The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-25 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S COURT.

The Queen held a court at Buckingham Palace
on Saturday afternoon.

Hu Royal Highneoo the Duke of Cambridge arrived at
the Palace how Gloucester House, attended by Colonel
Tyrwhit.
Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz arrived from St. James's rolace, attended by Lady
Caroline (*list and Diron Luhe.

Her Majesty's Rudy Guard of the Honourable Corps of
Gentlemen at _►rms WWI on duty at the court under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Topham, the
lieutenant. The following officers were alto present on
duty with the corp. :—Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. BIG-Call,
the Clerk of the Cheque and Adjut.uit, and Captain N. G.
Philips, tie sub-Officer.

The Royal Body Guard of the Yeoman of the Gnard wins
on duty. under the command of f'aptain Parker Rickford,
the Exon in w..iting. Colonel Purnell, C. 8., the ensign of
the cm pe, also atum.leil the court.
A gu.ml of honour of the Scots Fusilier Guards was
mounted in the court of the Palace.

The Queen, accompanied by th-ir Royal Ilightic.ses
Prince:a Luui,e, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess
Beatrice, the Duke of Catnbridge, and the Grand Docileles
of Mecklenburg-Stretitz, entered the throne•room soon
after :1 o'clock.

In attendance upon her Majesty were—the Duchess of
(Mistress of tho llohe,), the Countess of Cale-
don (Luly of the Bedchamber in waiting), Viscountess
Chuwtnn (Woman of the Bedchamber in waiting), the Hon-
Lucy Kerr and thu Hon. Emily Cathcart (Maids of Honour
n wanting), Loly Caroline Barrington (the Lady Superin-
tendent), and the usual officers of the household.

The Duke of Montrose, Postmrtster•Generaloras present
at the court.

Viscount Royston, Comptroller of the Household, and
the Marquis of Rsekr, Captain of the Honourable Corps
of Gentlemen-at-Arms, were unavoidably absent.
The Queen wore a black silk dress with a train trimmed
with crape, the Mary Queen of Soots cap, with a long veil
of white empo lisise, and a diadem of jet. Her Majesty
also wore jet ornaments, the Miami and the Star of the
srder of the garter, and the Victoria and Albert Order.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise wore a train of
rich white silk and a petticoat of tulle over white glace,
trimmed with bows of white ribbons. Head-dress—water
lilies and black leaves, feathers and veil, jet ornaments,
Victoria and Anert Order, and Order of St. Isabel.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice wore a white
silk dress, with jet ornaments.
The following presentations were made to her Majesty,
the names having been previously left at the Lord Cham-
berlain's Office, and submitted for her Majesty's approval :

Mrs. John 11. Arkenight, on her marriage, by Lady Thug Art.
aright.
Mrs. ,ttoherky, on her marriage. by the Countem of Bradford.
Ml., Itiousd. by lady Charlott- hinnnt.

he Mar.:about:Mt aintleu, by the Duchem of Marlborough.
Mi.% Campbell, of illythawmal, by her .later, the flou. Mn.
Ilerrubr Howley.

3ib; EcrCii,;lllnon, by her mother. Indy Louisa Dillon.
1,..rd Erskine, by hie father. the Earl of Keine.
Lady Erskine, by the Count....s of K e
KnleLleutetbuit Cecil Po!jambe, R.N., be the lion. V. B.
Portman.

\llan ri-nnees Fn'jambe by Selina Vfseounteaslton

Mksa Marc Forrest. by her mother. Lady Gardiner.
tilts Amy Fountalne. by her mother. Mrs. C. Funnutne.
Mm. Charles Frenumtle, by lady Fremantle.
Mrs. Edmund Fremantle by Lady Fremantle
• •

The Earl of Gainsborouih' itiicix;ii.;%irT title, and on ap.
',ointment sa Lord Identellant of ituttonl, by the Earl of Derby.
The countess of Galusborough, on accession to title, by the
Countess of Derby.
Mies Gardner, by her mother, Mrs. Gardner.
M 6" Agnes Gardner, by her mother, Mr,. Gardner.
Mb's Susan Gardner, by her mother. Mrs. Gardner.
Mks Gibbs. by h^r mother, Mrs. 611.11 l
IlkS Langley, by her mother, Mn Langley.
Lady Laub, lu the Duchesa Dowager of :iornenet.
Nthwearldine Lush, by the Duchess Dowager of Somerset.
Nliss Edith Milbank, by Lady Augusta Milbank.
Mlss Scott Murray, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Scott
Murray.
fault' Elanthe Noel, by her mother, the Countess of G.Jus-
borough.
Lady Constance Noel, by her mother, the Countess of Gains-
boroindi.

La.!) Edith Noel, by her mother, Um o.llllten of Gidnobon oink
Lady elwendollne Whine, un her marriai,v, by We Connie., of
Lichfield.

