The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-03 00:00:00

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or lowillo•
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ompoirsed to London this day.
go Royal Highness the Satur
day Cambridge M-
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A Cabinet Cassel was held on Saturday afternoon
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y ur.iselice. The ministr. peen
cths I Chancellor.e the Marntquiswere of Laos
&wee, the Sul id lilato, Sir Orme Grey, Visionat Pal-
wasp. INA Grey, the Chancellor of the Hachrquer, Sir
jabs Booboos.. Lord Campbell. the Bill of C• 111111.. the
Lebeoebers. the Mamma of Claarioarde, and
• li,tht lion. for Hatale. The CANAL sat two boars and
▪ MIS
us Rad of Carlisle left town on Saturday evening,
• • visit is Lord Athhurteo, at the Chance, Rents.
Deematehes for the Governors of th 'West India
Csiseirs ewe seat of on Saturday evening from the
jesisleedice.

DEATH OF HER MAJESTY THEI
QUEEN DOWAGER.

The public will learn with regret that Queen
Adelaide—whose piety and benevolence have endeared
bit to all classes of the community, from the duo of
her arrival in this country—expired yeeerday (Sun-
day) morniog at seven minutes to two o'clock.
bn s.tgir‘y the following bulletin of her Majesty's
With was issued.
"The Pr:ory, Dee. 1, 1849.
ad TM Own Dnepr has ant prod a good night, though
litice Teethes thee the previa'. vac
"net coatiouee a • weak state.
" DAVID DAVIES M.D."
. Brieht arrived at the Priory on Seturday night
gad emained in attendance until her Majesty's de-
ems,.
Her Majesty's physicians issued the following

bulletin :
" The Priory, Dee. 2, 1849.
" Bet )(sleety the Queen 1) r expired at s-esul
missies before two o'clock, on Sunday morning, the 2ad of
Decemb,r, without any apparent suffering, and retaining
ha composers of mind to the lair.
" DAVID DAVIES, M.D.
" RICHARD BRIGHT, M.D.
At a later hour a London Gazette Extraordinary
was published, containing the melancholy announce-
ment in the following to rm s :
" Whitehall, December 2, 1849.
" This morning, at seven minutes before two o'cl ;ck, her
Hsi sty the Queen Dowager deputed this life, at Stamm.
Pthvy, to the great grief of her Majesty and of all the royal
after a panful and pr.tracted Unless, which Ae bon
with exemplary patience. The loss of this molt exeelleat
Zeros will be deeply mourntd by all classes of her Ma.
• subjects, to whom her many eminent virtues rel.
dried her the object of univeval cretin and affection."
Captain Bedford left the Priory at an early hour
yesterday morning for town. Expresees were for-
warded to her Majesty the Queen and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert ; to her Royal Highness the
Babe.% of Kent, at Fregmore-house ; end to their
Boyd Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bride. at Kew.
It:Wigan' of the mournful event was also com-
municated yesterday forenon to the Right lion. Sir
Oeor,:se Grey, h.r Niajesty's principal Secretary of
State for the Home Depactinent, and to the Lord
Mayor.
Tie Qom and Prince Albert paid their last visit
to the Dowager Queen on the 22nd ult., betas leav-'
Inc for Osborne, and during last week her Roysl
Righnese the Duchess of Kent twice visited the
Waitron Queen. Durham the last week the bullc•
tins ise ad by her Majesty's physician denoted that
little if any hopes renisioe 1 of her prolonged exist-
ence, and on Friday her condition excited the
greatest alarm. On the forenoon of that day a dis-
tressing change took piece, and the immediate rela-
tions of Her-Majesty were hastily summoned to her
chamber. Her Majesty, however, rallied, and on the
following morning (Saturday) was apparently more
cheerful. At seven o'clock in the evening another
serious change took place, which denoted beyond any
doubt the approach of death. After this her Majesty
never rallied, went off in a calm slumber, and, aver a
feeble cough, which occasioned the bursting of one of
the vessels of the longs, her Majesty expired at pre-
cisely seven minutes before two o'clock.
The great bell of St. Paul's, as is customary on the
demise of a member tf the royal family, tolled soon
after the news was received in the City.
A deep gloom was cast over the village of Stan-
more yesterday, from the mournful death of her
Majesty, whose liberal charities to the poor of that
district, as well as her natural unostentatious deport-
ment to her leas elevated fellow-creatures, had ren-
dered her deeply beloved by all classes of the inha-
bitants. The bell of the var.sh church of Staunton
tolled heavily during the aternocm. No allusion was
made to the death of her Majesty by the officiating
clergyman either in the morning or afternoon service.
It is quite unnecessary to notice the charitable dis-
position of her late Majesty further than to state that
she bad given annually above 20,0001. to different
charitable purpose!, and was connected with all the
nrincipal charities in London.

