The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-24 00:00:00

Vbe Court.

WINDSOR, OCT. 23.
The Queen held a court and privy council nt one
o'clock this afternoon, at the Castle. The privy
council was attended by Prince Albert, the Marquis
of Lansdowne (Lord President), the Lord Chancellor,
Lord John Russell (First Lord of the Treasury),
Viscount I'almerston (Secretary of State for Foreign
I Affairs), Sir Francis Baring (First Lord of the Ad-
mimlty), Lord Broupton (PreAdent of the Board
of Control), the Right lion. Henry Labouchere
(President of the Board of Trade), the Earl of Car-
lisle (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), the
Duke of Norfolk (Laster of the Horse), and the
Marquis of Abercorn (Groom of the Stole to the
Prince).
The flight lion. Edward Lnrd Seymour, First Commis
sinner of Woods and Forcqs, win, by command of the I
Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Must Honourable Privy
Council, and took his scat at the board. Earl Granville
Vice President of the Board of Trade, also took his place
at the Council.

At the Council Parliament was ordered to be further pro-
rogued from the ith of November unto the pith of
January.
Thc Hononrable William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Coonc•il in Waiting.
The Queen gave audience to the Marquis of Lansdowne.
At the Queen's Court, the Count de Larrailio, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (rain her Ma-
Jety the Queen of Portugal, had an audience of her
Majesty, to deliver his credentials. his Excellency was
introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State le r Foreign Affairs.
The Countess de Lnvradio was presented to the Queen
by the Viscountess Palmerston.
The Honourable John Blie,h, the Queen's Minister Plc-
nqudentiary to the King of Hanover, was presented to her
Majesty, at an audience, by Viscount Palmerston, on, hie
return. on leave of absence, from Hanover.
Mr. John Shepherd, Chairman of the East India Com-
pans , and Sir James Weir llogg, deputy chairman, had ant
audience of the Queen, on the part of the Court of Direc-
tors of the East India Company, who iu grateful recollec-
tion (elfin: patronage vouchsafed by the Queen to the Great
Exhibition of the Works of All Nations, and more particu-
larly to the Indian section of it, had, by an unanimous reso-
lution, requested that their chairman and deputy chairman
should °Kr, for her Majesty's gracious acceptance, a speci-
men of each of the principal articles exhibited by the East
India Company. The chairman and deputy chairman
were presented to the Queen by Lord Broughton, President
of the Board of Control for the of India.

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Mr. Richard Kinder.ley and Mr. James Parker (nomi-
nated Vice-Chancellors) were presented to her Majesty by
Viscount Palmerston (officiating fur Sir O. (;rey, Home
Secretary), and received the honour of kuighthoutl from het
Majesty.
Mr. Joseph Paxton, Mr. William Cabin, and Mr. Charles
Fox, were severally presented to the Queen by Viscount
Palmerston, and had the honour of knighthood conterred
upon them by her Majesty.
The flight Hun. Sir David Derides, judge-Advocate
General, hail an audience of the Queen, and submittal to
her Majesty the proeeedings of some courts-martial. The
Queen wens attended by the Earl of Morley, Lord-its-Wait-
ing, the Viee Chamberlain, and Sir Edward Bowater,
Groom in Waiting,
Luncheon was served in the Castle to the noblemen and
gentlemen attending her Majesty's Court.
The Lord Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of
Carlisle, Lord Broughton, Sir F. Raring, Lord Seymour,
Lord E. Howard, Sir D. pandas, and the lion. W. Ba-
thurst, travelled front town to attend the court by a special
train on the Great Westent Railway. The Marquis of
Lansdowne travelled front his scat, Liowood Park, Wilts,
to attend the council. Most of the ministers left the Castle
at 20 minutes before three o'clock, and returned to town by
a special train on the Great Western Railway.
At three o'clock, a meeting of the Royal Commission for
the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of dl Nations was
held in the Castle ; Prince Albert presiding. The other
Royal Commissioners present were, Earl Granville, Lord
John Russell, the Right llonourable Henry Labouchere,
Sir Richard NVestmiteott, Sir Charles L. Eastlake, Sir Wil-
liam Cubitt, Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. Pusey, M.P.. and Mr.
John Shepherd. Mr. Scott Russell, and Mr. Edgar llowring,
Secretaries to the Royal Commission, attended. Lieut.-
Colonel Reid (Chairman), Mr. Henry ('ale, anal Mr. Charles
W. l)ilke, of the Executive Committee, were present. ltr.
Lyon Mayfair, and Colonel Lloyd, special commissioners,
also attended.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, and Lady
Harriet Hamilton. Earl Granville, and Viscount Canning,
took their departure from the Castle tu.day.
'f h_ Queen and Prince walked in the slopes and on the
terrace this morning.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred walked with her
Majesty and Prince Albert. The Priaetis Royal and the
younger members of the royal family took their usual
crereise.

