The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-19 00:00:00

'etc Court.

WINDSOR, Nov. 17.
The Queen attended by the Count, es cf Mount
Edgecumbe and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. Gray, drove in
Windsor Perk this morning.
His Boyel Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this
morning, attenJ.•d by Lord Dufferin, ifi.jor General B lwles,
C spiel's Hon. J. D amen, and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. A.
Gordon.
The royal family took their tonal airings.
The Duke of Welligg'on strived at the Castle to-day, on a
visit te the Queen and Price.• Albert.
The royal dinner party this evening included her Royal
Hmhaess the Duchess of Kent, (attended by her Royal
Highnore- belies in Waiting) the Duke of Wellington and
Igeu•.-Cobriel Park•r (ls• Life Guards).
The Prussian Minister left the Castle this morning.
No aaaaa 18 —The Queen and Prince Albert walked
this morning in the Slopes.
The royal family took their accustomed airing.
The Queen end his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the
ladies sad gentl. men of the court, and the domestic house-
hold, attended divine service in the private chapel this
!Doming. The Hon. end Rev. G. Wellesley officiated.
H. r Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also attended
the service.
Her Majesty the Queen gave the anal sitting for her bust
to gets. Tuort.ycroft ou S iturday.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.
The Priory, Nov. 17, 1849.
" The Queen Dowager was for a short time yes-
terday faint and oppri lied, but her Majesty has passed a
g od night, and is not 1. s+ well this morning.
" DAVD lES, M.D."
Yesterday the Queen Durant remained much as usual.
Sir David Davies left Bentley. Priory yesterday morning for
town, but returned to the Priory in the afternoon.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at-
tended divine service yesterday afternoon in Grosvenor
Cnspel, Sruth Aunty-street
Sir Claude Wade had an interview with Lord John
R •s•ell on Sa,urday Mt. Briutit hid also an interview with
his lordship, at his (*lasi resid•-nee, in D et.
The Char cellor of the Exchequer left town on
Saturday, for his seat, Riekleton-hall near Doncaster.
De spitches from the Governor of the Falkland
Islands were received Ni Saturday, at the Colonial (faze.
Mr. Manta and Mr. Sponner had an interview on
Saturday with L••rd John Russell. Mr. Rd% ard Canolly
had also an interview with the noble lord on Saturday.

Captain Lnrd Adolphus Fitzetonnee will leave St.
James's, on Tkunday, to take the command of the royal
yacht on the following day, when the Queen and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, and the youthful members of the
royal family. pron. e to Osborne from Windsor Castle.
His Excellency M. Drouyn de Lhuys, accompanied
by his lady, left the ert nch embassy, on Tuesday l vs, for
Paris, on leave of
His Excellency the Earl of Westmoreland leaves
London, in a few drys, for Paris, in which capital the noble
earl will make a brief s juurn, previous to repairing to ➢ere
lin, to resume his diplomsoic duties.

WIVDSOR 'ASTLE THEATRICALe.—Her Majesty
has expressed her entire approval of the arrangements effected
by Mr. Charles Kean, relative t • the entertainments at
Windsor Carle during the Christmas holidays. The first
piece selected by her !gaited, and her Royal Consort, is
Shakspeare's tragedy of " Ceeear," which will bt
very porerfully car. Mr. Macresdy has consented to co.
operate wish Mr. K. an, in ord. r to render this fine prattle
tion of the immortal herd as effective as possible. The
first representation is fixed for Friday, Dec. 28. S .me
beautiful scenery for the piece is in course of preparation by
Mr. Grieve.

THE NEW MASTER IN CUANCERY.—We have the
lafiafaction of sating, that the appointment of Master in
Chime. ry vacated by Mr. Wingfield, has been bestowed on
John Bluish Blunt, Bag , the well known, and much re-
spected, Equity draughtsman.
CONSULAR AND COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS.—Mr.
George Charles Mn .re is appointed her Britannic Majesly's
consul for the Society Island., to raid. at Tahiti, where he
has been acting consul for some time. The removal of the
British consul (Mr. Nit n Kerr), which we mentioned some
time Lack, from Cyprus to Rhodes, is caused by the esta-
blishment, at the latter plane, of an insular psahalic. All
the Turkish ilium& in the Archipelago are to be subject to
this new government, instead of being under the rule of the
capitan pasha as hitherto. It has, therefore, been considered
expedient that the representative of English interests st•ould
reside at the seat of government, as fixed. Mr. Kerr will
receive the same amount of income as he did at Cyprus,
where a resident vice-consul will be appointed without salary.
Charles John Barley, Big., is appointed solonial secretary at
the Manrit'us. Robert Carter, Esq., is appointed colonial
treasurer at Newfoundland. C. Lake, Esq., is appointed
stipendiary magistrate at Jamaica.—Obserrer.

