The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-23 00:00:00

tErbe Court.

OSBORNE, TUESDAY. The Queen and Prince
Albert, with their guests and family, attendcd the regatta at
Cowes in the afternoon.

His Excellency M. d'Andrian, Vice-President of
the Germanic National Assembly at Frankfort, has arrived
at Mivart's Hotel (via Paris), charged with an extraordinary
mission to the governments of France and Eng'and.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview
with Lord John Russell, yesterday, in Downing-st vet.
Mr. Eliseo Poujade had an interview with Earl
Grey at the Colonial-offle, yesterday.
The Lord Mayor had an interview with Sir George
li Grey yesterday, in the Home-office.
Mr. John Wood, chairman of the Excise, had en
interview with toe Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing street.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-office for the Governor of Heligoland.

TUE NEW FOREST.—The Doke of Cambridge, Lord
W►rden cf the New Forest, has arrived at Minstead Manor
House, near Lyndhurst, on a visit to H. C. Compton, Esq.,
'ne of the members for South Hants. His royal highness is
unattended, and, so far as the weather permits, takes daily
exercise in different parts of the forest, in the affair of which
he appears much interested.

DEPUTATION TO THE FOREIGN-OFFICE ON THE
AFFAIRS OF TIER Riven PLATE.—On Monday a deputation
of Lthethers of parliament had an interview with Lord Pal-
merston, at the Foreign-office, to present a memorial signed
by the mayor and a number of highly respectable merchants
of Manchester, with ref-rence to the continued ir.terniption
in the trade of the River Plate. The deputation conauted
of Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Bright, Mr. Brotherton, Mr.
Brown, Mr. Ihornely, Mr. Kershaw, and Mr. Matthew
Forster. Mr. Milan Gibson read the memorial, which set
forth the iaconvenienee and loss suffered by the long-
pending disputes between the states of the River Flats,
and urged the governmezt to take such steps as
might be proper to bring about the restoration of peace.
Lord Palmerston was very frank in his communications with
the deputation. The first attempt at an arrangement
through the negotiation of Lord liewdea failed, because
Rona, the President or Dictate? of Buenos Apes, refused to
commit to the free navigation of the riven which empty
themselves into the River Plate. Another attempt was
made by e. ptain Gore, who was sent of t specially to co-
operate with M. Le Gros, the French envoy, and the efforts
of these gentlemen seemed to promise success for a
time. Oribe, who was d of the country out-
side the city of Monte bieo, had consented to certain
conditions, and the Monte Videans who had poestesion of the
city, and who are carrying on the war with him, were also

on the point of consenting to a peace, when the newt of the
French revolution arrived and indueod them to break off
negotiations in the belief that the republic would give them
more decided assistance than Guizot had been willing to
render them. The news of the revolu'. ion also had its effect
on ROOM. lie refused to treat with Le Urns,
on the ground that u a new government, or no g
vernment at ell existed in France, the acts of eta
envoy might not be sanctioned ; and Captein Gore
I also thought it best to wait till further instructions came
from France. The neat packet brought no instructions to
Le Oros, whereupon that gentleman returned to France.
Captain Gore remains at Monte Video, but negotiations are
suspended, until the French government decide upon the
course it will take. Lod Palizient n informed the donuts-
that he would communicate with M. de Beaumont, the
French minister in London, on the subject, and he h 'per!
the two government', between whom the most cordial rott-
ing waisted, would be able to ni.ite in some more successful
eft urt to bring about a termination of hostilities on the banks
of the River Plate.

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A DEPUTATION from the Associate Institution for
Improving and Enlorcing the Laws for the Protection of
Women had (soya a correspondent) an lateral., ei yea rday
with the Bishop of Oxford, on the subject of the bill for the
pedccion of w.men, which his lordship has (imed to re-
introduce into the House of Lords in toe early part of the
next session.

