The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-30 00:00:00

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The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at
Buckingham Palace. Their Imperial Highnesses Prince
Peter and the Princess of Oldenburg had an audience of
the Queen. Their Imperial Highnesses were introduced by
Viscount Palmerston, 0.C.8., her Majesty's Principal Se-
cretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel
the Hon. Sir Edward Curt, K.C.11., her Majesty's Master of
the Ceremonies. M. de Koudriaffsky, of the RU9SillllLega.
tion, attended their Imperial Highnesses. The WM, Wm.
Temple, her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court
of Naples, was presented to the Queen at an audience by
Viscount Palmerston, ou his arrival from Naples on tempo-
rery, leave of absence. The Queen gave audience to Viscount
Palmerston. Her Majesty was attended by Lord Byron,
Lord in Wining, and Sir Edward Bowater, tiroom in
Waiting.
H.R.H. Prince Albert presided yesterday afternoon
at a meeting of the commission for promoting and encourag-
ing the fine arts in the rebuilding of the Palace of West-
minster. H.R.H. arrived at the new palace at a quarter
before three o'clock, attended by his Equerry in Wait-
ing, Colonel Bouverie. The commissioners present were
the Marquis of Linsdowne, Viscount Canning, Viscount
Mahon' Viscount Morpeth, Lord John Rowell, Lord Col-
borne, Lord Ashburton, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Mr,
Hallam, Mr. Wyse, and Mr. Kogers. The secretary, Mr.
Eastlake, was in attendance. The meeting broke up at
six o'clock, „ _

The Queen and the Queen of the BelgianN accom-
panied by
.the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, took
an airing in an open carriage yesterday. Toe E juerry is
Waiting, Lord Alfred Paget, attended on horseback.
The Queen and Prince Albert, aceorakiatned by the
Queen of the Belgians, honoured her Majesty a hi, Are with
their presence last evening. The royal suite coee.stel of the
Countess of Desert, Countess Vandentraten. Lady Caroline
Cocks, Lord Byron, .Major Moorkerke, Lora A. Paget,
and Colonel Bouvene,

The Countess of Desert has succeeded the Mar.
chioneso of Douro as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen.
Their RR.HH. the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimer left town yesterday morn-
ing on a tour of visits to different noblemen. Their ItH.llll.
left Marlborough-house, the residence of her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, shortly before 9 o'clock, attended by the
Countees of Assenburg, Count de Beint, sari Baron de
Ziegessr, and proceeded to the terminus of the London and
North Western Railway, in Euston-square.
Her Majesty- the Queen Dowager, attended by Miss
Seymour aad Esrl Howe, left town yesterday morning for
Bushy-house,
Bushy-park. Her Majesty re-
in the evening.
ce'B4
theiWr:ugDuke of Cambridge honoured the
Rue
. Sir W. Fremantle with his company at dinner
re-
turned resi.tß.R to doellft.ar
yesterday evening, at hie residence in Stanhope-stmt.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by
Baroness Hammerstein, honoured the performance at the
Royal Italian Opera House, with her presence yesterday
evening.

A Cabinet Council was held 'yesterday at the
Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord John
Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minn., Sir
George Grey, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Etclkquer,
Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, the Earl of Claren-
don, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Marquis of
Clanricarde, the Right Hun. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere. The council sat two hours.
. .

The British Museum Commissioners held their first
meeting, yesterday, at Gwydyr-house, Whiteha. The
Commissioners present were the Earl of Ellearnele, the
Bishop of Norwich, Lord Langdale, Lord Wtottesley, the
Lord Advocate, Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. R. M. %Ines, and
Mr. Samuel Rogers.
Mr. Wickham, chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the h:sco.luer yes-
terday. The Master-Ciencral of the Ordnance had also an
interview with the right hon. baronet, at kis official resi-
dence in Downing-street.

