The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

Vie Court.

Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen,
I yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and l'rince Albert went, yesterday after-
noon, at a quarter before four o'clock, to the building for
the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, in Ilyde-park.
Her Majesty and his royal highness were accompanied by
the Prince ut Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, and were attended by the Viscountess Canning (lady
in waiting), Lord Alfred Paget (equerry iin waiting), and
Colonel Bouverie (equerry in waiting to the Prince).
Prince Albert rode out on horseback, yesterday morning,
attended by Colonel Bouverie.
Prince Arthur and the Princess LOW= took a carriage
drive, yesterday.
Prince Alfred and the Princess Helena took their usual
exercise, yesterday, in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
The Earl and Countess Granville, Lieut.-Colonel Hon.
C. B. Phipps, and Captain W. B. Hamilton, R.N., had the
honour of dining with her Majesty and Prince Albert, at
Buckingham Palace, yesterday evening. The Queen's pri-
vate baud was in attendance in the Palace after dinner.

Mr. Fitzstephen French, 31. P., had an interview with
Lord John Itussell yesterday at his official residence in
Downing-street.

A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com-
mission the Exhibition of 18.51 was held yesterday at the
building in Hyde-park. There were present Earl Granville
(Chairman), Sir A. Spearman, Mr. Cubitt, and Mr. Bow-
ring (Secretary).

At the meeting held yesterday morning, at
the private residence of Lord John Itusscll,
in Chesham-place, Belgrave-square, there were
present Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto,
Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl
Grey, Sir Charles Wood, Sir Francis Baring, Lord
Broughton, the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Clan-
ricarde, and the Right Hon. Fox Maulc. Mr. Labou-
chere was not present at the meeting, the right
hon. gentleman not having arrived from Brighton.
The meeting broke up about 12 o'clock, at which
hour Lord John Russell went to Buckingham Palace,
to have an audience of the Queen.

A meeting was held yesterday afternoon at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. There were present Lord John
Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl
Grey, Sir Charles Wood, Sir Francis Baring, Lord
Broughton, the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of
Clanricarde, tho Right Hon. Henry Labouchcre, and
the Right Hon. Fox Maule.

A NIANESCRIFT, WRITTEN BY PAM, SO well
known for his successful experiments connected with the
motive-power of steam, has just been discovered (says the
Medd) near Marburg, a small town of Electoral Hesse. This
work bears the name of "Traits des Opfrations sans Dou-
leur," and in it are examined the different means that
might be employed to deaden, or rather altogether nullify,
sensibility when surgical operations arc being performed on
the human body. Palau composed this work in 1681, when
filling the situation of professor in the university of Mar-
burg; and in it he has anticipated the effectsprodueed in
modern times by chloroform and sulphuric etker. Ile com-
municated bis ideas to his colleagues in the university, but
from them received anything but encouragement. In con-
sequence he took such a disgust to medical pursuits that he
gave up his profession as a physfrian and directed his atten-
tion to natural philosophy, im which he subsequently be-
came so celebrated. In quitting Germany to return IQ
France, he gave the manuscript to a friend of his, Dr.
Bwrii..r. It at last came into the ken& of a teacher named
Lahn, who died near Marburg last month. It has now
been purchased by the Grand Duke of Hesse for his private
library.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.
/0 roam iei

J. Sehok field Was indicted for Ftealin; 9R sovereigns and
some carpenters' tools, the property of William Hawley.
The prosecutor resides in Thames-street, and treys some
refreshment-rooms, and the prisoner, who is a native of
Bradford, in Yorkshire, hail lived next door, and was
aware that prosecutor had the money in question, which
sous k..pt in his ilwelling-hewe, where nom of this nattily
were during the day. The prosecutor had seen his money
/MEC on the 29th of January, and on the nest day found the
bag had been cut open, and the money was gone, and the
prisouer had left his lodgings. Information was given to
the police, and it was found that prisoner, is ho had
previously had no money, had paid his passage to Port
Natal, and was about to sail when apprehended. On his
bonus being searched, a quantity of tools, which were in
the room from whence the money was taken, were found ;
he had also bought a large stock of clothes, and about 71.
was found on him.

The jury found him Guilty.
The ltccorder said it was a Trry had and cruel ca‘e, and
sentenced him to seven years' transportation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

BOW-STREET.

