The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-14 00:00:00

the 4trourt.

The Duchess of Cambridge and the Prince's Mary
visited the Queen yesterday st Stickitighan Pince.
The Queen's dinner party int evening ingindel the hin-
nies A lice, the Portaging* Waiter Meant de Lavrodio),
Viscount and Viecountess Sydney, Lord Gimp Limon, the
Ron. Mrs. Biddolph, Lisoftwat-Gerwal Bir George
Wothira, mut the Dean of Whither.

The band of tb. Grenadier Owls diumisi, and *yid
daring dinner the following pikes :

&Witt!" " Lel Diriestle Commir Labor.
Wafter, " .
SoisotAan Dia orrnthliji=la •• • WIC
k
Quir
air, " oh. the for ittweni
The Chenoelior ol the Elobegser rad Mrs. Oladstoos re-
tuned to town yesterday from Stoke.

The Judicial 'Comalciee at tlie Privy Candi set yeel^r-
day. Aa appeal from Goyim, Lindsay v. Oneida Beak
sad ethos," wee oratleued.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange and
suite did Bristol sad Clifton the boom of paying them
visit yesterday, mad the hearty reception which Ids Royal
High... received from all cisme of the citizens showed the
loyal respect they are ever ready to pay to the goers of oar
rvicioas soveteign. His Bova Highness is now with the
Doke sad Dasher et Beaufort at Hmliahaton.

The Earl and Countess of Stradbroke have ar-
rived to Belgravr-equare from Hoch= Hall, Suffolk.

The Ear! of Winchilsea hu left the St. George's
Ifatal.

Lord and Lady Chelmsford have arrived at their
residence is Eaton-equere for the semen.

Lady Churchill has arrived at the Bt. George's
Hotel.

Sir Anthony and Lady de Rothschild are expectcd
in tows early next week front the Continent.

Geueral Bulksley and Lady Catherine Balksley
have strived at their house is South Au&ley-street, no their
way to Loagfurd Castle, the art of the Vieoeuat Folk.-
Mote, where the marrtap of the Lady Mary Hoover%
(daughter of the Eel Radnor) will take place next week.

The new trial in the cue of Scully, M.P., v. In-
gram, 11P I. heed for Thereday. It will be recollected the
ewe arises out of the late &Melt fraud'.

The Marquis de Lavalette has been appointed
Preach Ambassador at Coastaathiople.
The meeting of Lard Derby's supporters will take
place this day, at Lrd Salisbury's hones. It will be strictly
ovals.

_
We (Maidstone Journal) regret to state that as
attack of illness has °masa Kr. Lee, ILP., during the last
fee day. to hi. residence, so that le has been unable to
Mend it his place in parliament, to vote on the important
neeseres brought forward there. There is, however, every
reason to hope that he will be able to resume his dunes in
the course of this week.

Arrangements are being made by the committee
of the National Wile Aeonlades and the provialamal com-
mittee of the Volunteer &trees Club (in aceertlasee with
what they believe to he a very general wish) kw a rabecrip-
tioa dialler of volunteer officers, to take place kr Lemke re
the 7th day of March—the day appoiated by her Majesty
fur the Volunteer Levee.

LORD BROUGHAM AND MR. GLAD/MOM—A very
significant ompliment to Mr. Gledstagies oratory, and a very
striking incident in its if (my* the D'reteleae), appears not to
have been marked by our London oontemperseise. We mean
the presence of Lord Brougham within the walled the Home
of Commons for the first time dating very nearly thirty yam
—that is, since be lett it in 1830 to become Lord Chastener.
It is pretty well known that Lord Brougham left the Home
of COMMON to preside over the House of Lord*, with the
utmost pars and reluctance—that his own most earnest dribs
was not to smut any aloe which necessitated the abdkation
of his position ea number for Yorkshire, end that be took •
position nominally and titularly higher only at the most
urgent entreaty and virtual command of his party. Since
his removal he bee never oriel been known to enter se auditor
within those walls which bad so often echoed with his elo-
quence. On Friday night, for the first time, be overcame
this remarkable reluctance; and then, too, for the first time,
it is understood, he heard the man who now occupies the
position he himself so long held unrivalled and nedisputed—
the greatest orator in the Brmiab House of Coatroom. Lord
Brougham wee wen to Helen intently during the whole four
hours during which Mr. Gladstose spoke; and Is known so
have gemmed the highest ediniwion of the smith, es a
masterpiece of clear and skilful statement and persueeive
rhetoric.

