The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

Irpe Court.

BALMORAL, Sem 29.
Yesterday aftert.ooa, at 3 o'clock, the first stone of
the new castle at Balmoral was bid by her Majesty.
After a short prayer Lad been ttftr 1 by at !Lev. Archi-
bald Anderson, of Cratlite, for the welfare ut its future in-
mates, a glare cylinder was placed by htr Majesty in a
cavity of the foundation, containing specimens of the cur
rent coin of the realm, and a parchment document, de•

scribing the nature and date of cuomencement of the build-
ing, signed by all the members of the royal family present,
and the I dies and gentlemen in attendance.
A sileir trowel was then presented to her Majesty ly
Mr. Smith, of Aberd,on, the architect. Her Majesty
having spread the mortar, the stone was lowered under the
superintendence of Mr. Stuart, the contractor for the
works. Her Majesty then applied the square, level, plam-
met, and mallet, and having ascertained that the stone
was correctly placed, poured over it some corn, wine,
and oil.

Immediately after the ceremony the whole of the work-
men employed on the new works, with their wives and
families, sat down w a linnor prepared for them by her
Majesty's commands in the temporary iron ballroom, where
they deuced afterwards in the evening.
The dinner p irty yesterday included the Duchess of Kent,
ly Augusta llrec the Hon. Mrs. G.,rdon, Sir George
and Lady Cooper. uol Dr. Robertson.
The Viscountess Canning has arrived at Balmoral to suc-
ceed the Duche,s of Wi:llington as Lady in Waiting to her
Majesty.

Mr. Jebb had an interview with Viscount Palmerston
yesterday at the Hume-office.
M. Le D mteur Metier, the Commissioner sent by the
French government to watch the progress and mink of
treatment of cholera in this country, hell an interview yes-
terday with the General B fard of Health, at th-ir offices,
Whitehall, on his return from Newcastle upon-Tyne, where
he had examined the mode of treating cholera, and the ac-
Hen of the syst. tit of house-to-house visitation now pur-
sued there under tho directi.m of the Board's medical
superintending inspectors.
Earl Granville arrived in town on Thursday night from
Aldenha o Park, near Bridgenottli.
Despatches wets sent from the Colonial-office yesterday
to the Governors of all the North American provinces.

The Duke of Cambridge and suite, after visiting some of
the public establishments at Plymouth, left yesterday morn-
ing for Exeter, where he will suspect the troops, and thence
proceed to London.

TIIE LEANDER is detained at Plymouth for
repairs.

"THE SIXTH OF OCTOBER."

Under this title a black-bordered note has been
published as follows:
" In memory of the defenders of constitutional liberty
in Hungary, who, after the surrender of the Hungarian
army to the Russians, were put to death by Austrian exe-
cutioners. Their honoured names are dear to the lovers of
liberty founded on law.—Count Louis Batthyanyi, Prime
Minister; Count Ladislaus Celan, i, Minister of Commerce ;
Baron Sigismond l'erenyi, President of the }louse of Peers ;
Baron Jeszeurk, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Nyitra ;
Baron Szatsvay, Member and Secretary of the Diet ; P:inee
Woronyieczky ; Prince Czernus, Councillor of State ;
Major ?if urman, Major Abancourt.
" Prisoners of war given up by Russia to the Austrian
executioners, and hanged or shot Lt. Arad on the 6th
October, 1849.—General Aulich, Minister of War ; Lieut.-
General Ernest Kiss, General Damianich, General Nagy
Sandor, General Dessevrify, General Count Leiningen,
cousin of her Majesty Queen Victoria ; General Count
Vecsey, General General Lohner, General Baron
Polrenberg, General Knesich, General Schireidl, General
Count Lazar, Colmel Kazinczy."

The Tsmes sounds alarm as to Turkish fanaticism.
There can be no fear of her equalling in atrocity the 'tea
of Russia and Austria of the 6th of October, 1849.

RE-OPENING OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND
MUSEUM, SALFORD.

