The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1861.

tue Court.

WINDSOR, 0cr.16.
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, the Baron
Rehausen, Baron Bentiock, Count Von der Duyn, Vis-
count and Vince:motes& Palmenton, Lord Seymour, Lady
1,
Caroline and Mi..) Barrington, had the honour of joining 1
the royal dinner circle in the Castle yesterday The band
of the Grenadier Guards attended dating dinner. Her
Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle
and performed the foltswing pieces
Overture, 4. Zgarit,"
Finale, 3rd Act, . L'Enfant Pre.digne" Autrr
fleet*. lad Act, .• Freircbutz
Introduction. Duct, and Trio, "Le Pre ane arm" lie old
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert walked on
the terrace and in the slopes.
Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa li
were taken an airing in an open pony. carriage. The re-
mainder of the royal children took their usual exercise.
Mr. Joseph Na'sh had the honour to submit for the in-
spection of her Majesty, his sketch for the picture of the
.. Closing Ceremony of the Great Exhibition,' which he is
preparing for his Royal Highness, Prince Albert.
The Earl of Morley hu relieved Lord Byron in his du-
ties as Lord-in-Waiting, and Sir Edward Bowater, Captain r
the Hon. J. Denman, R.N., u Groom-in-Waiting he

Alsjcsty.
The Hon. Beatrice Byng has been relieved by the Hon.
Lucy Kerr u Maid of Honour in Waiting to the Queen.
The Count de Bust SchaueLstein, Field Marshal Count
Nugent, and Colonel Count A. Nugent are elpeeted on •
visit to her Majesty to-day.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left her resi-
dence, Clarence House, St. James's, at two o'clock yester-
day afternoon, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Barnum
de Speth, and Colonel Sir George Cooper, for Frogmore,
near Windsor.
A deputation of the Society of Friends, on the Kaffir
war, had an interview with Lard John Russell yesterday,
at his official residence, in Downing-street. The deputa-
tion consisted of Robert Forster, Samuel Fos, Thomas
Norton, junr., Dr. Hodgkin, John Morland, Joseph Cooper,
and Johu Hodgkin.
Despatches were sent off last craning from the Colonial-
office fur the Governors of the West India Colonies.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the Foreign-office. Viscount Palmerston came to
town to attend the meeting from indsor Castle.
The other ministers present were Lord John Russell.
the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, the
' Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring,
Lord Broughton, the right lion. Henry Labouchere,
the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and
the Right Hon. Fox Mauler Tho council sat two
hours and a half.

Mn. KINDEKSLEY, Master in Chancery, and Mr•
James Parker, (.2.C., will bo the new Vice-Chancellors.
There never has been any intention of conferring a peerage
on Sir J. K. Bruce.—Glebe.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

COUNCIL MEDALS.
A protest has bet•n drawn np, signed, and
sent to the Royal Commissioners of the Exhibition by bix
out of the ten members forming the Musical Jury (Clicw
10 A), on learning that their award in favour of 51enirs.
Itroadwuod had been annulled by the Council of Chair-

The Mediterranean wrew-ateamer Arno, Captain
Hamm, arrived yesterday morning, at ono o'clock, at the
Collingwood-wall. The American steam-frigate Mississippi
had arrived at Gibraltar before the steamer Aran left that
port, and M. Kossuth was exceedingly anxious to tak pas-
sages for himself, family, and attendants, on board. Ho
stipulated, however, chit the Arno should call at South-
ampton, in order that he might land there; but with this
condition Captain Ilaram was unable to simply, and con-
sequel:4ly, on the 10th inst., the Aruo sailed from Gibraltar,
li leaving Kossuth on board the Mississippi, which was lying
in the bay. The ex-President will certainly embark by the
Madrid, for Southampton, which sails from Gibraltar either
to-day, or to-morrow. lie ;nay In expet:tod, thorefore, coa-
-1 fidently in Southampton by the 20th inst. His family, with
, ! the Hungarians who accompany him, form a party of 57
I persons.—Licerpool Times.

ADDRESS FROM THE NATIONAL PARLLk-
MENTARY REFORM ASSOCIATION.

