The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1847.

short of two million. of Wes. Mora have einnequentle edYuted.
and are fully sustained. We note sales 2,00 d bake at fall prices. The
advance this week is equal to 3 c. per lb.—Flour. There was little
doing, and without change In prices. Operators stewed Map:ad to
wait for later neva ; 230 to 200 bbla. Michigan sold nt data. 624 e.,
and a lot of boorgetawn at S dol. 30 c. ; Oeuvre was held at
S &Is. eel c., while S dol. 561 c. was freely offered fur large lot. SUMP
large headers were out of the market at present prices.—Whe at: The
market was steady at former rates, hot not mush doing beyond the
purchase of supplies In small lots of country grown, by ally
milks.—Corn: the aurket,lntgmrdeacriptimu, as leas firm. We
note sales 3,000 bushels, white, yesterday evening, ore pricate terms.
Today See. wan offered (or 4,000 buchila Southern white, with roue
conditions, and refused. 500 burryls Jersey yellow sold at Mx. ; 2,000
do. for export at 79c., and 3,000 do. %Inertia white, to arrive at 76c.
Rye : Soo bushels, in the dip, soW at ale., and in mute was held at
Sae, —Oats were steady, for Canal at 4.; to 41c.-Corn Meal was the.
at 4 &Is. Whiskey wu dull at 23r. Prinixions : the mar-
ket was quiet, and without ultsi of i portatior. Mess
was quoted at 12 doh. 121 c.. and prime at 9 &h. 75c. Beef
win wetland change, and sales limited.— !ant : We note sales of 200
kegs actual tare at 53e.—Talkor Tree was a small ate of 4,ooolbs_
common at 71 cts.—Ashes: Tots were nominal at 3 dots.; 50 bbls.
rearli were sold at 3,20 dole.--Cigar ; lOU bhds. New Orleans sold at
r 4 to 7 eta.—Molasees: 100 Ithrls. and tierces New Orleans sold at 32
centa.—Coffee: 200 bags slightly damaged kilo sold, by auction, at
111 to Si c —Naval Rorer Demand limited fur kinds, except
Spirits Turpentine, wanted for domestieconviimptioa. —Fish : Nothing
new; market steady at previous prices.—Freights: Notwithstanding
the great demand for vessels there has been for a long time past, they
are Minore demand thanever. The new shipaueladenwith thegreatat
despatch, and those that arrive, whether foreign or American, are
taken up at once; such a thing as an idle crawl is nowhere to be '
found. To England freights are quicker than ever. And to the north
of Europe, in soon as the navigation opens, there will be a great de-
mand. 4.. 9d. to 5s per bbl. is paid freely for dour; 17d. anal In d. for
grain ; 3s. rid. tor cotton: 17d. for wheat in bags, and 55c. to 60e. fur
bury gene. are paid, and engagements made for a month ahead. For
Loodius and different puts of Ireland there is an increase! demana
fur resole. To Harm the demand for yesuls is slack, and but little
cotton shipping. They are odering 25 c. for grain to Antwerp, sod to
Rio Janeiro, I, 25 dots.

The Marquis of No AAAAA PTON stated that the opened
had, no doubt, fallen into an error is not pre.
cisely ascertaining the words of the grant of the
royal medals, which had been altered ill some mea-
sure on the renewal of the grant by her present Majesty.
Former councils had frequently awarded the rove medals to
pirters previous to their being printed. Such an error
would be avoided for t e future, as the council hid made
arrangements fur pretenting the recurrence of any misunder-
standing.
Mr. J. F.. ORAT moved the following amendment :
That whereas the president of the sixietyliasidreadr expremed from
the ebair an opinion on the irregularity which attend +Abe award of the 1
royal !nodal in ISIS, and whereas the conned is ued new regulations
with regard to the royal medals an worn as they discovered that those
enacted in 1138 were inoossisteat with the terms of the royal giant.
It therefore dues not seem expedient to the present meeting that soy
further proceedings should be taken in the matter.
The amendment was seconded by the Rev. Mr. SHEEP-
PHANXIC

