The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-24 00:00:00

:bt Court.

The Duke of Wellington had an audience of the
Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princes Amelie
of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfitrat, and attended by Sir George
Cooper, arrived in town at hall past 12 o'clock yesterday,
from her residence, Frogmore House. Her Royal Highness
and the Princess of Hohenlohe went to Buckingham Palace,
and partook of a dejetiner with Her Majesty and Prince
Albert.—The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Amalie of
Hohenlohe-Schillingitaret left Clarence House, St. Janice's,
at half-past 3 o'clock in the afternoon for Frogmen House.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the performance
at the Haymarket Theatre with their presence yesterday
evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Char-
lenient, Han. Miss Cavendish, Lord Camoys, Lieut.-Colonel
the Hen. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel Seymour.
The Dutch dwarf, Van Tracy, had the honour of attend-
ing at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday evening.
The Queen's private band. played the following pieces on
Wednesday in Buckingham Palace:
—l. moron^
R•Sfre Weber.

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Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the
finis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmists,
Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Phi*
B , John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Bight**.
H. ere, the Marquis of Clenricarde, and the Said
Carlisle, were present at the cabinet council held on Them
hearday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The council scam
.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening ficeq
the ColonieLoffico for:the Gammon°, the North lam**
Provinces, and also for the Governor of the Mauritius.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer had a padie,
mentary dinner party on Than* at his official reside*,
Downing West. The company counted of the Mare*
Clanricarde, Earl Mulgrave, Lord Edward HowaQ,:uu
Right Hon. H. L. Shell, Sir Denham Honeys, Sir Gam
Strickland, Colonel Dunne, Mr. Grace, Mr. Blacken,
Wilson, Mr. J. O'Brien, Mr. Willcox, Mr. Foga, Kt
Aglienby, and Mr. Langston.

RATING THE COLLEGES OF OXFORD AND Cut.
BILIDGM—DEPUTATION.—tt deputation from the 015:od
board of guardians, accompanied by Alderman Sadler Lid
the representatives of the city, James Haughten
Esq., and William Page Wood, Esq , met a Wails: dept:
tion from the Cambridge beard of guardians in Londosioad
waited, by appointment, on the poor-law commissioners, e,.
lathe to a clause introduced into a bill by the late Ide.
Buller in the last session of parliament, and about to be sa:
rived during the present session, exempting the two ueiv.
attics from the oneration of the bill, which is to render extra
parochial property liable to the poor rates. The &paw*
also suggested several clauses relative to tha
pence of suits at law against email' colleges fig
trying their liability to a charge ; poor rates hi.
oorne in Oxford by the whole of the united parithsy
instead of their being thrown on separate parishes, and saws,
clauses regarding pauper emigration, &c. The depute*
were most cordially received and their suggestions listsmod•
by the board with treat attention, and there is little duaitd
their interview resulting in the full attainment of their jut
object, viz.: that of placing the colleges and'halls of
and Cambridge on the same footing with all the rest of th
extra parochial property in the kingdom.

THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF MOUNT EDGICtlyy
and family are detained at Rome by the illness of the se%
earl, which has prevented the counters returning to IL,
country to enter on her duties as lady in waiting tote
Queen. The noble earl and countess intended to yo
Naples when his lordship had sufficiently recovered.

DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE WO
RENDER, BART —The above beranet expired at his*,
residence in Upper Be' keley-street, on WedncNle7laß 114
wee eldest eon of Sir Patrick (third baronet) by els ram*
with Mir Blair, and was born Dec. 6, 1781. He is mom**
by his brother, now Sir John, born 1786, and married in;
in 1823, Lady Julian Maitland, daughter of the eighth Bid
of Lauderdale, who died in 1827 ; and secondly, in 1831, to
the Hon. Frances Arden, second daughter of the lila I,osa
Alvanley.