The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-24 00:00:00

Etc Court.

OSBORNE, SATUILDAY, MARCW 22.
The inclemency of the weather prevented the
Queen and Prince and the younger members of the royal
family from :enjoying their .accustomed early walks and
rides this morning.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party yes-
terday.
SUNDIV, MARCH 23.
The Queen and reince and the reyal fatally walked early
this morning in o.honte-park.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness, the Prince of
Wales and the Princess Royal, and the ladies and gentle-
men of the royal household, attended divine service at
Whippinghum Church this forenoon. The Rev. J. Pro-
theroe officiated.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party yes-
terday.

The Attorney-General had an interview with Lord John
Russell, on Saturnay, at his official residence in Downing-
street.
A deputation, in reference to the Sunderland Improve-
ment Bill, consisting of Mr. Hudson, M.P., Sir R. Wit-
Lamson, Bart., M.P., Mr. Koe, Q.C., Mr. Fenwick, Mr.
Ettriek, Mr. Webster, Mr. Bowery, Mr. Scott, Mr. Phil-
Upson, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Robinson, had an interview
with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Hume-office.
Mr. Sanford had an interview with Earl Grey, on Satur-
day, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Oeo. I'ownall, Mr. George Gutch, Mr. Charles
Mayhew, Mr. Robert Ilesketh, and Mr. Richards, hail an
interview with Lord Seymour, on Saturday, at the office of
her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in
Whitehall-place.

The lion. Frederick George Ellis, son of Lord
Howard de Witiolisn, is< appointed an Unpaid Attache to her
Maje,ty's Mission at Brussels.

A cabinet council was held on Saturday afternoon,
at the Foreign-ottice, Downing-street. Present—
Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmer-
ston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir Francis Baring, Lord Broughton, the Right Hon.
Henn• Labouchere, the Earl of Carlisle, and the
Marquis of Clanricarde. The council bat three hours
and a half.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS D.T.

DUTY ON PAPER.-DEPUTATION TO THE
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.

On Saturday, a numerous deputation of Irish mem-
b:ra of parliament and paper manufacturers waited on the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence,
Downing-street, in reference to the excise duties at present
levied on liver. Amongst the gentlemen present were John
Reynolds, M.P., Wm. Keogh, M.P., \ amount Bernard,
M.l'., Win. Fagan, M.P., Sir Lucius O'Brien, M.P.,
Captain 'Sunbury, M.P., Robert Keating, M.P., E. B.
Roche, M.P., Ldwil. K. Teuison, M.P.' 0. G. Gulley
Higgins, M.l'., Captain Greene, NIT., W. 11. Mogan,
M.P., Lieut.-Colonel Dunne, M.P., Pierce Somerset Butler,
M.P., The O'Gorman Mahon, M.P., Lord Naas, M.P.,
Chas. Cuwan, M.P., James Fagan, M.l'., Edwd. Grogan,
M.P., Malaya J. Blake, M.P., A.OTlalierty, M.P., Fitz-
stephen French, M.l'., Torrcns M'Cullagh, M.P., M. E.
Corbally, M.P., Wyndham Gould, M.P., John Cameron,
Kai:, fly. Jordan, Wm. Courtenay, Alex. Thom, Thos.
Wright, E. P. Barnes. Dr. Grey, 3:Beaumont, H. Ingram,
John Kaye, Gee. Haggett, ltobt. Heron.
Mr. REYNOLDS, M.P. (addressing the Chancellor of
the Exchequer), said he had been honoured by the deputa-
tion with a request that he would present them to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on the present oce;lsion. The
deputation was not composed exclusively of member+ of
parliament—though there were sonic twenty Irish members
and one Scotch member present—it also included several
manufacturers of paper connected with both England and
Ireland. Ile thought some explanation was due to the right
hon. gentleman for troubling him a second time on the
same subject within a brief period. The explanation was
this—that since the last interview circumstances had arisen
that might involve the necessity of altering the financial
arrangements; and they consequently believed that an
opportunity was afforded to press upon the government the
necessity of embodying some relief to the paper manufac-
turers in any financial arrangement that should be made.
Mr. JORDAN (a paper manufacturer) observed that the
manufacturers were of opinion that the removal of the duty
would develop the labour of the country, and consequently
dim' hto a considerable extent the poser's rate. The
manufacturers claimed the abolition of the duty on very
strong grounds, namely, that many years ago a committee
of the House of Commons recommended the abolition of the
duty on paper and glass ; and if they might judge from the
vast increase in the trade of glass consequent on the aboli-
time of the duty, they might I'airl' anticipate a like increase
in the paper manufacture, by which many additional hands
would find labour, the bookbinder, the printer, and the
papier mid' manufacturer. They also claimed re-
lief from the unpleasant and vexatious trammels op-
posed to the progress of their trade on the ground
that it was the only trade employing a large number
of the population which was at present subject
to these vexatious restrictions. 'there were many other
points which he might adduce; but he would not further
trespass on the valuable time of the right hon. gentleman.
Mr. COUR:IP:NAY (another paper manufacturer) said
that, with the exception of flax, the manufacture of paper
was the only trade that hail held its ground in Ireland, as
cottons and woollens were completely superseded. The
flax movement was intimately connected with the manufac-
ture of paper. The excise duties prevented many obstacles
to the manufacture of paper being carried forward, a modi-
fication of which duties would not be attended with any
beneficial effect, because the more they were modified the
more open was the, manufacturer to the effect% of smuggling.
Mr. E. B. ROCHE, M.l'., was at present engaged in the
culture of flax on his property in the county of Cork, and
could say that the roots of flax could be worked up into
very good paper. If such manufacture were encouraged,
tow, which now was worth only it a ton, would lie worth
301. a ton for paper manufacture. In the south of Ireland
they were getting extensively into the culture of flax ; and
anything calculated to that would he most im-
portant. Ile had seen three or four paper mills in his di,
trict, which at one period gave great employment, broken
down in consequence of the ruinous competltion to which
they were exposed by being open to smugglers at the mine
time that the excise laws pressed upon them. Ile believed
there never was a time when it was more incumbent on
government to encourage any trade that would employ the
waste water power of the country.
After a kw words from Mr. Cam FAWN, Mr. G Km; as,M.P.,
Mr. CUWAN, M.P„ and Lord UELINAUI,, M.l'., to the sante
effect,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said I hare
listened to everything, but you know 1 can say nothing in
reply. However, 1 feel thankful for your assurance that
you arc now about to suspend the duty uu Wood.
(Laughter.)—The deputation then withdrew.

