The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-25 00:00:00

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The Queen drove oat this morning in the grounde.
The royal falsity also took their nasal =anima,

A deputation, introduced by Mr. Bromley Moore, M.P.,
Mr. Ayrtoe, M.P., General Beckley, M.P., and Colonel
Grey, M.P., and consisting of Mr. Busby, Mr. Lloyd,
and Mr. Gates (Livetpool Omnibus Company), Mr. K.
Holds. (Manchester), Mr. J. Brooks (Birmingham), Mr. R.
Eyre (Menaced), Mr. L. Dec. Ifialisburv). Mr. Foil'
wail (Bristol), Mr. W. 'Brown (Piston), Mr. le., Mr.
M'Namare, Mr. Annan, Mr. Lama, Mr. Lavers. and
Mr. Church (London General Omnibus Company), Mr. J.
Hudson and Mr. A. Riclumis (Waterloo and Atlas Associa-
tion), M. Cook ()Dibrell), Mr. R. K. Hughes (Bayswater),
Mr. Tiling (Peckham), and Mr. J. E. Bradfield (parliamen-
tary agent), had an interview with the Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in
Downing-street, yesterday, oa the subject of the mileage
duties on stage carriages.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
from the Governors of the North American Provinces and
Hooligans& Drepataiss ware sent to the Governors of the
Betthmisan on the West Cent of Africa.

His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on
Wednesday, the 3rd of May.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prinoe and Princess
of Wales are exported to leave Sandringam Hall, Norfolk,
on or about Friday mint, and Mars to Marlborough
House.
Her Majesty Queen Amelia and suite, acwm-
;naiad by Princess Marguerite d'Orleans, Prioress Blanche
d'Orleans, Duo de Nemours, Marchioness de Beauvoir,
Mdlls. *deer, General Count Hamad, M. FAbbe
ha, are staying at the Royal Victoria Hotel, St. Leonard's.
Since their arrival the ex•Qoses hoe taken both walldng
and driving exercise sling the sea front.
Loan PALMUIRTON had rather a sharp attack of
gout in the right hand, which prevented his being present
at the Cabinet Council on Saturday, bat we are glad to
learn that he is now nearly convalescent.—Record.
The Earl and Countess of Malmeebury come to
town this week from Heron Court, near Christchurch,
Hants.
The Earl and Countess of Derby, who have been
staying a few days at Tunbridge Wells, woo to town
yesterday.
Mr. and Lady Mildred lleresford-Hope are
entertaining a party at Bedgebury Puk, to meet the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury on his tour of Confirmation is the
neighbourhood. The party comprises the Archbishop of
Canterbury and the Misses Lougley (2), the Archbishop of
Armagh and Mn. Bartered, Lord Richard Cavendish, the
Hoe. sad Rev. R. Boothe, Sir John, Lady, and Miss
Kirkland, Mr. and Mrs. Gambier Parry, Mr. Akroyd. and
Miss E. Hops.
The Grange, near Alreaford, in Manta, the seat
of Lord Ashburton, has been taken on law for a residence

by the Earl of Uxbridge.
On the second reading of the Testa Abolition
(Oxford) Bill, Lord Robert Cecil will move that it be read a
mooed time on that day six moths.
Sir William Gallwey, on the 12th proximo, will

ask the hoe. member for Bath sod chairman of the West-
minster Improyement Comatissino. certain questions relative
to the intended destructioo of a very large number of
houses is Westminster exclusively inhabited by the poor
class of the population ; and will move for returns relative
to the expenditure and working of theWestmioster improve-
meet COMMilleioo.
Mr. Henry Baillie will ask the Secretary to the
Admiralty, on Thursday, whether it is true that the
Achilles, of 6,100 tins burden, and constructed to carry 40
gone, is only able carry 20 ; and those only 100-pounder
Somerset gnus ; and, if it is so, whether he thinks that a
satisfactory result of the first attempt of the Admiralty to
build iroe ships.
Mr. Marsh, M. P. for Salisbury, has announced
to his constituents his intention to be away from England
for six mouths. The hoc. gentleman is about to visit his
estates in Australia.
Charles Waring, Esq., is canvassing the electors
of Poole as a liberal candidate.
A new church is to be built at Shedden, near
Alton, in Hants, at the expense of John Wood, Eeq., of
Theddon Grange. The foundation stone Was laid last
week. _ _

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The general meeting of the Athenrcum Club will
take place on Monday, the Bth of May, at 1 p.m., when
business of importance will be transacted.
The May meetings hero commenoed. At the
gathering yesterday of the Baptist Union, the Rey. Dr.
Haynes, of Americo, attended as • deputation from the
Freedmen's Aid Association, and pleaded for the sympathy
and support of the baptists. Subsequently a resolution of
thankfulness at the prospects of peace and the abolition of
slavery in Americo wen passed.
According to the law now in force, the Grand
Duke Alexander, the sewed sou of the Emperor of Russia,
is hair apparent. Hi imperial highness was born in MAreb,
1845, and is consequently now in his 21st year. The re-
maining children of the Emperor and the Emma are the
Grand Duke Vladimir, born April, 1847 ; the Gr•nd Duke
Alexis, bun Jan., 1830; the Grand Duchess Maria, born
Oot., 1853 the Grand Duke Serge, born April, 1857 ; and
the Grand Duke Paul, born Sept., 1860. Death has been
busy of late with members of the Russian imperial family,
for on the Ist of March last died the Dowager Queen of
Holland, sister of the late Emperor Nicolas and aunt of his
present Majesty, while only a few days since the Greed
Duchess Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the Empress of
Russia's niece, died within • twelvemonth after her mar-
riage to the grand duke.
Describing his departure from Richmond, the
Southern earrespondeet of the Times (who now dates from
New York) writes :—" As I walked up, between 5 and 6
in the morning of Monday, the 3rd, to catch the early train
upon the Fredericksburg Railroad, a nut column of dense
black smoke shot into the sir, • huge, rumbling, earth-
' quake-like reverberation rent the ground, and the store of
• gunpowder garnered in the city magazine passed out of ex-
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