The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-24 00:00:00

rb Court.

OSBORNE, 3A.V. 23.
The Prince of Wales, attended byMajor-General
the Hoe. R. Bruce nod Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, west to
Buckingham Palace yesterday.
The Prince will return to Osborne thin afternoon.

The Duke of Cambridge visited the Prince of Wales yes-
terday morning at Buckingham Palace.
A deputation of the Beer and Wine Trade Areociation,
Metropolitan and Proviecial, introduced by Mr. Schoislield,
bad an interview with Secretary We George Grey
yesterday, at the Home-office. The deputation eorinted
of Mr. Ashmore, obalruwa of the Metropolitan Bear and
Wine Trade Society ; Mr. Curtis, Mr. Cobley, Mr. Meson,
Mr. Emmett, Mr. Hasa& Mr. Cans, Mr. Doan, secretary ;
Mr. Hay, chairman of the Loudon (Joffe' and Eatiegboweir
hempen' Arociation ; and Mr. Rooks, of the London Coffee
and lattagbousekeepers' Association.

Eteepatchea were riruTolved yesterday et the Colonial-office
hen the Lord High Oornmianicitir of the loutan Islands.
Deepatekee were seat to the 430.11M01M el Canada and of
the SOWNINIAS ea the West Omit et Africa.

Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Lsisingen have arrived at Howchin's Hotel.
The Prince and Princess Koutchakoff have
arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermynetreet, from St.

Possreburr.
The Count and Countess Metavt have issued
arch for dinner parties sad s ban on the 14th awl on the
1101 k of February, at their bones in Cheltenham.
Lord Abereromby has arrived at the Clareudon
Hotel from Scotland. _ _ _

Lord and Lady Rendleaham have left the Cla-
rendon Hotel for Randlasbars Hall.

Although the appointment to the judgeship va-
cated by Les I Wood has sot yet base mad, ace decided
epos, it* we (doetassaa) leers, very Probable that it will

1; timed b Yr. Robert lkahzlamt.

The list of Irish barristers in Thim's Directory
for this year cantina sinetptwy Qaesn's Counsel. Eight d
them sonaht senatorial bosoms ; two were disappointed ;
two succeeded and sitmaqusally lost their mats ; sad fats
are still in parlienisnt—Masers. Whiteside, Ilsadosses,
George. and Batt. It is laid that Mr. Serjant Sallivaa is
about to offer himself for Trailed, in the roots of Mr. Daniel
O'C mach, about to receive a place from goverment.
Notwithstanding the time that has elapsed since

the 0 Idszeith state; was projected et Dublin, and the
frequent appeals made to the public for subscriptions, the
committee still want about Mk

The forthcoming assizes in Cork will throw a
pitiful light no the doleful *audition of the doomed Celtic '
ram showing that the spint of exclusion is still rampant, '
and that even Lord Palmentoe must be animated with
deadly animosity to the Boman catholic people of Ireland.
Tor example, the senior judge, Mr. Justice Keogh, is a
Roman catholic ; the junior judge, Baron Hughes, is a
Roman catholic ; the wanly high sheriff, Mr. J. Huffing,
is a Roman catholic ; the eV., high sheriff, Mr. D. Donegan.
is a Boman catholic ; the two sub-sheriffs, Mr. T. Barry and
Mr. V. Donegan, are Roman catholic.; the mayor, who is
named in the royal oommiasion is Mr. J. F. Magnin, M.P.,
a Boman catholic. Not a single protestant will have any-
thing to do with the administration of justice in Cork. Yet
the pastorals of the Roman catholic prelates are so many
Jeremiads on the cruel partiality of our protestant goyim-
meet, while the columns of the tjltramonause journals con-
tain little but grown and execrations spinet Saxon mite-
rs* and prayers that it may soon be destroyed by some
beige invader.
Mr. George Borrow, author of "The Bible in
Scads," end " Ctipies in Spelt," has three volumes
asarly ready on "Wild Walw, its People, language, and
Sowasry."
Sir Charles Lyell has a work in preparation on
Mks "Oselegkal Evi.letices of the Antiquity of Man."
Mr. Dickens, we (rriti) hear, will shortly oom-

mane the issue of a novel in his old style In Tooothly
shilling parts, with steel engravings, by Mr. Rabid
&ORM.

