The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-14 00:00:00

Howard ,_ Mann.
Okweisasele aad Lily Ben. ily de Ban the Earl of Car-
liela..Tienrant Canning,. Lord and Lady (Kokos. Bir Jules
and Lady Graham, Sir David Hands*, and fla Jam.,
Clark, Ist the castle to-day. The royal dinner circle this
evening will include the Duchem of Kent, Lady Fanny
Howard, Baroness de Speth, end the Bari of Liverpool.
I Her Majesty's private band will attend in the cut's alter
dinner.
The

Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of
__burgh Straits visited the Duchess of Gloucester
I—sistarday, at Olouctster House.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were Lord
John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lens
downs, the Earl of Micro, Sir George Grey, Visas's%
Palmerston, Sul Grey, the Chancellor of the Bac'smuts.,
Sir Francis Baring, Sir John liobhouse, the Earl of Car-
lisle, the alb% Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Marquis of
Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. Fax Mauls. The council
sat three hours.
The High Sheriff of Bedfordshire had an inter-
view with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Rome-office,
and delivered to the right hon. baronet an address against
papal aggression for presentation to the Queen.
The Transatlantic Packet Station Commission held
a meeting yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
Present—Earl Granville (chairman), Hon. William Cowper,
Sir Jame* Gordon, Sir J. F. Burgoyne, and Captain
Ellarby ; and Lord Hobart (secretary).
The Earl of Carlisle returned to town yesterday
from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
Mr. Bruyeres hail an interview yesterday with Sir
Gimp Grey.
The Marquis of Clanrieurde returned to town yes-
terday from• visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
cam from the Governor of the 'West India Colonies.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat
esterday. Present—the Muter of the Rolla, Mr. Baron
Parke, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir Edward
Ryan. An appeal from the Prerogative Court of Canter-
bury, " Brays and Edwards o. Bather" (part heard), was
resumed, and was again adjourned.

The French Ambassador returns forthwith to Paris
on leave of absence from bis government, and will be
absent tram London for probably two months.

TIM CREW OF VIII ROYAL YACRT.—Our Ports-
mouth correspondent says: " The royal yacht Victoria and
Albert will be paid off on the 31st instant, her time being
then up. A paragraph, copied from a prviessional paper,
has been to autogiro circulation daring the put week, to
the effect that t►e yacht wee to be paid off, in order to re.
constitute the Crew, so as to have a majority belonging to
the protestant faith, and implying that at present the ma-
jority is composed of Roman eatholics. This is incorrect,
out of a crew of 118 men there are not more than two or
three of the latter perthasion ; therefore, no such intention
could have been formed. There are three or four boys of
that religion, bat it it absurd to suppose that these will be
discharged on that account. It is only from the paragraph
in question, implying the trait/nos of • suspicion to the
effect Chet • portion of the crew of the yacht (although that
portion is so very small) are wanting in loyalty and devoted-
ness to her Majesty, that it is at all worth correcting."

(From last night's Gametic).
MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—BY THE QUEEN.—
A PILOCWIATION.—Viataria, R.—Whereas our parliament
stands prorogued re Tuesday the 17th day of this instant
Decemb we, with the advice of our privy esoluscil, do
hereby er
publish and declare, that the said parliament shall be
further prorogued, oa the said 17th day of December
instant, to Tataday the 4th day of February next ; and we
' have given order to oar Chanoellor of that part of our
united Kingdom called Great Britain, to prepare a commis-
sion for proroguing the same acccorotagly : and we do hereby
further, with the advice aformatd, declare our royal will and
pleasure, that the said parliament shall, on the said Tues-
day the 4th day of February next, mumble and be
holden for the dispatch of divers urgent and important
alfatrs • and the lords spiritual and temporal, and the
knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commissioners for
shires and burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby
required and commanded to give their attendance accord-
ingly, at Westminster, on the said Tuesday the 4th day of
February next. liven at oar court at Windsor, this 12th
day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and filly, and in the fourteenth year of oar reign.
God_:sam the Queen.
FOREION-OFFICII, DEC. 11.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas Kneels Groans as
Consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for his Majesty the King of
Prussia; also Mr. Louis von der Pfordten as Consul at
Malta for his Majesty the King of Bavaria.
TREASURE CHAMBERS, DEC. 13.—The Queen hes
been pleased to direct letters patent to he passed under the
Great Seal, constituting and appointing Sir John Frederick
William Herschel, Bart., to the office of Master and Worker
of her Majesty's Mint.

