The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-19 00:00:00

nt 614111.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dee. IS.
The Queen, with Princess Helens, Princess
Louise, Primoess Beatrice, Priem Leopold, and Princess
Hohetdohe, left the OWL this Dwain ate quarter past
ten o'elook for Osborne.
The suite consisted of Lad► Churchill. Lady Carolina
Swindon. the Hoe. Mary Lamellae, Major-General the
Has. A. N. Hood, Lieutenant-Colonel Da Plat, Mr. Buff,
Hr. Bahl, and the Master of the Household.
Lady Churchill has suooeeded the Counties of Caledon as
Lady in Waiting to the Queen.

The following delegates from the North American Pro-
Times, sit, Mr. M`Dougall, Mr. Dusscombe, Mr. De Lisle,
and Mr. Ryan, of Canada ; Mr. lf 'Donald and Mr. Le
Visooste, of Nova Scotia ; and Mr. Pops, of Prince Ed.
ward's Island, had an interview with the Right Hoe. Ed-
ward Cardwell, at the Colonial-office, yesterday. The
delegates were introduced by Viso:ant Mooch, Governor-
General of Caned*.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yestar
day. Present—Lord Chelmsford. the Lords Justices
Knight Bruce and Turner, Six E. V. Williams, Sir J.
carat., and Sir Laurence Peel.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Coleeial-offiae
from the Governors of New Zealand, South Australia, Tas-
mania, and Victoria.
Despatches were sent to the Governor of Malta.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday for
Haws/des Castle.

(Rrarn's amass.)
R ADDRESSESING LEOPOLD TO THE
OF THE BELGIAN LEG'S-
_

TEE cOntarruairr OT LOXDON.
The Times picks out some facts from the annual report
of the Metropolitan Board of Works, respecting the main
drainage scheme, the Thames embankment, the new streets
which an in hand, and the care which the board are taking
of our open space* and commons, and remarks that on the
Ist of !January next its member will appear before the
public in an entirely new capacity, parliament having trees.
forted to them the whole duty, insofar as that duty has yet
beau acknowledged, "of extinguishing fires and protecting
life and property within the metropolis." All the stations,
fire engines, escapes, and general plant of the insurance
companies see to pre over oar to Board of Works. Starting
with this nucleus it will maintain an efficiest Fire Brigade
for the security of the capital, and, indeed, of t
it environs,
for it is empowered to go on duty beyond the mits of its
domain on condition of its receiving indemnity for the ser-
vice. This will make a little addition to the metropolitan
rates, but such addition is never to exceed one halfpenny
in the pound upon the whole year. The balance of the
charge will be defrayed by contributions from the Insurance
Companies and a quota from the Treasury. With regard to
the supply of money, sot being able to get hold of the
hackney carriage duties, the Board contents itself with the
coal and win* duties, raised to the requisite total by direct
taxation, but it is evidently a rising body, with what is
called "a future" before it, and when it gets the whole
valley of the Thames under its care for the protection of
the river's parity, and fifty new functions besides, there
is so telling what resources it may ultimately command.
The Port says the Metropolitan Underground Railway has
special dangers, some of which the public have already ap-
preciated, whilst others have not yet been taken account of.
Of the latter, the moat serious is the use of naphtha. The use
of naphtha lamps in • subterranean tunnel should be •
matter of much caution, and subterranean naphtha stores
in the tunnel of any railroad should not for a day be
counteemieed.
The City Traffic Regulation Bill, circulated by the Lon-
don corporation, intended to regulate the City traffic, is
described by the Herald as • very large and startling mea-
sure of local self-government, so large that should its
provisions be enforced, and still leave the City thorough-
fares in their present "admired disorder," and subject to
their present perils, then the City traffic is samoutrollable
and beyond amelioration at the hands of anybody whom-
soever. The corporation now asks for much larger powers
for the purpose of relieving the traffic by regulating
its incidence. It would have authority to regu-
late the height and breadth of vehicles and mer-
chandise en route during business hours—that is, be-
tween 9in the mottling and 6in the evening. In this
interval it would altogether prohibit the use of more than
four draught horses to one waggon, or van, or timber thick.
On the delivery of coals and beer it would lay a veto, save
at certain tunes when a coil waggon or a brewer's dray
may Mend in the road for an hoar cr two without causing a
" block "of half a mile lon. It also desires to regulate the
speed of heavy vehicles in certain City thoroughfares. The
covered nos or tilted cans are not to pass through the
City unless they are driven from the box, or led by the
carter, or so constructed that the driver can seen laterally
as well as straight shad. We are to know, by a distin-
guishing mark, when a cab is disengaged. No lad tinder 20
years of age is to be allowed to drive more than one horse
at • time through the City, and boys under 16 are not to
drive in the City at all. The City Commissioners of Sewers,
with the comsat of the Commis Council, are to construct
bridges scram packed defiles and dangerous charms, subways
below them. The Ambient and the commissionaire are
to be licensed, and to stand at appointed places in due
order ; lied the kind of traffic which is done laboriously
by hand vehicles, finds is the bill doe attention. The
penalties enumerated for infriegemset of its provisions an
to fall, not on the drivers or persona in charge of arta,
vans, waggons, Ac., but on the owners.
The Telegraph, with reference to the general ohs/solar
and conception of the bill, says that none could be seen
laudable, more necessary. or more difficult.

