The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-22 00:00:00

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OSBORNE, Dec. 21.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
walked sod drove yesterday.
Primo' Leiniopn dined with her Majesty in the evening.

The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Kiog of Por-
tugal, left Marlborough-house at one o'clock yesterday fcr
Osborne, on a visit to the Queen.
Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, the Marquis de Ficalho, and
the Vieconot Adolphe de Pain, were in &Readmits.
Mr. F. Seymour, Governer d Minh Columbia, had an
interview with the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell at the
Colonial-office yesterday.
A deputation, consisting of Lord Alfred Churchill, Sir
Thos. Buxton, M.P. ; Mr. P. T►ylor, M.P. ; Mr. C. Gilpin,
M.P. ; Mr. Thee. Hughes, Y.P. ; Mr. C. Buxton, M.P. ;
Mr. T. M. Ludlow, Mr. W. Shams, and Sir Morton Pete,
Bart., !LP., had an interview with the Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell at the Colonial-offioe yesterday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat mid,.
day. Present—Lord Chelmsford, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir
J. Colvile, and Sir Laurent' Peel.

Yesterday afternoon his Majesty the King of
Portugal and big Royal Highness the Prinee of Wales,
attended by the Marquis de Ficalho, Visoomte Adolphe de
Paiva, Lord Hervey, Colonel Koppel, &c., left Marlborough.
house about 1 o'clock en route for Osborne, on a visit to
her Majesty the Queen.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
rams to town from Cambridge Cottage, Kew, yesterday,
and paid visite to the Countess (Dowager) of Jersey, at her
residence in Berkeley-square, and to Lady Emily Walsh.
The Duke and Duchess of Grafton have left town
for Wakefield Lodge, Northamptonshire.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Grafton left her resi.
dente in Groevenoverracant, yesterday, for Wakefield
Lodge, to pus the Christmas with the Duke and Duchess
of Grafton.
The Earl of Warwick has returned to his town
residence from entertaining a large Party of gentlemen for
shooting at Warwick Castle.
The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P., left
town yesterday for his Beet, war Gallstone, to peas the
Christmas.
Yesterday the Japanese ambassadors, after visit-
leg the Bank, Chelsea Hospital, the Duke of York's School,
and other lions of London, made an inspection of the
Metropolitan Railway.
REFOB.3I OF CONVOCATION.—MEETINO OF THE
LONDON Cr.sitcr.—Yesterday afternoon • meeting of the
clergy of the erchdenmery of Loadon, convened in come-
queue° of a requisition presented to the archdeacon, was
held in the great hall of Sioe College, for the purpose of
considering the present state of the representation of the
clergy in convocation. It may be stated, in explanation of
the reason for calling the meeting, that at the late election
of proctors for the metropolitan diocese much dissatisfaction
was expressed with the mode of choosing representatives
for convocatioo, and generally with the constitution of that
body. On the urgent solicitation of the clergy present, the
archdeacon promised that, on the receipt of a requisition
duly signed, be would call • meeting of hie clergy to con-
sider the whole question, and would preside at it. The
meeting of yesterday was the result ; the Archdeacon of
London presided. The meeting having been addressed by
the chairman, the Rev. J. Jackson, vicar of 34 Sepulchre'r
moved the following resolution :—" That in the opinion
of the clergy of this archdeaconry it is desirable to call
general atttention to the state of the represeetatioa and
mode of election of the perochial clergy in the Lower House
of ConvocatMe." This was seconded by the Rev. Michael
Gibbs, M.A., vicar of Christ Church, Nevgate-street, and
spoken to by the Rev. F. S. Lea, incumbent of Holy Trinity
Church, Stepney, and canted with but one direentieet.
The Rev. William Scott, reciter of St. Olive'■ Jewry,
moved that petition, to both houses of convocation be pre.