The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The Bourse opened with much firmness. No con-
Ifirmation of the entry of the Anglo-French fleet into
the Black Sea had been received. The government
journals copied the English despatches on the sub-
ject with cautious reservations as to their truth, and
the conclusion drawn was that the report was un-
founded. The Threes opened at an advance of 10c.,
and rose to 741 r. 25c , but the usual telegraphic notice
of the price of Consols not being posted led to some
uneasiness, and about 2 o'clock securities began to
decline. It was afterwards said that Consols had
fallen I. The Rente went down to 74fr., and only
recovered to 75fr. sc. for the close. The rail-
way market was favourably affected by the decree
lowering the duties on iron. St. Germain rose 30fr.;
Lyons and Mediterranean, 10fr. • Rouen, sfr. ;
Dijon, 7fr. 50e. These were the closing prices, but
they had been considerably higher in the course of
the day.
In allusion to the reported entrance of the English
and French ships into the Black Sea, the Conatitu
tionuel says:
The facts announced by the London journals are too
serious, end not sufficiently certain for as to make any com-
ment upon them. We must not only wait for their confirma-
tion, bat before we can thoroughly appreciate the °ha.
carter and bearing of the movements of the fleets spoken
of, we most be precisely informed as to the emus and object
of the movement, assuming it to have taken place. Until
we shall have received such ample intelligence we could
only indulge in conjectures, and we prefer for the moment
to play the part of chroniclers merely.
There is much talk about the " fusion" to-day.
The legitimists profess to be entirely contented with
what has been done at Frohsdorff. They emphatically
deny the truth of the report that before the meeting
between the royal cousins could be arranged a stipula-
tion was made that they should not allude to polities.
The fusion, they say, is complete, cordial, and based
upon the only terms that the Count de Chambord
could listen to, namely, the unconditional renuncia-
tion by the Orleans family of their separate proton-
alone to the throne.

The Moniteur contains an Imperial decree, :re-
ducing the duty on foreign coals and iron. Coals
imported by sea from Sables d'Olonnes to Dunkirk in
national vessels, 30c., and foreign vessels, 80c., in-
stead of SOc. and If. ; on the rest of the coast, 160. and
6.3 c., instead of 30c. and 80e. By land, from the sea
to Hallnin, 30c. instead of 60c. At other' points
present duties. Coke, half en-sue, instead of double.
The duty on raw cast iron (fonts brute), sf. and
sf. SOc., instead of 7 and 7.50. Platina, 25f. and
27f. 60c., instead of 40f. and 44f.

Other reductions are at the same time made, and
those given above are to be brought yet lower
in 1855.

GERMANY.

The tone of the Prussian press leaves it to be
inferred that extraordinary efforts are now being
made to decide the Prussian cabinet for an active and
open alliance with Russia. The influence of the
cautious Manteuffel is again secretly assailed, and a
crisis is hastened on in the hope that the Xing will
choose the Czar, rather than England with Louis
Napoleon. Against such a ruinous choice the most
enlightened portion of the Prussian press raises
betimes a warning voice. It is now much regretted
that the practice of excluding foreign affairs from
the sphere of parliamentary dim/Ilion has been
so far established by the present ministry.
The Deutsche,. Reieliszeitung remarks that Louis
Napoleon is not more dangerous to Belgium than is
the Czar to Prussia, and asks how can deputies apply
themselves to form and mould the interior affairs of
a country if they do not know whether they work
for their country or for a foreign master.
The Ifreser Gazette treats of the great interest
'which Germany has in the eastern question, in virtue
of its geographical position. " Let Turkey fall to
Russia," says thin journal, " and the Baltic and
Adriatic coasts will be alike under the guns of Rus-
sian men-of-war." Having developed his position,
the writer concludes that Austria and Prussia must
take a decided part with England and France, and
say plainly to the Czar," Thus far and no farther."
Emigration to America is still a favourite resource
of the Austrian people. A great movement in that
direction is noticeable among the Bohemians: a
week ago 130 persons left the north of Bohemia by
one train. It is also remarkable that numbers of
Bohemians have lately left their country to settle in
Prussian Poland. The Austrian government looks
with disfavour on these movements, and has again
increased the stringency of passport regulations.
According to the law. of Austria a person leaving
the monarchy without the permission of the govern-
ment loses his rights as an Austrian subject. The
government has long since notified to the, people
that those who choose to emigrate to Australia must
not expect to be allowed to come back again to their
mother country. Now it is becoming usual for the
authorities, when delivering papers to emigrants, to

