The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-25 00:00:00

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The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday,
at Buckingham Palace.
Lord I. Itussell had an audience of her Majesty
yss'erday. The Right Hon. W. G. Hayter, Judge Advo-
cate.Genend, had an audience of the Queen, and submitted
to her Majesty :the proceedings of some courts martial.
The royal dinner party yesterday at Buckingtain
Palace included the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess
of Saxe Cobourg, Count Arthur Mensdorff, the Austrian
Ambassador and the Couateet Dietrichstein, Lady Fanny
Howard, Madame is Baranne de Waugenheim, Baroness de
Speth, Lord and Lc:), Alfred Paget, the Right Hen. T. B.
Macaulay, Col. Wy lde, and Baron Fritsch.
Yesterday was the birth-day of the Wm of Cam-
bridge. Pncce Alh.rt aid the Duke of sate Cohourg pail
visits of congratulatiwi to the royal duke, at i..anibridge
House. S.me of va- iorvigo Ministers, dr.l many of the
nobility, called duriog the day, and left their names for his
Royal Highness. The Duchess of Gloucester gave a dinner
in honour of the event at f,iqueester House. "f he company
consisted of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Prin-
ces' Mary, Prince Fredetic of Hesse, the Hanoverian
minister, Lady A. Crulogan, Lady G. Bathurst, Mr. C.
Smith, Colonel du Plat, Baron Knea.heck, Major Stephens,
Mr. E. Mildmay, and the Hon. Cul. Liddell. The Duchess
of Gloucester had a select party in the evening.

The Judicial Committee of the Pricy C3waril mat
yesterday and heard an appeal from Sierra Leone, Magnum;
Smith r. the Judges of Sierra Leone."

CONFIRMATION OF TIIE ARCHRI,IIOP OF CANTER-
Prior rtecr.—The day named for confirming the election
of Dr. Sumner as Archbishop of Canterh.ory, is Friday, the
10th of March next. The ceremony will take place at usual
at Bow church.

LEGAL APPOINTMENT.—Mr. Col,ao, of Lincoln'e-
inn, has been appointed by Sir G. Grey to succeed Mr.
Bethune as parliamentary counsel to the Home-office, his
duty being to prepare the bills originating with any depart.
ment of the government, and revising or reporting upon any
bills brought before parliament, and reerred to him by the
Secretary of State. Mr. Bethune, Mr. 001010'S predecessor,
proceeds immediately to India, where he will fill the place
formerly occupied by Mr. Macaulay.

