The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-06 00:00:00

CHARGE.

£4314731
3,612,131
1,149,631
1,909,099
450,1.9
203,000
39,000
29,697
31,984
302,449

4,111,662
3,226,460
1,264,825
1,914,743
462,567
2014,000
40,600
11,746
30,,14
74,048

12,104,887

£12,634,087

Ti;ei:63,c
575,774

C1;240,729

Permanent Debt
Terminable Annuities.
Interest on Esensemer 11.011, mot Mew se
Kinking Vend
The Ova IJII
Other Chars cm ea *mandated Find
For Advances

Total Charge
The Stuillus

TM Surplul Income on Oct. 10, 1847

Ditto, Jan. 3, 1348, as above

The Surplu midis OrksoMated

Preussische Zei(ung of 19th December last. Had the ob-
ject of the Chronicle been to give correct information, them
factecould easily have been ascertained j but it appears to
have coiled the notice of the decision which appeared in the
Daily News, and the contradiction which appeared in the
Allyemeine Zeitung, en the j rinciple of the newspaper editor
commemorated by Joe Miller, who, being at a loss for matter
to fill up his columns, and (Indio,: that an account of a are
he had been counting upon has been used the day before,
gave directions to contradict it.
THE WEATHER AND MAILS AT DOVER.—There
was to great a tea oft Diver yesttrday, that H.M.S. Onyx,
from Ostend, was unable to land her pamengen at the time
she transhipped her mails into a am ill boat. The French
day mail from London, which arrived at Dover by the 3,
p.m., train, cruld not be shipped, and was conveyed by land
t. Deal, to be put on board the French screw-steamer which
awaited it off that port.
GIRDER BRIDGES ON RAlLwAirs.—The Railway
Commissioners have, in reply to the inquiries of Sir E.
Walker and Sir J. Jervis, as to whether, consequent on the
late accident at the Dee-bride, on the Chester and Holy
head line, they intended to make any report on the condi-
tions to be observed in the application of iron to railway
structures, replied that " the commissioners for inquiring
into the conditions to be observed in the application of iron
to railway structures are engaged in predariog experiments
to enable them to arrive at sati-factory conclusions on the
subject of their inquiry before making their report. With
respect to the girth'. bridges on the Trent Valley line, some
of them are of similar construction, but of smaller dimat-
sions than the Dee-bridge at Chester, and these have all been
strengthened to the sataaction of the inspecting officer of
the commissioners."