Pow,r I i'Mice. by Lord Stuart de Decks.
Mrs. Henry Thornton Penne, on her marriage, by her mother,
Lady Mary Phipps.

MA:George Popp., by the Countess at Cattenham.
MI.. Edith Mary Patter, by her mother, Mrs. Thomas holey
hater.

Mies Katherine Potter, by her mother, Mrs. Richard Potter.
Mist Mary Potter, by her mother, Mrs. Richard Potter
Miss Isabella Robertson, by her mother, Mrs. Robertson.
The Hon. Mrs. Hercules Rowley. by the countess of Longford.
lady Rachel ucott., by Lady Katherine ilantlltospßussell.
Mrs. Prerille Sluices, by ViNttuntess
Lady Jane Taylor, by Viscountess Walden.
Miss lon Templer, by tbe Hon. Lady Dalrymple Hay,
Mrs. Tilley, by the Countess of Egiinton and Winton.
Mts. Wingfield Verner, by the Countess of Caledon.
Miss Eliza Gertrude Vickers, b?ri.he Countess of Essex.
lliss Jane Josephine Vickers, the Countess of Essex.
M. Willoughby, by Lady Pox 'oung.
Miss Wood by Mrs Mark W.sl

Mrs. Worsindie..m her marriage, by SIR. firm,' Bairn°.
Mrs Henry Stuart WorUey, on her marriage, 11 her aunt,
Lady John Manners

THE IRISH LEGAL A PrOINTMENTS. COTlSC-
quent on Lord Chancellor Blackburne's resig-
nation, the following appointments have been
made : Lord Chancellor, Mr. Brewster ; Lord
Justice of Appeal, Judge Christian ; Judge of the
Common Pleas, Mr. Monis ; Attorney-General,
Mr. Chatterton ; Solicitor-General, Mr. Warren.
On Saturday afternoon the annual " march out"
of the City Volunteers occasioned some excitement in the
principal thoroughfares. His Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, his Majesty the King of Denmark, Prince Teck,
and a brilliant mite, inspected the Hon. Artillery Com-
pany, under the command of Colonel Loyd Lindsay, at
the company's ground, in Finsbury. They then marched
out, and were joined in Finsbury-circus by the volunteers,
forming altogether a fine soldierly body of 2,000 men, and
proceeded to Hyde-park, where they halted for half an
hour ; and the affair concluded by their marching back
again.

Monday, the Bth, and Tuesday, the eth of April,
are " lending in" days for the Royal Academy.

Mr. Charles Dickens has given three readings in
the Rotunda, Dublin, concluding the aeries on Friday
night. The weather being more favourable than on the
two former nights, ►nd his fame as reader having gone
abroad among the numerous families from the country
now residing in and about Dublin, the demand for tickets
was so great that they were all sold before the day arrived,
and the unreserved portion of the Round Room was
crowded an hour before the time. Hundreds of the most
respectable people, after struggling in Tull for admission,
were obliged to go away. Ho great a crush to witness a
performance of the kind has, perhaps, not been known in
Dublin for many years. Mr. Dickens's visit to Belfast was
also very successful.
A Music Hall Sick and Provident Fund has
just been established, in the benefits of which all connected
with music-halls, from the great/ comic singer to the
humblest waiter, will be allowed to participate. Every
music-hall in the kingdom, and there are, it appears, 240
of them, has agreed to set apart one night's profits
Annually for the benefit of the fund.
Mr. lioucicault will be the chairman at the next
annual dinner of the General Theatrical Fund, to be held
in Enter week.

The 'lays of the Pantheon as a bazaar are at
an end, and the building is being converted to the pur-
poses of Memos. Gilbey, the wine merchants. From 1812
to 1841 it was a theatre, and nearly one hundred years
ago it was mentioned in one of Walpolc's letters as the
new winter Itanelagh in Oilurd•road."

The committee appointed for tho purpose have
reported onpetitions to the Hungarian Diet. Two priest.—
John Tonna of Viznicze, and Ambrosias Primer of
Szelesti—prayed that disciplinary authority should be
given to parish priests, and that they should be empowered
to inflict penances, and eventually to sentence delin-
quents to kneel in the church before the altar during
Divine service with a bunting taper in their band. Should
any one refuse to submit to the penance it should be the
imperative duty of the district magistrate to award
corporal pun ighetent to the culprit ! The house referred
this petition to the Minister for Public Instruction and
Spiritual Affairs:

George Skratinin, a protestant, has petitioned the
Hungarian Diet that hie son, aged 9 years, who had been
violently abducted and placed in a Roman catholic orphan
asylum at Gnus, should be restored to him. It appears
that on his marriage he bad signed a bond written in Hun-
garian—a language which, as a Wende, he did not under-
stand—pledging himself to bring up his children in the
Roman catholic faith. The house declared—and the de-
cision is of conaiderable importance, considering the multi-
tude of such bonds that exist—that such pledges are not
binding under any circumstances whatever, and referred
the petition to the 3Linister of Justice.