The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-16 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1851.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

TEI RECENT BALL AT GUILDRALL.
Yesterday a court was held at the _Mansion-hone*
for the despatch of business.
Alderman COPELAND said he was desirous to call the
attention of his brother aldermen to a circumstance con-
nected a ith the visit which the Queen had been graciously
pleased to pay to the city. He alluded to the total absence
of those indispensable regulations by which it was the
practice of the corporation to be governed on occasions of
the kind. It was only on the evening preceding the ball
that he had learned what part he, as a member of the Court
of Aldermen, was to take in the proceedings of the Wednes-
day evening, and it was then impossible to judge with any-
thing like certainty what he was to do. He supposed
that his brother aldermen found themselves in a predica-
ment equally disagreeable. He had been given to under-
stand that it was at first intended that sin aldermen should
attend at one passage. That regulation, however, gave way
to another which required their attention at another pas-
sage' and the officer whose duty it was to superintend all
the formalities connected with the corporation arrange-
ments for the uception of the sovereign seemed to have
acted under • restraint which completely inter-
fered with the judicious performance of his duties.
He trusted that his brother aldermen would agree with him
in referring the subject to a committee, with instructions to
confer with the other court, for the prevention of any re-
currence of such an evil. lie had been 23 years an alder-
man, and in every previous instance in which a royal visit
had been made, be had been supplied with a programme,
which correctly and satisfactorily detailed the course of pro-
w/dia. to be asiognest. Tha result ofishavtaziteni was, that
the utmost isernemy and unanimity bat mams
gretted say that the absence of it occasioned a very
marked difference between the late and all the former in-
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tertainments he had witnessed. In order to arrive at some
remedy for such disorders, he had observed in the Guild-
hall on the recent visit of her Majesty, he would move that
it be referred to the committee of privileges, to inquire
whether the Court of Aldermen were not bound to place
upon record their opinion on the irregularity of the proceed-
ings on the night of the ball to her Majesty, on the occasion
of the Grand Exhibition of AU Nations. (Hear, bear.)
Alderman SIDNEY seconded the motion.
Sir P. LAURIE said he approved of the motion. Ho
was obliged to declare, from what he had observed on Wed-
nesday night, that although the corporation could get up •
dinner in unrivalled style, they could not get up a ball at
all. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) He had not witnessed
such a scene during his experience as he had witnessed at
the City's attempt at the latter species of entertainment.
Nothing could equal the density of the crowd but its eager•
nem to see the Queen.
Alderman WIRE said he could not allow the observa-
tions of Sir Peter Laurie to pass without some notice.
He thought that, taking into consideration its mag-
nitude, and the extraordinary curiosity which it
naturally attracted, it was impossible to conceive any-
thing more orderly, or more judiciously arranged and
managed.
The motion of Alderman Copeland was then agreed to.

AND CLERICAL

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Laws. First Division Alfred Wills, University College.
Second Division : Samuel Bruce, University College ;
John Gotch Hepburn, University College ; Patrick O'Do-
novan, St. Patrick's College, Carlow; Hamilton Charles
Palmer, University College.—Examination for Honours.
Principles of Legislation : Alfred Wills (Scholarship),
University College ; Samuel Bruce, John Gotch Hepburn,
and lianultun Charles l'almer (equal), University College.

`(Pea last night's GazelMO
ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, JULY 13.—The Queen has
been pleased to appoint Jane, Marchioness of Ely, to be
one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber in Ordinary to her
Majesty, in the room of Emma, Lady Portman, resigned.
Sr. JAMES-PALACE, JULY I.).—The Queen has
been plowed to appoint Emma, Lady Portman, to be Extra
Lady of the Bedchamber to her Majesty.
WHITEHALL, JULY 9.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Edward Francis Maitland, Esq., Advo-
cate, to be Sheriff of the shire or sheriffdom of Argyll, iu
the room of Robert Bruce, Esq., deceased.
IVIIITEIIALL, JULY 11.—The Queen has been
pleased to nominate and appoint Charles Romilly, Esq., to
be Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, in the room of Charles
Edward, Earl of Cuttenham, resigned.
WHITEHALL, JULY 12.—The Queen has been
pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great
Seal granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honour-
I able John Musgrove, of Speldhurst, in the county of Kent,
and of Russell-square, in the county of Middlesex, Lord
Mayor of the City of London, and the heirs male of his body
lawfully begotten.
WitrrEusu., JULY 14.—The Queen has been
pleased to grant unto the Reverend Arthur Penryha Stan-
ley, MA., the place and dignity of a Canon of the metrupo.
I litical church of Canterbury, void by the death of the Rem.,
rend Frederick Vernon Lockwood. _

COMMISSION SIGNED BY TIIE LORD WARDEN OF
THE STANNARIES.—WiIIiam Graham ViTien, Oent., to bo
Second Lieutenant in the Royal Cornwall and Devon
Miners Regiment.