SITALEYEARE AND THE CITY OP LONDON.—At a
court of common council held yesterday. Mr. Lott moved
that the sum of fifty guineas be paid to the committee for the
purchase of Shakspeare'e house at Stratford-upon-Avon,
towards the Dayment of the sum of 3,0001., at wheat the
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COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a court was held, for the despatch of
public business.
OFTOSITION TO THE INCeME TAX.—Mr. H. TAYLOR
said he had been requested, by a very large meeting of the
members of the court held that day, to announce that they
had unanimously determined to apply to the Lord Mayor to
appoint as early a day es possible for petiticuing the legisla-
ture against the income-tax. Within an hour upwards ot
100 signitures had been put to the requisition, and as fast en
the members entered the ball they signed. The subject was
one remote from political consideration., and he trotted that
his lordship would immediately decide upon the appoint-
ment of a day for entertaining it.
The Lola MAYOR said, when he entered upon the duties
of the office he hail stated with what pleaeuro be should at-
tend to the wishes of the court. With tu:h a requisition, eco
numerously and respectable signed, hr should not only com-
ply, bat he should appoint Friday for the consideration of the
subject, if the court were desirous of using the greatest de-
spatch. (Cheers.)
Friday was then appointed as the day for petitioning.
THE NEW SMITHFIELD AND HitAIIDIRS BILL..—Mr. W.
Williams brought up the report of the committee appointed
to watch the proceedingv of the hill under the above head In
parliament The following is the substance Finding that,
independently of the establishment of a new market at Cain-
den-town, it was intended by the bill to restrict the driving
of cattle through the streets, and to render it contra:eery that
all cattle and sheep within a limited distance from the me
tropolis should be slaughtered at Outten' belonging to the
new company. which would virtually ab.lisb Smithfield-
market, and place a monopoly of the whole supply of animal
food to the metropolis in toe bads of a private company, we
requested the favour of an interview wish the members in
parliament for and connected with the city of London, when
it was are inged that the members for the C'ty should,if they
thought it advisable, cooperate with terse members 01
parliament who have been solicited by the butcher: of the
metropolis, &e., to oppose the second reading of the bill.
The report concludes with announcing the defeat of the bill
on Wednesday in the House of Commune, and expressing
the sense the committee entertained of the zeal and activity
of the members connected with the City upon,the important
measure. (Cheers.)
Mr. W. WILLIAIIs was rejoiced that the Dhow of Com-
mons had distiactly marked their opinion of the projects
substitute fur Snathfieldinarket by repudiating it alto-
gether.
Mr. SNELLING considered that the members connected
with the City, who had evinced such promptitude to oppose
so injurious a measure, were deserving of the grateful ac-
knowledgments of the citizens.
Mr. Noteare was very unwilling that it should be supposed
that the court, in approving of the late of the bill on ac-
count of the spirit of monopoly in whir h it Lail been intro-
duced, pronounced an opinion that Smithfield did not want
improvement. (Hear, hear.) At the mire time that he
looked upon the new company ea a gross new job, he could
not help declaring that Smithfield-market was an existing
and formidable nuisance. (Loud cries of " No, no !" and
" Hear, hear.")
Deputy Burrow., said, that numerous members who had
previously condemned the site of the market had en far al-
tered their opinion, upon hearing the evidence adduced, as to
declare that its position could not be changed for the better.
Mr. W. JoNES said, it had been proved by the medical
men examined on the subject that Smithfield-market was
beneficial to the public health. (Laughter and cheers.) The
objection to the market that the cattle were driven through
the town must be applicable to every project.
Mr. It. TAYLott raid, that so bag as there were public
thoroughfares through the market it would be liable to the
attacks periodically made upon it in parliament.
Mr. I'. H. HALL, deprecated the manner in which mem-
ber.' of the corporation were is the habit of calutnnieting
those who superintend the airing. err nta for the public
advantage in Smithfield. He di fled any holy of men to do
more than had been done by the markrt committee with
such limited means. That there were wits existing could
net bo denied, but it was admitted by all who made Inquiry
in a spirit of candour and &Unita that the management woo
most unexceptionable. (hear, hear.)
The report was then agreed to.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.
The court eat for the despatch of business) ester-
day. Viscount Morpeth presided.
The sureeyoes report on flushing sewers and cleansing
courts, alleys, and cesspools, was then read. Since the last
report on this subject, there have been 10,328 cubic yards of
deposit flushed away from 6,107 feet in length ot sewers.
Th.: total number of streets and courts thus benefited to toe
prevent time i. 469 ; the total length of sewers therein 39
miles; the quantity of deposit flushed away 41,498 cubic
yards. The deposit in many of those sewers was of the
foulest description. The surveyors have caused flushing
gates, which me, be worked hereafter by few men in com-
parison with thosa at present employed. 'The courts, alleys,
and cesspools in the poorer districts continue to be cleaned in
the manner directed by the court.
A resolution was then passed, appointing the 4th day of
April for the hearing of appeals to the commissioners at the
sessions house fur Surrey and Kent, at Newington.
Mr. liven complained that the surveyors appointed by the
former commission for Surrey and Kent did nut attend the
court. He had wished to ask them some questions with
reference to some nuisances which existed in the lower part
of Bermondsey, where there was a loug black ditch of Ore
or six feet deep, and ten feet broad, containing an iseeenu.
lation of filth. He wished to know why, under the late
commission, they had been allowed to rema.n uncovered.
Mr. I/new said no complaints had come before that court
reipecting it. He believed it was private property.
Mr. By,o asked if the commission was ignorant of the
existence of those nuisances ?
Mr. DREW said, during the cholera they certainly were
not, but at no other time had they received any complaint
relative to them.
Mr. Byxo said that such a sight as that which was pre-
sented in Bermondsey was not to be seen in any other part
of England, or even Europe. It was most strange that
while lever and illness of all description was being engen-
dered from such causes, a cammission Appointed to re-
medy nuisances of the kind should pass them by unheeded.
In answer to a question from Mr. BYNO,
Mr. Ditew said that in Bermondsey alone the amount o
drain uncovered he believed to be from GO to 70 mile..
The order clerk handed in several copies of a printed re-
port, which he had just received from the Statistical Society.
It was the result of the inquiries of a committee of the
council of that society, and contained an elaborate account
of the wretched condition of the inhabitants and their dwel-
lings in Church-lane, St. Gilea's.
The court then adjourned to March 9.