Ronntxo Lotto PALMEIt:IO;I4I..AILDr.R.—J. Butter-
field .utd J. Reid were charged with stealing a piece of
bacon from the larder of Lord l'almerston's residence in
Carlton-gardens.
The prisoners were seen together this morning, near
Carlton-gardens. Butterfield was carrying a parcel under
1119 arm, and when he saw a police-constable he threw the
pared into some gArdens and ran off. The prisoners were
apprehended, and the parcel was found to contain baron.
A groom in his lordship's service identified the baron,
and said it was hanging in the larder yestenlay morning.
He saw Butterfield upon tho area-steps this morning, close
to the larder, and directly afterwards he missed the bacon.
Mr. Jardine fully committed the prisoners for trial.

IRELAND.

Duscrx, MARCH 3.

The Irish news to-day is utterly destitute of in-
terest. All parties await the solution of the crisis,
and the agitation is kept in suspense until the deter-
mination of a new government, on the subject of the
Papal Aggression Bill, becomes known. Mr.
011agan's opinion of the bill on belmlf of the Roman
Catholic prelates has not yet been published, but
comparatively little interest would now attach to it,
as atter the proceedings in parliament on Friday last,
it moms pretty well understood that the measure iy
not to be pressed in its present shape.

Petitions against the -abolition of the Viceroyalty
have been adopted by some of the grand juries ut
the present assizes; but on this subject, too, there is
a pause in the public excitement, the opinion having
become general that the intended abolition, for tho
present at least, is shelved.
The Freeman, in its commercial review of the past
week, gives the following statement :
Nothing can exceed the dulness of everything in the way
of trade. Huth produce and shares have hem exceedingly
quiet, though prices are not decidedly lower. The political
interest has, of course, been most injurious to business,
which is generally at this time of the year flat enough.
There is a falling o9' in the customs duties tbr the week,
both as compared with last week and last year. The total
amount is only 13,9001. against 17,000/. for the same week
of last year. The amount paid on sugar is altnost incre-
dibly small—only 40111., or duty on 33 tons—the usual con-
sumption being 230 to 300 tons per week. Ou tea the
amount is 7,100/. ; wine, 1,11001. ; spirits, 3001. ; and to-
bacco, 3,3001. The total amount of duties received this
year is as follows: lit Jan. to let March, 1811, 131,1i71. ;
Ist Jan. to Ist March, 1840, 143,6911.; showing a fulling off
of 9,30111. in the eight weeks, of which one-half is in the last
two weeks alone. The receipts of WA/ were themselves
lower than they have been for many years past.

At the Leitrim assizes, on Saturday, a man named
John Moran was found guilty of an attack upon a
house, and sentenced to be transported for life. The
following was the evidence of the prosecutor, a man
named lrw•in:

Witness was in bed, and the family of the house. Biddy
Moran, wife to the man of the house, gnt out of bed and
cried out, " Mr. Irwin, Mr. Irwin." They then cried out,
"Where is Irwin, the rascal, until we shoot him i" They
had tircarms. Ile only saw one pistol. lle knew that maa
to be Patrick Geraghty ; he identities him. He also identi-
hVA Edward M'Gauu, John Moran, and John Lynch ; they,
with many others, were in the house. Witness hid himself
in the room, on hearing his name called out. They said to
his wife, if she did not tell where he was they would shout
her. When he found them pressing her so much, he camo
out and gave himself up. They were then in the room.
Edward APGann and l'att Geraghty, with a pistol in his
hand, seized him by the hair of his head, and dragged him
down to the kitchen fire. John Moran and John Lynrh
were helping them. They said, "Now, you rascal, what
brought you here? If you don't give up the Widow Gil-
christ's and the Widow Moran's land, we will shoot you."
He is the landlord of these lands alluded to. John Moran
gave witness a kick in the groin ; he made a second kick,
and witness stooped, and John Lynch hit him several blows
WI the head and. face with Isis ti-t. There were a good
many people outside, and he heard their voices. They re-
mained a short time, and went out and hasped the door.
l'att Geraghty came to the window, and said he would
shoot him if they came again ; he had a pistol. They cried
out, "Black cap, why did you not shoot him?"

