The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-04 00:00:00

lodging bill ; for wearing a wide-awake hat;
for wearing a board ; for bein; knocked down; for
having a long or a short nose, according to the
humour of tee first policeman who met with them.
Really it is bard to see what further insults and
annoyances can be offered them ?
Private advice' from St. PetersbarF inform us
that the position of the French minister there is
daily growing more difficult. It has lately been re-
marked, that he has had very frequent conferences
with Count Nesselrode, and immediately after one
of these he despatched a member of the mission with
• verbal statement of some business of strange import
to the President. Since this period M. de Castelbajao
is said to have avoided all diplomatic intercourse,
and hardly to have quitted his hotel, appearing to
wait for despatches from his government with great
anxiety.

flaxseed were papirea, at 41. To London, 2,000 to 3,000
bbh. floor were taken, at 2a. . • and 3,000 do., at Is. 9d. To
Antwerp, 30 to 40 hhds. tobacco were engaged, at 275. Gd. ;
end 70 tierces ark., at 275. 6d. To Havre, the packet of
the 24th was Gill, at fc. for cotton ; 8 doh. to 7 doh. for
ashes; and 8 doh. for rice. There was no alteration of mo-
ment to notice in rates for California.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 18.
Cotton still active; 10,000 bales sold to-day at very full
prices; strict middling, 71c.; good middling, 8 to
The Canada's news was received this evening alter business
hours.

CHARLESTON, Fin. 18.
Cotton to-day was in good demand, and upwards of 2,000
bales were sold at 61e. to flie.

gbe Court.

