The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-29 00:00:00

lEDe Court.

WOISSOIt, SONDAI.—The royal family and the
domenda household attended dials* service this moreias is
the private chapel of the Castle. Time Bishop of OzTwd
preashod the emus.
Yesterday morning the Queen took a drive in a
piny pismires and four in the Groat Perk. Her Majesty was
assampasied by the Primo. Assails of Hohanloha Sall-
royal dinner party yesterday at the Castle in-
eluded the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Assails of Holies-
lobe &hillingsniest, Lady Fumy Howard, 811101111111111 de
Speth, end the Bis of Osford. list Majesty's private
bead played the following pieces daring the avaiung :
Overture, " Pissed," (Asher); Futile, first set,' Dos Oio-
weal" (Mozart); Tau, Signals Walser (Strusw);
" Athallo" (Mendebsohn); Picnic &aka* No. 8 (Mozart).
Her Majesty and Prince Albert institted, yester-
day, an advanced proof of the angravisg Kr. Rya of
the royal anaemia', bi C. R. Leslie, ( hag the own-
peaks picture of the Holy Basauset, by the um artist),
rOlll.
tad for Windsor Conk, whisk wee submitted by Mr.

The Dash= of Kest, attended by Sir 0. Cooper,
mimed et but nuidiswee, Ciampi-house, Bt. James's, at
11 Ode* es Haleaday morning, from Fromm-home.
Her role) Witham vilified tie Duchess of Oloneester, at
Olossealswbowee ; sad, ia the afternoon, left town on her
roam w Ilvegswee.heane.
The Deans at Clandeldge, attended by Lady
Avoids °Mega% retuned Os let raidesse at Xew, on
us Iseee the Doke es& Dasher of Dean-
tortiwalig &Alit fta-hettea, Glowestwebire. The
total daises pat a visit, yesterday, Se tbe Daiwa of
Olovicessee. at Mender-house.
A Wind Ono& was held on Saturday albino=
at the ri-ellse. It wee attended by all the Ministers.
TheOmmetad two boors and a halt.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
yesterday, is the Chapel R,ysl, St. James's.

HER MUM", and PRINCE ALBEIT leave
Windsor Castle on Wednesday foreneon for Inisinshant
Pales. The Qum, after the Privy Connell sprite! to
be holden that afternoon, will held s ssert, at which his
Admiral Crain', the away- sinister
frßreallemthdreset repoblls, will mesa his medentleis ; also
the Marquis di Borah, es • 'pedal Woks lees isedinia.
Her Majesty eat the Prima Osumi remit fa Loden only
• few days
Tammy Coßroirxrum.—Lord J. Rumen has been
sleeted one at the elder brethren of the Trinity-honse, in the
room of Viscoant Melbwarne.

REFORM IN THE DOCKYARDS.
On Saturday art Admiralty circular arm lamed to
Oa various aerial g2B minutes, whist sir
skt of • plea for =or* and ire=
eldsisairy af tea to. Ia the
ha le the ssaraterf—lre says :
...d,..11mi gal/ wig le Mama dr *kw eat widsk Moss.
alas mad was Is mime. ts.te ils sad
es lid los pet Wind aslellYhmmals an essdresd
millik las 11.4= le assessa tie woe Immo dein Is Ede
Ilea asedt. ad So tons sarmaters ralsolisa
6 imbue* dials el spa eblir SDI= 61 Pis d
1....•=1 saahlahareat sok all ishalstalarifts
the Issessel sees
—Mao 1 li i ad tha adman Wile to

Tan lieranuszaine OP ran Tame. The Leeds of
the Admiulty direst that the sash r of shipwrighto be re-
dwood to 3,600 ; sad that asireeeper hag mdmairms be made
la the ether ineehee et sidled Mew, aseseding t. the
Beale saw is nee lee relag the~ep~d~ between the
gslat
libegiens skipwriekte sad ease deem et The
medusa see is make a panel semi el the yard 7a
...., et husk, sad to ruemmsad them who are snit he
astheasevise foe ingemeaaatisa, rotainieg and
mm=nesa. who mast otherwise beThe
ef smudges to auk yard is sealed by
ametiztk of the wrier of shipweights, is lira of am-
fourth ; sad tha milliss la the pre.ssq sad esti saw
quest, year, to emoseesatk of this redoes& wahine*
whisk eatsllw te lm amply masks* to•
kr the el the monies. lids will gkertth:
IND totalities& appeentises, en[ ea maul
eatee Irish. The weeklies home ire lobs sesimlalwil In ad
him a oasis rangleatisamea 7k. lea. in whale. to
Le 1 Or.rnis sammee. The of master by
tickets is le be adopted la ea the yards =he la of Awn
ant. Is Marsh out the yards as' to be newly " shoaled,"
and sash leading man is to take charge of 20, instead of 16
men sad boys, of whisk sash gen is sow ccesposed. These
leading mu are to be ladle ea isepeseer. This will make •
redaWas el 61 leading mss awl 0319, sow employed in the
dockyards.
In NW. 6,7, sad 8, of the minutes are set forth
Tan SOPPRlXTleiDltrell saw Donne.—Their lordships,
dadriag to secure • prompter co-operatics between the dif-1
heist dsgiatiama of the &clays:dm. sad to afford to the
tems' in imp of them men frequent means of colusenni.
Isaias lonmediately with the soperintearleat, direct that a'
1 ramilast santiag of all the principal tams be held at ili
•a. resseely, is each dockyard, when the orders for the
day ars to be read in the Keaton of the superintendent, or of
the ahem saute him In reek.
The mat minus outsize some stringsat regulations re-
swabs the denser& he consumption of stores: " The
peograraire Mame, d lie este for none, which has risen
ken 499.9681 la 111181, to 1,004,1621. in 1846-7, and has
monied 1,61114,8148. &slag the last three years hiss called
far lb. cst serious aossiderades of the Board dAdatiralty. "
Alter Nadal! that at pewees the estimates for " desuads "
are lamely framed, the asksate coctinum to direct " That
the profeseinaal °Meer, shall make their ' demaads • upon
the storekeeper on the 6th day of the first monk of each
quarter, sad that on the 7th the superintendent shall hold
an estimate board, to be attended by all the principal ofacen,
at which the demands of each department shall be discussed
and settled. The result is to be communicated at the mud
.

