The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-17 00:00:00

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lINDIA AND. CHINA.

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THE OVERLA/M MAIL.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FROM TRIESTE.

We bare reeeived the &Howie' telographle despatch
Alonirciria. via Trims*, in anticipation of oar
stew, apses tram Mu still's :

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ALUANDRIA, Jinx e.
The Oriental arrived hoot Celestes at Saes on the
4th of July, having been delayed by the monsoon.
She laadlie The mails will be forwarded
to Malta at 0 a.m. this day.
The Bombay mail had not reached Aden ; it was
expected to arrive on the 17th inst.
The advice, from Calcutta are of the let of June.
We have amounts from Singapore of the same date,
and from Java sod Hong Hoag of the 28th and 23cd
ef May.
The political neve is altogether without interest.
The heat of the mason prevented all ea:deity. The
Governor•Osiseal was still ramie( is his health.
The military complain of Sir Charles Napier, on
amount of his unnecessarily moving the troops
during the hot season. From Hyderabad we learn
that the Sikhs had assumed a threatening position.
, The President of the
_Chianti Cabinet died very

soon alter the emperor's decease.
The commercial treaty between America and
China had not been °minded. There was no pro.
gross making in the British negotiations with Chum.
Obstacles had of late been laid in the way of the
opium trade.
Dietarbaaces °outlasted at Bantam on the Island of
Java.

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llome pirates had bees seen in the waters of Klein
and a fask had bees slandered. _
The cholera was mum at Kerabodia as much ea
formerly at Siam end Coatis China.

got court.

Hie Royal Biennia Priam Albert Fulda rear-
day daemon at a meeting el the Royal Casushsion for the
ProlliOtiOS of the lirlibiau of the Weeks of ladastry of all
Manna, to be hold in the year 1861. His Royal Mews
arrived at the New Palen of Wasmaiasur aeon after three
Welsch, attended by Lisat,Colosel the Rea. Alassadar
Goedon. The contraisdonere possess were. tie Baal of
Ruse, Bawl Oranville, Lord Stanley, Lord Overstows, the
Right Hu. W. I. Gladstone, Sir Maud Westmont, Sir
Charles Lyell, Mr. Barry, Mr. T. Bosley, Mr. Cohan, M.P.,
it,. Cobitt, Mr. Eastlake, Mr. T. F. Gibsoa, Mr. Julia Gott,
Mr. Posey, M.P., aad Mr. R, Bunkum.. Mr.
Scott Ramell, Birentary to the Royal Counters,
sanded. Calassl Reid sad Dr. Lyea Playfair wen present.
Toe baildfary ummitts• bad a mean in the maniac
which wee alesaded by Mr. Cabin (chairman), Mr. Barry,
Mr. R. ilespitaness. Mr. T. L Deaaldson, sad Mr. Breast.
Mr. Disbyllyatt. Mr. R. Wyld, sad Mr. 0 en Jones were
must. The bending committee bed as interview with the
nyal assmiedeasse. The sant* of **royal °Dann
*UM Mobs up &beat seven o'clock.

A Oasis& Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Fordgmaillse, at which the Laid Chasmllor &gentled.
Lord John Rowell, the auntie of Landow, the Earl of
Nieto, Sir George Grey, Vmosat Palmerston, Earl Grey,
ties Clauseher of the issMaiser, the Rut of Carlin*, the
Right Has. Henry Labeschere, the Right Has. Fos Maple,
sad other MaR/11011111 were also present. The maned sat two
home.
Ma Earl of Arend.' and Senn and Dr. Tancred
bee an interview with Earl Grcy rate:day st the Colonial.
Alec
Mr. Tidd Pratt had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Inchaquer yesterday.

Moo lest night's Gastric]
Bucninossx-PaLaca, JULY 13.—This day the
Bight Hoe. Henry Tidwell was, by her Makety's onsantaad,
sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and
took kis place at the Board atenediagly.
BUCKINGHAM-PALACE, JULY 15.—Her Majesty in
Council was this day pleased to deliver the Great Seal to the
Right Has Sir Thames Wild*, Knight, whereupon the
oath of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain sad Ireland was,
by her Majesty's commend, administered to him, sad betook
his place at the Hood socordingly.
WHITEHALL, JULY 13.—The Queen has been
plumed to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great
Seal, granting the dignity of a Boron of the Baited King-
dom of Greet Britain and Ireland unto the 11414 Hoe. Sir
Thomas While, Knight. Chancellor of tam part of the said
Hailed Kingdom called Great Britain, sad to the heirs male
of his bade lawfully begotten, by the name, style, acid title
of Baron Truro, at Dimes, la Use meaty of Middloma.