The following address of the National Parlia-
mentary Reform Association to Kossuth was unanimously
adopted at a meeting of the Council, held on Wednesday
last, October 15, at No. 11, Poultry, London :
TO LOUIS X0841.7T11.
" Your Excellency,—The Council of the National Parlia-
mentary Reform Association, offer you their sincere and
cordial congratulations on your safe arrival in this country.
We esteem our nation honoured by your presence. Briton
has often sheltered those whom tyranny had proscribed for
their virtues, but, in our apprehension, has never
received a more illustrious or welcome visitant. Whilst
you remain upon our shores you will be the
People's Guest! And when you leave them for that
land, where a great and generous nation wait to
echo the shout of welcome that now ascends from the
millions of these islands, you will be followed by our heart-
felt aspirations for your happiness amongst our honoured
brethren of the Western World.
" We, and the multitudes of British reformers whom we
represent, have watched your career with the liveliest in-
terest. We have rejoiced in your successes. We have la-
mented your disasters ; but, above all, we have admired
the integrity, the wisdom, and the fortitude you have un-
deviatingly displayed through a long and perilous struggle
for your country's rights. In unison with every friend of
justice and civilisation, we have been indignant at the
cruelty and vindictiveness of the influences which enforced
the detention of your person, when the conflict was for the
time decided; but this detention, while it has rendered in-
famous those at whose instance it was prolonged, has added
to the glory of Kossuth, by demonstrating that he knew
how to endure as well as to contend for the noblest cause
in which man can either combat or suffer.
" Enjoying ourselves a large measure of freedom, we
sympathise with all who labour to achieve their just po-
litical rights. What our ancestors did, you have nobly
striven to do. We venerate their memory, and regard you
and your brave compatriots as their kindred. The inheri•
Lance which those ancestors bequeathed to us is precious;
and we are endeavouring to show ourselves worthy of it by
pressing on to the full realisation of the liberty, of which
they proclaimed the principle, and laid deep the foundation.
la thus acting, our only motive is an earnest desire for
human well-being; embracing first our fellow-countrymen,
but not confined within the narrow boundary of our own
land.
Would you learn the object which as an association we
have in view, it is to give full scope to a free and authori-
tative expression of the popular feeling and opinion, that
our government may rest upon the intelligence and will of
the people.
la this righteous object we have a firm belief that we
shall succeed. When this peaceful triumph shall have been
gained, the time will have arrived when the sympathy with
which the masses of our people already share the hopes,
the fears, the gladness, and the sorrow of their brethren
throughout the world, will no longer be suppressed in the
legislature or misrepresented by official diplomacy but
will make itself heard in tones that shall neither be m-
terpreted nor disregarded.
At whatever time, and by whatever means, it shall
please Providence to raise your country from its temporary
prostration to the possession of freedom and nationality,
we feel confident that a people's gratitude will be yours.
We also feel confident that your future fame is sure,
and that mankind, touching the results of your counsels,
your exertions, and your sufferings, will consecrate the
name of Kossuth, and transmit it to the latest posterity as
that of the liberator of Hungary.
On behalf the Council of the Association,
JOSHUA WALNISLEY, President.

A number of gentlemen anxious to testify their
admiration of Kossuth met last evening, at the Sussex
Arms, Englefield-road, fur the purpose of agreeing on an
address to he presented to the Hungarian patriot on his
arrival in this country. Mr. Thomas Beard presided.
Mr. W. Russell, moved the first resolution--the adoption of
an address to Kossuth, sympathising with him on his mis-
fortunes, and that it be presented soon after his arrival in
this country.—Mr. Cox seconded the resolution, which was
unanimously agreed to.—Mr. J. A. Hughes moved the ap-
pointment of a committee to carry out theobject of the meet-
ing.—Mr. Wickham, in seconding the resolution, ex-
pressed his belief that the expression of feeling towards
Kossuth would be general throughout the metropolis arid
the country at large.—Tho committee was then appointed,
and the meeting adjourned.

IRELAND.

THE BUTCHERS' CHARITABLE

INSTITUTION.

