The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-02 00:00:00

Clo Court.

queen went in state yesterday to the Houses
of l'sriiailient to close the Session of l'arliainent with a
spec from the throne. Tice state pros scion left Backing.
him Palace at ten minutes to two o'clock, in the billowing
order .
The first carriage, drawn by sir hays, conveying Sir Fre-
derick Smith. Mr. Henry Gretale. and Mr. Blackwood,
lienttenieu Ushers, and Captain Vhibbs. Eliot of the Yeo-
men of the Guard ill Waiting.
The second carriage, drawn by sic bays, conveying Sir
Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting to the Queen; Lieut.
Colonel Francis Seymour. Groom in Waiting to Prince
Albert; and the Hon. Alfred Crofton and Mr. Geo. G.
Csmeton. Pages of Honour in Waiting.
The third carriage. drawn by sic bays, conveying Colonel
the lion. Charl.s Grey, Equerry in W siting to the Queen :
• itouverie, Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert ;
and Lieut.-C.rlonel Francis Hugh Seymour, Groom of the
Bob's
The fourth carriage, drawn by sic hays, conveying the
Waiting, Lord Colvin:, Clerk Marshal, Lord
Krkeliy, Field.Ofticsr-in•Waiting, the Right Hon. Cecil
• r, Comptroller of the liour.hold, and the Earl of
Sanclaieli, Captain of the lion. Corps of Gientlemen•ht-

Arms. -
The fifth carriage, drawn by six bays conveying Lord de
Igo. Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, Lord Byron,
bantam-Waiting to the Quciu, Viscount Mandeville, Lord-
in-Wsiting to Prince Albert, and Lord Claude Hamilton,
Treasurer of the Household.
The math carriage. drawn by six black horses, conveying
the Ve.countcm Canning, Lady, in-Waiting to the Queen,
the Duke of Montrose, Lord Steward, Viscount Comber-
mere, Gold Stick-in-Waiting, and the Marquis of Abercorn,
Groom of the St de to Prince Albert.
The Queen's marshalmen, the Queen's footmen in state
liveries, a party of the Yeomen of the Guard.
The state coach, drawn by eight cream coloured horves,
toilet jing her Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, the
Duetu,. of Atboll ‘Mistrsa of the Robes), and the Earl of
Jsr,y (Master of the Horse).
A detachment of the Rural Horse Guards escorted her
Mu ....y from the Palace to the House of Lords.
The Marquis of Exeter tLord Chamberlain) and Viscount
Newport (% ice-Chamberlain), conducted the Queen and
Prince Albert to their carnage, and received her Majesty
and his Royal Ilighneu on their return to the Palace at
five minut• a past three o'clock.
A untied of honour of the Scots Fusilier Guards, with
the bind of the regiment, was on duty in the court-yard of
the Palace, and received the Sovereign with the usual
honours.
The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms were on
duty in the House of Lords, under the command of
the (amain. The lieutenant, Sir James Tyler; the standard
bearer, Major Harmer, and Mr. Jove ph Skip Lloyd, clerk
of the cheque and adjutant, attended. The sub-officers,
Lieut.-Colonel Nevill and Major Cooke, were also present.
The Yeomen of the Guard on duty in the House of Lords
were under the command of the lieutenant, Sir George P.
Lee.

The Cambridge University COMMIPAIOII had a meeting
yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury in Doviningatrect. l'res, It, the Bishop of
Chester, the Dean of Etc. Sir John llerschel, Professor
Bealawiek, and the Rev. 'W. 11. Batson (secretary),
Lord Ernest Bruce huh an interview with Mr. Secretary
Walpole yesterday at the llotoc-uffiee.
Pa-patches were sent from the Colonial•oftlee yesterday
to the Govcrnon of the West India Islands.

Her Majesty held a Privy Council at half-paat
three o'clock, at Buckingham Palace. It was attended
by 'Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord
Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and
Colonial Hvpartinents, the First Lord of the Admi-
raltv the President of the Board of Control, the
President of the Board of Trade, the Postmaster-
Genera. the Chief Commissioner of Public Works
and Buildings, the Lord Steward, the Lord Cham-
berlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom of
the Stole to Prince Albert.
At the Council proclamations were issued for Eng-
land. Ireland, and Scotland, dissolving the present
parliament, and summoning a new parliament, the
writs being made returnable on the 20th of August.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Privy Council in Waiting.
The Queen gave audiences to the Earl of Malmo-
bury. the Earl of Lonsdale, and the Right Hoc.
Spencer Walpole.
The Court was attended by Viscount Combermere,
Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Treairarer of the House.
hold, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the
Household, Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting; and Sir
Frederic Stavin, Groom in Waiting.

