The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-29 00:00:00

got court.

WINDSOR, Nor. v.
Her Majesty held a Privy Council at 3 o'clock this
afternoon at the Castle. It wee attended by Prince Albert,
the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy
Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the lim.retatiee et State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Deparreagat.
the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Premdent •lie Beta
of Trade, the Postmaster-General, the Chief Commission*
of Works and l'ublic Buildings, the Lord Steward, and the
Muter of the Horse. The lion. William Bathoo.t was the
Clerk of the Conned ie Waiting.
The Queen held a court.
The Duke of Hamilton bad an audience of I r Mai*,
and delivered to the Queen the ensigns of the Moo Noble • Order of the Garter worn by his father, the tat baked
• Hamilton and Brandon.
The Earl of Westmoreland had an audience oi t!.. Qum
Ilia lordship was introduced by the Earl of 111...ensbury,
Secretary of State fur Foreign Affairs.
Her /deject, gave audience to the Earl of LciLy Aed NFL
Secretary Walpole.
The Queen was attended by Viscount N.O
Chamberlain ; Earl Talbot, Lord in Waiting ; Mr.
Ormsby Gore. Groom in Waning.
The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, I Kid
Lonsdale, the Marquis of Salisbury, the. link. • lontoire • the Earl of Jersej, the Duke of lismilt ~,,, • gmi •
Westmoreland, J. Secretary 'Walpole, Sir Jo
too, thr Earl of Malmeshury, the Earl of li ...ake, the
Bight lion. J. W. lienley, Lord John Mann. r,. Vivionat
Newport, and the lion. W. Bathurst, travelled 1,.,n, Lou-
don to attend the court by a special traiu ou 71, ur,..,t
Western Railway. The whole of the nottlem. n gentle,
men returned to London in the same meow I 4lter the
council broke up, eaeept the Earl of Weattnto• Who
remains on a visit to the Queen.
The following had the honour of dining with le r Najoty
yesterday :—The Duchess of Keot, the Due de t. . ,ant and
the Comte de Flandres, the Prince of L Ise
Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Duke of N ..umber.
land, Monsieur and Madame Van de Weyer, t !Ad).
Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, Viscount 1111,1
Mandeville, Colonel the lion. Charles awl !tl!. fifty,
Colonerdc Moerkerke, the Count de Briny, and r Robtli
Carswell.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attended '.. tie Castle
and played during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards pla)'
fol-
lowing selec,ion :
Urertury .‘ Oberon"
Andante ails Maros. Antigone"
Entr'acte, chatur, and mane te Le Prdpbete"
The Duke of Northumberland, Monsieur and 'dadaists
Van de Weyer, and Lord and Lady Mandeville, it Windsor
Castle today for London.
The following had the honour of dining er Ma,
jetty this day :—The Duchess of Kent, the de Bra-
bant and the Comte de Flandres the l'rinoe .•
the Princeas Adelaide of flohenlohe, the Lad)
to the Duchess of Kent, the Earl of Westmorei . Colonel
the lion. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Colonel de rkerke,
and the Count de limy.

N, v. fle.
The Queen and Prince, the l'rinee of Wa'e., Primes
Royal and Princess Alice, the Duchess of K, Prim
of Leiningen, and the ss ,Prince Adelaide of II .icelehes
with the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and 1.. domes-
tic household, attended divine service, au. in the
private chapel of the Castle. '1 he Earl of W. •.isioreLsed
was also at the service. The lion. and Rev. tf. v.-clink/
officiated'

The ptitate chapel at Windsor Castle, which u rued
last week for the first time since the ulteratioi... las bull
decorated and considerably enlarged, Irons u. •,;V fur-
nished by Mr. John Thomas.

A deputat7on in support of a grant of a roy .1 • -later of
incorporation to the London, Liverpool, and Norio Ameri-
can Screw Steamship Company, hod an iirer,lew, ou
Saturday, with the ltight Hon. J. W. Henley ~nd Lord
Colchester, at the Board of Trade. The &T0...i0n con-
sisted of Mr. John Masterman, M.P., Mr. Bolt,
M.P., Sir Herbert Maddock, M.P., Alderman Thomp.
son, M.P., Mr. John Vance, M.P. ; Mr. 1110. J. His%
51. P., Mr. NVyndham Goold, M.P., Mr. Vine-lit Scully,
M.P., Mr. William Hutt, ;M.P., Mr. D. W —Began,
M.P., Mr. E. B. Roche, M.P., Mr. Wild.ou Fagan,
M.P., Mr. Robert Carter, M.l'., Mr. J. Fran, Magvim
141 P., Mr. J. W. Russell, NI I'., Mr. J. Mac,cree r, M.P.,
the Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., Sir John I.S. V Buller.
Mr. Richard Id. Fos, M.l'., Mr. Thu.. A. Andel!,
M.P., Sir John M. F. South, M.P., General Si, Gann
Berkeley, M.l'., Mr. John U. Heard, M.P., Mr. W. a.
Gore Langton, M.P. Mr. Thomas U. Brooking, Robert
Gillespie, Mr. W. Hutton Chaytor, Mr. Robert Cater,
Colonel Wooldridge, Mr. Henry J. Prinsep, Mr. Robert
Gillespie, juur., and Mr. Robert Lamont with :•lr. Salad
J. Waleson (Solicitor), and Mr. James Nelson `s, eatery).
The Earl and Countess of Derby gave a grout diming.
Saturday at the Official residence of the holm. earl is
Downing-street, to tho representatives of Fri ore Sea-
', reigns and armies deputed to attend the lanced n 1 the late
Dula of Wellington, viz: from Portugal—M.4.4.d Due de
Terceira, and the Duchesse, and General Genii. de Villa
Real. From Spain, Genital Due d'Oeuna. FrOrtsl Ruses,
General Prince Gortehakoff and General Comte di
llerkendorff. From Prussia, General Comte de Sundt,
General de Miaow, and General de Scharnhorg. From
the Netherlands, Lieut.-General Baron Von Omphal. From
Ilanover, Gen. Sir Hugh lialkett,Col. Poten,l4,lC tl. Bina
de Mahrenolz, and from Brunswick Major.G.ueral de
Ehriebeen. The following were invited to meet the distils-
guished officers:—The French Am ansvador and the Cum-
teen Walewski, the Prussian Minister aced Madame
Bunsen, the Austrian Minister and the Comtes.e de Collo.
redo, the Portuguese Minister and the Comte.* Livradio,
the Russian Minister, Baron Bruunow ; the Speni-h Minis-
ter, M. Isturia ; the Netherlands Minister, Baton Bur
titack ; Viscount and Viscountess Mandeville, the Earl and
Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, the Esti
of Malmesbury, Viscount and Viscountess ILir.iinge and
Lord Stanley.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-efli,..• on Satur-
day from the Governor of Victoria.
The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's most Hon.
Privy Council sat on Saturday in the Council Chamber.
The Lords present wore Lord Truro, Lord Croeseith. the
Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Plea, Vice-
Chancellor Turner, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir
J. Pattesoo, and Sir Edward Ryan. The re-I,,,irine etas
appeal from Bombay, .• Her Highness Ituckuisuboy e.
Lolloobboy Motteechund," was resumed.