THE NEW REGULATIONS OF TILE MASTERS IN
CLIANCEta.—A memorial numerously signed by some of
the leading members of the legal profession has just been
presented to the Lord Chancellor, setting forth the lawn -
Venienees attendant upon the new regulations adopted by
the Masters in Chancery for the bearing of causes and
matters. The Lord Chancellor in acknowledging the receipt
of the memorial states that he will give his best attention
to the subject, with a view to a remedy that shall be con-
venient to the profession and beneficial to the suitors of the
Court of Chancery. The council of the Incorporated Law
Society are also considering the whole subject, to ascertain
if possible what will be the best remedy, and the various
Masters in Chancery, with whom these regulations mainly
Test, are also being conferred with on the question.
AT LENGTH THE EARL OF GUILFORD'S RESIGNA-
TION of the rich living of St. Mary's, Southampton, is in the
Muds of the Bishop of Winchester. Dr. Dusautoy, the
churchwarden of B'. Mary's bas just received orders from
Ike bishop to provide pro tem for the spiritual necessities of
the parish. According to the present law, the Bisliop of
Winchester must present the living of St. Mary's to some
one previous to its being diviled.
PATENT LAW REFORM.—The committee appointed
bF the Society of Arta held their sixth touting yesterday.
The members present were the Right Hon. T. Gibson,
11L.P., in the choir ; Professors H Iward Sally and Wood.
wort, George Brace, Esq., Henry Cole, Esq, A. Symonds,
Req., IL S. Newell, Esq., of Gateshead, and Richard
Prosser Esq ,of Birmingham The following resolutions
ware adopted.—That there shall be only one office for the
transaction of business connected with the registration of
inventions and the payment of fees in respect thereof. That
every perms desiring to register en invention should submit
two copies of the specification of his claim, accompanied in
say case where it is pomible by descriptive drawing,. That
the erode and procedure cf the registration be regulated by
the Board of Trade, subject to a report to parliament. That
say tribunal before which prreemdings are commenced, shall
have power to refer any case for report and certificate to the
negietrar, satiated by competent and scientific persons. That
it should be competent to an inventor to make disclaimers
and to rectify errors in his spee'ficstion at any period.
APOTHECARIES HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
po' their examination in the science and practice of
sedieles, and reoeived eartifictres to practice, on Thursday,
Dee. 12, 1850 : William Morse Orally Hewitt, Badbury,
Swindon, Wilts; Henry Penfold, Brighton; John Chain-
berlayne Retry, Deuced, Chippenham, Wilts; James
Jeken, Dover; Lucius Warrillow, Birmingham; Albert
Fleming; Samuel Morris, Colchester; Henry Manley,
Creditors, Devon. Thomas Henry Stocker Pullen, Sid-
month Devon. The registration of the medical students
attending the metropolitan schools has been concluded at
Apothecaries' Hall. 1,116 students have been registered
for the medical semi= 1860.61, the largest number save the
session 1842-3. Of these 871 are new students.
A POSTAL CONTENTION is in progress betweell
Spain and England, to enable letters to be sent from Spun
by the English steamers to Peru and the Pacific.
CHAMBER or Cointaitos—A special meeting of
this body wee held at the Exchange on Tuesday, the Right
Has, the Earl of Morley, the chairman of the chamber, is
the shah, when it was resolved to memorialise the Lord
Chancellor in favour of the permanent establishment in Ply-
mouth of the /Nettie Court of Bankruptcy, and a resolution
was pared to assist the directed.' of the Screw Steam Ship
Company in establishing Plymouth as the port of arrival and
departure of the Cape mails.—Plsonouth Journals
COUNTY EIPESDIIViti MOVEMENT.—At a meeting
et the committee Sze canduting this movement, held at the
Star Inn, Kanehester, on Tuesday last, the 10th lament,
maw* ahem, the following resolutions were passed L
Romiired—That this committee, having read the report a
ak. interview of their depletion with government, during
Ishii Lord John Resell intimated that no measure ei
away reform would be introduced by
.government until
Woe is a more general expression of opinion in favour of
en
ellarationlin the law, would renew its appeals to others
aunties to forwsrd immediately to parliament petitions
praying for the adoption of some legislative measure Is,
extending the constitutional right of representation te
meaty ratepayers, feeling aerated that the great
wad using burden of county expenditure edY
Lk some such restraint at the Wads of the legislature.
aseolved—That along with the oopy of the list
raidation the secretary is requested to send a copy or the re-
port laid before the meeting to day, and oleo Lead John
Rusrell's letter, and of the form of petition reed to this
day's meeting' and the secretary is iesvtiotod to request
sash bused of reardians to lavaar him with a reply to his
imummehmilmt. S. Resolved—That this somenittee beg te
beim the veliou hoards of guardians is the kingdom, that
So lave already spent the ow of 1,1871. 175. Id., and ea
Zrwevement hes • useLlattPlUit oWest to aceolopliels,
that all bessiderffines awl other parties in-
timated In this qwlllolll Ziesimasall=o: the ties' I
wait of the comma/On, Salford,
Melt will be ism them the above rook:dons that
Ihe to the .wily Snows down by Dad John
behlly ham mid that efforts will be made
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