The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-13 00:00:00

FRANCE.—THE F11.6.14CH OCEAN &mamma.—
The pre* which has been bestowed on all hands upon the
shape ask head of:Slpe nner__Fmneh Itens.Athatio
Thelier, has Una airliabOt set Why an aceemnirrirri
s hider float •gnassitalse ea -least that 64111101114 to the
.illsarwof sk Hasov- of the sammar whisk the measles and
internal srmaltemenli ef this teed ms farriaim This
r deellEigg the erinnwituat. manner in
Otis meld woe :tutted at New York, begins bp al-
luding to a remark, whisk be* says was generally made that
the mug wee &painted end to in order ; but all this, he
says, was issemod as beks muck by the haste in which the
vttesel wm rig up. The seesaw started well, and alter a fair
passage issued Olterhemp ha thirteen days. So far all was
wdL Ualssemilleiy k tomapkeii at New York, that
a threader bed edam bagmen the agent of the
company nil Ste enpeek of the steamer, and this
led to a bailniems enbilkik mrelesnassa The .gent
(saya tho 011111111.11.1.4 it dill Awes. at Havre) do of
act speak a west ef Englkb. lasbeligas In a display of
ain which is anything. bat peeper. Ms deputy speaks a
little English, but he u untrequainted with the customs of
the country, and though he tam a greet dad, what he says
is never to the point. On the day of the departure of the
steamer, as the passenger were sitting down to their dinner,
the captain roes to apologise for the ahem. of one of the
neemearice of life in the vessel, viz., the artiste of sugar, and
he asked the passengers whether they wished him to return
to New York and get some, or Fooled without any ? How.
ever disagreeable such an omission might be, it was agreed
to continue the voyage. This, however, is net all. The
dinner, though good, was always insufaCient, and none of
the delicacies whs.* are to be obtained on such steamers
generally wen here to be bad. There were no refreshments
to be had on board. The waiting was bad, and
instead of a steward, that indispensable director of all,
the Union poseasses an old gentleman decorated with the
woes of the Legion of Honour, a person, no doubt, of the
greatest respectability, but whom attributes are evidently ill
defined. This gentleman, and the other authorities on board,
had the best rooms in the vessel ; they occupied the best
@eau in the centre of the table, whilst the passengers were
placed at the extremities. They got the first helps without
any regard for their neighbours; they spoke exceedingly
loud, and were wanting in that decorum which is so amen-
tially required. All this was very offensive. On deck the
service was scarcely better performed. The officer on the
watch walked the deck with his hands in his pockets and •
cigar or a pipe in his mouth. carrying en conversation in •
loud vole, with the passengers, and payiag no attention to
the man et the helm, who generally steered very negli-
gently. And here it may to proper to *beave
that the fact alone of the vessel being ill steered
is considered to have caused the vessel to lose, on an average,
16 miles per diem, that is, the loos of a day upon the whole
voyage, besides an immense increase of expense to the pro-
prieton. The correspondent of the Journal du Havre con-
cludes by saying, " I think that in general the alters of the
French merchant ureice attach an exaggerated importance
to the theory of their profession, and are too apt to neglect
its practice. This is the difference between them and the
Americana. I prefer the American method." The Journal
du Ilavre appends some remarks to this letter, and says that
most of these defects may easily be remedied, and that
already the company has provided for • change in the agency
at New York.
Sr. Omen, Auo. 9.—The inauguration of the
statue of the Duke of Orleans, at St, Omer, took place on
the Bth with great pomp. The morning was ushered in
with salvos of artillery and ringing of all the church-belle
The 69th regiment of the line, the 4th battalion of the'
Orleans Charmers, and the pupils of the military school of
the town, in all about 6,000 men, had taken up their place
cm the square and along the Rue de Dunkerque. The
Cardinal Bishop of Arras arrived at ten o'clock, and, pro.
needing to the cathedral, celebrated mass in honour of the
deceased prince. After the mar, a wrap was then formed,
and the mina ipal persons present with the clergy proceeded
to the place where the statue was erected. The mayor then
having struck the last stone of the monument, the statue
was uncovered amidst the acclamations of an immense
crowd. When the excitement had subsided, addresses in
praise of the deceased were delivered by the mayor and by
General Nigrier. The ceremony concluded by the troops
defiling before the statue, whilst a body of a hundred singers
chanted a cantata compered for the occasion. In order to
do honour to this event the King commanded nine persona,
condemned to various terms of imprisonment for corn riots,
to be set at liberty, which was accordingly done by the
prefect, who also presented the cam of the Legion of
Honour to the two oldest mayors in the arrondissement. In
the evening the town was illuminated.
BELGIUM.—BEussELs, Auo. 11.—THE BELGIAN
Minirray.—The list of the proposed members of the new
cabinet has been finally approved of by his Majesty. The
new ministers took the oaths of office on the afternoon of
the above date. At the demand of the new premier, three
governors of provinces will be replaced by other function-
aries, and that the official nomination of the ministers would
appear in the Monileur of the 12th. The nominations (it is
said In well-informed circles) would have been published in
the Moraine of the 10th, if that day were not a cher ire in
the annals of modern French history. The new ministers
are M. Rogier, interior; M. Veydt, finance; M. d'Hoff
schmidt, foreign affairs; M. D'Orban Frere, public works;
N. de nanny, justice ; Gen. Chazal, war.
HOLLAND.—THE HaouE, Au°. 11.—During
several weeks put, the /ndepeadance of Brussels, and other
journals, have published various articles announcing the
approaching abdication of the King of Holland, as well as
other events of importance to that kingdom. The Journal
de la Have, of this day (the 11th inst.), contradicts those
assertions in the following semi-official terms:" We declare
in the most formal manner that there has never been the
shadow of truth in all the statements respecting the plan or
intention of the King to abdicate ; the renunciation, on the
pert of the Prince of Orange, of his claims to the throne ;
the appointment of a regency, &c. It is equally false that
the King intends to be absent from the country during a long
time. On the dose of the session his Majesty will go to'
Weimar and Silesia, and thence return by way of Luxem-
bourg. As in 1846, he will not be absent longer than six
weeks.