teas, and in the ordiaary form, to the storeleepes-e.—_____
who now 114NiVIII on the 14th, and 21st; of the first month of
each quarter, a return of the quantities of each article in
store, and of the probable wants of each dockyard (fines
No. 162 and No. 163); but the superintendent is to com-
municate directly with the Board of Admiralty, and
to state that. the demands for the quarter have been
duly considered at the estimate board, and do not, in his
opinion, tasted be legitimate requirements of the yard.
In the superintendent's quarterly return, the storekeeper
of the yard shall insert the money value of toe stores de-
manded, as well es the quentitiek so that it may at ones
appear whether the demand for the quarter nen& its fair
proportion of the parliamentary vote. Betides this, a
monthly return of demands by lines& epee issue notes,
under the heads of "cost of ships," and "yard services," is
to be made. It appears that the wager, amounting to
800,0001. a year, are paid without inquiry, or sufficient neck
on the respoenibility of the suporiatendents ; but their lord-
sup. now dine; that in each dockyard en experienced clerk
shall be transterred from the storekeeper's department to the
Ake of the superintendent, where he will assist in checking
the accounts of each week as soon se sent in, and preparing ,
them for a meekly audit by the superintendent, who shall
pass w seeount without satisfying himself that the sums paid
are these really due, and that no error or irregularity has
bees committed.
From Nees. 10 to 14 the minutes are occupied with mime
respecting he economy, keeping, and correct retie' ratios el
Bronze —The receiver of stores is to call the attention of
the Board of Admiralty to those ships from which the l
preeztion of stores is landed in the beet state, as ent
those in which neglect and wastelneem are apparent. AU
standing contracts fur stores are to be open to public compe-
tition upon due notice at stated intervals of from three to
four years A list is to be made of all obsolete stores, and a
new rate book of the value of all stern is to be prepared,
which is to be corrected annually. "N. private estelslish •
ment," nye the 13th minute, "could go on for 18 or 20
year. without taking stock, and they senile to the want of
a similar equitation in her Majesty's &Aryans both the dis-
crepancies that have universally ari,en between the
results of the survey, when held, and those given
by 'the ledger, and the want of proper economical
arrangements for the stowage and preservation of timber."
It is therefore directed that a poem) survey be held in all
the dockyards of timber and of every other article in store,
to commence on the let April nest, and that it last no longer
than three months. Another general survey Is to succeed
on the let April, 1842, end once in three years thencefor-
ward. The /Storekeeper General is to prepare a plan for
conducting these surveys, and to continue his annual inspec-
tions of 'he dockyards.
The rest of the minutes—from Ncs. 15 to 26—relate to
0 114 ZRAL AiIIANGINBXIII.—The mode ot payment in all
the dockyards shall be &Wielded, the payment by d stri-
butors being discontinued, and the factory system of inuivi-
dual payments adopted. In the manufeturims establishments
it is ordered that the books end forms used at Chatham and
Deptford be adopted, on the Ist of April next, in all the
other dockyards and victualling yards where any manufac-
tures are carried on, stock being taken and bock. kept after
the custom of private establishments, so as to show a perfect
debtor and swehter aroma at the close of the financial year.
" My lords desire to imprimis upon the minds of all connected
with those greet national establishmeats the necessity of the
I owe serspaloeS economy in their management. Public at-
tention has bees fixed upon them by the inquiries of last
year, end the country is keenly alive to the diaadvaategm
under whisk all manufacturing eetablishemeas seat
labour which are not condoned wrier the eye
of a master, and checked la toed expenditure
by the neenaity of drawing spas lands at his
sole disposal." In the smitheries it has bees flan that
the want of cantina( us labour has caused • peeler marlimp.
Lion both of fuel and material then asosiswy. flashes
from the 1-t day of April sese. the Maim sates,
re-
costlyintrodeesdatDevunpartes he is all the ask-
yards, the wares ache men Metros Bend is the propseties
at 2,719 to 3130, that being the Vases, of the number ei
hours worked wider the dockyard salsa, sad seder that
now in bores at Devosport.
The ditties of the measurers are sent rebated out, with •
view to an improved system of drib end returns of work.
One measurer is to be redseed at Illwersies. The inspector's
" day-book " is at present set mishaseily kept, and is is
hare to be more sari* kept The aeskly retain of this
leading men se to the essisal alba sees is now le he flub
siebtly. • repemissentas bowl le to be !corned la ask
yard, oesaktinfdly ezeciallmint ; the captain of the
°eb, ; meter shipwright, melded by
the eines the deekyead. Ti.is bond h aim held
es the lest Newby Of eel math, and superessules eases
may be bangle bases W the superintendent the master
skipenight, the efin efthe yer or the Asses gessally,
is theirvreletvz.hrparbman; and, after such a prelimi-
eery in say lords feel conlident that many of the
inhere wk they have noted hitherto will be pat ea end to.
Minute 24 directs certain
elisoroved plane hr the receipt
and stowage of timber, and ins oat the duties of the tim-
ber . The salary these oaken is to engine to
be 400 L a yen at Portsmouth, Woolwich, Chatham, emi
Dampen, bet it shall be enema to 3501, upon the eat
veceacy at Pembroke, and to 3031. at likieenteas and Dein
ford.
The last article relates to the better division ef What
The nperiatendents should agree with the wasfar
Wright, upon some general scheme of labour, takieg eat
lien, that the shipwrights themselves be adequately
so m to prevent the neesmity of employing skilled ard
&labourers' work, sad forming the remainder of the la-
bourers into amen service guesses, to be employed in loading
and unloading stoves by tank and job, upon a scale of prices
which my bide will &root to be prem. d, with due refer-
ease to *on now paid in the river. In the yards when
there is mein labour it so far se possible, be es-
of nano, end rpm duties hniset hem times
rive Lkeurers, end the saperistendleas, h esejemeilisa
with the heeds of the convict ensblihnest, en se peepers
and submit a same for thin penpees.

