The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-11 00:00:00

Int court.

OSBORNE, F. 10.
The Queen and Princess Helena walked out
retsrday.
The Countess of Caladen has etneeeded the *maim=
of Ely, ma Lady in Wetting.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Lord Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey,
Earl Russell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Miner Gibson, Lord
Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P.
V il tiers.

A deputation from Northumbniand bad an interview with
Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office, on the
subject of the Highway Act.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to
the Governors of Malts, °Woo, Hong Kong, and labium.

THE PRINCE AND PRHICERS OF WALES.—The
departure of the Prince and Princess of Wales for St. Leo-
nard'sou•See, which was to have taken place yesterday,
was postponed at the last moment, in eoesequeeoe of the
medical shim, of her royal highness) having pronounced
that the temperature of the day was too cold to allow the
infant prince to travel with gaiety. Their royal highneisee,
a 'cording to present struggegsate, will leave Frogmore,
weather permitting, at an early hour to-morrow, so as
to allow them to reach St. Locoard'a-ou-des about noon.

Yesterday morning the Prince of Wales, accom-
panied by Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Major Teesdale,
C. 8., sad several officiers of the Guards now quartered at
Windsor, who have been invited by the Edna, skated oa
the toe which the severe frost of the last few days has
formed as the surface of the small admit of water knows
as Balaclava, in the Hameisark, a short distance from the
banks of the Thames.

His Excellency Sir Henry Bulwer hex left
Brown's 1144 far Paris.

Mr. Chichester Forteacue and Frances Countess
Wa!divan entertained at dinner last evening, at their
rename is Qultoo-gardene, Maria Marehionees of ides-
bury, the Fad sad Caudal. Remelt the Earl and Coasts
Grey, the Earl de Grey and Ripon, Lord and Lady &ashy
of Aidetiey. Sir Hansiltoe and lady Seymour, Lady Moles.
with, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, If. and Madame
Laugel, General and Mni. Makelm, Mr. Bernal Osborne,
and Mx. Delano.

THE DRAMATIC COLLIOL—An appeal has been
a idrc :sad to the vsz:ous Shskspeare committ:ca, on belief
of the Royal Dramatic Oollege, by the Muter al the Insti-
tution, Mr. Benjamin Webster, who sills upon the noble-
men sad gentlemen forming times commutess to ccosidsr
the appropriatenen of devoting a portion of the funds, in
peewee of collection for the approaching tersothethry colt-
beano°, to the objects sod interests of the sallego and its
schools. _ _ _

THE RIM. MX. DRURY AND vas " POWERS OF
ynx Wou.n."—la November led, the Bev. G. Dewy,
Rector of Claydre, was fined Si. by theNeedhem Market
magistrates for striking a man named Abraham Watkins is
the (see with a but pokier. The following address to Mr.
Drory has been presented tolmo this mouth, together with
a handsome Bible for use on the lectern of the church :
" To our much loved and reverend parish priest, the em-
boarder and faithful rosesenger of Christ to as, the Rev.
George Drury, we. the undersigned, communicants and
attendants oe God's holy worship in St. Peter's Church,
Cleydon, send reverence, love, and greeting in the Leal.—
Dear Father io Chriet,—lt has canned us the most extreme
grief and pain to le-srn andbearof the most wickedand an**
asotenee proeousead by the niagnitrates of this neighbour-
hood againstyou. We feel it oar duty, as Christie's and
members of hof d, to protest swell's' the
recent sooduct of the load magiatratee I. the wee to which
we allude. Al the same time we brig you to accept oar
assurance of increased love and revenuer for yourself as
our much beloved minister in the Lord. May He who was
unjustly condemned by Pilate strengthen you with His all-
sufficient game to beer the trial which your ardlinclaing
profession of His truth may bring upon you. May the
example of Hie remote in all ages of the church, who
have been rajas* mardernned by the powers of the world,
comfort you 111 your present trial, and may the God of poe-
tics) continue to be your oonsolation sod your etey. With
the mad affectionate respect, we remain, deer Father I.
Christ, your affectionate children is the Lord, Edward
Watkins, Father, and Amy Watkins, Mother of the pro-A.
cuter, and about 100 others of the inhabitants andattendante
as the church."

CiITTOTWO IDBWOSTH AND DWI STANLIT.—A
number el elergymea in the diocese of having
joined in an address to Canon Wordsworth, to him
or attacking Dr. IStenley, the revs-end canoe ham replied
is an addrves, from which the following is an extract :
" The prosper* Wore us is gloomy. We have to deplore
the destructive effects of that 'pintail pride which makes
itself the mean» of truth. We Nava to lamest the growth
of that intellectual self-000fideoes which, instead of mate-
Wallis the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine revealed in
the Holy Scriptures, and handed down front Apostolic
times, and of exhorting others to contend earnestly for the
faith onus delivered to the stied, treats the faith Half aa
variable thing, capable of now developments, and to be ex-
panded, adjueted, and accommodated, with pltoot elasticity
to the changeful *stools of men and the fluent forms of
society ; and which would despoil the Church of England
of bee true character as a faithful guardian and witness of
the faith. It is too obvious to observe, that rasa this
spirit is railtaalsed it most have the unhappy remit of driv-
ing many among us into deism, and of 'asking others fall
away from UM into the arma of a so-cailed infallible chard••