The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY.. EVENING, FEBRUARY 1,

fbe einttl,

OSBORNE, JAL 30.
The Queen walked and drove yesterday afternoon.
The Earl and Countess at Derby bad the honour of dining
with her Majesty and the royal family yesterday.
__

31.
Her Majesty, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, walked
and drove yesterday.
The Earl and Countess of Derby had the honour of dinli
with the Queen and royal finally on (Friday.
Professor Tyndall has had the honour of delivering two
lectures on electricity beforelher Majesty and the royal

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday et the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
hi Downing-street. The ministers present were
Lord Palmerston, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, Earl de
Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hoy.
T. }loner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Card-
well, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon.
C. P. Villiers

A deputation, consistieg of Mr. Alfred Walker sod Mr.
Edward Medley (Vestrymen of Si. Luke's), Mr. William
Angell (Camberwell), and Mr. limo J. Wood (Honorary
Secretary), bad au interview on Saturday with Sir George
Grey at the Home-office, to urge upon the:attention of the
Secretary of State for the Horne Department the desirability
of an amended scheme for the administration of Dulwich

Despatches mere received on Saturday at the Celooial-
office from the Governors of the Wait India Liked% Van.
couvet's Island, and British Columbia. Despatches were
sent to the Governer of Canada.

CABIN= COLNCIL.—(THIS DAY.)-Shortly after
the break up of the council on Saturday, sum-
monses were issued for another meeting of the
cabinet at the Premier's official residence this (Mon-
day) afternoon.

_ .
THE PRINCE AND PUNCHES or WALES.—
WENDSOE, SAIVRDAY.—Doriog the put week the progress
of her Royal Highoesa the Pria' of Wales towards com-
plete Teo:wary has been tunoterrupted—thanks to a good

constitution sod the care and attention of her medical at-
tendants and those around her. Should the health of the
Princess continue as good as it is at prevent, end the
weather admit of it, it is not unlikely that her Royal High.
ness will be enabled to take some little out-door exercise, in
the shape of a carriage drive or so, in the coarse of the ali-
ening week. Theyouogprince isalso quite well, and is making
as good progress as mu be expected, and the inhabi-
tants of the metropolis will probably hare • royal
chi isteniog soon, as it is expected that the youthful prince
will very likely be baptised at Buckingham Palace on or
about the 10th of March, jest twelve mouths from the mar-
riage of the Prince and Primer of Wales. The infant
prism is extremely like the Prince of Wales. The Prince of
Wales has, during the week, been shooting and beating
with the harriers in the company of his friends and visitors,
including among them his Serene Highness Prince Leinin-
gen, the commandor of the royal yacht Fairy, and Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, the colonel of the 3rd battalion
Grenadier Guards, now quartered in the Sheet-
street Barracks, Windsor. In return for the gene-
rous hospitality which the Prince of Wales has
always shown to the officers of the garrison of this
town, his Royal H Wiser the Pi :nee of Wales way hay:tad by
Lieutenant-Colonel Boiling and the officers of the Royal
Horse Guards (Blue), Let night, to • grand banquet,
which took place with much e:rluf in the mess-room of
the cavalry barracks, at Spite', a short distance from the
town. A distinguished company were present, corers
being laid for between 20 and 10 guest', among whom were
Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Lieutenant-Colonel H. S.
Captain Grey, Captain R. W. Bulkeley, the °Mesta
of the Royal Horse Guards, &c., who had assembled to do
honour to their illoatzions gout. The Prince Ter, mach
pleased with his courteory reception. Their royal highnesses
will shortly proceed to Marlborough-house, probably dont
februsti 13.—Obeerrer.

Visit or tin QIIIV 07 DevYcap.—We under-
stand that her Majesty the Queen of Denmark and the
Prircess Mary are expected to arrive in this country at the
close of this or early in the cesuing mouth from Copan_
began on a visit to their Royal Misbecame the Prince rid
Prince's of Wales, in order to be present at the chi:stoning
of the infant prince.

Her Majesty, it is expected (says the Aberdeen
Herald), will pay a short visit to Balmoral in the spring or
early summer, as she did lost year. In the autumn, it is
said, she will again visit Sese•Cobarg.

