The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

GR IND FETE AT CAMBRIDGE HOUSE.

Their Royal Highnesses the D tko and Duchess of
Ca ~bri ige had a dinner ;only yesterday at Cambridge }hue°.
Tne company con"id d of his Ex-elleney the Ileuoverisin
%Heider, the Duke and Duette'. of Beaufort, the Duchess of
Suecleuch, the Marquis of Wasche"tur, the Marquis of
Anglesey, the M irchrone's of Ailesbory, the Marquis of
Linsilowne, the Marqu:s of Granby, the Earl ant Countess
of Wilton. the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, I.,^rd and
Lady Marian Alford, Lord Elphin,tone, lord and Lai., V.
Onrdon Hallyburton, and the E irl of Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge afterwards gave a ball
which wu numerously .'tended by the principal nobditp.
Iler Royal Highness received tar ddsinsuished visitors
in the principal e'rawing roam. Tht other drawing-rooms
and the rest of the state 'sixes were °pea. 4 for the
reception, and, tssether with the grand s:ni case and
the inner hall were most tastefully decorated with d twcriite
shrubs and plants. Her Royal Highness' the Duchess
Gloucester, attended by Lady Caroline Murray, arra; 1 r,t
twenty minute. bet red (levee o'clock. At eleven o'clock
their Royal Bisbee's*. the Duke and Duchessofeanthridge.
the Duchess of Gloucester, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of
Meeklenbu-g-Stre in, Prince George, and the Princess
Mary, fol'owed by the avomblcd guests, entered the ball-
room, wi ich was brilliantly lit by three mrgnifleent crystal
lustre.. Herr Strauss and hie minium wrrs in avendenee
in this room. A
quadrille was formed and danci ,g cos-
meretd. At one o'clock a sumptuous eupz.er was raved ht
the state dinner room.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

TUE PEI/CRAM OP LAND IN IRELAND COMMITTEE.

When the court Pssembled of Thursday last arei-
ally to take into considers ins the que:.tion of appoin.ing a
committee on eke subject of the purchase of land in Ireland,
it was agreed to that th- &lumen present and the eldunva
not present who might b 2 members of parliament aliculd hes
members of such committee. The names of uveral
eider-
meo neerrdingly apptared upon the record of the court's
proceedings.
It wan objectedby Mr. TAYLOR that the names of four
aldermen were on tie hat who were, not present when the
committee was constituted ; and he moved chat their ntwes
be struck off. A reh-r lengthy discussion having ensued,
The LORD MAYOR pot it to the court whether it would
be equitable to deny the privilwe of the wort to an ald•r-
man who was actually engaged en performing the magfale-
-64 functions of his cffice at the moment a eomm7ttte Ia
which he might take a deep interest was in a state of forma-
tion ? (Hear, tear.) If Mr. H. L. Taylor objte•rd to the
existing practice, thet it was a practice in error, and net to
be justified, he could give notice in the usual manner, stet
the subject could under ro discussim. Under these circum-
stances he had to express his decision that no alterntien
e.uld take place in the exiting practice without 'mice, and
that, as a matter of course, the subject was at an cwt.
(Cheers.)
toon th 2 motion of Dlr. Deputy BEDFORD the letter Ol
Lord Clarendon upon the subject of Ireland was crderel to
be printed and osculated amongst the members of the court.
—Adjourned.

