The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-19 00:00:00

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Weepsoß, FRIDAY.—Her Majesty and H.R.H..
Peinee Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the
Primus Helena, arrived at the Castle at two o'clock this
afternoon from Osborne-house, Isle of Wight, attended by
their suite. The Royal dinner party at the Castle this
evening will inelede H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent.
Thew it. 141-1. the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
end H.S.H. Prince Frederic of Hesse. visited H.R.H.
the Duchess of Gloucester on Thursday, at Gloucester-house.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY EVENING.—It es expected that
their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians will
arrive at the Castle, in the course of the ensuing week, upon
a visit to her Majesty during the Christmas holidays.
HER MAJESTY'S RETURN TO WINDSOR.—PORTS-
MOUTH, Dec. 18.—Her Majesty arrived this morning
at the Clarence Yard, Portsmouth, at haltpast ten
o'clock, in the Fairy, and was reeeived by Lieutenant
Governor Sir H. Pakenham, Admiral. Sir C. Ogle,
Commander-in-Chief, and the different officers in com-
mand of the ships, &c. The guard of honour was supplied
by the 2nd Regt. Her Majesty looked exceedingly well ;
the train was in readiness in the Clarence Yard, and pro-
ceeded with her Majesty to town immediately. The Fairy
went to her moorings up the harbour, and Capt. Crispin
goes on leave to-morrow. Orders were gives that the crews
of the different ships were not to man the yards, in conse-
quence of the frost rendering the yards slippery ; but the
men of the different ships manned the shrouds, and gave her
Majesty three hearty them as she passed by. The ships
were dressed gaily in colours, and salutes were tired.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon,
at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were Lord J.
Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir
G. Grey, Vise. Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir J. tiobhouse, Lord
Campbell, Vise. Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, and the
Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Lord Chancellor sub-
sequently joined his colleagues. The council sat two hours
and a half.
The Earl of Mountcashell had an interview with
Lord J. Russell yesterday, at his official residence iu Down-
ing-street.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an Literriew with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at h.s official residence in Downing. street. Mr.
Aglionbyhadalso an interview with the right hon. gentleman
yesterday.
Col. Anson had an interview with Sir G. Grey
yesterday at the Home-office,

From Last Niabt's Gazette.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 17.—The Queen has appointed
the Rev. R. Lee, D.D., to be one of her ➢tajesty's Chaplain,
in Ordinary in Scotland.
COMMISSION BY THE QUEEN. Dumfriesshire

Militia—Lieut. and Adjt. R. C. Noake, from 44th Regt.,
to be adjt., vice Capt. Swanson.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 17.—The Queen has directed
letters patent to be pawed under the Great Seal, grantinkt the
pec-
dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland unto the following gentlemen, and the ic

ties heirs male of their bodies lawfully' begotten, viz : H. E.
f. Davie, of erect, in the county of Devon, Esq,, Colonel
in 112 e Army; F. Currie, Em , Secrttary to the Oovernmeut
of Beep' ; and A. Rothschi:d, of Grosvernor-place, in the
county of Middlesex, Esq., with remainder, in default of such
issue male to his nephews, N. M. Rut ache
C. A. Rothe.
child, and L. Rothschild, Esqrs., sons of L. Rothschild, Esq.,
brother of the said A. Rothschild.

OFFICE OP ORDNANCE, Dec. 16.
RI. Artillery—Maj.-Gen. J. Power to becol. cow., v. Dickenium, dee,
ADMIRALTY, Dic. 7
BL Marinee—Lieut -03 L T. Peebles to be col. sad sec. nom., vice
Swale, dec.; Capt. and Brev...Major J. Whylock to be lieut..ooL ; First
Lieut. J. Wright to be capt.; Sc. Lieut. J. J. I). Barclay to be
first
Due. Marines—First Lieut. R. J. leKillop to be capt., vice
Morrison, ret. on NI-pay ; Sec. Lieut. G. S. Dunbar to be first lieuL
Disc. 16.—Tbe name of Capt. the Hon. 0. B. W. Treftmis Is to be
included in the list of captains of the Boyd Navy having accepted the
retirement of their rank on the terms propomd in the Loudon Costae
of Sept. I, 1846, on the half-pay of 18s. per diem.
