The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

ebt court.

The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, Viscount
Palmerston, and the Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, left
Osborne yesterday morning.
Lord J. Russell was slightly indisposed yesterday,
at his residence, in Chatham-piece.
The Prussian Minister returned to his residence on
Carlton-house-terrace yesterday, from her Majesty's marine
residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight.

Yesterday the several commissions of the several
sewers districts in the metropolis were opened and read, and
the commissioners sworn for each. The oommiasioners
present and sworn were, Lord Morpeth (in the chair), Lord
Ashley, Lord Ebrington, R. A. Slaney, Eq., J. Hume,
Esq., Dr. W. Bucklnd, Dean of Westminster, Hon. F.
Byng, Sir J. Clark, Sir H. de la "Mete, E. Chadwick, Esq.,
J. Leslie, Eq., Professor R. Owen, W. J. Broderip, Eq.,
Dr. N. Arnett, Dr. S. Smith, R. L. Joins, Eq., J. Buller,
En , Rev, W. Stone, and J. Bidwell, Esq. The courts of
sewers were formally opened. and the provisional arrange-
, meats as to officers mane for each district. L. C. Hertafet,
But., was appointed clerk of minutes, orders, and corre-
spondence ; W. H. Stable, Esq., clerk of coilectious and
accounts; Messrs. Roe and Phillips surveyou for each of the
districts; and H. Austin, Esq., consulting surveyor, also,
fur the several districts. me clerks of the several districts,
and other salaried officers, were provisionally re-appointed
under the several courts, and orders made, and an aourn-
ment was ordered to Thursday, the
A deputation from Bristol, consisting of the mayor
of Bristol, the Hon. H. Berkeley, M.P., Mr. Philip Wes,
M.P., Means. Richard P. Kuag, James Gibbs, George
Thomas, W. °elderly, W. Tuthill, Francis Jarman, John
George Skaw, Human King, and the town clerk of Bristol,
had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Kibler Gibson
yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Earl of Devon had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Eschewr yesterday, at hie °Solid red-
deuce in Downing-street.
Despatches were reoeived yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Gibraltar.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. Sir Frederick Thesiger and Mr. Crowther
(Queen's counsel) were heard on an appeal from Canada,
" Logan e. Le Mesurier." The lords present were the
Muter of the Rolls, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the
Admiralty Court.

VISIT or HER MiddiTY TO Mosa.--We stated
some time ,nee the prilability of her llldol, *akin up
residence in this island doing the suntwaseWilw, and that
Castle Kona was liklkr Is be the reriesse deft We here
now pleasure la amossalai dee ear edelelb likely to
be realised. A patlismn. wise Arrived lee de week from
London, has informed as that her Medal, *INA te visit
one shores next summer, and will Mile • fine weeks
at amonpt blase Sun.

ELECTION OF MR. SALOMONS AS ALDER-
MAN.
CORDWAINERS' WARD. Yesterday afternoon a
warelmote wu held in the vestry of the church of St, Mary-
1a Bow, for the daelioa of an alderman for the
ward of Cordwainera in the teem of Mr. Thomas Wood,
resigned. The Lord Mayer peedded, attended by Mr.
Charles Pearson, M.P., City MOW * Walling, as memo
for the occasion. There were premed r. Alderman Sidney,
Mr. H. L. Jones, Mr. David Wine, let several other well-
haunt City facet. Deputy Madden and the Common
Oennethani of the ward were am in disk places. The
EOM Lionel de Itothantild, X.P., wee eci to attend,
and, levied, twin cm pert of the Preseedtap was lent for,
but Malmo wee vadmessoCto Prevent his making his th-
The = havbrg been read, and ate usual
I =es am
Mr. WINUAX Rimilnat'Ad Mr. David Salmons se a lit and
peeper peens te 11l the orbs of Aldermen et the ward.
1 Them was, he said, eine eidelipp ever egged to Mr.
ealoomea, and that eo
telett was Ili braes of faith.
Bat In these days differences of Nth Mat UMW la
questions of fitness and if • games lamb eat h
qualified him fora 'poet, eight to semider it • pri
to elect him without eeMairhsr the daihremse of fel
The gentleman he Impend Whew tried is melons public
stations, and hang to be NI waive, benevolent, talented,
and liberal-minded MM. He had, altimegh a Jew, ghee
an endowment Ara eiesimitip of the value of 601. a pm to
the City of louden lee& (Hear, hear.) He lei been
sheriff of this Oh end M another county. He wee
Veto o
two erealfse, sad *amend kimealloraluable=
bench in both. TM lees they hod emeehoni in the bellies
habits of Mr. AM. Wood meld net be better 'applied that
by Mr. Selemons, and he begged ameedimrly to propose ides
for electies.
Mr. Lorr, a solicitor in the ward, samba the seeder
tion. Before the question was pet,
Mr. AINOIBIL, an inhabitant, rose to call attention to an
article which had appeared in a *thin journal (the Doily
News) relative to the constituency of this ward. The matter
was of some consequence, and he believed there had been a
mistake. He believed the conetiamsey remisted of 820,
nearly double the number mentieesd.
An INHABITANT, whose name we could not learn, said
Mr. kluger laboured under a =Make. He happead to
knew that, though there were 820 householders or more,
there were only 126 Individuals entitled to minim the
franchise. The existing arrangements, as had been Jody
said, were matters of greet alum. He himself bad opened a
tavern in the ward, and within a fortnight after he had opened