The Earl and Countess of Derby returned to
their mansion in St. Jantsee-square, on Saturday, from
Osborne, where the noble earl and countess have been stay-
ing on • visit to her Majesty.
His Excellency the Ambassador of France enter
Mined • select party at dinner on Saturday evening at
Albert-gate House.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston enter-
taieed at dinner oil Saturday evening, at Cambridge Honer,
Piccadilly, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Countess Appooyi, his Excellency the Portuguese
Moister, Coast Flahoult, the Did and Countess Rumell,
the Earl sad Counties De Grey and Ripon, Viscounts..
Jocelyn and the Hon. NrivensJocelyo, the Right Hoc. W. F.
Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper, Sir Henry Solver, Mr.
Henry Cslczsft, &a. Later in the evening her ladyship
gave a small evening party, which was attended by the
members of the diplomatic corps end most of the svisto-
cony at overeat in London.
A marriage will take place on the Bth instant
between the Hon. Leopold Agar M.P., brother to
Visoount Melon, sad the Hoo. Mims Stoner, daughter of
Lord and Lady Ounoys.

Westfield; Isle of Wight, Sir Augustus Clifford's
seg, whisk is teen fore mouth as a residence for the Kim;
of the Belgians, is ready for his reception. Nothing farther
as to the day of snivel —which ws% originally flied for the
28th Mt —hes been heard et the house. The wildness of
the weather hen lately has given to the grows& anythMg
bat a wintry appesesnos.
Earl Russell, the new Lord Rector of the Aber-
don University. will probably (says the Aberdeen Herald)
if the state of public boners et the time permit, mew to
Aberdeen fer installation shout the sod of March.

On Saturday it was announced at Chatham that
the rolls for the Kedah prize mosey, amounting to between
80,0001. and 90,0001. have been prepared by the Acoountant-
General of the Navy, and that it will be shortly ready for
distnbutioo to the officers and men entitled to shares.

The Committee of the Liberal Registry for the
oouoty of Dublin congratulate their suppnrten on the result
of their exertiooe for the past year, upwards of 1,422 tory
votes having beat struck off the electoral rolL
At the meeting of members of the Royal Institu-
tion at Friday miming. Dr. Frankland delivered a lecture
Ge the Epoch," in which he developed a Dew
theory to account for the lemmas accumulation of ice on all
parte of the globe at that period.
Mx. Psalm:ma's GIN-T.—The first of the buildings
which has bees erected by the committee, to whom the dis-
posal of Mr. Peabody's munificent gift to the City of Loudon
was referred, will be ready for occupatim in the mune of
the present mouth. The building, which baa coat 22,0001.,
is situate at Betbnalureas. The applications for rooms
have for outstripped the metes of the committee to supply
them, and some difficulty has been experisacad In reeking
selection out of the number. There is every expectage:
that the rpeculation will be most motesetid, as the building
has been formed with the view of affording the atoms* ac-
commodation to the occupents. Rooms have bees cos-
strocted of the dimeasions of 12 feet by 15 feet 6 buttes : •
sufficient aim for • small family. There are rooms of a
smaller aim, end some for single moo. Them are also shop
on the basement door, with mites of room adjoining, sad
which it is believed owl he let at • mtnl of about ON.
• year. The demotic comforts of the Mertes have beau
carefully studied. There are separate lavatories for the
man and for the wren.. and cbildres. • plentiful supply of
water, and exeelleet vestilatioe. The rent charged for the
rooms will be from 2a te fie. sad ss. • weak.

INTERMEDIATE IDCCATION IN IRELAND.-A
highly inflimotial deputation from the North waitti on
Friday upon the Lord-Lieutenant, sod laid before him the
question of intermediate schools, askiog him at the same
lime to bring the establishment of such institutions through-
out Ireland under the notice, of her Majorty's government.
The business of the deputation was laid Wore his easel-
!rimy by Lord Dufferin, Mr. Kirk, and the Rev. William
Wellies. At the close of the betimes., which lasted for
as hour, his Emellency mid that the question was one
levolviog heavy and important interests, and It would be
ssoessary for ham to give It his most mature and careful
000sideratios, and he should give it such.—Dsblis Daily
Ezpress.