THE LEVEE.
The Queen held a levee (tho second this season)
yesterday afternoon, in St. James's l'alace. Her Majesty
and l'nnee Albert arrived shortly before 2 o'clock, from
Buckingham Palace, escorted by • detachment of Life
Guards.
Colonel Vernon Harcourt had an audience of the Queen,
and delivered the insignia of the Order of the Bath of the
late Earl of Liverpool.
The Earl of Derby hail an audience of her Majesty.
The Queen also gave audience to the Field Officer in Wait-
ing. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar at-
tended the levee.
Iler Majesty's Hon, Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms was
on duty in the Stake Saloon ; the sub-ottoers attending were
Lieut.-Colonel P. P. Nevill and Major Cooke. The gen-
tleman on duty were Winchester, Watts, Lloyd, Rubinson,
Lyon, Cannot Mills, Cotton, Tyler, Peal, Bank', Field,
Lunette, Holmes, Davies, lughes, Tinkler, Ilayward,
Bernard, Smyth, Lboyd, Cox, and Rice. The officers on
duty were the Lieutenant, Sir James Tyler; the Standard
Bearer, Major Harmer; and the Adjutant, Captain Curling.
The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty at the I'alace as
usual, under the command of Captain Bellaire, the Exon in
Waiting. The officers attending were the Lieutenant, Sir
George P. Lee, the lions, Captain Kincaid, Captain l'hibbe,
and Captain Bickford, and the Adjutant, Lieut.-Colonel
Fitzmaurice.
The Queen wore a train of white watered rainbow silk,
trimmed with white satin ribbons and tulle. The petticoat
was of white sates, trimmed with white satin ribbons and
tulle. Her Majesty's head-dress was composed of emeralds
and diamonds.
lier Majesty and Prince Albert entered the Throne-room
attended by the Maness of the Robes, the Marchioness of
Ely, Lady in Waiting; the Duke of Montrose, Lord
Steward; the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Chamberlain; the
Earl of Jersey, Muter of the Horse; Lord Claude Hamil-
ton, Treasurer of the Household ; the Vice Chamberlain ;
Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting ; Lord George Lennox, Lord
in Waiting to his Royal Highness; Colonel the lion. C. B.
Phipps, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse ; Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey, Private Secretary to his Royal High-
nem • Major-General Berkeley Drummond, Groom in
Waiting; Colonel Wylde, Groom in Waiting to his Royal
Highness; Major-General Buckley, Equerry in Waiting
Colonel Bouverie, Equerry to Waiting to his Royal High-
ness; lion. Alfred Crofton, and Mr. Henry Farquharson,
Pages of Honour in Waiting.
The foreign ministers were introduced, when the follow-
ing presentations to her Majesty and Prince Albert took
place M the diplomatic circle.
By the Belgian Minister, M. Vander Straeten, Fonction-
naire Superieur au Department des Finances de Belgique.
By the Russian Minister, Lieut.-Colonel Schwabe, Russian
Imperial Engineer. By the Sardinian Minister, Le Comte
S. P. Bentivoglio d'Aregon, Officier de Cavalerie dans
l'Armee Serie By the Turkish Minister, M. Jean Musurus,
Member of his Imperial Majesty's Council of the Ministry
of Trade. By the Brazilian Minister, M. L. de Montezuma,
Lieutenant of the Brazilian Navy. By the Earl of Malmes-
bury, Le Colonel F. Facie, Mexican Charge d'Affaires. By
Colonel F. Facie, Don D. Savignon, Attache to the
Mexican Legation.
The diplomatic circle was attended by Count Walewaki,
the French Ambassador,Viscount Serurier, First Secretary,
M. Dervien, Attache, and M. de Veillat, Attache to the
Embassy ; M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and M.
, Octave Delepierre, Secretary of Legation and Consul Gen-
eral ; Baron do Cetto, Bavarian Minister; Baron de Brun-
now, the Russian Minister, and M. Alexandre de Berg,
' First Secretary of Legation ; Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian
Minister, Count Perponeher. and Baron Hellmann Hell-
weg ; Baron de Rehausen, Swedish and Norwegian Min-
ister, and Raton de Geer' Secretary of Legation; Mr.
Abbott Lawrence, United States Minister, and Mr. Ban-
croft Davis, Secretary of Legation; le Marquis d'Azeglio,
Sar-
diaiea Minister; M. 'Tricoupi, Greek Minister; M. Musurus,
Turkish Minister, M. P. Muntrus, First Sec., and Darner
Effendi, Attaché to the Legation • Count Buol Schauenstein,
Austrian Minister ; Count de Lavradio, Portuguese Minis-
ter, and le Chevalier Pinto de Several, Secretary of Lega-
tion • Baron Bentinck, Netherlands Minister; M. Mande
Braidlian Minister, and le Chevalier de Souza Lisboa,
Attache to the Legation; Prince de Carini, Sicilian Minis-
, ter; M. de Bilk, Danish Minister, and M. T. de Billo,
Secretary of Legation; Shall Khan, Envoy from his Ma-
jesty the King of Persia, and Major Mirza Ibrahim ?dal-
' color, First Secretary and Interpreter to the Mission ; Mr.
I J. T. Comyn, Spanish Chargé d'Affaires, and Mr. J. L. de
Urbiztondo, Attache to the L ; the Earl of Malmes.
bury, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
' Affairs, and Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Carat,
K.C.H., her Majesty's Muter of the Ceremonies.
After the reception of the diplomatic circle, the general
• circle were introduced. The reception was attended by
Lord St. Leonard's, Lord Chancellor; the Archbishop of
York, the Earl of Lonsdale, Lord President ; the Marquis
of Salisbury, Lord Privy Seal; the Earl of Derby, l trot
Lord of the Treasury; the Right lion. Spencer Walpole,
' Secretary of State for the Home Department; the Right
Hon. Sir John I'akington, Secretary of State fur the Colo-
Hies ; the Right lion. Benjamin Disraeli, Chancellor of the
Exchequer; the Duke of Northumberland, First Lord of
the Admiralty; the Right Hon. J. W. Henley. President
of the Board of Trade; the Earl of Hardwicke, Postmaster-
General ; the Right Hoe. J. C. Berries, President of the
Board of Control ; the Marquis of Anglesey, Gold Stick in
, Waiting ; the Earl of Sandwich, Captain of the Hon. Corps
of Gentlemen at Arms ; Lord de Iles, Captain of the Yea.
man Guam; the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the
' Dean of the Arches, Lord Colchester Paymaster of the
Forces; the Right Hon.W.Beresford, Secretary at War; the
Bari of Morton, Lord in Waiting to the Queen; Sir F. Kelly,
her Majesty's Solicitor-General; the Lord Mayor; Mr.
Horatio Mraddington, Under Secretary of State Home
Department; Mr. Sheriff Swift, Mr. Sheriff Cotterell ; Mr.
R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting ; Captain Sir George
Tyler R.N. and M.l'., A.D.C. to the Queen; Colonel(
Wood, Prianlx, Oldileld, and Pennefather, C.B. A.D.C.
to the Queen ; Colonel Mc Douall, 2nd Life Guards, Silver
Stick in Waiting; Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon,
Bq to his Royal Highness Prince Albert; lion
Gsrwal Upton, Equerry to her Bo- al Highness the
I Dub= of Kent; the Chevalier Hebeler, their Prussian
I sad Wartemburg Majesties' Consul-General; Mr. Under-
I Sheriff Millard, Mr. trader-Sheriff Hopwood; Colonel H.
L Bentinek, Coldstream Guards, Field Officer in Brigade
Waiting; Mr. Frederic Peel Round, Gentleman Usher of
the Green Rod; Colonel Sir Frederic Smith, Gentleman
Usher of the Privy Chamber in Waiting ; Mr. Arthur
Blackwood, Groom of the Privy Chamber; Mr. Alfred
Montgomery, Gentleman Usher to her Mejesty in Waiting;
Colonel Diggle, Gentleman Usher in Waiting: Captain
G.C. Blake, R,N. (in waiting), and Dr. Lyon Playfair, C. 8.,
Gentlemen Ushers to his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
The following noblemen and gentlemen had the honour
of being presented to the Queen :
Mr. James Anderson, Q.C., on being appointed one of
, her Majesty's Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor.
Hon. Jacob Aatley, on appointment as Deputy Lieute-
neat, county of Norfolk, by the Earl of Leicester.
Mr. John Baily, Q.C., on appointment as one of her
Majesty's Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor.
Mr. Herbert Butler Batten, West Somerset Yeomanry
Cavalry,jira by Col. Tynte.
J. Buena, H.E.I.C. Engineers, by Col. Harry D.
Jones.
Lieut. H. Bainbridge, R.N., by his father-in-law, Lieut.-
Col. Bleed Harvey.
Major-General Bainbrigge, on receiving a ;rant of distin-
guished service money, by the Duke of Wellington.
Mr. Richard Blairshard, on return from -Vancouver's
Island, by Earl Grey.
Lieutenant T. H. Boeworth, Bengal Artillery, by the
Right Hon. J. C. Herrin.
Ensign E. P. 13rownlow, H.E.1.C., Engineers, by Colo
nil Harry D. Jones, R.E.
Li t..-Col. Brown, on promotion, by Msjor•Gen. Sir R.
Deb=an t R. W. Brett, Bombay Light Cavalry, by Sir
HAM Campbell, Bart.
Liselsmat Burrower. R.A., on promotion, by the Muter-
Gemmed se* Ordnance.