The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-10 00:00:00

WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 9.

The Queen, with Princess Helens and Princees
Louise, drove out yesterday eftersoon in searriege and four.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE., Mewl 9.

Her Majesty, monmpanied by Prinoess Helens, Prince's
Louise, Priem". Bestrioe, aed Prinoses Hobsslobs, lef t
Windsor Castle this morning at 5 minutee before U o'clock
for Buckingham Pikes. In attendance were the Duchess
of Roxburgh, Major•Gsoeral F. H. Seymour, and Colonel
H. Ponsooby.
Prises Leopold, attended by Sir John Cowell, travelled
to London by an earlier train.
Prisos Arthur orricid at Herekisghsm Palm's from Green-
wich-park, attended by Major Riphimitone. His Royal
Highness returned to Greenwich-park in the afternoon.
The Queen honoured Baron Marocbetti by a visit to his
studio.

The Priem of Wales root to the House of Lords yes•
terday 'harpoon.
The Prisons of Wales took a carriage drive.

THE QUEEN'S COURT.

The Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace
yesterday afternoon.
Their Royal Higheeeses the Pdose sad Princess of
Wales, attended by the Countess De Grey, the Hon. Mn.
Francis Etenor, Earl S. e,ce r, Lord Harris, Lord Alfred
Hervey, Lieutenant-G*l.yd Knoll. a, Lieutenant-Colossi
Koppel, mad Mr. C. L. Wool, arriv‘d at the garden en.
trance of the Palace shortly before 3 o'clock.
His Royal F 14110614 Prices Alfre I arrived at the Mx',
attended by Lieutenant Haig,
His Royal Highnes, Priests Arthur arrived from Grsen-
wieh-perk, attended by Major Elphiostooe.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by
Colonel Tyrorhitt, also arrived at the Palace.
Her Majesty's body guard of the Honourable Corps of
Gentlemen at Arms was on duty at the court, under the
command of Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Topham, the lien.
tenant. The following officer, were also present en duty with
the corps—Major Harmer, the standard bearer; Lieut.-
Colossi W. M'CaU, clerk of the cheque and adjutant ; and
Caplets N. G. Philips, the nub-officer. The royal body
guard of the Yeomen of the Guard was on duty is the in-
terior of the Pal.ce, under the command of Captain
Parker Riokford, the exon in waitiog ;
Cooke, the lieutenant ; Colonel Purnell, C. 8., the ensign ;
and Lient-Colonel Sutton, the clerk of the cheque and
adjutant, were also present with the corps. A guard of
honour of the llevadier Guard, was mounted in the court
of the Palace.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the
Prince mid Primes+ of Wale', Prince Alfred, Princess
Helena, Princess Louie, Primes Arthur, and the Duke of
Cambridge, entered the thione.o.om soon after 3 o'clock.
In attendance upon her Mejraty were the Duchess of
Wellington (Mistress of the Robes), Viscount Sydney (Lord
Chamberlain), the Bial of Besehorough (Lord Stamen),
the Marquis of Ailesbu-y (Master of the Horse), the
Duchess of Roxburgh. (Lady of the Bedchamber in Wait-
ing), the Lady Caroline Barriegton (the Lady Superin-
tendent), the Hon. Emily Cathcart and the Hon. Florence
Seymour (Maids of Honour in Waiting), the Hos. Mrs.
George Campbell end the H,r. Mre. B. Bruce (Women of
the Bedchamber in Waitini), and the usual officers of the
household.

The Queen wore • fah Ws:k silk &ere with • train,
trimmed with coitiver sad onpo, sod • Mary Queen of
Soots cop, with • long ye 1, tie cap urn m 'it'd with dia-
monds.

Her Majesty aiso wore • necklace, beroeh, aed earrings
of opals and diamonds, the abated and the star of the Order
of the Garter. and the Vitt wia and Albert Order.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales wars • train
of violet velve►, riohly trimmed wi,h blonde ; petticoat of
white tulle over rich white silk, tunic of tnUe and bands
of silk with violet velvet bows. Headdress, pearls and
diamood% feathers, and veil. Ornaments, pearls sod dia-
monds, and the Victoria and Albert Order.
Her Royal Highness the Princess livlene wore • train
of rich white silk, bordered with swan's dowo, pe'ticost
of white tulle over glace silk, trimmed with bows of white
ribbon and black velvet. Headdress, diamonds, fo Amy,
and veil. Oroam.nts, diamonds, Victoria Order, and Order
of St. IrabeL

Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise wore a dress is
all respect' similar.
Most of the members of the Carps Dip`oniatique at.
teeded the court, to which they were introduced by the
Earl of Clusudon (her Majesty's principal &aviary of
State for Foreign Atfaire). . _ _

The Bruins; Mistletoe end the members of his legation
were prevented (rem otteodieg by &beams from Eng ac
In the diplomatic etrefe these ladies and geothm-n, fo-
reigners of ihstmction, bad the honour of befog preffeukd
to her Majesty:.

