The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-25 00:00:00

Vbe Coun.

OSBORNE, Fla 24.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Helena,
and attended by Lientenant-C'elonel the Hon. Dudley de
Res, drove oat as Saturday afternoon.
The Duke of Argyll returned to London to-day.

Mr. M. B. Sampson, Coastal of the Argentioe Republic,
trammed business yesterday at the Foreign-aurae.
The Judicial Otaimittes d the Privy Council at yester-
day. As appeal from New South Weiss, " Lang r. Purees
and others," part board, was resumed. The lords promo,
were Lord Kimpelown, the Muter of the Rolls, sod Sir J.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were sent to
the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and to
. .

the Governors of the Settlements on the West Comet of
Atria&

The Triode Gazette of the 18th says :—" The
Prince of Wales, who has been at Venice since yesterday,
wee immediately after his arrival visited on board his
vessel by the Archdakce Regular and Joseph, and shortly
after the Prince went to the palace to pay his respects to
the Empress, and remained with her for an hour. The
Prince profits by the opportunity to see all the curiosities
of the city. He sleeps on board."
The Marquis of Sligo haa arrived at Howchin'a
Hotel.

The Earl and Countess of Beseborough have
arrived in town from their seat in Ireland for the seseon.

The Karl and Countess of Cork have returned
to Graftoo4treot from Manton Howe, Somenatahira.

The Earl and Countess of Home are expected at
their residence im Groevenor-square in a few days from the

Hirai, Coldstream, Berwick.

Lord and Lady Colchester entertained at dinner
but evening, at their residence in Berkeley-square, Viscount
Mahon. lady Egerton of Tattoo and the Hon. Miss Eger-
ton. Mr. and Lady Elisabeth Russell, Sir Oenrge and lady
Abercresaby, Sir Robert and Lady Dalian and Mims Dallas,
Colonel and Mot Adair, Mr. Milbank% Mrs. Ford% Mr.
Arnold Cori% Mr. Peel. &a.

Lord Adoiphns Vane Tempest has taken a resi-
der's is Chester:sqoare for a term d years.

Mr. Henry Tolin Lincoln le about to deliver at

lb. Marylebone Institution two lecture. on the " Operatic
Overture," from its origin to the present time. The lectures
will be illustrated by a selection of overtures in chronolo-
gies' ceder, performed as duets on two pianos, showing the
program and development of the Operatic Overture from
Lilly to Neyerbeer. . .

—. .
E'row CoLcsor.—At a meeting of the Fellows of
Etoa College, held yesterlay, 1)r. Goodford was formally
installed u the new provost. At the same time the Rev.
Edward Balaton, Fellow of Etoo, and formerly Fellow of
King's College, Cambridge, and one of the assistant masters
of Blom was elected to the vacant head mastership.

THE BY-QUEEN OP NAPLES AND THE

IiNGLISII ARISTOCRACY.

In the course of last autumn a turret-shaped
diadem. emblematical of Gaeta, was presented to the ox.
Queen of Naples by a number of English ladies. The fol-
lowing is a copy of the adclwees and reply :
"To SLR MAJZITT Maas Sonsot Amin, WHEN or THE

Two Simms.

" The undersigned English ladies, desirous of testifyieg
their admiration d the heroic virtues displayed by her
Majesty the QUAlle of Naples during the siege of Gaeta,
venture to solicit her Majesty's acorptance of the accom-
panying offer.
" Loodon, July, 1861."

