The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-27 00:00:00

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lEE EXPRESS, TUESDAY E'

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tit Court.;
The Queen bald • Court anOr Privy CouncA
vmderday *Armee et Beelsiggbam Paine.
At the coirt, the Hon. tt. S. Stafford Jesiegbarn, her
Majesty's Minister to Sweden, had an adallence of the
Queen. Mr. Jemingham was presented by Lord John
Russell, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Privy Council was attended by the Priem Consort,
the Duke al Argyll, Load Privy Seal; Viscount Palmerston,
First Lord of the Treasury; Lord John Russell, Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs; the Duke of Newcastle, Se-
cretary of State for the Colones; the Right Hoe. Sidney
Herbert, Secretary of State for War; the Duke of Somer-
set, First Lord of the Admiralty; Sir George Grey, Chan-
cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; the Red of Elgin, Poet-
master•General; and Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain.

Lord John Russell officiated as Lard Pnvaldmit of the
Privy Council.
The Hon. William Bathurst, Clerk of the Privy Council,
atteixled.

Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Russell, and Viscount
Sydney had audiences of the Queen.
The Court was attended by Field-Marshal Viscount Corn-
bermere, Gold Stick-in-Waiting ; Viscount Bury, Tresaurer
d the Household; Viscount Costliness, Vim-Chamber.
lain ; Lord Cremorne, Lord-in-Waiting ; sod Lieutenant-
Colonel Kingecote, Groom-in-Waiting.
The Prince Consort, accompanied by Prince Alfred, rode
ea horseback yesterday morning, attended by Colonel the
Hon. A. Hardmge.
The Princess Helena rode in the Riding-house of Buck-
I Latham Palace.
The Prince Consort visited the Duke of Cambridge yes-
terday morning, at his residence in FM James'. Palace.
The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by Prince
Alfred and Princess Helena, honoured the kmaimmaace at
the Haymarket Theatre with their presence in the evening.
la attendance were the Marchioness of Ely, Lord Cre-
mona, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel the Honourable A.
Hazdarge.

Meetings of the Cambridge University Commissioners
were held at 6, Adelpin-terrace, 04 Tuesday the 20th, Wed-
unday the 21st, and Thursday the 22aid inoksat. The COM.
minimums present were :—The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop
of Chester, the Right Hoe. Lord 'Stanley 11L.P., the Bev.
I. Venetian, and Horatio Waddingtou, katitexkon
Mr. Whitehead, Ownraissicear of the bond-
holders, transacted bedews at the Foreign-alike yesterday.
Despatches were received at the Coloaral.office yesterday
from the Lurtl High Commissioner of the lonian isknds.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
had a dinner Arty last evening at her residence in St.
James's Palace, in celebration of the birthday of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge. There were present—
The Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, his Rural-
lency Baron Bentinek, the Netherlands ; the
Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Earl of Llamado'',
the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Viscount and
Viscountess Sydney, Indy William Russell, Lady Truro,
sod Dv. Quin, with Lady Geraldine Somerset and Colonel
Peeves, of the Duchess of Cambridge's household. A
select circle assembled after dinner.

The Duchess of Inverness is confined to her
room, at Kensington Palace, by an attack of lamina.

Sir George Grey, K.a. ft., and Lady Grey have
ldt Howchin'a Hotel to occupy a home in Park-lane.
Lady Stracey's amateur theatricals for this even-
ing and to-mourn► evening are unavoidably postponed.

The Right Hon. F. Peel, M.P., said km. Peel
have left Fanranoe's Hotel, for their new residence in Park.
line.

Mr. Cobden has returned to Paris, from Cannes,
sad will be in London in a day or two.

We em glad to learn, from inquiries made at
Lealon•house, St. James's-square, yesterday, that the
Bishop of Loudon is recovering, though slowly, from his
recent severe indisposition. His lordship, we believe, bad not
left his room up to Saturday, and was tumble to preach
before the court at Buckingham Palace yesterday, as com-
manded by her Majesty.

We (Freeman's Journal) understand the Lord
Lieutenancy of Londonderry, vacant by the death of flir A.
Ferguson, has been conferred on Acheson Lyle, Emu,
Chief Remembrancer. This leaves a lucrative appointment
at the disposal of the government. The office is worth
about 2,5001. a year.

