The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-14 00:00:00

Vie Court.

WINDSOR, hs. 13.
There was no addition to the royal dinner table
yesterday.
The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance at
the Castle during dinner, and played the following pieces:
ovrture, "All 'Nibs" Chsrubinl.
Vaaaaia from "11,barto Demme" Dioisetti.
Marb de la Caneans du Desert
Ails et r boar des Dame., has the "Ileguenota"
Wats, "dt)rer,lodlrr•'
Galen, "Janke" labitzky.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and per-
formed the following selection :
mixture, "IA Dayadere"
Quictetto, ahrwro, lars belt°, orinuetto. sod trio,
these, see irerlasiosse—dawns*, two violins, viola,
sod violoncello —Moan. Wilb.ons, bourbon, Costae,
Hill, and Chipp Mozart.
Doke
,eleetices. " Masenklio"
The Duchess of Kent visited hit Majesty last evening.
The Queen and Prince rode in the Hiding Howie this
morning.
The royal children did not take their usual exercise,
owing to tao unfavourable state of the weather.

Tho Oxford University Commission hod a meeting yes-
terday at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street. Present—the Bishop of
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke,
the Hey. G. H. S. Johnson, and the Hey. A. I'. Stanley
(weretary).
Mr. Co • -General Miller had an interview with
Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-offlee.
Mr. Grenville Berkeley'T had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
The Postmaster-General had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official rcsi-
dence in Deeming-street.

Despatches were received at the Colonial•office yesterday
from the Governor of 13t. Helena.

The Cabinet Council to-day is to be held at two
o'clock—that on Thursday at 12.
Wo are enabled to announce that a Lieutenant-
Governor is about to be appointed to, the Cape of Good
(lope, to conduct the civil business of the colony during
absence of the Governor at the seat of war.—Ulobc.— his
seems to be following out the suggestion given in the ay
News on Monday last.]
There is no foundation for the statement of a
morning contemporary, that a committee has been appointed
by the government, and are now sitting at the Custom-
house, on the management of Customs. The statement
that Sir Thomas Fremantle, chairman of the Board of Cus-
toms, is about to be replaced by another chief commissioner,
is equally unfounded. The Customs reforms, to the accom-
plishment of which the attention of the imaginary com-
mittee is announced to be sp.cially directed, were effected
more than a year ago, at the instance of Sir Thomas Fre-
mantle, Sir Alexander Spearman, and Mr. Hater.—Glebe.
With respect to an announcement by tho Herald,
that the address in reply to the speech from the throne will
be seconded by Sir Richard W. Bulkeley, we may my, that
the mover and seconder have not yet been fixed upon.
The probability is that Bir IL W. Bulkeley will be the
mover.thobe.

Lord J. Ru~eell is to arrive in town to-day for the
110111011.

(Pro. kat Kleine Gaone.)

FOREION-OFFICY. JAN. 10.—Tbe Queen Imo been
graekmay Owed to t the Kim. kielard Bingham,
now Smooma ea Ye 'a Legation St Turin, to be
Beerotary to bee at Lisbon ; also to &p-
-peful the Hon. Ed Morris Ersklme, now Paid Attache
to her blajosty's Legation at Brunk, to be Secretary to
her Majesty's Legation at Turin.
CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. Dl—Member returned to
serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Lis-
burn : Sir James Emerson Torment, Knt. in tho room of
Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour, K.C.11., deoesubed.

DANGEROUS STATE OT PARLIAMENT-STREET AND
New PALACII•YARD.—Yesterday and the day before the
great thoroughfare from Whitehall along Parliament-
street, and across New Palace-yard, was in a condition to
reflect the greatestdistreee on the parties responsible fur its
maintenance. Immediately in front of the Duke of Buc-
eleuch's grounds, in Whitehall, there was an accumulation
of mud and water extending across the carriage way to
near the pavement in front of the Board of Trade and the
Privy Council-offiee. As the omnibuses, cabs, coaches,
carts, &c., drove through this slough, the foot passenger
was besmeared with mud and dirty water, and desperate
indeed must hare been his courage if, looking down upon
the prospect before him in Parliament-street, he deter-
mined to advance on his journey to Westminster Hall. On
ono side of Parliament-street, innumerable vehicles were
embedded in macadamised metal, while on the other side of
the street conveyances were axle deep in ponds of thick
water.

INFANTRY FIRING.—The following short para-
graph on this subject may be acceptaSlo. I found it among
a small collection of newspaper cuttings ; but I cannot give
either the name or the date of the paper from which it was
taken Meager BALLS —Marshal Saxe computed that
in • battle arty one ball of eighty.five takes effect. Others,
that only ono in forty strikes, and no more than one in 400
is fatal. At the battle of Tourney, in Flanders, fought OR
the 22nd of May, 1794, it is calculated that two hundred
and thirty-six musket glint were expended in disabling each
soldier who suffered."—From Notes and Queries.
MURDER IN SllADWELl..—Yeeterday Mr.
Baker held an inquest at the London Hospital on the body
of Almon, whose murder in a low houao at Sliadwell we
reported when the case came before the Thames Police
Court. Thu evidence failed to throw any new light on the
I ease, while it clearly confirmed the guilt of the prisoner
Berdugo. l'he inquest was adiourned.
TDE LATE Otll:M.—Ncarly tho whole range of
English coast was on Friday and Saturday la-t visited with
a tremendous South-westerly gale, spreading destruction
before it to en incalculable extent. It continued to rage
until late on the following (lay, and was accompanied with
a great fall of snow. A long list of fearful disasters re•
salting from the wiud has been received.