TILE PETITION OF THE ARCHBISHOPS
AND BISHOPS OF TILE ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH IN IRELAND,
HUMBLY MMORETII,—
That we, the undersigned, archbishops and bishops
of the Roman catholic church in Inland, most respect-
fully approach your honourable house, to declare our
sense of the injustice of the bill respecting evelesho.tical
titles which has been submitted to the consideration of
parliament.
Petitioners look on this measure as one which, under the
pretence of respecting their assumption of titles, is fraught
with hostility to the dearest Interest of the catholic
religion. . . .

Petitioners beg leave humbly to state that these titles arc
purely of a spiritual nature, that no secular power can con-
fer or take them away, that they do not interfere with our
duty to the throne, or infringe on the rights of any class of
her Majesty's subjects, yet that the act prohibiting them
interferes directly with the performance of our duties as
Roman catholic bishops, renders legally impracticable the
observance of the essential discipline of the catholic church,
and thereby inflicts great injuries on us the human catholic'
of the United Kingdom.
Petitioners beg leave further most respectfully to state
that, in the opinion of the most eminent lawyers of Ireland,
the proposed measure will control the free disposition of
property, interfere with and endamage settlements rondo
on the faith of existing laws, and its results be productive
of great embarrassment.
Petitioners, therefore, deem it an unjust interference with
the rights of property, a gross violation of the principle of
civil and religious liberty which our beloved Queen at the
opening of the session graciously expressed her determina-
tion to preserve sacred and inviolate, and that it is eminently
calculated to resive religious animosities fatal to the peace
and prosperity of the country.
Petitioners feel called on to inform your honourable
house that although the protection of the Roman catholic
laity has been urged in justification of the measure, yet its
bare introduction has already produced a manifestation of
outraged feeling and indignation among the Roman catho-
lies of Ireland, which nothing short of its rejection will be
sufficient to allay.
Paul Cullen Nieolaus Foran
D. Murray Francis bialy
M. Slattery Thomas Feeny
John WHislo Charles M'Nally
P. M.Nicholas Laurence O'Donnell
M'Gettigan E. Walsh
Cornelius Egan William Delany
John Ryan John Derry
Edward Firma& J. Murphy
James Browne Francis Kelly
William O'Higgins Milesius Murphy
John Cantwell William Keane
G. S. Browne D. Vaughan
Michael Blake (Vicar Capitular).
Cornelius Denvir

WESTMINSTER FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.—Last
evening a meeting took place at the King's Arms Hotel,
Kensington, for the purpose of explaining the objects and
principles of this society. Mr. George Wilson took tho
chair in the absence of Mr. Hindley, M.P., who was pre-
Tonic from being present), and panted out the great bene-
fits which the society was intended to confer upon the
working classes, by enabling them to exercise the right of
the elective franchise. Mr. G. E. Dcnnes stated that the
total number of members of the society was now increased
to 890, holding 1,3.30 shares. The society, he observed, had
purchased 30 acres of land at Moulsev, near Hampton
Court, and the ground had been diviaed into 212 allot-
ments, varying in price from 201. to 40/. The committee
were, moreover, ha treaty for other estates situated in the
various counties where members of the society resided.
After these explanations a resolution, in accordance with
the objects of the society, was passed, and several new sub-
scribers were enrolled.

SUNDAY TRADING PREVENTION BILL.—A public
meeting of shopkeepers and traders was held last evening
at the British Institution, Cowper.street, City-road, to con-
sider the propriety of petitioning parliament against tho
bill introduced by Mr. W. Williams, to " prevent unneces-
sary trailing on Sunday within the metropolitan police dis-
trict and City of London and liberties thereof;" Mr. T. J.
Searle in the chair. Mr. Williams, M.P. for Lambeth, and
Mr. Wakley, M.P., attended and addressed the meeting.
Most of the eawakvra and the meeting, by its resolutions,
deprecated the bill as an interference by the rich with the
privileges of the poor. Mr. Williams mid the vote of the
meeting would have great influence with him.

MR. NIACREADY AND THE DRAMA.