FREE EXIIIBITIONS.—A return of the numbs of
viti•ors admitted free of charge to see the state epee-rue:de
and carder% at Hampton-court Palace, Windsor Casale, acsl
the Royal B dacic ()orders at Kew, during she years I€l7
a.l 1648, hts lust been p intyd. It appears that the nurra:rr
of v:titors to Hansp•on.c .urt Palace was destine the ramie.
year, 162,031, and during the latter 150,321. Th . surre‘er
of nersons admitted to in-peet Windsor Castle in 184:, woo
25,970. and in 1818, 26,897. In 1847, the visitor., m Ole
Kew B danlc Gardens amounted to 61,282, and en 1815 tO
91,703.
THE CHOLERA IN TI/ E MILLBANK PRISON.—Yeror,
day, Mr. tydford held fot.r more inquests in the Itillintk
?neon, on the bodies of convies who had died there. A
verdict of t' Death from Asiatic cholera" having bum re-
turned in the case of one of the dream. d, the coroner, ad-
dres-ing Dr. DJy, °Unwed that this was the kur.° limo
within ten days he bed been called on to hold four is gut -de
on each day ; cou'd nothing be doue to ketuer.the state sei
the lois• n and the psi ()hers? Dr. Baly reified
,thsid tlto
fault WAS not with those who had the soperitendency of k4o
mem fir. the fact sae :hat ptisincre were brought in every
te of iEseitue, and th.y were then kw watt City oar*
Well 'befuro tsefrg sent away. The Ccruni r —Tro a • the
avcraje of 'deaths is to be placed to that cause? D... Kay
*said it e&ercly erase front the pretent system of ',moral of
aanvices; the great mortality used to he at Wo .Iwieh, but
Jul lino contras were now sent's° liiil,bat k Pti.i,r. T‘ip
c.mener—dia, anything been done in CIOVVrIIte of the
lata iorittes,s/i four pecans who died of cholera la •lt% wt.,
form ? Dr. Bay °beetled that same then a cechrounieel In
kid taken place with the commissioners of sew, irc, sib, h.tl
dative' the oleos and the open sewer was direct d, -t .1 be
, c-'yered. There are now five cases oif scholera io t' ,c rrl.rd,
Flu,Aliorbeelt. are said to be very. ttefFnyr. 'The °tin r ince
. risque* steer*, 4Withek (row pulmonary ecnempption end
erysipelas. - -

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Public meetings at c being held in various. parts of
the country for the purpose of se‘isting Manganese exiles
now in London to return to their own country, and express.
lag sympathy with the Romans in their struggles Icy
freedom." doe of the must important of these meetings
took plan on Friday, in the Lecture-room, Neleonutreet,
Newcastle, sad it sprees from • report In the NewcasUe
Guardian that the %natio, was densely crowded, sad that
liluedrette of persons wen unati.• to obtain admittance. Sir
Joan Firs tea the chair. S-veral speeches wen de-
livered is the coarse of the evening, sad the following reso-
lution wee adopted:
"That a national eubscripties, for the purples of en-
abling the liaegarian exile. now in this country to return
to their cativo land will be ea set worthy of the generosity
of the people of &island, atib• game time that It will afford
them as opportunity, which they should not safer to pass
by, of asking peblic and mealiest their indignation at the
conduct of the AaMrlan sad Ragan governments towards
Hungary, sad of showing sympathy with the heroic exer-
tions of the Biscuit= people In the meat sacred of canoes
—the prutestion of their bosses and country spied lava
lion. That acemdingly a subscription for that purpose be
commenced, and the proceeds forwarded to Lord Dudley
Stuart." •
- • • •

