The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1852

Otho concluded a convention with the Patriarch
acknowledging a modified authorit7 on his part, and
in a corresponding degree diminishing the indepen-
deuce of the national church. It is against this
arrangement that the Monk Christophoros has taken
the field, from which the government finds it so diffi-
cult to drive him.

Zbe Court.

The Duke sod Duchess de Nemours visited the
Queen yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Their Royal
Ilighnemes also paid a visit to the Duchess of Kent, at her
residence, Clarence House, St. James's.
Prince Albert toile out on horseback yesterday morning,
attended by Colonel Bouvitrie.
Prince Albert presided yi aterday afternoon at a meeting
of the Ros id Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Ilia
Royal Highness arrived at the Palace of Weattninater at 3
o'clock, attended by Colonel Bouverie,Egueryy in Waiting.
The other commissioners regent were the Duke of Hue-
cleuch, the Earl of Roue, Earl Granville, Lord John Rus-
sell, M.P.' the Right lion. W. E. Cilailatune, M.P., Sir
Jani-s W. nogg, Sir Alexander Brarman, Sir %V. Cubitt,
Sir C. 1,. Es'ilnke, Sir R. Westmactitt, Mr. Bagley, Mr. J.
Don, Mr. John Shepherd, and Mr. Charles \V. Billie. Mr.
Edgar Bowring, secretary to the Royal Commission,
attended. The meeting bro.ie up at 20 minutes past four
o'clock. Before the meeting of the Royal Commission the
Finance Committee met in the Police of IVe•dminster, at •
irter post two o'clock. The members of the Committee
present were Bort Grenville, the Right lion. Win. E. Glad-
stone, Sir Alexander Spearman, Sir William (Mat, and
Mr. Edgar Boating (Scereeiry). Captain Owen attended
the meeting of the Committee.
The Quern and Prince Albert, areenveniell by the
Prince of Wales and the PI ille(114 Helena, took a drive
in an open carriage and four yesterday alterroon. Major-
General Buckley and Colonel Bouverie attended on horse-
back.

lho Princes Royal and the Princess Alice took a car•
riatre drive yesterday morning.
the Duchess of C. 11111,644: visited the Duchess of Kent
yesterday, at her residence, Clarence House, St. hunts's.

The Earl of Shaftesbury had an interview with Mr.
St ry Walpole yesterday at the Home-office.
Sir Alexander Spearman had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of tl:e Exch. quo' yesterday, at his official residence iu
Downing-street.
Mr. Forster, M.P., had an interview with Sir John Pa-
kington yesterday at thu Colonial-office.

(From lon night.e (;metle.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 28.—the Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. Hugh Cranford Smith u Consul
at Liverpool for the Argentine Confederation.
WHITEHALL, Jvsr. 28.—The Queen has been
pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great
Seal, granting the dignity of a baronet of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Joseph Bailey,
of °Musk Park, in the county of Brecon, Esq., and to
the heirs male of his body lawfully, begotten.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 28.—The Queen has been
pleased to direct letters patent to he passed under the Great
Seal, granting unto Lieutenant-General Sir George Henry
Frederick Berkeley, K.C.8., the office of Master Surveyor
and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

PRINCE OP WALES' COUNCIL CHAMBER, SOMER.
sty Housz, JUNE 25.—Edword Smirke, Esti , barrister.
at law, ha• becu appointed Atto'neyOcneral of his ltoyal
Highness the Prince of Wales, in the room of the lion.
John Chetwynd Talbot, deceased.
CO3IMISSION9 SIGNED BY TILE LORD LIEUTE-
NANT OF THE TOWER. IlauLars.—Cileorge Henry Money,
gentletwin; Charles Bruce, gentleman ; and St. Pierre
Rutter Hook. gentleman; to be lieutenants in the Queen's
Own Regiment of Tower Hamlets Militia.

THE PROROGATION or PARLIANIENT.—Tho fol-
lowing notice appears in last night's Gazette Palace of
Westminster, Lord Great Chatuberiniu's Office, June 28,
1842. All pecreeaes, on announcing their intention of being
NI sent on the ace ision of the prorogation of Parliament,
will have places reserved for them in the House of Lords, if
theannouneenwnt be made, at this office before five o'clock

on Wednesday, the 30th instant. No Person can be ad•
mated, except those entitled to he present, without a ticket
hum the Lord Great ChAmberlain's Office. The doors will
be °puled at 12 o'clock.—WlLLoyo u DE EKESBY, U.C."

THE ROYAL FAMILY AND THE CRYSTAL

PALACE.

TO THE EDITOR OP THEEXPIIESN.

Stn,—ltnpiteartri&tt -Mr.linl;l[lW decidedly
wrong in i•aying the aristocracy wiil not journey front the
west end to the south east to visit the Crystal Palace when
it is rt-erectcd. . _ .

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I prnume that we may class her Majesty, Prince Albert,
the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal as a portion of
the aristocracy, and true it is thou royal personages did on
Saturday evening last go and see the site where the Crystal
Palace is to be re-erected.

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At 20 minutes to 7 o'clock on Saturday evening last her
Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the
Prince's Royal, unaccompanied by any attendants, in an
open carriage and four and outriders, passed me a few
yards from the spot where the Crystal Palace is to be.
When they got to the cross-roads they seemed not to know
which way to go, nor did they seem to know which was the
site where the Crystal Palace is going to be placed. I was
' just going to turn back and speak to them (they seemed to
wish some one might come up to show them the way to go,
and to show them the spot), when a labouring man came
by, and ho want and spoke to them, and showed them the
spot and the way for them to go. They seemed plessed,
and so went through Dulwich to London. I did not sec
this circumstance mentiot.ed in the papers of this slay, and
the.. is the reason I have troubled you with the
I am, yours obediently,
385, Ozford-strect, June 28. P. OARBANATI.
P.S.—When the carriage passed by me (just by Mr.
Aubin's eatablishment at Norwood), I was the onli,person
in the road at the time.