The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-28 00:00:00

CO Court.

WINDSOR, Not. 26.
The Queen and Prince, with the Royal Children,
zee mpanied by the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, at.
tended by the Marchioness of Ely, the Count and Countess
ensure de Lannoy, Lord Charles Fitzroy, the Hon. Mary
Seymour, and Lieutenant• Colonel the Hon. A. Clordim,
left Windsor: at half-past ten o'clock this morning for
Osborne.

The Marchiouess of Ely has succeeded the Countess of
Desert as Lady-in-waiting to her Majesty.
The Earl of Aberdeen and Lord and Lady Robert Gros-
venor left the Castle this morniag for London.

OSBORNE, SUNDAY.
Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Duke and Duchess of
Brabant, and the whole of the Royal Family, arrived at
Osborne yesterday at 2 o'clock.
The Duke of Brabant, attended by the Count de Lannoy,
left again in the afternoon for Dover and Ostend.

A cabinet council was held at the Foreign-office,
Downing-street, on Saturday. The ministers pre-
sent were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell,
the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of
Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir James
Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, and Sir William Moleaworth. The Council
sat three hours and a half.

After the breaking•up of the Connell, the Marquis of
Lansdowne left town on is visit to Lord Ashburton. at the
Grange.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town on Saturday
morning from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial•ofce on Saturday
to the Governor of Gibraltar.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 26.
Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal family,
accompanied by the Dake and Duchess of Brabant, arrived
at this port to-day per South Western Railway (from
Basingstoke), at 12 44, having made the run down from
Basingstoke in little more than an hour. The following
officials of the South Western Railway accompanied the
train down:.—Mr. Crombie, secretary; Mr. Scott, traffic
manager; Yr. Beattie, locomotive department; and Mr.
Godson, superintendent. Her Majesty was received by the
Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir T. J. Cochrane,
K.C.8.; the Lieut.-Governor, Major-General Simpson;
Admiral Superintendent Panshawe, C.B. ; Captain Cour-
tenay, Superintendent of Clarence-yard; Captains the
Hon. J. Denman and Crispin, of the Royal Yacht;
Mr. Davies, of Clarence-yard ; the Flag-Lieutenants
of the Commander-in• Chief and Admiral Superin-
tendent; Town-Major Maitland and Brigade-Major'
Purvis, and a guard of honour famished by the 42nd
Highlanders, with the band of that regiment. Having
alighted from the royal train, her Majesty immediately
proceeded on board the Fairy, steamer, and crowed over to
the Isle of Wight, amid the usual salutes from the ships in
harbour and at Spithead and the garrison. The shipping
was dressed in colours. His Royal Highness the Duke of
Brabant received three messages per electric telegraph in
the course of the day requiring his immediate return to
Brussels on matters of moment. One came direct from
Brussels by submarine telegraph, and another was from
Dover, informing him that a Belgian steamer had arrived
there to convey hint across the Channel. His Royal High-
ness having accompanied her Majesty across to the Isle of
Wight, immediately returned again in the Fairy, and left
per special train on the South Western Railway.

Her Majesty the Queen has commissioned Mr. M.
Angelo Hayes to paint a picture for her (a small one) of the
interior of the Great Eshibi-ion. The artist had the com-
mission direct from her Majesty.

The (linen hes bestowed the vacant Garter upon the Earl
of Carlisle.

The public will learn with peculiar satisfaction that Sir
Edward Parry, the veteran voyager of the Arctic Seas,
has been appointed DeputyGorernor of Greenwich Hos-
pital.
The Queen has appointed the Rev. John Colvin to the
living of Maryhill, and the Rev. Frederick Cruikshank to
the living of Letluot and Navar, in the Church of Scotland.
The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. Charles W.
Doherty to the rectory of Pilhatn, in the diocese of Lincoln.
Mr. David Mitre, Advocate (1831), is appointed sheriff
and commissary of Perthshire, in the room of Mr. James
Cranford, whose appointment u Solicitor-General of Scot-
land has been already announced.
Mr. Robert P►trick Gibson is appointed Commissary
Clerk of Renfrewshire.

The Rev. Dr. Crawford and Mr. Chubs. &Lillie, ithro-
eat. (1830) 'reappointed to fill the vacancies at the Bible
Bard in kdinburgh.

FIRE AT WINDSOR CH URCII.-It in rather It Singu-
lar coincidence that on the night of the arrival of
her Majesty and the court, for their Easter so-
journ, should have been signalised by a fire at
Windsor Castle, and that the night after the departure
of our beloved sovereign and the royal family for their
autumnal visit to the Isle of Wight, should have been
marked by a similar calamity at Windsor Parish Church.
It appears that when the church wu built, some thirty
years ago, two large stoves were placed in the eastern
and western aisles respectively, with brick tunnels to convey
the heat around the building. Saturday night was the
first time these stoves had been used during the present
season, and the first time also that the business of lighting
them had been entrusted to the under-sexton, a man named
Batt, who had made ton large a fire in each, and
the consequence was the ignition of the wood-
work beneath which the connecting tunnel runs.
This was soon put out, and the damage was trifling; but
about midnight another and more slsrmingfire broke out near
to the second stove, and had Batt and his assistant left the
church after the first fire, the edifice must inevitably have
been burnt down. As it was, the same assistance was
rendered as on the first occasion, with the like successful
effect. Considerable damage has been done to the wood-
work beneatn the open seats, and the accident will proba-
bly lead to a new and improved method of heating the
church, hut the cost of restoration will happily be very tri-
fling. The church is insured, at its full value, in the
Plural: fire-office.

THE DANIsII CKowN.—The Weser Gazette states
that Prince Vasa has protested against the arrangement
made at London with respect to the SUCCeIPiOII to the throne
of Denmark. The limperorof Russia, al chief of the house
of Oottorp, is stated to have replied that the matter was at
as end.

DEPARTURE OF TILE AMERICAN MAILS.—On
Saturday afternoon, about four o'clock, the British and
North American Royal Mail steam ship Niagara, Captain
John Leitch, sailed for Boston and Halifax, with the usual
omits for the United States and British possessions in North
America, 107 passengers, and a large cargo of valuable
merchandise on freight. Prior to her departure, copies of
the Daily News of Saturday were placed on board by
Memos. Willmer and Smith, for the press and newsrooms
of the western continent.