The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-10 00:00:00

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ROYALTY IN SrFroLK. —On Saturday the Duke
of Edinburgh closed a visit which he paid on Wednesday
to Lord Alfred Paget, at Melford-hall, Suffolk. For the
accommodation of his royal highness an elegant suite of
rooms, used by the Prince and Princess of Wales last year,
were again brought into requisition ; and the bechoom
prepared for the duke was the same as that used by the
Prince and Princess of Wales, being, moreover, the iden-
tical chamber in which Queen Elizabeth slept when she
visited Melford. The weather was rather wet, but some
successful shooting parties were formed an Thursday and
Friday, and on one evening Lord and Lady Alfred Paget
gave a balL The circle specially invited to meet the Duke
of Edinburgh comprised Lord and Lady Suffield, Lord and
Lady Rendlesham, Viscountess Sidney, the Hon. Bliss
Macdonald, Viscount Hinchinbrook, and General Grey.
This afternoon, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of
Edinburgh are expected to arrive at tue Dies Station of
the Great Eastern Railway, the Prince of Wales being
about to pay a long-promised visit to Sir E. C. Kerrisoo,
M.P., and Lady Caroline Kerrison ; it was not positively
known on Saturday whether the Prince of Wales would
be accompanied by the Princess. The Prince of Wales
will leave Sandringham this morning, and will travel from
Woolferton Station to Dies by a special train, which will
reach that town about half-past 4. The royal party will
be escorted from Dies to Oakley-park by the Di4a and Eye

volunteers.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
attended by the principal members of the staff at head.
quarters, will leave town this morning to attend the half-
yearly examination at Sandhurst College.
The Duke of Northumberland and Lady Louisa
Percy left Portman-square on Saturday fur Torquay, for
the winter.
Lord and Lady Naas left town a few days ago
for the Secretary, Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin, for the
winter.
The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have enter-
tained a select circle during the past week, including the
Earl and Countess of Westmorland, Earl Annesley, Earl
of Clonmel, Lady Evelyn Bruce, Hon. Admiral and Mrs.
Roes, Mr. George Payne, Captain and Hon. Mrs. Vivian,
Colonel de Horsey, &o.
The Right Hon. Sir John and Lady Pakinton
entertained the Earl of Lauderdale, Sir Edward and Lady
Manningham Bailer, Admiral S r William Bowles, Admiral
Sir John and Lady Hay, Admiral Sir Rodney Mundy,
Admiral Robinson, Colonel Taylor, M.P., Mr. Huddleston,
M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crespigny, &c., at dinner at
the right hon. baronet's official residence at the Ad-
miralty on Saturday evening. A select party assembled
after dinner.
A marriage is arranged to take place between
the Hon. Victor Montagu, second son of the Earl of Sand-
wich, and Lady Agneta Yorke, the youngest daughter of
the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke.
The marriage, announced some time back between
the Hon. Reginald Sackville Wert, second son of the Earl
and Countess Delawarr, and heir to the harm yof Buck.
buret, with Miss Bernie Cochrane, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. BaiUie Cochrane, and granddaughter of Admiral of
the Fleet Sir Thomas Cochrane, will tot take place till
February.
Miss Nightingale has been staying at Embley,
near Homey, in Hants.
A new list of subscriptions, up to Saturday last,
to the Eyre Defence Fund includes the names of the Duke
of Portland (1001.), the Marquis of Lothian, the Earl of
Glasgow, the Earl Selkirk, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Westmeath, Lord Claude Hamilton, the Dean of Armagh,
together with a host of the officers of the army and
navy, and about fifteen or sixteen clergymen ; also Mr.
Benjamin Webster, of the Adelphi Theatre, Mr.
G. A. Sala, Mr. Shirley Brooks, Mr. H. Riving, 11. P.,
Mr. .Y. Lowther, M.P., Col. Brownlow Knox, M.P., and
Mr. T. Hewitt Key, M.A.
An address of congratulation was presented to
Mr. Maurice on Saturday evening at a crowded and en-
thusiastic meeting of the students and teachers of the
Working-men's College. Among those who were present
sad spoke at the meeting were the Public Orator of Cam.
bridge (Mr. Clarke, of Trinity), one of the electors to the
chair ; Mr. Hughes, M.P. for Lambeth ; Professor Brewer,
Mr. Ludlow, and a number of the old friends and founders
of the college.
The Irish papers announce the death of a very
eminent oriental scholar and antiquary, the. Ler. Dr.
Ilincks, rector of Killeleagh, county Down. He was the
eon of Dr. Thomas Dix Hincks, Professor of Hebrew and
Head Master of the Classical School in the Belfast
Academical Institution. Deceased was born in Cork in
1791 and graduated in the Dublin University in 1912, and
took a Fellowship the following year. lie had been
rector of Killeleagh since 1829. lie contributed numerous
valuable papers, especially on Egyptian hieroglyphics and
Assyrian cruciform inscriptions to the Royal Irish
Academy, the Royal Society of Literature, the Asiatic
Society, and the British Association.
A lady named Dimond, residing in her own
house in the fashionable part of Southampton, has given
the house and its furniture to the committee of the Royal
South Hants Infirmary for the benefit of that institution,
and has gone to reside in lodgings. The furniture has
been told by auction and fetched 5001., and the house has
been let for nearly 1001. a year.
It seems that Mr. Webster is to be the new lessee
of the Olympic, and that Mr. and Mrs. Chsrlss Mathews
are to be his first stars.
The management of the " Varieties " (late
Prince of Wales's) at Liverpool, will henceforth be under.
taken by Mr. William Brough, the well-known burlesque
writer, who will produce a new extravaganza of his own
writing.
" Dundreary in Private Theatricals" has been
written by Mr. Burnand for Mr. Bothern, and is to be
produced this week in Liverpool.
A brass coin of the Roman Emperor Antoninns
Pius has been found at a place called Tegg Down, at
Winchester, near the remains of the Roman road in that
city.