It be was ogled upon to take up his civfe freedom, ffithough
within a door or two of him were rich merchants doing
thousands of pounds worth of badness a day, who were
saver required to do anything of the sort. He felt the pre-
ssed system to be a wrong end a persecution upon the small
dealer.
Mr. CLazit, an inhabitant, said that with regard to the
uomination before theta he must oppose Mr. Salomon' en
religious grounds. He was a Christian, and ha did not
think his interests ought to be committed to a Jew.
The Loan MAYOa called for the show of hands, which was
I taken and exhibited-49 for Mr. David Saloanons and 3
against him. His lordship therimpoe declared Mr. Salomon
to be duly elected.
Alderman SALOMONB then cams forward to return thanks.
After expressing his deep sense of the high honour con-
ferred upon him, he said that on the one point that hod been
urged against him he wished to be unreserved end explicit.
It was his hope and belief that his conduct SI a magic-
Mate of this greet city would carry conviction to the minds I
of all that the duties of a public offioer might be discharged
faithfully and ably without regard to religious difference&
On matters of religion he, for his part, felt that be was an-
constable to his o.xl ; on matters of duty he was account-
able to them who honoured him with their confidence. It
was his boast to act on this principle, that there was no reli-
gious liberty without civil freedom ; and that the converse
held good, that there was no civil freedom without religious
liberty. With respect to what had been said about the con-
stituency, he believed It to be true that there were but 125
qualified voters in the ward; but of these he had promisee
from liO, and if there had been 210 qualified voters, be felt
assured that he should have had the support of the 200.
(Hear, hear.) He concluded by returning them his most
heartfelt thanks.
Mr. CAIILI6LE, en old and respectable inhabitant, pro-
posed a vote of thanks to their late alderman, Mr. Thomas
Wood, for the great anxiety he had always displayed to pro-
mote the interests of the ward. The motion was seconded
and carried unanimously, one gentleman expressing gnat
regret that the Court of Aldermen had done Mr. Wood the
great wrong of refusing to elect him to the civic chair.
Alderman thLOMONS then proposed, and Mr. Deputy
MUDDELL seconded,"lOU of thanks to the Lord Mayor;
and a vote of thanks having also been pained amid acclama-
tion. to Mr. J. J, Millard, who had very ably performed the
office of ward clerk fur the day, the warffinote was dissolved
by proclamation.

DEATH or AMABTER ix CHANClERY.—Weannonnoe,
with much regret, the death of Samuel Duckworth, Eaq.
one of the mestere in Chancery. Itr, Duckworth wee elected
member of parliament for Wonder in 1835 ; and, although
he did not take any conspicuous part in public life was always
en enlightened, conghttent, and steady adherent of the liberal
party. In 1839 he was chosen to fill a vacant mastership in
Chancery, the duties of which he discharged in a way is do
equal credit to his own high professional character and to
the discrimination of the minister who selected him for the
°Mts.—Chronicle.
DEATH OF MR. MURPHY, THE WEATHER PROPHET.
—Mr. Murphy, whose lucky predictions some few years
elate nearly cost Messrs. 'Whittaker, the publishers of his
Almanac, the destruction of their premises, owing to the
rush of customers anxious to secure copies of his lucubra-
tion, died suddenly on Wednesday last, at hie lodgings. lie
had just completed arrangements for the issue of an edition
of his Almanack for 1848, and was with his publisher, Mr.
Effingham Wilton, in perfect health, only a few hours prior
to his death. Mr. Murphy was, we understand, a disciple
of Father Matlsew.—Globe.

