The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

THE GRAND DINNER AT THE HOTEL.

At 8 o'clock, the Royal party sat down to dinner
at the Hotel du Pavillon Imperials. Covers were laid
(or 60.

The most distinguished personages present were :
—Her Majesty Queen Victoria, his Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of the French, Prince Albert, the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Napo-
leon, the Comte de Montebello, Colonel Fleury, Mar-
shal Baraguay D'Hilliere, Marquis Belmont, Marquis
INI La Grange, Madame De Labeyers, Madame Rey-
nosa], ladies in the suite of the Empress, the Earl of
Clarendon, &c.

The Queen and the Royal party will nail for Eng-
land at about eleven o'clock to-night.

EMBARKATION OF HER MAJESTY.
(sr SLIOTRIC TILSOZAPH.)
BOULOGNE, MONDAY 11.15 P N.
The Qum has just embarked. The ammo was
magniflosnt.

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I avail myself of the opportunity afforded me
by the departure of an excursion steamer from
Boulogne to Dover at half-past 11 o'clock to-night, to
announce the departure of her Majesty on board the
Royal yacht, at a few minutes past 11 o'clock, p.m.,
amid the roaring of cannon and a blaze of fire-works
from the dills. The most cordial adieus were ex-
changed between her Majesty and the Emperor.
The magnifiossee of the scene was considerably
increased by a brilliant display of flambeaux which
were held by soldiers, who formed a line for a con-
siderable distance, upon the heights on both sides of
the river. The town was beautifully illuminated,
particularly the homes in the leading streets, and the
public buildings. As the Royal yacht receded from the
shore, a continuous firing of rockets and feu d'art!**
waif kept up. Her Majesty was favoured by the most
beautiful weather—a calm sea, and a lovely moon-
light night.
In our fleet despatch we ought to have mentioned
that her Majesty for a few momenta left her carriage
and rode on horseback, at the review.

ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN AT OSBORNE.
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PORTSMOUTH, TIMMAY Mono's°, 8.45.
Her Majesty landed at Osborne, at half-past eight
o'clock this morning. The Osborne and Vivid were
the only vessels in company.

Suoucunz. Tin Possum Lzotow.— The
troops suddenly received olden of Friday evening to pre-
pare to camp on Castle-hill sad Mrs. Dealers faros, about
two miles from Bhornaliffe. Farmers' waggons and horses
in all directions were pressed into the mom, much to their
annoyance in the middle of honest. However, the supply
was obtained, and the men are now under canvas, and will,
it is empected, be there for eight days. Some absurd
rs moo have been afloat respecting the health of the men,
hut from inquiries made, we find that, isonsidering the large
somber of men from foreign countries, sod their change of
living and habits, the illness is mach below the average
mask in a amp of 3,000 mos.—SolotA Earners' Gootte.

PROSPECTS TOR THE FIRST OF SEPTENLBER.—WS
are happy to inform our sporting friends who attach them-
selves to the trines, that their prospects for the int are
better than, ander the eireaseeteseee of the mason, had
been anticipated. The severe winter, it was feared, had
made helve amongst the partridges, bat they appear to have
borne it bravely, and the dry weather in the hatching ma-
son being favourable to the young birds, the cosies are not
likely to be found so steeps or saaros.—Merfionse
Merewry.

• -
LENDING LIBRAIIIIB.-A reading room Ma re.
many been established in the parish of West ChinnoelOcon-
nested with which is a leading library. It was in the first
piece wt is foot by a somber of mechanics and laboaren
welting IS the Bev. G. D. Ostrow, their rector, and inti-
mating to him their wishes en the subject, the result
of which was, that a meeting was called, and held in
the school-room of the parish, over which the Rev.
G. B. Darrow prodded, when it was unanimously
agreed that a society be formed forthwith, which
should have fee its object the improvement of the
working claws, in their social end moral condition.
Liberal maul sabserippolse were annonnesdby the Ear.