111 E ENGINEMEN AND THEIR EMPLOYERS.- SET-
TLEMENT OF THY. bIiPETS WITH THE ENOINEMEN.—It is
now positively atatcd that this dispute has been finally set
tied, by the entire submiuion of the men ti the honour and
good feeling of Mr. Glyn, M.P,, the chairmen of the com-
pany, whose literality and kin.lness to the officers of the es-
tablishment, since he has presided over it, have often been'
mentioned. Forty-six of the old firemen and enginemen
beiongin7 to the Leirlon end of tire lit.e were to resume
their duties yesterday. Some of the new drivers are to be
retained in the service of the company.
THE SALE AT STOWE yesterday consisted ertirely
of furniture; the only lots worthy of notice bring 817, a
table, the slab of malachite; in the centre is a burr hunt in
mosaic of the fined Homan work, with a border of masks,
tbyrai, and virus, also in morale, 38 in. be 27 in., on a
ritis'y carved stand, 130 guineas; and BN, a beautiful vale,
formed of a noble block of rock chews' of compressed
()einem, deeply engraved with arabesques in tine old Italian
taste, 40 guineas.
FATAL EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE STEAM-SHIP
EAILL or LIVEItrOOL.—An accident involving loss of life
happened on S iturday night last on board tho General
Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Earl of Liverpool,
Cap-. Finch master, soon . fter she had taken her departure
from Yarmouth for London. She left the quay of the above
port a few minutes atter eight o'clock on the eveni- gin
question, with from 70 to 100 passengers on board. The
steam' r progressed at the emus' rate until distant nine miles
from Yarmouth, and nearly 'thereat of Lowestoft harbour,
when a loud exploeion took piece which completely shook
the vessel, and at the same instant a body of cream issued
from the engine.room, enveloping the whole vessel. Sere 11114
soil cries now arose. Fur upwards of a quarter of an hour
the terrifies' passengers continued in a painful state
of excitement. It was impossible to see the length
of the ship, in consequence of the rush of steam
from the engine-room, and the men being unable
to see each other c, uhf only shay the captain's or-
ders by being hailed, thus rendering the dismay and c nfu•
lion, if possible, more complete. Au quickly as the com-
mand could be carried cue, the, anchor aas let go, and the
steamer brought to; signals of distress also being hoisted at
the mast head for assistance,wbich,incourse of Vme,hrought
/ off a number of boats from Lowestoft. In V. • meardirna
seer ral attempts were made to descend into the engine-room,
to .ceure the safety of the boilers and the lives of the passen-
gers, but this was found to be impracticable ter a length of
time. At last, the engineer, Edwin, was lowered by a rope
• secured round Lis waist, and succeeded in affecting their se-
curity, although in the attempt he risked his life. In the
course if half an hour aftfe the explosion, two of the crew.
viz., Wilhelm Walls, a stoker, and Henry Drigg, carpenter,
were ascertained to be missing. They were afterwards found
scolded to death nett the engine, and it was discovered that
, the explosion *ruse from the breaking of the steam pipe. The
r Hull Lott, the Waterwitch, subsequently took the dint...eel
veosel in tow, and brought her sahly to the The . es. The
r bodies of the sufferers were lauded at Deptford, where an in-
? queat was hell upon them last night, and a verdict of " Ac-
cadental death "returned. _

•
INQUEST, YESTEnDAY,—DEATTI FROM ENGLISH
CuoLzita.—Before Mr. &druid, by whom nnaent from
Friday, at the Prince Alpert, Upper St. Martiu'adane, on
the body of Catherine Price, aged 26, a ;errant out of place,
who, it was supposed, died from poison.—The deceased, it
appeared, resided in Porter street, Newport•msrket, and
was in Food health up to yesterday week, when, being
seized with violent sickness and pain in the stomach, it was
thought that she bad taken poison. The next morning she
was found dead in bed. Mr. done., surgeon, opened the
body and tested the contents of the stomach, but found
nothing of a deleterious nature. From the symptoms during
lite and the app,srances after death he had no doubt the de-
ceased died from English cholera.—The Coroner said an
opinion had been expresstd that it would be best not to state
that the deceased died from cholera, for fear of alarming
people living iu the neighbourhood. lie, on the contrary,
thought the fact cold not be too widely known, is order that
the public might take proper precaution by attending to the
ventilation and cleanliness of their dareliings.—Verdict,
" Died from EnFli.h cholera."

