The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-10 00:00:00

Vbe Court.

WINDSOR, Jaw. 8.

Priam Albert, accompanied by the Prince of
Leiniagen Prince Edward of Bass Weimar, and Major-
General 84 0. Bowles, went out shooting this morning,

attended by Lient.-ColOnel F. H. Seymour.:
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary of
Cambridge with the whole of the visiting company, ham
left the Coil's to-day.
The Hos. Amelia Murray and the Hon. Lacy M. Kerr
have succeeded the Hon. Matilda Paget and the Hon. Mary
Seymour as Maids of Honour in Writing to the Queen.
Lieut.-Colonel the Right Hon. Cecil Forester had an
audience of the Queen to-day, on resigning the Milos of
Comptroller of the Household.
Those who dined with Her Majeety this day were the
Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Letningen, the Princess
Adelaideof Hohenlohe, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess
of Kent, and the Baroness de Speth.
The Queen's private band was in attendance after dinner
in the Cast's, and performed the following selection:
Overtur•—" Leonora"
Beteetloa. let Act —" Unkind. " Monet.
Mete etradelia" Flotow.
JAW CLAY 9.

The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales,iCePrneess
Royal and Princess Alice, the Duchess nf Kent, the Prince
of Leiningen, and Princess Adelaide of Holtenlobe, with the
ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic house-
hold, attended divine service in the private chapel of the
Castle this morning. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley
onciated.

The Earl of Aberdeen and Lord John Russell arrived in
town on Saturday morning from Windsor Castle.
Earl Granville (Lord President) was prevented attending
the Cabinet Council on Saturday by his recent accident.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town on
Saturday.
Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-
oaks to the Governors of Hong Kong and Ceylon, the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and the Gover-
nor of Malta.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. It was at-
tended by the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston,tord John
Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood,
and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat three
hours.

OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.

The Duke of Wellington has been appointed
Muter of the Horse.
The Right Hon. Edward Strutt, M.P., Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster, has appointed his bro-
ther-in-law, Mr. W. M. James, of the Chancery bar,
Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy. The learned gentle-
man was previously the Attorney-General's counsel
in charity matters and informations.

The Muter of the Rolls has appointed Mr. Ken-
yon L. Parker, Q.C., to seemed Mr. Thomas Hall Plumer,
deceased, as one of the Examiners in the Court of Chancery
The other Braminership, vacant (after many years' service)
by the promotion of the Hun. C. P. Villiers, M.P., to On.
office of Judge Advocate to the Queen, will be conferred
upon Mr. C. Otter, Barrister-at-Law, of Lincoln's-inn.
' Mr. Charles Cardwell, of Lincoln's-inn, is the Private Se-
' cretary of the President of the Board of Trade.
The Vioe.President (and Paymaster), Lord Stanley of
Alderley, continues Mr. Edgar Rowring as his Secretary at
the Board of Trade.
Hr. Bernal Osborne has selected Mr. IL E. C. Stapylton,
of the Admiralty, as his official Private Secretary.
Sir Thomas Redington has appointed Mr. Arthur Hob-
house (of the Board of Control) to be his official Private
Secretary.

THE ELECTIONS.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY.

OXFORD, SATURDAY.
The result of the day's polling
With
increased Mr.
Gladstone's majority of 56 to 87. With the exception of
the ant half-hour, when Mr. Percevare friends reduced his
minority to 64, and the last quarter of an hour, when they
reduced it 6 by polling several of the committee, namely,
from 92 to 87. the polling was a second edition of that of
yesterday. The committee of Mr. Percival, it is stated,
have a great reserve of votes, including the Carlton Club,
with which they will endeavour not only to overwhelm the
majority, but to place Mr. Perceval at the head of the poll
by a very large number. It is net likely, however, they
will And so many to join " the forlorn hope " as they an.
tinplate, and there can now be little doubt that at the
close of the poll Mr. Gladstone will mxintain his preeeut
position. It will be settled on Monday whether the poll
shall be closed on the eighth day, or whether it shall be
kept open fourteen days.
=vein o'ccoch.
Gladstone 498
Percival

Majority foe Gladstone
swit.on o'cLocn.
61l
Gladstone
447
Pereeval —

liojority for Glod.toee 64
ONE O'CLOCZ.