SAXONY.—DREBDEN, AUG. 6.—By a royal de-
cree permission is given, on and after the 16th last, to distil
brandy from grain and potatoes. The abolition of this tem-
porary restriction which was generally adopted by the Ger-
man states will no doubt shortly take plat* in all the Ger-
m= states. _ _ .

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ELUNGARY.—PESTII, JULY 31.—The Allgemeine
Presseeieche &Wm, states that the ceremony of the instal-
lation et Agelseale Stephen , as governor of Hungary, will
take plow ix /ether or October next, at Ofen, the vice-
regal aity.

trbt Court.

The Dake de Broglie, the French Ambassador, and
Baron de Moncorro, the Portuguese Minister, visited Viscount
Palmerston yesterday, at the Fors ign-oPice. Mr. Edward
Thompson, of Jamaica, transacted business at the Colonial-
°Mee yesterday.
The Reel and Countess Grenville left town on
Wednesday afternoon for the Continent. The Right Hon.
B. Strutt hes left town for his seat, Kingston Hall, near
Derby.

HANOVER.—The Duke of Cambridge arrived on
the 4th inst. in this capital.
Viscount and Viscountess Massereene, Sir James
Annesley, Bart., and Capt. Walker, embarked at Blackwell
yesterday morning, on board the General Steam Navigation
Company's mail steam-ship Soho, marmot* for the Rhine..

DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY ON HER

SCOTCH TOUR.

Cowes, MM. 12Lii;n;;;Z;k yesterday after-
noon it wee rammed that Her Repay and Prime Albert
would dine on board the royal pea and Mart for Basdend
in the foam of the evening. frees after six o'clock the royal
fleet left Osborne meek and ems whited by the g at the
amthi erg Chaim* as they ask/ was eiaew-
LissiittMless. T slue Nweethe ere/ in whisk/Le
aseasse OM Sant: they and Albert, Black
Re*, Paha and /merge. A more impos-
ing date lee Mims hem
witnessed *An was enigma to
the eggelassg—ihe royal squadron proceeding rapidly SO the
weetweld, thew/ems batteries pounsg hulk their loud fare-
well, the pawls arena with the 6srtital gad high in
birth, all fel of mem mid gamer aim he the eaf
of their megbAseed egareige, preeseed a sea alike sec
mated aid impressing. It was Wendel that they should
nacho, in Yawata roads for the night gel pressed on their
tour early this waning. Plyageik. Pelage/hi Milford,
Doutk and Leek Ryan,
or are spoken a as liar st which
the royal fleet woad anch at night. The Priem stWeles
i and • Princess Ropal sesompagia their magnet peants.
The other royal meek at Rebook odor lie are
of Lady Lytteltee. Its tear, ft k emceed, will soapy
about five weeks.
The sky leakei showy during the early part of today,
and there were a dirty weather, but it cleared off at
mid-day, and ler Xejesty's voyage down channel the latter
part of the day meet have been delightful.
The royal amebae were heisted at the Club-howe and
East Cowen Castle emiwthe pamage of the royal fleet from
Osborne creek into tie Went.

CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE COMPANY.
Yesterday Do fewer than three special general
udervg=siss=drere consecutively held at their
, under the preskiesey ef the
Mef Dem& 11111111MILII named in the set kg whkh
Nor anima is bearreified. The first Inte seamoseed
tee peoeselloge at twelve o'clock, and wee hell to resolve a
report of the committee ted on the 12tk ultimo " for
the pewee of SawssNpffg the accounts of the meapay,
and to Mgt melt menaces thereon as might be dosed
expedient" The aged of this committee having been
brought up sad read. it =leafed by Mr. Barbs diet as
two el die upon the commilles (Mr.
Stably awl li1.0.6:1) hst prior to their appealing* re-
fused is fet, die pressedimee of the remaining them were
decree• salty. On these
Eliglietigekii to du resepdas of the repo& A
mended, stormy, sad ore
dimension seemed,
m the course of whke fie report we Ueda sm beat
wholly meatideetemy isememeek se It did lot week ia-
formation se is the deliblem K do impowt Nei wee-
tually, after Om meshes et the sousaime (Mum Pew,
Bleat, esti Leseseesr) MI defended WI mepeut as lir se it
welt, red that tie abort time allowed then lad act
New to ease astotandieg claims sad le mai it as
perfect as they meld desire, tie queen that " Ne mart be
received and entered opus the mimeos" was ralmilled to a
show of heads, when it was declared that the ossimme ware
_For the reception of the report, 2.5 ; naiad it, 36; leaving
a majority of 11 against the views entertained by the
I directors.

The business of the second meeting, convened by the
directors, was then opened. It was for the purpose of con-
firming the resolutimos and order tracts es the 12th July
lest, that a sum of 10,0001. be Mend by the issue of shares of
IL ss. each, to be called "quarter shares." The deputy-
theism's' of the eiony (Mr. W. Hawes) moved the con-
irmation of the restios, whirls motion was strenuously
by Mr. =
Stet*, Mr. Elkins, Dr. Moore, and several "propristers. At length a show of hen& was taken',
when the numbers were declared to be—Foe the resolution,
27 ; against it, 30; majority, 3. Upon this the deputy-
'barman demanded • poll, which was granted, as a matter
of ernerse. Darin Its progress, a question was raised by Mr.
W. Hawes se to the admissibility of prosy votes tendered on
behalf of indieidasls whose names stood on the register as
proprietors in coonanion with the Hungerford Market
Company. He said that on a former ocession, acting
upon the. opinion taken from Sir Fitzroy Kelly, be
bad, in Ms capacity of chairman, refused to admit throe
votes.—Alter a desultory conven•tion, Mr. Fledgate cited
a contrary opinion, obtained from Mr. M. D. Hill.—Argu-
atents on bath sides were conducted with much personality,
and an exhibition of acrimonious feeling, which the noble
chairman, to some extent, succeeded in curbing. His lord-
ship, alter hearing most patiently the discussion, decided
upon admitting the vete* of proprietors in the Bridge Com•
pan y who were registered by name, but in connexion with
the Market Company, leaving the party who quarrelled with
that decision to set it right either in the Court of Chancery
or the Court of Queen's Bench. The poll then pro-
ceeded, and at its doss the result was stated by
the scrutineers to be, that there appeared for the
motion, 142 ; against it, 199 ; majority, 57.—1 n answer
to hit. W. Hawes, it was stated that of the votes
given against the motion, 70 were those of proxies admitted
by the declaim of the noble chairman, upon which Mr.
Hawes handed in, on behalf of the directors, a written protest
against the opinion of the presiding authority and the Ad-
amson of the votes.
The third meeting was then commenced, for the purpose
(as announced) of receiving the report of the directors, and
to-elect three directors in the room of Mersa Christie, Cory,
and Rhodes, who retired by rotation. The report of the
directors, as read by Mr. W. Bawer, stated that
' the tolls received during the put half year justify a
dividend at the rate of 4 per cent, per• annum; and
that the receipts, which decreased for a time after the
interest excited by the opening had abated, and which were
further temparardy injured when the penny boats began to
run from the Surrey aide of Westminster-bridge, are now
gradually improving; and there can be no doubt, when the
railway terminus as completed in the York-road, the
traffic, and consequently the tolls, will be very much
augmented. In consequence, however, of the decision which
had just been arrived at against the raising a sum of 20,0001.,
the directors could not propose to pay any such dividend. To
prepare for the increased traffic the directors propose imme-
diately to commence the access to the bridge from the York-
road, and they hope, in conjunction with the railway com-
panies, to make arrangements very beneficial to the share-
holders. No exertion shall be spared to secure, to the fullest
extent, all the advantages which should arise from one end
of the bridge being contiguous to that which will probably
be the largest railway station in the kingdom, and the other
in the centre of this vast metropolis." The report then set
forth various complaints urged against the want of mope-
ration on the part of the Hungerford Market Company,
which can only be interesting to the parties concerned. The
subjoined statement of the present traffic on the bridge may,
however, be thought curious. The revenue account showed
the following results. The toll collections on the bridge
were—

