The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-12 00:00:00

rbt court.

WINDSOR, MONDAT.—The royal dinner party at
the Castle this evening is expected to include the Duchess of
Kent, the Duke of Holstein Glucksburg, Prince William
of Holstein, Count de Reventlow, Lord J. Russell, Viscount
end Viscountess Palmerston, the Lady in Waiting of the
Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Lord E. Howard,
Miss L. D. Darner, and Sir G. Cooper.

Earl Grey arrived in town last evening, from the
soot of Earl FitrwiDiana, near Rotherham, Yorkshire. Sir
(3. Grey arrived fa town yesterday evening, from his seat
FallodOn, Northumberland. The Duke and Duches. of
Buccleuch returned to town on Saturday night, from Gos-
port.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo.
nial-office, from the Governors of New South Wales and
Cape Coast Castle.

ACCIDENT TO TILE. PRINCE. OF WALES AND THE
PRINCESS ALICE.—A Lilliputian Java pony, not more than
27 inches in height, generally accompanies the royal family
during their rides in the Rome-park. Yesterday morning,
while the Prince and Princess were taking their exercise, at-
tended by the grooms and one of their governesses, the Java
pony having displayed tome curious antics, the two Shetland
poniee, ridden by the l'rince of Wales and the Princess
Royal, started off at full speed before the grooms had power
to secure them, each bolting across the park in a different
direction. The Prince of Wales fortunately retained his
seat, showing great skill in the management of his steed.
The Princess Royal, however, not having the same command
over her pony, was thrown from her seat, providentially
alighting upon the turf without sustaining the least injury.
The royal children lost no time in proceeding to the Castle,
arriving :there before the news of the accident had reached
her Majesty or the Prince Consort. Not the least blame is
attached to the grooms in attendance.

TILE QUEEN DOWAGER AND JENNY LIND.-
Shortly before the departure of the Swedish prints donna
the Queen Dowager gave a small party to her moat intimate
friends, at Marlborough-house. During the evening an
apartment, which had been previously prepared as a concert-
room, was thrown open, into which the guests were intro-
duced, and where they beheld the whole of her Majesty's
household assembled. Presently Jenny Lind made her
appearance, and delighted the auditory with her Swedish
melodies. Other performers also contributed to the amuse-
ment of the evening. It was thus that her Majesty—with
a kindness which has rendered her so unusually respected
and admired—gave those in her service an opportunity of
hearing the greatest of living singers, who would otherwise
have been deprived of thatgranflos__, non.

A NEV LEADER OF TILE OPPOSITION.—In obedience
to the advice put forth in the Quarterly—that the conserva-
tives should content themselves with criticising the measures
of the government, rather than originate measures of their
own—that party have resolved on changing their leader.
Lord George Bentinck is, we understand, to be superseded
by Mr. Merrier in the unenviable post of leader of the appo-
sition in the new parliament.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN JAMES BOXER, R.N.—Capt.
J. Boxer expired at his residence, Snargateetreet, Dover, on
Tuesday morning last, aged 69. Capt. Boxer had seen much
hard lighting in early life. lie entered the navy about the
year 1791, and retired from it on half-pay at the close of the
late French war. He was made a post captain in the year
1813, and was one of the retired captains whose pay was
lately increased to 20s. per diem. When a boy Capt. Boxer
sailed with Sir Sydney Smith, and woo taken prisoner by
the French, along with that gallant officer. He was mate
of the Tigre, and commanded a gun-boat at the siege of St.
Jean d'Acre (by Bonaparte), and in the expedition to Egypt
was lieutenant of the Pompeii at Copenhagen ; commanded
the Skylark at Walcheren; and, in company with the
Locust, engaged a flotilla near Calais, destroyed one vessel,
and captured another, in 1811.

