The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

tie Court.

WINDSOR, Nov. 4.
The dinner party yesterday included the King of
the Belgians, the Duchess of Brabant, the Duchess of Kent,
the Duke of Brabant, the Count of Flanders, the Duke of
Newcastle, the Belgian Minister, the Prussian Minister and
Madame Bunsen, Viscount Palmerston, the Lady-in-Wait-
ing to the Duchess of Brabant, the Lady-in-Waiting to the
Duchess of Kent, Lady Frances Bruce, Count Gustave de
Lannoy, Colonel de 2doerkerke, Baron Priase and Monsieur
Ricken.

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Tho band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended in the
!Dude during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band performed the following selec-
tion in the evening :
Overture—" Leonora"
Chow. D'Ensemble and Trio—" Le I're aux
Herold

Andante. Minuetto, Pregto, Raltarella—..ainfonta. Mend ;1;$01;;;
The Queen and the Duchess of Brabant walked in the
grounds adjacent to the castle this morning.
Prince Albert, attended by Col. the lion. B. Phipps,
Col. the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieut.-Col. the Hon. A.
Gordon, left Windsor by a special train of the South-West-
ern Railway for London, and returned at five minutes
before three o'clock. The Duke of Newcastle accompanied
the Prince to London.

Madame Van de Weyer and Major-General the Hon. Sir
Edward Cust left the Castle yesterday.
The Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen and Viscount
Palmerston left this forenoon for London.

The Commissioners for inquiring into the state of the
Corporation of the City of London held a meeting yester-
day, at the Privy Council Other, in Downing-street. The
Commissioners present were the Right Hon. H. Labon-
chere, the Right Hon. Sir John Patten°, and G. Corm-
wall Lewis, Esq.
The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town yesterday, from
a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Viscount Palmerston returned to town yesterday from a
visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. His lordship left
town in the afternoon for his seat, Breadlands, Hants.
Despatches were received at the Colonial office yesterday
from the Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches were sent
yesterday to the Goverhor of Canada.

The Muter of the Rolls has appointed Mr. Wm.
Wright, of the Chancery Bar, to the office of Clerk of the
Irualvents, in the place of Mr. David Drew, deceased.

THE LORI) RECTORSHIP OF GLASGOW
UNIVERSITY.

The Earl of Eglinton and Winton is not to be al-
lowed to retain possession of the rectorial chair in our
university without a struggle, on the' part of the Liberal
Association of Students, to oust him before the expiration
of the usual term of office. Oa Wednesday, placards were
issued by the cemmittee, announcing that Alfred Tennyson,
the Puet Laureate, has been selected as their candidate for
the Lord Rectorship. and soliciting the support of the
liberal section of the college in has favour. This is some•
what unusual, the lease of the rectorial honours invari-
ably extending over two years, when the noble earl
has only served since November last. The liberal ass,-
ciation, among many reasons for this departure from
established custom, contend, us the first place, that permis-
sion to hold office for two years is a mere courtesy ; and, in
the second place, that Lord Eglinton was only elected last
year by a majority of one nation and the casting vote of the
venerable principal. An insinuation is also thrown out
that his lordship mainly owed his victory over the Duke of
Argyll by a coup d'etat of the Conservative Association.
How the latter body may act in the novel position in which
they now find themselves placed we cannot pretend, in the
absence of any authoritative information, to say ; but the
probability is they will contest the election with the liberals
by attempting to re-elect the present occupant of the chair.
It is rumoured that they may nominate John Inglis, Esq.,
Dean of Faculty, a distinguished alumnus of the university,
but this is exceedingly dubious.—North British Mail.

Mn. MAURICL—A new fact has transpired with
reference to the late proceedings at King's College. The
absence of the Bishop of Lichfield, the former principal of
the College, from the council which condemned Mr. Mau-
rice bad occasioned no small surprise, but it has new re-
ceived en explanation, which we lay, without comment
before our readers. We are now informed, on authority
which we cannot doubt, that the summons to attend the
council was sent to a house which the Bishop of Lichfield
used to occupy in Ilarley-street during the session of
parliament, but which he was kndwn to have given
up for at least a twelvemonth, while all the other communi-
cations from King's College had been regularly transmitted
to Eccles Itnll, has lordship's residence in the country. The
bishop has since written to the secretary demanding an ex-
planation of the rircuenstance, and has expressed his sym-
pathy with Mr. Mattiee, mingled with regret and surprise
jat the hasty decision of the council. Written protests
against soy immediate proceedings were also sent to the
council by Mr. tikuistone and the Rev. James Anderson.
l'erhaps the Principal or the Secretary can inform us
whether they were read.—Giobe,

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—On Monday morning, as
a cutter belonging to WM. ship Hogue, GO, lying in the
Sound, was proem ding to the ship with three officers and a
party of seamen, when in the stream near Devil's Point, it
W 33 discovered she was overcrowded. There was a swell at
the time, and shortly alter it was discovered the cutter was
fast sinking. In this emergency several of the seamen
jumped ovei board, and swam ashore with much difficulty,
but as there was no probability even then of the boat
reaching the Ilinrue, she was run on the rock at the Devil's
Point, and in a few minutes clashed to pieces. It is provi-
dential that the men acted with such promptitude, as the
i slightest delay might have proved fatal to the whole on
board.—PlyotostA Journal.