The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-02 00:00:00

THE BISHOPRIC OP NORWICH.

(1,1011 LAST NIGHT'S Gnome.)
WRIPEIIALL, APRIL 30.—The Queen has been
pleased to order a eoofd tr *Jiro to pies the great seal of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, empowering
the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church of Norwich to
elect a Bishop of that see, the same being void by the resig-
nation tithe Right Reverend Father ia God Doctor Samuel
Hinds, late bishop thereof ; and her Majesty has also been
pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter the
Hon. end Rev. John Thomas Pelham, M.A., to be by them
elected Bishop of the said See of Norwich.

Prince Alfred of England arrived at Gotha on the
25th ult., and was received at the railway station by the
duke and by the resident minister. The visit of the young
prime will be but short.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Prisons Mary, and Hereditary Grand Ductless
of Meeklenburgh-Strelits, arrived in town yesterday, frum
Key, visited her Royal Highness the Dothan of Kent, at
Clarence Hones, H. Jawed., and called at Gloucester
House.

The Earl and Countess of I'ortarlington have
arrived at Clarides Hotel, from Emu Park, Ireland.
The Earl and Countess of Lisburne and Lady
Elizabeth and Lady Gertrude Vaughan have arrived at
their residence in Chaada•etreet, Cavendish-square, for the
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The Earl and Countess of Fife have arrived at
Claridge's Hotel, from Dud Haw, Aberdeenshire.

Lady Laura Grattan has arrived in Eaton•place,
from Ireland.

Lord and Lady Clermont have arrived at Cla-
ridge's Hotel, from Clifton.

Mrs. W. E. Gladstone's party to the members of
the Royal Academy, which was azed for this evening, is
put off.

The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine
Villiers have closed their visit to Earl Bathurst, at Oakley
Park, Cirencester, and have gone on a visit to Lord William
Powlett, at Bath. The noble earl has been entertaining a
sureeesion of distinguished visitors at his 71/1114011.

On Thursday Mr. Jones, M.P., and Mrs. Jones, of
Pantaiss, and family arrived at their aest Paatglas, wluas
they intend pawing the summer.

Wo (11;akeie-ld Eransiner) regret to hear that
our late respected member. G. Sanders, Esq., haa felt it
n.messary, by the advice of Sir B. Brodie and Mr. Fergus.
eon, to submit to a further severe surgical operation, with
the sanguine expectation of thaw melanin that it will
lead to his ultimate recovery. The medical reports so far of
Mr. Sanders's progress are most favounble.

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The Earl Forteecne, R.W. Provincial Grand Mas-
ezr of Devon, has named Thursday, 2Ath of May, for a
meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge, at Torquay, for the
purpose of laying the foundation stone of a Lodge, to be
erected est a piece of ground presented to Lodge No. ell, by
Lammas Palk, lam , M.P.

We (Yorkshire Gazette) understand that some
person or persons entered Raby Castle, the scat of his Grace
the Duke of Cleveland, during Friday night last, the 24th of
April, and stole about 1001. or 1501., in gold and ether, from
a drawer in the office of the house steward ; but a number
of notes deposited in the same drawer were left. We have
not heard the particulars of the robbery, but every exertion
is being made to discover the burglars.
A St. Petersburg letter, of the 23rd ult., hi the
Neu, Gaulle of Prusiiia, says :—" When the Emperor
Nichols visited England in 184 t, he announced his inten-
tion of giving annually a sum of 500/, sterling, to purchase a
silver cup to be run for at the Ascot races, and the sum was
given each year up to 1853. The Emperor Alexander hag
now decided that it shall no longer be given, and that the
cup intended for the year 1834 shall be run foe at the races
which are to take plain this year at Moscow."
The Giornale di Roma states that on the 25th
the Emperor Dowager of Russia paid a visit to the
Pope. Mgr. , major-domo of kts holiness, received
her at the bottom of the grand staircase of the Fatima.
Mgr. Pam* announced her Majoity to the Pope, who ad-
vaned, to the threshold of the drawing-room to receive her,
After a long convenation, her Mat,t7 Peommiled the lethal
end gentlemen of her smite io his holiness, arid then took
lave.