The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-25 00:00:00

!lit Court._

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ARDVENEKTE, LAOGAN, AUG. 22.—Her Majesty I
and the Prince, with the Prince of Wales and the Pnacese
Royal, and the Prince of Leiningen, attended by the Duke
and Duchess fot Norfolk, Earl Grey, Viscountess Jocelyn,
Major-General Wemyse, and Sir J. Clark, arrived hem from
Fort William at halt-past twelve o'clock yesterday. Her
Majesty was received, at the Loch-bridge, by a Highland
guard, commanded by M'Phenon of Cluny. Her Ma-
jesty alighted at the drawbridge, and was banded into •
carriage on the other aide, which awaited her Majesty's
arrival, by the Marquis of Abercorn. Notwithstanding the
unpropitious state of the weather, her Majesty and Prince
Albert walked in the grounds during the afternoou.—The
royal dinner party included her Majesty and the Prince, the
Prince of Leiningen, the Duke and Duehem of Norfolk,
the Marquis of Abercorn, Earl Grey, Viscountess
Jocelyn, Mr. G. E. Anson, Major-General Wemyse, Captain
the Hon. A. Gordon, and Sir James Clark, Bert. Divine
service will be performed atArdverekie Lodge, this morning.
The weather again to-day moat unpropitious, and last night
a hurricane of wind and rain. The Prince of Wales and the
Princes' Royal arrived in perfect health.

Lord Campbell, Lady Stratheden, and the Hon.
Miss Campbell, left Stratheden Homo yesterday, for Hart-
rigge House,
es from the Governor of the Gambia were
rece7Xy"'"esterday at the Colonial-office. Despatches were
sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office, for the
Governor of South Australia.