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.
A court of the magistracy of the county of Mid-
dlesex was holden yesterday at Hirka's-hall, Clerkenwell.
The chair was oecupied by Mr. H. Formal. According to
the list, the business for the day was to receive from the
various parochial officers of the county returns of the annual
value of the property in each parish, upon which the justices
were to act in laying a county rate for the ensuing year;
bat, instead, the court proceeded to receive and consider the
report of a committee of justices, appointed in 1545, to pre-
pare a fair and equal county rate, which report was pre-
sented on the 7th of September last. After reciting the
powers under which the committee acted, the report stated
that
The eommitree prepared a fair and equal county rate, a ropy of
which was printed -and sent to every acting justice of the prate for the
...guy, and to the overseer= of the poor of every parish and Orme in
thepty,
county Ortele to contribute to the county rate. Objections to the
mewed rate were received from twenty-one parishes end three extra-
onmeldal Idyls, and the committee met at the Sessions Gorse and
hardin public such of the parties making objections as desired to he
beard, mil Incing taken into their consideration the objections and
the evidence and atutementi in so of them, the committee cot-
reeted the proposed rate in of six parishes and three extra
cowbird rOlee. by making dealoothste he the amount in the whole of
ar.il confirmed the other ;wiped aseesements, and In several
instances with the assent of the pieties interested; and the com-
mittee anal) Approved the proposed rate so corrected, o
amounting to
the rum of
being an Addition ........... 24386,874
to the present county rate of £6,367,456
The rates usually assessed annually for county pupped amount to
three pence and one farthing in the pound, and which, under the
assessment now in operation, produce the sum of 841,225/.; but In
the event of the rate now proposed both^. allowed and confirmed by
the Court of quarter Sertion% the future rates will probably sot ex.
teed annually two pence and three farthings in the pound, which,
upon the assessment of 7,734,330 r. will prawns the sum of 05,0101.,
being 2,62.0'. more than Is now collected under a rating of 31d. In the
pound. The committee had tested the importance of the system they had
adapted by calculations which prove that while the rateable value cd
the property in each of forty-two parishes is creamed at sums exceed-
ing their proportion of the last raw, yet by the general assessment and
glring to those perishes the benefit of an equal rate, they will re-
meetuely contribute in a reduced proportion to the proposed in.
erased rate. As is of the effect of the propoeni system It mac
be mentioned: the parish of Saint Martin-in-the-lields is proposed to
increased 14,3701» in other words, that in future the rates shall be
charged upon so much more than the amount on which the pariah's
mw charged being an increase of nearly 6 per tent.; but the effect of
the equa:vatton is to cause that pariah to pay toward the proposed rate
a nuance proportion of 519 parts of 1,000, or more than one
half per cent. The parishes of hilat Gilts-in-the-Melds and Saint
George. Bloomsbury, are increased 31,818/., or about tic per cent.
tat they will contribute to the proposed rate by s reduced proportion
or rather more than one quarter per cent. The pariah of Saint Pan-
eras L. increa(ed 50,810., or nearly 16 per ceps.; hut it will pay • re-
dated pr portion of nearly one half per cent. The parish of Saint
Ilarylebone incensed :147.337.1.,:0r about 174 per cent. ; but the
comparative proportion will be less by morethan one half per cent.
Following the report, there is a table showing the value at
which the property in the several parishes has been assessed,
and the value at which the justices propose to assess it
under the new system. The parish of St.Oeorge, Hanoser-
square, is now assessed at the annual value (according to the
parish returns) of 627,220/., while the justices consider that
it might be fairly assessed at 828,732/. The pariah of St.
James shows a still greater discrepancy; it is now assessed
according to the returns of the parochial authorities at
240,9.)61., and the justices in their abstract represent its
annual value as 421,9481.—near1y double—and at which
sum it is proposed to rate it. There are many other parishes
with variations equally striking.
Mr. FItEANFIELD, chairman of the committee, in a long
speech moved that the report and the proposed rate receive
the sanction of the court.
Mr. BENJAMIN HALL seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously.
The VESTRY CLERK of St. James's informed the court that
the churchwardens and overseers of that pariah were in
attendance, and were prepared to submit to the court the
usual returns of the annual value of the rateable property in
that parish. They took this step as they were greatly dine-
hefted with the estimate of the justices, and if the court re.
'
hued to receive such returns, it would be made one of the
pounds of appeal against the new rate.
The CHAIRMAN said the court could not receive the re-
turns. The information required had been otherwise ob-
tained by the committee, and it would be acted upon, at
lean at present.
Mr. Buzzelth, the clerk, again urged the court to receive
the returns, but they were positively declined.
After a vote of thanks to Mr. Freshfield, the court
adjourned.
LORD HOLLAND'S Parut.—Mr. Bodkin, attended by Mr.
Brown, agent to Lord Holland, was in attendance, to apply,
on behalf of his lordship, for the sanction of the court to
certain alterations proposed to be effected on his lordship's
property at Kensington. His lordship is desirous of divert-
ing a public footpath which runs across his park from the
Great Western-road to the Uxbridge, by constricting
mother road in a direct line from Earl's-court.lane to the
Csbridgeroad, by which his lordship's park would assume
a much more private character. A similar measure was pro-
peed some years ago by the late Lord Holland, but it failed
before an active opposition raised against it. However, the
present proposal, being a more liberal one, had met the
approval of the vestry and of the highway board of commis-
sioners; but in consequence of certain notices being signed
otherwise than directed by the act of parliament, the appli-
cation wu withdrawn, until the technical defect be
remedied.