By Med.m.; Maseru—Mlle. llamas Muscru.,
ter of by Bxoelleeey the Turkish embess.doe.

By the C..notese:ie Berororff —The Cunoiees Therese
de Bernutorff, daughter cf hir Eze_lteney the Pruatian am-
bamader.

By Mrs. Adams—Mrs. Alward. wife of the Asvis'ant.
Secretory of the Legatioo ; ant Mn. Montgemsry Bitibie,
a lady of New York.
By the Countess of Clareseon—Madams de Billow, wife
of the Dteisb Envoy ; the Marchioness de Molina, :ifs of
the Spanish Envoy ; Madame Duran, wife of the Siexiima
Envoy ; Madame Almost's, wife of the Peruvian Charge
d'Affaires Senora de Mosques, and Senorita ; Amelia de
Mosque's.
By his Excellency the Austrian Ambaseader—Baroa
Hubner, &mond Secretary of the Embassy.
By the Netherlands Envoy—M. D. Evenryn, Secretary
of tile Legation.
By the Argentine Envoy—Don Fernando Gutierrez ds
Estrada.

By the Spanish Envoy—Boo Antonio Rids do Alos'a, an
°Mom of the royal Spanish navy.
♦ member of pencen of distinction had the honour of »-
allying notifications to attend the court, but some of them
were prevented by various circnisstaness from obeying her
Majesty's command ; amongst the latter were—Earl Rowell,
the Duke of Somerset, and the Lord Lieatenant of Ireland.

His Royal Highness Priooe Leopold and suite
honoured the performances at the Adelphi Theatre Wt
evenlos with their present...

The Princess of Wales, Princess Helena, and
Water Louise, sod suite, visited the O'ympio Thf. stro sat
mob*

NG, MARCH

iJRNB AND Tli..REFOlfali
—(THIS DAY.)
This ihorninit.were published the
electoral ret or which the Reform as
waiting, • Ti 'papers compose a b -of 1118
closely-Printed pages.
The purpose for which the returns have bails
obtained, it is known, was to show the probable
addition which would be made to the present
number of electors by an extension of the fran-
chise. The information is divided into returns A,
B, 0, D, E, F, and G.
The return A puts us in possession of the
total number of electors on the register for par-
liamentary cities and boroughs, 1865-6, including
double entries in England and Wales as compared
with those on the register in 1832-3. In the first-
named period the number is 514,026, in 1832-3 it
Was 282,398, so that in the 33 years the number of
electors has nearly doubled, the actual increase
-being 231,628. The total number of freemen on
the register in 1832-3 was 63,481, it is now
41,641, being a decrease of 21,840. The soot and
los voters, potwallers, and persons other than free-
men possessing ancient right qualifications was
44,738 in 1832-3, it is now only 8,837.

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Return B shows the number of electors on the
register for each city and borough, in England
and Wales classed according to the several quell-
fiestions in respect of which they are entitled to
vote, and the number of such electors
who come within the description of me-
chanics, artisans, and other persons support-
ing themselves by daily manual labour,
classed in like manner. The important Te-
suite obtained by this return are as follows :—Ac-
cording to qualifications the number of electors on
the register for the present year (514,026) consists
of 4113,548101. occupiers, 41,641 freemen, and 8,837
ancient right qualifications. The double *aeries,
as 101. occupiers, are 11,849 ; as 10/. occupiers
and freemen, or soot and lot voters, &c.,
13,257. The actual number of persons
entitled to vote is 488,920. The actual number of
the working-class electors coming within the fore-
going description is 128,603; 2,061 are on the regis-
ter in respect of more than one qualification ;
108,298 are 101. occupiers, 20,018 freemen, and
2,348 soot and lot voters, &c.
In return C we get the number of electors on
burgess lists, which is 425,007. The number of
burgesses whose rates are amassed on the owner or
compounded for by him is 143,965; the number of
burgesses who are on the parliamentary register is
206,160.
In explanation of return D it should be stated
that there are two general acts authorising the
rating of the owners of small tenements instead of
the occupiers ; first, the 59 George 111., c. 12, with
a rating limit not exceeding 201. nor lees than 61.
annual rental, secondly, the 13 and 14 Vick, c. 99,
nasally known as " The Small Tenements Act,"
with a rating limit not exceeding 61. annual rate-
able value. These act. are not compulsory,
and besides them there are several local seta
authorising the rating of owners instead of occu-
piers. We learn from the return that in 58
English boroughs the Small Tenements Rating Act
is in force throughout all the parishes oomprised
therein. In 98 boroughs it is in force, but not
throughout all the parishes ; in 44 boroughs it has
not been adopted ; in 14 boroughs the act,
and a local act, or local acts, for rating
the owners instead of the occupiers appear to be in:j
force. In 13 boroughs the provisions of the 59
Geo. lIL, c. 12—by which the vestry of any parish
is empowered to resolve and direct that the owners,
of all houses, apartments, or dwellings which are
let at any rent or rate not exceeding 201. nor lees'
than Cl. by the year, for any less term than one
year, or on any agreement, by which the rent
shall be reserved at any shorter period than
three months, shall be rated instead of tha
occupiers—appear to have been wholly or partly
adopted. In 29 boroughs local acts, providing for
the rating of owners instead of occupiers, are in
force. _ _ _

Return E gives the number of male occupiers in
boroughs who are}esessed upon • gross estimated
rental and rateable value at various fixed amounts,
commencing at C. and extending upwards, and the
number of inhabited bounce in 1861.

