The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-22 00:00:00

Vile /Court.

' The Qiceu, attended by Lady Churchill, visited
the Duckeu of Gloucester yialerdey afternoon, at Mote-
lce,ter hauls. The Equerries in waiting sure in attend-
mice on horseback. Her Majesty afterwards took a drive
accompanier! by Prince Arbor. _ _

Prince Albert, attended by Captain the lion. D. de Roe,
rode on horseback in the forenoon. His royal highness
rode again in the afternoon, attended by his Equerry in
welting.

The Prince of Wales, Prinee Alfred, the PrilideSl Royal,
end the Princess Alice visited the Zoo!ogisal Oarless in the
Regent's•puk.
Her Majesty had a dinner" party in the evening. The
company included the Mechem of Kect, Mastapha Paeba,
the Turkish Minister end Madame Mums, the Marquis
and Marobiones of Breadalb►ne, the Earl of Aberdeen, the
Coutitees of Yarborough, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the
Baroness de Speth, Lord Paamnre, Sir George Cooper, and
Major. General Torrena.

The Hon. Lucy Kerr end the Hon. Flora Macdonald
have succeeded the Hon. Matilda Paget and the Hon. Mary
Seymour as the Maids of Honour in Waiting to the
Qua..

A deputation from the hamlet of Mile-end, Old Town, had
ea interview with Sir William Moleswortb yesterday, at the
Office of Public Works end Buildings, in Whitehall-place,
on the subject of the building within the Victoria park.'
The deputation consisted of Mr. J. Patten (ckurehwuden),
Mr.R. Lemon (overseer), Rev. T. J R'wsell, MIMS. W.
B Snow, R. Reston, J. Cannon, W. Newton, W. D I 'ma,
sad C. C Moore (guardians and ten ), and Mr. E. J.
Bonthwell (matey clerk).
A deputation Mons Hackney had an interview with Vis-
want Palmereten yesterday, on the subject of the contem-
plated building en a part of the Victora•park. The depu-
tation was introduced by Sir William Clay, Bart., and Mr.
Charles S.aisbury Buda., the members for the Tower Ham-
lets, and consisted of the Rev. George Palmer Lockwood,
the rector of South Hackney, Mr. George °for, Mr. Thos.
Gillespie, churchwarden of South Hackney, Mr. John James
Flowers, Mr. William Norris, Mr. R. Edo. Mr. J. B. Clan-
sell, and the Rev. T. J. Rowell, from Stepney, accom
panted by Mr Charles Horton Pulley, the vestry clerk of
St. J inn's. at Hackney.
A deputation on the subject of the Religions Worship
Bill had an interview with Earl Grenville yesterday at the
Council•offiee. Tee deputation consisted cf General Alex-
ander, the Rev. E. Auriol, C. Hum., Monrant Brock, W.
Curling, G. T. Drifiield, Geo Smith, T. Binney, Dr.
S sane, J. S. P 11, W. H. Role, Dr. Spencer, Robert
Maguire, J. P. Repoington, Samuel Garnet. J. B. Jenkin-
son, sad John Waddington, Mr. Cherie', the Rev. Id. A.
Tennison, Mr. John N. Murray, Rev. Geo. Mansfield, Capt.
Valiant, Rev. Alexander W.tt, Admiral Harcourt, Mr.
Thos. H. Gladstone. Mr. John Rsdley, Mr. J. H. Tarlton,
Rev. R. Redpath, Mr. W. Shipton, Mr. John Ballence,
Rev. Copal Mobutu, Dr. Crawford, Rev. R. H. Herschel),
Kr. F. L. Wollaston, Mr. Peter Bosley, Rev. J. P. Dobson,
Mr. Thos. Wheetley, Mr. 0 H. H. Oliphant, Mr. John
Macgregor, Mr. W. H. Davies, Rev. Reginald Gunnery,
Rev. Geo. Osborne, and Mr. Wilbraham Taylor.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat Tester.
day in the Council-chamber. Present—The Lords Justices
Knight Bruce and Turner, the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Cornwall, Sir J. Petition, and Sir E. Ryan. the appeal
from Benol, " Gunesh Dalt Sing v. blobeelthr Sing," was
continued.

Hee Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Alb-rt, and the youthf-1 members of the royal family, in-
tend, according to present arrangements, to leave Bucking-
ham Palace on the 9th proximo, for Osborne. Her kfajes.y
purposes to visit Paris soon after the remtival of the court to
Llndon in August, but the precise day is not yet deter-
mined on. _ .