For the month ending Fehnotry 29, 1647 £OO9 4
For the month ending March 31 OB7 17 1
For the month ending April 80
Far the month ending 148 31 637 4 2
For tie month ending June 30
For the month ending July 31 667 9 1
Total 13,405 3 0
The report was received and adopted without a dissentient
voice.—Mr. Christie, a retiring director, was re-elected with-
out much opposition; but in the place of Mr. Cory and Mr.
Rhodes, the names of Messrs. Coles Child and English
were proposed to be substituted. On this proposition a poll
look piece, and at its close the numbers were announced to be
—for Messrs. Cory and Rhodes (the late directors), 120 ; for
Hewn. Coles Child and English 202: majority, 82.—Mr.
W. Hawes again protested against the admissibility of the
joint votes of those connected with the klungerford Market
company ; but on its being ascertained that only 65 vete* of
that description had been recorded in favour of Mr. Coles
Child and Mr. English, those gentlemen were declared by
, the chairman to be duly elected directors.
Thanks were pawed unanimously to the noble eh 'airman
for his conduct on this occasion ; and thus terminated one of
the most noisy meetings it was ever our lot to attend.

UNITED HILLS MINING COMPANT.—Teeterday,
' an adjourned meeting of the directors and proprietors of the
above company wee held in the board-room of the offices of
the company, Adam's-court, Broad-street, for the purpose of
receiving a report of the directors as to the present state of
the mines, and to determine upon the continuance or due-
-1 luuon of the company, in pursuance of a resolution passed
at • enteral meeting held on the 10th of JUDO last; E.
Clarke, Esq., in the =air. The secretary then read the re-
port, which stated that, since the lest meeting, the direeton,
in pursuance of the resolution, lost no time in taking the
opinion of Capt. John Richards as to the course to be pur-
sued with the mines, and his report being of a satisfactory
nature, they were induced to hope that the mines might be
prosecuted to advantage ; and a new boiler was pur chased,
and the directors were prepared to have incurred the fur-
ther expense recommended by Capt. Richards, if that would
have entirely sufficed, and the indications of the mines in
other respects, would have warranted it. The directors,
however, lamented to say that, from the concurring testi-
mony of the captain and agents at the mines, as also the re-1
ports of Capt. N. Vivian and Capt. R. Eunice, of Shay-
park, who, within the last few days, inspected the mines on
behalf of one of the oldest adventurers, they felt
satisfied that the adventure could no longer be prosecuted
with advantage, regard being had to the limited resources of,
the company. A considerable debt already existed by the
company (to the extent of between 4,600 and 5,0001. the se-
cretary stated) upon the mines, which every month greatly
added to their monthly average lore of 2501., and 18 months
would be necessary to sink the Sump 10 fathoms, whilst 1
great additional outlay and expense would be necee-
eery ; the directors had, therefore, come to the opinion
that it was advisable without delay to ease the expenses
of the mine, and at once to authorise the suspension of the
working of the mines, except so far as the lame might be
necessary for winding up the concern with a due regard to
the interests of the company.—The chairman said it was a
hopeless task with their capital to continue the speculation;
they had been 22 years in operation, and could not make the
speculation succeed. The tact was they were beaten by the
Sowing of the water from other mines, and they never would
be able to overcome it; and the best course wu to give up
the speculation altogether, and dissolve the company.—
Several of the directors and proprietors expressed the same
opinion, and ultimately resolutions were moved by Mr.
Desborough, seconded by Mr. Campbell, "That it was not
expedient to paneeente the hardier working of the mine, and
that the direatese be astborised to abandon it as noon as they
