The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-11 00:00:00

bt court.

OSBORNE, Jutx 10.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,
walked and drove yesterday afternoon.

Hr. Hoary Weigall had the honour of receiving on Than.
day the last sitting from the Prince and Princes' of Wales,
for the purpose of taking their royal bighneeass' portraits.
Governor Freeman, of Lagos, had an interview with the
Duke of Newcsatle yesterday, at the ColoniaLoffice.
Despatches were received yesterday at the ColoniaLoffice
from the Governors of the Mauritius, Malta, sod Gibraltar.
Despatches ware sent to she Governors of Ceylon, Hong
Kong, Labuao, and to the Lord High Commimioner of the
lonian Islands.

His Royal Highness Prince George of Saxony
iv expected to arrive in town early next week from Saxony.

The Marchioness of Ailesbury gave a dance last
eight, at her residence in Pall •mall. The party was very
select, less than a hundred members of the aristocracy hav-
ing received invitations. It was nevertheless a spirited
affair, and dancing was kept up until a late hour.

Lord and Lady Alfred Paget entertained at
dinner, lut evening, Lord and Lady Rendleakam, Lord
Henry Gordon Lennox, Sir Alex. and Lady Arabella Ban-
nerman, Mr. and Mn. Hay Wemym, Mr. and Lady Amelia
Blackwood, Ste.

The Esa'l and Countess of Cardigan entertained
at dinner yesterday evening the Countess of Gleugoll,
the Earl and Countess of Stradbroke, Lord Ear Wort, Lord
Loughborough, Lord and Lady E. Bruce, Mr. sod Mrs.
Baring, and Colonel Douglas; end on Wednesday last,
Mr. and Lady Emily Kinpoote, Colonel and the Hon. Mrs.
Curzon, Hon. Mrs. Bons, the Hon. George Fitzwillisur,
Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Mr. Talbot, Mr. Fleming, end
Mr. Thynne.

The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury leave
town to-day on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Pal-
merston at Bracket Hall

Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton entertained
the following at dinner last evening :—Baron Bootjack
(the Minister for the Netherlands), the Earl and Countess
of Airlie, Lord and Lady Manners, the Hon. Mrs. Rid] -
leigh, the Hon. Captain Grosvenor, the Hon. Colonel
Bourke, Colonel and Miss Wilson Patten, Sir Alexander
and Lady Malet, and Mr. and Dirs. Weldon.

The marriage of Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox
with Mims Townley will take place about the first week in
August.

We (Post) are requested to state that no founda-
tion exists for the announcement of the intended ins:rime
of Do. aiollllllli Doris to the Bon. Miss Noel, daughter of
Viscount and Viscone46llCamPdto• _

The colonelcy of the 'iLat Light Infantry is ren-
dered vacant by the death of General Sir Thomas Erskine
Napier, K.C. B. It u not unlikely that it will be filled by
the transfer from another corps of an officer anxious to be
identified with a regiment of such high reputation as the
71st, the colonelcy thus vacated falling to Major-General
TrydelL —Army and Nary Gaulle.
_ _

The Atheneum says of the late Mr. Mulready :
"He wan a humouriut, without a shade of malice ; his
laugh had nothing sardonic. As thorough a lover of domestic
life as Wilkie, he added ►o that feeling, in colour, tone,
and drawing, an art-power which was • thousand year, in
advance of the Scotch artist. In expression no genre painter
surpassed litdready ; nothing could be more genial or cha-
racteristic than his works. He added love for homely beauty
to these excellencies, as in ' The Wedding Gown,' which is
inestimable. In some respects one might call bim, so
highly should the last-named quality be prized, the Raphael
of genre painters. Personally, no man was more esteemed
—indeed, reverenced—by the young artists who had grown
up about him, none more affectionately regarded by his
brother pesintets. His manliness, simplicity, and kindly
heart, drew people's regard without consideration of prof es-
@load honours. Always strong in body, Mulready was,
while age permitted, devoted to manly sports : a boxer, a
Brat walker, swimmer, and cricketer."