The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-27 00:00:00

Mu Court.

WINViOR, MONDAT.—The Mervio of Breadalbane,
Ike KIRI end Counter Or 7, and the B arl of Liverp fof en
olptettd so win et the Castle this afternoon on a visit to
bra Illsiesty.

The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of
Oismerster yesterday, at Gloucester-house.
The Earl and Countess Grey returned to town on
Monday evening, from Sprotborongh, Yurkahire, and yester-
day momeJed te Windsor Castle.
(From Met sight'i (.esefie.)
DowsliNG-STRPET, Dec. 20.—Tbe Queen has been
pseassly pleased to give orders for the appointment of
Mest..Col. George Buffer, of tne Rifle Brigade, to be an
Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Third
Cara, en Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the
Ink; and of Cul. Duncan M'Gregut„ Inspeetor•General of
Ms Cihabbulary Force of Inland ; and Lieut.. Col. Charles
Been, C B, one of the Comminioners of the Police of the
Metropolis; to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division
of the Second Clam, or Knights Commanders of the said
Mart Honourable Order.

ADMIRALTY, D. 19.
Cnrre of Royal Ma Hoes. L. IRMO, gest., to be second WM.
A. Moine% gent.. to tm mar SOUL

CONVEYANCE OF FHB MAILS BETWEEN
INGLAND AND FRANCD.
Sin.—lt appears that an arrangement *ag-
itated by our Postmaster Gamma by which the packets
of the Beglisk and Frank governments were to divide
equally between them the Caleb, mid Boulogne mations, has
haled front the French government missing to remove any
el their steamers from Calais, sad, es from some inexplicable
wives, it is not considered expedient that oar ow* boats
Mudd entinue to sadertelte the thole of the sinks be-
tween Dover sad Baal Roe, as they do at moist, the Me.
De mail. which leaves London and Paris at night to strive
Mike other capit.i., the next m..releg, reed gamey. by far
the lamest pert of the correepondersee between Preece
'MI &Clew% is, fru it..lbth of January.to adopt the mate
bp wavy Calais, takes by the day moil, and no loaner to
blow the mute Yid Boulogne, shorter hy upwards of 60 Mks,
which it takes at the present time. When the evening mail
tom 4tleaveyed by Boulogne, it was considered right to
YtMitley mad continue to go through Coln, as from the
Mogrm lime allowed tcr its conveyance, the greater digitate*
was of ernman6vely small amorquence: and the French
pamsaunat were deeirow mf leaving something to Calais,
10 keg kept the mail pukes between Prance and
after the whole of the paseniter Weak had
*tithe preferable route by way of Boulogne. It could
ass this been antic paten, however, that this fact would
hale kern thought a meson kr one day brionieg beak the'
0.011_4 mail fries the shorten route between Lawton and
reds to one invoking art increased distance of at least 60
mile; en that the eels Win it arrangement, which is generally
esesig. red s Aisfactory by the mercantile community, would
M randirled, sot by giving en hour iv two in the
bum ef the quick mail, which might have been done by
the Jot:induction of express train, on the railway between
hres sad Bodlorne, but by adopting a longer route, and
Mole meanies which will ruder the delivery of letters
MOM here to the &Mme.'s es evening at lout en hour, and
Pairslly two hour*, later at Paris tie next inweing than at
Meat. It was hoped that the visit of the Marquis of Claa-
*Mob Paris would have led to a redaction in the pest-
-1111, sad matt Mune:insets la the postal arrangements be-
*les Lawton and Paris ; bet, if the only result appreciable
11,___111, Plait is to be an sieves, in the time taken fir the
."'..ersass of letter* betimes the eapitak, it is surely not
ilfoltrmi to say that it would have been bettor the
"Et men takes place.-11.
'ha SECOND CABIN FAitze.-811,—The Express,
Z. sine. its establishment, has been the uncompro-
kg.....l.4 ,mumgeout expositor of say public wrong or in
1„-- alas fir reform and deserve. prompt censure
illginc of extortion which I beg to brieg ander your
Vor, h sanctioned by the high authority of the Ada:area
riti. and 'Oen to i capricious rise in the fares of
r Premien, be bey hi/jetty'. mail packets, between
n Mod Calais. These, until September last, have been
le r pourer of the second clue, and hal fares
4mihon. At that time an alteration Wia f Math.
; he r. eoumend,tion of the new superintendent
tMajesty's mail packets it is I IP'ned ae
(4, a It e South Eastern Bteam iYeTillt4to"
S :flney I (toy Cordele Haddock R N aspirin
h.! Majesty's mail pocket ett'ab.ihmert