Excellency 31msieur and Madame Van de Weyer
arc expixted to arrive this evening at the Castle on a visit to
the Queen.

The following Iu the honour of dining with her Majesty
yesterday (Wednesday) evening: The .Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Abereoret and Lady Markt Hamilton, Bart
Granville, Viscount Canning, and Colonel Bourerie. Iter
Majesty's Private Band attended after .loner iu the Castle
and played the following selection:
Ore; tore, Ilennkehr au. der Ftentae"..
altaatetto„ No. 3, Mx Is, All.otru, Ard.ate eon
nano, altrant, !Taw; trro
viola, and viol.,nr. 11, (Niw•n. Nrin
ton, Curia,, LUll, and anion)
Dome hoheudrans

TIIE )(owls of PARLIAMENT.—The new House
of Commons is undergoing considerable alterations. The
roof is to be retained as it is in its improved state; hut the
benches and other funiiture of the Wily of the chamber
are undergoing considerable alteration,. The reporters'
and strangers' galleries are also to be altered, and when the
alterations are completed, the house will present a much
more agreeable appearance than it did at the end of last
session. The yards and sheds in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the house, in which the masons worked in New
Palace-yard, are about to be removed, and are to be recon-
structed 011 an abutment close to Westminster-bridge, where
piles have been sunk ; and a plathinn is iu the course of
formation for the workmen's sheds being built upon it.
Sine° the sale of the materials of the old House of
Commons and House of Lords, the new buildings have
presented a very unsightly appearance, but now that the
old buildings are almost entire y removed the beauty of the
new buildings become apparent. The new window con-
structed at the western end of Westminster Hall is now
shown to great advantage, and attracts general attention
from its architectural beauty. When the ruins are re-
moved from Old Palace-yard, the exterior of the new
House of Lords will be seen to advantage. The old build-
ings, which hid the view, are pretty nearly taken away,
and the proportion of the buildings and their general effect
arc becoming more unfolded. The main entrance to either
House of Parliament is to be through Westminster Hall,
as we have said on a former occasion. The peers sad
commoners passing fiom Westminster Hall along the cor-
ridor leading to the centre of the building—the peers turn-
ing to the right and the commoner, to the left.
NIORETONIIAMESTEAD FARMERS' (LINT.—On Tues-
day the eighth anuual ploughing match of this club took
place in a held on Dante Court estate, in the occupation of
Mr. Thomas Amory. in the parish of Lustleigh, about two
miles from Moreton. After the ploughing about 60 mem-
bers of the club and agriculturists of the district dined at
Cann's White Hart, Mo:eton, presided over by John N.
Stevenson, Esq., of Hayek,. The Chairman, in proposing
the toast of " Success to the Moreton Farmers' Club," said
that, when he reflected on the state of the room seven years
since, when the company were presided over by the Earl of
Devon, who was supported by noble lords, members of par-
liament, and other influential gentlemen, and the company
then with cheerful hearts and full glasses cheered lustily
to a similar toast he was about to propose to them—he
could not do so but with a pang of regret, seeing as he
did so many vacant places then at the board. (Hear, hear.)
The cause of so small an attendance that day did not, in his
opinion, arise from the want of good men and true in the
district, or from the association not being, as some of his
friends had stated, of no benefit. (Hear, hear.) Ho con-
sidered the causes of its not prospering as was originally
anticipated arose, not only from the serious change that had
taken place with regard to agriculture generally, but also, in
a great measure, from the tact of many who attended those
meetings being in the habit of taking up one or two of the
claptraps of the day, sticking solely to them, and using such
strong language with reference to the landlords, that they
found their neighbours did not rally round them. Mr.
