The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-21 00:00:00

gbe court.

The Qom sad Prisms Albert and the Queen or
the WAY" seek a drive yesterday afternoon in en omen
besoadle arid ker. The equerries us weldor Major Go. •
Soiler=tead Lisateasat-Celasel the Hose. Alezeader
ea \Grosbeak.
Reseed had ea oedema other Majesty yester-
day at Beskisahaaa-palsos-
Her Royal liighcass the Dachas of Rent, and the Duke
and Denim de Nemours, visited the Qaesta yesterday.
His Royal Higdon* Prisce Alberts with their Royal
llidhltaloos the Prises of Wake, Prime Alfred, the Priseset
Royal. add the Primes Alias, attended by Ling.-Colonel
the Hos. A. Goalso. and Mr. Rink visited sad iuspected
yesterday the Dienes& of the Oweinad Route to India.
His Royal Klemm Primo Albert rode oat on horseback
yesterday wurnisg, maisoled by Camel the Hon. Charles
The. Cortese 41. Mealy, the Duke and Dachas de No. •
mows, the Prises salirriassal d. Joieville, and the Duke
and Heehaw d'Ausale, visited her Majesty the Quetta of
the Belgisaa yesterday at Hoskinehems-pays.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent paid
, visite yesterday to her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians,
and to ha, Royal Highs's, the Dachas, of Gloomier, at
Gloucester Ham.
Wu Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left
his resideres at Kew yesterday for the Royal liilkary Col-
lage at Sandhurst.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, &room-
= by his define Highness the Prince of LeiainGen,
the rterssauee of the French Play with her pre-
mium yesterday evening. Her LIM Hi/haves was
attesuied by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Lord Janes
Murray.
The Banding Committee of the Royal Commission
for the Exhibition of Mil wet yesterday in the new Palm*
of Westminster. There were present Mr. Cubist, Mr. Barry,
Mr. C. H. Cockerel], and Mr. T. L. Donaldron. Col. Reid,
R. 8., and Mr. M. Digby Wyatt were also present.
DespMehes were received yi sterday at the Colonial-
cies frout the Cimino, of the Cape of Good Hops and
she
and frost the Lord lith Commiesiener of the lonian
Ws.
ST. PANCRAS VESTRY MEETING.

The duly embodied representatives of tbeLeadon and North
Western Railway Company, presented thee:mires at the
meeting for the election of select vestrymen yesterday, and
were (not over civilly) refused admission. Ttus, a company
who pay between 2,0001 and 3,0001. per annum in rates is
the parish, and who are more interested than any other par-
ties it. a wi•• and economical expenditure of the pariah tunds
are debarred, at the will of the wilt offieere, from the ex-
ercise of those rights which the dialled rate payer pommies.

MODEL LODOING.HoUSE FOR FAMILIES.

The new model lodging-house, which has been
jest erected in Streatham street, Bloomsbury, for the fami-
lies of the industrious but poorer dames, is now open for this
inspection of this 'abaci lbws and visitors previously to its
occupation. Extmaally the building is not so prepossessing
a■ maw others of a similar description in the metropolis,
being plain and unpretending to a degree. It has been de.
signed for the accommodation of 48 familial, including the
superintendent. There are five stories, so that each will
atwommodate nine or ten familiso. The sat* allowed to
each family consists in general of two sleeping apartments,
which are boarded, and a sitting-room. a cupboard, a small
pantry, and watercloset, which are floored with I- ortland
cement. Thew is a plentiful supply of water. In connezioa
with each sat of rooms is a stet, by which the dust and
ashes are conveyed to a general underground receptacle.
The aeooniniodation for keeping coals is very limited ; but,
is order to obviate this detect, the committee
of management propose to keep a large sup-
ply of that necessary in cellars under ground, whisk
will be retailed to the occupants at the wholesale pries.
This in itself will prove a great boon, because, independently
of having the coals at the same price as it they were in a
position to lay in throe or lour tons at a time, the lodgers
will have them on the spot, and be erre of getting jut
weight. In • few instances there is only one bed room, but
is every other respect the accommodation is similar. The
gegen' washing rooms are underground ; they are supplied
with an abundant* of hot and cold water, and are des
to accommodate three families at the same time, and hems
Moo to twelve families during the day. The drying pound,
consisting of a large spice tut off from the quadrangle, in-
cluded between the front and witty of the bailding, is ample
and airy, cad floored with cement. Leading to the washing
rooms is a small apartment with a bath, supplied with hat
and cold water. There is • large supply or underground
eellarage, for besides the portions allotted to the reception of
mals, there ars seven or eight well lighted rooms intended
for workshops, which may be used either by parties Scrag
is the establishments, or by artisans dwelling outside. I.
this part of the house also is a room intended to be converted
into a bakehouse, but not yet fitted up with an oven.
It would be seedless to dwell upon the superior advan-
tages which an establisher-eat like this affords to the dames
for whose benefit it it intended; and it is not surprising,
therefore, that amongst the applications which the com-
mittee have received, are weird from parties who were
clearly wear in the contemplation of its originator. W.
tads :wand that the scale of rents will probably vary from
4s. to 6a. 61. • weak; and that in the sppropriatioa of the
rooms the committee will be guided by priority of aoplies-
tion. There are, a, stated, but 47 sits of rooms, whereas
the applications sre over IX,. No one, we apprehend, will
' find anything to object to in the design or arrangements of
' the astablishineat, but we think it will at once strike every
one that a grave error was committed in selecting for it so
oonfisied and crowded a locality.