The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-23 00:00:00

be Coun.

- OSBORNE, Dm 22.
The Queen and Princess Helena walked and
drove yesterday afternoon.
Princeee Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice
also went oat in the grounds.

Dmipatebes Were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the Australian colonies, New %ea•
land, Hoag Kong, Ceylon, Labnen, Gibraltar, Yalta, and
Canada. Despatches were lent to the Governor of Canada.

His Royal Highness the Field-3farshal COM-
mauding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock
on the 4th January next.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will speed Christmas at Sandringham, and it is
understood that the poorer classes on the royal estate will
te enabled to enjoy their Christmas-day in a thoroughly
&Wish style, through the Prince's liberality.
The Duchess of Norfolk arrived at Arundel
Castle. Sasses, on Wednesday, from Paris. The young
Doke of Norfolk is making a tour in France.

The Marquis Conyngham left town yesterday to
pass the Christmas with Lard sad Lady Churchill at Wych-
wood Park, Oxon, after which the noble marquis goes to
his seat in Ireland.

The Earl of Derby, by account& received in town
yesterday, is repining Argo& attar his resent severe

The Earl and Countess of Warwick will sh9rtly
Wye their residence at the Stable-yard, St. Jeans's. for
the file of Wight.

The Earl of Eldon will leave Hatfield House,
Herta, to-day, for kir seat w Daroatakors.

The marriage, announced tome months back in
our columns, of the Earl of Crventry and Lady Blanche
Craven, daughter of the Earl and Countees Craven, will be
solemnised towards the close of the ensuing month. The
ceremony is to take place in town.

The Earl or Coventry has returned to Thomas's
Huta, Berkeley-square.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are enter-
taining a select party at %calends, Hants.

. _
Lord Lyons is expected to arrive in England on
Sands, or Monday next, from America. His lordship bad
arraoged to leave New York by the next Cunard mummer
for Liverpool.

Lord and Lily Eustace Cacil, Lard Stanley,
the Earl of Eldon, and Mr. Seymour Fitaserald,
IL P., are acnoopt the visitors to the Marquis and Mar-
chioosas of Salsbury, at Hatfield House, Herts.

The Earl said Countess Da Grey have left
Studley Royal, Yorkshire, for Noises Park, their sett is
Limo

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have peaied through tows for Hatfield, Herta, oa a visit
to the Marquis sad Marchloaefe al Salisbury.

The Duke of Somerset, K.G., First Lord of
the Admiralty, and ViimAdmiral the Hor. Sir Frederick
William Grey, K.C.8., the first Sea Lord. arrived yesterday
aftemooo from SUM/ House, by Smith Deco. Railway, at
Plymouth, where they were received by Port Admiral Sir
Charles H. Fremantle, K.C.8., and mite. The visit is
supposed to be in connexion with the completion of the
iron-cased ship Caledonia for the reception of an admiral's
Sag, the alterations ao• in program on board the Priem
Coosort, and those on board other ships at Dorm:mod.

The Pope's noble guards are ca.lets of noble
Roman and proirinMal families. The pay of a private, who
br courtesy ranks wit's an officer of the hue, is about a
guises a week The ooromaadant rank. ea a general of
brigade, and has proportionate pay. The duties of the
gum& are light, consisting in escorting the Pope's carriage
and waiting in his antechamber.

A letter of the 17th, from Rome, in the Post
sass :—" On Thursday morning the Pope gave audience to
about 70 foreignerein the corridor of Raphael's fo.Nit at the
Vatican, the numerous applications for audience. having
lately rendered it necessary that the candidata' for
that honour shold be received in detachments by his
Hollers, single interviews being totally out of the
qualities. On these ocessioce the persons attending the
audience are arranged in a double row along the cor-
ridor. The Pope, attended by 110010 of his domestic
prelates, who present their respective proteges or
countrymen to bins—Monsignors Talbot acting for the Beg.
lied in that capacity—puses down one row, saying some-
thing agreeable to each person presented, sod then up the
opposite row, until be again reaches the head of the detach-
meat, when a brief ezhortatioe and the apostolic benetlic.
Coo—generally delivered in French—conclude the core.
molly. Among the English presented on Feursdsr morn.
ing were Major-General Erre and Mrs. Eyre. Toe l'ope
expreued himself in grateful terms to the general for the
protection he had afforded to catholica during his long mill.
Lary career in India. There have beau troubles in hie Holi-
neu's military household."
Tile ABOLITION OF SLATZZT.—There is a good
prospect of the Immo through the house of the constitn-
' timid amendment to abolish slavery.—Pea Turk Tribune,
IDeas