The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-08 00:00:00

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Her ?dainty and Prince Albert, with Princess
Helena, attended by the Countess of Desert, the Hon. Flora
Macdonald, Lieut.-Col. the lion. C. B. Phipps, Lord Alfred
Paget, Lieut.-Cul. the lion, A. Gordon, and Major Bid.
&sli), left Osborne at 20 minutes before 10 o'clock yester-
day mornimr. The royal party embarked en board the
Fairy, royal yacht, and crossed to Gosport, where a special
train was in waiting on the South Western Railway to
convey her Majesty to town. On reaching the Nine Elm,
station the Queen and Prince, with the Princess Helena
sad suite, entered three of the royal carriages, and, escorted
by • detachment of the Bth Hussars, reached Buckingham
Palace at 20 minute., past 1 o'cluck. Her Majesty and his
Royal Highness we., received on alighting from their car-
riage by the Master of the Horse, the Marquis of Abemns,
Lord Camoys, Lml George Lennox, Lieut.-Col. the lion.
M. Boyle, and Col. Wylde.
At three o'clock her Majesty held a Court and Privy
Canoed. The council was attended by Prince Albert. the
Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal,
the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the
Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President
of the Huard of Control, the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, and
'1 the Groom of the Stole to l'rince Albert.

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At the Council her Majesty's speech on closing the ses-
sion of earliament was arranged and agreed upon.
The Earl of Mulgrave was sworn in • member of her
Majesty's Privy Council. Mr. Lawrence Sulivan was also
sworn us a member of her 'Majesty's l'rivy Council.
Mr. Greville was Clerk of the Council in Waiting.
Previous to the council her Majesty gave audiences to
Lord J. Russell, the Earl of Clarendon Viscount Palmer-
ston, Sir Hamilton Seymour, Viscount Melville, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, and Earl Grey.
Captain John Hiuilmarsh, R.N., K. 11., Licut..Governor
of Heligoland, had an audience of her Majesty, to which
he was introduced by Earl Grey, her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs, when her Majesty
was pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon Cap-
tain llindmarsh.

After the council the Earl of Mulgrave had an audience
of the Queen. introduced by the Marquis of Westminster,
Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household, when his lord-
ship received from her Majesty his wand of office as
Comptroller of the Household.
The Queen afterwards held an investiture of the most
honourable order of the Bath. The Knights Grand Crosses
having assembled in the garter-room, where they were
robed in the crimson satin mantle of the order by Messrs.
Hunter and Ede, and wearing their full insignia, were
conducted to the picture gallery. Her Majesty and Prince
Albert entered the throne-room, attended by the Duchess
of Sutherland. Mistress of the Robes; the Countess of
Dysart, Lady in Waiting; the Marquis of Westminster, the
Duke of Norfolk. the Marquis of Abercorn, the Marquis of
Anglesey, Gold Stick in Waiting; Lord Foley, Captain of
the Honourable corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms; the Marquis
of Donegan, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard Lord
Camoys, Lord in Waiting ; Lord George Lennox,
Lord in Waiting to Prince Albert ; Lord Marcus
Hill, Treasurer of the Household ; the Earl of Mulgrave.
Comptroller of the Household; Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk
Marshal ; Lieut.-Colonel the lion, It. Boyle, Groom in
Waiting ; Colonel Wylde, Groom in Waiting to l'rince
Albert; Colonel Parker, Ist Life Guards, Silver Stick in
Waiting; Colonel Llentinek, Field Officer in Waiting, and
the Page of Honour. lier Majesty being seated on the
chair of state, in front of the throne, having on her right
hand his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Great Master of
the Order, the following Knights Grand Crosses of the
Order were ushered to the presence of the sovereign, and
ranged theinselees on either side of the chair of state,
'viz., the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Strangford, the
Earl of Mime, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir George l'ollock,
Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., Sir Hamilton Seymour, Sir J.
Law Lushington, and Lord Fitzroy Somerset.
Sir William Burnett was then introduced to the presence
of the sovereign between Bath King of Arms and the Gen-
tleman Usher of the Order, and was invested by her Ma-
jesty with the itihand, Badge, and Star of a Military
Knight Commander of the Bath. George Nicholls, Esq.,
was introduced in like manner, and after having received
the honour of knighthood, was invested by her Majesty
with the insignia of a Civil Knight Commander of the
Bath. Major-General George Bowles was introduced in
like manner, and after having received the honour of
knighthood was invested by her Majesty with the insignia
of a Military Knight Commander of the Bath.
The investiture having concluded, the Knights Grand
Crosses withdrew with reverences from the presence of the
Sovereign.
The officers of the order present were Bath Ninon( Arms,
Algernon Li reville, Esq., and the Gentleman Usher, Albert
William Wouda, Esq., Laneaster Herald.
Sir James M.Cirigur, Bart., was summoned to attend the
investiture to receive the insignia of a Knight Commander,
but was unable to attend through indisposition.
lier Majesty's guard of Gentlemen at Arms, under the
command of Major Harmer, lined the throne room during
the ceremony. The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty in
the grand hall and approaches to the state apartments under
the command of Captain Phibbs, Eson of the Guaril•in
waiting.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Princess Helena,
took an airing in an open carriage and four yesterday
afternoon. Lieut.-Colonel the lion. C. B. Phipps, and
Lieut.-Colonel the lion. A. Donlon, attended on horseback.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Counter
of Death, the lion. Flora Macdonald, Lord Camoya, Lieut.-
Colonel the lion. lt. Boyle, and Lieut.-Colonel the lion. A.
Gordon, honoured the Royal Italian Opera with their pre-
sence last evening.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce,
Lady Frances Bruce, and Sir (hawse Cooper, left town
early yesterday morning fur Hamilton Palace, on a visit to
the Duke and Duchess of 1111121iIIINI. lier Royal Highness
travelled by the North Western Railway.

