The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-23 00:00:00

the Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Fn. 22.
The Queen, accompanied by Prinoesa Helena,
walked and drove in the grounds this morning.
Earl &well had an audience of the Qum.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of Canada.

Prince Alfred is to be advanced to the rank of
full captain in the royal navy. Being at present a lien.
tenant, his royal highness has thus passed over one inter.

mediate step, that of oommander.
Her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Cam-
bridge, attended by Colonel Home Purees, arrived at
Calais yesterday from Strelitz, where the princess has
been on a protracted visit to their Royal Highnesses the
Grand Duke sad Grand Duchess of MeokleaburrStralitz.
The Earl and Countess of Yarborough intend to
leave town early in the ensuing week for the seaside. The

countess has quits recovered from her confinement.
The Earl of Goeford has just sailed from Liver.

pool to join the Earl of Aberdeen on a hnetins exotirei

ia Canada.
The Countess Cowper entertained the following

company M dinner lut evening at her residence in St.
Jemee's-aquare :—The Countess do Grey, Lord and Lady
Dofferin, Lord Eliot, Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., Count
Paden, Hoc. Evelyn Ashley, Hon. E. Luellen, Mr. Came-

ron, Mr. Scott, &o.
His Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the
Baroness Brnnnow received at dinner last evening his Ex-
cellency the Italian Minister, his Pao.llenoy the Saxon
Minister, and several members of the embassy.
The marriage of the Marquis of Queensberry and
Mbs Sybil Montgomery is Axed to take place on Monday

next at St. George's, Hanover•square.
The funeral of Viaoount Clifden is to take place
on Monday or Tuesday next, and, in compliance with his
desire, expressed long before his details, his remains am to
be deposited beside those of his father and mother, in the
family vault on the ancestral estate in Northamptonshire.
The mortal remains of the late Hon. John. C.
Dallas', M.P., were brought from Nice yesterday, and
were taken to the Earl of Zetland'a house in Arlington-

street, preparatory to beiog conveyed to Musks, York-
shire, to-dsy. The funeral is to take pima to-morrow.
DEATH OF THE EARL OP DONOIJOHMORE.—The
Earl of Donoughmore died yesterday, after a protracted
illness. He was bora in April, 1823, and married, 7th
April, 1847, to the Hoe. Margaret, eldest daughter and co-
heir of Mr. Walter Steele. He is tooeoded in his titles and
estates by his eldest son, John Luke George, Viscount Bair-

dale, born 1848.
The Association for the Trial of Preventive and
Curative Treatment of the Cattle Plague by the Homeo-
pathic Method state in a report, dated Wednesday last, that
the general result of their experiments is the conviction
that, while very much may be done by isolation to prevent
the spread :of the disease, and considerable success has at-
toaded the practice of remedial treatment when assisted by
careful nursing and proper diet, yet the degree of constant
watchfulness needed for the due administration of homeeo-
pathic remedies is so great that much =COM by this system
in so new and formidable a disease can hardly be expected
from any others than skilful veterinary practitioners or per.
sons conversant with the system and method of practice.
The result of experience shows, however, that the disease is
to a certain extent amenable to treatment. The legislature
having now ordered the slaughter of infected and suspected
animals, the efforts of the association must necesesaily be
suspended until the results are seen.
The action of Mr. Joseph Fishbourne, carrier, of
Bachelor's-walk, Dublin, against the Earl of Lucian, for
libellous and defamatory language, was concluded on Wed-
nesday, in the Court of Exchequer, when • verdict was
found for the defendant, on the ground that the statements
were privileged. At the same time, by direction of the
Lord Chief Baron, the damages were assessed at 5001. for
the plaintiff, should the court above allow the objections of
the plaintiff's counsel to the plea of privilege.
Rome is to be traversed by a regular system of
omnibuses, which from the beginning of March are to ply
from 9 a.m. nail sunset between the three principal piazsaa
of the city—those of the Popolo, Venezia, and the
Vatican.
A letter from Rome says :—" Father Ignatius is
among our visitors ; he is accompanied by another Benedic-
tine brother, and, in his mixed garb of three different
orders, being neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, awakens the
'miles rather than sympathy of the truo believers. He is
generally accompanied by his brother' and by a student
of the English College, • quondam friend. Oa Monday
last he requested, and I believe had, an audience of the
Pope. He has visited the Benedictine Monastery, near the
Porta of lit. Paolo, but makes no impression here, con-
ciliates so regard. We are of the same family,' he said
to a prelate of my acquaintance ; 'lf we are of the same
mother, we are,' wee the reply, ' otherwise, not.' Father
Ignatius is oo his road to the Holy Land."
" A telegram from Rome," says the France,
" announces that the Princess do Lion, now in Italy,
daughter of the Marquis de Rainey, senator, is in a very
alarming state of health. In consequence, the soirees and
dinners for which the Marquis and Marquise de Boise,
had issued invitations have been countermanded."
An Athens letter says that a new island began
to rise above the level of tae sea in the Bay of Thera (San-
torin) on the 4th bid, and in five days it attained the
height of from 130 ft. to 150 ft., with a length of upwards
of 350 ft. and a breadth of 100 ft. It continues to increase,
and consists of • rusty black metallic lava, very heavy,
and resembling halt smelted scoria which has boiled up
from a furnace. It contains many small whitish semi-
transparent particles disseminated through the mass like
quartz or felspar. It has been visited by Dr. Delrigalla, a
man of science and an able observer, who will record ac-
curately all the phenomena of the present eruption as it
proceeds.
On the 16th the remains of what was twenty
days ago the " robtueo Infante' Don Francisco de Asia
Leopoldo, were conveyed with great military pomp end
courtly pegesatry, to their resting-plies at the Escurial at
Madrid. The little body was laid in the Pisdridero—
literally, the Rotting-house,—a separate vault, where all
the junior members of the royal family lie pile-Wk, while
the Patten de los Reyes, or main sepulchre, which wen
first opened for the body of Philip IL, is reserved for Hey
and " such queens as were the mother of kings." The
sorrow of the royal parents for the early dead is described
in the papers ea truly intense ; that of the King Consort
especially as poignant.
Foreign recruits continue to arrive at Rome, and
the first awkward squads may be seen piag through their
daily drill on the Pima dl Ban Giovanni veteran.