The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-10 00:00:00

Eh, eaurt.

OSBORNE, MAY 9.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon,
attended by Lady Churchill and the Hon. Flom Mac-
donald ; And her Majesty and Princess Beatrice rode on
ponies in the grounds this morning.
Princess Louise walked out, accompanied by Miss Grey.
Prince Leopold also walked out, attended by Mr. Legg.
Mr. J. E. Fuller has had the honour of submitting for
her Majesty's inspection a series of etchings in crimson
lake, illustrating the " Ancient Mariner," after original
drawings by Sir .1. Noel Paton ; and also an illumination
" In Memoriam " of the late Prince Consort.

The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting of
the Provisional Committee of the Hall of Arts and
Sciences. Present—Earl Granville, the Right Hon. H. A.
Bruce, Mr. Baring, Mr. Bowring, Mr. Thring, Mr. Fowler,
and Lieutenant• Colonel Scott (secretary).
The plenipotentiaries accredited by the European powers
to the London Conference on the affairs of Luxemburg
met yesterday for the second time at the official residence
of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street.
The conference will sit again this day (Friday).
A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho-
nourable Privy Council sat yesterday at tl.o Privy Council-
office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague.
The loran present were the Lord President, the
Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord
Robert Montagu, and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr.
Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the
committee.

A deputation from Wakefield had an interview with the
Lord President of the Council, at the Privy Council-office,
Whitehall, on Tuesday, respecting the re-opening of the
Wakefield Cattle-market.

A deputation from the Norfolk Agricultural Association
bad an interview with the Lord President of the Council,
the Duke of Richmond, and Lord Robert Montagu, at the
Privy Council-office, Whitehall, yesterdny, to obtain the
license of the Privy Council to hold a show of cattle at
Fakenham in June next.

A deputation from the Governors and Directors of the
Poor of St. George's, Hanover-square, had an interview
with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, at the Office of the
Poor Law Board, Whitehall, yesterday.
A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com-
mission for the Exhibition of 1851, was held yesterday.
There were present Earl Granville (chairman), Sir Alex-
ander Spearman, Bart., Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. Thring, and
Mr. Edgar Bowing, C.B. (secretary).
Despatches' were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Malta. Despatches were sent
to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and
St. Helena.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Colonel Tees-
dale, honoured the Lord Chief Justice of England (Sir
Alexander Cockburn) with his presence at dinner on Wed-
nesday evening, at his residence in Hertford-street, May-
fair. A select party were present to meet the illustrious
prince.

The Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Ap-
ponyi entertained the following select party lest evening et
the Austrian embassy in Belgreve-square :—The Earl of
Denbigh, Admiral Tegethoff,lMajor-General Lord Henry
Percy, M.P., Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., Baron
and Baroness Biome, the Right Hon. Sir Hamilton Sey-
mour G.C.8., Baron Bends, and the members of the
embassy.

Lord and Lady Carew entertained the Earl of
Camperdown, Laura Countess of Antrim, the Right Hon.
C. Bowyer Adderley, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Adderley,
Colonel the Right Hon. Win. and Lady Louisa Tighe, Gen.
Sir William and Lady Gomm, Sir George and Lady
Philips, the Very Rev, the Dean of York and Lady Harriet
Duncombe, Hon. Dudley and Lady Camilla Fortescue,
Major Scott, Mr. Dalkon, &c., at dinner, last night at the
family mansien in Belgrave-aquere. Later in the evening
her ladyship had a small assembly.
The Poor-law Board have appointed Mr. William
Peel, son of the Right Hon. Lieut.-General Peel, M.P., to
be a poor-law inspector, in the room of Mr. N. Edward
Hurst, who has resigned.
THE New Howe SECRETARY.—It is atated that
Mr. Gathorne Hardy will be the successor of Mr. Walpole,
and that the Earl of Devon, the present Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, will be the new President of the
Poor-law Board.

The several diplomatists taking part in the
Luxemburg conference met punctually, yesterday, at 1
o'clock, and after a diecusaion of a calm nature (quite the
opposite of what occurred in the conference of 1864), the
plenipotentiaries separated at half-past 3 o'clock. The
next meeting of the conference was appointed for to-day,
at 1 o'clock. Up to • late hour hurt evening the Hon.
Julian Pane and Mr. P. H. W. Currie were occupied pro-
tocoling the proceedings.