The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-08 00:00:00

Ine Court,

• WINDSOR., Nov. 7.
The Queen walked in the Home Park and the
Slopes this morning.
the l'rinee of Wales, the Prince.; Royal, and younger
members of the Royal Family took their accustomed play
and walking exercises.
Prince Albert went out shootinz this morning, attended
by Colonel lion. Charles Grey, Colonel F. li. Seymour,
and Mr. Ormsby Gore.
The Dowager Lady Littelton and the Hon. Caroline
Lyttelton, and the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, are ex-
pected at the Castle to-dry, on a visit to her Majesty.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party last
evening.

The finance committee of the Royal Communion for the
Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 18.51
had a meeting yesterday at the Board of trade. There were
present Earl Granville (chairman), Sir Wm. Cabin, Mr.
Baring, M.P., Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Bewring (were-
tary),lr. Cole, Mr. Dilke, and kr. Carpenter, attended.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Leslie, chairman of the
London Coach-makers' Committee, Messrs. Booker, Thrupp,
Peters, Robson, Rowley, Turner, and Shillibeer, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday
at his official residence in D4wniug-street.
Sir W.M. Colebrooke had an interview with Earl Grey at
the Colonial-office yesterday.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of Malta.
. . .

Despatches were sent off from the Colonial-office yesterday
to the Governor of Canada and the Governors of the other
North American provinces.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday
evening for Windsor Castle.

(From butt night's Gazelle.)
DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 7.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Alexander Williams Anderson, Esq., to
be Inspector of Schools for the Island of Trinidad.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 6.—The naval war medals
(not including those for the Burmese war) for which claims
were preferred prior to the Ist Sept. last, will be ready for
issue. either on personal application, or by letter addreised
to the Secretary of the Admiralty, on and after Monday the
10th inst. By command of their lordships, J. valises.

It is now rumoured that Mr. Senior's appoint-
ment to the place in the Indian council, left vacant by the
death of Mr. Bethune, is not certain. Mr. C. Villiers and
Mr. Roebuck hare been talked of for it.

THE Baerrr.—The Brevet will, as we have
already stated, be published in the Military Gazette of Tues-
day evening next, the 11th inst., and will extend to the
names to which we have already alluded, viz., to the heat:
generals of 1838, includirut Lord C. Manners; to the major-
generals of 1841, including Major-General Aitchison; to the
colonels of November, 1811, as tar as Colonel Chamberlayne
may ; and to the lieut.-colonels, majors, and captains of
1840. This brevet will cause a number of changes in the
stall, as well as the regimental appointments of the army.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

For awhile after the formal closing of the Ex-
hibition, its portals, which now remain wide open throuhg-
out the day, to facilitate the escape of its vast con-
tents, have been usually surrounded by a number of
persons anxious to take a final glance at its departing
treasures; but 'within the last day or two the waggons
have been suffered to leave unregarded, and people
for the most part seemed reconciled to look upon the Great
Exhibition as amongst the things that have been. It may be
mentioned, in connexion with the Exhibition, that a handsome
silver teapot and jug have been presented by the district
superintendents to Mrs. Belshaw, as a mark of their esteem
for the manner in which Mr. Ilelshaw performed his very
arduous and responsible duties us general superintendent.

A morning contemporary has the following ac-
count of the arrangement with Messrs. Fox and
Henderson regarding the building:

