The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-26 00:00:00

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The Countess of Churlemont left Osborne yesterday
forenoon for town. Her ladyship has been suceeedet: as the
lady in waiting to the Queen by the Viscountess Canning,
who arrived at Osborne in the afternoon.
The Duchess of Kent (attended by Lady Augusta
Bruce, Sir G. Couper, and General the Hon. A. Upton) and
the Duchess of Cambridge, honoured the performance at the
Royal Italian Opera House yesterday evening with their
presence.
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'he annual inspection of the corps of the Yeomen
of the Guard in full uniform under arms, took place yester-
day in St. James's Palace by the Marquis of Donegal,
captain of the corps. The other officers were also in at-
tendance.

The Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Wilton had
interviews yesterday with Sir G. Grey.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. G. R. Clarke, Mr.
Steward, Mr. Lee, Mr. Meadows, and Mr. Stevenson, had
an interview with the Comraissioners of Railways yesterday,
at their office in the Board of Trade, respecting an applica-
tion for an extension of time made by the Manchester, Shef.
field, and Lincolnshire Railway Company.

(From lag night's Gazette.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 21.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Don Francisco de Rivero, as Consul
General in England for the Republic of Peru.
DOWNING-STREET, JULY 25.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint John R. Partelow, Esq., to be Provincial
Secretary, and Lemuel A. Wilmot, Esq , to be her Majesty's
Attorney-General, for the province of New Brunswick.

PROMOTION OF COLONISATION. —Last night a
public meeting was held at the Mechanics' Institution, Chan-
cery-lane, " for the purpose of submitting to the pubic the
plan of the Canadian Land and Railway Association, origi•
noted by the working classes for their own benefit, with a
view to the improvement of their social condition." Lord
Ashley, M.P., was In the chair, supported by the Duke of
Argyle, the Hon. A. Kinnaird, Mr. Miles, M.P., Mr.
Hodge!, II P., the Earl of Harrowby, &c.—Mr. Campbell,
the secretary, explained that the objects which the promoters
had in view were, the purchase of large tracts of government
land in New Brunswick, and the formation of a railway trom
Halifax to Quebec, which would intersect the country to the
extent of 600 miles, passing through a fertile country abound-
ing in magnificent timber, with extensive coal fields and other
mineral properties lying uncultivated and useless, though
now within the same distance from London as to time
as Edinburgh and Dublin were in former days.—Mr. R.
Mills moved the first resolution, which was as follows :
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That under the heavy pressure of 'competition there is a large num-
ber of the working classes who cannot obtain employment—thousands
who are but partially employed, and other. °retuned, but who can-
not obtain foe their labour a sufficiency of the necessaries of life, and
therefore they become in many instances unwilling paupers—their
ealldren remain ignorant, vicious, eriminsl, dangerous to society, and
subversive of its institution.. This meeting therefor • declares its
solemn conviction of the necessity of devising some means by which
the working daises may obtain remuneration, employment for their
skill, capital, and labour, and under a wall managed system of aro-
Manna elevating their social condition, and thereby securing the
peace andprosperity of the empire.
Mr. Rowland Wyman seconded the resolution, which was
supported by the Duke of Argyll, who said it was a moq
difficult thing to get the working classes to associate together
for their own benefit and improvement. Ile f the duke)
' could say that there were large number, of the upper
classes of society who were afraid to assist, fearful that
the working classes
°might prematurely withdraw their
money from the savings banks and lose it. He, how-
ever, did not fear that a well organised system of
association to colonise would be of great service, not only to
those who associated, but to those who did not —The Earl
of Harrowby also supported the motion, which was carried.
Immediately that the Chairman declared the resolution
carried, a scene of uproar ensued, occasioned by Capt. Ac-
kerley, who persisted in proposing an ameniment,which the
Chairmau put, along with a resolution in favour of the as-
sociation, bat the precise nature of which we could not learn,
when the latter was carried by a large majority.—Mr. Ed-
monds, a working man, moved the next resolution, which
generally expressed the opinion of the meeting in favour of
an association of working men, founded upon Royal charter,
to promote emigration and colonisation ; which was carried,
and the meeting, which towards the end became extremely
noisy, separated.
INQUEST, YESTERDAY. TIIE ACCIDENT AT
Pt INEY-BElDOE.—Befors Mr. G. 1. Mills, at the Swan,
Fulham bridge, upon the bodies of F. T. Walters, aged 20,
and G. Paradise, aged 21, the two young men who lost their
lives by the upsetting of a small skill on Sunday. The bodies
of Mary Ann Render and Catherine Allen, who were also
drowned, had, since the convening of the inquest, Teen found
locked in each other's arms on the Surrey side of the river.—
Several witnesses were examined as te the cause of the acci-
dent, but none of them added anything more than has
already appeared, and that it was purely accidental. The
father of the deceased Walters, a paper hanger, identified the
body of his son, and stated he was his apprentice; the mother
of the deceased Paradise identified her son, and stated he
was a shopman to Mr. Hall, an oil and colour man, in
Chelsea. The deceased Walters could swim and had been
used to the water, but the other could not. There appeared
to be no doubt that the state of the weather and the sudden
fright of the females by jumping up caused the lamentable
catastrophe.—The jury returned a verdict of Accidental
death from drowning.