The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-21 00:00:00

Cpe Court.

The Queen gave last evening at Buckingham
Palace a concert, to which their Majesties the King and
Queen of Hanover, the members of the royal family, and •
large party of the nobility and gentry were invited.
Their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover arrived
at the Palace at 25 minutes past nine o'clock, attended by
Baroness De:leen, Baroness Gabelents, Countess Bernstorff,
Baron de Malortie, Lieut.-General Count Decken, Lord
Elphinstone, Major-General Buckley, Baron Hedemano,
Baron de Boddien, Baron do Heitzenstern, Baron d'lsecn-
durff, Baron do Wense, Dr. Kaufmann, Dr. Lea, and
Mr. H. Fitzroy Somerset.
Their Majesties were received in the Grand Hall by the
Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain ; Lord Ernest
Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain ; and also by the Lady and the
Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Queen, and the Lords,
Grooms, and Equerries in Waiting to the Queen and Prince
Albert.

The Duchess of Gloucester wee attended by Lady Geor-
gina Bathurst.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary
arrived, ,attended by Lady Suffield and Baron Knells-
beck.

The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, joihcd
the royal circle, attended by Baroness Oa Wangenheim,
Baron Sebach, and Baron Treskow.

The Herediiary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess and the
Duchesi Caroline of Mecklenburg Straits, arrived, attended
by Lady Caroline Cust,Baroneu Wenchstein, and Baron
Lillie.

The Duke of Cambridge was attended by Lord W.
Paulet.

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The Princess Adelaide of Ilohenlohe was attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson.
lien Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by their
august guests, and followed by the distinguished party
honoured with invitations, entered the Pleture Gallery,
which was fitted up for the concert, at a quarter before ten
o'clock. The Queen and the assembled company being
seated, the concert commenced.

The following was the programme:
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Chorus, " WaeForfabrt," 6 the 7.7.01--ogno Choral
Union wider the direction of Herr Funs

weber
Air, " Macht man ha Leber'," Herr Formes (Die
Throne)
Trio, "Utoeinetto ',miler," Mesdames Bodo, Cas
teilan, a Viardot (II Cmciatu In Egitto)...
Air. "Deli Tient non tardar," Madame Morelia
pieta° di Figaro) Mourt.
Ciaartetto, " Dail' °dente," Madarne,Bosio a Vier
dot, Sig. Ciardoni e Hem Formes Rossini.
Air, "Sighs iris," Sig. Romig Handel.
Quoted and chorus " Die jungenmusikanten," by
the Cologne Choral Union
PENTII SECOND.,
Chorus, " Das Kirehlein," by the Cologne Choral
Union
Air, "Mi par the an lungo steolo," Madame Sado
(Nina Paull)
Duo, "Clue! sepolero," Madame Novelle a Signor
Romani (Agnew) Paer.
Rumania, "Della seas quad° e Pore," Signor
Content (Euryanthe)
Dao, . Vanne ae alberghe in petto," Mesdames
Custelian e Viardot (Andronieo) Mamba%
Chorus, "Liebe and Wei n," by the Cologne Choral
Union Mendelesohn,
Mr. Costa presided at the pianoforte

The following had the honour of receiving invitations :
His Serene Highness the Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar,
and the Countess of Dornburg, the French Ambassador and
Countess Walewski, and the First Secretary of the Em-
busy, the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the
Russian Minister and Baroness do Brunnow, the Hanove-
rian Minister, the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen,
the Swedish and Norwegian Minister, the Spanish Minister,
the Sardinian Minister, the Greek Minister and Madame
Triceupi, the Turkish Minister and Madame Musurus, the
Netherlands Minister, the Portuguese Minister and
Countess de Lavradio, the Sicilian Minister and Princess di
Carini, the Austrian Minister and Countess Colloredo, the
United States Minister, the Peruvian Minister, the Persian
Minister and the Secretary Interpreter of Legation, the
Saxon Minister, the Tuscan Minister, the Mexican Chargé-
d'Affaires and Madame Facio, Baroness Decken, Baroness
Gabelenta, Countess Bernstorff, Baron de Malortie, Lieut.
General Count Decken, Colonel Baron Hedemann, Major
Baron de Boddien, Captain le Baron de Reitzenstein, Capt.
Ic Baron d'lsaendorff, Baron de Wcese, Dr. G. Kaufmann,
Dr. Lea, M. Pabst, Mr. R. Fitzroy Somerset, Miss Wil-
cocks, Dr. Spiridion Valsorite, Baroness de Wangenheim,
Baron Seebach, Captain Baron de Treskow, -Baroness
Weocbstein, Baron Lulu.
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ARCHBISHOPS—Canterbury, York, Armagh.
Dtraws—Norfulk, Sutherland, Wellington, Bedford,
Argyll, Walton, Athull, Newcastle, Bumleach, Cleveland,
Montrose. _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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Di:cumin—Montrose, Norfolk, Bedford, Grafton,
Cleveland, Buceleuch, Buckingham, Sutherland, Argyll,
Atholl. _

