The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-01 00:00:00

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wygpsoa, Oar. 31.—The Queen, attended of Countess of Mount Bdgeesinbe (Lade it-1%th... -it "I et.
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Major-General Weinym (Eatterry-in-Waitioe),
Wiudsor Great Park. Ills Ave' /Boner
went out shooting this morning. atti thoNaas
Ormond', Idelor-Oesseral Bowles, and Colossiitf
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The royal family took walking and pony etyma Ws
log, in the Slopes and Windsor-park. Nig Zile.
addition to the royal dinner party ryas main sin
THE QUEEN DOWAGER.
The following bulletin of the Qua, Dsuiptir health was issued yesterday :
The Priory,
Warm Wednesday oat, gust
" The Queen Warmer passed a eonfortabla having had a few hours of refreshing sleep, whisk his sigh
restored her strength, and this mornlag her 128,414
herself better.
"DAVID DaOlp.X
" Iticunnn Baton; gyys
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Blair, ?dal_
Mayor or Bolton, Mr. Councillor Myerscough,
eillor Btaekdale, the Town. Clerk of Bolton, sad ig,7o;
parliamentary agent. had an interview yesterday rya;
Board of Health at 0 wydyr House, to ask inromi.,/-7
to board in relation legislative provisions tor tka
improvement of Great and Little Bolton,
Mr. Justice Creswell had an interview wlik a,
George Grey yesterday at the Horne-office. Mr.
had also an interview yesterday with the right hcia.6Z.
rue BARON AND BARONESS TUYLL and c„„.,
Linbergstein embarked at the St. Katherine's wharf
day morning, on board the General Steam Navigatiaio;
pany's mail steam-ab;p Ocean, for Rotterdam.

AUCTION OF THE CONNEMARA ESTARt
Yesterday Mr. Wainwright offered for sale, di%
Mart, the ant portion of the Galway estates of the yeet
B. Msrtio, Req. Previously to reading the conditiroo
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sale, the auctioneer made a statement, from which it op.
peered that he was instructed by the mortgages
pewees of sale to offer them estates i•i 114 lots. Too pi,
party was known as the Connemara estates, and wax*
large portions of the baronies of Ballynabiaelt tad llop
cul!en, and the half barony of Role in the county of ljekii
Ireland, extending almost uninterruptedly fromt►sy~
Galway to Clifden and Cleggan Bay, a diseases
miles, having Lough Corrib on the north, sad Ms ihe
of Galway and the Atlantic Ocean as the 8.6
and south-western boundaries. The whole of h
property is freehold, and comprises nearly two bud:Wait,
sand statute acres of land, which are stated in the whim
to be "valuable and highly improval•le, with Waimea
mints and quarries of marble, limestone, and alma,
extensive and vain -tale fisheries in the innumerable hay
rivers which intersect the property."

After several remarks upon the capability and fertility d
the soil, and the practicability of reclaiming the Mg 1.1
which Ins been found to produce 40 tons of swedes per ink
followed by craps of grain, tho auctioneer quoted the opiaja
of a gentleman who has visited Galway, who reports de
" No crl my of Great Britain offers to industrious yomg
of small or large capital a surer, more profitable, and
tisfactory field for investment, either in the purcluss e
farming of lands than Ireland ; and in no colony will lathe
meet with cheaper labour, and with a mote willing,deas
and tractable race, when justly treated, than the WI ps.
sentry." The same gentleman states the ex' tritium*,
been successful in the west of Mayo and Galway, &admit
estate of Lord George Hill, in DAienal. The tangs*
also alluded to the Dublin and Galway Railway for the*
pletlon of which government have advanced the fee,
which will mace this property within three hours of Dahl,
and fifteen of London ; and also called the attentions! tie
company to several specimens of mineral and &grafted
produce, which were exhibited in the room.

Lot 1, coneisted of a hostile in Id trket-street, Gahm, let
fur three liver, and 61 years: after the death of the at.
visor of them, at a reserved rent of 71.7.. Bd. per um.
subject t- a quit-rent of 45. 11d. to tho croene—lmsQ
down at 951.

Lot 2. Part of the townland of Dangan Upper, wasp*
three residences and variaus tenements and holdings—Lathe
whole, 220 acres ; one residence in band, the remit:der lg
on various terms for 1291 Om 2a. per annum; quit mg,
11 3s. 5d.; the reserved price for this lot was 3,0004 us
the highest bidding offered was 2,7501.
Lot 3. Part of the townland of Dingan Lower, conic*
of Dangan Cottage and other holdiogs—in the Mule,
1955. 3r. 18,% • let at rents amounting to 1971. Os. 104 set.
rent, 11. 10s. sjcl. ; reserved price, 3,0001.; highest biddag,
2,7001.. _ _ _

