The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

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Yesterday was the Queen's birthday. A perform-
ance of mule took piece, at seven o'clock in the morning, at
Claremont, by the band of the Scots Fusilier Guards. The
Royal tints at breakfast consisted of her Majesty the Queen,
H.B.H. Prince Albert, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, and
iiS.H. the Prince of Leiningen. The band of the Scots
Fusilier ()turd" attended daring breakfast, and played a
selection from the " Sonnambols," and afterwards per-
formed quadriles from Wallace's opera of " Matilda of /Wo-
rry." At leacher:el, the band of the Scots Fusilier Guards
again psformed. Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth,
Sir George Couper, Lord James Murray, Lient.-Colonel F.
Hugh Seymour, Captain Francis Seymour, and Sir Frederick
Stavin arrived in the afternoon, and had the honour of join-
ing the august circle. Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner, the
Misers Gardin 3r, and Captain Lynedoch Gardiner had also
the honour of joining the royal circle at dinner. A number
of the nubility and gentry called and left their names yes-
terday at Buckieghun Palms.
Their MUHL the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar landed at Woolwich yester-
day afternoon from Rotterdam, en route from the Hague.
The Master of the Horse to the Q•icen Dowager received the
Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchyv on their land-
ing, and conducted them into one of her Majesty's carriages
and four. Their RR.IIH., attended by their suite, pro-
ceeded to town, and arrived at Marlborough-hones at half-
past 3 o'clock. The Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess took a carriage drive early in the evening.
the Duchess of Cambridge visited her
Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough-
house. H.N.H. honoured the performance of the French
plays with her presence last evening.
VISIT OF TILE QUEEN TO CAMBRIDOE.—The follow-
* official notice was circulated yesterday in Cambridge
"The Vice-Chancellor has the high gratiScatioe °fief 'ming
the members of the University, that it is the intention of her
Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, as well as H.R.H. Prince
Albert, the Chancellor, to honour the University with their
presence at the ensuing M.A. Commencement, unless any
unforeseen event should occur which might preveat it."

The Marquis of Normanby transacted business yes-
terday at the Foreign-office,
The Governor of the Beak of England, and the
Deputy Governor, had i.e interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday at hisoffirdal residence in Downing•
street. A depuration from the Eastern Counties and Har-
wich Junction Railway had an interview with the Commis-
sioners of Railways, in G•aat George-street, ye►terday. Mr.
Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commis-
sioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had an in-
terview yeaterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Despatches for the Governors of Hong Kong and
Ceylon were sent off yesterday evening from the Colo nial-
office.

WOOLWICH, MAY 24.—This afternoon, at a quarter
put two o'clock, the Cycloop war steamer. belonging
.rto the
Dutch governmerv, arrived off the dockyard, having on
board her Royal Highness the Duchies of Saxe Weimar
and suite, who is on a visit to her Majesty. Commodore
Sir J. J. G. Bremer, C.A., proceeded in the barge of the
William and Mary yacht, and conveyed her Royal High-
ness from the Cycloop to the wharf, under a salute from •
battery of Royal Artillery. The Royal Marines furnished
the gnarl of honour. A rut concoct,e of persona, including
several of the principal officers of the Royal Artillery' Royal
Marines, and the heads of the different departments of the
dockyard, were assembled to receive her Royal Highness.
On leaving the Cycloop, the band on board that vessel
played the German national melody, " My Fatherland,- and
afterwards our own national anthem, and the new of the
vessel pave three cheers. The Royal party immediately
entered their carriages and proceeded to London.

THE WHITSUN AMUSEMENTS.
It has been long the custom to select Whit-Monday
for the opening of those place. in which entertainments
are offered to the holiday-keeping part of the public in the
open air. Yesterday, the weather wee most desirable for the
purpose, and it wilt be seen, from the " atatistical returns"
furnished by various reporters, that the holiday was very
generally and joyously kept.
The river and railways—especially between London and
Greenwich—were crowded with passengers. It is reported
that 34,800 persons landed end embarked at the Charing-
cross-bridge steam-boat pier alone. Greenwich-fair was
crowded during the greater portion of the day, and at
night the multitude was immense, although it was partially
thinned by a shower, which poured down about nine o'clock.
At Stepuey•fair there were collected at one time 300,000
person. There was also a dense crowd at a fair held at
Wandsworth.
The mere rationally inclined betook themselves to the
Well, ctual pastime of examining museums and galleries.
An official enumeration of the raisers to •he British Museum
shows this clue to have been v, ry huge. No fewer than
17,780 individuals visited that national establishment during
the day; whilst 14,570 examined the pictures in the Nriunal
Gallery. Sixpence each was paid by 1,600 persons to go
over the Tower of London; and the Polytechnic Institution
was honoured with the presence of the Grand Duke Con-
stantine. The Bast India and United Service museums
were fully attended. The Zoological Gardens, now opened
to the public on payment of one shilling each person, were
not so well attended as the attractiveness of the exhibition
and the linen. as of the weather would have led cue to ex-
pect. The chief of the al fresco evening amusements opened
yesterilsy were as follows:
CRP:MORSE GARDENS. These gardens opened
Pm', day for the season. The grounds, which are prettily
laid out, have been conaiderahly enlarged, and various other
improvements have been made this year for the accommoda-
tion of visitors, a Crest number of whom favoured the gar-
dens with their patronage last evening. Amongst the other
numen,us entertainments Mr. Green ascended in a new
balloon, which ruse majestically about seven o'clock, taking
ant ['steely d•reetion. The seranaut was accompanied by one
or tan friends.
WHITE Compurr Ifousg. —This place of enter-
tainment lei...opened last night with a concert, an exhibition
of lining retues, and of course some Ethiopian serenaders,
with only the novelty of their being copies in mistiature of
the neginala, the pertormers being boys. The evening con-
cluded with a ball d les Cos MO.

