The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

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• The Queen will hold a Privy Council this ,A
(Tuesday) at Buckingham Palace. "'I
Prince Albert went to the rooms of tha Soya
in Somerset H- use yesterday, to inspect the ealeuletioe-7
chine invented by Mr. &Hits. His Royal Hight"' all'
the Prince of Wei and Prince Alfred, rode on ponel.t
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the afternoon for Epsom, tior the puep. MI of ophi..„_
it•yal Medical Benevolent College. Rio Royal htigl,:!
hwyastbaccoe braproanuiiesdofbAy beroorn, Colonel the Hon. C.B.Pte.,.
Captain the lion. D. de Rog, and Sir Limes Clara. ''''.
Tho Prince proceeded to the lifiektnyers' Arms itc
and travelled to Epeom by a epeeist train. His e;
six
Highnes. returned to Buckingham Palace at a Tuft .
er-pm o'clock.
Her Majesty bad a dinner party in the melte. yhi
company inctuded the Duchess of Kent, hie Excellecejt4
French Ambassador, Earl Granvilte, Lady An" w.,..
Dawson, Ba,oneoe de Speth, Lady Alfred Pep; j 74
Churchill, the Right lion. Sir \Valium and lady jus,
worth, Sir George Couper, General Sir Howard peva,
and Major-General Wetherell.
The band of the Coldstream Regimeat of Guards stkodet
and played during dinner.
The Duchess of Kent vitited the Duchess of Casa*
yesterday, at her residence, St. James's Palace.

A deputation of tho hackney carriage proprietus 1344
interview with the Chancellor of the Etcliecieer yeiterdit
at his official residence in D,iwntopstreet. 't he deputttlat
consisted of Mr. Bathg.ite, pretitei.t of the auccue4.
Messrs. Norris, Coulter, Downie, and Emmett, 5,04 yt
Win. Beadle (secretary).
The Turki.t Minister had en interview with the Q 4
cellor of the Etchequer yesterday.

Despatches were raecri;ad yrsterday at the Colloid cd%
from the GJvernors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, sod cwit
Despatches were sent yvateraay ti the G .veraor of WeEtn,
Australis. the Lord Huth Commininer of the lowan lalidci.
and the Governor of Mauritius.

THE QUEEN AT THE BRITISH MUSEUR.--
Saturday, the 23rd inst., the Queen and Prime xib,r
attended by Lady M. Churchill and two equerries, rit4;
the British Museum. The object of her Majesty's Ty,
was to inspect the new Assyrian antiquities lately ani,a!
from Nineveh, the results of the last excavation's! kr,
Llttue and Colonel Rawlineon. They were received st see
entrance hall by Sir 11. Ellis, K. 11., Colonel Rassinine
C. 8., Mr. Panizzi, and other officers of the establishanfi,
and proceeded in the first instance to the Nimrud Safer,.
From thence they returned to the Medal•raom, to irp;e,
the highly interesting series of drawing* made by the min
attached to the late expedition, representing the lion been
repasts, and other adventures of Sardanapalue.
other curiosities exhibited to her Majesty on this a:*.
'ion were the gold objects discovarei in tee late run
vatione. Au alabaster vase, conta!ning the remains of tit
sweetmeats of Sardanapalus, various ivory objects, it,
remains of the throne of the king, and several laltriplinj
relating to Nebuchadnezzar, Sardsnapalus,
and other kings of Aasyria. Thvy also examined the calks
tion of ancient gems, gold objects, prints, &c.

The Duke end Duchess of Northumberland rettie?
a select party at Sion House, Menotti; on Saturday, g.
cluding the Ambassador of France, Baron D 3 Call, ti
Marquis and Marchioness of &Orin], Count Trautman',
dorff, Conut Puffy, Lord and Lady Wenlock, Lord R►rtn.
worth and the Hon. Miss Liddell, the Right Hoc. Sit fah
and Lady Pakington, Sir G. Wilkinson, Colonel Raak•
son, &c.

Mr. Harcourt, M.P., and Frances CoanteesWaldt.
grave, have been entertaining a 'elect party of friends c
Dunham Park. Among the guests have been the Pram
Minister and the Counteu 13ernstoe if, the E srl and Coma
of Airlie, Visclunt and Viscountess Mandeville, Mt. st.
Lady Catherine Weyland, Mr. wad Lady Selina Velma
Mr. and Lady Augusta Seymour and tne Misses Seyease
Hon. Mrs. byte Sombre, Mr. C. S►rtoris, 83. Yesterk
the Countess received a large accession of company In
London, and an afternoon fete in the park was impronsr.
for the enjoyment of the guests. The band of the Ehnen
in attendance.

