The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS; THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1862.

said the KING has given his esummt that tjes
Chamber shall abstain from voting the addi-
tional taxes, for his consent is in nowise requisite.
If the Chamber declines, then there is an end of
the matter, and the Ministers must seek some
other way of attaining their ends.

There is reason to believe that the KING has
gained much instruction within these last few
weeks, and sees more clearly than he did the un-
pleasant relation in which he stands to the
people ; his own words prove this. But there is
too little reason to believe that he is prepared to
profit by his better knowledge. To the Breslau
deputation, which he received on the 13th, he
said that he comprehended all the gravity of the
situation, and that it convinced him that " the
" constitution was imperfect." It was not, how-
ever, practicable to supply its defects by comple-
mentary laws; "therefore it was the duty of the
" KING to intervene in virtue of the right which
" GOD had given him, and do that which was the
" beat for the country; and that was the course he
" should take." The imperfection of the consti-
tution consiats in this, that it does not enable the
KING to surround himself with the moral support
of a parliament, and figure among the liberal
Sovereigns of Europe, retaining all the time the
personal power of a FREDERICK 11. This is an
imperfection which will not soon be removed.

MX Court.

BRUSSELS, Ocr. 21.

The Queen, and his Majesty the King of the
Belgians, attended Divine Service at Laeken on Sunday
morning. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Princess
Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold were likewise
present.

Her Majesty was attended by lady Churchill and Lady
Augusta Bruce.

The Service was performed by the Rev. Mr. Drury.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 22.
The Queen remains at Lacken, waiting for a change in the
weather to embark for England.
A storm of unusual severity still prevails.

His Excellency the Russian Ambassador is ex-
pected at Chalfant House to-day from Brighton.

The Countess of Ellesmere arrived at Bridge-
water House yesterday from Worley Hall, Manchester.
Her ladyship will leave town in a few days for Harwood,
Surrey.

Lord Henry and Lady Enrico. Thynne have left
Maiden Bradley for Worthing.

The Hon. Lady Airey and family have arrived
in Groevenor-plaoe from the Continent. Her ladyship will
leave town in a few days to pass the winter at Brighton.

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

AT WREXHAM.

ViRMLHAY, WEDNESDAY Evamso.

To-day has been made a holiday here in conse-
quence of the visit of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who
was accompanied by Mrs. Gladstone and most of their
family. The occasion of the visit was the cutting the first
sod of the Wrexham, Mold, and Counah's Quay Railway, a
ceremony which Mrs. Gladstone had gratified the promoters
of the undertaking by promising to perform. The line,
which will open up a very rich and hitherto almost unde-
veloped district, touching upon the River Dee at Connah's
Quay, will be twelve miles in length, and its construction,
including stations and other appurtenances, has been let to
Messrs. Sevin and Ward, contractors, for the sum of
150,0001. It is expected to be completed for opening
within two years. The tradesmen of Wrexham closed their
shops at about 11 o'clock in the morning. A public proces-
sion formed in the Beast Market, and headed by the militia
baud, with a troop of the Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry
acting as a guard of honor to the carriage containing Mr. and
Mrs. Gladstone, and Mr. John Dickenson, mayor of Wrex-
ham, marched to the site of the ceremony, passing under
several triumphal arches erected across the roadway. The
line will ran into the Wrexham station, but the point of
junction with the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway will be
about half a mile nearer Chester, and in a piece of ground
adjoining the line called the Gravel Holdfield.
The ceremony of cutting the tint sod was performed in
the presence of about 2,000 spectators, comprising many in-
finential ladies and gentlemen from the neighbourhood.
Amongst those on the platform, besides Mr. and Mrs. Glad-
, stone and family and the mayor and corporation of Wrex-
ham, were:—Sir John Harmer, M.P. for the, Flintshire
boroughs, Mr. T. Mainwaring, Mr. Whalley, M.P.,
Miss Burdett Coutts, he.

