Several rumours are current respecting the future movements of the
Court. It is understood, that the workmen have been ordered to proceed with alterations and repairs in the Queen's private apartment at Windsor Castle, as it will not be needed for her Majesty's use until September; and that the Court will set out for the Continent directly after the prorogation of Parliament. The Aix-la-Chapelle Gazette says that Queen Victoria and King Louis Philippe will visit the King of Prussia at Stolzenfels, where they will remain for three days; and that the Queen of England will be invited to go to Berlin and the Palace of Sans Souci. And the Greenock Advertiser asserts that the Queen will visit the West of Scotland, entering by the Clyde; great preparations for her reception already having been made at Haddo House.
Intelligence has been received of Lord Seaford's death; which happened sud- denly, at his seat of Woodend, near Chichester, on Wednesday. Charles Rose Ellis was born in 1771, and was created Baron Seaford in 1839. He was twice married,—to a daughter of Lord Hervey; and to the widow of Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy. He is suceeeded by his eldest son, Lord Howard de Walden, the British Ambassador in Portugal; who inherited his present title and Barony from his maternal grandfather the Earl of Bristol, the Earldom going to another branch.
Last night's Gazette states, that the Queen has appointed Mr. John Flames Crampton, now Secretary of Legation in Switzerland, to be Secretary of Ition in the United States; and Mr. Newton Savile Scott, some time paid A fachb to the Legation in Spain, to be Secretary of Legation in Switzerland.
The appointment of Mr. Simms to the high and honourable post of Engineer to advise the Indian Government as to the systesnof Railways it will be expedient to adopt for India, has been approved by the home authorities; and that gentleman on his journey to Calcutta over-land on the lath of July. The period of Simms 's engagement is for three years certain, and not five years as previously stated. We believe we may add, that Mr. Macdonald Stephenson will proceed to India by the same mail, as the Managing Director of the East India Railway Company.—Times.
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