MR. JUSTICE COLERIDGE ON DRUNKENNESS.—
During the recent gaol delivery for Yorkshire two young'
men were convicted of a highway robbery. They received •
excellent characters from several w:tneues, and on the night
of the robbery it appeared that 0103, as also the pronmeor,
were in a state of iIItOXIC ition. The jury found them both
guilty, but recommended them to many on account of their
previous good character, and because they. as well as the I
prosecutor, were all drunk at the time. His lordship, ad-
dressing
the prisoners, said, " The jury, on account of your
previous good characters, and because all the parties were
drunk at the time, have recommended you to mercy. I ;
must say that the first ground is an exceedingly good one ,•
but I think if the jury had considered the mischief and
crime that results in this county, as well us in every
other part of England, from the use of liquor in 'war,
they would hardly have considered that that is any I
extenuation of your offence. True, you would now
perhap., have committed this offence if you had not been'
is liquor; but if a man will comeait crime when drunk,
he should ticks, care not to fp t I I venture to say that
in much more than half the offences which have been :
brought before this as-use Feiner has hail something to do.
Liquor his either been tne temptation beforehand to robbery ,
to get something to purchase it, or it is the provocation I
under the influence of liquor that causes them to quarrel, I
and perhaps commit murder ; or it is liquor upon which the
fruits that hare been obtained by robbery are generally spent;
and it seems to Inc that, but fur the cases where offences are !
brought on by the excessive use of intoxicating liquors, the
courts] of justice might be nosey shut up. lam sure that'
a great deal more than halt the time of crimioal courts is
taken up in consequence of offences which have something to'
do with liquor. The first recommendation of the jug I
shall take into consideration, but the second I cannot. The
laws of this country do not allow drunkenness to be either a
justification or extenuation of any offence. The old law
said that if a man killed another when drunk he should be
hung when sober. It must not be fur a moment heard that
intoxication is to be anything lake en excuse for crime."
AIR-TIGHT GRANARIES. Three conditions are
essential to the process of putrefaction of grain, viz.: heat,
moisture, and still air. Wi.h wind, moisture is carried off ;
with cold, the decomposing proms, is checked, as may be
seen by the carcases of animal* that lie through the winter
in snowy mountains, and dry up to glue. Without air, every- I
thing is locked up and remains in sin/mono; as reptiles have
been buried forages in blocks of some or ancient trees, and
than resumed their vital Junction., unchanged by time. In I
direct opposition to these principle." are the granaries of I
Great Britain and other countries constructed. Their site is
generally the hank of a river, or the sea side. They are
built of many II 'ore, at a vest expense. They are provided'
with many windows, each floor being the height of a man, I
yet not permitting more than twelve to fifteen inches depth
of grain on each floor tor fear of heating, unless in the case
of very old samples. Men are continually employed to turn I
the grain over, to ventilate it, end clear out the vermin; and
the weevil is naturalised in every crevice, as surely as bugs
in neglected London bele, or cockroaches in West Indian
sugar ships. It is the admission of air that permits this
evil, that promotes germination, that permits the existence I
of rats and mice. In the exclusion of sir is to be found the
remedy. The practicalisation of this is neither difficult nor
costly : on the contrary, close granaries might be constructed I
at far less proportional cost than the existing kind. They
might be made under ground as well as above ground ; in
many cases, better. They might be constructed of cast iron,
like gasometer tanks ; or of brick and cement; or of brick
and asphelte, like underground water-tanks. It is only re-
nuired that they ,hould be air-tight, and consequently water- I
tight. A. single man-hole at the top, similar to a steam
boiler, is all the opening required, with an airtight cover.
The aie.pump has long ceased to be a pinicsophic toy, and
has taken its place in the arts as a manufacturer's tool ; and
no difficulty would exist as to that portion of the mechanism.
Now, if we suppose a large cast iron or brick cylinder suck
in the earth, the bottom being conical, and the top domed
over ; an sir-pump adjusted or exhausting the air, and an
Archimedean screw pump to discharge the grain, we have
the whole apparatus complete. If we provide fir wet grain,
a water-pump may be added, as to a leaky ship. Suppose,
now, a cargo of grain, partly germinating, and containing
rats, mice, and weevils, to be shot into this reservoir, the
cover put on and kited, and the air pump at work, the ger-
mination would instantly cease, and the animal functions
would be suspended. If it he objected that they would re-
vive with the admission of the air, we answer, that the air
need not be admitted, save to empty the reservoir. If it be
contended that the reservoir may he leaky, we answer, so
may a ship ; and if so, the air-rump must be set to work
just as is the cue with a water-pump in a leaky ship. The
cost of an underground reservoir would possibly be more
than one above ground, but it has the advantage of occupy-
ing space of otherwise little value. One obvious cheapness
of this improved granary over thole now existing is, that the
whole cubic contents may be filled, whereto, in the existing
mode, not above one-fourth of the cubic contents can be ren-
dered available. But many existing structures might be
rendered eligible. For example : the railway arches of the
Eastern Counties, the Blackwell, and the Greenwich. In
such cases the grain would be discharged lett, them from
waggons on the line, in the mode used with coals. Reser-
voirs might be erected in farm yard., and the grain threshed
out and carried from the harvest field direct, with the abso-
lute certainty of preserving it any levels of time that might
be desired. Or, inasmuch as it. is a certain thing that all
, farms must ultimately communicate with railways, by means
of cheap horse-trains, or steam sidings, in order to work to
• profit, it would be desirable that the granary should be
erected at some central railway station, where a steam mill
would do the work of exhausting the air, discharging the
grain by Arehimedean screw when required, and grinding it
into meal. No better purpose could be found to which to
apply the atmospheric engines and stations of the Croydon
Railway, with their existing air-pumps. Communicating
with all the southern wheat-growing counties of England,
and also with the Thames, no spot could be more eligible as
a central depot. In connexion with these arrangements it
would be desirable to minimise the cost of transit in every
possible way.— IVesinsinster Reeler.
. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—SUEPOSED SrICIDE.—
Before Mr. Bedford, at the Bedford Head, Maiden-lane
Covent-garden, on the body of Mr. William Hancock, aged
67, newavender, &c. The deceased carried on business at
14, Maiden-lane. In Oct., 1846, a cataract formed in both
his eyes, for which he had since been under medical treat-
ment. His affliction preyed upon his mind, and in Septem-
ber last he attempted suicide by jumiVng off a Gravesend
steamer into the river. On Wednesday morning, the 29th
ult., his wife, on waking, discovered deceased lying across
the bed with his head hanging over the side, and a deep
wound in his throat. Mr. Tompson, surgeon, of Tavistock-
street, was sent for, and sewed up the wound, and deceased
seemed to be recovering. On Sunday evening he became
much excited, the wound gaped open again, and Mr. Temp-
son was fetched, but be died shortly afterwards. The wound
had been inflicted with a table knife. Mr. Tompson not un-
dertaking to say that the wound (which had escaped the
large vessels) was the cause of death, which might have en-
sued from some internal disease, the Coroner thought it
important that the memory of deceased should not be
branded with the crime of self-murder, and adjourned the
inquiry for the purpose of a post mortem examination of the

