The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-29 00:00:00

!Me Court.

BALMORAL, JOLT 27.
The Queen, attended by the Hon. Mn. Bruce,
drove out yesterday.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur rode out.
The Princess Louise rode out.

A meeting of the Royal Commissioners of the Patriotic
Fund took place at the Palace of Westminster yesterday.
Present : His Grace the Duke of Newcastle (president), the
Earl of Chichester, Earl Nelson, Earl Grey, Lord Colchester,
Lied Sk Leonards, Lord Lyveden, General the Hon. J.
Lindsey, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Sir John Bur-
goyne, and Colonel Wilson Patten. Captain E. G. Fish.
bourne, C. 8., R.N., and Colonel J. IL Lefroy, R.A.,
honorary secretaries, attended.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. Judgment was given by Lord Kingsdown in the ap-
peals "Honking v. Terry," from New South Wales, and in
"Jimmie/ham v. the Administrator-General of British

Guiana?: The lords present were Lord Kingsdown, Lord
Chelmsford, and Sir E. Ryan.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial dike
from the Governors of the Bahamas, Canada, the Lord High
Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and from the Governors
of Ceylon and Hong Kong. Despatches were sent to the
Governor of Malta.

THE QUEEN AND THE DISTRESS IN THE

COTTON DISTRICTS.
The following is a copy of the letter from Colonel
Phipps to the Earl of Derby, conveying a mu-
nificent donation from her Majesty the Queen to
the Cotton Districts Relief Fund :
Balmoral, July 24, 1862.

My dear Lord Derby,—The Queen brut long bad her atten-
tion and anxious sympathy attracted to the sufferings, so
patiently and nobly bone, of that portion of her Majesty's
subjects in the north of England which is connected with
cotton manufactures, and which is at present unfortunately

thrown out of employment. It would have been long since
very pleasing to her Majesty to have assisted them and
mitigated their privations, but it was considered advisable
to test the sufficiency of the ordinary means of relief to
meet this great misfortune. Her Majesty has, however,
seen with much satisfaction that a meeting has been held
under your presidency of those who are connected by pro-
party with the great manufacturing districts, for the pur-
pose of tendering their aid to those living in their own
neighbourhood who have been plunged into destitution by
no disinclination to maintain themselves by honest and in-
dependent labour, but by lamentable circumstanom entirely
beyond their control.
The Queen gladly associates herself, under her title of
Duchess of Lancaster, with these suffering districts, and is
pleased to find herself thus entitled to send her aid to thuae
for whom she has loog felt deep compassion.
I have received her Majaity's commands to forward
through you the sum of 2,0001., to be added to the fund for
the aid of the sufferers in the cotton manufacturing dis-
tricts.—Sincerely yours, C. B. PHIPPS.

The Count de Buren honoured his Excellency
the Ambassador of France and the Counter de Flahault
with his company at dinner last evening at Albert.gate
House. There were also present his Excellency the
Turkish Ambassador and Madame Humerus, his Excellency
the Austrian Ambassador, his Excellency the Netherlands
Minister, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, Maria
Marchioness of Aileabury, the Marquis de Ckatesurenard,
Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount and Viscount's* Stmt.
ford de Radcliffe and the Hoe. Miss Canning, Count de
Lock, Lord de Table'', Dr. Quin, Mr. A. Rumen, lee.

His Excellency Al. de Osma and the Marchioness
Puenti and family have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-
square, for Germany.

. .
His Excellency Vely Eddin Rifaat Pacha, Turk-
ish ambassador at Paris, with his family, have arrived at
the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Egypt.
The Duke de Vallambrosa has arrived at the els-
tendon Hotel, from Paris.

The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe was safely
delivered of a daughter on &Imlay, at Tunbridge Wells.
Her ladyship and infant are progressing most favourably.
Vicomte de la Redorte has arrived at the .Cla-
Tendon Hotel, from Paris.

Lord Ravensworth and family leave Perey's-cross,
Fulham, to-day, for Raveneworth Castle, Durham.

Lady Truro entertained a select party at dinner
last evening, at her residence hi Eaton4quare.

Mr. and Lady Charlotte Lyater have left Thomas',
Hotel, Berteley•equare, for Dover.

Sir Henry Hoare has left Thomas's Hotel, Her-
keley-oquaro, for Bognor.

Mr. and Mrs. Augustus B. Paget, Mr. and Mrs.
Fort, Captain Watt, and Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain Startle
have left the St. George's Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker and family have arrived at
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Berkswell Hall,
Coventry.

Mrs. Summers has left the Clarendon Hotel for
St. Leonardo.

A marriage is arranged, and will shortly take
place, between Mr. Henry Peach Keighley-Peach,, of Idli-
cote House, Warwickshire (late captain Royal Horse
Guards), and Miss Selby-Lowndes, sewed daughter of Mr.
William Selby-Lowndes, of Whaddoa and Winslow, Books.
ILLNLINS or THE BISHOP OF LONDON.—Wo regret
to bear that the Bishop of London has been obliged to leave
town far a few days in consequence of illness. His ordinary
leve, which under other circumstances would hare been
held today, is postponed. The bishop has gone into
Bonsereetehire.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL —The following gentle-
ose have been appointed by the Lord Bishop of London to
preach in the cathedral on Sunday morninp in the month
of August:—Sunday, the 3rd, the Bev. W. A, Scams,
M.A., vicar of Greenwich; 10th, the Rev. Dr. Goulburm
incumbent of St. John's, Paddington ; 17th, the Bev. T.
Ainger, M.A., incumbent of Hampstead; 24th, the Bev.
H Venn, M.A., secretary of the Church Missionary Society ;
and, 31st, the Rev. W. J. Hall, M.A., minor canoe of St.
Paul's and incumbent of Holy Trinity Church, Tottenham