IFIEALTiI OF LORD DENMAN.—We were informed,
last night, at the town voidance of Lord Denman, that the
accounts received during the week from Stoney Middleton,
represented his lordship to be steadily improving in health,
and that letters writun with his own hand had been re-
' calved on Friday.—Weekly Chronicle of yesterday.

DETENTION OF THE WEST INDIA MAIL.—A tele-
graph message was despatched to Southampton from the
Admiralty on Saturday, ordering the West India mail-
packet, Severn. which was to leave at 2 pan., to be detained
until the arrival of a special messenger at Southampton. The
messenger left London by train in the afternoon with im-
portant despatches for one of the principal naval officers
belonging to the fleet in the Pacific. The despatches were
given in charge of the Admiralty agent on board the Severn,
to be sent across the Isthmus of Panama on to their destina-
tion. The Severn left on Saturday evening.
THE MURDER IN MILLBANK PENITENTIARY.—On
Saturday morning, Mr. Burrell, the magistrate at the West-
minster police court, accompanied by the chief clerk and
other officials attached to the court, proceeded to the board-
room in Millbauk Penitentiary, for the purpose of taking
the depositions of the several witnesses spinet the Jew con-
vict, John Francis, for the murder of Mr. Thomas Hall, the
warder, who died on the Bth inst. A full report of the Coro
ner's inquest, which was held at the prison on Saturday last,
bas already eppeage.l in our column.. The HMO evidence
was adduced before the magistrate, and it is, therefore, un-
necessary to repeat it. The prisoner wee placed before the
magistrate, and during the examination of the witnesses he
was strictly guarded. After the depoaitioes had been com-
pleted, and signed by all the witnesses, Mr. Burrell read the
prisoner the usual caution, that if he said an in his
defence it would he written down and used against him
L her, after. The prisoner declined saying an, thing, and the
magistrate, in the psis ,1 manner, committed him to New-
gate, to take his ,vial for murder at the approaching see/ions.
The witnesses were all boned over to prosecute, and the
prisoner was pieced in a cab, in the custody of two warders,
and lodged in Newgate. It was stated before the magistrate
that the prisoner has been 'cry reserved since he committed
the murder, and constantly reading the Hebrew Bible,
which had been given him by the chaplain, the Rev. Mr.
Penny. One of the readers of the Synagogue attended him
during the week, and told him that conceal would be em-
ployed for him.
FIRE IN THE DOPER-ROAD.—Early on Saturday
morning a fire broke out on the premiLes o Mr. Thiselton, a
dealer in Berlin wool, at No. 119, Dover-road, Newington.
The flames were fir.t discovered in the shop by the police,
and on the alarm brine given, the inmates had great diffi-
culty in effecting their escape by the roof on to the contiguous
houses. The escape of the Royal Society wee quickly on the
spot, and the engines of the brigade and West of England
were in prompt atteadence, and the firemen were prepared
to act, but the mains of tke Southwark Company afforded no
water. After a delay of a quarter of an hour, a supply of
water came, and the engines were instantly set in molten,
and by great exertions the flames were got under, but not
until Mr. Thiselton's premises were totally destroyed, and
several of the adjacent houses serious damaged Mr. Braid-
wood, in his official report, stated that the house was burned
dowu for want of water.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday morning a
hog pig, the pr perty of Mr. John Boardman, gardener,
Lower-road, Distforl, rubbed open the dye door and made
its way into the parlour, where the animal attacked a male
intent, atnut fled mordhs old, lying asleep in the cradle.
The cries of the child alarmed Mrs. Boardman, who was in
the kitchen adjoining, and with much difficulty she beat off
the beset, whi 11 also bit her severely in the leg. The child
was shockinglr lacerated, the left foot being entirely
gnawed off. It is not expected to survive. The animal was
at once destroyed.