The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-26 00:00:00

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The Queen will hold a privy council to-morrow
18aturdaylafternonn, at three o'caoek,at Buckingham Palace.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on
Wednesday evening i eel udeather Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent,the Duchess of Sutherland, their Excellencies Prince
and Prinene Callimaki, their Excellencies Monsieur and
Madame Van de Weyer, Lord John Thlatitll, the Earl Spen-
cer, Lady Fanny llCward, Baroness de Speth, Lord and
Lady Charles W eVealey. Lord Marcus Hill, and the Right
lion. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert.
Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Ituyal
Consort look their usual early walk. Ilia Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge visited the Queen and Prince Albert
yesterday. The Duke of Northumberland had an audience
of her Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace. His
Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback yester-
day, attended by his Equerry in Waiting, Ca; .talc the Hon.
A. H. Gordon. Their Royal Highueswai the Prince of
Wales, l'rinee Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Prince*.
Alice took their accustomed walks and rids, yesterday.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured with their
presence, lost evening, the performance at Her Majesty's
Theatre, for the bauetit of the Fund for tne distressed trash
and Secteb.
Wednesdav was the birthday of the Duke of
Cambridge. fiin Royal Highna o Prince Albert paid a visit
to the Royal Duke at Cambridge House. Many of the nobi-
lity and gentry called during the tiny and left their names
for his Royal Highness. In the evenne. the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Prince Frederick
of Hesse, dined with her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester nt Gloucester House.
Hcr Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
the Duchess of Catribrulge yesterday.
The name of Mr. Ewart, M.P., was accidental' v
emitted in the list of company present at her Majesty's levee
en Wednesday.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer rind Lord John
Russell, accompanied by the Lords of the Treasure, the
Secretaries of the Treasury, and also by Mr. J. B. fiesta,
the Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy
Governor, received a number of tapitalissi of the City of
Loudon, yesterday morning, at the Treasury, on the subject
of the terms and conditions of the new loan of eight
millions
The Commissioners of Railways, the Right Hon.
Edward Strait, Earl Granville, Sir Edward Ryan, and
Major Brandreth, accompanied by the Inspector of Rail-
ways, Captain Coddington, visited the great Western Rail-
way yesterday.
'f he Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a meeting yesterday.
The Marquis of Lansdowne and Earl Grey left
town yesterday for Cambridge.
A Deputation of the Committee of the Spanish
Bondholders Association, consisting of the chairman, Mr.
Dempster limning, and Mr. Henry Chard, had an interview
with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the office of the
Board of Trade. Major 11. L. Playfair had an interview
yesterday with the Earl of Clarendon. A Deputation from
a meeting of the Railway Interest, consisting of Mr. Hudson,
M.P., Mr. Russell, M.P., Mr. Glyn, Mr. M'Gregor, Mr.
Saunders. Mr. Swift, Mr. Ellice, and Mr. Mangles, had an
interview on Wednesday with the Right Hon. E. :gnat.
Despatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial Office, for the Governor of the Mauritius.

CILLNICELLORSHIP OF CAMBRIDGE.-TIIE

ELECTION.

The election of a Chancellor for the University of
Cambridge, in the room of the late Duke of Northumber-
land, commenced yesterday. At a quarter before ten the
doors of the Senate house were opened, and shortly after-
wards the galleries were completely tided by the undergra.
duates, who amused thcinselves by cheering and groaning in
their usual vociferous attic. At ten o'clock the Vice-Chan.
cellor (who was received with loud cheers) entered the Se-
nate-house, and took his station at the table, and, with the
L waroetors and the junior doctor in divinity present,
in scrutiny. The Rev. R. Birkett, of Emma-
nuel, and Mr. Mills, of Pembroke, acted as asses-
sors for Prince Albert ; end Dr. Snowball, of St.
John's, and Mr. Cookson, of St. Peter's, for Earl Powis.
The proceedings were commenced by one of the beadals read-
ing the 33rd statute of Elizabeth. The Vice-Chancellor
then gave his woe (for Prince Albert), rant the senior
Proctor (Earl Pools), and thea the junior l'roctor (Prince
Albert) ; after which, the votes of the members of the Senate
generally were received. The votes are written on a card,
which the voter delivers to the Vice-Chancellor, who, hav-
ing read it aloud, drops it into a box, which stands before
him, having too divisions, one labelled " For Prince
Albert," the other " For Earl Powis."

