The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Drumm. Fax.. 4.

A royal commission of inquiry, • 'tar to those
issued tile the English universities. has been deter-
mined on by government fur the University of Dub-
lin. and has been already semi-officially announced
to the heads of that institution. It is stated that
this announcement was made in the course of an in-'
tersiew with some numbers of the college hoard by
Lord Itiremlon himself, and us the news was of
courses. unwelcome as it was unexpected it is in-
vidiously added that it was not announced until after
the uniiersity had published its address to her Ma-
jesty on the papal aggre.s.ion. The Archbishop of
Dublin is to Is the head of the commission.

The Hight I)ev. Ih. Keane, the new Roman catho-
1k hi•hop of the 1111. W diocese of 'tom, wuNeonmvrated
on 4uniLa last. The ceremony wai..perfonned with

r/r.t pomp in the pari,li chapel of Middleton, where
KlAllt had been Ituri-.11 pricra. the COnbeCrUt ing
ptvlair king the Donlan catholic Metroinditau of
Stun.h r. the 'lot Her. Dr. Slattery. There were
the other Roman catholic bi,hops pretsent on the.
Ottli•ion,

lu Ilk Court of t2nev» M Bench yesterday a verdict
.1.• l thy Wicklow, Wexford, and Water-
iota Ituilaav i'ontpany against a defaulting sham-
lakkr ; and judgnwitt was allowed to gu by consent
iu l.ut other similar (WIV2I.

TIIL ItoYSI. PROPEs.sION TO '1111: 1110t,E OF
L.l4l..—With the usual good fortune which attends her
Najege a In it she got. to open or prorogue parliatut nt, the
day was .qua and pleasant. Yesterday morning then was
a slight t, .t. and towanls noon the sun shone Out bril-
liantly and continued to do so all the afternoon. The con-
*Nato., wa. that from nine or tin o'clock great crowds
Salad from all pon. of town and from the outskirts of
London. AI directing their steps towards Buckingham
Pal the Mal:. Whitehall, Parliament-greet. .red
rAt ', • About mid-day dense erowits were as.embled
at ,t, rt point alone the route front which a favourable
twist be obtained of the royal procession. lit front
of eon kiii.thant Palace au immense concourse of
person. to PVC the royal procession 'tart.
and th, tnthusiastie plaudit. with %hitt' her Ma-
jesty sae erected exceeded any similar public de-
mootratio4 uu such an occasion since the time of the
lb form hat. At the Norge-Ouarch, so well calculated to
afford the politic an excellent view of the procession, the
crowd was sett great. On the top of the building a num-
b. r of well-dressed ladies and gentlemen were permitted
by the authorities to stand, and as the royal procession
passed along the ladies waved their handkerchiefs and the
gentlemen !her hats, in token of attachment and loyalty.
The cheer., which weft hostile given from above, were
heartily echoed from the crowd below,and re-echoed by those
who were fortunutt enough to obtain standing places on the
top of th, Admiralty. the Treasury, and the neighbouring Bi'sPECTEDllrßnut.—Yesterdav Mr. Carttnr held
ion at Woolwich, on the body Of a man found float
edictal bui'alinus. Along Whitehall the pressure of the
ts:itt in the mid-channel of the Thames, off Woolwich. The
crowd v`•" Site meat. Innumerable thousand.. pressed right leg was broken, and there were three wounds on the
again.( 4°"%her.. age? to catch a glimpse of the Queen, head, which reached the bone. The immediate cause of
and this attachment to her person and government, death was drowning. but it was deposed by a surgeon that
FromFromablest v, re Itoust in Parliament-street lags waved the wounds were inflicted before death. The body was not
in holl.,`Ar of the roud
• PrOeftliOn ; at every point stands identified, and the jury returned an open verdict.
tit e.net . which were tilled with spectatora, and all SoLTII WALES RULW'.Y. TIIE CHEPsTOW
eheertii.: the Vu., n, and giving the most unequi- BRIDOE.—The great bridge in connection with the South
vocal token. of It,, it determination to maintain the sups, Wales Railway, at Chepstow, over the River Wye, is being
*nary otic ,
f thy crown amunst all &privation whether foreign or rapids, pushed on; and it is anticipated that one of the
domes
• in I 'Le' Yu& when the pressure of the crowd is tubes Will he fixed, and the rails laid, to that it will he ready
very crest 011 4.rtlina-y occasion,, it required the united for the transit of mins by July or the beginning of August
ob.trut;i:e;fi:tirlhatilat, rintlartrY wando(Pinhike roye tnal"ccortveinget.theThecrowloydal en from-
next. That portion of the line between Chepstow and
Gloucester is now nearly completed and, as soon as the
thu44'rn trd the multitude of W bridge i. ready fur teethe, the line of communication
Ned was beyond description. The moving mass appeared between Gloucester and Swansea will be rendered complete,
influtneed by one sentiment of affectionate loyalty. Not- andbe expected to be opened early in the autumn,
with.tanding the v.ot pressure in the crowd, d, •th persos The maywoiles are rapidly progres.ing from Swansea to Car-
avankacsoP"',P. conducted themselves with exemplary good marthen, and it is said that in the course of the summer the
works from Carmarthen to Pembroke will be resumed.

PORTUOAL.—The Oriental Company's steam-
packet Madrid arrived at Southampton yesterday, and landed
her mails under the charge of Lieutenant T. \V. Langton,
R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are—Gibraltar, 26th
January: Cadiz, 21th Lisbon, 29th: and Vigo. 31. No
communication with Oporto. The Madrid received the
Jupiter's mails (that for Oporto excepted) at Vigo on the
2251 of January. and conveyed them to their several desti-
nations. The Jupiter proceeded from Coruna to Lisbon
with cargo and pas,engen, and leR that port on or about
the 30th or 31st January with a cargo for England, having
been detained repairing her engines. The American ship Mar-
garet put into Cadiz on the 2•ith of January, with loss
of sails and part of cargo thrown overboard. She had been
47 days from Liverpool, with emigrants on board. The
change of ministry in Spain had had no sensible effect at
Lisbon. Discount of Lisbon bank-notes, 5 per cent.
ARRIVAL.; FROM NOVA SCOTIA.— The Niagara,
from Halifax, Nova Scotia, has brought 24 cases of articles
which are otheially declared to be intended for the Oreat
Exhibition. This is the first arrival of goods for the Exhi-
bition from this province. Canada, New Brunswick, and
Nova Scotia having already contributed.