That theMemTertigais of this manias am n% Sad bfftby
'Wine ps'a• et Omit Bitten and Infra. ter it Ws sod ea-
sel MEM same' e 4 int wisessto Mlle Pins Ms
senstem he he golleheismesMatien et lessismied pmts.
The meosedlngs era, Ming by a vote of thanks to the
chairman. who, in Menne testimony to the virtues and high
as ttaiimmle of Dr. Whisme, observed, that he believed the
time we met very tar Meant when that distinguished stele-
sir& meld be greeted by them, not as the Vicar of Lon-
don, bat es Arabishop of Westminster. (Loud cheers.)
lodged, be bed been favoured with the perusal of a oommu-
niceties *OS !tense which justified him in almost stating it
as a fut. (Renewed cheers.)

ARRIVAL OF Ma. CORDEN.-Richartl Cobden, Esq.
M.P., arrived in London yesterday morning by the General
Steam Navigation Company's mail steam-ship Countess of
Lonsdale, R. S. Steanack, which vessel left Hamburg on
Saturday.
LONDON PHILANTHROPIC E•OctErf. -A public
meeting of the friends and supporters of the London Phi-
lanthropic Society, established for the relief of deserving
poor during the winter season, was held yesterday evening
in the great room of the Hall of Commerce, under the
presidency of Mr. tinder-Sheriff D. W. Wire. The chair-
man opened the proceedings of the evening with an eloquent
speech, in which he strongly urged the claims of this
to the support and sympathy of the public. Theo=
annual report was read by the Rev. J. B. Talbot, on behalf
of the secretary, and from the document it appeared that
the distinguishing feature of the society wan that of extend-
ing relief, in bread and coals, to those who are reduced to
poverty and distress. Every subscriber was, under
the rules and constitution of the charity,, his own
almoner, and was supplied (for distributiou) with
tickets for 41b. loaves and 561 be. weight of coals, to
the full amount of his subscriptions, and an additional num-
ber arising from the contributions of benevolent donors to
the charity. To show the progress which the society bad
made since its first establishment, the committee submitted
the following statement of its annual increasing income :-
In the first year its finances amounted to 271. 6s. 73d. ; in
the woad year, to 2.5/. 18e. 31d ; in the third year, to
12.51. 120.; in the fourth year, to 1811. 164.; and last year to
2761. 140. During the past winter the committee had dis-
tributed among the subscribers 4,700 tickets for bread and
coals, sad had endeavoured to extend the benefits of the
charity as far as the funds would permit. The balance-sheet
for the past year, as audited, showed the amount of the re-
ceipts to have been 2761. 14s. 61, comprisiag a balance of
5/. 153, at the hut audit, and 2701. 19s. 6d. arising from do-
nations and subscriptions. The disbursements were
stated to be far relief administered in bread and
coals, in casual relief of the poor, 2411. 17s. The
expenses were 321. Ss. ; leaving a balance to the
credit of the charity of 21. 19s. 6d.-On the motion of the
Rev. Flood Woodman, seconded by the Rev. Joseph Brown,
M.A., the report was adopted and ordered to be printed, and
the committee and officers were reappointed. The neat re-
solution was moved by the Rev. James Mirams, of Kenning-
ton. It was to the lfect-" That whilst deeply deploring
the state of suffering to which so many thousands ore reduced
from comfort and independence, and which there is reason
to fear will be greatly augmented during the approaching
winter, the meeting could not but rejoice that through the
continued and increasing favoar shown to the London Phi-
lanthropic Society, there is every prospect of the charity
being enabled to distribute its benefits throughout a largely
extended sphere, in alleviating the sorrows of many thou.
sands of those who are doomed to suffer; and that the objects
of the London Philanthropic Society were entitled to the con-
sideration of the humane and benevolent, and the meeting
pledged itself to cooperate with the committee in carrying oat
its laudable objects."-The resolution was ably seconded by
Dr.'Abrahams, and passed without a dissentient voice.--On
the motion of the Rev. J. B. Talbot, seconded by Mr. Thos.
West, the last resolution, " That the thanks of the meeting
be given to the committee and officers of the society for their
services during the past year; to David W. Wire, Eeq., for
his kindness in presiding on the present occasion ; and, also,
to Edward Moxhay, Esq., for his liberality in allowing the
use of the Hall of Commerce far the meeting free of charge,"
also passed unanimously.-A donation of 10/. was ancounced
as haring been received from Baron Rothschild, M.P. ; and
it was also stated that Lord Dudley C. Stuart, M.P., had
consented to preside at the next anniversary festival of the
society.
THE HEWLETT FUND.-Yesterday a meeting of
subscribers to the fund for the relief of the family of the late
Rev. J. T. Hewlett wan held at the Freemasons' Tavern.
Rowland Alston, Esq., M.P., in the chair. The meeting
was convened by public advertisement, for the purpose of
appointing trustees to manage the fund, and to authorise the
transfer of all the money collected into the hands of such
trustees ; but in consequence of some of the London sub-
scribers having declined to sanction the meeting so convened
there was a very small attendance.-The Chairman, Mr.
Eden, Mr. Welsby, and others present, addressed the meet.
ing to the effect that their only object was that the whole
money collected should be placed in the hands of trustees,
who would apply it in the manner most beneficial
for the children of the diceued. For this pur-
pose active and working trustees should be appointed.
They had no objection to the appointment of Dr. Russell