The report agreed to by the Royal Commission at their
meeting on Thursday was not the only important feature of
their proceedings on that day. They also had under their
consideration the question of their agreement with Messrs.
Fox and Henderson, the contractors, and the validity of
those equitable claims founded thereon to which the cha-
racter of the work and the outlay in its completion have
given rise. Before we state the terms of the decision at
which they arrived upon this subject it is necessary to ex-
plain a few facts, which may help the public to a sound de-
cision with regard to it. The original contract for the
building provided that a sum of 79,8001. should be paid for
the use of it towards the purposes of the Exhibition, and
in the event of its purchase the price was fixed at
1.30,0001., but it had also attached to it a schedule of
prices according to which all additional work nut included
in the specification was to be executed. The additional
work so provided for and found to be required in the pro-
gress of the undertaking raised the contemplated expendi-
ture of 79,800/. for the hire of the building to 1(19,0001.,
and that amount has been nearly paid under the strict terms
of the contract. When, therefore, the period arrived fur a
final settlement with Messrs. Fox mid Henderson, sup-
posing that the ltoyal Commission had determined to buy
the building, the price of 1.50,0001. fixed at the outset must
have undergone in conformity with their contract a propor-
tionate increase, and would have stood at about 20d,0001.
With the question in this position, it became known that
the contractors, pressed by time, by the addi-
tional outlay which it rendered unavoidable, by the
increased work put upon them, which made the
whole still more difficult to accomplish within a
limited period—deprived, too, in a great measure, of the
power of effectually controlling their outlay for labour, and
driven, as the public sill remember, to a day almost for the
completion of a work in which the credit of the country for
punctuality was deeply implicated—it became known that
if held to the :strict letter of their bond they would be
heavy losers. Then it must be remembered that the
transept roof and the architectural decorations of Mr.
Owen Jones and Mr. Barry were executed gratuit-
ously. The Royal Commission could not, under the cir-
cumstances, have stood rigidly upon their contract in the
event of its being determined that the building should be
pulled down. The very novelty of the undertaking pleaded
on behalf of the equitable claims which the contractors pee-
Bused upon their overflowing exchequer. It was, therefore,
foreseen that when the fate of the Crystal Palace had been
settled definitively, if its purchase right out was not
in some shape or other provided for, the amount that the con-
tractors were out of pocket in its construction must be taken
into serious consideration. the Royal Conimissiun have

not as yet, of course, finally decided with reference to the
building, but, unless we are very much mistaken, they have
approached so near a conclusion as to render the event
certain. Without waiting for the moment to which they
might have postponed Messrs. Fox and Ilenderson's equita-
ble claims, and when, had they been resolved to give up
the Crystal Palace, they could alone have considered those
claims advantageously to themselves and the public, they,
at their meeting on Thursday, adopted tho following
minute:—

"It was resolved that, although under ordinary circum-
stances the payment of a higher sum than that agreed upon
for work executed under a contract, after public tender, is
highly objectionable, and would establish a very dangerous
precedent, and although the commission could admit no
claim on the part of the contractors, yet that they were of
opinion that, under the circumstances recapitulated in the
report of Lord Granville and Sir William Cubitt, Messrs.
Fox, Henderson, and Co. should be secured against ultimate
positive loss, and that the sum of 3:40001., as recommended
in the above report, should be forthwith advanced to them,
upon their written agreement to abide by such terms and
conditions as the commission may hereafter prescribe.
" It was also agreed that the further questions raised in
that report, as to the final verification and settlement of the
accounts, and as to the conditions to be imposed in case of
the materials being sold for a higher sum than that esti-
mated, should be referred to the Finance Committee.
" The above conditions agreed to :
" CHARLES FOX,
"JOHN HENDERSON.

"Nov. 6, 18.51."

This document may fairly be accepted as an unmistake-
able proof that the Crystal Palace is to be preserved.
• • • • As long as the question of retaining the
building involved a sacrifice of not more than 79,000/., the
arguments pro and con might, perhaps, have been consi-
dered fairly balanced. When, however, the actual expen-
diture under the contract rose to 109,0001., and when it
became evident that beyond that amount the contractors
were serious losers, and under circumstances of such a chit-
meter that the Royal Commission could not equitably hold
them to the strict letter of their agreement, then the policy
of preserving the building could ns longer be doubted.
Obviously acting upon this conviction, the Royal Commis-
sion have adopted the foregoing resolutions, and as Lord
John Russell was present on the occasion, and, with Lord
Granville, voted in favour of them, it is no great stretch of
assumption to infer that the government are prepared to
complete the purchase of the Crystal Palace, and thus to
give effect to the wishes, not only of the public, but, if we
have not been misinformed, of the Queen herself upon this
, subject.

