The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-11 00:00:00

COLONIAL

AUSTRALIA. Papers from Hobart Town and
Lzunoseton have been received in the city, but the dates,
9th and 10th of April, are not so late as those previously in
band. From Port Phillip papers are brought down to the
Bth of May, but beyond the continued discussions on the se-
%ration question they contain nothing of interest. It may
Iv gathered from some of the Sydney papers that public
• opinion there was no longer so adverse to the separation
sought for by Port Phillip. These papers bring advises from
Sydney to the end of April, which are later than have yet
come to hand direct. They state that the boundary lines of
the colonies of Port Phillip and New South Wales were
under the consideration of the Sydney government, and it is
asserted, as positive, that the establishment of Port Phillip as
a distinct colony would be announced es a measure eon-
eluded on in the speech of the governor on opening the
kg alative aessioa a few days subsequently. Sir George
Gippe, the governor, is said to have taken his passage for
England by the Posthumous tnerchant ship, which was ad-
veitised for immediate sailing, so that he may be looked for
daily. Sir Charles Fitzroy, the new governor, was not
expected till the end of the year.

ale court.
ROYAL VICTORIA AND ALBERT YACHT.
FALMOUVII, Sept. 7.—Her Majesty remained off
Bt. Michael's until the forenoon yesterday. Earl Spencer
performed Divine service on board the yacht.
Toe Queen walked to the top of St. Michael's
Mount, and all over the old castle.
At four o'clock, p.m., her Majesty proceeded to
Falmouth, and anchored there for the night.
At eight o'clock, a.m., this morning, his Royal
Hiihness the Prince, accompanied by the Mineral Agent of
the Duchy of Cornwall, Mr. Anson, and Sir James Clark,
Bart., proceeded to the Muisted mince 8 miles distant, and to
the Polberon console mines at St. Agnes, 12 miles distant, to
view the valuable copper mine at the former, and the tin
mine at the latter.
His Royal Highness witnessed the whole process
of working the ore at each, and examined minutely all the
newly invented machinery.
His Royal IlLthness proceeded to Truro to inspect
the new Town-hall and Stannery-court, of which hie Royal
Highness is the Lord Warden.
In the afternoon her Majesty embarked on board
the Fairy, and proceeded about ten miles up the River Fal
to Truro.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall, who
generally accompanies her Majesty on ull expeditions, has
excited the greatest interest amongst the loyal inhabitants of
his duchy.
The Royal suite were the only guests at her Ma-
jesty's table at dinner.
SEPT. 9.—The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal
children left Falmouth at eight o'clock, a. u. yesterday, and
anchored in the wide harbour of Fowey, ut ten o'clock.
Three carrhges and four were there waiting to
convey the Royal party to Restormel Castle, the property of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall, a noble ruin of
the seat of the ancient dukes. After lug ecting the castle,
h•r Majesty proceeded to the Restortnel iron mine, where
preparations were made for her Majesty and the Prince to
enter the mine.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert entered one of the
ore carts, lined with green baise, and were drawn by eight
miners two hundred fathoms into the receipts of .the mine.
Her Majesty alighted from her cart, and witnessed the pro-
cess of hewing the ore. His Royal Highness also took a
lesson in the art of using the hammer, and various specimens
of ore were conveyed away.
Her Majesty returned through Lostwithiel, where
a loyal address was presented by the inhabitants, and re-
turned to Fowey at half-past two o'clock, stopping to
examine the beautiful residence of Mr. Trefoy, from whence
her Majesty and her Royal Consort walked down through
the town to the river, and entered the bargo at three o'clock.
The Queen remained at sea all night, the yacht
going half-speed after dark. Her Majesty and Prince
Albert and :be royal children landed at Osborne-pier at nine
o'clock this (Wednesday) morning.
His Royal Highness Prince George returned to
town yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, at Cashiobury-park, Herta.
Mr. Celquhoun had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood returned to town yesterday, from a visit to the Duke
and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.
The Right lion. Sir George Grey returned to town
yesterday, from a visit to the Hon. Locke King, at Woburn,
Chertsey.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of the hlauritius. Despatches
were also received yesterday, at the Colonial-office, from the
Governors of Malta and Gibraltar.

