The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-24 00:00:00

Clic Court.

WINDSOR, Dr.c.23.
The Royal dinner party, yesterday, included the
Boehm of Kent. the Lady in Waiting to her Hoist
Highness, the Baroness de spetb, and Cul. the Hon. C. B.
Phipps.
Iler Majesty's private:band was Is attendance in the
evening. and perforated eh* following selection :
Ihrrturt. " Iw Donlon Noir" Amber.
Lanclietto, Mcberas Trio, mad Vt ae. biliemdm la D. leembows.
L.tuck" Ae se
Mao ch. " Conol tr us"
'the Earl of Clareadow la ezpected this afternoon on a
visit to her Majesty.
The Duette.' of lint visited the Queen to-day.

Count Walewski, the French Anthanador, visited the
Earl of Claim,ton yesterday. 1114 Entßracy transacted
business on Thursday at the Foreign-office, Downing-
street.
Despatches were sent yesterdsy from the Colonial,sfilee
to the Governors of the 111. nth American provinces end to
the Gisernors of the West Coast of Africa.

We have been requested to state that for the con-
venience of the public, and to afford the opportunity
of making searches on that day, the Office for the
Registry of County Court Judgments will not be
cloned on Monday next.

Captain Brock, who was many years in command
of a surveying vessel in the Mediterranean, has been
appointed additional captain to Admiral Dandas's
Hag ship, in order to make surveys of the Black Sea.

The Tory Press says :—" Several of Lord Palmer-
ston's late colleagues hill'. paid him visits during the week.
Mr. Gladstone was the last. We understand the right bon.
gentlemen ahounde.l in reasons why Lord Palmerston
should return to Downing.iitreet. He distinguished be-
tween the opinion of ' The Triumvirate (Lord Aberdeen,
Lit l J Russell, and Sir James Graham), and the re-
mainder of his colleagues, whim nobody ever consulted,
but who were prepared to assert their independence. We
bear the right bon. gentleman was extremely ingenious,
and would probably have been succeesful had be not
addressed an individual who was in the habit of thinking
before he acted. The Cabinet is divided into two parties,
the majority having pronounced against the tyranny of
the Triumvirate.' " [this special To attack on three of
the Cabinet shows at least where Tory hatreds point
most bitterly. Apart from foreign policy, Lord Aberdeen
is said to be quite open to popular influences—especially
on the subject of representative reform.]

BOARD OF TRADE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND
Aar.—BRANCH SCHOOL, K ENS INGT ON Ooaa.—A private
view of the exhibition of the works of the students of the
&boob of Art in the Elementary Sines of Instruction, is
to take place at Gore House, Kensington-gore, on Monday,
die 26th. Alter that day the exhibition is to be open daily,
front 10 till 4—admission free, without tickets. Works
from the following schools (self-supporting and suhaidised)
are exhibited in competition for prizes : Aberdeen (a.s.),
Beau?, B rmingham, Bunlem (s.s.), Bristol (i.e.), Carnal-
von 04A, Charterhouse (a.s.), Chester (so.), Cork, Coven-
try, DOH., Hadley (s s.), Durham (s.s.), Finsbury (so ).
Glasgow, Hereford (i.e.), Llenelly (a.s ), Leeds, Limerick,
Macelistield, Mpuchester, Merthyr Tydvil (s.s.), Metropo-
litan Male, Metropolitan Female. Nc wcastle-uuder- Line
(s.s.), Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Norwich, Nottingham,

Potteries, Stourbridge, Spitalfields,
Swansea (5...), Warrington (..s.), Waterford (s.s,), Wol-
verhampton (...), Worcester, York.

The King of Hanover has sent 501. to be diatri•
Doted amongst the poor of the parish of Kew to-day to
liable them to espy the pleasures of Christmas.
Min Burdett Coutte, who has been staying at
Ct.antilly, has returned to Paris, it is undentood, to pass
the louver there.

rho Petre, the well-known ironfounder of
Sweden, has jut lied. He we., as a private gentleman, •
merchant, and a member of parliarner t, the friend
of freed •m, toleration, and advancement. His wealth was
. .

amps:Wily. iterated to the support of literature.