The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-09 00:00:00

ERE QUEEN'S COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

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ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY IN TEE METROPOLIS.

This morning, shortly before 11 o'clock, her
Majesty, with the Princessee Helena, Louise, and Beatrice,
attended by the Duchess of Ho:borers, Major-General
Seymour, the Hon. Mr. West, the Hon. Mies Cathcart,
Colonel Ponsonby, &0., left Windsor Cottle, in a couple of
close carriages, for the Windsor station of the Great
Western Railway, where a special train of four carriages,
including two saloons, had been prenatal for the convei-
mac* of the royal passengers to London. Her Majesty
holds a court this afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The
Queen will not return t•tlay after the ceremony, bat will
remain at Buckingham Palace for the night, and proceed
back to Windsor to morrow.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
Prince Alfred, accompanied by Lord Claud Hamilton,
Colonel Byng, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, Lieutenant
Haig, and other gentlemen, honoured the Royal Strand
Theatre with thoir presence last evening.
The Duke of Somerset's levee was =avoidably
postponed until to-day.

- Lady Cowley has issued invitations for three re-
captions, which are to take place at the &Web Embassy
tomorrow, and on the 17th and 24th of March.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer will move on
Monday next " that orders of the day be postponed until
after the notice of motion with raspect to paragraphs in
the Qoesa's speech." _ _

Mr. Corry intends to ask the Secretary to the
Admiralty on Monday, whether, considering that, in conse-
quence of the difficulty of obtaining an adequate supply of
efficient recruits for the Royal Marines, it has been found
seaway to reduce the standard height twice during the
last two years, whereby it has been reduced from 5 feet 7
inches to 5 feet 5 inches, and considering also that the
number of marines born* in December lest was 738 men
short of the establishment, the Admiralty will refer the
existing system of recruiting for the corps to the royal com-
mission about to be appointed.

Sir Fitzroy Kelly, on " an early day," will move
" that upon any future remiasion of Indirect taxation this
houu will take into consideration the duty upon malt, with
a view to its immediate reduction sad early raped."

On Thursday next Mr. Henry Seymour will imk
the President of the Board of Tsai* if he intends to intro-
duos a measure to alter the Companies Act, 1862, so as to
make companies, by special resolution of their shareholders,
to diminish the nominal value and increase the number of
their shares, so as to retain intact the original amount cf
the capital of the company.

On Tuesday, Mr. Locke King will bring forward
a bill for the better Nettling the Real Estates of Intestates.

On going into committee of supply next Friday
Kr. Blake will call the attention of the Attorney• General
for Ireland to the severe restrictions to which the prisoners
arrested under the auspeasion of the Habeas Corpus Act
arc subjected to in the gaol at Waterford, and inquire
whether specific directions were given by government as
to the treatment of these prisoners; and, if so, whether
he has any objection to state the nature of such directions ;
to which of the prison authorities they were transmitted ;
and through whet medium.

The five members who joined Mr. Newdegate
and Colonel Williams last night is the division against
the Parliamentary Oaths Amendment Bill were Mr. W. W.
Beach. Mr. R. Brooks, Mr. N. Kendall. Mr. Lefroy, and
Mr. Whalley, all members of the conservative party save
the last-named gentleman. Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Walpole, sad
Sir Stafford Northoote voted with the majority ; but the
names of other leading conservatives, snob as Mr. Hanley,
Lord John Massaro, Sir John Pakingtoo, Mr. Whiteside,
arc., do not appear in the list of the majority, which is
made up almost exclusively of liberals.

It appears from the list of the pairs in the church
rate diviaion that Sir Boundsll Palmer, the Attorney-
General, is the only member of the gavernment who did
not support Mr. Hardt:aftle's bill, either by vote or by
pairing.

- Committees will be chosen nett week to try the
election petitions for Groat Yarmouth, Nottingham, Sand-
wich, Bridgnortb, Totem, and Boston.

The Rev. J. S. Brewer, Profeanor of
Modern History and English Literature in King's College,
London, ►as been appointed Examiner in Bagßah History.
In the Italian Chamber the other day a letter
was read from the Fiscal of Turin, asking the President's
authorisation to proceed against Deputy Bottero, on ac-
count of the duel in which his antagonist, Signor Botta,
was very seriously wounded. The demand was referred
to the Bureaux. In ooneeqcones of high words that
passed the other day is the Chamber, a duel with Welds
has taken place, within a short distance of Florence,
between Boogie sad Vecturslll. No harm was does.