The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-20 00:00:00

THE KING AND QUEEN OF HANOVER.

Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of
Saxe Coburg Gotha, and attended by the Countess of
Desert, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Capt. the Hon. Dudley
De Roe, the Baronets Wasisrenheins and Baron Treskow,
left Buckingham Palace at a quarter past ii o'clock lest
evening to pay a visit to the King and Queen of Hanover,
at the residence of the Hanoverian Legation. Her Majesty
and the Prince were received in the entrance hall by the
Lady.in Waiting on the Queen and by his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, who had been dining with the
Rutz and Queen of Hanover. The Queen and the Prince
remained the guests of their illustrious relatives until 11
o'clock, when they returned to Buckingham Palace.
"The Queen of Hanover is suffering front the effect of a
severe accident to her foot, sustained while travelling on the
railway at Aix la-Chapelle on Tuesday night. This cir-
cumstance hu prevented her Majesty visiting the Queen at
Buckingham Palace. Under medical treatment the injury
is progressing satisfactorily, and it is hoped her Majesty
will be able to take an airing this day.
The King of Hanover, accompanied by Lord Elphinetonr,
General Bucaley, and Captain Issendorff, went to Bucking-
ham Palace yesterday morning, and attended divine service
in her Majesty's private chapel.

EXPEDITING TIIE CONVEYANCE OF THE INDIA%
Matt..—The Valetta, a new padule wheel steamer, be-
longing to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, arrived
at Southampton yesterday. She will in a day •ar
two proceed on a trial trip to Cherbourg, and then
proceed to the Mediterranean, to convey the India
mail between Malta and Marseilles. The Valetta has
greater steam power, compared with het tonnage, than
the Queen's yacht Fairy. In about six weeks a sister ship
will join het. on the Malta and Marseilles station. It is then
expected that Indian news will reach England quicker by
way of Marseilles than by way of TT.kate: As soon as the
Valetta gets to Malta the Busine or Sultan sti saner now
conveying the Indian mail to and from Marseilles, will pro"
teed to Constantinople for care?) for England.

THE COLOGNE CIIOHAL Cr;ION AT THE

CRYSTAL PALA( E.

The world-famous I:sth of June wag Celebrated
ers Saturday, at Sydenham, in a novel and gratifying
manner, by the assemblage there of hundrels of distils.
gei•lied Frenchmen, Germans, and Englishmen, who met.
ri eat formally to close the temple of Janus, at least to re-
joice is the progress of another temple devoted to peace,
re,grrs., and the retiaiseariee of high art. fhe rants of
the slay were the gentlemen composing the Cologne Choral
Coma, ',beeline anxious, previous to their return to their
festive oun•ry, to see the crude faros of the future Crystal
Pal.ne. The directors of the Crystal Palace Company, with
the ir usual lib, rality, promptly acceded to their desire, and
resitations were iSalltd to a numerous and fashionable com-
pany, to meet the distinguished and talented strangers.
the company were the Duke of Leinster and lefty,
the I haseellor of the Exchequer and party, Sir Robert
pass I. Eal of Leven and friends, Chevalier and Mame.
nai.n u and party, the Duchess de Beetle, Hon. L. Parsons
and trends, Mr. Robert Chambers and family, General Sir
j. cocreell, Bishop of Salisbury, Dean of Winchester,
English, Rev. Harden, Mr. Evelyn Denison,
el , Lady Franklin and bliss Franklin, Leo Schuster,
, and Lady, M. and Madame Vieuxtemps, Madame
Berlioz, Mr. Ede and party. Mr. W. Longrnin and party,
pm. Candlish, Cunningham, and Sir Henry Moncrieff, of
the Free Church of Scotland ; Dr. Duff, Indian Mis-
sionary ; Rev. Win. Chalmers (London) ; C. Venting, Esq
and party, Mr. Jos. Maudsley and party, Sebastian
Garrard, Messrs. Broadwood (two), Messrs. Collard,
Erard, Angel, Sheriffs Carter and Crull, stc. The
German party were accompanied by Mr. Mitchell,
end amongst them were the celebrats el Chevalier
renkomee, Herr Schneider, the great organist, Herr
Weber, leader of the choir, stc. Mdlle. Rachel and M.
Regaier were also amongst the visitors. Mr. Lalag,ekair-
rasa of the Crystal Palace Company, Mr. F. Fuller, manag-
ing director, and Mesas. Anderson, Farquhar, and Calvert,
direr tors, received the gentlemen of the Choral Cann, at
the Norwood 'striate, and Mr. Grove, secretary, •LVOli•
ponied them over the interior. They sensed quits amazed
at the extent of the structure, and exorcised unqualified
admintlllll of the general design, which is now euSciently
developed to allow of the visitors forming an opinion.
Having perambulated the long galleries, followed by a
fashionable, but not fashionably intrusive mend,
and often stopped to admire the beautifel scenery
without, the whole choir were marshalled in
the great transept gallery by their leader, Hen
Schneider, and kindly performed a little volunteer
concert for the gratification of the compooy. The find
chord exercised quite an Orpheus power over the workmen.
A thousand hammers were silenced in a moment. Mendota-
sohn's " Hunter's Farewell" was listened to with profound
Waitron, and at its conclusion the hammers rang out again
in a merry but rather noisy chorus. One of Weber's " Lyre
and Sword" songs followed, and the choristers amelmied
with the national anthem, pronouncing the words with a
cotrectone that indicated their affinity to the island race
Just as the national anthem tennivated, another national
whet y of thrilling interest to British workmen,
namely, the dinner bell, struck out• and our
Os rm in friends were perfectly electrified at the
mode in which these daring fellows endeavoured to
economise the time allotted for mastication. lastead of
deeceading by the ladders or stairs, they each seized a rope
as it dangled at a height of upwards of a hundred feet from
the ground, and slid down at various rates of
,yelocritY,
performing sundry feats of agility by the way, in perfect
contempt for the extreme hazard of their position. Ex-
clamations of different degrees of riaintelligibility, marked
the descent of this industrial shower, and when all were
safely landed on terra firma quite a sensation of relief was
experienced by the spectators. We had previously fully
appreciated Mr. Henderson's ability in organising end
training his sad armies of workmen, but did not know
until Saturday last that such agility, on the eerie
was to be reckoned amongst the results of his system
of drill.