BUSINESS AND BELL&—Sir,—AVOWIe to com-
plain of a most intolerable annoyance to persons carrying on
business in the neighbourhood of the Royal Exchange.
For about two hours the chimes have been hammering away
at " God save the Queen," out of time, and out of tune.
Surely, if it is necessary to have the hells tried, it might be
done after business hours, for it is enough to drive one mad
to bear the wretched sounds. Pray give a hint in your
paper on this point.—DunitatTen.
FREE BATHS MID WASH-HOUSES.—CHEAP CHARITY.
—lt may be useful to those who, in various crowded towns, are
desirous of becoming the promoters of cleanliness, and con-
eequeotiv of health, among the poor, to be informed of the
extremely cheap rate at which their benevolent wishes may
be carried into effort We have before as the second annual
report of the free baths and wash-house establishment,
Glasshouse-yard, Bast Smithfield, from which it appears
that during the year there were 34,843 bathers, 38,44,5
washers and dryers of 2,51,446 articles of clothing,
and 11,296 ironer' making a total of 84,694 per-
sons who shared the edvantaaes of the establishment,
without one farthing cost to themselves. In addition to the
bathing and washing many hundreds of the poor in the
neighbourhood, asai•ted by the gift of whiners& and the
loan of pails and brushes, were induced by the association to
purify the wretched and unwholesome dwellings during
the summer and winter, • most important measure at all
times, and especially so last year, considering that the
autumn was followed by • long and revere winter,
and a spring during which the overcrowding, disease
and sufferiog to which the destitute poor are ordi-
narily exposed, were greatly aggravated by the des.
titnuon then so generally prevailing. It will surprise,
end we trust encourage, many of our readers to " go and do
Ilkairiee," when they learn the very small coot at which
• extensive benefits were performed. The working en-
Erter the establishment for the year was no more than
in 6d., while the out-door expenditure for whitewash-
ing sad purifying the wretched homes of the neighbour-
ing peer was only 161.5 x. Allowing one-farthing a head as
the expense of 11,296 ironer' (111.16 x. 4.1.), the total expellees
of the 73,288 bathers and washes were 3051. 71. Id , or Id.
a-head. At this cost of Id. each, 34,843 warm bashs were
given, every bather having an ample miry ef clean warm
water, a clean towel, and • small piece o soap; and 38,446
persons bad a sufficiency of hot and cold water, and of soda
and soap, to wash more than • quarter of a million ef articles,
the greater partof which, when waabed, were dried and venti-
lated in a chamber by means of a purifying current of
heated sir. The increase of bathers, washers, and none's,
over these ef the former year was 14,940, showing that the
poor sue not slow in availing themselves of such advantari
when placed within their reach. It is to be hoped that
Ude well-managed establishment will prove an example
which will be followed in many places where there are poor
and crowded neighbourhoods. It is in the power of a few
earnest and benevolent persons among the mere affluent in
every town to set such • boon on foot. With these facts
before them, the citizen' of Edinburgh, for example, need
not wait fur " leginative powers" to commence benefiting
their fellow-crsatieres in a similar manner to the subieribers
to the free baths in Best Smithfield.

