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

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1847.

Hon. Edward Smolt yesterday at the Am of the Commis-
Menem of Railways, in Great George-street.
Deepatehee were received yesterday at the Colonial-
oaks from the Governor of Gibraltar.

(From LA night's Gazette.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY s.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint C. F. Engstrfun, Esq., to be her Majesty's
consul at Gottenburg, and to approve of Mr. J. Mitchell as
consul at Jamaica for the Xing of the Mosquito territory.
CROWN-OFFICE, JULY S.—The Queen bag appointed
W. S. Ayttot, of the Middle Temple, Esq., barrister-at-law,
to be .me of the commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy,

to ut in the p;oseeTatTonoflats in bankruptcy in the csuirtri.
BUCKINGHAM-PALACE, JULY 2.—This day had
audience of her Majesty, his Excellency the Count de St.
Aulaire, Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of the
French, to deliver his letter of mall; also the Prince Walde-
mar of Prussia, first cousin to the King of Prussia, attended
by the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister.
JULY 3.—This day had audience of her Majesty,
his Excellency the Dike de Broglie, Ambassador E' xtra-
ordinary from the King of the French, to deliver his ere-
dentials.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM.—Yesterday the
half-yearly meeting of the governors of this charitywas
held in the Bridge-house Hotel, London-bridge, Mr. Batton
in the chair. The report spoke io the highest terms of the
int:Tossing prosperity of the asylum. The eubscriptions
figured 2,0001., and the funded property amounted to 6,6871.
3 per cent. consols, 6171. reduced annuities, and 2,0001. for
which Messrs. Reid and Calvert pail 6 per cent. Upon the
motion of Mr. Lathy, the report was adopted. In answer
to a question, the chairman stated that the profits of the
fancy fairs daring the past eleven years avenged 1684. a
year. The vacant offices were filled up ; thanks were voted
to the damn for the past year, and also to the chairman of
the day; after which the meeting separated.
DERBY AND ST. LEGER SWEEPSTAKEL-011 Mon-
day, at the Marylehone Sessions, which were held at the
Court House, Marylebone-lane, for the transfer of linnets,
before Sir P. Laurie, lint., (chairman), Sir Jas. Hamilton,
Bart., and Mr. Hector Rose, • letter, which was dated
July 16, 1847, and written by the late Mr. John Rawlinson,
one of the magistrates of the Marylebone polico-eourt, was
presented to the chairman by an inspector of the D divides
of police, (the letter having been addressed to the com-
missioners of police) in which the attention of the com-
missioners was directed to the number of Derby, St.
Leger, and other sweepstakes allowed at the houses of
licensed victuallers. The chairman directed the Inspec-
tor to bring all cases before the bench at the general
licensing day of the licensed victuallers, who, after
having received notice, cautioning them against allowing
them in their houses, should continue to do so. Mr. H.
Rose said that in the licenses granted to licensed victuallers,
particular allusion was made against all gambling, and it bad
been stated by Baron Alderson that sweepstakes were a
species of gambling .
—The chairman observed that as far u
the power of the bench went the magistrates would direct
their attention to the subject.—Several of the applicants
received a caution not to tolerate sweepstakes.
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INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—FATAL FlGllT.—Before
Mr. W. Payne, at Guy's Hospital, on the body of George
Rodaway, aged 31. John Wilson, baker, of Pepper-street,
Borough, said that on Tuesday morning List, at four o'clock,
he went into a coffee-house in Union-street, Borough, and
saw the deceased quarrelling with • young man named Wm.
Johnson. In a dew minutes they went out to fight, and in
the first and only round the deceased gave Johnson a blow
on the eye which knocked him down. The deceased said
that he had put his knuckle' out of joint by the force of the
blow, and complained much of the pain. A policeman then
came up. and parted them. The next morning he told wit-
ness again that he had hurt himself very much. Both men
were intoxicated. Mr. George Hotter, the house-surgeon,
said the deceased was admitted on Friday with inflammation
of the veins of the left arm, and died on Sunday last. A
post mortem examination disclosed matter in the lungs and
the veins of the left arm, and pleurisy of bith aides of the
chest. This limn from an injury to the arm and hand. The
jurrreturned a verdict of "Accidental Death."—Farai
ACCIDINT.—Before Mr. W. Baker, at the London Hospital,
on the body of Eliza Blyth, whose death, caused by the turn-
ing over of a cart on Friday night last, appeared in our paper
of Monday. A. Mr. Owen and his wife and daughter, who
were injured by tke same accident, were stated to be in im-
minent danger, and not expected to survive many hours.
The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death.'