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MARQUDlRS—Brearlabane Anglesey, Kildare, Win-
cheater, Salisbury, Londonderry, Drogheda, Ely, Down-
shire,
Blandford, Lansdowne.
Mencitioxassis—Drogheda, Downehire, Londonderry,
Kildare, Salisbury, Ely, Blandford, Breadalbane, Bath.
EARLS—Beishorough, Mulgrave, Aberdeen, Arundel
and Surrey, Granville, Clarendon, Shelburne, Ramo,
Shaftesbury, Browolow, Bruce, Sandwich, Bathurst,
Carlisle, Cawdor, Chichester, Clanwilliam, Talbot, Vern-
lam, Yarborough, Zetland, Charlemont, Gainsborough,
Desert, Derby, Ellenborough, Cowper, Forteacue, Mac-
clesfield, Morley, Mount Edgcumbe, Somers, Harewood,
Jump, Howe, Listowel.
Couxvissza—Charlemont, Gainsborough, Desert, Bess-
borough, Granville, Arundel and Surrey, Clarendon,
Sandwich, Shaftesbury Shelburne, Brownlow, Bruce,
Cawdor, Chichester, dianwilliam, Row, Yarborough,
, Talbot, Yerulam, Zetland, Dunmore Portescue, Cowper,
Mount Edgcumbe, Somers, Harewciod, Howe, Listowel,
Derby, Morley, Mansfield, Maccleafield, Mulvey..
VlSCOUFTS—Palmerston Drumlanrig, Sydney, Her-
dinge, Caallereagh, Ebrington, Folkestone, Gough, Joce-
lyn, Canning, Hill, Mahon, Galwa
VlSCOClNTlllBlll—Stratford de Radcliffe, Palmerston,
Sydney, Ilardioge, Newport, Mahon, Ebrington' Folke-
stone, Drumlanrig, Clough, Jocelyn, Canning, Galway,
Hill, Castlereagh.
BlSHOPS—Peterborough, Salisbury, Chester.
Loans—Foley, Charles Wellesley, M.P., Truro, Dufferin,
Lyttolton,Ern.st Bruce, M.P.,George Lennox, James Mur-
ray, A. Fateclarence, Cranworth, John Russell, Raglan,
Wodebouse, Clarence Paget, Blantyre, Wbarncliffe, Col-
chester, Colborne, Cremorne, Feversham, Byron, Camoys,
Portman, Robert Grosvenor, M.P., C. Fitzroy, Elphinstone,
Lilford, Iladdo, John Manners, Ossulston, M.P., Redes-
dale, Riven.
Bestotesea—Keith and Nairee.

LADIES—G. Bathurst, C. Cut, C. Conley, Portman,
Rokeby, E. rusty, C. Buckley, E. Murray,John Manners,
Adeliza Howard, Foley, James Murray, C. Murray, Suffield,
George Lennox, Charles Fitzroy, Bowater, Lyttelton, Dow.
Lyttelton, C. Vernon Harcourt, E. Hervey, C. Ceurtenay,
Colchester, Olivia Ossulston, Camoys, E. Bulteel, Byron,
Cremorne, Agaes Duff, Claud Hamilton, Haddo, C. Bar-
rington, Charles Wellesley, Colborne, Graham, Mary Wood,
Molesworth, Lilford, Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Faversham,
M. Vyner, Raglan, Clarence Paget, Couper, Truro, Cran-
worth, Wodehouse, A. Charteris, Rivers, Ernest Bruce,
John Russell, B. Balfour, A. Baring, Wharncliffe, Anna
M. Dawson, SeLmour, Blantyre, Cowley.
CooNT—De Flabault.
BARONESS—Do Speth.
BIGHT lioNovannims—Sir D. Donau Sir R. Adair,
Sir F. Baring, E. Strutt, M.P., W. E. Gladstone, Sir W.
Molesworth, Sidney Herbert, Sir J. Graham, Sir C. Wood,
M. T. Baines, M.P., C. Shaw Lefevre, Spencer Walpole,
M.P., B. Disraeli, Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., Lord Sey-
mour, M.P., Viscount Newport, M.P., Lieut.-Colonel G.
W. Forester, Sir G. Grey.
HONOVDABLES—CoIoneI Liddell, Mrs. Liddell, Colonel
C. B. Phipps, Mrs. Phipps, Mrs. Airey, Rev. G. Wellesley,
Mrs. Sidney Herbert, F. Charteris, M.P., Mrs. Denison,
Miss Canning, Henry Fitzroy, Mrs. Fitzroy, Captain A.
Buncombe, Mrs. A. Buncombe, Mrs. Musgrave, Rev. C. L.
Courtenay, Col. C. Grey, Mrs. Grey, Caroline Cavendish,
Major. General Cavendish, Mary Bulteel, Flora Macdonald,
Susan Pitt, Miss Lyttelton, Captain do Rol, Lady Middle-
ton, Mrs. G. W. Hope, Miss Mitford.
SlDS—Edwin Landseer, Charles Lemon, William Mid-
dleton, R. H. Inglis, M.P., E. Bowater, J. Copley, George
Couper.
Puovnszon.—Sedgwick.
BRVIDEND—BeIIry M. Birch.
Mussireas—Gibbs, Glover, James Dun, J. M. Balfour,
William Russell, F. Peel, M.P., Farquharson of Inver-
could, Vyner, Charles C. F. °ravine, Hope, R. Ormsby
Gore, P. Pussy, H. Hallam.
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MISTRESSES—Baines, Shaw Lefevre, C. Raillia Hamil-
ton, Farquharson, Cornwall, Davys, Disraeli, R. Ormsby
Gore, Strutt, Graham, Gladstone, William Russell, Wal-
pole.
hitssus—Sumner, Vyner, G. Bulteel, M. Barrington.
Rain-Aminua—Meynell.