The deceased Queen Dowager Matilde Louisa Them
Caroline Amelia, was the eldest daughter of George Frede-
rick Charles, the late nice*/ Duke of Sue Merano/en sad
the Princess Louisa Eleanor, laughter of Christian Albert,
Prince of Hotreolohe Lespaburg. She was horn on the
13th of August, 1792, asd menial the late Ring William
IV. (then Duke of Clarence) on the Ilth ofJely, 1818, and
by that beloved sovereign, who died 20th June, 1837, she
had issue two daughters—the Princess Charlotte Augusta
hire and died 27th Much, 1819, and the Princess
Blisibeth Georgian& Aielaide, hors 20th December, 1820,
and died March 4, 1821.
Her late Majesty was the eldest of three children
(two daughten and a eon), left by the late Duke of Saxe
Meinineren at his death in December, 1803.
The Duke of Sue Meininges, by his will and testament,
left the guardianship of his three children and the adminis-
trative' of the decal estates to his pious and estimable
widow ; and by kw rudest management the little state of
Mehra', gee escaped the troubles to which the larger ptinci
ulitit a were exposed by the invasion of the French under
Napoleon, se that she and her people remained is undi•
turbed possession of domestic peace. While in the enjoy-
ment of this tranquillity her daughters, the Princesses Ade-
laide and Ids, whom she had educated, with strict regard
to religion and morals, is the usual branches of polite and
useful learning, waisted their mother in establishingschool.
for the eduestion of the poorer classes and in providing
otherwise for the aged and indigent.
The late Queen Charlotte, it is mid, had long entertained
thoughts of securing the head of the Princess Adelaide for
one of her sons, the virtuous and unostentatious habits of
that prince's having reached the can of hey Majesty at the
English court. After the marriage of the Princess Eliza-
bete—third daughter of George the Third—with the
Hereditary Prince of Remo Hemberg, in the spring of
1818, there arose a feeling of anxiety that the unmarried
princes should contract matrimonial alli dices to relieve the
nation from the prospect of .• a broken lineage and a
doubtful throne." The Doke* of Clarence sad Cambridge
wen the first ti acquiesce in the views of the governmest
sad the private wishes of the aged Queen. The name of
the Princess Adelaide of Sue Menungen as the future wife
GI the Duke of Clarence then, for the first time, came before
the public.
A correspondence had previously taken place, and on the
19th of April, 1818, a royal message was delivered to the
Houses of Lords sad Commons, announeisg the consent of
the Prince Regent to the marriage of the Duke of C,arenet
sad the Prisons of Sue Meininges, and the Duke of
Cambridge and the Princess of Hew, and asking a suitable
pecuniary provision from the House of Commons. Under
those circumstances, the Earl of Liverpool made certain
propositions in the Lords which were agreed to, atter an
abortive amendment moved by Lord Kin . Viscount Castle-
reagh made a similar 'tamest in the es to the
propased additional allowances, but the proposititin of the
ministry was rejected by a large majority: Viscous% Castle-
reagh then informed the bow* that he believed he might
say that the negotiation for the marrage of the Duke et
Clarence was at an end. The Doke of Clarence, however,
was induced by his friends to revoke his determinatios, and
the consequence was that the correspondence with the
Princess of Sue Ileiningen was renewed.
The Princess Adelaide of Sane Meiningen, accompanied
by her venerated mother, the Dowager Duchess of Saxe
Meisiogen. arrived in England from Germany on the llth
of July, 1818, circumstances hula! prevented the Duke of
Clarence hum repairing to the Continent.
The marriage of thenyal duke and the Prince's Adelaide
took place on the 13th (two days after her reaching the
shores of her adopted country), at the palace at Kew, the
Queen Charlotte (then suffering from her fatal Muss), the
Prince Regent, and all the members of the Royal Family
and great oflitto.n of state, witnessing the religious
solemnity, which, from the illness of the Queen,
was conducted in a private manner. The Duke wed
Duchess of Kent, who had bees married in the
Lutheran Ran at Coboarg is bay, mat co this