THE Comm.—The

1 of the Custom

have issued directions to the collectors and comptrollers at
the several ports throughout the United Kingdom, to pre-
pare and transmit to the Comptroller-General the undermen-
tioned accounts, according to approved forms, so far as the
same relate to their respective ports—viz.: an alphabetical
list of all persons employed in the customs who, in any capa-
city, receive 1001. a yes: and upwards of the public money,
stating what amount is paid as salaries, profits. fees, emo-
luments, grants, or allowances; also the date of the first
appointment of each person. A similar list of all persons re-
cetving 1001. a year and upwards, as pensions, superaunue-
i Cons, compensations, or retired allowances of any descrip-
tion, and front whatever source defrayed, stating, as far as
practicable, the dates of the respective grants. These returns
are in each instance to include, separately, the name and
office of the party, the amount of salary, and the other par-
ticulars before-mentioned. under their respective heads, as
existing on the sth July ult.
No MAILS FROM CHINA.—The following notice
was issued yesterday by the Post-office. " No mails from
China, Singapore, and Penang were received in London by I
the overland India mail via Marseilles, which arrived yes- ,I
terdsy, the branch packet from Hong Kong not having I
reached Point de Galls on the 18th of July, whenthe con-
tract
packet left the port.
METROPOLITAN SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF
' BURIALS IN TOWNlL—Yesterday a meeting of this society
was held in the society's rooms, 17, Bridge-street, Black-
friars, Mr. John Atkinson in the chair.—MX. G. A. Walker
called the attention of the society to the meetings recently
held in York and Leeds for the purpose of adopting imme-
diate and decisive measures for the suppression of this abo-
mination, the burial of the dead in cities and towns. The
speaker concluded by enforcing the urgent necessity there
was for a public demonstration by the society against intra-
mural burials, as nothing so soon drew the attention of 1
government ea the pressure from without.—Other gentle-
men having expressed their opinions upon the future coma
to be pursued by the society, the time for holding a =
meeting was ultimately fired upon. After a vote of
to the chairman, the meeting adjourned.
ROYAL ORTHOP.EDIC HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday, the
half-yearly court of the governors of this most excellent in-
stitution was held in the board-room of the hospital, No. 8,
Bloomsbury-square, to receive the report of the medical
officers, and for the transaction of other routine business.—
Mr.
Quarles Harris one of the vice-presidents, took the chair,'
and the report sated that the total number of in and outpa-
tients admitted during the half-year ending the 24th inst had
been 758, being an increase upon the previous half-year of
220 patients. The total number of in-patients admitted since
the opening of the hospital, in December, 1840, was 570, and
of out-patients 5,485, giving a total number of persons
treated for the cure of club-foot, the lateral curvature of the
spine, and all other contractions and deformities, of 6,856.
It was further stated in the report, that since the lest Meeting
six additional beds bad been prepared for the reception of in-
patients, of whom there were then 30 in the hospital. The
Right Hon. Sir Frederick Pollock, Lord Chief Baron of the
Exchequer, and Lord It. Grosvenor, M.P., were elected vim-
presidents, and the meeting was dissolved.
GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—Tho
usual half/early meeting of thisconipany was held yesterday,
at their Aloes, do,Lombard-dna. Mr. Wain took the
chair. The dilution' repeat, semi a eleilmime oldie osewmala
for the half-year ending the 110th Jose bat, wire read Se the
massing. The report Maul the undiotimished proverb, of
ths company, and in the Weems of its reeding wee received
with marks of the greatest satisfaction by the il
The customary dividend being declared, the oordraritrita;
of the meeting were voted to the chairman and directors for
their unremitting labours in promoting the interests of the
MYiVESTYlltirriat REFORM SOCIETY.—On Mon-
day evening a seeig of the registration committee of the
Watiminefeer RAM' Boa:sty was held at the York Hotel,
'Upper Welliogleartnet, Strand, far the purpose of enter.
big into arrangemaate to protest the rebrro interest at the
lierrister's Court. Mr. Bremner having
=ldled to the their, the secretary chewed that a meet-
ing of the committee had not bees prisdeuely
_thasseed, in
esseequesee of the extensive inforiedea width be bad re-
mired during the p, ant ammo, end whisk bed mot been
es yet menaged in a &Anita form. It wee hatemle=
Weirelefir of ell .thee at the Bevies, Bf a
without reser& la the "thee then may have bees
ohm. Mr. Prot wed the Iblisiwies rmehttlea :
Hat thessemwerielmbustelle um *let erifermege, m here.
Ite=e semi mirth ea the ugh* awes' tar the dir et
eirthes=theet sabseme in the emellem theme to
their vessel the kit
He eel that be flit great Osman in movie( the resolution,
1 se It wolf pees that the Nedepl wet setae led by a liberal
?Wel thet be ell oldest wee to maid.,the elective
for the forthirmace of edema pelmelples.—Mr. G.
Porasey moonfed the resoluties, which wee supported by
other *ambers, and agreed to unanimously. Thanks were
this retell to the chairman, and the meeting separated.
liamaaso To ROME.—We understand that a
mri.
al I.:btu:ller
mostinLondon—on: .of theamtot
'about to be received, if it has successful,
lout already taken
Arm, fate tle church of Rome, with the whole of his family.
We et paesmt withhold the name, though we have DO
doubt sClb eseuracy of our correspondent. A gentleman,
else well known to the patrons of art as a royal academi-
cian, it said to be about to follow the same course.—Oxford
Herald. _ _ _

A MODERN GOAT.—Pablic attention has been
milled toe little child under this title, which presents the
singular and not very gratifyieg phenomenon of having the
wL of the lit shoulder and the exterior of the amine,
region of the cheat covered with a thick gloomy hair, which
springs from a corrugated blackish skin, similar in
appearance to an ordinary mole on the human body.
Than L aothing in such a arcade to recom-
mend it to the attention of any clam of wonder-seekers' for
the deformity is nothing more than an exaggerated hair
spot, such as often disfigures the countenances of persons of
both sexes, and indeed the " living wonder," as this poor
little child is termed by its show-keepers, is more an object
of sympathy and even of painfttl regard than of cariosity.
It is to he seen for the present at the Connors= Booms, In
Regentstreet.
CIABEICALITY OP THE LONDON TAVERN Stotts.—
.

It I;eneions that when we speak of " Whitbread's Entire,"
&c., we nee a most classical phrase. It is the Mama of the
Romans, frequently translated Wine . end, indeed, that is
what it mew.. But aserwes never meant wine originally,
nor anything of the kind. It meant entire, that is, sincere,
genuine, unmixed. In the same way the Greeks called
wise altraton, that is, unnsissel.--Tallat's English Ety-
' rnologies.