—•--
A mot:on was then carried expressive of sympathy with
the condition of the Romans; and Signor Bompiani, • Ro-
man, in returning thanks, spoke as follows:
"The French government has revealed to the world what
is their love for Preach liberty, by pouring bombs on Roman
liberty. Yee, the political principles of the S. ine ass ex-
plained on the banks of the 'Fiber! They have bombarded
Rome Means, the laurel. gathered on the field of battle
by !fiestas, Ferdinand, Wieteli.chgra-s, and R Welds'
troubled, like a nightmare, their sleep. See that im-
menu column of smoke and dust, which risen like a cloud
from the centre of Italy ; it comes from the destruction of
the greatest mmuments of human genius, and which have
been bombarded by the soldiers of civilised Francs. Tam
aovia, Milan, Brescia, Ascots, gloriona victims of your
inand of OUT tyrants, you needed a companion
your sorrows and devestati at, and Rome shares your
fate. Yee, the French cannons, which were destined only
to destroy the citadels of tyrants, have roared against the
Roams republic, which demanded noel ing from France,
but its alliance and friendship, against a p opts whose
sole crime was to have followed their example. The at-
tack on Rome is the crime of Cain actomplithed by a
faithless government atainet a defenceless people. Had
a republic been pvocteimed in 5-. Petersburg, or in Lan-
do', the power which reruns the destiny of France would
have trembled and bowed before them. But Rome is
comparatively a small town, and ?5,1100 men, the bravest
soldiers of Egrepe. backed by Austrian, Spanish, and
He ap -li*an troupe, have at lot sauced the fire of the
brave but unfiertunwe defenders of our liberty, and who
had retired to Rome as to the heart of Italian indepen-
dence. The French legions have been victorious—they
through fire and sword, have became masers of Rome,
an I now Pius IX. can return to the eternal cityt a river of
blowd wi:l bring him back his triple golden crown, whilst
his Master only left to him a Crown of thorns. Let him take
It up with that hand which signed the warrant of death for
hie children, which was dedined only to bless and forgive !
Why dice he not go ti Avignon, where several, of his prede-
&sun passed nearly 70 years ? No, be must occupy again
the regal abode of the Yetican, though he styles himself the
vicar of " Him who had not • stone whereon to rest Lis
head." One word more. I may be &shed, "To what plu-
me your speech, your enthusiasm ? " For • very simple
ressos—l do wish that there should he et least one nation in
the world is set an example of public morality. I would
wish that, cheered by sympathy here for our misfortunes
and efiwus, I Gould teem this distant country exclaim to my
Italian brethren, ' We have all the world against us, except
free England.' Thiel, at least, will be our consolation in our
fill, that we were lamented and admired. Let the men of
England think as the calamities ant circumstanc s which
have reduced to • nonentity and slavery the queen of nations,
and they will pronounce their judgment, which I doubt not
will be hosed with fear and di-may by those tyrants who
have tossed, and tame, se many tears and blood. The voice
of a free gad gemerons people is SI-powerful, sad will re-
echo Solids to the scot disbud regions,"

CHAROR AGAINST A SHIPOWNER FOR
ALLOWING A VESSEL TO SAIL WITHOUT A
SURGEON.

On Saturday a cue of some interest wig beard be-
fore Mr. Ruhr* and Mr. W. Rsthbone, at ths_police court,
Liverpool. It was an infermatian against Mr. Hugh Dirs,
