The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-26 00:00:00

Ine Court.

The Queen held • Privy Cauncil et three o'clock
yesterday aftersoos Barkinehisn Palace. It was at-
tended by Prime Albert, Earl Granville, Lord President;Viscount Palmenton, First Lord of the Treasury; Sir
George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment ; Lord Penman, Secretary of Stets for Wu ; the
Right Hoe. R. Vernon Smith, President of the Beard
et Control; the Right Hon. M. T. Haloes, Chancellor of
the Daehy of La, cuter; the Doke of ArgyJ, Pratt:miter-
General ; the Margate or Breadelbane, Lord Chamberlain ;
sod the Duke of Wellington, Muter of the Hone.
The Hoa. Wm. Bathurst as. the Clerk of the Canton la
Waiting.
The Qum gays sedienees to Viscount Palmentu, Earl
Granville. and Lard Palmer..
Her Majesty was attended by the Earl of Malgrave,
re Tasurer of the Household ; Lord Ernest Brume, Vice.
Chamberlain: Viscount Deumlanrig. Comptroller of the
Household; Rol Somers. Lord in Waiting ; and Mr. B.
Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting.
Prince Albert rods oat bareback with the Prises of
Wales and Prince A:fred in tt e forenoon, attended by
Captain De Plat sad Mr. °ibis,.
TM Goan bad a dinner p trty in the evening. The
coespeay iseluded the Priam. Royal, the Lord Chine nor
and Lady Ciasworth. the Archbishop of York, end Hon.
Mrs. Musgrave the Netherlands Minister Baron Bentinek,
the Frogman Minims r Count Bernstorff, L rd George Len-
n nt, Lord Burghersh, Lord West, the Right Hos.
W. B. sad Mrs. Gladstone, Lady Peel, Captain Williams
Peel, R.N., and Sir Charles &seek*.
TO* band of the Soot. Fusilier Gouda war in atteadaaee,
and played daring dinar.

A deputation from the Corporation of Moodiest/rt., ma-
elating of air B. Armitage, Messrs. Aldermen Baaeroft,
Shan!swarth, Reysong, sad W&•kina, Mr. Goodsby, and
the Toga Clerk, accompaalid by the Right Hon. T. M.
Gitsio, M.P., had an interview mitt) Bir George Grey
yesterday, at the Home ofllee, arm the abject of the
Polies Bill.

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The R•gt.t Roo. T. M. Giblets. M.P., 84 Elkanah
Armitage, and the Tows Cirri of Manchester, had ea
laterview with Mr. Secretary Laboeehere yesterday, at the
C nial-oMoe.

This morning, shortly altar ten o'clock, her
Majesty,accoapanied by their Royal Menem. the Primers
Royal and Priem* Alice left Beekiagbana Palace in an
open carriage, aiteadid by the Coastal. of Daman, Major
General Beaveris, and Cap•als Da Plat, for the Royal
Zoolagisaliardians, Regeat's park. The Royal party to.
maimed la the gardens a rionsii.erable time.
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...
The mortal remains of the late Duke of Norfolk
ware ( pulped to the family null, at Arundel, this morals,
with heraldic hosown.

Viscount Combermers has been suffering trots a
MVO?* attack of she prevailing Influenza. at Costbsrsasto
Abbey. His lordship has now quite nieovered, and coins
his sisal riding exurbs movers' hours daily.

The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress have
boned cards of invitation for a dinner at the Mansion Home
°a Wedamday neat, toe e t the Americas Minister previous
to his deg arture for the Coked St les. and to which away
of the merohan's surged In the Ameraan acid Canadian
trader, member, of the Home of Commons and of the Cor-
poration hive been invited.

On this day and to-ororrow the stock and copy-
right of the Standard Novel. and P. manors V the present
day will be submitted for s la at Hodgson 's rooms, at the
eoruer of Ckaaseery-lane. The oollection comprises the
works of Captain Manta!, W. H. idaawell, Theodore
Hook, Tom Heard, Lever, Miss Ferrier, Fenimore Ccoper,
Merrier, Mu. Trollop., Mre. 0 ire, 0. P. R. Jaws, Capt.
Chaster, Albert Smith, aad ether,.

, There ia s rumour, that, in order to relieve the
oommanders' hit of man old Oilcan, and au enable Sir
Charles Wool tv bring fo-ward f employment a nambir
of the raieg young men, a turculer ht.' been istned fr)IIII the
Admiralty I, • certain number of oosamanders, offering t
place them, after the lit of July, on the retirel bet of cep-
taiga, with a half pay of 10a. 6d. per diem..

His Excellency the Governor of Malta has granted
• pardon to Liestesset Montgomery, of the 7th Fusiliers,
lately seateseed to three soothe iteprisnoment for ssit-
behari Jur In the eathedrel et Ci to Vt cchia, and roasting
the potce. The elder offender, Lieutenant Hodgson, ILA,
committed to tour stoat& imprisoontent, has not bees in-
cluded in this act of elesneeee.

It is mid that the Ottoman representatives in
Pais fully impact that the Subbase Porte will be called
■pen to make harbor ceseassions, and the tayien is attri-
buted to Atli Pasha (wbo was educated at Ports, and has a
smattering of Mat a-um), " It is the fable of the horse who
called the man to assist it to revenge itself span t' e stag."
M. de Otrardia is said to be about to minute his
well known essay entitled " Pais," is which be calls for the
Imeatdiate dea'raetion of Gibraltar. Another pamphleteer
of Paris demands that Ilaglsui abandon the islands of the
Greek Archipelago ; while a third !mists that we restore to
Prance the various historical documents and ancient ma-
nmeripts takes, he says, at Paris in 1815 by the Doke of
Wellington 1

M. Lainartine is said to be revising for the press
aow volume of pens, *stled 0 Des lllollop. "

The Cossatutionnel says that the decoration of the
Louvre has rc:opied anon than 1,600 sculptors.
A letter says that it was rumoured in Madrid that
Gemini Canrohert is to b appointed French Minister in
that capital, in the r aore of the Marcelo de Teryrt.

The Obsercateur de la Corse has just received a
frit wain', for iewerting an article "ot a astute to ex-
cite discontent sewage oae clue of clients, and to impede
the el, cation of the law for abolishing the right of com-
monage la Corsica."

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