(Fres Vet Deity AWL)

The lxengm t at whieb Mr. MACREADY wan enter-
blued en t-aturday, by an illustrious and worthy
company, was an appropriate close to the meritorious
earner oi that eminent tragedian lie is the last .I
that long line of great actors which connect the
Victorian with the Elisabeth= stage—old Drury'
with the Glube—thttaltriN ENowits and lict.wia
with SitAitsrmax and Brit JUNSON—Which corn-
meneing with the stately BETIRRIIiN was adorned'
in it• descent to him by the earioux thatatea. the
impo•ing LIMA, and the soul-stirring Kett/--and
lath In his person falls with dignity and in
honour.
Mr. Mscr.ssnY's predecessors were probably all
putter allots individually than he was; but in Bill
and perfett uppieciation oithe poet and dramatist by
whose inemusouble genius their efforts us a whole ate
to be tested, he! rose superior to them all; in severity
and vet richm-s of taste, in knowledge of the
tics sit the stage, in the aid for its adornment which he
sought from the " sister arts," in the proof he gave
that (.taln Li. was right when he sung that it " all
their beanie Wends," Mr. MseaLsov for excelled
the gout ti-ts to Whig* separate excellence he did
not reach. It is not, therefore, merely us an actor
that Mr. M.ti arAnv's retirement from the stage is a
pahlie loss; hut as a man of genius who fur a season
taught a nation how great an instrument of civilises-
ti at and inond improvement and of ne•thetical deve-
lopment it possessed in a theatre of which he was at
onoce the liberal and tasteful manager and the most
perfect artist.
By slow mid difficult steps—byearnest study and la-
borious work -by resolute determination to be stuyess-
ful, aided by many physical advantages, great natural
it iso, unil by good taste industriously cultivated, Mr.
Mseuraiiv Is tame the great actor of his day.
Having attained this eminence, he sought to turn
to purposes of general, it may safely he added of
national, advantages. Ile risked his well earned
fume and his hary won fortune in an endeavour to
nsestabli.h a school of gnat actors, and to give to
England in a theatre the advantages of all that ad-
vance in art, taste, and learning, which had been
made since the "large houses" had been lost to all
three. It was a great and noble alert. It failed;
but not, it is a consolation to he told as Mr.,
nuar-toy mowed his audience on Saturday, because
the attempt w.ei unappreciated by the public, but
because it was frustrated by the ilellishmss of the
proprietors of n theatre who had no faith in the pro-
spective balm nee of enduring excellence on their
property and fortunes
The truth is, that real merit in that which is
csmentiall popular and in its tendencies attractive,
is always appreciated. We crowd to the great Ita-
lian singers : we make our way. in long and weary
columns to listen to those mighty oratoritm over
which Mr. COhfA so worthily presides; we hasten to
welcome the arrival of those light and lively French
Won who, even when they fail to amuse, never
lapse into otrimr. And why ? Because there we
find extelhawe; bemuse there we are not doomed to
witness indifferent merit; still less to have our ears
disgusted by ignominy, or our eves with vulgarity.
The hours at which we attend unsex perfurnumees
are the home at which other plates of amusements
are open ; it is not. thenlbre, to a change of habits
or of how • that the sufficient attendance of the one
or the Math uate attendance of the other is attri-
butable. The cause is to be seareht d for and
ttund :kepi r. It is nut in society, it is in our
theatre:: oho mselves, that the solution of their indif-
ferent sUtts+S
When. then, Sir Bt t.wtat LYTTON says that the'
rent.dies for the distress of the British theatre and
drama an to he found in legislation, we are com-
p-11.d to diffic from so high an authority. Their
prosperity con as little he widens' by parliament as
that of Kritish agriculture. " The faUlt is not in the
stars, rear Mit re's, but in ourselves, that we arc
think" When Mr. Multi:saw worthily attracted
the public. the public worthily attended cm Mr.
PA wormer. And when any • else follows Mr.
Mceite.cov's example, they will be equally well
suited urn at. That Mr. Mat lor-ittv's lessor:
snatched too large a proportion of the receipts.
and. lay landlords elsewhere, took that for rent

which under no true theory was rent, was a fault
and Iblunster which broke down the enterprise, but
which no hipslatiuti ran correct or prevent the re-
eling ucc of. _

