The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-12 00:00:00

Ebt Court.

OSBORNE, FRIDAY.—The Count and Countess of
Dietrichstein arrived at Osborne last evening on a visit to
the Queen, and, with the Earl and Counttss of Sandwich,
were Included in the royal dinner party yesterday.
The Queen held a Privy Council this afternoon. It
was attended by Prince Albert, the Lord President, the
Secretaries of State for the Home and Foreign Departments,
the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, the Postmaster General, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, and the Hester of the
Horse. The Hon. W. Bathurst wa4 the Clerk of the Coun.
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In Weida,. The Marquis of Lama:towne had an audience
of her Majesty. Count Dietrichstein, Ambassador Extraor-
dinary and Plenipotentiary trout the Emperor of Austria,
had an audience of the Queen to take leave. His filfexilencY
was introduced by Viscount Palmerton, 0.C.8., her Ma-
jesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Mr. A. Buller had an audience of her Majesty, and had the
honoar of kissing lianas on his appointment. Mr. Butter
was introduced by Sir George Grey (officiating for Earl
Grey), one of her Majesty's principal Seereteries of Suite.
Tie Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the
Earl of Auckland, Earl Forteseue, Earl Spencer, Lord
Campbell, Viscount Palmerston, and Sir G. Grey traveilea
from town to attend the council by a special train Oil the
London and South Western Railway, arid crossed from Gus
poi tto East Cowes in the Lightning steampackot. The
ministers and officers of state partook of a deieflue at Osborne,
and after the council took their departure. The Marquis 01
Lansdowne, the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess
Dietrichatein, the Earl of Auckland, Sir G. Grey, Viscount
Paanerston, Lord Camp'iell, Earl Fortescue, Earl Spencer,
ilo4. W. Bathurst, and Mr. A. Buller, embarked at Os-
borne-pier in the Lightning steam-packet, (vetoed to G.-
port, and returned to town by a special railway train. The
Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Clanricarde also left
(Marne. _ _ .

lhe Queen 'Dowager, attended by her suite, left her
residence, Marttsorough.house, yesterday morning, for Bushy -
house, Bushy. park.

A deputation from the Bethnal green Sanitary As-
sociation, consisting of Mr. W. A. Mackinnon, M.P., the
Rev. T. Gibson, the Rev. W. Kerry, the Rev. T. G. Wil-
liam., Dr. IL Gavin, Mr. S. Ryles, and Mr T. Dean had
as interview yesterday with Viscount Morpeth.
A deputation from the National Association for
Excise Reform, consisting of Mr. Kay (Bdinburgh), Mr.
George, Mr. Larou (Leith), and Mr. R. Howden, the se-
cretary, accompanied by Mr. G. Ci aig, M.P., Mr. M'Gregor,
ALP , and Mr. Moffatt, M.P.. had an interview on Tuesday
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. J. Wood,
chairman of the Board of Excise, on the Spirit Dealers and
Warehousing Bills.
Lord Gormanston, accompanied by the lion.
Mr. and Mrs. Preston. arrived in town on Thursday en rn-
tog by the Antwerp company's steamer Antwerpen, Capt.
J ackson.

(From lut night's Gazette.)
DOWNING-STREET, AUGUST 11.—The Queen has
been pleased to appoint Colonel Sir William Macbran
George Colebrooke, Kt., Companion of the Most Honour-
able Order of the Bath, to be Governor and Commandcrin-
Cnict in and over the Wands of Barbados, Grenada, St.
Vincent, Tobago, and St. Lucia, and their dependencies.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Al'Or AT 11.
Corps of Royal linionir'r•.—ltrevet Major H. gantlbana to be lieut..
coL, via• Page, retired on h.-1, ; SecoW Capt. W. C. Iladden to be
captain, vice gandham.
ADMIRALTY, Acoorm S.
Coma of Royal Marines.—Sea. Lieut. G. (Heim to be Brat lieut.,
vice W. B. Ilabcrfielal, deceased.

