The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1867.

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BUCKINGHAM PALACE, FEB. 5.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise
Prince Arthur, and Princess Beatrice, left 'Windsor Castle
at ten o'clock this morning, attended by lady Waterpark,
the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Hon, D. de Rot, and arrived at Buck-
ingham Palace at eleven o'clock.

Her Majesty travelled by special train to Paddington.
and was escorted by a detachment of the 14th Hussars to
Buckingham Palace.
The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh visited
the Queen shortly after her Majesty's arrival at the
Palace.

The Queen went in state to the House of Peers to open
the session of parliament with a speech from the throne.
The royal procession was formed at Buckingham Palace
in the following order :
A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying Mr. Charles
Heneage, the Hon. Frederick Ityng, and Mr. Wilbraham
Taylor (Gentlemen Ushers to the Queen), and Lieutenant-
Colonel Patterson (the Exon of the Guard in Waiting).
A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying Major-General
F. Seymour, C.B. (the Groom in Waiting), Major Elphin-
stone (Governor to his Royal Highness Prince Arthur),
and the Hon. A. T. Lyttelton and the Hon. F. W. Stop.
ford (the two Pages of Honour in Waiting).
A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying Lieutenant.
Colonel the Earl of Mount Charles (Silver Stick in
Waiting), Colonel Hepburn (the Field Officer in Brigade
Waiting), Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieutenant-Colonel
the Hon. D. de Roo (Equerries in *siting to the
Queen). .

A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying the Earl of
Cadogan (captain of the Yeomen of the Guard), Viscount
Torrington (the lord in waiting), and Viscount Royston
(the comptroller of the household).
A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying Lady Water-
park (the lady in waiting), Lady Caroline Barrington (the
lady superintendent), the Duke of Marlborough (lord
steward), and the Earl of Lucan (gold stick in waiting).
A carriage, drawn by six black horses, conveying Prince
Arthur, the Duchess of Wellington (miatress of the robes),
and the Duke of Beaufort (master of the hone).
The Queen's Marahalmen.
The Queen's Footmen.
A party of the Yeomen of the GnartL
Her Majesty's carriage, drawn by eight cream coloured
horses, conveying the Queen, Princess Louise, and the
Princess Beatrice.

The Queen was conducted to her carriage by the Lord
Chamberlain (the Earl of Bradford) and the Vice-Cham-
berlain (Lord Claud Hamilton), and was received by a
Guard of Honour of the Grenadier Guards, playing the
National Anthem.

Her Majesty wore a rich black silk dram, with a train
trimmed with miniver and crape, and a Mary Queen of
Soots cap, with a long veil of white crape lice, the csP
ornamented with large diamonds, and a small coronet of
diamonds and sapphires.
Her Majesty also wore a diamond necklace and cross (the
latter containing a miniature of the Prince Consort), the
Koh•i•noor as a brooch, the Riband and the Star of the
Order of the Garter, and the Victoria and Albert Order.
The Queen left the Palm, at a quarter before two
o'clock, and was escorted by a detachment of the Ist Life
Guards.

Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal) attended her
Majesty on horseback.
The Queen returned from the House of Lords to Buck-
ingham Palace at three o'clock, and was received by the
Lord Chamberlain and the Vice-Chamberlain.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Harris
(acting lord-in-waiting), the Hon. A. T. Fitemaurico
(groom-in-waiting), and Major Teesdale (equerry-in-wait-
ing), was present at the opening of parliament.
The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by the Hon. E.
Yorke, and the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel
the Hon. J. Macdonald, were also present.
Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Hon. Corps of Gentle-
men at Arms was on duty at the House of Lords, under
the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Topham,
the lieutenant. The following officers were also present on
duty with the corps—Lieutenant-Colonel W. McCall, the
Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant, and Captain N. G.
Philips, the sub-officer.
The Earl of Tankerville, the Captain of the Hon. Corps
of Gentlemen at Arms, joined the procession of her
Majesty to the throne.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince
Arthur, and Princess Beatrice, left Buckingham Palace,
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for Windsor Castle, at a quarter to five o'clock, attended
by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and escorted by
a detachment of the 14th Hussar.

The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Queen
yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
His royal highness also visited the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, at St. James's Palace.
The Prince of Wales attended the debate in the House
of Lords in the evening.
The Princess of Wales was also present at the debate in
the House of Lords.

The Duko and Duchess of Sutherland arrived
at Stafford House, St. James's, on Monday evening, from
Trentham, Staffordshire.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, M.P., and
Lady Grey are expected to return home from a tour in
Italy at the close of this or early in the ensuing week.