PENSIONS FOR LITERARY SERVICES. Her Ma-
jesty, by a warrant of the 31st Oct., 1846, has granted a
pension of 501. a year to Margaret Turnbull, widow of the
late James Turnbull, in consequence of the literary merits
of her brother, the late Dr. Leyden ; and by another war-
rant of a like date, a pension of 501. a year to Mrs. Fanny
Gurwooi, in consequence of the literary merits of her hus-
band, the late Colonel Durwood.
COMMUNICATION WITII FRANCE tici PORTSMOUTH
AND HAVRE.—An arrangement has been concluded between
the General Post-offices of England and France, for placing
Portsmouth on the footing of Southampton in the conven-
tion of April 3, 1843 ; to take effect on the sth of Jan., 1847,
on which day letters and other communications for France
by the way of Havre will be forwarded through the Portsmouth
Post-office, as they now are through the office at South-
ampton, and Mee versa. The commercial men in both
countries owe the accomplishment of this important measure
to the Marquis of Clardicarde, who, in his late autumnal
visit to Normandy, saw hew much it was called for by the
rapidly increasing intercourse betwixt Havre and the British
ports. In a few weeks the railway from Havre will be in
operation through to Paris, so that if steamers of approved
qualities are established between Southampton, Portsmouth,
and Havre' both mails- and travellers will henceforward he
able to reach Paris daily, from London, by the beautiful
valley of the Seine and the interesting city of Rouen, within
the short space of eighteen hours.

THE SALT TRADE TO INDIA. A deputation of
the merchants. manufacturers, shipowners, and others in-
terested in the salt trade to India, and the abolition of the
East India Company's power to manufacture salt in India,
waited on Sir John Cam Hobhousc, the president of the
Board of Control, on Thursday last, at 2 p.m. In reply to
the observations of several of the gentlemen who formed the
deputation, Sir John Hobhouse intimated that he would lay
the whole matter before his colleagues ht the cabinet, for
their early consideration. He :could not hold out any
immediate expectation that the East India Company would
be induced readily to surrender 1,300,0001. of manual revenue,
but he would see that the bonding system war immediately
inquired into. The India Board being a concurrent rather than
a directly controlling power, he could not issue peremptory
instructions as was supposed, but everything should be done
which the case, on consideration,appeared to demand. The
East India Company had already sent out a despatch to
their government in India upon the eubject,but he was not at
liberty to disclose the nature of the wmmunication.—Ooe of
the deputation having asked when the salt merchants might
hope for a decision on the question, Sir John answered, that
no time should be lost, consistently with the ordinary claims
upon the time of the cabinet, in coming to a conclusion ;
and, meanwhile, he would be very happy to see and confer
with any members of the deputation who might wish to see
him.—The deputation then retired.
THE WAR IN THE CITY PARLIAMENT.—After the
extraordinary scene which took place in the Court of Com-
mon Council, and described in our paper yesterday, when
seven out of the eight aldermen who attended retired, and
broke up the court, the Lord Mayor, before leaving the chair,
stood aghast at his perplexing position. The members rose
in a body ; many rushed to the table, and protested in vehe-
ment terms against the conduct of the aldermen. His lord-
ship assured them he was most anxious to avoid giving
offence to any party, but felt himself in a difficult position.
He then retired with his officers and the officers of the court.