The weather, which bad been very boisterous during the
early part of the morning, cleared up towards noon, and
during the proceedings the sun shone out with great
brilliancy. A exispimous object of attraction on the plat-
form was a very handsomely designed barrow and spade of
polished oak, with elaborate silver mountings, both of
course of miniature proportions. On the barrow were the
arms of Mr. Gladstone on a silver shield, and its sides
bore medallions engraved " Wrexham, Mold, and Connsh's
Quay Railway Company, 1862." The blade of the silver
shovel bore the following inscription :—" Presented to Mrs.
W. E Gladstone, on the occasion of her cutting the lint sod
of the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway, Octo-
ber 22, 1862, by Thomas Sarin, contractor."
After a suitable prayer by the Rev. Mr. Davis, of
Wrexham, Mrs. Gladstone wheeled the barrow from the
platform down a plank to the held, cut a fair sized sod, and
wheeled it on to the platform amidst great cheering. Me
Chancellor of the Exchequer did the same, and the example
was followed by Miss Gladstone, and others amidst renewed
plaudits.

In the afternoon a dejeuner took place at the Wynnstay
Arms, Wrexham. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone
presided. Mrs. Gladstone being on his left, and the Mayor
of Wrexham on his right hand. The company numbered
about 200, and was a fashionable one.

THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF CANTERBCRY.—Yester-
day morning the congi d'elire, addressed to the Dean and
Chapter of Canterbury, was presented to the Rev. Dr.
Alford, who will proceed to the election within 12 days of
the present date. Of course there will be no opposition.
The last opposition to the election of a bishop recommended
by the crown was in the case of Dr. Hampden, Bishop of
Hereford, iu 1848, when the dean and one canon voted
against him, the majority of the capitular body being in hie
favour. In the event of a vote of the Dean and Chapter
being adverse to a royal nomination, or if they should fail
to elect within twelve days, the crown can appoint by
letters patent. The Archbishopric of York will not be
vacant until after the confirmation of the election of I)r.
Longley by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury is com-
pleted at St. Mary-le-Bow Church, Cheapside, and
which will take place on or about the 7th of November.
—The following address is in course of signature
in the Archdeaconry of York, and will be presented to the
Archbishop in the course of a few days:—" We, the under-
signed clergy of the Archikaconry of York, are unwilling
that your grace should quit the diocese without some ex-
preerion of our regret at the loss of one whose wisdom,
kindness, and self-denial we have largely experienced, and
so gratefully acknowledged. We trust, however, that the
change which we ourselves lament will conduce to the
general welfare of the church. We rejoice that by your
elevation, under God's good providence, to the primacy of
all England, our national church will receive the benefit of
the mature experience acquired during RD active episcopate
of 24 years in the northern province. We pray that the
blessing of Cod may ever met upon you, and that His
grace may guide you in the discharge of the high functions
of that office to which you are now called ; that you may
long enjoy health of body and vigour of mind, and that you
may be the honoured instrument of promoting what we are
assured is the dearest wish of your heart, the glory of God,
and the eternal good of man."
INTERNATIONAL h/ •RITIBIE LAW.—At a meeting
of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce yesterday, a com-
munication was received from the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce, stating that the directors of the latter body
would be glad to receive the names of any member' of the
Liverpool board who took au interest in the important
subject of international maritime law. The chairman of
the Liverpool board (Mr. Chilton) stated that Mr. Cobden
would be an Manchester on Friday, and would give an ad-
dress on the subject. He (Mr. Chilton) believed it
was the intention of Mr. Cobden and some gentlemen in-
terested in the matter to form an association for the
promotion of the important subject of international mari-
time law, of which W. Cobden had for so long a time been
so zealous and able an advocate, and he hoped that some of
the members present would be able to attend in Manchester
on Friday. Mr. Macao observed that it would be desirable
to 00-operate with the Manchester Chamber, as it tended
to increase the cordiality and unanimity between the
boards, as the subject of international maritime law was
only one of many other subjects which it was important
they should discuss mutually.

