The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-13 00:00:00

(MOM LAST siGar's &turn.)

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 9th
day of January, by the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council, it is this day ordered by their lord-
ship., that his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury do pre-
pare a form of prayer end thanksgiving to Almighty Cod,
for the ?nacres of Wales's safe deli►ery of a prince ; and
that such form of prayer and thanksgiving be used in all
churches and chapels in Dastard and Wales, and in the
town of Beiwick•upoe-Tweed, open Sunday, the 17th day
31 January lost., or the Sunday after the respective
misls-
tees of such churches sad chapels shall receive the isms.
And it is hereby further ordered, that her Majesty'■ printer
do forthwith print a competent number of copies of the
said form of prayer and thanksgiving, that the same may
be forthwith scut mond, sod read in the several churches
sod chapels of England sad Wales, and of the tows of
Berwick-upon-Tweed.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 9th day
of January, by the Lords of her Majesty's Mast licoonrable
Privy Council, it is this day ordered by their lordships,
that every minister and preacher, u well of the established
church in that part of Great B;itais called Scotland, as
those of the episcopal communion, protected and allowed by
an act passed in the tenth year of her Majesty Queen Anne
chapter .even, inanled "An act to prevent the distarbini
those of the episoopal communion in that part of Great
Britain, called Scotland, in the exercise of their religious
worship, and in the two of the Liturgy of the Church of Eog•
hod, sod fur repealing the act permed in the parlutuent of
Scotland, istauled ' An sot against irregular bsptianta and
marriages' ''' do, at some time during the exercise at
Divine Service in their reopertire chordate, coogregatious,

or sasembhes, put up their prayers and thaokagiviogs
td Almighty God, for the Priam:re of Wales's safe delivery
of a prince.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 12th
day of Jaanu7, present., Lord PrGiant, linked Somerset,
Lord Stanley of Alderley, her Majesty having been pleased
to appoint the Bight Honourable Frencis Alexander,
Earl of Rioter°, to be toed lieutenant of the county of
Aberdeen, his lordship this day took and anberribed the
oath appointed to be taken thereupon instead of the oaths
of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration.
WAR-07FIC; Dsc. 31.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of
Commiseary•General-in-Chief John William Smith, C. 8., to
be au ordinary member of the military division of the
mood class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honour-
able Order of the Bath.

WHITEHALL. JAN. 11.—The Queen has been
pleased to give and grant unto Captain Sir Adolphus Slade,
of the Royal Navy, K.C.8., who is actually sad entuely
employed in the service of hi Imperial Majesty the Sultan,
beyond the Queen's &minima, and who in the year 4858
received her Majesty's permiesiou to accept and wear the
insignia of the third class of the Imperial Order of the
Medjidia, her Majesty's royal limes and authority that be
may accept and wear the insignia of the seeond clam of the
lima Imperial Order of the Medjidie, which the Sultan b►th
been pleased to confer upon him.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 11.—The Queen has been
pleased to nominate the Rev. Sidney Ileory Widdrisgton,
M.A., to the perpetual curacy of the district parish of St.
Mark, St. Marylebone, in the county of Middlesex, sod
diocese of Loudon, void by the resignation of the Rev.
Ashby Blair Haslewood.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 12.—The Queen bits been
pleased to approve of Don Manuel de la Quialasa as Vise-
Consul at Liverpool for the Republic of Peru. The Queen
has also been pleased to approve of Senor Jovje Dunlop to be
Viae•Coneul at Southampton for the United States of
Columbia.