The Press.
London, England, 1857-09-05 00:00:00

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Her Majesty the Queen and Royal Family left
Edinburgh last Saturday, and continued their journey
to Balmoral, where her Majesty arrived safely that
evening.
During the week the Royal Family have been
visited by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

The principal Ministers have left town to enjoy a
little relaxation. Lord Palmerston is at Brockett-
hail. Lord Panmure is at his shooting-box at Inver-
mark. The Marquis of Lansdowne is at Bowood en
route to Ireland. Lord Granville has gone to the
seaside, and the Earl of Clarendon is at Balmoral.
Earl,Fitzhardinge is now lying without hope of
recovery. Admiral Sir M. Berkeley is in attendence
o.i his dying brother, at his urgent request. At
present a great part of the business of the Admiralty
is transacted at B. rkeley Castle.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby have
a rived in town from Florence, the noble marquis
b ring en conga for a few months.
Lord Brougham is about to visit Manchester.
The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury are staying
at his lordship's shooting-boa at Acbnacarry, in the

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Highlands. .
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs.
Gladstone, have left Hagley-hall, for Sir Stephen
Glynne's seat, Hawarden Castle, Flintshire.

Volittr 11.

A CABINET COUNCIL was held on Saturday, at which
all the Ministers, with the exception of the Earl of
Clarendon and Mr. Baines, attended. At the break-
ing up of the council Lord Palmerston visited the
War-office and the Horse Guards. A Cabinet Council
was again held on Monday at the official residence
of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street.
The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston,
Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, Lord Panmure, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Vernon
Smith, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines.

THE RIGHT HON. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY is
to be one of the new peers, by the title of Baron
Macaulay. Lord Robert Grosvenor wia take the
title of Baron E bury, which is the name of one of the
oldest manors in his family.
MR. ARCHIBALD JOHN STEPHENS is appointed
Recorder of Winchester in the room of Mr. G. A.
Arney. Mr. Henry George Allen is appointed
Recorder of Andover in the room of Mr. Stephens.
CONVOCATION was formally prorogued last week by
the Vicar-General, under commission, unto October
the 9th.

LORD HOWDEN AND LORD BLONFIELD left Dover
last week on their return respectively to their posts
at Madrid and Berlin.

THE REV. HENRY DitunY, M.A., prebendary of
Salisbury, and vicar of Bremhill, near Chippenbam,
will be the new chaplain to the House of Commons,
in the room of the Rev. Thomas Gamier, 8.C.L.,
rector of Trinity Church, Marylebone, who has held
the appointment nine years. An announcement
which has appeared in some of the papers that Mr.
Gamier had resigned is not strictly correct, the fact
being that the Speaker intends exercising the pri-
vilege which has been enjoyed by his predecessors
on their elevation to the chair—that of personally
appointing the chaplain to the house prior to the
commencement of the next session of Parliament.
Mr. Drury was appointed to his prebendal stall arid
to the vicarage of Bremhill by the late Bishop of
Salisbury the Speaker's brother.

THE SUCCESSFUL RETURN Of Mr. Fellowes and Mr.
James Rust for the county of Huntingdon was cele-
bi sited yesterday by a fete and banquet in the grounds
attached to the Fountain Hotel at Huntingdon.
THE AMOUNT granted for Ordnance Services for
the year 1835 56 was 9,990,1651., and the total
expenditure was 11,993,7841., leaving a deficit of
2,003,619/.
A RETURN has been issued by the Board of Trade
of the declared values of British and Irish produce
and manufactures exported from the United King-
dom during the first half of the present year. Thirty
per cent. of our aggregate shipments go to our own
possessions, and nineteen per cent. to the United
States. Thus for this year the exportations have
been at the rate of 121,652,7621. per annum.
A TREATY WITH HoNnunAs of trade and navigation
between her Majesty and the Republic of Honduras,
signed on the 27th of August, 1856, has just been
printed. It is to endure seven years from the date
of the ratification. The most important article is an