The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-05 00:00:00

Vbe Court.

OSBORNE, DEC. 3.
' The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Bra-
bant, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely, the Countess
de Lanny, and the lion. Mary Seymour, drove out in an
open carnage and four yesterday afternoon. Lord Alfred
Paget was in attendance on horseback.
SUNDAY, Dec. 4.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by her Lady in Waiting,
arrived yesterday afternoon from her residence, Progmore,
en a visit to her Majesty.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert attended
divine service in Whippiogham Church.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office on Satur
day to the governors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, and the Aus-
tralian colonies.
The Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council sat on Satur-
day in the Privy Council Chamber, and concluded the
bearing of the petition from the states at the island of
Jersey. The Lords present were the Lord Chancellor, the
Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Chan•
cellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Lords Justice* Kuight
Bruce and Turner, the Judges of the Admiralty Court, and
Sir J. Patteson. The Hon. William:Bathunt, Clerk of the
Privy Council, attended.

Lord Woreley, who has been making a tour in the
dominions of the Sultan of Turkey, has left the head-
quarters of the Ottoman GeneraSiouan, Omer Pache, for
England, after having been present at the victory gained
by the Turks at Oltentts t.

Lord Beaumont, after a short stay at Turin, has
arrived in Paris, on his way to this country.

The Scottish Academy hu purchased from Mr.
Etty's executors his copits of "Venus," by Titian, and
" St. John Preaching," by Veronese, for the student.'
class.

M. de Coopmans, Chamberlain of the King of
Denmark, and his Majesty's Minister at the Court of Bel-
gium, died on Wednesday, at Brussels, aged 71.

Hercules J. Robertson, Egg. (Advocate, 1817), Sheriff
Depute of Renfrewshire, is appointed a Judge of the Court
of Session in Scotland, in the room of Lord Fullerton, re-
signed. Er. Robertson will take his seat as Lord lien-
holme.
The Hon. 0. S. Stafford Jerniogham, now Secretary to
the Embassy at Paris, is appointed her Majesty's Minister
at Stockholm, in place of Sir Edmund Lyons, Bart., G.C.8.,
who has resigned, on his appointment to the Second Com-
mand of the Mediterranean Squadron.
Ihe Hon. W. C. Eliot (son of Earl St. Germans, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland), now Unpaid Attache at Lisbon, is
appointed Second Paid Attache to her Majesty's Mission at
Berlin, in the room of the Hon. Vesey Bligh, resigned.
Mr. William Braude Pollard is appointed Financial Ac-
countant in British Guiana.

Mr. David C. Smith is appoin'ed a Member of the Legis-
lative Council if the Turks Islands.

The two Senior Masters in Chancery, Mr. Senior and Sir
W. Horne, have been released by the Lord Chancellor,
under the powers of the MaMers in Chancery Abolition
Act, and the causes remaining unfinished in their offices
have been transferred to the five continuing masters.
The office of Surveyor-General of the Customs for the
Port of London has become vacant by the retirement of
Mr. Philip Fencing', and the following promotions have
been approved by the Board of Customs, viz. :—Mr. Joseph
Rolle, third Inspector-General of the Waterside and Ware-
housing Departments, to be Surveyor-General, with a
salary of 8001. per annum. Mr. H. C. Brown, now Land-
ing Surveyor, to be Third Impector•General, with a salary
of 6001. per annum. Mr. T. E. Carter, now Jerquer, to be
Landing Surveyor of the Third Class, with a salary of 500/.
per annum. The office of Jerquer will be filled by the
promotion of one of the senior Searchers and Landing
Waiters.—Observer.