The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-24 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, Dt:c.:3.
Tho Queen and Princo Albert, and the Royal
Children talked in the grounds adjoining the Cutle tnin
morning.

The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Adis
lside of Hoheolobe Langenhourg, arrived in town on Wed-
nesday from Frogmore, and visited the Duchess of Gloms'p
ter, at Gloucester HOLM, Piccadilly. Uer Royal Ilighnem
with the Princess retuned to Frogmen in the afternoon.
Mr. Joseph Linings. delegate from Antigua, had an
terview with Sir John Pakington yesterday at the Colonials
°Mee. Captain Stanley Carr had also an interview with the
right bon. baronet.
The usual Royal Bounties at this season of the year airs
distributed on 'Friday end Saturday last and 00 Monday
and Tueeday, at the Almoury, Whitehall, to upwards of 8.03
aged poor, Including blind and infirm persons, each recces
Also the Royal Gate Alms to la aged persons. each
neelving 13s. These bounties were issued under the imme-
diate authority of Me Lord High Almoner and of the Rm.
Dr. Jeff, the S'ub-almoner, by Joseph Hanby, `see'.
tan. and Yeoman of her Majesty's Almoary m orthuary.

LORD DERBY'S CHARGE OF o COMBLV.I•

TION."

The following letter has been published at the
request of Mr. Phillicaore :
" 6, Carlton-gardens, Dee. 22, 16.52.
" My dear Phillienore.—lt causes me no surprise to lean
that the unwarrantable statement of Lord Derby in tha
Howe of Lords on Monday night, to the effact that his
defeat on Thursday last was the result of a concert or cow
bination between the friends of Sir Itobert Peel and other
political parties, should have caused much soreness smog
those who supported me at the. Lite contested ckctisk fat
Oxford. For they will no doot,t remember that I mount
before and during that election a wish to And the policy
and measures of the government such as would justify so
in giving them my support.
" That wish I sincerely entertained, and I am rrs.:y_,!
show it by reference to all my subsequent acts; hit,'
main question, one really of personsl honour a, will &sof
political consistency, is this—whether the cerm-t or Ng'
bination alleged to have token place for the porpost4
ejecting Lord Derby's government from office is a fact or a
fiction
" I have not the slightest hesitation in stating to yoadd
it is a fiction.
"I give you this assurance absolutely as regards mesa,
and with all the confidence, as regards my ilnnid'ate.
Mends, that one man can have in the veracity of ano:hrt
I shall denounce it as a fiction upon every legitimnr Ka.
sion that may Wier itself to me, and shall complaio of tld
propagation, from such a source, of a statement PO ta)arion
and so entirely unsupported by legitimate evidene,.
" It was entirely unsupported by such evidence—laf
tb
only presumption in its favour was this, that we not
against the budget of Mr. Disraeli, in strict renhswl
with every principle of finance we had professed theisav
our political lives, and with the policy of former 44°2.
ministers from the time of Mr. Pitt, arrain.t thr
;principle.' and 'new policies' which Mr. lhsreli or
dared at Aylesbury his intention to submit to the fi"!
of Commons ; a pledge which I admit that he couty.ftri
redeemed.
this
letter, and
aoaqdueitiep.acti.liihely,rtyinto,t,mlauklle
contains. " I remain moat sincerely yours,
to
" Robert rbillimore, " W. E. 01-“")°'.-
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