The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-14 00:00:00

irbt Court.

We have authority to state that her Majesty's ball,
this evening, is to be in full dress.
The Queen held a court at three o'clock yesterday
afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Count de Jarnac had an
audience of tne Queen to deliver his credentials as Minister
Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King of the French,
in the absence of the ambassador. His excellency was in-
troduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's
principal Secretary of State foe Foreign Affairs, and con-
ducted by Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cast, K.C.H., her
Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. The Right Hon. Sir
Robert Gordon, G.C.8., was presented to her Maje,ty
by Viscount Palmerston on his return from hM
embassy to the court of Vienna. Lord Howard de
Walden, G.C.8., had an audience of the Queen, and
was presented to her Majesty by Viscount Pal-
merston on his appointment as envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to the court of Belgium.—Sir E.
Disbrowe, 0.C.H., was presented to her Majesty at an
audience by Viscount Pa/menton, on his return, on leave of
absence from the court of the Netherlands.—Sir A. Malet,
Bart., was presented ay Viscount Palmerston to the Queen,
on retumi.g from a mission, and on going abroad again.--
Her Majesty gave audience to Viscount Palmerston.—The
Queen was attended by Lord Waterpark, lord in waiting ;
and Sir E. Codrington, G.C.8., groom in waiting.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the
Queen and Prince Albert yesterday.—H.R.H. the Duchess
of Kent also visited her Majesty and his Royal Highness
yesterday.
Lord J. Rummell had an audience of the Queen yell..
tender.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Leiningen, honoured Her Majesty's Theatre with
their presence yesterday evening, and also the amateur per-
formances at the St. James's Theatre. The royal suite in-
cluded the Countess of Charlewont, Hon. Miss Stanley,
Lord Wtterpark, Lieut-Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and
Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine
Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St.*James's.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady
Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Sir G. Couper, and
Lord J. Murray, honoured the amateur dramatic performances
in the St. James's Theatre with her presence, last evening.

A deputation front Sheffield, headed by Earl
Fitsyrilliam and Lord Wharncliffe, had an interview with
Sir G. Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. A deputation
on railways, headed by Mr. Hudson, M.P., and Mr. Edward
Ellice, Jun., M.P., had an interview with Lord J. Russell
Yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. His
lordship was accompanied by the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer and the Right Hots. E. Strutt, First Commissioner of
Railways. Mr. J. Fielden, M.P. had an interview with
Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial•offloe. Mr. Banner
man had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday, at the
Hunts-offlce.

The Commissioners of Metropolitan Improvements
had a meeting yesterday in Whitehall-place. There were
present Viscount Morpeth, Lord Colborne, the Lord Mayor,
the Right Hon. J. C. Berries, Sir R. H. Inglis, Sir C. Lemon,
and Mr. H. T. Hope.

SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND THE BOROUGH OF
Matrottionst.—Sir Charles Napier has published an ad-
dress to his constituents, giving them the option of continuing
him or not u their representative, in consequence of Her
Majesty's government having ordered him to " hoist bin Hag"
es commander of the Experimental Squadron. Sir William
Parker will continue to command in the Mediterranean.

NATIONAL PIOVINCUL BANK or ENGLAND.—Yee-
terday the annual general sooting of this company wu held
at the offices in Biemsternest, Mr. Jahn Melville in the
chair. The report stated *et, " Shortly after the Ire
annual meeting, the business,' the Stockton end Durham
County Bank, carried on at Stesitten and Guisherengh, was
ineorporated with that of this ttempany at those }Less. This
arrangement has been attended with a valuable Imam sr
connemon from amongst the serieshnral tateessee of tine
district. In the coons of hapset the di:seises one le the
determination of withdrawing the inenehes etesalithed nt
Northwich and Croyland, where the Indases, always brow
eiderable had become less remunerative in omsequenos of
the restriction of the country circulation by the Banking
Lot of 1844. The statement of asseellSlS whi h the
directors have now to submit to the ~tee is
made up, as usual, at the close of do ea Ilse
Stet December last, a date which it sell ie esalMai Is
antecedent to the great Maness wet/ashes hie gime in
the value of money. Bat although the Welt had nest the
benefit of high rates during the period Ahab embeesiall
the account, yet steady and settee =at wee hod
for the company's funds, and the are bappr
state that the result which they have now In eakibit ealliede
that of any former year's operations. The vsnal wasiassiy
as Isiknes :
UN.

