The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-02 00:00:00

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Privy Council at three o'clock
at Bak eems Pawn. It was at-
rt, Earl ()martlli, Lord Preatdeat;

the -a, Lied Privy Seal; the Marquis of Lans-
downe ; Vieeoaat Pahainetea, Pint Lord of the Treasury ;
Sir Georg! Grey, Suntory of State for the Homa Deport-
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meat; the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Fo-
reign Affairs; Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of the Ad-'
&Inky ; the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, President of
the Board of Casual; Earl Speiser, Lord Steward ; the
Marquise( Broadtail., Lord Chaiaberlebs; aid the Duke
of Wellington, Master of the Hone.
The Right Hon. Dudley Earl of Hanowby and Hon. Ed.
ward Pleydell Boatels were by oftersaad of the Queen
sworn of her Majesty Most Hon. Privy Council, and took
their places at the Board accordingly.
Her Majesty is Council was pleased to appoint the Right
Has. E. P. Boone* Vial-President of the Committee of
Cesare for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade
gad Foreign Plantations.
Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting.
Bari Granville had an audience of the Queen, and re-
signed his seals of office as Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster.
The Earl of Harrowby had an audience of the Queen,
and was sworn in Chancellor of the Derby and County
Palatine of Lancaster. •Her Majesiy delivered to the noble
Earl the seals of the Duchy and County Palatine. Mr.
Frederick Dawes Danvers, Clerk of the Council to the
Duchy, assisted at the ceremony.
The Earl of Mutation, Viscount Palmerton, Sir George
Grey, and Sir Charles Wood had audiences of the Queen.
Her Majesty was attended by Lord Ernest Bruce, Vioe-
Chamberlain ; Viscount Drutulanrig, Comptroller of the
Household; Earl Somers, Lord-in-Waiting; and the Hon.
Mortimer &cheats West, Groom-in-Waiting.
Her lisjeaty and Prince Albert went to the Crystal Palace
at Sydenham en Saturday morning, accompanied by the
I Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of Leiningen, and at-
traded by the Dachas of Atholl, the Hon. Flora Mac-
donald, Major-General Barnette, and Captain Da Plat.
The Duchess of Lent visited the Queen at Buckingham
Fakes.
Her Mejeety had a dinner party in the evening at Buck-
ingham Palace. The company included the Duchess of
Kent and the Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Leiningen,
the Maharajah Durkee Sing, the Earl of Harrowby, Lady
Fanny Howard, Madame Triooupi, the Earl and Countess
St. Genoese, Earl and Lady Constance Orcavenor, the
Right Hon. Sidney end Mn. Herbert, Sir John Login, Col.
hidley (Soots Fusilier Guards), Major Oliphant (Chairman
of the East India Company), and the Gentleman in Waiting
da the Duke of Cambridge.
The bead of the 2nd Life Guards was in attendance in
the Palace, and performed during dinner.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince
et Wales, the Prime's Royal, Prince Alfred. the Princess
I Alice, and the Prince of Leiningen, attended Divine service
in the private chapel in Buthrogum Palace. The Hon.
and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Dneheas of Gloucester
as Saturday, at Gloucester House.
Prince Ernest of Leiningen arrived at Clarence House,
St. James's, yesterday, from Portsmouth, on a visit to the
Duchess of Kent.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers
present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of
Clarendon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
Charles Wood., the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, Sir
William Molesworth, and Viscount Canning. The
Council sat two hours.

A deputation from the Burial Boards of St. Marylebone,
St. Pancras, and Islington. had an interview with Flu Geo.
Grey on Saturday, at the Home-officio. The deputation
consisted of Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P. (Marylebone), Mr.
Alderman Challis, M.P. (Finsbury), the Bev. Thos. Dale
of St. Pancras (vicar), Messrs. John Flatter and Henry
Farrar (churchwardens of St. Pancras), Messrs. Robert
Farness and William Durant Cooper (St. Pancras Burial
Board), Mr. William Anderson (Islington Burial Board),
Mr. John Layton (clerk to the Burial Board, Islington),
Dr. Sayer, Messrs. J. H. Harlowe, and F. H. Bridgman and
Mr. W. E. Greenwell, clerk to the Burial Board (deputa-
tion from St. Marylebone).
A deputation, consisting Mr. Ponta?, Mr. Swansy, Mr.
Sewall, and Mr. Bliusksom, bad an interview with Sir Geo.
Grey on Saturday.
I Despatches were sent from the Colonial-oflice, on Satur-
day, to the Governors of the West India Islands.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston had a

assembly on Saturday night at the noble viscount's mansion
ea the Terrace, Piccadilly. Previously to the reception,
rthe noble Vimpount end Viscountess entertained at dinner
the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, his Emellency the Bari
of Carlisle, the Berl and countess of Shaftesbury, the
Countess of Flahault and Wile. Elphinstone De Nihau%
Viesoutess Rbrington, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Sir
Charles Wood, Ron. F. Slog, Mr. Orsville, and Mr.

