The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-14 00:00:00

THE COURT.

The royal princes and prinoemes have visited the Inter.
national Exhibition daily during the week. Their visits will
be contieued until Tuesday next. Prince Louis of Hems-
Darmstadt, the affianced husband of the Princess Alice, will
return to England with his suite on the 28th inst., being the
Saturday previous to the wedding, which takes plat.° on
the following Tuesday.
Her Majesty has kindly not the children of the Great
Park School, 50 boys and 50 girls, to the International
Exhibition. Thus children are the coos and daughters of
the keepers and labourers employed on Windsor Great
Park, whom her Majesty clothes and edx►tes at a school
at Cumberland-lodge. The boys are dimmed in shepherd's
plaid, woven by the poor people on her Majesty's estates at
Balmoral and Abergeldie, and made up at Windsor; the
girls are clad in black and white gingham.
Wednesday next wu the day fixed for her Majesty's
departure for Osborne, but it la now not positively settled
whether her Majesty will leave Windsor before Saturday,
the 21st.

The Countess Apponyi has issued cards for an
uaembly oa Tuesday neat, 17th, to meet their Royal
Highnesses the Doehem of Cambridge, Primer Mary, mad
the Grand Dachau of Meckleobarg•Bteelitc

The Duke and Duchess de Croy have arrived at
Long's Hotel.

Maria Marchioness of Aileebury entertained at
dinner last evening his Excellency the Austrian Ambas-
sador CU C'et:teu Apposyl, the Earl sod Countess of
Chesterfield, Viscount and VI2O3IIIItINE Sydney, the Earl
and Countess De Grey, General and Lady Alice Peel, Yr.
and Mrs. Baring, the Earl and Countess of Cork, the Earl
of Dudley, the FArl of Sandwich, Viseount and Viscountess
Limnos', Viscount Courtenay, Lord sad lady Charles
Bruce, ko.

The Earl and Countess De Grey and Ripon and
Viaeount Goderich have arrived at the Portland Hotel,
Soothes's, from the Isle of Wight, or route for Carlton•
gardens.

The Earl and Countean Stanhope and Lady Mary
Stanhope have returned to town from Che►eaio` Perk,
Kent.

Field-Marshal Viscount and the Viscountess
Combermere are to be honoured by the company of their
Royal iliglinftees the Duchess of Cambridge and the Grand
Alamo( Mecklenburg Eitrelitaatadinner and evening party
on Friday, the 210tlt Maack

Lady Rivers gave a ball last evening at Chiswick
Houle, which was numerously and fashionably attended.
Lord Palmerston has added Miss Emma Robin-
soa's same to the literary civil list fora pension of 751. a
year.

The Army and Nary Gazette says :—" Lord
Lyons, our able and zealous gminister at Washington, may
he expected in London shortly. The American journals
will, no doubt, make many extraordinary surmises, and
indulge in many stamp statements reenacting the motives
of his lordship's journey at this moment. We believe he is
coming home on private business, as he has not been in
England aims the death of the admiral, his father."
The anniversary meeting of the Beelesiological
Society will be held on Tuesday, the let of July, in the
Lecture Theatre of the South Kensington Museum. The
subject of discussion will be " The ecclesiological aspect of
the International Exhibition, and of the Exhibition (on loan)
of Fine Arts at the South Kensington Museum."

The meetings of scientific societies for the ensuing
weak are as follows :—Mooday : Architects, 8, " Drawinp,
Royal Library, Windsor," Mr. Woodward ; Geographical,
Bj, " From Dauriscus to Barran," Dr. Bake; " Late
Surveys in the Pacific, under Captain Gotham," "Nagasaki
to Yeddo," Mr. R. Alcock. Tuesday : Ethnological, 8,
" Colour, Test of Rios," Mr. Crawford ; " Egyptian Ethno-
logy," Mr. Poole ; Statistical, 8, " Collection of Agricul.
turd Statistics," Rev. S. Oilleti ; " Tonnage Statistics,
'49-'69," Mr. Glover. Wedemday : Meteorological, 7, Gene-
' ral and Council; " Luminosity of Phosphorus," Dr. Moffat ;
Geologies], 8, "River Valleys, S. Ireland," Professor dukes,
"Gestates of Donegal," Rev. Professor Naughton ; "Upper
Coal Measures, Ayrshire," Mr. Money ; " Structure of
S. Grampians," P14031/0t Nicol ; " Footprinta, Wealden,
Isle of Wight, kg.," Mr. Beekles ; " Stalk-eyed Crustacean
from Coal Measures," Professor Baxley. Thursday : Zoolo-
gical. 4, General ; Numsmatic, 7, Annual ; Lillllllllllll4 8 ;
Chemical, 8 ; Royal, 81 ; Antiquaries, Bj. Friday : Hoe-
ticeltural, 2, Election of Fellows; Royal Institution. 8, " Gas
Glass-furnaces, ttc.," Professor Faraday. Saturday :
Asiatic, 3.
Mr. Gregory, the explorer of North-western
Australia, had visited Melbourne, with several sew plants
and objects of interest which he bad discovered. Gos was
a new species of gourd, found at Nickleby, in Ist. 20 S.
100. 117 E.; also a plant believed to be 'direly sew, the
fruit of which, when fresh gathered, ban a very strong
amen resembling garlic ; likewise a new species of palm,
some fine kinds of beans, sod severe bandeme Peak
The overland mail route to California for letters
only was to be resumed oo the 9th hart.; newspapers for
California are to be mot sod Poona.