and the Earl of Devon as two of the trustees, as had been
suggested by Mr. Meinwright, but were of opinion that
younger men would be more suitable. The Essex subscribers
and the Freemason subscribers were ready to fraternise, and
it could arise only from some misconception that the London
subscribers did not come forward and co-operate with them.
They felt no jealousy towards any individuals, and would
concur in the appointment of any eligible trustees. Their
only desire was that the subscriptione, which amounted to
nearly 3,0001., should be invested to the best advantage for
the benefit of Mr. Hewlett's children. They did not think
it would be advisable to place it in the Court of Chancery,
es that would not be a profitable mode of investment.
A resolution was therefore proposed by Mr. Welsby,
and seconded by Mr. Alston, jun., adjourning the
meeting to the 15th of November, in the anxious hope that
all gentlemen who interested themselves in collecting sub-
scriptions would attend, and 'proposing to submit to such
meeting the propriety of lancing the whole subscriptions
under one fund. It was also proposed and seconded that
the Rev. Dr. Russell be requested to take the chair at that
meeting.
SUPPLY OF GAS FNI THE SOUTHERN DISTRICTS OP
LoNooN,-A meeting of the inhabitants of Lambeth and
Southwark was held yesterday evening, at the Elephant and
Castle, to receive the report of a committee recently ap-
pointed to inquire into the comparative rates (per 1,000 feet)
at which gas is furnished to consumers in different districts
of the kingdom. Mr. Brown having been called to the chair,
Mr. Savage, a member of the committee, proceeded to cam-'
municate to the meeting the information which had been I
obtained on the subject. lie stated that the committee, of
which he was a member, had been appointed at a former
meeting held at the George, Camberwell, to inquire into the
cause of the high prices charged for gas in the southern dis-
tricts of the metropolis. The committee had ascertained the
prices of gas throughout the kingdom to Le : Wakefield, 44. (id.
per 1,000 feet ; Manchester, 4e. 6d. ; Birmingham, 61. Bel.,
proportionally less to consumers of large quantities ; Devon •
port, Brighton, east end of London, and Canterbury, 6s. Bd.;
Dorchester, Norwich, Yarmouth, and Hull, 6s. Bd. ; city of
London and west end, Deptford, Ipswich, Exeter, Welling.
ton, and Taunton, 71.; Itamsgate, 7s. 6d. ; London street
lamps, ss. ; while in the southern districts of London,
Southwark, Lambeth, Camberwell, &c., the charge is equal
to Bs. per 1,000 feet. The price of coal in London had been
urged in justification of the comparatively high price of gee ;
but as the products of the distilled coal defrayed its first
cost, that could not fairly be adduced as an argument.
Mr. Savage proceeded to quote an extract from the Daily
News of the 27th Sept., showing the refeirmation which had
bees effected in Manchester in the rateage of gas lights. He
thseghtthat • deputation should be appointed to wait on the
three itmetpuilee which supply the southern districts, to state
the Mt. he bed osuaterated, and to urge upon them the
I mreessity of a vediestime fa their prices.-Mr. Dowling said
that one of thaw companies charged Ss. in the borough,
I while dawn at Greenwich they only charged 65.-Mr.Ward
said that the commercial company supplied their customers
at 65., and still were enabled to pay a dividend of five.
and-a.half per cent. Another gentleman said that
living close to the London Company he paid 81., while
as he understood, in Leicester-square, the other side of the
water the same company charged only 7a-Mr. Savage
stated that in North Shields the inhabitants had saved
' nearly one-half by establishing gas-works of their own;
and in Canterbury a threat to do the same bad reduced the
price from lls. to 6s. per 1,000 c. feet. A deputation was
then appointed to wait on the companies to urge a redaction
to 7s. per 1,000 c. feet, and the meeting separated.
TILE TREASURY AND TILE COUNTY COURTS.-It
appears, from a Treasury circular to the judges of the county
courts, issued on the 21st ult., that it is the retention of the
government to carry into effect the provisions of the 29th
and 40th section' of the act 9th and 10th Viet., c. 95, for the
more easy recovery of small debts and demands in England,
by placing the judges, clerks, and other officers of the county
courts upon salary from and after the Whist. We sincerely hope
that the government will order that a sufficiently remunera-
tive salary be given the sub-bailiffs, whose duties are really
very laborious and difficult, and some of whom, especially in
large agricultural districts, have had to travel a distance of
20 miles for the paltry pittance of ls. 81d., the high-bailiff
pocketing the other ls. 81d, ; 3a. 3d. only being allowed on
a claim of 20s. fur that distance. This is too bad, and the
Lords of the Treasury ought to see that those men who do
the hardest and most work are the best paid.
THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN
RAILWAT.-The better to avoid the recurrence of acci-
dents on this line similar to that which took place at Wim-
bledon recently. the following instructions have been issued
from the secretary's office, sad are now in full force
" That every engine-driver and every guard of the mail,
goods, and other night trnies, communicate by an exchange
of signals withevery station and gate-keeper, whether the
trains call at such station or not ; and that further, if flues-
sarb additional men be appointed to that duty."
FIRE IN WATER-LANE, BLACKYRIARS. - Laat
evening, at a quarter past seven o'clock, the premises belong-
'se to Messrs. Whitaker and Co., furniture brokers, of 28,

