The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1846,

be Conn.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Du, hew of Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prince
Frederic of Hesse and suite, Viscount Palmerston, and Sir
Stratford and Lady Canning, left the Castle today.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
was to leave Wonley-hall yesterday, for Biahopstho:pe, near
York, on a Nita to the Archbishop of York.
His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, Count de
Syracuse, brother of the King of Naples, arrived in Lon-
don late on Monday night, and has preserved the strictest
incognito. The only persons who have visited his Royal
Highness were his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, the
Neapolitan Minister, and M. Minsesi, the Consul resident in
this capital. His Royal Highness took his departure on
Thursday night, for Dover, en route to the continent. While
in London the Princehas made extensive purchases of horses,
and also ordered several equipages. The younger brother of
the illustrious Prince is the Count de Trapani.
His Excellency Count Valentino de St. Martin, late
resident min'ster at the Brazils, from the court of Sardinia,
arrived at Mivart's Hotel, on Thursday, from Rio sle
Janeiro. His Excellency proceeds immediately to Constan-
tinople, to enter on his diplomatic duties as the Sardinian
Minister, in the room of the Marquis Pareto.
Viscount Palmerston returned to town yesterday
from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
The Lord Mayor, accompanied by Mr. Charles
Pearson, the City Solicitor, had an interview with Sir Geo.
Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
The Postmaster-General had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Sir John Rae Reid transacted business yesterday at
the Colonial-office. . -

The Earl of Uxbridge had an interview with Lord
John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing-
street.

The Marquis of Lansdowne returned to town yes-
terday from • vi.it to the Earl of Clartudon, at hi. seat,
Grove-park, Hens.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer returned to town
yesterday.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt had a meeting yesterday at the Treasury. The
Commissioners present were the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, the Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy-
Governor. Mr. Highara, Secretary and Comptroller-Gene-
ral, was in attendance.

[From last night's Gazette.]
ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, OCT. 5.—T BC Queen has
appointed Capt. the Hon. It. E. Boyle, of the Coldstream
Guards, to be one of the Grooms in Waiting in Ordinary to
her Majesty, in the room of Capt. H. Meynell, of the Royal
Navy.
COMMISSION BY TILE QUEEN.—E. J. Vaughan,
EK., to be adjutant of the Royal Csrmarthenshire Regiment
of

WAR-OFFICE, Orr. 0.
sth Drag. Gds.-Asaist.-Staff Burg. W. Arden to be assist..surg.,
vice Atheck, prom. in 74th F.
7th L. Dron.-Cor. W. Babington to be lieut., by pur., vice Ricario,
who ret.; F. A. Farrell to be our., by pur.
14th L Drags.-Cor. It. E. Fullerton to be lieut., by pur., vice
Williams, who net ; F. B. Hollinsbed to be cor., by pm.
13th L. Drags.-C. Townshend to be cor., by pur., vice Sir IL 11.
Edwarders Bart., whine appointment has been cancelled.
10th F.-Major G. B. Young, from 3114 F., to be major, vice Staun-
ton, who each.
11th F'.-Lieut. O. F. L. Ward to be capt., by pur., vice Fetheraton,
who mt.; Elm J. Roe to be lieut, by pur. ; P. D. rigors to be ens.,
by pur.
31M F.-Major 0. Staunton, from 10th F., to major, vice Young,
who each.
41st F.-Lieut. J. Eman to be rapt., without pur., vice Brevet Major
W. Dempster, who ret. upon f..p.; Em. F. Clark to be lieut., by pur.,
vice Page, who ret.: C. T. Came to be ens., by pur.
54th F.-Lieut. J. A. Skurray to be capt., without pur., vice Brevet
Major C. HUI, who rot. upon L-p.; FMB. H. Taylor to be lieut.
To be Ensigns without par., J. J. Hall, vice Taylor; A. Hunt, vice
Matthias, app. to 60th F. To be Surgeon Asalst.-kurg. C. Dawson,
Y.U., from 42nd F., vice Dolmage, removed from 6th L Drags.