at Dover, to justity the raising of the kesed-eimee posseagers
to es. each pasengsr nn any ground whatever. TM mail
packets have not lair cabin aceinaniertatim like the both
Ant thews Niel/aim Company's heats, being mostly
atm no with berths of the mates and crewel*, mere, as in
the Vivid 'tamer, theism host new built. la seem instances,
as la the Prisms Alba .he seesed slam mememer hoe me
eommotlatica whatever beyond steeding room ea deek, Me I
whisk he has now to pay As, foe the fern pump el 30 ntJw
mem the channel. This is the more unjust tam the einem.
Manes of her Majesty's mail pekes my* on heehaw ee
Nett duos es slake, side of t s alinameL Wiese, the sled
pert of the expense of these mewls is the rand N imposing
a heavy rate of fureign postage, the MOWN Of Obi* bp •
curious arrangement, gm to the Past-elset
instead of to the Admiralty. independent of tt =arm!
siderationa, the Mortares of the voyage, 10 miles, should
prevent the imposition of a higher rate of fare than has
always obtained saUl n coney, , Bs. he lot elms &ed.'s
for 2.nd class peatwegae. The Preach mail meets still
retain them chines. As area month the mails to
Paris, and perhaps to the north, Brussels, dc., are to re-
alms this route, I hops you will colonised In your amid
energetic style on this uefkir rise la the rate of fares.—Pier
JUITITIAL.

CHOLSRA.—Yesterday, the Bowl of liealth re-
mised reporta of the tullowiag new came whin r occurred on
the 26th and 26th MA. It will be teem that the disease is
very active and fatal in Scotland :—Linteltouse, I fatal ; St.
Hoorge-ia.the•Beet, I ; Stamfued.bill. I; Chelsea, I ; White-
chapel, 3; Bromley St. LtONSTD'ai 1; 1100kWeliflanDths 6,
3 fatal; Hemel Hempstead, 7, 3 fatal; Berwick. upon-
Tweed, 1 fatal ,• Cambridge, 2, 1 fatal ; Stowbeidre. Dawn.
frees-market, 1 fatal; Southey, 8, 1 fatal; Edinburgh,
18, 9 sual; Gleeneve. 273, 130 fatal ; Maxwelltown anti
Dumfries. 9, 6 fatal; Jedhurgh, 6, 4 fatal; lluosharton,
I, 3 fatal • Coatbridge, 89, 80 fatal ; Kelso, 8, 4 fatal;
Ilasdast Wiriness), 2, 1 fatal; kottieray. 1 final; Hamilton,
1; Clarencedeld (ltuahwtll), 2 fatal ; Testiest 1 fatal. Total
DINDISIWO2. 443; deaths.
TiU /SATIN AND WANII-DOUSEN in St. Mather-
britfOritlde were uptake • y. a entity under the presidency of
lbs Bev. Sir H. B. Dulibitlehl, late vicar, who delivered an
saber constratalatina the c,wap my on the unction.
STAMPS AND PItuRATE AND LEGACY DUTIGL—
Ifir,—Altbetioch I admire your able answer of this day to
the commenta of the Tines 01 'monk, on the sunnot of
Mr. Cobden's project fur financial retort's, there are still
many points which you han omitted, and which it IN,
thenfore, only fair to help you to suppl. The hot is that
the whole subjeet of our stamps and probate and legacy
duties is to intricat,, that noose bat the managers of them,
or a law's!, can at all o,,derrand their injustice. We are
told that land I. heavily burthened during tho lite of the
owner, and that that is the resa for which it should be
eznapt from probate and legoey duty, but as regards
Nampa, personal property (with the Hale exception of a
Ili iss, iodic low a year stamp) u just as heavily
burthened as freehold land. If a man buy a learveltul t
house or land be has, with that exception, to pay the mme
stamps as it it were freehold. The came may be said of a re-
V. 141741 to money in the (ands, or a policy of insurance an
lib or any other description of pirsonal proper:), of which
these instances partake ; but hesi.:, a the same stamp duty in
life, these kinds of prop ny are also rad dad with probstv.
,nd legacy duty after d, ath. The fact ic, that if the govern
meut would order an account to be taken at the stamp .Nice
of how much money arises from stamps xi, cling nal ;OM-
party, and how much from those relating to penonalty, the
humbug of the stamp duty berthas on I Ind " woudi soon
be exposed ; but this searching inquiry would, doubtless,:not
suit their purpose ; it would ale nate too many of their sup
poetan.—A LAWTIIII AND CONI.TANT RDADIN._ Dec. 26.

