The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-05 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DINNERS.

The Earl of Derby, First Lord of the Treasury, gave
a parliamentary binquet at hit official residence in
Downing-street last evening. The company included
the Duke of Cambridge, the Lord Chancellor, the
Duke of Buckingham (Lord Presideut of the Council), the
Earl of Malniesbury (Lord Privy Seal), the Duke of
Marlborough, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of
Beaufort, the Dukes of Rutland, Buoeleuch, Montrose,
Manchester, and the Duke of Wellington ; the Mar-
quises of Salisbury, Bath, Downahire, Drogheda,
and Bristol ; the Earls of Bradford (Lord Cham-
berlain), Shrewsbury, Denbigh, Sandwich, Dart-
mouth, Tankerville, Warwick, Hardwicke, De la
Warr, Carnarvon, Cadogan, Darnley, Longford, Liman,
lielmore, Romney. Wilton, Yowls, Verulam, Beauchamp,
and Stradbroke, Esrl Vane and Earl Amhent, Viscount
Hewarden, Lords Southampton, Delamere, and
Bateman. The Earl of Devon was prevented by the death
of the Countess of Devon from attending the uet.
Lord Colchester, Lord Ravensworth, end Lord Feverdiam
were prevented by indisposition from being present.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave his parliamentary
dinner at Grosvenor-gate last night. There were present
the Hight Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons,
the lion. T. de Grey and Mr. Graves' (the mover and
seconder of the address in answer to the speech from the
Throne), and the following members of the government :
Viscount Cranbome, Lord Homy G. Lennox, Lord John
Manners, Lord Stanley, Viscount Royston, Lord Claud
Hamilton, Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, Lieut.-
General Right Hon. Jonathan Peel, Colonel Hon. C.
Lindsay. Right Hon. H. L. Corry, Hon. Gerard
Noel, Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, Bart., G.C.8.,
Right lion. B. Adderley, Right Hon. J. R. Mow-
bray, Right Hon. Sir S. Northcote, Bart., Right Hon.
Cathorne Hardy, Right Hon. Stephen Cave, Right Hon.
the Attorney-General for Ireland, Sir James Fergusson,
Bart., Rear-Admiral Sir John C. D. Hay, Bart., C. 11., Sir
Graham Montgomery, Bart., the Attorney-General, the
Solicitor-General, Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, Mr. G. W.
Hunt, the lard-Advocate, Mr. K C. Egerton, Rear.
Admiral Seymour, C. 8., Mr. H. Whitmore, Mr. Du Cane,
Mr. Earle, and Mr. Montagu Corry and Mr. C. Fremantle,
private secretaries.

i We have authority to state that the Queen will
' hold, during the ensuing season, at Buckingham
, Palace, five courts for the reception and presenta-
tion of a certain number of ladies and gentlemen.
In order to avoid fatigue to her Majesty the
number of ladies and gentlemen attending each
court will be limited to 260. Her lajesity's courts
i will he held on the ith, 14th, and 23rd March, the
2nd April, and on a day to be hereafter fixed in
j the month of June. The regulations will be the
same as last year. The Princess of Wales will,
after Easter, hold, on behalf of her Majesty, two
' drawing rooms at St. James's Palace, to receive
those who cannot be included at her Majesty's
courts under the above regulations. The Prince of
Wales will, as last year, hold levees at St. James's
Palace on her Majesty's behalf. The first levee
will be in the first week in March.
PEERS xstw AND CONNONEES.—On the ANAGIII.•
I Ming of parliament to-day eleven new peers will be entitled
to take their seats. Eight are by right of succession,
C nl viz.,
the Marquis anelen, the Earl of Campeovni, Earl
Craven, the Marquis of Exeter, the Earl of Kingston,
Lord Northbrook, Lord Plunket, and the Marquis of
Waterfonl. There is one new peer by majority--the Earl
of Eldon, who became of age on the sth of November last;
one by creation—Lord lirancepath, better known as
Viscount Boyne, in the peerage of Ireland, but now& baron
of the United Kingdom ' • and one by election— Viscount
Templetown, who will sit as an Irish representative peer in
the room of the late Lord Lanesborough. During the recess
one peerage has become extinct, viz., the barony of Ponsonby.
