The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1860.

Ur Court.

His Royal Nghoess Prince Albert visited her
Royal Hie
e-hhaese the Dasher of Canbylap yesterday at
beidgease.
Thar Royal Rtibaowss the Prioress Royal sod the
Prisms Alias teak a drive is an era earflap sad four yrs-
terday. Ills Beal Highness the Priam of Wales and the
yeanser members of the royal family Molt Asir sisal mem-
ekes yesterday I. the garden of B,ekioshain Palace.
The 00011111 at Buckingham Palms will sot of course
tale place, in eaaarquencw at the aislaaabuly event of the
death of the Dake ci Cuebridga.

The Building Committee of the Royal Commission
for the lishibailie of lASI bed a meeting yesterday, In the
new palms of Westminster. to reevive tenders for the build-
ing. The committee met at 13 Wet ek : there were present
Mr. Cabin (chairmen), Mr. Barry, Mr. Breed, Mr. R.
Stephenson, Me. T. L. Donaldeon. Mr. Scott Russell, secre-
tary to the Ittyal Commission, attended. Colonel Rdd
attended ea chairman of the executive committee. Mr.
Dishy Wyatt, Mr. Owen Jones, and Mr. H. Wild were
present.
A deputation to present memorials for the removal
of the %WM for the ealltit, of Westmoreland to Kendal bad
an interview wilt Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-
office. The deputation consisted of Mr. Olyn, M.P., Mr.
Wakefield, end Mr. Cropper.
A deputation of sugar refiners in bond, headed by
Mr. Mullet, M.P., and inducting M Petrick, B.
Weekerharth, Coops, R•dpeth, Mull., and Otodnart, had
an interview with the. Klatt Hon. Henry Lebouchere yes-
terday at the office of the Board of Trade.
A deputation from the town-c,,uccil of Birmingham,
consisting of Mr. G. F. Hunts, M P., Mr. W. Scholvileld,
M.P., the Mayor of Birmineham, Mr. Alderman Oseen,
Mr. Aldermen Thornton, Mr. Councillor Metchett, Mr
Councillor C ix. the Town Cl• rk, and Mr. Charon, bed an
interview with Lord Seymour yeeterday at the of of her
Mejerv's Crmatissiouere of Woods and Forret% in
Whitehall-place, on the subject of the implicit'.
time of the Health of Towns Act to Birmingham. A
deputation from the Ratepayers' Protection Society, Bir
minithstn, were present at the interview with his lordship.
This deputation was compotes! of Mr. Joseph Alldev,
Churchwarrisit and Visa Clubman of the Board of Guar-
dians, Birmingham; Me Joseph Santos, Guardian of the
Poor, and Mr. Charles Nibble, Parliamentary Agent to the
Birmingham Rstepayered Protect', a Society.
A deputation, consisting of the following Irish
members, waited, yesterday, upon the Chancellor of the Es.
ehequer, respecting the Irish Fishery Bill Neu,
Captain Jones, Sir Percy Nagen_,r But , Col Chetterten, Sir
S. Ferguson, Sir Ours Booth, Bart., Mr. Orodan, Cololltl
L Donne, and Mr. Conolly.
Mr. L. Hayworth, M.P., bad an interview yester-
, day with Sir G. age Grey.
Mr. A. Anderson, tiP., had an intcrviLw yesta-
, day wide the Bight Hos. H. Lsbonehere.

Till CIIANCELLOR9IIIP.—Sir Thomas Wilde is to
be made Lord Ctaseellor, with a ♦iew to his ultleast4l,
b.:coming chairman of the House of Lleir. Sir J,:ho Jerve
will, It is stated, rseoesd to the Chi. f Jasucestrip of its
Cosmos Pleas.

