The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-30 00:00:00

TURKEY.

A letter from Constantinople, 13th inst., says
.1 It appears that all the members of the family of
the late Mehemet Ali Pacha have decided on quitting
Egypt, and taking refuge at Constantinople. By the
last French packet two more of them have arrived
here—Alim Bey, son of the old viceroy, and 'Mous.
tafa Bey, eon of the late Ibrahim Pacha.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1851.

between We. Webster, Mr. Didwer, and the Niearnguan
minister, in reference to the affairs of the country, of which
the lest-named ti the representative in Washingtort. It iv
hkely they had reference to the continued occupation of
San Juan by the English, and the difficulties which have
recently taken place there between some American citizens
and the authorities.

...
It appears, after all, that Mr. Brace, thc Ameriean citizen
who was imprisoned by the Austrian authorities, has been
released only from close confinement, and that he is to be
tried at Pesth before a military court. We trust that, etc
this, the administration at Washington hare taken mea-
sures to procure his unconditional release.

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WEST INDIES.

From Kingston, Jamaica, we have advices, via
New York, to the 11th inst. Several vessels were
loaded for England, amongst them several foreign
ones. A large quantity of sugar would be shipped
this season. Business was dull.

Porto Rico dates arc to the 3rd inst. Sugar was
scarce, owing to the heavy rains.

Vbe Court.

OSBORNE, TVESDAY, 31-I.l' 29.
The Queen, the Prince, and the royal family took
their usual walks and drives in the neighbourhood of
Osborne yesterdly.
The Dache.s of Kent took a carriage airing, attended by
Lady Augusta Bruce.
The lion. Colonel and Mrs. Phipps and M. Becker had
the honour of dining with her Majesty and his royal
highness.

The Princess Augusta of Saxe Coburg Gotha arrived in
town yesterday from Esher, and in the evening took her
departure for Ostend.
A meeting of the Royal Commission for the promotion
of the Exhibition of the `%-arks of Industry of all Nations
was held on Saturday, at the Exhibition in Hyde-park, at
half-past one o'clock. The commissioners present were
Earl Granville, the Right Hon. William E. Gladstone, Sir
Riehard Westmaeott, Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Cubitt, Mr.
T. F. Gibson, Mr. John Shepherd, and Mr. Hopkins, pre-
sident of the Geological Society. Mr. Scott Russell and
Mr. Edgar Bowring, secretaries to tho royal commission,
attended. Lieut.-Colonel Reid (chairman), Mr. Henry
Cale, and Mr. C. Wentworth Dilke, of the executive com-
mittee, were present. Dr. Lyon Playfuir and Colonel
Lloyd, special commissioners, were also present.

The Queen will, on Friday, August 8, dissolve
parliament in person.

(From tut olprbre Gazeffe.)
DOWNING-STREET, JULY 29.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Henry Slmuel Chapman, Esq., to be
Colonial Secretary for the island of Van Diemen 's Land ;
also to appoint Thomas Falconer, Esq., to be Colonial
Secretary for the territory of Western Australia.
COMMISSION SIGNED UT THE LORD LIEUTENANT
or Somouserantaa.—Williarn Speke, jun., Esq., to be
captain in the let Somerset Regiment of Militia.
COMMIMION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT
or Donsersittna.—Morgan Derenish, Gent , to be lieutc-
Rant in the Dorset Regiment of Militia.

It appears that the East India Company's steamer
Scsostris was despatched front Bombay June i, fur Aden,
and that a mail was put on hoard up to that date. She had
not reached Aden at the hat advices, six., July D.

TILE GREAT EXII I BlTlON.—Yesterday 68,496 per-
sons visited the building, and 3,211/, lUs. was tho amount
of money taken at the doom, of which the sale of season
tickets realised 61. Gs.

Sin JOHN FItANKLTX.—A petition has been lately
presented to the Admiralty, signed by the mayor and
number of the merchants of Liverpool, urging upon their
lordships to send up a steamer to the Arctic regions, in ac-
cordance with the promise given by them last spring.
LinttG, the celebrated German chemist, is about
to visit Liverpool. During his stay he will be the guest of
James 3luspratt, Esq., of Seaforth.—Liverpool Mercury.
PORTS3IOUTII, JULY 29.—One of thoso farces so
numerous in the royal navy, and which afford so much food
for the attention of financial reformers or political econo-
mists, was performed here to-day. The Hag of Rear-Ad•
miral W. W. Henderson, K.C.B.' K.C.H., who was re-
cently appointed to succeed Rear-Admiral Reynolds,
C. 8., in command of the naval forces on tho Brasile
station, was hoisted this morning about ten o'clock, on
board an old hulk, which, of course, having no guns
could not salute it; the buntin was consequently
hauled clown from the naked pole and hoisted on
board the steam block skip, Blenheim, which duly
saluted the commander-in-chief, whose ship then saluted