It was expected yesterday that the new peers
entitled to sit in the house would have taken the oaths
and their seers before the arrival of her Majesty. Nine
peers can now claim this honour, eight by right of succes-
sion—namely, the Earl of Craven, the Marquis of Exe'or,
the Earl of Kingston, Lord Northbrook, Lord Plunkett,
and the Marquis of Waterford ; one new peer by majority,
the Earl of Elden, just come of age ; one by creation, Lord
Brancepeth (better known as Viscount Boyne) ; and one
by election, Viscount Templemore, in the room of the late
Lord Lanesborough. These noblemen, however, did not
take their seats at the morning sitting yesterday.
Sir C. O'Leghlen, on Thursday, proposes to move
in committee of the whole house that the chairman be di.
rected to move the house that leave be given to bring in
a bill to abolish a certain declaration, commonly called
the declaration against transubstantiation, invocation of
saints, and the sacrifice of the mass as practised in the
church of Rome ; and to render it unnecessary to take,
make, or subscribe the same as a qualification for the
exercise or enjoyment of any civil office, franchise, or
right.

Mr. Seely intends to move in the House of
Commons, on the 19th :—" That, in the opinion of this
Bowe, the control and management of dockyards is
inefficient, and that the inefficiency may be attributed to
the following causes :-1. The constitution of the Board
of Admiralty-2. The defective organisation of the subor-
dinate departinente-3. The want of clear and well
defined responsibility."

On Thursday Mr. Lusk will ask the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs if the attention of her Majesty's
governdlent had been directed to the seizure by the
Spanish authorities of an English steam vessel, called the
Tornado, on the high seal, in August last, and to the im-
prisonment and trial of the crew ; and if so, whether the
government had taken any steps to ascertain if the cap-
ture was lawful ; if the representations concerning the
harsh treatment of the men were well founded or not ; and
if therewu any probability of their being soon released and
'tent home to this country.

Mr. Hunt on Monday brings in a bill to provide
for a common basis of value for the purpose@ of government
and local taxation, and to promote uniformity in the
assessment of risk able property in England and Wales.
An account from Tournay speaks of an accident
which happened some nights back to Mdlle. Dejazet in
that town during is performance. She was running across
the stage with all the buoyancy of 11, when her foot
caught in the train of one of the actresses. She fell
heavily, her head coming in contact with one of the side
scenes. She was taken up in a fainting state, and was
found to be slightly cut on the cheek and chin. After •
short rest, however, she came forward and relieved the
anxiety of the spectators, who testified their satisfaction
by enthusiastic plaudits.

The committee for erecting a monument to
Daniel blasts have received 2,500 fr. from the Duchess of
Gene►

The Vienna journals anncenee that round the
city are to be erec'ed 42 detached forts, and three walls of
defence, extending from Kahlenberg to Stadelan.

C•vtgrA.T. PALacit. Oirs Buninto DAY.—
TeEmI)AY, FEB. L. Admisaions on payment, 843;
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY

COI'SI'IL.

(Before Lord Westbury, Sir W. Erie, Sir E. V. Williams,
Sir R. Kindersley, Sir L Peel, and Sir J. Colvile.)

AND OTHERS r. INAGE4B.
This was an appeal from a decision of the Supreme Court
of the Cape Colony overruling a decree of the Synod
of Graffreinet, which suspended the Rev. Mr.
Burgess, minister of the Dutch reformed church
at Hanover, in the above colony, from the ex-
ercise of his ministerial functions, and thereby involving
deprivation of some of his emoluments, on the ground of
his having been guilty of certain errors of doctrine.
This decree having been made, the Rev. Mr. Burgess,
upon the :10th of September, 11,‘4, brought an action in
the Supreme Court against the moderator and members
of the synod for the recovery of the emoluments of which
he bad been deprived ; objecting that the Synod
of the Dutch reformed church, under the colonial ordi-
nances of US-17, were deprived of their original jurisdiction
to entertain charges of false doctrine and misconduct
brought against ministers of the Dutch reformed church,
and that such complaints could only be originated in the
presbytery of the church, with appeal to the synod. In
thin instance the synod had assumed such original juris-
diction, and hence their decree was null and void.

The Anpreme Court having given judgmentiOfavour of
the plaintiff, the defendants appealed to the Privy Council,
and the case was argued on the 10th, 11th, and 12th of
November last.

Loral Westbury now delivered the judgment of their
lordships, which was to the effect that if the
contention of the appellants were acceded to, a
state of things moat extraordinary and inconvenient
would be brought about. It was contended that the 7th
article of the ordinance of 1847 made a special exception in
respect of cases which had not been brought before any
other court, and as no case could be brought before the
presbytery in anyyear in which it did not sit, impliedly such
cases might be brought at once before the synod. Such an
exception if allowed would have the effect pro tanto of
controlling and overruling the positive enactments
of the new ordinance, which transferred the primary
jurisdiction spinet ministers from the synod to
the presbytery. In their lordships• opinion, the
object of the enactment of 1847 was to strip the synod of
all original jurisdiction in complaints of conduct against
ministers, and to reduce it merely to the status of a court
of appeal. Their lordships therefore decided that the judg-
ment of the court below ought to be affirmed.