The members of the court, consisting of about eighty gentle-
men, together with Alderman Sir Peter Laurie, immediately
formed themselves into committee, Deputy Peacock in the
chair, when resolutions were passed to the following effect:
1. That the Court of Aldermen, having caused an unwarrantable
obstruction to the business of that court by refusing to attend the third
reading of a bill for the qualilication of freemen of London to be
elected menilwn. of the Court of Common Council ; and the Lord
Mayor this day having refused such motion to be put, where-
by the court wake broken up, and all business suspended ; a com-
mittee of twenty-one gentlemen be formed to devise such means as
shall restore the ancient rights and privileges of the citizens in com-
mon council assembled.
2. That an appeal be made to the various wardmotes on the emoting
St. Thomas's Day.
3. That such wardrnotes be informed of the presumed cause of this
conduct on the part of the Court •f Aldermen, which relates tounother
bill about to be brought forward, to prevent the Court of Aldermen
voting sums of money out of the poeketsor public purse of the citizens
for Oxford tripe., annuities, &c.) without the concurrence of the re-
presentativee in Common Council assembled.
Twenty-one members were chosen, and having commenced
their important ditties, the remainder of the gentlemen re-
tired..
SOUTHWARK LITERARY INSTITUTION.—A col er-
satione rather numerously attended was held last night at
this institution, on the occasion of re-opening the theatre,
which has recently been newly painted and decorated. Mr.
Serk, in some introductory remarks, said that the institu-
tion would derive much advantage if its friends of both
sexes were to meet occasionally for the purpose of social and
literary entertainment, and recommended the holding of an
annual re-union similar to the present one. Mr. Serie then
read a scene from " The Rivals" with much effect. Mies
Brunel, Miss Thornton, Mr. Field, and several other vocal
and musical artists contributed their quota to the amuse-
ments of the evening, which were prolonged to an advanced
hour, and seemed highly satisfactory to the company.
MERCHANT TAILORS' SCROOL.—Yestertlay, after
a most satisfactory examination, both written and oral, in
Hebrew, the Greek and Latin classics, and mathematics,
conducted by the Rev. Dr. Slcath, late High Master of St.
Paul's School, and the Revs. IL W. Broune and T. G. Hall,
Professors in King's College, London, the half-yearly re-
moves took place, and the following speeches were delivered
according to custom. The audience was very numerous,
and consisted of the Master of the Company, Mr. Alfred
Pigeon, the Wardens, the Rev. Dr. Hersey, Head Master
of the School, the Examiners, and a large body of
friends of the boys and other visitors. Subject and
order of the speeches monitor J. H. Reid—
Phormio's Address to his Soldiers—Thucydides. Sixth
monitor, W. Shillito ; the Hypocrisy of Clytemnestra—
aEschylus. Fourth monitor, H. D. Church ; Catiline on
the Eve of a Battle—Sallust. Seventh mo litor, W. H. Hart;
the Delights of a City Life—Juvenal. Fifth taonitor, C. M.
Style; the Duty of Christianising the Heathen—Grant.
Eighth monitor, T. Russell; the Fall of Nineveh—Ather-
stone. Third monitor, .1. B. Behrends ; the Soliloquy of
King Henry V.—.,hakiipeare. Second monitor, W. T.
Warne. Fourth monitor, H. D. Church ; Dialogue between
1848 and 1847—Anonymous. The delivery of the orations
in general was good, and the comic speech in particular wits I
very humorously sustained by Mr. Warne, assisted by his
interlocutor, Mr. Church. In the evening a splendid enter-
tainment was given at Merchant Taylors' Hall.
DEATH OF MR. BELLAMY OF TIIE HOUSE OF COM-
MOSEL—Mr. John Bellamy expired yesterday morning, at
his house in Woburn-square. lie had attained the age of
seventy-five or seventy-six years, and will be remembered
with great respect as housekeeper to the House of Commons,
a situation in which he succeeded his father, and the duties
of which he executed for many year..
THE NEW OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE.—We are informed
that Mr. Cannon, son of the late Mr. Cannon, official as-
signee in the Court of Bankruptcy, has been nominated to
HD the appointment, in the place of the late Mr. Alsager.