LANURE.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 18.
Yesterday evening the Senate and Chamber of
Representatives repaired in a body to the royal
Palace. The Senate was received by the King at
7 o'clock. The Queen was at his Majesty's side,
with the royal family, the Count of Flanders, and
the ministers surrounding the throne.
The King replied to the addresses in the follow-
ing terms :
Gentlemen Repreeentativek—Still ender the smotlea
produced by the sympathetic welcome that I received
but a few hours since
from a National Palace.
I can only thank you from the bottom of MI
heart for the friendly words the President has just
addressed to me, in the name of the Chamber of
Representatives. Impressed with the importance of the
duties imposed upon me, I shall consecrate all my efforts
to maintain and develop our glorious and free institutions.
If the support of the Chamber of Representatives is at all
times necessary to me foe the fritilmeot of my constitu-
tional mission, it is especially valuable to me at
the commencement of a reign I desire to render
worthy of him who preceded me, and I am convinced
that we shall ever remain united for the welfare of our
country.
I thank you for the wishes you entertain for the Queen
and the royal family.
This official reply, read by his Majesty, was fol-
lowed by a familiar and improvised speech. The
King, approaching the Prince de Ligne and M. E.
Vandenpeereboom, said in an earnest and affec-
tionate tone :
Gentlemen,—l hare just thanked the Chamber. I
now desire individually to thank each of its members
for the testimonies of regret that have been Grimed for
my Whir's memory, and for the tokens of sympathy that
have been lavished upon me today.l desire t 3 press the
hand of each of you—l do so by 'Wang the hand of your
worthy president.
The members present greeted these words with
a unanimous cry of " Vire le R3i "
The two assemblies separated at half-past eight
o'clock.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is ex-
pected to arrive at Marlborough House this afternoon from
attending the funnel of the late King of the Belgians at
Brussels.
The Sailors' Home, Well-street, London Docks,
has recently been enlarged, and the new building in Dock.
street was opened in June last by his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wass. After exhausting all their finds, the
directors find that there is still a deficiency of about 800/.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ?s-
-toma to Gloucester House, Park-lane, yesterday, from
attending the funeral of the late King of the Belgians. His
royal highness was attended by Colonel Tyrwhitt.
His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, accom-
panied by Sermand. Effendi (First Secretary) and IL Paul
Yuma, has returned to the Turkish Embusy, in Bryan-
stonsquare, from attending the funeral of the late King of
the Belgians. It will be recollected that his excellency is
likewise accredited is representative of the Sublime Porte
at Brussels as well as London.
The Duke of Hamilton left his residence in
Arlingtonetreet yesterday for his seat, Eutoa liall,
Suffolk.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon arrived in
town yesterday from visiting the Earl and Countess Cowley
at their seat in Wiltshire.
Lord and Lady liolmesdale have, says the M
stone Journal, thoughtfully sent • present of twenty
phaseouts to the poor sick inmates of the West Kent Gene-
ral HospitaL Forty brace have also been forwarded to one
of the large London hospitals.
The Lord-Lieutenant has dismissed Mr. Mar-
quis, who had been suspended from his office as go-
vernor of Richmond Bridewell since the escape of
Stephens. His excellency has also deprived the Board of
Superintendence of the city of Dublin Prisons of the
power of appointing the intern officers of the two Dublin
prisons, and will henceforth appoint them directly him-
self, in the exercise of the right vested in the Lord-Lieu-
tenant by statute.
Mr. Layard, Under Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, who has been staying at Florence for a month, took
his departure on the 7th for Londoc.
The following letter from Earl Russell has been
received by Mr. George Thomas, chairman of the Jamaica
meeting held in Bristol on Wednesday last :—" Downing.
street, 15th Deosmber,lB6s.—Sir,—l am directed by Lord
Russell to acknowledge the receipt of a memorial signed by
you, as chairman of a public meeting held at Bristol on the
13th instant, on the subject of the recent unhappy event,
in the island of -Smoke, and I am to inform you that it
has bees determined to est on foot imimpartialinvertiga. " al
By the spontaneous zeal of the communal
