The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-02 00:00:00

CaoFifiATRiEDLE.

Mr. HUME rose to propose an address to her Majesty,
that she will be pleased to give directions, that the granite
obelisk, given by the late Mehemet Ali to the British
nation (which obelisk is now lying on the beach of Alex-
andria), might be brought to England, and that this house
would grant such funds as might be requisite to bring it to
and erect it in an appropriate situation in England.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought
there ought to be some further inquiry on the subject,
before they agreed to the motion of the hon. gentleman.
There were different opinions on this subject. Sir Gardner
Wilkinson said that the obelisk was so injured, and the
inscription upon it so obliterated, that it would not be
worth the expense of removal. (Hear, hear.) There were
also doubts whether it could be removed for the sum men-
tioned by the hon. gentleman.
Mr. HUME said he would guarantee its removal for the
sum he bad mentioned. (Laughter.,
Colonel DU NNE said the cost of removal would support
the Dublin Hospital for one year. (Laughter.) lie
thought it was quite barbaric in desiring to see these monu-
ments brought from their proper localities. (Hear.)
Mr. HUME said the hon. and gallant gentleman knew
nothing of the subject. The obelisk was now buried in the
sands.
After a few words from Sir De Licv EvAxs, the motion
was withdrawn.
The School Sites Acts Amendment Bill was read a second
time.

The Highway Rates Bill went through committee.
The report on the Advances for Public Works, &c. I
as received.
The house adjourned at a quarter to 1.

INDESTRIAL RELIEF OF HIGHLAND DEsTrrrnoN.
A meeting of the directors of the Royal Patriotic and In-
dustrial Society of Scotland was yesterday held in the hall
of the Scottish Corporation; Captain Charles Forbes, of
Aalown, in the chair. The meeting was attended by Cluny
Macpherson, George Bain, Earls. Very distressing accounts
were received of the progress of destitution in the High-
lands. Captain Forbes, the treasurer of the " Special
Hifiltland Industrial Relief Fund," reported the receipt of
venous contributions, and the despatch of remittances to
several destitute districts. The meeting empowered him to
remit without delay such sums u might be forwarded to
him for the relief of destitution, accompanied by urgent re-
commendations to the committee of the society's Hebridean
branch, that consistently with the primary object of pre-
serving life, they should seek, by employing the recipients
in the trenching of land for model school farms, and of
females in knitting, to secure some useful returns, and
avoid the evils induced by former systems of relief, in exact-
ing a grinding test, or the demoralisation attendant upon
the dispensation of eleemosynary aid.
THE VCLCAN, SCREW STEAMER, AND THE 74TH
Rxonimsr.—Having repeatedly heard the unfounded re-
ports relative to the supposed accident to the Vulcan, we
have hitherto abstained from noticing them, but willingly
quote the following from the United Serrite Gazette : Are
regret to see that some of our contemporaries have most in-
judiciously lent themselves to the propagation of the report
that the ulcan, on her way to the Cape, has been lest. It
is superfluous to reiterate that those who can calculate the
length of a voyage to the Cape, under all circumstances,
have not the slightest leas foe the safety of the ship."