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.—Yesterday a meeting of
the inhabitants of the Tower Ward was held at the Ship,
Water-lane, to consider the propesed alterations in that
'vicinity, and to take measure, to protect the interests of the
parties as well as promote the public convenience. After a
good deal of discussion in reference to the various schemes
proposed for making a more commodious communication
between the docks and the east-end of London, which all
present agreed was necessary, it was resolved to request
Alderman Lucas to call a public meeting at his earliest con-
venience, in ordi r to petition government to make the
necessary alterations.
RELIGIOUS DISSENSION.—Last evening a meeting
of the parishioners of St. Lawrence Jewry and St. Mary
Magdalen, Milk-street, was held in the vestry room " to
take into consideration the measures to be adopted in conse-
quence of the vicar (the ltev. A. Burgh) having refused to
allow the Rev. Richard Shutte, the recently-elected Sunday
evening lecturer, the use of the pulpit to preach the lecture.
Mr. Bruce, the senior churchwarden, took the chair, and
Mr. Bamford, the junior churchwarden, moved all the reser
lotions. He said that the Rev. Mr. Wetatcr, having re-
signed the office of Sunday es ening lecturer in May last, the
parishioners expressed a wish that the Rev. Mr. Shutte
(who is a minor canon of St. Paul's) should be appointed, '
and the vicar said that he should not object to it if that gen-
tleman could produce testimonials as to his efficiency. The
testimonials were procured from the Lord Bishop of Llan-
daff, and Mr. Shutte was elected by the parishioners, the
vicar promising him the use of the pulpit the next Sunday.
To the surprise of all, however, who heard it, the vicar refused
to let him have the use of the church, and still persisted in
the refusal. Resolutions condemning the conduct of the vicar,
declaring that he is neither equal to nor qualified for the effi-
cient discharge of the clerical duties of the parish, and that he
will be highl t censurable, and behave disrespectfully to aline
majority of his parishioners, should he continue to refuse
his pulpit, and appointing a committee to communicate with
the vicar, were agreed to ; Mr. Rogers dissenting, and de-
claring that the second resolution, describing the vicar as
inefficient, was cruel and untrue. In the course of the
meeting Mr. Rogers said that he was instructed by the vicar
to say that, in consequence cf some printed sermons delivered
by Mr. Shutte, he now conscientiously doubted whether his
doctrines were in conformity with the Gospel.
WOOD PAVEMENT, CIIEAPSIDE.—At a meeting of
the Commissioners of Sewers for the city, held in the Court
Room, Guildhall, yesterday, it was determined that the
wooden pavement in Cheapside should remain till next
spring, when it is to be taken up, and Cheapsido paved with
granite, in the same manner as fleet-street.
REMOVAL OF FEMALE CONVICTS.—On Wednesday
71 female convicts were conveyed from the Penitentiary at
Millbank, on board the Elizabeth and Henry transport,
lying off the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on their way to Van
Diemen's Land. One woman, sentenced to a lengthened
term of transportation, was accompauied by her husband
and four children, the latter being allowed to embark with
her for the colony, but not the husband, who solicited to
be allowed to accompany his wife and children. As this
could not be permitted, he expressed his determination to
give the little money he possessed, as well as to work on the
passage as a sailor in some other ship then going to Van
Diemen's Land, in order to join his family in their captivity.
EAST SUFFOLK AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.—We
have received a report of the fifteenth annual festival of this
society, which consisted of a cattle show and a dinner, at
which Lord Rendlesham presided. It presents no points of
sufficient interest to allow of our giving it in detail.
SINGULAR BEQUESTS.—'fIte will of Mary Anne
Johnson, late of Well-walk, Hampstead, spinster, who died
on the 6th ult., peace' the seal of the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury on the Ist. instant. The personal estate of the
testatrix, is sworn under 2d,0001. Tho will contains the fol-
lowing bequests :—" I give to my black dog Carlo an an-
nuity of 30/. a year during the dog's life, to be paid half-
yearly. Unto each of the cats, Blacky, Jemmy, and Tom,
I give an annuity of 101. a year for the three cats, to be paid
half-yearly. Margaret Poison and Harriet Holly, my mo-
ther's old servants, to take charge of the dog and cats."—
Query: What will the authorities at the Legacy Duty Office
do ? As it respects " Legacy Duty," the legatees are cer-
tainly " strangers in blood" to the deceased, and in that
capacity are liable to a duty of 10 per cent. on the value of
their life interest ; but the Legacy Duty Act, on the other
hand, says nothing about duty payable on legacies bequeathed
to dogs and cats.—Globe.
ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, whilst one of
the large hods filled with bricks was being hoisted by means
ofsome machinery used for that purpose, at the new houses of
Perliisment, a portion of the rope broke, and the hod and its
tontea:e fell to the ground, knocking down two of the work-
men, one named R. Shannon, and the other J. Brown, a
fine young man, aged 21, of Holland-street, Westminster.
soon as passible the men were extricated, when Brown
was found with his head and face dreadfully mangled and
Lliefittured. The two men were removed to Westminster
a°oltal. It was then ascertained that, except a few severe
onuses and contusiemar the man Shannon had escaped.
Brown never rallied, i:nd death in the space of an hour
terminated his sufferings. The deceased bad only been
turned one month.
INQUESTS HELD YESTERDA7.--BY Mr. Carttar, at
the Duke of Kcnt, Royal Hill, Gres. is on the bly of
Richard Ryder, aged 43, who commiti'id suicide on N ed.
acids,. morning.' Deceased was found on .Ilet morning sus-
ratled by a rope from the bannisters. A riedical man
"Tula been sent for, he- pronounced him deed.. He,.had
tame before attempted self-destruction. Verdict.
om-
insanity.—By the same coroner, at the Eight ill'i
'Alurch-street, Greenwich, on the body of Hannah WL.‘1.9.1,
17 years of age, lady's maid to a Miss Carter of 38, Yon:-
, Portman-square, and of Loarniit-hill, Lewisham.
wed hail received from Miss Carter a letter, which was
Produced, alleging that the deceased had kept back certain
Isms, of money entrusted to her to pay over to the washer-
etiles, and desiring her to obtain another situation. .1)e-

