The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-26 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAIL&
TM wells fu Lisboa. Moine sad Gibraltar will la wade
up es the sesndest el O. 2l_.
fsr ems Nicolas, sad Bt. Visual
(Opte de Verds), Lena Lima, owl Asolasies, will be wade
up ea the ens* of Nubia
The wsils fa British Noah Am:MI Hamada, mad tb•
Veiled Saws will sadwade tap. per ' !Wood*" sa the
of Nov. 1 ; per " eAmbriit, 'ow the analog
rderevm.ll.
The wens Pa llezieo will be mods up ea Nev. 2.
The weft dir the West Indies, Venoms* New dramas,
node Oniptewa. walla made op ea Nov. 2.
The mils Is !MUM, Me fie. and Buenos Arse, will
be mods up oil the en it of Nov. 4.
The wens sin Bietwillos. to the IllditefffilellS.
Copious. Isidia, Hon`-Haag,
80., will be made up ea the
awning of Nev. 7.
The nails for Hawaoah. Hoodww. Nesse*, had Mal,
Chili, wed Peru, will be made sp ea Nev. 17.
The wails for Gibniltor, I Ailo, Gnaw, the leaks blends,
Igypt, Orylea, India, wed Clam, via Boutheisphia, will
In wade up ea the aria of Nov. 20.

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T...1.11.1-ViNfalg. lOC Allen.

LONDON, ZUTIT.RDAY, OCTOBER 26.