Amongst the earliest voters for H.R.H. Prince Albert
were the Bishops of Norwich, Ely. and Hereford, the Mar.
quis of Exeter, Lord Pdonteagle, Sir J. Herschel', and tha
Right Hon. H. Goalburn. . .

The poll for the first three hours was strongly in favour of
Earl Powis. Thus, at 12 o'clock the numbers were—Prince
Albert, 148 ; Earl Powis, 214; showing a majority of 86. By
a quarter to one o'clock this majority had increased to 82,
the numbers being—for Prince Albert, 219; for Earl Powis,
301 ; when the polling ceased till evening : it recommenced
at 8 o'clock, p m., continuing until 9, for the convenience of
non.reddent members of the Senate. The train, which
seri.' at Cambridge from London at 10 minutes before
eight, brought down a great number of graduates. The
Senate-house was divided into two compartments, and it was
so arranged that those who voted for the Prince turned to
the left on entering the hall, whereas those who gave the
preference to Earl Powis took the opposite direction. Each
party was lustily assailed by the supporters of the rival
candidates, and as warmly cheered by friend Language
would fail to convey the excited state of feeling which prevailed
during the last hour. The Senate-house was a complete
Babel, and had it not been that the election was conducted
by means of written papers, it would have been impossible
for the scrutineers to hove caught the name of the candidate
for whom the votes were tendered. At length 9 o'clock
arrived, and there was a general rash to the committee
rooms to ascertain the state of the poll. Hundreds sought
to obtain admission into close rooms, into which thirty
persons would have with difficulty found admission.
Urgent claims were made upon the clerks for
immediate returns, but most of them were pressed
up into corners of the room, from which they
were unable to extricate themselves. After consider-
able delay it was ascertained that the committee made the
following returns :
By Prince Albert's committee,
H.R.H. Prince Albert
Earl I'owia

17

By Earl Powis's committee,
Earl Pawls
H.R.H. Prince Albert
Majority for Earl Towle 8
These declarations led to the most indescribable confusion.
Nothing definite could be arrived at, nor is there any chance
et the difficulty being cleared up until to-morrow morning.
Both parties are in the highest degree sanguine of success.
Although special trains to and from London were running
all day, upwards of 1,000 persons presented themselves at
the station to be conveyed to London by the nine o'clock
train, upwards of 30 carriages being called into requisition.
Our Cambridge correspondent says ,—"The greatest
excitement prevails in the University. Every train
continues to bring up a large number of non-resident
voter'. The general impreosion is, that however the contest
may eventually end, the majority will he but small. A feel-
ing of disappointment prevails amongst a great number of
the non-resident members of the senate, who, presuming
from the Prince's reply to the memorial that there would be
no opposition to Lord Posit, promised their vote, to his
lordship's committee.
The Master of St. John's having circulated a printed copy
of a private letter, addressed by the Master of Trinity to a
member of that college, the hitter bu issued the following
explanation:
TRINITV Lino, bus. 24, It47.—The Master of St. John's having
printed and eireulated a private letter of mine addressed to a mem-
ber a this college, lam compelled to state, in es planation of the es-
proisions there used, that Lord Powis's failing to comentudcate lathe
acting ottiwrs of the Univetwity his Intention when he had declared
himself a candidate for the Once of Chancellor, his not enabling them
to comniunicste with hbn in lew than sin days alter that time, and
his giving in reply to their communication no .R.llWer but the
resolution of a committee, Antibes the expressions there mild.—