GOVEILYORSUIP OF MALTA.—We understand that
LieutAieneral the Right lion. Sir Frederick Adam,
G.C.8., will receive the appointment of Governor of
Malta, together with the command of the troops sta-
tioned in that island. Sir Frederick served many
years in the Mediterranean, with the army in Sicily, and
subsequently, as Lord High Commissioner in the lonian
islands, from which he was removed upon his appointment
to the Madras Presidency in 1832.—Murning Paper.
CITY Cucfrr OF SEWERS.—Yesterday a court of the
Commissioners of Sewers for the City,waa held in their cham-
ber at the Guildhall ; Deputy Peacock presided. Mr. Dakin,
chairman of the Central Gas Consumers Company, appeared
to present a memorial from that company, praying the
sanction of the coo t to the deed of amalgamation with the
City Gas Company. After sonie opposition, the sanction
requested was granted with but two diessentieuts. Street
Orderlies: Alderman Sidney presented a memorial from
inhabitants of the ward of Billingsgate against the intro-
duction of street orderlies into that ward, on the ground of
there being no necessity for them there. Deputy Stevens
laid before the court a letter from his constituents to the
same effect. Referred to the general purposes committer.
Mr. Cochrane subsequently applied to the court for leave to
lay before the commissioners a statement's to the character of
the street orderlies, which it was alleged had been maligned
at a former meeting of the court. The application was not
entertained, and Mr. Cochrane, alter a few explanatory
remarks, retired from the court.
19TH ItEGIMENT.—'IIIc service companies of the
19th embarked at Quebec on the Zith ultimo, having been
relieved by the 66th, and are now on passage to Plymouth
in the Java.

THE ORANGE PROCESSION IN LIVERPOOL—The
fears entertained of further riot and collision between the
catholics and Orangemen have proved unfounded, and the
various lodges were enabled to meet and dine at their res-
pective houses without molestation. Immediately after the
first affray, intelligence was despatched to the head police
office, where precautions were taken to prevent, as I'm' as
possible, any further breach of the peace, and a reserve was
ready at each polka station to set as necessity required.
The police have apprehended upwards of 40 persons who
were engaged in the various affrays. The following, who re-
ceived wounds during the not, are now in the Infirmary,
some of them in a precarious state:—Policeman Jackson,
Patrick Hagan, John Minn, W. Jacob, and Robert Ker-
shaw ; the latter had his hand dreadfully shattered while
discharging a pistol, and immediate amputation was consi-
dered necessary. There are also in the same institution
several other persons who have received contusions, prin-
cipally on the head, but with the exception of three, named
Dowdall, Durum' and Devitt, none of them are considered of
a dangerous character.
FATAL STEAM ENGINE ACCIDENT. Yesterday
morning a shocking accident occurred at the saw manufac-
tory of Mr. John Davenport, Rockingliam-street, Sheffield,
which proved fatal to one individual, and two others are
seriously injured. The accident was occasioned by the
bursting of a stop valve placed at the top of a pipe, commu-
nicating between the boilers and the engine. A leakage
had been detected at this place, and to remedy this defect,
the engine-tenter, whose name is Richard Robertshawe,
stopped the engine by fastening down the valve, and then
proceedei to screw more tightly the bolt which secured it
to the pipe. Whilst so engaged, the head of the bolt gave
way. ltobertshawe gave instant alarm to three men who
were standing in the boiler room. These hastened from
the place, but ere they were able to do so, two of them,
named Daniel Wilkins, and John Crooke', were dreadfully
scalded. Robertshawc, who was standing close to ,the spot,
was scalded the worst. He was removed to his house, a
distance only of a few yards, but he died in a few minutes
afterwards. The two others were removed to the Infir-
mary and but slight hopes are entertained of their recovery.
STREET ORDERLIES.—In the City, yesterday, Par
suant to reijuisition, a meeting of the householders of the
Ward of tarringdon Without, was held at the Sessions
House, Old Bailey, to consider the propriety of introduc-
ing the street orderly system into that part of the City. Sir
James Duke, Alderman of the word, took the chair, sup-
ported by about half-a-dozen of the householders, but after
waiting the customary time, and the meeting not attaining
to a number capable of transacting business, Sir James
Duke said he would adjourn the meeting sine die. More
than forty persons had signed the requisition and only ten
or a dozen were present. He considered that he had been
played with, so had others whom he saw there.

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RAILWAYS.

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Twa o'Cisce.
This being settling-]ay in the share market, the
liquidation of the balances arising out of the account
has been in Regrew On the whole no large amount
of business has been concluded, but particular de-
scriptions have attracted a fair share of attention;
and prices generally have been well supported at the
improved rates of yesterday's market.
SMARM AND IfOCKA UNGUARANTRID.

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