The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-01 00:00:00

etu Qtoun.

The Queen, attended by the Hon. Caroline Caren.
dish, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Captain Du Ptak
visited the Dunham of Kant yesterday, at Clarenee-honta,
St. Jamas.

The Prince Consort rode on horseback in the forenoon,
attended by Captain Du Plat.
Prime Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Cowell, R.E., sr.
rived at Buckingham Palace at six o'clock yesterday after-
noon, from Alverbenk. The Queen and Prince Consort,
amompanied by Prince Alfred, honoured the performance It
the Haymarket Theatre with their presence in the evening.
The royal snits consisted of Lady Macdonald, Hon. Fkre
Macdonald, Viscount Esrathallan, Colonel the Hon. A. N.
Hood, and Captain Da Plat.

About one hundred and eighty members of the Douse of
Commons had a meeting with the Earl of Derby yesterday,
at his official residence in Dewning-etreet. His lordship am
accompanied by the Coanoellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Sews.
tary Walpole, and Lord John Mennen.
A deputation on the ahipphig dues, Dublin, °maiming at
Mr. Croethwaite, president of the Chamber of Commerce,
Dublin; Mr. Codd, hon. secretary; Mr. Halliday, rice.
president; Mr. Vance, M.P., end Mr. Orogen M.P., Ind
an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley and the
Earl of Donoughmore yeateeday, at the Office of the Board of
Trade.

--iii.Bleborne had an interview with the Earl of Derby
yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
A depatation from the Rochdale Union, oonaistime of Mr.
John Tweed&le, Mr. John Chadwick, Mr. Robert Tweeds*
and Mr. Travis, and accompusted by Sir Alexander Ramsay,
Bart, M.P., Mr. Cheetbam, M.P., and Mr. Brows, M.P.,
had an interview yesterday with the Right Boa. T. &therm'
Estrous; at the office of the Poor-law Board, on the subject
of the proposed division of the Rochdale Union.
A deputation from the Blackburn Union, Introduced by
Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P. and manning of Mr. P. Graham,
J.P., Mr. R. Ashton, J.P., Mr. F. B. Wraith, Mr.
Baron, and Mr. 1. Wardley, had an interview with the
Right Hon T. Sotharon Patron's, at the offioe of the Poor.
law Board, on the subject of the proposed division of the
Blackburn Union.

Mr.fiestni orelend bad an interview with Lord Stanley
yesterday, at the Colonial-018os.
Meetings of the Cambridge University Commissioners
were held at 6, Adelphi-terrace, on Tuesday, the 27th;
Wednesday, the 28th ; and Thursday, the 29th ult. The
ootomissiouers present were the Right Hon. Lord Stanley,
M.P., the Right Hon. M. T. Seines, M.P., the }tight Hon.
Sir Lawrence Peel, the Dean of Ely, and the Rev. Dr.
Vaughan.
A deputation from the vestry of Chelsea, consisting of
Mr. Tits, M.P., Mr. Perry, (churchwarden), Mr. Miles, Mr.
Jackson, Mr. Janson, Mr. Osborn. Mr. L. R. Wood, Mr.
G. Todd, Mr. Robson, Mr. E. Richards. Mr. Gable, Mr.
Charlie! (member of the Metropolitan Board of Works), Mr.
Collier, Mr. Legg, Dr. Barclay (Medical Officer of Health),
Mr. Carter, and Mr. C. Larvae (vestry clerk) had an inter-
view with Lord John Manners, First Commissioner of
Public Works, yesterday, at the Offioe of Works, Whitehall-
place.
Despatches wars swat yesterday from the Colonial-office to
the Governor of Canada.

(Tll,Olll LAST ICTOWeIt OLZE7TI.)

ST. batiks PALACE, APRIL 28.—The Queen wan
this dap plated to confer the honour of knighthood upon
Adam Bitdeston, Esq., Judge of the Supreme Court of „indi-
cation at Madras.

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WAR-OFFICE, PALL-PALL, APRIL 30.—The Queen
has been pleased to appoint H.R.R. the Duke of Cambridge,
K.G., his Gram the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon.
Earl Grey, the Right Hoe. Lord Panmare, K.T. 0.C.8.,
Major-General the Lord Rokeby, K.C.8., the Right
Sidney Herbert, the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, Major-
Gomm) Sir William Fenwick Williams, Bart., K.C.8.,
Major-General the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scerlett K C. 8.,
Major-Goners! Sir John Mark Frederic Smith, K.H.
Colonel Sir Henry Knight Storks, K.C.8., and Colonel
Henry Eyre, to be her Majesty's commissioners to inquire
into the working of the system recommended in the report
of the former royal commission of inquiry into the several
modes of promotion and retirement in the army, and also
into the question of promotion and retirement in the higher
ranks of the army, commencing with the rank of major.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 28.—The Queen Lae been
pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Chula Bowyer Adderley
to be the fourth Charity Commirsionew for England and
Wales, in the room of the Right Hon. Matthew Talbot
Reines, resigned.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 28.—The Queen has been
pleased to present the Rev. Alexander Maclean to the church
of Croick, in the presbytery of Tama, and shire of Rom,
vacant by the tion of the Rev. John Macdonald to
the char& and of Bogart.
WHITEHALL-PLACE, APRIL 30.—The Archbishop
of Canterbury has, under the authority of the act of the 13th
and 14th y~eea+rs of her llsjaity's reign, chapter 94, appointed
William Deed.., Esq., M.P., to be a Church FAW' Com-
missioner, In the place of the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio
Walpole, resigned.