(Front last night's Gazette.)
DOWNING-STREET, J CNE 28.—The Queen has been
pleased, by letters patent under the great aral of the United
Kingdom, to reduce the Bishop's see and diocese of Australia,
and to divide the same into four several and distinct bishops'
sees and dioceses, to be called the Bishoprics of Sydney,
Newcastle, Adelaide, and Melbourne. Her Maieaty has
also named and appointed the Right Rev. Father in God,
W. G. Broughton, heretofore Bishop of Australia, to be
Bishop of the see of Sydney, and Metropolitan Bishop is
Australasia, subject to the general superintendence and revi.
sion of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being,
and subordinate to the archiepiecopal province of Canterbury.
[ Her Majesty hu also named and appointed the Rev. W.
Tyrrell, D. to be ordained and consecrated Bishop of the
see of Newcastle ; the Rev. A. Short, D.D., to be ordained
and consecrated Bishop of the see of Adelaide; and the
Rev. C. Perry, D.D., to be ordained and consecrated Bishop
of the see of Melbourne; the said Bishops of Newcaatle,
Adelaide, and Melbourne to be Suffragan Bishops to the
Bishop of Sydney. The Queen has constituted the colony
of the Cape of Good Hope and its dependencies, together
with the inland of St. Helens, to be a Bishop's see and
diocese, to be called the Bishopric of Cape Town ; and to
name and appoint the Rev. R. Gray, D.D., to be ordained
and consecrated Bishop of the see of Cape Town.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 19.—The Queen has authorised
and appointed the Right lion. the Earl of Ellesmere, Right
Rev. Edward Bishop of Norwich, Right Hon. Lord Lang-
dale, Right Hon. Lord Wrottesley, Sir P. M. G. Egerton,
Bart., Sir C. Lemon, Bart., Sir It. I. Murchison, Ent., A.
Rutherford, Esq., J. Hume, /lig., S. Rogers, E‘q., and
R. M. Milner, Esq., to be her Mejesty's commis,ieners for
inquiring into the constitution and government of the British
Museum.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 28. —The Queen has appointed
the Right Rev. John Bishop of Lichfield, Right lion. J. S.
Wortley, Right Hon. S. Lushington, D.C.L., Right lion.
A. R. Blake, Sir E. V. Williams, Kat, and A. Rutherford,
Esq., Lord Advocate of Scotland, to he her Majesty's coat-
mieeioners for inquiring into the state and operation of the
law of marriage.

CONSECRATION OF FOUR COLONIAL
BISHOPS.
The efforts made by the church of England for the
extension of her faith in the colonies of Great Britain bare
of late years been most extensive. The Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel and the Church Missionary Society
each expend enormous annual incomes in the support of
clerical missionaries, the encouragement of theological mu•
dente, being candidates for missionary employment, aol the
general sustenance of existing missions. The clergy selected
to fill the new sees are—the Rev. R. Gray, late vim of
Stockton-on-Tees, appointed to the diocese of Cape Town;
the Rev. Augustus Short, late vicar of RavensthorO,
Northamptonshire, and a relative of the Bishop of St. Asps,
appointed to the diocese of Adelaide; the Rev. C. Perry, of
St. Paul, Cambridge, a distinguished member of that Uni-
versity, ordained bishop of Melbourne; and the Rev. Wil-
liam Tyrrell, incumbent of Beaulieu, Hampshire, appointed
bishop of the see of Newcastle.
Yesterday, being the Feast of St. Peter, was 'elected for
the consecration of these prelates, and, in consequence of
very general interest manifested on the occasion, It ass
arranged that the crernony should be performed
is
Westminster Abbey The public were admitted by
tickets issued by the Dean and Chapter, and at
eleven o'clock, the hour at which divine service mis
to commence, the seats in the ancent church were crowded.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, and the different prelates ofthe
chord in attendance, assembled in the Jerusalem Chamber,
and entered the choir in procession. The archbishop took
his seat on the north aide of the communion table, the
bishops' sedate= on the south side, and the bishops dean
nate, with the officers of the diocese, in seats appropriated in
the samarium, or space between the table and the chat
The Bishop of Oxford, who was the only bishop present not
'whited in full pontificals, sat in one of the s alls. The
owning service of the church was chaunted by one of the
minor canons of the abbey, the Rev. H. H. Milman mak
tag the first, and the sub.dean, the Very Rev. Lord Jae
'Thymic, the second lesson for the day. At the Collehtliol
Of the morning prayer the dean and canons proceeded her
their stalls to appointed seats on the right efn
tV
archbishop, within the rails. The venerable prosbld
then commenced the communion service, enancial*
the commandments in a tone perfectly MMus
and emphatic. The epistle and gospel were reed, 11
believe, by the Bishops of Lincoln and Lichfield. The
Bishop of London then ascended a pulpit, placed at the exert
of the north transept, and preached front the 17th verse of
the 21st eh. of St. John. After the sermon the bishops
designate retired, whilst the anthem of Tarrant, " Lord, fer
thy tender mercies' sake," was sung ; and hawing returned is
the sacrarium, habited in their rootlets, were there received
by the Bishops of Winchester end Rochester, by the first of
whom they were presented to the most reverend prinatefor
approval. The Queen's letters latent for the creation of
the sees, and her Majesty's mandates for the appointment d
the several bishops were then read, and the appointed
oaths were duly administered to the four candidate*
by Mr. Christopher Hodgson, the archbishop's star
tarp. The service for the occasion then proceeded;
and at its doe the archbishop pronounced the bleso
ing and dismissed the congregation. The holy ewe*
meat was subsequently administered by the arebbsbelh
first to himself, and then to the bishops, dean, canons, chip
loins, and minor canons in order. The general distributes
of the elements was by the bishops. tint to the clergy, Oa
then to those of the laity who remained to communtate.
The service throughout wee most imposing in its carade%
It occupied from eleven until nearly four o'clm.k. `R db*
served among those who were present a large number of the
most distinguished personages of the day.