The Oxford University Commission had a meeting yester-
day, at the ulticial residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. Present—The Bishop of Norwich,
the Damn of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. 11.
G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., and the Rev. A. P.
Stanley (secretary).
Colonel Anson had an interview with the Chancellor
the Exchequer yesterday.
Despatches were sent off from the Colonial-office yester
day to the Governors of Ceylon and Hong Kong.

THE QUEEN'S APPRO Will NG VIsIT TO SCOTLAND.
—llcr Majesty and the court will proceed by railway to
Balmoral on the 28th or '29th instant.

GOVERNOR ov M.% Lieut.-Colonel Reid,
C. 8., Royal Engineers, formerly Governor of Bermuda, is,
it is said, to be the new Governor of Malta, in place of Mr.
More OTerrall.

ALDERMAN FARNCOMIL TILE LATE LORD MAYOR,
it is said, will very Aortly have conferred upon hint the
dignity of a baronet of the United Kingdom.

ENGLISH SALVM.E CIAIMS.—The report of Capt.
L. Bigot, of the Nouvelle Am..lie, just arrived at Havre,
from the coast of West Africa, contains the following state-
ment:—"At Sierra Leone I left the ' Betsy,' under Capt.
Leclerc, who was reduced to the necessity of selling a part
of his cargo, not having been able to borrow the sum of
2001. sterling, to pay the captain of the British war-steamer
Vulcan for the succour afforded to him by the crew of that
vessel. The surgeon of the steamer would accept nothing
fur his services, although he had saved the life of Captain
Leclerc. The latter was in a fair way of recovery."
ELFATION OF .t REPREMENTATIVE PEER FOR
SCOTIAN P.—Lord Colville, of Cuirosa, was elected at Holy-
rood, on Wednesday, a representative peer fur Scotland, in
room of the lite Viscount Strathallon.