THE INSTALLATION OF PRINCE ALBERT
AT CAMBRIDGE.

CAMBRIDGE, JULY 6.=riii;prit;bciyal business of
to-day was the installation ode, which been announced
to be sung in the Senate House at 10 o'clock this morning,
but as early as 8 o'clock it was found necessary to open the
doors, so crowded was every avenue, even at that early hour,
by those who had succeeded in obtaining tickets of admis-
sion, which, by the way, appeared to have been issued rather
Iprofusely as compared with the capacity of the building; and
ong before 9, every accessible spot, including staircase',
window seats, and recesses, from whence the gratification of
the ear was all that could be hoped for, was densely packed.
Nearly all of the most distinguished of those who took part
in yesterday's proceedings were present to-day, and, in addi-
tion, we observed Sir R. and Lady Peel, Rogers the poet, Sir
J. Herschell sad Sir R. Inglis. Sir R. Peerwas almost the
only one of the more distinguished visitors who did not wear
the university robe. Along the short route her Majesty and
the Prince had to traverse, between Trinity and the Senate
House, was, if possible, even more densely crowded than was
any equal distance of the line through which the procession
of yesterday passed. The windows, roofs, towers of churches,
and every spot from which even a doubtful glimpse of the
front of the Senate House could be obtained was tenanted,
and within the enclosure which surrounds the building in
which the business of the day was to be transacted, hundreds
of doctors in their scarlet gowns, students of various de-
grees in the proper costume of their rank, together with
many elegantly dressed ladies promenading on the green, sad
seated near the building, many, in fact, holding on by the
window-sills, temporary hand rails, and every projecting
ornament which offered for /grasp, in the hope of catching
from the outside some slight idea of the music, added an
interest to the scene, and gave probably a greater degree of
interest to that without than but for the presence of the
sovereign and the royal chancellor the inside could have
boasted of. At all events, those who from nece,sity or choice
—and there were many of the latter—remained on the out-
side of the building, avoided the inconvenience of the most
crowded audience it was ever our lot to see brought together
within the walls of any room on a sultry July day; while
as far as the ode was concerned they heard as much of it as
probably three-fourths of those whohad been occupying their
seats, or rather stands, from eight o'clock in the morning.
Not the least interesting incident of the day was tke re-
spectful attention paid by the ex-premier to the venerable
poet Rogers, who being very soon exhausted with the in-
tense heat of the interior of the building, was compelled to
retire, which he did loaning upon the arm of the right hon.
baronet, with whom, after taking a turn round the walks,
he left the place shortly after the °commencement of the ode.
At flee minutes past 10, H.R.H. the Chancellor, preceded by
the Require Bedell*, and followed by his suite, entered the
senate Louse. The exercises for the Chancellor's medal, Sir
W. Browne's medal, and the Poison prize, were then recited,
and the prizes delivered to the prize men by his Royal
Highness, who said a kind word to each. Before this part
of the business of commencement day had been completed,
via., at 8 minutes put ten, the Queen arrived, attended by
the lords and ladies in waiting, the foreign princes. &o,
The Queen was received by the Chancellor in the same form
as yesterday.
Of the merits of the ode, musical or literary, and its gene-
ral effect, we have little to add to what has been already
stated in the notice which appeared in the Erpress of
Monday. of the rehearsal at the Hanover-square Rooms.
The most effective passages in the composition, and those
which were most loudly applauded, at this the grand per-
formance, were the chorus, " War is mercy, glory, fame,"
the soprano solo and chorus, " A guardian angel fluttered ;"
the recitative " That eve the star of Brunswick," &c.; the
ben air, "Albert, in thy nos we cherish;' and the conclud-
ing chorus. " What shield nice sublime," the last words of
which " the pride:of the Weak Victoria the Queen," raised
the audience to such a pitch of enthusiasm that the exhaus-
tion of the singers only prevented an ewer& The national
anthem which was called ter taw goes mad which was ad-
mirably given, terminated the =miler. Her Majesty
and the Prince Chancellor as were net with the
most lively demonstrations of exuberant loyalty.
To-day, as yesterday, Sir Harry Smith was an object of
general attention, and he and the Duke of Wellington were
loudly cheered both on entering and leaving the Senate
Home. The duke was muted to his residence in St. Ca-
therine's Hall by a body guard of townsmen and townsmen,
whose attachment and respect to his grace were exhibited in
the most noisy but hearty vociferation/.
Hoaricomataz. INTR.—Amongst the more remarkable
incidents which characterised the visit of Queen Victoria and
her consort to the university was a grand horticultural fete,
prepared for her Majesty by the Cambridgeshire Horticul-
tural Society ; and to encourage florists and others engaged
in similar pursuits to send their rare and beautiful plants
to be seen, prizes to the amount of 2001. collec-
tively Were offered to the different competitors. The
result was highly successful, and severs] large marquees
were filled with the rarest and most costly flowers, as well
from the greenhouse as from the parterre. Fruit, also, there
was in abundance, and of a very line description. The fete
Was held in the grounds attached to Downing College, which
are very vicious, and although not possessing the advantage
of having the river paining through the domain, the sylvan
character of the scene wailextremely effective and pleasant.
The marquees were decorated with banners, on which were
emblazoned the armorial bearings of the different col-
leges, the royal standard floating in the centre of the
grounds. An elegant though small pavilion was raised
in front of the Master's lodge, through which it
was arranged her Majesty should par in order to avoid the
pressure of the crowd, which has mere than once proved
highly inconvenient. Under this canopy were placed two
fauteuils, and a small richly gilded table, o n which were
placed some strawberries, such as were pronounced by
judges to have been rarely if ever excelled for colour, size, or
flavour. Two prize bouquets completed the simple prepara-
I tons made for the royal couple. The company began to
arrive at 12 o'clock, but, owing to some unfortunate oval-ar-
rangement, they were not permitted to enter the grounds
until very shortly before the hour appointed for the Queen's
arrival—viz., at half-past 2 p.m. The consequence was, that the
accumulation of ticket-holders at the iron-gates separating the
floral fete grounds from the public promenade was so
great sa to occasion the most serious struggles, in which
many ladies lat their jewels, got their laces torn and
their gowns demolished ; in short, confusion and riot pre-
vailed around, when, fortunately, the gates were forced
open by the pressure, and the whole dense mass entered
the grounds without let or hindrance, to the loss, probably,
of the parsons responsible for the expenses of this sadly pre-

