The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1857._

inland, cheap fish was an unsavoury idea, before
the days of railroads. Now, fish carts, with a
fresh cargo, OM/ our inland moors, and offer cheap
and good food in manufacturing villages in the very
heart of the island. Individuals who wish well to
their neighbours can help in this direction. While
country gentlemen give attention to the increase of
the supply of butchers' meat, let their ladies and
their neighbours encourage the introduction of fish.
There is nothing artificial, arbitrary, or meddling in
such an endeavour. Many a country town or vil-
lage could be pointed out where no poor person of
the last generation ever saw fish, but where a little
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thoughtfulness and concert, exercised, perhaps, on
the opening of a new line of railway, have supplied
scores of humble households with plentiful dinners of
fresh herrings, mackerel, whitings, and other cheap
fish, at less cost than the dry bread on which too
many of our people dins. There is something more
to be done in this direction. The tourists of 1857
will see in various parts of the United Kingdom
notices posted up by local boards of con-
servators of river and lake fishing, by which
it appears that the preservation of our
river fish, and its increase by express culture,

are fairly taken in hand, as they have for some time
been in France. It is too early yet to speak with
confidence of the final result of the new methods of
replenishing our salmon rivers; but the prospect is
highly encouraging with regard both to that and
several other kinds of fish, and there can be no doubt
of the benefits to be looked for from the improved
conservancy of our inland waters protecting the
spa

Lwn andfry. Ikre is a field for the influence of
good citizens who would have the labouring classes
well fed. We need only hint that the Irish coasts
with their neglected wealth, are another.
The keeping of poultry is understood to be largely
on the increase. We do not refer to the passing
fashion of poultry fancying among great ladies and
gentlemen who cultivate an eccentricity that way.
Nor do we find fault with them for their extrava-
gance in that pursuit. The prices they give are
their own affair, and no doubt much good will arise
out of the knowledge and improvements they are
diffusing. But what we want to see is the increase
In cottage poultry. It is going forward, no doubt ;
bat it may be much further encouraged yet. A vast
proportion of our cottager. could keep fowls without
trouble to their neighbours or greater cost to them-
selves than would be repaid ten times over by a little
sore and management. It is an old saying that the
hedger's wife beats the great lady in fowl rearing,
and many a farmer's wife even envies the cottager
on the common her constant supply of eggs, and the
large broods which pick up their living with little
more care than that of the hens. This is a branch
of production which it can hardly be difficult to
expand to any extent.
We have a plain word to say on the other—the
saving aspect of the question. We believe that
there is really much less waste in great men's kit-
chens than there used to be. Improved cookery and
other causes might be assigned for this; but
there is, we fear, as much waste as ever in
another direction. The testimony of the medical
profession is clear and decided as to the prodigious
over eating which is habitual among the lower ranks
of the middle elms. The satires which were for-
merly levelled at the gouty rich are now applicable
to a different order. We still laugh at the rural
notion of hospitality, as seen on an old fashioned
Awn, where the visitors are entertained with an
amount and a succession of solid food which would
supply three or four households in the next town; but
there ore thousands of shopkeepers and artisans who
exceed even the old-fashioned farmers in the spread
of their board. Medical men can tell sad stories of the
long trains of diseases that follow on this mistake—
for a mere mistake it is, in many case,. Let the doctors
explain the effect. of such gorging, and let kindly
neighbours convey the knowledge that hospitality
and liberality do not require this sort of manifesta-
tion, and a great improvement in health will ensue
to one party, and a vast amount of animal food will
be released in favour of others. We commend all
these methods to the consideration of every-
' body who is aware that meat is execs,
steely dear, that the greater proportion of
• the people of England go without it, and that our
• labourers, who above all men want it, are more and
more cut off from it, though, in regard to employ-
ment and wages, they are better off than the• present
generation ever were before.

Ilk Court.

Tbe Qum held • court, and received the Queen
et the Netherlands, yerterday steensoon, at Buckingham
_ . . . .

Her Majesty strived from Claridge's Hotel at 3 o'clock,
end wee received at the mad antennae of the palace, on
alighting from her carriage, by the Priam Consort, and by
the Queen in the grand hall, attended by the Berl of Clues•
don, Ka., her piaci* Secretary of State for Foreign
Labs, sad the ladies and Gentlemen In Waiting.
The Queen of the Motherlands was attended by Berm
Beatieek, the Netherland. Minider, and her Ladies and
Gentlemen in Waiting, and was conducted by Major•Oeneral
the lion. Sir Edward Cum, K.C.11., the Queen's Master of
tho Ceremonies.