LINN EAN SOCIETT.—The annual meeting took place
yesterday fur the transaction of general business. The Bishop
of Norwich, president of the society, oc2upied the chair. Mr.
E. Forster, the treasurer, teed the accounts of the society for
the part year, of which the following is the result :—Balance
in hand at the last audit, 1321. 19s. 84.; received since,
9641. 6d. ; making together 1,0971. Bs. 2d., out of which
9'291. llv. 6d. hal been disbursed, leaving a balance of
1671. 16.. 84., being an increase on the balance at the last
audit 1,1 341. 17.. The debts of the soci..ty, by bond and
simple contract at the last audit, smnunted to 1,0491. Is.6d. ;
they had since been reduced to 9051. 12..5d., being a decrease
of 1431. 9s. Id. The balance remaining in favour of the
soli .17 after making all reductions, and adding the
increase in the cash balance, amounted to 1781. 61. Id.
Mr. J. J. Bennett, the secretary, then reported
that 16 members of the swiety, two foreign members,
and one asenci,ite had died, and four members had with-
drawn. Twenty fellows and areocires had been elected
since the lust meeting. Mr. Bennett read a brief account of
the principal events in the life of each deceased member, the
period when, and under what circumstances, he joined the

moiety, de., whirl appeared to emit* general interest. The
meal haillotibtlisered,- I* the *Wien of the officers of the
moiety, ad of wham were °maimed in their appointments.
Hamra J. S. Bowerbank, W. J. Bluebell, D.O L. F. 11.
Jansen, D. Sharpe, end N. Wallish, according to
the recommendation of the council, were elected to their
board, in the room of gee retiring members. The proceed-
ings then terminated.
JEW' HOOPMAL.—The anniversary of this institu-
tion, whiek was established is 1807, was held at the London
Tavern yesterday evening. His Royal I:lighting; the Duke
of Cambridge presided. After the usual loyal and national
toasts, the boys and girls in the establishment entered the
room in a kind of recession, carrying in th. it hands model
specimens of their workmanship in cabinetroakier and
shoemaking, which were exhibited to the company, and sub-
mitted to the particular imoseetion of the chairman. An
ode, written for the occasion, war recited by one of the girls
meths institution, and enthusiastically applauded. His royal
highness then proposed, as the tout of the evening, " Psis-
perky to the institution," and, in doing so, expressed the
great plessere which he felt in witnessing the pr wts afforded
that the children had beneatted by the instruction giv, n to
them. He also adverted to the pleasing fact, that, whereas,
at the commencement, only twenty-eight persons were pro-
vided for, the institution is at present dispensiii its bent-tits
to eighty-six inmates,vis , twelve agi d persons, fifty-wren
boys, and seventeen girls. The toast was drunk with three
times three. Mr. De Casette proposed the health of the
chairman, which wee warmly received. The principal other
toasts were, " The Lord Mayor," his lordship being oresent;
" The Rev. Dr. Adler," the high print; and " The Visitors
of the evening." Several donations and subscriptions were
announced by the treasurer, amounting to 7701 The dinner,
Icooked according to laraelitisb custom, was a very excellcet
one.