COMMERCIAL. DISTRESS.—ADDRESS TO
THE QUEEN FROM BIRMINGHAM.
Yesterday a public meeting, .convened by the Re-
form League, was held in the Town-hall at Birmingham,
for the purpose of atopting an address to the Queen, pray-
ing that parliament may nut be prorogued until mea•ures
have been adopted such u will mitigate the calamities
arising out of the present commercial distress in the coun-
try. Mr. Alderman Weston pr.vided, and from three to
four thousand persons were present.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, alluded to
the fact of Mr. Hume's motion having teen lost by a large
msjnrity in the House of Commons, thereby proclaiming
that it deemed itself fully competent to manage the
affairs of the empire ; and thereafter he went on to state
that this meeting had been calved because it was believed
that the crisis had become most alarming, so much so as to
render it necessary that the people should adopt suck mea-
sures as were calculated to awak,n the government to a sense
of the danger that threatened the entire community. The
condition of the empire at the present time presented a mat
extraordinary spectacle it was a fact that nearly every in
terest in this great commercial country was withering and
decaying. Such as were workmen amongst them knew that
work was not to be obtained; manufacturers knew that com-
petition was great, prices mush too low, and orders gradually
decreasing ; merchant, had experienced, during the last 12.
months, toe most terrible vicissitudes of fortune ; the oldest
and most respectable establishments had fallen t numbers
of others w. re on the way to inevitable ruin, and all this
calamity and suffering was the result of an error in
our monetary system, which the vi ry sufferers would
not unite to sweep away. With all the power
of the country; with all its vast possessions which
extended to every quarter of the globe ; with
all the energy, the enterprise, and the skill, which were
I the chi.. acteristics of the people of Great Britain ; with all
the elements of prosperity within our reach—our canal*, our
machinery, our railroads, and every appliance that the art of
man could devise, with the most extravagant and reckless
government on the face of the earth, there was a great NI.-
tion of the people with broken hearts and broken fortun, e,
and their families going sunperless to bed 'Ruin was staring
them in the face on every side—the manufacturer, the mer-
client, the retail trader, the landowner, the artisan. In this
emergency, it behoved the people to unite for their own pro.
1 tection, holding fast to the principle of peace until the tat
I extremity, hut with the same c urge, pi..dence, and firm
resolve that had on former occasions marked their conduct,
insisting on the government doing something for their relief.
Mr. R. K. DOUGLAS moved the following resolution:
That the almost total suppression of our European trade, the de-
crease of our trade with the New World, the bankrupt condition of
our colonies, the gene-al decay of credit and confidence, and the
growing increase of local and national burdens, call for immediate
hr nip
Mr. aN'Vd.V.LASIITORD briefly seconded the adoption of
the resolution, which wascarried unanimously.
Mr. T. C. Seer said that the apathy which existed in
the public mind was most strange sad incomprehensible.
Here was the bulk of a whole nation ruined and ground to
the earth by misgovernment, yet no man lent a hand to
save. Theirs was no theory of liberty, but a purpose to de.
vise means by which the hungry should be fed and the
naked clothed. There was no fiction so incredible as the facts
now presented to every man's view with reference to the
condition of this country : here was the greatest empire ever
known in the world—la power extended in some way or
other over the entire surface of the earth, from pole to pole,
the East and West Indies and all their wealth were ours—
the people were unequalled for their ooura..e—their indomi-
table perseverance and their industry—and with all that, the
poverty and distress into which four-fifths of this mighey
nation were plung,d, were almost unparalleled. Mr. Salt
concluded by moving the following resolution, which was
seconded by Mr. J. Batson, and carried unanimously ;
That the apprehended failure of the potato crop, and short coming
of the grain crop, threaten, in consequence of the exportation of gold
to which they will necessarily lead, still farther to cripple the national
resources; and while they enhance the price of food, to diminish r
the same time the price of the labour by which that food is to he
purchassl.
Mn. R. Sung briefly moved, and Mr. Lowe seconded,
the following, which was also carried :
That in a crisis so extraordinary when so many and so great diffi-
culties beset us. and with difficulties still greater in prospect, it is of
the greatest importance that parliament should not be adjourned or
prorogue d.
The following memorial to her Majesty, and petition to
the House of Commons, were afterwards adopted :
"To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.—The
humble address of the members of tie Birmingham Reform
League, and other inhabitants of the borough of Birming-
ham, in public meeting assembled.
" May it please your Majesty, we your Msjesty'a mot
humble and devoted subjects beg leave to approach your
Majesty's presence to represent to your Majesty that the
distress under which the commerce and trade of this great
town end of rte kingdom at large at present suffers, and has
been for many months suffering is great and increasing.
That it appears now to be established beyond dispute that
the failure of the potato crop in Ireland and in England is
as extensive at the least as in the disastrous autumn of 1846;
and there is every reason to believe that the grain crop also
is much below an average, while the chances of its being
securely gathered in are as yet extremely uncertain. That
the evil, which in the order of Providence have fallen upon
us as well as thou which we derive from the ignorance of
men are grievously aggravated by the beggared conditions
of our colonies, by the continued unsettled state of the
continent of Europe., and by the insurrectionary move-
ments in Ireland, the two last calling for an increased
expenditure in support of our national institutions, with