warn them against thoughtlessly taking a step which
they are told must lead to the ruin of themselves and
their families.
The Austrian troops in Transylvania, which g
month since did not amount to more than o,ooe mem,
I arc being reinforced ; the corps of observation, about
133,000 strong, will be posted between the fortret.see
of Temesvar and Arad; the men on furlough, be.
'longing to the regiments under marching order,.
Ihave been recalled, and the state of siege in the
Hungarian provinces is even more rigorous thin it
was In 1850.

ITALY.

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PIEDMONT.
The Turin papers contain reports of the proceed-
,' inga of the Senate which more immegiately caused
I the appeal to the country. The bill for transferring
the accounts and deposits of the state to the National
Bank of Sardinia was, in the view of Count Cavonr,
a measure esser.tial to the execution of his general
scheme of financial policy. The minister had justi-
fied the measure before the Senate in a brilliant dis-
cussion, and there was every reason to expect that
it would be carried oa a division. On the 18th lost.
it was put to the vote, when it was supported by 32
and condemned by 60 senators. It is not on account
of this one vote that tho Cavour ministry considers
itself bound to ask the opinion of the nation.
The acts of the Senate have been dilatory or posi,
tively obstructive of the reforming policy of the
present administration, as well as of that of the
cabinet of which M. d'Azeglio was the head, and it
was not until all other means for its improvement
bad been tried in vain, that the judgment of the
country upon its conduct was called for. There is
not the least doubt that the cabinet will have a large
majority in the election. M. Ratazzi, the new
Minister of Justice, pleases the priestly party in
Sardinia no better than his predecessor. He has
just hit the clergy on a tender point, by requiring
from churchwardens a return of their cures incomes.
This measure is an execution of the royal decree of
September 6, by which it is ordered that the state
salary of 500 francs shall no longer be paid to cures
who have an income of 1,000 francs. Many of the
clergy do not reply at all; others, instead of return-
ing their incomes, abuse the minister. It is said
that should the opposition prove general, the govern-
ment will withhold the grant altogether until the
poorer cures come in and make their claim.

SPAIN.

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The Herald() of the 1i th contradicts the rumouti
respecting a projected Montemolinist movement. It
also states that the Spanish fleet is to be stationed at
the Balearic Isles. The Marquis de Viluma has
arrived at Madrid. The ministerial candidate for
the Presidentship of the Chamber of Deputies is
M. Martinez de La Rosa. It is ezpectcd the Minis-
try will have a large majority in the Chamber.

THE LEJLIN ESTATE FUND.