TILE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE NORTH WESTERN
RAILWAY AND THEIR ENOINE DRIVERS.—Last night
another meeting of the engine. drivers and firemen who hue
sent in their notices to quit the service of the London and
North Western Railway (which notices expire on Monday
next) was hell at the Railway Tavern, liampstead-road.—
Mr. J. Brown, an engine-driver, took the chair, and stated
that the deputation which was appointed to wait upon Mr.
M'Connell and some of the directors, yesterday morning, to
effect an amicable arrangement, had failed, the directors
being determined to stand by Mr. M'Cinnell's system of
classification. " This new system," he continued, " which
has recently been formally intreduced amongst us, has been
frequently carried out by Mr. M'Connell for a long time past.
Experienced, old, and faithful driver,* upon the line have been
arbitrarily reduced by Mr. M'Connell without pufficient cause.
To prove to our company that we are entitled to considera-
tion, and that we have nut lightly stood out against this
cleverly-contrived scheme of Mr. IsPCimanell's, I will men-
tion the periods of service during which those who have sent
in their notices to quit the company's service on Monday
next have been employed upon the railway. Four of us
have been upon the line for six veers; 6 of us for seven
years ; Id of us for eight years ; 25 of us for nine nears ; 11
of us for ten years; and 6 of us for twelve years' and up-
wards; or, to state it in round Lumbers, 67 out of
120 drivers who have sent in their notices,
have been in the service of the London and North-
Western Railway Company upwards of six years. We never
had any dispute with our employers up to the time Mr.
Bury left; and I am as certain as I am of my own existence
that if we had bad a kind-hearted man to deal with, there is
r.othing the directors could have solicit us in reason that we
would not have readily submitted to." Alter reading an ex-
tract from Mr. Glyn'. speech at the hiltyearly meeting of
the proprietor, of the North Western Railway, held yester-
day, the Chairman, in continuation, said, •' I feel obliged to
give sonic of Mr. Glyn's statements a complete refutntion.
Mr. Glyn state!, tie. they have had able assistance from the
north. Where this efficient northern assistance is Ido not
know. You are all in the knowledge that not one of
the new men have had that experience as engine-drivers
which is necessary to work the immense traffic of
the southern division of the London and North
Western Railway. Statements have been made here
to-night how the trains have been run, and of the narrow
scope of lite, to say nothing of the destruction
of property. Mr. Glyn again states that the charges made
by us are more of a personal character against Mr. M'Con-
nell than against the company. I believe the whole of you
will agree in this statement I have already stated that no
thing but dimontent has prevailed since Mr. M'Connell came
on the line. We never even insinuated a charge against our
directors."—Mr. W. Slater, engine driver, positively contra-
dicted Mr. Glyn's statement that the company had assistance
from the north. He had received communications that day
proving that they could net get a man from either Newcastle,
Darlington, or York.—A variety of other statement's were
made a ith a view of showing the inefficient and dangerous
working of the liar under the new men.—A lett• r was read
from Northampton stating that the eneine-drivers and fire.
men there had been induced to withdraw their notice from a
misrepresentation, but they had since recalled their with-
drawal, and were determined to resign it they hadonly bread
and water for nix montin.—Having come to n deternun item
not to give way, the meeting terminated at a very late hour
THE RECENT CHARTIST IMSTCRRANCES —Lost
night a meeting of the inhabitants of St. Giles. Camberwell,
took place in the vestry hall, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the Poses which those persons sustained during
the chartist disturbances, and to adopt measures for their re-
lief ; the Rev. Mr. Townsend in the chair,—The chairman,
in opening the proceedings, stated the circumstances under
which such vast depredations were committed by a mob
numbering upwards of 700, during the time the police were
et gaged at the chartist meeting held on Kennington Com-
mon on the 13th of March last. A great many of the in.
habitants had been severe sufferers thereby, one in particular
bad lost many hundred pounds. The party had made appli
cation to the magistrates, and also to Sir G. Grey, the S, ere.
t.ry of State, for c impensaiion. To that application he had
received the following answer :
hiteball, May 22, 18111. Sir, I am directed by Secretary
Sir G. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your memorial
prayi, g compensation for loos metaireel from an attack made upon
your shop, by a mot, on the lath of March last, and I hive to intorm
you that there arena fund. at the diepo.at of the govetnntent out of
which compenralian could made.—l am, Sir, your abs Went ser-
vant, —(Signed) It. WAIMINGION.
Mr. C. Pearson, M.P., petpued the first resolution, and
said that Mr. Gray, the pawnbroker, had sustained
'he most severe lom, which amounted to Pearly 9001
Thou', were also other persons of various trades who hoof
sustained heavy tomes. The following is the resolution :
That in the opinion of this meeting it would be unjust to allow the
lown....runtoined by the several individuals in th- late public outrage
at Camberwell to fall exclusive), on then', they having exercised
every legitimate means with n view to obtain compenwi
ttion,
th and
having also applied to the government for that purpose, bu wiout
effect; resolved that a public subscription ke iromedintelymmmenced,
end that a committee of twelve gentlemen he appointed to carry out
this resolution to the full extent.
The resolution was carried, and the meeting separated.
GRAND FIELD DAY AT CllATßAM.—Yesterday,
at Chatham, was the scene of an unusually brilliant and ex-
tensive display of military operations. The number of troops
engaged exceeded 4,000. Nothing of the kind of equal ex-
tent has been exhibited in the vicinity of the " three
towns" for nearly twenty years past. From nine o'clock in
the morning until nearly midday a succession of steam boats
disembarked crowded freights a; the Gravesend Pier. For
some time the Rochester Railway formed a convenient means
of transport to the scene of attraction, but before noon the
number of passengers who presented themselves at the ter-
minus was so great that the parties in authority were com-
pelled to close the office doors and pot a stop to the traffic
eltegether, except at intervals of about an hour. *hen this
state of things became known every omnibus and fly was
speedily put in requisition, and the road between Gravesend
and Rochester presented for several hours en appearance
somewhat similar to the route to Epsom on the Dcrhy
dayAt
kept Chatas a
perfecham, Roc hest
holiday,,.an moot Stroud, the
was t. of the
shops being closed, and business entirely suspended.
A large party of the directors of the East Innia Company
arrived from town shortly after 1l o'clock, and immeilist,iy
proceeded to the residence of Sir Frederic Smith, the direc-
tor of the Royal Engineering Establishment in Brampton
;wracks. Shortly before 2 o'clock the staff left the barracks
and proceeded to the ground, where the troops
s. about to he
engaged had previously taken up their position "I he ordi-
nary works of a siege, upon a -mull scale, have been car ied
on during the present summer, for the practice of the officers