The meeting was addressed by Professor Bell, Professor
Grove, Mr. Steven, Mr. Babhage, Dr. Todd, Dr. Sh%rpey,
Dr. Bright, Dr. Lee, Mr. Warren, Mr. Lswrance, and other
gentlemen. On the amendment being put, a large number
of bands were held up in its favour for the negative, 3.
The PRESIDENT, in conclusion, observed that he had been
much misrepresented in this matter. It bad been stated
that he was opposed to inquiry, and opposed to any change
in the society, and that he was about to resign his presidency.
He could say. that h. was only anxious for the welfare of the
society in all hl did, that he had always sanctioned changes
when he deemed them neeereary. Ile was sorry anything
he had said should have been misrepresented so as to injure
the society.
Sir R. 11. Ixotts having proposed, ard Sir R. I. Mtn-
CHISON seconded a vote of thanks to the noble president, the
meting separated at half-past five o'clock. Every one who
takes an interest in the Royal Soci .ty must feel glad that
this matter has thus terminated. The meeting has given
the council an opportunity of explaining the sources of the
error into which th, y fell; and the discontented members must
have evidently seen that in the award of the royal medal for
1845. not only was there no attempt on the part of the
physiological committee and council to deal unfairly by any
one, but that every anxiety was evinced, in the award of this
particular medal, to secure for it a just destination. The
council admit that they erred in interpreting the letter of the
law, but no one accused them of having acted in opposition
to the spirit in which these medals are granted, or in which
the society ought to act.

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—The annual festival of
this society-took place on 'fuesday evening at the Freemasons'
Hail, when about 150 gentlemen sat down to dinner. At
six o'clrek the Earl of Lincoln took the chair, supported by
Mr. D. Hawes, M.P., and several influential members and
patrons of the chanty. The noble chairman having
given " The Queen," and the other routine toasts,
proceeded to the charter toast of the evening,
" Presperity to the Royal Humane Society." He con-
gratulated the society on the happy results which had at-
tended the seventy-third year of their existence. Their
officers had successfully treated 174 cases of immersion in
the water, and only in 2G had they been unsuccessful. 14
honorary silver, and 31 bronze medals had been awarded,
and the thanks of the society inscribed on vellum were to
be given to some individuals. Having entered into
some further particulars, the noble chairman concluded,
amid loud cheering, by exhorting all present to contribute,
by their donations and subscriptions, to the maintenance of
so useful an institution. The secretary then read the re-
pert, and the subscriptions, including 1001. from the Duke
of Northumberland, being the 17th !hundred from his grace,
and many handsome donations in the room, were announced
to be 8101. A procession, consisting of several persons who
had been saved from drowning, then parted through the
room, exciting very considerable interev, especially an infant
about two years old, who was carried by one of the stewards.
After this ceremony, the chairman presented the medals,
with an appropriate address, to each recipient. Among
those whom he addressed was Mr. Mitchell, a gentleman
connected with the Committee Clerks' Office in the House of
Commons, and who had very gallantly saved the life of a boy
at I'utney on the 13th August, last year. Mr. Mitchell
received the silver medal and a testimonial, and briefly
thanked the society for the honour conferred. The other
toasts were then disposed of, and the company separetnl.
EMPLOYMENT OF THE DESTITUTE POOL—Yester-
day, the society for affording employment to the destitute
poor, by street cleansing, engaged a number of poor men
to remove the snow from the water-courses, and the mud
and slush consequent on the thaw, from the foot-paths, to
whom they awarded from 2s. to 2s. 4d. each per day, the
preG rence being given to married men with families. They
were chiefly engaged in Piccadilly, Pall Mall, St. James's-
street, Queen-square, and the vicinity of Charing-cross. A
soup kitchen has also been opened on the society's premises,
in Leicester-square, where from 200 to 300 famishing crea-
tures are daily supplied with a meal of soup and bread.

