The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1853

got Court.

IRELAND.

The Queen gave a Concert last evening at Back-
The invitations numbered about four
hundred, and included the Royal Family, the Foreign
Ministers and their wives, the Ministers and Officers of
State, and a large party of the Nobility.
The Duchess of Gloucester arrived at twenty. five minutes
past nine o'clock, attended by Lady Civadiana Bathurst
anALier.-Colenel the Hon. A. Liddell. . . _

Desux, JULY 6.
THE QUEEN'S VISIT.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant officially
communicated to the Lord Mayor yesterday the in-
formation of the intention of her Majesty and Piince
Albert to honour the Great Industrial Exhibition
with a visit. The royal party will arrive at Kings-
town Harbour on the 12th instant, but not land
until the following morning, when they will proceed
to the Viceregal Lodge. It is the intention of her
Majesty and the Prince to return to London on the
16th instant. Her Majesty will not hold either
levee or drawing room. Her Majesty will proceed
to Dublin on Wednesday morning by the Dublin and
Kingstown Railway, when the state carriage will be
in requisition, and every means adopted to ensure
her Majesty a suitable reception. On the evening of
the arrival of the royal yacht in the harbour a bril-
liant display of fireworks will take place—the yachts
in harbour will be illuminated, and other demonstra-
tions of respect offered.
In the course of yesterday Mr. George Roe, the
chairman of the Exhibition Committee, received the
following official note:
Viceregal Lodge, Pl-ccnix-park, July 5, 1553.
Sir,—l am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to inform
yen that the intention of the Queen and the Prince to visit
the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853 has been notified
to his Excellency. Her Maje:ty and his Royal Iligbuces
purpose to arrive in Kingstown Harbour on Tuesday even-
ing, the 12th inst., but not land till the following morning,
when they will proceed to the Viceregal Lodge. The
Queen and Prince will return to Ln don on Sa•urday, the
16th inst. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient
servant, HENRY F. PONBONBY.—To the Chairman of the
Committee of the Great Industrial Exhibition of Isa 3.

The Duchess of Kent was accompanied by the Princess
Adelaide of Holtenlohe Langenburg, and was attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baronets de Spetl, and Lord
James Murray.
The Duchess of CambEdgc was ;Mewled by Lady Suffield
and Lieut.-Colonel Stephens.
The Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburg Strelits were attended by Lady Caroline Cost
and Baron Luhe.
The Duke of Cambridge was attended by Major the Hon.
Jame. Macdonald. .

The Royal Family were received on their arrival, and
conducted to the Yellow Drawing-room by the lion. Elea-
nor Stanley and the lion. Flora Macdonald, Maids of
Honour in Waiting, Lieut.-Colonel the lion. Robert Boyle,
Groom in Waiting, Lieut.-Colonel Francis Seymour, Groom
in Waiting to PfilsCli Albert, and Lord Alfred Paget,
Equerry in Waiting.
Shortly before 10 o'clock, the Queen. accompanied by the
Prince and Princess of Prussia, the Duchess of Kent, the
Duchess of Gloucester the Duchess of Cambridge, the
Duke of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelier, the Prince of
Hohenlohe Langeuburg end tile Pi igloos Adelaide lett
the Yellow Drawing-room, attended by the Duchess of
Sutherland, Mist, ess of the Robes, and the Ladies in Wait-
ing, and was conducted by the Marquis of Breadalbane,
Lord Chamberlain, and other tinkers of state, to the Grand
Saloon, which was fitted up for music.
The concert immediately comment[ d. The following is
the programme :