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.—The following line has been
laid down by the officer charged with the arrangement of
the Lord Mayor's Show, fur the procession from Guildhall
to Westminster, on Monday next:—The procession will
move from Guildhall at II o'clock precisely, and pass
through Gresham-street, Coleman-street, Fore-street, the
Pavement, West-street, "the north and cent sides of Fins-
bury-circus, Circus-place, London-wall, Moorgate-street,
Princes-street, King William-street, Adelaide-place, to
London-bridge, thence by water to Westminster; and will
return from Westminster to Blackfriars-bridge, and pass
through New Bridge-street, Ludgate-street, St. Paul's
Churchyard, Chcapside, and King-street, to Guildhall. At
the Obelisk, Bridge-street, the procession, on its return,
will be joined by the ambassadors, her Majesty's Ministers
of State, the nobility, judges, members of parliament, and
other persons of distinction invited to the banquet at
I Guildhall.

THE ACCOUNTS OP THE KING OF HANOVER'S
HEALTH, telegraphed to Berlin on the 4th, were less favour-
able than those of the two preceding days. The official
bulletin, issued at Hanover on the 3rd, stated:—The King
has passed a tolerable night , the symptoms remain un-
altered.

THE LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.-THE
INQUIRY AT PRESTON.

PRESTON, Nov. 7.
After our parcel was despatched yesterday, tho
examination of witnesses en behalf of the memorialists was
resumed on the re-assembling of the court.
Sir George Stephen was examined, and deposed that the
demeanour of the judge on the occasion of Mr. Whitty's
examination was most excited, and wanted both dignity and
calmness. lie remembered seeing a gesture used by the
judge while the witness Hartley was under examination,
and some words were used in an untlertobe—it was ei.her
dunce or ass. Was not a spontaneous witness, because ho
thought it was no part of counsel to become a partisan. The
judge held up his fist in this manner, and whether tho
word was dunce or ass, he said, " Don't you know we call
this in law a fist ?" Ilad read the short-hand writer's re-
port, and it was certainly faithful.
Mr. J. B. Aspinall, the barrister, was also examined.—
lle was present en the occasion of Mr. Whitty's appear-
ance before Mr. Itamshay, and it struck witness that the
judgo was exceedingly angry, and very much out of tem-
per. Never saw a judge on the bench cleaver judgment
in such an agitated manner before. The judge was ex-
ceedingly violent, and his violence wan entirely uncalled
for. Mr. Simon, the barrister, was treated with the great-
est possible violence by the judge. (Mr. ltamshay, who
was sitting immediately under the witness-box, here be-
came much excited, and threw his pin down on the table
with considerable violence.) Mr. Aspinall proceeded to say
that with the exception to which he referred, he had not a
word to say against Mr. Itainshay. The latter gentleman
here ruse, and made some observation which wan not heard;
the witness, addressing the noble lord on the bench, said,
"Mr. Itamshay says I have nothing to say for him now,
my lord ; I have to s.ty that he behaved with great courtesy
to me."

Mr. James Macdonald, surveyor, deposed that when the
bailiffs came for Mr. Whitty he was at that gentleman's
office ; and on the officers saying they had come to bring
him before the judge of the county court, witness asked if
Mr. Ramshay was having another banquet, and wished
Mr. Whitty to go to it. The bailiffs said " No; they bad
come to arrest Mr. Whitty." Mr. Whitty said he did not
choose to go, and they said, " Well, we must take you, for
he is going on like a raging bull se us." Witness asked
them if they had a warrant, and they said they had not.
lle then said they must be mad to come tar a man like
Whitty without a warrant, and the judge must be madder
than them to send them.

Dr. Matintyre was next examined, and corroborated the
testimony given as to the vio.ent demeanour of the judge on
the 27th of September.
John Jones, a native of North Wales, deposed to the facts
of his committal for contempt by Mr. ltamshay. It would
be absolutely impossible to conva.y any idea of the effect
produced by this witness, who, it will be remembered, was
sent to Lancaster Castle for putting on his hat in the anti-
room of the court. The Earl of Carlisle manifested a deep
interest in the poor fellow's narrative, which he detailed
with a simplicity and pathos at once affecting and ludicrous.
He had b en ordered into custody for not paying a debt of
205., and on getting into the waiting-room he put his hat
on; but before he had taken two steps, a malt came and
" grabbed" him. The witness suited the action to the word,
and seized hold of Dr. M'lntyre, who was sitting near him,
to exemplify the manner of his arrest. On being taken
before the judge, he said that he had no intention of doing
anything wrong, and was very sorry if he had offended his
lordship, but the judge said the people of Liverpool were
continually " contempting'• hint, and he would make an
example of those who were guilty of such -- " it was a
hard word," said the witness, " but I thought he meant
something dreadful." He was sentenced to pay a fine of
55., or an additional imprisonment of seven days in Lan-
caster Castle. Ile said lie was a pour man and had only a
shilling, and hoped his lordship would be merciful as 120
meant no offence, but the judge still sentenced hint to Lan-
caster Gaol.

