The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1863.

sharply to these matters if they would hold their
own. For the present, the dirty baker have their
revenge, and they will certainly make the most
of it.

THE ENGLISH ROYAL FAMILY AT
BRUSSELS.

(naarra•s nLaGRAIL)
BRUSSELS, Ammar 14.
The English and Belgian royal families drove out
yesterday at Brussels.
A grand dinner was given yesterday at Lacken.
Both the royal families, with the exception of
the King and her Majesty Queen Victoria, were
present, with a part of their suite, at the Saint
Hubert Theatre yesterday evening.

Mr. Marshall Wood, the sculptor, has (aays the
Le, do Aftrenry) received a commission from Mr. John Craw.
ley to execute two buata of the Prince and Princess of Wales,
in marble, to commemorate the royal visit to Halifax.

The Marquis of Exeter is improving in health.
The noble martinis and marchioness remain at present in
town.

The Marchioness of Kildare and her infant son
are both progressing favourably, according to the ►ccounts
received io town yesterday from Carton House, Maynooth.

The Countess Cowley and Lady Feodorowna
Wellesley left town yesterday for Paris.

The Earl of Wilton left town yesterday afternoon
to meet his yacht, the Zara, in the Southampton Water,
in order to proceed to Cowee for the close of the yachting
season.

The Earl Cawdor and a select party have arrived
at Candor Castle, Nairnshire, for the shootind season in
the north.

Viscount and Viscountess Ilawarden arrived on
Tuesday last at Dublin, en route to Dundrum Park, Tip-
perary.

Lord and Lady De Saumarez have gone to Dover
for a few weeks.

Lord and Lady Lyndhurst have taken up their
residence at Tunbridge-wells. The noble and learned lord
is in excellent health, and intends to remain at that
favourite watering-place until October.

Mr. Evan and Lady Georgiana Baillie have ar-
rived at Dochfour, N. 8., where they will receive a cams-
sloe of guest' daring the shooting 10.1 BOD in Scotland.

Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont are enter-
taining a small party of friends at Alleeheacls, near Carlisle.
Amongst the visitors are Lord and Lady Suffield, Sir John
Shelley, M.P., Mr. Bonham Carter, M.P., Le.

Mr. and Lady Emily Walsh have arrived within
the hat few days at Fannich, N. 8., to pass the shootiog
mason.

Yesterday the marriage of Lady Alice Magdalena
Grey Egerton, youngest daughter of the Earl of Wilton,
and Mr. Henry Dalrymple bee V,eux took place at St.
George's Church, Hanover-square. The wedding was con-
sidered K private one, and only the immediate and most
intimate relatives and friends assembled at the ceremony.
The Hon. and Rev. Francis E. Cecil Byng, sou of the Earl
of Strafford, officiated, the bride being given away by her
father, the Earl of Wilton.

are informed that many persons of influence have given in
their adhesion to it.

The above article attracts, owing to the former
reputation of the Debuts, a great deal more atten-
tion than it deserves. It was explained some time
ago, that a particular shareholder in the Debate has
the power to insist occasionally upon the insertion
of articles totally hostile to the general spirit of the
redaction of that journal. If such articles appear
too frequently, the trivial reservation " we leave
the entire responsibility of this communication to
our correspondent " will not save the credit of the
paper. The Passe, to-night, in its money article,
' observes that the Debts completely misled the
public a week ago by a publication of this peculiar
kiud, which it was subsequently compelled to
admit in a leader to have been altogether wrong.
The Patrie says :—" Whether derived from
Russian or Austrian sources, the aim and
object of the correspondence in the Debats is
the loss of the Polish cause." The Pays ob-
serves that the present elaborate sketch of a di-
plomatic scheme for a settlement is the fourth
which the Dbats bas ventilated within a short time.
Not believing this communication from mysterious
" correspondents" to have any better foundation
than the three others, the Pays recommends the
public to be on its guard against a fresh deception.
Bottlier's Correspondence says that these pretentious
communications of the Debate are dished up to
serve Russian purposes by M. Genie, formerly
private secretary to M. Guizot.
. .

