The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

'Ube Court.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince
of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Prineesses
Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, left Wind-
sor at that minutes before one o'clock yesterday after-
noon, for the station of the Great Western Railway, in
Windsor. The Ladies and Gentlemen-in-waiting were the
Countess of Charlemont, Lady Caroline Barriogtoe. the
Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Earl
Somers, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Col. the Hon. Charles
Grey, Captain the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, the Has
ter of the Household, Lord Allred Paget, Lieut.-Col. the
Hon. A. Gordon, and Mr. Gibbs. Her Majesty and the
Royal Party travelled to London by a special tram, and on
arriving at the Paddiogbon terminus entered several of the
Queen's carriages, and proceeded to Buckingham Palace,
where they arrived at eight minutes to two o'clock. A
party of Light Dragoons farmed the escort from the station
to the Palace. Her Majesty and Price Albert were re
ceived at Buckingham Palace by the Duke of Norfolk, Lord
Steward; the Marquis of Breadelbane, Lord Chamberlain ;
the Duke of Wellington, Muter of the Horse ; Lord Ernest
Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain; and Lord George Lemnos, Lord-
in-waiting to his Royal Highness.

A deputation on the cabled of the Building Act, the
sewers, and the police, and the necessity of local Rovern-
meet on these points, had an interview with Sir William
Molenworth, yesterday, at the office of Works and Public
Buildings, in Whitehall-place. The deputation consisted
of Lard Dudleyi Stuart, 11. P., Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., Sir
De Laey Beans, M.P., Mr. Nicholay, Mr. Toulmin Smith,
Mr. Plum, Mr. Birdwell, Mr. T. Duncombe, M.P., Mr. G.
Bird, Mr. Nelson, Messrs. Trelawny Saunders and James
L,bram (St. Martin's), Wm. Geesin (St. James's), Home
(St. Luke a), Guedalla (Islington), Williams, M.P. (Lans
bath), C. Carr, Russell, Rowe, W. B. Greenwell, Buzzard
and Cook, Messrs. J. F. Williams, W. W. King, H. Horn
and Wm. Horn (overseers, St. Luke's), and about 23 other
gintlemen. Ihe deputation had also an interview with
Viscount Palmerston, Home Secretary, yesterday. [A full
report appears in another column.]
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Leslie Foster, Mr. Bai-
lee, Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Leslie, and Mr. Brooks, bad an
interview with the Duke of Newcastle, yesterday, at the
CeloniatoMee.
The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of Bog-
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land had an interview with the Chancellor of the Bache
quer yesterday at his official residence in Downing street.
A deputation from Chorley, Lancashire, had an inter-
view yesterday with the General Board of Health, at their
office, Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Mean.
Anger, Wallworth, and J. C. Crook (solicitor.) They were
attended and introduced by Mr. Robrrt Townley Parker,
M.P., and Mr. John Wilson Patten, M.P.
The Count Baptiste Metazi had an interview with the
Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial-41w.
Despatches were seat yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and to the
Governor of the Mauritius. Despatches were received
yesterday from the Governors of the North American
Provinces, and from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands.

The Speaker will hold two Levees this session—
the first on the sth, and the second on Saturday, the 12th of
March, each night at 10 o'clock.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE AMENDMENT OF
1111 LAW.—Yesterday evening a general meeting of the
members of this association was held at the society's
rooms, 21, Regent-street—Mr. T. W. Kee, Q C., in the
chair. The report on the "Assimilation of Commercial
Law" was presented by the committee on comparative
jurisprudence, the document being read by Mr. Hawes.
The report was of a purely historical nature, the last sta-
dium gained having been the interview with Lord Derby,
and the promise of the late government to consider the pro-
priety of appointing a commission. Mr. Hawes, in urging
the necessity of bringing the views of mercantile men to
bear upon commercial legislation, pointed to the evident
impropriety of an ex-Chancellor (Lord St. Leonard.) giv-
ing notice to rescind an act passed with so much difficulty
as was the Bankruptcy Consolidation Act, and this without
toting counsel of the commercial community. A report
on professional remuneration was afterwards read by Mr.
1. B. Allen.
SUDDEN DEATH AT A BALL.—AII awful instant*
of the uncertainty of human life occurred at a ball given
last week at Ludlow to the inhabitants of the town by the
Hon. R. B. Clive and Lady Harriet Clive, in return for
the festivities which took place on the marriage of their son,
on. of the members for the borough, R. B. Clive, Esq.,
with Lady Mary Bridgman, youngest daughter of the Earl
of Bradford. About eleven o'clock, just as Mrs. Evans, the
wire of a tradesman of the town, stood up for the purpose
of joining in the dean', she suddenly dropped. Prompt
assistance was rendered but in vain. Though three medical
gentleman immediately ran to her assistance she was a
corpse before the could eves be removed from the ball
room. She has unfortunately left live children as well as
her husband to deplore the melancholy occurrence.
Apoplesy is believed to have been the immediate cause
of death.
CHANGE OF Forevitterc--A striking instance of
the mutability of human affairs has recently occurred in
the person of a stoker on board her Majesty's ship Valour-
ous, lying at this port. By some contretemps the individual
who has now fallen re unezpectedly into the lap of For-
tune has been condemned by the fickle goddess to pass hie
life up to the present moment in the humble and obscure
position of a stoker or fireman, the immense property of
which he has now, it is said, become the inheritor, having
been lying in the Cheneery Courts for many years. A few
days ago this begrimed and sooty son of N iptura was visited
on board the said vessel (we are told) by a gentleman
who, after making the necessary inquiries, communicated
to the object of his visit the astounding intelligence that he
was entitled to the Earldom of Stockport, and the immense
property attached to the title, of the value of some 31,0001.
per annum. The feelings of the poor fellow on learning
the almost incredible transformation that bed taken place
in his affairs may be readily conceived. We hear that the
hero of this "romance of real life" immediately departed
for London, in company with the gentleman alluded to, in
order to complete the necessary arrangements previous to
taking possession of his enormous wealth and "new-born"
honours.—D oonport Telegraph.
FATAL OCCURRENCE.—A farm-servant at Carbeth
went out the other day after breakfast with a gun, is try a
shot at a hawk that had been grin hovering over the barn-
yard. At dinner lie was missed, and, being searched fir,
was found dead with a shot in his breast. It is thought
that in 'queering himself through a hedge, and (Jawing
the gun after him, it had gone off and killed him.—Dues-
barton Herald.