The following is the letter alluded to by Dr. Whewell :
Trinity Lodge, Feb. 23, ISl7.—My dear Sir: I hope you will glee us
the benefit of your vote in favour of Prime Albert on one chnnorllnr.
In biro we stub hoer powerful protection, sympathy In our studies,
and freedom from political arty. In Lord Powis we should only lure
• Chancellor of St. John's; for the emiduct of his Mends, in whose
hands he hoe entirely plated himself, has estranged the acting Put of
the rest of the university from him altogether.—l em, dear sir, yours
veq trrily, W. W.W.I,
ThiA turmal attempt to represent the present contest for the ciao-
rellorship as a striimrle between colleges, I. unjust wad unprecedented.
That it is not so nmoded by the great nisjmity of the Senate, may be
inferred from the list of lord Powis's committee In London, which
contains about forty Trinity names; and the result of the poll will
clearly thew how Moving a sympathy with Lord Fowl, is entertained
*thin every en legs. It. T \TRIM. Mader of R. John's College, St.
John's I edge, Feb. 23, 1347.
The Marquee. of Laa.downe, Earl Grey, and the Bishops
of Lincoln and Norwich, voted for Prance Albert in the
course of the morning, and left for London by the three
o'clock train. Amongst the votes for Lord Powis was Sir
Lancelot Sbadwell.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
CORrORATION OF LONDON REFoll3l.—Yesterday,
the coraMttee of the whole court assembled in the Council
Chamber for the purpose of receiving the report of the sub-
committee on the subject of the privileges of the court.
Deputy PEACOCa in the chair. The minutes of the pro-
Qediags of the last committee having been read, several
members declared that they did not perfectly understand the
Roaition in which they stood, or the exact nature of the ques-
tion by which the Ceurt of Common Council was agitated,
and that it was therefore =emery that they should be in.
formed by legal authority.
Mr. ASHrIiST immediately brought up the report of the
sub-conunittee, which stated as follows: " Ist. That hi order
to prevent the delay of public business, it is expedient that
the election of officers should be proceeded with at the next
mart, prior to the discussion of any other questions.
2. That the corporation requires to be reformed, which
ion only be done by the aid of parliament, and
for that purpose we recommend that it be referred to us (the
nib-committee) to prepare such a bill for each reforms sad
alterations as we may see fit, the Nose when prepared to be
submitted to this committee for consideration." The sub-
committee were, he raid, influenced to recommend three
two resolutions by adequate reasons. It would be
men, from statements contained in several journals, that Mr.

Bullock, the judge of the Sheriff's court, had declined to
preside in that court in consequence of the fact that his up-
pointment had not as yet taken place in the Court of Com-
mon Connell. Now at the present moment Mr. Bullock
happened to be performing his duty in the very seat which
he had been represented :is having refused to occupy.
The report had evidently been manufactured to pre-
judice the court by an implication that the mem-
bers were interfering with the course of public justice.
That the question which the member required to be put
from the chair was a lawful que-lion there could be no doubt,
and there MRS no assembly that would not approve of the
measures adopted by them to accomplish their meet reason-
able object. (Hear, hear.) They had endeavoured to assert
their r!ght to freedom of discussion. They had the right;
but it •es evident they hail not the power to carry it into
effect. It would be therefore for this court, after the elec.
Lion of floe officer., to take the necessary steps by applying
to vehement to reform the corporation, and put an end to
the obstinacy to which they had Seen subjected by enlarging
the numbers and powers of the constituency. It would be de-
sirable that both branches of the corporation should agree iu
their views upon so important a subject, but if the Court
of Aldermen persisted in the course they had been pur.
suing, a separate application could be made to the legisla-
ture. The citizens of London had long been of opinion that
reform was indispensable. The constituency was limited
to persons who were compelled to take out their freedom by
the tenor held over them that they should not carry on
businras except upon ouch condition. The Court of Common
Council had done all they could to prevent the poor
man from being oppressed by the obligation to pay
for that which the rich man, as was
.proved by
the judicial opinion of the Recorder, was justified in
repudialog. In other respects, the Court of Com-
mon Council hail nsonifested an earnest disposition
to reform itself. Of the Court of Aldermen he could
not say that a similar anxiety existed amongst that
body. They had lately testified their disposition to reform
by carrying Alderman Humphery's motion for a committee,
aa a preparatory Insp. and then refusing to advance another
step. (Hear, hear.) They admitted that the necessity for
reform existed, and one of them (Alderman Wilson) declared
with a great deal of propriety, that the court of which ho
was a inember was a disgrace to the corporation, and that it
must be reformed. (Hear, hear.) It wool Ibe seen by their
fellow-citizens that the actions and intentions of the two
courts had been essentially different, and that in order to
eff,ct the changes which time and circumstances impera-
tively ca"A for, recourse must he had to the aid of Parlia-
ment. (Hear, hear.) Again, he hoped for the co-operation I
of the old: rmen, but if the acquiescence of that body could
not be obtained, the other members of the corporation would
not be at a loss for the requisite facilities.
Mr. LtWHENCE said that, however undeniable the right
of the Common Council was, they had not the power to
enforce that right, and they ought, certainly, to do all they
could to prevent the public from se ffering in consequence of
any act of theirs. There had appeared in the newspapers a
misrepresentation as to the sitting of the judge of the she-
riff's court. The Common Council were charged with
haying been the cause of postponmest of business. If any
delay took place, the blame lay upon the Lord Mayor, and
not upon them. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Lawrence) was
for going to parliament to effect that which it was evident
they could not accomplish themselves. He was anxious to
get the co-operation of the Aldermen. He would be
willing to make • sacrifice to obtain the consent of
the whole body. By a conference with a deputation
of the Court of Aldermen, a system of reform might be
produced calculated to effect the moot beneficial changes. It
was well known that a large number of the Aldermen
agreed with the Common Council in the opinion as tc the
necessity :or reform, so that it might be no difficult matter
to arrive at a proper understanding on the question. The
Courtof Common Council had no notion of interfering with the
magistracy of the City. (Hear, hear.) Believing, then,
that the Common Council, though possessed of the right
which they load endeavoured to assert, were not a-med with
the power to enforce it, he thought it would be advisable to
proceed to the election of officers the moment the Court
should be formed.