INQUEST, YIifITERDAT.—THE ACCIDENT AT rig
BLAcawatr. PlBll.--CHAROM A 0113137 A POLICEMAN.—By
Mr. W. Baker, resumed at the Royal Meson, Poplar, on the
body of Simmons, as was reported in our paper of Friday.
The deceased wee drowned in an attempt to get on board de
Vesper Gravesend steamer at Blackwell Pier on Monde,.
the 16th inst., and which it was alleged was owing to di
improper conduct of police-constable-Feltham, belonging to
the company stationed on the pier, in laying bold of the tiff
of the coat of the deceased at the time be was going se
board. The demand had been turned off the boat by the
direction of the captain, owing to his being intoxicated am
insulting the passengers, and the boat being about to leave
the pier on her voyage to Gravesend, the deceased ran to fie
stern of the vessel to jump on board, when the strident se-
caned. The only additional evidence that was addueed was
that of J. Gersten, who deposed to witnessing the whole
transaction, and he did not attach any real blame to
the policeman, who appeared to him to be speaking
quietly to the deceased, and endeavouring to nt
him away, after he was turned off the boat. Ge.
ceased jumped towards the boat, his hands resting on the
rails, his legs and body hanging down by the side of the
vessel. The policeman laid hold of his coat to save him, bat
let go, and the deceased fell into the water and was drowned.
The deceased did not appear to have a firm hold of the rail,
part of his body being over it.—By the Coroner : The de.
oesaed's hands appeared to yield by the pulling of his coat
by the policeman. The policeman seemed to lay hold of the
deceased to prevent his getting on board; but no effort on
his part to save him could have been available, as the boat
was near six feet from the dummy. The deceased might
possibly have been saved if the policeman had not land hold
of him—The coroner wee of opinion that the cue was
attributable entirely to accident in the pollee-constable en.
deavouring to save the life of the deceased. Several of the
jury, however, exprewed themselves wholly dissatisfied with
the contradictory nature of the evidence and the necessity for
further inquiry ; and, after a lengthened discussion, the in-
quiry was ultimately adjourned to Monday next.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE AMEND.
MENT OF THE LAW.
The fourth annual report of the council of this body
is now before us. We are glad to learn from this document
that the society's "means exceed its expenditure," and that
"more members have been elected within the last twelve
months than in either of the preceding yeses." The council
dwell with natural complacency en the spirit by which the
proceedings of the society have been animated, and the con-
sequence* of their being guided by the dictates of that spirit
alone:
If the society had Steed bees (composed of rash innovators, dihl-
tasaiskagliblars, and mogronlimil emetamens, Its anal Whim would
hawks= soared. rmight lam sommenced in pomp, but it mut
how aided la itsdasomes. bat erect*, practice, proctat, has
Sea be rid ; Ns baquivisolsve been directed to subjects of
limasiebe of Much ths ramedke were not so remote as
le ghee Oa sr after than • mitseulatica interest; and Mlle it
maple Otelsossepoist maxim of ahmeting the reform of all
wwi gam t ISMestai Of
ift to deers. and
i;a to prove Uwe. It le
ten.:llrienria" sanados ; e:•°*, sitsti!lnamainsilthiwtr=
=diirma mss ma Mho meet ma* Ilest. Oa sees ets spasm
moss. amide to mottles the preeetail reedy: Moue
malice to the slooletir of a shoe, mom Wm io
the ices where It pinches. Duna sa technical matte, sad
11118.1 MON these is a leaMmoll Wary, whim (Mae ppamss
viola • ma lam Wag the best rdlassar-ef Ids own
Ilk Old !Dally was pat ea the relbrm at MEW
M=N health PoSoe vbeamomoma law Mahler,
meths moa bmidothe realist Sibs elms Mies Court ef Or.
my. Wboh Swot" sun awed by e mallsollootemi kim .
whoa as u_S to beam • mamba of the esoloM.thfths Isms
Dodds( ea Sagas of thbessollipas men is myth "Come,
we that may ma rama b.....e5t, that ln than peens et
temeldng, mos Moms oddiaanerst This ,amt ebb
maw. owl she cmalsr thou s Sossymdor nimbus et Se tow.
lealeo.whossiodolels 11111dmose mfghterhemdee deler hmajel•-
ing ma They moydenta Oak owaimes. till mutated than the
tia of immisis_up Ss wheat ellEsitteses will seneally devolve
Ipso Sas Ihela tiot minimal that taek, they will have st
sass ma sppolemily d Imprommat and distinction.
The report thou praise as to dwell upon the caution which
has marked the operations at the society and its beneficial
results—the preparation tithe public mind for great changes
by the information it has disseminated, and the statutes
which have been passed at its suggestion.
Attention is next directed to the labours of the society's
committees on "Conveyancing," "Courts of Equity,"
"Criminal Law and Colonial Law."
CONVEYANCING COMMITTEE.
We maid in our last report that • sums of the Homo M
• mommed of,, members alastableig great dizereitymiltimsat
