The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-21 00:00:00

I sermon was preached by the Bishop of Ozford. The prayers
were read by the Bon. end Rev. C. Lathe caartenay.
Their Royal Higheesses the Prince and Princess
Atmore.' Sue Coboarg Gotha visited the Duchess of Knit
on Saturday morning, and took leave of her Royal Highness
on their departure hem tows.
His Royal Highness Peirce Albert visited her
Majesty the Queen Dower r yesterday at Marlborough
House.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, end the
Hereditary Grand Duke sad Grand Duelers rat Heckles-
bourg Strelita, visited the Duels ss of o:use:tater yesterday.

The noblity and gentry' thronged Buckingham
Palace yer.erday, to make their dutiful irquiries after the
state of bar Majesty. The answer given was, " The Queen
is well."

DEP&RTURE OP Tr( COURT.—Hee Maj, sty and
the Court will mite at Gosport at two o'clock to-morrow
afternoon, en rouge to Osborne, where her !de)ruty will
remain for a few days only. The Fairy will not be
used on this occasion, as a ease of smallpox immured on
board her two or three days ago.

ROYAL CONCERT.—Her Majesty will give a gra-d
concert at Buckingham Pelson on Friday, the Ist proximo.

PRIVY Couscit.—SummoLace have been inued
for a Privy Council a two o'clock this afternoon at Buck-
ingham Palace.

ARRIVAL OP PRINCE WILLIAM HENRY OF THE
Must MILANO& —On Saturday morning bee Majesty's steam-
ship Cyclops, Captain de Smith van der Brooke, anchored off
Brunswick Pier, Blackwell, when his Royal Highness, at-
tended by Vice-Admiral E. Lucas, Lieut.-Colonel Rigot de
Beguin, and Lieut. Ridden van Reppard, immediately
landed in an eight-oared cutter, when they were received on
landing by his Excellency Count ffohimmelpenninck and
Baron Stratenus, and Mr. May, consul. Carrisges being in
attendance the illustrieue party immediately proceeded to
their apartments at Mivert's Hotel, and in the event, g dined
with her Majesty at Buckingham Palace. His Royal High-
nus, accompanied by the gentlemen of his suite, attended
divine service on Sunday morning at the Dutch Church its
Austin-friars, and in the evening dined with a select party at
his hotel. Amongst the earliest visitors were Vi-c rent Pal-
merston, Prince Ernest of Hews, Prince William of Reese,
Prince George of Cambridge, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Earl
Howe, Earl Jersey, Countemof Jersey and Lady Clementina
Villiers, Colonel Sir Edward Cent, his Excellency le Com.
Lisboa, Earl Cadogan, Lieut.. General Sir Wm. and Lady
Tuyll, Count Wm. Perixincher, Baron Stratenus, Rev. Dr.
Geble, Hon. Frederick Villiers, &c.

SUDDEN DEATH OF SIR JOHN SMITH, BART.
—Sir John Smyth, Bart., of Long Ashton Park and Wretched
Ledge, S menet, Brodie, Holue,Wilts, end Stapleton Court,
Gloucestershire, expired suddenly, on Saturday morning last,
at his mansion at Stapleton, where he had arrive/ the pre-
vious afternoon (from Long Ashton Park. The deemed
baronet, who was in the 74th year of his age, appeared on
Friday to be in as good health as usual, and remained at the
park till the afternoon, when he proceeded to Stapleton
Court, where he dined aid spent the evening, retiring to
rest at about the usual hour, without anything having
' occurred to excite apprehension of hi, approaching dissolu-
tion. On the following morning his valet, upon proceeding
to his master's bedroom to perform the n'ual tffices, was
alarmed to find him ill and quite speechless. He imme-
diately alarmed the household, and servants were di 'patched
for medical aid ; tut the seizure was fatal, and the aged baronet
died shortly afterwards. Sir John Smyth, who was very rich,
was descended from an ancient house which, se early as the
beginning of the 15th century, was connected honourably
with the village of Ayleburt in, in the Forest of Dean,
Gloucestershire. For three centuries the family 11, ye been
connected with the parish ef Long Ashton, near Bristol, in
which, and the adjacent parishes, the principal estates con-
nected with the baronetcy are situated. The family has been
twice raised to the dignity of the baronetcy. The first baro-
net, Sir Hugh Smyth, was the son of a stauerh adherent of
the Royalist cause at the time of the civil war, hut with his
grandma John the title expired in 1741, for want of male
descendants. It was recreated iu January 1763, when John
Jarrett Smyth, Esq , a representative of the city of Bristol
in parliament, had the title bestowed. The deceased Sir
John, who succeeded to the title on the death of his brother,
in January 1824, was a bachelor, and of course died without
issue.

THE NIAGARA, Captain Ryrie, sailed from Liver-
pool on Saturday for Halifax and New York, with about
20,000!. specie on freight.

