The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-23 00:00:00

THE DEPUTATION TO WINDPON.

Yesterday the deputation appointed at the meeting on
Clerkenwell.green, on Thursday night, to present a me.
n.orial to the Queen on behalf of the condemned men, pro-
ceeded to Windsor for that purpose. The deputation
consisted of Mr. Clegg (chairman), and Messrs. Coffee and
Cullum. Mr. }laden was not present. They reached
Windsor shortly after eleven o'clock by the Great Western
Railway, and soon attracted attention. They walked
into the High-street, where they took refuge from
the gaze of the {inhabitants in the parlour of the
Union Inn, next the parish church. Upon consideration
tkere it was deemed advisable that the memorial, carried
by the chairman, should be presented through Sir J.
Cowell, C. 8., the Master of the Royal Household, and
to this gentleman a letter was written expl►ining the
objects of the deputation. It was noon when Messrs.
Clegg, Coffee, and Canham left the Union for the Castle.
People stood in groups at the shop doors as they passed
along the High-street and the back of the Town-ball.
Now and then there was a hies or two or derisive cheer,
and by the time the deputation had passed through
Henry the Eighth's gateway, a small crowd of boys
and roughs had collected at its heels. The Castle
guard-room is just within this gateway, but no
opposition was made to the progress of Mr sirs.
Clegg, Coffee, and Canham, who walked up the hill past
at, George's Chapel, unopposed by sentries, past the
Round Tower and beneath the Norman gate to the public
entrance of the Castle, known as the tradesmen's entrance.
Here Mr. Inspector Baker, with the usual number of the
royal household police, and Lieutenant Alia, of the lit bat-
talion Grenadier Guards, were posted. Further progress
was, of course, stopped. Mr. Clegg was admitted to the
waiting-room, but Messrs. Coffee and Canhain, although
they asked to enter, were not allowed to do so. The
chairman, Mr. Clegg, then banded to one of the officials
the letter to Sir J. Cowell, and the memorial, the envelope
of which was addressed to her Majesty the Queen. The
memorial itself was addressed "To the Right Hon.
Gathorne Hardy, her Majesty's Secretary of State."
While Mr. Clegg, seated in the room, was waiting for
the answer, Mr. R. Eykyn, M.P., Mr. J. H. Wellusan, the
mayor, Messrs. Devereux and Holderness, borough magi'
trates, and the Rev. Messrs. Thompson and Stone assem-
bled within the passage. Lieutenant Alla remained at
the door, outside of which, surrounded by a crowd of
lookers-on, were Messrs. Coffee and Canham. In about
half an hour two letters were brought from within the
Castle, and banded to Mr. Clegg, who then, amid some
derisive shouts from the boys and roughs in the throng,
retired down the Castle-hill and through High-street back
to the Windsor station of the Great Western Railway, fol-
lowed by a great crowd, who shouted and yelled as the
deputation left the precincts of the palace. The deputation
was, however, protected from actual violence by Sergeant
Clarke slid a couple of the Windsor police force. Letir-
tag into the first-class waiting-room, the exterior of which
was surrounded by a mob of people, the chairman
opened the two letters. That from Sir J. Cowell, the
Muter of the Royal Household, was as follows :
"Windsor Castle, Nov. 22, 1t67.
" Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
e yesterday's date, and to acquaint you that it is no part
of my duty to submit such a request as you have addressed
to me for the consideration of the Queen. In all matters
relating to parliamentary affairs, her Majesty can only be
approached through her responsible ministers.—l have the
honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant,

"J. C. CowELL."

General Grey wrote u under:
" Windsor Castle, Nov. 22, 1857."
"General Grey returns the enclosed memorial to Mr.
Clegg. Though directed to the Queen, the memorial is
properly 2,k:reseed to the Secretary of State, by whom
alone, u the responsible adviser of the Queen, it can be
submitted to her Majesty.
While these bitters were being read, the crowd at the
station increased, till about a thousand people lined both
up and down platforms of the station. This was at half-
past 12 o'clock, and as the next train for London did not
start till 1.55 p.m., Mr. H. Simmons, the station-agent,
adopted a little ruse in order to get the deputation away
in safety, as the crowd began to wear a threatening aspect.
A train was backed into the station, Messrs. Clegg,
Coffee, and Canham took their seats in a second-class car-
riage, and at ten minutes past one o'clock the deputation
hastily quitted the station amid tho shouts of the
roughs.