The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-03 00:00:00

at Court.

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BALKOB.AL, MAT 3L
The Queen drove out in the niornir3, attended
by the Dowager Dunham el Athol*.
la the afternoon the Queen, aeoranpanted by Meows
Louise, and attended by the Hoe. MIL Gordo°, went to
Abenzdar.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the n,y,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor
Earl Granville, Sir George Chey the Right How
Edward Cardwell, Earl Russell, Earl de Grey,
Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Duke of Somerset, the It'lht Hon.
T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the
Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. C. P.
Villiers.

His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com-
manding•in-Chief will bold a levee at 1 o'clock on Tues-
day, the 6th i•st.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge sad the Priseess Xary honoured General Sir Wil-
liam and Indy Goers by a visit to their boons, i New-
Monet, Sprisrpnlene, yesterday afteroooa. There were a
few Intimate Meade Invited to meet their royal highneenes.
The hand of the Coldstream Gosrd•, stetiow I ' the
garden, performed, by command, a selection of mask daring
the stay of the duchess and princess.
The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle leave Lon-
don in a few days for the continent, where they pups •
nenaiolog some weeks.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Le-isclos. se
have arrived at 1.--isdowse House, Berkelepequars, from
Paris.

The Earl and Countess of Coventry leave London
pert week for Norway on a labia' exanisioe.
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney were honoured
by the company of their Royal Highnesses the Dueler of
Cambridge and Primers Mary at dinner last evening, at
their residence in Cleveland.egnars, St. James's. Their
royal highnesses arrived at 8 o'clock, attended by Lady
Geraldine Somerset and Colonel Home Yams. The fol-
lowing personages joined the dinner circle :—His Excel-
leary the French Arnbamador, the Doke and Deane of
Snagenah, the Marquis and llarchioaess of Lansdowne,
the Earl of Sandwich, the Earl Wow, the Countess Cow-
ley, Lord and Lady Whsrooliffs, Lord DtHte".^, and Lord
George Pettit.
Viscount and Visoonnteu Palmerston are ex-
peeled to leave Cambridge Hones to-day for Brackett 11-11.
Herts. far the Whitson noses.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have left tows for Norman Coact, Haste, on a visit to Mr.
Thomas Barium M.P.
The Countess of Bowe gave her first ball this
seams hat sight at her resides*, La Groaveace-aquare.

_
Mrs. W. E. Gladstone pre her first dancing party
this sum last night at the Right Hon. the Chant:4lllot of
theßxehegeter's family mansion on Carlton lionswterracie.
Alxive 900 parsons of rank were present.
. _ . .

The Right Hon. the Lady Aylmer and family
mailed in the steamer Peruvian, to-day, ea route from Toile,
and Paris, to join Lord Aylmer In Maeda.
The band of the corps of Commissionaires will
commence their afternoon cements in St. James's-park on
Monday, the sth trek The performance will commas' at
6.30p.m., and coat,nue dsi'y at the same hour, weather
permitting.
Raphael's Cartoons, designed for tapestry, which
have been lately Mandel ad :th her Majesty's permission,
from Hampton Coed, ere now &imaged in the long North
Gallery of the South lienaiogtoa Museum, and will, with
other works of Raphael, be opened to the putdie on
Monday. _

.
Mr. Beresford Hope, the new President of the
Institute of B.:thh Aet'tsot., w"I hold his first systaiog
troooptioo, os Faiday. dons 30.

The Quartett Association will begin its Ferias of
concerti on Monday mat.

It is anuounred that Mr. Santley will sing at
La Boes, Wisp, during the season of 1865 6.

The Gazette of fueaday last coota;nci the an•

nouncement that Lieutenaet•Coloael Dawkins was plrosd
upon half-pay. " Ia all motto's of regiment', controversy
cer inquiry," mays the Army and Nave Gazdtt, " it is held.
for obvious reason, that the Tenancy rearoting therefrom
should not be given in the regkoent, and in the present ia-
steno° the authorities have selected for the unoccupied
company In the Coldstream Guards an ofhcer from the
Ihalf-pay liet, Lieutenant-Colonet J. 8. Hawker, I,"rrer, late
of the 84th Itegimmit, and for a loot time is the 38th, with
which mem he Reeved in the ()titan and the Indian
mutiny."
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The Temps states that it is intended to erect
protestant churches at Belleville, at Montmartre, and in
all the other quarters of Paris in which there have hitherto
been so such buildtvga.