A a d.
Aser-ciref =dided meta 06,4401 I 1
Net Fail at 10vi14 Aar making ellowence Ix bed
W dodial kW. Ind lore peop:etlon of pre-
lhalaery swam 13,10 7 8
99,615 9 10
Delimit dirkked et 3 pre cent. Ice 1816 mcan-
lose93l091 l

L444116n1.1 ft at Mg Dee., 1646 79,073 19 10
And to Ike norm foal of 12,6031. IT.. ed.
Is Ka selfehriesey state of the woman, the report was
th4as%inanition* ash& essidst genus] plaadita, and the re-
tLuriisa~g4l,loll.• MOM& I. Melville, Horace Twin, end W.
ilentiash, wore newiested without a diesentleet voice. A
MACa hr en ohms in the salaries of the general mana-
22Leiseles ef the company, wee withdraws co the un-
thst the matter deaold be taken into the end-
the board. The Maine= them defamed the
origins' we to be dissolved, semi teemed the preendlogs
of an entwersibury plural meths eureeeoll Or the par-
pais el taking ire emelderogen the peeprisay of *huh(
the deed of seitherat in seek a ossaser so Urn the umber
of threshes shed* news bless 6101 twelve, ma sew m-
ewl Idgbloes. leeelotins ONITI this vsessissoletion
bee abet were edepeed, melded to the orilrordss of a
irellegt te be hell ke dot pupae, end Oahe bowies been
teed le thrashers and the bawd es Wu to
ihegmerel wwasigre (Mr. lebeelesa) end the ether odious
Kt he eompsay, them-teellog bobs op.
BRITISH BKDOSIATIOIf llogthww.—An annual
ineeting of this seelety wee Uhl yethodsge et Willis's Rooms,
Bt. James's. Kr. Hine predi The mini report wee
reed by the secretory. The seodttee *seek regretted the
great imams et Remoden Los roan, as evired by the
=rof Men awhile it gates, cherubs, dui
iss amber et soweerts fib fala. Deali:7lll4l6,
sad the }seam of Mg bed elped, lbe
day bezist =ell ha may imperhiet erre-
dsos. The aostoi smog Oho Ileum-
ids at Bridgewater end_ Teem is 1646 bed Woad
the committee to seed a depuesties to then towns. The
outings then held bad.been wry crowded, and it wu hoped

