The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-29 00:00:00

ZbE Court.

WINDSOR, THORBOAY.—Tim Queen walked this
moruinc on the Eastern Terrace and Slopes, aecomp mied by
their MUM. the Prince of \Vales and the Princess Royal.
Their RIL.HH Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice took
their usual walking and pony exemi.e to-day. H.R.H.
Prince Albert hunted with his harriers this morning.
11.R.11. was attended Lord A. Pagtt, Capt. the Hut. R.
Boyle, Mr. Anson, and Col. &Amour.
Earl Fortescue and the Earl of Aberdeen left the
Castle to-day.

Despatches from the Governor of Van Diemen's
Land were received yesterday at the Colonial Office.
The Eirl of Ellenbnrough arrived at Farrartee's
Hotel, Upper Be!Rl...T.:Area, yesterday, from his scat,
Southend, ucar Cheltenham.
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A deputation of er.mvn tenants, opposed to the pro-
jected Regent's Canal Railway Company, consisting of Sir
P. Laurie, Meteors. Laurie, G. Daniell, R. L. Jones, W. M.
Benett, M. Uzielli, Greenough, G. Bishen, Jardine, G.
Vaughan, W. Williams, M.P., and the Rev. Dr. Spry, had
an interview with the Commissioner. of her Majesty's Woods
and F,.resta at their office in Whitehall.place. Mr. Greaten had
an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday at the
office of the Board of Trade. A deputation from the City
and Liberties of Westminster Suntory Association, eousisting
of Dr. Aldis, chairman; the Rev. Mr. Martin, Mr. H. R.
Abraham, architect to the Westminster improvements, Mr.
Burt, Mr. 0. Wilson, and Mr. Randolph, secretary to the
association, had an interview with Visct. Morpeth, yester-
day, at the office of the Woods and Forests. A deputation of
tile distillers of London, accompanied by Mr.J.Wood,Chair-
man of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in
Dowaingatreet. Sir W. Heathcoto had an interview
with the Right Hon. B Strutt yesterday at the office
of the Commissioners of Railways an Great George-street.
A deputation from Dean Forest, consisting of Mes,rs.
Nicholson, 'Thomas, Trotter, and Braithwaite, had an inter-
view yesterd-y with Viscount Morpeth,
Mr. Eastlake transacted business yesterday at tho
office of the Board of Trade.

Scorron HOSPITAL.—A special meeting of this
society was held yesterday, at the house of the Scottish Ups-
pita], in Crane-court, to consider a proposal which had been
made by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests for the
purchase of those premises, in order to form a site for the
erection of a public record-oft:cc The proposal was favour-
ably received, anti a committee appointed to negotiate with
the Woods and Forests on the subject. The proceedings
were very brief, and concluded with the election of a new
member to the institution. _

