The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-09 00:00:00

THE VOLUNTEERS.

The following noblemen and gentlemen have
been appointed to serve on the commission to inquire into
the state of the volunteer form :
Viseount Bromley, Earl of Dude, Viscouut Harding.,
Lord Overdone, Lord Elcho, M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel
Berttelot, M.P., the Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, M.P.,
Lieutenant-Game& Sir George Wetherell, Major•Oeneral
Eyre, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald Campbell, Lieu.
tonant-Oolood Gladstone, Major Vernon Harcourt, and
Colonel ll'Murdo.

THE COURT AT BALMORAL—OE Sunday last I
neither her Majesty nor say of the royal family attended
divine service at Crathie Church. The Dachas of Athol],
Lady Augusta Bruns, the Hon. Mrs. Biddulph, the Duke of
Argyll, Colonel Biddulph, Major Cowell, and Dr. Robertson
were peewit, but did not occupy the royal pew. The Rev.
Mr. Anderson preached from Matthew, 28th chapter, 20th
verse. The pulpit and the principal seats of the church are
still draped in black—Edinburgh Courant.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has so far re-
covered as so have entered into an engagement to preach
at Christ Church, Chelsea, next Sunday morning.
The Countess de Persiguy, with her aunt, the
Duchess d'Elebingen and family, will arrive this day in
Lowodes-street, to pass some weeks in London. The count
is expected here shortly.
The Earl Delawares has arrived in Grosvenor-
skeet from Ruthin Castle, North Wales.
The marriage of the Hon. Fernina Bellew,
daughter of Lord Bellew, to the Has. Captain Everard
Stourton, of the 10th Hussars. second son of Lord Stour-
too, was solemnised on Wednesday, at St. Mary's Roman
catholic church, Little Crosby, in the presence of a name-
rove sad distinguished assemblage.
A correspondent protests against the absurd
police regulation by Sir Richard Mayne, which has pre-
vented the formation of cabetands in the neighbourhood of
the Interoatiemal Exhibition. The result on such an after-
noon as that of Wednesday can be imagined. "I myself,"
writes the correspondent, " saw at least 500 people, many of
them elegantly-dressed ladies, unable to obtain any convey-
ance from the building. The only chance of getting a cab
was to seise on the very few that drove up to deposit their
freights, and these, of course, could not provide one
hundredth part of the accommodation required."
Accounts from Alexandria state that the Duke
and Duchess of Coburg arrived at Mamowah on the 29th of
Mardi, and on the Lt of April the duke proceeded towards
the interior. The duchess and the other ladies taking part
in the expedition remained during his highness's absence at
the mission station at Omkulla. Further intelligence states
that on the 3rd inst. the duke and duchess had returned
towards Suer.
The festival which is to take place at Rome on
the Bth of next month already gives Marseilles an unusual
aspect. Mitred and crosiered personages abound there.
List Sunday, at the celebration of high mass in the cathe-
dral, a Hussies bishops conformist—was present; he is
stippreed to be the Bishop of Mobilow, a city of some
22,000 inhabitants, situated on the banks of the Dnieper,
about 700 miles from St. Petersburg. Apartments have
also been already secured at Marseilles for the Cardinal-
Archbishop of Paris, Lyons, Rheims, Bordeaux, and He-
mmen, for the Archbishops of Homes, Rouen, Toulouse,
Sens, Cambray, Alba, Aix, Avignon, and Bourges, and for
the Bishop of Mets, Strasbourg, Aagouleme, Tulle, Per-
Open, Orleans, Pemiers, Felins, Dive, Carcamonne,
Nimes, Aire, and Reunion. Mgr. O'Craiee, the Bishop of
Marseilles, also intends to leave.
A letter from Athens, in speaking of the works
of the arclueologiets who are charged by the King of
Prude to make researches and excavations on the Acro-
polis, mays :—" The threshold which has been laid bare at
the 'Masses of the Parthenon of Athens, was, on the 11th
ult., caned for the first time after 1,500 years, and in
presence of all the learned world of the Greek eapitaL
There has been also discovered in the Erechtheoo, not the
opening through which the noise of the sea was formerly
heard, but a skiff in white marble in good preser►ation,
and a statue which is of the best epoch of widest art.
The honour of these dimoveries belongs to Professor
Botteher."

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