Fowler, who had attended their meeting on a former occa-
sion, and might be considered as a neighbour, had attended
• a meeting at Tavistock, and there made a speech in which
he (the chairman) could not coincide. (Hear, hear.)
Ito (the chairman) appeared before them as an humble
individual, living on a small property in the neighbour-
hood, and not as a public man, seeking place and cringing
to them as a burly of constituents, or saying that which he
wished to palm off, and nut believe; but, speaking his hum-
ble opinion as an individual, which every man in this coun-
try has a right to do, he would ask them whether Mr.
Fowler was justified in making the cruel and uncalled-for
attack he did at Tavistock on the landlords ? What was
the purport of his speech at Tavistock ? Not one single
word did he say to them of farming, his information in
that respect having taken flight ; but ho set too and made
• butt of the landlords and the clergy, telling the tenants
farmers that they had no right to be satisfied with a dis-
count, and rather than he would submit to such insolence
be would trample the paper containing the offer under his
feet, and called on them to do the same. He (the chair-
man) could riot believe that the landlords were to
blame for remitting their tenants 10, it, and 20 per cent:,
or that the tenantry considered they were treated by their
landlords in so doing with insolence, and therefore he threw
back the insinuation with disgust, Mr. Fowler not
being justified in saying what he had. The landlords had
always been ready to go hand in hand with the tenantry in
their distress and to do their utmost to relieve them from
it. The word insolence was a sharp term; and he as a
small landlord would not submit quietly to hear a man say
that the landlords of this county or England treated their
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tenantry
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were in the habit of having chairmen of station, unknown
to the district, who used language unsuitable to the district.
The hon. gentleman having made some other obvervations,
concluded with proposing the toast, which was received
with cheers. Several other toasts followed, after which the
company separated.—L.reter Flying Poet.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

One of the most prominent features in the British
machinery department took its departure yesterday, and
; was safely conveyed to its permanent location. We mean
the monster engine of tiro Great Western Railway Com-
pany, which was rolled out of the Crystal Palace in the
morning, and drawn in safety by the united strength of 18
horses to the Paddington terminus. This locomotive
monster, which weighs 29 tons, on first emerging in the
; read, buried its wheels in tire gravel, but was at length per-
suaded to more, and performed the rent of the journey in a
• reasonable manner. The other articles of bulk in the Mlle
district are rapidly disappearing, hut on the opposite side
our continental neighbours are nut so active in their move-
ments as the Executive Committee could wish. The fin-
premien is that they are endeavouring to make sales, but
are retarded is their object by the prohibition against tho
entry of any persons into the building except Exhibitors.
Much activity was exhibited in the Indian department in
the assortment, under the superintendence of Dr. Hoyle, of
a number of valuable articles about to he presented by the
East India Company to her Majesty. They are to consist
of specimens of the beautiful Dacca muslin, costly shawls,
Indian carpets, jewellery, and filagree plate, and are to he
forwarded to Windsor forthwith, to which place Messrs.
Dilke, Cole, Colonel Reid, and Dr. Lyon l'lnytair were
suinnomed yesterday. For the particulars mid result of
their visit we refer our readers to the "Court Circular."
It is rumoured that, in addition to the eeremanial de-
scribed in the " Circular," a derision was come to by the
ivy al commission, awarding to Sir Joseph Paxton the sum
of 3,000/. for Lis services in designing the Crystal Palace.