PUBLIC MEETING TO SUPPORT THE POPE.
A public meeting of Roman catholics was held last
night, at the Albion, Aldersgate-street, for the purpose of
misting Pope Pius IX., fits.
The Rev. J. Howie, on being called to the chair, congra-
tulated the meeting and all lovers of rational freedom on the
happy change which bad taken place in the critical position
dthe Pope within the last five weeks, having, without the
me of a single be onet, but by his magnanimity of heart
and his undaunted courage, risen superior to every difficulty
sod triumphed over the foes of his country and of constitu-
tional freedom. (Cheers.) He had shown himself worthy
not only of the glorious title of spiritual father of Christ' es.
dom, but grand prototype of even, monarch in the world,
his fostering care and practical advancement of civil as
SA religious liberty.
The following resolution, were then unanimously agreed
to, having been proposed by the Rev. Mr. KELLY, who
lauded the political conduct of the Pope, observing that
his desire was to establish just laws and equal paid.
loges ; by Rev. Mr. KYNE, who eulogised the personal and
literary character of Dr. Wiseman, and congratulated the
Roman catholics of this country on his appointment to the
London Vicariate u Bishop of Mello us, at the present
moment so eventful to the interests of the catholic church ; by
lie. OEI•WOOD, who likewise made some remarks on the ad
vent/4ns to be derived from the appointment of so eminent a
nun—a man capable of defending their rights and privileges,
and of securing justice at the hands of the government to**
Roman catholic', not of this country alone, but of our colo-
nies: by Rev. H. ITEMS, who spoke for some time to show
that the Roman catholic church was essentially liberal, awl
OM that it, by the teaching. of its divines, reprobated despot.
Ism in every sliape—despounn being, in the words of St.
Thomas, no government at all: by Mr. Sutra, Dr.
DZEPoEY, &C.:
That rope Pius the 9th has woo for himself the admiration and
osbourde I esteem of every lover of rational liberty, by the commie
bnisisenres of his policy, the practical wisdom of his views, and the
renal impulse be has given to civil, social, and national ameliora-
tion . that, as the free citizens of a constitutional state, and feeling,
as we de, that rational liberty and religious freedom are the McAllen-
alrabirthtight of every man, no matter what may be Inserted, dims,
manor, we deem It our solemn duty to proclaim before the wQW
oar watiinenta, and to aid and anise Pius the 9th by every lawful
IBMs In OUT power in his present arduous' but glorious straggle
Vent the abettors of tyranny, civil and religious, and the foes of
Nueltuticrnal governesest.
11led, •hfle we are ever ready to receive with :Ternivive.r.rpost
ruler

