The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-22 00:00:00

ebe Court.

WINDSOR, TUESDAV.—The Queen and Prince
Albert, with the Royal family, arrived from Osborne at the
Castle at 2 minutes before 3 o'clock this afternoon. Her
Majesty and the Prince were attended by the Viscountess
Canning, Lady in Waiting ; Hon. Miss Kerr, Maid of
Honour in Waiting ; Col. Hon. Chas. Grey, Equerry in '
Waiting; Col. Bourerie Equerry in Waiting to Prince'
Albert ; and Major Gat:Bowles, Master of the Household.
The august party was escorted by a party of the Royal Regi-
ment of Horse Guards. Thu Queen and Prince Albert
wcro received at the Grand Entrance to the Castle by
Lord Waterpark, Lord in Waiting, and Captain Hon. A.
N. Hood.

The Royal Commission for inquiring into the Mer-
chant Semitone' Fund, held • meeting at the Board of Trade,
yesterday. The commissioners present were the Earl of
Ellenbcrough, Admiral Sir E. Codrington Sir W. Clay,
hi.P and tdr. Ilinderby. The board sat three hours and a
half.

The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday. Mr. Grace had also an interview yester-
day with the tight hon. baronet, at his official residence in
Downing.strest
A deputation from the committee of the Anti-
Interment in Towns Association, composed of C. Lushing-
ton, Esq., M.P., Scott Alison, Erg , M.D., A. Barnett, Esq.,
M.D., J. Rosen, Eq., M.8.C.5., Joseph Child, Esq.,
churchwarden of St. Ann's, J. George, overseer of S..
Ann's, and Mr. liallett, had an interview with Viscount
Morpeth yesterday, at the since of the Woods and Points.
Lord and Lady John Russell left town yesterday
en a visit to the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, Bed-
fordshire._ . _ _

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The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday for
his seat, Boweoci-park, Wilts.

[From last night's Gazelle.]
WHITEHALL, Dec. IB.—The Queen has directed
letters patent to be passed nodes' the Great Seal of the
United Kingdom, constituting and appointing the Right
Hon. George Earl of Auckland, G.C.8., Rear-Admiral J.
W. D. Handal, Capt. M. F. F. Berkeley, Capt. Lord J.
Hay, C. 8., the Hon. W. F. Cowper, and A. Milne, Esq.,
captain in the royal navy, her Majesty's commissioners far
executing the office of High Admiral of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dominions,
islands, and territories therei.nto belonging.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 18.—The Queen has appointed
Viscount saudon to be one of the ecclesiastical commis-
sioners for England, in the room of Lord Ashley, resigned.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 18. The Queen has di-
reefed letters patent to be passed under the great:seal of the
United Kingdom, appointing William Henry Tinney,
one of her Majesty's counsel learned in the law, to be one of
the Masters in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery, in
the room of Samuel Duckworth, Esq., deceased.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 21.—The Queen has ap-
pointed C. H. Darling, Esq., to be Lieut.-Goventor of the
island of St. Lucia ; It. Russell, Esq., to be Registrar of the
Court of Chancery and Clerk of the Patents for the island of li
Jamaica; J. W. Sheriff, Esq., to be Coroner for the island
of Antigua; P. Mille, Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor-
General for the island of None ; J. C. Fitzpatrick, Esq., to
be Assessor or Assistant to the Native Sovereigns and Chiefs
within the countries adjacent to her Majesty's forts and
settlements on the Gold Coast; W. Macartney, Esq., to be
Superintendent of Police at Colombo, in the island of Cey-
lon; E. Bage, Esq., to be Assistant Surveyor and Engineer,
and R. Armstrong, Eq., to be Police Magisttate, for the
colony of Sierra Leone.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 21.—The Queen has ap-
proved of Mr. C. Hempstead as Consul at Belize, in flandu-
ras, for the United States of America; of Mr. J. C. Stiffel u
Consul in London; and of Mr. J. Maunder as Consul at
Liverpool, for the republic of Havti.