The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-24 00:00:00

PIE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1845.

the same footing. When the reopen asp far.
crashed that the remaining Arabia ITS dinitiMed,
the remaining cities occupied, sod lime whiall
resist are shot or hung as rebels, the /forth rtfay
claim from other nations acknowledgment that
the state of war has wend. That time we hope
and think is very near but till it camas we cannot
help following Federal example, and recognising
the Confederates as still belligerents.

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---..-- OSBORNE. APRIL 21

Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell and
Dr. Bernhardt, arrived from London at half•psat 2 o'clock
yesterday.
The Qassa and Rogal Family wars oat in the grounds
yesterday morning and afternoon.

Arse. 23.

The Queen, Nino* Alfred, Pawnee Helena, Pitmen
Louise, end Prinos Leopold, and *a LAN and Gentlemen
in waiting, attended divine omen this morning at Osborne.
Th. Rev. G. Protium, performed the service.
The Primes Beatrice attended the service at Whipping.
ban Church. -

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were—
the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Rumen, the Right
Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, Sir
Charles Wood the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Earl of
Clarendon, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

Deepatchas were remised oa Saturday at the Colonial.
office from the Governess of the Cape of Good Bops, Natal,
St. Below sad Malta. Despatches were east to the
Gomm. of Canada. . . .

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The Right Hon. Hr Germs Grey arrived in town on
Saturday monies from Falleden.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPTRA.—Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Cambridge and her Royal Higher' the
Princess Mary honoured the performaacee at the Royal
Italian Opera with their presence cm Saturday °redo&
oconpyieg the Queen's box. The royal suite included Lady
Coolies Cost, Viscount and Vlecountem Ridley, Lord
William nutlet, Coload Stereos, and Dr. Quin. Os Thurs-
day last his Royal Highness Paso Alfred honoured the
opera with his promos. His royal highs's was attended
by Major Cowell, Lieutenant Haigh, Dr. Bernhardt, sad
Captain Tattoo.
The Duke of Cambridge will accompany the
Prime of Wales in hie trip to Dublin to eon the Inter-
motional Exhibition. It is arranged that • grand review
will take place during the stay of the royal visitors.
The Duke of Rutland has arrived in town from
Balm* Cast* Leicestershire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and
Lady Victoria Cecil are expected to arrive at the family
rodeo* in Grcerteorequare early in the ensuing week
from Burghley Howie, near Stamford.
The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P.,
sad Lady Emily Peal returned to their mansion is White.
ball-gardens co Saturday, from pain the recess at
Germs.
A Paris correspondent says that at the ball at
the English Embassy last week Lady Cowley wore • yellow
dress embroidered with pearls, and • coiffure of col/wheal
and diamond wheat-ears. "Lady Fodor& wore • train of
pisk tolls over • white bouiPonatte dress. Princess Anna
Must looked very well in tee lied pink room Duchies
Timber de la Paget ie was remarkable for the unique style
of her costume, which wee spotted with silver, and from her
shoulders trailed long passes and ivies. The fair daughters of
the Doke de Baran were evidently the favourites of
the evening, and in great request for dancing; their
dresses were looped with large white mass roses. The
bells of the evening among the French, however, was the
Primo'. de Saigon. But fairest among the fair, the type of
aristocratic beauty and English distinction, was without
doubt Viscounts= Royston ; on her arm sparkled the
Empress's splendid marriage gift ; a wreath of forget-ow
not and diamonds encircled her head ; her dress was pale.
blue satin and lace. Every nation of the globe appeared to
be repro anted in our ambassador's salons, yotteg Persian
attachis actually dancing with fair beauties of the West,
Turkish officers waltzing, and very well, too ; groups of
Egyptians—in plain clothes of course—and Europeans from
every court in Europe."
The private view of the Royal Academy Exhi-
bition takes place on Friday next, the banquet on Saturday.
The bangers, Messrs. F. M. Ward, Millais, and E. 0. Cooke,
have flubbed their work more expeditiously than any of
their predecessors for years.
The sale of the gallery of ancient and modern
paintings, the collection of the late Duke de Monty, is to
take place at the palace occupied by the President of the
Corps Wiled( on Wednesday, May 31, Thursday, June 1,
Friday, June 2, sad Saturday, June 3. The sale of • large
collection of articles of art and curiosity, porcelain, bronze*,
emeralds, rock crystal, aocisot snuffboxes of the period of
Louis XV. and XVL , vases of porphyry, and marble
statues, is to follow immediately ate: the sale of the
The The first performance of L'Africaine had been

fixed for the lit of May, but the Emperor has commanded
its performance next Wednesday evening.
The conservatives of North Essex held a meeting
at Colchester. on Saturday, which was addressed by Major
Beredord and Mr. Duran., the sitting members, who offer
themselves for re-election. Mr. Coley, the chairman, con-
gratulated the meeting on the disappearance of the little
difficulties and misunderstandings that formerly beset their
path, and that they were now all oordislly united in main-
Minim their position in the representation in spite of the
exertions of the whip. A meeting of the party in South
Ewer was also held at Chelmsford, on Friday, when it was
Dined to present a requisition to Mr. H. J. Selwyn and
Mr. 0. E. Coops, to bemoans candidates for the division
io place of Mr. Bramaton and Mr. Perry Watlingtoa, who
both retire.
According to the Cork Reporter there are about
700ernigrants scattered through the lodging-houses of Queens-
town, awititing steamers to convey them to America.
Formerly a large proportion of the emigrants were families
and women with children going out to their husbands ; but
this clam appears to be exhausted, and the emigrants now
are chiefly young men sad woman, or more correctly, boys
and girls.
A new railway between Chichester and Midhurst,
to be eventually extended to Hasleiners, and which promises
to be of great local value, was begun to be constructed on
Saturday oa a spot shoat two miles from Sl.dhurst, and
Lord Henry Lennox, M.P. for Chichester, attended, and
was assigned the honour of cutting the Bast sod.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIRTY.—The weekly
•how and promenade at the Royal Horticultural Society's
gardens, South Kensington, were unusually well attended on
Saturday. The day was lovely, and Means. Henderson's
show of tulips was such as cannot he seen every day.
Indeed those who have not seen it should take an early
opportunity of so doing, as it cannot be expected to last
much longer. The whole corner at the south-eastern end
of the prima is filled by Messrs. Henderson with them
Bowers, sad presents an extraordinarily gorgeous appearance.
The band of the 2nd Life Guards performed daring the
afternoon. Amongst the visitors we observed Lord and
Lady Dower, Lord Allan Churchill, Lord and Lady Boston,
Earl of Orkney, Countess of Harrington. Dowager
Viscountess Ashbrook, Viscountess Strangford, Lady Soma
Milbank, Lady Isabella Schuster, Sir Wentworth Bilks,
Dirt., Sir C. F. Banbury, Bart., Admiral Ryder Burton, Sir
Stewart and Lady Dooaldeco, Sir W. Brace, Sir R. Brown-
rigg, Baron and Harman Hanabro, Mr. and Mrs. Howarth,
Mr. Brandreth (Abbe, Captain Pierce, Mrs. Netherton
Langford, Re.