as meet Mbar pebble. bed gumboil a e.
Ma Mae vials snip* rot sod Os theme at pre.
Zoi=itarobleal up a." Ms Ms lot le be
esamblea to Spire bote ths memares assmny
tor maybe **Mies fifths Ledo kW abet' it ls wow Sant
by deem magehied des. nut net oily*. pest YAM pa
pet Ma pamerel hey et the bat a past =MSS el
the pehilsa of the km, me der theMaseW salsa
sade • vembodeademmis. Seem himmemdeta,
Sang the ormat par, your onommillema the law of papery Ms
erdrdb biesene ea the saldost, owl has prmenasa an*
Os seenrialy
, eatennedwg a ream& mop of the Ilielf
sof tram lad on the mien& wow la miamos tornado'
, =mop. Mae Mil meher report on the pencticabnityci ass-
nsetlegths geheleise of Immo MI6 titles to bed. Theo repute
hews lama very sosiy Mosomeh bath MUM mod without the pry
abets al the oily. 71es weaned feels itself waft salted
Is
selshowledge tbe torstoomf Ws committee, whisk is MS
th Yee marmot haparlmat emblems referral r modieratica.
EQUITY COURTS 00XISI7SIL
Goiri• past portion of the last half oratory, Mate of the
elmoory W aceahiad the ethation at amteemen and
hams ; able he deism. emoome, mad motions, lawman severely
mod Pa prams sad poses of IN does. Three new Mr* and a
noomemen Malaya losaadtales Ilsholleld smooth ; but the ward
ear!' hen met hem Shim. hen No voosholary. Popular ops.
Ma bee hag plant le the mania aim Wthesi stem of re-
mama madespirm .u__aeas sad es, so the main camp
of these obsdaels (MS Tem amok tboeshass Sought it a fit *ob-
i Oct to be refereed le your way ersoadtezkma thst imermilttee hr
made a repart .111 E le made in the
meters' came The reArea=may webransampotleas, and
has given rime Is • wom /YldlssimaoOe Melds promisee of marts
of equity. bat tie Wepat Is very to from Wise mbeaslat. mai the
council look forward Is • aeries at repents, mod Mae for mamma
papers, on this most losartant mad mot Miscues branch of inquiry.
CRIMINAL LAW ODKIIMEIL
The comalttee a Mahal law boa primmest a report ea the
various plms wW Mee bona triad or pepead air the lommemmal
of the treannamt et Mob*. end ea Se plaMples en Mt* mbar
meet sorbs
Vat he Is be swesdat. Thie soldeet me aim very folly illmmose ;
mod the essisphed aboolep of • dret mart. prepred by hr.
IL D. Rik Wielklhassle It Mat be ham rape& bat the re.
port Malik mes adoplats 'shod may wholls es`
mused bows bed toe poillsotha of lorrolog
dismal= ma poollimmas abide have hho• pt=
houses at portimmert. the puma ashoe, So Moe ambiost
la the tweet of owe lwer ammillso. Mich win~f
beambt oder the mhos of the limed lamb by the aide pemlemt .
area= =""'
sot be le Os laei
dila OM sr
stoma besidl=mede des of logWadvs. Si SI Ms
mead the Comoscas, eat will benomskr.
COLONIAL W
Sprig whb poet Interest the ISOM Mlles allthateddle of
prase la our somertas Maim meld searlosod Sat IS bid midi
ahe enitimielt aides la he_a atria m the *Sodom et
a pages, Wig ohm millfray sr caly olleorhass malt Ilk GSA do
best serialty ollidleose es r sestlar amity; AM
motrimied Is Illommodea by lb* shim a/ Ss. pea webashill=
be
ahem sties doe of awe sposhdy MPS=
• prossiog 111 risaboiMila 7001.
ccommeal sa missot 'shrews ft des MEW somilllM
yes rlSo kw ail pomades mietlog to elesed frti
M irk remind tam The soassishe Ms pa
a MIMI= bum resdast wit gmersi malblitme
Sado ptemat pas ef he aftelobiemelea eljeshoels
am me sehableomplos is la mow ists souls- tiler
==l,, lhodosa aid itigargeited begeby. TIM Pahl lb.
c swilleChtlellsoos ths lest pomelme el
sge=
mot. Is a 11111mhomay Meolash mar
not pare mnimmt Milk bat der Iti2Prodltf el Mill
Sit sight loiessmoimem oftela ef sabordloodamos
msamml. owl et empMt% the deader Is be
opposhembil eandsomMlielrlibidlcial character. UM
seed halt SS Ills amillos toll continue the dclibetalhaf
will it Iran via aaaatilia•l.
The earn regret that the committee on the law °PAW
sod ereldear hes made me pregmas. They impede=
at the setabliobaneat eta system of local judicature
out iophled owl Woks, bat think it premature to spook el
the Maumee egeratka et the measure. And in °Mimic*
they express the Snowing encouraging opinioa at he ro•
gram making by public opinion on the goodies a low
I retorn
It Is Weed altle wry madobroble adbleslica thot.=
Is Ws to
tow • pot sbelommt la Sit soden of
appollima Mee. he humor dome*
oo denaly lapdog sand`
amtbnprelraillet late end a her emthoe. langtshrtreNtliklifii.
isoom So p•M laloremt in the law wow of ss.
tends% ce het • alamtaletost sand
be pena= le=b2mstei pogrom. Sat Imes me
be mak ler lbe Wok at the pock owl oat et the ere
as siallet : pada plealkip sal ssampasm
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stabiarblevoionidyisidombedeZirtalikill:st.amesligemilalle%.•
aki.dhisor.• hwamemeiwomyMe.illeilirievir.laige
aratted). lbet Soy wit pa um the Om oboe ma
Kim, see, ceseernag Mil lest to milt Imam NomemMaiZit
Me sabot sr dila Om ast dodos ea alopolls oat Smut solooMsPe.
We empatabila tbs eratatry so lam than the mad?•
the proem* that the larder le seselnte to continue with
vigour its mettotombetioas and iopertiat labour,.

