The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-04 00:00:00

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OSBORNE, NAT 3.

The Queen went out in the grounds yesterday
morning, accompanied by Princess Helena and Prince
Arthur, and drove In the afternoon with Princess Helena.
Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge
have succeeded Major-General the Hon. A. Hood and
Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat as Equerries In Waiting.

WLNDSOR CASTLE, M. 3.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Helena,
Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice,
left Osborne to-day, at a quarter-past 2, and arrived at
Windsor Castle at a quarter before 6 o'clock.
The unite in attendance consisted of Lady Churchill,
Lady Augusta Stanley, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lien
tenant-General the Hoe. C. Grey, Lord Alfred Paget,
Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, Sir Samos Clark, Lima
tenant Stirling, Mr. Sahl, and the Master of the House•
hold.

Prince Arthur, attended by Major Flphinstone, left
Osborne this morning for Greenwich-park.
Lord de Tabley and Lieutenant-General Sir H. Bentinck
have arrived at the Castle as Lord and Groom in Waiting.
The Hon. Florence Seymour has also arrived as Maid of
Honour.

The Prince and Princes of Wales, accompanied by
Prince Alfred, and attended by Viscountess Walden,
Lieutenant-General Knollys, Major Teesdale, and the Hon.
E. Yorke visited the Royal Academy yesterday afternoon.
The Prince of Wales afterwards went to the House of
Lords.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince
Alfred, went to the Royal Italian Opera in the evening.
Prince Alfred, attended by the Hon. R. Yorke, arrived
at Marlborough-house on Wednesday evening from the
Continent.

Their Royal Highnesaes the Duchess and
Princess Mary of Cambridge, who have been staying at
their residence at St. James's Palace since Monday, left
town last night for Cambridgecottage, Saw, accompanied
by his Highness the Prince of Teck. Lady Caroline Cust
and Colonel Home Puma were in attendance on their
royal highnesses.
The Countess Cowper will have an assembly
this evening at the family residence in St. James's.
square.
Lord Hotham, M.P., has returned to town from
Hastings, where he went for the benefit of his health.
The gallant member is still unable to attend to his parlia-
mentary duties, but has considerably benefited by his
visit to the seaside.

A farmer in lowa claims to have killed two pigs
14 months old, that weighed 910Ibe. I
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The Archbishop of Dublin has just paid a visit
to Irish Church Mission stations at Connemara, and ex-
amined 170 of the pupils at Clifden, in company with Lord
Plunket, the Rev. W. C. Plunket, H. 0. Cory, J. T.
Waller, H. Darcy, and other clergymen. He also visited
an orphanage, and consecrated a mission church. On
Wednesday his grace was engaged in a very different sort
of work. He delivered the fourth of the afternoon lec-
tures, on " The History of the English Sonnet," during
which he was frequently applauded.
The Cork Examiner contain the following piece
of news about the " Head Centre t"—" A clergyman just
returned to Ireland from Paris met the celebrated Head 1
Centre Stephens at the Irish College. He happened to be
alone in the reception-room when a visitor came in whom,
from the portraits, he recognised to be the gentle-
man concerning whom so much much anxiety was
felt by the Irish police. ' Are you the cele-
brated Mr. Stephens!' he asked. ' Celebrated or
not, lam Stephens,' was the reply. The business, which
brought him to the college he stated was to find out some
convent in which he could plsoe his wife and his sister-in-
Ilaw during his absence in America. He stated that he
was to leave for New York via Havre on Tuesday, that is
a week since, and that he should return in three months.
The Sacra COM' Convent, which is to the rear of the Irish
College, was recommended to him as suitable for his pur-
pose, but it was added that it was expensive. 'I do not
mind expense,' was Stephens's remark. The ladies have
since, we believe, actually taken up their abode in the
convent."
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The third
exhibition of flowering plants and shrubs took place at the
gardens of this society, yesterday, when a splendid
collection of azaleas, roses, geraniums, ferns, and a very
choice selection of orchids were displayed in the spacious
enclosed arcades. Owing to the very wet morning the out-
side promenade was not so much patronised as usual ; but
there was, notwithstanding, a very imp and fashion-
able assemblage, amongst whom were Prince Arthur,
Earl and Countess Cawdor, Earl Sefton, Colonel Leslie,
M.P., Archbishop of Armagh, Sir John Scott, Lady Heath-
cote, Baron and Lady Dimsdale, Duchess of Wellington,
Sir A. Buller Lady Crossley, his Excellency Torben de
Bille, Sir John Boileau, Sir Wm. Ball, Lady Bailey, Lord
and Lady Egerton'of Tatton, Lady Price, Lady Wardlaw, Sir
Wentworth Dilke, Bart., M.P., Baroness Hambro, Sir
Thomas and Lady Coobrane, Lady Margaret Burke, Lord
I andnellyLrannersee:StAtnY.Tog,hDuk, esiorf jtutlantuart !I;dhfajory-
GeDonaldson, Lady Twining, japtain and Lady Palmer,
Lady Hardwicke, Lady Caroline T.egge, the Dowager Lady
Normanby, Sir Andrew and Lady Scott Waugh, Sir F. G.
Moon, &c. The bands of the First Life Guards and Royal
Horse Guards played an excellent selection of music • and
a new overture, " Fest," by Mr. Watereon, bandmaster of
the First Life Guards, was performed for the first time
with great sumo%