The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1851.

to propose to eject them, there would be • notable Zue court.
clatter raised about his ears.
Well, there was not long ago at the lower end of
Her Majesty and Prince Albeit, accompanied by
the Serpentine, a white lodge or hut, occupied by ' the Princess Alice, and attended by the Hon. Amelia
one ANY HICKS. ANN resembled the fortunate in- Murray, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Colonel Francis
dividuals to whom we have been alluding, in respect Hugh Seymour, went to the Exhibition of the Works of
that she occupied a portion of the royal demesne Industry of All Nations, at a quarter put nine o'clock
without any rent. ANN had her Pedigree, t" yesterdayAl an:a:dr:ll. at.rfhlrPcrhinsc;soovfisitiettearshrbriitilocea
runerairoodfather—so runs the family history—"ce pate forenoon.y iler. Majesty and Prince Albert
GEORGE H. out of the Serpentine, and was remained one hour at the Exhibition, and then returned to ,
rewarded by permission to keep a stand in the park. Buckingham Palace.
Her father succeeded by right of inheritance, and she The Duchasof Kent visited her Majesty yesterday.
fTklettucentiatned race Altert,elace9..me accompanied by the Prince
.n '
succeeded her father. Upwards of ono hundred
years!. Half the Court Guide might envy the an- Lthur. "'sad thrTincey ' riainee". Agrel:e ;,,,,r :a' ;
tiquityof ANN Hicit.s' family. The grand-daughter : Louisa, sad attended by the Countess of Mount-'
occupying a stall in recompense for her grandfather's Edrambe, Lady in Waiting, the Hon. Lucy Kerr,
services to royalty! ANN 'a ease is an exact counter- Mae of Honour in Waiting, Colonel the Honourable
part of the MARLBOROUGH family's penaion out of B. Phipm, Major Myddelton Biddulph, Lord A. Charles
Fitzroy, Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, and Mr.
the Post-office revenue. Birch, left Buckingham Palace at twenty-five minutes put '
two o'clock yesteday afternoon, for Osborne, Isle of Wig' ht.
Be it observed, that we have had no opportunity of
examining documents in verification of ANN'S nnrra- Her Majesty and Prince Albert were conducted to their
tive ; we take it on the credit of her own statement, carriage by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain,. the
Lest of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to the Prince,
au
tnett Celli
as the late Mr. BURKE did most of the pedigrees of
den, Coclellon. bitatiine's Lord
Ekrhillitl°Z;el Viscount
the nobility, baronetage, and " landed gen-try," whose
annals he has given to the world m his compen- Lieut.-Colonel Francis Seymour.re The royal party occupied'
diums. six of the Queen's carriages, and was escorted to the Nine I
One would have imagined that our aristocracy Elms Station by a detachment of the Bth Hunan. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Royal Family and
might have had a fellow feeling for one whose family
Ranin4atratorela by a special train on the South-Western i
history was so exact a counterpart to their own. But
perhaps its similarity was the very thing that made The 6 tford Gosport.
niversity Commission had a meeting yes.l
her an eyesore to them. She was, in her humble terday at the official residence of the First Lord of the i
get her out of wich, the Dean of Carl
sphere, a living burlesque of too many great families, Tr, asury in Downing-street. Present: the Bishop of Nor-
isle, the Master of Pembroke, the
and they were glad of an excuse toßev. 11. 0. Liddell, J. A. Dampier, Esq., the Rev..Profethe way. sor Powell, the Rev. G. 11. S. Johnson, and the Rev A. I'..
However this may be, poor ANN has been evicted Stanley (secretary).
from her stand at the end of the Serpentine, with Mr. John Thornton, Deputy-chairman of the Board of
as little ceremony as if she had been only an Irish Inland Revenue, had an interview yesterdaywith the Chan-
cell the Exchequer at Ms official residence in Down.
peasant. About the time the Industrial Exhibition !nur of
inestreet.
was opened, a law went forth that no itinerant vendors Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial-
of cakes, oranges, or representations of the Crystal office to the Governor of the Cenadas and the Governors of
Palace, were to be tolerated in Hyde Park. the other North American colonies.
Some said it was because such crowds of them were Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
attracted to the new favourite lounge that they from the Governor of the Gold Coast.
trod on the heels of the exclusives ; others that
(Prom last risers Gaga:J.)
it was feared that they might interfere with the
BUCKINGHAM-PALACE, JULY 17, Her Majesty
monopoly of those to whom the vending of refresh-
having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Charles
ments within the building had been disposed of. ANN, William Earl of Sefton to be Lord-Lieutenant and Custom
notwithstanding her ancestral claimsupon roynity,her Rotulorum of the county palatine of Lancaster, his lordship
family's occupation of the stall for upwards of a eon- this day took the oaths appointed to betaken thereupon, in-
. . . . . _ . . 4or the es,- allegiance - -