65th F. -Lieut. J. Paul, from 31st F., to belicut., vice Mundell, app.
to 96th Regt.
69th F.-Lieut. C. F. Law to be emit., by pur., vice Magnay. who
; Ens. R. W. Mummy to be lieut., by pur.; H. H. Fell to be ens.,
bT Pur•
I4th F.-Assist-Sung, D. Affleck, from sth Drag. Gds., to be sung.,
vice Cumming, prom. on staff.
90th F.- En.. W. D. Freeman to be Bent., without put., vice M.
D. Freeman, dm.; Em. E. J. Mathias, from 54th F., to be ens.
99th F.-Lieut. P. Johnston to be wijt., vim Deering, who resigns
the adjutancy only.
lI.PITAL STAFF.—Surg. A. Cumming, ftcm 74th F., to be staff
surg. of the first clam, sits! J. halt, prom.: C. L Robertson, M.D., to
be assist. -staff surg., vice Arden. app. to sth Drag. Col..
Mr.VONANIA:II.—The names of the me. app. to 3rd B. Drags., on let
Apt il, 1846, are 0. E. F. Kauntze, not G. Kountre.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. OrT. B.
'loyal Engineers.—Second Capt. J. Coddington to be capt. ; Second
Capt. Sir W. T. Denison to be rapt., vice Lareom, pLicall on the se.
corded list.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of
public hu•incss, in the discussions upon which, it was occu-
pied till a late hour.
Lotto Its }WING e.—The Lord Mayor read the following
letter to the court :
"Simla, August 13.
"Mc Loin have had the honour to receive your lordship's letter
conveying, by the unanimous rem-finnan of the Court of taint Mayor,
Aldermen, and Commons of the City of Londyn, in Common Council
assembled, votes of thanks and congratulations, with the freedom of
the city. tonic, to the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian army, and
to Nlajor.General Sir Ilarri Smith, Bart , expristsieg the sense enter-
tained of the army of the Sutlej by the City of London. I have had
the pleasure to convey tot ach of my gallant friends thaw resolutions.
I beg to int-twin you, my lord, that 1 receive with the highest gratifica-
tion the honour tit being whnitted to the fnsekon of the City of Lon-
don, and the appnilaition hisatfweci upon me by coy' fellow citizen..
The enlightened views of the greatest coninuteuil community of the
British empire, over wh!cli jinn lord-hip presides, give a value to the
approlsition conferred which I esteem most 'liable. The British twiny
kn-iws of old the patriotic conduct of this great city, whieh has ever
'wen ready by its applause to animate the exertions of the navy and
army. In the performance of my duty I had the cordial coatwration
of my distininaislced colleague, the Commandcr-in-Cbief. I was sup-
ported by my gallant friends and comrade., the general otheere,
officer, and men of the army, and by their brave exertions in a short
but decisive campaign, peace was promptly made: and,. the Connell
has been pleased to resolve, the honour of the British army some*,
hilly maintained. I beg to acknowkdge the very hand.oine terms in
which your lordship has conveyed to me the involutions of the City ;
and I have the honour to subscribe myself, my lord, your lonlship'e
very faithful and obedient servant, Itsaetsos:
The letter, which was received with cheers, was ordered
to be entered upon the journals of the court.
THE QUESTION or THE CITY FREEDONE—Me. ASHURST
(the Chairman of the Freedom Committee) said that he was
directed to lay before the Court a report upon the reference
to advise as to the course proper to be pursued in the case of
the Chamberlain r. Short, in which, so was well known, a
vertFet had been pronounced against the right of the corpo-
ration to compel persons who were mere wholesale dealers
to take upon themselves the obligation of freemen. The
City Solicitor, under the express direction of the Court, had
taken the proper steps to have the question fairly tried,
whether persons residing or carrying on business in the City,
irrespective of retail trading, were liable, under the by-law
of the City, to the penalties which it imposed. Some doubts
appeared to exist whether an appeal to a Court of Error
would reverse that decision, and it had been referred to the
committee to take the advice of the law officers thereon.
