The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-14 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1861.

Elie Court.

BALMORAL, Ocr. 11.

The Qn•tm, accompanied by the Princess of
flolienlolie, and the Princeeses Alice and Helena, Prince
Louis of Hoists and Prime Arthur, drove eitertlay to the
tills of the Gerivalt.

The Prince Consort neat out deer- stalking.
The Prince of Wales drove to Birk Hall, and honoured
31n.. t:ordon by a visit.
The Marchioness of Ely arrived at the Castle, and has
succeeded Lady Churchill as Lady in Waiting to her
Majesty.

Sir George Grey has succeeded the Duke of Argyll as
Minister in attendance upon her Majesty.
Mr. Helps arrived at the Castle yesterday.
The Queen's dinner party included the Marchioness of
Ely, the Duke of Argyll Baron Westerweller, and Mr.
Helps.

Orr. 12.

The Queen held •'Privy Council yesterday foi the further
prorogation of parliament. The council was attended by
the Prince Consort, the Duke of Argyll, and Sir George
Grey.
Mr. Helps, the clerk of the council, wax in attendance.

The Queen went out riding. accompanied by the Princess
Alice, the Princess lieleita, and Princess Louise, in the
afternoon.

The Prince Consort sod Prince Louis of lime went oat
deer-stalking.

The Prises of Wales drove to Ma .lodge and paid a visit
to the Counts.. of Fife, ■od also to lovercauld, and paid a
visit to Mr. Farquhanon.
The 9oeee's dinner party included the Princess Helena,
Sir (Inaba and Kin Phipps, Mr. William Russell, and Dr.
ROM rt:4oo.

The members of the Crathie Musical Associatioa had the
honour of perfuming io the evening before her Majesty and
the Pram Coasort.

Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstooe, arrived at
Buckingham Palace ,00n after ten o'clock yesterday morn-
ing from Balmoral. His Royal Highness left town in the
afternoon, attended by Major Elpbinstooc, for Windsor
Castle.

her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhi-
bition of 1 Ml 2 have received an intimation that Messieurs
I>elpierre and Deemße have been appointed joint Belgian
Commissioners in London for the Exhibition.

His Excellency the Amba,sador of France and
the I:mattes de Flehault come to Coventry Henn to-day
from Tulliallaa, Perthshire.

Ilia Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the
Counkas Appouyi are expected at Chandas House at the
latter end of this month frotnAustris,where they have been
staying for some weeks past.
The Prince and Princess Victor Rebelllobe
ere at present residing et the mansioo-house of Inehbrakie.

The Linerpwl A Miolt of to-day says :—" The
Earl of Darby, during the early part of last week,
eatertaised a number of distinguished visitors at Knows-
ley Hall, and for several days was reported as not very
On Friday, however, he was stated to be much
totter."

The Right Hon. Lonl and Lady Willoughby
d'Eresby leave Drummond Castle for Lb. season on Tues-
day next.

Lady Herbert leßros Beigrave-square to-morrow
for Dail Castle, Kea, ou a visit to the Lai of Ciao-

Lori and Lady George Quin have arrived in
Bolgravrequare for a sheet peziod.

Lord and Lady Rendlesham have arrived at the
Clereedoe Hotel from Scotland.

Summonses have been issued for the assembling
of a Cabinet Council in the course of the present week.
This is, we believe, an unusually early period for the re-
assembling of the ministers.

Mr. M'Cortnick, M.P. for the city of Derry, en-
tertained hi constituent& in splendid style, on Thursday,
at a place about seven miles from the town, where the hon.
pude:min has reclaimed 2000 acres from Lough Swilly,
and has not only made it terra fiesta, but made it produce
excellent crops, and bas on it some 500 of the finest speci-
mens of cattle, sheep, pigs. &c. He has a steam plough at
work, which takes seven men to attend it, and turns up
ix acres per day. When the company had satisfied their
curiosity in examining the crop, stock, and machinery, &c.,
about 150 gentlemen sat down to au excellent dinner pro-
vided in a marquee. Mr. IrCormick promised that the
Derry and Lough Swilly Railway should be finished in
Ray next at a cost of 250 X per mile. It is expected to
confer great advantages on Deny and on the district of
Donegal, which it will open up.

_ .
The new library of the Middle Temple will be
open for public use next Michaelmas term. It is intended
to celebrate the occasion by • bouquet to his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, to which all the members of the
society will be invited.

