The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-27 00:00:00

Irtpr Court.

The Queen and Prince Albert ♦isited the PAIN.
Lion of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours is
Pall mall yesterday morning. Her Majesty and his R 074
Highness were accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the
Prinema Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, this
Princess of Hohenloho-Langenbare, the Princesses edelaSis
and Peodore o 1 Holienlohe, and the Prices of Leiningsa,
The royal suite consisted of the Hon. Caroline Cavendish,
Lord Charles Fitsroy, and Colonel Seymour.

Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and lain
took a drivorin an open carriage and four

Prince Altort, attended be his Equerry in Waiting, woks
to the Zrological Society tit Hanover-square in the eta.
goon.

Her Majesty aad Primes Albert, with the Princess Al*
the Princess of filobenlohe•Langenburg, and the Prince. •
Adelaide of Hohenlohe, honoured the Haymarket Themre
with their presence in the evening. The Queen and Prince
were attended by the Counteu of Desert, the Hon, Blum •
Stanley, the H•in. Beatrice Byog, Lord Da Tabley,f.d
Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel Seymour.

The Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Hon. Beatrice 874
have succeeded the Hon. Misses Cavendish and Mtiedocald
as the maids of honour in waiting to her Majesty.
The Dnchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess of
Hohenlohe-Lanstriburg, went to Claremont yesterday, sad
visited the Countess de Meanly.

A deputation from the City &wen Commission had an
interview yesterday with the President of the General '
Board of Heeltb, at his office, Whitehall, with reference to
the Metropolis Local Menagemee t Bill. The deputation
consisted of Mr. Deputy Peacock (chairman), Me, White.
side, Mr. Webster, Mr. Boss, with the Remembrencer, the
clerk (Mr. Daw), and their engineer (Mr. Heywood). -•
The Catnedral Commission met at No. 1, New-street, •
Bpriog•gardens, on Wednesday. The commissioners pre.
sent were:—The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop
of York, the Marquis of Blandford, M.P., the Berl et
Harrowby, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Word,
the Hon. end Rev. H. NI Villiers, Sir Jso. Dodson, Sir Jo,
P►tteson, Sir W. Page Wood, Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, BAT.
Dr. Hook, Rev. Canon Selwyn, and Mr. Henry Kitimat'
(Secretary).

Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yseterdap -
from the Governor of Vancouver's Island.

NEW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER
COLOVILS —Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
the Prince Cinsort, their Royal Highnessel t►e Prince of
Wales, Prince Alfred, Princess Royal, Princes. Alice, •
Princess Hoheolohe of Lsegenbourg, and Prince Wiliam,
attended by the Hon. Mies Cavevolish, Lord Charlie Fitz-
roy, Colonel Seymour, and Mr. Gibbs, honouree this exhi-
bition (53, Pall-mall) with a visit yesterday morning. Her
Majesty and his Royal Htgioese experienced much wide*.
lion at the variety end beauty of the collection. The royal
party were received by the vine-president (Mr. Might), the
secretary (Mr. Fahey), and Mr. Corbould.

The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Priam
of Hohoulotte Langtaburg, went to Claremont yesterday,
and visited the Countess de Neuilly.
_ _

The Countess de Colleredo has issued cards for la
useably at Chandos•house on the 2d of May, the evening of
her Itlejfaty'e neat drawing-room.

... -
Sir Benjamin Hall entertained a select party at
dinner on Wedneeder, emss sting of the Austrian M sister,
the Prussian Minister, the Duke of Clevelsed, the Marquis
of Blandfurd, the Earl of Powis, Lord Robert Grosvenor,
Viscount Falkaud, S:r Robert Peel, Sir E. Bulger LOP',
Hon. James Howard, Mr. He•bert, of Llacarth, Mr. Ps-
Maxi, Mr. T. Taylor, and Mr. Arthur Berrington.

At St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, yesterday, the Hon.
Charles Spring Rice, second 11311 of Lord Nome's's, was
married to Rdzabeth Margaret, eldest daughter of William
Marshall, Rig., M P.

The correspondent of the Indpendance Beige at
Vienna speaks of the departure from that city of Lord Jolts
Russell and his little court. adding :—" I say little court,
for his lordship's suite was sufficiently numerous and bril-
liant to jus ify that name. He was accompanied by all hle
family, eemp :sed of Lady Russell and six children; and
there were, besides, the Uoder•Secretary of State, Kr.
Hammond, Maw. Lister, Elliott, and Byng; his doctor,
the tutor and the go►ernesses of hie children, and um do-
mestics, who occupied altogether thirtytwo rooms in the
Hotel Munech, where it is known how to unite French els.
genes with English comfort. Add to these the frequent
comings to and fro of couriers, and the numerous visits
his lordship has received at all hours of the day from the
timer of his countrymen, and you will believe me without
difficulty when 1 tell you that the Hotel klunsch seemed to
be transformed into a little English colony."

The Journal de St. Peterabourg continues to be
printed with the thick bla,k border assumed on the day
after the death of the Emperor Nicholas.

The Countess Ztkrevsky, wife of the military
Governor General of MCWCOW, has transmitted to the go-
vernment of the Cur 51,400 silver roubles, received by her
and other ladies from various inhabitants of Moscow, for
the assistance of the Maxillas of those killed or wounded in
the war.

M. Delrmo was on Wednesday re-elected Pre&
dent of the Belgian Chamber, but as he peniated in his re-
fusal to act, a second election took place, and M. Debility.,
the Ministerial candidate, was chosen.

