The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-19 00:00:00

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The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow
(Thorglay) afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Queen
and Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday. Lord
Marcus Hill, Comptrollerof the Household, had an audience
of the Queen. yesterday, at Buckinehant PaLee. H.R. H.
Priuce Albert visited St. Paula Cathedral, in the
afternoon_

Ifer Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Prince of Leiningen, honoured the Royal Itslieu Opera-
i,oll4., with thrir presence, yesterday evening. The royal
suite conlisred of the Viscountess Canning, the Marquis of
Ormonde, Lieut.. Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Capt. the
Hon. A. H. Gordon. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady A. Bruce and Baroness de Spetb, also honoured the
performance rich her presence.
H.R.H. the I)uke of Cambridge left his residence
at Kew, yesterday, for the Royal Military College at
Sandhurst.

The Governor of the Bank of England and the
Deputy Governor had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Gowning-
street.

Count Schimmelpenninck, the Netherlands Minister,
transacted bunnies at the Foreign-office yesterday. Mr. W.
P. Robertson, Consul General of the Ecuador, had an inter-
view with Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign-
office. The Rev. Sir Henry Dukinfield, and Mr. John Buller
had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday at tia Home-
office. A deputation, conniving of the Earl of Mountrealiell,
Lord J. Chichester, M.P., Sir Horace Seymour, M.P., Mr.
D. R. Ross, M.P., the Hon. G. Handcock, Mr. Alexander
Sham Adair, and Mr. J. Mac Neill, had an interview
yesterday with the Chancellor of the Etehequer.—A depu-
tation, including Mr. Hudson, M.P., and Mr. G. Carr Glyn,
had an interview with Lord John Russell and the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday.—Archdeacon Durham had an
interview yesterday with Sir George Grey.—Mr. Wickham,
chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Higham,
Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commistioners for
the Reduction of the National Debt, had also an interview
with the right hon. gentleman yesterday.
Despatches were sent off yesterday esening from
the Colonial-cffice, for the governors of the North American
pr.ivinces.

NEWSPAPER PATRONAGE.—The Standard is deter-
mined to be beforehand with all the world in disposing of
ministerial offices It fixedly" sends Lord Clarendon to
Ireland, ere the ink of Lord Bessborough's necrology is dry.
It then transfers Mr. Laboechere to the Board of Trade,
and makes Lord Normanby and Lord Clanrieude exchange
offices.

(From last night's Gazette.)
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, APRIL 29.—The Queen has
appointed the Hon. Flora Clementine Isabella Macdonald to
be one of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary to her Majesty,
in the room of the Hon. Anne Napier, resigned.
WRITERAIL, MAY 18.—The Queen has oonsti-
toted end appointed the Right Hon. M. Brady, Chancellor
of Ireland ; the Most Rev. the Archbishop of Dublin ; the
Duke of Leinster ; and Lieut.-Gen. the Right Hon. Sir E.
Blekeney, Hot., to be her Majesty's Justices and General
Governors of Ireland. _

DOWNING-STREET, MAT 15,—The Queen boa ap-
pointed R. R. Madden, EN , to be Colonial Secretary for
the territory of Western Australia.

OFFICE OP ORDNANCE, May 15.
Royal Hilt.
Artillery.—Beer. Major F. Wavle to be Bect..eoL, aka
Arbuckle, ref- as f.-p.; lee. Capt. J. H. Franck Lyn to be eat • First
Lieut. H. A. B. Climatal' to be sec- mat. ; See. Um. C. Mutter to he
first lieut. ; BR,. Me/se W. B. le fillby to be lieut.-ca. vice Freer,
rat. of f.-pay ; Bee- Capt. II T. Byars to be opt. ; Fleet Lieut. R. B.
Adair to be Ku. apt. ; Bee. Lieut. It. J. Hay to be first lieut.

SURREY DI9PENBARY.—The anniversary dinner of
this charity took place yesterday evening, at the Bridge-I
home Hotel, London-bridge. Charles Allen Young, Rm.,'
treasurer to the society, took the chair, in the almnee of Sir
Molesworth. It appeared from the report, that
this institution was established in 1777, and that the num-
ber of patients benefited by the dispensary, between the
months of March, 1778, and January, 1847, amounted to
244,182. Of these, 4,697 were relieved during the past
year ; and the treasurer's account of the funds proved that,
consiquenee of the increase of patients, there was a de-
' ficienty on the present year amounting to 7571. 6s. The
chairman, in proposing Prosperity to the Surrey Dis-
pensary," trusted that every endeavour would be made to
remove, by charitable means, the difficulties under which
the society now laboured. The total amount of subscrip-
tions announced on tke occasion was upwards of 4001. Some
appropriate music was introduced in the course of the
evening.
RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.—MUNIFICENT DONATION
OP A LaDv.-:-Yesterday evening, a very numerously at-
tended meeting of the above society vas held at the Hanover
Square Rooms, when the Right Hon. Lord Ashley took the
chair. Amougst the number oa the platform were the Lord
Bishop of Norwich, Lord Kinnaird, Hon. W. Cowper, M.P.,
the Right Hon. Fox Maude' the Hon. Baptist Neel, and a
number of clergy. The report stated that there were 16
whoa, open daily, morning and afternoon ; 33 open on the
Sabbath, morning, afternoon, and evening; 44 buildings,
comprising 80 schools of both sexes, which are situated in
the lowest and most wretched localities of London.
The total numbers of these are about 5,000 children
of both sexes, and upward of 540 teachers. A special fund
had been established for a school of industry or juvenile
refuge in one of the most wretcoed localities in
Westminster, to which a lady in the first instance subscribed
2001., and subsequently 3001., with a view, ander the latter
donation, of receiving 50 girls A legacy of 2001. had been,
bequeathed by Strut Avery, Esq., of the University Club.
The report was adopted. Thanks having been voted to the
noble chairman, the meeting separated. _