means which are already greatly decreased, and in rapid
progress towards a further diminutior. That a eombieetion
of misfortunes so formidable and extraordinary demands the
adoption of immediate and extraordinary remedies. That
without presuming to dictate to your Mersey the nature or
extent of such remedies we most respectfully submit to your
Majesty the imperative necessity at so pt riloe a crisis that
the treat coeval of the nation should be in a state of con-
stant readiness to consider whatem r measures your NI jest,,
by your legal advisers, shall see fit to submit to It.
's We therefore most humbly intreat your Majesty not to
prorogue parliament until your Majesty and peril:meet
shit: have revised and adopted effectual means of reaevi, g
~be existing desires., anti of meeting in some degree, if nut
wholly averting, the terrible state of guttering whirls the
coming winter threat. nu too surely to inflict."
THB PETITION to the House of Commas urged: Tete in
consequence of the late revolutionary movements on the e
acne of Eurepe, the war in Italy, the hostilities in the
notch of Germany, and the generally unsettled state of these
kingdoms where no actual outbreak has t•ken Chace, the
Eurepeen commerce of the United Kingdom has been for a
time suspended, the vent foritsmanafacturera,tw farae the old
world is co scented, cut off, and credit very seriously damag ed:
That in the new world, the war just cane:rated between the
United States and Mexico has reduced hi no sm.:, ei. gime
the power of rurch toe in the forme r. and ele it:toyed it in the
latter ; that the continued disputes in the countries b treler-
ing on the lever Plato have fee a long time interrupted
all beneficial intercourse; and that the kingdom of the
Brazile, to:loving the example riven to it by England, has
by its restrictive policy destroyed in a greet measure the
valuable traffic formerly carrit d on with that country.
That while our foreign commerce is thus prostrate and
perishing, our colonial commerce is squally a fritterer from
the beggars d and hankru • t elate of the West and East
Indies tied of twenty the entire of our colonial peseessions.
That at home the insurrectionary risings in ',eland, and the
want of confidence that has for many months prevailed, have
resulted in a depreciation of capital of all kinds, without
modern parallel; that the number of workmen partially
etaployeil, or wholly idle, is gnat and increasing ; that the
pressure of local rates is unexampled ; that the national btu-
dens from the fears engendered by aperehended wars and
domestic bristle are not reluced, but exhieit every prospected'
luerease; that thus, while the nation is tottering entice the
weakness of rubeistence denied, the load it is compelled to
carry is doily being added to ; and that fetich, it net all, of
these evils have been a consequence of the general policy
pursued by successive governments, and might, if
not wholly prevented, have been greatly mitigated
by a more prudent and conciliatory system. That,
as a crowning of the evils that press upon the land, it
appears now et lonrth to lie established beyond dispute that
the potato crop is Iceland and in Eaglatd has foiled to an
equal, if not ;rear'', event than it did in the disastrous
autumn of 1316, and that the tenet of grain and /unite are
everywhere below an average, while the cha: ces of Veit
being wourely garlrred are still d-übtlel. That, granting,
as your petitioners do, that the centre' which parliament can
exercise ever foreign treelike is not great, end that the in-
