The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-31 00:00:00

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Prince John Rnasell, t.17;7,/:,--------•,,%u"rq Laja,,L,_ Earl Grey, SizGeorge Grey, Lord CampheTL„ Sir John Hobhouae, Mr. Labouchere, Sihe,,
Hon. W. Bathurst, Viscount Palmerston, and lb e,.._mak
after attending the Council and having partaken."‘„
rnyekner, left the Caatle fur the Slough statiou and
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Morton, Colonel Seymour, and Colonel Bowles, eir °f sport of shooting this morning. joyed Ai
H.R.R. the Duchess of Rent, attended by
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this nna Mariag. Dawson, visited her Majesty and Prim ,
Prince nibi4t
His Excellency Prince Callimaki, Viscount hirre don, Lord and Lady Howard de Walden,
and the .
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h and Lady Mary Abercromby, left the Castle god The Royal dinner ptuty at the Castle this euip'.
will include H. 11.11. the Duchess of iirot, iI.R.R ,12 Duchess of Gloucester, the Lady in W.itio; of the De; ''''
of Kent, the Lady in Waiting of the Duelfe,s of Gl hen
Baroness do Speth, the Lord Chancellor, the /C4:14%
Marchioness of Worcester, the Hon. and iter. c. L. 4,1
Courtenay, and Colonel Cuivile (Scots Fthil ill GUirdl
The Band of the Scots Fusilier Guaru ).ittesi
during dinner. Her Majesty's private band tee",
attend in the Castle.
Earl Delawarr had an interview with Me ci,a.
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his ollitial resident,'
Dow n in st .strect.
Despatches were yesterday received atthe Coleew.
office front the Governor of Canada, andmalso
Governors of the other North American ?incer
DEATH OF SIR G. WONIISWELL, BART.-11604
second baronet of his line—whose name, in manyrlign,
may be familiar to the reader—expired on the 28th Wombwell,am, the ancient family-seat, Wombwell, in Yorkshire, itx
For some months back the right hon. baronet.,
owing entirely to his advanced age, had been
as declian4
the event now announced w not, in consequence,
ther unexpected. Sir George was bout on the 14th of Mak
1769, being the son of the first baronet, an extensive...
chant and East India proprietor, and, for a mow.,
period, Chairman of the Exist India Company, by sentZ
only daughter of Alderman Sir Thomas Rawlinson,lMQ
London. He had the misfortune to lose hi• father whom
more than eleven years of age, and, is consequent", &
estates were held in trust for upwards of 10 yeen• lie
deceased was twice married, viz., first, on the 19th of
1791, to Lady Anne, daughter of the second Earl dim&
berg (title now extinct), by Charlotte, sister to Peanut
Lamb, first Viscount Melbourne, and by that lady be hal
issue, George Wombwell, so well known in fashionable&
ties, born in 1792; Henry William, born in 1793, died a
1833; and Frederick Richard, born in 1797, died in 170;And secondly, he was united to Eliza, &Ladner ti
T. E. Little, Esq., of Hampstead, by whom, who survive;
i,
had, amongst other children, a son and a daughter tea
dead, anon, Charles, born in 1813. The title and mass&
succeeded to by George, eldest son above mentioned, ele
married, in 1821, Georgiana, the youngest dauratni
Orby Hunter, Esq., of Cromland Abbey, Line* ai
an elder sinter of that lady is the wife of Charles Wintheg.
Esq., step-brother to the present baronet. 'this family ad
ancient and honourable extrae'ion, and deduce times
cent from Robert de Wombwell, who lived reap ut
Stephen, and who derived his surname from his plats des
sideuce, Wombwell, Yorkshire. The estates were merit
possession of the family for some years, luring bm
alienated by an heiress, but were purchased mid**
back by the first baronet.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—The follonist
appears in a supplement of last night's Gazette. na4
portant information it contains was published several kis
previously in the Express :—" At the court at Winder,*
30th of October, 1846. Present, the Queen's most ewelMt
Majesty in council. It is this day ordered by her Ilzjestra
council, that the parliament, which stands plan:rails
Wednesday, the 4th of November next, be hatherp e.
rogued to Tuesday, the 12th of January tielt."

METROPOLITAN SEWERS.—Yesterday afternoon t
quarterly court of the commissioners of sewers acting for ne
; limits of the Holborn and Finsbury divi‘i,,n s, was held #
the office of the commissioners in Hatton-garden, furtit
• despatch of business. Samuel Mills, Esq , the chair= if
' the board, presided over a court which was very Innen*
, attended. The minutes of the list court having beesiell
and confirmed, and other routine business having bra ii
posed of, the report of the committee for general purpose
• works requiring immediate attention, and executed:moth
last court, was read. The report announced several Tit
in progress, and now approaching completion, whin fir
• jurisdiction of the court. These included several of tier
• lets from Holborn, the vicinity of Battle-bridge, the Tn.
; road, St. Pancras, Clarendon-road, Kentish-town, Lade
parts of the same localities. In the Finsbury division, rap
• with a view to improve the sewerage, were stated to he
; progress in Clerkenwell, Pentonyille, and elsewhere. A
' second report showed the disbursements for the last man
in improvements, salaries, and other incidental expos
amounted to a total of 6,411!. 6s. Ild. The cludia
announced, with great satisfaction, that of this as
no less than about 1,0001. had been contrioatal
persons who had built premises, the sewers of aid
had been brought into communication with those saki
jurisdiction of the Court: so that in the martian*
rate-payers had been relieved to the amount he haw
tioned. Both these reports received the sanction mire
firmation of the Court. A third report, which memo
cited an application made on behalf of the directorsdh
poor of St. Pancras, praying the construction of a INT ME
from the workhouse under their control, was abowsil,
The Chairman stated that the estimate for the mestes.
