The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-14 00:00:00

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OSDORN, SATURDAY.—At the court held at one
o'clock ye,terday, at Osborn, the Hon. A. Buller was sworn
Mend rr ceased the honour of knighthood on h.s appointment
u one 0 the judges in India.
The Rocal dinner party yesterday included the
Duch is ot Kent, Prince and Princess Haenlotte, Prince
Victor Hohenlohe, Princess Eliza of Hohenlohe, Lady Anna
Maria Dawson, and Sir G. Coupe'. The Duchess of Kent,
and the Prince and Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburz, ac •
ompaided by the Prince Victor and Princesws Elm a and
Adel4ide, crusstd from Gosport in •he Fairy, royal yacnt,
yesterday sternoon, and reached o,born soon atter four
o'clock, p.m.
The Duchess of Kent has taken a house in East
Cowes Park fur some weeks.

At the Privy Council held at Osborn, Lie of
Wight, on Friday, tome reports of committil s of the Lords
of the Pi,ly Council were submitted t, the Queen is
Conned, and were approved of.
Viscount Morpeth left town c n Saturday for Osborn
Isle of Wight.
Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister, and Mrs.
Bancroft, h:.ve lett town for Scotland.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
yesterday in the Chapel Royal. St. Jiunees. The prayers
were read l.y the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the s• rm at was
preached by the Rev. 1). Perkins. At the daily service the
prayers were read by the Rev. T. Helmore, the lessons by
the Rev. Dr. Knapp, and the communion service by the
Rev. Dr. Wesley. The sermon was preached by the Rev.
D. Perkins. The anthem was "'thou, 0 God, art praised
in Sion" (Greene), sung by Messrs. Hamby, Machin, and
Hobbs. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ.
J. W. Colville, Req., at present holding the office
of the East India Company's advocate-general at Calcutta,
his been recommended to her Majesty for the seat on the
beech vacated by Sir H. Seton.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.—SATURDAY.
CIIELTENHAM.—The petitioner in this ease is
Thomas Maley, in the interest of Mr. Gardner, tho unsuc-
cessful rand•date at the late election, and the allegations of
the petitions are bribery and treating. A novel circum-
stance in We cee.e is that the prate, dings of a :ormer elec-
tion are brnoeht to bear en the present petition. Alter the
election of 1847, a petition was presented against Sir W.
Jones, and:he was unseated on the charges of bribery and
treating. 1 he petitioner Austria that Mr. Berkeloi ,'the unsuc-
cessful candidate on that occasion, was guilty of similar prat
tier, and was, consequently, ineligible to stand in 1818
The committee, after some deli .eration, decided that proof
of the proeteecLoge of 1847 might be given in support of the
petition, and counsel proceeded to state the care. Formal
proofs were then put in, and the committee adjourned to
Monday seat.
HUHBll.Ol.—The petitioner is Lord Edward
Howard, the unsuccessful candidate, and the charges
against Mr. litzzerald, the sitting member, are bribery and
treating. The proceedin,re in this case are similar to those
of the Ch. It nham, the Practioes eta former election being
charged sgain•t the sittiti..{ member. The committee, alter
pro ratted deliberation, d- tided, aa in the Cheltenham
!axe, that evidence• of the proc.-ediogs in 1817 might begone
into.—Adjourned to Monday (this day).

