The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-13 00:00:00

Cbt Court.

OSBORNE. Nov. 12.
Her Majesty drove out yesterday, attended by
the Countess of Gainsborough.
Field Marshal the Duke of Cambridge arrived yester-
day evening on a viait, and returoed to London to-day.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey,
Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C.
Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right
Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers.

A deputation of gentlemen intareatad in telegraphic com-
munications between Great Britain and America bad an
interview yesterday with Lord Palmerstou. The deputation
consisted of Sir J. D. Hay, Bart., M.P., Rear-Admiral G.
Elliot, the Hon. W. Napier, W. Vivian, Esq., W. 11.
Smith, Esq., Captain Rowett, and Mr. Francis Edwards,
solicitor.

Maria Marchioness of Aileebury has returned to
town from a tour of visite.
Field-Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Corn-
homers have arrived at Wolverton Villa, Clifton, from
Ounbermere Abbey.
Viscount and Viscountess St. Vincent and Major
sad Ma. Warrender have left Brown's Hotel.
Lord and Lady Chesham have left Grosvenor-
square for Brighton.
Sir Andrew Buchanan and Hon. Lady G.
Buchanan have left Fenton 's Hotel for the Hague.
The marriage of the Earl of Longford with the
Hoe. Selina. Rice Trevor, third daughter of Lord and Lady
Dynevor, was solemnised yesterday at All Saints' Chinch,
Knightsbridge, in the presence of • numerous circle of
friends and relatives of the two families.
The marriage was celebrated yesterday, at St.
George's, Hanover square, of Mr. Melvill to the Hon.
Elizabeth Lister, sister to Lord Ribblesdale. The bride and
bridegroom arrived at the church about half-past 11 o'clock,
where they were met by • large circle of friends, and
above 100 children belonging to the Sailors' Orphan Home,
of which the 800. Miss Lister is at the head, dressed in
blue and white, with silver badges. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Edward Hartopp, principal of Erase-
nose College, Oxford.
In a letter to the Morning Post Bishop Colons°
replies to • review of his work on the Pentateuch, which
has appeared in the columns of our contemporary. He
concludes with saying :—" Although the reasons which I
have already given for denying the historical truth and
Modes authorship of the Pentateuch, are. as it seems to me,
amply sufficient ; yet it will be seen, when the second part
of my work is published, that there are other reasons as
strong as these, though of • different kind, which compel us,
as I believe, to the same conclusion."
There is a requisition in course of signature,
calling upon the Mayor of Cork to convene • meeting for
the purpose of relieving the Lancashire distress. The
Cork I?xamixer says :—" We are glad of inch a step being
taken, for it would be an eternal reproach, and a just re-
proach to us, if we, who were sedated in our distress by
the people of England, forgot them in the hour of need.
But the fact is there are in all the manufacturing towns of
England, those of Lancashire in particular, large numbers
of Irish. In some of those towns the number of Irish
workpeople is as great es that of the English. And thus,
not only are we bound to exhibit gratitude to the English
people who generously came to the relief of Ireland in the
hour of her appalling misery, but we should think of our
own—those of our race and country—who have been com-
palled by the pressure of poverty at home to seek a dwelliog-
I ohm in another land. This, happily, is purely • question of
charity and humanity, in which all can meet on common
ground ; and we anticipate, from the names which are
being attached to the requisition, that the meeting, when
it will assemble, will represent the city thoroughly."
A case of hardship is reported from Rochdale.
Twenty-five of the operatives there were summoned for non-
payment of poorrate, and the magistrates, who said they
could do nothing in the way of excuse without the consent of
the guardians, issued distress lemmata against all who had
not paid the rate. One man, • sample of the lot, said
he had a family of six, that he was working for 2a. lod. •
week, that he got from the guardians +W. • week, and •
little meat sod bread front the soup kitchen. This was all
he had.