The ATLANTIC, Captain West, sailed Com Liver-
ponl, yesterday, for New Test, with a pod gen,r4l cargo,
and a fair eomplemeat of passengers.
TOR WALKER TUTIMONIAL.—Yesterday afternoon
a public meeting was held at Harbert's Hotel,Talace-yard,
Westminster, Lord Dudley C. Stout, M.P., in the chair, to
adapt measures to present to Oe.orge Allred Walker, Esq.,
surgeon, a testimonial of gratitude for his eminent and
waisful efforts in lib •iishing iurrnmural 'averments. The
noble chairman, Mews. B B. Cabbell, M.P., C. Lushington,
M.P., O. Thompson, M.P.. Dr. Johnson, Dr. It-id. Dr
Smith, Mr. G . churchwarden of St. Jateet's, W..t.
miastar, and Dr. Aldis addrotael the meeting iu terms
highly laudarcry of Mr. Walks'. pUMin services, and cm-
r'emn-tory of the 'Hight with which they have teen treated. It
was ultimately ere lead to !roma thst gentleman with a
solid testimonill of his ountry's gratitude, and a committee
was appointed to take measures for that purpose. Lord
Dadley C. Stuart undertook the 0111. e of treasurer, and Mr.
Thompson that of honorary secretary. The chairman and
Mr. B. B. Cabbell subeeribed 101. each.