The three gentlemen they had consulted differed in opinion.
The committee, therefore, thought it best to annex their
opinions to their report, and to take the direction of the
Court thereon.
The opinions of the Town Clerk, the Remembranacr, and
the City Solicitor, were then read. Mr. Serjeant Mere-
weather, the Town Clerk, and Mr. Tyrell, the Remem-
branctr, were of opinion that the verdict in Short's case
was bad, and recommended a new trial ; whilst Mr. Charles
I'earson, the City Solicitor, stated his belief that it would
not be advisable to bring a writ of error.
Mr. Amu-list' moved the Court should agree with the
committee in their report, which was to the effect that the
writ of error should remain in abeyance, that another avtion
should be brought, and that a county rate should be levied
on the inhabitants if counsel was of opinion that it could
be legally levied.
The ItECORDER, referring to the opinion of the Town
Clerk, said he should feel obliged if some member would pro-
pose as *question to that learned gentleman whether, with
all his extensive acquaintance with the records of the City, he
had been able toned a single instance in which the obligation
to take up the freedom bad h• en enforced against a whole-
sale dealer under the authority of the bye law referred to
Mr. ASH t itsT objected to the question as leading to a dis-
cussion of the learned recorder's decision as a judge in the
case referred to.
After some further discussion Mr. ANDERTON expressed
the opinion that the best thing the Court could do was to
abandon the law proceedings and apply to parliament to put
the matter upon its proper footing. (No, no.) Other per-
sons might differ in opinion, but he thought thatnothing but
parliament could give effect to the object which it was the
professed intention of the suit to achieve—namely, t I render
the opulent and respectable householders, merchants, traders,
and others, carrying on business in the city, capable of filling
corporate ctfices, and liable to the performance of the duty of
citizens.
The report was ultimately sent back to the committee for
reconsideration by a considerable majority.

SEAMAN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY. THE DREAD-
NOL'UHT.—A quarterly meeting of this society took place
yesterday, at the office in King William-street, City. John
Labouchi.re, Esq., presided. The secretary read the minutes
of the meetings of the committee during the quarter, and
also the report. The number of patients admitted to the
hospital-ship, the Dreadnought, from the Ist July to the
30th September, 1E46, were as follows :—From her Majesty's
ships, I, ; from British and foreign merchant vessels, G 00;
number on board on the Ist July, 133; at present on board,
149, of which five are convalescent, and two fit for duty ; the
number discharged during the quarter has been 594 ; total,
750. The number of patients re,eived since the first esta-
blishment of the hospital in 1821 is .32.88.5. The out-patients
for the last quarter were 474. The total receipts and die-
bur‘ernents of the society during the quarter were
2,180!. 10s. 4d., out of which a balsnce remained of
14471. Is. lid This statement appeared to give general
satisfaction, and concluded the business of the meeting, which
immediately separated.
SALE OF TURNPIKE TOLLS.—Yesterday a general
meeting of the trustees of the Surrey and Sussex roads was
held at the Sessions House, Newington, Surrey, for the pur-
pose of selling by auction the tolls (including the watering toll)
arising out of the several toll-gates and bars extending from
Newington-gate to East Grinstead, in the county of Sussex, in-
cluding Camberwell, Kennington-common, Vauxhall, King-
ston, and Croydon gates, &c. &c. They were to be let for
the term of one year, commencing at twelve o'clock on the
night of the 31st December, and were offered for competition
at the sum of 28,9001., over and above the expense of collect-
ing, at which price they were sold last year. After an active

competition they were knocked down for 30,2501., to Mr.
Jonas Levy, this being the highest amount they ever fetched.
About twenty years ago they produced 16,0001., and since
then several gates and side-bars leave been removed.