—TEL DISTRICT CLERGY AND THE POOR. —Sir.--
I beg to thank you, in the name of humanity, fur the rem irks
you have made respecting the apparent unwillingnees, on the
part of the board of the poor law officials at Bethimkgreen, to
receive communication, relative to paupers from the ,:istrict
clergy. lam inclined tothiuk that your remarks may do good
in that quarter of the metropolis ; even beyond the precincts
of the immediate parish, lately brought before our notice. 1
have known several tolltarleti, in a pariah adj. g Bethnal.
green, where the reply made to pauper parties, who should
be sent by the clergy to trustees of the poor, and overseers,
for inquiry into their case., or for orders on the medical in:n
for advice 11414 attendance, has been, " Oh. you came iron
the parson, did you ? Well, go back to the parson again
then. We have quite enough to do without attending to,.
them." This reply has, to my knowledge, been so frequently
made, when respectful letters, merely of introduction, have
been sent by clergy through the hands of the punr, to the
pariah officials, in a large parish at the east end of the inetto-
polie—that at length the clergy, though daily conversant with
heart-rending eases of digress, have came to the resolu-
tion that it was most politic to let the pour tell
their own tale; and they have honestly confessed to par.
ties applying to them for their interposition ' • and whose dis-
tresses were well known to them that they (the clergy)
might do them more harm than good, by at all interesting
themselves or Interfering in their favour. Nay, so jealous
are some of thesevalgar officials of the influence of the clergy,
that I have known the case of a churchwarden, in a very
.r metropolitan parish, whocould not bear to see the good
ne by the clergy and the district vi.itors under them, but
has actually put himself out of his way, by fates rept, senta-
time, Be., to prejudice the secretary and the committee of a
district visiting and relief association, in order that the clergy
and their district visitors might be deprived of the means of
doing good afforded them by the grants of that society. In
these days it will be well foe local boards, and parish officials
to consult public feeling, rather more than they do. There
are some such,—the conduct of the members of which is
characterised by so much want of courtesy towards all who
are sot initiated,—and by so little appal, at attention to the
great end, for which such baud* are appointed—the public
health, and the common good,—that I verily believe, it they
were swept away .ntirely to.morrow, or threatened with
such a fate, not a petition, not a voice{ could be raised in
their neighbourhood, in favour of their preservation,-
-[Thif letter, which was referred to in a leader on
the Poor-law, was accidentally omitted frogs yesterday's
Parr.'
FRE Woocwten Colevicrs.—Owing to the system
of mismanagement which has prevailed for a lung time at
Woolwich the prisoners on board the Warrior are utmost in
a state of mutiny. On Friday eon the prisoners refused to go to
work, and threatened their keepers with personal violence ;
and it was not until a demonstration was made of coercing
them by means of the guard, that they could be induced to
return to their duty. The prevailing opinion is, that the
system of the hulks will be abolished ; and certainly if such
gram insubordination is to prevail, the sooner the better.
DEATH FROM DISSECTINO.—DI our obituary has
been already recorded the death of Mr. Potter, of the Uni-
versity College Hospital, in consequence of haeiag pricked
his finger while dissecting. The subject wilt, it appears, the
late Harvey Leach, the well-known Gnome Fly and Man
Monkey, who bequeathed his body to Mr. Liston. That
gentleman handed the body over to his most inti-
mate friend and companion, Mr. Potter. for dissection, and
he, whilst engaged in his labour, pricked his finger with a
lancet. This caused little care beyond placing-his hand in a
ding for a day or two, • but on the third day Mr. Potter was
attacked withfever—abscesses formed on his hand, which
extended up the muscle of his arm and over his chest, caus-
ing great agony ; death eventually pot a period to his suffer-
ings, and on Saturday his remains were interred in the Ken-
sal-green Cemetery.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—SOPPOsED INFANTICIDE.
—Before Mr. Bedford, at the York Hotel, Welliugtonstreet,
on the body of an infant, supposed to have been murdered
by • man in custody, and Anne Cleveland. The examina-
tion of the man appeared in our report of the Bowstreet
polite-court yesterday. Mr. William Lewson, surgeon, said
that, about three weeks ago, he received a letter signed
" Harry Hartwell." requesting him to call on the moth, r of
the deceased child, and saying that, if he (witness) could
take a hint and work it out well, it would be W. in his
pocket wittiest, not liking the style of the letter, deseroyeat
it, and did not call in Wellington-street. But, in come-
quenoc of a second letter, dated from Portland-chambers,
Great Titclifieldstreet, he called on Mrs. Cleve-
land on Sunday the 9th instant, when she asked him
if he thought the child was dead, which, from symptoms
which she described, he assured her was not the
case. He celled on Mr. Hartwell, whom he found he
had known some years since, and he asked if he did not think
the child would he still-born, and on the witness answering
in the negative, Hartwell asked "if he could not manage
that it should be still-born." This question witneas affected
not to understand, and Hartwell said, " Oh, you are very
squeamish ; they manage these things better in France. I
have seen two or three cases of the kind in that country."
Witness declined having anything to do with the cane.—sir
Mosely, vestry clerk of St. Paul's, Coveat-garden,
_sdatell
that it had been ascertained that the person in custody was
not Mr. Hartwell.—Mr. Guthrie, who made a port wrorlern
examination of the body, stated death to have been caused
by suffocation.—After a repetition of come of the evidence
adduced at the examination at How-street, the inquest was
adjourned.