The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-18 00:00:00

CDC QotWL.

The Doehess of Kent visited the Queen, yesterday,
at Buckingham Palate.
Prises Albert, with the Prince of Wale., the Prince.,
Royal, and t►e Prit.ces. Alice, the Ditches, of Kent, ,111.1 the
Prineem Adelaide of Ilelienloae, attended divine service,
yesterday inortamt, in th- private (sham lof liatkiegheni
Palate. The lion. and Itev. ottici itvd.
The ladies and gentlinn u in ....king, sad the domestic
household, elm attended the wavier.
Pi ince .klbert rude out en Comeback, on Saturdey, at-
tended by Lieut.-Cul. Y. 11. 13eyniaur.

'f he Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Ade-
laide of Ilehei.lolte, and attended by Lady Anita Maria
Dsrsson and Sir Gearse Cuti7tr, visited the Gallery of the
New Society of Painters in Water Cbtuta, in Pall-mall, on
Saturday morning.
The Duette hi Augusta of Saxe Coburg visite I the Duchess
of Kent, on Saturday, at Clarence.houre, St. James's.
The Duchess of Kent, ae:•tmpanird by the Prince.s Ade-
laide of llohenlone. and attended by Lady Ann
Dawson sad Sir George Coupler, hanoured the If tyal Italian
Opera-house with her presence on Saturday evening.
A deputation from the Committee of Portuguese Ilsnd-
holders, accompanied by Sir James Duke. M I'., Mr. Wm.
Mr.:Vault:in Forster, M.P., Mr. Richard
Thornton, 4r. Thomas Thornton, Mr. James Hutchinson,
(Chairman of the Committee of the Stock Eseltange), Sir
Henry Pynne, Captain Gardiner, and Mr. C. Quintile, bad
an interview with the Earl of Clarei.don, on Saturday, at
the Foreign-ALA, wbeu Mr. Thornton, the enairenan of
the Commit:se, presented a memorial to his lor:ship, pray-
int his lordship to interpose his goad °filets in obtaining
rest re• I f r the grievance. and continued inja-tice inflicted
by P raga! or, her long-pill:ring fore:4u creditor;.
A deputation of directors of the Eta: Kent Railway
C.mtp.ay hail an interview with the Right Ilan. E. Card-
well add Lard Stanley of Alilerley on Saturday, at the
Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of L.rd Sondes
(Chairman). Mr. Alderman S datnorts (Deputy-Chairman),
the Itig'it lion. S. R. Lushinaton, Sir J. M. Tyldec, and
Mr. C. Al. Lubhirlitt..,u (directors), Sir Edward Daring,
i;art., M.P., Mr. Sailleir, Sir William Cabitt, and Mr.
Mills, the engineers, and Mr. C. Freskfield, the solicitor
fur the company.
A deputation on the part of the meigiatrates, merchants,
bankers, and citizens of Rochester, Clesvhdin, anal Gilling-
ham, in Kent. who hal memorialised the Board of Trade
°lathe sulieet et the prupo cd Kentish railways. now before
parlii mem, also had Sc. interview with the Right Hon. E.
Cardwell and Lard Stanley of Alderley, on Siturday. The
deputation included Sit' Thomas Herbert Maildock and
the lion. F. Villiers, M.P.s for Rochester, Mr. \V. H.
N.cholson, and Mr. Manclark.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re-
venue, and Mr. Pressly, had an intervis sr with 'he Chancel-
I, r of the Exchequer, on &eased ty, at hi. otfieial residence
in 1) twning•street.
Mr. Hutt awl Mr. Allhuton had en interview with the
Right Hon. E. Cardwell on Saturday, at the Board of
Trade.

Mr. Weston Wood had an inlervi. w with the Right Hon.
E Cardwell and L.rd Sinniey of Alderley, on SAturday.
Dicwtehm were sent from the Colonia,-01his, ou Sam.
day, to the thisernors of the West India l•:ands.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Forcign•office, Downing-street. The Ministers
present were :—The Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Jobn
Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Eirl Granville, the
Duke of Argyll, the Marquis otLansflowne, Viscount
Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of New-
castle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James
Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council
sat three hours and a half.

The Colonlcy of tho 7th Drapon Guards has
!innate vacant by the death of 2612yur-General Gabriel,
which tonic place on Inlay: ho has only heli: the appoint-
ment one month.

SOIREE AT GLASGOW IN HONOUR OF

MRS. 11. B. STUWE.

On Friday night, Mrs. Stowe, the distinguished
author of t. nc:e t'om's Cabin," was cute r=ained at a some
in the Wasatow City-hall, when upwards of two thousand of
cur fellow-citizens, male and female, assembled to do her
honour.

The chair wu o:envied by JOHN MacnowaLL, E.g.;
and on Mr.. Stowe, accompanied by L Stowe and the
lt,r. gr. Ueecbcr, ascending the platform, they were re-
cei‘cd with the most unbounded applause, the company
ri%iog to theii feet, and saluting them with loud and pro.

longed cheering.
Af:er a brief address from the Chairman, Dr. Wardlaw
moved a resolution complimenting Mrs. Stowe on her sue-
ces.ful literary efforts in the anti-slavery cause, and wel-
coming her to this country.
Dr. Ronsux seconded the resolution, which was carried
by acclamation.
Professor Stowe was received with loud applause. He
said, in the name of Mrs. Stowe end his own, he wished
to thank the audience for their cordiality f reception,
but he could not timl words to do it. Was it true that
all this affectionate interest was merited ? (Cheers.) H.
could not help feeling, in regard to that book, " I don't
'specks anybody ever made that book; 1 'specks it
growed." (Laughter and cheers.) Under the pressure of
a hortid fugitive slave-law the bank sprung out of the
soul ready made. (Cheers.) He regretted exceedingly, in
consequence of the very enfeebled state of Mrs. Stowe's
health, and the pressure or his own engagements, en-
gagements which could not be prcterinitted, that they
were unable to respond to many kind invitations. Had
they consulted their own feelings they would have
' settled down and been happy to spend the whole summer
here. But this could not be. The state of Mrs. Stowe's
health was such that she could not bear so much kininess.
The state of his own engagements require a that be should
be at other places, and by the Ist of June be again hard at
work in the United States. He trusted, therefore, that they
would be excused, and that this public expression of their
thanks and apology for not being in a position to meet with
all who desired, would be accepted.
Rev. Dr. Ktxo proposed the billowing resolution, which
was also unanimously adopted :—'4 That it is deeply to be
deplored that in the national escutcheon of a people so
closely affiliated with ourselves, and themselves so nobly
free in their constitutional principles, and so jealously con-
servative of their own liberties—this one blot of slavery, au
large and so foul, should be perm'ttt dto remain—that it
would be a cause of true and heartfelt joy, to sec our trans-
atlantic brethren roused to a due sense of their inconsist-
ency in using their own freedom to hold millions in hood-
age—and giving practical proof of the sincerity of their
love of liberty, by taking measures to impatt to others what
they so highly and so justly value themselves-- 4 with the
generous spirit of freemen, to ' let the - free,'
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oppressed go,
and that, instead of the two countries wasting words in
mination and recrimination, it would be incompu►bly
wiser and better for each to set itself in earnest to the recti-
fication of its own wrongs, the cure of its own moral and
physical maladies, and the removal of its own sources of
danger—the two freest and most highly-favoured countries
of the world thus emulating and animating each other in a
conselentieus conformity to the grand divine rule of social
rectitude—' Whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you, do you even so to them.' "
The meeting then separated.