The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-01 00:00:00

GREAT IMIIBITION OF 7111 vue, 185 1 .

Mr. Deputy LOTT moved that We discounts be resumed
upon the question " that the c .urt do subscribe 1,0001. to-1
wares the exhibition of the works of iadustry of all nations
Is the year 1831."
Mr. LOW immediately moved as an amendment that the
subject be adj •urnel until the August nun should have
terminated. (Cries of "no, no," end "hear, hear.") He
thought the court would set wisely in taking time to con-
sider whether they would be justified in coming to aly
resolution of the kind propsed, Tney could not say what
amount night be nqufrN or in what manner the money
collected might be enpeaded. (Hear, bear.) lie thought
they should be well hafenned upon the subject before they
voted any money, sad that under any circumstances the sum
ought to be a very modified one. (Disapprobation, :rid cries
of "Hear, hear.")
Hr. D putt' LOTT said it was evident that the object of
the amendment was tohte the go by to the great question
upon giving notice of w he thought he was conferring en
obligation upon the corporate represent Wen. He trusted,
however, that the good sense and good feeling of the a out
would triumph over such paltry endeavours to prejudice so
noble en undertaking. (Hear, hear.)

Aldermen LAWRENCE heartily concurred in the
amendment.

The amendment was ultimately negatived by 71 to 32, and
Mr. 11 L. Junes perceiving that the judgment of the court
was in savour of a smaller sum than that pr...poied by Mr.
Deputy Lott, mewed and carried by an overwht lnaina
majority the grant of 5001. is promotion of the objects of the
embibitton.—Adjourned.

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.
Yesterday the magistrates of the county of Middle-
sex ateembled at the Se,aion►heusa, Clerkenwell, to traiseact
the general bus nets of the county. Mr. Powsain rre-
sided. The minutes of the two preceding court. having
bren read.

Tne DEPUTY CLERK of the PEACE laid before the
court the rep orc of the finance and general purpose cim-
mittn, and upon a recommendation therein' the court
ordered payment of the coroner's accounts as follow: To
Mr. Walley, charges upon 142 inques's holden by him from
the I.t of January to the 11th of .bruery, 3911. Si. sd. ; to
Mr. Baker, in respect of 135 inquests holden by him from
the let of January to the 16th of February, 4511. 14.. 3,1. ;
and to Mr. Bedford, for 32 inquests h Aden from the Ist to
the 31st of January, 851.105. 4d. i—total, 9-81. 81.
Tlii PIUSOIIB. ILE.IICTIOX 01 TIII " AIIIINDID DIRT

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The DEPUTY CLERK of the PEACE then proceeded
to lay before the court the reports from the visiting justices
of the prisons. The reports gave a satistactory account of
the conditinn of the various establishments, and they were
received and adopted.
Each of these reports was agarompanied by a supplemen-
tary report, containing the opinions of the governor endear-
geons of each of the prisons as to the adoption of an
"amended merle of dietary," which was forwarded to the
court by the Secretary of State, and submitted by the court
to the consideration or the visiting justices. The ;governor
and the surgeons unanimously pronounced against the adop-
tion of the amended wale, and the visiting justices recom-
mended the court to adhere to the scale now acted upon.
The court adopted this recontenendatirn, and a resolution

was pained autborisiog a communication to that effect to be
transmitted to the Secretary of State, such communication
to be accompanied by the reports ren the governors and
surgeons.
Reports from the 'overman and ehap:ains of the houses of
correction, Coldbath-tields and Westminster, as to the
" cause, f crime in this county," made pursuant to a ago
lution of the court, were presented. Ord, red to be pentsd
and carculatei amongst the magistrates, and considered at
the nest mutt. . _ _

Mr. SIMPSON postponed a motion of his which stood in
the paper, relative to the muses of crime, " with a view of
calling the attention of her Majesty's government to this
imp-rtant subject."
After transacting some routine business, the cart ad-
journed.