lIARROW SCIIIOOL.—Tor: SPEECH DAT.—Yestet day
having bsn appoin- ed for the delivery of the speeches at
this celebrated academy, a numerous and fashionable swam-
Wage met in the dining ball at one o'clock to witness the
pow:eaten& The Montag is a hat of the prises awarded :
The Peel Medal (fur Lotto prase), Mr. G. C. D'Arcy ; toe
Gregory Medal (for Latin translation), Mr. H. Ball. r ;
Latin Alcides and Latin Alexsndtre, Mr. C. S. Blayder ;
Greek I embics, H. M. Butler; Greek Translation and
English Essay, 11. M. Butler; English Poem, Mr. Coning.
ham.
STRANGERS IN Tll6 HOUSE OP CORMONs. —As far
as my observation extends, i.e., the last thirty-one years, no
agetatioa has token plain in the practice of the Howe
of C, minces with res• eet to the admission of stran-
gers. In 1844 the house adopted the weal sessional ordi r
regarding strangers, which 1 transerilw, insetting within
bracket" the only material words tidied by Mr. Coristie in
1845 :—" That the Berjeant at-Ancs attending this house do,
from time to time, take into his custody any stranger or
strangers that he shall we or be (oh-ruled of to be in the
house or gallery [appropriated to thi members of this tonne,
and also any strantter who, having been admitted into any
other part of the house or gallery, shall misconduct himself,
or shell not withdraw when straogen are din cued to with-
draw] while the house or any committer of the whole house
is sitting, and that no person so taken into cusody be dis-
charged out of custody without the special order of the house."
That "no Daemon of the house do presume to bring
any stranger or strangers into the how, or the gall. ry
thereof, while the house is Wong." This order appears to
have been framed at a time when there wee nu separate
gallery exclusively appropriated to stranger., and when they
were introduced by memliers into the gchry of what is
called the " body of the house." This state of things had
passed away: and for a long min of years strangers had
been admitted to a gallery in the Lowe of commons In the
face of the sessional order, by which your correspondent C.H.
imagines their presence was " absolutely prohibited."
When I speak of strangers being aohnitted, it must not be
supposed that this wee done by order of the house. No,
every thing relating to the admission of strangers to,and
their accommodation in the house of commons, is effected by
some mysteri .us agency for which no one is directly rerpne
stiff,. Mr. Barry has built galleries for strangers in the new
haw; but tf the matter were made a subject of inquiry, it
probably would ;mule him to state under what authority he
his sated.—ltons and Queries.
WHAT A PERSON MAT Do ON A SUNDAY IN THE
COUNTRY, AND WHAT Hs MAT NOT Do.—He may pat
Woolf end have as many pert-hones as he pleases; but he
must not send a single letter by the poet. He may, however,
seed letters by tying a piece of string round them, and 44
making parcels of them ; but then he must send them by the
railway, end act dare ugh the medium of the post. He may
receive messages by the electric telegraph ; but be may not
receive those same mean. 1, if folded up in a penny letter
and tent through the puritanical channel of Bt. Martin's-1i-
Grand. lie say travel on a railway with the mail-post;
bet he is a fool, c r worse—en infidel, if he 'specie to receive
at the destination of tie journey any one of the letters that
have been t Meg with him every inch of the way in the
same train. He may buy postage-stamps on a Sunday ; but he
is forbidden to receive a letter that is stamped with one,' h eugh
it is there before him lying en the counter of the same shop.
He may go to the club or the public-house to reed the news-
paper ; but be cannot read it at home union he chooses to
wait till hie Sunday newspaper is delivered on the Monday
or Tuesday morning. He may go to hear a political lecture,
or attend ass enlist meeting, or Join a van party, or rise at
five o'clock in the morning for a cheap excuraWn, or hire a
horse or a donkey, or travel in a cart, carriage, cab, omnibus,
steam boat, velocipede, or balloon ; he may do all these
things, and a quantity more, on a Sunday ; bet he must be
debarred from all letters and newsmen, for none are deli-
vered on that day. He may send to the hotel for his dinner.
to the wine stores for his wine, to the panrycook's for hie'
pastry, to the greengroest's for his dessert, to the cigar
seller's for hie tobacco, and they will all be seat home to
him ; but he may in vain send to the Poet-offices for his kitten
and his newspapers, for they will not be given to him, be-
cause it happens to be a fianday.—PuncA.
HIGHWAY ROUBERT.—Four women, named But-
terworth, Ogden, Keenan (alias and Thompson, all
of whom have been pnvioasly convicted of felony, and a
man named Hampson, who has already undergone a sen-
tinel of transportation, were, on Saturday last, and again on
Tuesday, placed in the dock at the Borough Court, Mew '
cheater, en a charge of highway robbery. The prosecutor
was a man named Samuel Garner, a gardener, living at Sale
Moor, who stated that on Saturday morning last, soon after 1
midnight, he arrived Ia Manchester with a cart, and put up
at the Swan Inn, hi Bindebill; nod at half-past two in the
messing he went to the stable to see that the cart was all
right. While there, he saw seven people coming up the
street, four howler and three rasa ; the females were those now ,
in the box ; one of the men was the male primmer. The wo-
man Keenest game up to him as he was standing sear the
stable, and asked his if he would have someashing to
Brisk. He refused ; and almost immediately afterwomile the
male prisoner came up and seised him by the throat, end
threw him down on his back, and while the other two NIINI
held kis legs, sad three of the womita stood by wa.chin,_tho
woman Keeaaa rifled his pockets of 111. 7d. He Wed to
shout vat daring this time, but the male prisoner pressed
his thumb late prosecutor's seek, and thus prevented him
froM making himself heard. Is this prostrate panties he
was held for a minute and a half or two afoot's,. Keenan
then ran away, the other worsen followed her, sad the mile
prisoner and his companions, having haM the peeaseator till
the women had get to a distance of 40 or 10 pains, followed
their example. Prosecutor, as soon miteeenM mover him-
self, ran after the retreating party, sadism, up kw with the
male prisoner ; who threatened bine to deter him ifTell
farther pursuit, and finding his determined opus It, WM
wrestled with and maltreated him; the male Nkomo Mem
took a fresh start, sad prosecutor kept up the cha:4:ll
when in Miller-etreat, saw cue of the women and
her, and, at this moment, pothook= Winteragill NOD 01l
the now of swims, joined in the pursuit, and made egiollaW 1
of the women prisoners ; and the remainder (with Ike ex-
ception of two of the men) were rabesquentllsoshoOliol
by !aerator ll'Mullen and other others.
Lovett, on searching the place en Saturday metIZI
about a quarter-post three, friend a puree not above a yard
distant from the spot where the last wrestling/ between
Hempen sad prosecutor had taken place. It bad no
mosey la it, and prosecutor satiabotogily identified it as his
own. Other evidence was gives, and the primmer. were all
Motalltted fee trial at the asgreih—Matichstier Szossirw.

