The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-15 00:00:00

int Court.

OSBORNE, DEc. 14.
Owing to the unfavourable state of the weather
the Royal Family were unable to leave the boas* yesterday
morning.
In the afternoon the Queen and Prince and royal children
took their usual exercise.

Mr. R. M'Calmont Cairns, M.P. for Belfast, and a de-
putation had an interview with the Berl of Aberdeen yes-
terday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
& deputation, consisting of William Corse!. and John
Peacock, from the merchants and inhabitants of Gibraltar,
introduoed by Mr. Jobn Bright. M.P., and accompanied by
Mr. J. B. Smith, M.P., Mr. G. B. Carr, Mr. J. Aspinal
Turner, President of the Commercial Association, Mauch's-
ter Mr. Henry Ashworth. Vice-President of the Chamber
of Commerce; Mr. John Slang, Director of the Chamber
of Commerce ; Mr. Mosley, Mr. Fred. Jackson. Mr. David
B. Power, Mr. John Ingram Travers, and Mr. Charles
Blake, had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yes-
terday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. French, M.P., had an interview with Vimount Pal-
merston, at the Home-office, on Tuesday.
Despatches for the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope,
and also for the Governor of the Mauritius, were sant lan
evening from the Colonial-office.

Her Majesty has announced her intention of con-
tributing 250 L towards the funds of the Association for Pro-
Moths; the Relief of Destitution in the Metropolis.
It in announced on authority by the Edinburgh
Evening Post, that her Majesty has conferred a pension of
501. per annum ea the widow of the Enrich Shepherd.
It is stated that General Wetherell, at present
Deputy Adjutant General, has declined the post vacated by
his senior oficer.

The Rev. William Thomas Newenham has been
licensed to the perpetnal curacy of St. John's Church, West
Derby, is the meaty of Lancaster. Patron. Edward Mo-
Irian:,
The Lord Justice Knight Bruce has severely
bruised the bow of his knee ley a fell, and there is no pro
Debility of hie resuming his judicial duties for some days.
An Edinburgh correspondent of the Dumfries
Cowries says—" It is said that • new edition of DegeM
Stewart's works is in tee press, embracing a series of his
lectures ea political annesay not hitherto published—large
=of which, I believe, are in the handwriting of Lord
tee, who wee an inmate of the illustrious professor's
hexes when he was engaged in the composition of those lec-
tures, sad relieved thesis of a large share of the drudgery
of ussecriptlea."
Mr. HartauN of the Liverpool Observatory, has
announced his observation of M. Klinkerfaes' tetumpic
comet. Ile says, by ernaparing his observation with those
of the 24 of December taken at Gottiogen, the comet's
motion appears to be diminishing in right auension 2 Mill.
15 ens., and in declination 1 deg. 14 este. 40 seat. daily. A
comet wu discovered on the 25th November, by Mr. P.
Van Andel', of Newark, United States of America. It
was in the constellation " Caseiopeia " North dec. 80 deg
12 min., right ascension 2h. S min., and it came to
the meridian et 9h. 48 min. It was mall, round,
bright, but not visible to the naked eye. It had a very
rapid motion going from the sea—indeed, a change of its
place was perceptible even ea the evening of its die-
overy.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN NOT GIVEN UP.
We are requested to contradict the statement
which appeared in last Monday's Times, and which
furnishes the material of a leading article in the
same paper of yesterday's date. The Admiralty
have not ordered Sir John Franklin', name to be
struck off their books. Such a measure could only
be taken in the event of his death being reported or
all search proving fruitless ; for, so lung as older
captains are retained on the books, his age (67) can-
not be considered a disqualification. But no such
report has been made ; and even the searches now
making by Belcher to the east and Collinson to the
west are not yet concluded. Indeed the latter, as
we learn from the Amphitrite, had not been heard
of by any one of the ships sent to deposit provisions,
&c., last autumn in his supposed homeward track.
It is not the intention to abandon Collinson thus
prematurely without further search, and in seeking
him we may hope also to discover some survivors of
Franklin's company.

A Cumuli BANK.—A painting, the property of a
broker in Andenton, was the other day confided by his
daughter to a Pole, (or the purpose of having it glazed.
The owner, on missing the picture, betrayed an unusual
anxiety as to its whereabouts; which, however, was
somewhat natural, seeing that he had been in the habit
of depositing bank notes fur safety between the hack
and the canvas. Upon discovering into whose possession
it had faller., the broker instantly repaired to the Pole,
and, on unscrewing the bark, found, to his great mortitica-
tion, that six IL notes bad been abstracted. Information
was immediately conveyed to the police, who had the
glazier's house searched, but none of the money turned
up ; and it having since transpirnl that the picture with
the hidden treasure bad passed through other hands before
it reached the Pole, he has been discharged from custo4.—
North Dralsth Daily Mail.