The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-22 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE.-(THIS DAY.)

By command of the Queen, a levee (being the
second of the present season), was held at St. James's
Palace by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, on be-
half of her Majesty. There were • large number of
presentations, naval, military, judicial, legal, eccle-
siastical and parliamentar►, those presentations
being by the Queen's pleasure equivalent to
presentation to her Majesty. The Prince of Wales was
escorted by a detachment of the Life Guards from Marl-
borough House to the Palace, where he was received by the
great officers of state of the Queen's household. Her
Majesty's body guard of the hon. corps of Gentlemen-at-
Arms were on duty in the state saloons,under the command
of Sir W. Topham. Her Majesty's royal body
guard of the Yeomanry of the Guard was on
duty, under the command of the Eton in
Waiting. The Prince of Wales entered the throne
mom, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge and
the members of the royal family, and attended by the Lord
Steward, the Earl of Bradford (Lord Chamberlain), Lord
Claud Hamilton, M.P. (Vice Chamberlain), Visct. Toning-
ton (Lord in Waiting to the Queen), Lieutenant-Colonel
Keppel and Major Teesdale (equerries to the Prince of
Wales), and other officials. The foreign ambassadors and
ministers were introduced, and the general presentations
were then proceeded with. The date of the next levee
has not yet been announced.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Saxe Coburg arrived in town last evening from Dover,
where they landed yesterday afternoon, from the Conti-
nent. His Royal Ifighneu Prince Christian arrived by
the tame boat.

Lady Moleaworth received at dinner last evening
his Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio, the Right Hon.
Chichester Fortescue, M.l'., and Frances Countess NValde-
grave, General the Right Hon. Cecil Forester, ALP., and
Hon. Mrs. Forester, Lord William Hay, M.P., the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Lady Susan Vane Tempest, the
Right Hon. Milner Gibson, M.P., Lady Tierny, Mr. Ber-
n►l Osborne, M.P., Mr. Hayward, Mr. Costa, and Mr.
Pakenham Alderson.

The Earl of Lauderdale has been elected a repre-
sentative peer for Scotland, in the room of Lord Gray, re-
cently deceased.

We Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant has ap-
pointed the Rev. Charles William Russell, D.D., President
of Maynooth College, a governor and guardian of the Na•
tional Gallery of Ireland, in the room of the late Mr.
William Dargan.

A meeting of the Digest of Law Commission wan
held on the 20th inst. There were present Lord (`ran-
worth, Lord Westbury, Lord Cairns, Sir James Wilde,
Mr. Lowe, Sir W. Page Wood, Sir G. Bowyer, Sir R.
P►lmer, Sir J. G. Shaw Leferre, Sir T. Erskine May, Mr.
Daniel, Mr. Thring, and Mr. Reilly.
The committee on the Church-rates Abolition
Bill is deferred till Wednesday, May S.
The select committee on the Libel Bill meet on
Monday neat.

The meeting of the select committee on the Army
(India and the Colonies) is postponed till Tuesday.
. .

Mr. Otway intends in committee nn Mutiny Bill
next Thursday to move that clause 22 be postponed, in
order that her Majesty's government may bring up an
amended clause in accordance with the resolution of this
house, pawed on Monday, the 18th instant, relating to
fiorging in the army during the time of peace.

On Monday Mr. Monck will ask the Under
Secretary of State for the Colonies when he intends to
move for leave to introduce the Guarantee Bill for the In-
teroolonial Railway of British North America.
Sir Robert Collier intends to call the attention
of the house to the case of the Tornado on Friday week.

Viscount Amberley has deferred till Tuesday
week his bill to amend the Act of 23 Geo. 111., chap. 49,
" for preventing certain abuses and profanation on the
Lord's Day called Sunday."