UNION BANK OF LONDON.

The 'IMMO& angst _stir of the papists= of
this (~mereet too °Mao of do our
posy, 1/10. %Tasmania, Mr Tama LAVIII la Ibis Melt.
lifter the usual prelimlearlse,
The BIICARTARY read the report of the di:esters kr
the pet par; WOWS it appeared that, notwithOluild•
the extreme dept. Wen Is the value of money,
_the Met
rats of the year useeet to 33.668. t. 9s , out of which sum
the directors new declare • dividend of 6 per .out. pm
&seam. akar ef hieementex, amoustieg to 25 3741., mad
apropriele 6001., as used, is reduedon of Ilse prer
limner, expenses, leaving an unappropriated balance ef
7,9641. 9., to be serried to profit and loss new aosoent.
la teem, of a resolutioe of the proprietors at the kit
meeting, the following niedilloatien ea the eat set of
allowing Wenn was
_agreed epee On all mem%
whets the haleness shall at se time doing the pree
ceding six emeethe have been below 6001., interest at
the rale of 2 per cent. will IN allowed ma the mistime
monthly balance, as heretofore. Oa all accounts where the
balsams shall at no time dunag the pneedieth sir mouths
have been below 2001, Munn at the rate of 1 per cent. will
be allewed es the minimum monthly balance. 0 r accounts
which at any time during the reseeding air mouths shall
have bean below 2001., no interest will be allowed." In-
quiries having been made by eneral proprieton 'with re-
ference to a connexion supposed to exist between this beak
and the Royal Bank of Australia, the directors teal that
it will be satiefastnry to the proprietors to rer ive their
a...trance that the only connexion which ova existed
betweea this company and the bank in questica,
was the ordinary one of banker and customer; and that
the dealings of this bank with the Royal Bank of Am-
trslis were always confined within Inch Inas as to ex-
clude all possibility of ultimate lose sccruirg to this com-
pany. From the statement of accounts, it appeared that the
assets for tbe year amounted to 3,470,3421. 3.. 61., end the
lithilities to 3 438,4831 14i. 6d., leering a @Lupins pi, fit of
33,8581 9,. Deis sum Ina arpropriated iu the following
manna:—Dividends on paid up capital to 31st Dessember,
1819. at 3 per cent., 12,6871 ; halt year to 30th June, 1814,
12,6871, whisk leaves a sum, alter paying 5001. for prelimi-
nary expensee, of 7,9641. 9e., to be gained to the profit and
loss mew sesentat.
A 811ARBLIOLDBR inquired If the Chairman had any
objections SO Oleo a more detailed account of the meets ?
The CHAIRRAN and be did not think it would be for
the interest. of the beak to go at present late seek details ;
but he meld NMI him that the beldame wee as well ma•
caged as that of the Bonk of Zeeland. Rs might also men-
tion that the sum invested is government securities

amounted to 000,0001. (Cheers.)
In answer to • question from Mr. Baomun, the CHAIR-
MAN sad the " Rest" @mounted to 60,0001.
After some further discussion, the report wes seconded by
Mr. Bnowtts, and @greed to; sad the retiring directon hav-
ing been reelected, the meeting, after a vete of thanks to
the chairman, sepeested.