ThelineelxWave an audience o! Mr. Henry 'toward, her
Majesty'. Minister at Lisbon.
The court was attended by Lord Waterpark, Lord is
Waiting, and Colonel the Hon. A. N. Ruud, Groom in
Waiting.
The Prince Consort, attended by Captain the Hen. A de
Ro', visited the Queen of the Netherlands yesterday at
Claridge's Hotel. His Royal Highness afterwards proemial
to the Trinity-hram,
The King of the Belgian., with the Prineeiet Charlotte of
Belgium. and the Count of Flaudera, left Buckingham
Palace at half-past 12 o'clock yesterday morning fur Man-
ebeeter, to visit the Exhibition of Art Treasures. ilia
Majesty and the Princeas were attended by the Countess
d'l ve, Madame de Hovey, Count de Mello-eke. Captain
Burnell, and Dr. Knepl. The King will bo attended by N.
Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and 'lttjer-General the
lion. Sir Edward Coat, in Manchester.
Prince Arthur, and the Prineesars Itelena and Louisa,
visited the Zoological Gardena in the Regent's-park. 1
The Queen, with the Princess Royal and Princces
took a drive in an open renege and four, attended by Ike
Hon. Louis* Gordon, in the afternoon. Lord Charles Fit i•
rov was in attendance on horseback.
The Prin.,. Consert rock, out on horseback, attended by
Captain the Ilon. I). de Roe.
Her Majesty bad a dinner party in the evening. The
cows:ray included the Queen of the Netherland+, the Ituchem
of heat, the Princess Royal, the Duchess of Cambridge,
Princess Mary of Cambridge, and the Ituke of Cambridgel
Prince Edward of Sixe-Weimar the Duke of Wellington.
Baron Bentinek, the Netherland:Minister, the Marquia rf
Beeedalbane, Marquis of Abereern, the Earl of Clarendon,
Viscount Palmerston, Mdlle. de !'abet, Mdlle.
Lady Anna Maria DAMPIII (the Lady in Waiting on the
Duchess of Cambridge), the Earl of Mulg.rave, Le Comte de
Ratidwych, M. Tyndel, Lc Courtlier d'Etat do Wickherlin
(in attendance °tithe Queen of the Netherlands), the Equerry
in Waiting to the Dottie. of Cambridge, and the Equerry
in Welling to the Duke of Cambridge.
The band of he Grenadier Guards attended during dinner,
and played the following pieces:
woes
Son ikad Annear . Movlelffloba.
, . Lltotay.
The limors. Man* , •••" •
Ter&
Her Majeaty's ptivai.basd . *afterwards attended in the
evening, and performed the
Ala • Prom' ... KWh,.
Muleki ner client: *ilia • • •• -
Beanie Vraweei.
Allier Mar..* .... . ..... Chnou.l4l.
The gems of the Netherlands visited the Duchess of
Kent yesterday at her reodenee,Clarenee•house, St. Jainea's.

A Cabinet Council wag heM yesterday afternoon at the
offidal residenee of the First Lord of the Treasury in Irown-
ing-street. It was attended by all the minister,.
A deputation for the purpose of presenting a memorial on
the subject of African ira ..ration had an interview with
Vbwount Palmerston yogey. The deputation consisted
of Messrs. R. Forster, T. 11. Gladstone, W. Fermnon, S.
Brunie, E. Miles, J. Cooper, J. Briscoe, M.l'., the Rev. W.
Owen, the Rev. H. Ilictuud, S. &urge, L. A. Chamerovrow,
C. W. Utegory, L. A. Gregory, the Rev. Dr. Carlile, end
the Roo. J. Phillipps.
A deputation considing of the following gentlemen had
oleo an interview with Lord Palmerston yuderday on the
subject of the Red Ses telegraph cornmunicaeon with Indio,
China, and Australia, vie.:—Mr. Join C. Msrahroan
(Chairman), Mr. James Allan, Sir George Bonham, Bert.,
K.C.8., Mr. It. W. Crawford, M.P., Mr. Charles Fresh-
geld, Mr. S. Gregme, M.l'., Mr. Kirkroon Italgson,
Captain Hall, R.N., CM., the tin. A. Kinnaird, M.P., Mr.
Christopher ((swoon, Sir Macdonald Stiihenisoi, end Mr.
Alex. Wilms. The deputation was introduced to Lord Pal-
merston by the lion. Arthur Kinnaird.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO ALDERSHOTT.-
(THIS DAY)

This morning, at ten o'clock, a special train, con-
veying the iloweetice of the royal household, and the bones
and roentgen which may be required by her Majesty and the
royal family during the sojourn of the august party at
Alderehott and Osborne, was despatched from the Waterloo
terminus of the South Weetern Midway. The train will
stop at the Farnborough station, when thole intended fur
Aldenhott will at onee proceed to the royal pavilion at the
coup, end the remainder will proceed to Gosport, en t ogle for
Oebm.se.

Iler Majesty, his Royal Highness the Primo Consort, the
Princess' Royal, &c., accompanied by the royal visitor's, and
attended by a numerous suite, Left Buckingham Palace this
after?..m in flee of the royal carriagee and four, escertid by
a detaitiment of the 11th Ilusears, for the Nine-elms Station,
thence proceeded by special train to Faraborough, ea route
fur Alderahott.

There will be no military demonstration at the camp to-
day if we except the royal salute to be fired by the Artillery
and the usual hewers paid by the several corps r the royal
party ceases their respective quarters.
The review, todnorrow, will be on a rend scale, the
troops metering about 11,0011 will be under anus at lialf-peat
eight, about which time his royal highness the Commander-
in-Chief is expected to arrive, and the review will commence
anon ate* nine o'clock, Do am to conclude about the men's
dinner-time.