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SOUTH ft INTRA LIAN BANKING CoMPANIN —The
Math annual general meeting was held yesterday, at the
frt, Old Broad-street; Mr. Olsen, M. P., InwOOL
The secretary read the report of the directors, in whisk**
tollowirs aro the chief point*: .
Woe aphid Nem& meeting, the esitariere at South Natoli' bid
bellartr reperm by the =Wade' worlds( et the resigns EOM
( el ewer ere) baud la the totaty, sad ttiti+o4llerjr,
Wear tier gegalseles. The Ste& Asarsllsa
rirs aft in Lirgegimil
sad Isse se * visas Mew: reset of undivided melts OW
lb, AA 11101.41. 140. AL ,• low opprogriattd to probogaierwmfgn
sad bursAdVISOL hevidit, 1"' 5dA
knew Midis sot Om included, 1,205 t. 12. te.'„
?Let sad Leedom, for 1P46-7, after every'=.
1,0101. voted to the directors at the IsM
i,klMl. bin fL ; maim% ell, 18,1071. O. ed.; see alai_ OIl„.10!,_
&Muni pit la Jed ,SAM Sa; ditto, ditto, In MR" SAW'
dap ea Weald sherse,lll. 10s. Pd. ; or, 6.30111. Os. M.; bsessdeta
Ismeetsullvldedgeollb Sy 1110,erasaaradtell.da _tea tid
Iltedheslerstelhatteess lidebehase, thsentsMom,"
spellsd laferther redaction of preliestatry atetdoW elowIt;

