The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-14 00:00:00

TIM LORD LUMTENANOT OP 11161.10111.

The Post remarks that Mr. Gladstone is to be congratu-
lated on having secured the services of Lord Spencer.
Personally affable, a keen sportsman—no mean qualifica-
tion in the eyee of our Hibernian friends—and possessed
of an ample private fortune, he can hardly fail to make a
favourable impression upon a high-spirited and impulsive
nation. This sa by no means an unimportant result to strive
for in Ireland.

TIM LIII AND NAM

Of the =Will a@ who lately received the seals of aloe,
the hfq►aph thinks that none have a greater field for
beneficial action than Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Childers.
They are to be the directors of the two great spending de-
partments in the State, and both are pledged to a reduc-
tion of the national outlay. The country demands naval
and military reform, however, not so much because the
two service, cost a vast sum, as because there is a wide-
spread feeling that both are inefficient.

TNT SPANISH

The Ern"ld observes that the members of the Prorigional
(lovernment have committed a grave and irreparable error
in postponing so long a time the assembly of the consti-
tuent Cortes, but assuredly the best hopes for the regene-
ration of Spain lie in the maintenance in power of Prim
and Serrano until the nation has elect. d it. representa-
tives. Another revolution would not bring better mon to
the helm ; it might launch Spain Into errors and estrava•
games which would throw her back 30 years behind
so-called period of shame and slavery, the lag years of
the reign of Queen Isabella 11.

the Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 12.

The Quetn, seeompunied by Prineesi
drove in the Great Park this moruing. The lion. Emily
Cathcart tram in attendance.

The Crown Princess of Prussia, attended by Countess
Reventlow, visited the Convalescent Ilotpital at Clewer.
The Hon. Mrs. Pontonby had the honour of accompanying
her royal highness.
Princess Louise and Prince Leopold also went out.
Prince Arthur. attended by Lient-Colonel Elphinctone
and Lieutenant Pickard, has arrival at the Castle from
Woolwich.

Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holdein and the Prince
and Princess of Teck dined with the Queen yestenky.
`Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Duckworth, was
preprint last evening at the Etou College theatricals.
Her Majesty held a Council this afternoon, at a quarter
before 3 o'clock, at which were present :—The Earl de
Grey and Ripon, the Right Hon. W. E. tiladstone, Earl
Granville, Viecount Sydney, and the Right Hon. 11. A.
Bruce.

Previous to the Council the Earl of Tanker's le, Lord
Steward; the Earl of Bradford, Lord Chamberlain ; the
Right Hon. F. E. Herbert, C. 8., Treasurer of the House-
hold ; Lord Claud Hamilton, Vice-Chamberlain , Earl
Cadogan, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ; and the
Marquis of Exeter, Captain of the Honourable Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms ; who arrived at the Castle this after-
noon, had audiences of her Majesty and resigned their
wands and badges of office.
The Earl of Beasborough, Lord Steward ; Viscount
Sydney, Lord Cluunberlaiu ; the Earl of Cork, Mader of
the Buckbounds; and Lord Foley. Captain of the Honour-
able Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, were sworn in at the
Council, and kissed bands on appointment. The Marquis
of Ailesbnry was also sworn in, and kissed hands on his
appointment as Master of the Horse.
Earl Spencer was then introduced and sworn in at the
Council. and kissed hands on his appointment as Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland.

The Right Hon. T. E. Taylor was introduced, and re-
signed the seals of office as Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster.

Lord Dufferin and Clandcboye was then introduced at
the Council and sworn in a member of her Majesty'■
Moat Honourable Privy Council and Chancellor of tLo
Duchy of Lancaster, and kissed hands on appointment,
receiving the Nab' of his office from her Majesty.
Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Dart., was then introduced and
sworn in a member of her Majesty's Most Honourable
Privy Council, and kissed hands on appointment as Judge-
Advocate-General.

The Hight Hon. W. E. Gladstone stud Earl Granville
had audiences of the Queen.

Mr. Helps was Clerk of the Council.

Kr. John ake Coleridge, Solicitor-Lien/mil, arrived at
the Castle this afternoon, and was introduced to has
Majesty's presence by the Bight Hon. H. A. Bruce, Secre-
tary of State for the Horns Department, and reeoirod the
honour of knighthood.
Viscount Torrington, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, and
Lord Alfred Paget, the Lord, Groom, and Equerry in
Waiting, were in attendance.

The bake of Argyll had as audience of her Majesty
yesterday afternoon•

Dn. 13.

The Queen, the Crown Mos and Princess of Prussia
(Princess Bops% PAWNS Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, end Princess Beetwiee, and the Ladies and
Gentleame be Waiting, attended Divine servios this morn.
ing in the private chapel.

TM Bat. T. J. lowa. konotoz7 &Viols to the
Queen, preso!bo.l

Priam Cluistian dined with the Qom yesterday.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone had the honour of
dining with the Queen and the royal family.

Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial-
aloe from the Governor of Malta.
Despatches were sent to the Governor-Goncral of 01110111
and to the Governor of British Columbia.

CABINEI 00131K11.—A meeting of the members
of the cabinet will take place tomorrow at the First Lord
of the Treasury's official residents in Dowsung-stroet
Tux FORZION-OFFICI.—The Earl of Clarendon,
as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, bad a diplomatic
levee on Saturday, at the Foreign-office, is Downing.
street, when their Excellencies the Russian, Austrian,
French, and Prussian Ambassadors, the Danish, United
States, Greek, Hayti, Bavarian, Belgian, Honduras, Hi-
eautipas, Chinese, Portuguese, Salvador, sad Swedish
Ministers Plenipotentiary attended ; also the Turkish,
Italian, and Nettie/lends Mani d'Affaires. The diplo-
matic representatives appeared in fun uniform
Tllll HAALTE OF TIM Panful ROYAL or BEL-
01011.—Bsommaa, Dam It—The weekly When of the
health of the Prince Royal has been lend trelLima:ad
states that the improvement which Ime
daring the past •tx weeks continues, althinelt bigh.
oases la din pessaries &

At Guatemala the crops wore highly satisfactory. ant
the steps taken to prevent the asithipatua famine pro•
ads' the most favourable results.

At Salvador the indigo crop Lad proved 1,10: serons in
excess of that of ISO:. The rainy lea4oll was expected to
terminate during November. Thu prewidontial elections
were coming on, and it was believed that the present Pre-
sident would be re-elected.

A revolution took place at Costa Rica on 6t November,
and the President, lie Castro, wu superseded by the Vice-
Pr vident Don Zinicner. There was no disturbance of
public order, and ex-President do Castro was left at
perfect liberty in his own house.
In Chili the impeachment trial of the judges of the
the supreme court was going on, and was causing con-
siderable excitement. The President wished to stop the
proceedings, but his cabinet refused to support him. A
large number of vessels, recently arrived on the coast
from the Atlantic, reported having suffered very severely
from bad weather and ice off Cape Horn. Among others
the Miner, the Flecher, the steamer Zeta, and batlike
Bertha, Ellen Radford, Coldstream, and Venerderna
from England, the barque Neptune from Hamburg. and
the rchooner Idaho from Boston, all suffered :acre or
leNs. A tire broke out in Aucud, on the 20th October.
destroying nearly the whole town.
Almost all the Bolivian cities have protested against
the boundary treaty with Brasil.
In Peru the Senate had authorised the government to
make the preliimmury tracings for a railway from Tacna
to Bolivia.

At Barbadoes exchange on London was quoted-90 days,
487) GO days, 490: 30 days. 492). There was a great
want of rain, and the crops were suffering in consequence.
At Demerara the weather was showery, and the long
drought had Cealloll. A large number of Yawls were load-
ing with produce for New York. Freights for sugar to
London and the Clyde, Is. 9d. ; for rum, 21d. Exchange,
80 days, 482 ; GO days, 485 ; 30 days, 4811.
At Jamaica rain was plentiful in some parishes, but others
were suffering for the want of it. Two landslips had
taken place at Annatto Bay. A soap factory had been
established at Tweedside, in the perish of St. Mary's.

INDIA.

THE CASE OF PAYMASTER LAWM

The finding of tho oonrt-martial appointed to
try Paymaster William Lewes, of the 90th Regiment, was
promulgated last month. Thaw were four charges pre-
ferred against him, the chief of which was the fraudulent
appropriation of more than 7,000 rupees, publics money
belonging to her Majesty's army, and received by him in
his official capacity. The other charges wee* corollary to
the first, and implied falsification of the isociounta fur the
purpose of di/guiding the fraud.
The sentence of the court was that the prisoner be re-
quired to refund the amount appropriated, and that he
be imprisoned for two years. An Indian paper states that
the prisoner was taken under escort of an officer to the
90th men at Lubathoo, where all the officers had as-
sembled (by order) to hear the sentence read out. Capt.
Lams was in a shocking state of intoxication, and be-
haved in a most disgraceful manner, calling out like a
madman. lie had to be removed to his quarters in a
dean ; 'Len Dr. Boyd was obliged to attend him. As
the sentence had not been read out in the morning a
woad meeting of all the officers took place about
when, Captain Lewes being then sobor, the sentence was
read ot.t, and shortly afterwards ho was scut off a
prisoner under a guard from lrussowloe, and was at once
to proceed to England.

We learn by telegraph from Cork that Train
sailed for New York, in the Austrabuien. yeeterdey. At
Queenstown he addressed a small mob, depoinicting
Cardinal Calm and Bishop Moriarty.
We learn by telegraph from Belfast that the
Rev. Henry Cooke, D.D., LLD., tie !MOM divine of the
priebyterlea church in Lateal. expired oa Sunday
erasing, at kb reideace. Omuta-road, Belfast, is hL
flOth year.