The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-27 00:00:00

Vbe Court.

OSBORNE, THURSDAY.
The Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal family,
walked and drove in the grounds yesterday.
The Right Hon. George Bankes, Judge Advocate General,
arrived at 2 o'clock, and had an audience of her ➢tajesty,
to submit the proceedings of some general courts-martial.

The Earl and Countess of Derby arrived at St. Leonard'
on Wednesday afternoon from a visit to tho Queen at
Osborne.

The American Minister, Mr.. Abbott Lswrenee, and Miss
Lawrence, have left town on m visit to his Orme the Duke
of Rutland at Longsbaw Lodge, Derbyshire.

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The Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge,
who are residing in the Isle of Wight, have honoured with
their presence several Ktes, balls, and parties which have
been given by the nobility and gentry of the island. The
affability of the Princess is the theme of admiration.
Lady Adelaide Hastings and party, Lady Janet
Werond and party, Sir David Baird, Rev. J. P. Morris,
Rev. Mr. Leonio, Colonel Fitzmaurice, J. L. Lobb, were
among the fashionable; who embarked yesterday at the St.
Katharine's wharf on board the General Steam Navigation
Company's steam ship Itarcasbourne, for Antwerp, en route
to the Rhine.

BIRTH-DAY OP HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE
ALaairr.—Yesterday his Royal Highness Prince Albert
completed his thirty-fourth year. At one o'clock the Park
guns fired a salute, and the various churches westward of
Temple-bas hoisted their Hart in honour of the day. There
was no especial military display at the Horse Guards.
THE MISSING ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—The names of
the officers and crews of Sir John Franklin's expedition con
not be erased from the Admiralty books for • long series of
years, unless the adverse fate of the expedition is ascertained
with certainty. The relatives of those who went out in the
expedition receive the half-pay of the latter, and will con-
tinue to do so for a lengthened period, unless it be clearly
proved that the officers and crews have perished.
ROYAL ORTHOP.EDIC HOSPITAL. Yesterday a
special half-yearly meeting of the members and friends of
tie charity, established for the cure of clubfoot and other
deformities, was hold in the Board-room of the institution,
Bloomsbury-square. The chair was taken by Dlr. Jacob
Bell, and from the report read it appeared that during the
half-year 895 patients had been admitted, being an increase
over the last half-year of 228. The total number of pa.
tient' admitted since the opening of the charity had been
12,898. It also appeared that the funds were increasing,
but were still inadequate to meet the incensing claims.
Very extensive alterations and additions had been effected
in the medical staff of the hospital during the past year ;
ample provision being thus made for the present and in-
creasing requirements of the hospital in this important de-
partment. The report having been unanimously adopted,
a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman for his con-
duct in the chair, when the proceedings terminated.
LETTERS FOIL TIIE CAPE.—Ono of the General
&rew Company's steamers, the Propontis, is advertised by
, the foot-office authorities to leave Plymouth with ship
' letter bags for St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope to-
,
morrow. The cause of additional steamers proceeding
every month to the Cape is owing to the fact that the com-
' pany's regular steamers now go un to India, and until they
begin to return additional Tenets have to go out from hence
and bring home the monthly Cape mail. The Post-office
authorities h ea also advertised two more steamers, the
Cleopatra and Sarah Sands, to take out ship letter begs,
one to the Cape of flood Hope, Adelaide, Port Phillip, and
Sydney, and the other to l'ort l'hillip and Sydney. In
another week both these vessels will have started, and they
will make seven steamers which have left England fur Aus-
tralia since May last.