A FARMER OP THE MODERN SCHOOL.—The
Gardeners' Chrcntiele says: "One hundred and twenty-
seven thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds of sulphuric
acid were used as a manure by occupiers around Spaldiny last
year. That is &startling fact. To those who are wont to speak
of agriculturists as • slow and plodding race it will appear
hardly credible. Let us state the history of a single farm in
that neighbourhood in connexion with this subject. We
refer to a farm of nearly six hundred acres lass Deepiug Fen.
Or. this land the ordinary annual consumption of bones as a
manure was one thousand bushes. This has latterly been
reduced, as a less quantity with acid is found mere etficient
in the long run in producing a crop, and much more so in
the first instance in securing and naming a plant. In 1846.
on this farm, 6,661 lbs. of acid and 630 bushels of hones
were used and last year the quantity used was 9,647 Ibe. of
acid and 790 bushels of bones. It may be necessary to state
that the land is in the occupation of • tenant farmer, on •
lease for fourteen years. Ne immediate saving is effected
by the use of the acid, but • more valuable result is ob-
tained ' • and that of course is as desirable a consummation as
the other. The acid and bones were used with benefit for
mangold wursel as for the other green crops: 3, bushels ter
acre, along with yard manure, have a most material influ-
ence ; some drub where they were omitted, appearing A
month atter sowing, full ten days later than the rest. Of
the whole quantity of acid named as cold last year in Spald-
ing, upwards of 97,000 lhs. were disposed of directly as acid,
only about 30,000 lbs. weight were sold in a manufactured
state by the manure dealers. The following is the mods in
! which the acid and hones are mixed on the farm to which
we have alluded. The latter are laid in heaps of eighty
bushels, and water is added until they are thoroughly
soaked, and in thirty-six or forty-eight houro, when they
have got into • state of high fermentation, they are spread
abroad as, in making mortar, the mason spreads the lime
before adding the water. They. are spread in the form of
a basin, a layer of six or eight inches thick where thinnest,
surrounded by an elevated bank or rim, which is trodden
down as firmly as possible. More water is added if it can tm
absorbed, and the acid follows, poured on gradually. Atter
the heat has partly subsided, the whole mass is mingled to-
gether, and remains untouched for a few weeks, atter whieri
twenty bushels of peat ashes for every acre of the :and to
which the bones are to he applied are mingled witu tl,, m,
and the whole is once more damped sufficiently to cause
fermentation before it is required for drilling."
INQUEST, YESTERDAY. TYPHUS FEVER AND
SANITARY REFORM.—Before Mr. G. I. Milo, at the Boot
Tav n, Cromer-street, Brunswick-square, on the boy of
Peter Donnelly, • labourer, who had died, by typhus. in a
miserable dwelling, No. 12, Union-court, Compton place,
Judd-street, the property of the trustees of the Foundling
estate.—The Deputy Coroner remarked that, under ordinary
circumstances in s case of typhus fever, there would have
been no amenity for holding an inquest, but the certificate
of the surgeon was so positive in declaring the fever to have
originated from the filthy condition of the premises, that the
comner felt himself bound under the act to cause an inquiry.
—John Keefe stated that he resided in the same house ea
deceased. The deceased lived in the one roore where the
body bad been viewed with his wife and s:x children. all of
whom had taken the fever and gone to the boepital. De-
ceased died on Monday morning last.—Mr. Popham. district
surgeon of the parish of St. Paocras, said he attended de-
ceased, and had no doubt that typhus fever caused his death,
and that the fever was much augmented by the condition of
the place inhabited by him.—ln answer to the coroner, Mr.
Popham said it was his firm opinion that fever, owing to the
want of drainage sad the filthy condition of the place, arose
spontaneously in that locality. Nearly every house was in-
fected with low fever, and there were several other eases of
confirmed typhus.—Dr. John Waters deposed that he had
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