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EXHIBITION OF 1831.—The Royal Commissioners
for the Eatiihji n of Industry of all Nation, for 1861,
have appoin•e4 Lieutenant Colon," Lloyd, Her ?dsjeety'e
Surveyor General and Civil Ennineer in Chief at Mauritius,
and now on less 4 of abuse*, Special Cemmi•eioner, to en
op, rate with Dr. Lyon Playfair.—Gazelee of Tuesday.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.—At the quarterly nw eting
of the eovernore of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn.
road, held In the beard-room yosterdey, the report stated
that durirg the previous three months 183 in-patients and
6,389 out patients bed been relieved. Regret was expressed
that ore of the large wards, containing 60 beds, was still un-
avoidably closed for want of funds.
Nonwien UNION LIFE INSURANCE Socwrv.—On
Friday lent the annual general meeting of the members of
this sone ty was held at the (flies in Surrey street. Major
General Sir R. J. Harvey took the chair. The report Meted
that the Inc me for the financial year amounted to the sum
of 257,4821 2c 11d., of which 162,6711. 14.. 4d. had been
received oa ace :eat of annual pretniuins upon policies. The
wets of the s..eirty amounted on the 39:11 of Jun., 1849, to
2,120 0001 12s. 81. This sum w3s invested under ration,
heads, s.nts:sting of the public fun•!.., mortgagee, loans to
ineuren on :h. ir policies, :gene.' and bankers balances, and
policy atampa; and was divisible under two heads—first,
the central capital of the society, amounting to
1,945,6751 19.. 24 ; and. secondly, the reserve fund,
mina:lug to 174,3211. 13.. 6J. There appeared an i cream
of 49 in the policies, andmearly 30,0001. in the amount as-
steed in the department of life insurance contrasted with
the former year. There bed also been en increase in the
number of annuitants, 68 to 72, to compared with the pre-
vious year. The Chairman and several ether gentlemen
peoseut having xpr.ated calla tenet in the perfect stability
of the exiety, the statement of the acocunts and maition of
the coo pony was adopted. Thanks were voted to the
diteerton and secretary, and the Intaincu terrnivated.—Nor-
joie News.
BRITISM SHIPS IN CALIFORNIA.—A 'otter (ad-
dressed to the owners in Liverpool) from the molter of a
British brig, lying in Soil Francisco, has been posed in the
Underwriters Room., Liverpool, for the information of slim
owners generally. It details several acts of injustice enacted
by Vie placid authorities of the Californian metropolis, in
regard to suits which hal been brought agalest told master
by a caman and a massager, to whom he had been rather
severe in consequence of mutinous! conduct. Alter fining
him, the coon cr.ed the sale el the vessel, and this deci-
sion woe put into execution, the master of course protesting.
He ascribes this unfairness to the fact of their being no 114-
IWh coosul in those parts, and, under the circumstances, he
had deemed it best to memorialise the &latish ettm4 J.
STEAMER BLOWN Up: PLYMOUTIT, JULY 10.-