partition. However, after this all went smoothly, and the
bands of the let Life Guards and Fusiliers 100 n restored the
spirits of the company, and imparted the customary gaiety
to the scene. The Duke of Wellington preceded the Queen
in his arrival some minutes, and was received by the bend
playing "See the conquering hero comes," though
some attributed this honour to Sir H. Smith, who
was also in the grounds. The Queen and Prince
arrived at half-past two, and promenaded one or
two of the marquees, followed by such an escort es
seldom is observed. The struggles of red, blue, black, and
white gownonen, and the ladies hanging on their arms, to
keep up with and get a glimpse of her Majesty, occasioned
the most dire confusion ; and it was with the utmost diffi-
culty that the crowd was prevented from bunting the line
which was formed for the seclusion of royalty. However,
matters passed over without any serious damage being done ;
the greatest harm that happened being, perhaps, the ruffling '
of the tempers of some of the visitors. The examiners having
awarded the prises to the different exhibitors; their
names were aunched to their respective lots of
flowers. Amongst them were several specimens of very
fine roses, and in this class of flowers many persons gained
the awards; amongst them were Messrs. H. Green, Burs-
ham, Dillaston, professedflorists ; and Mn. Ashton Profe-
ssor Clarke, Mr. Nice, and many others, amateur florists. In
the grounds, amongst the general company, might be per-
ceived, traversing the different tents, men of the highest
rank, as well in society as in science and learning. Of the
latter may be specially noticed, M. Le Verner, the discoverer
of the new planet Neptune, and his almost equally merito-
rious second in the discovery, Professor Adams, the astro-
nomer. It was a highly enlivening scene to listen to the
martial bands stationed on the lawns, and in the intervals
of their performances to hear the distant thrushes and
blackbirds singing in the groves of the adjacent col-
lege grounds. The mixture of rural and highly
artificial life was at once striking and pleasing.
Refreshment booths occupied • very conspicuous part
of the festivity, the more so as the refreshments were
handed to the guests or visitors by elegantly dressed ladies,
who performed this office in aid of a charity to which the
funds raised by the fEte were appropriated. In the course
of the afternoon, a new balloon, styled the Installation
Balloon, was sent up, the veteran aeronaut Greta, being the
oriel speculator in this case, as he has in so many pre-
vious instances. _ _

