The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-08 00:00:00

frig Court.

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THURSDAY,—Prince Albert, attended
by Mr. G. B. Anson, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and
Msjor-General Bowles, left the castle early this morales for
town, travelling by the Great Western Railway, His
Royal Highness returned to Windsor about two o'clock_
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening is
peedto include the Duchess of Kent, the Banners do
ih, Mr. G. K. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Miss DaWKia
Darner, and Sir G. Cowper. The band of the Royal
meat of Hone Guards attend during dinner. Her Majesty.,
private band afterwards attend in the Castle.
Prince Albert visited the Queen Dowager g
Marlborough House, and afterwards, attended by mr.
Anson, went to Somerset House, to attend a meeting at the
office of the Duchy of Cornwall. Shortly before one o'clock
the Prince proceeded to the Paddington terminus, and left
town on hie return by a special train.
Viscount Nforpeth has arrived in town.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-office for the Governor of Ceylon.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
MARYLERONE.—The barrister sat yesterday at
Marylebone courthouse, for the revision of the Paddington
list. (We stated erroneously in yesterday's paper that it
was the Pancras list which was to be taken on that day,
having so understood the learned barrister.) The overseer's
lists for MaryleSene district were also taken. From Pad-
dington five claims were made, only one of which was sus-
tained. Three objections were made and sustained. John
Bigsby claimed to vote out of a holding in Crescent-mews,
for whici he paid 4s. a week rent, the landlord paying the
rates. Disallowed on the ground that the rates would redoes
the rental below 10/. annually.-Alex. Brawn, 101, Norton.
street, complained that his name had been scratched curia
last year's list, thus depriving him of his vote at the late
election. He sought to have it replaced on the list. The
barrister could not find his name on the list, and therefore
could give him no redress. The applicant must make a
' claim sn the regular form,-The revision of the overseer's
list was then completed, and all claims to which no parties
aeared were struck off the list. The Paddington laims
and objections were all made by the oveneers. To-des die
barrister goes to Si- Pancras new workhouse, to finish the
revision of the lists for that parish.
TOWER HAMLETS.—The court for the revision of
the list of voters for this borough was held yesterday at the
Court-house, in Weliclose.squire. The number of claims
was 93 ; of objections, 1; but they did not involve any point
of interest. The overseers of some of the pariah's formally
demanded the opinion of the barrister (Mr. Sl•Christie),
respecting parties who claimed to be on the rates,
when those rates were not paid by them, but by
their landlords. Former revising barristers had de-
cided that such persons should prefer a claim every time
a rate was made, and the object of the pet sent applicauon was
to ascertain whether if parties did not renew their claim they
had a right nevertheless to be kept upon the rate. The lux-
! rioter said that the act of parliament required the overseen to
insert the names of all parties claiming to be rated, and he
saw nothing in the act to justify their omission. Respeetieg
the charges of the overseers of the various parishes, the bar-
rister refused to sign the bills thereof until he hail time to
examine into them, as he considered some of the
charges unnecessary, or at least exorbitant. In
the case of All Saints, Poplar, he referred to a
charge of five guineas to the vestry clerk for making
out the lists of votes, and giving advice which he considerW
superfluous. The vestry clerk explained that his duties u
vestry clerk appertained only to parochial matters, such as
the removal of paupers, and that the snaking nut of lists of
votes not being within the scope of those duties, he ought to
be paid foe them. The barrister was still of opinion that the
charge was superfluous, observing that it was the duty of the
overseers to prepare the lists, and that if they called upon
the vestry clerk to do it, he did not see why the people
should be taxed for it. A discussion arose upon
this, and several other charges which the banister
deemed extravagant, one being a charge of 53/. for
printing the lists of voters for the parish of Shoreditch. It
was defended by Mr. Ware, the vestry clerk, on the ground
that the parish contained upwards of 12,000 rate-payen, sad
that great despatch was necessary between the making out
lof the manuscript copy and the printing. He (Mr. Ware)
did not suppose the act of parliament meant that the over-
' seers were themselves. to make out the lists ; but that they
I should employ persons for the purpose. The barrister also
strongly objected to charges for coach-hire, and eventually
adjourned the court to that day fortnight, when he will ed.
judicate on the matter.