.•
tury,"the money she had laid out in improvements,
was bundled out of Hyde Park with the rest.
No complaints are made against ANN on the score
of her morality or general conduct; indeed, if there
were, we have never heard that the private deport-
ment of those who occupy apartments m Hampton
Court or Kensington Palace, is strictly investigated.
ANN may have spoken her mind freely to and of
those who ejected her; that was natural and par-
donable. Nro apology has been offered for the cold,
I and supercilious, and heartless manner in which the
grand-daughter of him who saved GEORGE 11. from
a ducking was driven from her ancestral stall, from
the place where she earned an honest livelihood from
the time she was five years old till a few months ago.
We must not forget: some compensation was made
to ANN for depriving her of her " vested rights."
She received a sum equivalent to the rent of an
apartment for twelve months, at the rate of five
shillings a week. ANN possibly, like all our heredi-
tary occupants of nests in the royal demesnes, was
not a very good manager; the money is spent, and a
few days ago, unable to devise any other mesas of
turning a penny, she returned to her old haunts,
with a basket of cakes and oranges. She was imme-
diately pounced upon and arraigned at the bar of
Marlborough-street Police Court. There she was
told that hawking edibles in Hyde I'ark was con-
trary to law, and she could not be allowed to do it.
Well then—she must beg. That, too, she was in-
formed was against law. What on earth was she to
do for a livelihood ? That was her concern.
We are not going to be sentimental, and run
up a romance on the groundwork of ANN HICKS'
mishaps. But a poor creature who from infancy
has dwelt under tho shade of Hyde Park trees,
seeking a livelihood in a harmless way, as her grand-
father and father did before, now thrown upon the
wide world at a ripe age, is as helpless a creature as
any noble lady or gentleman would be in similar
circumstances ; and as richly entitled to commisers-
' tion. Great credit has been given to people far acts'
of less genuine charity than setting. on foot a sub-
cription to place the poor creature in a condition to
do something for herself.
One thing we would suggest to the public. Whea
next the MARLBOROUGH sad GRAFTON pension*
on the post-office come to be discussed, remember
Ann Hick,.

steadof the oaths of __ ce and supremacy.
BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, BUCKINGHAM PA-
LACE, JULY 16.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint
Major Thomas Myddelton Biddulpkto be Master of her
Majesty's Hossehold, vice Major-General George Bowles,
reogned.
FoREIHN OFFICE, JULY 15.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. Bernhard Hebeler as Consul-
General in the United Kingdom for his Highness the Duke
of Nassau.
WHITEHALL, JULY 16.—The Queen has been
pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the
Great Seal of the United Kingdom, granting to Major-
General George Bowles the office or place of Lieutenant of
her Majesty's Tower of London, in the room of General
John &divan Wood, deceased.
WHITEHALL, JULY 16.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint William John Jordan and Stephen
Henry Lee, Expo., to be captains, and Thomas Arundel'
Tagg, gent., to be a supernumerary lieutenant in the Artil-
lery Company of London.
WHITEHALL, JULY 18.—The Queen has been
pleased to present the Rev. George Murray to the church
and parish of Balmatlellan, in the presbytery and stewartry
of Kirkcudbright, vacant bythe death of the Rev. William
Wilson, late minister thereof.
CROWN OFFlCE.—Members returned to serve in
this present parliament. —July 16.—Borough of Knares-
, borough : Thomas Collins, the younger, of Knaresbo-
rough, in the county of York, Esq., in the room of the
the Right Hon. William Sehright Laseelles, deceased.—
July 17.—Boroagh of Arundel : The Right Hon. Edward
Strutt, of Kingston-hall, in the county of Nottingham, is
the room of Henry Granville Fitsalan Howard, commonly
called Earl of Arundel and Surrey who has accepted the
office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
It is with great regret we have to announce the
death of the -Earl of Charleville, which sad event took
, place suddealy on Monday last. By his decease a vacancy
occurs in the representative peerage of Ireland. His lord-
, ship is succeeded in his title and estate by his eldest eon,
• Viscount Tullamore, uow Earl of Charleville--Dubbn
Evening Mail. The deceased was only 50, and had married
the daughter of Lady Charlotte Campbell, better known
, under bee seem& Irnaband's name of Bury. Lady Cherie.
ville hes Ina Immeetalleed by the pen of Byron and the
• chisel of Lheettiost.

On Wednesday the Sheffield contributors and
exhibitors expressed their approbation of the try able and
important services rendered to the town of Sheffield by
W. Ovcrend, Esq., and F. Dunn, Esq., by giving a grand
banquet in the Cutlers' Min.'''. H. Lorton, E.g., (Mayor)
occupied the chair, supported by William Overend, Esq.,
Rev. D. Trevor, T. Dunn, Esq., Wilson Overcnd,
Esq., H. Wilkinson, Esq., O. Vickers, Esq., J. P. Jessock,
Esq., S. Butcher, Esq., W. A. Matthews, Esq. The
vice-chairmen were S. Deakin, Esq., master cutler, and H.
O. Hoole, Esq.

The authorities of the Customs department at
Portsmouth have received instructions to arrange for the
allowance to each man under their orders of five days, in
order to give them an opportunity of visiting the Great
Exhibition. They will receive their wages for this period,
but their expenses will not be paid.
Toe Dueness or KENT.—We understand that the
Duchess of Kent, the mother of our Queen, is expected
to visit Hamilton Palace in company with the
Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas in the course of a few
days. Extensive preparations have beta made at the Palace
for the proper reception of the illustrious visitor.—Glargew
Citizen.