G. B. Ourow (President), Mr.. °arrow and (slily, Mn.
Hayward, Mr. It. Hayward (Treasurer), Mr. Edson, and
Mr. Lowman, of the parish, and the Rev. F. P. Vonles, of
the adjacent village of Middn Chinnock,who bee also kindly
somented to be the Vies-President of the Society. A hand-'
some book-pass LSO been presented by Mrs. Heyward, toga.
Mier with abort 70 rebuses of very entertaining end
instructive books. A daily London paper (the Daily News)
is presided, as also a weekly load journal (the IVettern
Flying Pat). Thera are already from 30 to 40 mentbsn.
end it is hoped that the objects for which this Society has
been formed, may be fully nailed.—TM Walton Piping
Poet. •
THE MILITIA AND THE HAIMMT.—CoIt Viscount

Itiammommammitaut of the let Somerset Militia, with
greet esentemation and forethought, has kindly permitted
two Imbed maa of his regiment, which Is now stationed
in Taunton, le },creed to their homes' fa order to afford
them an eggereeeity of assisthig the agriculturists is the
117:1of the mop. The ooramaviag fields arouud
71ht Wing et Ragland, will thus be able to dio-
rama with math of that a:transom aid which we have
hitherto berm emestateed to expoot from the slater isle, in
=deo Mabel the Garth. The mw, who b*bly
left theaggsremity of temporarily turning thief
laysesblegesespleg bad" left Taunton ou Monday mora-
ine Ike Wont eporatiesa la various partsof the emtatt7.—
Termite Courier.

TER Ismanio or Ax no legal
authorities, we understand, have given an opinion that po-
tion; in boroughs, without • separate court of quarter ea-
dose of the pease, bevy not the power to grant ekbouse
names. We Mar *at W horoagb justices of Sunderland,
South Shields, and 'I moo atb. acting on this view of the
law, have sot grenteu Amman for the earning year.—Gater-
heed Obasseer.

Town. —Up to Saturday there were varies,/
moan SS to the statism. likely to seatest the bone sh,
and tine or tear saseeeel easdidatee wen seationed . The
Überah, however, age Moog enesgh to retsra a r,feemer,
whisk they will de whatever the Osaka takes gees&

AUSTRALIA.

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SYDNEY, Jess 2.
The derangement in the postage system between
Orem Britain and Australia has occasioned serious
inconvenience to these colonies; and certainly, their
importance considered, they are fully entitled to all
the facilities of intercomainnitntion which it is in the
power of the government at honk to command. We
have no reason to complain that the vessels charged
with the conveyance of the mails have been tardy in
their movements, and we may especially note that
the Boomerang, with the March mail, made her pu-
rge to Port Phillip in OS days; but a matter of such
importance ought to be based ma some established
regulations, instead of being left as it were to chanee.
Her return mail will be made up to-day for Mel-
bourne' whence she will sail about the middle of next
week. The Ocean Chief, which will also take a mail,
is to sail to-morrow from Sydney for England direct,
without detention at Melbourne, so that it is probable
she will outstrip her competitor in the ocean race of
18,000 miles.
•Per a period of many weeks a most unwonted state
of inactivity has prevailed in the mercantile and
trading affairs of this colony—the natural on:se-
quence of the excitement that existed in theyeare 1852,
1853, and 1854. But though business transactions
have been less active than in those eventful years,
the soundness of the commercial community has been
severely tested, and it has come cut of the ordeal
comparatively unscathed. There are numerous oases
before the Insolvent Court, but none of them of any
magnitude; and we ars looking forward to a period
of healthy intercourse with the mother country,
which will be not less advantageous in the long run
to those who supply the colonial markets than to the
colonists themselves. Stocks of nearly all kinds are
now low, and new consignments, if they be prudently
made, will meet with ready sale at remunerative
prices. We are, of course, deeply interested in the
accounts that have arrived out by recent mails, of
the disastrous effects at home of the overtrading
of which we are now experiencing the reaction;
but much as we commiserate the shippers of goods,
we have the consolation of believing that the colonial
trade will ere long resume a more healthy appear-
ance.

The price of provisions in Sydney continues to rise,
and it is feared has not yet reached its maximum.
Bread is 10d. the 21b loaf; beef and mutton, ed. to
Bd. per lb.; veal and pork, 10d. to Is.; butter, 35.;
and other articles of consumption at the same high
rate. It seems an anomaly that a land so admirably
adapted by nature to produce every necessary of lite
should have to depend on foreign countries for the
supply of food ; but so it is and so it must continue
until the population transfer their energies from the
search atter the precious metal to the cultivation of
the moil and the breeding of cattle. It is a well
known fact, that in the province of Victoria alone
there are now fully a million of sheep less than were
depastured at the commencement of the gold dis-
covery, which will in a great measure account for the
advance in the price of animal food and decreased
exports of wool and tallow. The continued arrivals
of immigrants, instead of lessening, only tends to aug-
ment the evil, inasmuch am they are consumers in-
stead of being producers. Many of the mechanics
aed artisans here,whonot long agowere earning wages
ranging from 15e. to 30s. a day, are now but partially
engaged at half those wages. The time has therefore
arrived for some check to be put to emigration from
Europe.
Our new Oovernor-Oeneral, Sir William Thomas

