The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-06 00:00:00

at Court.

OSBORNE, Jan. 4.
The King of the Belgians and Princess Bohan-
Wm, and Prince Louis of Hesse, remain at Osborne.

JAN. 5.

Divine *anise we performed this morning by the Boy .
G. Nether* bsfore the King of the Belgians, the Prince of
Welts, Prisons Hakes., Princess Louise, Prince Arthur,
and Princes Hohenlohe.

The Queen will hold a Privy Co:mil this day (Monday)
at Osborne.

Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial-
office from the flowerpot of Canada. Despatches were sent
to the Lord High Commielioner of the lonian Wanda, sad
to the Governors al Oaasds sad Bermuda.

MEMORIAL OF THE PRINCE CONSORT
AND THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF MI.

At a meeting of the Committee for the erection
of • Memorial of the Great Exhibition of 1851, held oa
Thunday last, Alderman CNALUS in the chair, • duplicate
of the letter froth H. R. H. the Prime of Walls which ap.
peered in our impression of Saturday, is erienexica with the
proceedings of the Radiceltaral Society, wee reed. The com-
mittee unanimously reecdred to carry oat the wishes of her
Majesty, and the appended reply wee determined aa. A
committee, consisting of Mr. Foley, 8.A., Bum Moo-
ehetti, A.R.A., Professor Westfosoott, Mr. S. Smirks,
A., Mr. George Godwin, and General Gm fee a ehaenel
of 0001112t113101111111 with the royal family), wee appointed to
confer with Mr. Dastrus, who is to execute the statue.

Brompton, Jan. 3.

To his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, kc.
Sir,—TheOommities for the erection of the Memorial of
the Great Fsliibitios of 1851, for which the Horticultural
Society have granted • site in their gardens, have received,
through General Grey, by command of your Royal High-
ness, a duplicate of your letter, addressed to the Council of
the Horticultural Society. In this letter your Rogil Ingh-
am rade to reoollestioo, by command of the Quetta, that
her Majesty had been pleased to went to • prepaid to
place • statue of herself upon the Memorial : that the
characteristic seltdenial and modesty of your Royal High-
ness's deeply lamented sad beloved father (whose loss the
whole nation now mourns), had induced him to interpose to
prevent his own statue from Kling that position on the
Memorial which properly belonged to it : that her Majesty
had directed your Royal Higbee's to say it would now how-
ever be most hurtful to her feelings were any other statue to
sue—mount this memorial than that of the great, good Prince.,
your Royal Highness's beloved father, to whose honour it
is in reality to be raised : further, that your Royal High.
new had sought and had obtained the permission of the
Queen, to present the statue thus proposed to be plaited on
the memorial.

The Memorial Committee having considered this com-
munication, request um to state, with most respectful sad
heartfelt expressions of the deepen sympathy, sad of
just admiration of the asntiee•t that suggested
their entire readiness to meet these wishes, not
ally as enabling the eatemilien to the memorial
to carry out their original desire, which was
emphatically and above all things to offer a public and
lasting tribute to his Royal Highness the lamented Prince
Consort, in coanulcm with the Great Exhibition, but as
rendering that memorial also the first of the many records
of public homage which will be offered throughout the
length aol breadth of the kingdom to the memory al •
Prince wham line is deplored by every subject of the realm
as • private as well as a national calamity. This grist is felt
peoultarly by the committee I have the honour to repre-
sent, they hay* received from the Prince for a keg time
the kindest esesideration and parsecs' assietanoe of ines-
timable vales in the preparation of the design.
They mall, with melancholy satisfaction, the &min-
stases, that the tart public act in Loudoc of the lamented
Prince, your Royal Highness's father, was the approval of
the statue of her Most Gracious Majesty, by Mr. Hartman
then intended to surmount the usecneeiL

The appropriation of this statue, which is Dow being pee-
duced in bronze, the Memorial Committee most respectfully
place in the heads of your Royal Highness.
With reiterated expressions of the deepest ',apathy on
the pert of the committee, and their prayer for the health
et the Queen, I beg leave, Sir, most respectfully ta•ssbsaribe
myself, your Repel Highness's humble servant,

620/03 Gonwor, Hormary 8s y.