• of the sewer in question was 2901., and of this sum the*
cants offered to contribute 200/. Looking at the mita
inmates in the workhouse, and the absolute necessity
work, he could not but recommend the Court to Irma
application.—The Court acquiesced, and the applications,
acceded to, as were also several others of a similar chalet
• but of minor importance.—ln the course of the proid.
of the day, Mr. Hill called the attention of the Court tee
extensive damage done in the lower part of the Claimed
district by the extraordinary floods occasioned by await
of the Ist of August last, and asked if any infonsatiosesil
be afforded as to the cause of the calamitous &Westin 41
the property of the poorer classes who lived in that dialog.
He had been told, through the public journals,thdtY
calamity had arisen from the obstacles given to the of szef
the waters from the sewers on the entrance into the rive
Thames. If such was the case it was the duty of the Can
to take steps to prevent the recurrence of such a calamity
had visited the locality in which they were assembled.A.
Wroe, the surveyor to the commiasioners, replied that tie
chief cause of the calamity was the extraordinary fall drsa
on the occasion referred to—a fall which amounted tom
inches in one hour and a-half, and which had not hen
equalled for the last forty years.—A conversation ea dm
subject followed, in the course of which the chairman sued
that, by the construction of a new line of sewers now is
progress, by means of a tunnel under Canonbnrylerria,
with a view to drain Holloway and all that increasing 1t
trict, above the Model Prison, the dangersto be apprehmed
from a recurrence of the late storm would be avoided. Ili
roati
quite
aliveittee ftoerthgeeinmeralpertepureeeposerthweemere
conversation. in which Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Lovell, Mr.
Baylis, Mr. Butler, and other commissioners took put*,
matter was left in the hands of the committee for gestm
purposes.—A new rate of sixpence in the pound on the pm;
rate rental was ordered for both the districts of Holbert M
,ftehre.—aerftentiratdeadsrfht
Finsbury, after which several parties who had been 113'
moned for infractions of the rules and regulations of then*
miesioners,with regard to the construction ofdrains and asst
attended and were heard. In all of these,with one cum/tilts
the court declined to inflict a fine, on the undertakineL°:
parties to remedy, at their own expense, the ea
created. The exception was in the ewe of Mr. De .
voir, who was summoned for having built rostra semta
Canal-road, Kingsland-road.—Mr. Lake attended as wham
for Mr. De Beauvoir, and submitted that the seer or'
which the building had been erected had been roastrocad
with others, by his chi nt, who was the owner of a lag,
freehold property in the district, at an expense of sot
than 10,000/., and be denied the authority of the anon
sioners over the property in question.—On beg.,. „,
commissioners it was urged, that so long since as the Ise
IS3O, an application had been made on behalf of gum
Beauvoir for liberty to construct the sewers in queelilt
ho undertaking that no building should M
over them.—A somewhat warm and acrimonious 61M;
mien ensued, in which several commissioners ewer
their determination to resist the infringement 0111
undertaking, while, on the other hand, Mr. Lake
that he was powerless, inasmuch as the land had been l'—
building leases, and his client had no control over his tariz
by whom the erection had been made. The tenanttst
Isaac Parlour, said he was in a difficulty, as under his it.m
he was not restricted from building on the site' cln„
and that he had again underlet at a long lease, nd cotuiL,..,,
disturb his tenant.—A long discussion followed, in .`"t".:
itM Mr.
asftotecthd,e"Cdol.thKeetntu,hanieud oththeers took part, and at IMP.:
erected over the sewer were pulled down on or before
of January next, the communication between the
constructed by Mr. De Beauvoir and those of the cam!:
sioners should be cut off. At the same time it sage::
that in the interim an amicable arrangement might be ;'";
to. The remainder of the business on the paper having'-
disposed of, the Court rose at half-past five o'clock.
FRENCH FISHING VESSELS.—The Commitsuoty
of the Customs have received a communication from)'
Parker, one of the Secretaries of the Treasury, in
states hat having laid before their lordships the
oes
report on a representation of a certain party, comp—
that the French fishermen are prevented by the
Premises which hselthete;
the Customs revenue from entering Scarborough
I he was commanded by their lordships to a. quaint the cr,
missioners, that as the act which regulates the right otlo7_
in g between Great Britain and France applies only .
sets fishing within the prescribed limits, and not
united
insect to their entering the ports of the.
theirdom folerthsthheipepwu
using the ports of the united kingdom for the purPme!.lo,
ePe''ill sensm noebjetecedt tom the yes
connected with their fishing operations, nor to the.P.t
of wearing apparel, previsions, and salt, in utt!""..,,,
to
more than necessary for the use of the crews ; andr
e7s,
that their lordships expressed their desire, that the
on!t0
signers would issue the necessary instructions to their 0
accordingly, which has been done.
—Apart from the overpowering weight of objectionsruretoto
there is one glaring incongruity which has not I t
A NEW OBJECTION TO THE WF.LTINGTON 1.111:
sm,eauin letter, c