INQUESTS, YESTEMDAY.—TRE MURDER AND ROB-
near OP ML BszamsAYDß2B. Before Mr. Bedford,
the coroner for Westminster, resumed at the °roman
Arms, Kensington-place, Regent-street, respecting the
death of Mr. John Bellehambers, who was murdered
and robbed on the 11th of last October.—G. Goodwin,
J Bradley, police constable 42 L, W. Meyer, and polka:
constable 157 B, repeated the evidence shady reported
under the head of Westmin ter Police-court. T. Prounger,
II 67, said that on the 11th of October he was called to the
King's Reed publio-house, in Oichard-street, when be saw
Mr. Breese turning persons out of the build's; sang* the
number were the prisoners fii•Ccry. Doyle, sal Isle. The
parties having dispersed witness went ;Quad his beat es be
ea the end of Cooper-street, when he noticed M'Coy sass&
tag et the corner of New Pyestreet. A ten awned Oseally
was there also; be was a coalheaver, and wars a shun
weak-frock, cap, and knee-breeches. Whin Ow sew mie-
n. at the corner of Cooper-street they •=1
afterwards saw. the deceased come out of the Heed ;
be went up Orchard-street, towards Strutheisned. Thee
was about fire minutes after 6. A mune or two am'
that ke heard the prisoner Doyle halloo.—By the Corona:
I knew him well, and I could swear that It wee his voice.
Witness ran to Decuestrest, and saw Doyle, M'Cay, and
B.Je going in the same direction the deceased went. Was
quite certain they were the parties. He knew the whole of
them. He followed them up the stunt towards Strutton-
ground, and when they got to the corner of Duck-lane they
sue another shout. He went up to them, and said if they
continued to make that noire he should take them up. They
then went up Bunton-ground, and witness lost sight of
them. On the 13th he took M'Coy into custo....y. He told
him that he weatud him fur stealing a watch from Mr. Ball.
elimebers, and he eleiestly smoulting hint in Kensington-
ekes, es en 11th et Gaoler. M'Coy said tliat he certainly
was is the street, bat that he knew nothing of what he wee
e with. Wilson afterwards apprehended Doyle. On
the et October be west with Inspector Taylor to 16,
Unisenstat, Oreikeed emit, to fit the bolt of • shutter lock.
He afed the divan dike window belonging to the room
whin Sala mod Wen, stanied, and found that the bolt
Seed the leek. The leash* of the house said, "Where
did yes get that belt;
rnetpr=dto my nutters ?" On the
21se alert menk he Lloyd, who said it Wu •
Win to be taken, he was Innocent, and that he left the
Knee Head as the nentlng at tea minutes before four
e'elork, sad that be went directly home.—By the Grocer :
Saw Lkryd se the morning of the robbery, from five to tea
Wenn helm tour o'clock. Mr. Bellckambers, when
he In the lone, walked as steady as witness could then.—
C. L. Gary, warder of the Honer of Detention, repeated his
endless se M what M'Coy bad told him about wishing to
an the govern., and she to his asking for pen and ink.
—Mr. J.
_Bendennee, bookseller, of 424, Strand, said
that the desersad was his father : he was principal engineer
at the Lathe Melba Works, in &her-street. Hs Moot
with wanes on Oct. 10, and left him about 6 o'clock, whim
be wee rellastly sobev, and fe exesnest health. The oss.
be wee else Ihr end bad aseesset tssesibis. He
be that skis et the telleerlog Sers*, ghee equ—Mt.
lespotiev Wee priori theessrmus 111Vey lei mit
sines he heathen k wesio=rbadosielhe boa
appeseeL—liewel ether letkotellell=
Mart maJanse, the sermer peesembei to snot up. ivory-
Wei the bed beard eet et sent emelt to be dlemistod
ben their They would do well to take the ebbe
tent of tl'Oer "sty se far le he wee pease* onestebet,
no mutter bow thing its ht sppear spirt other yolks.
After an hen% ta the Jury returned a neat of
" Wilful murder against T. Sale, G. T. Ig4Jai
Lloyd, oedema:her man unknown ; T. Sale being
in the first denser, G. ti'Coy and T. Doyle in the eland
degree, and I Ll. oyd and a MIL unknown aceseines
before the het."—Ati.zont btavatclos.—Befeee
Biker, naiad, at the British Oak, Baltnalrest,
Luke's, an the ballot Mn. HannahTutton, *gel
nine, a vas., residing at 13, lioneletain, 111
above vidoky, Ames oath was alleged to have beat sew
Mooed bythe Amines Ober me WWlftt, a eels Anne The
impale wee Algona ter sdreassetaa:7
beviss beet stated by Ile. as telsetekes, tat
the roe street, that deceased bad told et a few days prior
to bite death that ker see led gnu her • death-blow in a
quern that took plan seals in weeks previously, and he
had bees taken behre the isegiatrate twice for assaulting his
enthused his sisters, blame subsequently discharged.—Mr.
Powell, a surgeon, stated that he was first called to the do.