Distix. Ocr. 16.
The following outline of the proceedings at the
provincial meeting of the Poor-Law Guardians of
Munster, held yesterday in Limerick, has been re-
ceived by express :
This day (Wednesday), at one o'clock, a numerous and
highly influential meeting was held in the Grand Jury
room of the County Court-house, comprising the leading
members of the following Boards of Guardians of the seve-
ral poor-law unions of the province of Munster, specially
convened by the "Committee of Consolidated Annuities,
in connection with the Limerick union. This demonstra-
tion owes its origin to William Monsen, Esq., M.P., who
first suggested the expediency of combined deliberation' to
take into consideration the best course to be pursued,
whereby to induce the government to postpone their de-
mand for the repayment of the goverument advances; a
question of such paramount importance to the people of
Ireland, and which is now agitated by the ratepayers of
every district of the country.
The following letter received by him was read for the
meeting by Alderman Watson :
Elmvale, Corofin, Oct. 14.
My dear Sir,—l herewith send you the copy of a letter
from Lord John Russell, in reply to a recent one from me,
' as chairman of the meeting of the poor-law guardians of
Clare. Had it reached me in time it would have becu my
duty to have submitted it to the late public meeting of that
county, for whose consideration 1 am aware it was intended;
perhaps, however, it will equally answer the purpose to
lay it before that of to-morrow in Limerick, which, I re-
gret, lam unavoidably prevented from attending. I am
persuaded the considerate spirit of the noble lord, as evi-
dent in the letter, will be fairly and fully appreciated.-1
tun, mr dear sir, yours very faithfully,
IL Watson, Esq. JOHN O'Bittusr.
" Blwyt, Oct. 8.
" Sir,—The resolutions you enclosed to me were partly
founded on the inability of the unions of the county of Clare
to meet their liabilities, and partly on other considerations.
Any statements showing the heavy pressure of poor-rate and
the difficulty of supporting the poor will be attentively con-
sidered by the government ; but no government can give
any countenance to the doctrine of repudiation which has
been so unfortunately broached in some parts of Ireland.—
I remain, sir, your most obedient servant, J. areSELL.
" John O'Brien, Esq., M.P."
The business of the day was opened by Sir Richard do
Burgho, chairman of the meeting, the other speakers being
Lord Clariva, Sir Lucius O'Brien, W. Mansell, M.P.; W.
Gould, M.l'.; Joseph Fisher, Youglial; D. Sarsheld ; Mr.
Cooke, Captain Dickson, 1). J. Wilson, J. Grene.
The utmost unanimity prevailed, and perfect willingness
was expressed to pay all just demand+ as soon as the country
is in a position to bear the hurdles of taxation.
A memorial to government, setting forth the grounds
upon which the guardians of the province of Munster seek
I for time to liquidate the debt which famine had brought
upon the country, and a reduction of the amount claimed,
was agreed to. A committee, connoting of the chairman
of each union and the Limerick Board of Guardians, was
named to carry out the objects of the meeting. The second
chair was taken by Lord Clarina, and a vote of thanks
passed to Sir R. de Burgho.
The Lords of the Treasury (says the Limerick
Chronicle) are taking measures to force the local
associations, who borrowed money from the trustees
of the Reproductive Loan Fund, to pay up the
amount borrowed ; and' many who were induced to
become trustees will have to refund the arrears due
by defaulting borrowers, most of whom are dead or
gone to Amens.

The twenty-third annual dinner of this valuable
institution, of which his Royal Highness Prince Albert is
the patron, was held last evening, at the London Tavern, I
under the presidency of Sir John Musgrove, Dart., the Lord 1
Mayor. Ibe attendance was very large, and hie lordship
was supported in the chair by Mr. Sheriff Cotterell, Mr.
I Sheriff Swift, Mr. tinder-sheriff Millard, Mr. tinder-sheriff I
liopward.
By the last report it appears that the total receipts
1 for the previous year, inclusive of a balance of 423/.
164.61. ill the hands of the hankers, was 2,4501. 12s. oa.
The disbursements showed, amongst other items, payments
of cash to /pensioners, 1,0011. 161. 3d.
; to representatives of
deceseed ditto, 121. 123. ; to orphan children, 101. ; to trus-
tees for investment, 300/., &c. ; balance at bankers,
8721. la, 11d. A more recent investment of 1,000/. had zii-o
• been made; so that the total amount in the funds is
`13,0761. 19s. 6d. The present number of pensioners is 70,
which will shortly be increased to 82.