On Wednesday, steam-boats will commence ran•
slog three times a week, in connection with the Eagan
Counties Railway, from Antwerp to Harwich.

It is supposed that in the absence of the Emperor
of the French at the Crimes, Prince Jerome will preside
over t►e Council of Ministers.

The Chelmsford Chronicle ■tatee that a deputation
from the Royal Agricultural Society inspected yesterday
the sites, in that town, proposed to be *coupled at the nest
annual meeting of the society, and that they expressed
themselves as much gratified, observing that the meeting
there might, with good management, be made the btst the
society has ever had.
One of the toasts given at the late dinner at tha

Manaion-house to the Prefect of the Seine, was " The Lord
Prevost of Glasgow and the mayors of other cities present."
The worthy Provost thought that all had passed, end that
another tout was coming, when (says the Glasgow Doily
Mimi) he was rather surprised to hear—preceded by the
sound of a trumpet to cunmand attention—" Profound
silence for the Lord Provost of Glasgow," given out in a
most stentorian voice by the toast muter. With consider•
able trepidation at first, no doubt, the Lord Provost Winos,•
lodged the campliment.

When Mr. Berkeley's motion for the ballot is
made (on the 22nd). Major Reed intends to mere as an
amends-at, that the proposed bill be a permissive one,
granting the use of the ballot to constituencies where a
majority of the electon petition for it ; at the same time
log for them the privilege of returning to the present
mode of open voting in the event of their not beieg satisfied
with the ballot.

The hotel of the late Mr. Hope in the Rue St.
Dominique, Paris, is announced for sal. at the upset prise
of 2,600,000 fr.

The Sent Public of Lyons gives the following
most str►nge story A few days ago a certain number
of Englishmen established in this city gave a splendid
banquet to a countrymen of theirs, a Mr. Arthur Fleming,
a rich merchant of London, then at Lyons, and who had
just completed a residence of eleven mouths in the prison of
Frankfort, in which he had been placed under the follow-
ing circumstances:—About a twelvemonth Ego, Mr. Fleming
stopped for two days at one of the principal hotels at
Frankfort-ea•the-Maine, and on the third day, who
about to leave, called for his bill, which, to his astonish-
menh amounted to about 260 francs. Indignant at this
demand, which he considered exorbitant, be tendered
one half of it, bat the landlord persisted in hid
demand, and threatened to send his customer to prim,
the law of the place allowed him to do. The Englishmen,
however, was obstinate, and suffered himself to be united
and locked up. Although the laws of Frankfort give this
power to creditors, they at the same time impose on then
the necessity of supporting their debtors while in prison, and
also to furnish them with clothes and other articles suit-
able to their position in lite. This the hotel•keeper was coin-
' polled to do in Mr. Fleming's case, and so little cue did
'the Englishman take of the articles supplied to him, that
the former at last found himself minus a sum of neatly
20,000 f., and thinking that amount quite enough to expend
for hie obstinacy, he ordered the release of his captive. Mr.
Fleming, not wishing to triumph over his creditor, imme-
diately on his release gave a sum to the poor of Frankfort
amounting to double that expended by the hotel•keeper."
CRYSTAL PALACE—SHILLING DAT.—APEIL
—Admissions on payment, 3,630•; ditto by season tickets,
11,639.

THE WAR.

telsgraphie mange from the Criss*, of date as
at as Wednesday, reached the Admiralty jester-
s bet, to a late boar this morning, the govern-
t, sow in sole possession of the quickest mesas
ommenicatios, appears to have had nothing is.
ant to announce. An opinion Is gaining ground
the assault will not take place before the disem-
Intim of the Sardinian troops in the Crimea.

THE CONFERENCES.

ord John Russell left Vienna on Monday, and
Duey. de Lhuys probably left last evening. The
rd of the recent Congress has been gassed, =4
trthelees, the Austrian government anseeneei es
ineeday, through its accustomed organ, the
respondence, that " the conferences are not tar.
surd, but will continue without interruption," sad
"the language of the English and French *Ale
utilizies is Of a nature to second the work of
De." The leading part in the work which
d Westmoreland is said to be seconding is, of
fee, taken by Austria. The Independence of Brno-
states that Austria is at this moment seeking,
Arend dia., to find a middle term between the
rated proposition of the allies and the aloe rejected
oter-proposition of the Russian plenipeesstiaries.
d Palmerstoe's statement that Russia aid. me
oter-proposition related—says the Zosispeorieses
imply to the proceedings at the twelfth and lea
krona, when Prince Gortchakoff and M.l)
ing reported the rejection of the French and
rliah demand*, found that the whole circuit of
Ossetic expedient* had been travelled.
be Coeseifediunel agrees with the Independence
/sting that the

of the Marian
dpotentiariee, or rather an intimation of that
eh they were prepared to accept, was made at the
th sitting of the Congress, and that it turned on
plan of opening the Straits by the abolition of
stipulations of the treaty of 1841, and declaring
t vessels of all nations may freely proceedfrem
Mediterranean to the Black Bea and nee wee,
bout previously obtaining the authorisation of the
ran.

rhe point is not worth punning except u it may
it an understanding of the present action of the
Iran Cabinet. Of tte deliberations in which Ass-
t was to join France and England in order to suer-
how beet to give practical effect to the alliance of
°ember 2nd, we bear nothing; but remembering
t the obligation ao to deliberate and act was to'
he in force upon the failure of negotiations, one may
ily understand the object of the Vienna Cabinet
calling the unmeaning interviews of diplomatists
the name of conferences, and declaring that the
rotiations continue.