WE congratulate not only the aty of York, bee the
cities and towns of England generally, on the ban-
quet, of which we report the &trite in another pert
of our impression. York bad the proud distinction
yesterday, of leceiving the Prince Consort of our
Qt sex as the guest of the ettigens. It had the
peculiar privilege, moreover, of presenting to the
Prince, the Townspeople of England, represented in
the persons of the 'Mayors of the Municipalities.
This (vent ought to be, and will be, memorable. It
is the first cecasion, that we are aware of, in
the hiss ey of this country, of, so to speak,
the Throne Peel( meeting the corporation of
Use empire in one of its provincial cities. It has
been unusual for the princes of this realm to meet any
great corporate body on a festive oocasioa, except alone
the corporation of the metropolis. The Sovereign is
now introduced to the municipalities of the provincial
townsand cities. There cannot be &happier thing ((easy
country than a free communication between its highest
rulers and its people. It would be a peculiarly happy
thing for England wereour princes to relax somewhat
from their high state, and to meet their subjects on
more may footing. The people would rejoice to see
Prince ALBERT, not in York alone, but in every great
town throoghost the empire, and we would venture
to ay that his own happiness and the happiness of
his family—of those who are to be the future Sove-
reigns or this realm—would be materially indexed
by such visits as that which he paid yesterday.
It is with no small
_plessare we reflect on the dif-
femme this visit of Farce ALBERT presents to the
sort of reception heretofore given to the corpo-
rations by Princes of the blood in Eegland.
Heretofore it hail been too much the custom
of royal rewraps to avoid the hospitalities of
the towns end throw themselves too exclusively on
the greet nobh sof the cretin'''. To tho mansions of
these peers we have too often seen the corporate
auttiortaes of English towns and cities compelled to
sally forth to greet the pr.ncea of their sates. The
corporations of English towns have thus been made
more metributors to the pageants of peers. They have
trailed up noblemen's avenues to present their "loyal
and dutiful addresses," and have returned to their
towns w itt. their not unnatural cariosity partially satis-
fied. But though they may have swollen tho pride
and pomp and circumstance of a pretentious nobleman,
three mere visits of ceremony bare conferred no sort
of benefit ern their towns. They have done no good
to British industry or British trade. The burghers
have come beck to their homes w ith a sort of unde-
fined idea that they had been much honoured, though
bow or we; they could not explain precisely. They
have reported that the Prince was gracioes—that the
host, as is duty boned, was civil, sad quite as atten-
tive an eould bo expected with a prince in presence;
above all that the butler performed his part of the
&I's duty ertisfactorily, and maintained the charaeter
dhb matter's maneion for Ei.ghsh hospitality. Bit
these gentlecnea met have felt that, after all,
there we. no prolitetile iotercourse between them-
mins mud the Prince they visited; that everything
was frigid and evrentonioas and properly conformable
to the atmosphere of "court;" but that they obtained
little insight into the character or desires of royalty,
and that royalty could have learnt nothing of the
teenage, wants,or sympathies of the townspeople they
n permitted.
In the rare instances in which a Royal Prince has
heretefous veinnl a country town it has too frequently
occurred that hie visit has been occasioned byeiretini-
stances arytting bet royal. A peer, perhaps, whose
holoitelity he may have conduct uded to accept, has
made use of the teyal visit to promote his own inter.
eat in an adjure:it berme,. He has taken his Prince
into the town as • " lion;" sad his exhibited Lim as
Mr. WiNtWri.L exhibits the inmates of his mena-
gerie.. nit for the advantage of the animal displayed,
nor for the le atilt of the scene of exhibition, but for
his our particular advantage and distinction. On all
these oi. maims the ps bees of the blood royal have been
loyally aid cornielly welcomed, but they must them-
selves have seen teat they wore rather objects of
wonder in el surprise theme, may other higher or more
noble PPlllllllllllltil. They have obtained little benefit
by such ..1C• outer', and it is too much to be feared,
that they in their turn have conferred none. The
taller who wide the new robes for the mayor, the
scriveoer who engrossed the corp .rate eddress, the
alivervenith who obtained from London the largo
snaff-box in which it was agreed that the free-
dom of the town should be pew nted—these people
obtained th.ir reward, and thought the comma CM-
respusauggly " memorable." But it would be difficult
to say who else profited, directly or indirottly.
Trade received no impetus the !Own of the
artisan detited no permanent eueouragemeut.
The only solstauCal consequence wee, probably, the
pohlial advantage of this patrouisitig peer, whole
smite, candidate would not fail to impress the
electors with the great distinction he had conferred
upon their town by introducMg a "Royal Highness"
within tie barough boundaries.
Widely difftreut iedeed are the obieets and pur-
poses with which the present Prince Consort of Eng-
land visits the first provincial city of the Empire. He
come, to it, not at second-band from the mansion of
some trig:.bonriog landed lord, but direst from the
prasenee of toe sovereign herself, prepared to express
as from her own royal month the interest slur
tette in the trade end industry of all her
people. Prince Attu.; in visiting York, becomes
its aided' ' • he takes up his abode with the LORD
blavoa, and meets face to Awe and hand to hand the
auroral ite of that important centre. He comes to
them, moreoven with a purpose—a purpose of great
moment—in which the humolest amoogst the towns-
people aro more directly interested than he can he
himself. Ile comes to advance an object that chill
assist in spreading peace among the nations of the
world--an object that shall remote the friendly in-
terferers* of man and mss, on principles which neither
difference, rank, nor steed, nor any other swine of
diseordoaa effectually injure. His great object is to
advance soignee sad art throughout the universe ; to
give power to comma in all its ramifications; and
to afford iodustry fall scope for obtaining its well
merited reward. It is a visit of which York may
well be proud, both on account of the object to be ac-
complished, and the mean, taken to accomplish it.
Prime ALBEIT at York fleets not only the cit.:ens
of that ancient capital, bat the townspeople of Eng-
land generally, and especially of its northern dis-
tricts. The great hives of British industry each send
to the York banquet their representative in the paean
of their own chief magistrate. Tin husband of the
Queen meets it the Gaildhall of York a class of men
who owe their position, not to the inflame of court.,
or to the friendship of patrons, but to their own skill
and science, and often to the hard labour of
their own indastrions bards. Prince Ahem,
an ast roe and a correct ohs:ever of men and
ment.err, will not fail to recognise in these men the
representatives of 11.1 interest rapidly becoming. if it
hes rot already become, the most influential in the
world. Many • doubt and question that statecraft
may have instilled into royalty, may have been dis-
pelled effectually by the proceedings of last night.
Bich an opportunity of communication between the
Sovereign of England and the industrial population
of our manufacturing conimneities, has perhaps never
occurred before. As we believe it would be for the
bozo& of both, earnestly do we hope that hence.
forward each opportunities may frequently occur
With regard to the pecuniary ob'eet of the
Prince's visit, it cannot but be p by the pro-