Tail bIZETHHI 01 PA SLUMS:WT. —To-lay, at a
Council to be held at Osborne, parliamenj will be
prorogued till Thursday, the 6th of February, then
to meet for the deepatch of business. It does sot'
follow, however, that, though parliament is pro-
rogued till the 6th of February, it may not meet,
at an earlier day. Should the accounts from
America prove unsatisfactory, parliament may, ao-
cording to precedent, be summoned together by
proclamation after 14 days' notice.
13p to Thursday (says the Court Journal) Osborne
was full of 'Anton—all familiar faces, sad closely ocennoted,
either by relationship or family ties, with the Quinn. The
circle included the King of the 80/glana, the Prises sod
Primate of Leiningen, the Primer of Holmalebe Lager
bony& Prim:4llmM of Hum the Prince at Wale; the
Primus Alice, ac.,sed we seed scarcely lay that mole an sr
Deathly at such a time ham had a most beneficial What upon
the Queen's health. The Prins of Daisies's, though suf-
fering from Indisposition at the time of the funeral of the
late Prince Consort, bar now quite recovered.
A most distinguished county meeting was
held M UAW ea Friday, in order to exprem madolemoe
with the Quoin apes the death of the Prime Caron.
Among the speakers were Sir J. I)uckwoeth, But. (is the
Glair), the Earl of Devon, Sir Invireace Ashy the Fad of
Portsmouth, Mr. Kekewich, M.P.,Mr. Bailor, M.P., Lord
Quinton, sad Lord Pannone*. An inilnestaal sanity
Meting ham also boos held at Read*, with a similar
object.

The Duke and Duchies at Wellington leave
Apiley Home today foe ellualsidrya.

The Earl of Gifford is movering from his re-
lent indisposition. His larddifp et present staying at
Highgate.

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Mr. and Lady Mary Craven have left town for
*Otos Mowbray.
The Queen his appointed tho Rev. R. Warner to
as living*, lehterby.
It is rumoured that the Solioibr•General for
Ireland. Yr. Lawson, will agar Massif is a candidate for
ts representational the boroaph el Oolasains.

Nitto JAltti.
LATIOT DITELLIGIOCX
THE STEAM= " 1111ROPA."
QUENNUTOWN, Noma, 10.25 a.m.
Up to the present moment there is no sign of the
Europa.

THE AUSTRIAN REMONSTRANCE WITH
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

The following is the despatch sent by the
Austrian government to its representative at Wash-
ington :
" The difference which has arisen between the
government of the United States and that of Great
Britain, in consequence of the arrest of Messrs.
Mason and Slidell, made by the captain of the
American man-of-war San Jacinto, on board the
English packet-boat Trent, has not failed to en-
gage the most serious attention of the imperial
cabinet.

" The more importance we attach to the mainte-
nance of good relations between the United States
and England, the more deeply do we regret an
incident which has added such a grave complication
to a situation already surrounded with many
difficulties.

"Without intending to enter here into an exami-
nation of the question of right, we cannot, never-
thelem, fail to recognise the fact that, according
to the notions of international right adopted by all
the powers, and which the American government
itself has often taken for the basis of its conduct,
England could scarcely refrain in the present cue
from protesting against the insult offered to its flag
and from demanding a just reparation. It seems
to us, moreover, that the demands made on this
subject by the cabinet of Bt. James's have nothing
in them that is hurtful to the cabinet of Washing-
ton, and that the latter will be able to do an act
of justice and moderation without the least sacri-
fice of its dignity.
"Forming its decision from the rules which
guide international relations, and from the con-
siderations of an enlightened policy, rather than
from manifestations produced by an excessive excite-

meat of national sentiment, the government of the
United States we are glad to hope will import into
its judgment all the calmness which the gravity of
the case requires, and will deem it fit to adopt a
decision which, in preserving from rupture the
relations between two great states with whom
Austria is equally allied in friendship, will be
adapted to prevent the grave troubles which the
event of a war could not but entail no lass upon
each of the contending parties than upon the affairs
of the world in general.
"Be so good, K Chevalier uto bring the pre-
ceding remarks to the knowledge of Mr. Seward,
and inform us of the manner in which that minister
receives this communication."

SPAIN AND MICXIOO.

A despatch from the Gulf of Mexico confirms the
news of the evacuation of Vera Cruz by the Mexican
troops. On the Bth of December the Spanish forme
took possession of the fortress of St. Jean d'Ullas
without firing a shot. It was not thought that any
further military operations would take place till the
arrival of the combined forces of England and
France.