The Queen and the Prince left the grounds soon after five
o'clock, and repaired to the royal lodge at Trinity College,
where they remained during the interval that elapsed pre-
vious to the summons to the banquet, prepared in the dining
hall of that royal foundation.
THE BANQUIT.—At half-past six o'clock her Majesty
entered the magnificent gothic hall, in which the tables were
laid. The master of Trinity, Dr. Whewell, had the distin-
guished honour of conducting his sovereign to her seat at
the banquettiag board, and the Prince Consort conferred a
like honour upon Mrs. Whewell, the master's wife. The
other guests poured into the hall in such profusion uto
render it a matter of difficulty to separate each from the
brilliant mass of jewelled heads and gorgeous uniforms,
to the aid of which, in point of colour, the sprinkling of
crimson, scarlet, black, white, and blue robes, came
very opportunely. It was when the Queen was seated that
the general arrangement of the banquet could be best noted.
The table at which her Majesty sat was arranged across the
hall on a this, five tables being placed at right angles with
the regal one along the whole length of the building. Her
Majesty was supported on her left by the master of the Royal
College ; on the Queen's right was placed the Duke of Saxe-
Weimar. On Dr. Whewell's left was seated Prince
Albert, the chair to whose left was occupied by Mrs.
Whewell. The other most distinguished guests at the
dais board were the Duke of Wellington, the Duchess
of Sutherland, Lord J. Russell, the Marquis of Lanedowne,
et alio qua rime, &c. In the general loam of guests, it was
an interesting occupation for the few privileged spectators
behind the gallery screen to search out and distinguish the
more celebrated of them. Casting the eye down one table,
the countenances of Sir R. Peel, the poets Rogers and M.
Milne', Sir H. Smith, and the Marquis of Northampton,
could be selected, as charecteriaing the mixed nature of the
convivial association; at another, the astronomers, Le Verrier
and Adams; the geologists, Buckland, Murchison, and
Sedgwick, might be discovered ; a third group coasinted of
judges and bishops ; • fourth of military gownsmen ; and so
on throughout the whole area.
Before the company sat down the Dean of Ely brought
the customary form of prayer observed at these high cere-
monials to the master, who, having recited the Versiclea, and
received the responses from the dean, repeated the Lord's
Prayer (all in Latin), and then begged a blessing on the
meal. The whole ofepereuesta then applied themselves to
the various viands pre for them, the appearance of the
tables being enrich and enlivened by massive pieces of
plate of an ornamental character interspersed with
vases filled with flowers. The rich and varied aspect
of the hall whilst them convivialities were proceed-
ing may be fairly pronounced to have been rarely,
if ever, equalled for its gorgeous and novel effect.
Indeed, a person present, who had witnessed many of the
most reeherchi banquets at which Queen Victoria has been
the honoured guest as well as hostess, in France, Belgium,
and at Windsor, confessed that the scene presented at
Trinity.hall, Cambridge, excelled them all, not only in
point of beauty and elegance, but also in point of the high
intellectual and mural as well as social worth of the various
guests who had the honour of sitting at the hospitable
board of Dr. Whewell. After the " grace of fulness," to
use an old puritanical phrase, had been pronounced,
the master sod bait rose from his seat between his
sovereign and her consort, and in a brief but emphatic
manner proposed the health of the royal couple, which was
responded to in decorous but not the less energetic and i
heartfelt silence by the entire assemblage. The band of the
Fusilier Guards performed several pieces during dinner, and
a guard of honour of the Horse Guards was stationed in the
College green.
Her Majesty returns to Buckingham Palace this day
starting from Cambridge at half-past three o'clock, p.m.
Last night (Monday) Parker's-piece, which those who
are not acquainted with the topography of Cambridge it
may be necessary to inform is a large suburban common, a
short distance from the railway station, was the scene of the
concluding amusements of the day. A number of booths for
dancing, theatrical, and other performances pertaining to
rural fairs were erected, and until a very late hen were suf-
ficiently attended to ensure a considerable profit to those
who had embarked in this speculation. Of course the long-
celebrated Alger's Crown and Anchor was not wanting, and
most of the names which are familiar to the habitues of Green-
wich ,Wandaworth, Stepney, &c., were to be found. A brilliant
pyrotechnic display, which would have done credit to Vaux-
hall in its paluxiset days, was the last of the numerous sights
with which the people of Cambridge and the innumerable
visitors, who have increased its population to such a density,
that habitations can scarcely be bound them, must have been
satiated during the day.