SEWAGE—TUBULAR SEWERS.
Situ,—Aa sa old sanitarian, for I was writing
fifteen and liebmfas to the working-classes twelve, yea*
ago on the subjeeti when, I believe, few were giving it a
thought, I am sensible of a sort of title to judge of the value
of any advocacy it receives, and hesitate not to say that*
no journal u that " question of the day " more pow
and popularly treated than in your ably-conducted psPreee!iii
embrace the opportunity of paying this well-deserved tribes
to you, afforded by the transmission of • few words on do
catastrophe which recently occurred in Long-acre. As tot
countrymen need to be roused by some extreme and boo
rible cue before they will stir to reform a grand 'bees, or
remedy a crying evil, I humbly think the Long-lICTe er
quite up to the required piteh ; and I hope it will be made
known in every corner of our very filthy land, till the
rational inhabitants come forward en muse to urge (141
legislature to cleanse and cloipf It, whether it chooses*
cleaned or not The cry must be a-ster end sewers," so
so
every town village, and hamlet. But me.....—"*Abl.
condition of human dwellings which have no sei•-:4l,„the2,
ie • worse plight yet—that of those who hale
etructed. sewers; sewers which, meant to carry weer
away, are (ea if intentionally, the thing is so well dams)
adapted to detain sad sectuntdate ft, to the great thalami
if Inn volatile poison. The Long-acre sewer, you stated,
had three feet and a half of filth lying in it ; of mune, ie
the form of black mud, the most dangerous which it em
assume, and which it is diearaoafiil that it should ever be al-
lowed to ammo. It L the misfortune of Landon
that it is a ammrad town, for its sewerage both in sates
and constrasetiat, is a reproach to the practice] science OM
economy of the age. Well had it been fee London hid
been yet to be silvered. The mount of usidohnh
the
Aorta labour, whit* would baffle a thousand affellieW7,
but which must be achieved before the health of towns '
will be more than an empty Gonad to the menopaha
aPPalliag. When a mamboed power (for it would be to rt
words to show that such a power it must be) address OPP

