The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

procurable, and permanent engagements were quite out of
the question.
As noticed in our City article, the Thomas Arbuthnot has
brought a considerable quantity of the precious metal,
beinf the first of the Australian yield that has yet reached

Irbe Court.

BALMORAL, Ocr. 6.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert went yesterday
to the Balloch Bhiue. The royal dinner party yesterday
included the Duchess of Kent and Lady Augusta Bruce.

The Oxford University Commission met yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in
Downing-street. Present—The Bishop of Norwich, the
Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. H. G.
Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. Professor Powell,
the Rev. G. 11. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley
(secretary).
Despatches from the Governor of New South Wales, and
also from the Governor of South Australia, were received
yesterday at the Colonial-office.

M. Rogier, the Prime Minister of Belgium, ar-
rived at the St. Katherine's wharf yesterday morning, by
the General Steam Navigation Company'sateam ship,lthiue,
from Ostend.

DEATH OP LORD STAFFORD.—Wo record with
regret the demise, at Hampton Court, on Saturday, of the
venerable Lord Stafford, in his Mat year. George William
Stafford Jerniugham, the deceased peer, succeeded his
father as 7th baronet in 1809, and succeeded in establish-
ing his right to the ancient Barony of Stafford, after the
reversal, in 1821, of the attainder of the unfortunate Sir
William Howard Viscount Stafford, beheaded in 1678. His
lordship assumed, in 1826, the additional surname of Staf-
ford. Ile is succeeded by his eldest son Henry Valentine,
now Baron Stafford, who is married to a niece of the Duke
of Norfolk.

DEATH OF VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKL—We regret
to announce the decease of Viscount Bolingbroke, which
took place on Wednesday last at the residence of his daugh-
ter, the Hon. Mrs. Shaw, near Elgin, N.B. The deceased,
Henry St. John, fourth Viscount Bolingbroke and fifth
Viscount St. John, was born in March,l7B6, and succeeded
to the titles on tho death of his father in 1821. In 1812 he
married Maria, daughter of Sir Henry St. John Mildmay,
who died in 1836. Lord Bolingbroke was in the habit of
spending a portion of almost every season in the north for
ninny years. This year he took his accustomed trip, in his
usual health; but while spending a few days in Sutherland-
shire he had a severe attack, which seriously affected the
nervous system. Ile was ultimately conveyed to the resi •
deuce of his daughter. A second attack completely pros-
[rated him, and on Wednesday he breathed his last. His
eldest son, Henry St. John, who succeeds hint as filth
Viscount Bolingbroke and sixth Viscount St. John, was
born iu 1820.

THE DUKE DE NEMOURS AND LORD

LONDONDERRY.

The following letter has bun called forth by some
expressions in Lord Londonderry's recent correspondence
with the French President on the liberation of All-el-
Kotler :

TO TUE EDITOR OF TIIE MORNING POST.

Sir,—lt was not till yesterday that the Marquis of Lon-
donderry's letters, printed in your journal of the 4th inst.,
came to my knowledge through the medium of the
translations of them which are given in the French
and Belgian papers. I find that Lord London-
derry, nut content with !slaying the easy part of
champion of Ahd-el-Kader's liberation, has thought this a
Cling octillion to turn aside and insult the memory of my
father, the late King Louis Philippe, and my brother, the
Duke d'Aumale. I leave to the unprejudiced and right-
thinking the tusk of judging this mode of performing a ge-
nerous service by directing gratuitous attacks against a
prince and an exile, and against a king who has died in a
foreign land, and whose hospitality the assailant has more
than once accepted. But at the same time I formally de-
clare here that these attacks are calumnious, and, strong in
the honour of my house, I repel them here in its name,
with the same contempt with which I regard the assurances

of pity and
Receive, Sir, the
Claremont, October 5, ISSI.

which accompany them.
nee of my highest consideratia
LOUIS D'ORLEAN S.

DRAMA.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

The wonderful little Ilateneans almost exhausted
their rep erluire yesterday evening, for the benefit of Ellen,
the younger sister. The performances commenced with
the trial scene from the " Merchant of Venice," and it is
not too much to say, that that Lilliputian sprite, Ellen, over-
came all the difficulties of age, and size, and sex, in giving
a bold and vigorous representation of the merciless Jew.
The reading was Kcan's to the letter, but the imitation
had all the vitality of an original. Kate, who although
not quite such a genius as her sister, is still an exceedingly
clever child, recited the celebrated mercy speech with good
emphasis and discretion, and was loudly applauded. What
shall we say of Ellen's performance of Billy Lackadny, in
the second piece ? It was as drolly lackadaisical
'as ever Liston made it, with the additional ele-
ment of fun arising front the tiny stature of the
performer. Billy cried, and the audience laughed
throughout the entire piece ; and at the conclusion, the
former was greeted with such a shower of bouquets, us to
require a large basket to bear the floral honours safely
or the stage. The third piece was Clara Fisher's favourite
piece of the " Four Mowbrays," the elder Bateman taking,
for the first time, the principal character. It was an ex-
ceedingly creditable and vivacious performance, and was
fully appreciated by the audience. A full and fashionable
attendance indicated the high estimation in which these
gifted little sisters are held by the public.