NATIONAL. LAND COMPANY.—Lest night (Sunday)
at seven &dock a spteial meeting of the share holders of
this eupany was I eld at the South London Chartist Mall,
Webber-street, Blarktriare.road, for the purpose of taking
into conaideratiou tl e proposie ions of Mr. Feargus O'Connor,
M.P., in relerence to the recommendation of ti.e select com-
mittee of the House tt Commons appointed to investigate
the affairs and legality of the National Land Company.
The chair was taken by Mr. Roberta, who haying stated
minutely the objects of the meeting, said that the
National Land Company had been in existence three years
and three months, and it was shown by calculation that the
amount to be paid upon the number of shares taken
was 273,0001., while not more than 90,0001. had been paid.
The committee had disapprov d of their plan upon the
ground of illegality. Mr. F. O'Connor's proposition was
to bring the hind plan within the protection of the law and
10 secure a safer and more speedy working, firstly, by substi-
toting location by bonus, instead of by ballot, and that the
occupant so located is to purchase the land and house, but that
be ii to Pay according to his will a certain amount !for
bang located, without the ballot ; secondly, the raising of
the price of shares from 2/. 12s. 4d. to 51., from 31. 18a. to
7/. 10i., and from 6k 41. to 101; thirdly, the requiring of
Payment of the said money in half-yearly instalments for
('.roe years' occupation ; fourthly, substituting an aid fund
for the expense one, at the rate of 2d. per week fur two
acre allotments, and so on in proportion. &c., &c.—Some
discussion or se upon the proposition, in which Messrs. Snell,
zones, and Brown took part, but no specific decision was
come to. It wa, :ontended by Mr. Snell, that by saving the
working
man might M time have the same chance of raising
the necessary sum for the bonus as those who were already
Prepared with the capital, although it was the prevailing
opinion that the poor labourer would be precluded those ad-
vantages. The accounts of the company during the list
three months were audited and stated to be correct. The
Chairman then read a letter dated the 31st ult., from an
!I:knee at Snigseud, Gloucestershire, speaking satisfactorily of
Ins speculation. A discussion then arose u to the propriety
of continuing or dissolving the company, and at length it
WI, agreed to adjourn the meeting for further tonaideration
of the aubject.—Adjourned accordingly.

I THIS DISPUTE BETWEEN THE NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY AND 1116 ENOINE-DRIVENB. The
engine-drivers and firemen of the above company again held
a meeting on Saturday at the Railway Tavern, Hampstead-
read. Mr. Brown presided, sod read a statement of which
the object was to " infettrm the pubic of the reasons which
had lee to the result which they (the engine drivers) must of
course regret ;" with which reasons the public hare already
been made acquainted.—A letter has been published
from Mr. W. Creed, secretary to the North Western
Company, and which stated, " in order to relieve the public
mind from the amine), which has been expressed on the
subject, that the directors have taken effectual measures to
provide for the safe working of the trains;" further, that
many of the men had withdrawn their notices, and others
were e xpected to follow the example: and that a sufficient
number of new and practised enginemen, with unex-
ceptionable testimonials from their former employers,
had been taken into the service, and a number of
men, scientifically as well as practically conversant with
the construction and management of the locomotive,
had been supplied by the government departments.—Last
night another meeting was held at this same place.—Mr. J.
Brown was again called to the chair, and said the course he
proposed to adopt was to read a statement which should go
forth as the reply of the entire body of those who had quitted
the service of the North Western Company to the allega-
tions which had been made against them. The statement
was to the effect that having seen the above letter from Mr.
Creed, the engine men and firemen thought it s duty towards
themselves to state that they took every possible means for
preventing the result which has unfortunately occurred. He
then went on to say, with regard to Mr. Creed's
assertions that many of the men have withdrawn their no-
tice, and that others may he expected to fellow the ex-
ample, that about '2O men dial through misrepre-
sentations withdraw their notice, bat fifteen of them,
up ot learning the trick that had been practised
upon them, recalled their withdrawal., and deter
mined to adhere to their original notices to quit.—
It can be clearly shown by figures that whereas under Mr.
Bury's system a man by Bond behaviour obtained his maxi.
mum pay in eight and-a half years, he would, under Mr.
M'Connell's classification system, be at least from 25 t e 30
years before he could arrive at the maximum—This state-
ment having been adopted, it was unanimously sewed that
a deputation should wait upon the members for Middle sex
and Marylebone, re questing them to b-quite est gove element
in the House of Commons whether it was true men had been
eupplied by the government departments.—Various state-
ments having been made the meeting separated.
LONDON OItaVSVARDS.—On Friday night a public
meeting of the househelders of Russell court and the vici-
nity was held at the Cheshire Chet se Tavern, Cross-court,
" to decide upon the best means to be adopted to induce a
discontinuance of the practice of burials in the above densely
populated locality—a practice stigmatised by the Coroner for
Westminster as most injurious to the health of the inhabit.
ants." Mr. Lancaster presided, and ably introduced the
subject which had called them together, which was one of
the utmost importance to all. Mr. Bateman moved a reso-
lution to the effect that the meeting viewed with indiums-
tiou and disgust the continoeci practice of burying the dead
in localities crowded with the living, which practice they be-
here to be a desecration of all proper feelings of respect to
the departed, and a fearful source of disease and death to the
living. This resolution was a .conded by Mr. Dempsey, point-
ing out the horrid nature of the ground in question, contain-
ieg but 4,300 superficial fees, from the mass of human remains
which now overloaded it. The =mina wan then adopted,
as was also the ((Mowing That this meeting, composed
of inhabitants of leussellseourt and its vicinity, hereby ex•
presses in the strangest term its opinion that the small spare
of ground in the centre of the court, now used as a burial-
ground by the church of St. Islary-le-serend, should no
longer be used for such purposes; and they believe that
wilde the burying-ground is moat repulsive to the sight, it
is likewise, from its close and confined position, seriously
detrimental to the health of themselves and families ; and
they further pledge themselves, by all legitimate means, to
assist in procuring a total cessation of funerals in the above
ground." A committee was then appointed to carry out the
objects of the meeting, which was addressed by Dr. Simpson,
Mr. Shearsmith, and Mr. J. A. Walker, who spoke at
great length on the abomination of intramural burials—Mr.
Osborne and others aLso addressed the meeting, and after a
vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, the assembly
separated.
EMIGRATION.—Sir,—With respect to the reply of
Lord J. Russell to Lord Ashley the night before last—"'That
government could grant no funds for emigration,"—allow
me to state, through the medium of your paper, that no
funds are required from the government but, on the con-
trary that funds can be raised for the government for that
purpose, if the government will only sell colonial land or-
ders. For instance, if a capitalist desirous of emigrating to
Australia would, upon the payment of 1001. to her Mop sty's
colonial land and emigration commisaioners, obtain au order
to take possession of a rural allotment of 100 acres (town and
suburban allotments be ing subject to auction) in any sur-
veyed district in New Ileillend, thousands would imm.diotely
avail themselves of it; and, therefore, thousands of indigent
but industrious artisans and labourers could then with the
funds so raised be conveyed out to a land actually groaning
with superabundance of toed. By the capitalist being al-
lowed to select his own emigrant labourers both would go
hand in hand.—Ac AI:STRATA eN PIONEER,