NIIDDLESEX.—The court for revising the list of
the City polling district was held yesterday at the Sumer
Hotel, Bouvenestreet Amongst the claims was one made by
• Mr. Bradbury, a manufacturer of Sheffield, who ponessed a
freehold house in Gough.square, the upper part of which was
occupied by himself as a warehouse, and in respect of which
he was on the register for the City, the lower part I:Kinglet
as offices, and for which offices he claimed so a freehold sepa-
rate and distinct from the upper part. There was but one
street door, but there was no communication between the
offices and any other part of the house. No notice of objeo-
tion had been given.-Mr. Payne remarked that this was=
ingenious mode of splitting up a qualification so as to make
it) it'd a borough and a city vote. lie also complained
that the description was vague, inasmuch as it did not
state whether the freehold was a house, land, or rent charge.
The Barrister considered the description of the qualification
sufficient ; he would, however, add the word " office " after
that of " freehold." With regard to the qualification inel4
as no objection bad been made to the 'loins, he must admit
it Payne : That the qualification is bad is certain; and
no doubt it will be objected to next year. The claim was
allowed. On the list for the parish of St. Bartholomew. E-
xchange being called on, it was discovered that the overseers
had neglected to lodge any list of claimants with the clerk of
the peace, or to produce any such list to the court ; neither
were they in attendance. A young man from the office of
the firm of which the vestry-clerk is a partner, attended, but
could give the court no information further than thee some
claims had been sent in; but who the claimants were, or
where the claims were to be found, he did not know.-The
Barrister said this was the grossest instance of neglect on the
part of the overseers that had occurred within his experience,
and he should cart dnly impose a fine, the amount of which
he would decide on further consideration.-Mr. James re-
marked that it was hard upon the claimants that they should
be disfranchised-as they must be-wholly in consequence of
the overseers' neglect. The act empowered the Barrister to
inflict a fine for every such offence of not less than 11. nor
more than 5/...-The Barrister will tit again on Monday, at
10 o'clock, at the Vice•Chaneelior's Court, Westminster,
when the lista for the western parishes of the metropolis will
be taken.

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The report was received, and ordered to be printed, and a
espy was directed to be sent to every member of the court.
A resolution, thaniung Mr. Moutons for the above gift,
baring been unanimously rased, the court proceeded to the
election of some subordinate officers under the County
Courts Bill, after which it adjourned.

ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC /10SPITAL.—
Yesterday a meeting of the governors and committee of the
above hospital for the relief of the indigent poor labouring
under dierasesof the eye (without letters of recommendation)
was held in theboard-room of the institution at Charing-cross;
Mr. L. Powell in the chair. The report stated that there
are now on the books 2.945 out-patients and 14 in-patients
of the latter class the wards are capable of containing thirty
at one time, but the present state of the funds prevents the
admission of more than half that number. During the last
year 4,100 persons were relieved, of whom 181 were in-
patients. SIPCO its institution in 1817 upwards of 67,000
persons have availed themselves of its benefits. Since 1840
there have been 3,109 operations for the cure of squinting,
nearly the whole of which have been perfectly successful.
GOLDSMITHS' AND JEWELLERS' BENEVOLENT IN-
srtrcrtox.—Yetterday a meeting of the members of the
above institution was held at the crown and Anchor Tavern,
Strand; Mr. C. Wester in the chair. The report stated
that the institution was founded fur the purpose of relieving
the decayed members in the above trades, their workmen,
shopmen, and clerks, as likewise their widows. There
are now 14 male and 7 female pensioners on the funds, at a
east of upwards of 2201. per annum. The society's amount
of funded property is 1,3321. Is., independent of which there
is a building fund of 8231. 10s. for the erection of almshouses
for aged and infirm members.