the new flag, which was then hauled down until such time
as the ship fitting out for him will be in a state of readiness
to carry it. Now is not this a mere piece of nautical hum-
bug ? This playing at flag hoisting and saluting is totally
unnecessary, BO far as expediency goes ; because, in nine
cases out of ten the admiral hoisting his flag lives quite
assay from the spot, where he hoists it, most likely in Lon-
don, and goes thither directly after the ceremony. But the
le.istinghis buntin is the signal for the commencement of his
pay and table money. Although he may not come near hik
proper ship, until within 48 or 24 hours abet. sailing for the
station to which he may be appointed ;and he may not do one
tittle towards the equipment of Ids ship, or transact any
business connected with his office, he thus has no interest
in hastening away to his station, because his pay and
table money it going on, whilst also is that of the
officer whom he is appointed to succeed. It is to such mat-
ters as the..., trifling in external semblance, but material in
fact, that the expenditure for keeping up the national
do fences get swollen to so unwholesome an excess as to call
loudly for the interference of reformers in the legislature,
and the petition+ and resolutions of Peace societies. The
Centaur, steam-frigate, Captain St. Ledger Cannon, which
is the ship fitting out to carry the flag of Bear-Admiral
Henderson, is nothing like ready, nor will she be yet for
some time ; she was only masted to•day. Would it not be
high time for an admiral's pay and table money to com-
mence as commander-in-chief when he arrived out upon his
station and bad relieved the officer he was appointed to
succeed ?

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ADMIRALTY, JELY 29.—. _
sistant Engiuer F. W. Brown, to Centaur. Lieutenant
C. J. Balfour, Master R. 11. Warren, Purser S. L. Her-
bert, Clerks J. 11. Shirreff and It. Smithill, Second
Master C. Stuart, Gunner S. Denham, Boatswain T.
Collins, and Carpenter It. Harid, to Calypso.
THE LATE MAJoit TowNsEND, HER MAJESTY'S
83nu REGIMENT.—This officer, the announcement of whose
decease at Kurrachee on the 2nd ult. has just been received,
entered the army in 1816. His commissions arc dated—
Ensign in May, 1816 ; lieutenant, October, 1824 ; captain,
February, 1826; brevet major, November, 1841; and regi-
mental major, December, 1848. In January, 1819, the late
Major Townsend embarked with the 83rd Regiment for
Bombay, and he served with the 83rd until the date of his
decease at Kurrachee, Scinde, a station most unfavourable
to the health of Europeans.
THE. LATE COLONEL OGILVIE, E.l.C.S.—Coloncl
Ogilvie, of the East India Company's service, and Judge
Advocate-General of the Bombay army, died at Poona, near
Bombay, on the 18th ult. The late Colonel Ogilvie was
universally respected in India, where he had served upwards
of half • century.
PROTECTIONIST MEETING AT TICNTINGDON.—Ircs-
terday there was a gathering of farmers and others at
Huntingdon to do honour to the Rev. James Linton, and Mr.
George (lame Day, of St. Ives, as the untiring cham-
pions of the cause of protection. The advertisement stated
that Lord Mandeville, M.P., son of the Duke of Manches-
ter, would take the chair ; but from whisperings that have
been going on in the county during the last two or three
weeks it appeared evident that there was a screw loose
somewhere, and that his lordship would not be present.
It was stated at the meeting that his lordship had met
with an accident at Lady Jersey's ball ; but we
were informed in the room that his lordship was fishing on
Monday, near the family scat. In this dilemma, the lion.
Mr. Buncombe, of Waresby, was applied to, and accepted
the office ; but he, too, declined, being suddenly called into
Yorkshire. Several of the local gentry were applied to,
but they "all with one accord began to make excuse;" and
ultimately Mr. John Mann, of Fenstanton, ta tenant
farmer, was selected. This circumstance, together with
the significant absence of Lord Sandwich, the lord lieute-
nant of the county ; Messrs. Fellows and Thornhill, the
members of the county; and, indeed, of almost every per-
son of note in the neighbourhood, caused much
surprise, and, it may be said, some consternation.
These gentlemen had always been looked upon as the
staunch upholders of the cause of protection, and their very
mysterious absence caused great surprise and sundry Ma-
gi v logs. The gentlemen by whom the dinner was given are
highly respected in the county. Mr. Linton is the rector of
the adjoining village of Hemingford, but does not act as a
clergyman; Mr. Day is a liberal dissenter, of St. Ives, an
eminent attorney, who on several occasions has most elo-
quently denounced the system of free-trade. Mr. Linton is
chairman of the Hunts Agricultural Protection Society,
and by that society the dinner was on this occasion
got up. The dinner was of a very splendid charac-
ter—fish and venison, and, indeed, every delicacy, with
an excellent dessert, a pint of wine and waiters in-
cluded, and all for 3e. 6d., the difference, it being
understood, being borne by the Hunts Protection Society.
The gathering was a very numerous one, but the addresses
delivered on the occasion were composed of the usual ma-
terial and presented no novelty.
STOPPAGE OP BIACKFRIARS-BRlDGE.—Yesterday
the preparations for closing the traffic over Blackfriars-
bridge commenced, and in the coarse of a few days the
thoroughfare for carriages will be stopped. Foot passen-
gers will, however, be permitted to pass over as usual. The
committee have been reluctantly obliged to adopt this step,
the continual sinking of the defective pier giving rise to
serious apprehensions for the safety of the public. Oaths ex-
clusion of carriages from the bridge the superincumbent '
weight will be taken off the crown of the arch, and the
necessary steps adopted for the safety of the structure.
THE STREET ORDERLY SYSTEM IN THE CITY.—
On Monday the inhabitants of the ward of Langbourne held
a meeting, at which their newly-elected alderman, W.
Cubitt, Esq., M.P. presiacd, to consider the propriety of
supporting the system of cleansing the public thorough-
fares on the newly introduced system of street orderlies.
Several gentlemenot the ward addressed the meeting, sad
pooktiou la Amur of the sebum Win adopt.*

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