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ow. ee te per ces less by the of settlement) neon the net .
Adbetof tte rlet 1°1:11.1N Dc to the mu, e fund ; and that
op Waste a dividend al 5 per cent pee annum, clear or •
MO
lisl1; the lintalments priht up be made imitable half-
rid" etunuy next, as ufamial. aboulniLd they adopt the
the seat be 8., owe; : the prelimmarY
willine SNOW* WiR be reduced from 11,600 t. to 10,0001.: use
wed last ynir only, would be 2,0541.• and after
sesirls of 5 per orat. per muse, cheer et WC:ORM tax, u t
stelhelthe
ergs_ 010 wag p Itrwanl to the soak setweelL Thriec the 'eye
.„,e,e orry conned ln the dine tat, by the dessere at tlie late
IFismurc Pm., which the beard supplied,
_by eggistin 3. B.
ook.. , to act nett ths present memo', lie. white
niftier, to conillm him in the dkeeeloo. Sir
rlirik gut., also retired from office, and also The aealltoe,,
Kwpm and F. Ladbroke, Fate., but were eligible
pa malmtko 'Tae imperative necculty of fonelaing more
girths growing trade of the °Molly, &Used the &Imams to
Wrap meetly the last 21. 10e. lopes the shares. no hand wiled
Ye debt et the money market bid bees mare fitieenlie ; bet Thee
tt boor • whether the beak's efashargy isaii be Th.
pint fir a= the Wakes Mt amend dot the pepeleten
veal sot ides dela, sot they iteiyaeletel The plenteltede
di Wit theedtwes met. The keg dionimiomerithoolves.
mot 6 r a diante et et Ism& ehero•ohing •
.....,,ht undmitoe=s4ksthe board bat greet nom to aspect, in
.17--~,gee. Ins mod rat et wok • WNW es They can ream-
... 4 to yaw reedy semeemer. The &Pon barred Uset the bank
pm now repasts Mame of progrp.iztaghstreege=6emimmaidered its
poeiti. was nano acre abide would be
toed to incense Its wee's.
The report and the dividend it suggested were unani-
mously agreed to. A conversation took place arising out of
the remarks of • proprietor, who deprecated the keeping on
hand of so large an ain,unt of specie (mire than 50,000 .) by
the company—a measure which the chairman said was
rendered necessary by the large amount sanding at the credit
of depositors iu the bank, and by the rules of the government
which compelled them to pay for al portions of land in
specie. This was fowed complimentarythe re-election of the directors
and officers, aad votes to the chairman,
manager, and local committee in Australis. Several ques-
tions were asked by a proprietor with ref recce to particular
points in the management of the company, the necessity for
the late call, &c.. but out of which nothing material arose--
the chairman answering every
reseintoiry iu a manner which
speared satisfactory to all pnt.
THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION FOR THE RELIEF
Or aGeo AND INFIRM TAttoms.—On Monday an adjourned
general meeting of the above institution was held at the
Freetnarous' Tavern, Great Queen-street, to receive a report
and to elect live pensioners from a list of 27 candidates. Mr.
Chambers in the chair. The report stated that the permanent
fund amounted to 12,503/. Bs. 7d., and there was a balance
in hand of 5001. At the dinner, at which Lord R. Gros-
.emy,e, M.P., presided, 7841. 4s. 6d. was contributed, and at a
subsequent dinner of the journeymen the subscriptions
amounted to 1454 23. With the pensioners to be elected
there would be 54 inmates in the
nal
dues, including 8 widows.
The report was received and alopte.
Inliii BAZAAR, REGENT'S PARK BARRACKS.—
kelanat takes at the Expense+ T. 291 6 8
seats £5,389 9 2 Paid to hie Grace the
limo at ease me 11 0 Archbishop of Ar..
Tickets told ...... 26 7 6 march 3,043 11 6
Donations, b......... 152 8 1 Ditto to his Grace
the Archbishop of
Du'alin