has
tion into those eventa.—Grosolßossr-LL.--George Thomas, tesehers," says the Monamer, "the somber of adult classes
Este- on the let April last amounted to 7,844. At present it
DEPARTURE OF SIR H. STORKS FOR JANILICA.— has reached 18,500, and before the end of the year will be
Sir Henry Storks left Louden for Southampton yesterday 20,000."
by the 11 S.M. train. On his arrival at the Southampton A project is at present on foot for establishing
station he was met by Captain Hand, R.N., the Admiralty direct communication between Batsvis and the eastern
Superintendent at that port. Soon after 2 p.m., Sir Henry ports of Australia, rid Cape Yorks, Timor, Comely, Soura-
left Southampton docks in a small steamer for the Royal bays, and Sydney. Messrs. Van Hoboken and Sons, of
West India mail packet Shannon, which lay at max in Rotterdam, and Mears. Reynot and Jingo, of Batavia. are
Southampton water. The Shannon proceeded on her the firms that are endeavouring to carry out the under.
voyage at about 3 p.m. She left her anchorage as sue as taiga. The service contemplated is monthly each way,
possible, in order to get through the Needles before clerk, by means of three iron peddle steamers. each having
She will be due at St. Thomas, in the West Indies, on the carrying °spotty to the extent of 700 to 808 tons, with
first day of the new year. 400.horee nominal power. The passage from Batavia, it is
CAPITAL PCNIAIIHENT COIIIISSION.—The Capital asserted, allowing stoppages at two or three places, can be
Punishment Commissioners met last week as No. 2, Vic. sooompliebed in twenty-two days. If a subsidy of from
toriaMreet, ;,Westminster. Present—the Duke of Rich. 10,000/. to 15,000/. annually for three years can be secured,
mood, Lord Stanley, IL P., Dr. Lushington, Sir J. T. the service will be undertaken.
Coleridge, Mr. H. Waddington, Mr. Justice O'Hagan, Mr. I It appears that M. Duruy'a
sch
teme osaiestif exhfiibitiand
ng
G. Ward Hunt, MP., Mr. W. Ewart, M.P., and Mr. reports recording the progress of lierary, e,
Charles Neste, IL P. The secretary, Mr. J. H. Patteson, . moral attainments in France within the last twenty years
was also present. is to be carried oat. M. de Sainte Beare has undertaken
Accounts from Copenhagen state that the King the report on Menu! `objects' Viscount de la Gueroriniere
and confined to his bed. on
is still indisposed moral sciences and political economy ; the astronomer
The Hamburg journals are filled with eon. M. Leverrier and M. Dumas, mathematics, astronomy, and
gratulatory addressee which the inhabitants of the I Pllrsaos- The advance made in nib°. breaches of human
Duchies have sent to Windsor on the occasion of the I knowledge will he entrusted to the various savants of the
betrothal of Princess Helena of Finland with Prince immoral specialitts in question.
Christian of Auguetenburg. Aceordiug to those journals . The late Captain Gronow has left a wife and four
the populations have availed themselves of this opportunity infant children wholly unprovided for. Some friends ia
yoszior AFFAMS. to show their hostility to the project of annexation. Paris are endeavouring to get up •a puree in aid of the
The Timer considers it would be a 'Melded act if Chili According to an official return at Naples the family.
we to reject the good offlass of England and Frame, 1 cholera is that city has carried off about 3,000 perms The Imperial Society of Acclimatisation at Paris,
which have been accepted by the Spanish government. I in
Cl. which hag just commenced Ha session of 185546, received
The offer, if successful, will not only avert the immediate I Cardinal Andres bay written a pastoral letter ' during the past year twenty-five lots of cede, of 118 thi-
eves of war, but may establish a military precedent for to the cures and other clergy of Sabino and Subiaco, placed fervent kleds, from Amok% Inas, China, and other parts
the greaceinl adjustment of quarrels on points of bower . ender his spiritual role, relating is
them all has
bag of this world- The seeds We been divided into 840 parcels
among sovereign states. daeording. however, to a Chili happened to him, his illness and visits to Prince Humbert ad distributed to 106 societies or individuals who had sp-
latter which is published in the Times, Chili and the • and Victor Emmanuel. made in the interact of the church, ' plied for thaw-
. other South American republics look alma se
ttWM forte and the persecution@ directed &pint him of the "so-called M. Richard Wagner, the composer, on being ex-
:to the Pacific ma tonessaming expedition, sen oat ter the religions" journals, which be b 7 ZS WA" 'Pen% pelted from Munich, left to Gegen.