THE QICRIES IN BADENOcII. —The Internees
Cootie r says:—" Her Majesty has this week made a tour
through some of tin finest scenery in the counties of lover.
nem and Perth. On Tuesday the lop.' party, consisting of
the Queen, the Prices Consort, Prince Louis of Hesse,
General Grey, kc., left Balmoral for Glenfeshie, travelling
part of the way on horseback. Having crossed the hills,
the party got into carriages at Kingussie, ordered from the
hotel there, but without any name being mentioned. Her
Majesty was recognised. but no announcement was made
until the party had left the village. Rooms had been
ordered at Dalwhinnie,and her Majesty, the Prince Consort,
and suite passed the night at the homely but comfortable
highland inn of Mr. Puller. luny Macpherson having learned
that the Queen was in Badenoch, summoned • meeting
of the volunteers, seventy .two of whom mustered ;
and they were ordered to repair to Dalwhienie toll-bar by
seven o clock next morning. To accomplish this many had
to march • distance of from 20 to ;10 miles, and none of
them perhaps leis than a dozen miles. At nine o'clock, her
Majesty appeared at the door of the inn, when the volun-
teers formed an imposing guard of honour round the carri-
age, and presented arms. Her Majesty graciously acknow-
ledged the compliment, and the Prince Consort entered into
conversation with Cluny. His Royal Highness said the
Queen desired to travel incognito, but having been in-
formed of the dietaries which the volunteers had travelled,
and witnessing their loyal enthusiasm, her Majesty ex-
pressedher gratification at the devotion of the Highlanders.
land of the company then struck up the National An-
them, and the volunteers cheered lustily as the carriage
drove off. The meet created a great excitement in the
neighbourhood. The royal party drove to Blair, where the
Duke of Atholl was in waiting to escort them through Glen-
Tilt to Mar Lodge. whence they returned to Balmoral."
THIS ROYAL VISIT To EDINICIEGH.—The foun-
dation stones of the new General Post-office and Scottish
Industrial Museum at Dlintsurgh are to be formally laid by
the Prince Cousort on Wednesday, the Zird inst. Her Ma-
jesty, the Prince Consort, and the royal family are expected
to arrive in Edinburgh on Tuesday evening, the 22nd, from
Balmoral. and leaving Holyrood oo Wednesday evening,
they will make a night journey to London. There is to be
no procession at the foundation ceremonial, but the military
and volunteers are to be called out ; and on the site of the
Poet-office,which is in view of the Register-house and other
buildings at the east end of Princes-street, • platform or
gallery forming three sides of a square is to be erected far
the accommodvtion of about 2.500 spectator'. At the site
of the Industrial Museum, in Argyll-square, a platform will
also be erected, bat here space available for spectators Is
much Isere limited. It is proposed at that the hour of her
Majesty's departure the park shall be lined with the volun-
teers bearing torches.
TEE VISIT OF THE PRINCE Or WALES To THE
Dims or Nmrciurrte —The greatest preparations are
being made at Clumberlark, tho mat of the Duke of New-
castle. Lard-Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire, for the recep-
tion of ha Reyal Highness the Prince of Wales, who is ex.
meted to attire on Wednesday next. The inhabitants of
both Roth:ell and Worksop are pvparing to give his royal
highnesss a most cordial reception. The prime, as already
announced, will reach the East Retford Station of the
Great Northern Railway by the 5.55p.m. train, and which
trek arrives at York from Falinburgh about 4 o'clock, and
at Doncaster at 5.20 p.m. The rifle carps of "the ancient
borough," and a company from Worksop, will be in atteod-
IMOD at the railway station, as also the (lumber troop of
Yeomanry Cavalry, who will form the guard of Meow.
Mr. Alderman Fisher, the Mayor, and the corporation of
Retford will assemble at the statioe to meet the royal ore'
ts,oe. The nobility and several of the leading fernlike resi-
dent in the district am invited to meet his royal Winless
who will receive from the inhabitants of North Notts as
hearty • welcome as the most loyal could desire. Tice ex-
tensive alterations and inipmsrements that are new all bat
completed at Clumber have been carried our, agreeably to
the Duke of Newcastle's wishes, by his steward and malts
Mr. Henry Hearn&

EARL RUSSELL AT SUNDERLAND.
SUNDERLAND, SATI:RDAY Ersniao.
Earl Russell arrived here yesterday afternoon
013 a visit to his daughter, the wife of the Rev. H. M.
Villiers, curate. of 136h0p Wearmouth. As SOOD as his fu-
tilities of visiting Sunderland was known a meeting of the
Town Council wan held, and it war unanimously resolved to
premat him with an address from that body.
The address was presented to the noble earl this morning
in the Athenaeum, Faweettotreet. The spacious building
was crammed to excess. Earl Russell entered it shortly
after one o'clock, accompaaied by S. Aloock, F/q., Mayor
of Sunderland, and followed by the members tithe corpo-
ration.

