The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-28 00:00:00

Snit plains when the besieges arse on, they ought net el
complain.
Mr. MITCHELL said he was in the house at the time
but meld not ascertain what wu doing. (A laugh.) R.
meant to have opposed some of the votes.
Mr. T. HANKEY said the vote showed that the average
salary of the civil servants of the government did
aet
average 1601. a year, from which wu deducted 'mew tax
sad superannuation allowance, reducing the net Wary te
between 1201. and 1301. It had been complained by amete,
mitt** that the services were inadequately perforated; bugthose who made the complaint ought to hare looked at the
very inadequate amount of salary. As a remedy it had
been proposed to throw open the civil service to public sow
petition ; but he hoped this would not be dom. This Imo
not the way to reform the civil service, but rather to give •
an &derma reward. He hoped the government would
give their attention to this matter, and not entrust it to my
committee or commission.
Bir H. WILLOUGHBY renewed the complaint of the
hurried way In which the votes had been taken, sad Ida
that nothing Gould be more calculated to brut' the home
into contempt.
Viscount PALMERSTON said he was in the house at
the time • a great number of members were present,
sad notice dad been given that these votes would be moved.
Any member wishing to oppose them would have dam
better to be in hie piece. The hon. member who could net
make out what was going on, had a very simple remedy, by
getting up and asking the chairman. (Hear, hear.)
After a few words from Colonel Dusxn and Sir H. .
WlLLotrannz the report wu received.
SARDINIA CONVENTION BILL. •

This bill was read a fret time, and ordered to be read a
mooed time this day.
The house then adjourned at a quarter to oae.

Int Court.

The Qom and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal and the Prince of Leiningen, visited the
DWAIN/ of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, on Monday
evening. The royal suite eonsisted of Lady Churchill, the
Earl of Listowel, Major-General Rouverie, and Captain
Da Plat. _
_

Prins Albert rode on horseback yesterday morning, at-
tended by his Equerry-in-Waiting, and visited Messrs. Ro-
binson and Coltaar's factory at Pimlico, and honoured Mr.
Bacon by inspecting his cast for the statue of Mendelsohn.
Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa
visited the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's-park.
The Princess Royal and the Prince's Ally took equestrian
exercise in the riding-sehool.
Her Majesty' had a dinner party in the even's,. TY.
compaisy included the Duchess of Kent, the Dachas re
Cambridge sad the Princess Mary, the Priam of Lein
the Lord Chancellor end Lady Cranworth, the Dent
Minister and Baroness d'Olholm, Baron and Barents
Usedora, Lady Fanny Howard, the Lady in Waiting to the
Dashes. of Cambridge, the Earl and Countess of Roethery,
Viscount Torrington, Lord Heytesbury, the Right Hon.
Pemberton Leigh, Colonel the Hon. George Upton, sad
Baron Kussebeek. _ _ _ _ _

The Duchess of Atlioll hu succeeded Lady Churchill m
the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. Earl Somers and the
Hon. Mortimer Seeleville West have relieved the Bad M
Lietowel and Sir F. Stavin in their duties as the Lord ad
Groom in Waiting to her Majesty.
The Dubin of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard
and Sir George Cooper, visited the Duchess of Gloucester,
at her residence, Gloucester House. on Monday evsniajr.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and the
Duke of Cambridge also visited the Duchess of Glassman
oa Monday (mooing.

The Lord Mayor attended the Queen's Levee on Monday,
at St. James's Palace.
A deputation from the Steam Shipowners' Association of
London had ma interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley
yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted
of Mr. Anderson (chairman), Mr. W. J. Hall, and Mr.
Morgan (secretary).
Dr. Paris bad an interview with Sir George Grey yester-
day, at the Home-office, to present his annul report.
A deputation on the subject of the Central Maeda*
Steam Navigation Company, consisting of the Right Hon.
T. M. Gibson, M.P.. Mr. Bright, M.P., Captain L. Verson,
M.P., Mr. Jackson, M.P., Sir Gore Onseley, Mr. Holroyd,
Mr. William Morgan, and Mr. Young (solicitor), had an
interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley, on Monday.

