The Press.
London, England, 1855-08-04 00:00:00

Court an fasioit.

Her Majesty remains at Osborne, whence excur-
sions have been made (luring the week to Portsmouth,
where the giant war-steamer Marlborough was
launched on Tuesday, and to some other places in
the vicinity of the Isle of Wight. Prince Albert on
Thursday crossed over to Gosport, and proceeded on
a visit of inspection to the camp at Aldershott.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice is now
convalescent.

The Sultan has ordered magnificent necklaces in
brilliants to be made, as presents for Queen Victoria
and the Empress Eugenie, and saddles, also embroi-
dered in brilliants, to be made for the Emperor, the
King of Sardinia and Prince Albert. The value of
these presents will be about 2,000,000 f.
The King of Portugal is expected at Brussels at
the beginning of next week. His Majesty is to em-
bark at Ostend to return to Portugal.
Cabinet Councils were held on Saturday and Wed-
nesday last.
The Ministerial Whitebait dinner is fixed to take
place on Wednesday next, the Bth instant, at the
Trafalgar, Greenwich.
The Right Hon. the Speaker, preparatory to the
prorogation of Parliament, gave his customary ban-
quet to Lord Charles Russell and the chief officers of
the House of Commons, on Wednesday last, at his
temporary official residence, in Eaton-square.
The Duke of Newcastle left Constantinople for the
Crimea on the 21st ult. He declined the entertain-
ments offered to him in Constantinople. Before
leaving he carefully inspected the hospital at Scutari.
His Excellency Count de Persigny has recently
waited on Lady Raglan, to convey to her ladyship,
personally, the deep condolence of the Emperor and
Empress of thl French.
The marriage of Lord Muncaster and Lady Jane
, Marquis and Mar-
solemnised this week,
anover-square.
ibroke-lodge, Richmond-
Perthshire, the noble
box in the Highlands
:onial Secretary had in-
earlier, but has been de-

in the course of the
Lyndhurst and the Hon.
he makes a brief

_ Paris. The noble
afterwards go on a tour in

elections David Salo-
alderman below the
practice of the Court of
the office of chief magic-
the 9th of November.
Jew Lord Mayor of
Apated.
bren chartered by the
'elegraph Company for the
of the submarine cable
laid down between
coast of Africa is lying
ready shipped. This
weighs at the rate of
Result will take her
n during the ensuing

departure for the Mectiteti..—
Task.
THE WORKS IN THE ADJI RIVER, which the East
India Railway Company has been engaged in erect.
in( for the bridge, have been washed away by an ex-
traordinary flood, and must he commenced anew, as
soon as the last flood has subsided in November

next. As the Adji, which is 600 yards broad, is only
about a hundred miles above Calcutta, the opening
of the rail to Delhi will be delayed possibly for
twelve months beyond the time originally contem-
plated. The rail is unable, for want of rolling
stock, to bring down to Calcutta more than one
tenth of the coal which is imported from the
collieries, and the proprietors of the coal mines, who
have been looking for the assistance of the rail for
several months, have now been constrained to
renew their establishment of boats on the Da.
moodah.

PRINCE BORGHESE had lately imported into the
Papal States a Durham bull for the purpose of im-
proving the breed of cattle on his extensive grazing
farms, and the Giornale di Roma announces that
the Pope has, in consequence, ordered a gold medal
to be struck and presented to him, "considering the
prince as a deserving doer in having brought the
germ to increase the quantity of meat and milk." It
will sound strange to English ears to hear that his
Holiness gives prizes for bulls from Durham after
the famous missive against him bearing that same
title.
THE Indipendance Belge states that the English
Government has sent, through our Minister at
Enloels, the sum of 25,000 f. towards the restoration
of some funeral monuments in the church at
'Waterloo.

Grosvenor, sixth daughter of the
chioness of' Westminster, was sol
at St. George's Church, Hanover-s
Lord J. Russell leaves Pembroke
park,
oi to-day (Saturday) for Per
having taken a shooting-box
far the season. The late Co:onis
t4oded to leave some days earlier
tained by parliamentary business.
Lord Lyndhurst ha; left town it
week, accompanied by Lady Lyndl
Miss Copley, for Dieppe, where
skimsr previous to proceeding to
and learned lord will afterwards
Germany.
AT the approaching civic elec
alone, Esq., being the senior al
chair, will, according to the pract
Aldermen, be called to fill the of
trate for the year commencing the
Mr. Salomons will be the first JI
London. No opposition is anticip
THE SHIP Result, which has bre
French Mediterranean Telegraph
conveyance of the remainder of tb
to connect the portion already 1
Spezzia and Corsica with the coal
off Blackwell with the cable reac
oable measures 100 miles, and we
eight tons per mile. The Re,

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