AGGREGATE TENIPERANCE MEETING AT ST. MAR-
111.1.8.11ALL.—Last night an aggregate meeting of the
friends of the temperance movement was held at St.
Martin's-hall, Long-acre, to hear addresses, chiefly by
some of the men of Preston, on the subject. Mr.
Joseph, Liveisey, of Preston, long a well-known ad-
vocate of the cause, was elected to the chair After a
melody hail been sung by the Welsh choristers, who
occupied the platform, the chairman addressed the meeting
in praise of tectotali.m. The temperance movement began
in 1832, but as much of the drunkenness arose from ale
drinking, it was found that the remedy fell very fur short
of the evil. The chairman's attention was called to a
further remedy by the example of Benjamin Franklin, who
found himself more fitted for hi. work by drinking water
than by taking beer. lie turned his attention to the value
of malt liquor as a beverage, and found that in two shil-
lings worth of ale, the real value of the barley contained in
it was but fivepence, and that in the process of malting
and brewing four-fifths of the nutriment was lost, a
discovery which at the time astonished him. In
1832 he therefore began to advocate the discontinuance
of the use of ale and wine as well as spirits, and many in
Preston adopted the pledge of total abstinence, and found
that work could be done without malt liquor, and from this
time the movement spread to other parts. Since then a
change had taken place, but still it was only partial, and
many who were opposed to drunkenness were in favour of
ale and porter, and therefore attempts must be made to
counteract the notion in favour of the necessity of these
beverage s. They must demonstrate to the public not only '
that these drinks are bad when in any state of purity, but
that they are essentially bad. All fermented liquors were
bad moderate drinkers took more than drunkards, and
were worse: it was moderate drinkers who caused the great
evil.—Mr. T. Walmsley was next called upon. lye had been
a teetotaler since the commencement of the cause, and the
more he read and knew about its cause, the more he loved
it. To carry the cause of teetotalism would be the moat
glorious revolution the world ever saw, but the greatest
obstacle to teetotalism was moderation.—Mr. Swindlehurat,
the next speaker, said his object in visiting London was to
endeavour in the metropolis of the world to do some good
for the poor, benighted, sottish portion of the great city.
London boasted the blessings of almost every society for the
promotion of Christianity,—and what slid we see I Why,
it was the very sink of iniquity : it abounded in drinking
shops, breweries, dancing .gluons, and everything else cal-
culated to allure the unwary.—Robert Charnley, a reformed
drunkard, next addressed the meeting, after another Welch
melody bad been sung, and spoke of the blessings of &heti-
acne* to him.—Mr. Catlirall and Mr. Whittaker followed,
and a collection was then made to defray the expenses which
had been incurred. A letter from the proprietor of the
Surrey-gardens, complimenting the good conduct of the
2i,000 teetotallers, was read, anti after the usual compli-
ment to the chairman, the meeting broke up.

IRELAND.

Drams, Aeneas. 7.
The public dinner given to Mr. A. O'Flahcrty,
M.P., by his constituents in Galway, on Monday
last, is described as having been attended by sonic
two hundred gentlemen. Mr. Keogh, M.P., was a
guest, and the speeches of the two hon. gentlemen
were, of course, the leading features on the occasion.
The demonstration could not be considered as a poli-
tical one, almost the only topics discussed being the
prospects of the town in relation to the railway just
opened, and the packet station which it is expected
will be established there.

The Galway Vindicator says that the Right Rev.
1)r. French, Roman catholic bishop, has been at-
tacked with paralysis, and remains without hope of
recovery ; and as that prelate is very aged, and has
lung been very feeble, it is probable that an oppor-
tunity will speedily be offered for a " breach of the
law" in the diocese of Kilmaedough and Kilfonora.
The alarm about the potato blight is renewed
this morning from various quarters. The C'ork
E.raminer, however, remarks that the worst ac-
counts have all come from the sea coast, and that in
the interior the crop seems to be nearly quite safe.
The Limerick Chromcle says:
The potato fields in Limerick have not suffered any
blight from mist or rain, as those reported in certain re-
mote districts in the county of Clare. The potato market
is abundantly supplied, thus early, so low as sd. to Gd. per
stone, and in the vast quantity exhibited there is not a dis-
eased potato to be seen.
The injury inflicted on the turnip crop by grubs is
said to be very considerable and general.
Yestet day the Encumbered Estates Commissioners
refused to make absolute the ccnditional order which
had been obtained for a sale by one of the creditors of
the Earl of Glengall. The chief commissioner said :

The creditor was not one who affected the inheritance,
but, as he understood, who affected the late estate of Lord
bilengall only; and the question had been raised, whether
an encumbrancer of the life estate could be an applicant fur
the sale of the estate when the encumbrance affected the
inheritance, three being encumbrances to a sufficient
amount. The 19th section of the act provided, that, for the
purpo-es of authorising an application fur sale under that
act, the land should nut be deemed subject to an encum-
brance when the sale would not affect the inheritance.
Now, if a person read that section. and no more, it might
be supposed that that court was put in motion for the pur-
pose of selling the lands of those who were effecting such
encumbrances ; but, from the 56th section, it appeared that
the word "encumbrancer" should mean any person entitled
to such encumbrances, or entitled to require the payment or
discharge thereof.
The sale, therefore, of the Earl of Glcngall's
estates will not be taken out of the hands of the
trustees appointed by the special act obtained for the
purpose in ISI3, but will be carried on under that
act in the office of one of the Masters in Chancery.

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1851.