The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-25 00:00:00

lit Court.

WINDSOR, Dtc. 24.
The following had the honour of dining at the
royal table last evening:—the Duchess of Kent, the Lady-
in- Waiting to her Royal Highness, the Danntess de Speth,
General Sir Julius Hartmann, Colonel Hon. Charles Grey,
Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington, Sir George Cowper,
Lieut.-Colonel Muller, and Captain Caudell. The hand of
the Royal Horse Guards was in attendance during dinner,
and performed the

thrertare a' A underwitaper" Mawr.
Selection "Linda de Charnauni"
Will. x "Palre,t r.f Ihe lair" A te-rt.
Aria "Itailytto Desercue"
Galan "Review"
Ifer Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the
Castle, and pitied the following selecting' :
°tenure, Naehtlager volt Granada"
Tei itetto Fatale. let Act " Euryantbc" ...... Weber.
The Queen walked in the Home Park and Slopes this
morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and younger
members of the Royal Family, took their usual ex-
ercise.

Prince Albert went out shooting this morning, attended
by the Marquis of Ormunde, Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, Co-
lonel Hon. N. Hood, and Colonel Bouverie.
General Sir Julius Hartmann, Li.mtenant-Colonel Miil-
ler, and Captain Gaudell took their departure from the
Callao this forenoon.

Her 313jesty will hold a Privy Council to-morrow
(Friday), the 2Gth instant, at Windsor Castle. Summonses
were faith:4 yesterday to tiie ministers and officers of
state.

Lord John Russell arrived in town yesterday morning,
from the seat of the Duke of B. dined, Wuburu Abbey,
Bedfordshire. His Excellency the Russian Minister had
an interview with his loriLhip, at his official residence, in
Downing-street. In the afternoon, Lord and Lady John
Russell left town fur Pembroke-lodge, Richinond-park.
The City Ilemembrancer had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
Do.p.t:ehes were sent off yesteril ,y hum the Cu!onial-
Ake to the Governors of Hong Kong and Ceylon.

GRANVILLE GEORGE LEVEBON-GOWIER, second Earl
Granville, and now her hlajesty's Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, is a comparatively young man, having
been burn in 1813. He graduated at Christ Church, Ox-
ford; was for a short time attaché to the British embassy in
Paris, and subsequently under-secretary of state for foreign
affairs; was appointed a railway commissioner in 1:16, in
which year he succeeded to the earldom ; master of the
Queen Iruckhounds, July, 1816 ; vice-pri.sident of the
Hoard of Trale, May, 1518; was M.P. for Morpeth, from
February, 183 i, to February, 1810, and sat for Lichfield,
from September, 1811, to January, 1846; was appointed a
deputy-lieutenant of Salop, NH; second-major, Stafford-
shire yeomanry, 1818. Ea;l Livinville was, it must be re-
membered, chairman of the council of the Royal Commiiision
of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Tue first cart was a dis-
tinguished diplomatist ; he was undo to the second Duke
of Sutherland, and was long known as Lord Granville
Leveson-Goaer. It is wanted that Lord Granville's ten-
th:odes ors decidedly liberal—mere so, it is alleged, on
many points of general politic,i, than those either of Lord
Clarendon or Lord Palmerton; though he lacks the pres-
tige of the sue and the long experience of the other.