The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-29 00:00:00

DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FROM

OSBORNE.

(nor on owa counrownirr.)
PORTSMOUTH, Ana 28.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by some
et the semben of the royal family, and &Raided by the
Wits sad gentlemen of the court, left Gabor's. today, and
arrived at the Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport, at 4 o'clock
this afternoon. The royal party proceeded at once, per
special tilde, to Windsor, sad, as on every previous occa-
sion since the death of the Prince Consort, the journey
ass performed in • strictly private manner.
Their Ro) al Highnesses the Princes Arthur and Leopold re-
main at Osborne, sod will, on Wednesday, embark on board
the Vivid, and proceed oo • cruise.
The Rolla, instruction brig, Lieutenant Nelson command-
ing, which has bees in attendance daily a Osborne for the
use of his Royal Highsees Prince Alfred, returned to
Portsmouth harbour this afternoon.

Queen Christina, with the Duke of Rianzares and
saw, leave Paris to day to be present at the opening of the
Intonational Exhikitioa.
Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of
Ifsekkohargh-Straits arrived at Dover last night, by the
John Penn, mail oteam•packet, under the seperintendeooe
of Csptain Smithett. On landing, her royal highness pro•
seeded to Birmingham's Lord Warden Hotel, where she
slept. Her royal highness was met at Dover by Lady
Oarohoe Coat. Her royal highness proceeds this morning
to Loudon.
The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have re-
tercel to Apsley House from Strathfieldsaye, where they
have been passing the holidays.
The Marchioness of Salisbury and family arrived
im Arlington-streets yesterday, from Folkeiteee, for the

season.
The Earl and Countess Somers have left Princes-
gate for Reigate Priory, Sussex.
The lion. Richard Cavendish has issued cards
for a ball on Friday, the 9th of May, at his residence in
Chesbam-place.
The 31archioness of Ely has, in the name of her
sou, the youthful marquis, given instructions that seed
oats, potatoes, and other seeds shall be distributed amongst
those of the tenants on his Fermanagh estate who at this
time would, if Dot assisted, be compelled to let the land be
uncropped, or make ruinous sacriflose to procure seed.
The late Earl Pembroke bad only a few days
prier to his death signed a lease for an apartment of Lord
Hertford's in the hotel which formerly was the Oaf 6 de
Paris, at the corner of the Rue Taithout, and which the
old marchioness occupied at the time of her death. Lord
Pembroke's magnificent furniture, bronzes, paintings, and
I plate are to be sold by auction. His lordship expressed a
wish to be buried at Montmartre, but his English relations
lave, it is said, determined to take his body to England.
We are authorised to state that no appointment
to the vacant mina canonry is Westminster Abbey has yet
been made.
The Daily News of this morning publishes a
supplement, the two inner pages of which are devoted ex.
elusively to a description of the contents of the loternatiooal
Exhibition. The outer pages are occupied by illustrated
ad•ertissmeuts from exhibitor.
On going into committee of supply, on Friday,
Mr. Maguire will ell attention to the fact that several
deaths from starvation have occurred recently in Ireland ;
sad ask whether the government have received oMcial in-
formation of such cases having occurred, if so, whether they
have taken, or are about to take, any steps in consequence ;
also, whether they have any objection to lay upon the
table all the reports, communications, and correspondence
in reference to such cases.
Mr. blsney, on Friday, will ask the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, if be will introduce a
clause in the Highways Bill to enforce the repairs of foot-
piths being highway. WOMB fields and elsewhere near
great towns.
On Tuesday next Captain Joins will move for
a Meet committee to *airs es to the beet means of pre-
servieg Hann& Harbour se a harbour of refuge.
Ou going into committee of supply on the oth of
May, Sir De Lacy Evans will move " That, in the opinion
of this house, oo further postponement ought to take place
is realising the recommendation to her Majesty, contained
in the report of the royal commission laid on the table of
this house by the l'rime Minister in 1837, to the effect that
a change should be made in the mode of appointing to the
command of regiments ; that for this rank purchase should
cease, and that the lieutenant-colonel should be named by
selection upon the responsibility of the Commander-in-
Chief."

Mr. William Ewart proposes to nominate the
select committee ou +IMAM sod measures as follows :
Mr. William Ewart, Mr. Sotheron Estonurt, Mr. Cobden,
Mr. Adderley, Mr. BMus, Colonel Wilson Patten, Mr.
John Benjamin Smith, Mr. Home, Mr. St. Aubyn, Mr.
Hennessy, Colonel Sykes, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Finlay, Mr.
°meal, and Mr. Pollard• Urquhart.
The following clause has been inserted in the
sew Mutiny Act, to meet oases similar to those which
have been ender investigation b► recent courts-
martial :—" Every officer whose character or conduct es
ea officer and gentleman has been publicly impugned shall,
within reasonable time, submit the same to his commanding
officer, or to other competent military authority, for inves-
tigation, on pain of suffering such punishment as a general
court-martial may award." The following additional clause
has also ben inserted in the same act :—" A court-martial
recommending that an offender be discharged with igno-
miny may also recommend that be be marked on the right
breast with the letters ' B. C.' (bad character), and such
recommendation may be legally carried into effect by the
military authorities."
The manufacturers of Lyons have received orders
milkiest to give employment to their hands for seine time
to come. The export of silk manufactured articica has con-
siderably diminished to Spain, Italy, and Germany, which
tiatil lately was niece considerable than usual. On the other
hied, the export to England hes emmiderahly iocreaseL
The Museum of Natural History at Paris has
just lost the crocodile, nine feet in length, which has been
there for six years. The animal required more imam,
water, and mud, asd it was kept °Defined la a box always
closed, °Detaining only three or four inches of liquid, and
Used with sine, a substance which is fatal to cold-blooded
animals. On the body being opened there wen found In
the stomach suns pieces of roots which it most have ewal-
' lowed when living at liberty in the wakes of the Nile,
twenty years ago.