The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

Ine Conti,

WINDSOR, Mosimv:—At the Privy Council held
at the Castle by her Majesty on Saturday, a Form of Prayer
was ordered for the rehcf of the distress and scarcity now
existing in parts of the United Kingdom. The Archbishop
of Car.terbury was directed to prepare a Form of Prayer.
His Grace had an audience of the Queen.

His Royal Highness Prince George left the Castle
to-day and returned to town.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Robert
Grosvenor took their departure from the Castle this
morning.
His Excellency, Baron Brunnow, Viscount Mor-
peth, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and Sir Henry Wheatley
are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on a visit
to her Majesty.
Her Majesty will give a grand dinner this evening
in the Waterloo Chamber. The illustrious party is expected
to inelude her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal
Highness the Princess of Prussia, her Royal Highness the

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isSire" iiigitrineewaiting to the queeEdh:
the lady in waiting to th,! Du e hers of Kent;
Haack, Baroness
de Speth, his Excellency &um Bei
hia Excellency the Ch se
evalier Bunn, the !Memel of Norfolk arid Lady Mary Howard, the De
Marchioness of Down,hire, the Dowager-Lady eedth Mitt Lyttelton, Lord Juhn Russell, Earl %met v,
Morpetn, Viscount Clitden, Lord and Lidy gee
Robert and Lai), Peel, General and Lady 1444 Sir Henry Wheatley, lion. Mr. and Mrs. lift." W.
Mr. 0. E. and the Hon. Mr . Anwn, Coloie
lion. H. and Miss Cavendish, Captain and 4
hoed, Count rockier, Co..nt Witzlehth, Couper, Colonel Hall (Ist Life Guards), Colonel W
Iharon Langen.
The
during dinn band of the Scots Fusilier Guarde
er, and perform the following
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Her Nljesty's private band will alterwardr
in the Castle.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of
Prince Alfred, the Pri,,eces Royal, and the of
took airings on ponies this morning in the geoweit t
the Castle. Her Basal Iliglinras the pease, itek
taken an airing at thC same time.

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The Solicitor-General had an interview Int
George Grey yesterday at the Ileine-offica. R.
had also an interview with the Hight Ilos. But. e„,4
Viscount Falkland, Captain of Ilex Ihje;te-,
Guard of the Yeomen of her Guard, has ta,,•,
appoint Mr. llertho (the Adjutant
his Lordship'sE Privaterp Secretory. of th
J)espatches were received vesterday at the Co:
office from the Governors of hong Ka". ct.olo.
South Wales, New Zealand, the Mauritius, Czie of
Hope, and Malta.
Despatches were sent off last evening from
Colonial-office for the Governor of the Gold Cant.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left le
Saturday evening for lliekleton Hall, thheater.
The Earl of Clarendon has arrived at wo
Abbey, the seat of the Duke of Bedford.
TILE REGISTRATIONS.
WEsTMISSTER.—In the revision of the lip
St. John and St. Margaret, which occupied the akt
ing a great part of the day, Mr. 'Trott euraplaitai
tyt
overseers had omitted from the register a penal
right to be placed on it was clear ; and conterthet4
ease was a proper one for a fine. Mr. Muk. a
ground that the omi.sion was not likely to hato sa,
lul, declined to inflict a fine.—A person named
objected to, by the Liberal agents, on theffreehly,
had no longer dominion ever the house. The 4.
been let furnishyd to another party ; but the (1244
taiued for himself one room as a sort of etore-rea a,, st
he still had the right of access. Mr. Moylau
vote, because, under the circumstances stated, thew,
had not given up his occupation.—ln {he ease of
which was postponed on Friday and Saturday. thet4,
disallowed. An appeal case 1V34 granted. The tit
journed until Friday next. The following ass thsa
the revision up to the rising of the court on Sat.-ay
Liberal claims, allowed 41, disallowed 6 ; Liberal 0..f5,
sustained 151, withdrawn 7, failed 7; Tory
2, disallowed 3. As before stated, there wen .1
objections.