DECISION OF THE COMMITTEE AS TO THE
BUILDING FOR THE EXHIBITION OF MI.

The long deliberations Se te the building to be
erected for the exhibition of 1851 have been terminated by
a decision in favour of Mr. Paxton's design end estimate.
We have before described this gentleman's plan, but as the
present decision In his favour will attract general attention
to the exact character of his propositions, we may repeat that
Mr. Paxton outside a building chiefly of glass—in feet, a
huge Lai elegant glum house. The great feature in its erec-
tion is, that us stone, brick, or mortar will be neessary. All
the raufing sad ITel/tit suites will be made by machinery,
fitted together and glazed with rapidity, moat of them being
finished previous to bet, g taken to the place, so that little
Wee will be required on the spot than to fit the finished ma
Wide together. Tie whole of the structure will be sup-
puma es east-iron columns, as. the extensive roof will be
calcined without the necessity for interior walls for
this purpose. If removed after the exhibition, the materials
emy be sold far more advantageously then a structure filled
be with bricks and mortar, and some of the materials would
Bing fa full half the o:igier.l outlay. C .mplete ventilation
ices been provided, by filling in every third upright eompert.
meet with luff.r-bcarding, which would be made to open
tad shut by machinery; the whole of the basement will be
Ana in after the same manner. The current of air may be
meddled by the use of coarse open canvas, which, by being
kept wet in hot weather, will render the interior of the
building much cooler than the external atmosphere. Is
order to subdue the intense Ight in a building covered with
glee•, it i► proposed to cover all the south side of the up-
right parts, together with the whole of the roofs outside,
with calico or canvas, tacked on the ridge rafters of the
latter. This will allow a current of sir to pass in the
valleys under the calico, which will, If required, with
the ventilators, keep the air of the house **vier than the
external atmosphere. To give the roof a light and graceful
appearance, it is to be on the ridge and (Snow principle, and
gland with sheet glass. The ridge and valley rafters will
be continued in uninterrupted lines the whole length of the
structure, and he supported by Wt-iron beams. These
beams will have a hollow gutter formed in them to receive
the rain wa•er from the wooden valley rafters, which will be
thence conveyed through the hollow columns to the drains.
These drains will be formed of ample dissensions under the
whole of the pathways throughout. The floors of the path.
ways to be laid with treUieboards, three eighths of an inch
apart, on sleeper joists. This kind of flooring is both gesso-
mieal and can always be kept clean, dry, and pleasant to walk
upon. The gallery floors are to be close boarded. No timber
trees need be cut down, es the glassmay fit up odes bole oath,
trees, leaving the lower branches under the glass during the
exhibition; but Mr. Paxton does not recommend this course,
as, for the sum of 2501., he would engage to remove and re-
Oboe every living tree on the ground, except the large old
elms opposite to Prinee'agate. Only a few years ago the
evertios el such a building as the one contemplated would
have involved a fearful amount of expenr ; but the rapid
advance made in this country during the last 40 years, both
is the scientific construction of such buildings and the cheap
manafecture of glass, iron, do , together with the imagine
facilities in the preparation of sash-bars and other wood-
work, render an erection of this description, in point of ex-
pense, quite on a level with those constructed of more sub
Sandal materials.

THE INV:ISMAX EXHIBITION OF 1851.—A pablic
meeting of the working-men of Leeds was bold at the
Court-house in that town on Monday evening last, to adopt
measures forpromothm the success of the great exhibition of
next year. The attendance was but meagre, but great in-
terest was displayed in the success of the intended exhibition
by theme present. Resolutions were unsnimossly adopted
approving of the exhibition, as one of a series of experi-
ments capable of giving a powerful stimulus to manufac-
turing enterprise.
THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL—A public meeting
was bold oa Monday evening in the Town-hall, Preston, to
take into oossideranon the propriety of erecting a statue or
other suitable monument to the memory of Sir Robert
Peel. The Rev. H. D. &linden moved the first resolution :
That this meeting, deeply lamenting the great loss the
nation has sustained by the death of Sr Robert Nei, now
determine to erect in this town a statue or some ether testi-
monial commemorative of his very eminent services." Mr.
Couseillor Catterall seconded the motion, which was carried
unanimously. Ac.immittee was then formed to carry out
the oliect in view, and a subscription was entered into,
which produced about 2001., In the room. The town will
be divided into distriets, and every house visited ; and It Is
eal lstpelsd *mead games will be realised.