SALE OF TICE METROPOLIS ROADS.—Yeetorday
the annual sale by auction of the metropolis roads, north of
the Thames, took place, before the commissioners of the
turnpike roads, at their Ake, No. 2, Whitehall-place, the
Earl of Lonsdale in the chair, when there was 'it full attend-
ance of lessees from all parts of the country. They were to
be let, from the Ist of July next, for the term of one year,
subject to such conditions as the commissioner produced at
the meeting, one month being paid in advance of the rent of
each lot as a deposit. The following are the rims which the
several lots fetched. The Tyburn and 17xlindge reads, put
rep at 8,5101., were sold for 8,5.501.; the Kilburn end Edgware
roads, offered at 3,2631. 17s. 6d., bought for 3,2731. 17e. 6d. ;
the Highgate and Hampstead roods were knocked down far
17,6101., the price asked was 17,5301., and one bar to be taken
off; the City-road, the price demanded 3,0601., disposed of
for 3,0601. ; the Hackney and Les-bridge roads purchased
for 5,7201., and 5,7101. wee the sun named by the commis' -
stoners. The following were among the lots, but there was
no offer for them the Kensington, Elrentford and Ideworth
roads, 16,1701. being the comusitaionem' price; the Stam-
ford-hill, upper and lower division, the Green-lanes and
Seven Sisters roads, the sum proposed for them being
10.2001. ; and the Harrow roads, the tolls of which the noble
chairman said in consequence of certain circumstances which
had come under the notice of the commissioners, would be
reduced one-half, end which were valued at 1,1101. The
lots were bought by Mr. Levy, end there was competition
bat for one of them.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAT.—MURDER OF A CHILD.—
Belpre Mr. G. I. Mills, deputy-coroner for the county of
Middlesex, at the Yorkshire Grey Tavern, Hampstead, on
the body of a new-born female Child, found in a pond, near
Primrose-hill. John Sleight, of 12, Edward-street, Dorset-
square, deposed, that on Thursday ahernoon last, be was
creasing towards Hempstead, when on peseing • pond in
the corner of the field, at the back of Primrose-hill, he
saw • bundle lying at the bottom. With the 11•1601115011 of
police constable Hinton, S 62, he got it out, and, oa opening
the bundle, found it to contain
.the body of • tell-mown
female child. The wrapper mailman the body conelated of
a fine diaper towel, with the initials " W. P, No, 6," in
one comm.—Mr. Lord, surgeon, of Hight, Rampstead,Mid
ha had made • post-mortem examination ef the body, which,
although much decomposed, 'howl that the shad had

been been alive. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful
Mardis. against some person or persona unknown."—
FOISON.—B Mr. Mills, at the Bank of Encland, South.
wharf road, ?addingtoes, on the body of Elizabeth Baker,
aged 18, the wife of an engineer. Front the evidence of de-
ceased's parents and brother, it appeared that she had been
married seven months, and led an unhappy life in conse-
quence of her husband's unkind treatment. He had obtained
a situation in Ireland, whither he intended to go, leaving
his wife with her parents, with whom they had resided ,inee
their marriage. Oa Saturday evening, abatis seven o'clock,
he went accompanied by deceased to his bedroom to get his
tools, preparatory to his departure for Ireland. They bad
not been lone above stairs, when a noise was heard, and the
husband exclaimed. "Do come up! your daughter has
poisoned herself !" The witnesses inst tally rushed up stain,
when they sive Baker holding the deceased round the want
by the right hand, and having in his other h nd the phial
produced, half-filled with prussic acid; she was thenquite
dead. He told them that aftershe had packed up his toile, and
as he was going down stairs, she snatched from his b a the
phial of primer acid which he had bad tor months, and seal- ,
lowed a portion of it before he could prevent her. He in-
stantly ran off for medical assistance, which promptly ar-
rived. Mr. W. Robins and Mr. G. Gascoyne surgeons, who I
performed a post-martens examination, deposed that they de-
tected prussic acid in the stomach, in sufficient quantity to'
cause death they also declared it to be their opinion that
the deceased had poisoned herself—The examinational wit-
nesem having concluded, the coroner, addres-ing the jury,
said, " Ars you satisfied, gentlemen, that the deceased lost
her life by prussic acid 1" Jurnrs : "We see."—Coroner :
" Have you any doubts about her having taken the poison
herself ?" Jurors: " Great doubts, indeed."—The coroner
then recapitulated, and commented upon the evidence; after
which the court was cleared of strangers, and the jury re-
mained in deliberation half-an-hour, when th.y returned the
following special verdict: "We find that Elizabeth Baker
died from the effects of prussic acid passed into her stomach ;
but how taken or administered there is no evidence to show."