The Free Library and Museum, situate in Peel
Park, Salford, are to be re-opened to-day. The gift of the
fine park, named after Sir Robert Peel, to the public of
Salford, is so fresh in the memory of the public., that we
need but mention it to recall the (acts connected with it.
Then, a few years later, in 1E49, came the opening of a fine
public library and museum, to which the people of Man-
chester and Salford (or anywhere else) have free admission'
from 10 a.m. to 'J p.m. every working day. And
next came the inauguration of a noble statue of
the lamented statesman, whose name the institu-
tions bear. The generous liberality of the founders
has not stopped here, however. The library, from a small
collection of 5,000 volumes, has swelled already into one of
12,000, and the museum increasing in an equal ratio ren-
dered the original boilding in which they were placed
quite inadequate, end an enlargement has had t i be made.
Messrs. Travis and slagnall, architect•, of Manchester, fur-
nished
designs fir carrying this enlargement into effect,
which required a fund of 5,0001.--a large aunt to be raised,
after the large subscriptions previously made. However 11
Mr.E. R. Langworthy led the way with a noble donation of
2,0001., the improvement committee of the corporation gave
1,5001. from the gas prvfits of the burough, and the execu-
tive committee of the museum added 1,0001., making
4,5001. towards the amount, and the path to this
great enlargement has been rendered tolerably easy,
The enlargements have much more than doubled the avail-
able apace to the library, whilst the mesuem has benefited
even to a larger extent. The following brief outline of the
interior arrangements of the building will give an idea of
the great change which has been effected. Entering the
building from the front door, to the vestibule, is a wide,
lofty, and spacious corridor, having some fine casts of sta-
tues from the antique arranged en either side, with a grand
staircase at the further end leading to the museum on the
second story. From the corridor doors open to the
right into the library and reading room. Taking the first
door to the right, you enter the library, which is in three
rooms, 68 feet in length by 24 wide, with a view
of the new reading room beyond, seen through
• glass door. The entire suite of apartments
bursts upon the view at once, giving • measurement of 152
feet. The reading room alone is 75 feet long by 30 feet
wide, and 16 feet in height. It is lighted by twelve lofty
and wide circular headed Italian windows, ten on the north
side and two at the further end, looking to the west. It is
furnished with fifteen tables, having a dozen seats at each
table, besides newspaper stands. The walls are hung with
Wylers map, presented by the publisher, and the tables
have paper and writing materials to be supplied gratuitously
to the visitors. The windows give a splendid view across
the park to the north, and acrossWallnessonf Kersal,and the
hills lying beyond Bury, including Holcombe Hill, and the
monument on its summit to Sir Robert Peel, which is about
sia•een miles distant. Returning to the corridor and
ascending the staircase, which is in two flights of
fifteen steps each, you reach the natural history
museum. The first landing of the staircase has
a fine Bacchic vase and some groups of statuary, whilst
the walls are relieved by slabs of gthe Elgin marbles and
other enrichments. At the top of the second flight of
stairs is a corridor corresponding with that below, having
statuary and other fittina in nice taste, lighted from the
ceiling, and partly from the breat west window at the stair-
case end. On the north side of this corridor is a door
opening into a room over the reading room, and of corre-
sponding proportions, only that it has a lofty vaulted roof,
with lights in it, the walls at the sides being reserved for a
picture gallery. There is already a collection of some fine
enoavings, and a few good paintings. Beyond this, over
the library, is a room containing one of the most com-
plete parts of the Museum, having in it upwards of
of a thousand specimens of British birds. A room at the
further end of the upper corridor, occupying the whole enst
front of the building, is devoted to foreign specimens of
ornithology, ntamalia, concbology, and other objects of co.:-
siderable interest. The museum has been on the whole
considerably increased, and visitors will find in it many
rare and interesting object.. To the library Sir Benj imin
Heywood, Burt., has added 122 folio volumes of journals of
the houses of parliament, and Sir John Potter has added
some valuable contributions to the natural history museum,
picked up on his recent tour in the East. Great credit is
due to Mr. Plant, the curator, for the tasteful fitting up of
the building.

A GRAND CEREMONIAL, in celebration of the con-
accrati,n and opening of a 9reund .fewiat Syn►g ig4e, ouk
place in Birmingham on Thursday. The religious pat of
the praceediug was followed by u dinner at the Royal
Hotel, at which Mr. Alderman Salomms pesided. Mr.
Mentz and Mr. Scholifidd, the borough mewbers, were
pre-ens. .

I'OPUL %R CoNcEttTa.—A new aeries of Wednesday
Evening concerts is about to be given at Exeter Hall on
a popular scale, while at the came time the arrangements
are to have special reference to the improvement which has
taken plaee of late years in the musical taste of the public.
They are to be under the titivation of M. Beneilict.