The company having fully gratified their eyes and ear's
with the wonders of the Crystal Palace and the harmonies
of the Cologne Union, descended to the suite of rooms onlthe
ground floor, where an elegant and abundant luncheon had
been prepared for them. When all—English, French, and
German—had assembled round the table, Mr. Laing, chair-
man of the company, happily seised the opportunity of
making a few observations apropos of the day and the node '1
in which it was then being celebrated. Having apologised
for the unfinished state of the works, which prevented the
directors receiving their friet.ds as they could wish, he said
that although the mode of this meeting put the f ,rmal
tarmac:l of toest-giving completely out of the question, yet
there was one sentiment so peculiar to the present occasion
that he trusted he should be excused if he took advantage
of the presence of so distinguished a company to refer to it.
On that very day 38 years ago, the representatives of the
great n .tions of the civilised world were employed in an
occupation very different from that which just then made
Sydenbas look so pleasant. (Cheers.) On the 18th June,
1815, the representatives of the great civilised nations of the
world met, armed to the teeth, on the formidable battle
field, their minds filled with but one idea—that of shedding
each other's blood. What a contrast was presented by their
meeting of the 18th lane, 18-53 ! What did he then see
around him ? Gentlemen from those very nations—a nu-
merous and distinguished assembly, many of them esteemed
friends from that sister country across the Channel with
which, in 1815, we were straggling in deadly hostility ;
others from that equally distinguished country a little
farther north whisk had also taken a pontoon% part in the'
dire seeps to which he bad alluded—wily to deplore them;
but all now met in a spirit of perfect amity and good-
will, and uniting their hearts and voices in singing the
Eng'ish National Anthem, in Dwain of on, own beloved
Queen. (Loud cheers.) He hoped then that their present