ENCROACHMENT ON GREENWICH PARK.
Yesterday evening, in pursuance of a requisition
to the churchwardens, a public vestry meeting was held in
the perish of Greenwich "to consider what steps should be
taken to prevent any further encroachment Ivan the p,rk."
E. Lamaism. Esq. (chnrchwarden) in the their.
The VESTRY CLERIC said he had a communication to

makeM the vestry on the had b.en instructed
by the governors and directors of the pariah to write to
the Commiseicaen of Woods and Forests, and, not having
received any reply to his letter, he had that day called at
their (Bice, when be saw Mr. Phillip., the deck to the
commissioners. Tnat gentleman informed him a meeting
had been held on Wednesday, at which Admiral Duda.,
and such of the commissioners of Greenwich Hospital
u were In town, had an interview with the Woods and Forest
Commissioners, the result of which was that the proposed
enclosure would not take place, and no enernachm-nt on the
park would be sanctioned. Mr. Phillips said a letter to that
effect would have been sent to him (the vestry-clerk) that
night, but AT some mistake it had not goce, and as an-
nouncement would be made in the House of Commons of
the malt. He would also inform the vestry that in the
course of the day the stakes which had bran put down had
been removed.

CARPENTER said ha did not think they
should treat the esinnianication fast made to them es an

*Medal one. They world have buiews nothing of liifitz:
mitre-clerk had not sees Mr. Phillips. Be therefore moved,
" That tbis meeting views with muprise an attempt to
enclose a WV) pieta of ground at the north-eut end of the
perk, and pledges itself to 1130 every legel means to pre-
vent seek encroachment."
Mr. PON f I I'EX seconded the motion.

/Tr: BASS was of opinion that, after what they heard
from their vestry-clerk, it would be very nocourteons to the
Ceimmiuioners of Woods end Forests to pass that resolution,
end move das an amendnrint, " That this vestry hears with
considerable satisfaction that it is not the intention of the
Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests to sanc-
tion an inclosure of any part of Greenwich Park ; and, fur-
ther, this vestry pledgee itself to moist every attempt that
may in 'curs Le made to take away an 7 portion thereof
for whatever perpeoe it may be required.
Mr. PONTIFEX did not think the commissioners had
been very courteous, either in the present instance or on
former occasions. lie believed that but for the manner in
which the subject had been taken up, and especially by the
Daiig News, to which paper they were indebted fora very
ab.e leading article on Wednesday, the enclosure would
have been mad.. _ . .

Several gentlemen spoke in favour of the original motion,
which wu carried unanimously, Kr. Bus withdrawing his
amendment, and subsequently moving a resolution con-
demnatory of any enelisure of public grounds set apart for
the convenierce of the public, which on being accorded was
weenimously adopted.
A committee was afterwards appointed " to confer with
the Commissionen of Woods and Fonds for the restoration

of the enclosed ground leading frOt;tiTsitaiu;;;;ler to
Blackheath.gate." It woe stated that the ground referred
to had been granted to the Princess of Wales in ISOB for a
garden, and he had been informed that a condition was
attached at the time, that should the primers die, or remove
from the locality, the ground should be noosed. Since the
death of that lady, Montague House had been occupied by
the late Princess Sophia, and whtlet she lived ao one thought
it worth their while to ask fee the restoration. But since
her dtath the government had appointed u ranter of the
parka noblemen who, he beiieved,
homes; end it could not, therwere, be said that they would
be impala( on hie privacy in reeteriag the pound tasked
in 1808.
The entry then adjouraed.

Dumas, Fee. 28.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant held his second
levee for the season yesterday.
In every part of Ireland people are beginning to
reckon the falling off in the cotstitnercy. The Cork
Examiner cal's attention to the following statement,
from an official return of the numbers of electors in
that county in the years 1849 and 1860 :
'1849. 1850.
County at large 3,426 1,812
Barony of Bandon 396 .... 23.0
Lamle 2Bl

Mallow 321 ....

Ynughal
Thup, although when compared with other parts of
Ireland, Cork affords a favourable instance, still in
that great county we find that the number or electors
in the county at large has sanely fallen off one-half
in one year.