PP.ZUNTATION TO DR. WATSON, OF TIER ORRAT
RasTsix.—The oaken of the Greet Babas essumblp bays
preeeatet Dr. Wawa, wbo se nobly nertsd Dino**. am
the Ile of their late teuelt-heloved ismeaseler, with • Mad-
onna Pim beautifully utseettei bith dim, es a immuk of
rear.% .a.l retreat for kb pberal absarber, sad adattratice
of hie 000 duct ow the oaer7ea of the reorat eteleareely
dint I. the rim Mem

71111130 P iL•XSZIS AND nil BODORT.—The
ruinous propoesl a the Chancellor of the lizobecieer Is re-
lease* to the alteration of the hop duty has taken every-
body by surprise. A free trade in hops, ocreplad with so
relief I. malt, and the adatiesios of forsiftu wines at • low
duty is indeed unbearable. A leveeing at Maidstone is
ea led fur Thursday, at one o'cl.ick, the 1t... Smith-Marriott
in the chair, end poterday (Mooday) afternoon a deputation
from all parts met at the Pelaa. yard, Westraiseter, le pre-
test aselsat the eseassre; sad petitions re beige simulated
in *very direction to ("poet Its proper. We trust that is
the Weald of Kent and Bowes Immediate step@ will be takes
to oppen the bedew is every pantile wey, for • sere in.
juries, iseasute to the hop-planter oats seemly be conceived.
—Sows
801711132171111110T0N Mttedott.—Durteg the week
=7.lb. it, the Ashore have bees es follows:—Os
„ Tuesday, god sewarday, free dem 4,1101 en Nor
day a.d Twelay (free wonWp), ; ea tbe
...owe lays (animists to the ode* IL). 1,114 ; see
sludseld wedge tWodeesday). 6i2 Seta, 11,942. Preis
the sweins el the suesew, 1,274,112.

