The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-08 00:00:00

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OSBORN-E. MAY 7.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess 1.4 'lase,
drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady
Churchill.
Colonel Ponsonby was in attendance on horseback.
Her Majesty and Princess Louise drove in the grounds
this momiug, accompanied by Countess Blucher.
Prince Leopold and Princess Ileatiice walked out.
The Countess of Caledon has succeeded Lady Churchill
as Lady in Waiting.
Lady Churchill remains on a visit to her Majesty.

The ceremony of the churehing of the Princess Christian
took place in the private chapel at Windsor Castle on
Monday morning. The Dean of Windsor officiated.
Prince and Princess Christian took possession of their
new mai lence at Frogsnore-house yesterday.

The plenipotentiaries accredited by the European
Powers to the London Conference on the affairs of Luxem-
burg met yesterday for the first time at the official resi-
dence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-
street. The Conference will sit again to-morrow
(Thursday).

A deputation from the Corporation of Liverpool, con-
sisting of Mr. Robinson, Mr. Yates, and Dr. Trench, the
medical officer of health, had an interview with the Lord
President of the Council, at the I'rivy Council-office.
yesterday, relative to the importation of Spanish and
Portuguese cattle. The deputation was introduced by the
following members of parliament :—Mr. Cheetham, Mr.
Horsfall, Mr. Barley, Mr. Turner, Mr. Craves, Mr. James,
Mr. Hibbert, Colonel Gray, Mr. Eckersley, Mr. Feilden,
Mr. Potter, and Colonel Bourne.
A deputation from the London Licensed Victuallers'
Protection Society, the Retail Wine and Spirit Dealers
Society, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Leicester As-
sociations, consisting of Mr. G. J. Jones, Mr. J. J. Homer,
Mr. T. Smith, Mr. T. Winterbotham, Mr. H. Child
(solicitor), Mr. C. R. Earle, Mr. G. Candelet, Mr. G.
Skinner, and Mr. S. Cleave bad an interview with the
Earl of ftelmore, at the Home-office, on Monday, on the
subject of the guinea license, under the 2t and 27 Vic.,
c. 33.

The ceremony of the churching of her Royal
Highness the Princess Christian took place in the private
chapel at Windsor Castle on Monday morning. The Dean
of Windsor officiated. Their Royal Highnesses Prinre
and Princess Christian took possession of their new resi-
dence at Frogmore House yesterday.

Lord Brougham is expected home from his villa
at Cannes in a week or two. On his return to London he
will take up his residence at the mansion recently occupied
by the Earl of Crawford and Bakarma in Berkeley.square.

Sir Itoundell Palmer, M.P., and Lady Laura
Palmer received Lord Cairns, Sir William Page and Lady
Wood, Sir Francis and Lady Goldamid, Mr. and Lady
Augusta Fremantle, Mr. and Lady Caroline Rumen, the
Very Rev. the Dean of St. Paul's and Mrs. Mihnan,
at dinner at their residence in Portland•place.

It is announced that the Earl of Carnarvon, the
late Secretary of State for the Colonies, will support the
Archbishop of Canterbury, who, with the Bight Hon. W.
E. Gladstone, M.P., the Earl of Devon, the Bishop of
Oxford, and others, willaddrem the meeting of the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel to-morrow afternoon at
St.

In consequence of the numerous applications
which Sir Percy Shelley, Bart., has had for lithograph
copies of a portrait of his illustrious father, Percy Byuhe
Shelley, painted by Miss Curran, daughter of the cele-
brated Irish patriot, by a tmirers of the character and.
genius of the great English poet, Sir Percy has been in-
duced to place all the copies be had in the hands of
Messrs. Maclean, the printsellers, for public circulation.
In less than two months the Belgian volunteers
are expected to arrive here in number probably exceeding
a thousand, all expecting to be cordially received and libe-
rally entertained. Lieut.-Colonel Lindsay prelims for a
national subscription, on the result of which, he says, our
character for generosity must depend. Various fktes have
already been proposed. The Crystal Palace and the Isling-
ton Agricultural-hall can be had for entertainments, but
they must be paid for. The shooting ranges of Wimbledon
are open, but prides are needed to give interest to the
shooting.
A meeting of the Trades Unions Commissioners
was held yesterday, at 1. Park- t, (:rent Queen-
street, Westminster. Present -Right Hun. Sir Willitun
Erle, chairman ' • Earl of Lichfield ; Right Hon. Sir Ed-
mund W. Head, Bart. LCD. ; ?deuces. Herman Me-
rivale, C.D.' James Booth, CM.. J. A. Roebuck, Q.C.,
M.P. and Thomas Hughes, M.P. Mr. J. H. Patteson,
secretary to the commission, was also present.
ROYAL INSTITUTION OF Cr'REAT BRITAIN.—At the
general monthly meeting held on Monday last, Sir H.
Holland, Bart., M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., president, in the
chair, Mr. Henry Coemo Bonsor, Colonel Charles Douglas,
R.A., Mr. Frank Clarke Hills, and Mr. Arthur Thompson
were elected members of the Royal Institution. The fol-
lowing professors were re-elected :—Mr. John Tyndall,
LL.D., F.R.S., as Professor ot Natural Philosophy, and
Mr. Edward Frankland, Ph. D. F.R.S., as Professor of
Chemistry. The presents received since the last meeting
were laid on the table, and the thanks of the members
returned for the same.