The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-02 00:00:00

gbe_ 60111 ft.

()assume, Futodu.—Tits royal dinner party yester-
day iaeleded the Dllllllls of Yew, the Primo tiohenioh•
Langeaboary, Priam. Miss of lielaendehe lasembdurS,
LHarcourt.ady Lana Maria Dames, sad CeL sod Lady Catherine

Sir J. Pell, had an interview with Earl Grey yes-
terday, et the coloaill-omor.
The Lord Mayor had an interview with Sir G.
Orey on Thee, lay, st the Hosimoffior.
Mr. J. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yeittrday, in
Doindatetree
Deepatehes were sent off yesterday evening from
thee Colonislodiee for the 00Ver00111 of the North American
eint. &matches were Ma sent off last evenind front
the Colooimodim for the Governors ef the West India
*lianas.

A committee of the Privy Council for Trade and
Foreign Paintations bad a among yesterday, lathe Council
Chamber, Whitehall. The lords mint were: The Presi-
dent of the Board is Trade, the Vioafresideat of the Beard
offside, the Secreiary or State for the Colonies, the Chis-
eller el the Duchy of Laser/ter. sad Sir E. Eyes.

THE PitOI.OOVITON OF PAILIASIENT.—A supple-
meat to the Gaulle was Lased last night, containing the
falswiss n;tke Palm* of Westeuseter, Lord Orem
Chamberlain's Oda. Sept. 1, 1848 :—All peeresses, on an-
ima* their istention of being present on the occasion of
the
he
of parliament, will have places reserved for
dem in the Roue of Dods, if the announcement be made
Mile LIM Great Chamberlain's °flee before five o'clock on
lleeday the 4th I.scant. Peen' eldest sons, wishing to be
rause as the prorgation, will lave tickets for the peers'
eldest son' boa forwarded to them, upon a rarities or pee.
maal applieatiou at the (Am Ifo strangers can be ad-
mitted, on the day of the prerspiles eseeptby a ticket from
the Lind Greet Chamberlaia's Ude,. The doors will be
2.171 at twelve o'clock. WILLOUGHBY Ds SIIIIIRT,

(Pre. lut night's (Hseffo.)
DOWNING-STILIttf, SEPT. I.—Tbo QOM hen been
Owed to appolue James Bonfield Peter., E. to he Asdat-
a* Judge and Master of the Rolls for Prises Edward
Lima •;
baton alto Curies Bell, Eaqiiio be Sonryar.droonl;
R Robinson, ,to be Pint Assistant
eneral ; and Gawp ostirl, Kn., to 13° Si.
541i1KPZItt Surveyor-General, for the settlement of the
Cepa of Gad Hope.
Calleititaa-notan, AWL 30.—The Duke of Caro-
au Leen pleased to appoint Henry Stanhope IWog
, of Arliogton-street, Apothecary, in the pima of
myriad Da. Lon, Esq., resigned.

WAR.OfFIaI, Ilartume OIL
SSW lA. Umtata le be estinaseta, time W.
lime% who MA ups
lels IA. Deep —l.teeL C.abir le be tep.„ by par, vies Pow&
arbe nth ; Closet F. W. Orme le beby Meeper..t, by per, able Caster ; the
Ran. A. A. & Assailay te be te m& atee Onset
I. leap 000.-ofipt. W. F. Ream* Cbtarles tram the IR
F„ te be Wel. art apt Ate Ogee,. twhe
A& int. of F.—Lieet. raft.l. J. Otaastitia,= Re hob Yea.
War 06, le be opt, vise Thement Om% •
Sib F.—Rea. A. Illetwaßbl, le ba liset., by par. IrleatislCiell. vita
naves; A. 0. War* pet, le be tea. by pet, the Ileawriabt.
Itth F.—apt. C. L wmf. Mese h..p, ustet„ Si Si opt., alet
—LitsL aws• NIP, hi R. Wee Ftlth,_Wil. 10.4
Us& 1.*11.16/yeealt, fres h..p. Ski F., se be lint, vice Epe. at"
ppm& Nth F.; Era .1. G. Rey, to be heel., by per., vies Ore;
ism R. T. lag, len F, am, aka Nay.
UM F.—C. R. Maealebt, pat., to Si tee, by par., akal lam app.
le tbe RR F.