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We Moth to imperial the death, on Sunday, at
Wade Hors% Chide= Park, d Lienteunt-General file
Waist Frdesia Patel* Napier, LC 8., Colossi of the
29= BaYarrat, aged 74.
Tide dielleguisbed allow sad rewkatie writer wee Isola
(w 9 804 flee • bierapedeal edict in the a Ilaglia
Opab-
pedla ") Y Caelleleves, ram Chibeithp, fa the county of HU-
dare, Deis& Ha wee the third son al the Hon. Coked
George Napier, by his math Lady Belch Lennox,
seventh desgider of the mooed Date ef Itiehmand. and is
brother to tin lets Gessrah Mir Chubs James Napier and
' Sir George Themes Napier. Ea sabered the army es auks
Joan 14, 1200; biome lisahneal Aprd 14, 1801; and cep-
tala June, 2, 1804. Hs served at the midge of Osprshages
sad battle of Loge in 1807, is Sir John theorem oruspeign
4 Spain in 18011-9,had in the enbsegueat win the Speak&
pesiamals from 11409, to its asissieatica is 1814. Hs was
present in 1810 at the combat of Almeida an the Cm, when
he was wounded, and at the =tale of Buseco. Ice Marais
1811, during Musnea's Weal from Portugal, he was an-
; gag= is the ostabsts of Pomba, Rediaha, Cud Nova
, (where he was severely wahaded), end Fcs de Arenas ; sad
is May, at the battle of Femme de Own. Hs stained the
rank of major, May 30, 1811. He was mpg= is the battle
of Salamanca I. July, 1812. Ha house liantanant-colonel,
' November 22, 1811. He was at the prop of the Huebra
in November, 1812, mad of the Bidemos in October, 1813.
; He was award in the combat of Vera, at the battles of the
NiV•ll4l sad the NMI, and was wounded in defending the
churchyard of Aresagass. He was again emend to the
battle of Orthes, Ha awed also in the campaign of 1816,
but does not appear to ham been at the battle of Waterloo.
He received the gold =dal and two clasps for his metier is
the battle, of Sidamanos, the Nivel* and the Ni,., is
which he commanded the 43rd Regiment of Light Infantry;
and the silver medal with three chums for Busaco, Feentes is
Onoro, and Othliss. He was prams in many oboe motions
and received other wounds besides those before mentioned.
In 1828 Lieutenant-Colonel Napier commenced the publi-
cation of his " History of the War in the Paniasala and the
Smith of France, from the yew 1807 to the year 1814."
The volumes came out in succeed= till the work was corn-
. prated in 1840 in 6 vole. Bvo. He shafted the reek of
colonel, July 22,1830; and that of merar-ipsaral, November
23, 1841. From April, 1842, to Jewry, 1848, he was
lientanant-governor cif the island al Geenteey, and in 1848
was crested a knight. commend., Cl the Order of the Bath.
In 1848 Major-Geasral Negur published " The Conquest of
&rade," Bvo., to 2 parte. He became lieutiwat-gastral,
November 11, 1861, and colonel of the 22nd Raginesut of
Foot, September 19, 1863, In 1851 be published his " His-
tory of Owed ell Charles Napier's Administration of
&dude, and Campaign in the Catches Hill., with maps and
illustrations," Bvo. ; sad in 1865 " English Battles and dirges
in the Peninsula," mown Ova., extracted from his " War
In the Peninsula." Hs has also published two pamphlets;
" Six Letters Vindication of the British Army, exposing
the Calumets' of the Liverpool Reform Association," 8,0,
1848; and " Controsate upon a Memorandum of the Duke of
Welhagtoa, and other Documents censuring Lieut.-Owes'
Sir Charles Jaw Napier; with • Defeats of Sir C. Napier's
Government of Made, by Captain Rathbun, late Col-
lector in Made," Bro., 2nd edit., 1664. He has oleo pub-
lished " The Life and Opinions of the late Sir
Cheeks Napier, by Sir William Napier." Sir William
Napier married in 1812 the second daughter of the late Hon.
General H. B. Fox, node to the third Lord Holland.
Sir William Napier's " History of the War in the Penin-
sula," bee pined through severe! editions, end is now •
standard work. Of all the wen la which Great Britain has
been mimed, that war Ode years was the most important,
difficult, and expensive, end Sir William Napier's History is
worthy of the traissecticas it records, and the skill and
heroism it celebrates. Perhaps no military history of squid
excellence has ever been written. It out the =lbw sixteen
years of continuous taboo+. He was himself a rata= of
several of the series of operations, and was missal in many
of the battles. .His wide acquaintance with military men
enabled blur to consult many distinguished (Ace= English
and French, and he was especially supplied with materials
and documents by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal
&alt. The ordinary mums of isformatkm were amber-
rearing from their abuadiums. Oes mw of inateriale
deserves especial mention. When Joseph Bonaparte fed
from Vittoria be left behind him • very large collection of
letter., which, however, ware without order, in three lea-
gues., many almost illegible, and the most important in
cipher, of which there was no key. It wu the correspond-
ence of Joseph Bonaparte while nominally King of Spa's.
Sir Williams Napier was to • state of perplexity, end almost
in despair of being able to make sag use of those valuable
materrara, when his wife undertook to arrange the letters
according to dates and eubjeco, to make a table of Mew=
end to translate and epitomise the contents of each. Many
of the most important documents were entirely in cipher ; of
some letters about one-hilt was In cipher, and others had a
few words so written interspersed. All these documents and
ratters Lady Napier arranged, and with a rare sagacity and
patience she deciphered the aeoret writing. The entire oor-
remondenos was tben made available far the historian's
purpose. She also made out all Sir William Napier's rough
interlinel manuscripts, which were almost illegible to him-
self, end wrote out the whole work fair for;the printers—it
may be said three times, so frequrat were the changes made.
Sir William Napier mentions these bete In the preface to
the edition of 1861, and in paying this Mira= to Lady
Napier, observes that this amount of labour was seem-
phials= without her having for a moment neglected the oars
and eclucim ion of a large

In committee on Custom. Acts, on Mr. Chancellor
of tbs Exchequer moving the repeal of the chase in the act
of perlisment obi& exempts the deed of building societies
from *team duties, Mr. Brietor will awe " That the exemp-
tion be retained and continued."

Mr. Bannock, o Friday, will ask the First
Lord of the Treontry, whether "any understanding has less
COON to Wotan the urernmente of France and of this
country in the event of the commercial treaty not being sane-
tiornd by parliament."

Mr. Newdegste, on the motion for going into
oommitte on Church Rates Abolition Bill, intends to move
" That this house will, to-morrow, resolve itself into s com-
,
mittee, to consider the propriety of establishing in lieu of
chnich rates, thenceforth to b. abolished, a *horse on all
laereditamen•s, in reopeoe of the occupation of which church
rates hays been pawl within the last moven years ; inch
charge to be levied with the county rate at a uniform rata
of poundage, the occupier being in all OYES entitled to
deduct from his rest the amount of the charge levied on his
occupation."