JCIIIIT.S EXCLUDED FIZLIM COMPETITION AT •filE
Ex eilittioN.—The list of jurors who were also exhibitors
wits, it now appears, published in a very incomplete state,
because the jurors do not always exhibit in the class in
which they are jurors, although other juries may, as in the
MSC of that for printing and dyeing, enter into several
elapses. As it is of great importance to obtain a correct hot
of jurors who have been eat:laded from competition, cir-
culars arc being issued requestit.., jurors to state if they or
the firm to which they belong been in any way ex-
cluded from competition by having accepted other. This
list when complete will be• published. The following is a
supplementary list, out included iu the last, although au
complete official list can yet be made :

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XXI. ... J. B. Inv lama , • ).1.04.1.tr0a.
XXIV . 21 IL 1.. 11,000 ..... eltnyingluns.
XXVI .. 170 Edward Nand 27, Aobeoarle4treet.

IRELAND.

Otnutt, Oct. 23.
Tho Gahrrey Indicator of yesterday lets the fol-
lowing account of the very favourable auspices under
which the new session in the Western College, in
spite of adverse circumstances, has opened :
We believe that ad attempts to arrest the progrese of
sound mixed education will 'wave utterly abortive in this
country. The experience of each succeeding day strengthens
us in this opinion. In Galway, where the whole strength
of the opponents of mixed ethic:atoll was put forth, the new
• ge is completely triumphauts At the matriculations to-
day and yesterday, the number of fresh students entering
the eolle.te amounted to ten nty-eight. From the sound
system of education adopted in the Galway College, and
the acknowiedgill ability of the several professors, it was
reasonably supposed that there would, at least, be no fall-
ing Wunder any oireninstances f. but we were tot prepared
to expect so large an increase to the number of the students
who have already matriculated. The fact of such an addi-
tion to the ranks of mixed education in Galway, is, in it-
self, a sufficient protest against env interference with that
freedom of opinion which an enFghiened laity will be ever
found ready to appreciate and susmin. At the October ex-
aniinahons last year there were only thirteen matriculated
student., which tact rendets the present increase the mare
significant, aa.l gives a strong guarantee of the future suc-
cess of the institution.
Tippermy has been stained with another agrarian
murder. The circumstances are thus related by a
local correspondent of Sounder's News Le ter:—
Yeqerday evening (Monday) a most atrocious murder
took place at Ballytartact, :about hour nab.* from Littleton,
and Ma front Cashel, and alter such an interval of quiet as
the country has enjoy d. it is painful to find that Tipperary
should be disgraced by such foul crimes—crimes which havo
tended so much to prevent the influx of capital, and injured
the position of the peasantry by preventing employment.
It appears that the Rev. Mr. Draper, who has wane clerical
preferment, lately to-came the tenant to fann, the property
of Captain Lanphier, and front which several tenantry had
been ejected, and a bad feeling was since that period dis-
played towards the new occupant, and those acting sunder
him, in tilling the ground. Yesterday, the Rev. Mr.
Draper went to the lands from Littleton, and remained
on them until near dusk, when he got into his gig in order
to return home, accompanied by his bailiff; a man of
the name of James Donnelly, who is married, snit hits a
large Jollity. They had driven but a short distance when
it became very dark, and when close to several houses by
the road side a shot was tired front the hedge, and at the
side at which Mr. Draper was drivin4. That woodsman at
the momenttwas stooping down to arrange a portion of tho
harness, nua was thus providentially saved from the aim of
the assassin, but the ball entered the bark part of the head
of Donnelly, and traversing the base of the skull of the un-
fortunate moue, came out in front. No further idiot was
tired, and the moment Mr. Draper arrived in Littleton the
police turned cut, and in consequence of what they heard
several persons were arrested, and are now in custody.
,• Several of those who lived quite close to the scene of this
dreadful occurrence were also arrested, and one and all
' deny that they heard the reports of any lire arms, although
this could nut have ken possible. Di. Bradshaw came Irma
Thurles, and rendered every possible attention to the bailiff,
but the wound is mortal, and before this lie is dead. An
investigation is now being held, and some very important
facts ascertained.