ceased on the Nth of Nennaber last, having previously et-
Minded bar eadessa. Thaw bad, is eenissetion with
Mr. Oard'hway, ,.as
aped weardso sisswissarkw, and head
the award ansmasawasa la a who had dined has the
daweamilra dinar of gm warflbefieg7
swore. awlliast work he disiL flan was
=itopti
the testi of
mony szteui
olf the Ceolosay,
last witnem.
Fise of the jury thought that, although it had been
that death was the result of amoral
nootmeu7 that the dory avid this assassd
Amid be geared up. It had hew *dad is Nth that ths
daesassd was sews with a braised Acs, and that those Juju-
rise were indicted by the swa.—Tha Chewer alt, the circum-
stance of the violence on the part of tha annseed towards his
mistime was mach to he deplored, but it had nu beariug
upon the cese, &Mee it had been proved by evidence that the
deoeued's death was the result of natural causes, to which
effect a verdict was returned.

THE RECENT STORM.
On Sunday morning between 3 and 4 o'clock, the
metropolis and suburbs were visited with a violent storm of
wind, hail, and rain, that continued with unabated fury for
full 30 minutes. The wind blew with terrific violence, the
rain descending in a cataract, accompanied with hailstones of
an:extraordinuy site. The waters of the Thames presented
more the appearance of an arm of the sea than an island
river ,• a number of boats and barges got adrift and sustained
considerable damage from collisions. The shipping in the
pool also sustained injury from the loss of spars ; some hav-
ing broken from their moorings and got ashore. In the nur-
sery gardens in the suburbs considerable damage has been
I sustained in glass being broken by the hailstones. At sea the
disasters were most severe. We leans from Southampton that
tire Erin, which left on the 3rd with the Indian mail, has
been obliged to put into Dartmouth. The South Water's,
with the Channel Islands mails, due last night, has not yet
arrived. The Lady de fiansurez, which left on Saturday
night with the American mails for Havre, was obliged, to
return. The Courier, which left here on Saturday night
with the Channel Islands mails, has put into Portland Reads.
News has reached Southampton that the French Trans-at,an-
tic steamer, Union, which left Havre on the 24th ult., had
beau obliged to put into Cherbourg, with 6 feet of water in
I her hold.
A Dover correspondent states that at daybreak oar Sunday
morning a vessel was descried ashore on the Goodwin Sands.
&mend loggers managed to pot off, but the sweet wax partly
buried in the sands, with her foremast standing, and to get
at her was impoesible. A formidable see was beating over
her and tearing the used to pieces. The buts endeavoured
to obtain her name sad port, but failed, the fragments of the
wreck affording ribt the slightest elite. Before the buts
quitted her destruction wan complete. Her crew it is feared
all perished, for nothing has since been heard of them, and
the circumstance of the ship's boats being amongst the
wreck confirms that belief. By appearances the Ili-fated
vessel was a foreigner.—Another fatal wreck took place in
the course of Saturday night in Pevensey, B.y, near Hastings.
The unfortunate ship was the Addolarata, of and from
Naples, which had sailed from the river Thames on the
Thursday previous with a miscellaneous cargo. In the
height of the gale she became unmanagable, and drove
ashore nearly opposite No. 68 Tower, in the bay. Nine of
the crew perished, and three men and a boy came ashore on
a raft and were saved. The vessel and cargo are com-
pletely lost, and the former has gore to piecee.—
fo the northward of the Nore several losses are reported.
About seven o'clock on Sunday morning the master of the
Diligence, belonging to Brightensea, near Wivenhoe, de-
scribed two vessels to have laundered in the Swin, about
half a mile of each other, on the south side of the Gun.
fleet, midway between the beacon and the S.W. buoy. One,
to all appearance, was a brig, and the other a three-masted
vessel. Farther northward on the Gunfieet were wrecked
two other vessels, namely, the Albion, from Sunderland,
Mr. Bell, muter, and the Bridgehoim. Both crews were
saved. The above is but a very brief statement of the casual-
ties that have been communicated to us. Unfortunately the
weather has not moderated ; a heavy gale is still blowing
from the SSW.