had effected considerabk good. Meetings had also been held
in Oman every part of the country by which the perverse of
popery had been considerably checked ; and of which the report
contained various details. The committee also entered into
some particulars of • rives race discussion which had taken
place at Wigton, between the Rev. C. J. Kelly, catholic
priest, and the Rev. R. P. Blakeney, which had resulted in
the withdrawal of the former gentlemen from the contest, by
which stop they considered the cause of popery at Wigton to
be completely lost. Tle agents of the society had also been
at work in the metropolis, and, as a proof of the success of
their exertions the committee instanced the tact that in the
district of St. Giles's alone upwards of 800 Roman catholic
families had been visited, and among whom the
scriptures had been read and distributed. The follow-
ing publications were at present on sale, at very '
reduced prices, at the office, at • great lose to
the society. 20,624 tracts, 20 volumes of tracts, and 120 I
controversial works; there had else been granted to clergy.
men and others, for distribution and lending libraries, 18,811
tracts, 5 volumes of tracts, and 44 Cf ntroversial works. The
total receipt* of the society, fur tt e past year amounted to
1,6261. lbs. aa.; and the expenditure to 1,3901 Ifts. 5d.,
which left a Wane, of 2351. 14s. 6d. The liabilities
amounted to about 2001. The adoption of the report was
moved at some length by the Rev. Mr. Bickersteth, who
spoke generally of the dangers to whin h be considered pro-
testantism was at present subjected from the various modes in
which catholidsm was gaining sacendancy ; condemning also
what he maintained to be a popular error with regard to the
character of the new head of the catholic church—a
" liberal " pope being in his opinion an impossibility, inas-
much as the present one was as great an enemy to the
scriptures as the most bigoted who had occupied his place.
The Rev. J. Ralph seconded the resolution, which was
further supported by the Rev. P. Hall, and unanimously
adopted. Two other resolutions, approving of the objects of
the society, were then spoken to by Dr. Cumming, the Rev.
AV. Hatchard, and other gentlemen, is addresses of a similar
character, which concluded the price dings.
DRESS-MAKERS' AND MIL! INERS' SOCIETY.—The
annual meeting of the esiocUtion for the aid of dr en-makers
and milliners was held yesterday at the rooms of the Statis-
tical Society, in St. James'asquare. Lord Ashley tack the
chair, and congratulated the meeting on the prospects of the
society. He considered that no class stood so in need of pro-
tection and support as that of the milliners and dressmakers,
because no class were so incapable of helping or protecting
themselves. The report opened be expressing the wish of the
committee that now, when much was being done broth by
private endeavour and by the legislature towards reducing
the hours of labour of various classes, especially of young
persons and females, something might be done for the limi-
tation of the time which milliners and dress-makers were
obliged to work—which in some, though hthpily not the
majority of cases, we, as many as sixteen and eighteen hours.
During the past year 467 young persons had been provided
with situations. After alluding to the benefits conferred by
the plan of registration, the report stated that, due inquiries
having been made, 1,217 persons bed been registered ; 601.6..
had been expended daring the year in pacuniary
assistance; and although this was less than in s' me
former years, the committee could confidently state that no
deserving applicant had been refused assistance. The com-
mittee strongly recommended to heeds of establishments the
ventilation of the working-rooms, and deprecated the custom
observed in some houses of using the working-rooms for
sleeping apartments. The report ended by suggesting what
the committee were of opinion would tend to shorten the
hours of labour—aunely, that all young persons should be
strongly urged to employ their mornings well, and get as
much work done as possible, and that ladies should allow a
proper time for the execution of their orders, • point which
at present many were too forgetful of. By the balaneeeheet
It appeared that the receipts of the put year had been
1.8891. 3s. 84d., and the expenditure 1,8171. 15e. Sid., leaving
a balance of 711. Bs. 3d. The invested capital now
amounted to 1,2361. 18s. Dr. Guy moved, and Mr. Dal-
rymple seconded, the motion for the adoption of the report,
which was agreed to; after which the ladies' committee and
the committee of management were re-elected, and some coot-
;alimentary votes dosed the meeting, which was attended by
several distinguished persons, among whom were Countess
Only and the Earl of Arundel.
ENTERTAINMENT TO THE BISHOPS AT LAMBETH-
PALACE.—The Archbishop of Canterbury gave his annual
entertainment to the members of the episcopal bench yester-
day (Holy Thursday), at Lambeth Palace. The right rev.
prelates present were the Archbishops of Armagh and Dub-
lin, the Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester, Li icoln,
Bangor, Rochester, Llandaff, Chester, Gloucester, Exeter,
Ripon, Salisbury, Hereford, Worcester, Lichfield, Ely, Ox-
ford, St. Asaph, Peterborough, St. David's, Cashel, Tas-
mania, Bishop Coleridge, and the Bishops designate of
Adelaide, N.S.W. (Rev. A. Short), of Newcastle, N.S.W.
(Rev. W. Tyrrell), and of Melbourne, N d.W. (Ray. C.
Perry). At half-put six o'clock prayers were read in the
archbishop's private chapel, the whole of the above prelates
attending, and the Venerable Archdeacon Harrison, one of
his grace's private chaplains, officiating. The chapel was
opened for divine tervice for the first time on this occasion,
having undergone extensive restoration and repair during
the peat twelve months. At seven o'clock • superb enter-
tainment we, served In the banquetting-room of the palace.
The venerable archbishop presided, and was supported upon
his right by the Archbishop of Armagh, and upon his left
by the Archbishop of Dublin. The enerable Archdeacon
Harrison and the Rev. Dr. Mill (chaplains to the arch-
bishop) had the honour of joining the circle at dinner.
THE BROKERAGE QUZSTION.—Thia question has
again attracted attention in mercantile quarters. It was die•
cussed at the last meeting of the Court of Aldermen, and
was again postponed until Tumidity the 18th inst., when it is
expected that, as far as the aldermen are concerned, it will
be decided. It is evident that several of the aldermen are
not conversant with the system of business as conducted by
brokers generally in the City, as it was stated by some of
them that it was not customary in the colonial trade to
charge the buyer any brokerage. It appears that
the corporation derives as annual rental from the
brokers of between five and six thousand a year,
and the brokers would seem entitled, therefore, to
expect protection in the exercise of their calling. For the
last century this respectable class of the commercial commu-
nity have carried on their business according to customary
rules without question in any quarter. If therefore, there
be any breach, rigidly construed, of mere ancient municipal
regulations, those regulations should be altered in confor-
mity with a more advanced state of mercantile practice, in
day of the large interests created and established for so long
a period. Should the brokers not succeed in obtaining what
is deemed the justice due to them, it is understood that re-
course will be had to the courts of law, and eventually, per-
haps, to the House of Lords, in which case the legality of the
city dues levied upon the broker. may be called in question,
and abolished.

ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
—The 'sere.. train from Liverpool, which was due at
Euston-square at eleven o'clock last night, did not Mice
till five minutes past ate this morning. The delay arose
from the train running into • good. train, on • curve
in the line, a little below Wolverton, by which
the guard', break-waggon was broken to pieces.
Happdy no lives were lost, but the guard and several of the
passengers were slightly injured. Whether the accident
occurred through the signals not having been properly at-
tended to, or whether the goods train carried no "tail-
lights," we could not ascertain in the confusion which pre.
railed on the arrival of the train.

INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—DETERMINED SUICIDE OP
• Brontizo MAN.—By Mr. Bedford, et the Plumbers'
Arms, Lower Ebury-street, Pimlico. on the body of William
Kendrick, aged 48. The deceased, who resided at No. t,
Upper Itanelagh-ateset, wee well known in the sporting
world, end for the last three weeks had laboured under great
mental anxiety, from his having lost large some of money at
Newmarket, and be was unable to meetsome of his engage-
ments. On Tuesday last deceased passed a very restless night,
and between eight and nine o'clock on Wednesday morning
his wife heard a heavy fall in the bedroom, and ou going up,
she saw the deceased lying on the carpet weltering in blood,
be having inflicted a deep wound on the left side of his neck
with a razor, which was found by his side. It was evident
he had committed the deed whilst standing before the look-
ing-glass, as the glue and dreasing.table were covered with
blood. Mr. Griffith, of No. 31, Lower Ebury-street, cur-
gems, was called in immediately, end found all the principal
bloodvtasels divided, and lift extinct. Verdict, "Temporary
insanity."

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MAY 12.

The hopes of his Excellency's recovery giow fainter
and fainter. This morning a bulletin was lamed,
stating that
The Lord Lisuteasut has had a quiet night, but his
strength has not improved.
At four o'clock to-day the answer to inquiries at
the Castle was—no change—his excellency continues
in the same way.
All through the county of Limerick great excite-
ment, with a strong tendency to overt acts of violence,
prevails. On Monday evening two policemen arrived
in a state of great exhaustion, one with his ramrod
bent doable. Their station at Ardnacrusha, two miles
from the city, on the Clare side of the Shannon, was
attacked by • band of 600 men, after having
first demolished the parish soup kitchen, broken
the boilers and utensils, and torn the books con-
taining the mews d the destitute applicants. Having
next smashed the windows of the barracks, the
station was sheet to be regularly invested, when the
polies fired mmy khots to terrify, but in vain, and a
iaw, with mew dial retinae, took effect Two men
were NM* worded. The mob withdrew, but
Iselseeil would return soon, and raze the barrack
I. the ion This threat was the cause of the
pass appem-Mg in the city with a demand for re-
intbresesseda Major-General N*o. despatched
at ones two 4l Itry, a troop
of the elk Mem ruins of Hans Artillery, with
three gees. W they reseird all was quiet.
Further dews the Shannon the peasantry were
also meth Imbed, and a company of the 55th
was deepened on Marley by the Swallow steamer
to Bildyent, and late It the same evening the Pluto,
with fifty sae troops kr the same destination. At
Mealick, within two miles of the city, 10,000 men,
all " armed with knives.' are Mated to have assembled
also oa Monday. The elegy was seeking to cause
their digersim, Wilsey !spieled, and threat-
ened the ihinelion e/ all cattle,sullenl with a firm deter-
mination ad to see* wt-door relief.

In Cork, the same feeling of discontent prevails. On
Monday a body of 400 unemployed labourers marched
in procession into the city, and having drawn up be-
fore the Board of Works office, sent a deputation to
confer with Capt. Broughton, government inspector.
They stated the deep distress which afflicted them
since their dismissal. The inspector recommended
them to be placed on the relief lists. After remaining
a short time they retired quietly, their demeanour
being quite respectful during the interview. At Cm-
tlemartyr, the residence of the Earl of Shannon,
who has faithfully discharged his duties as a man and
a landlord, the peace has been violated by the inroad
of labourers from the surrounding districts. Having
inflicted various severe blows on the police, they set
about sapping the bridge, when a company of at-
' fantry issued from the Earl's gate, having passed
through the demesne from Middleton, the military
station. They fled before the troops, were pursued,
and several taken prisoners. Cloyne, a neighbouring
town, was the scene of riot on Monday also. The
military arrived there too, and repressed any attempt
at mischief.