Caroline, Duchess of Richmond ; Louisa, Duchess of
Leeds ; Charlotte, Duchess of Buccieuch ; Cecilia, Duchess
of Inverness ; Cecil, Marchioness of Lothian ; Harriet,
Megabit:man of Bath ; Frances Anne, Marchioness of
bl d ; Maria, Marchioness of Normanby ; Lady
Geirega Som7rjodrington : lady Adelioa Norman ; Lady Eliza-
beth Drummond ; Sarah, Countess of Shrewsbury and
Talbot; Priscilla, Dowager Counter of Westmoreland;
Aim, Coyotes@ of Chesterfield ; Frederica, Countess of
Scarborough ; Charlotte, Countess Poulin; Louisa, Countess
of Kinconll ; liwisands, Dowager Countess Taiikerville •
Saab, Dowager Countess of Jamey ; Anne, Countess of
Warwick ; Mexandrina, Countess of Portarlington ; Diana,
Countess Clara; Augusta, Constar of Kearns:* ; lad
Louisa Thygoe ; Lady All.. Peel ; Mary, lady Frederick
I Berrtiock ; Mary, Vieriountess Feilding ; Gertrude, Vis-
countess Calaboose •, Ida, Viscountess Catania' ; lady
Caroline Towoeley ; Lady Harriet Potisouby ; Lady Caths-
;as Wheble ; Lady Louisa For`ascue ; lady Louisa Stuart ;
Lady Mary Craven ; Lady Anne Beckett; Lady Emma Aoder-
tan; Lady Herrietill, Clair; Lady Claude Hamilton ; Mary,
the Lady Gray of Gray; Lucy, the Lady Moister) ; Terns,
the Lady Arundel of Wankel'. ; CeciL the Lady Colville ;
Jane. the Lady Milford ; Emma, Lady Stafford ; Eliza-
beth, Dowager Lady Stafford ; Charlotte, lady Lovat ;
Blanche, Lady Nsas ; Adine, Lady Forester; Louisa,
Serpens de Cetto ; Hon. Arabella Heneage ; Hos. Cathe-
rine Stourton ; Hun. Frances Lady Marlyn ; Hoc. Augusta
Bellew ; lion. Constance Vannes, ; Hoe. Lucy Carrington
Smythe ; Hon. Amelia Scott Mummy; Hon. Emily Herd-
ing. ; Peelle*, Lady Beaumont ; Manche, Lady Dalton
Fitzgerald ; Marianne, Lady Clifford Coustable ; Monica,
Lady Gerard ; Harriet, Gerard ; Coratesmi de
s.
Torre Dias Vicomte' 'Alta ; Hon. Mrs. Roan;
Hon. Mrs. Curt; Mrs. Howard of Corby ; Mrs. Weld
of Lalworth ; Mrs. Washington Hibbert ; Mn.
Haillie Cochrane ; Mrs. Monteith of °imbibe ; Mrs. &rope
of Dishy ; Mrs. John Towneley ; Mrs. Lisle Phillips;
Mrs. Falser Driuninocal ; Mrs. Bodeobarn, of It otherwise ;
Mrs. De la Darn Bodenham ; Mrs. Lawrie; Mrs. Uzielli ;
Mm. Bklewell ; Miss Anon Talbot; and Miss Sloane
Manley.
Tat Qoamen REPLY.
"Noble Ladies,—lt could not be otherwise than grateful
and very agreeable to me—the precious gift which you
have bees pleased to offer to me, the thoughtful delicacy
that suggested the design of it, soil the flattering address
which accompanied it. and in which I observe many of the
best mom a of the noble aristocracy of England soil of that
generou, Ireloal ; both types and 'samples of loyalty and
of constant dm/otitis to the august sovereign who so glori-
ously awlqs their destinies.
"In not seperatiog from my beloved husband, who so
bravely contended for the holiest rights of his people end
of thrones—in choosing to share with him, even to the
end, the privations and perils of • long siege—in dedi-
cating myself to the best of my ability to alleviate the aid.
fenngs and the pangs of so many gallant men who fell
victim. to their duty, their unfaltering fidelity, the love of
their King, and the independence of their native country,
in a war the most unjust, I did nothing but fulfil ti's
sacred duty of a Christian, a wife, and a Queen. Happy
that I am if, in so acting, I have been able to deserve the
regard of minds so noble, and of hearts so generous as
yours.
" Constrained now to live far from my adopted country
and from a soil to which so many dear affeetioes bind me,
and which 1 so much love; wounded to my very heart
through the fratricidal and ruthless war, which spreads
desolation and terror over the most beautiful r%ion of Italy,
it is some comfort to me at least that even in that favoured
England, where so many calumnies have been spread, so to
deprive a just but unhappy cause of the potent support of
public opinion and of au enlightened government, there are
not wanting noble hearts that were moved by an unmerited
misfortune-
" That thought will tell you better than I could express
how sincerely grateful I am, and how very dear to me has
been this spontaneous testimony of affection and of gym.
pathy among the many others with which it was sought to
honour in me a royal calamity borne with resignation, and
not without courage.
"Receive, then, my thanks, nue and all, whose names
shall ever remain engraved on my heart, and believe in Um
sentiments of my entire affection. "MARIA.
" Bone, Sept. 21, 1861."