FRAIL lITRIVIVRES 011 Lminim) TEIURL
The rweeent metropohLut custom a. letting out landi "11
short holding leaser is, as it has been, the Cilne of vb•
wretched eharacter of the edifices which form a.nr street.,
terraces, are noes, anal aeon auburhan villas. We ann. t
aquae that the leisure do any actual wrong to the foolish
builders, who. perbai s, may have counted the cast and all
contincri.ciee, hut we an later that • wise and paternal
.tovernment shouid throw the amide of protection (a phrase
in uhich many of our magnetos delight) over the peoisle
who are, or ought to be, the o 4; rot of their cares. Tile
lapse .4f a Wee, on which • eats al 10,000/. has been ex-
pended by a father or grandfather, it the absolute cenlisea-
Hen of so moth property to the heir ad inheritance. It she
hada*, general,, in Loudon are of a character as to solidity
interior to those ut Par 2, Italy, 4.r, indeed, of any Baropean
civilised city, the nee alot of the ev I is not that John Bull
likes • mate tenement, but b cause the landlord cla.s have
syMematigest the cost .nt ad granting short levee. The Build.
Wigs Act itself in an emanation tram the landlord clam ; it I.
alculated for their interests, which its operations tend to
strengthen. It aggrieves the rio .r builder and the humb!e
tradesman, anal it r milts in the consiliditiou of aristocratic
wealth.— The Batiider.