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tad reverence any apiritstal .....er rest us by the holy we, well know. .
, were disoovered to be on Hie. The
birth, *Pedal guidance sine it from above, still the appeinunent Waterline, Bina— Mari.
0/ the illustrious Bahop Wiseman to the ectleciastical government building, which was three floors high, contained in the lower
tettar. e tion vicariate at Ode
particular erica of the catholic church portion a great quantity of furniture. At the time of the
Lbw... . peculiarly gratifying to our feelings and movie- outbreak .Ir and Mrs. Whitaker were from home, but one
OW we cannot help thus publicly exprewing our gratitude and
that. to the holy father for his prompt and auspicious ap. of the lodgers and her three children were in one of thethat.
Ointment. upper rooms, and it was with great difficulty that they ee.
That while we congratulate his holiness on the maw of his efforts taped. With as little delay as possible several e=
la repelling the unjust agirrewions of Austria, we cannot conceal from arrived ; the flames, however, continued to travel,
theorise* the fact, that thew noble efforts must have ooradderahlY upon everything of an ignitable character, until the
added to the embarrasaments of the papal treasury; that, therefore, miles were nearly gutted. The damage must be
ooeelilß
we all upon all the catholic of the world to unite with us, by their ~,
!Mimi, mil pecuniary contribution, in freeing the holy see tram ay.., the
,en ire . f stock in trade being. destroyed. Yam
'I. 6,theivil embiumeamenta so nut the supreme peva of the Whitaker 's loss will be covered by an insurance in the NM
earth on earth may be free and unsbackted henceforward in manor. Fire Office. How the fire originated could not be akar-
Ina the affairs of the church, and dealing with the diffemvt govern- rained. The fire has been attended with fatal consequences
'Amu'
r't the world; that, to °°Dardwiee with 'hew 'W.' and sent!- to an elderly female, who lodged in the upper part of the
!mu, 0 collection be now made, and that the Bev. Wm. Kelly, of house, and known as Miss Purday, a teacher of music. At
vulva., ..hauld be appointed treasurer • and that he and the Be.J.
*Me be requested to
logeforard the 'to our holy tab.., with &II twenty minutes past nine o'clock, whilst Flemming, one oil
*kW uptiosin ot OW oan andrias attaeanest. the brigade nun wu removing the furniture that had not