Gladstone MI
Pereeval
Majority for Gladstone B6
CIICAUTIII FAST TWO O'CLOCK.
Gladstone 634
Perosvel

Majority for Gladstone 7O
KALIF-PUT TWO O'CLOCK.
Gladstone 532
Percival
Majority for Gladstone BO
HALP•PAIT FOUR O'CLOCK.
GISSIKOSO 583
Percival

Majority for Gladstone 9O
P 1,3 O'CLOCK.
Gladstone 685
Pere:evil
Majority for Gladstone B7
Total number polled 1,083.
Amongst those who voted to-day for Mr. Gladstone were :
the Rev. Thos. Hoble, C. C. C.; C. W. Barrett, D.C.L. ;
O. W. Dement, D.C.L.; Rev. J. G. Brine, B.D. ; Mr. S. P.
Coekerill ; J. A. Hovey, D.C.L. ; Very Rev. W. D. Cony-
bear* ; Lord Ashburton ; Rev. Canon Cureton ; the Lord
Bishop of Cape Town ; Rev. W. Greeley ; Rev. A. Pott ;
Rev. N. Pocock Greswell; Boor. G. F. Noad,
; Rev. G. T. Cooke ; Mr. A. 11. D. Troyts
J. G. Casenove ; Rev. P. L. Dyke Ackland ; Mr. J. B. A.
Ackland; Hugh Jones, D.D. ; Rev. the Senior Proctor ;
Rey. J. Rigand; Rev. T. Helga (Magdalen) ; Rev. Sir G.
Prevost ; Rev. C. R. Conybeare ; Mr. J. T. Delano ; Rev.
R. Martin.
The following supported Mr. Percevol : Rsv.%W. J. B.
Bennett, of Frame ; Charles Deane, D.C.L. ; W. Fletcher,
D.D.. T. H. Newman, D.D. ; Sir W. Riddell; Hon. and
Rev. S. Waldegrave ; P. Maurice, D.D.; the President of
Corpus ; F. P. Here, ; Mr. H. C. Calverly.

EXHIBITION OF POCLTRY.—On Saturday the
various specimens of poultry to be exhibited at the Baker-
street Bazaar to-morrow and three succeeding days under
the auspices of the Great Metropolitan Poultry Club, were
roosismd and deposited in the various places assigned to
de m. saara istereating and noisy collection cannot
tadllasa.gbeed, eight hundred to a thousand cocks, each
esithemeettei is outvie its neighbour in the strength and
bola glib new, and all exerting their lungs in most in-
harmeedseis soseert. Cochin Chinas abound, and some of
the male birds are of extraordinary height, the hens are in
proportion, chiefly of the " buff " and white species. There
are also some fine specimens of the domestic Dorking, the
spangled Hamburg, Poland ruffs, bantams, and other fancy
species, and several pens of magnificent turkeys, geese,
ducks, Ike. In the pigeon classes there are some pens of
Gouts Victoria pigeons, never before exhibited in this coun-
try. These pigeons ere from one of ;the large islands in the
Indian Archipelago, and have a species of top knot, spring-
ing out of the head, somewhat similar to the feathers of a
peacock's tail. In the flying tumbler class there is an ex-
traordinary pen of six pied rollers, feather legged. The
kind is not generally known, but the birds are remarkable
for the height of their flying. The owner has a flight of
40, and they keep on the wing tight hours without once
settling. Their roiling propensity is very peculiar; some of
them will roll 100 yards, and they do it so cleverly as to re-
semble a ball with a small hole in the middle. The other
specimens are equally curious. The judges will make their
awards to-day, and the private view will take place in the
evening. The prizes to be awarded, although trivial in
each of the classes, the highest not exceeding three guineas
and the lowest in some of the classes flpe shillings, amount
to 'event hundred pounds in the aggregate of the 61 classes,
into which the poultry is divided. There arc entries in
the poultry classes made fur 708 pens, consistk g io most in-
stances of a cock and three hens in each pen, thus makieg
in the aggregate something like 2,800 birds in the pigeoa
cisme.
THE Loss OF THE VICTORIA STEAM SHIT, OF
Hera.—An inquiry is now proceeding b fore Captain
Beechey, R.N., and Captain Welker, U.N., of the naval
department of the Boani of Trade, at the offices of that
department, at Whitehall, relative to the loss of the Vic-
toria, Hull steamer, which was wrecked some weeks
since near Gothenburg, and was attended by a melan-
choly loss of life. Some delay has been experienced in
procuring the attendance of the crew of the ship so as to'
give evidence, and es yet the captain has not been exa-
mined, he not having returned from Gothenburg. We
believe the evidence, or ports of it, will be made public
when the investigation may be said to have been brought
lon tenaioatioa.