WESLEYAN NI IS,IONS.—The annual meeting of the
City.road Branch Missionary Society was held, last even-
ing, at the City-road chapel, which was crowded. Mr. C.
Pearson, M.P., presided, and introduced the business in
a brief speech. He observed that the sun never set on the
scene of the labours of IVesleyan missionaries, and expressed
his conviction that missionary societies were the moat success-
ful pioneers of civilisation. After an allusion to the discou-
earwig state of the money market, he expressed a hope that
there would, nevertheless, be a good collection. The report
of the committee stated that there was every reason to
expect that the pecuniary results at the close of the year
would not be less than those of the last. In con.
netion with this chapel, the sum of 4421. had been raised.
The remainder of th, report consisted of extracts from the
report of the parent society, a reassess- of which we published
in May last, descriptive of its foreign operations. The re-
ceipts for the year ending January last amounted to
4421. 104. 411., being an increase of 181. on the previous year.
—The Rev. S. Jackson, president of the conference, moved
a resolution declaratory of the success which had attended
the Wesleyan missions during the past year. This success, he
observed, was solely attributable to the divine blessing.—
After an affecting allusion to the death of the Rev. Francis
Wilson, a mimioaary in the Society islands, he observed that
' the interment of the remains of their missionaries in foreign
lands was in effect a taking possession of those regions on
behalf of their divine sovereign.—The Rev. J. P. Hethering-
ton, missionary from Canada, said that in no part of the
mission-field had their labours been more successful than in
Canada. Amongst one Indian tribe in the western pro-
vince, he had been most cheerfully received. It was gratify.
ing to know that, amongst the converts, there had been few
instances of immoral conduct, and not one of an individual
returning to his former idolatry.—Mr. Case, the missionary
to that tribe for the last 25 years, had been most untiring in
his exertions to win these men to Christianity, and
to form them into settlements, where were planted
the elements of civilisation.—The Rev. P. Duncan,
late missionary in the West Indies, said he had spent
11 years in those islands, and, so far from having to
complain, with a unitarian missionary, that he could make
nothing of the Degrees, he found them everywhere reedy to
embrace Christianity. Cannibalism was practised by these
tribes in their native regions in Africa; but the converted
memo's were so ashamed of this, that they could with ditfi-
culty be brought to admit it. Not the least important result
of the mission to Jamaica was the improvement in the moral
conduct of the coloured population ; many of whom were
now so well veined as to fill the magisterial office with the
greatest ability. Another effect had been to moderate the
intolerance of the colonial government, many of the members
of the house of assembly_ having received a religious training
from the missionaries. Further: schools were springing up in
every direction, the blessed effects of which would long be
felt. In conclusion, he noticed the missions of other deno-
minations, and observed that the field was wide enough for
all.—The Rev. Joseph Hargreaves eloquently enforced
the duty, incumbent on all Christians, of supporting
missions to the heathen, and of extending the spirit
and principles of motaitantisre,—the truth as preached
by their founder, Wesley, and by the apostles.—
The next speaker was a Samoan chief, who was
introduced under the curt cognomen of " Mame.," and as a
native teacher from the Navigators' Islands. He addressed
the assembly in his own language, the Rev. John Stair, mis-
sionary from Upolu, acting as interpreter, and giving a short
biographical sketch of the sable straeler. Alamoe's address
consisted of an account of his conversion, of the state of the
natives of Samoa prior to the introduction of Christianity,
their wars, rapine, and cruelty; of the visit of Mr. Williams,
the missionary, to the island ; of the emcees of hie labours,
and the happy effects produced on the natives; of his
(Mamoe's) amazement, on visiting this country, to see our
splendid buildings, gas-lights, and other wonders ; conclud-
ing with an exhortation to British Christians not to grow
weary in their good work. Ilia delivery was animated,- an-
communed with abundance of gesticulation ; and his lan-
guage, by no means uamelodious, seemed composed largely
of vowel sounds, connected only 1; simple consonants, and
re so not much unlike, in meund, the modern Greek as pro-
Roamed by natives. The Rev. J. Stair, the interpreter,
briefly addressed the meeting, and a collection was then made
in aid of the society's funds. Some other addresses were
afterwards delivered, and the proceedings terminated with a
vote of thanks to the chairman.
