The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-11 00:00:00

ebe Court.

The Queen, accompanied by the Primams Alice,
and attended by the Hon. Caroline Cavendish and Lord
Alfred Paget, visited the Duchess of Cambridge on &dm.
day afternoon, at her residence in St. James's Palace.
The Queen and Princess Alice rode in the Hiding.liouse
of Buckin4hato Palace in the forenoon, attended by the
Hon. Horatia Stopford.
The Prince Consort, attended by Lieutenant• Colonel the
Hon. D. de Ros, paid a visit on Saturday to the Duchess
of Cambridge. His Royal Highness went to the South Ken.
singteo Museum.

the Queen's dinner party in the evening included the
Primus Alice, the French Ainbareador and Countess de
Fishault, FAA Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Duke of
Wellington, the Marchioness of Ely, Lord George Lennox,
Viscount sad Visconnteas Bury, Load and Lady Begot, and

Sir George Bowles.

Yesterday the Queen and Prince Coneort, the Princess
Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Princesses Helena
and Louise, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the
domestic bowiehold, attended Divine service in the private
chapel of Buckingham Palace. The lion. and Very Rev.
the Dean of Windsor preached the sermon.
Yesterday being the twenty•first an nivenviry of the Queen's
and Prince I 'owort's marriage, a selection of sacred music
was performed in the evening at Buckingham Palace.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were Vis-
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornwall
Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of New-
castle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset,
the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley
of Alderley, Sir George Grey, the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell.

The Commiwioners or the Exhibition of 1862 met at the
Privy Council office on Saturday last. Present—Earl
Granville, the Marquis of Chandos, Mr. T. Baring, M.P.,
Mr. C. W. Lae, and Mr. Thomas Fairbairn.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on
Saturday. An appeal from the Court of Arches. " Poole
v. the Bishop of Loudon " (part heard), was continued.

Her Majesty has signified her intention (says the
Odeerrer) to enrol the King of Prussia in the list of sove-
reigns who are Knights Extraordinary of the Illustrious
Order of the Garter. A special mission, at the head of
which will be a nobleman of high rank, will proceed to
Berlin, to waist at the investiture of his Majesty William
the First.

The Queen has appointed tLe Marquis of Huntly
lonl•lisuteaaat and aheriff•priocipal of the county of Aber-
deen.

The Queen has appointed the Rev. Andrew
Wilson, assistant and suaxesor to the Rev. David Harris, a
minister of the church and pariah of Fain, in the presby-
tery of Fearn.
Viscount and Viscountesa Paliueraton entertained
his Excellency the Russian Ambassador and Baroness
Brusow, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde,
the Earl of Shaftesbury,Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderloy,
Lard and Lady Napier, the Right Hon. Win. P. and Mrs.
Cowper, Hon. Miss Stanley, Mr. N. Jocelyn, kc., at dinner
cm Saturday, at their mansion in Piccadilly. Lady Palmer-
ston at a later hour had a " reception," which was rather
fully attended. The party broke up about midnight.

Lord and Lady John Russell had a dinner party
ea Saturday, at their residence in Chesham•p.ace. The
guests included his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador
and the Countess d'Appooyi, his Excellency the Belgian
Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Country (Dow.)
al Westmoreland and Lady Rem Fan*, Hon. liajnrAnaor,
M. fiabonreff, Captain Limaley, Mr. M. Villiers, kc.

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The Countess Apponyi'a aasenibly, which wait to
take place to-morrow, is unavoidably postponed to Tues-
day, the 19th instant.

The Duke of Hamilton leaves town to-day fur
Paris.

The Countess Cowley and the Ladies Wellesley
are staying at Moor Park, on a visit to Lord and Lady
Mary.
Viscount Lismore has taken the residence of
Vinootint Ebrington, in Bruton-street, for the season.

Viscount and Viscountess Boyne have arrived in
taws.

Lord and Lady Clarence Paget entertained a
select circle at dinner on Saturday evening, at the Admi-
ralty.

Mr. Edward John Stapleton haa been appointed
• junior clerk at the Home-othee, Whitehall.

The Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench
has made the following arrangement' in the Masters' office
on the Crown side of the court : Mr. Norton will be pro-
moted to the office of Queen's Coroner and Attorney, in
the place of the late Mr. Corner. Mr. J. G. Malcolm, of
the Home Circuit, :will succeed Mr. Norton as Master.
The place of ueistant•msster of the Crown-office has been
abolished.

The meeting of liberal members of parliament,
which was to have been held to-morrow, respecting the
abandonment of the reform question by Lord John Russell,
his been postponed.
It appears that the directors of the Eastern
Counties Company, at their last meeting, determined to
adopt a system of communication between the guard and
engine-driver of a train, which will in the first instance be
applied to express and fast trains, with a view, however, to
its extension to ordinary trains.