TUE MALT TAX.—At the last mceVng of the Dies
Farmers' Club, the members were occupie d in receiving the
petitions, in favour of the repeal of the malt tax, from the
several parishes In the hundred of Din, which were all
banded in, bearing the signatures of most of the rate-payers.
Ton preliminary step having been disposed of, a very ani-
mated discussion ensued as to the proper parties to present
the petitions, which went to the extent of demonstrating that
the agriculturists an at length actively and vigorously pre-
paring to take their affairs into their own hands, and that if
the cuuaty members do not attend to their own duties and to
the iuterssta of their constituents, the farmers must seek
other members woo will do so. This was particularly appa-
rent from the speech of Mr. Kent, who moved Shit the peti-
tions to the Rouse of Commons be presented by Mr. Hume,
which was unsnimcusly adopted. The subsequent reseed-
inn were, in like manner, indicative of the same f sling,
Mr. Line.' proposition, " that the petitions to the House of
Lords be placed in the hands of the Duke of Richmond,"
bevies been met by an amendment from Mr. Witten, to the
effect, " that Mr. Hume be written to,_ asking his opinion as
to whom the petitions to the Rouse of Lords ought t r be en-
trusted for presentation," which was (with two exceptions)
nnaninsnar'y carried.
Tun FREEHOLD MOVEMENT in this town (says
the Nesecank Guardian) is already proceeding with all the
spirit and energy which Wive, hilly attend a geed cause. Its
success already exceeds the most sanguine expectations of the
projectors, no fewer than about 440 members having joined.
In the prospectus issued by the provisional committee it is
stated that " the expense to an individual of obtaining a
' freehold qualification' would in many cases be from 601. to
701, while on the other hand, by the streng'h of association,
it is fully believed that this will he done by this society for
about 201."—The Gateshead Observer of Saturday sap:
Last night the number of members had risen to 461, and of
shame to 655.

ROMANCE IN REAL LlFL—Under this heading tho
Preston Chronicle records the death in that town of a grand-
daughter of Francis, Lord North, and a niece of the Prime
Minister. The deceased lady was a Mre. Kemp, daughter
of Mr. Bradley, a tailor and draper of Preston. Mrs. Brad-
ley was eldeatdaughter of the Hon. Francis North, end was
educated in the family of the Earl of Halifax, and, as the
tale goes, fell in love in London with a clerk of the name of
Brett. Mr. Brett, though respectably ccartected, and hav-
ing good prospects, was not considered of suitable station to
espouse the daughter of a peer, and she was therefore sent
down to Preston to break off the sequaintanee. After re-
maining here for some weeks, under the care of two ladies
named Ast!ey, whose Other was mayor at that time, she re-
ceived an intimation that Mr. Brett, supposing she had gone
ti France, had set out in quest of her, and had been
drowned in crossing from Dover to Calais. Believ-
ing the statement, and much distressed in her mind, she
immediately returned to London, and related her troubles
to her foster-mother, observing, at the same time, that as her
friends had deprived her of the object of her warmest affec-
tions, she would accept the first offer that was made to her.
Her foster-mother having a nephew then lodging with her,
hem Preston, with a view to improvement in his business,
she communicated to him what the unhappy lady had stated.
He made her an offer accordingly, and in three days they
were married at Keith's Chapel, Mayfair. This nephew
was Mr. Bradley, tailor and draper, of this totem ; end the
daughter of one of the proudest aristocratical familial of the
empire became the wife of a Preston tradesman ! She gave
birth to 12 children. Harsh and unforgiving as it may appear,
this merrier for ever cut her off from her former friends
and connexions, not one of whom ever exchanged a single
word wi•ki her afterwards, except Sir Roger Burgoyne, who
married her partieular friend, Lady Frances Montague, and
who accidentally met her in London. Lord Strange, father
of the late Earl of Derby, also recognised her after she had
become a resident of Preston. He had known her when a
girl, living with her relatives, near his own residence, in
London, and evinced his sympathy at her altered position by
becoming a customer to her husband, and recommend-
ing his friends to follow his example. With these
exceptions, and now and then a small present, sent
through an unknown medium, but for which it was
thought she was indebted to the interference of Lord
Strange, she was completely severed from and neglected
by her own noble relatives, and sunk into the give about
11790, at the age of sixty-two, having about five years before
lost her husband by death, and subsequently become so re-
, doted in circumstances as to be Domiciled to part with her
jewellery, among which was a valuable ring, given her by
Charles Spencer, Duks of Marlborough, who married her
cousin. Her ashes were consigned to their last resting place
in the burial ground of the Pres'on parish church. Mr. Brett,
her " first love," it may be added, rose to eminence in point
of position, havirg become member for Sandwich, and also
one of the Lords of the Admiralty, during the coalition
ministry of Lord North and Mr. Fox, in 1783, but, it is un-
derstood, died unmarried."
A MISER'S ADVENTURE--At Woodstock, in the
parish of St. Hilsiry, Cornwall, the inhabitants were lately
reused from their slumbers by an alarm of fire, `until recently
was
found that a small cottsga, the property, and until recently
the reiidenee of an apparently poor but induatr ous labourer,
was discovered to be on fire ; and in a short time the whole
building became a mass of fire, and every exertion to subdue
the flames proved unavailing. Information was sent to the
proprietor, who lived at a short distancs from the scene of
destruction. On receiving the intelligi nee, he exhibited the
greatest alarm, hastened to the cottage, and would have
rushed into the midst of the fire had he not been withheld.
But after the fire bad somewhat subsided, he rushed in
amidst the burning and the barest, requesting some person
to watch and throw water over him. With hi, in hand he
reached the standing wall, when, to the astonishment of all
present, he began pulling out a large quantity of gold and
silver from a hole in the wall, just under one of the beams.
He seemed to suffer much from the intense heat, and was
obliged to be conveyed to his residence and put to bed.
Aet r a few hours he was so far recovered as to be enabled
to overhaul his treasure, which he found was coesider-
ably lees than the amount which he had placed in his "bank
of deposit." Re hastened back to the smoking ruins, and
after a diligent search found acme more of his treasure ; belt,
alas ! it was melted and rendered useless as coin ; but it has
since been sold in Penzance for old silver for 2.sl.—Corntoati
Gazette.