-47th P—llieet. W. A. lyre, trom the Or P., tele parear.,
D. L. Cox, who reL epee b..p.
ter F.—Lind. C. W. Br
to be rot, by ree., roe Lemett,
who reg.; Sae. C. L Cbieterter, to belt. etaarb.p:;, ties Nareag;
0. Thera, reeet, to Ite=biberz dee
H. nt yr, to be der.. by pee., doe
Cafe, vie rt.; C. R. lawn. Gist., to be ea., b yew., eke
hiabery.
yd. err IF.-11. IL liorrsterde, Oat. te be goo, without. per., lift
Lk
• r.—Lient. J. W. 11. Mai Is M yarart, ii.. IL T. Hew,
=
Yelp arra wither rem Mad. W. taws, ter re led War lattla Refit, to b •
Pest, tree 111.4,a, rhea aperiereerO it Ina ereetted ; E.
D. J. eleoCellty, ter Y. Mr F.. le Is tat, direst per., viee
&Mildesseree.
/Reg bets Itetdmeot.—Heti. S Wbodee to be Neut., without
per., vise Lyn, .pp. to the Nth P.; Kr. 3. direr= t. b. tfroL,
by yid, eke dirt.. ire raw; trej. P. breed, hoot the teth
be he ego. by par., eke Midterms; W. a. Berm gat. to Se an.
wirer per, eke beeir.
Oreve.—yearter Hood. trees ad to be paymarer of •
Mere....~. re• H. P. Peeeter.
rr—Tbe neoevel et blotsT. IPCres, from the
Mr to the reotoroot. sod to. Firers of Hr. E. D. J.
MrCerthy. to be Heat., la 91th P., la weeeers, r rated In the
Gantt* of leth August ler, bar bees ereeellett.

Tax nut lic Farram.ann.—Yesterday, an in-
quiry into t^e cause of the Ire which be ke out on Wednes-
day morning last is the house of Mr. Thompson, machine-
nder, at 17, King's-head-court, was o-mnienced before Mr.
W. Payne, the City MOW, at the White Hart, Fetter-lime.
The evidence was taken at considerable length. Shortly
after 1 o'clock oft etc morning of the 30t1 ult. • firs was die- ,
covered region in the cellar of the abuse house, the &meal
spreading until nearly the whole was on fire, and in a short'
time destroyed. Me. Thompson had left the premises to go
to his dweiling.house at 10 o'clock, sad the whole of the
workmen were gone by 12 o'clock, the foreman having
tumid cif the gas at the main. One of the witnesses, a
woman living opposite, said that she saw a light in the par-
lour, which was used as a lusher room, su.d contained a
quantity of shavings of paper used in the businee a, as late as
10 o'clock, wh le Mr. Thompeon's men errors positively that
the room had not been entered since Mondsy, and that et
the time mentioned It was lucked, and the key in the fore-
man's packet. One of the men of the fire brigade 'Wed
that when he went down into the viler he foetid a portion
of the gee pipe broken, not melted, and from the stop-cock
aster ained that the gas had not been turned off at the main.
—The Corener said the evidence was very conflicting, and it
would be advisable to get man witnesses to the facts Spoken
of.—The inquiry was then adjourned.