Our larger tha alms are,like the states of Irish pro-
prietors. oppressed with debts, with judgments, with
charges, anal with fore admissions, all based and cal-
culated ~11 1 l-r, ipts• on a system, 111111 can 11 Stlppliled
evrtaitity 11E11 1..111 never return. The elmsequi•nee
is. that it Is l. 11:111K1 rolls, nod hazardous, and
difficult to deol with them. Their very tunes are
szosssed on assumptions which, though once realities,
are present delusions. Under Sitimititx's wild and
improvid, iit direction the affairs of old Drury became
sunliargasl w ith all sorts and 111:411111•N of encumbran•
ces; canal icon its .1114irs are so irreti iii.able and mama-
nagulde that the only mode of remit ring it available
fur the purposes of its original foundation is to send
it through the mill of an encumbered estate bill of
its own. .Ind if Covent Garden be in a better
plight. it is owing more to the greater prudence of
the rya Itl.F. f 'ly, and to accidental circumstances
too well known to require explanation, than, as Mr.
M vcafittav has shown, to the devotion of its present
propriemry to the interests of the drama they were
bound to support.
No ; it is neither to legislation, nor, sat bitter ex-
perietwe has shown, to rune show, that the revival
of the English stage. in its higher and better deve-
lopment. will Isa owing. if it again revive; and with
KLUTEs. it is piens:Olt to believe that
--- A thing .4 beauty never dies.
It will ice by our auturs appreciating and under-
standing, and acting on what Mr. NIACRE.thi tells
them, were the doctrines of Sonata:vs and of TAINA,
and his own pi-active—viz., "that whatever is excel-
hnt in art mast spring from labour and endurante."
This is u great truth worthy of all acceptation.
There is no royal road to histrionic fame any more
than there is to mathematical demonstration ; the
end is to be retched lay labour. resolution, and deter-
mination. "It was by slow degries," said Bt RKE
of (.111 %RIES FOX... that be became the first orator
of his age." It was by slow degrees Mr. 1111ACILEADT
won his sndurita.• tame and brought out in all its
ripeness his ; it is by severe study that the
great singers militia., P.O popular here have rendered
their pertianuanees Jrrestvtihly attractive ; it is by
toil and labour and endurance that RUBINI and
1.41111.AC11F became what they were. It is by labour,
labour, labour that all greatness is achieved:
When by such means we have again a rare of
actors worthy of our SIRESITARE, they will again
have a public to reward them. to bestow that fortune
on them that Mr. Ni WRE DV retires to enjoy and
that nearly all our old r actors reaped, and to reward
their serviees I,wving, us his have been honoured
Let us nut despair of seeing such a race once more.
For. there at Salk is Wells, is the patient merit of
Mr. PIIFLPS engaged in unostentatimudy rearing a
school that will s.oorier or later instruct and amuse
the public, th ugh i; may fail to repay him pecu-
niarily for the Lihm:r and endurance he has be-
stowed on the cultivation of excellence.
It was in Goodman's-fields, that GARRICK first
electrified /.olidon.

APOUTION OF 11l ant PLNIStIMENTs.—During
the Fast week several meetings have been held in the west
of England in furtherance of this object. Mr. Phasm
tillpist and Mr. Thee.... Mass have attended as • deputa-
tion from the 'Mkt, in London. At Plymouth the meet-
ing was held in the Gail Mall, and presided over by the
mayor, Eduard Deny, E.g. At Devonport the meeting
was held in the hall of the Mechanics' Institution, and per-
mitted over by M. W. Jetfery. Rao.. the mayor. At Exeter
the meeting in the Atli. lumina was presided over by Robert
Dymond, Esq. On each wanks the resolutions, and a
petition in favour of the abolition of death punishments,
were pawed unanimously. This is the commencement of a
aeries of operations which the society are proposing to carry
out during the present maim.
A CHILD Are tcbgt) AT A Coca.—One day last
week, a tine cork, of the silver pheasant breed, belonging
to Mr. lt. Atkin. di. nt.red the yard adjoining the gas
works, at Yeadan. While there, a child of Mr. W. Bedford,
attracted by it b, autirol feathers, gave chase to the animal,
which immediste;y it re .1 on its pursuer, and seising him
by the nose, struck his spun, into the temple and cheek of
the little fellow with such fon, that one of them was left
imbedded in the cheek Lune nearly an inch in depth. The
secret try of the works, bearing the screams of the little suf-
ferer. rished ot.t. and Iwtuld them both ow the ground
striving for the mastery. He removed the pugnacious fowl,
and with.lrew the spur from the child's cheek, which he
retain. as a re...mi nto of this remarkable eireuestethee.
Happily, eitk the rse.ption of the wounds, • ftin swain
is the only inconvenience fens whack the onloks—
/weds hatiriligenter.