Several members spoke in favour of the first resolution,
as it stood, unconnected with the second, in the report, and
expreoeed a wish that the consideration of the second reso-
lution should be postponed.
Mr. Atomism was decidedly for !agreeing to the report,
embodying, Lit did, the two resolutions.
Mr Butts advised that the latter portion of the report
which referred to an application to parliament, be postponed,
in order that the opinion of the law oflicers should be taken
on the question; and he moved an amendment to that effect.
Mr. KING seconded the amendment.

The amendment was negatived by a large majority.
Mr. T. H. HALL then moved that the first resolution be
put, and that the second be postponed for future considera-
tion, as being a subject of too gr.tve importance to be hurried
over. Mr. Harrison seconded the amendment.

A great deal of confusion took plat: at this stage of the
businees of the committee, so that it became extremely dif-
ficult to ascertain the exact state of the question. The Lord
Mayor was announced, and his lordship entered with the
sword-hearer and mace-bearer, and the business of the com•
mittee necessarily was at an end. As our reporter was able
to collect from those around him, the committee adopted the
reeommtmdation to proceed in the court to the election of the
officer:, and postponed the latter part of the report of the
sub-committer..

A court was held immediately after the committee of the i
whole court broke up. There was a large attendance of
aldermen as well as of commoners —Mr. Wine, when it
was moved that the pressure of business which related to the
election of the officers (and no other business), be proceeded
with, rose to state his reasons for agreeing to allow the
election of the officers to take precedence of all other matters.
—Alderman SIDNEY mid, that if Mr. WIEE's reasons were
listened to, the demand of every other member to be heard
on the same subject could not be rejected.—Mr. Wins said
he had no notion of obstructing public business, and would
not give any person a pretence that such was his intention. I
lie consented to the precedence of the election, relying upon
the independent anti honorable support of the court, in
adopting such steps as would put them in a right position
by going to parliament.
The court proceeded to the election of the officers. Some
conversation took place upon the motion for the election of
Mr. Bullock to the office of Judge of the Sheriff's Court,
and it was argued that much inconvenience was [Mai to
arise from the annual election of a judicial officer. fhe
court agreed in the opinion that the learned gentleman
should be chosen "guantelitt re beta gesserit," and he was
accordingly appointed for so long a time as he should act
properly in the office. As the court proceeded to the election
of the other officers, some of the members took occasion to
refer to a railway action in which one of their officers was
concerned, and to condemn any connexion with speculations
of the kind, at the same time that they cast no Imputation
upon the honour or integrity of the gentleman to whom they
a
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CHARGER AOAIXBT THe latan SOCIETY.—The mayor of
Londonderry and a deputation front the corporation of that
place attended to present a petition, complaining of the
inannerin which the Irish Society had discharged its duties
and trusts towards the county of Londonderry generally, and
the city of Derry in particular, and praying that the court
would secure to the petitinnen their independence and
just rights, by restoring the lands and fishing% intended
for the use of the citizens of Deny, and direct
such an allocation of the funds of the society de-
rived from other sources, as might render their city
worthy of its foundation, and its connexion with the city of
London.—Alderman Ilumphery, in moving thatthe petition
be read, said that it contained grave charges, which the
society could completely disprove. He wished that the
greatest facilities should be granted to the gentlemen who
attended as petitioners, and that every attention should be
paid to them by the court. tie Dished that their own time
might be appointed for the consideration of the case, and he
exorcised ha conviction that the Irish Society would prove
satisfacterily to the court that they had acted towards Lon-
donderry in the true spirit of liberality, at the same time
that he admitted the petitioners had some reason to
complain. Some conversation took place on the subject
of the most advisable mode of proceeding, and it was
at last determined that counsel should be heard at the bar of
the court a month hence, on any day which might he consi-
dered convenient to the petitioners. The Conn of Common
Council will act judicially upon the occasion. We omit the
details of the petition, which, as the Recorder observed, was
the first presented during the lad 200 years against the Irish
Society until the answer shall have been given.
J Mr. J. WOOD gave notice that be should, at the neat
court, move that the third reading of the qualification hill
be put. (Hear, hear.)—The Lord Mayor said he did not
know that he could accept that notice of motion.—Mr. W.
Jones intimated that he should move, on the occasion, the
re-committal of the bill. The court then broke up.