Lord Carlisle—What, after you had twice apologised,
my man?
‘Vitncss—Yes, my honour, and after taking me to Preston,
the bailiff missed the train, and kept me in Preston all
night and all day Sunday, and when I was discharged from
Lancaster Castle I had only SAL left, and had to walk all
the way back to Liverpool.
His Lordship manifested great distress, (annoyance
would he ton weak a word), as Mr. ltanishay, at the con-
clusion of the witness's evidence, borrowed hall-a-sovereign
from Mr. Thurburn, the barrister, and presented it to
the witness. Just previously, Mr. ltamshay had inter-
rupted his counsel, to the mortification of Mr. Serjeane
Wilkins, who said, "If Mr. Haunshay would be advised by
me, he would take a horse and go into the country until
this inquiry is over." To Mr. Monk, his Lordship said,
in allusion to Mr. Itarushay's interruption, that, to say the
least, it was very disorderly.
This morning the examination of witnesses was resumed.

James Brown, tailor, was the first witness examined—Ho
detailed the circumstances attendant upon visiting tho
County Court at Liverpool on the 29th of September.
William Austin, a bill sticker, examined by Mr. Atkin-
son—Had been a bill sticker for nine years. It was tho
custom of newspapers in Liverpool to have bills posted con-
taining the heads of the news in the paper. Had been em-
ployed by Mr. Whitty since he had had the Journal. Wit-
ness posies! the bills for Mr. Whiny on the 27th of Septem-
ber. He posted one of the bills on a board near the county
court, on which there were all sorts of bills. Whitty did not
instruct witness to post the hill near the county court liad
posted a bill for Mr. Whitty, containing the words " County
Court Curiosities; " also another bill having in it a line,
" A Smart Breeze in the County Court , " another contain-
ing the words " Extraordinary Proceedings in the County
Cturt."

Mr. David beans, of Liverpool, solicitor—Was soli.
citor for the Guardian Society. had occasionally prac-
tised in the county court for his own clients. On the 25th
or 27th of September in the case of " Roster v. Mercer,"
which was an action fur rent, Mr. 'lime, solicitor for tho
plaintiff. proved that a quarter's rout was in arrear. Witness
called tire witnesses for the defence. The cling: had
been tried before a jury, and a verdict given for
the defendant ; a new trial was applied for, and
after evidence had been received on both aides, Mr. ]tam-
shay re-culled the plaintiff, and after having examined him
for three-quarters of an hour, he addressed the jury in a
long speech, altogether in favour of the plaintiff, urging all
he could against the evidence which had been adduced for
the defendant, and concluded by calling upon the jury, in
mercy to the defendant, to find a verdict fur the plaintiff;
" for," he said, " I have the power of granting a new trial
• hundred times."

Mr. William Duckworth, a merchant, of Liverpool, was
examined.—He was present on the 29th of September on
the examination of Mr. Whitty, in the Liverpool County
Court, when the conduct of the judge appeared to be wholly
unbecoming and exceedingly indecorous. lle seemed to be
labouring under the influence of great excitement and
strong passion. He refused to take evidence in favour of
Mr. Whitty, and altogether acted in a most partial manner.
A witness who said he was not struck, hut merely collared,
was prompted to say that Mr. Whitty, jun., held his list in
his face, and many other suggestions emanated from tho
judge entirely uncalled fur, and in witness's opinion grossly
improper.