Denison, has began his vice-regal reign with a
searching inquiry into the state of the exchequer
and its liabilities; and reductions are talked of in
the various departments of the colonial government.
The late Governor-General, Sir Charles Fitzroy,

acting upon the general desire of the public when lint
the news of hostilities with Russia was received here,
directed certain fortifications to be erected on com-
manding points of the harbour of Port Jackson.
Change of men, change of manners, is the rule acted
upon by Sir W. Denison. The half-raised works
have not only suddenly been discontinued, but their
demolition has already commenced, and other spots,
deemed of course more eligible, have been selected as
points4rappui. One of these will be "Pinchgut
Island," once a picturesque little gem in our harbour,
crowned with graceful trees, and now an unsightly
barren rock. having been out down to the water's
edge by some vice-regal order of other days, why or
wherefore has never been explained. It would have
mattered little, this official freak, had not the island
been thus rendered dangerous to navigation, instead
of an ornament to the landscape. A battery on its
surface will in some measure :redeem it from its pre-
sent state of worse than uselessness.

The new Bishop of Sydney, the Right Rev. Dr.
Barker, has arrived, and has ban most cordially re-
ceived by the clergy and laity.
Mr. G. V. Brooke, of London celebrity, whose
arrival in Sydney was heralded by huge placards, in
which his name figured in letters a yard long, has
commenced an engagement at the Victoria Theatre,
at, report says, 1001. a night, guaranteed to him by
his Barnum chaperon, Mr. Choppin. The house has,
on the whole, been well attended, but by no means
so fully as to satisfy Mr. Choppin that he has made
a profitable spec. The tragedian, however, is to
tread the boards in other parts of the Australian colo-
nies, and may be more successful. The fact appears
to be that Catherine Hayes drained the playgoers of
their loose cash; and we have had, moreover, a host
of aspirantadventurers—magicians of north and south,
equestrians reporting themselves as of world-wide
fame, marvellously clever boys and girls, violinists
outshining Paganini, pianists far superior to Thal-
berg, and, in fact, " ists" of every other vocation.
About five miles of the Sydney Railway have been
completed (line to Parramatta), and a trial trip took
place on Monday, the occasion being honoured by the
presence of the governor. The rolling plant, manu-
factured in England, is represented as of the best
description, and the works on the line are of first-rats
engineering construction.

As many as 61,458 persons entered Kensington
Gardens on finaday last. The gardens in the neighbour-
hood of the band were densely crowded, and the notice re•
questing gentlemen not to smoke In the liamediete vicinity
of the band and the tefreshment•room was very generally

attended to. A great improvement has taken Wee in the
moommodation offered to the public as regards chairs and
movable seats. Until lately, thus were furnished by one
person, was sometimes of a very rieketty character, and
the charge was 3d. each. The chain are now nearly all
new, and provided by different persons ; and a notice ap-
pun on the trees to the effect that the charge for movable
seats Is not to exceed Id. Every chair was let, and han-
ders& of ponces were seated is little groups upon the gross
listening to the music and witnessing the gay some, which
yds musk heightened by the Imams of the weather. Most
of the nobility and gentry and atembers of the corps diplo-
autism, 'amazing in London appeared to be present, and
Sir Benjamin Hall was seen mining about ta the crowd arm
in arm with the Dean of Durham, apparently enjoying the
11111140.

Three satiras of Southern Africa posed through
Lyons a few days ago in dune of an American. Them
savages had. their !made shaved, with the exception of a tuft
of hair, which was traced; their eyes were red like those of
the Albinos, and their faces end bodies were Wooed in the
moat grotesque manner. Oa* of them appeared to be in ill
sad it was necessary to lift him into the coach in
which they were conveyed to the railway station. They
are, it is said, on their way to London to appear at one of
I the theatres.

CRYSTAL PALACIL—SEIWWO DAT.—Atrourf 27.
ABW/Naoas ea 94144.46 11,748; digs by sans tloksio,
441.—Tota, 12,19 L