The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-02 00:00:00

Inc Court.

WINDSOR, Fla. I.
Captain the Hon. H. Koppel, R.N., and Colonel
fikantoae, H.R., Queen's Comatimaiseer at the Heed quarters
of the Ottoman Army, arrived yesterday afternoon es a
Tisk to her Majesty.
The dinner party iaeladed the Duchess of Rent, Lady
Fumy Iltwaril, Berens de Spoil), the Hos. Mary Sey-
mour, Major• General the Hoe. C. and Mn. Orey, Captain
tie Hon. H. Repot, R.N., Sir George Coupe?, and Colonel
Siamese, R.R.

The band of the god Life Claude played during dinner,
end afterwards her Majesty's private band.
Prince Albert went out shooting this morning, stoma
panted by Prises Edward of Sue Weimar and Captain the
Hon. B. Koppel.
Earl Spencer, Lord Steward of the Household, had an
antigens of her Majesty, to present the address from the
Home of Lords in answer to the Speech from the Throne.
The Hon. Beatrice Bung mad the Hon. Mary Bolus'
Yap sseoseded the Hon. Mary Seymour and the Hon.
Emily Cathcart as Maids of Honour in Waiting.
Major General Bouvezie and Captain Du Plat have suc-
ceeded Lord Charles Fitzroy and Colonel F. H. Seymour as
Equerries In Waiting to the Qaeon and Prince.

The Jedicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day in the Council chamber. Present—The Chancellor of
the Duchy of Cornwall, Bir J. Fatima, Sir W. Maul., and
Sir B. Ryan. Two appeals from Bengal were hear!,
"Chotayloll v. Ilasickchend," and " Chotayloll V. Uygur-
ahead and another."

Despatches front the Governors of Caaada and the Falk-
land Islands wan resolved yesterday at the Colonial-sfew.

Despatches were sent lut evening front the Cotonial-offiee
for the Governon of the West India oolonies, and also for
the Governors of the North American provinces.

(TROY LAST NICES'S oAserm.)

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JAN. 30.—Thil day had
midterms of her Majesty—His Excellency Monsieur Maso-
ns, to deliver his new credentials as Ambassador Extraor-
dinary and Plenipotentiary from the &dun; and Dr.
Rather, Minister Resident from the Hane TOWIII, to de-
liver his credentials; to which they wen respectively in-
troduced by the Earl of Clarendon, H.G., her Majesty's
Secretary of State for Foreign Milan, and conducted by
Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cast, E.C.H., her
Majnty's Master of the Ceremonies.

BUCKINGHAM PALACI, hit. 30.—The Queen was
this day pleased to comfy: the honour of knighthood upon
Williams Edmond Logao, En., Director of the Geological
Survey of Canada.
Foasfox•olrrfcs, JAL 31.—The Queen hue been
pleased to approve of M. Lein Chapalay as Consul at Mel-
bourne for the Swiss Confedf ration.

DUCHY OF LANCASTER, JAN. 30.—Ths Qno,ll
has bawl this day pleased to appoint Rohm Needham
Philip', of the Park, Ilitheherter, Esq., to be Sheriff of the
County Pelatthe of Lancaster for the year easuiag.
THE PRINCE OF WALES'S COUNCIL CHAMBER,
JAB, 31.—Bir William Berkeley Call, of Whiteford, to the
Coosty of Carswell, Baronet, has been appoiatwl Bltariffof
the County of Cornwall.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge in-
spected the 2nd Battalion of the Boots Puffier Gear& yes-
terday morales, on the Wel'legion Baneeks Parade. The
battalion mastered—szelasive of 250 reauite—about 600
effective nee. His Royal Highzem wore the uniform of
the Soots Puffier Gusts, of which minima he is colonel.
Amongst the visitors was Lieatenant-Coleael lisygerth,
supported es two crutches. The:gallant officer was dread-
fully wounded at the Alma, and has not yet mound suf-
ficiently to rejoin his regiment.
The Doke and Duchess of Richmond have arrived
is Portland-plsee, from Goodwood.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwick' have arrived
is tows, from Wimp)le Hall, foe the seams.

Viscountess Palmerston will give her first assembly
this eves tem at t►e Pre=lees private midmost, on the
Tenses, Piecadilly. Her ladyship hes cards oat for a
seeped ssessably ea Saturday seat.

Earl Fortner)* sad Lord Ebrisgtoa have left
Castle Hill for Leadoa. The aoble viscount le expected to
return shortly, as Lady Ebrington, who is our her pontos.
moat, is staying at Cattle Hill. _ .

