The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-04 00:00:00

Vbr Court.

Her Majesty returned to the Ball Room after
sapper at the State Ball, and danced a quadrille. At two
o'clock on Saturday morning the Queen and Prince Aliwtt
left the state rooms, the King and Queen of Hanover
taking leave of her Majesty and his royal highneu. The
other members of the royal circle also took leave nt the
same time. Dancing ceased immediately oi, the departure
of the Queen, and the general company quitttd the Palace.
The Queen, acciimpanied by the Prineessof Prussia and
the Duchess of Saxe Cobourg Glottis, took a drive in as
open landau and four on Saturday afternom ; Lord Alfrsd
Paget and Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey at.eading on
horseback. Prince Albert rode out on horseback at the
same time, in company with the Prince of Prussia and the
Duke of Saxe Cobour.' Gotha. Their royal highnesses
were attended by Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon,
Count Golte, and Baron Treskow.
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The Princess of Prussia, with the Princess Louise, at.
tended by the Countess Oriolla and Count Boos, went on
Saturday morning to Claremont, to visit the Countess ,Is
Neuilly. Iler royal highness, after her return to Bucking.
ham Palace, attended by the Countess Oriolla, went to the
Royal Acadamy and inspected the exhibition, and also
visited the British Institution. _

The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha went on
Saturday afternoon to the Royal Academy, in Trafalgar.
square, and inspected the exhibition.
The Queen had a dinner party on Saturday, at Bucking.
ham Palace. The company included the King and Queen
of Hanover, the Prince and Princess of Prussia, the Duke
of Cambridge, the Duke and;Dochess of Size Cobaurg
Gotha, the Prince of Iluhenlohe Langenbourg, the Duke
and Duchess of Norfolk, Count Kielmansesw, the Hanove-
rian Minister, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess
of Clarendon, Baroness Decken and Countess Bernsterff,
Ladies in Waiting to the Queca of Hanover ; the Countess
von Hacks and the Countess Oriolla, Ladies in Waiting to
the Princess of Prussia; the Baroness Wangenheim, Lady
in Waiting to the Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha ; Baron
Malortie, General Count Di eken, and Baron L:senelorif,
Gentlemen in Waiting to the King of Hanover; Lord
Elphinstone and Major-General Buckley, in attendance on
the King of Hanover ; Count Puckler, Count Boos, and
Count Oohs, Gentlemen in Waiting to the Prince of
Prussia; Lord WM. Paulet, Gentleman in Waiting to the
Duke of Cambridge ; and Baron Treskuw, Gentleman in
Waiting to the Dike of Saxe Cohourg Gotha.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance
in the Palace, and performed during the dinner the fol-
lowing compositions ;
Hymn, "Das Ilanovrieche Volk. Lied" Moor of Minoru% I
Grand &lee ion. "Le Prophete"
Busch, Prang Josef" . bin ler.
Fantasia, "ltiietet.u.
" Preuviche" (National).
Polka, Valerie" D. Godfrey.
Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party.
The Duchess of Gloucester arrived at the Palace at twenty
minutes before ten o'clock, attended by Lady Caroline
Murray and Colonel the Hou. A. Liddell.
The Duchess of Kent was accompanied by the Princess
Adelaide of Hohenluhe Laneenbourg, and attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, and Lord
James Murray.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary were
attended by Lady Suffield and Baron Knesebeek.
The Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess, and
the Duchess Caroline of Meeklenburgh Strelite, arrived at
the Palace, attended by Lady Corolla. Cu-t, Baroneu
Wenkstern, and Baron Luhe.

The filliming company were also honoured with invita-
tions :—Prinect Edward of Saxe Weimar and the Countess
or Dornburg, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke of
Wellington, the Marquis and Marchioness of Bread&lbane,
the Duke of Newcastle, the Chevalier and Mad.,me 13unun,
the Count Vitzthum, the Marquis of Abercorn, Lord and
Lady John Russell, the Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor,
Viscount Torrington, Lori and Lady Seaton, Mane. (libe-
lous, Baron Hedemann, the Baron de Boddien and Baron de
Rcitzenstein, A.D C.'s to the King of Hanover; Baron de
Wense, Dr. K. .ulfmann, Dr. Lez, the Hon. IL Somerset,
and Mdlle. von Sternberg.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the King
and Queen of Hanover, the Prince and Princess of Prussia,
the Duchess of Kent, the Ducheu 01 Gloucester, the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, the Duke of
Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess and
the Duchess Caroline of Meeklenbourg Strelitz, and the
Prince of Hohenl the Langenbourg, entered the Grand
Saloon, which was fitted up for music, when the following
concert was performed :
PART I.
Overture (Prometheus)

Ballade, •' Le Plated-ea,"/Ildsor Gardosi
Lied, "Die Dmkong," Madame llarcheA Grhumann thisauer
Adagio Beeth
Ballade, plandorte, Herr Ehrlich
Gardont ( I:obert., Devereux)-- __Donizettl

PART 11.