i 13 91 15 9
Of Ma above sumrMarchioxess of Londonderry's stall
took 1,0691. 146. Bd.; and the stall htld by the Msrehioness
of Ailesbnry, the Counties of Wilton, and Countess of
Jersey, 8361. 13s. ROBERT !SLANE, Hon. Treasurer.
Rol. INDIA COLLEGE, ILtILEYBURY.—NIouday
being the day appointed for closing the first term of
1847, a deputation from the court of directors of the East
India Company visited the college, at Haileybury, for the
purport of receiving the report of the principal (the Rev. H.
Metrill, 8.D.), upon the literature and discipline of the
term, and of distributing the medshi and prizes awarded to
the successful competitors in the various branches of oriental,
elassical, and European literature. H. St. Geo. Tacker, Esq.,
chairman, having distributed the prizes, the following classi-
fication of the students about to depart for India was read :
Final rank of stadents leaving college, June 1847.—Bengal.
—First clam Messrs. J. F. Morris, Prinsep, Campbell,
14amayth, Watson, Johnston. Second elte: Mean. Edwards,
Bax, Simeon, Richards, Mackenzie, Davit—Madras.—Fink
elan; Messrs. G. L. Morris, Petty. Second class : Mr. Kin-
deraley.—Borabay.—No firstelais. Second elate: Mr. Robert-
a:a. The chairman then addressed the students generally,
congratulating them on the progress they had severally mode
in the varims branches of their studies, and the good condact
inaintained by them during the past term, as set forth in the
report of the rev. principal. The business eras follewed by
a d..jelner_
ROYAL ORTIIOP_EDIC HOSPTTAL.—A ball in and of
the feeds of the above valuable institution, took place on
Monday evening at Willis's Rooms. The room was filled
with a numerous and fashionable company, who, notwith-
standing the state of the thermometer, kept up the dancing
with great spirit to • late, or, rather early, hour. We trust
that the evening's entertainment will peeve as productive to
the funds of the institution as it was agreeable to all who bad
the good fortune to be present.
EXTRAORDINARY EXPLOSION AT CAMDEN-TOWN.---
An explosion of • meet extraordinary character, nearly at-
tended with fatal comNuenees, happened on Monday even-
ing, upon the premises belonging to Mr. Augustus Brock-
=bury, manufacturer of ice by steam machinery, situate at
the rear of 181, Stanhopo-nreet, Camden-town. It appears
that whilst Mr. Breckenbury was at work in a 'building
nearly 60 feet from the dwelling, an explosion of a most ter
site character °marred, which blew down the walls, lifted
off the roof; and then set the place on Are. Me. Broekenbury
was very severely injured by the force of the explosion, and
yesterday afternoon was lying in • state of great suffering.
The damage was not confined to one building, but the elec-
tricity, or whatever else it wee—for no one has been able yet
to lerrn—passed down a sewer, and after travelling adiatance
445 feet, blew up the flooring of the basement story of the
house. The noise occasioned by the explosion Ira; most
• terrific, and fur some time the greatest confession prevailed
is the neighbourhood. Numerous eines of the London
brigade rigid the parish quithly attended, and the firemen,
with the assistanoe of the polies and iuhabitanta, succeeded
in getting the flames extinguished, but independent of the
damage before stated, the contents' of the back premises were
much burned.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—THE FATAL ACCIDENT
ON Cu?. CROYDON RAILWAY.— Before Mr. W. Carter,
the coroner for Surrey, at the Crooked Billet, Pangs Com-
mon, to inquire tel to the death of Mr. G. J. Backaaastor, the
nephew of the landlord of the Anerley Arms Tavern, who
was killed by an engine en the Croydon Railway on Thursday
evening last. The particulars of the case have so recently
appeared in this journal, that it is unneesnary to go into the
evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
Death."—Tue Gen-COTTos Ex euntroef.—Mr. G. C. Lewis
the coroner for Essex, concluded his inquiry touching the
deaths- of Henry Tuff and Michael Garley, who lost their
lives by an explosion of rue-cotton at Mr. Wade's congreve
rocket auniutrctory, West Ham. The commencement of
the inquiry—which was adjourned for the evidence of scien-
tific gentlemen ea to the probable cause of tee explosion—
was reported in this paper on Monday. Dr. Ryon's and
Mr. E. Horton's general evidence went to show that the
accident was mend by the sudden compression of air caused
by ramming the gun-cotton into a small space, the effect
of such sudden compression being to generate an immoderate
degree of best. In a letter from Dr. Lethehy, that gentle-
men coueutted in their opinion, rocommeeding that, in lieu
of • sudden force such as is imparted from a "mon-
key," • steady pressere should be employed--thst of
weights, a screw or a lever, which might be used without
danger. Guided by this eidence, the jury returned the
following verdict:—That the deaths were accidentally
ceased, appending to their verdict the e‘presaion of their
conviction that it was dangerous to drive or compeers gas-
cotton into any required space, and recommending do dis-
continuance of the " monkey" incases where so much danger
was to be apprehended.