Augustus Paget
The Earl and Counters of Clarendon had a dinner
party on Saturday at their mansion in Grosvenor-crescent.
There were present hie Excellency the Turkish Minister
and Madame Muslim, his Excellency the Portuguese
Minister, his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sir
William liolesworth, M.P., and Lady Molesworth, Sir
Cornwall Lewis and Lady Lewis and Miss Lister, the Right
lion. R. Vinton Smith, M.P., and Mrs. Smith, Right Hon.
Charles P. Villiers, M.P., M. Jules de Saar, and Mr.

Paritnie.
Lord and Lady Overstone entertained at dinner,
on Saturday, in Cariton.gardens, Sir Roderick Murchison,
Mr. Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, Mr. Hoare and Mrs.
Roan, Mr. Grote and Mrs. Grote, Mr. Booth and Mrs.
Booth, Mr. Ford and Mrs. Ford, Mr. Stratt and Mrs.

Strati, and Mr. niggles.
The Sheffield Cricket Club intend to put forth a
silver cup, of the value of 601., to be called the Cricketer'
County Champion Challenge Cep, for competition between
four of the recognised crioketiog counties ; the three ems- 1,
.tests to take place at Sheffield, in the months of June, July,
August, or September.
The Paris correspondent of the Indipendancs Bap,
whose letters under the signature of " 'Y " are supposed to
Mw a semi-official character, urges the appointment of
isms one general to the command-in-chief of all the military
operations of the Allies in the Crimea. He questions whe-
*sr history presents such a spectacle as is now seen there,
els., three armies and three chiefs (General Cansobert, Lord
Ea*" and Omer Paths), and shortly, with the Piedmon-
Isis esatingent, four armies and four chiefs, each lade-
rodent of the other.
Several of the English missionaries lately expelled
frees Poland for the circulation of the Holy Scriptures,
have arrived at Hamburg on their way home.
General Degenfeld, who is about to have the entire
control of military affairs in Austria, is ezpected to arrive
previously in London in the quality of military commissioner,
his mission being analogous to that of General Crenneville
at Paris. Some Continental journals, however, connect
the General's visit with the rumour of another Austrian
loan.
It is generally believed at Paris that General
Wedell hem taken with him to Berlin an autograph letter
from the Emperor of the French to King Frederick
William. M. treed= is mid to feel his position in London
to be very disagreeable, and to insist upon being allowed to
return.
Letters from St. Petersburg state that the Grand
Duke Constantine, whose energy in military affairs is pre-
, verbial, has left for Croastadt, in order te assure himself of
the exact means of defence possessed by that fortress. He
Meads to eontinue his inspection at all pieces situated
apes the coasts of the Gulf of Finland.
The Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael are about
te mars to the Crimea.
Letters from Russia speak of the impression pro-
duced upon the publie mind by the late fanatical madras'
of the " Holy Synod." One of the results has bees le
add—the government giving its full emisent—eleven priests
to each cohort of militia (1,080 men.) These priests will
carry at the bead of every company, and by way of a
standard, the double cross of the Eastern church.
The bulk of the Baltic Fleet will sail from Spithead
to-morrow at two o'clock.
Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry to her Majesty, has
, been selected by the Queen to be Lord in Waiting to the
Emperor of the French during his visit to England. The
Marchioness of Ely has been selected by the Queen to be
Lady in Welting to the Empress.
The late Right Hon. James Grattan bequeathed
the nun of 8,8001. to be divided mew some of the most
deserving medical charities in Ireland.
The following entry appeared in one of the recent
returns made by the Visas* polies spats to their esperien •
"Lord John Russell has walked arra-in-arm at the sleek
with Prime Gortchakeff."
The Archduchess Mary Dorothy, widow of the
Prism Palatine Joseph, and mother of the Dalian et
!latest, died lust week at Buda, is Surgery, egad 61.