The MAYOR, having taken the chair, made an appropriate
speech, and concluded by calling upon the Town Clerk to
read the address.

Earl MINMELL, on rising to reply, wag received with
enthusiastic and prolonged cheering, many of the audience
rising and waving their hats. His lordship said—Mr
Mayor, I beg to thank you in the first place for the manner
in which you have presented to me this address. I feel
deeply the honour you have done me, and I feel that you
have added to that honour by the expreasioos you have used,
I can assure you, Mr. Mayor, that I hear with great ash.
&slice of the increase of your port and the aug,neutatiou
of your trade. I trust that your connexion with our com-
mercial ports, both at home and abroad, will increase
that trade ; and I certainly expect that our mistime
with Germany, and with the North of Europe, will
lead to • gradually and permanently increasing trade of
this country through ports in which your skill and in-
dustry are shown ; and 1 believe there is no port where
more skill and industry are shown than in the port of
Sunderland. (Applatth.) I hail the happiness to see,
though only for a moment, and I trust to see again, that
portion of the Naval Reserve which has been raised in
this neighbourhood. I quite agree with you, Mr. Mayor,
that those are men upon whom the country can count in
its emergencies. (Applause.) There are no men upon
whom she can more surely rely. We have, as you all
know, various forces in this country upon whom
the country would mil in case of need, and
there Is no body of men, taking the regular navy,
the regular army, militia, volunteer*, and others--there
is 00 body of men upon whom she can rely more C3OO-
- than that body of Naval Reserve, which she
would call in case of need to her assistance to defend
bee shores and bear her flag unharmed and honoured
through the world. (Applause.) You have done
me the honour to allude, sir, to a more domestic
relation, and have adverted to the circumstance that the
cause of my coming to this neighbourhood was a visit to •
daughter, who has been connected with the son of one of
the most honoured members of the English church.
(" Hear, hear," and applause.) I feel confident that he
will pursue the steps of that honoured father, and that by
his piety and by his seal he is qualified to carry the light of the
gospel to minds benighted, and thereby to add to the num.
bees of Christians in this land. (Applause.) After having
Muss adverted to the topics to which you addressed your.
self, I will now read the answer which I propose to give to
the address of the Town Council, in these words
" Mr. Mayor, gentlemen,—l feel grateful to you for the
honour you do me by the present►tion of this address. It
is the distinction of this country that its government and
legislature du not interfere with the formation and espies •
sion of opinion upon public affairs, and this freedom, far
from injuring, strengthens, purifies, and maintains the au•
thotity of our laws. I ant happy in the reflection that I
have been able to contribute to the extension of the prin-
ciple of self-government in local affairs in places where
that principle had been neglected, suspended, or perverted.
(Applause.) 1 thank you fur the kindness of your wishes,
end beg to admire you of my earnest desire for the pros.
parity and oontiuued welfare of your town." (His lordship
resumed his seat amid loud and prolonged cheering.)
The MAYOR then proposed three cheers for the noble earl,
which were given with the heartiest enthusiasm. Another
ringing cheer for the countess and ladies brought the to -
resting proceedings to a close.

THE RUSSELL BANQUET AT NEWCASTLEON-

TYNE.

NEWCASTLE, SATURDAY EVINLYG.

The approaching banquet to Earl Russell excites
general attention. The demand for the tickets has been
very great, and it is expected that there will be a large
attendance of the gentry of the town and neighbourhood.
I lis lordship arrived in Newcastle this evening, and at once
proceeded to the residence of the Right Hon. W. Hutt,
M.P., at Gibside. A public meeting was held at the Guild-
hall this afternoon. The chair was occupied by H. Ingle.
dew, Eq., Mayor of Newcastle. Au address, to be pre-
sented to his lordship on Monday afternoon, was unanimously
agreed to.

An ancient Bible in the library belonging to the
Mayor and Corporation of Southampton bears the following
inscription :—•• Jobs Favour Doctor of the !awes and Vicar of
Halifax borne at Southampton in the parish of holy roods
the xxjth of Januarie 1556 out of the lore he beareth unto
his deem couutrie he bestowed this Bible that it may be
chayued to a desks in the Couucell Chamber of the Audit
Louse for the edification of those who shall made therin as
also th►t by, the light thereof the Mayor and Magistrate,
may be put in mind of mercy and judgment and to doe all
things to Gods glorie and in lore to their brethren
•• day of Julie 1612"
The ceremony of conferring degrees, honours.
and certificates upon certain of the muileuta of the Queen's
University in Ireland took place on Friday, in St. Patrick's.
hall, Dublin Outlet. There was a large atteolance of ladies
and gentlemen, amongst whom were the Right Hot. the
Lord Mayor, Lord Talbot de bbilahide, and Sir Robert Peel,
Chief Secretary for Ireland.