THE NEW BRIDGE FROM LAMBETH TO WEST-
MINNTEIL—Yemerday the commissioner appointed to in-
vestigate the preamble of a bill now before parliament, to
erect a bridge across the Thames, from Church-street, Lam-
beth, to Market-street, Weetminstcr, gave notice that he
would inspect the local surveys and approaches on the 25th
inst., at the Bridge Hotel, Bridgeetreet, Westminster, in
order to report thereon, as required by the 10th of Viet.
SUPPOSED SPICIDE.—On Wednesday evening,
about nine o'clock, a man, about 30 years of age, entered the
Shakspeare coffee-house, in the Circus, Blackfriars-road.
Having partaken of some refreshment, be told the mistress
of the house that he was very tired, and did not wish to be
disturbed until ten or eleven o'clock the following morning.
He then retired to rest. At eleven o'clock yesterday fore-
noon a servant went tq his bedroom to call him, and hearing
no answer to her repeated knocks at the doer, she entered
the room, when she found the guest insensible. The parish
surgeon was called in, and pronounced the stranger to have
been dead several hours. On the table they discovered a
small phial, which, from its smell, appeared to have con-
tained gin, and a piece of paper, marked on the outside
" oxalic acid—poison." A stranger slept in the same room,
but left at an early hour in the morning. Up to a late hour
last night no clue could be obtained as to the residence of
deceased. An inquest will be held this day.

INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—DEATU FROM COLD TN
THE OILTSTUR-NTREITE PRlSON.—Before Mr. rayoe, in the
Oiltspurstrect Prison, on the body of 'William Myeroft, aged
27, a prisoner. Mr. J. Whitham, governor, raid deceased
was received into that prison on the 22nd of January, having
been committed fur three months as a rogue and a vagabond.-
Dr. Mac Murdo. surgeon, said deceased first came under his
notice on the 31st of January, suffering from cold. He was
received into the infirmary, and although everything was
done fur him he died on the 10:11 instant from bronchitis,
aggravated by the present severe weather. The brother of
the deceased said the latter for the last five years had got his
living by minding carts in the vicinity of Billingsgate, and
was of rather weak intellect. He had never been in prison
before. The inquiry was adjourned for the purpose of getting
evidence as to the committal.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Fee. 11.
The south is again resuming the worst appearances
of destitution. Bantry gives fifteen inquests in one
day, and further south the wretched peninsula of
Dingle is described as reduced to a dreadful state.
A correspondent of the Kerry Examiner very vaguely
describes the average deaths from starvation per week
at twenty. " Men, women, and children thrown into
the grave without a coffin ; dead bodies found in all
parts of the country, being several days before they
were discovered, and no inquests to inquire how they
came by their deaths."
Sir H. W. Barron has stated in parliament that the
londlords of Waterford and Kilkenny are doing their
dilly. So far ea Kilkenny ie concerned, the statement
is sustained by the conduct of Lord Ormonde and
Me. Hervey de Montmorency. The former has ad-
dressed his tenantry upon the necessity—the urgent
necessity—of immediately applying themselves to
tillage, promising all necessary assistance to such as
amply with his directions. Mr. De Montmorency
is acting similarly with regard to his tenants. The
Marquis of Ormonde is one of the moat active mem-
bers of the Kilkenny relief committee.
The rumours of Judge Burton's resignation are re-
vived. The terms, I have heard, on whieh his lord.
=tier his friends, on a previous occasion, offered his
, were, that Mr. Barrington, married to the
17ar, niditteterw 'Band.ni;torsherouTdPobwit thhe
ors.lllt~sr4oliettnrship for Munster, now held by kis
father, worth, I believe, about 1,2001. a year. The
anaagemsola were not concluded then—whether the
same teems have been offered now, I have not heard.
Judge Burton is over ninety years old, and must soon
be incapax negotii.
The weather continues excessively severe. The
snow has been followed by frost, which has continued
all last night, and throughout this day. The snow
has fallen heavily in all pert/ of the country north and
month, and every mail arriving in Dublin to-day was
several hours late in consequence. The Cork mail,
due this afternoon, had not arrived up to the time of
my despatch.
Lsst night's Gazette contains proclamations for
holding presentment swim in twenty-one baronies.