Nara Pans.
(lunette., tt Ridiarno, cantiamo"- Aldme. Busier,
Sig. Gardonl, Lucchesi. e Bek N..
Lied, . An ,Irwin soonigen Marro "—Herr
Fumes (Die Olockengehiute) Hazel.
Duo, . la questa sello"—Mumes.Carellime na-
da Colitc. Dry)
Air, " le pars detrain "—Melva. Plonito 'Marie) Herold.
Trio, . C't n eft fat "—Mdmcs. Castellon i Var.
dut, e Sig. Garden, (Le Pre aux Cleree).... ....... Steroid.
Air. "A la paste Won hopital"—Sig. Oardoni
(Le Chemin du Pared's)
Coro, "A not dart "—Tact( (Chrtetue) 3lendeissohn.
Emirs Secomm. •
Mr, "II Mimi° ago ooaqui.e"—Mdinc. Casteran
(Lineredi)
Ozarletto, . Was Poll ich daza mien" - Madames
Novelle, c Viardot, Sig. Garden' • Herr Ferran
(Martha)
Air, "rand, per me"—Mdece. hails ;Hely) Doaisktti.
Duo, "In dove prende amor vieetto"—Mdme
Novell° e Sig. Matti (Faun, Magico)
Air Russ. -Mdme. Viardot.
quartets, •• Nei Hall slam dell' onde"—Signori
Carooni, Lneoheti, Heller!, e Herr Formes l
Goudolieri) Schubert.
Mr. Costa presided at the pianoforte.
Refreshments were served between the acts, and at the
conclusion of the concert the illustrious and distinguished
party proceeeded to sapper in the state dining room.
The following had the honour of receiving invitations :
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and
the Countess of Luneburg, the French Ambassador and the
Countess Walswska, and the First Secretary to the Em-
bassy ; the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the
Russian Minister and Baroness de Brunnow, the Hanove-
rian Minister, the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen,
the Swedish and Norwegian Minister, the Spanish Minister,
the Sardinian Minister, the Greek Minister and Madame
Tricoupi, the Turkish Minister and Madame Musurus, the
Netherlands Minister, the Portuguese Minister and the
Countess de Lavradio, the Sicilian Minister and the Prin-
enr de Carini, the Austrian Minister and the Countess
Colleredo, the United States Ministgr, the Tuscan Minister,
. the Peruvian Minister, the Persian Minister and the Secre-
tary Interpreter of Legation, the Saxon Minister, the Mexi-
can Chargé d'Affaires and Madame Facto, the Belgian
Chargil d'Affaires, the Danish Chargé d'Affaires. Prince
F. lix of Salm Salm, Min Wilcocks. The Countess Von
1 Hacke, Countess Oriel's, Count Puckler, Count Boos,
Count Oohs, Dr. Lauer and M. Borck, Ladies and Gentle-
men-in-Waiting
to the Prince and Princess of Prussia.
Lady Caroline Gust and B iron LON, Lady and Gentleman-
! in-Waiting to the Hereditary Grand Duchess sail Grand
Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz.
ARCHBISHOPS—Canterbury, York, Dublin.
Derma—Newcastle, Argyll, Bedford, Leinster, Norfolk,
Sutherland, Devenshire, Buceleuch, Richmond, Rox-
burgh., Atholl, Cleveland, Rutland, Northumberland,
Wellington, Hamilton, Somerset.
DUCHESIHIS—Bedford, Argyll, Inverness, Northumber-
land, Roxburgh., St. Albans, Leinster, Hamilton, Due-
cleuch, Sutherland, Norfolk, Richmond, Atholl, Cleveland,
Somerset. •
Mennen's—Lansdowne, Breadalbane, Bristol, Aber-
corn, A,lesbury, Anglesey, Ely, Clanricarde, Cholmondeley,
Exeter, Waterford, Westminster, Londonderry.
MARCHIoNESSES Breadalbane, Ailesbury, Aleercorn,
Ely, Dowager Ely, Cholmondeley, Clanricarde, Waterford,
Exeter, Westminster, Londonderry.
EARLS—Aberdeen, Granville, Clarendon, St. Germans,
Effingham, Burlington, Caledon, Craven, Cawdor, Mul-
grave, Eglinton, Darnley, De la Wan., De Grey, Dart-
mouth, Derby, Chesterfield, Chichester Clanwilliam, Sefton,
Shafiesbruy, Shelbourne, Stradbroke, Talbot, Wilton,
Fowls, Rosebery, Roselyn, Yarborough, Malmesbury,
Mansfield, March, Howe, Jermyn, M.P., Haddington,
Harewood, Ilchester, Jersey, Fortescue, Euston, M.P.,
Fitzwilliem, Grosvenor, M.P., Enniskillen, Gifford, Grey,
Charlemont, Gainsborough, Desert, Mount Edgcumbe.
COUNTESSES—CIarendon, Granville, Mulgrave, St. Ger-
mans, Caletloa, Carlisle, Dunmore, Effingham, Eglinton,
Delaware, Derby, Craven, Haddington, Cawdor, Chi-
chester, Chesterfield, Clanwilliam, Shaftesbury, Talbot,
Dowager l'emhreire, Rosebery, Sefton, Shelburne, Roselyn,
Yarborough, Malmesbury, March, Jersey, Wilton, Hare-
wood, Enniskillen, Howe, Fortescue, Grey, Darnley,
Charlemont, Gainsborough, Desert, Mount Edgcumbe.
VISCOUNTS Hardinge, Palmerston, Drumlanrig,
Sydney, Torrington, Duncan, Dalrymple, Jocelyn, M.P.,
Canning, Chelsea, M.P., Cranley, Soaham, M.P., Mahon,
Mandeville, Newark, M.P., Laseelles, Hawarden, Galway,
M.P., Folkestone.
VISCOUNTESSES—Hardinge, Palmerston, Drumlanrig,
Sydney, Torrington, Crauley, Duncan, Dalrymple,
Jocelyn, Canning, Chelsea, Stratford de Redeliffe, Seabam,
Mahon, Mandeville, Newark, Folkestone, Galway.