ERIGR.tTION, OR A WORD TO YOUNG MEN OUT
Or WOlLL..—Custianally applied to as I am for assistant•• to
obmin *insatiate by young men (gardeners and garden Is.
boners), " full ef bliod anal blue veins." to use • tisanes
expression, 1 on clan led to wonder how it is that they do
not make up their minds to seek • horn- in another land.
&wedeln upon and forming a part ot the llritieh empire.
Binge there is no 'mph,' most fur their capital (their lehourt
in this overcrowded ode of nun, what is it that deters them
from emigration, from taking perhaps a painful step, but a
safe one? Painful in Laving Old Ragland, and tearing
munch r the the which bind them even more closely to it.
shores than love nt country, hut side if they tarry with them
indnstrr, frugality, end • determination, by present self-
denial, to provide tor the ware. I consider that the gre.t
source of dioppointment on the part of those diesetigleil
after taking thus step, arises from the extravagant notions
entertained before venturing upon it. Lab itir is the lot ot
man. I can answer from experience that neither in Canada,
New South Wales, nor Van Dion. Ilea land, did I meet with
roasted pigs running about with knives and forks sticking in
them, ant. crjing, " Come eat tne;" hut this I have met
with,—numbews of men whose industry, sobriety, and fru-
gality have earned (or them an inilopendrnce of the poor-
house, which they would not have attained in Borland. I
could write of the beauties of the lands I have no mooed—..f
noble rivers, lakes, sad mountains —of lovely cone, fringed
to the water's edge, and *bounding with the beet of fish, so
that with • net or a hook, en axe, a spade, and a panto,
we large portion of the secessarite of We might he had
In • jiffy. Or I might tell of mutton, which so many of
ear labourers hear of sad me hat seldom face on their
tablet ; of mutton' I my, boiled'
dawn by the whole m-
eow for the mere tat that can be it:noted for the candle
makers in England, or sold at lid. to lid. per lb. But
writing on smelt things only le ele astray. It is better to
look at the stern reality, and say at once, that in these
lands, it you would thrive, you must live herd, work
hard, aye, and perhaps die hard ; but if you think all this
too bard, why then you are not my sort for emigration ;
bet, come, what is it that frightens you? Jest look at
that silly fellow yonder, with a parcel of ribbons flying
from his hat about his ears, like a horse at • country fair.
He's just 'listed. Ile was afraid to emigrate; diirnt like
going abroad to places he knew nothing about; " kfavbsp
he might be but a slave anteing outlandish people." Well,
think you that he will atop in England? Will he rot
have to emigrate, end agaidt his will, too? and ten to one
hut to the last places he wou'd have chosen? And will he
be his own master ? Not • bit of it. He might have been
after a few years, if he had acted far himself alter emi-
grating, as he will soon be obliged to do by the will of
others i and here is what I want young working men to
see. If they will bat resolutely make up thi ir minds to
do of their own accord what they haw to do in situations
under foremen or muter., their welfare is secure, and no
thanks to anybody but to Ood and themselves. lam the
last person to wish to lead others into el-eurestancee I would
avoid myself, but it wine me to have applications from young
men for help to obtain that work which in other lands is so
abundant. —Gardeners' Clituaide.
Lobs or LIPS AT THE VICTORIA TREATRlL—])tiring
the afternoon of yesterday an immense number of persons
congregated at the gallery door of the theatre, anxious to
witness the pantomime, and the instant the outer door was
owned a general rush to the top of the gallery stain w-
onted. The consequence was, that is a few seen& the
satire stairs were crowded with burn heiage—men,
women, and shildren. F trsome time they remained packed
together, wittiest evincing any dispositio: to create a riot,
bat at length they felt the inconvenience of being so closely
wedged together that they could scarcely breathe, and the
parties ea the upper part of the stain made an endeavour to
get out, whew the weaker portion were thrown down sad
tramped upon. The cries of "murder" and "wee.
nh save us at this period blouse truly appalling.
Those who were at the b Mom of the stairs not
liking to lose the positian they had taken, refused to move
an inch badtward. The crowd above cried as loud as they
wen able to those below to let them get down, but without
avail, when all of a sudden the preemie from above forted
thine below against the hcndrall, whisk gave way, and about
thirty persons were thrown down nom the crowd standing
there. At that time the cieussee of the lower stairs (mused
those above to deemed, sad a neutral movement from the
top to the lower part et the stairs naturally followed Two
poems were thrown down and trampled upon at the landing
just above the spot when the handrail was locoed down. 050
of two men who were on the stairs, on s-eing the people
fainting from the want of air, ha' deal them down as well
as they were able, and they_ estimate the number thus res-
cued at nearly thirty. Thty ware forthwith taken to
Mr. 8 .well's surgery, when it was build that two
of the sufferers were quite dead. They were both lads, and
apparently about the ages of 16 and 16 respectively. They
were forthwith removed to the vaults of St. John's Church,
to be identified The other suffers rs were also taken to Mr.
• Bowell's surgery, and wen attended to by that gentleman
aid doe by r.M Brook's aid Mr. Faidwrother, two *the;
aurgeora hung in the immediate Tidally. Every eminent.,
• was rendered to the parties, two et whom were sent home,
although suffering hem severe bribes. Two of the others,
at 10 o'clock, were still at Mr. Sewell's, one saffoine from
, eon fission oldie brain, sad is in greet danger. The d serip.
tion of the deceased is as blows Ist. A lad, apparently
about 15 years of age, dosed In black coat, lined
with= black waistcoat light brown hair, and of fair
110111 : a youth abouti 14 years of age, light brown
hair, fair omplemoo, dreamed in cord jacket and trousets, red
velveteen warmest, pale French white silk handkerchief,
sad Blather boots. Ur Faubrother, salmis of the Lon.
des.med, who MA Pia* at the moment of the calamity,
says that he lies hot the least doubt but that the two lads
died from suffocation and not from being precipitated from
the upper part of the stein. The appearance of the mouth,
now, and eyes of each want ate him In coming to that see
elusion.
A BURGLARY WM committed on Bendel, night at
the house of Count Carla Perko, at Naninnton. The
robbery is supposed to have been committed while the
howdy were at ditin.r. The property no en connived of
jewellery, foreivn coins, and 18 Bank of Rogltnti no, a.
numbered 90,117 to 90,134 inclusive, and amounted to up•
wards of 5001.