The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-08 00:00:00

Zbe Court.

The Privy Council appointed to be holden by. the
Queen at Buckingham Palace on Saturday, the 11th met.,
baa been postponed to Monday, the 13th inst., at Bucking-
ham Palace.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, Prince
Arthur, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and the
Infant Prince, and attended by the Countess of Desert,
Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon.
Flora Macdonald, Lord Rivers, Colonel the Hon. C. B.
Phipps, Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Cap-
tain the Hon. Dudley de Roe, and the Master of the
Household, left Buckingham Palace, at three o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, for Windsor Castle. Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness were conducted to their carriage by the
Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Duke of
Wellingtoa, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord George Lennox, and
Lient-Col. Francis Seymour. The royal party occupied
seven of the Queen's carriages, and was escorted by a de-
tachment of the 13th Light Dragoons from Buckingham
Palace to the terminus of the Great Western Railway at
Paddington, where a special train was in readiness for the
conveyance of her Msjesty and the royal circle to Windsor.
The Countess of Desert has succeeded the Viscountess
Jocelyn as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen.
Lord Rivers has relieved Earl Somers in his duties
as Lord in Waiting to her Majesty, and Mr. R. Ormsby
Gore has relieved Lient.-General Sir Edward Bowater in
his duties as Groom in Waiting to her Majesty.
WINDSOR, Just 7.
The Queen and Prince, with the royal children, attended
by the suite, arrived at the Castle about four o'clock.
A guard of honour from the lit Battalion of the Scots
Fusilier Guards, with the band of the regiment, received
her Majesty at the railway station.

A deputation from Highgate, headed by Lord Robert
Grosvenor, M.P., and Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., had an
interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer attended yesterday
morning in his official robe of office, in the Court of Exche-
quer in Westminster, and was sworn into office before the
Barons of the Court as Chancellor of her Majesty's Exche-
quer.
A deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Sunderland, Mr.
Hudson, M.P., and Mr. Digby Seymour, M.P., had an
interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the
Home-office. _ _ . _

a were remind at the Colonial•office yesterday
froprourb isvemor-Oeneral of Canada and the„Governon of
the other North American Provinces.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—Her Majesty and Prince
Albert, attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy sad Captain the
Hon. Dudley de Roe, visited the works at Sydenham late in
the afternoon of Monday. Under the guidance of Sir J.
Paxton and Mr. Owen Jones, the royal party visited every
part of the building, and expressed themselves highly satis-
fied witk the progress made in the works and park.

TEE Du or OrNos.—His Royal Highness the
Duke of Genoa, accompanied by his Excellency, the Sardi-
nian Minister went yesterday to Ascot to witness the races.
His royal highness returned to town before the sports of the
day had concluded. Lut night the Earl and Countess of
Clarendon gave a grand entertainment in honour of his
royal highness, at their residence in Grosvenor-crescent.
The Dake arrived shortly before eight o'clock, attended
by his Excellency the Marquis d' Aseglio, Col. Viylde,
and the members of his suite. The following had the
honour of mectiug his royal highness at dinner :—The
Duke of Newcutlo, the Marquis of Clonricartle, the Coun-
tess Craven, Viscount and Viscountess Palmentoc,Viscount
and Viscountess Mahon, Lord and Lady John Russell, and
Lady Cowley. A small and select circle were invited to
meet his royal highness in the evening. This morning the
Duke of Genoa leaves town on a visit to her Majesty and
tke Prince Consort at Windsor Cutle.

OXFORD. JUNE 7.—ln a convocation holden in the
theatre the honorary degi•ee of Doctor in Civil Law was
conferred on the Marquis of Blandford, M.P., the Marquis
of Chandos, M.P., the Earl of Eglinton and Wintown, the
Earl of Hardwicke, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Stanley,
Lord Redesdale, Lard Colchester, Lord St. Leonard's,
Thomas Babington Macaulay, M.P., the Lord Justice
Turner, Sir John O. Pakington, Bart., M.P., Spencer
Horatio Walpole, M.P., Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., Joseph
Warner Henley, M.P., Joseph Napier, M.P., Major-Gen.
the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., the Rev. Joseph Pul-
ling, 8.D., Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
Yesterday (Moaday) the D.C.L. degree was conferred upon
the Dukes of Cambridge and Mecklenburg Strelita.

THE LATE MR. O'CONNELL AND THE
ENDOWMENT OF ROMAN CATHOLIC
PRIESTS.