a thipowaer, for having permitted of • of his resele to sail
with upwards of one hundred pastengers without having a
surgeon on board.
Illr. Brooks appeared on behalf of the Commissioners of
Duet ms, by whoa the prosecution was radiated ; sad Mr.
H Urn. sirwitor, of South Jului-street, for the defendant.
Mr. Bre ke, la *posing the case, stated that the vessel In
question, the Crusland, had cleared nut from this port in
July last, and arrived is the River Prate, with passerrra,
fa welt aet to u to have caused • complaint to coins to this
country. The information was founded on the Merchant
Stamen's and also the Passengers Act, wt ill% provided that
every meet having upwards of one hundred persons on
board should be bound to carry a surgeon. physician, or
aPothecary it the voyage were ire that would in all proba-
bility MIMI twelve weeks, and there were fifty persons on
board, it was also obligatory to carry a surgeon, and the
peneley fur non-am liana was 1001., which the magistrate
had the power of reducing one-third.
Mr. Holden stated that Mr. Dixon bad chartered the ship
to certain respectable merakarts Mr, hut they unktrunately
bad let a part of it again, the 'tweed decks, to a broker, for
the act; raodation of passengers.
Mr. Badieeley, custom-hors clerk to Mears. Rodeo and
Drag, 'aerostats and shipowners, of Lixerpool, said that
the Crosland had been dirtier to that Arm by Mr. Dixon
for freight. She was treated as a skip to carry panengers.
Hewes. Kelt* and Doyle loaded the hold with cargo, and
sublet the 'mein decks to Mr. Michael Macdonald, a parr-
ger broker.
Limt. Hodder stated that he had Inspected the Crosland
before it sailed, sad learned, r far as measurement was con-
cerned, that by the Passenger Act it could legally carry 116
passengers. It bad on board in all 119. but eight of these
were infants, and there were several children; so that the
send computation was only 921. He had accordingly given
his certificate that all the requirements of the act had been
egimplied with.
Whoopee' were called to prove that Om wet no surgem
en board the Crosland ; bat their evidence was not tar,
as the fact was admitted.
Mr. Holden contended that the weed preens in the Mer-
chant Seamans' Act did not apply to pemenpurs, hat meant
rinm and the 'ellipse' of a vessel only. The Passengers'
Act had been complied with, and the Merchant Seamen'.
Act won surely not meant to destroy the mode there laid
down of computing the number of passengers.
Mr. Rushton ruled that by "person' wit' meant every
one on board, passengers Of crew. He roll easily conceive
the extreme pressure of the case upon Mr. Dixon, who was
called to almoisat for infractions c remitted by others, but the
law held the some of** ship liable in every instance. Hs felt
more sad mere orgy day the aimernity that existed for con-
solidatiag albs Ma Isar the merchant service Into
one law, and led ohm hsdeessalea to regret the apparent
contradheime that existed. The law *mkt to be so plain
that a seamen as he ran might mad it. He agreed that Mr.
Dixon was not morally to blame in the matter; the blame
vested, if any erred, en the netnews who chartered the
81119. They land. Pcsanbl7. Wendt teadvertesee, thought
that a surgeon was not ammo, ; but it showed the ration
that was necessary in melt a matter. He would mitigate the
penalty to in Irma amenall--eae-third of 1001.
Mr. Brooke spoiled ire mob.
Mr. Rushton eald, that as, from the adulator made by
the defendant's soliefter, mash trouble bad been saved, he
thought nominal ones would serve, say Ka.
The Lu was pia