PINKON TO MR. LANZ, TB! EGYPTIAN TP.AVEL-
Lia.—Lord John Russell has, we learn from the Literary
Gazette. bestowed o Mr. Z. W. Lane a passion of 1004 a
year. In addition to the already wsll-known literary deism
of Yr. LW, he Is now surged at Cairo in compiling a
can of the Arabia language.
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FURTHER CALLS TO TIM BAY, MIDDLE TEMPLE.—
A. further all to the bar of the following Nadeau of this
Facial wu rude on Saturday OTellillg :—Etijiaald Fowler,
Esq.; ()verge Pearson Wilkinson, Sin ; ohn Corsbis,
; John Charles Frederick Sigissund Hay,
Charles Edward Hawkins, Esq.; and Francis Haled, Bag'.
CHOLERA. The Board of Health received, on
Saturday, reports of the following fresh cues: Holborn
Union, 12, 4 fatal; Beesaksy 111. Lennerd's, 1; Union
hears Edmonton, 3; lenetr=lB, 3 fatal; Wandsworth,
3 fatal • Bowden Caine W , 1 fatal; Goole, 1 fatal;'
Idilehint, 3 ; Richatainwartk, 1 fatal ; Ediaburab, 4, 2 fatal;
Olsagow, 33, 9 fatal ; Selkirk, 6, 4 fatal ; Iticcarton, 6 ;
New Monkland,e frogs fad inst., 191, 109 fatal; Queens-
ferry, 5, 4 fatal; Donna, ; St. Seswell's, 1 fatal; Greenock,
4, 3 fatal flatboat*, 1 fatal ; Campsie, 1 fatal ; Loudon, 2,
1 fatal; ltauchline, 1 fatal.—Total nsw cases, 497, 149
deaths. _ _

Tat Caouis ut Tint Ho'max Uroox.-Be7eral
fatal cans °Molten haring occurred in this union, additional
medical oaken have been appointed to attend the paupers
on the first approach of the premonitory symptoms of the
dime. Yesterday (Sunday) morning, the Bart of Carlisle,
Dr. Southwood Smith, Mr. granger, sad Dr. Pane, attend-
ed at the workhouse in Graraiaa-kae to decide upon the
proper stops to be taken to ehr* the spread of the malady.
They expend•• Ten decided opinion that not more than
800 inmate should be permitted is the bui=anolotes
time. arious sumeestioss made by the
wen ordered to be carried tato effect.

THE ARCTIC RIPBDITION.—We ifttod last week
that the Herald had returned to Behest?' Strait" without
any *Hop of Sir John Franklin and his party. The Athe-
SOWN, however, reminds as that the Herald was only a tender
to the Plover, and that tr the latter tie daly of the search
belongs. The Herald was sot, timbre, as the ground from
whines a eimilarly negative report will be finally and Isourn-
signifiewL The sum paper states that the Admiralty
have delerwinedi to follow sp what has bees already under
takes fir the relief of Sir Jahn Franklin. Sir Jesus Rom's
leamellaw woe W send the Isvestigator home thb year, and
",aria- the search with the Fenterprfee, and I transport