The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-16 00:00:00

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Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen,
yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.—H.R.H. Primo, Albert
rode out un horseback, yesterday, accompanied by Count
A. Meusdorff, and attended by the &ma ry in Waiting,
Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon. —The Royal dinner party
Duchess
at Buckingham Palace included 11.11. H. the
Duchess of Kent, Count A. Mensdorff, their Extellencies
Count and Countess Dietrichstein, the Duchess of Suther-
land. and Lady C. Leveson Gower, Lady P. Howard, Baroness
de Speth, the Earl of Minto, and Lady E. Eliot, Lord and
Lady Beauvale. and Colonel the Honouratlo C. B. Phipps.
In the evening the following had the honour of joining the
royal circle :—H.S.H. Prince Loewenstein, Sir Henry Wheat.'
ley, the Milian Wheatley, Mr. G. E. Anson, Colonel Sey-
mour, and Captain Francis Seymour. Her Majesty it:Netted,
yesterday, the full-length portrait of H.R. 11. :he Duke of
Cambridge, which was submitted by Mr. D.ilten.

Their A.R. lI.H. the DucheFs of Curnbridge and
the Princess Mary, and H.B.H. Prince Frederick of Heave,
visited and inspected the Colosseum and the Polytechnic
Institution yesterday.
A deputation front the Indi t and Australia• Mail
Packet Company bad en interview with the Earl of Claren-
don, yesterday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. The
deputation was accompanied by Viscount Sandou, M.P., Mr.
J. Pettiest, M.P.., Sir 11. Douglas, Bart., M.P., Mr. W.
Hut, M.P. Mr. W. Moffatt, M.P., and Mr. R. M. Martin ;
and consisted of Means. J. Somas, D. Pugh, E. sexton, R.
Ford, T. Wilson, J. Montafiore, T. Browne, F. W. Green,
and J. Yates.—Mr. Halswall bad en interv,ew with Earl
Grey, yesterday, at the Colonial-office.—Lord Stradbroke
had au interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday. Lord Port-
man had also an interview, yesterday, with the right hon.
baronet, at the Home-offiee.- -The chairman of the Stamps
and Taxes had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chuer, yesterday.
THE SPFAKER'S LEVERS.—The Speaker will hold
two levees only in the present session. Tho first, on Satur-
day the 20th, and the second, on Saturday the 27th of
February,
_at 10 o'clock.
THE MEXICAN ANBASSADOR.—Doctor I)on Jose
Maria Luis Mora Is appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and
Envoy Extraordinary Item Mexico to the court of Great
Britain. His Excellency is sew In Paris, but may be daily
expected.

PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. WAHLEY.
A dinner wee given last evening at the Angel Inn,
Islington, to Thomas Wakley, Esq.,!ld.P., by his constitu-
ents, the inhabittnts of Finsbury, about seventy of whom
were present. The chair was taken by Mr. Vielden, M.P.,
who, on the cloth being removed, proposed a toast which he
said used to be t'rank in past times—"'The People, the
source of all political power," entering at some length. into
tbtir present compered with their past com..,ion.
A great struggle was then made for reform, and they
had obtained a Reform Bill, which he rnointeined had not
meliorated the condition of the people, because it had not
gone far enough. He went through the principal measures
which have been since paired, commenting upon them r
altogether insufficient for the purpose, and co..demiaing the
Poor-law Amendment Bill in severe terms. The system et
annual parliaments arm the great cure for evils of the kind,
and that system the people had a right to demand. He
concluded by proposing cordially the toast which he had
given them. " The People" was, acoordingly, drunk with
great enthusiasm, and was followed by the health of the
Queen, with appropriate honours.
The CRAIMIAN then proposed the health of the guest of
the company and his own friend, Mr. Wakley, of whose con-
duct, in public and in private life, he volt.: in the highest
terns.
Mr. WAILIXT, in expreeshilehis acknowledgments, spoke
of the duties of a member at legislature who did justice
to his ounstiteenta, which he discribed to be severe in the
extrema, but the herdahips of which he had gone through
for many years, holding at the sometime the no lees onerous
office of coroner for the county. He agreed with his hon.
friend the chairman es to the insufficiency of reform in par-
liament, decline espeoially upon 1,-*
sity for an equitable poor-law for
insuficiency of the presetst government
for remedying its disuses. Tee b'
marred to some accusations made

ranee to ths late logging case
allegei that he kept heck attain ts.
applied for a criminal information
Queen's Bench against kin maligners ;
granted. but subsequently ditcbarged.
declaim he was about to appeal by tied r
that lir. Wilson—the witneta whom
eampetatt man; and he sasurrd thee
ail piewal friend, he knew nothing
udbjeet until he heard them in court.
eat the whole case should be

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