The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-07 00:00:00

The noble duke will return from Inland towards the end
of the month.

The Earl of Crawford and Balcarrea and Lord
sad Lady Lisa's,. have arrived at their residence in
Berkeleyaquare, from Haigh Hall, Lancashwe.
The Earl and Countess of Erroll will shortly
leers town forSlaiDes Castle, Aberdeenshire.

Lord and Lady Ebury have arrived at their resi-
dence to Parloofroot, Groommor-oquare, from Moor Park,

Huh, for the .won.

I.ocly Emily Peel has left Whitehall-gardene for
Omen.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli gave a parliaments]
dinner ou Saturday evening, at his residence, Graven

pie. There were point the Earl of Hardwicke, the
Berl of Carnervon, the Earl of Lansdale, Visoount Holmes.
dale, the Hon. Henry Maxwell, the Hoo. Windsor Clive,
Sir John Dalrymple Hay, Sir Graham Montgomery, Sir.
Frederick Deflate, Colonel Leslie, Colonel Dickson, Mr.
Fellows% Mr. Abel Smith, Mr. Beach, Mr. Smollett, Mr.
Peacocks, and Mr. Malian

Two examin►tions for direct commissions will be
held at Chelsea Hospital is May Berk the ass oommeecing

on the sth and the other on the 12th of that month.

The convent of the Sietere of Mercy, Belfast,
was bat weak sabot by bailiffs, for a debt of 2,0001.

A remarkable correspondence has taken place
between the Earl of Hehome and the honorary secretaries
of the Irish Church Education Society, in which the old
subject of contention is revived, the noble lord taking
the liberal view and falling in with the opinions of an in_
creasing body of the society's supporters. As Earl of
Behnore declares his undiminished interest in scriptural
education, for the extension of which he has done a great
deal upon his own property ; but thinks that an association
seeking aid from the state should not refuse secular educa-
tion to those pupils whose parents decline allowing them
to receive scriptural instruction. His lordship, however,

considars that such a modification of the rules of the

National Board might he made as would permit refer•
once to the Bible during the ordinary hours of 'school in-
struction.

A letter from Turin save :—" The Prince Royal

is to leave at the end of the month for Paris aid
London. He will afterwards visit the two northern
courts —Copenhagen and Stockholm—which showed
great readiness in recognising the kingdom of Italy.
If it be true that the court of Russia, at the instigation of
the French government, will not long delay the recognition

of the mew kingdom, the prince will ire up the Baltk
sad visit St. Petersburg.

A Paris correspondent writes :—" We have ex-
perienced in Paris during the closing week the most lovely
weather imaginable—a sparkling early summer sunlight, •
sky u purely blue u that of Italy, and a slight refreshing
breeze. If one were to chants an atmosphere and tempera-
ture which should be considered perfection it would be that
which we ere now enjoying. The signs of coming summer

are nuunifnld. The lime sod cliesuni trees in the garden of
the Tuileries are already clothed in pale grew), sod the

flower-beds spotted with gay colours." The Atomiser tells
us that the Emperor and Empress' no longer receive oft
Thursday. Benefits have commenced at the Italian Opera ;
the last balls of the season are announced ; and to-morrow

takes place the first steeplechase at la Marche—
"ChM a the sun, refulgent summer oomem !"

M. Octave Feuillet, who him been elected to fill
the chair in the French Academy left assent by M. Scribe,
is celebrated both u a dramatic writer and a novelist. His
most remarkable &mantle weeks are La Neil Terrsble, Le
Bourgerde de Rowe, Le Crier, Le Ayer et k Centre, Peril
as is Denserre, La Pie, Le Village, Delia, La Tentation,
sad Redemptions. His best novels are said to be "
"Le Cheveu Blanc," and "Le Roman d'ua Jenne Homme
Panne.° H. Octave Fenillet is a townsman of H. de Tow.
queville, and, like him, has obtained a seat in the Academy

sit a very early age.
The French committee of the London Exhibition
have just leaned a notice stating that, in order to facilitate
to exhibitors the necessity of taking their own workmen to
London to make the necessary preparations of installation,
the Northern and Western railway companies have con-
muted to reduce by about one-third the price of return
tickets to London for exhibitors, their agents, or workmen.
This privilege will be limited to the 15th of April. the
return tickets being available until the end of May.

The number of working printers arrested at
Paris on a charge of coalition was about 30. In several
instances the unite were executed at their harem. They
were taken before the Jugs d'lnstruction on the charge el
coalition brought against them by their muter. With the
exception of six, they were soon liberated. These six an
still detained in the prison of Mazes arid will be prosecuted
for coalition. They are the president and committee of
the Printers' Benefit :Society. What the men employed in
the printing establishment of M. Dupont asked for wee
not an increase of wages beyond the tariff, but that the
women employed by him should be paid at the sense rate
as the men for the same amount of work. M. Persigny, it
iyaid, does not quite approve the manna taken by the
elect of police.