LEICESTER ELECTION.
Yesterday the nomination of candidates took place
in the front of the Exchange, Leicester. A great number
of liberal electors assembled at the N. w-haU, and meow
Instead Messrs. Horns and &lie from thence to the holing.,
when they strived at ten o'clock, the hoes appelated for
the memmeneseacat of the proceedings. A fete misstates

afterwards Mr. Paget and a nimber of ;enervative electors,
together with a company of " lambs," arrived from the
Ball Hotel, and Mr. K. Macaulay, barrister, who was ex-
pected es a candidate in the conservative interest, and a
Wenger, who was supposed to be his colleague, with some
of the mere influential coneenaties 'hewn, were also on
the hustings. After the usual preliminary business had
been rote through,
J. Stool', E•s; , came forward to nominate R. Finis,
Esq., ae a fit and proper person to represent the borough fa
parliament. He did this with great pleasure, bemuse he
had the highest esteem for the private character of the
gentleman he propertied, and because that gentleman bad
lived long amongst the people of L. r and had their
interests at heart. Ile called upon the electors to give
Mr. Harris their vote., brans' he had long ben a con
'latent advocate of the rights of the people, and because,
in private life, he was just and upright. Their late mem-
bers tad been unseated by means which were c twanily
and unwaroantable, and he (Mr. Biggs) believed many of
the hie torten had not identified themselves with the
co hiss. If they had been able to go into court with
clean hands, he would have respected them ; but it was well
known that the Wins were much the wont, He did net'
theyeralt of the
had emveras indnivibtl.uatla,..h:tit
foureaiLatrt stet:lease: parts
se 4
bribery. Their young men were already veterans,
and their oil men had grown grey in the cause of
bribery. They were a party who, whether in est ent
of power, locally or in oarliament, hail ever stood lerward
as opponents of liberal measures, and avowedly hoatile to 1
civil and redeem libel ty. In that borough they had dilapi-
dated the tows estate, and abstracted the funds of the orphan
and widow fee electimnering purposes. And what had"they
dims in parliesUit ? They had plunged this country Into
majnet woe and lavish expenditure • they had ineremed our
debt and rained our reourees ; expenditure;
their energies were
levelled against freedom in this country and throughout the
world. Referring again to the gentleman he proposed as
their representative, he said he laid great stem on the private
character of Mr. Lank, for where could they expect pusgie
virtue if it wee not found allied to private worth ?
He (Mr. Biggs) called upon the uon-electurs to stimulate
their mom fortunate brethren to put them in the right way,
to tell them they were stewards of the unenfranchised, that
they held a sacred trust for them. To tell them t 3 vote for
men who would seek for a decreer of expenditure, a more
equal system of troth te, and oppose any further aggran
dnenent of the established church—foe men, in fine, who
would endeavour to give each of them a vote.
ALFRED BIALOUS, Eiq., seconded the nomination, He
recommended Mr. Harris as a man of business in contradis-
tinction to amu of teak. Oran great fault cf the present
House of Commons was, a great quantity of words for
a small amount of work.
Alderman FIELDINO nominated John Ellis, Esq., who, he
said, was so well known to them all that it was unnecessary
to say much about him. If it was desirable to tend two men
from among them, there were none fitter than the gentle-
man who had already been proposed and Mr. Ellis. Mr.
Ellis did not court the distinction, but had come forward at
the earnest request of his friends and the etcetera With
regard to his political principles, there had never been any
movement for the advance of their liberties or the good of
the town, but he had always taken an active part in it. He
wee eminent as a man of businsee, and such men were
wanted.
Alderman NUNNILY seconded the nomination.
Mr. T. Moos nominated Henry Paget, Esq., who be said
was a neighbour well known to them se • man of property,
and perfectly independent. He was in favour of reform but
net of revolutions. He was a supporter of the institutions
which bad stood the test of ages, Its would be the same is
parliament as at home, and not like the radicals, who pro-