Tim CIVIC ELEcrioNs.—The annual election of
members fur the Court of Common Council takes place on
Monday, St. Thomas's Day. There are 27 wards, which elect
206 members. In seven there will be contests, viz.: Bishops-
gate Colem►n-street, Cripplegate within and without, Far-
ringden-withou•, Portsoken and Cordwainers. In the last
named one of the candidates is of the Jewish persuasion, a
whish has never before been known in the

City.
A NEW CLAIMANT TO THE DISCOVERY OP THE NEW
PLANET.—A writer in the New York Tribone states th
the new planet was discovered by the patient of a mem
riser in that city last March.
COLLEGE FOR CLERKS.—It is reported in a MOPS-
ing paper, that a proposal has been started in the city, which
has been very favourably received, to establish a mercantile
college for the sons of clerks. It is intended that it should
be carried out on the mutual or club principle, so th: t each
pupil will be charged ont his actual proportion of the total
annual outlay. A committee, selected from the managers
and clerks in the leading public offices and commercial firms,
is in course of formation, and there is every reason to an-
ticipate success. The idea once suggested, it seems strange
that Landon should hitherto have remained without au in-
stitution of this description.
REDUCTION OF POSTAGE WITII PRUSSIA.
The Gazette of last night contains the new postal
arrangements concluded with Prussia, which will come
into operation on the Ist day of January next. After
that period all letters posted in the United King-
and addressed to Prussia, and vice verad, when conveyed
by packet boat or private ship, either by way of Bel-
gium, Holland, or Hamburg, will be charted one shilling.
BEET-ROOT BREAD.--IMPORTANT SUGGESTION.—
The Right Hon. T. F. Kennedy, Paymaster of the Civil
Services in Ireland, has addressed a public letter to Mr.
Labouchere, drawing attention to the fact that beet-root and
flour, mixed in equal proportions, make excellent nutritious
bread. "We have," say the conductors of the Gardeners'
Chroniek, "had the experiment tried, by rasping down a
red beet-root, and mixing with it an equal quantity of flour,
and we find that the dough rises well, bakes well, and forms
a loaf very similar to good brown bread in taste and appear.
ance. We regard this as an important discovery, because
there is no crop which can be so readily introduced into Irish
cultivation as the beet and its varieties; because no crop will
yield a larger return ; and because an abandant:supply of
seed may be had of it from France. We have long since
shown the great value of a beet crop, in point of nutri-
tion (see Gardeners' Chronicle, 1846, p. 163) ; that in fact it
ranks higher than any known plant which is cultivable.
But there was always the difficulty of how to consume it,
for men would find it a poor diet by itself, and the present
circumstances of Ireland are not such as to justify the intro-
duction of produce which can become food for man only after
having been tminiformed into pigs and oxen. The discovery,
however, in Germany, of the facility with which it may be
combined with bread, removes the difficulty, -.rid places beet

incontestable at the head of the new articles whine 14;4
be introduced into Irish husbandry. In its rewire,
potttoes, beet stands as 1020 to 433, if its nutritive ewtho.:
considered ; and as 8330 to 3180 in regard to utilisable—Jo:
duce of all kinds (see the tables at p. 163.) It is. iiir
be determined what kind of Beet could be best cultivated, a_ll
this purpose. Red Beet produces brown bread ; %bite a... 7
Beet would probably yield a white bread, and of still
quality; mangold wurzel we have ascertained to 6;7
bread of inferior quality, but still eatable enough. It:
Kennedy suggests that carrots and parsnips might be
tried, in the same manner as beet. That, too, we ci;
and we find that parsnips are excellent, but mem,
much less palatable. All thew substances combine Hie
with flour, but they are rather unwilling to part with 62
water, and will probably be best in cakes, like at'merl"
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—We have initured intt
the re ports that Sir John Franklin had landed t the liar
kenzie River, and shaped his course to return ihrougle
territories of the Hudson's Bay Company ; and found se ,
suspected, that they are altogether groundless, sad the
son's Bay people know nothing of any such umement, It
is possible that the expedition may have got through he
summer, and Sir John be on his way from Ktnisehatlmee
Petersburg ; and in that case we would not give ap
hope of seeing him till the close of the year.ls But it is mwe
than probable that they have not been able to get thritt
last season, which appears to have been unfavourable to
why
navigation ; and that they are again shut up for the aim,
so far to the north as to prevent their communicating with
the establishments of the Hudson's Bay Company m the
' farthest shores of the continent of America. If FO, we lus,
no reason to entertain any fears for their safety or ultimate
success ; but should we not hear of them by the end oflBl7,
would be time to take measures to send after them, where
however, we feel confident will not be nere.ury,
we shall have good accounts of them long before that
Literary Gazette.
