The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-18 00:00:00

Int Court.

WINDSOR, lAN. 17.
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The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess
of Heat, the French Ambassador and the Countess
Worth!, the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Cardigan.
the Earl and Cockatoo of Beasborough, Viscount and Vii-
eountess Sydney, Lady Fanny Howard, and the Hon.
Mary Seymour.
The Band of the Royal Backs Militia played during
dinner, and her Majesty's Private Band afterwards.
The (aeons sad Prince. with the Princess Helena, walked
in the Code Garden. and Slopes this rooming.

The Freseh Ambassador ;ad Counter *siewski, the I
Duke of Normal*, the Bart and Countess of B.ssborougb,
and Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, took their de-
I peruse to-day.
Viscount Harding' ku been invited, and is imputed this
afternoon.

The Ditchers of Wellington hu succeeded the Viseoustese
Canning as the Ladyin•Waitiog to her Majesty.
Lord RIM'S and Mr. Ormsby Gore bare succeeded Lord
Byron and General Biz C. Boweter, la Lord and Groom in
Waiting.

Count Walewski, the French Ambassador, returned to
London yesterday from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor
Cutln, and is the afternoon pail a visit to the Earl of
Clarendon, at the Foreign-dike, Downing-street.
The Duke of Newcastle returned to town yesterday from
Windsor Castle.

The American Minister transacted business yesterday, at
the Foreign-secs, Downing street.

INSTITUTION OP CIVIL IiNGINEERS.—The paper to
be read on Tuesday, January 23, is "The ika Embank-
ments in Morecambe Bay—Ulverstone and Laneuhise Rail-
way," by Mr. J. Brunie's, M. last. C.B.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

The Colonelcy of a Battalion of the Rifle Brigade
has become vacant by the death of General Sir
Andrew Barnard, 0.C.13., and G.C.H. The gallant
colonel was also Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea
Hospital, where he expired yesterday morning. Sir
Andrew Barnard was one of the most gallant soldiers
is the British army, and a noble personification of
"an officer and a gentleman."
We announced some months afro (and were imme-
diately contradicted by a soi-duant "leading jour-
nal") that Lord Raglan had power to send to India
for the 10th Royal Hussars. He has done so, and
the regiment, numbering 650 sabre', is now on its
way to Turkey.

ADMIRALTY, JAN. 17.—APPOINTIIINTL--Master
H. Harper (1843) to the Coast Guard.
Paymasters W. H. Turner (1862) to the Melampos, 42, at
Sheerness; and W. Roraima's, to the Desperate, 8, screw
steam sloop, of 400 bons power, at Sheerness.

Midshipman W. W. Howell, of the Arrogant, 47, screw
steam frigate, of 360 horse-power, at Portsmouth, is sp.
pointed to the Nankin, 60, at Chatham.
Clerks Assistant J. G. Franklyn to the Hogue, 60,
screw steam guard•ship of 450 horsepower, at PortsmoutL.

Tenders will be received by the Admiralty to-

morrow (Friday), for the hire of steamen of from 400 to
600 tens (n.m.) each, for the conveyance of stores tl the
Crimea, calling at Constantinople.

In consequence of the absence of proper persons at
Nihilism& to warehouse the vast quantity of goods lying at

the above port, a communication has been forwarded from
the War-offlos to the directors of the London and St.
Katharine Dock Companies, requesting them to provide •
number of men who are to be despatched to the Crimea,
and who are to be engaged in unloading the vessel' upon
their arrival, and in placing the various articles in store.
irouns that will be provided for that purpose. About 400
men will be required, the wages will be 245. • week, with
rations for the labourer., and 21., with rations, a week, for
the foremen, and the men will be under an engagement for
two years. A large number of men have offered their ser-
vices, and above 100 have been approved of. Some of them
will be conveyed immediately in the vessels that are bound
for the Crimea, and the whole of them will as fast as pos.
Bible be shipped to that destination, as their services are
most urgently required.

r, JAN. 17.

The ship Coriolanns left this morning with a
large number of wooden houses for the French troops in
the Crimea. She was towed by the Enniskillen steamer.
The royal mail steamers Avon and Severn, the former just
returned from the Black Sea and the latter from Brasil,
have been taken up by the government. The Avon will be
ready in about a fortnight, and the Severn almost immedi-
ately. Each of these paddle-wheel steamers will take out
about eleven hundred troops. The Peninsular and Oriental
Company's screw-steamer, Candies, just returned from the
Black Sea, and now in London river repairing, has been
taken up by the government, and will be ready for sea in
about a fortnight. The Candia is a first-class troop steamer.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's new steamer,
Alma, 2,200 tons burthen, now completing at Liverpool,
will ha ready for see in a fortnight, and will probably be
chartered by government for war purposes. The housing
for 376 ►orses on beard ll.M.'s gigantic steamer, films-
lays, now in Southampton Docks, has been ordered to be
taken down and mole substantial stabling erected. This
shows that the Himalaya is to be permanently employed in
conveying cavalry to the seat of war. Up to the present time
490 wooden huts have been sent from Southampton
to the Crimea for the English troops there. Everything
complete lea be.. sent out with tbeee bousee—felt for
covering them, nails to put them together, stoves with fun-
nels, windows, with glass to repair the windows when
broken, doors, and pegs to be placed round the huts for the
soldiers to bang their kit upon. These 490 huts will be
sufficient to house nearly 16,000 soldiers. 348 of these huts,
suMeient to house nearly 1,100 soldiers, must have reached
the Crimea before this time, even allowing a screw steamer
three weeks to get there, as the last of live mew steamers,
with 348 huts on board, left Southampton on the 11th
December. The Cronus, now in Soaththoptos Docks re-
pairing, in order to go to Portsmouth to take in 1,000 troops
foe the Crimes, will not be ready until the 31st inst., as the
Messrs. Mare's, who are engaged for the repairs of the
Crams, are busy in making gun-bats for the government

Jai. 17,

The Avon, steam tender, Muter A. I. Veitcb, left
yesterday with seamen for ships at the eastern porta, and
Marines for Portsmouth. The Anthem, 60, Captain
'I
was paid off on Monday, and her mew granted
60 days' leave, at the expiry of which they are at liberty tq
join the lag-ships at any of the ports. The Nile, 91, Capt•
Mundy, wee paid ass Monday. Many of the bMe jackets
were reluctant to receive Beak of England notes, and could
with digit:city be brought to believe that a 61. note was
equal to 6 sovereigns. Many of the men of this ship were
from the northern counties. Tits Corm, 91, Capt. Robb,
sate sallies orders at this port. The Cossack, 20, Capt.
Fanshawe, is under orders to sail for Scotland, with prod.
elms for the ships en that coast ; her newly-raised men
were paid advance of wages yesterday. The Prussian man-
of-war Thetis, lately exchanged for the gun-boats Sala.
mender and Recruit by the Admiralty, is still here. The
Calcutta, 84, Capt. Btopford, is ready for sea, in stores.
provisions, dte., bat requires 160 men to complete her crew.