The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-17 00:00:00

The Doke and Duchess of Buoaleuah and Ladies

Soot; balm gene to Boughton Home, Northamptonshire.
`Amount and Viaoountesa Campden have left
town on a tow of visits in Scotland.
Lord Ahingerr arrived a few days ago at his seat
in the North .d Scotland, f. r the shooting IMAM
Baroness de Clifford is expected to return to
tows early la the ensuing month from a tour in Garman,.
The marriage of Lady Louisa Cavendish, only
danghter of the Dab of Devonshire, with Captain the
Hoe. Francis &piton, R.N., is to take plop a► Hall=
Hall, soar lillastboarpe, sad not at Chatsworth, as stated

L a eestersperary.
The marriage of the lion. Hallyburton Camp-
bell, brother of Lord Campbell, with Him Benstord Hope,
daughter of Mr. Alexander sod Lid,' Mildred Beresford
Hope, is to take place at Badgebury Park, war Goldiust,

next Week.
Mr. and Lady Susan Milbank have arrived at
Hereby Castle oe a visit to the Duchies of Leeds.
Colonel and Mrs. Fletcher have arrived at lthe
A'exasdra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, from Brightoe.
Colonel and Mrs. Fraser have arrived at the
Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.
Mr. Lane Fox has left Bramham Perk, York-
shire, for Bie4ley, foe grows *bootleg oa his moors.
We (Glasgow Herald) are reliably informed that
Yr. Gladstone, with the Rev. Mr. Marries, will shortly pay
• visit to the Duke of Argyll, to enjoy a few days' 'bootie&
From the fame of the former u • stitismsn, and of the
latter as an ecclesiastic and • scholar, we are lookieg for-
ward with great interest to the approachiag arrivals. It

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has already been mooted that the working men should get
up a demomtratios os the omission.
It is stated that a considerable number of the
members of the British Association (who this year hold
their meeting in Birmingham) ioteod to visit Shrewsbury
en the 9th of September, for the purpose of inspnating the
museum. They purpose afterwards going over to Wrozeter,
to view the iateresting remains of the ancient city of Uri-
coninm.

LORD ST. LEONARD'S AND THE LOCKING OF
RAILWAY CASSIA°, Doom —The Times publishes a letter
of Lord Sk Leopard's with reference to the locking of both
doors of railway carriages. After observing that he with-
drew his bill for readmits' the practice illegal upon the
statement of the government that they bad under coo-
sideration a general art for regulating railways, his
lordship lays :—" An railway travellers were alarmed
by both doors being locked upon the Cheat Western
Railway, it may alley their appreheosiores" to read what is
appended. There is added a letter from Mr. T. G. Sounders,
secretory of the Great Western Railway Company, oontein-
big the following explanation :—" There is a regulation,
we'l uodentood and 'messily acted upon throughout all
the lines of this mammy, that the doors of the carriages
an not both to be locked at the same time. There are
however, gouge static's, such as Swindon ins the Grim;
Wester. Railway, when it is necessary during the ex.
maisation of tickets that the doors oil the platform side
of the carriages should be locked, se well as those on the
off side. It is the deity of the guards to see that the doors
which have been so looked during the examination of the
tickets, should be unlocked before the train leaves the
platform."
Hole THE PUBLIC FUNDS ARE MANAGED.—Here
is a onions piece of Pridemore from the report of the Com.
moos' Select Committee on Public Aecounta, just made pub-
lic. The geetlemou seder examination was so experienced
etas, Mr. G. Arbuthnot, Treasury auditor and auditor of
the Civil List, sod the questions arc put by an experienced
man, Sir Stafford Nortboote :—" Q. What steps are
takes to me that moneys which ought to go Into the Ex-
chequer do actually go there I—A. That is difficult to say ;
I think there is some detect in the arrangements upon that
point. Q. Has your attrition been celled to the
eircentstonee that in the case of Mr. Edmunds
ceetain payments which ought to have been made
regularly to the Exchequer were sot made b him
for years together l—A. Yee. Q. Is them so my.
chioery by which it would be ascertained that monies
which ought to be repdarly paid once a year, or at other
periods, have sot been paid I—A. No, there is no such
machinery. Q. Do you consider that there is any depart-
ment of the government which is in any way respoosible for
teeing that the payments to the Exchequer gmerally
y made I—A. Tatee is no came paerally
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somParert for it. Q. Theo you think that the reepoosibi-
IGy rests in each ease upon the offices which is ordered by an
act of parliament to make its payments into the Ex.
chequer!—A. Unless other provision is made. Q. Are
there say instamee in which other provision is madel—A.
No; except is oeoes in which the Commissioners of Audit
may have cognisance of it. Q. Do you think it would
be right, for the security of the public revenue, that some
department of governroest should be char with the duty
el seeing that the paymeste which are or to he made
to she public are made in due course I—A. Cortaialy I
think so. Q. What department do you think could under-
take it I—A. The Corneal:mimeses of Audit, if the acconots
could be properly brought ander their cortisone,. It
should be explained that if accounts are mot to the Audit
Board by the government for what is Paled en " admioir
holies audit, sad not an " eppropriaties amid" the* is
to say, oily to ascertain that money bas bees spent is aci
emdasee with 'bowery direatime, end oat that it US ham
meet is &morasses wish the direetionsalpertiment, the
Audit Board would never dream of Pte Peg cat the
Treasury that they (the Tressuryl astlembed an ex-
penditure which parlimoset had refused to snit o. If the
Audit Board did so, the Tremury would tall them, mast
sharply, to mind their own Imulama