ST. MART LAMBETH AND THE COMMISSIONERS
or Szwins.—Last evening a meeting of the inhabitants
of the pariah of St. Mary, Lambeth, was held in the
vestry room, Mr. Churchwarden Bolt in the chair, to
oppose the bill before parliament for extending the juris-
diction of the commissioners of sewers for Surrey and Kent,
and to adopt other measures for the protection of the rste-
payers' interests. Mr. O'Grady explained the nature of the
bill and its objects. He said that it would extend the juriv
diction of the commissioners of towers over iVandsworth,

Claphawoomnson, and in that direction to the Timm at
Greenwich, exclusive of the fifteen parishes of Lambe& •
depotatium was appointed to wait upon the commissions of
highways sad the inhabitants of the other tourism paddhoy
for the purpose of inducing them to unite in sa spraddaa
to the proposed bill, and in an effort to wake ilts eseads.
sioners of sewers a representative body, responsible to tb•
rate-payers for the public fonds confided to their care.
CHARING-CROPS BRIDGE COMPANY. —The half-
yearly meeting of the proprietors of this company was held
yesterday, at the offices of the company, No. 9, Villiers-
street, Strand, for the purpose of receiving the directors' re-
port of the proceedings of the carnally, for the half-year i
ending 31st of January last. Mr. W. Hawes, the deputy-
chairman of the company, in the chair. The chairman mid,
that legal proceedings had lately commenced against this
company. The question in dispute between the two parties
had, however, been considerably narrowed by the directors
of the Bridge Company undertaking to admit, under
certainly difficult and complicated arrangements, the
steam-boat passengers to land upon the float, and
so on to the bridge, without the removal of the line of
barges which connect that float to the wharf. It was clear
that in doing so the company were exposed to great evasion
of the tolls by persons passing along the barge, on to the float
up the steps, and so on to the bridge. If the passengers
were admitted free to the steam boats, some mode of identi-
fication should be instituted, by which the toll collectors of the
bridge should be enabled to know who were really steam
boat passengers, and entitled to pare free. In consequence
of the difficulties which had arisen in borrowing money for
the completion and finishing of the bridge, a sum of between
three and four thowand pounds being required for that pur-
pose, it was considered necessary to meet that additienal