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND.
The int report of the committee of icthestistatine, to be
submitted to the shareholders at the meeting on Thursday
states that the Hull and Selby share purchase account
sh ws that the total cumber of these shares created was
62,950, of 261. each, representing a capital of 1.673,7601.;
69,868 of these shams have bete issued, leaving 3,002 in the
sands of the company ; 101 per abate have been called,
amounting to 698,5801., of which 661,6541. has b' en re-
wised, leaving 36,0261. in wear. The sum of 62 4291. has
been received in advance of calls, making the whole amount
now received 624,9831.. of which sum there has been
lest to capital 440.000/. The following purchases of
Hull and Selby shares have been made :-166 501. shame,
906 251. shares, sad 883 121 101. shares. 01 the for.
gong shares there were teans:erred by Mr. Hudson direct
from the parties from whom they were purchased. that
is, without paring into Lis own name, 23 601 share.,
509 251. shares, and 295 121. 10s. shame. The total sum
paid by Mr. Hudson for them shares was 35,6401. 17s. 41.,
and that received by him from the company was
38,8421. 17e. 101., the differencebeing 3,1961. Os. 62. her st
of tt • shares appear to have been purchased in the regular way
In the market. It states that in the purchase of these shares
Mr. Hudson appears to have been the sole actor on the part
of the company, without thumbing or even communicating
with his co-directors on the subject. WI en the committee
commeneed their ingairy into this account they found that
they had been preceded in the matter by a committee of
dimeton, consisting of Mr. Dm:swords, Mr. Jennings, and
Sir Jobe ttirepoon, appointed at she board meeting held on
the 20.hef Apia lest, and on the 3rd of May they reported
thereon to the effect that the shares which were purchased
by Mr. Hudson at various dates during the month of Om.
her, 1840, were sold by him to the company for the sum of
38,8421. 17s. 100 , including stamps and commission. They
theomneentled that the traosettion be altogether cancelled,
an 4 that the sum received by Mr. Hudson from the corn
pany en the 27th of August and the 27th of November,
1846, be repaid by him with interest at 6 per cent., and
that upon such repayment the shares shall be transferred to
Mr. Hudson, and the dividends received by the company on
those shares paid over to him. At the meeting of the directors
held on the 22nd of May the subject of the Hull and Selby
stares sold by Mr. Hudson to tbe company was taken into
consideration, and it was resolved (Mr. Hu son assenting):
" That the transaction shall be eaccelled, but that in order
to give Mr. Hudson an opportunity of monist the shame on
reaacnable terms, the immediate payment of the sum due
shall nod be required from him; Mr. Hudson, in the mean-
time, to give his note of hand to the company, payable 12
menthe alter date, for the amount due to the company on
this transaction, including interest at 6 per cent. from the
time of the payments by the company, but allowing him
credit t r the dividends received ; the company to hold the
shares as security toe the money due on such note wail Ps
pays at, allowing Mr. Hudson to sell the shares from time
to time as he may think desirable, the proceeds being paid to
the company in exchange for the certillmtes of the shares
sold." At the board meeting on the following day (May
23), the secretary produced Mr. Hudson's note of hand,
which he had given for 40,1771. 12s. 2d., being the amount
pqable in respect of the Hull and Selby shares returned to
pia.. The next day (May 24) the shareholder appointed
the committee of investigation. The committee de not
wish to impugn the decisioa come to by the directors,
bat they would have preferred the settlement to have been
made in cash. It states with regard to the weekly pub-
lished traffic that the shareholders are no doubt aware that
the amounts of *using. weekly by railway companies are
not altogether entertained facts, but to some extent only
estimates, the facts being ascertained afterwards by each
company settling accounts with other companies for traffic
conveyed over more than one line. '!he practice in this
company has been for the officers of the company to make a
return of their estimate of the week's UAL: to the (grot-
toes ; and to the 'Morn so made the directors have, in
many featences, made additions previous to their
sending the amount for publication. The committee
have made the fullest investigation into the reasons
which actuated the directors in making these addi
tiocs, and the whole evidence goes to show that it was done
with the sole object of rectifying the incorrect estimates
they had received. A statement is given of the amounts as
estimated each week by the officers, the amounts published
by the directors, wad the &nines as ascertained at the end
of each month daring the sear 1848, and, as far u possible,
in the present year. From this statement it appears that
the aggregate amount of the officers' weekly returns for the
year 1848 was 396,6211.; of the directors' published returns,
417,6541. ; and of the actual returns, 401,8934. ; showing
that the actual returns were 15,7811. lees in amount than
Ice the published returns. The traffic returns from the Ist
of January, 1849, to the 28th of April lest show that the
officers' returns amounted to 106,4511. ; the directors' pub-
lished returns to 111,261!.; and the actual returns to
113,1371., being 1,8661. more then the published returns.
The report goes on to state that at the last general meeting
the sharehcldets were assured, on the authority of Mr.
Hudson, that the accounts to the 31st of December last were
correctly stated. The committee have new to re-
port that these accounts were not correct. Oa the
contrary, several entries were made in the books at that
balance which were altogether delusive. Some of these
entries were made by Mr. Pater Clarke, in compliance
with an intimation conveyed to him to that effect
ter ally by Mr. Hudson, without Mt. Clarke informing any
of the other directors, who were entirely ignorant at the
time that any such improper entries were made in the books.
Mr. Clarke will resign his office on the 12th of August next.
The committee regret to add, that in previous half-yearly
statements similar entries of an unfounded character have
be en made; but it will require considerable further time
before the committee will be able to investigate and report
on the state of the books and assets of the company. At
present the committee are unable to say more than that the
total amount which will be required to put the books in order
appears to them to be from 70,0001. to 80,0001.—which sum
is the accumulation of variousirregularities from 1846 to this
time, and is exclusive of all sums which may have been im-
properly piaeed to capital account in former years. This
sum arises in part from the entries before alluded to, and in
part from the slovenly manner in which the accounts have
Men kept and the business conducted. No account of stores
has ever been kept, and the amount debited to each half-
year does not represent the amount used. The tradesmen's
accounts have been called for and settled at any of the
periods when the books were balanced. The committee
have given instructions to have the stores on hand on the
30th of June taken account of and valued, and the trades.
men's accounts call. d for and paid up; in the hope that a
real and efficient balance may be made as on that day ; and
that from that time the accounts may show for the future the
actual amounts of receipt and expenditure properly 'pre-
tainiog to each ball-year. From the caroler manner at con-
ducting the bunion, and from the want of a correct a stem
of accounts, the committee state that it will be an extremely
laborious task for them to lay before the proprietors anything
like an intelligible statement of the present position and
future prospects of the company. In conclusion, the think
it right to state that they have received from Mr. Hyde=
and the directors, as also from the s licitors and tvety officer
of the company, every a:nitwits and information which they
Lave required from them.