Yesterday, at the Bow-street police court, after the
night charges had been disposed et Mr. Bodkin (who was
instructed by Mr. Reynolds, of the Treasury) applied for
summonses against the secretary and nominal trustees of a
company calling itself the "Leman Estate Fund," for
having conspired to commit the offence of "maintenance
and champerty," and with having further defrauded George
E. Stanley of a sum of money.
The learned counsel exhibited a printed prospectus of the
society or company, which, he stated, had been very exten-
sively circulated throughout the country, besides being
partly advertised in the public newspapers. The protessed
object of the company was to recover possession of certain
valuable estates, known as the Leman estates, which were
located in various parts of the kingdom, and were at present
in the baud. of the Accountant General, together with
a large fund, amounting, through various accumula-
tions, to nearly half a million sterling. The esti-
mated value of the entire property, real and personal,
was about three millions sterling, and the c mmocters
of the scheme in question announced that they had
discovered the rightful heir to the property in the person of
• Mr. Edward Godfrey Leman, of Nottingham, whose
claim had been successfully established in the Scotch court',
in 1842, and who now bare the title of Sir Edward Leman
—an official announcement of these proceedings having sp.
peered at the time in the Edinburgh Gazette. Some parti-
culars of the alleged property were given in the circular,
which stated that it comprised a " city in itself," in the
neighbourhood of Whitechapel and the London-dicks, be-
sides princely domains in Huntingdonshire, Herta, Cam-
bridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, &c., independently of
the immense and " still accumulating fund " already men-
tioned. it was said that, " for the exclusive benefit of sub.
scribers to the Leman Estate Fund, it is proposed to realise
these possessions, and appropriate to each certificate acknow-
ledging a subscription of 10s., an equal share of the produce
so that a subscriber of 101. might ultimately receive 154,
one of 205., 301., and so on in proportion. It was also
stated that, with the iiew of anticipating all difficulty and
preventing delay, the present claimant, Sir Edward Leman,
had executed proper legal instruments, pro►iding for the
effectual vesting in the trustees for the benefit 01
certificate holders, and also for the early and
energetic prosecution of his claims. After intimating
that the subscribers were guaranteed against all liability,
the prospectus announced that a division would take plate
amongst the shareholders "as often as the funds in the
hands of the trustees amounted to or exceeded 50,0e01.," due
public notice of the same being given" by at least three ad-
vertisements in each of the four daily London papers, and by
sending a circular letter to the address of every subscriber."
Finally, it was notified that the pedigree of the claimant,
as well as • copy of the patent granting the baronetcy,
eke., would be exhibited at the offices of the company. By
means of the publicity given to this scheme, and to the
temptations which were held out to subscribers, an immense
amount of money had been realised by the promoters,
especially in some parts of the provinces, where branch
offices were established, and a large amount of business was
being carried on. The attention of the government, how-
ever. had been drawn to the proceedingslof the company;
and owing to certain inquiries that bad been instituted by
the officers of the crown, an advertisement had since ap-
peared in some of the newspapers announcing a " division"
among the subscribers in the month of February next.
Now it had been ascertained that the property known
as the "Leman Estate Fund" was duly distributed as long
ago as 1810, pursuant to a decree of the High Court of
Chancery, made in the case of " Csaamajor v. Strode.'
This decree, which established the validity of the will of
William Strode, was dated the 17th August, 1810; and
from that time, nearly 43 years ago, no other claim had
been set up, and no litigation whatever had taken place in
reference to it. Some portion of the estates was still held
in trust for infants, but the whole of it would be distributed
in des course. Under these circumstances, and after certain
proofs which he should be able to submit to his worship, he
(Mr. Bodkin) believed he should be entitled to proceed
against the several persons named, both upon the charge of
conspiracy to defraud, and for the offences of maintenance
and champerty. _ . _

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George Edward Stanley wu then sworn. He deposed
that on the 13th of September last he applied at the chief
office of the Leman Estate Fund, at 3, Bridge-street, West-
minster, and saw Mr. Waters, the secretary, who gave him
the prospectus produced. Witness made some inquiries about
the property in question, and Waters told him that there
was half a million of money in the hands of theaccountants
general, standing to the account of " Counselor and
Strode," every farthing of which would be available to the
purchasers of these 10s. certificates. Witness referred him
to an advertisement in the papers relative to a proposed
division among the subscribers, and asked him where the
money was to some from for that purpose. He replied that
the company had just obtained possession of some of the
property in Goodman's.fields, and they should be in a posi-
tion very shortly to establish their claim to the entire half-
million. Witness asked him if their proceedings were per-
fectly legal, and he replied in the affirmative, adding,
" That when he took the company's advertisements to the
Times newspaper the proprietors refused to insert them
without first consulting their legal advisers upon the sub-
ject—that they then took the opinion of Mr. Weleby, the
barrister,who considered the project perfectly legal." Wit-
ness accordingly purchased a share, or certificate, and paid
10e. for it, and said he should probably buy several more.
Mr. Henry—As the case is opened to me, I think there is
ample grounds for a summone, for the offence of chew•
petty.
The summonses were issued accordingly.

LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE ItAILwAY.—T raffle
for week ending Nov. 19, 1853 :—Passengers, 111!. 11s. 44.;
goods, 991. Os. 3d. Tots), 2101. 11.. id.

TILL SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN.

to TUC IMITOIL Or Till DAILY NEWS.
:1:,--The following is a copy of a letter addressed
by me to the Edeer of the Tina.. As it bas not
made its appearance in that journal, I beg you will
do me the favour to insert it in yours.
I am, &c., AUGUSTUS PETERMANN.