'liAbT SURREV.—Yesterday the revision dug
of voters for the Kingston district of East Sourness
menc,d at the Courxhouse, Kingston, before *it S.
Fishe, harri-ter. Mr. Russell attended tor the LiSta:,,
free traders, and Mr. Meymott for the Consereatist
district includes the parishes of Long Dittos, Has, L
Kew, Maldon, Petersham, and ltichmentl. Ilea*
riches were disposed of yesterday, but very few ohiesr
either side (two Conservative and sane Liberal) um sa
Lanett ; most of them being mere objections of beak
sake of corrections and amendments. lit several eiss
persons objected to applied fur their expenses, but tkik
tug Barrister refused to grant them, as it did not an,:
the objections were frivolous or vexatious. The lie is
parish of Kingston will be taken at the sitting this di!.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

TIIE MAYORALTY AND ALDERMAN WOOD.-!
terday, after the swearing in of Alderman Challis nil •
Kennard as sheriff of Loudon and sheriff of Riddle:
special Court of Aldermen was held upon the Applicata
Alderman Thomas Wood.

The Luau Mayon stated he had received ortain
on Cie subject or the Talacre mine from Ild,onan
and among them a voluminous report of the judamcal
Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench in Ireland, purponi:
be the judgment upon the reversal of re rdicts sgaing
Wood Ile had been supplied with the copy by the an
who, it appeared; had sent to each of the mewbeno'
court a copy of extracts, which with the letter dud etc
them were read.

Altic.m.so WOIPIP then entered into a long detie
circumstances attending the difficalty in which bele.
involved by his connexion with the TUlacre Comm.
particulars differed iu no respect from those which hat
peered already before the public. He sulemaly deed'
remotest participation in fraud.
Sir P. LAVILIE said it was necessary, not met that
Court of Aldermen should be pure, but that, litters
wife, they should he tree from the imputat of ape
lie holt& feel the utmost gratification in t
Wood by the hand up ni the remus al of the ground
imputations against him ; but he could not set that the pi
just presented to the court were calculated to atcor:
that ohject.
Alderman FAREBROTHER had wished Atelertau
to go to the Livery and state to them his ,:uxiety to
up everything—to show that the charges and asp:
which had been accumulated against him acre tease
and to assure them that until there was not the di;c-
apparent foundation far accusation he would not t.
their suffrages. (Hear, bear.) By such a morsel& pi -
sympathy would be most powerfully engaged, sad spa
proof of the groundlessness of the chore s, the Map
the accused would be indisputable. It was not too lat.
adopt that course at the present moment. The paw
of the papers which had been laid before the Court as
in his opinion,
__ an answer to the charge.
Alderman HUGIIE3 lire:us:a could not help sayirt
the evidence produced by Alderman Wood did sot al
slightest degree affect the serious charges c attained a
simple enumeration of the different offices held by kis
the company. lie would most willingly devote any pc
of time to an investigation, with a view of relllaing fn
brother alderman the heavy imputations Against hi* b
was quite impossible to give a vote in opp sitioa tether
of the committee without rational grounds. Thee*
other things, too, which it would be neeeaaty to der
It was necessary for a Lord Mayor to have a loyAlluit
It was necessary, too, to have an explanation as to a e
sum of money which Alderman Wood, in connexion
others, was in honour bound to pay to the pro .eat chit
gistrate.—Alderman Wood: Mat money ?
Hughea said, report stated that the press nt Loci Miy:
been obliged to pay a large sum of money a orb in
have been defrayed by several persons, of whom Alk
Wood was one.—Alderman Wood: It is paid.—Tis:
Mayor: I have nut received it.
Alderman Wool, paid that some delay had ta`sea plx
consequence of the want of punctuality in tithe is, bat L
certainly paid the amount for which he was 10:Alged t
last fartuing. (Here some persona in the court, si •
below the bar, stated that the money had been ov.ol that •
Alderman COPELAND implored Alderman s', f'
sake of his own character, for the sake of his family, st-
the sake of his brother aldermen, to pause lief. ore be t
mined to make another experiment, until he should.
used every effort to wipe away the stain which at pr
attached to him.
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Alderman Woon declined to adopt the succeitios
expressed his determination to come forward the next d.
the hustings to ascertain whether the public w..uld nt:
pathise with a man who had been most grossly wrossill
No motion b ing before the court, Alderman 11. lick
moved and carried an adjournment.