The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-29 00:00:00

mantorourzi BOIRD of 'oars.

The usual meeting of the board wee held yesterday
at Guildhall; Mr. J. news IT= to the chair. The finanoiel
statement gear a total balance of 112,1021. 7s. 2d.; govern-
ment securities, 16,8811. Iffs.
A report wee presented from the engineer, submitting for
sAytortil the spectilostiene of the embers outlet! sewer, from
-creek to Cremempoist, end recommending that
advertisements he leaned for tendon ter the execution of the
weeks. Afier a short dimeseket it wee domminoi to defer
the fortier coleidaretku of this geodes for a fortnight.
Mr. Dixon mewed that the report of the Worts and
provemsate Committee of the Ilth Dormter, 1847, reocm-
merndhte the new line of Arms from the Commercial-road to
Red Lion-street, Whitachafel, at the estimated met of
1281721.. be approved.
Mr. Wass ascended the motion, and looked upon It as a
most desirable improvement.
Mr. DOVLTON moved the previous question," which was
put and greed to, and the matter was thus summarily dia-
posed of.
A report wee presented from the Building Act end General
Ps:poses Committee on the eukjN t of street nomenclature
and numbering homes. Resolutions were agreed to to favour
of sunsheries the several biomes and promisee to Ramey-
area. Oxford-meet, and Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-
square. It was also revolver! that IL commuoteeticee be
!admired he Mr. P. Hill, of the General Poet-office, to the
effect that the hand were of °pintos that any general and
sweeping drape be ihe Lames of the shale in the metro-
polis woad be ethended with much public inionvenience;
that the hood propose from time to time to deal with those
came which, from pyeesliar circumstances, appear urgently
toren for their interfenece, and well la happy to secure any
inaggeshose apes the subject which the authorities of the
Poet-office may be &Name of offering.
It was ordered that es epplicaton should be made to the
Secretsry of State for the Home Department, for his comsat
that the board should take eveepuleyrily the lends raptired
for the purpose of the outlet sower, tooth of the Thames.
110610 Towles matters under ths Building Act were die-
posed of, sad the board adjourned.

LORD Boron ae>lt Ix EDlNBUloll.—Yealeeday
hang the Sderenunstal Fasadity hers. Laid Brougham In
the (mama attended divine eerie. in at. Andrews's Chunk
occupying a seat Is the paw be wee pommeled to sit in when
eroid.nt in Edinburgh. In the afternoon, desirous of
slotting the place of hie birth and the wend■ of hts early
youth, Me lordship prooteled alone to 21, Pt. Andrelee-
peace, sow occupied by Mews. D. M. end H. Black, W. 8.,
and in which biome hid lordship woo born. Hie ild
went through eireee room in both Pets of the hoss, and
looked out et the window at which more then devestp_)iere
Aga be wee wont to sit and pro on the scenery of the Forth.
The emotion of the noble lord woe great so the peockuliess
of hie childhood crowded upon his memory, and it wee
p..cming and touching to Pod that the cetersu dtatismiin had
through the vicissitudes of a otormy political life of more than
had a century preserved usdimioutbed by age sod bosom
so vivid and chat-hod • reoollection of hid boyhood.—
Sistessit.

FRANKLIN Pa E.—The Vice-Chancellor, at
Oxford, has received Iran a " non-reeident member of this
university mach attached to her iotereste," the sum of 501.,
lee a pry" to be awarded to the writer of the beet &sends
poem eo " The lit., the character, and the death cd the
heroic maroon, Sir John Franklin, with special reference to
the time, arc., and dtscovery of hie death." The poem to
be In rhymed erne; to be recited during the 'regime of the
British Meaciation, et the time sad In the place which the
Vice-Cksactellor easy appent. MI members of the uni-
versity whatsoever to be at liberty to compete for the prize.
The comp-rims@ to be mat to the registrar of the university
oa or tefore the let of Jane, 1860; the lintel mono, for o it-
reanog iho name of the writer and discinguiehing the com-
position, being followed. The judges to be the Vico-Chan-
cellor. the Dean of Christ Church, end a third person to be
aimed by them.,

MATH OF MAJOIOrES.—We regret to
an-
beaa the demise of Meier Groves, Crown Equerry to her
Majesty, who died RW4E-ply no Wedneedey night, at his rut
sideoce at the Roy,' Mews, Pitoheo. Tbe gellaat gentlemen,
we are inform,d, complained of indisposition early la the
peeping, mid in ettnestquenee proceeded from the Palace to call
en Dr. Nurreyon Cleveland-row, Br. James's. Major
Groves bed reached within a few yards of Dr. Hanley's
residence, when be steggrred and fell. It woe diactwered
that he was 1.144 with a paralytic attack. H. was at cans
conveyed to his reeldenee at the Royal Mews. Medical
aseistance watt procured, sad it woe found be had Met the
tree of his left side. A relapse took place at midnight, wham
he expired. Major Grovels was governor of the Pentanelary
at Millbsek, until he was selected by the Duke 01 Welling
ton, when Mosier of the Hares. to succeed the NM Mr.
George Law* ma dirk of the Quern's steblea, when rho
larneuted deceased was ark Crown Equerry. He was, we
believe, loptis MA year.
The fatal I)tfrelutitG TRADE.—It is stated that
the Masers. bleckeosies dl.llll ry, Belfast, ono of the matt
eemplete to Ireland, sod eatable of 'toeing out 1,200,000
gall/me pee mole by auction and if not gild as
• distillwe, it, to be diemantled and sold piecemeal. The
distillery at Hillsborough is for sale.