ONNERALS—Lord Sand's, Earl of Strafford, Buckley,
Sir o—Bowlea.

CoLonuLs—Biddolph, Cornwall, Harcourt, M.F., Lord
Rokeby, Francis Seymour, R. Airey.
MAJOR—Baron Knesebeck.

CAPTAlN—Hamilton.

Supper was served after the performance of the concert
in the dinner•rcom.

The Society of the Cologne Claoral Unioa attended at
half-past 9 o'clock yesterday morning, in Buckingham
Palace, and sang several of their vocal pieces, concluding
with " God save the Queen."

Their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover visited
the Que.'s, yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace,
where they arrived at 20 minutes past 3 o'clock, and were
received on their arrival by her Majesty and Prince Albert,
attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting. In at-
tendance on their Majesties were Baronets Gabelentr, Lord
Elphinstone, Major-General Buckley, and Baron de Bod-
dien, A.D.C. The Queen of Hanover left attended by
Baroness oabelents.
The King of Hanover accompanied the Queen and Prince
Albert, at 10 minutes before 4 o'clock, to the St. James's
Theatre, to honour with their presence the performance of
the Cologne Choral Union, for the benefit of the German
Hospital at Deleon. The royal suite consisted of the
Countess of Desert, Lord Riven., Lord Elphinstone, Lord
Charles Fitzroy, Major-General Buckley, Captain the Hon.
Dudley de Ros, and Baron de Botleien.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess
Adelaide of Hohenlohe, visited her Majesty yesterday.
The Duchess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, attended by
Baroness de Wangenheim and Mr. It. Ormsby Gore,
went yesterday to inspect the 'rawer of London.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester
yesterday at Gloucester House.
The Crown Prince and the Princesses of Hanover paid
• visit to the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence
House, St. James's.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day in the Council Camber. The Lords present were the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Judge of the
Admiralty Court, Sir J. Patteson, and Sr E. Ryan. The
appeal from Bengal, " riPKeller v. Wallace " (part heard)
was concluded, and an appeal from Hong Kong, Tromion
v. Dent and others," was part heard.

REPRESENTATION OF TIIE CITY OF LONDON.—
Yesterday a private meeting of some of the leading
City liberals was held, at which the present state of
the representation of the City formed the topic of
discussion, and a petition was agreed to, urging par.
liament to pass a measure to enable Baron Rothschild
to attend to City business in the Muse of Commons.

THE ACCESSION OF THE QUEEN TO THE THRONE.—
YeAterday being the anniversary of her Majesty's accession
to the throne, peals were rung from several of the City and
West•end churches, and flags were raised on the different
government offices, as well as on many of the spires of
the churches and other public buildings. The Park and
Tower guns were fired, and there was an inspection of a
portion of the household troops on the parade behind the
Bosse Guards.

TUE ROYAL CURISTENING.—This ceremony is fixed
to take place on Monday text, the 27th lust, in the presence
of the whole of the royal family, including the King and
Queen of Hanover. The infant prince will be christened
by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Arch-
bishop of York and the Bishop of London. The sponsors
will be the Priaceu of Hohenlohe, the Princess of Prussia,
and the King of Hanover. The names to be given to the
prince will be Leopold George Duncan Albert. The Queen
in the evening will give a grand banquet, at which the
cabinet ministers and great officers of state who have been
invited to the ceremony will be present.

THE CAMP AT CUoBILAM.— Her Majesty Queen
Victoria, accompanied by Field Marshal his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert and a brilliant staff, will arrive on the
ground of the camp at Chohham at half-past 10 o'clock this
day, when the troops will exhibit tho grandest military
display that has been witnessed in this country for many
years.

AN EPISCOPAL RESIGNATION.—II is currently
rumoured in clerical circles that the Bishop of Bath and
Wells intends resigning his diocese, on account of his great
infirmity, and the difficulties which have recently occurred,
and which are beyond his power to control.

DEATH OF WILLIAM ECCLES, ESQ.—We regret
to announce in our obituary to-day the demise of William
Eccles, Esq., the late member for Bluckburn. Mr. Eccles
had for a coneiderabletime put been in declining health,
but latterly his illness rapidly increased, and he expired at
his residence, Spring-mount, yesterday morning. He was
sixty years of age, and hie death will be mourned in a
large circle of friends by whom he was much respected.—
Preston Pilot.

DEPUTATION TO LORD PALNIERSTON.