The gross estimated rental of male occupiers for
England and Wales is as follows :—at 41. and under
51., 108,405 ; at W. and under 61., 131,762 ; at 61.
and under 71, 130,299; at 71. and under 81.,
94,044 ; at 81. and under 91., 69,147 ; at 91. and
under 101, 43,209; at 101. and over, 639,043.
The rateable value of male occupiers is as fol-
lows :—at 41. and under 51, 177,530 ; at 51. and
under 61., 135,634 ; at 61., 55,6668 ; above 61 and
under 71., 49,939 ; at 71. and under 8/., 60,617;
at FA and under 91., 65,268 • at 91. and under 101.,
43,612; at 101. and over, 530,585. The number of
inhabited houses in 1861 was 1,449,444. The ac-
tual number of electors on the register for 1865-6
as 104 occupiers is 451,699.
From return F we gather the following facts :
—that the gross estimated rental of all the
rateable property, within the several parliamentary
boroughs of England and Wales, was 31,315,5951.
at Lady-day 1856 ; the present gross estimated
rental, according to valuation list or poor rate, is
41,068,325/. The rateable value of the same pro-
perty at Lady-day, 1856, was 25,737,056/. ; its pre-
sent rateable value is 33,942,9021. The gross esti-
mated value, according to the income-tax assess-
manta, schedule A, of such property, omitting
railways and other properties assessed upon pro-
fits, is 39,218,7171. The gross estimated rental of
the same property, with a similar omission, accord-
ing to the valuation list or last poor rates, is
37,375,210/.
At this part of the book a Borough Summary is
given, supplying under the head of each borough
this whole of the particulars contained in the pre-
ceding returns, together with other interesting de-
tails.
The return G relates to the counties. We learn
from it that the number of male occupiers of a
house or building, with or without land, in the
counties of England and Wales at the rateable
value of 101. and under 121., is 58,217, of whom
10,949 are owners and occupiers ; the number
of occupiers at 121. and under 151. is 66,775,
of whom 12,890 are both owners and occupiers ;
the number of occupiers at 151. and under 201. is
75,326, of whom 14,423 are both owners and oc-
cupiers. The number of occupiers at 201. and
under 501. is 157,867, of whom 32,378 are both
owners and occupiers.
The number of occupiers at a gross estimated
rental of 501. and upwards is 202,177, of whom
46,330 are both owners and occupiers. The number
of electors ou the register of 1864-5 as occupying
tenants at a gross estimated rental of 501. and
upwards, is 116,860. The amount of the
gross estimated rental of all the property
in the county or electoral divisions, excluding
boroughs, was 54,758,0811. in 1800 ; in 1865 it was
69,010,941., being an increase of 14,252,902/ The
amount of the rateable value of all the property
in the county or electoral divisions, excluding
boroughs, was 46,103,2151. in 1860, and in 1865 was
59,695,5011., being an increase of 13,592,2861 The
number of county electors on the register in 1832.3
was 369,887; in 1864-5 it was 542,633, being au
increase of 172,746.

Appended to the return G is an abstract, show-
ing the net number of male occupiers, exclusive in
all cases of those who are both owners and occu-
piers.
The number, at a rateable value, of 101. and
under 121., is 47,268 ; at 121. and under
151., 53,885 ; at 151. and under 201., 60,903 ; at 201.
and under 501., 125,489 ; making the total at 101.
and under 501, 287,549 ; the total at 121. and under
SOL, 240,277 ; and the total at 151. and under 501.,
186,392. The numberoo the reeisteras 501. occupying
tenants was 116,860 ; the number of male occupiers
at a gross estimated rental of 501. and upwards is
155,847 ; and the total number of electors on the
regialrr, 542,833. The number of county mem-
bers in England and Wales ts 162.
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At the end of the returns is a list, added for the
convenience of reference, of some of the principal
parliamentary papers relating to electoral statistics
since the pasAing of the Reform Act. The statistics
are prefaced by a memorandum written by
Mr. John Lambert, Poor Law Inspector, who

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Makcopointre. &to superintend the collection and
arrangement of the returns, explaining the object
if the various returns, and the circumstances under
phich they were collected, and conveying
i variety of information necessary for
the right understanding and appreciation
of the facts given. It will be seen that we have
restricted ourselves to gross totals ; the blue book
contains, of course, a vast amount of details ex-
tremely suggestive in themselves, and having an im-
portant bearing in themselves on the subject of the
inquiry.