The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-12 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The Austral:an brings news from the Cape of
Good Hope ten days later than that received by Me
previous arrivals. There is, however, little news
in addition to that brought IT the Harbinger. The
following extracts from the Squat African A dr, disci-,
of Nov. JO and 27, contain all the items of inform.
ation possessed of any interest :
The governor is on he way to the sovereignty, with some
4,000 Men uf all arms, for the purpose of " adrainst,ring
justice and right equally to all." Nu events of the slightest
moment have occurred in the interval on the borders or is
Karlisria.

Me Court.

WIN 5011, JAN. 11.

The fallowing had the honour of dining with her
Majesty yesterday :—The Duchess of Kent, the Prince of
Leiningen, the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Lady
in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Spetb,
the Honourable Mrs. Grey and Miss Bulled, the night
lion. Edward Cardwell, cad Mr. Gibbs.

,
Her Majesty's private band attended in the castle in the
evening, and played the following music :
ustrture, "Id Genuserizin" Lindpaintren
Coro, "11 frociato"
Andante, Ali:matte, Trio, finale Sai:oni.i,
"Jupitet" Montt.
Finale, "Oberon"
Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Lciniagea
and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, went out shooting
this forenoon, attended by Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps
and Lieut.-Colonel F. 11. Seymour.
Tho Right Hon. Edward Cardwell arrived yesterday
on a visit, .Jul left the Castle to-day for London.

Colonel Godfrey, Mr. Gillespie, and Mr. Ilsberts had
interviews yestei thy with the Luke of Newcastle at the
Colonial Oftiee.
The Earl of Aberdeen's dinner party on Monday incluled
the Belgian, Russian, Turkish, and Austrian ministm,
Lord John Russell, the E.lld of Clarendon, ViiPOUllt Pal-
merston, Sir James Graham, and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
The Right .Hononrable E. Cardwell returned to WI
yesterday ufternoon Irons Windsor Castle.

LAST RIGHT'S CArETTE.)

BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, JAN. 4.—The Queen
has been pleased to appoint the Must Noble Henry Charles,
Duke of Norfolk, K.G., to be Lord Steward of her Mt.
jesty's Household, in the room of the Most Noble James,
Duke of Montrose, K.T., resigned; also been pleased to
appoint the Right Hon. George Augustus Constantine
Phipps (commonly called the Earl of Mulgrave) to ba
Treasurer of her Majesty's Household, in the room of the
Right Hon. Claud Hamilton (commonly called Lord Claud
Hamilton), resigned; also been pleased to appoint the Hon.
Archibald William Douglas (commonly called Viscount
Drumlanrig) to be Comptroller of her Majesty's Household,
in the room of the Right Hon. George Cecil Weld
Forester, resigned.
WIIITLIIALL,JAN.IO.—The Queen has been pleased
to direct letters patent to be passed under tho Great Seal of
the United Kingdom, appointing the Right lion. Sir George
James Turner, Knt., to be a ,Judge of the Court of Ap-
peal in Chancery, in the room of the Right Hon. Robert
Monsey, Lord Cranworth, resigned; also been pleased to
direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of
the United Kingdom, granting the office of a Vice-Chan-
cellor unto Sir William Page Wood, Knt., iu the room
of the Right Hon. Sir George James Turner, Kat., m-
aga...ed.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 11.—It is hereby notified
that the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Attain, has re-
ceived from Colonel Hugh Itese, her Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires at Constantinople, a despatch, bearing date the
17th of December last, inclosing an official note, dated the
15th of December last, addressed to him by Fund Effendi,
the Ottoman Minister for Foreign Affairs, announcing the
establishment of the blockade of the coasts which extend
from Dulcigno to the extreme Turkish frontier, by
the naval forces of his Imperial Majesty, the Sultan, for the
purpose of preventing munitions of war or provisions frost
being landed upon the said coasts.
CROWN-OFFICE.—INIEMDERS RETURNED TO SERVE
, IN THIS I'RECENT PARLIAMENT. JAN. 8. Borough of
Marlborough : The Right lion. Ernest Augustus Charles
Brudenell Bruce, commonly called Lord Ernest Bruce,
Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household.—Boroasth
1 of Leeds : The Right Hon. Matthew Talbot Baines, of No.
13, Queen-square, In the city of Westminster, President of
the Poor-law Board.—Borough of Halifax The Right
. lion. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., President of the Board of
Control for the Affairs of India.—Borough of Scarborough:
'the Right lion. George Augustus Constantine Phipps,
L commonly called Earl of Mulgrave, of Mulgravc Castle, in
the county 0 York, Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household.
—Borough of Tiverton: Henry John Temple, Viscount
Palmerston, of Woodlands, in the county of Hants, one of
her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.—Let.ls.
Town of Southampton: Sir Alexander James Edmund
Cockburn, of liertford-street, May-fair, in the county of
Middlesex, Knt., her Majesty's Attorney-Ciencral.

NEW DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS.
Dunn.tx.
Henry Lipscombe, Esq., and NVilliatn Lamb, Esq,
STAITORD3IIIItE.
William Mott, Esq., John Newton Lane, Esq., Qua Wil•
limn Arden, Esq.