filetions of providence are beyond its power, there mill rennin
fur care and cure the distresses of the he me and colonial
markets; nor can it be reasonably die-teed, as it
appears to your petitioners, that at borne and its the co-
tellies, populous, extensive, and diversified as they ate beyond
ail bistor.cal example, there ares"clenteets of wealth stfficieat,
it wisely and vigorously called into action, to render easy
the task of finding employment and comfort for the
whole population of the empire. That it their selec-
tion of F.) large a number of persons let their repre-
sentatives fram clashes where the possession of higeer
wisdom zed more t xteuaive informative is ticatuatily
implied, anti by teat selectirn investing them with
UV'S( awele powers, the constituency of the United
Kingdom have as tar as in them lies provided a fitting
machinery for the production of an orderly, peaceful, and
happy government, and any failure in the preduction of suck
a government can only ::rise from its ieecrset or vicious
working. 'I hid in all ea es, and more cup via ly end. r a re-
presen.etive system, the people have a 71.11: to deaand of
their rulers that th, y take heed that no grit v.ines be allowed
to exist whose removal is within the scope of legislative
regulation ; and that it is no excuse for the neglect of
this highest duty that the removal mey Iw difficult is
the desiring or executing; and above all that a tetrad. by
the legislature to enter on an investigation of the ,oenne of
removal on any preetnee, and especially •n the pretence .bat
it would lengthen the duration or add to the amount of
their parliamentary labeurs, would be without excuse on
any principle of reason or humanity.. That your }Kei-
-1 tiouers would further respiettully submit to your homier-
' able house, that in the choice of a remedy far the present
distresses as the disease is unprecedented in severity and ex-
traordinary in its causes, so ought tie remedy to be no ordi-
nary one; and that it sin be no vintlicition to prudent and
nett, cting men of the present time roe to an impartial pose
tcrity, of your refusal to adopt such a remedy, that it may
in appearance be opposed to principles of political economy
son to ten e rules of covernment which have been laid dogs
for the regulation of customary demands and a mmonplace
accidents. Lastly, your petitioners would des're. most ear-
nestly and solemnly to impress on your honourable house
that in all cases like that which th, y have now brought un-
der yoir notice, the demands of pcgiey aro not less impaa-
tire than those o justice, for they believe it
will be universally admitted that al hough tor
the revolutions amenenit our neighbours, and the dis-
turbances amongst ourselves, many ca -see, aed sonic
of' them grave ones. appear on the surface, that which
gives point and power abroad and at home to all
the rest is the play t.eol suffer.ng of the mass of the people,
anl that ngsite., tt.e pr imptings of such suer, rings, it inde-
finitely prolonged, no laws, however wise, no inntitutirns,
however sacred, to government, however strong, eat effec-
tually contend.
May it therefore please your honourable house to address
her Majesty that she will be graciously pleated not to pro-
regue your honourable hones until you have provided some
measure or measures for removing the present diereas as
well as that which tereatens the nation from the feilure of
the potato crop, and otherwise grant such relief in the pre-
mises as to your honourable house may teem tit; and your
•"loners,