eseeei been. mei ellielek lopyiskeis the most positive '
weak ant My et oho lea bus ', charge. The body
wee alwerods piabasep lathe Temp. Mies Carter, who
wa=talind eat trAthei
__the letter she had
the dew of edine the mosey was
411011Plia. " Pm' drowned." Whilst this
hrsatiovle lag UM,
third the ea= dicer received
of a a
to
By Mr. T. Watley, at thella
High Admiral,' Agar-town,
on view of the body of George Laker, aged 62, a ladies'
shoemaker, lately_ resifts& No. 6, North-street, in that
neighbourhood. Deposed was drowned in the Regent'.
Canal on Sunday • ant on examining the body the
brain was found to marks of serous apoplexy,
and the surgesin bad seem Esebb whether he actually died
from that disease, atter taterbe the water or from suffoca-
tion. It was not Ise the jeer to solve a scientific question
which the medial sereesr mid was a most difficult one, and
they found a mast of " Drowned whilst bathing."—By
Mr. Bedford, at the Flask T , Ebury-square,
on the body of Joseph Mahon, aged 21. The deceased had
been a porter at the Polytechnicon, Belgrave-square, and
between one and two o'clock on Wednesday morning last
was found sleeping in an unfinished 'house in I.°w:ides-
s:pier*, on a heap of shavings. He was taken to the Ebury-
square police station, and locked up in one of the cells along
with a drunken cabman, and the cell was visited at intervals
of 20 minutes up to 2.5 minutes to six o'clock, when the
deceased was discovered hanging by a handkerchief f 'trued
to an iron her in the cell window. The body wee still warm,
but the efforts to restore animation were ineffectual. It
appeared that the deceased was subject to an overflow of
b:ood to the head, which rendered him at times incapable of
answering for his actions. Verdict, "Temporary insanity."
—By Mr. Payne, at Guy's Hospital, on the body of a female
whose name is supposed to be Jane Robertson, about 3.5
years of age, and a single woman. Deceased, last Monday
week, had a cup of coffee at the Cheltenham Coffee-house,
Westminster Bridge•road, and mixed arsenic with it. She
was removed to the above institution, where she died on
Tuesday last. The cause she assigned for taking the poison
was great distress. She gave the name of Jane Robertson at
the station-house, but she would give no account of herself at
Vie hospital. There was a mark on her flannel petticoat,
" Lambeth Workhouse—on loan." There were no papers,
and only 81d. in her pocket. Upon this evidence the inquiry
was adjourned to Wednesday next.