Mr. Samuel Rolm°, a member of the Liverpool town
council, and a resident for 50 years in that town, deposed
that on the 29th September he went to the county court, in
consequence of there being great excitement on Change,
and witness went from a feeling of curiosity. At that time
he was very much prejudiced in Mr. Itamshay's favour, but
he soon found that continual interruptions took place be-
tween the bench and the bar ; and Sir George Stephen,
who was Mr. Whitty's advocate, had repeatedly to sit dosed
in despair. When he turned to pass sentence on Mr
Whitty his conduct was very undignified, and there
was a degree of ferocity in his countenance such
as he had never seen in a judge or a magistrate.
Captain Cook, superintendent of pihsts, described the ap-
plause which took place in Mr. liamsbay's court, on the
occasion of Sir George Stephen saying if en unauthorised
person were to enter his house without a warrant, he would
shoot him, as "a clap of cheering like electricity." lle
came forward on account of having received a circular from
the solicitors to the memorialists, and considering the con-
duct of Mr. Rumshay to be very undignified, and entirely
unbecoming a judge.
Mr. Quick, superintendent of police at Liverpool, corro-
borated the evidence as to the excitement of Mr. Itanishay,
when the expression of feeling broke out in his court, and
to the other circumstances connected with Mr. Whitty's
examination, including the direction to lock the doors, and
he would commit every person.
Mr. Monk said that he had examined these witnesses, be-
cause he thought it due to his lordship that after the ad-
journment the testimony of those who witnessed the occur-
rences in Mr. Itanishay's court should be laid before the
court, although merely corroboratory of the short-hand
writer's notes. Ile would place in the box Mr. Whitty, to
whom allusion had so frequently been made in the mune
of these proceedings, in order that the learned serjeant
might have an opportunity of asking him any questions,
and that would conclude tho case on behalf of the memo-
rialists.
Mr. Whiny was then called, but the learned aerjeaat de-
clined to " cross-examine upon nothing," and that gentle-
man was allowed to retire.
The evidence in support of the memorial having been
concluded,
Mr. Serjeant Wilkins applied to his lordship for au
adjournment of the case, until the 12th of January. Ile
said it was morally impossible that Mr. Ramshay could
meet a case which he did not know until he came into
that court.
The Earl of Carlisle said that there was very little evi-
dence brought forward which Mr. Ramshay was not aware
of, and which had long been matter of public notopeiy.
It was very desirable for the public interests that this in-
quiry should be closed as aeon as possible, and he would
not consent to an adjournment beyond Monday next.
An adjournment of the court until Monday next, at 11
o'clock, was then formally announced by the Attorney-
General for the Duchy.

Poiasmount, Not•. 7.—A court-martial was held
on board the Victory, flag-ship, to-day, to try Mr. Archi-
bald Armstrong, M.D., Assistant-Surgeon of the Hecate,
steam-sloop, on a charge of drunkenness, on the evening
of the 29th of October. On being called on for his defence,
the prisoner said he had nothing to say. Ile had not
during the examination of the witnesses put any questions
whatever to them, apparently treating the matter with in-
difference. The court having been cleared, and re-opened,
the decision was read, by which Mr. Armstrong was dis-
missed front her 3lniesty's service.

KOSSUTH.

INVITATION OF KOSSUTII TO

A letter has been received front M. Koebuth by-
the chairman of the Manchester committee, stating that he
would arrive in that borough On Tuesday morning next,
and would accept the invitation of Alex. Henry, Esq..
ps.F., of the Woodlands, to make the house of that gen-
tleman his home during his brief stay at Manchester. A
great number of Americans (principally commercial men)
have 'elided for tickets to be present at the reception in
the Free Trade Hall. The anxiety to obtain aiLtuis-
lion to the Free Trade Hall gains in intensity
as the meeting approaches. The correspondence from
gentlemen at a distance received by post at six o'clock in
the evening on Thursday fur tickets lot themselves and
families, was so great that the committee were occupied tall
twelve o'clock at night in going through it. Tree result
was a roolution, as the basis of future action, to the effect
that to secure as far u meaible to the working classes the
privilege of being present, they would limit the distribution
et tickets to the higher, in order to secure a fair proportion
to all cLuoes of applicants. From Oldham we learn there
has been a inciting called, upon a requisition to the mayor,
when an address to Kossut4 was voted, and great enthu-
siasm characterised the proceeding...