espewar by charges upon the receipts of the company. Fur
Una reason the director. did not feel justified in proposing a
larger dividend than 2 per cent. upon the half veer s nding
the 31st of January. The report wan then read, and, after
an unimportant discussion, the tut sting *lT:anted.
PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL BEN EFIT ASSOCIA-
TION.—The sixth annual meeting of the friends of this um-
nation was held last evening, at the Linden Tavern, John
Abel Smith, Esq., presiding. The secretary read the report
of the directors, of which the following is an abstract :
The managers had great pleasure in statute, that the solemn: of
patronage previously announced bad, during the pan year, teen not
only maintained hot also increased. The report recommended to the
meeting that two additional annuitants be sleeted during the present
year: the one to be a member, and the ether the widow el a
member. In 1840, the sum of 7151. had beeu lent to members in sums
varying from lot, to 2 ;1., and ninny Instances had come before
the managers, in which .01 aid had keno( the weanst service. The
report alluded to the continued gratuitous aisle° of the rue heal
tankers in London, and of the honouralde conduct of many of the
movincial ineetcal referees. The balance sheet showed that the MA of
1,4211. It,. ed. had been received during the post year for the benevo-
lent fund, and that after pump all I KEW A, Ul,ll, remained a sur-
plus of 41.51. Os. 05. sin the year's account.
Mr. Mark Boyd proposed the adoption of the report. The
report having been adopted unanimously, Mr. Maitland
moved, and Mr. Hudson seconded, the resolution for the
election of two new annuitants. After which, thanks were
voted to the chairman and secretary, auditors, and the
officers of the society.
' SALE OF RENTERS' SHARES IN THEATRES.—
Yesterdsy, the following shares in the Theatre Royal
Drury-lane, were dis of by auction, by Mr. Lovell, at
the auction-mart. he first lot consisted of two MO/.
Reuter's shams. They entitled the possessor to the privilege
of a free admindon, which was transferable, and to a charge
on the theatre of Is. 3d. per night, during every night it
was open for performance. The sum paid on them last year
was 31. 10.. Bd.; as transferable they respectively realised
three guineas per annum. They were sold for 621. each. The
next lot consisted of five 1001. proprietor's shares, all paid-up,
and subject to no further liability. There were no return,
upon them, but the holder of them was eligible to be returned
on the committee of management. 'they fetched 101. There
were three other :imilar lots, each of which went for 91. 10..
Mr. Lovell also put up for sale a 500/. renter's share in the
Theatre Royal Covent Garden. It entitled the possessor to
a free admission (that for the present season having been
sold), was held for a term of nearly 50 years, and the sum of
12/. 10s. was paid on it annually. Tne auctioneer stated
that there was a prospect of a great increase in the value of
these shares. The first offer for it was 1501., when, after
an active competition, it was knocked down for '20.11.
THE POST-OFFICE DIRECTORIES. SIR, Every
person acquainted with the subject must admit that roue com•
meets on the publication called the Post Office Directory,
in your paper of this day, are perfectly just. But, among
other omissions, you notice that of the South Western Rail-
way from the Conveyancing Directory. Are you aware, sir,
of the cause of this omission ? This directory professes to
give a great deal more information than the publishers of it
endeavour to furnish. If I look into a banking, a convey-
ance, or an insurance Directory, I expect to find therein in-
formation touching all establishments for either object in the
metropolis that have any pretension to respectability. And
if some are purposely emitted, I am imposed on, and likely
to be misled. The purchaser, of this costly and bulky
spub-
lication ought to be made aware that they will find in it no
notice of public bodies (and those not the least respectable)
who are unwilling to submit to the annual payment of a
, sum for that for which the price charged would amply re-
munerate the publisher. To persona engaged in business,
like myself, this publication is • nuisance, for it has stopped
that others which, while they existed, were far more con-
venient and leas costly. A few years back the price of the
Commercial or Post-office Directory war is. or 65., bound in
a convenient form for use. It contained all that was required
in a merchant's counting-house. But now, to obtain es
much, less conveniently arranged, a great deal that is use-
less must be taken, and, at the lowest charge, at more than
double the cost of the old Directory.—X.
POST-OFFICE NEWSPAPER READERS,—Sir,—I have
been a subscriber to your paper from the day of its com-
mencement. Previously a daily newspaper was an expensive
luxury, and beyond my means. The Daily News has be-
come to me, if not one of the necessaries of life, certainly
one of its great comforts. To be baulked of its due
delivery is, therefore, a serious privation • and it is about
this that I would trouble you lathe ordinary course the
paper should be delivered to me by the post at seven in the
evening, and it is only after that hour that my occupations
admit of an hour's reading. Frequently it is brought to me
on the morning after it is due ; a few day. since one so deli-
vered had been torn open and hastily crumpled and rolled
up, and tied with a piece of cord. Yesterday's paper came
not at all. To-day's hoaduly arrived. As it may be impossible