based liberal opinions when out office, but were the biggest
tyrants upon earth when in power. He was a man who
would not seek for patronage, either for Limolf or family,
mad one who would be able to attend to their interests.
Mr. HIND, of Orooby, seconded the nomination.
Great anxiety then prevailed as to who would be dart
second coeserniive candidate (Mr. K. Macaulay was ire-
carded as certain to be on), and the result of the movement
of that party, on the two previous days, wee esp.eted at last
to be made public; but the mayor asked three times if then I
was any other candidate to be proposed, without receiving
any rept,. The show of hands was then taken, and declared '
to be in Savour of Messrs. Harris and Ellis, which announce-
ment was received with a mixture of cheers and groans, the
former very mach preponderating. A poll was demanded on
behalf of Mr. Paget, after which the candidates addresa:d
the electors.
Mr. Haunts regretted the cause of their assembling that
, day. They had lost the tomer of the best men Leicester
ever returned to parliamentmen of integrity and industry,
and advocates of those rennin which the majority of the
elector of Leicester were anxious to see effected. He did
not blame the poor men who had been iodated to give fake
evidence so smelt's the parties who induced ikon to come
forward for such a purpose by promisee which men pinched
be poverty found it di cult to withstand. He did not we-
eder that remunerating a poor man for lees of time at an
election was corruption. He had taken pan In
all
the eleetioos for that borough since 1790, and it bad
been the custom to eager p runners," and it was always
considered mopes to remurerate them. He never taw en
election, in the course of his experience, which was con-
ducted with more pm)), lety than the last. He had filled
every office in theborough te which they could elect him, and
he we now imbed upon to All one of higher and more im-
perils* diallos. A young msss, t_rejoiee at this, bat, at
his be would rather have retired into private ills. He
lied bass repseted, hewer, ti t 'Lew himself to be semi-
area. reed felt that he mold net Milne assedhig to their
ebbs. He was willing, if required. to spend hie last days
la tbele emir, and for the pod of kis country. He was
Isionadent, end, if rotund, there was no noon to fear
that fes the sake of patronage he sheeld swerve trona the
=be had ever advocated. What those Writ tea
all knew mho had been actively engaged law pt
dim ar the last foity yos.
Mr. ELLIS said he Owl m
in a position never contemplated
biy Wm, end which he had neither sought nor desired ; bat,
at the re iseit of two follseatial meetings of demon, be hal
allowed to be=ferward as a cand.dete. There
were times whim men 'How their inclination to gf in
ruing
_tomuff. and this we me of them He had spell
Milne inspet them. widthwise, seed net realm his po.
Wig spokes. Tbe pgulados sod impertime of the
town Mil ilsoldod AIM Go bad bum and if
they this& Et to send Ids to parliams=ll=mdes.
your to mai their lstomMe.
Mr. PAO!! said holm& Nes ilirmard M ogres tbs sem
candidates, bemuse as, war bestobt bawd as moo
km the Me memissee. He was of the old
;whir= hatasif. (A odes : " Nappy family I"
With roped to the charter, some portion of it)
might be He disagreed with Mr. Gardner
r to
ousted.
down the church ; he considered it
a useful age to the star. He was decidedly in favour
of free tee e. No taxes ought to be levied for protect ion ;
but only for revenue There might be a considerable eaten-
don of the suffrage, but it should be preceded by education.
He would do all he could for @decadent.
K. MACILIILLT, Beg., as a roservative, claimed a right as
an Englishman to reply to tie charges which had been
brought spines his party. They were charged with not

pieg fate wart with ekes heads. He emeerted that itir
MING were pertretly tree heat bribery. He hal hem asked,
thea why ass aetalaate Mr. Parker t It was wit likely that
Kr. Parker shield always sear forward to mutest the else.
ties hr that laweesh.
Attar the aseehotie* the Meade of Mom. Hank sad
Ella returned to the Now Hell, where several addremees
were delivered I. their tavear sad Mr. Peget sad Mr.
Mesas Menem& their Meath la host od the Bell hoteL No
bead to beasees were beeeibt oat by either party.
The pals, essaateasas as 8 Velosk this (Ilatarisy) sm.
fag, midmost at 4.