The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-29 00:00:00

the Court.

BALMORAL, Oer. 27.
The Queen drove out with Princess Beatrice,
attended by Lady Ely and Miss Phipps.
Sir Thomas and Lady Biddulph had the honour of
dining with the Queen and the Royal Family.

Prince and Princess Christian visited the Prince and
Princess of Wales at Marlborough-hove yesterday.
The Princess of Wales drove out, accompanied by
Princess Christian.

Prince and Princess Christian, with Prince Christian
Victor, arrived at Frogmore on Saturday from Balmoral.
Lady SWUM Melville and Mr. G. D. Engleheart were in
attendance on their royal highnesses.

A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy
Council-01E0e, Wlitehall, on the subject of the cattle
plague. The Lords present were Lord Robert Montagu
and the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley.

Prince and Princess Christian, with Prince
Christian Victor, arrived at Frogmore on Saturday, from
Balmoral. Lady Susan Melville and Mr. G. D. Engle-
heart were in attendance on their royal highnesses.

The Duchess of Cambridge, Lady G. Somerset,
and Lord Fred. Faulet have taken their departure from
the Hotel Bristol for England ; also, Earl and the Countess
Spencer and Vioountess Cranky and family have left the
same house for the south of France.

The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort will shortly
receive a largo party of friends at Badmintos.

The Marchioness (Dowager) of Waterford left
town yesterday for Curraghmore. Early in December the
Marquis of Waterford will leave London on leave of ab-
sence for Curraghmore, when his lordship will receive •
succession of distinguished friends.

The Earl Grosvenor, M.P., is about to dispose
of his hunting stud, having made arrangements to leave
England next month to pass the winter in Italy, accom-
panied by Lady Constance Grosvenor and family.

The marriage of Lady Agneta Yorke, youugest
daughter of the Earl ani Countess of Hardwicke, and the
Hon. Victor G. P. Montagu, son of the Earl of Sandwich,
will take pbsoe at the close of the month. The marriage
is expected to be solemnised at Wimpole.

The Cork Examiner is highly indignant with
Biahop Goss for having, in the course of an address which
he recently gave in Liverpool upon the want of modesty in
the females of the present day, stated that at a ball in the
above-named city it was remarked the Roman catholic
ladies exposed more of their bosoms than the protestants
did. This charge the Examiner pronounces to be a libel
upon its fair co-rellgionisto, and it recommends the bishop,
before he repeats it, to take the first opportunity of "per-
sonally judging" whether he has not done them a great
injustice.

It is of comparatively little use to curtail the
pageant on Lord Mayor'► Day if the ponderous state coach
is to be retained as part of it, seeing that the pace will be
thereby retarded as much as ever. Few people are, pro-
bably, aware that the coach, when empty, weighs nearly
five tons. Although drawn by six bones, in turning a
corner the dr►ught is thrown almost entirely upon the two
wheelers, which are often much exhausted in oonsequenco
for the moment, notwithstanding their fine condition, and
the bystanders before now have had to assist in the diffi-
culty.

The new Hants County Hospital at Winchester
will, it is expected,be opened in the beginning of next year.
The Rants hospital was the first county hospital estab-
lished. It was established in 1736 through the exertions
of Dr. Alured Clarke. & prebendary of Winchester Cathe-
dral, and afterwards Dean of Exeter. In 1737, 130 years
ago, there were 251 in-patients and 80 out-patients. The
out-patients this year number 934 and the casual patients
2,569. During the first year of the new hospital Sir
William Heathcote, Bart., M.P., has undertaken to pay
the expense of the nursing department of the hospital.
The Prince Imperial has commenced his course
of university instruction. The Bonaparte College, first
chosen in alphabetical order, hu appointed M. Edeline,
professor of one of the junior classes, to attend at St.
Cloud to teach the subjects of his course. The lessons are
given daily from 12 to 1 o'clock. Each succeeding year a
higher order of studies will be pursued, until the Prince
shall be so far advanced as to compete for the bacoalau-
rest., which he is to do in the midst of the other young
students.

DEATH OF LORD WROTTEALEY. —The death of
Lord Wrottesley, a nobleman who has for many year*
past devoted himself to the interest of science2is announced
this morning. He was born in August, 1, 98, and was
educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his
degree of ILA. in 1819, taking a first class in Diaciplinis
blathematicis et Physicis. He took a H.A. in 1823, and
in the same year was called to the bar by the Hon.
Society of Lincoln's-inn. lie was married, in 1821, toSophia
Elizabeth, third daughter of the late Thos.Gifford, of
Esq.,
Chillington. In 1839 he received the gold medal of the
Royal Astronomical Society, of which he was one of the
founders in 1820. for his "Catalogue of the Right
Ascensions of 1,318 Stars." In 1853 he called the attention
of the House of Lords to Lieutenant Maury's scheme of
meteorological observations and discoveries, and on the
30th November, 1854, succeeded the Earl of Roue as
President of the Royal Society, which he resigned in 1857,
being succeeded by Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart. He has
served in several royal commissions, and is the author of a
work entitled "Thoughts on Government and Legislation."
The deceased peer was the second baron. In 1841
he succeeded his father, the first baron, who
from 1820 to 1838 represented Staffordshire in
the House of Common., and who was raised to the peerage
in 1838, on the recommendation of Lord Melbourne, who
then was Prime Minister. Connected with the Wrot-
tesley barony is a baronetcy created in 1642, the first
baronet having received his title for services in the royal
cause during the civil wars. Lord Wrottesley is succeeded
in his title and estates by his son Arthur, who was born in
1824, and was educated at Rugby and at Christ Church,
Oxford, where be took his degree of B.A. in 1848. He
has been captain of the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry
since 1832, and Major of the 2nd Staffordshire Militia
since 1855. He was married in 1861 to the Hon. Augusta
Elizabeth Denison, daughter of the first Baron Londe*. 1
borough, sister of the present peer.
THE HEALTH OF SIR NORTON KHATCHRIILL.—
We are much pleased to announce that a change for the
better has taken place in the health of this much respected
gentleman. He has been very ill—dangerously so, in fact,
for some time ; but he is now considered out of danger, '
and is making as much progress as the nature of his malady
will permit.—Bentish Oaxtte.