REFUGE FOR THE DESTITUTE.—This incorporated
association' which has existed for upwards of forty year., held
the annual general court of governors yesterday, at the Lon-
don Tavern, to receive the yearly report; Edward Foster,
Seq., treasurer, in the chair. It appeared by the report read
by the secretary, that the numher of males admitted into the
institution, at Masten, during the last year, was 369, of
whom 102 still remaiv, the rest having been disposed of in
various beneficial ways—some sent as emigrants to Canada,
some put out as servants or apprentices, 11001 C sent
home in a reclaimed state to their friends, and some
instructed in shoemaking and tailoring in the institution.
and thereby enabled to go f irth and earn their own bread.
In the female branch at Hackney, the number received
during the year was 160, of whom 80 still remain, the rest
having been usefully disposed of as servants and seam-
stresses, or by their own desire sent home to their friends.
The receipts for the year, including a government grant of
3,0001., donations, subscriptions, &c., amounted to about
8,6001., and the expenditure to about 300/. less than the
same sum ; but the association had a large available sum
bearing interest in the funds, of about 20,0001., and the ba-
lance at prtsent in their banker's hands was nearly 5001.
The needle-work and washing done in the female branch,
and the trade work doze by the males, had also been pro-
ductive of several hundred pounds; and, on the whole, the
emaciation, in point of finances, was in a flourishing condi-
tion, although the aulvseriptions for the year had been very
small, amounting to oaly 2431. The present buildings were
quite insufficient for the purposes of the institution, and the
committee of management proposed to erect a suitable build-
ing, which might be dune to accommodate a largely in-
crewed number of inmates, at a cost of about 10,000/. ; but
there had been a delay upon this head, arising from a nego-
elation that hod been, and was still, pending thiough the
Secretary of State, to unite this institution with the l'idlan-
thropic. The report was unanimously agreed to. and ordered
to be printed, but in the course of a short discussion upon it,
some men hers of the committee complained diet the asso-
ciation did not do as much good as it might, if better am
oared, especially as to the classification of the inmates. The
officers for the ensuing year were then elected, and the
court broke up.
GOLDSMITH'S AND JEWELLER'S ANNUITY INSTI-
TCTION.—Yesterday evening a general meeting of the donna
aid subscribers to the above institution was held at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, Stran !, for general business and
the deetion of additional annuitants on the funds, founded
for the purpose of relieving decayed memlwrs in the above
businesses, their workmen, ahopmen, and clerks, as likewise
their widows. Mr. Sills in the chair. The report stated
that the institution was going on favourably, 1,2001. being
invested in the Bank of England. A further sum of 7001.
has been set apart for building almshouses, and the yearly
subscribers number about 1,000. Last evening's election
will make 14 males and 6 females, receiving annuities, the
males of 15/. and the widows of 10/. per annum.
NIGHTLY SHELTER FOR THE HOUSELESS POOL
—Tbe report of the committee of the association for afford-
ing shelter to those unfortunate individuals who have no
means of otherwise procuring shelter during the inclemency
of the winter nights, state that since the 14th of last month
they have received into their three asylums nearly 10,000
men, women, and chadren, to whom they have likewise fur-
nished about 100,0011 redone,.

AUSTRALIAN TRUST COMPANY.—The half-yearly
meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the office in
MoorgaW-street. John Abel Smith, F.sq., M.P., took the
chair. The report was read by Mr. lambi, the manager,
from which it appeared that the balance of profit carried to
the rteerve fund was 4,1191. 3e. making that fut.d
41,9601. 17s. 5d., without taking credit for the six months'
interest due in Australia on the 31st ult. The directors had
ate appropriated 5001. towards preliminary expenses, and
made proniaien for a dividend of 3 per cent. for the half-
year (at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum). The amount out
on mortgages, on the Ist July last, wee 336,9621. Its. 10d.,
which wan a reduction of 28,190/. bs. 4d. during the half-
year to July, 1816, which arose from the facility of borrow-
mg money of the local banks at a reduced rate of interest.
The report having been adopted, a vote of thanes was passed
to the directors of the company, and the meeting adjourned.
Minniziex ELECTION.—A correspondence has
passed between Mr. Henry Hoare arid Lord Grosvenor, in
which the farmer brings under Lord Grosvenor's notice the
question of the contemplated endowments of priests in fee-
-1 land, to which several of the electors of Middlesex are op-
posed, and requests to know his lordship's views respecting
it. Lord Grosvenor has replied that he is sorry to be under the
necessity of avowing sentiments entirely differing from
those put forward by the electors of Middlesex. Mr. Hoare,
in rejoining, state. that as the feelings he has expressed are
shared in different degrees by many of the electors of Mid-
dlesex, it becomes more than doubtful whether the relation
into which his lordship purposes to enter, can, under the eh,
cumstancts, become a permanent one.
DISTRESS AMONG TIM JEWS.—It was stated in
most of the public journals a fortnight ago that the poorer
classes of the Jews in the eastern parts of the metro-
polio were in a state of great distress. Since then their
destitution has become so extreme as to attract the
attention of the chief rabbi, the Rev. Dr. Alder, and
those of the body generally who are in better cir-
cumstances. In order to ascertain the extent of
the distress, the chief rabbi devoted several days
last week to a personal visit of some hundred families ;
when he found that many were on the brink of starvation,
and that in nearly every instance the children were
unable to attend to the free schools open to them, for
want of clothes in which they could be seen in the
streets. Dr. Alder immediately called • meeting of
some of the more wealthy Jews at his own house,
in order that same measures might be taken to administer to
the necessities of their poorer brethren, when a large amount
was collected, and a society organised. At the head of the
subscription. list for large sums, stand the names of Baroness
Rothschild, and Lady and Sir Moses Montefiore.
THE LATE MR. W. CLowts.—We have to record
the death of one whom we may properly term distinguished.
Mr. William Cloves, the head of the largest printing esta-
blishment in Europe, expired after a short illness, on Tuw-
dey evening. He was the architect of his own fortune, hav-
ing come to London, some forty Tears ago, after the expira-
tion of his apprentic ship to • printer in his native town of
Chichester. He soon after commenced business on his owe
account, in a small way; and by unwearied industry and
perseverance, gradually established a respectable connexion.
He was among the first, a quarter of a century ago, to see
the new era of printing that was opened by the introduction
of the steam-puss; and his engines at Northumberland-
court were the earliest applied to the production of books.
The demand for cheap literature, of which the Penny Ma-
gazine was the more extraordinary example, gave a new
impu'se to the energies of Mr. Clowns ; and in connexion
with a vast amount of government business, gradually seta-
blished the gigantic printing establishment of Duke-street,
Stamford-street, so often described and sticelebrated where-
ver English books penetrate. To have accomplished the
great results of We business from small beginnings required
the efforts of no common man. Mr. Clowns did not aspire
to the honours of the learned printers; but he posseszed the
highest powers of business organisation; and an energy
which overcame every ordinary difficulty, and in many
instances accomplished undertakings which are almost
marvel+. To work off half a million sheets of paper in a
week—to set up the type and complete the impression of a
thousand folio pages of a parliamentary report in the came
time—to print t'.e " Nautical Almanac," consisting of 500
or 600 pages of figures, without a single error, in 16 or 17
days, are amongst the recorded wonders of Mr. Clowes's
establishment. The labours of Mr, Clowes's life will be per-