At an intlimutial meeting in Newcastle, on Fri-
day, it was resolved to establish au industrial association,
fur the purpose of providing work for those discharged
male prisoners who expressed a desire to reform, snit ap-
peared anxious to regain their position in society. The
chairmso was Sir John Fife; and the speakers were the
Visor of Newaistle, the Rev. H. W. Wright, the Rev. H.
Shepherd, and Messrs. R. B. Ssnderson, Swithiabsnk, and
J S. Challimer.

iHPRot*EHENTS IN THE TEMPLE.—AII allditional
' number of masons and bricklayers ban been placed on the
works in the Temple, in order to expedite the progress of
the alterations. The fine range of buildings for the new
chambers, built on the site of the row of houses which
formed the eastern side of Temple-lane, is now completed.
Goldsmith's house, No. 5, has soon followed that of Dr.
Johnson. The nine houses opposite Dr. Jolinson's.buildings
have been knocked down, and, firing the north wall of the
church, a large open terrace has been retained, opening s
good north-west view of the church. A wheel window of
rare beauty has also been exposed to view over the
church porch.
Jzwisu SYNAGOGUE AT DOVER. The Lord
Warden and commissioners of Dover Harbour have made a
grant of • plot of ground for a Jewish synagogue. It is
virtually a gift, but the act of parliament forbidding the
Harbour Beard changing leasehold property to freehold
without payment, they have charged merely a nominal price
for it. The situation is one of the most fashionable in the
town, and the ground is considered very valuable.—Jcicis4
CAronick.

GREAT BANKING IRREDULARIVES IN SUFFOLK.
—For some time peat painful rumours have been in circula-
tion in ref ereuce to some very serious irregularities in the
I accounts of the deceased manager of a banking establish-
! nieut in Suffolk. The irregularities involve a sum of
1 60,000/., and even a larger amount is mentioned. They are
i stated to have arisen from the excessive confidence reposed
io the deceased by his employers, the stability of whose
firm is pot in any way affected by what has takes place, as
i they are men of respectability and wealth. The books do
, not seem to have been closely checked for many years, the
partners being content with a general periodical statement
of the affairs of the concern, without inquiring more ear-
row ly into details. The dammed, who enjoy eal during his life-
time general respect,leaves some landed and other property,
out of which the firm will probably be able to some extent
to indemnify themselves. Ile had a salary of 5001. per an-
num, and lived quietly and plainly ; but be appears to have
embarked deeply in various specuktione. He was allowed
LOW/, per annum to pay the salaries of the clerks employed;
. they were quite under his control, and as they were never
admitted to a knowledge of the aroma of the concern, the
discoveries now made corns upon them quite by surprise.
j Laborious inquiries are still proceeding, and we abstain at
present from mentioning names, although reference will
probably he meals again to the subject in a few days. The
deceased is said to have made a peat profession of religion,
land funeral sermons were_preached in his honour.
CITT Or LONDON HOSPITAL TOR DISEASES or
THS CHEST, VICTOIUA-PAIUG —The Dumber of patients re-
-1 loved at this institution during last week was 917, of which
166 were sow aim

(Stamped, Id. Additional.)

THE REGMTRATIONS.

_MIDDLEBEX.

