The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, NIoNDAY. The Queen and Prince
Albert took their usual early morning walk. The royal
family t. nk walking and pony exercise in the grounds
around the castle.

Viscount Morpeth left the castle to-day.
Their H.R. the Duke and I) chew of Cam-
h,idee, the Princess Mary, and Ii.S.H. Prince Frederick of
Hesse urristsl in town yestent.tv, from Kew. The Duke
and Duche. of Cambridge dsPrince Frederic of Hesse
dined with H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester
House.

A Deputation of the dirt,u.r+ of the Rezent's Canal
had an interview with the Commivsioners of H.M. Woods
and Forest., yesterday, at their office in Whitehall-place. A
deput Mon of the Aborigines' Protection Society had an
interview with Earl Grey, yest. relay, at the Colonial-office.A
deputation from the Light Dues" Association had an
interview, yesterday, with the Earl of Clarendon, and the
Right Hon. T. Milner Giheon, ut the Board of Trade. A
deputation from nat.:het had an interview with Lord Mor-
path, yesterday, at the Mate of the Womb and For.sts.
A deputation of master spinners and manufacturers in favour
" The Ten Hours Bill" had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday at the Homemfflce. The Archbishop of
Canterbury had an interview ymterday with Earl Grey at
the Colonial-ottice. A deputation of the Birkenhead Deck
Company and Commissioner. had an interview with the
Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests
yestemisy.
Lady J. Russell pained a good night on Sunday
night, and was much better yiotenlay.

THE OVERLAND M.‘ll. AND THE COMBINED
MORNING l'aitestit.—We copy the following from the
Inchon News of yesterday :—"' Some four or five days ago
the Daily News got exclusive despatches, through the
medium of Mr. Waghorn. These were copied into all the
papers, both morning and evening, not only without acknow-
ledgment, but under the representation that they were
derived through the medium of the India-house. Unfor-
tunately far them, the Daily New had taken the precaution
to make some verbal alterations in their intelligence, and,
strange to say, by some specks of magnetic sympathy,
the papers from the India-house were altered in pre-
cisely the same words. This was an odd coincidence,
and some people are ill-natured enough to say, that the
story of getting them from the Indisihouse was trumped up
fur the occasion, rather than acknowledge the obligation to
the Daily News, of which paper they pretend not to know
the existence. We can scarcely believe that papers of such
high principle as the Times, &c., would willingly be guilty
of a disreputable action ; but whetheror not, the Daily News
is under great obligations to them, for a surer method of en-
hancing the circulation and character of the obnoxious jour-
nal could not have been kit upon by its opponents."--In
commenting yesterday on the weekly papers to which our
Indian news was transferred without acknowledgment, we
omitted to place in the list of honourable exceptions
Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper, and the Garrhyiers'
Chronicle, in both of which journals the Daily NCIOB was
duly quoted.
CLEANSING THE FOOT PAVEMENT.—Yesterday, in-
structions were forwarded to the police to report all houses
from which the snow was not cleansed from the footpath in
front thereof before nine o'clock in the morning. By the
New Police Act, all pervons neglecting to cican,e the foot-
patha in front of their houses before the above hour, are
liable to a penalty of 40s.

COMPENSATION TO THE SURVIVOR.% OF THE LATE
Mn. Bor tzg.—At the recent meeting of the Midland Rail-
way Company, at York, Mr. Hudson, in alluding to the
melancholy and fatal accident to Mr. Bowler, the commis-
sioner of the Leeds District Bankruptcy Court, who was
killed on that railway, said that he had intended to head a
subscription with a sum of 500/. as compensation to the
family of that gentleman, but the company had altered their
intention and intended to present the family with .5,000
guinea instead of a subscription.
THE SUGAR I)isrlttssic BILL.—Our emrespondent,
the Greenock dis'iller, has drawn our attention to an over-
sight in our remark(' on his last communication. The
3s. 91d. of which he speaks is simply the spirit duty, not the
sum of the malt and spirit duties per gallon. He proceeds
to state that to this 9/d. should be added ls. 41d., lees
814. of malt allowance. as the half of the duty on a bushel
of malt, which, according to his estimate, produce. only 16
gallons. To this we demur for various reasons : infer also,
beenuse the malt duty ought to be spread over 18 instead of I 6
gallons; and because malt is not used alone in making worts
by distillers—unmalted corn being mixed with it. Our cor-
respondent seeks to make out that he pays Bd. of malt duty
on every gallon of spirits. A respectable and extensive
English distiller, whose letter we published yesterday, says:
—" The actual amount of malt duty which the distiller pays
upon the quantity of malt used in his distillery, is equal to
I id. per gallon.' Add lid. to 31i. 91d., we have 3a. 11/d.
per gallon paid by the Scotch distiller, and rum is to be
charged 4s. 2d. per gallon.
THE SNOW-STORM.—Yesterday, the metropolis wan
visited by the heaviest fall of snow that has occurred during
the last five years, accompanied by a sharp frost that rend
the thoroughfares extremely dangerous Foot-pusengers
and Isor4es might be seen falling in several plates, especially
on the wood-pavement; the various bridges, but more parti-
cularly Westminster and Blackfriars, were the scenes of
frequent disasters, being at times imputable from the
number of prostrate animals. A man named Woodward,
living in Smithson-4mm, Chelsea, crossing Westminster-
Bridge leading a horse drawing a waggon of wood, in de-
scending the hill slipped under (he fore wheel, which passed
over him, and he is not expected to reenter. A woman
named Philps fell on the foot-path of this bridge, by which
her leg was fractured. An on being driven fmm Smithfield
to Clare market, dislocated its shoulder in Cursitor-street,

Chancery-lane, and greatly to the horror of the inhabitants,
had to be slaughtered before it could be removed; the
different railway trains were also considerably delayed from
the cautious manner in which they were obliged to proceed
to prevent the engines going off the rails.
INFORMATION UNDER THE METROPOLITAN BUILD-
INGS ACT.—Covar or Rarausra.—A case of considerable
importance came on in a Court of Referees, being, we be-
lieve, the first held under the Metropolitan Buildings Act,
for a breach of the provisions of this act. The court was
opened at the office of the district surveyor, Bermondsey-
square—Mr. Simenondt, the registrar, presiding. Referees,
Mr. Shaw, Mr. Poynder, and Mr. Hooken. The informa-
tion was promoted by a Mr. Boulanger, a Frenchman, occu-
pying premises in the rear of Bermondsey New-road, and
there earning on the butane.. of • japanner. A Mr. Sag-
den, a builder, having thought fit to form a new street in the
vicinity of his premises, had built several houses, leaving but
ten feet space between them and Mr. Boulanger's property ; '
whereas the act requires that no alley shall be constructed
less than twenty feet wide, and no street less than fifty.
Several witnesses were examined, and these facts were morn
to in evidence. The defence set up was that the land was
private property, although it was admitted that it had been
a public way for a great number of years. The official re-
ferees said they knew of no private interests, and that the
Metropolitan Buildings Act was never intended to serve
private purposes, but the interests of the public at large.
After a very protracted discussion, the proceedings were
brought to a close, it being understood that the informant
had fully made out his case, which will require the demoli-
tion of the houses or a sufficient cempentation to Mr. Bou-
langer. The official award, however, will be made in a few
days, The court was then dissolved.