The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-15 00:00:00

THE PRINCE CONSORT IN CAMBRIDGE.

The Prince Consort paid a visit to Cambridge
on Tuesday (yesterday). His royal highness arrived at
Cambridge by special train shortly before twelve. The
Prince Consort, attended by the Hon. Alexander Gordon,
proceeded to Trinity College, where the Vice-Chancellor
was in waiting. From Trinity the royal party proceeded
to Preform Kingsley's, where the Prince of Wales was
attending lectures.

At two, Professor Willie, am Sir Robert Rede's lecturer.
delivered a lecture in the tleoate•house, the subject the
history of Trinity College. The Priem Consort and the
Prince of Wales were present, and the Senate•house was
filled by the thee of the town and neighbourhood.

M the omielusion of Pregame Willis's lecture, the Prince
Consort and the Prince of Wales went to findingley-hall,
and returning thence the Prince Consort started for
London at about a quarter to five o'clock. Mr. Robertson,
of the &stern Counties Railway, attended the royal train
up and down.

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, K.G.

It is with regret that we announce the demise of
the Duke of Bedford. His grace, who has for some months
past been in a declining state, expired yesterday afternoon
at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, shortly after 2 o'clock.

Lord John Russell and Mr. F. H. Russell were sum-
moned by telegraph at au early hour, and arrived at Wo-
burn in time to be present at the duke's death-bed.
The late Right Hon. Francis, seventh Duke and Earl of
Bedford, Marquis of Tavistoek, Baron Russell of Thorn-
haugh, and Baron Howland of Streatham, county of Surrey,
in the peerage of England, was the eldest son of John, sixth
duke, by his first marriage with the Hon. Georgiana Eliza-
beth Byng, second daughter of George, fourth Viscount Tor-
ringtoe. He was born May 13,1788, and married Aug. 8,
1808, Lady Ansa Maria Stanhope, eldest daughter of Charles,
third and late Earl of Harrington, by whom, who died in
July, 1867, his grace leaves issue an only son, William,
Marquis of Tavistock, now Duke of Bedford. The deceased
peer was educated at Westminster School, whence he re-
moved to Trinity College, Cambridge, to complete his
studies. Before be graduated IPA M. A. in 1808 he had gone
the tour of Europe, as customary in those days. On his
return to England he entered the House of Commons as
M.P. for Bedfordshire, which county he represented in six
oussentive parliaments, until he was summoned in Decem-
ber, 1832, to the Horse of Lords in his father's barony of
Howland. The late duke, during his public career in
the Lower House, voted on all occasions with the whig
party, and, although an =frequent speaker in the
Howe of Pears, invariably supported the views and mar.
mires of the whig governments. On the death of his f►ther
in October, 18311, he succeeded to the dukedom. lu 1832
he was appointed Special Deputy-Warden of the Stannarios,
and on the death of the late Earl de Grey was rude
Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. In 1846 he was made a
member of the Privy Council, and the year following •
Knight of the Order of the Garter. Oa the death of Lord
Macaulay he became High Steward of Cambridge. By his
death the extensive estates belonging to the house of Rus-
sell in Bedfordshire, Devonshire, Herta, Cambridgeshire,
and Middlesex, as well u the titular honours, devolve upon
his only sea, William, born in 1009. The present duke was
M.P. for Taviatook from 1832 to 1841.

ROYAL. LEVEZ.--cr is DAT. }—This afternoon
the Prince Consort held • seeood levee, at St. James's
Palms, on behalf of her Majesty. The beauty of the
weather brought great numbers of sightseers to the West.
sod.

The Countess Amherst had an assembly last
evening at the family residence in dronenor•goare.
The Earl and Countess of Harewood and family
mike to town to-day from Harewood House, Yorkshire, for
the mason.

Lady Middleton has arrived at the Queen's
Motel, Upper Norwood.

Lord 'kewborough and the Hon. Misses Wynn
have arrived from Illyullivos, Caroaryousbire.

The Hun. Mrs. Gage's ball is fixed for the sth of
Jane.

Mr. Richard Cavendish gave a grand ball last
evening, at the family mansion is Chesham-place. His
Royal Highness the Duke de Chartres was amongst the
early arrivals
_ . .

Yesterday the marriage of the Hon. Miss Emily
Weibella Eden, daughter of the Right Hoe. and Right '
Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, was celebrated
at Wells Cathedral, when she was married to Mr. Edmund
Henry Dickenson, second sou of the late Mr. William
Dickenson, of Kinpwestou House, near Soinerton. The
ceremony was performed by the bride's father.
In anticipation of the visit of the Prince of
Wales to Ireland, a large number of troops are being
assembled at the Curragh. The brigading of so many well-
disciplined corps together will afford ► f►vourable oppor-
tunity to his royal highness for acquiri►g a practical know-
ledge of military duties and 111111103UTTIM It is expected
that his royal highness will arrive about the lath inst., and
during his stay occupy the quarters which Lord Seaton had
whilst at the Curragh.

The Dublin Freeman publishes a letter from New
York, in which Archbishop Hughes indicates the policy
which the American Irish will pursue in the present crisis.
It is, he says, fifty years since he took the oath of allegi-
ance to the American constitution, and no change has
since come over his mind as to his duties as • citizen. The
government was then, as it is now, symbolised by the
" stars and stripes," which has been his flag, and shall be
to the end. Although expressed In roundabout phraseo-
logy, Archbishop Hughes' words imply sympathy with the
North, en adoption of its quarrel, and • belief that the
Irish in America bold the same views as himself. The
" stars and stripes," at the request of Archbishop Hughes,
have lean suspended from the Romeo catholic cathedral of
New York.

The Sligo Journal has been " favoured with the
perusal of • letter from • very intelligent native of Slip,
sow resident in New York, in which it is stated that hun-
dreds of families, some long resident in the States, have be-
gun to sell off their property and goods in order to return
to Ireland. The writer, who has lately travelled a good
deal in the Union, adda that the Irish who have but re.
cently settled in the states bordering on the south, are sell-
ing all elf at • considerable loss, and retracing their steps
northward. Already the crisis is telling upon the industrious
and labouring classes, and he fears that our poor country-
men, who form so large a proportion of the latter, will, by
crowding into the towns and seaports of the north, and
there expending their small s•vi•gs in waiting for • return
of peace, have to endure much privation."

The Pyno and Harrison company produced Bianco
for the first time in Dublin on Saturday night. It received
so enthusiutic reception. The English open hes been more
suocessful in Dublin this mason then for many veers past.

. .
Itiotwottn PARK. —A parliamentary return,
issued this morning. .tale that 1,378 acre' of ground in
Richmond Park have bees drained, the proportion they biter
to the whole area of the park being 7.12 th.. The avenge
east per acre is Gf. 71. 41d.