manently sasociated with the intellectual development and
the persevering energy which are the distingui.hing cha.
racttristies of our own times; and his loss will be deeply
lanteuted by a large circle of friend., to whom he Wa, en-
deared by his kind and generous nature.—Morning
Chronicle. _ -

Ali ODORIFEROUS CRITICISM.—We find the follow-
ing amusing specimen of criticism quoted in the advertise-
ments of a melange of prose and verse, from a faidnonable
contemporary A fragrant nosegay of literary blossoms,
in which showy poetry and sober prose, pleasant essays, and
sprigs of sweet-smelling rhyme, are bound together."
SEIZURE OF THE "BLACK CAT" SCHOONER.—Aeei-
rure was made on Monday night in the River Thames, near to
Limehouse Hole, where a nearly new vessel, called the
Black Cat, Captain J. Davies, had been for some days re-
ceiving her cargo, the greatest activity being manifested
on the part of the shippers to get their freight on board.
About ten o'clock, Mr. Davis, detective offices, went down
' to Limehousc, with assistance boarded the vessel, and found
several case. containing muskets and bayonets. Upon turn-
ing to the entries outwards at the Custom House, lie found
that the Illark Cat mho° er, Captain J. Davies, had been
entered as de dined for Gib.eltar, but her real destination
w is Portugal, fur which country the crew had been engaged.
The vessel woo intended, on the following morning at
four o'clock, to be towed by steam-vessel down as for as
Keith, where nearly 4,000 barrels of gunpowder were ready
to be shipped.
INQUESTS.—YESTERDAY.—THE ACCIDENT ON THE
1311.10HToN RAILWAY.—By Mr. Payne, at Guy's Hospital,
on tha body of James Mumford, aged 41, employed as clerk
and policeman et the Stoat's Nest station on the Brighton
railway. The particulars of this accident bare already
*whored. It was the deceased's duty to signal the trains as
they arrived at or passed through the station. On Tuesmay
morning last, two trains, neither of which stopped, reached
the station simultaneously, and the decesa, d walked scram
the line to give the " all right" signal to that from Brighton,
not being aware that the down train was so mar him. After
tiring this signal, he was stepping on the line to nuke ano-
ther, when the buffer plank of the down train struck him
on the shoulder, aid knocked him down. He was conveyed
to the above hospital, with a broken leg, and his foce lace-
rated, and died from the injuries the same day. It was
stated that the train was running at the rate of 35 miles an
hour ; and that the whistle was never blown, but in cases of
den. er. In the position iu which the deceased stood to
signal the up-train, he was portly behind a post, and it was
impossible for the driver of the down train to have wen
him. Verdict—" Accidental death." The deceased has
left a widow and eight children.