The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-13 00:00:00

Cite Court.

BAIMORAL,YE 11.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
drove out yesterday morning.
In the afternoon the Queen, accompanied by Prince and
Princess Cbristian and Princess Louise, drove to Glen Ey.
Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Logg„ drove to Cairn

The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Prince and
Princess Louis of Hesse. rode out yesterday forenoon, at-
tended by Lady Emily Kingscoto and Lieut.-Colonel
Xeppel.
A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council eat yesterday at the Privy Council-
office, 'Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The
Lords present were Lord Bober: Montagu and the It.ght
Hon. C. B. Adderley.
Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor General of Canada.

THE QUEEN'S RETURN ?BOX &OTLAND.—Hor
Majesty, with the Prince and Princess Christian of Schles-
wig-Holstein and infant son, and Princesses Louise and
Beatrice and Prince Leopold, will leave Balmoral next
Tuesday, the 18th inst., for Windsor. None of the public
will, under any circumstances, be admitted to the stations
south of the Perth, and the servants of the companies
have been instructed " to perform any necessary work on
the platforms without noise or cheering."
His Excellency Baron Brunnow will return to
town on Saturday from Paris.

The Earl and Donates:l of Derby, who are posit-
ing the recess at Roshampton, come to town on Saturday
for the moon.

Lord Stanley returned to town on Tuesday from
Knowsley, and yesterday left to join the Earl and Countess
of Derby at Roehampton.

Lord Northbrook, W. B. Symonds, Esq., Major
Lowth, and J. 11. Yonge, Esq., have been appointed trus-
tees of the celebrated St. Cross Hospital.
Mr. J. Mitchell, of the Royal Library, Bond-
street, replies, as to fashionable concerts, that the act
referred to applies only to " houses kept open for public
amusements." Surely, says Mr. Mitchell, the man-
sions of the Earl of Dudley, Mrs. Gladstone, and Miss
Burdett Coutts cannot come within such category! "' A
Warning Voice' need not be apprehensive. He would in-
fringe no existing law, nor incur any penalty, it be deter-
mined to give a concert at his own private residence in
behalf of some charitable institution."

Among local facetia current among young Dul-
wiebians, illustrating the prevalent belief in unlimited
bolyday, one now and then hears • small boy announco to
a compeer, " another holyday to-morrow ;" and in reply
to the query, "what for ?" the smart, though somewhat
stale, response is, " because the Master's cat has got
kittens."

Prince Humbert, it is said, will stop at Paris
for four or five weeks.

Prince Napoleon left Venice on the Bth to return
to Turin, where the Princess Clothilde had remained, to
emort her back to France. During his highness's Abort
stay in Venice the municipality and population organised
all sorts of fetes in his honour, and especially a serenade,
which was most brilliant.

A curious detail," says the Gazette de France,
"II related in connexion with the marriage of the Duke of
Aoete :—The Dowager Princess de la Cisterns, to prevent
her daughter's (ratline from being managed after the sys-
tem which presides over the finances of the Italian realm,
has reserved to herself the administration of the very
considerable wealth which the bride brings to the son of
Victor Emmanuel."

A correspondent of the Morning Post writing
from New Orleans on the 22nd ult., says :—" The crowd
of idle whites that is seen here all day long is but one of
• hundred others that the visitor may behold in every
other part of the city. The negnirs do work—willingly,
industriously, and gleefully—while the whites do not,
either because they cannot or will not. I cannot blame
them much. It is very hot. The season is as far ad-
vanced as it is in England in August. The sun beats
fiercely down, the stone pavements bake your feet and
reflect the heat as does an oven. It is much pleasanter to
sit in the shade beneath a magnolia tree, and inhale the
delicate odour of its wonderful blossoms, than to go down
upon the Levee and ' tote' corn sacks for a shilling an
hour. But Bitting idle all day long in • city where the
cheapest meal costs half-a-crown, and where the hotels
charge a pound a day, is a luxury that can only, or ought
only, to be enjoyed by gentlemen of independent fortunes ;
and I must confess that these crowds of a/ fresco gentlemen
do not appear so me to belong to that class of society."
A letter from Constantinople in the Monde
ssys:--" The Sultan's suite will be composed in all of
from 75 to 80 persons. The presents intended for the
Emperor and Empress are of great value. The Empress
Eugenie will receive from Abdul Anis, as a memorial of
his visit to France, an enormous uncut diamond, which
has been in the Treasury of the Sultan for more than three
centuries, and which, to its great intrinsic value, adds
that of very curious historical circumstances connected
with it. It is called Tenokin rasdo (Shepherd's Stone),
and possesses a legend which we will soon relate. To the
Emperor Napoleon 111. are destined eleven Arab horses of
great beauty. Princes Izzeddin, eon, and Mehmet,
Moored, and Hamid, nephews of the Sultan, bring pre-
sents for the Prince Imperial, the value of which consists
in their origin and oriental colours."

Under the heading "The Mormons and the
Universal Exhibition," the Libor" has a long account of
two Mormon representatives who have just arrived at
Paris, and with whom the writer has visited the building.
One of the envoys is the second eon of Brigham Young ;
the other is a man named Richards, who, before leaving
for Europe was President of the Emigration Committee.
Brigham Young, junior, though not yet thirty, has two
wives and • large family, while his companion has four
wives and twentytwo children. Neither of the repre-
sentatives can speak a word of French, but our Paris con-
temporary appears, nevertheless to have extracted from
them • good deal of information.
The Nouvelliste of Verriers announces that
Marshal Benedek, accompanied by his wife, hasjust passed
through that town on his way to Paris.

The French government has already paid the
first instalment of 10,000,000 fr. on the purchase of
the American turret ship Dunderberg, and the French
frigate Jean Bart is at Ncw York to take charge of her.
France has also made a contract for the purchase of a
smaller American turret ship, the Onondaga, paying
200,0001. for her. The Confederate ram Stonewall, built
in Great Britain, has been sold by the United States to
Japan for 500,000 dole.

Smoking carriages have been introduced on the
Bristol and Exeter milt's,.