The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

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- OSBORNE, FIB. 17.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
drove out yesterday.
The Hon. Mrs. Bruce and Major-General Seymour at-
tended her Majesty.
Princess Helena rode on horseback, attended by the Hon.
Emma Lucelles.

Captain Sir Leopold ACClintock, commariding her
hfajesty's ship Aurora, ix Cowes Roads, had the honour of
being received by the Queen yesterday.
RT. LEONARDS, FRB. 16.
The Prince of Wales hunted yesterday with the East
Sussex fox hounds.
The Princess of Wales drove to the meet.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treastuj,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Lord Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Gee',
Earl Russell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood,
the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers.

A meeting of the Govereovs of WetUnites' College was
held in the Fine Arts Commission Room at the Pekoe of
Westminster, yesterday. Present—The Duke of Cambridge,
K.G., the Right Hoe. the Earl of Derby, K.G. (president),
the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., the Lord Bishop of Oxford,
Lord Chelmsford, the Right Hoe. J. H. Walpole, M.P.,
the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., Sir Alexander Woodford,
G.C. 8., Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. Henry R. Cox, the
Rev. G. R. Craig, M.A., the Rev. W. E. Benson, B.D.
(heed masteri, Colonel the Hon. W. P. Talbot (honorary
secretary), and Mr. Chance (secretary).
The judicial committee of the Privy Council set ymter
day. Their lordships pee Judgment in the appeal from
New South Wales," Robertson v. Dumaresque," silrming
the decision of thew:art below, with oasts.
An appeal from Bombay, " Veaayek Arnundrow v.
Luxumaball," was heard, and dismissed with costa

A petition, " Re John Marshall Young," setting forth
claim for compensation, Iraq brought under their lordships'
notice ; bat, owing to some difficulty as to the form of pro-
cedure, it was ordered to stand over for the present.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left tows yesterday for
Osborne.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge en-
tertUaed a select circle at dinner Lut evening at Glausaaw
Home.

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington received a
select circle at diem at Apelsy House last evening.
The Marquis of Bristol and the Lidiee Hervey
do not leave Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Edmunds, for
town for the SOY= until after the Raster holidays.
The Countess of Elgin and children are staying
at 48, Chester-aquare, during their sojourn in tows.
The Count and Countess Gleichen (their Serene
Highnesses Prince and Primer Victor of Hobanlobe) will
remove from their present residence in Sc. James's Palace
for Lady Augusta Stanley's apartments, formerly occupied
by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
The Countess of Ellesmere is expected home
from the south of Frame about the woad weak in April.
The Earl and Countess of Roden have airived
in town from their twat in 'rebind.

The Earl and Countess de Grey had a dinner
party last evening at their residence in Carlton•gardens.
Among the goesta were his Excellency the Danish Minister,
the Earl and Countess of Cork, Lord and Lady Stanley of
Alderiery, the Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood,
Lord and Lady Alfred Hervey, the Right lion. Edward
Cardwell, M.P., and Mrs. Cardwell, Mr. Oliphant, C. 8., fie.
Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Chichester
Fortsecne, ILP., g►ve a grand entertainment to his Royal
Highness the Duke d'Aumale last evening, at their real-
deeee, in Carltonirardens. The following were invited to
meet his royal highness :—His Excellency the Austrian
Ambassador cad the Comae« Apponyi, his Excellency the
Belgian Minister and Madame VllO de Weyer, his Excellency
the Spanish Ambassador and Madame Cornya, the Duchess
of Sutherland, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Lord
Checoellor, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl of Abing.
don, Viscount Torrington, the Right Hon. the Speaker and
Lady Charlotte Denims, the Hoe. Henry and Mrs. Brand,
Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. Stirling, Sr.c. Later in the evening
her ladyship gave her first assembly this season.
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The Duchess of Somerset gave a dancing party
Lot ease* at the official residence of the I,,nit Lord, is
the Admiralty, which was numerously attended.
DIATB or LADY KRATINO.—We regret to an-
nounce the death of Lady Keating, the wife of Sir Henry
Singer Keating, one of the lustier of the Court of Commit
Pleas. Her ladyship was the daughter of the late Major.
General Evans, of the Royal Artillery.
THs LATR Ma. Moss.—By the death of Mr.
William Kure the port of cosset at New Orients is left at
the disposal of her Majesty's government. No man Gould
brave the climate of New Orissa. for so many yams without
serious injury to his constitution, and Hr. Yuri mine to
Washington in 1962, on bin way to &egad. in deplorable
health, which was Aggravated by the hardships ofa jeering
in waiter from New Orleans through a country ravaged by
hostile armies, aid destitute of ordinary coeveyasese and
facilities for teavelliag. He name to Ragland in the hope of
recovering his strength, but Bever altogether rallied, and
expired on the 14th in London from the effects of debility
sod disease.

MR. SPURGEON ox POLAND.—On Tuesday the
Metropolitan Tabernacle, by fez the largest edifice in Loa-
doe. was quite filled with as audieeeemnsinbled to bear the
Rev. C. H. Spurgeon lecture es Poked. Mr. &domed
Beale., the president of the Polish League, presided on the
occasion. Mr. Spurgeon's lecture wee one of great interest
and eloquence, and the vast aaditory frequently testified
their sympathy with hie densrocistieos of the wroep of
Poland by enthusiastic cheers. The deinoestratioe wee the
more remarkable as every one paid for admisidoe, the pro•
needs being geoerously devoted to the funds of the Bead of
Hops Union.