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Yesterday morning the Hon. Wm. Henry Berke-
ley Portman, M.P. for Shaftesbury, eldest son of the Right
Hon. Lord Portman, was married to the Hon. Mary Selina
Charlotte, posthumous daughter of Wm. Charles Viscount
Milton, is the Royal Chapel, Whitehall, in the presence of
upwards of 150 of the principal nobility and gentry,
amongst whom were the Right Hon. the Eatl and Countess
Fitzeilliam, Lord and Lady Portman, Colonel Harcourt,

the Hoe. Mrs. Cavendish, Ito. The ceremony was per-
formed
by the Rev. Mr. Upton.
We (limes) understand that it is the intention of
t‘e Government to apply to Parliament for a Tots of public

money, which is to be applied is erecting a monument in
commemoration of our soldim who have died at Scutari.
A design for the monument has already been prepared by
the Baron Marochetti.
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The ball given by the Earl of Eglintoun last night
wee honoured by the presence of several members of the
Maya' family and a very numerous and distinguished circle
of the feshionable world. The suite of saloons on the prin-
cipal floor of the mansion was thrown open and brilliantly
illuminated. Cut flowers in profusion were gracefully
disposed throughout both ball rooms, producing a charming
effect. The g I company szareded 700.
The advocates of a Maine liquor law for England
intend to hold a festival, under the auspices of what is
termed " The United Kingdom Alliance," at the gardens'
of Elvaston Castle, near Derby, the seat of the Earl of Har-
rington. The fete is intended to commemorate the passing
of the Maine Liquor Law in the State cf New York, the
law coming into operation on the 4th of July next, the dcy
of the proposed gathering.
In the report of the Sebastopol committee read to
the House of Commons the following concluding paragraph,

proposed by the Cosines°, Mr. Roebuck, and carried upon
a division, was omitted :—" What was planned and under-
taken without sufficient information was conducted without
',efficient care or forethought. This conduct en the put of
de Administration u as the first ana chief canoe of the cala-
mities which betel our army."
Sir E. N. Buxton is out of danger. The letters
received in Chelmsford represent him as recovering, though•
but slowly.
We (Herald) deeply regret to hear a report to the
slot that Admiral Sir Charles Napier has lost most of his
intone by the failure of Messrs. Raiford and Co. (Sir J.
Paul, Shahan, and Co.)
Lard Ralph Kerr, a son of the Marquis of Lothian,
is a student in the Dublin Roman Catholic University. It
will be recollected that his mother, not long ago, became a
eosvert to Boman Catholicum, after halting a short time in
homiest.
An additional step towards the establishment of
eked& communication between America and Europe is
about to be effected. The subaarine telegraph cable to
meanest Caps Breton island with Newfoundland is in course
of shipment at the works of W. Kuper and Co., the mans-1
fichnon, at Gmensitich, sad fa less than two months the'
line is expected to be is operation.
Aa amusing instance of the ignorance of English
silsisls of Scotch affairs was stated at the meeting of the
Edinbargh Town Council on Tuesday. • few days ago the'
two city clerks were surprised at receiving a sommunies!
don from a department of the Home-office, fa whisk they
feted themselves addressed es follows:—" To Mears.
Sushi: and Laurie, Lord Provosts of Edinburgh." At
the mass meeting one of the magistrates stated that he had
been lately asked U ha knew when sea where the Leeili
Der of Guild plumbed. The Council enjoyed the joke
exceedingly—none more so than the Dean himself, Mr. P.
Fraser. To our Edinburgh (*temporaries the Idea of the
worthy dean referred to, in eanonicak, sons peculiarly
ludicrous.
Above two hundred eminent scientific foreigners
have been invited by the local committee to attend the
meeting of the British Association in September next.
Among the names are those of Louis Agues, Prime
Charles and Luna Bonaparte, Baron Humboldt, M. LID.
Terrier, Baron Leib*, M. Qoetelet, Chevalier Bunsen;
Protean Backe, Dr. Fretted, &e.
PARK'S BUST OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE:.
Boa in the most idealised portraits of Patric Park, we have
now known an instance of his failing to seise the likewise%
sad therefore even one who has had the happhiess
see the Duke of Cambridge in the body or out of the body
might rest unwed that in the plaster cast which now stands,
is the gallery of Messrs. Colnaehi there is • most faithful
resemblance to his Grace. Park has been accused of too
much Weaning, and we believe that the busts of no other
sculptor so oftea raise the question in the mind—what are
the features which the artist ought to copy in statuary ? and
this, because while ever faithful in their ressiablense—eo that
at least on the vacation of the name we lateen recognise the
I Prow, there is a prominence given to certain ideal quell-
ties, the preterit* of which, la the titter, we sever, perhape,
suspecten. By • necessity of the art, eauloture is an &batiste-
tioa, pure form; and if the artist is siding to descend to pee.
traitor" he must be content to subordinate the actualities et
the likeness to the grand object of his art, the represente-
d's al pure form. He has kenasiaese :attempt portraits
sakes he is willing to m them actioss—iderds.
There is perhaps l is of this ideality introduced into tiles bass
el the Duke of Cambridge than is usual with Mr. Paris, sad
ass feels as if gaming on • being in a placid, godlike, sweet
—the ghost of a lota'-eater. The east presents, in other is.
spot., the bider/mimes that we have sees of Petrie Park&
masipuletion of the beard. The loud of the Pres* likapeor
was aft to excite a smile at the expense of an 0111W.1111 wry
aebis best. Is the present Osman be scold sot have cur
seeded better.