The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-31 00:00:00

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nuonak with that measure, Lad Jolla?
sail ilia was very much the eourse whiclizihe
Goaaniasent intenpiaa to take. Re trails* Ml*
by the date mentioned all the principalTtaedioaa
involved in the debate would have been tone
through. By the end of the month of April, hehoped,
they might go into committee on the Reform Bill,
and proceed with it continuously on Government
order days.

Cbt Court.

We have authority to state that, in addition to
the drawiss•roams and levee announced in yesterday's
aticette, the Queen will hold another presentation drawing-
room and another levee in the month of June. The precise
dates will be sanounoed hereafter.

The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by
Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice, took a drive in an
open carriage and four yesterday morning, end visited the
Zoological-gardens, Regent's-park. Lord Alfred Paget and
Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge attended on horseback. The
Prince Consort afterwards rode on horseback attended by
his Equerry in Waiting.
The Right Hon. T. E. Resat-in, Judge-Advocate-Gene-
ral, bad an audience of the Queen at Buckingham Palace,
and submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some

A Committee of the Royal Commissioners for Promoting
and Encouraging the Fine Arta in the Rebuilding the Mace
of Westminster held a meeting at 3 o'clock yesterday after-
noon, at the Palace of Westminster. The Prince Consort
presided- There were also present Earl Stanhope and Lord
Llanover. The secretary, Sir Charles L Eastlake, attended.
The Prince of Wales, ►ttendded by Major-General the
Hon. R. Bruce and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, arrived at

Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon, from Oxford.
The Queen sad Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, and Pri axe Alfred, honoured
the Olympic Theatre with their presence in the evening.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre-
sent wire, Viscount Palmerston, the Duke
of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Rus-
sell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset,
the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir
Grey, the Earl of Elgin, Right Hon. Cij.slr.
Villiers, and the Right Pion. E. CardwelL

(nor Lasr naafi aasern.)

LORD CHAIIRRALLIN'B-0171C1, MARCH 30.
Notice is hereby given, that the Queen will hold Drawing
Rooms, at St. James's Palace, on the tollowiug days, at
two o'clock :—Satunlay, 28th of Apnl next; Feiday, 18th
of May next, to celehmte her Melody's birth-day. N.B.
The Knights of the several Orden are to appear in their
Collars at the Drawing Room on the 18th of May.
LORD CHAIIMRLAIN'O-OFFICR, MARCH 30.
Notice is hereby given, that the Queen will hold a Levee,
at St Jernee's Pekoe, upon Saturday, the 21st of April
next, at two o'clock.
Dointuto-erscsr, MARCH 29. —The Queen has
been plowed to appoint KajorGeneral Pringle Taylor,
LL, to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Jamaica
and Ha dependencies.
JAHRe's PALACR, MARCH 28.—The Queen
ten bees pleased to appoint General Sir Frederick &oohs,
LOA, to be Extra Groom in Waiting to her Majesty
also John Francis Campbell, of Islay, Req., to be one of
the Grooms of her Majesty's Privy Chamber in ordinary, in
the room of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Noel Harris,
deemed.

PALACE, MARCH 28.—The Queen
was this rls7 pleased to confer the honour of knighthood
upon Colonel Henry James, of the Royal EntrriLl
Director of the Ordnance Survey, wad el the Topogm
and Statistical Department ot the War Moe ; also upon
Edward Shepherd Creasy, Bert, Chief Justice of Ceylon.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 90.—The Queen has been
to grant unto the Very Rev. Thomas Ginner,
pleased
, the deanery of her Majesty's cathedral church of
Lincoln, void by the death of John Dillard Ward, M.A.
FOREHIN-OYEICIL, MARCH 29.—The Queen has
beenipleased to approve of Mr. Henry &Wand as Consul in
the Mauritius fur the Sublime Ottoman Porte ; and Don
Mariano de Is Roca as Consul at Gibraltar for her Majesty
the Queen of Spain.

Tat EARL or Exam. —We have reason to believe
tbat the Earl of Elgin will kaye London on Wednesday next
oa hie masks to Mina. The noble earl proceeds rid
Marseilles, sad a special steamer will await his lordship at
Boss, to esaveyhisLordship to Hong Kong.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary honoured Viscount and Viscountess
Sydney with their company at dinner on Thursday evening
at their residence in Cleveland-square. There were present—
the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke and Duchess of ALinches-
ter, the Marchioness of Ely, the Earl of Clarendon, the
Bari of Sandwich, Viscountess Palmerston, Lord Dufferin,
Lady Dufferin, and Lady Geraldine Somerset and Colonel
Purees, in waiting on the Duchess of Cambridge. A select
party arrived later in the evening to meet the royal
guento, the visitors Including their Serene Highnesses
Priam and Princess Edward of Sa:e•Weimar and Lady
Cecilia Eingbeas, Prince Ferdinand Rudziwill, the Mar-
chioness (Maria) of Ailetbury, the Earl of ilahnesbury,
Viscount Hinchingbrnke, Lord and Lady Alfred Paget,
Lady Augusta Cadogan, Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry
Koppel, Count Pakten, Count Strzelecki, Count Branden-
burg, Dr. Quin, Hon. Mr. and Lady Alice Byng, Mr.
Blackwood, kc.

His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio arrived at
the Sardinian Legation yesterday morning from Turin, to
restone his diplomatic duties.

His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the
Cotusteas Berostorff return to Prussia House to-day from
vivitfag the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle.

The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louise Ca-
veadirh arrived at Chatsworth on Tuesday last from Rol-
kar Hall, near Wilnethorpe. The Marquis of Hartingtou
kit Devonshire House on Thursday for Market Harboroach.

The Duchess of Somerset will have an assembly
this evening at the Admiralty.

The Mirchionese of lialisbury will leave town on
Tuesiky next on a visit to the Earl and Countess Delawarr
at Burkhurst Park, Sauel.
The Earl and Cotuitese of Vernlam have arrived
in town trotnGorhambtuy Park, Herta.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough leave
town to-day, accompanied by Lady Sophia Palliam, for St.
Lemiard'a-on-Sea.

The Ferl and Countess of Clarendon and the
Ladies Villiers will shortly leave the Grove, Watford, far
Ashbridge Park, Berkhampstead, on a visit to Lady Marian
Alford.

The Desn of Windsor and Mrs. Wesley will
Leave Montagu House, in a few duyp, for Windsor.

. , .
Mr. and Lady Mary Craven have left town on a
vioit to the FACI 0( Wilton, at Helton Mowbray.

A matrimonial alliance is arranged, and will
shortly take place, between the lady Elizabeth Yorke,
side* daughter of the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke,
and Mr. Adieus, M.P. for Cambridgeshire.
The Right Hon. Joseph Napier and Mrs. and
Miss Napier have arrived at tho Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-
street, from Ireland.

Yesterday (Friday) the body of Lady Napier, a
relative of Sir Robert Napier, of Milliken Johnston, near
Glasgow, arrived at Liverpool from Bordeaux by the
steamer Nemesis.