demsolii:Deed aim is memos et the emptily, and
eel a =Miss et is oberebelibee mirk avian to an
'adze et the eompany."—The oesolatkos having I
been adopted, and a vote of thanks passed to the chairman,
the meeting broke op.
THE SAILORS' Homn.—Testerday, the directors of
the Sailors' Home held a meeting at the institution in Wells- I
street, London Docks. The report stated that during last
year 4,567 boarden were received, and 136 vessels had been
manned. The sum of 22,4801. had been remised and paid
by the cashier durting the year on the privet* accounts of the
seamen; 4,1951. has been sent to themselves or their families
at their own homes; while in the savings bank 2,2881.195. 7d.
stood to the credit el the boarden of the institution. The
I receipts last year Mon all OHMS ware 6,6391., and the ex-
penditure left a beinase of 68411. 14• Id.
MODEL LODOINO-HOUSE. —The committee of this
establishment, in George-street, St. Giles's' which was
opened on Monday last, have just added for the use of its
occupants a valuable library, consisting of four hundred
volumes of books, comprising history, travels, biography,
and other well-aelected works, amongst the contributors to
which were the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Kaowledge,
and the Bishop of Norwich. Lectures will also be given bbd
• committee a sixteen gentlemen, who will alternately dis-
cuss on some interesting and popular subject. The reading
room is also furnished with newspapers, magazines, and other
periodicals.
A Use FOR FATiIINGDON MARKET.—A proposition
bee been made to the civic authorities to convert the west
side of Farringdou market, next Shoe-lane, which for up-
wards of four years has been totally unoccupied, into public
baths and wash-houses for the labouring dames. The site is
admirably adapted foe an establishment of the kind, and
only requires the internal fittings to convert this used= pro-
perty to a benevolent, sanitary, and profitable use.
STEAM-TUGS FOR THE MEDFIERRANF.AN.—It IS
suggested that the attention of the Admiralty should now
be called to the probability of westerly gales setting in in the
Mediterranean,
.by which vessels from the Black Sea and
the comets of Italy and Egypt, hound to this country, are
often detained many days, sometimes weeks, in the Out of
Gibraltar, to the great damage, and not =frequently total
destruction, of their cargoes. Many hundred vessels may
thus be shortly collected and stopped there. Two towing
steamers, plated in the gut to render assistance, might be
the means of sparing much lose to merchants and under-
writers. _ _

FIRE AT Nzw BRENTTORD.—Yesterday afternoon,
shortly before 3 o'clock, whilst Lord Robert Grosvenor's and
Mr. Osborne's processions were passing along Righatmet,
New Brantford, at the close of the official diiration of the
poll, flames were seen mounting over the root of the houses,
nearly faring the Castle Inn. Without delay the Brantford
and Chiswick county engines arrived, closely followed by one
from Mewl. Booth's distillery, and a fourth from Ealing.
The disaster occurred in the workshops of Mr. Hall, a car-
penter, and owing to the closely pecked neighbourhood it
was at one period feared that the Era would prom of a most
disastrous diameter ; for the Ruck in the workshops being of
that highly ignitable nature, in the epee, of a few minateenot
only was thelmilding in which the fire commenced levelled
with the ground, but a spacious billiard-room and
the back parts of two or three houses in Catherine Wheel-
yard were bl .sing away with great violence. Finding that the
flames were pragmatist's° fearfully, an express was seat to
London for additional aid. The moment the news arrived
in town a body of the ariebrigade and two engines were des-
patched. Daring the interval the engines of the town were
kept at work, and by that means much property was saved
from destruction; the &wen, however, were unable to get
the mastery over the cos 'an until the workshops of
Mr. Hall, and the men's working tools, together with •
large quantity of prepared timber, were totally consumed,