Tee MrfitofoLlTAN POLICL-This morning the
accounts of this frace for the pier 1859 were Issued. The
total sum received for the metropolitan polio* in the year
wee 516,4671 4.1. 3d. ; the total sum paid was 472,6281 1 lc 9d.
Balmier remained accordingly on the 31et of De-
cember amouw log to 42,6381. 12., 62. The receipts
OD arecoant of the PACO Buperarieuation Fund were
50,6881 18a., the payments amountiag to the arms sum.
Tue brat sum paid by the "receiver" (or the polio-courts
wee 61,46.5/. 2.. 51, leaving a balance in his favour of
1,3191. 13.. 91. Dariag the year tee fee., penal-
ties, and forfeitures levied at the vilice-ceuros and pad
ever by toe inagiarrates' clerk to the receiver vorii-Bow-
street, 5961. 17.. 106.; Clerkenwell, 9531. Os. 702.; Greet
Marlboiou6b-storm, 1,3681. 135.; Gmenwich sad Woolwich,
1,0711 17.; Hainwerecolti rod Waadsworth, 7961. 74. 102.;
Lambeth, 8051. 16e. 2d ; klarylebece, 8001. 95.;
work, 7021. 9s. Id. ; Thaws, 1,0661. 11.. fld.; Wool-
=foster. 6161. se. 01.; Worship-street, 7801. 6.. 01,
Amonit the . spoons, 1,6001. goes yearly to the Mkt m ve-
t:rate; 264001. in colorise to 7.2 magistrate., at 1,2001.
seek; 7.6081. 16e. 101. to 23 clerk., at eateries very.
fag from 751. to 51.01. per annum; and 4,2321. 18.. lid.
Moog., 50 ushers, gaoler., motwiters, On Ow
Ist of January this year there were 16 auperintee-
dents in receipt of 2501. a year; one receiving 4401. and me
3251. The inspector.. were 172 in number; three at 2001
per mourn; moat 1751.; format 111111.6..; ono a, 1601.11. W.;
eve at. 1501. : one hundred and thirty-twe at 1181. 68. ; eight
et 1001. Is ; sad eavestaia at 811. 18e The sergeants wens
is all 648, vie. receiving 1091. 45.; eleven, 811. 18.„ ;
can, 781. 14a; and Si hundred and twenty-nine, 631.14 e. The
coestables cambered 6,148, .4 whom four receive 781
yearly ; tweety-etz, 721. 10e. ; five, 701. 4e. ; seven,
671. Ito.; two; 831 146.; three, 591. 16e.; one thousand four
hundred and ninety-nine, 641. 12., ; and three thotoand roe
hundred and two, 492.8.. The sergeant. an 4 constable, re.
caws atm tb.lr clothing; male, 40Ibs, weekly to race ware
tied man all the year, and 401ba. weekly to each Slagle ilea
derlag Awn eight math% and 201 be. weekly define the
remainder..( the >ear. The total number of periwig Woes-
tag to the force is 5,986.

%aided*
1840.

,TEST INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
;The Meisiteur says:

PARIS, Tritsak.r.

" The ripening of the union of the Senate and
Legislative Body has been adjourned to the let
Mond"
The Moniteur contains the nomination of General
Delores* as a Member of the Senate.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, TUESDAY.
It is said that a now loss is projectsd.
VIENNA, MONDAY.

The reforms promised in the ministerial pro-
gramme are about to be granted. Every province
will receive s separate constitution and administra-
tion, according to the wants of the different nation-
alities.

NAPLES.

Intelligence received at Vienna from Naples states
that the King has ordered the liberation of political
prisoners arrested upon suspicion ; those only who
Sr. evidently guilty being reserved for trial by the
competent tribanals.

EXCITEMENT IN SICILY.
, TURIN MONDAY Evnxixo.
_ _

Letters received here from Sicily announce that
the political arrests and the excesses of the police
are increasing. Women have been ravished and
beaten by them. The political prisoners have been
put to the torture, under which some of them died.
Several magistrates have in vain protested against
these barbarous acts. A proclamation is now in cir-
culation exhorting the Sicilians to rise in a speedy
and general insurrection in order to reinvest
Southern Italy with her former rights in Europe.
All parties in Sicily are alike favourable to the
cessation of despotism. In the above proclamation
it is said " Let us hope that Naples will follow our
example. The time for moderation has passed away-
henceforth we mast be daring. Let us rise in the
name of Italian nationality, and to the cry of Italy
and Victor Emmanuel for ever."