Duette, "Che cal pentia:cro,7'')Zdame Marched
Gramma and Signor Marcbel
Romance, "It vs venir," Mrs. Mandonnell (La later) llidevy
Aria," Aprite unto quegrocchi," tinsnor Manliest
(Le N, ear di Figaro)
Selo, violoncello, M. Leon Jaequird
Arietta,"Nrappar suite tom' a," Signor Gardool Campana
Quartetto, "Cielo il min labbro," Mrs. %la.:donne,
Madame hlarchevi Grauruann, eiguori Gardoni
and Marches/ (airier* • Felltero)
Mrs. Anderson presided at the pianoforte.
Her Makatea private band, conducted by Mr. Anderson, attended.
Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal) and Lieut.-Colonel
the Hon. Alexander Gordon have relieved Lord Chas. Fitz-
roy and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Hos in their duties as
the equerries in waiting to tho Queen and Prince.
The Queen end Prince Albert, the Princess% Royal, the
Princess Alice, the Princess Louise of Prussia, the Duchess
of Kent, and the Prince,of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, at-
tended divine service yesterday morning in the private
chapel of Buckingham -Palace. The King and Queen of
Hanover, attended by Lord Elphinstone, Major-General
Buckley, and the ladies and aide de camp in waiting were
present at the service. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Welles-
ley officiated. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting and
the domestic household also attended the service.
The King and Queen of Hanover, attended by Lord El-
phinstone and Major-General Buckley, and the lady and
aid de camp in waiting, visited the Queen and Prince
Albert yesterday afternoon, and took leave of her Majesty
end his Royal Highness.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Prince of
Hohenlehe Langenburg and the Princess Adelaide, went
to Claremont on Saturday, and visited the Countess de
Neuilly.
The King and Queen of Hanover, with the crown prinee
and the princesses, visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday.
The Duchess Caroline of Mockienburgh Strelits also visited
her Royal Highness.
The King and Queen of Hanover, after dining with the
Duke of Cambridge, called last evening at the residence of
the Duchess of Kent, Clarence House, St. James's, where
the Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince and Princess of
Prussia, and the royal family met their Majesties, when all
the members of the illustrious circle took leave of their
Hanoverian Majesties, on their departure for the continent.

A deputation of the committee of Postmasters had an in-
terview on Saturda with Mr. Wilson at the Treasury, on
the subject of the Tax Act, imposing • tax upon
postmasters' trade carriages, and, for the first time, on their
trade horses, when the resolution of the budget proposed a
license tax in lieu of all others. The deputation was in-
troduced by Mr. T. buncombe, M.P., and Mr. Bell, M.P.,
and consisted of Mr. C. Bryant of Barnet, Mr. Pawley of
Bromley, Mr. Lovegrove of Maidenhead, Mr. Goodalism
of Guildford, Mr. Wilson of Hslloway, Mr. J. K. Higgins
of Northampton, Mr. G. Waddell of Birmingham, Mr.
Chancellor, and Mr. Shillibeer, secretary.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office on Satur-
day from the Governors of St. Helena, Victoria, New Zea-
land, South Australia, West Australiao the Cape of Good
Hope, New South Wales, the West Indies, Malta, and from
the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. De-
, 'patches were sent on Saturday to the Governors of Austra-
lia, Hong-Kong, and Ceylon.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Sa-
turday, in the Council Chamber. The Lords present were
the Lords Justices Turner and Knight Bruce, the Judge of
the Admiralty Court, and Sir Edward Ryan. The appeal
" Rainy v. the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone " (part heard)
was concluded.

Mr. P. de Soecheciampe had an interview with Viscount
Palmerston on Saturday, at the Home-Mike.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the
Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord J. Russell, the
Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, 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 Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir W. Moles-
worth. The Council sat three hours and a half.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.—We are glad to an-
nounce the convakscence of the Prince of Wales. His
Royal Highness will leave town to-day for Windsor Castle,
his medical attendant having recommended change of air.

THE KING AND QUEEN OP HANOVER.—The de-
parture of their Majesties the King and Queen of Ilanover,
which was fixed for to-morrow, hu been expedited owing
to some circumstances which require the King's presence in
Hanover immediately. The King and Queen, with their
youthful family, will leave town this morning at half-past
six o'clock, by the South Eastern Railway for Dover, where
their Majesties will embark on board the Vivid government
steam packet, which will be in readiness to convey
.tho
roy►l party to Ostend.
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THE LEEDS BANSRrPTCY COURT.—COMMITTAL
op AN ASSISTANT BAturr.—On Saturday list, George
Saunders, an assistant bailiff, connected with the Leeds
Bankruptcy Court, was broulht up at the Leeds Court
House, for final examination. The facts of the case hare
already appeared in the :Express. The prisoner had
been put in chargo of the stock of Mrs. Jane Walker, of
Halifax, a draper, who in March last became bankrupt.
When the stock came to be disposed of, a quantity of
I drapery goods was missed. This led to inquiry, and part
' of the missing property was found in the prisoner's house.
On Saturday a number of witnesses from Halifax prortd
that they had received drapery goods of the prisoner. Ito
said nothing in defence, and wad committed for trial at the
borough session,.

THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM.

GLAND SU
TtHE FRENCIIIkI BATTLE IGENERALSN THE PRESENCE OF
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CHOtittAh, Barcariar
The attendance of civilians at camp to-day was
,rl,,,stsses,.. A. early as 9 o'clock splendid equipages
randeal the roads from the Windsor and Chertsey station.,
had A while cavalcade of ladies and gentlemen were to be
arhusg along fur the immediate locale of the encamp.
malt. The general anticipation was that. the Queen and her
gala! Caa,ort wool be present, and that the interest ores-
baud thereby would be considerably augmented by the
eatend.uvi et several Fid etch generals of eminence deputed
at I:emperor of the French to witness the evolutions of
h'trjor. So far, however, as the general expectation of
the Mune, of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
?rine Albert was concerned, it was doomed to dim,-
rawest.
At ll o'clock precisely a visible stir at he d quarters gave
lat.rnitton of something about to be essayed, and a single
big, sound from Lord Seaton's position, re.echotd fr,dn
isailtian positiou., brought till the infantry into line within
a /word of five minutes. The same signal summoned the
esss:ry to saddle; and aluarsat simultaneously the whole
soy were ready fur action in light marching order. No
gout 11.41 the troops been turned out, and the infantry
hnited into line and the cavalry into squadrons, than a
iamb of trumpeu announced the approach of Lord
date ad the two canceled Irt.nch generals, Count Monte-
ber,o and Vim:want Ital. His lordship, who was in the full
eel ell Command,r-in•Chief of the British Army, was
inland on a white charger, and the two distil'.
m,!, d gent tali of the French empire were also in
the uniform of general efflcers, superbly mounted,
sad attends.l by their sides-de-camp. The public ex-
iseetataia of the day's operations was running up** a
such fitr Viraisia M Ater ; but a movement on the part of
the mole!, led by the Carabineers, too plainly indicated
that the tiAl of battle was to be in closer proximity to the
sop. A series of interesting manceuvres having been ekil-
fay effected Lord llardinge, Lord Seaton, the Duke of
Cs:standee, t tie Count de Montebello, and Viscount Thal, with
ajtaf of commanding officers, took up a position in front of
eris artillery camp, when they waited till the whole army
Essi put. The Count di Montebello Viscount Rial, and
Led Harding*, aceempeuied Lord Se;tou to his teat, where
Ng-, partook of luncheon. Tye westher, sontamy to an ticipatinn, turned out to be
bristifal daring the operations of the day, which lasted
big leers.
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EFIVEIr (IF TIM FLEET AT SPITHEAD.

PORTSKOCTPI, JILT 2

Intimation has reached this port to-day to the
effect that her Majesty and Prince Albert will review the
face fleet at Spithead on Thursday next. Her Majesty is
everted to be accompanied by the Prince and Princess
12yal of Prussia, and other royal personages now iu Lon-
de's. The spectacle will be one of unusual eff.ct : the Beet
comprising 9 line-of-battle ships, and 9 heavy frigates and
ether resole. Three or lone other ships are expected to
joie the flat in the course of a few days.
This morning the fleet got under weigh, for the purpose
of anchoring in line of battle in three divisions. This eve.
khan had a beautiful appearance from the shore, and
occupied the greater part of the day before it was satisfac-
torily completed. The following were the final positions
taken up by the respective ships, commencing each division
horn the westward:
Larboard Division.—Dake of Wellington, 131; London,
90; Blenheim, 60; Ajax, 60; Encounter, 14.
Centre Division —Sidon, 22; Odin, 16; Leopard, 12 ;
Amphin, 34; Banshee, 2; 11ightlyer, 22.
Starboard Division.—Prince Regent, 90; Agamemnon,
; Bogue, 60; Nerbudda, 12 ; Edinburgh, 68; Imps.
mese, 60.
Whilst the fleet were going through the evolution, the
Desperate, 8, screw sloop, Captain Chambers, arrived from
Woolwich, and subsequently came into harbour to repair
defects caused in towing the transports to the Arctic re.
gioas with provisions for the discovery ships there. Tits
Burnouts,: 6, stoma sloop, Commander Parker, which had
accompanied the Desperate in the above service, also this
Momuag made her number, as she passed up Channel to the
esstward, to the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, which had
gone out to the back of the Isle of Wight to try a peculiar
description of coal, which is nid to be free hem smoke,
lc. The Barracouta did not communicate with the shore.
The above fleet, with the .exception of the London,
Prince Regent, and Nerbudda, are all steamers. The Sidon
has sprung her mainmast, and will require a new one.

MUSIC.