THE ECLIPSE TO-3,lonflOW.—The eclipse which
takes place with to-morrow's rising sun will be the
largest that has happened in England for 83 years, in many
respects exceeding the famous one on April the let, 1764,
nor will any such occur again until March 15, 1858. Astro-
nomers are looking forward to the meet with peculiar inte-
rest, inasmuch as they expect that it will either verify or
disprove a statement that during the eclipse in 1842, se seen
at Pavia, in Italy, there were *Nerved to emerge from
under the dark border of the moon same tinted protube-
rances Ides the pyramidal cogs of a wheel. The eclipse be-
gins at sunrise, 14 minutes 12 seconds past 6 o'clock (Green-
wich) ; at Torbay the sun rises eclipsed at 14 minute. pest
6, and there and at Plymouth, &c., it will be cen-
tral and annular, or ring-Illue a white ray of uni-
form width being all round the edge of the moon,
which opaque body (the moon), of course, is not
large enough to obscure the whole of the sun's disc.
A line drawn on a map of England and Wales, from Car-
digan on the left hand, through Gloucester, Oxford, and a
few miles month of Margate, will show the places at which
the eclipse will present an annular appearance—namely, all
those places lying on the south of the line; but at Hereford,
being to the north, the ring will not be quite complete.
Theinteresting phenomenon will terminate at about half-
pest 8, and will be visible, not only to European nations,
but to several parts of Asia and Africa Perhaps there is
no better medium of observing the eclipse than through two
pieces of glass, of convenient size, first smoked over a
candle, the smoked aides placed together, and the pieces
then fastened to each other at the ends with flaxen thread.
The blackening should be denser towards one and than the
ether, in order to suit the eye as occasion may require.
COST OF EMIGRATION TO SOUTH AIISTRALIA.—III
obedience to an order of the House of Commons, on the no-
tion of Mr. Liddell, a return has jest been vas by the
Colonial-office of the average east it of emigrants
from England to South Australis in by her
Majesty', Colonial Lend and E Oememalieners,
from Jan. 1 to July 6. The total number of *Me adults
(persons above 14 years of age, and two passes vadat that
age being reckoned as one), embarked in 16 ships, is esti-
mated at 3,021; and the average cost per notate atilt, at
121. 7s. 71d. This cost represents the net average out of the
conveyance and victualling of the emigrants, and is exclusive
of gratuities snowed to the smeons, superintendent, and
officers of the ship, and other mall incidental expenses.
THE CURRENCT.—The following suggeshous for
an amendment of the currency have been at Liver-
pool Let one hundred millions of the Three per Cent. An-
Deities be converted into seventy-five millions of Four per
Cent. Annuities, which will not affect the annual charge
upon the country. Transfer to the Mint the issue depart-
ment of the Bank of England, and withdraw from her, and
from all other banks, the right to issue their own note*. In-
vest the Mint with power to issue notes of 51. and upwards,
in exchange for four per cent. stock to an equal amount,
such stock not to bear interest to the depositor, but the in-
terest to accrue to the Mint for expenses and profit ; and,
in order to secure that, the notes not to be convertible until
six mouths after date ; and at the isphation of that time to
be reconvcrtiblo, at the will of the leakier, into four per oent.
stock. For the first di months ear of this paper will be
convertible, but afterwards it will be so to any required ex-
tent. The advantages istiapetal Am this wham are :-
1. That ties basis o(the wield thus be of a Azad,
unvarying wine, to =abaft the Nth of the swastry
"slid be *lie& 2. TIM, net brig an article of cogn-
ise% la seallen lobo to interfere with Its
ilerilsess of vise, the et its amount would
be a guarantee egaiest.esmbised mart to absorb it.
