The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-11 00:00:00

Cbt Court.

The Queen held a Privy Council at one o'clock
yesterday afternoon, at Osborne, Isle of Wight. It was
attended by Prince Albert, the Lord Chancellor, the First
Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State fur the
Foreign and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the
Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and
the Master of the Horse.--Her Majesty in council was
pleased to order that parliament should be prorogued until
the 12th of October. Mr. C. Greville was the clerk of the
council in waiting. The Lord Chancellor, Earl Grey, and
Lord Campbell arrived at Gosport by special train on the
I South-Western Railway, and, in company with the Earl of
Auckland, crossed to the Isle of Wight in the Black Eagle,
and arrived at Osborne moon after ens o'clock.

After the Privy Council, the Lord Chancellor, the
Earl of Auckland,Viscount Palmerston, and Lord Campbell
took their departure from Osborne, and recrossed to Gos-
port, in the Black Eagle. The Earl of Auckland remained
at Gosport ; the other ministers left by a special train on the
South-Western Railway.
Earl Grey and Lord John Russell remained at
Osborne, on a visit to the Queen.
The royal dinner party at Osborne, on Monday,
included the Prince of Leinmgen,Count Mentdorff, the Earl
of Liverpool, Lord J. Russell, and Colonel and Lady Ca-
therine Harcourt.

Mdlle. Jenny Lind, Mrs. Anderson, and Signor
Lablache had the honour of attending at Osborne in the
evening. Millie. Jenny Liod and Signor Lsblache sang
several airs and duets, accompanied on the pianoforte by
Mrs. Anderson.
Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, her Majesty
and Prince Albert left Osborne, and embarked on the k'airy,
to inspect the Ruesian vends.
DEPARTURE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—
His Orace the Doke of Wellington proceeded to Wahner Castle
yesterday, leaving the station of the South-Eastern Railway
by special train for Deal, at 10 minutes past 3 p.m. Ilia grace
arrived at the station with military punctuality, and was re-
ceived by James M'Oregor, Esq. M. L. Pritchard, Esq.,
the chairman and deputy clairtiUn, and Captain Tyndall,
one of the directors. Ho was accompanied by the Hoo. C.
Arbuthnot. Mr. J. Walter, superintendent of the line,
attended his grace through to Deal.
(From last night's Gasette.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Avo. 9.—The Queen has approved
of Mr. R. Pearce, as Consul at Penzance for his Majesty the
,1 King of the Belgians.
])OWNING-STREET, AUG. 10. —The Queen has
appointed E. M. Cole, Req., to be commissioner to reside
with the Tambookie tribe of Kalllrs, at the settlement of the
Cape of Goed Hope ; and W. T. Mercer, Esq., to be her Ma-
jesty's treasurer, and C. B. Hillier, Esq., to be chief ma-
gistrate for the island of Hong-Kong.

REPORTED SALE OP STOWL—Sir,—We beg to in-
form you that them is net a word of truth in the paragraph
which appeared in your columns yesterday, headed ' Sale
of Stowe."--Ctimerta AND Id Anson.
THE PUBLIC DISPENSARY, LINCOLN'S -INN.—Yet-
terlay a general court of the governors of the public dis-
pensary in Bishop's-court, Lincoln's-Inn, was holden in the
board-room of the institution. The report stated that, during
the past quarter, 1,091 patients have been admitted to the
benefits of the dispensary, of which number 166 have, in
cases of severe illness, been visited by the medical officers at
their own homes. Since its institution, in 1782, upwards of
190,000 poor persons have participated in the benefits of this
charity. The financial statement was aboreported satisfactory.
THE TREATMENT OP FRAUDULENT DEBTORS.—
Sir Oeorge Orey has communicated to the various
authorities a copy of regulations for the prison diet of rit=
sons oommittect under the Small Debts Act for fraudulent
or dishonest conduct, or wilful disobedience to the orlon of
a court of law who are to be confined in county pole or
houses of correction. Persons will now find imprisonment a
fact and not a shans—a period of privation, and not merely
of detention. Thus the schoolmaster is abroad of a truth,
and multitudes will now learn to live an honest and sober
life, who had hitherto been taught by the laws of their
country that it was no wrong So enjoy luxuries at the oast of
another's industry and pay for them only when and if it
was convomMet It is provided that these offendere-
1. Shall, so he as WA anolnatka of the prison will allow thane,
be separesed has Wise Mem+ bet deep shall not be plated In me.
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HEALTH OF THE METROPOLILe—A meeting was
held yesterday evening in the Literary and Scientific Insti-
tution, Leicester-square, to consider the best means of pre-
venting a pestilence In the metropolis.—Su C. Aldis having
taken the chair, Mr. C. Cochrane called to mind the appre-
hensions which were excited last year by a letter from the
Lord Mayor, stating that cholera had made its appearance,
and recommending an appeal to the New River Company to
direct a flow of water during the night, so as to Hush and
clear the gullies and drains within their districts. Thom
apprehensions had been wholly removed by the merprable
thunderstorm, which rendered such an appeal unnecessary.
Having alluded to the defeat of the Health of Towns Bill,
front which, ho observed, the first minister of the crown had
been induced, by dint of intimidation, to omit the metro•
poll, and having pointed out the evils arising from the
want of such • measure, particularly during the late