The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-24 00:00:00

the Court.

OSBORNE, JAN. 23.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon,
attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole and Lady
Waterpark ; and her Majesty, accompanied by Princess
Louise and Prince Arthur, walked in the grounds this
morning.
Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Beatrice
went out also.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of
Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Wal-
pole, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Viscount Cran-
borne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John
Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, Lord John Manners,
the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall, on
the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were
the Lord President, the Hight Hon. Sir S. Northcote, and
the Hight Hon. H. Corry. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander
Williams attended the committee.

A deputation from Oxford, consisting of Colonel North,
M.P., Mr. Chillingworth (chairman of Oxford Cattle
Plague Association), Mr. Hutt (the chairman), Mr. New-
ton, Mr. Middleton, and Mr. H. Gale, had an interview
with the Lord President of the Oouncil and the Right
Hon. H. Corry, at the Privy Council-office, yesterday, on
the subject of the cattle plague.
A deputation from Wakefield, introduced by Sir J. C.
D. Hay, Bart., M.P., and Mr. W. H. Leatham, H.P., and
consisting of Mr. T. G. Wright, M.D., Mr. D. B. Kendall,
M. 8., Mr. R. B. Mackie, and Mr. J. L Edwards (over.
nors of the Wakefield charities), Mr. W. Walker, Mr.
Alderman Rhodes, Mr. Alderman Holdsworth, and Mr.
Councillor Lamb (members of the corporation of Wake-
field), had an interview with the Lord President of the
Council and the Right Hon. H. Cony, at the Privy
Council-office, Whitehall, yesterday, on the subject of the
cattle plague.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope,
N►tal, and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to the
governors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur has passed a
highly satisfactory examination before the Council of
Military Education, and will join the Royal Military
Academy in February. _

His Excellency the Count Apponyi, the Austrian
ambassador, is expected at the embassy in Belgrare.square,
at the end of the month, from his seat in Hungary.
The Duchess of Somerset is expected to arrive
this week on a visit to Sir John and Lady Gwendolin
Ramsden, at Byram, Yorkshire.

The Right Hon. Seymour Fitzgerald has arrived
at the United Hotel. Charles•street, St. Jamee's•aquare,
previous to taking hia departure to assume the government
of the Bombay presidency.

Sir John and Lady Gwendolin Hamden are
entertaining at Byram, their seat in Yorkshire, Viscount
Pollington, Lord and Lady G. Quin, the Right Hon.
Edward /format, M.P., and Mrs. Horsman, Hon. Mrs.
Ramadan and Mum Dundas, Mr.. Lane Fox and Miss Lane
Fox, Mr. C. Sykes, M.P., Mr. and Lady Jane Lindsay, and
the Hon. Henry Fitswilliam.

We are happy to be able to state (says the
Dublin Erening Mail) that the health of Sir Robert Gore
Booth had improved so much as to warrant his physician
in pronouncing him out of danger yesterday.

The Queen has approved the appointment of
Colonel Chapman, C. 8., of the Royal Engineers, to the
Governorship of Bermuda.

On Thursday next a dinner is to be given to Mr.
F. Moulton, M.P., at the Horns Tavern. The hon. secre-
taries are Messrs. Cullen, Murphy, and G. Taylor.
_ _

Two lectures on " The Political History of
England" arc about to be delivered by Goldwin Smith,
M.A., in the small concert room, St. George's Hall, Liver-
pool ; one on Saturday evening, the subject, " Pym," and
the chair to be taken by H. Yates Thompson, Es'q. ; and
the second on the evening of Feb. 1, the subject, " Crom-
well," and the chair to be taken by Joseph Christopher
Ewart, Es q.

A s•ery singular accident (remarks the Eastira
Counties Herald) has occurred in Sir Tattoo Sykes's park
at Elledmere, on the Yorkshire Wolds. The large pond
was frozen over, and snow was upon the ice. One beast
got upon the ice and was immersed. The bellowing of
the drowning beast attracted the others to the spot, and
they one by one followed to the place, and were gradually
immersed by the breaking of the ice and every one
drowned.

" Queen Christina," says the LidEpoulance, " is
said to have written a letter to her daughter, Queen
Isabella, blaming severely the policy of the Narvaez
cabinet."

One of the leaden of the Cretan insurrection has
addressed the following letter to the consuls of England
and Russia :—" Omaha:, Jan. 3.—Sir,—You have been
good enough to send a vessel to take away some unhappy
Cretan families, who without that aid would have perished
from hunger and cold in the mountains. The whole Crest'
nation is thankful to you for that ►ct of humanity, and
the captains of the country have charged me to express
their gratitude. They hope from the generous nation
which you represent the continuation of that assistance.
The inhuman war waged against us has deprived of all
resource numerous families, who are wandering about in
the midst of the snow without shelter, clothes, or food.
We hope you will send and take them away. Aocept,
Ztusaxgsms, commander of four departments of Canea."

The comminion charged with the revision of the
penal code at Zurich has just pronounced in favour of the
abolition of the punishment of death.

The members of the Lewes Liberal Registration
Society and their friends were honoured on Thursday
evening last by the presence of Professor Fawcett, M.P.,
who had acceded tett)e invitation of the council of the asso-
ciation to deliver a lecture. The particular subject chosen
by the learned professor was " National Education." The
meeting was of a highly influential character, comprising
most of the leading liberals of the borough. The Right
Hon. Henry Brand, Lord Pelham, and Mr. J. G. Dodson
were also amongst those present.
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