SATIN AND WA,IIIIOI:SP.S.—In common with many
longed in the eastern portion of the metropolis, I have read with
much pain of the opposinon which has been made in St. George's-ia-
the-East to the act for establishing baths and washhouses for the poor
in that parish. The want of baths in that district is felt by many be-
sides the poor. I know of inhabitant,. of Stepney who. tolheir great
inconvenience, are obliged to subscribe to the baths in Peertem-pool in
the City-road for want of good swimming baths which are nearer
to thein. My own reddence is at Blackwall ; and although I subscribe
to baths to London, it is seldom that my occupations here permit
rue M mike use of then ; and, when I cm repair to Lon-
don for the purpose of bathing, the expense is increased
by my having to ride one or both ways, if I would not make
too great • sacrifice of time in accomplishing the object. It is short-
sighted is the inhabitants of any of these parishes, where baths are so
much needed, to oppose them on the score of expense ; fur I am con-
vinced, so great is the need ielt of baths in this part of the metropolis,
that they would pay as a speculation. It is no answer to our com-
plaints of the want of baths., to tell us of our proximity to the Thames.
That tin rit constantly crowded with bouts. It Is why at a very early
or very late hour the persons can decently bathe in it, or are allowed
to do so, and it is only at high water that it is at all tempting to the
generality of bathers.—A Batumi.
MORE ABOUT FAMILY CLUB PALACES.—That the
union of several private residences under one roof would
improve the architecture of London, is unquestionable. If
it were properly carried into effect, we might live to see
palaces erected for the accommodation of the middle classes,
instead of interminably rows of mean dwellings, which de-
press the spirits of all who behold them. The system would
also be most advantageous in preventing the inconvenient
extension of the metropolis. Each family should have its
own distinct domicile, but that there should be an establish-
ment of servants common to the whole club, and under the
management of a committee. In regard to meals, it is pro-
posed that the system adopted in other clubs should be
carried out in this. A scale of charges would be prepared
for every description of meal, and for wines and other articles
of consumption, which would be limited, as nearly as pos-
sible, to the actual cost. These could at all times be obtained
by persons iu their private chambers, exactly in the same
manner as at a hotel, or in the coffee-room of a
club. It is most probable, also, that in a club of this high
character, each family would require a footman and a
lady's-maid, for whom accommodation is to be provided.
But economy and luxury alike suggest the propriety of
establishing a table d' l'de, at which all the members of the
club could dine whenever they pleased. Under this
scheme of a family club, all parties would be independent
of each other in their social arrangements, but might asso-
ciate as much as they pleased without trouble or expense ;
while they would all participate alike in the luxuries of a
large and well-managed establishment. Free from the
cares of house-keeping, they would enjoy the pleasures of
home; and though luxuriating in the proverbial " ease " of
a man " in his inn," they would forfeit no advantages by
which every man is surrounded whose "house is his
castle." In conclusion, I have only to add, that being my-
self " a married man without ineumbrance," I shall be must
happy to offer myself as a member of the first club which
may be proposed upon these principles, and that I know of
others who wish the plan all possible success, and are
anxious to join in so agreeable a tellowship.—Correspondent
of "'The Builder."
LEECITES.—Some time since the captain of an
East Indiaman purchased, fir exportation to the Cape of
Good Hope, '20,000 leeches at Maira-, where they are caught
in considerable numbers, and of a very tine quality. As
leeches arc at present somewhat scarce in this country, it is
considered that they might he imported into England from
Madras, by the overland route, or even round the Cupe, and
yield a profit to the importers.
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TREATMENT OF CONVICTS.—OR Saturday last, a
convict keeper belonging to the Justitia hulk, at Woolwich,
named J. Knowles, had charge of several prisoners employed
in cleaning shot and shells. The keeper au.pected that a
man, named William Ffrench, had some tobacco conce.ded
about his person, and first proceeded to feel his mouth, in
order to detect it. Not finding any, he ordered the prisoner,
who is sixty-one years of age, into an open shed, and in the
sight of the bystanders, compelled him; to strip himself to
his shirt, and remain tur some time in this position, but
without being able to discover any tobacco. We are assured
that this is not by any means a solitary example of such in-
dignity.