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PRUSSIA.
A letter from Berlin has the following :
Our new atinktry does not appear to well know what it
wishes to do, and the want of plan and fixed intent:lone,
which showed itself so visibly during the last days of the
session, has the appearance of becoming permanent. The
King himself, se stated by those about his person, is de-
jected and he is fully aware of the gravity of the situation.
The Queen, who seems not to approve of the present policy,
has gone to Coblents, sod the Prinoe•Royal, not wishing to
compromise himself, has departed for Italy. The King
nevertheless persists in his determination to carry cut the
re-organisation of the army without the least change, and
if Count de Bismark fails in this, recourse will be had
to Baron Idinteuffel, who is quite ready to return to office.

(MITER% TILIGRANB.)

FRENCH DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS.
PARIS, Ocr. ti.

The following appointments of first secretaries to
French Legations have been officially announced
to-day :—M. de Massignac to the embassy at St.
Petersburg, M. Frozals to Berne, M. de Rayueval
to Berlin, and M. Bonnihres de Vierre to Turin.
M. Saint Ferrol will proceed as second secretary of
Legation to Vienna.

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DEATH OF SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS
BRODIE, BART., F.R.B.

There is no member of the motlical profeas:iou in
any of its branches who has more assiduously exerted tiLo'
self to acquire scientific and professional information and
ungrudgingly to disseminate that knowledge than the illus.
trious surgeon whose decease took place at an early hour on
the 21st inst., at his residence, Broome-park, Betcbworth,
Surrey. Certainly no member of the profession had reached
in modern times so high a position, or maintained that dis-
tinction for so long a period as the late President of the
Royal Society. Sir Benjamin Brodie was the first surgeon
upon whom this honour had been conferred.
The deceased was the third son of the ltev. P. B.
Brodie, 11. A., rector of Winteralow, an influential
magistrate and deputy lieutenant of South Wilts,
and of Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Collins, Faq.,
of Milford, near Salisbury, in which city a brother of
the cleansed—the well-known banker, and late parlia-
mentary representative—resides, Sir Benjamin was born
on the 9th of June, 1783, and consequently at the time of his
decease was in his 80th year. After acquiring a sound pre-
lirninta7 education under the paternal roof, to which he often
said he was mainly indebted for his success in after
life, he was placed under the care of Messrs. Wilson
and Thomas. These distinguished surgeons (the latter of
whom became President of the Royal College of Surgeons,
were at that time engaged in teaching anatomy at the
Hunterian School, in Great Windmill-street. In 1803, he
became Sir Everard Home's pupil at St. George's Hospital,
and passed his examination as a member of the Royal
College of Surgeons on the 18th of October, 1800, imme-
diately after which he began to assist Mr. Wilson as de-
monstrator of anatomy, and continued in this office until
1800, when he was associated with his former master as
lecturer on this subject. In 1808, when only 25, he was
appointed assistant. surgeon to St. George's Hospital, and
had the principal charge of Sir Everard Home's patients in
that institution, as well ria for some years those of Mr. Gu•-
niog, who was then absent with the Duke of Wellington'sarmy
in Spain. In 1810 he was elected Croonian Lecturer to the
Royal Society, and in the following year received the
Copley prise from the same learned society. It was not
until 1822 that Sir Benjamin was elected full surgeon six
months later he made his detett as lecturer on surgery,
and continued to give a regular course to a large class until
1830, when his increasing practice compelled him to relin-
quish all but clinical lectures. As a lecturer, he was plain
and easy in his delivery—acute and always to the point.
In 1819 he was honoured with the appointment of Professor
of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons,
and held that office until 1823. In 183 r he was appointed
Sergeant• Surgeon to William IV., by whom he was made a
baronet, and on the accession of her Majesty she was
pleased to retain him in the same office. From his own
college he received all the honours that institution has
the power to bestow, having been elected • member of
the council, of the Court of Examiners, Hunterian Orator,
and, finally, in 1844, President. Sir Benjamin Brodie had
contributed largely to the advancement of medical and
chirergical knowledge, and was an honorary member of
several scientific institutions both at home and abroad.
He leaves a widow, and two sons—Benjamin Collins Brodie,
Fol., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford,
who married a daughter of Mr. Serjeant Thompson, and the
Rev. William Brod*, who married Lady Maria Waldegrave,
daughter of the eighth Earl Waldegrave.