The least election of a member of the House of Commons
during the present rectum took place at Armagh on Wed-
nesday, by the unopposed return of Mr. Vance. The fol-
lowing is a eompletelist of new M.P.e, eleven in number,
to take the oaths this afternoon:—Mr. J. B. Bowen,
I for Pembrokeshire, in the room of Mr. Lort Phillips,
I deceased; the Hon. A. W. Oast, for North Shropshire,
' in the room of Major C. W. Cunt resigned ; Mr. Ile la
Peer, for Waterford, in the room of the Earl of Tyrone,
now Marquis of Waterford; Captain Douglas• Pennant,
for Carnarvonshire, in the room of Colonel Douglas-
! Pennant, now Lord Petirhyn ; Mr. Garth, Q.C., for
Guildford, in the room of Sir W. Bovill, now Lord Chief
C Justice of the Court of Common Pleas ; Mr. Hovel Gwyn,
for Brecknock, in the room of the Earl of Brecknock, now
the Marquis camden ; Mr. A. Kavanagh, for Wexford, is
the room of Mr. George, now a judge in the court of
Queen& Bench in Ireland ; Mr. Lsnyon, for Belfast, in the
room of Sr Hugh Cairns, now a Lord Justice of Appeal
in Chancery ; Mr. Jervoise Smith, for Falmouth, in the
room of the Hon. T. G. Baring, now Lord Northbrook ;
Mr. Vance, for the borough of Armagh, in the room of
I Mr. Miller, now a judge of the Court of Bankruptcy and
' Insolvency iu Ireland ; and Captain White, for Tipperary,
in the room of Mr. J. B. Dillon, deceased. These changes
have been caused by four elevations to the peerage, four
appointments to judgeships, two deaths, and one resig.
nation. There is a twelfth member who will be sworn in,
namely, Sir John Holt, the Attorney-General for England,
on his re-election fur West Gloucestershire. Of the
twelve, nine are conservatives and three are liberals.
The conservatives gained a seat at Brecon, through the
election of Mr. Hovel Gwyn in succession to Lord Bieck.
nook, but they lost one in Waterford by the substitution
of Mr. de la Peer for the Karl of Tyrone. The balance of
parties has not, therefore, been altered throughout the
recess. Of the eleven new members, seven will cit for
constituencies in which contests Lave taken place. These
are Belfast, Ilrecknock, Falmouth, Guildford, Tipperary,
Waterton', and Wexford. Four have returned their re-
' presentatives without opposition, namely, Armagh, Car-
narvonshire, Pembrokeshire, and North Shropshire. The
number of elections in Ireland has been live, in England
three, and is Wales three. There are now six vacant
seats—Dublin l'iliversity, through the elevation of
Mr. Walsh to the Mastership of the Rolls in
Ireland, and for which Mr. Chatterton, the
Irish Solicitor-General, has offered himself ; Galway
borough, through Mr. Morris having accepted the office
of Attorney-General for Ireland, and for which be is
likely to be returned unopposed ; North Northampton.
shire, through lord Burghley having succeeded to the
peerage as the Mstquis of Exeter ; fork county, through
the death of Mr. Barry ; East Suffolk, through the
resignation of Sir E. C. Kerrison ; and Colchester, through
the resignation of Mr. Taverner Miller. When these
vacancies are filled the house will still be four short of
its proper number, through the unseating of Messrs. Fen-
wick' Gower, Fender, and Schneider. The liberal party
thus loses four votes, but this is counterbalanced by their
having gained two seats since the general election. That
is to say, they have won six and lost four. During the six
years' parliament, from 1859 to Dail. the conservatives
gained twentpfour seats, or an average of four every
year.— Western Al"rwiny Nom
CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAlr.
Fee. 4. Admission. on payment, Bi 4 ;
ditto, by season tickets, 644. Total !Was, 1,4115.