The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-30 00:00:00

Mt Court.

OSBORNE, JULY 28.
The Queen and Prince drove out yesterday.
The Prince of Wales rods on horseback.
JOLT 29.

The Queen and Prince embarked in the royal yacht
Fairy yesterday afternoon, and cruised towards S;ithead.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal,
and Princess Helena, walked and drove in the grounds.
Prince Edward of Sane Weimar arrived on a visit to her
Majesty.

Princess Alice is free from fever, and in all respects is
going on favourably.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon,
at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir
William Molesworth, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon.
R. Vernon Smith, Viscount Canning, and the Earl
of Harrowby. The Council sat two hours.

The Right Hon. the Speaker, preparatory to the
prorogation of parliament, shin his customary banquet to
Lord Charles Russell and the chief officers of the House of
Commons, on Wednesday next, at his temporary official resi-
dence, in Eaton•equare.

The Earl of Clarendon returns to town to-day
from visiting, with the Counter., Mr. G. G. Vernon Har-
court, M.Y., and the Countess Frances Waldegrave, at
Nanehass, agar Oxford.

The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cranworth left
town on Saturday, for their seat, near Bromley, Kent,
where the noble and 1 d lord received a select party
yesterday.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained
the Sadinisnldinister, the Count and Countess Flahault
land the lion. Was Elphinstons Flahault, the E.ti sad
Countess of Shaftesbury, the Countess of Tankerville,

Viscount Castleroese, Lord and Lady Ashburton, Lord
Elcho, the Right Ron. C. P. Villiers, Mr. and Lady Char-
lotte Denison, Lord Dufferin, Mr. Norman Macdonald, and
• distinguished circle to diluter on Batu:day, at their man-
sion on the Terrace, Piccadilly. At • later period of the
I evening her ladyship received • very brilliant party of the
memben of the aristocracy.

Sir B. Hell has used the following :—" To the
electors of Marylebone.—Gentlemen,-1 return you my
heartfelt thanks for having electul me for the sixth ti,rq to
represent you in parliament. The entire abrence of oppo-
sition, ant tho kind expression of feeling which bas been
manifested towards me in all parts of your borough, are not
only most gratifying, but the greatest reward 1 could desire
after having represented you for more than eighteen years.—
I remain, gentlemen, your obliged and faithful nt, B.
HALL.-9, Great Stanhope-street, July 28,1845."

On Saturday Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall had
the honour of receiving the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Duchess of Mecklcnburgh•Strolits, and the Prince Adolplins
of Micklenburg, at their mansion in Grant Stanhope str,ct,
Mayfair. There were also present to meet their Royal
Highnesses the Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, the lilja4 of
Coorg, his Excellency the Austrian Minister, Viscountess
Palmerston, dte. As soon as the visitors had Liken their
teats in the palms, a selection of old Wchk airs was per.
Mimed by two eminent Welsh harpers, Gruffydd and
Wateya, with ancient Welsh songs by three young Welsh
peasant girls in full costume.
Lord John Rumen and family are expected to
arrive at Edinburgh to-morrow.

Another change in the command in the Crimea has,
we (Scotsman) hear on good authority, become inevitable.
°moral Simpson's state of health is such that he feels hint•
self naeqval for his duties, and Vie facts are so irresistible
that already he holds the command only till a successor can

be fussed. Lord Harding' has gallantly offered to uo out,
bet he has been famed on the ground that there is no call
for such a sacrifice after his great services, and doubtless
ale* because his vigour, which had previously sunk some-
what under the weight of years, may be supposed to have
been still further impaired by the extreme anxieties and
labours of the last few mouths.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1855.