Among the new peerage claims which will come
bef.,re the Committee of Privileges in the Home of Lords
during the present session is one which, if admitted to be
"Houle out" to their loniships' satisfaction, will so far
create a revolution in the British peerage as to dispossess
the Berl of Shrewsbury of the honours of the premier earl-
dom of England, which he has au recently acquired by the
decision of the law. The claimant of the earldom of
or Wiltshire, is Mr. Simon Thome. &rope, of Damby-on-
Yore, Yorkshire, who in the year 1858 presented a petition
to the Queen, "praying her Majesty to be pleased to cause
• writ of summons to parliament to be issued to him by the
title and dignity aforeseaL" Her Majesty "was pleased to
refer the said petition, together with the Attorney-General's
report thereon, to the House of Peers on the 7th of June,
1850, who, on the same day, referred it to the Committee of
Privileges to consider and report upon."

Luna John Russell has appointed a day some
time after Faster to receive the deputation to explain the
claims of }twinge on the new Reform Bill.

On Saturday evening a public dinner was given
In the Corn Exchange, Kirkcaldy, by the conservative elec-
tors of the county of Fife to Lord Loughborough, who con-
tacted the county in 1857 and 1850 on conservative princi-
ples, and the presentation was made to his lordship of •
testimonial of the regent and confidence of the conservative
electors, the gift consisting of • pair of silver candelabra, of
elegant workmanship, weighing 444 ounces, and costing
about 350 f.

Mr. Mammy intends, in committee on Repre-
sentation of the People Bill, or on consideration of the bill,
as amended, to inure clauses providing that every city or
borough containing more than 2,000 registered electors, and
returning more than one member to serve in parliament,
shall be divided tutu wards, according to the number of
member which such city or borough is so entitled to re-
turn ; and for each of such wards one member shall be re-
turned to serve in parliament, and no more.
On the motion, to-morrow, that the house resolve
Bait into committee on the Chtuch•rates Abolition Bill, Mr.
Newdegate will move,m an amendment, "To leave out from
the wont ' That' to the end of the question, in order to add
the word', 'this house will, tomom,w, resolve itself into a
committee to consider the propriety of establishing in lieu
of church rates, thenceforth to be abolished, a charge on all
bereditantente, in respect of the occupancy of which church
rates have been paid within the last seven years ; such
charge to be levied with the county rate at a uniform rate
of poundage, the occupier being in all came entitled to de-
duct the amount of the chugs levied on his occupation,'
instead thereof."

We are requested to state that the race between
the Universities of Oxfonl and Cambridge on the 31st of
March will be rowed from Putney to Mortlake, and out
from Mortlake to Putney, as waa%riginally intended. The
start will probably take place between $ and 9 cm.

The Marquis de la Coussaye, who lately died in
his villa, on the hanks of the peaceful lake of Enghien,
four miles from Park, left a rather eccentric legacy. He
bequeathed a awn of 50,000 fr. to the commune of Enghien
upon trust, to pay the interest thereof every year to some
well-conducted girl for her marriage portion, but upon this
condition that the maiden tube annually elected shall, in the
month of May, plane a garland upon the testator's tomb
with one hand, while she receives her fortune with the
other.

MR. THACILIRAY, OF CHARLOTTE Bsornt.—
Cll.ll only say of this larly, ride taarsom I saw her
trot just ma I meet out of an at. from which I had never
thought to recver. I remember the trembling little frame,
the little hand, the great honest eyed. An impetuous
honest) seemed to me to characterise the woman. Twice I
recollect she took me to task for what she held to be errors
in doctrine. Once shout Fielding we had • disputation.
She spoke her mind out. She jumped too rapidly to
conclusions. (I have smiled at one or two passages in
the " Biography," in which my own disposition or be-
haviour forms the subject of talk). She formed conclu-
sions that might le wrong, and built up whole
theories of character upon them. New to the London
worblodre entered it with an independent, indomitable
spirit of her own, and judged of contemporaries, and
imperially vied out afro fence dr affectation, with extra.
ordinary keenness of mum. She was angry with her
favourites if their co duct or conversetioa fell below her
ideal. Often she seemed to me to be judging the London
folks prematurely ; but perhaps the city e. rather and at
being judged. I fancied au austere little Joan of Arc
marching in upon ua, and rebuking our easy lives, our may
morals. She gave me the impression of being • very pure,
and lofty, end high-minded person. A great and holy
reveresoe of right and truth seemed to be with her always.
Such, in our held interview, she appeared to me.—Corunitl
Mavatine, for ApriL