Lord Lindsay will shortly give to the world, in
two values el Were. as asseent of " The Oriel; Mips-
tiers, and Mien of the Threw, or Ty/Theresa Race of
Assyria Pm* lad* Tens, Asia Maw, Greece, mad Ger-
may; but especially of pawky Norway, sad Nonseady."
Mr. Alexander Smith, the author of " A Life-
Drama," " Edwin of Dein," ke., is a teedidete for the new
Chair of Englieh Litensteire la the Uelvenity of Glasgow.
Messrs. Smith, Elder' and Co. will publish in a
few days • revised sad corrected edition of "The Defence
ef Dr. Rowland Willem," by Jams Fitraimes Stephen,
led d Beltiaria of Neaten -ow Trent, delivered in the
Oran of Anita ea the 21st Deormber. 1861, and 7th sod
elk Jesuitry, 1882 ; with observations on the argument. of
the mewed for the Bishop of dalisbury.
• meeting was held in the Chapter House of the
Merreseter Cathedra', yesterday, for the purpose of dap
osialog the revised crude of education. Mr. Noway, ILP.
for Balked, wee presoak and admitted flat the new raids-
does VIM "open to grwrojeignork." Heaney mid be
weal& mot almost to the ersirmaties of the minakes without
• fall sad ample Notioniss. Many ether speakers, clergy-
mem, spike; and the comelsdra am Mats peilthm to parliw
mei spinet the revised sets was reeolved apes.
At the general meeting of the society for Pro-
moting the Amendment el the Law, ea Monday evening,
the 12th, Dr. Wadditore, reed • paper on the "Conflict
of Belligerent Maritime RIAU," which by the meeting wen
ordered to be printed and simulated.
It is stated that the Manchester requisition for a
meeting to obtain *repeal of the Indian protective duties of
10 per cent. on cotton goods and 5 per amt. on yarns has
been most influentially signed.
Mr. Chambers had not concluded his speech for
the petitioners in the Windham ease yesterday when the
court adjourned. It will meet againNen Monday. Some of
the jurymen have private business of their own to-day,
which cannot be neguoted ; while the Master Intends to
devote to-morrow to the &scheme of other edictal duties.
In ten years 25,000 inhabited houses have been
added to those previously erected in the metropolis, and a
'my large proportion of them are better-claas houses. "If
the reader," says the Building News, " denim to see how
mew of them have been constructed In defiance of sanitary
seise, let him go on a voyage of discovery in the neigh-
bourhood of Nor•ingbill and the Regent's Park. He will
there perceive new houses without beeements, bunt on the
soil, and with damp creeping up the wells from footing* to
rootexhibiting itself is mildew and vegetation. The roads are
ankle-deep in mud when it rains, wimetalled, and with the
vegetable soil left exposed on the surfaee, interspersed with
pooh of stagnant water. Of onus. the drying of the rade
necessitates the evolution of noxious gases, while hut
their way into neighbouring houses. Not Avir4serie •ht
the worst pluses of its existecoe, exhibited cendilleis
more unfavourable to health than do some of *NB IMP
better class of streets. Can it be • matter of Mph%
then, that fever should make them its abode?'
The French Minister of State has decided that ra
annual mho of 50,000 fr. shall be devoted to keep* ep the
castle of Blois, offered to the Prime Imptirial, and weettged
by the Emperor.
The Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany bas just
mot to Florence the sum of 40,000 h. to be employed Ia
finish*, the facet of the church of the Holy Crow.