ITALIAN Boys.—A correspondent of the Mormee
Chronicle states that in a steamer which brought him from
Boulogne there were 18 Italian boys in the most pitiable
state, some with hardly rags enough to cover them, and at
such an inclement season, and others without shoes, and me
poor boy, about twelve years old, with his feet sod amh,
covered with chilblains. They were being imported into
England for the purpose of exciting charity, mad for the
benefit, no doubt, of two men who had them in elsege, so
dreadful were the sufferings of the poor and mat„t onion
boy alluded to, that when dragged up (as was litercii, rye
case) from the fore cabin be was quite unable to stand, and
obliged to be carried on shore on the back of one of Mew
traffickers in white slaves.
POTATOES.—The following very important informs.
tion upon the subject of the potato *disease in Poem le
been received by government from the British Comi
Warsaw

WAYBANT, OCT. 16.—My Lord,—ln a report on the rook
year's harvest in Poland, which I had the honour to forward
lordship with my letter. consular, No. 2i, of the Mr of Let
Mated that the potato disease was totally unknown in tot, comp,"
Since making that statement I have heard of oncesceptisn Mardi
which has occurred on a small estate not far from Widcad famed
a Mr. Kedelie, a British subject of much inullmwt
established in Poland. The potatoes which tro
this exception are of the kind called the " eke-bared
glints kidney potato," at were obtained from England tiro
ago; they were planted in the midst of Mr. Kedslie's ether • •
crops, on land of the same quality, and prepared exactly in Me use
way as the rest of the ground which has yreitled periectir aovad
fruit. This circumstance would seem to prove thot the disaa
attributable to atmospheric influences, as is, I hear, the merit
received opinion in other countries. Here, in Poland, all peiso,i to*
whom I bare spoken on the subject, think that the potatoes tithing
of Europe are tainted in the germ by over cultivation ; sad it its,
tainly remarkable that here, where the soil is generally lint, ad
where less manure is used than is any other country, except Rags
—and never immediately preceding the crop of potatoes—thast
should have completely escaped the infection hick dwestess the
extinction in aS ports where greater pains have been taken k tht
cultivation. I do not imagine that the opinion alluded less
isolated fact which I have mentioned, will decide alimanrwh yy
has so hopelessly occupied the attention of rind-rate iamb
many countries ; but I hope that the notice of the eirermainssell
not be deemed irrelevant at a time when the Biidde in untie
the cuter of such dire distress in her Majesty s own dommicas,
well as in other ports of Europe.—l have, Ste. iSimed, G,T
—Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., tte.
This document will be read with the more interest, if it a
compared with the other facts of the same nature to vital
we have formerly alluded as having been observed
Genoa, Oporto, Bermuda, and the Cape of Cool Hope. It
proves incontestably one of two things, either that the
potato disease was actually engendered in 1841, or that the
whole English potato crop is predisposed, by some cause, to
take the disease more readily than the crops of Pon*,
Italy, and Poland.—Gardeners' Chronicle.
