The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-10 00:00:00

VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO WOOLWICH.

The Queen and Prince Albert went to Woolwich
yesterday morning, to inspect the troops quartered there,
and also the artillerymen wounded and disabled in the
Crimea.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness left Buckingham
Palace at halt-past to o'clock, accompanied by the Princess
Royal and the Princess Alice, and attended by the Vis-
countess Canning, the Hon. Mary Bulteel, Major-General
Bouverie, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Captain Du
Plat.

The royal party occupied three carriages, and was escorted
by Carbineers.
A guard of honour was on duty at Woolwich, and re-
ceived her Majesty with the usual honour'.
Sir Hew Hoes, Lieutenant• General of the Ordnance,
and Major-General Whinyates, commanding the garrison,
received the Queen and Prince, and attended them to the
Common, where • troop of Horse Artillery and a battery of
Foot Artillery marched put, and were inspected by her
Majesty.
The Queen and Prince visited the hospital, and inspected
the wounded men and invalids from the Crimea quartered
them, and received • report from the medical officers in
charge, which was presented to her Majesty.
Her Majesty afterwards proceeded to the Arsenal and
Laboratory, through which she was conducted by the heads
of the different departments. The Queen and Prince made
a minute inspection of the Ambulance waggons, the new
means of transporting wounded men, and the various works
of the Arsenal, and then returned to Buckingham Palace,
where they arrived at a quarter after 2 o'clock.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert h d the Lyceum
Theatre with their presence in the evening. The royal
suite consisted of the Viscountess Canning, t►e Hon. Lucy
Kerr, Earl Somers, Major-General Bouverie, and Captain
Du Plat.

A deputation had an interview yesterday with Sir Ben-
jamin Hall, President of the General Board of Health, on
the subject of the gas companies en the southern side of
the Thames. The deputation consisted of Mean. Archer,
Gregory, Harris, Rem, Lock, Hendoock, John Harris,
Browne, and Love.
Mr. John Wood and Mr. Timm had ea interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at hie official resi-
dence in Downing-street.

Sir Robert Peel has accepted the office of a Lord
of the Admiralty, vacant by the appeintatent of the Hon.
W. Cowper to the Under-Secretaryship for the Home De-
partment. The Right Ron. Vernon Smith has appointed
Mr. Fitzpatrick Vernon his private secretary.—Globe.
Letters have been received from Molina, stating
that Sir John M.N•ill, 0 C. 8., and Col. Tulle& btu
arrived at that place on theist inst. by the Thames steamer,
on their minion to the Crimea. It was ezpeeted that trey
would reach Constantinople by the dth inst.
T. C. Brown, Esq., inspector-general of Customs at
Liverpool, has been promoted to tits surveyor-zeneralship
of Customs at the port of Loudon.—W. Lee, Ban., senior
landing surveyor at the port of Liverpool, hasbeen pro.
meted to the aloe of inspector-general of that port.—Globe.
Doves, MARCH 9.—Him Serene Highness the
Prince of Leiningen arrived here this afternoon, by the
South Suborn Company's packet the Queen of the French,
IRA was received on landing by Colonel Streatileld, R.E.,
Captain Herrick, R.N., and the Hon. Colonel Talbot, who
accompanied his Serene Highness to Birmingham's Royal
Skip Hotel. After dining, his Serene Highnwis left by
Impress train at 7.30 for Windsor.

Her Majesty is expected at Portsmouth en route to
(Morns on Thursday, and, it is supposed, will inspsct the
Baltic feet prior to its sailing from Bpithead.

Lord Carlisle has resigned the Presidency of the
Royal Society of Literature, on going to Inland as Lord
Lieutenant.

Professor Owen haying had submitted to him a
earefally executed drawing of one of the more perfect im•
pressicats left in the snow at Lascombe, North Devon on or
about the Bth ult., decides it to be n the hind foot of a
badger." The supentitione Devonian' bad already given
the track the name of the " Devil's Walk !"

Among the deaths of the week has been that of
the distinguished water-colour painter, Mr. Copley Field-
ing. He wee in hie sizty-ninth year.

The Atheneum mays that apooimana of art, both
from tits Vernon Garry and the new homes of parliament,
will be mat to the Park Exhibition.

Madams Grim and SIVQr Mario have returned
treat Almeria.

MR. LAYARD, M.P., in returning his noknowlecig-
!BMW for his election as Lord Rector of Marischal College,
Aberdeen, regrets his inability, from the nature of his duties
m a member of the committee of inquiry into the state
of the army in the Crimea, to state definitely the day on
which he could come to Aberdeen. Mr. Layard is the
youagest rector on the reU, being but 38 yean of %s.