THE PALNIE.RSTON PERVERTS,
Ilrocklehurst, John Milner, M.
Freeman, Col. Hunts, G. F.
Ferguson, Sir Robert Harcourt, G.
Heaeage, O. H. W. Pinney, W.
Heatheote, Sir G. Murataid, C.C.
Lemon, Sir C. Palmerston, Lord
Mackie, John

DEATH or Miss BERRY.—It would hare been
strange if Mies Berry, with all her love sad adituratioa
Horace Walpole, had escaped the fate of bi ins an as-
thma :—an authoress else wu,—though one of little note,
and not likely to be heard of as such her, atter. list
writings, of a very scattered and unimportant character,
were collected by herself, in 1844, into two octavo volumes,
entitled miscellaneously enough, " England and Frame; II
Comparative View of the Social Condition of both cow
tries, from the Restoration of Charles the &coed to the
pima Time; to which are now first added Remarks tra
Lord Orford's Letters—the Life of the Marquise ilu Based
—the Life of Bashael, Lady Russell ; and • laabioasble
Friends,' a Comedy." In these " Miscellanies" (for by that
name should they have been called) are to be timid
many keen and correct remarks on society, and oa
men and manners—with here sad there a dash of old read-
ing, and every now and than a valuable observation or two
en the fashion and minute details of the sge in which
Walpole lived. They will wile away an hour agreeably
enough, but will certainly not maintain a literary reputa-
tion. Mile Berry's last Literary undertaking was a vindica-
tion of Walpole Irons the sarcastic and not always cornet,
character of him drawn by Mr. idiscaulay in en article M
the Edinburgh Review,. The lady shows her Mu-points
well, but she is no match for the dexterous writer of
the Edinburgh, and her defence has little to Ti.
commend it beyond the motive which andueed her
to undertake it. Of far greater malice to ih'slpole
and to literature was the publication in 1810, for the
first time, of the sixty letters which Waleole hail ad-
dressed to herself and her sister. la his late
years Walpole makes no better appearance than he
does in his letters to Mary and Agnes. lie seems to
have forgotten the goat and Chatterion, Dr. Rime
and the Society of Antiquaries—and to have written like an
old man no longer sound by the world, but altogether in
love with what was good. Miss Berry was in Ler ninetieth
year when she died, and survived her younger sister about
eighteen months. She is said to have telt her rider's lose
severely. For a time ahe was observed "To muse and take
her solitary tea :" but she rallied, and continued to
cultivate the living society of our times,—as well as tbst
vanished society which she was as it were the last to
enjoy, and which hos transmitted in flesh and blood to
our own times—the society of Walpole and his hien& 01
Strawberry HiU.—Artiensruat.—[Mir Berry died on the
20th alt.]
HOERR'S LETTERS 'TO GEORGE THOUSON.—ThiIi
very interesting series of letters which Burns addressed to
the late George 'fboneson was sold on Wednesday by Mr.
Nisbet, at the close of the sale of the library of the at. Mr.
C. B. Tait. The volume was put up at two hundred
guineas, and, after a keen competition. was knocked down
for two hundred and silty guineas. The purcha-er is an
English nobleman, whose name has not yet transpired; but
we are able to communicate what our readers, was are as-
sured, will rejoice to learn, that there is every probability
the volume will remain in Scotland.— EdinhureA Courant.
lin. ARNOLD ON TORTIMIE.—" One already sees
what hard blows the oorrapt and low tory party will riot
only stand, but require, and that the le.tr of depressing
them too much is chimerical."—Life and Corropowitila,
VOL 1, p. 116.
ROYAL COLLEGE OP SUROFONR.—The following
gentlemen were admitted members of the college, at the
• meeting of the court of examiners, on the 20th inst.
Meson. John Ross Diamond, London ; Charles Fluder,
Lymington, Hants; Thomas Frederick Singer, Alfriston,
Ruses ; Philip Charles Hayman, Axminster, Devon;
Richard Sevin Hanbuty, Misfield, Yorkshire; Elise Jones
Roberts, Bangor,Carnarvonshire; Edmund Shaw, Thatehem,
Berkshire; York James Moore, Mountstreet, titisvenor-
square ; ad David Johnson, Peterborough, Norther:iv:olP
saints