The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-26 00:00:00

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The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred. the Prince's Royrk
Princes Alice, and the Princess Helena, and the Priam eg
Ltiningen, and attended by the Viscountess Cannine,•ths
Margins of Ormonde, Major-Gen. Bowles, Lietr..-Cal. the
Hon. C. B. Phipps, Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gord•tr, and De.
Meyer, left Claremont at three o'clock yert erday altos,*
for town. The august party arrived at Buckingham p
at half-plot four o'clock. His Imperial Higtrutes the
Grand Doke Constantine of Runde, wen presented to the
Queen at an audience yesterday at Buckingham Palace, by
Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B. her Majesty's principal ge.
eretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Her Majesty the tam,",
Dowager and their RR.HH. the Hereditary Grand %the
and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar visited the Ques,,,ed
Prince Albert yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
H.R.H. Prince Albert honoured the officers of the
Scots Fusileer Guards, of which regiment H.R.H. ie eokeej,
with his company at dinner last evening, in Willis's
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attended by Li.ut.-Col. the Ilon. C. B. Phipps and/aft-C.
Col. F. H. &Tamar. The band of the regim .nt attends;
during dinner, and performed several pieces, l'rineeltlhe"
afterwards joined the Queen at her MajestT's Theatre.
The Queen, accompanied by the Ponce of Lein' in.
gen, honour. a her Majesty's Theatre with her presence. The
rya! cult,: consistAl of the Viscountess Canning, use. if*
Stanlej, .Marquis of Ormonde, and Capt. the lion. &
Gordon. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, HAIL the
Duchess of King, and their RIt.HH. the Hereditary Owlet
Duke end Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, Edso honoured
the porforraunee with their presence yesterday evening.
HAUL the Duchess of Kent an-iced at her reai,
dea,e, cl.ireac:--houic, St. James's, yesterday morning, [me
Claremont. _

Their ItILDEL the Duchess of Gloucester and the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited htr Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborougb-house,
The Earl of Clarendon (Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland)
left his residence in Grosvenor-crescent, at nine &clod. ye,
terday morning, for Dublin.
Mr. Selby had an interview with Sir George Grey,
yesterday, et the Home-office.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday,
from his scat, Droadlands, Hants.
Deipatches were received, yesterday, at the Colonial.
office, from the Governors of the Mauritius and Sierra Leese,
DRAWING-ROOM.—The Queen, as previou•ly notified
in the Gemeite, will hold a drawing-room at NI. James's
Palace to-morrow, at two o'clock, to celebrate her Majesty,.
birthday.

TUB GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE OF RI:SM.—Hi'
Impel highness the Grand Duke Constantine and suite ha
town yesterday morning at ten o'clock for Greenwich, aid
proceeded to the Observatory, where his Imperial MOM.
was received by the Astronomer Royal, Professor Airy, MO
explained to his illustrious visitor the scientific popoitste
which the several divisions of the establishment were at.
voted. Before leaving, the Prince tested some of the tele-
scopes used in the institution. The Grand Duke then ',mt.&
the Naval School and the Royal lloapitsl. The g illant go•
vernor of the hospital, Admiral Sir R. Stopford, being at
present Ivry mush indisposed, was unable to naive the
illustrious i'rince. His Imperial Highness, on ascertaining the
fact of Sir R..bert's indisposition, expressed his linerre regret,
and requested permission to walk through the hospital pri.
vately. Having inspected the Painted Hall, the party pro-
' eecd..d through the various departments of the. in..tution,
arriving in the dining hall just as the pensioners were sitting
down to dinner, an interesting scene, with which the Prince
expressed himself much pleased. Returning to Leaden, his
Imperial Hi :ht.ess expressed swish to have an opportunity of
viewing the City during the great activity of business. Tbs
carriages were accordingly driven over London-bridge, and
thence by the Royal Exchange, Mansion-house, Cheavide,
and St. Paul's, to Charing-cross. The streets were very full,
and the scene they presented appeared !nth novel and in-
teresting to the Grand Duke. The party retained is
Mivart's Hotel about four o'clock. At five o'clock
two of her Majesty's carriages, with the ',rants is
state liveries, arrived at Mivart's Hotel, for the par-
pose of conveying the Grand Duke to Buckingham Palace, the
"Ica. Col. Grey bearing her Majesty's wish to have an as-
diencl of his Imperial Highness. The Grand Duke imme-
diatvly left for the Palace, attended by his Exetilency Barm
Brunnow and Admiral Liitke. On leaving Buckingham Pa-
lace the Grand Duke paid visits to the Queen Dowager, at
Marlborough house, and H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, at
Clarence-house, and returned to Mivart's shortly before
seven o'clock,

(From last night's Gazette.)
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAY 22.—This day had
audience of her Majesty, on kis arrival in this coaatty,
R.H. the Hereditary Prince of Lucca, attended by the
Count de Revel, the Sardinian Chargé d'Affaires. H.H.
was introduced by Viact. Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's
principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affair*, and ma-
ducted by Col. the Hon. Sir E. Cast, K.C.H., her Majesty's
Mester of the Ceremonies.
DOWNING-STREET, MAY 22.—The Queen has sp.
pointed Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dandonald to be a Kai&
Grand Cross of the most Hon. Order of the Bath; and
Lieut.-Col. C. W. M. Belden, of the 3rd Reg. of Light Dye.
Footle; and Licut.-Col. Cl, Coaprere, of the :loth Rag. of
Foot, to be Companions of the mid Moat Hon. Order.
DOWNING-STREET, MAY 22.—The Queen has ap-
pointed E. Kelly, Esq., Lieut. in the Royal Nary, to be
Harbour Master of the island of Mauritius.

CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 21, 1847.—Member returned
to aer►e in Parliament.—County of Galway.—T. J. Duke,
of Marble.hill, in the county of Galway, Esq., in the roan
of T. B. Martin, Ef.q., deceased.

PESTILENCE IN THE CITY.

Yesterday, Dr. Lynch, accompanied by several
inhabitants of Farringdon Without, waited upon the Lord
Mayor, to represent the immediate necessity which misted
for the adoption of measures to prevent the spread of
disease engendered by want of ventilation and water, and by
the enormous lotion of Irish poor into the City of London.
Dr. Lynch stated that of all the thirty-six metropolitan
Dicta the ward of Farringdon Without is perhaps the worst
as to its narrow locclities. The houses are built back to
back, and admit no ventilation. The cesspools, which are all
but open, poison the air and pollute the dwellings of the pow.
In such ploces where there are sewers they become the some
of disease inconsequence of the want of traps and an admen*
supply of water to cleanse the outlets of filth from the hoe"
and to facilitate the escape of pestiferous gases Pion the do
composition of animal and vegetable matter. In Crown-
court, within a few yards of Fleet-street, the cellars of the
houses are in a most revolting condition from the overflow-
ing of cess-pools and the accumulation of impurities of every
description. In some instances the dust contractors bad
not removed the offal front one to nine months, and they
refused to perform that duty unless they received a
gratuity. The poor inhabitants, sensible of the injury
which such abominations inflicted, complain of the inade-
quate supply of water, which visits them for no more than
one hour three times a week, and which their poverty
vents them from keeping vessels in which to save it.
complain, too, of the quality of the water, confined as It
was in heated rooms and absorbing animal exhalation
and foul air. The drains Ma under a stack of hones, is-
stead of into the main sewer, and there is at present Do
power to compel the landlords to open these drains direct to
the sewer, by which arrangement an essential cause of ma-
laria and disease would be removed. The inquest of Bt.
Sepulchre state that the courts around Smithfield and the
Old Bailey are undrsined, and that cow-sheds, slaughter-
houses, and knackers'-yards are suffered to exist in the
midst of a crowded population. The gentlemen of the in-
' quest, after enumerating other horrors, and shooing that
the wretched habitations are full of plague vapours e
their fear that if sultry weather supervene, fever wnerkei
awful ravages amongst the poor. They found that every
steamer which arrives from Ireland, imports immense
numbers of the poor Irish direct from Cork, where mat
nant typhus and dysentery abound, and are carrying off all
classes of the community. They kaow that those poor
creatures, on their arrival, resort to the courts and alleys they
have been visiting; and they apprehend that as all the elf-
menu of infection abound there, an epidemic may break onto
has occurred at Liverpool, at Manchester, and at Rochdale. It
is well.known that scarcity of provision lowers the ertalt
and is a predispoaing cause of disease. To what are these
poor creattuy, to look for comfort, or even hope' The
it-
quest earnestly trusted that his lordship you aid then an
adopting measures of prevention. The workhouses are beset
at this moment. The West London union has admitted
several, and sent others to the fever hospitals. Bsehnlnueli
hospital placed extra beds in the wards ; but is unable On
meet the exigency. It has, like the other hospitals, tees
admitting tins BMus of patients for the hat three weeb, sad
within the last three days they have bean oompelled Ws*"
admission to several applicants. Numbers of those who have
been admitted have died. The deputation entreated the Lard
Mayor to name an early day for the consideration of the sub-
ject, by calling a common council as soon as powible, to
to parliament for a short bill empowering the city asZ
ties to enforce the abolition of oempools, and sinner
nuisances, which are of mortal injury to the emunealvl;
to compel landlords to trap and open the drains of nisi
house onto the sewer, and to appoint an inspector, who wools
take care that this law was enforced. They indulge the h'SZ
that the government would render every facility in
laudable endeavour to accomplish such good. The meteor"-
logical table shows that the thermometer rose oh Slung
from 64 deg. to 70 deg. in the shade. There was a Wile
sponding increase in sickness in the last week's morns!!
record. To delay in a moment of imminent danger wow
be criminal indifference to the safety of society.
One of the overseers of St. Bride's, a member of the dors'
tation, said the pestilential nuisance was much clones 62
the habitations of some of his acquaintances than they tea-
glued. Although he had (or some time occupied UMW'S, is
Fleet-street, he ascertained that there were two hoaxes
within twenty yards of these premises in • state of filth
which it would not actually be consistent with denote,
to describe. It was an extraordinary fact that in some loca-
lities, of the condition of • hich no complaint had been
made, he found the abomination as great as it was in theme
to which his attention was particularly called. The covl3°'
ration had, he was aware, extensive power ; but the power
which must be exercised on the present occasion he did not
think they possessed. A short act was necessary to comPel
the landlord to construct drains to the main sewer, or
_..t°
enable the tenant to make that improvement himself, bd
charge the expense out of the first rent demanded.
Several other gentlemen of the deputation having Ebb
additional statements in confirmation of the representations
of Dr. Lynch,
The Loan MAYOR said, he certainly thought the public
were greatly indebted to the gentlemen who had brought PO
important a subject before him ; and he assured them the,
so far as he could milder any service to the cause, he should
be completely at their command He was glad to find that