Charing-cross, Nov. 23.
r, viz EPITUK or TUX Tbess.—Sir,—ls one of
yam leading articles of bet &birds, (19th inst.) relit-
my to the search for Sir Jobs Franklin sad a pro-
jettsd nee expedition by Spitsbergen, the writer "calls
moat earnestly upon the public to interfere In time
betereen the project ors sad the madam of their toter-

We*"
As I thick the projection of this expedition must be
wed bath to myself, I think it due to me end the public
to art, u a matter of justice, the favour of your inserting
the following hen.
la the tint place, the writer argues that Sir John Frank-
lia cannot hove got beyond Wellington Channel, but must
hoe ,with, don this side of it. Now, the whale of this
litter region has been searched so minutely that the re-
gions of the perished expedition could Oct have tamped the
scention of the searching partite. Surely two vessels and
upwards of ID me s must leave some trace or other behind.
The writer may argue-storm and snowdrift, with the wild
snumels and ether destructive elements, would soon erase
erery oar of such traces in the Antic regions. But this
view is sot at all justified by experience. Lieutenant
Ill'Clintocir, when in 1861 he found in Melville Island the
remains of Sir Edward Parry's encampment in 1820, which
were eons( wetly 31 years old, thus describes them:
We found here everything mentioned by Sir Edward
Parry sa having been left by his party wheel his broken
met was abandoned. The very slow progress of decay in
this climate was distinctly evident on inspecting the; site of
Edeszel Parry's encampment, in June, 1820. The
weal appeared almost unchanged ; the bones of the ptar-
migan (off which his party supped) were merely bleached;
sad the pieces of cloth, canvas, rope, and twine strewed
about, still retained much of their original strength and

colouring:'
Whets such delicate little objects al ptermigan home are
so easily found again after more than 30 years, an it, then,
be said with reason that two large vessels, with upwards of
130 picked nun, would utterly vanish, like so many pieces

of camphor
From the above circumstance the relations and friends
of the lost expedition will be ins position to judge whether
or no the latter hive perished oa this side of Wellington

Channel
So long as two yeses since it was the decided opinion of
the venerable Hydrographer of the Admiralty, Admiral Sir
Francis Beaufort, that should Sir John Franklin have gorse
up tre!lingua Channel, he would have ruched far humid
the limits of the pr:lent search, and would have got into
some labyrinth of ice sod islands abreast of Behring's Straits
or further west, on the fiats off the coast of Siberia.
Bawd on this reasonable view it was that, about the
same time (two years since), I ventured to throw out the
snuestion whether it might not be well, instead of de-
spatching all the expedition t►rough the almost impassable
yarrow channels and well•nigh coatinually choked up seas
west of Baffin's Bay, to send one through the Gnat Polar
Sea on the Asiatic side, which, from its extent, can never
be choked up with ice, and according to actual experience
of the most trustwort►y character always presents lanes of
open water. When vessels by the score were Salt to
Bathn'a Bay, I was inclined to thick that one or tread of
the many might be spared for the latter object, per e*
when considering the very slight c :pease of Sir Memel
Parry's Sigtzhergen expedition (9,9771.) as compared to the
malty 100,000 f. which have been spent on the other side, se
well as that it would offer to those who only look loth,
L s. d., the prospects of pecuniary gain from new whale.
fishing pounds diecoverable in that region.
The expericace and news of the last two years leave the
ease exactly sa it then stood, for even Sir Edward Belcher
has not got a distance worth speaking of beyond Sir John
Franklin's first winter quarters ; and, therefore, who.
assumiert the two missing vessels to have vanished cu ibis
side of Wellington Channel, without leaviag any traces
behind, the sober feet will always @tarsus I. the face, that
the whole region between Queen's Channel (the upper part
Of Wellington Channel) sad Behring's Strait, or Siberia.
remains to tide day intraversed and usseerehed, while it
has been fully demonstrated that the narrow waters to
which the search ►u hitherto been confined, are totally
impracticable foe effeerive navigation.
I will aot here repeat or disuse say point eeenuted with
my plan, referring the reader simply to my varies' cow
manications addressed to the Admiralty, the Geographical
Society, and to the Atlienarm, itc., butt would beg le put
we
question to those of my opponents who are eves le meg
to throw ridicule upon that noble and practisally Maki
science, inductive geography, by the light of 1416 =My
futures of our planet aro discovered which vigil NW.
wise remain bidden for years thus the sentiment Maks*.
Italian gold was prognosticated thousaads of mike hem the
spots where it was actually trodden on, without Wimples;
thin the approximate position of the Magnetic South Pole
was laid down in the quiet study of a man who, I believe,
bad sever been out of his own country, sad Columbus, but
for studying geography, would not have discovered a New
World.