I

to re tea ef relbessiag the sessesege of Loadoa's rut area
(whisk rhos wik oat be sergisted fill every newer, from
lapdogs iris of beer to the great conduit, the
gginion, which Melt into neetveirs for
„baby mat shall hare ellangh for continuous flow,
shall
soies is whisk there shell be no deur;
fgal. the Wet guiles win be whet ilea it de to atria
pso" idol if sewerage ? I weal korelrly bat sew
gargiredweesarrilsdird
clone-trealar orseers,eithe maks,
OAog** By eleseirse=ie
Fry *weld be essioll wedassO, *sea the
sewer le tthe Lei gores' ' • do* sever at say sae
Nibs to rot le the sir. !here Om be at oar as sad
jfenl air either rebarning MC lore r ostrabsethor
re sir of the streets. Thera will be fie and ef Oral air
eytfa, sad there will be ra al of erriseis sad other
shemboble means of essmakilse. Thies pipes seed
est, era wiles regent, be et eery loge =Lb»,
tbat they me, off bore mew oily, sad
:11143a water or Mau &Wasp. Pow Wass will do well
for a hoses rawer, and, piebege. taknudn tabs
=k oseeed two feet ; but this will be wadedrossy aloe-
Woe. It will be asked, what will he the digsral of the rain
sad atisface drainage ? That most be carded off by dis-
tinct gad separate conduits. Meek may be done with
nine water, which is not foul, by deep and well-paved
gatlnorays, where the streets have any iodination, and
wbsse no sewers exist already. In Leaden see present
ewes might be converted to the purpose of seelbee drain.
word their great else would secure than *ea accident
you the water of sudden great falls of rain. AA they would
camel rain water only, foul air-traps at the getting, would
COIN to be necessary.
One word more on the kind of tubular sewers. These
have already been made and used. They are of earthen-
ware, glazed inside. They are insoluble en water, and con-
structed of any diameter by Moue. Belliield, potter., Pres-
tenpins, East Lothian. They are in lengths of from two to
an feet, with spigot and faucette joints, and the luting is
Boman cement, or Intonico plaster. I have learned that
tubes are admirably made of Iron-stone pottery, by Messrs.
Stephen Green, Imperial Pottery, Lambeth. I can
bear witness to the success of this mode of sewering. Under
the direction of Mr. Dye* Guthrie (who first suggested
tubular sewerage, in his evidence before the health of
towns commission •), I had a four-inch earthen-
ware tube substituted far my house drain, for a
length of silty feet, with a fall of one foot. It
has now worked excellently for a year. No sewage re-
Mains in it, and when flushed the water flows from it quite
clear. All drain emanations from sinks, water-closets, 4:o,
have disappeared ; sad all anxiety, on that head, for the
health of my family is at an end. I may add that the tubular
drain defies rats. It is impesaible to conceive a howls snore
mnefectorily sewered, and the expense was under 101.—I
am, Er., Aisles MlitgeON.—Edinburgh. Aug. 21, 1847.
P.S, If you think the foregoing letter worthy of inser-
tion, I beg to add that, as I have given in it all the informa-
tion I possess on the subject of tubular sewers, I must de-
'mate correspondence: a great amount of which was the
consequence of a letter I addressed to you tome months ago
on the subject of the patent Intonioo, as a plaster for walls.
One letter only is ten, by the way, of the whole contained
a postage stamp (or the required answer
• Mr. Guthrie died some months ago when engaged in • sinner,
e,rw at Belfast, leaving a widow and family very slenderly pro-
riled for.