A SCIENTIFIC VETERAN.—Our obituary announces
the death of Mr. William Anderson, F.L.S., at his resi-
dence, at the Physic Gardens of the Apothecaries Company,
at Chelsea, in hi, 80th year. He had been for upwards of
.50 years in their employ, as director and curator of the gar-
dens, and was the last of the early contemporaries of the
late Sir Joseph Banks, through whose influence he obtained
the appointment in question. Mr. Anderson, who was a
Seotchman, and originally a journeyman gardener, was soon
after its institution elected a member of the Lin Eran Society,
at whose meetings he was one of the most regular attendants
for nearly half a century.
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WATERLOO BRIDGE REVlVED.—Waterloo Bridge
has lost the character for solitude and small dividends, which
it formerly had. It is no longer mvrv). • " great granite
accommodation to the Coburg Theatre, as the author of
" Truckleborough Hall" designated it. Since the stoppage
of Westminster Bridge the number of foot-passengers cross-
ing Waterloo Bridge from six in the morning till six in the
evening has been 2,400 daily ; vehicles drawn by two bores,
960; ditto three horses, 48; ditto by one horse, 2,148; trucks.
96 ; and saddle horses, 30; giving a receipt on the tolls
charged of 44/. 9s. 9d. per diem of twelve hours.

TOE CARLTON CLUB.—The whole of the premises
In Pall Mall, situate between the Carlton Club and the Duke
of Buckingham's, hare been razed, the site they occupied
being required for the enlargement of the Carlton Club-
house. It is intended to raise the building another story;
an entirely new architectural frontage will also be built, the
estimated cost of the alterations and improvements being
22,0110/.
REWARDS FOR ACTS OF INTREPIDITY.--At an
inquest held last night, Mr. Will am Payne slated that he
was endeavouring to raise• a fund tbr the reward of persons
who distinguished th, Mal Ives in sas leg life and other meri-
torious acts. He had written to the whole of the city com-
panies on the subject, and he was in hopes that such en ex-
cellent society would soon be established in the city of Lon-
don. The jury unanimously expr,ssiiil their approbation of
the worthy coroners project.
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COAL WHIPPERS' RYE-LAWS. —ln last night's
Gazette is published, pursuant to the 9th and 10th Victoria,
cap. 36, the bye-laws for the good government of the frater-
nity of coal whipper.. All able bodied coal whippers are
enjoined to register themselves at the office for that purpose,
at King James s Stairs, Wapping. Each " basket-man "
is required to give security to the commissioners appointed
under the act to the amount of ten pounds for his fasthfully
accounting to the registrar for all moneys he shall receive
on account of the commissioners. The " basket-man " is, it
. . . .

appears, the chief of a " gang," and when he undertakes a
job, he will he required to sign a contract for its due per-
formance by himself and his fellows. Ile is to report any
act of insubordination, and the offender may, on conviction,
be mulcted of :V. On the completion of each contract, the
basket. tar n is to enter his name and gang in the rotation book.
A numerical and alphabetical list will be made of practised
coal-whippers registered. One class under the age of thirty
ye ars, another between the ages of thirty and forty, and an•
other of forty and upwards; and similar lists of other registered
men, not being practised coal-whippers. And, with the view
to equalise the labour, and to appoint the most efficient men
for expediting the work to be performed under the
provisions of the act, and to complete the gang under
each basket-man, there shall be added eight other men,
consisting, as nearly as practicable, of a due pro-
portion trom e.ch of the above classes of coal-whippers.