If those who ridicule the mottos of a Polar Sea being
more open and more navigable than the narrow waters as
the American side, were inhabitant, of Labrador or Kamm-
ihatka, which dreary countries lie in exactly the same lath
lathe as the BIWA Islands, what would their opinions be
of the physical hater's of the latter ? Why, If they em-
ployed the same numb( which they employ for the
Antic Seems, they would boldly dins that Great Britain
wee I. the seam depth as these esuhtries severed with iee
sad UMW, and inhabited by kiebsers. They would disbe-
lieve that there rated meth • town u Hammerfest, la a
latitude the same Si Boothia Fells, where Bit Joha Bess
was imprimmed her three years, surronaded by all the bee
sae et as Antis wiater, without any such Mims hem hint.
They would seen the idea of min at Mistakes at Bear
Island, while the mercury was Imola fee Ave maths at
Melville Limed, is essetly the mune latitude. But all them
are actual, sad to esereplen welblthown, fats; sad with
these facts before us, sea say meth be sedisal es to the
impossibility et similar difthemsees ukase bsymed Bees
Island towards Siberia ?

But it is simply as array to my that " Ceptaia Balboa
(sad ales Kr Edward refry) was dospaisboi to ephabergea
to make the very attempt whisk is sow seatamplated.'.
Poe the roate of my plea, sir, his ea the east side of Spits.
bargee, sod sot ea ths west side of it, where all the former
savigaton have bees, sad whisk I raider the woes side,
as mach as if • vessel ply from New York to Arehaagel.
lasteed of choosing the wide sea mot of leelead—betwosa it
sad Norway—was to steer ea the west side of that ielead—
between it sad Greenlead—where, to be sure, she would be

°Detracted with inmates YONG Oi LW I can safely alarm,
whiffet fear of sestredinion, that the ass east of Spits-
bergen has sever bees fairly tried ; and that for newly
200 years no English vessel whatever has been steered in
that diteetioa. EMI Captain Beechey, R.N., who le
among the foremost of my opponent*, in his " Narrative of
Captain Buthan's Voyage," readily admits the practicer
bility of navigating the seas beyond Spitsbergen with, the
aid of steam.

And se to the objectime'reised on the seers of darkness,
sad cold, and that, Sir G. Back is asserted to have " told
the scientific gentlemen that it would be impossible to work
the ropes "—and further, oa the wetted opinion of Captain
M'Clare, that " death is the inevitable lot of the company
of any ship which may be involved in the Polar Pack "—the
writer must be iguana of the fact that these mere Burnie.
are directly contradicted sad disproved by actual experience
of the AMIONOIA Apo litica under Lieutenant de Raven.
fibs two slender vessels, of oely 144 and 91 tons—no screws,
be it reassabered—were involved in the Polar Pack for no
lees than alas months during the wont part of the year
Mon the niddle et September, 1860, to the middle
of June, 1841), sad they were drifted, imbedded
in the Pack, out of Wellington Channel, through
Refila's By, down to the Atlantic Ocean, a diseases
of upwards of one thousandAilits. Yet to that gallant
Meamander, at least, and his erews—the rope question and
darkness offered no such difficulty at all ; and, although
thus imbedded in the Polar Pack for no less than aim
months, the American Expedition, so far from finding
" inevitable death," did not late one single man ; and so
little injured were the two vessels that no sooner were they
liberated from the Pack than they boldly steered north-
wards, whence they bad come.
There may be persons who only believe what they have
done themselves or men with their own eye., end to them
De Raven's Expedition or those of the Russians and others
may have little or no value, while to the " scientific geir
smilers" the latter certainly font the only authority for
the geography of one-half of the Antic Regions.
I am conscious that I suggested my plan with an honest
purpose, and as such dammed an honest judgment ; and,
whether it ever be adopted or not, I trait I may be per-

milted this opportunity to protest spiatt an as parte, as.
fair. and enamor' isterpritatien of that plea.
I have this hamar to be, air, your very obedient sad
bembho servaat, Avarrrrs Panama/4x.
9, Charing-ergo, Nov. 21.

Int Court.