to discover which of the post-ollice officials it is who makes so
much more free than welcome with his neighbour's pro-
perty, perhaps you will allow me, through your valued
columns, to present my compliments to the gentlemen, and
to assure him that he shall be quite welcome to the loan of
the paper early the next morrow, if he will send for it ; and
I hope he will consider this a fair compensation for his kind-
num in letting it run its course in future.—E. F., Renshaw-
street, Liverpool.
A SEASONABLE. SUBSTITUTE FOR BERLIN WORK.—
Sir,—Whilst the daily papers bear noble testimony to the
generous sympathy of the English nation for the over-
whelming diotreee in Ireland, it has struck me that we
, Englishwomen can at this moment render essential service
(and that at small cost) to our suffering fellow-beings. It
is this. Let every mistress of a family lock nut the house-
hold stores that accumulate in every house, and let these,
whether curtains, chintz, woollens, &e., be worked up into
thickly lined clean garments for women and children of the
simple Irish form. Let our unmarried ladies, especially
for some months, lay aside their elegant Berlin work,
embroidery, and knitting, and collecting materiels from
front their more fully occupied friends cheerfully give their
labour thus to carry comfort and warmth into many a sinking
family.—A Harry EsioIASIINCOMAN.
BA L MASQUE AT CROCK FoitH's.—The speculation
of the proprietor of the St. James's Assembly Rooms, late
Crockford's, appears to have met with succesa to judge from
the extra entertainments which are continually being put
forth. That of last evening was a masked ball—the first
probably that has taken place within the walls of this estab-
lishment. Considerable expectations were entertained with
regard to its attraction; and we believe nobody was disap-
pointed. The promises of the programme indeed appeared
to be realised as fully as those works of fiction aro
capable; and the result was a really brilliant scene.
The company were rather late in arriving, but
from half-past eleven o'clock flowed in, m au
almost unceasing stream, equipped mostly in the motley
garb befitting the occasion. The conclusion of the opera,
too, was the preliminary to a still greater influx, so that it
may be conceived there was no lark of spirit for want of
number,. The rooms were brilliantly lighted, and tastefully
decorated with flowers. That great necessity—the band—
was unwearied in its exertions; and every accessory'
arrangement worthy of commendation. The amusements
were doubtless prolonged to a late hour, for at the time of
our writing this, there did not appear a probability of many
of the guests " going home till morning."
FlRE.—Yesterday morning, between the hours of
four and five, a very destructive fire broke out in the lofty
building termed the Red Lion Tavern, situate 123, Jennyn-
street, St. James's. The flames originated in the lower por-
tion of the premien., from some unknown cause, and when
first discovered, they had obtained such a strong hold, that
it soon became apparent that the entire building would fall
a prey to their fury. The inmates, consisting of nine per-
sons, were, after much trouble, made sensible of the great
danger to which thee were exptieed, and they immediately
made an attempt to descend the staircase. They had, how-
ever, barely got upon the landing, belore a shower of sparks,
and volumes of smoke, rushed upwards, and cut off all re-
treat by the regular means. What to do for the best the
poor creatures hardly knew. but having run into one of the
front rooms, they closed the door, and then appeared at the
windows, supplicating the crowd to assist them. A ladder
was soon brought, but that proved too short to be of any
amiatanoe, and whilst parties were gone to fetch the escape,
the whole of the residente got out of the window, and by paw-
ing along a narrow lead flat, they were enabled to reach the
balcony of the next house, and were then taken through the
windows without receiving any personal injury. Not one
of them was able to save an article of clothing. The engine
of the County office was the first that arrived. and was fol-
lowed by numerous others of the London establishment. and
the West of England one from Waterloo-road. Fortunately
an abundant supply of water was obtained from the plugs in
the street. The flames were confined to the premises in
which they originated; but they were not extinguished until
the furniture, stock-In-trade, and other effects were de-
stroyed and the house nearly gutted. The owner was insured.
INQUEST.—FOUND DROWNED.—By Mr. W. Payne,
at the Vestry-hall, St. John's, Horsed down, respecting the
death of Joseph Harris, aged thirty-four years, lately re-
siding at No. 17, Morton-street, Newington, who was found
dead in the river. The deceased, a Jew, who obtained a
livelihood by buying and selling old clothes, left home on
the morning of the 27th ult., as was his usual custom, with
a bag, and about 30.. in silver in his pocket, but was never
seen alive afterwards. Nothing was heard of him until
Wednesday morning last, when a waterman discovered the
body of the deceased man floating in the river near London-
bridge. The deceased's pockets were searched, and only one
halfpenny was found in money. Ilia head was much bruised
The general supposition is, that the deceased got on board
one of the cheap steamboats at Westminster-bridge, which
he was in the habit of doing, and by some mesas fell over-
board and was drowned. The jury, in the abeenee of deci-
sive evidence, returned& verdict of "Found drowned."