A earresiondent of the Port, writing from the
Hague, says—a It to, very agreeable to bare to announce to
you that the unhappy differnme which lately existed be-
twigs du Bing and Qasen have bum lately arranged in
vary satisfactory manner."

The following are the meetings of the Literary and
Edentille Boeintles for the amain wish :—Monday—Ente-
=oinks], 8. Tnesday—HortiesParal, 1, special ; Ln-
ovae, 8; Institution of Civil Ruinous, 8, renewed
eaaticn upon Mr. Rebineen's paper Oa the Peet sad Pre.
seat Condition of the River Thames," Royal lartitatiesi
On PhyVology and Cosparaelve Assn: y," by Pre-

fear Halley. Wedmore/ay—Geological, 8, " Experimental
Raeserehes en the Graafian of Ireland," by the Rex. Pr,-
boor Esaghton. "Oa the Raised Beaches of the Wasters
Wee of Scotland," by Capt. Bedford. "Oa the Sestina
exposed In the Emmett= of the Docks at Swum," by
Mr. ►loggridge. "Oa the Ist* Eruptiou of Massa Loa,
Hawaii," by Mr. Miller. Thursday—Royal Aciadeny, 8,
" Arehitecture," by Professor Cockrell ; Society of A:h-
ymnals. 8; Royal, 8} ; Zoologieal, 8, general ; Royal 'soil.
tattoo, 8, "Oa Light," by Professor Tyndall. Friday—
Astroaomical, 3, anaivereary ; Philological, 8; Royal Intl-
tatios, " On the Geology and Phydeel Geography of
North America," by Professor Rogers. Saturday—Royal
Isslitutioa, i, "Oa Orgaafe Chemiatry," by Profiteer
OdMag.

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SUBJECT. FOR P•INTIRS.—W• could weep and
laugh to me the ludicrous terror with which, as May &d-
-emises, oar yoeag artist ram about to friends, bagging a
subject, sea Wed sea dew alas, and, if refuted all aid,
taelthig his brains M vary a last Tsar's thought, or furbish
' up aids “ Meese sad t►e Speetscloi," or " Soweto is the
lamyard," or "Sterne and the Orisons." Old painters
palsied the thoughts of their line; yogurt plasters
attempt somebody sloe's thoughts of the day befJre yester-
day. Raphael painted the religion of his age and the reli-
gion of his heart—Pre-Raphael paints somebody lw's reli-
nes of another age and the religion of his head. Propos
a (ow sahjects," shoat a thousand espirauts. We have no
seem to go foto a Said bounded only by the limits cf hu-
las& kcowledn. Has the literature of Europe been es-

heated—Sparn, the Cid, the Philips, South Americas
Adventure, Low Country Wars, Giersaay and the Ba-
lsams, Prederiek sad Silesia, the Ban, the Interdict, the
Secret Tribunal, the East sad the Crusades, the Greek En-
pith, Mohammed sad his mosmeors P—have ail theme buss
riamassed and pronounced we (feels? Have Goethe sad
&WM metals, as, to Mind t—Rtippikar lad Cumulate
Caliteres cad Dosseafot Let us, by way of irustratths,
soro one massched esbjaet of the So, Ward, amid Leello
sehool--. The Death of Mol ire "--'• 0," is Athenaeum

*Save as from our Friends r The Herald, this
maniac aballessee the following comparison :—" It is
mattered a stagalu taekleat la the binary of what Ks.
Disraeli Testa tern literary staireseasbip,' that ea the
sane day—the 19th of Jameary—Mr. Macaulay aeseeeeed
that he bad edema hew of path:al lite, sad Kr. Ikon,'
Worsen, dumbq the masses of the sleeken of Kidbaret,
stored his Westin to *ransom his pailtioal esteems."

Darla, the creek the Herharle beloogiag to the
lieetbraltaral Sonny were benght to the hammer. They
negated of various sallectioss formed by the travellers who
have bees fres time to Una employed by the ileciety to
procure ends aid pleats fa foreign conatrler. ma Horti-
eultural Society, lot belay theorpirattd for batman' t 0,...
tlphos, ceased these herbaria to be tensed, la order that
ha Aeon night be able to neaten the amn end vale.

ware mat boss by Its eollseters. The
Aid p. sus wars tie British Musa. aad t►e Munn
0 Nand abiery, P.