A GENTLEMAN CADET DROWNED.—About five
on Saturday 'veiling two gentlemt n cadets, Mr. C. F. Birch
and Mr. 11. Heberden, belonging to the practical clam study-
ing in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, went down to the
bathing piece of the canal in the Royal Arsenal to bathe.
This was contrary to the regulations, as the caeets bathe al
together at four o'clock under proper control, and bathing at
other times is forbidden. Mr. Birch hail not been in the
water long before he sank. His companion, Mr. Ileherilen,
wax so paralysed that he had not presence of mind to give an
alarm, but a police constable, who was returning from the
lock-gates of the canal, perceived his agitated appearance,
and ascertained Irons him the disappearance of his friend. '
The drags, which arc kept at a consider ble distance rum
the spot, were procured as speedily as possib.e, but three-
quarters of an hem. elapsed before the recovery of the body,
and pill attempts to restore animation were unsuceeesful. The
deceased was only seventeen years of age, and hail joined
the practical elan only on Tuesday last. His attention to
his studios had been reusarkable, for he only joined the aca-
demy about twelve months finer, and would hat for thin
melancholy accident have received his commission in a very '
Lew months. It is only proper to state that complaints are
made as to 'he unsafe and filthy condition of this bathing
place; and a soldier lost his life at the same spot about three
weeks since.
INGO:EAT, SATERDAY.—CAII ACCIDENT.—By Mr.
Gell, at St. George's Hospital, as to the death of William
Buneard, a cab driver. On Sunday evening the deemed
was engage(' to convey a gentleman and his wife and two
other gentlemen home from a dinner party. These last
lived in Cumberland-place, Oxford-street, and while the
driver got off the box to let them out, the horse started off
at full gallop, ran against another vehicle at the end of the
lidgeware-road, which upset the cab, threw the deceased
who had got on the spring with great force on his head
against the wheel of the other cab, and the horse broke away
No one else was hurt. The deceased was taken insensitle to the
hospital, where he died on W ednesday from concussion of
the brain. Verdict, " Accidental death."