pans or if you dons t give you the end of carmg blood and co, he must find his illustrative living subjects as he best
ithcgi.Cl:;*urs eLe=t'lgomofirbut
Ith Me a forty
t roan ""m7 quitkind t: may. The university does not furnish him with any;
taunt:, if you dont trion to eu home to the mistres a corm which by and he must either furnish them at his own cost or
the moral il mod you it you come to nes roes again takethtawarnin knock at the door of a public hospital, as a candidate
cc you'l be a dead man in no time, i'l watch you.—Your obedient der-
ent, Carram STARLIGHT. for the honour of house surgeon. Professor Syme ap-
The indignation of the bench was justly excited. pears to have tried both methods, and both being
One gallant itleman with real iron chivalry likely to fail, the unive- ' and should come to

. gent.
declared that he " would meet the villain, if he chose
to come at twelve o'clock at night, armed," and Capt.
Macnamara pledged himself to go alone. The doors
of the court were closed, but Capt. Wynne failed to
identify the fellow, and it speaks ill for the grateful
feeling of the peasantry who did not immediately
hand over the ruffian to justice. A large reward has
been offered for his apprehension.
Another illustration of popular folly 'we read in the
Waterford papers. Mr. Fisher gave very extensive
employment at Dungarvan, and retailed in addition
flour to the poor, below the Cork or Waterford prizes.
The peasantry robbed his mills, and the result has
been their complete stoppage. Thus, the net of a few
has involved thousands in misfortune.

sly .. ..nversity ought -
the rescue. Into the merits of the dispute between
Mr. Syme and the infirmary managers we are not
disposed to enter ; we simply hold that there is ab-
surdity in the queen instituting and the university
possessing a professorship, the functions of which
cannot be discharged without extra-mural aid of a
precarious kind.
The inhabitants of Stirling are to meet on the 20th
inst., to peti ion parliament to prohibit distillation
from grain, at least till the next harvest.

EDINBURGH EXCHANGE BANK.—Ronald Gordon, the
secretary and accountant is this establishment, has been
tried before the High Court of Justiciary for six separate
acts of embezzlement, in all amounting to about 2,0001, and
having been found guilty, has received sentence of trans-
portation for 15 years.
PERTH.—To meet the wants of the poor for the ensuing
half year, 1,7241. will be required; and to raise this amount,
an sosessment of 10d. per pound on rent has been ordered.
INTEREST ON DRAINAGE LOANE.—The following letter
raises an interesting question:
To the F. liter of the ..Orrdern Jorirmal.—Sir,—There cannot be a
doubt that the Drainage Act, if followed out with due adjustment of
the per centage between landlord and tenant, is them:dell boon that
hes ever been conferred on the agricultural interest. But, from the
fact that no allusion was made at the county meeting to the propor-
tion of the Pit and a half per cent. which the tenant was to be called
upon to pay, I begin to suspect that propel. tors intend to drain their
land at the mpeuse of their tenants, by calling on them to pay the
whole per ceotage exacted by government. For certain reamers I
nt.y be excused, rimming that mine find fault with the set,
Men/mit dms not provide that tenant', under lease, should pay the
usual interest for the money admixed, and that the land.
lords should pay the additional per restage, in order to
extinguish the debt is twenty-Dim years. On the other
hand, should the proprietors of the mil expect farmers, under
lease, to pay the whole per tentage, thee it is evident that they wish
to drain their land at the expense of their tenants, and to reap the
adventage at the end of their leases. As most farmers are ignewant
of any arrangementsalready made between landlord arid tenant, with
regard to the drainage ascctt,, they frill feel obliged to any of your
correspondents for information on the subject I am, air, your
obedient servant,—.l Ten cot
TIDAL HAILBOURS BILL.—The Glasgow River Trust has
received letters approving of their conduct in offering the
Tidal Harbour Conservancy Bill, from the following towns
Liverpool, Sunderland, Lancaster, Great Yarmouth, Wells,
Brighton, Southwold, Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Sligo, London-
derry, Aberdeen, and Dundee. Mr. Hume is blamed for
having had an active hand in this unpopular measure.
Acenuiten PAROCHIAL BOARD.—In commenting on the
allowances made to paupers in this city, the North of Scot-
land Garrets says: " Surely it will not be maiqtained that
the sum of four or even Eire shillings per month to an aged
pauper is a sufficient all )wancc, even for the bare support of
life, independent of the little wants which age and infirmi-
ties require. Four shillings a month, we have heard, is the
sum allowed to one aged pauper, and out of that she pays
one shilling and eightpence for rent. Five shillings, we are
informed, a allowed in another case to a husband and wife,
exclusive of rent."
POST-OFFICE EXPEDITION.—FALICIRIL.—A letter posted
at 6 p.m. in the office at Bainsford-bridge, a kind of receiving
house within the burgh, will be delivered here, a distance
of 1,500 yards, in the incredibly short period of 40 hours,
being only 26 hours later than one posted at the same time
in Grangemouth will be delivered in Edinburgh (27 miles),
and only 10 hours longer than the London morning papers
are in being is the hands of their readers in Falkirk.

The operations of the Board of Works have become
so numerous and complicated, that the commissioners
have established another office. Several English
gentlemen have arrived here to re-construct the
modus operandi of the board, in consequence of
the accumulation and* complexity of business.
Every person employed under the Board of Works
in Dublin, from the commissioner to the clerk, has
contributed one day's pay to the relief of distress ;
and I believe a similar contribution will be made each
month during the prevalence of the distress.
The price of bread is stationary, though that of
corn is advancing almost from day is day. At the
Corn Exchange yesterday the rise was from Is. to 2s.
per barrel. The advance of barley was still greater,
and oats commanded higher rates. The maximum
price now quoted for wheat is 525. per barrel,
which is equal to 89s. per quarter, and taking the
average price at our markets at 48s. 6d. the barrel,
the average price per quarter is 83s. A rumour that
the government intends to interfere as carriers of
corn into this country, kept down the prices yester-
day to the above quotation, or they would have gone
higher. The counter rumour prevails to-day that the
shipping interest were successful. There is no corn-
market, or the bulls might make a good thing of the
story. In Cork wheat sells at from 465. to 485., and
as high as 50s. per barrel.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin is about to convene a
meeting of the city to memorialise the government to
prevent distillation from grain.