The Earl and Countess of Jersey gave a grand en-
tertainment last mein at their reddens, in Berkeley-
square, to his Ewenew the Duke de Malakoff. There wars
present to meet his excellency, his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, their Serer Highnemss the Prince sal
Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar, his Excellency the Porta.
gem Minister and the Countess Lavradio, the Duchess of
Wellington, the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, the
Marquis of Harlington, the Earl of Malniesbury,
Pield-
Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Combermere, Viscount
Canterbury, and Colonel the Hoc. James Macdonald. Covers
were laid for tilenty.

The Prince and Princess de Croy have left the
Clarendon, for Paris.
The Count and Countess Oldofredo Tadini bate
left the Brunswick Hotel, St. Jame's, for Paris on cowls fat
Sardinia.

We (Leeds Mercury) understand that the two
daughters of the late John Marshall, jun., Esq., M.P. for
this borough, are to be married on Thursday next, at Add
church—Miss Janet Mary Marshall to Stair Douglas, Esq.,
son of Gansral Sir James Douglas, K.C.8., and nephew of
the Marchioness of Queensberry; and Miss Katherine Alias
Marshall to the Rev. Stunner Mica, grandson of his
071104 the Arebblop of Canterbury.

Mr. Layard has arrived in London from an ex-
tended tour through **disturbed &arida of India.

VACANOIIS, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS
IN TES Ems. Diavicit.—Oeseral Post-oftioe : Mr. How.
land B. Evans, General Post-office, Dublin, has bon pro-
moted from the first clue in the AocountanCii-olSos to be at
of the deputy-controllers in the sorong-oflite, Mos Mr. W.p

Tbomperin.ipprinied oontrollar. fraDookjards: )f r. Jolla
W. Dierks has been appointed temporary clerk in Sheerness
dockyard; Mr. Erse"' H. Curlier has -Meet appointed • thbd
clam clerk is the storakespe's ftmmemat. Customs : Times
will shortly be verandas for olimps Is the Examlases.
Doraptroller-Gemmrs, mid lasi-room Am, owing Mao
eassaloa or tiesimint of thew deportsemes ; Mg
Marks Browns,meet officer at Boles, has Dena
=primalr at Milford. Inland Rewash
t.— : Mr. George bunpam, super-
visor, Limerick, has been promoted to the rank of surveying
Cirexaminer; Mr. T. Reilly, supervisor, Colchesteg
ela appointe to Limerick district; Mr. J. R. Davie,
examiner,.
_has been promoted to be supervisor of Colchester
dietrict ; Xr. J. K. Hut, examiner, has been promoted to
be maperedeer of Teske district ; Mr. Alexander Miller, super-
visor of Osimpbalton fifth district, has retired, after • wird-
We of twenty-two years. Haat Indies : Mr. W. Grey Ma
bees appointed to odadats as director-general of the Posh.
Win el ladle during the abeam of Mr. Riddell; Dr. J. P.
Walker, dthe Bengal medical establishment, hes been
rtsopriatendeat of the settlement at Peet DU* Is
ilea senea Isisads, with roll judicial and executive miles.
=t.4hreestimee the Wands; Mr. A. LittlWals has been eir
civil sad seesions jags of alushabM.— Civil derma
&setts.
TH3 COST OP A DAY'S RABBIT SHOOTING.—A.
radar semeebeile ewe, as showing the liabilities &Medea
en jobber • Mooting party, appears in the Barn:Wan
Diremish. Per mate years past the gamekeeper of General
Peederkik, 0 illawford-house, near Twy ford, ham, with kin
imMe's pertnielion, been in tbs habit of inviting • kr
friends from that town and from Winchester to a day's
rabbit is Teryford-park. One or two harm have
been shot, but only by oartlicated members d
the party. the 9th and 16th the nmeliespee and lir
friends mused themselves in this imam. On the femur
day three or four prams having game critilledis mai
present ;ma the latter oily me. This year, for the first flag
=.demesetiltated person who was preemie
• melee from the surveyor. chargbe him
.."6=.1/
Bess duty. bloweever, each recipient wee Wawa& that ff
the carp ehrold be allowed by the district conalee•eis
the ereeseseat woad be In " double dutyaumekt to Os
ea et 6 sad 7Wm IV., cep. 67, leo. S." On the 41 ala
kr the appeal, the 20th inst., the esemeadrams la all the
mess, eight la amber, except me la which the as** hid
Deem defectively send, formally 001111191101 the caws" at
double duty (el 4 Is. W.). The surveyor monads' gm the
of the parties to the swamp of double duty ewe,
Wog iiiftelaray Ida peruse at the ime ad
ems, mid fforike• ft the eyes d the kw endileeed
sheal2zzo
dit alli
.ill id Elldrbotka. He eked • awe to
• . ' et the ceoeskikeers bed beep am-
bled by sad Creseteek
Sun Item ros .—We (Kendal Mercury)
me lakneed tart la aseaseassee eta champ llem Barg
.?=ilroetebseareled tietrautle rawer, • yoke bee big
' Ids end Rebut Derephsll, of Illegolr_.
The IMlldlik Waite kr 100/. • aide, is le be ply k WO
ea the IX" semis same coarse me kit es "Ida Omer
bell Brown, Mama Duslemema mull
, a. me day 411*, si ow *Valle
lertyllork _ 11, who saws Casper 101. kr
essise I • abs Cl- yle ' poll ma seer AM, baits by Mr.
J. B. WWII; red. Irma the pewees mid ability of both
men. ca amileet affese any be espeeled.

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