The tenant-right meeting at Newtownartls, against
which the Marquis of Londonderry had issued his
proclamation under the title of" office circular," took
place notwithstanding on Tuesday, in the vicinity
of the Belfast and County Down Railway termi-
nus in that town, and was, according to the testi-
mony of an adverse paper, the naiad News Letter,
pretty well attended, about 700 persons, principally
farmers, being present. The chair was taken by Mr.
Alexander Minnos, a tenant titrmer, and among
those on the platform were several presbyterian cler-
gymen. The principal speakers were the Rev. Julius
'.ll‘Cullogh, the Rev. John Rogers, of Comber; the
Rev. David Bell, of liallybay ; the ltev. John
M'Crcedy, of Saintfield ; the Rev. Mr. Black; Dr.
*Knight, of liellkst ; Mr. Wm. Orr, Mr. Greenfield,
&c. The speakers agreed in approving of Mr. Shar-
man Crawford's tenant right bill as it now stands,
and in excusing Lord Londonderry, and throwing
upon his advisers the odium of his lordship's recent
notice.
A correspondent of .Ssrmders's News-Letter gives
the following partienlars about the West of Ireland
Land Investment Company :
The principal promoter of the company is Mr. William
Digby Seymour, a leading member of the outer bar on the
northern circuit, who is himself an Irislunnn by birth, and
one who has hitherto been identified with every movement
in England boring for its object the amelioration of his
native country. Some time ago he published a treatise on
the west of Ireland as a field fur English enterprise ; but
being intended mainly for private circulation, it did little
more than enlist the favourable attention and elicit the
views of a few persons of influence and fortune, who pro-
posed to consider the subject with a view to carrying out
the great undertaking shadowed forth in Mr. Seymour's
pamphlet. The objects of the company are as follow :To
purchase estates in Cunuaught, and to develop their agri-
cultural and industrial resources in every way likely to
be profitable; to lay them out in large farms
after the best method, and let them on leases
to men with espied to work the land as in Eng-
land or Scotland. It is proposed that there should be a
provision in the tenants' s binding them to grow certain
quantities of sugar-Ixet and flax at stipulated prices, no
that the factories—which constitute an important feature in
the plan—should be insured a full and steady supply of the
raw material. This is deemed a necessary precaution, at all
events while the new manufactures are in their infancy.
Mines, fisheries, marble quarries, and all such-like subjects
for your unemployed labour, arc, I am informed, to be
within the purview of their charter, which is already ap-
plied for. The feeling in England is at the present moment
more favourable to the investmentof capital in Ireland than
it has been for a long time, but capitalists are sadly puzzled
how to go about the task. The field is wide, and the
labourers are many, but the difficulty is how to set them at
work. The conviction is universal that there could not be a
better scope for enterprise, if people only knew how to com-
mence. Mr. Seymour proposes to substitute the united
efforts and energies of associated action for the hitherto
trifling and generally unsuccessful attempts of ill-supported
individuals. His theory is to develop at once agriculture
and manufactures—to bring them into immediate and
necessary connexion—to create a market at the farmer's
door, while at the same time you relieve him from the
pleasure of a superabundant agricultural population, by
employing the surplus not required for the field in manta-
facturmg the productions of the soil close to the spot where
they are raised.
The Kilkenny Journal says, the tepresVerg. ,
the county of Kilkenny is, unfortunately, n
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ing to the desire of the people. But ruinoug-Speoks
of an anticipated vacancy-. According to Ilkistate, . •••
meat we have heard, Mr. P. S. Butler, M.P.AeUcsit, , • s
to leave this country for America, and thus Aho • 2L:
vacancy announce:. :.••• .•
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