The arts have sustained an immense loss in the
death of M. Eugene Delacroix, who succumbed this
morning to an affection of the chest from which ho
had been suffering' for the last two months. He
was 66 years of age. This distinguished artist, on
leaving the Louis le Grand College at the age of
18, commenced his career in the studio of Pierre
Guerin, where he was a fellow pupil with
Guericault and Ary Scheffer. The first picture
that he exhibited was " Dante and Virgil," which
appeared iu the Salon of 1822, and at once made
him celebrated, although the merits of his work
were betty contested. M. Thiers, at that time the
fine arts critic of the Constittetionnel, stood for-
ward as one of M. Delacroix's most ardent admirers.
The following are some of the best-known pictures
which appeared in succeeding exhibitions :-1824,
"The Massacre of Scio ;" 1826, "The Death of
the Doge Marino Faliero ;" " Greece, on the Ruins
of Missolonghi ;" 1827, "Christ in the Garden of
Olives ;" " Faust and Mephistophiles ;" " The
Shepherd in the Campagna of Rome ;" "A young
Turk caressing his Horse ;" "Milton dictating
'Paradise Lost ;' " " The Death of Sarlanapalus."
1828, " Cardinal Richelieu ;" "The Combat of
the Giaour and the Pacha." 1831, " Liberty
guiding the People on the Barricades ;" "The Death
of the Bishop of Liege." 1833, " Charles V. at
the Monastery of St. Just." 1834, "The Battle
of Nancy ;" "The Convent of Dominicans at
Madrid ;" "The Women of Algiers." 1835, "The
Prisoner of Children." 1836, " Saint Sebastian."
1837, "The Battle of Taillebourg." 1838, "Me-
dea." 1839, "Cleopatra ;" " Hamlet contem-
plating Yorick's Skull." 1840, "The Justice of
Trojan." 1841, " The Taking of Constantinople
by the Crusaders ;" "A Wedding iu Morocco."
1846, "The Parting of Romeo and Juliet."
1855, " Doge Foscari taking part in the Con-
demnation of his Son." 1859, " The Ascent to
Calvary ;" " Christ in the Tomb ;" " Ovid
in Exile." Besides the above works M.
Delacroix executed a great many decora-
tive paintings for the Chamber of Deputies, the
Chamber of Peers, and the Apollo Gallery and
Throne-room in the Louvre. He was a contributor
to the Recce des Deux Mundes, and on the death of
Paul Delaroche in 1857 was elected a member of the
Institute.

Grand fetes are being prepared at Cherbourg on the
occasion of the sailing match organised by the Royal
Victoria Yacht Club. A numerous flotilla of elegant
yachts are to sail on Monday next from the starting-
point, the Isle of Wight, for Cherbourg, the one
arriving first to receive a prize of 50,000 fr. On
Tuesday there will be jousts and a regatta under
the patronage of Vice-Admiral do Chabannes-
Curton, the maritime prefect, in which the
boats of the port, of the yachts, and of the men
of war will take part. In the evening a grand
ball is to be given to the English visitors by the
town, at the Hotel de Ville. On Wednesday the
fetes will terminate by swimming matches in the
large dock. For three days the roadstead will
present a very animated scene, as four iron-dad
vessels, two Prussian frigates, the English flotilla,
and numerous steamers from Havre and other
ports will be there, all dressed out in flags.

The Journal de Saeeerre states that the waters
of the Loire have never before been so low there
as at present. That great stream, which has so
often ravaged the country for leagues by its
inundations, is now crossed, where it bounds the
Nievre and Cher, both on foot and iu carriages
without difficulty or danger. Many of the inha-
bitants of Loges (Nievre) hold lands on the oppo-
site bank of the river, and have always been
accustomed to carry their produce across in boats,
but this year, in the beginning of the harvest,
the water was too shallow for boats, and they
were obliged to go round by the nearest bridge, a
circuit of about four leagues. The water, how-
ever, has since fallen so low that they can cart all
their corn across the bed of the river as safely as
ou dry land.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

FRIDAY, ACGUST 14, 8 A.Y.