DONATION.—Vier-Mlkla &Mee
, has presented 1,0001. in aid Odom tool Mot erect* a
chapel attached to the institution at Nir-orion. TM sod-
mate ter the builoing is 3,0001., of which amost upononlo
of 1,44101. has now bees subscribed; it boo Olooodbro toes
determined by the anima to comments the motion of the
edifice this summer.

A PLraLF..ts Pull.—The Dwain eat. Albin's,
with Lady Basedult, and her MITIIIIIIIII. espereend en
accident on Wednesday, from which it is drat a winch,
that they escaped uninjured. Thu dorm \rift ratted
the extrbition of the Botanical Society ha dr darat'e-
park, was crossing the ornament.' basin in bee einker br
the bridge, when the boa on which the noun end
footman were sitting gave way. The latter eassased to
gain lie legs, but the coachman fell. Tin hence, being
unchecked, plunged violently, and then steeled off. Be-
fore they passed through the gates the eteshere, fortu-
nately, got extricated. He bed apperady embed se is-
jury, for be got up directly, wA vim shoe the carriage,
followed by the footman. The !Mors went at their utmost
speed towards Marylebone Mare, when they came In
collision with the iron railings in frost et the petite, two
bars ~f which were snapped in two, both the err& 1511, and
it was found afterwards that one of MN= Whe eek
broken. A gentlemen, ■ups the wisp ftighla get est
of it, and assisted her erase end Lady delelren the
vehicle, none of the party hewing atedelmed ely. Injury.
COMMISSION Or LI:NACY ON • CLEO:M/M.—
Yesterday, E. Winslow Eel.. coecleded • eentatrion of
lunacy, held at the Roeback T , Tundra-green, to
inquire into the state of mind of the Hey. W. E. Hume,
perpetual curate, of White Cnlne, Emelt. Mr. Alexander,
appeared for Captain flume, brother of the alleged
lunatic, and and d that the Rev. W. E. Haase was aged
about 44, and entitled from his father to the presentation
to the perpetual curac of White Colne, Essen. Shortly
after the death of his tither, which took place in 1811 i, he
was sent to Westminster School, and subsequently gra-
duated at Christehurch College, Oxford. In 1831 he was
ordained by the Bishop of London, and the following year
was inducted upon his own presentation to the perpetual
curacy of White Colne. Ilia family (*misted of his mother,
his brother, a captain in the 9:ith Foot, a married sister,
and a maiden half sister. Nothing remarkable occurred to
the unfortunate gentleman until 1834, when be, baying
h,corne attached to a female relative, who resided at (lit

tun, near Bristol, proceeded there in order to press his spit
when he was refused. This led to great mental excitement,
and from that period, which was in the month of October,
lttftt, might no doubt be dated tba present unhappy
Mate of his mind, the effect then produced ren-
dered it necessary to place him In Dr. Foe's
asylum. lie exhibited then much restlessness and
sletplessneas, and eventually formed a most singular
and violent attachment for • popular actress (Mrs. Nesbitt),
and under this influence he went one evening to that lady's
house arid wished to intrude, but was expelled by Mr.
Ftargur O'Connor. Mr. Hume wrote a letter to Mrs. Nes•
alt!..mgh he had no acquaintance whatever with her,
and afterwards left London to follow lur to a provincial en-
gagement at Hiroingbaas. lie had Gimped from a lunatic
asylum at Homer ton, kept by Dr. Take's father. The
Hey. Mr. Ellia was appointed to officiate for Mr. Hume by
the Bishop of London and its in cesseriusate wrote a letter
to the bishop, describing himself by divine names and titles.
lie had also addressed some remarkable communications

to I;idJohnlfusse Dae," urging them
to allow the Queen to venture td "the house.' Veriose
oastr evidence haft been heard, the jury found that the
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