3. That it would be self bums& is the amount in
circulation, since no man bee* Meth to lose the in-

tenet, salsa be weld do better with the notes, or keep
stock dish be isaidtt Itiothaase for notes, if he law an la
"clads iea damps. 4. Thet it gets rid of all discretion,
and prevents a systematic or accidental, of any
clam of seestiliM & settle* the value of all pro-
perty with selbeesee ee a her per coat annuity, i. s., it coa-
-1 Wastes the taw pee rata • laradard of value. 6. That it
essares to the eauway ea Wens of between one and two
willies% =oder the rate *oar per cent. on the amount
of items, will be collected without trouble, and paid
without easpbdat
Tim (bias HARTEST.—Sir,—A letter appears in
your leMr to-day signed " H. J.," which describes the
Emsetl iteoat of the City to be that the wheat crop of
ads rislat by impasses an avenge yield. This ewer-
the would bun bees say at value had " H. J." told as
wird epperbadiles be bad ht three' weeks " personal expo-
rinse" of the sentry, of forming a correct opinion of the
lagewest throughout the world. Having omitted ,to do this,
as dependance whatever can be placed on his statement—
as it is to facts which are notorious to every reader
the returns in the Gazette, to every inference to be drawn
from the present prime, and to every optnion--except that
derived from " H. J.'s" three weeks' personal experience—
that has been expressed on the subject since the harvest was
housed. Besides these generalities, however, one particular
circumstance, as regards imported grains, has just happened,
which tends to refute your correspondent's letter. That
there is an immense influx of grain and flour into the Lou-
d= warehouses we have official proof. The government has
very recently been called on to concede the privilege of hous-
ing bread-stuffs in unlicensed warehouses, on account of the
bonded ones being choked up with abundance. It was only
at the beginning of the present week that this privilege was
granted by the authorities to more than one eminent firm
who had applied for it. These facts, respecting not only
home but foreign produce, must weigh infinitely more in
favour of a rich harvest and abundant supplies, than the
" personal experience " derived from a three weeks' absence
from the confines of Cockaigne.—W., Oct. 7.
INTERCOURSE WITH THE CONTINENT.—Oar usual
table shows for the week ending Oct. 3 the following results:
Through Boulogne, 2,274 passengers; through Calais, 360.
The oorrespondusg week of last year shows : Through Bou-
logne, 2,138 possesses ; through Calata, 419. The 2,274
n through Boulogne may be classed as follows :
pa. Bowen
618 ; from Dover, 175 ; from London,
246 ; total, 1,039. To Folkestone, 658 passengers ; to Dover,
313 • to Ramsgate, 2 ; to London, 262 ; total, 1,23.5.
THE STREET MCSIC PLAGUE.—Sir,—Allow me
to thank you for the just and very sensible remarks in your
paper of to-day, on that intolerable nuisance, " the hurdy-
surly." Pray continue them till it be abated. I em of •
profession requiring quietude, but not a day passes that I
am not hourly annoyed by this Italian plague, and my only
remedy is to give the offender into custody of • policeman,
in ease be refuse to move on after due notice ; but, when a
policeman is required, it unfortunately too frequently blip-
pens there is not one to be found ; beside, the offending
vagabond can see the length of the street, and, knowing all
you can legally do, grinds away till a policeman comes in
sight, and then scampers off. Now, sir, as a partial remedy,
it would be useful if these vagrants were compelled to carry
on their organs, in a conspicuous position, the name and
address of the owner ; so that, after offending and repeating
the offence, he could he summoned before a magistrate.—
Oct. 7.—Ease.