This morniag, at a little before 7 o'clock, the 41-seen steamer,
of about 70 tons burden, Captain Williams, blew up, when
ly:iie off N rth.corners'eps, Harnuese. The engineer,
William Mcololl, who keeps a tavern et Calstotk, and is
the principal owner, was in charge at the time, standing
on the larboard paddle•boz, whence ha was blown with
part of the ship into the sea. The steamer was preparing
for an f ICUISi,ft up the river Tamar, and the steam was
got up about five o'clock. At the time of the accident
the only person below was a man named Lane, recent!)
empl -yed in place of his brother, one of the stoker.; he wee
in the engine room, and was carried awaw with the wreck.
The after-end of the boiler is blown completely out, taking
with it the afterdeck and cabin, companion, bate, and all ;
indeed the stern part is shelled, there being nothing but the
biting of the bull to be seen. Sin persons were on board ;
Lane is biasing ; Mitchell. the engineer, seriously scalded ;
James Smith, stoker, leg broken ; a fourth man injured ; and
two escaped without hurt. The steamer was takirg a turn
ahead at the time ; the valve was two inches from the en
treme. The Queen was engaged for the day by the trustees
lot the Princes-street Independent Chapel, Devonport, and
no doubt a very large number of persons would have been
on board; had the accident occurred • few hours later, the
lass of lite would have b en frightful.
GUADALCANAL SILVER NIHON° ASSOCIATION.—Tbe
adjournea special meeting was held yesterday at the offices,
34, Broed-etroet-bandings. A setter was read from Captain
aisiva an accaunt of • lode which had been oat in the
Pee Rico mine, and which proved the existence of the vein
beyond the floeken. A letter from Captain Michell, the
agent on the mine, was likewise read, giving as that
gentlea ales opinion that it would be • pity that
the mine should be abandoned before proving b-
low the forty-fathom level east. What they
had newly discovered consisted more of lode stuff,
the country being composed of iron pyrites and quarts. A
c:n tion of some length ensued as to the present course
to be pursued, an efficient noon had been seat out to in-
speetehe mine and the funds had been all expended, it ap-
peared from the statement. put forward that the lint issue
al shires had been 10,0001. • subsequently the directors
were emptier red to raise 6,0041. on 2,000 preference shares,
about 500 or 600 of these shares had not paid their calls, and
consequently were forfeited. In the present state of 'flails
the only course appeared to several shareholder to dissolve
the company and commence de novo. A sharehelder required
what amcunt of capital would be required to work the mine.
The impression was that 6,0001. would be asked for. Capt.
Rule having stated 3,60e1. would be sufficient to work the
mine for • year, there could be no anesseity in demanding
the larger amount. Mr. Huxley, one of the directors, re-
plied that they were liable for the payment of the workmen's
wages, passage to England, &c. About 7001. were due on
calls from the old shares, and if it were possible to obtain
these, they would not more than cover the bills coming
due. The directors had no power to sell on the
defaulters to pay up; parties had taken shares
and after • short period lad abandoned them, nothing would
enable them to resuscitate the company but **infusion of
fresh capital, he proposed that parties raising this should
take possession of the property totally freed Mom its present
liabilities. They had 4,000 shares and 2,000 preference
shares. It would not do to endeavour to raise eapital by
the creation of other preferential shares. Whatever was
done for the future must be under the Joint-Stock Com-
panies Act ; every cue then must pay his quota, and sll
the shareholders would be registered. It was an impossibility
that they could proceed as they had hitherto done, either
sew capital must be subscribed or the company would oie a
lembiral death ; they most remember the next instal-
-1 Mat was due to the Spaniards on the Bth of
Angell proximo; they had hitherto never been pros-
with them, but if they anticipated the position
of the company wee so deplorable as had been reported, they
would take possession. A report of • committee of three
shareholden and throe directors wee then read. This report
recommended • dissolution of the company, and that • com-
mittee should be appointed to make • lease to a
new company, the terms of such lease being that
the new company should be freed from all liabilities in Spain,
and the mines of Guadalcanal to be handed over to then ;
that 3,000 shares, at 21. each, should be called for is eight
instalments, the first as • deposit, and the remaining at
intervals of three months. The first subeseibers to decide
the election of directors, and to register the nanny provi-
sionally, and take dope to plasm the affairs of the new sow
puny on • firm and solid bads. A desultory amnesiac
ensued as to whether the meeting should be adjourned for a
week or fourteen days, but this latter being strongly Com-
bated by the directiers, the following reseis wee
finally agreed upon : "That it is the opinion of is
meet.
ins that there not being nftkient members peasant to make
it valid, the mooting be adjourned Instil WednssaelatT
the 17th fast, ou which day the proprietors an aus
entreated Is attend and bring their alarm with them, such
meeting Ming eonaluens and gag of the kermation of••
I mg" sengpony or the diemintion of the pressmt." Several
gewtismes ex roe their intention to take shame in the
neat et the reseastruetion of • new eompasy, end every
desire wee evinced to give the mines • farther trial.
DARINO BURGLARY DI TRI Cl2l.—lt Wu yester-
day morning discovered that the presages of esas.
Misguides, Sprague, gad Co., the extensive paper mar-
Mr of Queen-meet, Chespeide, had &WAIL late sled
boa lsarglarionsly Wand, and the several forced
IMO; bed. dritneegely, al
Share was • vest swan%
11 *MeV M VW*" via ate .ree