The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-31 00:00:00

(nom Lter mows oAuerri.)

AT THE COURT AT OSBORNE, JAN. 26.—Her Mit-
igate having been graciously pleased to deliver the custody
of the seals of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster
to the Bight Honourable George Joachim Goschee, the oath
of Cbaocellor of the Doohy of Lancaster was this day by
her Majesty's command administered to him accordingly.
WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 29.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of her
nephew, Captain his Serene Highness the Prince of Lei Dingo;
8.N., K.C.B. tole an ordinary member of the civil divi-
sion of the gret class, or Knights Grand Cross of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath, end of her nephew, hi,
Serene Highness the Prince of Hohenlohe-Lsogenburg, to
be an honorary member of the civil division of the second
elms, at Knight. Commanders of the said Most Honourable
Order.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 30.—The Queen bags been
pleased to direct letters patent to be pawed under the great
seal granting the dignity of a baronet of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Janie, Young
Simpson, of Strathavon, in the county of Linlithgow, and
of the city of Edinburgh, M.D., one of her Majesty's phy-
sicians in Scotland, ath the heirs male of hie body lawfully
begotten. The Queen bag also been pleased to direct let-
ters patent to be passed under the great seal granting the
dignity of a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, unto Dominic John Corrigan, of Cappigh
and Inoiscorrig, in the county of Dublin, and of Merrion-
square, in the city of Dublin, M.D.. one of her Majesty's
physicians in ordinary in Ireland, and the heirs male of his
bend_y lawfully begotten.
FORBION.-OFFICE, JAN. 11.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to appoint Randal Callender, Req., now
her Majesty's consul at the Dardanelles, to be her Majesty's
consul in the Philippine Islands.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S Crews JAN. 30.—NO-
tioe is hereby given that the state apartments of Windsor
Castle will be closed after Friday, the tad day of February
nut, until further notice.

ROYAL POLTTACHNIC INSITITTIOIf. Professor
Pepper, ever alive to the neoessity for varying the enter-
tainments at this institution as frequently as possible, has
just added two new features to the daily attractions of the
place : the first consisting of an interesting lecture by Mr.
J. L. King, on the subject of Mr. Nathaniel J. Holmes's
patent torpedo, for the destruction of ships and the protec-
tion of ports ; the second, of a new musical version of
"Robinson Crusoe "by Mr. Henri Drayton, assisted by
Madame Tv ilitey. The original vereion of this latter enter-
tainment was produced, it may be reoollected,at Christmas,
and then proved one of the most successful exhibitions
which have yet been made under the ever-popu-
lar guise of "dissolving views." It was thought,
however, that something more than a didactic description of
Crusoe's adventures wee required to please the testa of
sight-seers, and hence Mr. Drayton, adieu under the
guidaoce of Mr. Pepper, has produced a result which
readers the performance as agreeable to the ear as it i• '
interesting to the eye. This gentleman's powerful voice is
heard to great advantage is the capacious and darkened
theatre ; and he is effectively seconded by Madame
Wildey. Mr. Hiag's lecture on Holmes's Patent Torpedoes
p another of the many very lucid and skilfully arranged die.
quintions upon popular forms of science with which this
geotlemaa bee lately favoured the visitors to the Poly-
technic ; and if anything could have bees wasting to com-
plete the "rood" of entertainments, it may be said to be
eJnanderatly supplied by the two novelties sow lattoduced.