In Kerry, one of the most peaceable counties in
Ireland, the peasantry have been assembling in
imposing masses, demanding employment or bread.
The police are very active in preserving the peace.
A committee fprmed in Cork for the distribution
of the American relief, and calhd the New England
Committee, has been caused some little embarrass-
ment in connexion with the cargo of the Jumettown.
Accepting the statements of the ship's manifest as
correct, they made a partition of the cargo, and
called upon the several district committees to
remove their shares. It appears, however, that
upon comparing the manifest with the Custom-house
list, there was a very manifest dtficiency, and the
committee find that they will have 30 or 40 tons less
of food to give away than they calculated upon.
" Every item," says one of the members of the com-
mittee, was " exaggerated." Could this have been a
little bit of Yankeeism played off at the " Boating"
side of the Atlantic?

Farea.—Orricial. Ctucexia.—The following circular
has been issued from the Relief Commission Office to the
inspecting Soar of each union :
tier,—The Relief Commitionete desire to draw your attention to
the 13th section of the Fever Art, 10 Viet, cap. 32. This section
directs that the neceerary expenses incurred by any relief committee
la carrying into egret an order whit h may, in certain cases, be brood
on the certificate of the central Loud of health, for the purpose, stated
in section 3—or in the payment of 'tholes to the tried eel officers op.
pointed by the Lord Lieutenant for such purposes—and in the exe-
cution of the other provisions of the act—are to be defrayed in such
manner as the Invite Commiseioners of the treasury may diner, out
of the funds which shall be placed at the disposal of the Relief Com.
missionere, for the use of such union, purithnt to the temporary
relief act, 10 Vic., cap. 7, provided such expenses and salaries shall be
in conformity with any regulations which may, from time to lime, be
noted from the Treasury. When, therefore, the relief cumnissioners
may inert an order in respect to any elect at division or relief dis-
trict of your union, pertain to sector 3, It will be normary fee the
relief commluce of such division or district immediately to coo-
eider the expense that may hare to be incurred for each of the
purposes in section 3, and lemma an estimate accordingly), through
the finance committee, subject to its revision and approval. It will
also be noxesary, before incurring export in the executi et of any of
the ether provirtans of the act, that the reilvi tOrnlllittCe f a. any dirt.
eke or district in which it may be actually neeenetry to carry any of
these prortaions into effect, should, in like manner, frame
an estimate of the expenses to be incurred for thit object,
and submit it to the finance committee for approvaL
Every each estimate is to he distinct from the estimate for
reli4 under the set 10 Vic., c. 7—it being im object to preserm a
Wrsee cant of .11 expenditure incurred under the fever wt.
ae relief committee may consider addelonal hospital or Mapes.
eery relief regulate, mailer section 3, it toil be necessary, in the first
instance, to forward from the committee to the (eland board of
health (Poor-law Commisthis.offloe, Dubin), a report, showing the
necessity for such additional means of encoding medical relict—By
order of the Relief Commirsioner& W. STANIAY, Seentary.
STATE OF TILE COVNTILY.—The mortality which is de-
, creasing in the workhouse of Cork appears to be augment-
ing to a frightful extent in that of lieueximmon, and in the
gaol alas. A local journal states that, in the fever hospital
of the gaol, where there are 70 patients on an average, the
daily average mortality is nine. With regard to the condi-
tion of the county, it to most afflicting. Offenders confined
for larceny crowd the gaol, and amongst the inmates of
that institution are sixty convicts sentenced within the
last two months for of against the laws of property.
Potatoes are planted in great breadths by the prudent
farmers of the county of Down, and the young shoots look
very promising. In Mayo less potatoes than was even anti-
cipated have been sown, and the harvest will inevitably be
more scanty in corn than the last. The local paper states
that not more than two-thirds the breadth of lend usually
tilled is this year under produce. The crops are coming
up well in that county.
The two men who, yesterday, effected the robbery at the
Royal Bank, were taken to-day in Drogheda. They were
recognised as members of the swell-mob from London.