THE NEW FOREST.
It rota a local Corrrepondente
" Government has resolved that the New Forest
sk all be disafforested." Such is the statement which is in
almost every one's mouth who resides on or near that exten-
sive and notertuus dem ern. Whether anythicg has leaked
from a government ollicied, or whether such a statement is
merely the natural opinion of persons who know what frauds
have been committed on the royal property, it not worth
while to inquire. Such a determination on the part of the
government is not impr,bable, considering the evils arising
from forest laws, and the utter uselessness of the New
Forest, even as contributing to the "barbaric. pomp of
royalty." This forest has beta almost shonned by royal
personages ever sines the death of Rufus. Charles 11. and
George 111. visieet it, certainly; but, with the exception of
these monarchs, no kanely personages have ever thought
much of that favourite hunting-seat of the Mermen kings.
Even Davis, the Qacers's huntsman, curses the forest every
time he enters it, and declares it unwor.hy the matchless
speed and inapirine music of the royal hounds.
No one is jet( rested in the preservation of the New
Forest but the lawless foresters and borderers, and the
gentlemen who have seats in it. The former evidently claim
• right to the t: mber, and the latter pusses, extraordinary
privilege, over the pasture. A general sentiment seems to
prevail that as the widest kings took possession tat the
forest by violence, the descendants of the orieinal occupants
have sot lost their title to its produce. This mutiment
seems to have blunted tie moral genie of the forest popula-
tion as to other rights of royalty, fur, when a raxeia wan made
a few months leo by the costem-h iuse (dike:roue the ducal
residence vi Glasshayes, near Lyndhurst, it woe witucesed
without air ime and without indignation.
Mr. Dinka nth, of Beechwood, in the heart of the forest,
has attempted to improve the population by the eeta'olish-
Trent and lavish endowment of schools, and Mr. Mark
Phillips, Mr. Justice Coltmac, and other benevolent and
distinguished gentlemen, who enjoy the hoepitality 0: Beech-
wood, have assisted him in his endeavours ; but the popula-
tion generally, both in the forest and OA tho borders, are
greatly inferior to the population of other pats of the
Country.
And this has always been the case. Every one knows
the deplorable picture which Bernard Gilpin, in one of his
works, gave of the lower classes of Lyuuagtou. As for
Beaulieu, this is one of the p'aces where the element story is
told of the poor benighted iehabitante attemp.iug to hedge
in the cuckoo, thiaking by that means to enjoy nerpetual
summer. The prople are scarcely dead in this place who
were believers in, and wor.hippers el, the cat heated Beaulieu
witch, Mary Dore, and reverenced the power by which she
could transform herself into the shapes of inferior animals
while engaged in the n.farious occupation of wood stealing.
The second Duke of Montague (the proprietor of Beaulieu
Abbey) was a firm believer in the .upernatural endowments
of Mary D see, and erected a monument to her memory.
But the kids of Beaulieu Abbey, whatever favour they may
have abeam to witches, have not always been distinguished
for kindness to others, for not =mg veers ado tne last
Lad Montague was exposed in the London papers for per-
meating and ruining a poor Beaulieu widow because she
I moat to a drew ntiog chapel.
' But should any one desire to see a forest population mise-
rably deformed, as fax as their mental structure is concerned,
he should go into the neighbourhood of Cadlands, on the
eastern side of the forest. These must be the veritable de-
scendants of the Seem serfs who were mast oppressed by
their lineman taskmasters, as their "cowed" appearance,
and the absence of all independence and eujoynacut, eeere to
testify.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN ArG. 22.

The special commission will, it is definitively set-
tied, be issued towards the conclusion of the present
week, and will open:very early. in the next, in the
town of Nenagh. Thus the parties who moved the
recent insurrection will be tried eafficiently near to
the neighbourhood of the outbreak to produce a salu-
tary effect, while it will be sufficiently remote from the
scene for calm and deliberate consideration. The com-
mission having been opened, and the bills
.0 indict-
ment sent before the grand inquest, and fouled, as no
doubt they will be, the court will be adjourned, after
the arraignment of the accused, for fiftseu days, Rathe
law enjoins that in all cases of high treason. the'
accused shall have that space of time Co psepsirts tar
defence. On the re-assembling of the courkTosserials
wli at once proceed.
It is said that the executive obtain day fresh
evidences:of the extent to which the ramifications of