The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-30 00:00:00

'6 be Court.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty on
Thursday. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
Mary have likewise visited the Queen.
Tue Duke of Norfolk, K.G., Lord Steward of the House-
hold; the Marquis of Breadalbane, K.T., Lord Chamber-
lain ; and the Earl of Mulgrave, Treasurer, had an audience
of the Queen at three o'cluck yesterday afternoon, and pre-
sented addresses to her Majesty from both Houses of Parlia-
ment respecting the Canterbury and Kingston-upon-Hull
elections.
The Duchess of Kent, the Princess Adelaide of Hoben-
lohe, and the Prince Ernest of Leiningen dined with her
Majesty last evening at Buckingham Palace.
The following were presented to Prince Albert at the
Levee on Wednesday: Rear Admiral Wallcott, M.P., by
Admiral Sir (1. Hammond, Bart. ; Rear Admiral Sir Oeo.
Tyler, M.P., by Admiral Sir G. Hammond, Bart. ; Deputy
Assistant Commissary-General Fitsjames Edward Watt, by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Ade-
laide of Hohenlohe, and attended by Lady Anna Maria
Dawson and Sir George Cooper, honoured the Royal
Italian Opera House with her presence on Thursday evening.

A deputation of the rector, churchwardens, vestrymen,
and trustees of the New Burial Ground of the parish of Bt.
Giles's-in-the-Fields had an interview with Viscount Pal-
merston yesterday, at the Home-office. The deputation
consisted of the Rev. Robert 13ickersteth (rector), Messrs.
Rowland and Hunt (churchwardens), Messrs. Samuel
Angell, F. A. Carrington, Thomas Waring, W. Rogers
Seward, and H. Harrison (vestrymen end trustees), Mr. J.
D. Robinson (vestry clerk), and Mr. Robert Finals (clerk to
the uustees of the New Burial Ground).
The Cathedrel Commission had a meeting yesterday.
Present : The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop
of York, the Marquis of Blandford, the Earl of Harrowby,
the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford, Sir John
Dodson, the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, the Rev. Dr. Hook,
the Rev. Canon Selwyn, and the Rev. Richard Jones

(mcretary).
A deputation consisting of the Rev. W. Stone (rector of
Ch. Ch, Spitalftelds), Mr. Wyllie (upper churchwarden of
Ch. Ch. Spits Melds), and Mr. Tayler (vestry clerk of ditto),
had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the
Rome-o Mos.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial oleos
to the Governor-General of Canada, and the Governors of
the other North American Provinces.

EXHIBITION OF CABINET WORK.--FOUT van loads
of highly valuable specimens for this exhibition have been
removed this week from Windsor Castle to Gore-house,
Kensington. Besides the contributions of her Majesty the
Queen, the Dukes of Hamilton, Buccleuch, Devonshire,
and Northumberland, the Earls Spencer and Amherst. the
Lords Willoughby d'Eresby, and De l'lsle, Sir Anthony
Rothschild, Charles Mills, Esq., C. B. Wall, Esq., M.P.
H. Maguire, Esq., James Morrison, Esq., George Field:
Esq., J. K. Brunel, Esq., E. Pownall, Esq., John Auldjo,
Esq., J. Swaby, Esq., D. M. Davison, Esq., the Rev. G.
M. Taylor, H. Ferrer, Esq., and other gentlemen, hays
liberally consented to lend valuable examples for public
instruction in the production of cabinet-work.
TILE MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND
THE BUDOET.—The following is a copy of a petition for-
warded
from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and
Manufactures, to Mr. Bright, M.P., on Thursday night, for
presentation to the House of Commons: " That although
your petitioners do not entirely approve of the financial
propositions made to your honourable house by her Majesty's
ministers, and especially object to the retention of the tariff
of differential duties, and the duties upon the import of silk
manufactures, yet believing that the scheme is on the whole
so constructed as to give security to the crowing interests of
the country and to render those corrections which they
would gladly have seen now soon and easily attainable,
they humbly pray that the measures proposed by her Ma-
jesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer may receive the assent
ei your honourable house."
FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE AT BOOTLE.—An event
11 of a most melancholy character took place at Bootle, on
1 Tuesday last. Between nine and ten o'clock on that morn-
ing the son of Mr. Abraham Wren tea merchant, who
mides in Baliol-road, a youth about 10 or 11 years of age,
was sent up stairs to fetch some garden seeds from a
drawer, in which, unfortunately, there was a loaded pistol.
At this moment the servant girl, Sarah Jones, aged about
17, a native of Chester, entered the room, and the boy
taking up the pistol, and playfully remarking that he
would shoot her, thoughtlessly pulled the trigger, and the
contents of the pistol entered her body. The ball is sup-
posed to have lodged in the hip of the unfortunate young 1
woman. After the occurrence not a moment was lost in
procuring surgical assistance. Mr. Reed, surgeon, of Roo-
tie, was in immediate attendance, and Mr. Wren's family
Surgeon, Mr. Long, was also sent for, both of whom used
every exertion which human skill could devise to save the
life of the female. Those efforts unfortunately proved un-
g
availin, and the young woman, after lingering in great
agony until Thursday afternoon, died between two and
three o'clock. The boy, it is a
said, has been fin
sconed at
home for a considerable time, sad is just as fom
protracted illness.