The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-21 00:00:00

ra°iily
preventedleaving the Castle.
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ll°F.ahlinksg . amily,
morning the Queen and Prince Albert tooi
their accustomed early walk.

The lion. Cot Anson and Sir J. Burgoyne had
interview with the Char.cellor of the Exchequer o situ-
day at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Rue
bold had also an interview with the_ right hen. gentleman,
The Right Ron. F. Maule had an interview i.4*
the ltifht llon. E. Strut on Saturday at the oMee o!
Commissioners of Railways in Great George-street.
tlu
H. F. Berkeley,
on M.P.
Sat,
urday. had also an interview with the rik
hon. gentleman
TOE MlNlsTßY.—Lord with Lady John Ftwito
leaves town this day on a visit to the Queen. Oa Wednem.:
the node Premier and his lady pr teed to Woburn Abbot
' there to pass the Christmas. The Lord Chancellor lean;
Park-lane to-morrow or Wedmiday, to juin Lady Cotteaktiz
at Brighton. Viscount Morpeth haves Carlisle Rowe.
Grosvenor-place, this day, for Castle Howard. Earl szt
Countess Grey proceed on 'Wednesday to Bowood,
the seat of the Marquis of Lansdowne.

THE RIGHT HON. THOMAS GR&NVILLD
We have been favoured from an authentic sew,.
with the following biographic details of this much term,—
diplomatist. They will be found to correct many loe,k,„'"
ties which have appeared in a memoir published elsewh
e".
Mr. Thos. Grenville, son of the Bight lion. George Ge
vine, and second brother to G•erge first Marquis f 0But;,
ingharn, received his baptismal name after that of his use.
Capt. Thomas Grenville, a gallant seaman, who fen care
mending the Defiance, GO, in a distinguished action saaiar
• very superior force which he was detached fronaleri
Anson% fleet to intercept. Mr. Grenrillo wa3 cleated
together with his elder brother, and biz youbger, the late
l,
Lord Grenville; et Eton, and afterwards at Christ Chan
For a few years after leaving college, he was in 01,1;
army, having received his first commission, in the flemb
in 1774, which he re:igned soon after the death of his ow,'
Lord Temple, and entered parliament atout 17ho,
the meanwhile, he witnessed two celebrated reehm,
titan insurrections. During that of 1779, young fl 6.
Grenville, warmly siding with the popillsee, entered
the Admiralty yard, at the head of Lori Keppee,
to besiege the building, in which, twenty-seeen yon
after, he sat as first lord. In that of 1760, he
guard as a volunteer to protect the Houses of Perlis.
ment against the mob of Lard George Gordon. 8,,,
in two years from thence his talents and good quabti, of
every sort had gained him so much reputation atl the
political party to which he had attached himself
parliament, that see find him selected by yr. For
for the government of India, and, in the ictif,
to conduct the negotiations at Paris, matched •-•
diplomatists 110 lam renowned than Franklin es e•„„
part of the United States, and M. de Vermin, e„,
that of France. This conflict of diplomatic sluir
not broken off (as erroneously stated in the Times), by ed
" unexpected death of M. de Vergennes ; " for Le, aoenip
one acquainted with modern histury is IlTare, did not dr
till just before the assembly of the :Votes4ks was convened,
in 1787. On the contrary—the negotiation was carnet
on for several months with that distinguished 'tattle= 17
Mr. Grenville, who returned to England to support the
India Bill and prepare for his more distant destinatim. Tee
bill was defeated, and his departure frustrate?, by the die.
missal of the government. In 1791 the great disruption 0(
the Whig party on the question of French recolutocary
politics found Mr. Grenville agreeing iu ciadon with is
friends Earl Fitswilliara, Mr. Burke, and air. Windlua,
and, with them, upon this Lew q :es' oar. (not theagineha
politics, as has been misreprrrenteilj lilt !spouted has
self fro a Ms ancient leader, Fox, and prised in ras
port of the government of Mr. Pitt and of his broad,
Lord Grenville. Upon this reconciliation of political imins
with his family, he vacated the Whigborough of Aldborten
and was elected for the family borough of Bueltiorelne;
His personal affection for Mr. Fox, and his private Moans
with him, remained the same ; and having gone, wi:klef
Grenville, into opposition to Mr. Pin's last ailministrein
ou the question of public faith pledged at the Irish Cain is
the emancipation of the Roman Catholimbe was nail nand
to Mr. Fox in the government of 1805. Oa the dew
floe of Nye late E irl Grey to the Fereien (Kee, Mr.
Grenville was placed at the head of the Admiralty. Denial
his short adminiatration there ho obtained so much rep.
tation as to have been afterwards duseribed by no less a en
than Lord Vilicent as hawing " carried with him to th
Admiralty every quality of a thorough sea-lord, except pre
tiality and prejudice.'•
We ought to have mentioned Mr. Germ ille's brief its
bossy to Berlin, out in 1795, as stated in the Times, bit
in 1793. In his voyage the frigate which took him oat
was wrecked on the ice at the month of the Elba. He
was obliged, with the crew, to save his life by a march of 11
hours up the frozen river, in which no article of property ma
saved but the despatches ; whilst many of the crew prided
under the hardships of the escape. ills arrivol at Beek we
delayed for about 10 days, during which time the obj.eetz of
his nuseion were anficijaied and defeated hr the arrival at
Berlin of the Abbe Sieyes, despatched thither on the pant,
France.
Mr. Grenville quitted parliament and public life is
1810, since which time his valuable and industrious khan
has hen devoted to literature, benevolence, aid the ele-
gancies of social retirement, abating nahilic, hoverer, of
warm and lively interest in every public qinstion as it arose
—forming his opinions upon each, and maintaining them front
the judgment-seat of his easy chair with as much clearness of
decision, as much warmth of feeling, and soundness and
• shrewdness of argument, as when engaged in the debates
of a parliament of half a century ago.—Thus dill vt;A verse:-
, able and remarkable man, last Thursday, within tourism
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brother-ia-law, the great Lord Chatham. He ors
the last surviving member of the fawns " Literary
Club," in which he had sat with Burke, with Wisp"
with Garrick, and with Reynolds, and to which he was pra•
, posed for election by Dr. Johnson, and seconded by Oess:
; Goldsmith.

ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF Lill
roost Finz.—An inspection of the men arA ladders
ing to this very useful society took place on Sawa; as
Finshury-circus, by the manager and inspector, Mr. h,s,
when the whole appeared to be in a most efficient suite.
Indeed, such was the facility with which the ladders were
worked by the men iu the lowering with perfect safety of
persons from the topmost part of the houses, that it would
seem impossible that lam of life could occur where they were,
with a man constantly in attendance oa each,
into proper operation. There arc twenty-two of
those ladders,
stationed in various parts of the metropolis, and so thoroughly
acquainted is this man with the full management of the
machine, that he can instantly instruct any one present is
assist in working it. Many lives have been retied by then
men since the establishment of the society, end rewards mgiven to persons who assist, or give the laddcrmen the ohm
THE WAR IN THE CITY PARLIAMENT.—On Sant'
day, in the Court of Aldermen, upon the clerk of the Cow:
of Common Council attending at the bar, and reading th
minutes of the court which was held on Thursday, Kt
Alderman Copeland (with some excitement) said, that he
had been a member of the Court of Aldermen for 18 yeast
and such a course as had been adopted in another place wa
unprecedented. He wished that the city would apply to
Parlie meat, when it would he proved, that instead of the
Court of Aldermen being a degraded body, it was pure; d
would be shown that they had not put their bands into the
pockets of the city. and ta':en thecity cash.—Mr. Al !emus
Wilson : If the Court of Common Council is dissatisfied, lei
it apply to the Court of Queen'aßenell for a mandamus. The
Court of Aldermen was a Court of Record, and it was the
judgmeut seat of the corporation. In 1710 it assumed its
ancient rights, and in 1716 the Court of Common Coined
confirmed that authority. He begged of the court to
recollect, that not only did the government mac all the
proceedings that took place during the Commonwealth,
but even the proceedings of the Court of Commos Council.
They therefore had a precedent to act upon, and he should
move,
That the Chamber'ain be directed to lay before the sent e"m"
return for the last seven years of all sums of money drawn for sie,o
court, either for tavern expeires, matauttem
madams, and all other amount' not strictly municipal, ands e 561.7,
return of all sums drawn upon the Chambsr by order of the Pan s
Common Council.
Monday is St. Thomas's day, and, if he were Lord. ir%
he would not call together another Court of Comm,
Council, he would not issue a precept for their election
he would let them go to parliament and get a bill mesa?'
the Lord Mayor to elect. That would be the only Irlf
try who bad the power.—The Recorder trusted that
Lord Mayor would not act on such advice. Such a cane
would be not only injudicious, but illegal.—Mr. Aldenno
Copeland deolared it to be his firm determination to brig
the whole matter before parliament, and obtain a legull•
five enactment to put an end to the present rebellios,
especially from a body which was virtually defunct.
motion of Mr. Ald. «ilson was carried uusnmously. of the
—Atir
Challis and Sidney having defended the procertlisgs
Court of Common Council, the court adjourned.
TRANSPORTATION.—LETTER FROM CAPTAIN
ILI-
- have seen in the Gardeners Chronie:e
of this morning an article said to be quoted from Plarf
paper, in which, when giving an recount of the intentions
the
government regarding transportation, it is alleged that
system of discipline that I propose is to be meddled, beacie
it works only by hope and discards the use of fear. 1 ha"
not the least odes what may be the intentions of her
Majesty's government ou this important subject, nor by wr.r.
reasons these intentions nay ba iailuenced.! IBut if you than
speak of my suggestions from your own impresslons reed'
ing them, I assure you that you entirely misconceive dug
tenor. My specific plan is to substitute for sentences meS'
mired by time only, sentences to bo measured by tasks,
marks representing thesis. Ido not thus wish to work thec
by, hope or fear, but by certainty only I desire to say to
criminal, " Perform the task allotted law to your officer!
and you shall he released as certainly as the debtor is rel. Wei
by paying his creditor, or the petty offender by discharging
his fine.' And by introducing this new feature into ire
management of graver criminals, I feel assured that nothOg
will be lost in the warning against offence, while everything,
will be gained in thereformation of the gailty. Theeuelesai
paper will more fully explain my meaning, and the vao_ell
paints of view in which the subject may be regarded.
um, sir, yours, &c., A. aLtcoreceente.
NOVEL MODE OF REDUCING THE MALT The
A professional gentleman, Mr. Leonard, surgeon, of tln. bt
• Kent-road, suggests that the burthen of the malt tax ;nig .
be considerably lightened, in as far as private bretrare..
concerned, by substituting the raw barley for the grain ja
st
malted state. Mr. Leonard has made several exPrthnell•
and has produced a very fair household
robeer, by brewing 10
' , the following proportions : Barley, two and a half bus4eli;