THE POLICE COURTS.
THIS DAY.

SOUTHWARK.
DARING ROBBERY IN A TAVERN.
Richard Deacon, a powerful-looking, well-dressed nu,
was brought beta?* Mr. A'Beckett, charged with stelae
silver watch from the person of John Williams.
The prosecutor, a gentleman's servant, said be wu
taking of refreshment in a public-kouse next the Saml
Theatre, about one o'clock this morning, where there wct

a number of people assembled in front of the bar. All e
once there was a scuffle between some females, and hi.:
front of him, when he felt a sudden snatch at his wild
and on looking down he mined it from his weiste*
pocket. The parties in front of him immediately Multi
the house, when he pursued them into the street. Io
prisoner then came up to witness, and attempted to is
him, when he saw the watch in his hand. lie called tr
" Police," and the prisoner then ran away, and he .t
darn saw him throw the watch into the road.
The prisoner, who affected to be dumb, but whom.:
speak as well as any one in court, was remanded by It
A'Beckett for a week.

LAMBETH.
DESPERATE ASSAULT.

John Isaacs, an ill-looking Jew cutermoeger,
charged, before Mr. Elliott, with committing a desperu
assault on the person of James Hawes, o mechsrie.
The complainant, who was seriously injured, deposedth:
on the night before, be went into Mr. Walker's, the Cror.
and Cushion, in the Westminster-road, to have lose
fruhment, and saw the prisoner and two or three of b
companions creating a disturbance. lie (witneu)
vs
leaving the house quietly, when the prisoner, without M
slightest provocation, or even knowledge of bits, gusts,
a desperate blow. lie instantly dropped to the ermi
insensible.
The prisoner said he was so drunk at the time that heti
not the slightest recollection of the affair.
Mr. Elliott observed that drunkenneu was no ezetwe
such ruffianly conduct, and convicted the yrisoau is 1
penalty of 51., or two months' hard labour.

FIRE ERIS DAY IN FINSBURY. This manic;
between the hours of four and five o'clock, conselereel
alarm was caused in the densely populated weighboatier
of Princes-square, Wilson-street, Finsbury, in compile
of the sudden outbreak of a fire in the extensive pretes
belonging to Messrs. William Eames Heathfield ad CI.
manufacturing chemists. The Watling-atreet and WO
Crou-street fire brigade engines soon got to work, wide e'
direction of Messrs. Braidwood and Fogo, and after IY6
perseverance the flames were extinguished. The to:X

room and drying-rooms were burnt out.
ACCIDENT FROM THE FALL OF A SIIER—t'
afternoon an estessive abed, belonging to Mr. Beeps;
Young, glue and size manufacturer, Spa-road, Bermosesl
fell in with a crash. A few momenta before not rf
workmen observed the building give tokens of insecority.w
ran away with all speed. A man named Daniel Flames
aged 24 years, living in Gillham.street, Backend, vs
buried in the ruins. Men were at once set to work to nu
eats the unfortunate sufferer, who was conveyed ins'"
of insensibility to Gay's Hospital. He remains in s prsw
rious state.
We hear that the former ministers of Reis
London and Paris, Baron Brunow and M. de Kinsied,l7
about to receive a new mission. The former, it is said,''
be the accredited representative of Russia at Hesse Dec
etadt and to the Frankfort Diet ; M. Kindel'. will 13°'
Rome and Florence, replacing M. de Boutenieff, "FLO
turns to Russia u a Member of the Council of the WO
Even the orthodoxy of King Bombs fails to sal!!
Pope Pius. A writer in the Univers—referring to the tech..
of a mission from the Papal Government to the Carlo
Naples respecting the political supremacy of scriesitiarr
▪ "If the King of Naples respects the church rsdir"
the august person of its supreme ruler, his government
o:
lot appear to have more correct ideas than His llois
lupe,' the rights and duties of the spiritual authoritit.s.
will he permit himself to raise pretensions which's
once inconsistent and dangerous."
Some journals have spoken of the resPPeir°ll.4o
of the cholera in various parts of Europe. The ;i
France, nor norsalos we
that e
hear
nothing
At St. Petersburg it appears to be settled down iv r
imanenes.
Le Nord, the new Russian journal at Brussels.
12 The Belgian Government have decided to MO
The composer, Meyerbeer, was received la '
Ingham False, last week. esofsetshien tkei:dUnhilstedlntSn'L