The Queen bar been graciously pleased to excuse
the Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes, from all
attendance at Court, until the family mourning for the late
Lord Frederick Lierson Gower shall have expired.

Mr. Paid and Mr. Hogarth had the honour
yesterday of submitting to her Royal Highness the Prin.
cos Royal a proof of the " Field of Battle," from the
Princess Royal's drawing, of which her Majesty and
the Prism were pleased to express their highest approval.

The Duke of Argyll will to-morrow be installed
Into sees as Lord Rector of the Glasgow University.
The Countess of Shelburne was confined of a
daughter on Saturday last, at Lansdowne-house, and, with
the infant, is progressing favourably.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon will have a
dinner party OD Saturday, at their mission is Grosvenor-
crescent.

By the death of Sir John Keene, and of the Rev.
Dr. Parkes, 3,000 acres of land, near Linton and Tallow,
fall to the Duke of Devonshire.
Several of the leading bookselling firms in Pater-
floater-row have agreed to close at four o'clock on Saturday
afternoons. About an equal number close at three, and
several at two o'clock.

The resolution adopted in Parliament for a loan to
Sardinia will involve an immediate psyment from the Tree.
miry of 1,000,0001., and another of 1,000,0001. a year beam:

Tks Hon. Edward Mostyn, eldest son of Lord
Maetyn, and M.P. for Flint, is about to form a inatriatoaial
alliance with the Lady Augusta Nevi% daaghter of the
Bari of Abergavenny.

His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle arrived is
tows on Monday night, from Yorkshire. After a brief
stay in Leaden he returns to Ireland, where, upon the 11th
of April, be will maks his public entry into the ha
capital.
We regret to have to announce the death of Sir
William Milner, Bart., well known as Milner, of Nu&
Appleton, and one of the most extensive landed preprisens
in Yorkshire. The deceased was la politics a Whig, mil*
eon and successor is now, end has been for some years, the
representative of the City of York.
The English consular agent at Kiel has boom eslll•
*Lally informed of the approaching arrival at that polar
the flying squadron. Preparations are being sae hies
provisioning of the entire lest.
The second reading of the Newspaper Postage NI
Stamp Duties Bill now stands for Monday, 16th Apar':
not the 23rd, u at Ant arranged,

Numerous independent motions of members of the
House of Commons, now stand " deferred till after
Easter." Amongst them, Mr. Heywood's propositions for
unimnity reform. Mr. Scholetield's select committee oa the
subject of the adulteration of food, lc., Captain Scobell's
committee relative to the administration of natal strain,
and a bill by Mr. Cheatham to " amend the provinces of
the Marriage Acts relating to ;Austere."
A letter from St. Petersburg, in the _Danube of
Yisans, says "Dr. Mundt, homatopathio physician to the
late Emperor, has left 'WWII in great hate and secretly.
He is reproached with having too long concealed from the
august deceased that his lung was attacked ; else with having
himself prepared the medicines destined for the Emperor,
instead of having had them prepared by a druggist. Great
irritation wee insaifested against him at St. Petersburg, and
the Emperor Alesaader himself advised him, it is said, to
have Russia."

LORD CHAIDIRRLAI2OI OFFICE, MARCH 27.—No-
tios is hereby giveo, that the Mate apartments of Windsor
Castle will be closed on and after the 28th inst., until fur-
ther orders.—Oosafe.
THE ElaooasPnicst. Soarrt.—The members of
this distinguished society dined together at the Thatched
House Tavern, St. James'e-street, on Tuesday last. Sir
Roderick Murchison presided, supported by a large num-
bar of the rumbas.
The Rev. John Talbot Johnston was on Monday
instituted to the Rectory of Beetles, in Suffolk, on thcom
mutation et the Rev. Ramtind Holland, of Sultan
Sedolk.
The whole country round about Basioptoke, An-
done, and other pare of North Hampshire we. severed
with snow on Monday.

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