ground of newts-discovered evidence. The jury.,
after having several times communicated to the
learned Judge Moore that they could not agree in a
verdict, were discharged by his lordship without
finding any verdict.

FINE ARTS.

kXIIIIIITION OF TH CI. OCSTS.IETY OF BRITISII
AR

The SulTolk-street Exhibition, which opens today
to the public, is of average merit. Tile general
impression left on the mind by the aggregate
amount of talent to be found in its list of fi!aworks
of art is on the whole not unfavourable; but this is
rather attributable to the redeeming qualities of a
few strikingly original productions by the members
themselves than from any inmusliate support front
without. That the advantages held out by this
exhibition to casual exhibitors are not sufficient, is
clearly evident, not merely from the nature and
amount of the works placed in secondary positions,
but from the too evident anxiety of every member to
complete his round dozen of pieturts annually. No
other apology can be offered for the fifteen smudgy
adumbrations of Mr. Zeitter, who for a series of
years has, perhaps, :unconsciously blackened this
character of Hungarians adding the insult of
rags and tatters to their too real injuries.
Neither can any other rssible motive be urged in
favour of Mr. Woolmera ten kit-eats, in which all
notion of pure brat seems to be dissolved in an
atmosphere of sulphur and brimstone. Boddington,
Clint, and Shaver, ate equally if not as painfully
prolific ; but somehow the glimpses of truth which
pervade the delineations at' our loosest landscapists
will ever redeem their mannerisms. In the
figure department, Messrs. Hailstone and Ikr-
ring are also amenable ter the accusation of
rendering their gnat and real talents subservient to
mere dexterity of handling and texture • and whilst
one is led to wonder at the marvellous texture;
of the

execution, one humid,' at the same time its
in furthering a style of art in which thought
and imagination are seldom Weyer brought into play.
The above-mentioneal names arc those chiefly conspi-
cuous in positions as well as number 4, but a hest of
others exhibit a perfavt limbo of imitative art. It is
quite curious to watch how boldly one gentle-
man, Mr. T. Earl, in his 'Rabbit War-
ren," has songed on Lainlseer, not only in tho
method of delineating hair, but in hard-formed tones
of back-ground. Another. gentleman, Mr. J. Tennant,
in (l " A Hirer Scene," with eltual abnegation,
attempts the mimicry of Stanfield s finished per-
tbrmances; the sky, water, distances, and gravelly
foregrouuds, are note-worthy and pleasant fay-similes
of the Stamfieldian art. The enumeration of all
those works, uustamped by any but second-hand
originality. would become as tedious as it is in-
vidious. Whilst one artist tries, with the greatest
possible coolness, to adapt the attitudes and
colouring of Frost's nymphs, another takes
Cooper and his cattle-pieces for models ; and
last, though not least, an intrepid host of enthu-
siastic landscape painters show themselyts4 blind
votaries of 'nailer, whilst they evince perfect Mem-
pacity to play with his dangerous tools.

MUSIC.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

The opening of the Italian Opera is " new year's
day," in fashionable chronology. Then begins tho
London " season ;" the brief period into which, in
the great world, the gaiety, dissipation, and amuse-
ment of the whole year are crowded, mid during
which the metropolis resounds with music and blazes
with splendour. The whirl and excitement among
the brilliant crowds who hasten to London for tho
season, and the equal haste with which tiny aban-
don it when the season is over, leaving its most
fashionable quarters deserted and silent, present a
contrast not exhibited by any other capital in the
world. Probably this angina inirahilii, the Exhibi-
tion year, will show this contrast more strongly than
it has ever yet been seen.
We never before saw Ifer Majesty's Theatre pre-
sent so brilliant an aspect on the first night of a
season as it did on Saturday evening. It looked like
a Saturday in June rather than in March. Every
box was full, and iiii prtii:ipal tiers displayed t
bright array of beauty and fashion. Every stall was
occupied, and the pit and gallery were crowded to
the doors. In so fir as this theatre is concerned, tho
expectations from the extraordinary year I 5.7)1 SIAM
in the way of being realised.
The opera was " Lucia di Lammennoor," and great
interest wasexcited by the (Plod of Madensasello
Duprez in the character of the heroine. This young
lady, as our musical readers are aware, is the daughter
of the great tenor of the French stage, and has lately
made her tir-a appearance, under Mr. Lumley 's
auspices, at the Italian Ctpt,ra in Paris, where her
success has IWCII decided and brilliant. When sho
presented herself to the audience on Saturday even-
ing she received a most cordial welcome ; due, in the
first place, to her name and reputation, and, in tho
next, to her pleasing and engaging apptsarance.
The favourable impression made ut the outset was
confirmed and strengthened us the Om. prceeded.