Mr. Maine and Mr.Fieait;,iwo of the revising
barristers appointed to revise the electoral lista for Middle-
mix, sat at the Belvidere, Penton-street, Islington, on Satur-
day. for the revision of the lista of the several parishes is
the King's-cross polling district.
As on former occasions, Mr. W. Albert James attended
as agent for the Middlesex Reform Registration Society ;
Mr. T. Alley Jones, on behalf of the Conservative Regts-
tratioo Association ; and Mr. H. Smith for the New Middle-
sex Conservative Registration Association.
Mr. Maine, at the opening of the court, delivered judg-
ment in a case raised at the Loudon Coffee-house, in the
coursed the revision for the parish lists of the City of London;
whether service of notice of objection on the overseers by
post could be proved without the production of a stamped
duplicate, as contended by Mr. James on behalf of the
liberals. The decision was, that, although the act of par-
liament was obscure, the decision given at Hampstead last
week, that the stamped duplicate was necessary, was right ;
but the barristers granted a case of appeal to the Court of
Common Plass, the result of which will be, that if the de-
cision is confirmed the names objected to will be retineal,
but if upset they will be expunged.
Mr. Smith asked, on the point which he raised the
day before, whether the production of the stamped dupli-
cate proved the signature to the original notice.
Mr. Maine replied that the production of the stamped
duplicate, in the unanimous opinion of the barristers, merely
proved the service of the settee, and that everything else
must be strictly proved. For his own part, he should
always be ready to grant a case when any doubt existed in
his mind • but in this case oone existed either with him or
his brother barristers. If he granted a ease he would not
be able to draw it up, for the facts he would be obliged to
state would inevitably be fatal to the case on the face of it.
In the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, above bars, and
St. George the Martyr, Henry Baker, of 10, Elm-grove,
Hanunersmith, was objected to by the liberals. Here
again the battle of the notices was fought. The point here
was the sufficiency of the service of the notices of objection
on the overseers. Mr. H. JllllOll had left them at 47,
Bedford-row, the office of the late Mr. Talbot, clerk to the
board of governors slid directors of the parish of St.
Andrew, Holborn, and St. George the Martyr, of which
body the overseen are ex officio members, the place where
all the parochial business was transacted, except the making
of the rates, which, as well as the board meetings, took
place at the workhouse in Cray's-inn-lane, and here (that is,
at; the office in Bedford-row) the list of notices was made
out by Mr. Talbot's clerk, and, the overseers having attached
their signatures, it was published.
Held that the service was good.
The great feature of the day's revision was the pro-
duction of Mr. John Anthony Coates, the conservative ob-
jector-general, who, regraded hitherto by the liberal agents
as a mythical personage, now made his peewee! appearance.
A Mr. Baker, on the list for the parish of St. Mary,
Islington, was Objected to by Mr. Orates.
Me Smith, having recapitulated the circumstances con-
nected with his client's non-appearance at the previous re-
vision courts, sallied him before the barristers, and he was
subjected to a rigid examination, which lasted a couple of
hours. His appearance created a *emotion.
The berristers having retired to consider their judgment,
Mr. Bealea said they had thought it necessary to give the
fullest consideration to this question, since the right of so
many electors were governed by It. Having heard all the
evidence and the arguments on both sides they were of
opinion that the whole matter turned upon whether
these notices of objection were duly signed within
the meaning of the act of parliament. by the 7th clause
it was enacted that every person who should be on the
register for the time being might be at liberty to object to
any voter, as not being entitled to have his name on the '
list of voters. He thought the meaning was, that the
party should have a ground of objectioc at the time of
signing the notice paper. Coates signed a number of
blank forms, and so far his signature was nugatory, and was '
no notice at all ; but it was endeavoured to cover this defect '
by Coates passing his hand over the signatures a second
time, after the notice was filled up. The barristers con-
sidered that the first signature constituted no notice at all.
Then came the question, whether a person having so signed
a notice without, as he hiinself admitted, having any ground
whatever for objecting, could give a valid notice by re-
tracing his signature after an objection had been made
for him by some one else. They were distinctly
of opinion that such an act as this must be a deliberate and
intentional re-signature. It was a very formal ant, and in
some cram a witness was required upon re-signing a docu-
ment. At any rate, from the evidence given by Mr. Coates
it was clear that if he did it at all it was done in neither
a deliberate nor careful manlier, for he had said he saved a
great deal of time by passing over his previous signatures.
They were not satisfied, therefore, that there had been such
a re-signing as under the circumstances there ought to have
been, and the notices must be held to be bad. All this diffi-
culty had arisen from the system of wailing a mass of ob-
jections wholesale, without any ground for them whatever.
The barristers considered this system to be an abuse of the
powers of the act of parliament. If objections were left to in-
dividuals they would not go out of their way to object with-
out ground ; but this system of professional objections had
sprung up with no ground of objection whatever to support,
and merely proceeding upon the expectation that the
parties objected to would not be able, or would not take the
trouble to attend. The same thing was often done on both
sides ; and it was a great abuse of the act. It was with a
view to put a stop to such a system that the barrister had
determined upon requiring the strictest evidence in each
case. The objectors were bound to see that they had some
emend of objection when they signed the notices.
Subsequently Mr. Smith said he had further evidence to
produce in support of his objections, and be then called a
stationer and writer, named Cull, who stated that he and
the men employed by him had filled up all the notices, and
be could swear that the whole of the notices from the King's-
crows district were filled up before the signature of Mr.
Castes was affixed to them. _ . _ . . .

Upon this evidence the barrister decided that to the extent
of the notices for the King across district their difficulty
was removed, and they might be admitted.
These discussions, and the hearing of evidence, occupied
the court nearly aU day, and there was very little time to
hear any of the numerous objection■ which have been
served upon the electors. The further revision of the list
will therefore be continued.