LEARNED MUSICAL CRITICS.—Our musical critics
are getting so learned that we don't knew how to follow
them. They will tell us every key in which every pins
is written, which is all vary clever on their puts; ha
they sadly perplex us by the odd names they gwa
things. we only know under more_ amiliar tides. They will
talk to us of a delicious scherzo, a beautiful bit of pedal-
ling for the horn, and a nice phrase of contrapuntists
while they will inform us that there is a luscious passage
for the wood, when they mean there is something pretty
for flutes, flageolets, or oboes. There are now so many
nice divisions of wood, wind, brass, string and steel, that
we shall expect to hear next of a fine inorceou of fugae
for the parchment, by which, of course, wi:l be understood
the tambourines, grosses misses, and kettledrums. Are
shall hear probably of a lovely bit of scholarly writing for
the steel, in allusion to a few noes given to the triangle.
We have no doubt this is all very learned,and we have great
respect for learning, but we like the intelligible as well,
when it is convenient.—l'unds.
THE HoN. THOMAS GRENVILLE'S LIBRARY.—One
of the finest libraries in England changes bands by the
death of the Right lion. Thomas Grenville but its path-
cuter destination is as yet unknown. The catalogue made
by Messrs. Payne and Foss forms two c!osely-printed octavo
volumes.
FIRE AT POPLAR.—Late last evening a fire broke
out on the premises of Mr. Wm. Maunder, No. 2, King-
street, West India-road, Poplar, and in the space of a few
minutes the building, which contained eight rooms, became
wrapped in flames. The engines speedily sensed, but wr-
ing to the want of water the fire war not ei.tirely extin-
guished until the building and its contents ware all but Jr-
stroyed. How the tire origioated could not be learned.
11ONV SOME PEOPLE LIVE AND DIF--Yeatelty,
an elderly woman, well known to the bargemen and watts-
men about Whitehall under the name of Peggy the Mud-
lark, dropped down in Scotland-yard, and loon afterwarli
expired. She lived by gathering up the pieces of coal which
fall from the barges as their cargoes are discharged. Many
a time has she been seen with half her body immersed in
mud working in her strange colliery, groping and digging
for the black diamonds she was to transmute into bread.
No weather which did not put a stop to unloading the
barges was severe enough to give her a holiday. Yesterday,
however, the cold seems to have been too great for her aged
frame, and on her return from one of her usual excursions
with a small booty, she was seized with a shivering fit, and
before medical assistance could be obtained she was a corge.
HORRIBLE I)EATII.—EarIy yesterday morning the
body of a isan respectably attired was found in one of the
lime-kilns of Messrs. L. and 'l'. Glenton, at New Charlton.
near Woolwiah. The unfortunate man, it is supposed, sought
the shelter of the kiln during the inclemency of the preced-
ing evening, and being overcome by the fumes of the carbolic
acid gas fell over the edge upon the burning mass. His
hands were very much calcined and hut for the fact of the
kilo having been but recently lighted, little would have re-
mained to testify his melancholy fate. On his person were
found two pawnbroker's tickets, with the name of John
to his friends.
Knight, or Wright, on them, which may possibly afford a
clue
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deceased was crossing Cheapside, when an omnibus com
pelled him to take a slanting direction, and run before the
horses' heads, in doing which he ran against a cab, and .3,
knocked back under the omnibus, two wheels of which
passed over him, and injured him so seriously that be died
the next day in the above hospital.—Verdict, a. accideoul
O n hire pied,
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death."—Se HORN DEATH ON BOARD SHIP.—By
Baker, coroner. at the Royal Oak, Wapping-wall, as the
body of Andrew Eason, aged 52 years. Deceased was
of the collier brig Lord Tvnemouth, of Sunderland, lying e"
Rotherhithe. The vessel had been in the pool for are 110
fortnight. On Wednesday deceased, after having bees °°
shore, retired to rest as usual in the cabin. The mate aria
in the same berth with the master, and on the following
morning discovered deceased lying on the bed quit* aelds
The surgeon.attributed death to a rupture of one of tbeblood*
vessels of the brain. Verdict " Natural death."---