Lot 4. The townlanda of Barnacranny, containing rtsa
dens and 101 a. 3r. Bp., producing 721.2 s 61., war,
2a. Ild.; reserved price, 1,0001. ; higher bidding, 8001.
Lot 5. Tile townland of Busby-park and pin of tone
lend of Ballsgh, containing a residence and 105. Or. ky.,
producing 15/. 13s. Bd. ; quit-rent, 61. ; reserved pigs,
1,0001.; blithest bidding, 9001.
Lot 6. Tile townland of Killeen, 86a. 3r. 33g., he for
MI. 7e. 82. ; qui,-rent, 14s. 61.-knocked down at the re
served price of 8001.
Lot 7. The townland of Oranbill, containing &rang
and 335. 2r. 19p., let for 261.51. ; quit-vent, 3s. 016.-40 k
Lot 8. The townland of Tonabrockv, 435. Or. 3y4
arable, pasture, lake, and bog ; let to 31 yearly turn kr
871. 171. 6d. ; quit-rent, 41. Bd. ; reserved price, 1,0004;
highest bidding, 9001.
Lot 9. The townland of Anbwee, 1063. 3r. 36p., Irk
601. • quit-rent, 90. 9d.-knocked down for 8001.
Lir 10. The townland of C,Jrcullen, retrain;
282 a. 3r. 17p., producing 1031. le, 62. per mown-cold k
1,2201. _ . .

Most of the larger tenants et the above lots hold for tees
of three lives ; in Cr me instances with further Tenni=

PROPOSED NEW PARLIAMENTARY Bolovoz—Lt
night a public meeting of the inliabituitsof Chellea,=
Kensington, and Hammersmith was held at the C
Hotel, Chelsea, for the purpose of considtring the OR um
to be adopted for erecting those districts into a politer
tary borough. The meeting was convened by the WO
London Reform Association. Frederick Oukell, PA, *
copied the chair, and the report prepared by the comill,
was submitted to the meeting. It stated, Wu aka, IYI
the committee feel great satisfaction in presthting to tie
members the second annual report of the proceedings Id
progress of the association. During the put year KMe di*
sands of a circular embodying the pringtples and objected**
association had been circulated throughout the district, e 1 A
include an extension of the suffrage to every householder, stn
by ballot, triennial parliaments, electoral districts hoed on
population and property, a repeal of the window endue
form of the income tax, an efficient measure of senior, is.
form, a reform of the existing laws relating to the relief d
the poor, a proper application of the funds known to natio
this country for charitable purlieus, and the obtaining.*
presentative. in parliament for the parishes of Chebes,
eington, Hammersmith, and Fulham. In March list tte
report observed : "John M'aregor, Esq., M.P., Intend*
following notice of motion on the books of the Bowed
Commons-' That in consideration of the ;mistime K.
singles, Chelsea, Fulham, and Hammersmith manilla(
population of about 120,000 inhabitants, residing in ustw
not exceeding 8,000 acres, and comprising also above 18,010
houses, of the annual rental of 101. and upwards; audio
then, in consideration that there is no other district in Onfl
Britain with so great a number of inhabitants and haul
unrepresented directly in this house, it is expedient andital
to incorporate by an act of parliament the perishes of Her
sington, Chelsea, Fulkam,sad Hammersmith, into a Putil'
=eatery borough, empowered to return two members tog.
house, to fill up the vacancies caused by t he disfranthisemeotel
the late borough of Sudbury.' Your committee thought It
their duty to support this movement by every means to • thth
power, and therefore convened • public maaboi at tit.
Commercial Hall, on March 21, 1849, to promote to obiaat
of the foregoing motion." The report was unanimouly
adopted. Mr. Johnson, of Slosnostreet, Mr. Danford, at
Notting-kill, Mr. M'Mehon (barristevat-law), and Mite
gentlemen spoke in favour of various resolution which were
submitted for adoption, all of which were curled nem. ilia
A vote of thanks to Dr. Haskell for his courtesy in Past"
closed the proceedings.
EDGE'B PATENT LEVEE VALVE METER.—The
pvenient@ carried out In this meter lie chiefly in the
lever valve, and syphon ; it is, perhaps, necessary to
that the index serves to denote the quantity of gu ekes r
posed through the meter; in the old index, hash
es-
pointers are made to revolve round the dish., and tha
figures to which they point denote the number of cubit fie
of gas, but these needles do not always point exactly te ells
numbers; they maybe between two number., so that a pet
must be well acquainted with this tort of index to be able to
read off the quantity of gas that has been consumed, Oa
this, it seems, 311 often the source of differences between the
consumers and inspectors; not only that, but the feeling d
doubt and distrust which it has created among con-
sumers hoe been the cause of p tieg meters fan
coming more into general use. In the sew index the dials
revolve, and the numbers appear through holes, so that la
have a set of numbers in one row, which in reading it is to
possible to mis'ake. The valve (the duty of which is to call
attention to the meter when it wants water) merely consists
in reducing its working parts, thereby rendering it len liable
to suffer from corrosion, and making its action more delicate.
' The syphon (which serves to convey the gas into the mar
surer) has several improvements ; for example, the twO
let of the syphon being sealed, gas cannot escape. Sint
preventing the possibility of explosion, or the possibility
gas being fraudulently obtained; and frustrates ley
attempts being made to abstract water from the meter
which would cause • serious loos to the company, in fete
acting as a protector alike to the coneumer and the compast
These meters are extensively used in the country &gd ll~a
Ireland ; but in London they have net yet come into geoml
use, and, indeed, do not seem likely to do so, owing to the
apparently complex nature of reading off from the &I
index the quantity of gas consumed, which inspectors like, as
it gives their duty an air of importance, which the improao
index would do away with. Such, we hear, is the at
reason for their not coming into use in the metropolis. tt
is a curious fact, that inventions very often meet with ow
opposition from that very class which they are intended SO
benefit.