It appears to have been the practice of the coal market,
between buyer and seller, to calculate the time for dis-
charging ships according to the following scale, viz., not ex-
ceeding forty-nine tons, within one day; exceeding forty
nine, and not exceeeing ninety-eight tons, within two days ;
exceeding ninety-eight, and not exceeding one hundred and
forty-seven tons, within three days; and so on. And any
days required, over and above the time for delivery
so calculated, are considered and called " baulk-days.
Should the masters of colliers throw any impediment in
the way and " baulk " the due discharge of the cargo they
shall pay fur every such delay a sum per diem equal to the
cost of delivering forty-nine tons, in addition to the charge
for labour done. Tackle is kept at the coalwhippers' office
for the dc'ivcry of coals, which may be hired by the pugs
at lived rates, for the payment of which the "basket men"
are responsible. For the purposes of the Coalwhippers' Act
the port of London shall be considered to extend from the
ferry, known as Itegent's-ferry, in Woolwich-reach, to Lon-
don-bridge, and to include all rivers, docks, and canals com-
munieating therewith, which are comprised within the said
port of London.
THE GREAT BRITAIN.—"We regret to find," gays
the Liverpool 3kreury,"that the worst fears with respect to
the fate of this vessel have been realised, and that all hopes
of getting her again into deep water have fled. The very
unfavourable state of the weather has rendered the repeated
efforts to get her off unavailing, and she is now high upon
the beach in Dundrum Bay." The following is an extract of
a letter addressed to the Joetrnal d.s Lkbats, by M. Adolphe
de Puisbasque, a French gentleman:
" Our wane was right west, and we had the wind astern, which
allowed us to set all our sails, and what sails—fifty feet broad: Our
speed, accelerated by steam, was so rapid, that m less than an hour
see cleared the Ball buoy. Never did voyage crommence in more
favourable circunetances. Towards six o'clack, the fine weather had
ceased, the rain came on, and fell without intermission. We ran on
then at twelve to thirteen knots ; the wind had not changed, and the
Isle of Mu war in sight. The rain-drops, stronger and stronger,
which came down, had driven all the passengers from the deck; I
went up again a few minutes after nine o'clock, and found myself
alone there with the captain. I as ed him then, in English, what
light-house it was that I perceived so near to us on the right: he an-
swered me 'if I understood him rightly) that it was the light-house of the
Talent Man: but at the tunic time, whether my question had raised a
doubt in his mind, or simply that hi- attention had been more lively
excited, he asked for his nimbi-telesco;x• and directed it on the light-
house. Ile remained so long a time in this attitude, that I was sur-
prised at it; nevertheless, it appeared to me that, after a strict obser-
ration of the light of the light. house, he was sure that be had not
deceived himself, for be did nut rectify what he had told me, and I
did not hear him give any order to the helmsman to change the muse.
Returning to the saloon, I related what had takes place to three pas.
?singers, one of whom was an old captain of a packet-boat, now a
cotton. plant, rin Louisiana. Half an hour had hardly passed aver
after this communication, when a sudden smash struck violently the
stern. The commotion was so strong that it upset the passengers
who were walking on that side. "B e are aground," cried they from
every quarter ; "We are lost :" and in effect we were stack fast. The
steamer, which drew several feet more water astern than at the bow,
had grounded amidships on a bank of sand, and the suddenness of
the stoppage bad oven a shaking motion which gave us a
shock such as to make us think we were on a rock.
The certain, who came down in haste, sought on his chart the light-
house that had deceived him. But how was he able to recognise its
position ! A wrong calculation of our run had entirely thrown him
out of his reckoning. home excuses have been officiously presented
to,justify the error of the course : they have spoken of the cot:now/a
being badly regulated, of thick fogs, of the vessel's place being inac-
curately determined by the second in command all this—does it de-
serveany credit? Wesball know soon. I shall centime myself here
to some general observations. Evidently, the eastern established in
England of making the captain preside over a table of which the set-
Out is err many times repeated, is incoui,.anolc with the super-