EISROP—St. David's.
LORDS—John Russell, Raglan, Foley, Cranworth,
Camoys, William Paulet, James Murray, Alfred Paget,
Carington, De Tabley, Ashburton, Polwarth, Portman,
De Manley, Beaumont, Belhaven, Waterpark, Macdonald,
Moneys, M.P., Overstone, Lilford, Lyndhurst, Poltimore,
Kinnaird, Penman, Leigh, Londeaborough, Colborne,
Charles Wellesley, Southampton, Wharncliffe, Holland,
Edward Howard, M.P., Ernest Bruce.
LADIES—G. Bathurst, Cranwortb, John Russell, Mary
Wood, Molesworth, Graham, Raglan, Foley, Ernest Bruce,
Caring ton, Adeliza Howard, Alfred Paget, Louisa Caven-
dish, Be Tabley, H. Hamilton, Ashburton, Beaumont, De
Res, Dover, Howard Douglas, F. Legge, Leigh, Lillord,
Edward Howard, CA:keelson, Portman, Caroline Barring-
ton, Mary Stanley, Polwarth, Wriothesley Russell, Wood-
ford, Macdonald, Honeys, Oventone, E. Lamellas, John-
stone, Kinnaird, Penmen*, Lyndhurst, Dowager Lyttelton,
George Grey, Londesborough, Holland, Howard De Walden,
Dufferin, M. Christopher, H. Clive, Colborne, Seidl=
L, Cotes, Seaton, Charles Wellesley, Poltimore,
cliffs, (Sophia) Rendlesham, Constance Grosvenor, Ones
burn, Margaret Macdonald, James Murray, Belbenem
Waterpark, Camp, Suffield, A. M. Dawson.
MORT EONOURABLES—OOIOIIOI G. L. Dawson Dames,
J. W. Henley, M.P., J. C. Herrin, M.P., Sir J. Graham,
W. E. Gladstone, Sir George Grey, Admiral Sir George
Cockburn, IL A. Christopher, M.P., Sir C. Wood, C. Pel-
ham Villiers, Sir William Molesworth, Sidney Herbert,
the Speaker, T. Pemberton Leigh.
EONOURABLES—Captain J. Denman, R.N., Colonel R.
Boyle, Mrs. Boyle, Misses Stonor (2), Miss Lyttelton, Mrs.
Musgrave, Colonel C. B. Phipps, Mrs. Phipps, Robert H.
Clive, M.P., Mrs. George E. Anson, Eleanor Stanley, Rev.
Gerald Wellesley, Mrs. A. Gordon, Mrs. Joseph Denman,
Mrs. Sidney Herbert, George Cavendish, M.P., Lady Cust,
i Mrs. Grey, Mrs. A. Liddell.
- BARONESS—De Speth.
Sins—Archibald Macdonald, John Johnstone, M.P.
Rae. Docroa—Whewell.
REVEREND—Lord Wriothesley Russell.
Docrott—Lyon Play fair.
bliessieens—Ernest Bunsen, J. Cotes, J. E. Denison,
M.P., Edward Stanley.
Ilisruresen—Shaw Lefevre, Gladstone, Ernest Bunsen,
Whately, Weymouth, Henley, Cholloner, Whewell.
Misers —Burdett Coutts, Sumner, Mary Barrington.
Resit ADMIRAL—Eon. William Gordon, M.P.
GENERALs—Sir Howard Douglas, Lord Seaton, Sir A.
Woodford, Hon. Sir Edward Cum, Sir George Bowles.
CoLoszts—Francis Seymour, Challoner, lion. A. Lid-
dell, Earl of Cardigan, lion. A. Gordon, Biddulph, Lord
De Hos, Weymouth, lion. Charles Grey.
Magoa—Baron Knetebeck.
Prince Arthur and !the Princesses Helena and Louise
took a drive in an open carriage and four yesterday.
The Countess de Neuilly and the Prince de Joineille
visited the Princess of Prussia yesterday at Buckingham
Palace, and afterwards visited the Duchess of Kent at
Clarence House.
The Princess of Prussia visited the Duchess of Cam-
bridge yesterday at her residence in St. James's Palace.
The Queen, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of
Prussia and the Princess Louisa, took a drive yesterday
afternoon in an open cerriaze and four. Lord Alfred
Paget and Cal. the Hon. C. Grey attended on horseback.

Yesterday the Lord Mayor, George Hoe Esq.,
Chairman of the Exhibition Committee, John Len-
taigne, Esq., and John C. Deane, Esc': assistant-
secretary, bad an interview with the Lord Lieu-
tenant at the Viceregal Lodge, in reference to her
Majesty's visit. His Excellency intimated to the
Lord Mayor that the same form of ceremonial will
be observed on this octagon as when the Queen
I visited Dublin in 1849. Her Majesty will make her
first visit to the Exhibition on Wednesday. A
special meeting of the corporation is summered
for this day. The city will be illuminated. Her
Majesty's equipages and horses are expected to arrive
in a few days.

Despatches were received at the Colonial-Office Tester
day from the Governors of New South Wales, Victoria
Malta, and Hong
Despatches were sent yesterday to the Governor of Gib-
raltar.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers
present were the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Earl Gram ille, the Duke of Argyll, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, the
Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir J. Graham, Sir C. Wood,
the Hight Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir W. Moles-
worth. The Council sat two hours and a half.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Adelaide of
Hohenlohe, atteDded by Lady Dawson and Sir G. Cowper,
honoured the 05Ioeseure and the Diorama of the Ocean
Mail by visits yesterday afternoon.