The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-19 00:00:00

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WINDSOIt, WEDNESDAT.—Tier Majesty and his
soya D i,theess Prince Albert, aocompani by their Royal
Royal, the
the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Berl, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, left the
code at nine o'clock this morning, attended by the royal
for Osborne House. Isle of Wight. The august party
occupied Svc csrriages and four. The Queen was escorted
ikon the Castle by a party of the Ist Life Gasrds. The royal
ithrty crossed over to the Isle of Wight in the Fairy yacht,
sad arrived at Osborne House at half past one o'clock.
Her Serene Highness the Princess Caroline of
geese, will close her visit to the Queen Dowager at Cashio-
lthrpparh, on Saturday or Istonday next. On leasing
Cathiebury her Serene Highness will come to Marlborough-
beese, and depart on Monday morning by railway for Dover,
where h:r Serene Highness will embark fur Ostend en route
to Germany.
Viscount Palmerston gave a cabinet dinner yester-
y evening, at his residence in Carlton-house-terrace, to
Lora John Hose% the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of 'Minh), Earl Grey, Sir George Grey,
Lordhancel of tho Exchequer, the •Earl of Auckland,
Campbell, Visonunt Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon,
the Marquis of Clanriearde. the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay.
The Speaker of the House of Commons had an
ipterriew with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday,
at his official residence, in Downing-street.
Lord John Russell returned to town yesterday,
from Windsor Castle.
Despatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope, and also front the Governor of the Mauritius, were
weaved vesterlay at the Colonial-office.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-office fur the Governors of the North American

province..
The Duke de Medina Sidonia, Grandee of Spain of
the first class, has arrived in London.
The Duchess of Marlborough's recent game-killing
bet at Blenheim, is likely to become the subject of an ins% S.
ti,eation before magistrates and commissioners of assessed
tiles. We understand that the duchess is about to be
charged in double duty tor killing game without a rerti-
lute, and that she is a1,.0 charged with au otienee against
the game-laws, in having killed game not being authorised
by a certificate so to do.—Globe.
THE BISHOPRIC OP SODOR AND MAN. We
understand that the itev. John Graham, I) D., master of
Christ's College, and rector of Willingham, Cambridgeshire,
has been appointed to the bishopric of Sodor and Man.

NIETROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.
TnE WARD OF FARRINGDON WITIIOLTT.—A
meeting of the inhabitant householders of the ward of Far-
riagdon Without was held yesterday, in the New Court, at
the Sessions-house in the Old Bailey (pursuant to adjourn-
ment from the 11th lust.), for the purpose of "resuming the
consideration of and protesting arainst the recently proposed
enormous outlay of the corporation funds, in the formation
of a new street, whilet the conservation of the health of the
citizens generally, and of our poorer felow-citizens espe.
cially, imperatively demands the adoption of the best means
for securing such ',seaters regulations as the present painful
exigencies of the ease require." It will be remembered.
from the report of the proceedings which appeared in the
columns of the E.rdress of the lath inst., that two of a
series of resolutions only were adopted by the meeting, and
that owing to the lateness of the hour to which the proceed-
ings of the day had beet protracted the meeting adjourned.
Yesterday, at the hour appointed, the alderman of the ward,
Sir James Duke, Knt., resumed the chair, and the discus-
sion of the objects for which the meeting had been convened
was resumed. To enable our readers perfectly to un-
derstand the proceedings of yesterday, it is necessary
to repeat that on the lea occasion of the congregation toge-
ther of the inhabitants of the ward, the following resolu-
tions were ad 1;1)1 with perfect unanimity: First (moved by
Mr. Wm. Carpenter, and seconded by Mr. Cleinow)—
nit this mee%ng has learn. with ourprioe and regret that the
Court of Common Cotincil loosed a resolution fur the appropria-
tion of a tam amtierting ton. arty dOU.OOaI., to the mating of a new
street ot very queotionaLle utility, and which will prohahly involve the
outlay of half a million more, without affording relief .tor the traffic
in some part of the most important and crowded thoroughfares of
the City of Loudon.
The secand resolution, which was moved by Mr. Camp-
kin, and seconded by Mr. Fowler, was to the effect—
fat Is .w important soccer it may be to increase for traffic in the
City ot London, there are other and much stronger claims upon the
tondo for those sanatory regulations upon which the health, comfort,
and tires of mane inhabitants of the City of London depend.
The Ward Clerk (Mr. Pontifex) having opened the pro-
ceedings by reading the minutes of the previous meeting,
Mr. BOYLE rose, and, after an able address moved the
adnptinn of a third resolution in these terms :.
That this meeting observes wilt deep concern that the mortuary
registers of the last year aiturd evidence of a great increase of deaths
be epidemic dims in the metropolis and the other large towns of
the kingdom, arisag out of the want of those proper tetnautry regula-
tions which it in the bounden duty of the legislature and of the local
authorities to adopt, and the imintdiate adoption ot which this meet-
ing would moot eirneffly press upon the corporation of the City of
London, includbig improved habitations fur those of the labouring
el ts,sys, who are compelled to dwell within or contiguous to the City,
and that a memorial to this effect be presented to the Court of Com-
mon Council, and that the other I ommon councilmen of the ward be
respectfully requested to glee it their moot strenuous support.
(Hear, hear.) In moving this resolution Mr. Boyle drove a
melancholy picture of the state of misery, diseaw, and death,
to which the occupants of many of the bye-lanes, courts, and
alleys within the ward, were hourly exposed. The corpora-
tion of the City of London could not but be aware of the
deplorable state of things which existed, on the contrary
the complaints as to the state of the drainage were met by
the reply that they did not possess the power to interpose.
The answer to that rich body was simply this: If you do not
posse.; the power, why, in the emergency, do you not
seek those which an art of parliament will confer upon
you. The corporate body had failed to do thin—they had
omitted retention to Dr. Lynch's motion on the subject,
submitted to them nine months ago, though their time would
have been better employed if they had directed their atten-
tion to Coe subject, instead of concocting panegyrics upon the
monarch of a neighbouring nation, who had recently, by his
conduct, shewn how little he deserved them. (Applause.)
Better would it he if the corporate body turned its attention
to the prevention of intermural burials, to improving the
sewerage, and thereby contributing to the health of the'r
fellow-citizens, instead of directing their attention solely to
the erection of large houses, and the building of wide streets.
(Hear, hear.) This duty, with a strong manifestation of
jobbery hod been neglected; and hence the constituent body
were now called upon to art for themselves, in order to secure
comfort, health, and I-fe, to their humbler but not less useful
fellow-citizens. (Hear, hear).
Mr. Seetzt fof Fleet-street), in seconding the resolution,
entreated the tolerance of the meeting if he expressed, or
could be supposed to express, any dissent from the objects for
which they were assembled. It would, however, he found
that, in the end, he entirely and fully concurred in therm
objects. He must, hewer( r, say that he entertained a firm
and fixed belief that, in the City of London, a large plan of
new streets was loudly called for ; and so far from blaming
the Improvement Committee of the Corporation for the
course they bad taken in that respect, he owed, and begged
to convey to them, his thanks. It could not be denied that
if something was not done to relieve Ludgate-hill and Fleet-
street of the traffic which rendered those great thoroughfares
unsafe to human life, in ten years the City would become
worse than Bartholomew fair war wont to be, and all strangers
would avoid an approach to its limits. (Hear, hear.) The
plan of improvement ought, however, to be much larger
than that which had been put forth, but he (Mr. Seeley) con-
curred with a previnu' speaker in thinking that the expen-
diture of five millions was quite unnecessary to meet the
case. (Applause.) lie found fault again with the contem-
plated improvement., because some portion of the funds
were not proposed to be applied to the improvement
in the condition of the courts and alleys with which
the district abounded, and in which it was indisputable
that disease and misery existed to a most alarming
extent. On the whole he had come to the conclu-
sion, after much consideration, to give his support to the
resolution which had been proposed.—The resolution was
then put to the meeting and adopted unanimously.
Mr. Anderton, and subsequently Mr. Deputy Obbard, Mr.
Deputy Bedford, Mr. Burn, Mr. P.. Taylor, -Mr. Williams,
and several other representatives of the Court of Common
Council, expressed their readiness to support the decision of
the meeting in the Court of Common Council.
Mr. STOKER, a member of the body, declared that no
good result could be expected from the corporation of London
until it had undergone a thorough and complete reform.
Mr. W. CARPENTER next moved that the memorial
founded upon the previous resolutions be now read.—The
motion having been seconded,
The WARD CLEnK read the memorial, frem which we
subjoin the following extracts, the document itself occu-
pying no less a time than about an hour in its perusal.
The memorial, after recapitulating the statements made in
the resolutions which had received the unanimous sanction
of the meeting, stated that the memorialists were aware that
the court regarded the protected street from King William-
street to Queen-street as part only of an extended line
to the south side of St. Paul's-churchyard, but the memo-
rialists
reli bgged to remind the court that theffi comparatively
small e
it ef which would afford to the trac of the City,
would fall far short of justifying the outlay of so large a
sum of money. Cheapside and the Poultry would no doubt
be relieved by a portion of the traffic being directed into the
new street; but, continued the memorial:—" We, after
the most careful and impartial consideration, have been
forced to the conclusion that it would be a compara-
tively useless outlay of the public money, and effecting
very little in the way of relief for the crowded state
of the existing City thoroughfares." The memorial then
proceeded at considerable length to describe the inconve-
niences which would arise front the present scheme, and
that still in the end no means would be afforded to improve
the sanatory condition of the population. Instead of carry-
ing out these great john, the memorialists, though they did
not undervalue the importance of increasing the facilities
for traffic, earnestly urge that there are under-
takings appertaining to the public health within the City
of Landon which 'molt immediately and imperatively de-
inard the interferenere anti consideration of the court. Wide
streets and handsome buildings were, no doubt, to be co-
veted; but, it vas notorious, es shown in the evidence
given before the Health of Towns and Poor-law Commis-
eiopere, in their fti4uiry into the sanatory condition of the
Inbeiiiving classes, that the disease and mortality of the
14etTollo:is had frightfully increased by the absence of
rich sanatory regulations as it as clearly with-
, the power of The corporation to supply."—
The memorial, after emphatically calling the attention of
• those to whom it is addressed to the facts stated, press d
upon the attention of the court that the matter of public
health had recently become a national question ; and yet
the corporation of London had failed in its exertions
take its place amongst the first cities in the world, by
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rting the means of giving comfort to those-from whom