laming might be the emblem and commencetnist of a
happier era than that in which their fathers bad lived.
(Hear, hear.) He mahased, that diarist the Exhibition of
1861 cm of the great advantages he expected to remelt trim
it, was the more familiar intercourse betwes. &idiom which
had lee keg bees separated, or which had met oaly in
eol-
lidoa is the battle-geld ; and he believed that the hops of
beading as istematiosal trysting pines, a palace of pesos
and geed will, had ►een the mimatiat idea with the dime.
lees of the Crystal Palm Company, la projeeting their
met vadertaking at Sydenhast. (Loud cheers.) Fig him-
self, he should be disappointed if each buildings did not
beeme multiplied over Europe, end if there did not mese
frequent mitetiags like the present, in which the reprises.:
tativea of daises% nations Amid sesemble is pea's sad
good will, to celebrate the triumph of intellectual peogreem
of eivilisatiem, sod of poem over war and bloodshed. (Can-
timed theorist.) One other remark sight be appropriate
to the oteaslos. That great warrior who had led our hosts to
battle ea ties evestfal day to whist' he had alluded, had
lately passed away from mewl us, dm the last
assivsnary we had lost the illustrious Alm of Wellingtoe
—(hear, hear)—but he (Mr. Wag) felt persuaded that so
street was the lore of team is the breast of that illustrious
ma, that, if his spirit could be &amongst them at that reo-
mat, it would participate in their gement joy at the pro-
spect of peaceful progress and the emmeseenient of a better
are. (Hear, hear.) He would therefore couple the me-
mory M that illustriess warrior sad statesman with the
Elise of our beloved Queen, and propose the united seati-
most as the single toast of the day.
It is alma supeedeons to say that the toast was received
with the utmost enthmeiamn, sad pledged by the foreign
teatimes after the maser of their respective countries,
w►de the Ileglish gums exhibited their usual earnestness
in their densonstrations of loyalty and regard.
Immediately after this little episode in the day's proceed-
ings the majority of the company retuned to town.

DEATH OF THR MARQUIS or HUNTLY, K.T.—
This ble nobleman died on Friday morning, at his
town house is Chapel-street, aged 92 years. He Was the
son of Charles, fourth Earl of Aherne, by Lady Margaret
Stewart, daughter of the sixth Earl of Galloway. Having
married in 1791 the secend daughter of the late Sir Charles
Cope. his lordship succeeded his father as fifth Earl of
Aboyne is 1794, and his kinsman. the fifth and last
Duke of Gordon. ea ninth Marquis of Hastily,
In IS3I. His lordship was premier Marquis of
Restlaad, Knight of the Thistle, Aide-de-Camp to
the Queen, Colonel of the Aberdeenshire Militia,
and a Deputy-Lieutenant of the Counties Aberdeen
and Forfar. The second Marquis of neatly was be-
headed at Edinburgh for the support be afforded Charles I.;
his fourth son was created tint Earl of Atioyam and was
the present marquis's ancestor. The three elder eons in-
herited, suecessively, their father's honours, and the
young. st of the three was created Duke of Gordon—a
title which expired is its fourth possessor. When the issue
of the three elder sone became extent, the present peer
inherited the honours of the second Marquis of tluntly as
heir of his fourth son, while the dukedom of Gorden be-
came et but. The deceased marquis is succeeded in the
family honours and estates by his eldest son, the Earl of
Aboyne, now tenth Marquis of Huotly. The demise of
his lordship places several distinguished families In
mourning.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE—We understand that
Major-General Anson will not vacate his seat for South
Statedebire immediately, as his departure for his military
command is &coal will not take place, in all probability,
betore the end of the session.—Skiffordshire Advertirem

ELECTION EXPOSURES.
LIVERPOOL.
On Saturday, Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., in an able
address, which occupied from eleven o'clock to half-put
four, summed up the evidence adduced on behalf of the
petitioners, and which extended over eighteen days. Ile
stated, at the close of his analysis, that be had, on the part
of his clients, to contend that the case was one which went
not only to affect the validity of the return of Mesas. Tur-
ner and Mackenzie, but one which furnished a strong pre-
sumption that an extensive system of bribery and corrupt
prieticm prevailed among the constituency of Liverpool,
illustrated by the accumulating facts adduced in evidence of
the payment of ss. each to the freemen on the day of the
election, and the extensive treating that took place at the
various wards, which were converted into polling districts.
The hon. chairman complimented Mr. Macaulay on his
able condens ition of the 18 dap' evidence in an analytical
speech of five hours, and Mr. Freshfield observed it was •
synoptical feat well worthy the attention of future ex-
pounders of the Budget.
The committee then adjourned to 11 o'clock this day,
when Mr. James will reply for the sitting members. It
was not determined (says the °Diener) yesterday whether
evidence would be called on behalf of the sitting members,
but • consultation was to be held upon that subject, and,
should it be so settled, the inquiry will extend over • still
further period, more especially as counsel for the petitioners
will be entitled to a reply.
The witness Williams has been released from the custody
of the Serjeant-at-Arms, on the intervention of the chair-
man, and without payment of what are termed by that
functionary " the tees "