3,631,230
617,473

446.,.413
sa,no
314.536
661,600

5,024,436
4,810,211

£12,634,617

729,195

1,043,007

The Amount Issued in the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 11115, In part of the moms granted
by Purliminelit ot.t of Ms Consolidated Fund for Satiny Widens

Quitter soda Jew S. 1141.

48116,728
372,708

si:ser
3131,801
WOO

7,20'7,632
5.043,097

U,230,7211

5,71'Z292

4,539,744

863,548

body.—Tua Lava Cot. PrzaLas.—Before Mr. C. J.
Cantu, at the private residence of the late Col. Thomas
Peebles, second commandant of the Royal Marines at Wool.
wich, in the Royal Marine Barracks, on the body of that
officer, who expired suddenly on Monday morning.—ln ad-
dition to the evidence of Major Little, the barrack-master,
and J. Dinnicombe, serum of the deceased, who merely de-
I posed to the general health of deceased, Mr. J. Drummond,
M.D., deputy-inspector of hospitals, deposed that he had
attended the deceased professionally during the lot month
fur influenza, from which he entirely recovered, and had
been on duty for the hut eight days. He was called shortly
after two o'clock on Monday morning to attend the deceased,
whom he found in 1» d insen‘ible. He died almost imme-
diately. His asedstant had previously taken a small quan-
tity of blood from the jugular vein. His death witness
considered bad been caused by disease of the heart, or the
large vestals in its cavity. He read a letter from Dr. Rae,
inspector of Melville Hospital, who was deceased's medical
attendant, stating that he always anticipated the deceased
would die suddenly. The deceased bad attended church in
the morning of Sunday, and afterwards went to Coryton,
and it was remarked by his family that they had not seen
him so well for some time.—The jury returned a verdict of
" Died from disease of the heart."

LONDON TAKEN BY THE FRENCII.
[From Pinieh.)
We give a copy of the bulletin that it may be ex-
pected blaphal Bugnaurt will forward to his government on
the invaNion of England and posetcsion of London by 50,000
French:

" Head.quartere, Buckingham Palace, London (date not
azed).—Monsieur,—l have the honour to communicate the
intelligence of the landing of the army under my
commend on the coast of Dover, with the submission of the
capital of England. I write this in the palace of the
Guelph'.' where the tricolor wave ei triumphantly above the
standard of our natural enemy. Our troops embarking at
Boulngne, at Calais, and Dunkirk, met midway in the Chan
nel. The wind failing, the transoorts were towed by theConate
de Paris, the Chateau d'Eu, La Chaste, and other steamers.
At daybreak we came to anchor, and at 7 p.m. landed the
troops—with homes and artillery—from the jolly-boats. The
guns from Dover Castle kept an uuntetuly, dropping fire
during the dieeenh irkatiem : at length a handful of the Alge-
rine Immortals—Writ:4W by the pertinacity of the enemy—
sealed the chalk-cliffs, and in five minutes—by the watch—
spiked the cannon. Immediately the tricolor floated front
the Castle of Cesar. On the capture of the Castle, the mayor
and corporation of Dover brought the key of the town to
the beach, and supplicated for honourable terms of capitols'.
tion. These I base thought fit to grant ; thus leaving the
friendliest disposition in our rear. At nine o'clock the
directors of the railway appeared with first-clews tickets for
the whole of the army ; having, moreover, under the direc-
tion of our commissariat, presided the necessary means
of transit for baggage and artillery. Our army ar-
rived at eleven o'clock in Loudon, very fresh and in the
highest spirits. We Mrmed at the station, and marched
over London-kid.te. Here we raw the Pool of the Thames
—all the shipping heel already hoisted the tricolor—which,
remembering the glory of our national marine, I have hence-
forth ordered to be called the Belle Poole. At the end of
the Rue de Rot de Guillawne—i i English, King William-
street—the Lord Mayor and Aide them of London presented
theinselvet. Hie lordship begged that the capital might be
spared on the payment of 50 millions sterling. To this—the
money being ready—l thought fit to accede. (A bell is to
be given to the conquering army at the Mansion-house by
the wives and daughters of the merchants and bankers.)
His lordship then unrolled a pang rama of London, and dis-
tributed billets to the army according to the choice of the
officers. As we approached Lombard-street, we learned that
the Guards, commanded by the Earl of Elsewhere, had
left London by the Windsor road. The army halted
to take a good look at the Bank of England ;
then, much refreshed, pushed on through Cheapside. The
tricolor was hung out from all the churches, and women,
I with tricolor cap-ribbons, were seen at every window. The
whole march, from the station to head-quarters, was an ova-
tiou. Arriving in Fleet-street the whole army drew up
before No. 85, known to Europe as the office of
Punch. Wishiun to save an unnecessary effusion of blood,
we summoned Punch to capitulate. Whilst, however, we
held him in parley at the first floor, the pioneers entered the
I building by a hack entrance. The army called for the head
of Punch; but I have thought it necessary to delay the gitt.
Our great enemy—the enemy of France—is now in chains in
the Tower. It is my into noon—abolishing for ever the gal-
llows as unworthy of the civilisation of the age—to guillotine
lunch on Tower-hill. The army proceeded down the
Strand, and I have flied my head-quarters at Bucking-
ham Palace, whereupon may now be read, in letters
• of gold, "lei on parle franoia." I trust that
I her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family
of England will ever retain the liveliest recollections of the
generosity, the chiveary, and biensionee of the invading
army of —. The troops have been received with proper
respect by the enemy, who is at last brought to the convic-
tion of the immeasurable superiority of our arms. It was my
intention to quarter the 9hth Ethiopian Chasseurs in the
National Gall. ry ; but—it is a touching proof of the taste of
the French horse—the animal could not be induced to enter
the building. The statue of the charlatan Nelson has been
displaced from a column, which will be surmounted by the
effigy of our own real hero, Jean du Bart. I have farther
caused the marble statue oNapoleon—for many years shame-
, fully concealed in the wine-cellar of the Duke of Wellington
—to be elevated to the arch opposite Apeley House,
which is to be henceforward known as Austerlitz Lodge.
The statue of the Duke of Wellington is already in the
melting pot, and will serve to reinforce our artillery.
Twenty thousand Frenchmen domiciled in London—namely,
valets, drawing.-maters, cooks, and fiddlers—appeared its
the streets in the uniform of National Guards. I have
thought it necessary to send Mons. Jullien—a French sub-
ject—to the Tower, until I shall receive further orders from
the government. Madame Celeste (another French subject)
I have permitted to act at the Melphi on parole. In a few
days I shall be enabled to send you an inventory of the
wealth of London; which, until the conclusion of the Opera
season, I propose to intake our head quarters. Deign, Mon-
sieur, to receive the assurance of my highest consideratiou.—
BUCIEAUD.—To the Minister of Foreign Affairs."