WINDSOR, Nov. 23.
The Qoeeo,with the Duchess of Brabant, attended
by the Duchess of Sutherland, the Conatees Omuta de
Lamm, and the gentlemen in waiting, left Windsor by a
special train of the Great Western Railway at a quarter
oast 9 o'clock this morning, and proareaal to Buckingham
Palace.
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Her Majesty sad her imperial highness visited West-
minster Abbey, went over the Homes of Parliament, paid
a visit to the Duchess of Oloonseter, and thee »termed
to Windsor Castle, where they arrived a litde before two
o'clock.

My. Oliveira, M.P., had an interview with the Duke of
Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial-. Hoe.
The Commissioners for iaquiriai iato the state of the
.

Corporatism of the City of I.iindosi held a meeting yester-
day at the Privy Conned-offioe in Downing.street. The
coranienowers preeeat were the Right Hon. H. Laboe-
chive. the Right Hon. Sir John Patteeon, and G. Corn.-
wall Lewis, Req.

A cabinet council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell,
the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Dake of
Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Pal-
merston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of New-
castle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James
Graham, Sir Chafing Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council
at three hours.

The Olobe announces the appointment of Mr. J.
R. Colvin as Governor of Madras. We are very
nom to hear of it ; for Mr. I. It. Colvin was ono of
the secretaries of Lord Auckland, and, together with
the late Sir W. M'Naghten, one of the chief insti-
gators of the Affghan war.
The names of the members of the Committee
appointed to inquire into the establishment of the
Post Office are :—Lord Elcho, M.P., one of the Lords
of the Treasury; Sir Stafford Nortbcote, Bart. ; Sir
Charles Trevelyan, K.C.8., Assistant Secretary to
the Treasury and E. A. Roffay, Esq., Inspector of
Naval and Military Accounts at the Andit-office.
Yesterday the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Cape
Town resigned his see, in order that the diocese
might be divided into three bishopricks—Cape Town,
Natal, and Graham's Town.
The Rev. Dr. Colenzo and the Rev. Dr. Armstrong
will be consecrated to the sees of Natal and Gra-
ham's Town in the parish church, Lambeth, Surrey,
on Wednesday, the 30th instant.

THE QUEEN AND THE DUCHESS OF BRA-
BANT AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY AND THE
HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

Yesterday morning, shortly before 11 o'clock, her
Mejesty, accompanied by the Duchess of Brabant, and
attended by the Duchies of Sutherlaad, sad other ladles
of her suite, arrived at Westminster Abbey, is three car-
riages, sad were received at the western entrance by a few
of the authorities, the visit being strictly of • private
sabers. Her Majesty pointed out to her royal guest many
of the monumeats and objects of interest, particularly the
newly erected statue of the late Sir R. Peel. The party
remained in the sacred edifice for upwards of an hour, and
left by the south transept door. They then paid a visit to
the New Houses of Parliament, entering by the Victoria
Tower, and after examining the various portions of the
building, took their departure for Windsor. Tits royal
party were conducted through the building, in the absence
•f Sir Charles Barry, who is waisted to his residence by an
attack of influenza, by Mr. Edward Barry, and Mr. Thomas
Quarm, the chief Clark of the Works.

VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT AND THE
DUKE OF BRABANT TO CAMBRIDGE.
Nov. 23.
The despatch of last evening left his Hoye High-
ame Prince Albert at the Lodge of Trinity College, pre-
paring kr the reception of such members of the senate as
were desirous of paying their respects to him ; the recep-
tioa commenced at live o'clock, and lasted until half -past
At half-past omen the royal party proceeded to Trinity
Hall Ledge to dine with the Viee-Chaneelka. The follow-
ing are the names of the select party invited to meet their
Royal Highness by the Vice-Chancellor and Mrs. Geldart.
Count do Loamy, Col. Grey, Col. Gordon. H. Van de
Weyer, the Rasters of Clare Hall and Catharine Hall,
Prevost of King's, Masters of St. Peter's, Caine, Corpse,
Jesus, Trinity, Downing, Swingy, and Christ's, the Rev.
the Registrary, thi Public Orator, the Senior Praetor, and
Dr. Leapingwell and W. Hopkiaa, Rm., Require Bedell.
The Prises Chancellor and his royal guest sallied oat at
11/ o'clock is a dews fog, amompeaied by the master of
Trinity College, and Profuse, fledgMck, in order to visit
the most picturesque parts of the walks of Trinity and
King's Colleges. Passing from the Piazza of the library,
the party entered the Justly admired walks of Trinity
sad passing over the Cyaleidel bridge, emerged by
the back gate on to Clare Hall pine, from wham a Ise
view of Kiss's College is easameaded. In pairing to this
met the vista presented by the maize walk elicited the ad-
miration of both prima. Dr. Welch (Muter) and other
members of Clare Hall, noshed the royal party at the Cok
lege-gates, and the He% Chapel, and Combiastioa-
roan were visited. The Coenamaite plate at this
Collage Chapel le of pare gold richly esabessed, eel the
chapel heal is allowed for 'basemen of design and lipase
of decoratioa to easel any building of the kind in the Eld•
varsity. Is the Hall the seleheated pettish of Arabia.
=Mies, and ethers, *ere laspested. nem Ohms Mil
the party proceeded to Kin's, sad were here wombed by
the Provost and Fellows. The royal peaty emend the
College Chapel by the great west door, sad daring their
stay the Premiss sad Austria* *Mina anthems wen pea
domed an the mg= by F. I. Storey, Esq., fellow ef the
allege. The Hall, Library, sad walks having been vi
tie piety returned to Trinity College Lodge, and tt
Sum is state to the Beasts Hesse, for the purpose of eon-
HEW the leaseezy degree of LLD. apse the Duke of
Ilsessat. Me thee appointed was sieves edge.
sat keg before that time the pit of the domes
House wee crowded by members of the seals
mad has, while the side galleries were Btsreiy
isamood with undergraduates, who, as anal, wiled away
M dos they were in waiting by giving eathuiestie ohms
fleas Sovereign, the Prince Chancellor, the Duke sad
Dukes of Brabant, these ohms being soessiosally varied
111111 gloms for soak of the "Deem" as have at any period
Of disk ideality career made thinesslves obseakias by
stekt emhessesset of discipline, end the booting any sew
We star pasts who incautiously eaters& the pit within{
psylsi dos doinums to the majesty of the gods by ds
bit hat or esp. About half-pest eleven PiiBPrinceAlbselt
the Dube olissed, escorted by the Vies-Chisidlee smd
Prawn IleigerLek. Prince Albert wore his fall Miss
as Chemefiers mg the cheering was most uproar-
isms as be gemeeded to the seat reserved for him
es the dos Tbe Duke wore the sailor= of a
Belgian del& maralial. Coloreds Grey and Gordon, 111-
Van de Weyer, and the Count de Laanoy, were in
amender:as here (and through the day), the taloa& be
uniform, sad the minister and coast in their °Mehl en-
tente. So soon is the Primo Chancellor was seated, the
initiatory proceedings meassearrid, and the grace autheris-
iag the degree having passed the Semite and both hones.,
the Duke wee attended to the robing room by the Vice-
Chancellor, sad seas re-appeared babied is the rod robe of
the doctor. _ - _ - _ _ - _

The Duke was presented by:the Public Orator (the Rev.
W. H. Hams) in a rather lengthy Latin speech, which
elicited favourable comment afterwards. At his emission
he Public Orator presented the Duke to the Prince Chan-
cellor, and the degree was conferred is due form, the
ceremony of hassling by the recipient being dispensed
with. The Duke then assumed his doctor's cap, and the
alteration teased in his appearance thereby elicited sheets
of good-humoured laughter in the galleries, sumeded by
rounds of cheers for the Duke and the Chancellor as the
latter descended from the dais to the mat usually occupied
by the Vice-Chancellor. The applause was courteously
acknowledged by the Prince Chancellor and the Duke de
Brabant. Arrived at the Vice Chancellor's chair, the
Prince seated himself therein, and in due foam admitted
the following gentlemen ad Nudes groduns : Albert Chan-
sing Abdy, 8.A., Worcester College, Ozon ; Henry
Gordon, as., St. Mary Hall, Oxon; John Thomas
Cyril &my, M.A., Merton College, Oxon; Edward
Wilberforce Unwin, M.A., Pembroke College, Oxon.
This ceremony over the royal party retired amid cheers
which fairly shook the edifies, and proceeded to attend the
Jacksonian Lecture on Mechanics, by Professor Willis,