The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-12 00:00:00

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BALMORAL, SEPT. 9.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
drove out yesterday morning.
Princess Louise, attended by Lady Chureh'll, rade to
Abergeidie.
In the afternoon her Majesty, with Princess Louise, went
oat driving.

The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, as the minister in
attendance on her Majesty, mitred at the Cantle yester-
day, and also I)r. Csird.

The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the
Queen last night.
The Hon. Mr.. Hardinge had the honour of dining with
the Queen and Royal Family.

Barr. 10.

The Queen, Prince awl Princess Christian, Primes@
Louise, and the Duke of Edinburgh, and attended by. the
Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, were present at Divine
service at the parish church at Crathie yesterday morning.
Dr. Cain', chaplain to her Majesty, officiated.
Mr. Walpole and Dr. Caird had the honour of dining
with the Queen and royal family.

A deputation from the Ottoman Gas Company (Limited),
consisting of Mr. Horner, one of the directors, and Mr.
A. J. King, the secretary, had an interview with Lord
Stanley yesterday, at the Foreign-01os, on the subject of
the company's affairs at Smyrna.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday
to the Governors of Gibraltar and Malta.

THE COURT AT BALMORAL.-011 Sunday last
her Majesty the Queen, their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales, Prince Christian, Princess Helena,
Princess Louise, and the Duke of Edinburgh, with the
ladies and gentlemen of the court, attended Divine service
in the church of Crathie. The Rev. Dr. Caird preached '
from St. John's Gospel xvii., 4th and sth verses, " I have
glorified thee on ell th ; I have finished the work which
thou gayest me to do. And now, 0 Father, glorify me
with thine own-self with the glory which I had with thee
before the world was." The discourse, which was one of
singular power and eloquence, was listened to with deep
attention by the large and distinguished audience that
filled every part of the church.—Edinburgh Courant.
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Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
attended by Colonel Home Purves, and Lady Geraldine
Somerset, left Cambridge-cottage, Kew, yesterday, for
Sou-borough, Yorkshire.

His Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale has
returned to bis residence at Twickenham, from Switzer-
land.

The marriage of his Highness Prince Edward
de LiF.,ne to Augusta Theodosia Mary, daughter of Sir
David T. Cunynghame, Bart., of Milncraig, in the county
of Ayr, and Cosham House, Hants, took pl►ce on the 11th
instant, at Warwick-street Chapel. Archbishop Manning
officiated.

The Earl and Counteu of Yarborough have
arrived in Arlington-street from Ireland.

On Monday his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant,
accompanied by the Marchioness of Abercorn and the
Ladies Hamilton, visited the Dublin Exhibition Palace
for the first time. Although the day was stormy and wet,
tho building was crowded. The Lord-Lieutenant, who
obtained a very enthusiastic reception, witnessed tho per-
formance of Leotard on the trapeze, and subsequently at-
tended a concert, at which the principal artist was Mr. R.
C. Levey, who is more commonly known as " Paganini
Redivivus."

Mr. Latimer Clark on Sunday telegraphed from
Valentia that the tests had been completed, and the cable
of 18'35 had been found to be even better than that of the
present year. The land lines of telegraph beyond Heart's
Content have been found to be in a very imperfect con-
dition, and it has been proposed, not only to renew
the existing land lines, but to establish an alternate route
of communication with the United States, and to lay a
new cable from Placentia Bay to Cape Breton, or some
other point on the coast. The Great Extern, h-.ving
triumphantly performed the task for which she was
employed, left Heart's Content at 5 o'clock on Sunday
morning, and may be expected to arrive at Liverpool
about the 19th inst.

George Hopper, the financial agent of the Fenian
organisation in this country, who was sentenced at the
special commission to two years' imprisonment, has been
released from confinement. The clemency of the Lord
Lieutenant has been extended to him, It is said, because
his health bad been greatly impaired by imprisonment.
Hopper was formerly the proprietor of a thriving tailoring
business in Dame-street.

The country likely to benefit moat from the bad
tarn of the harvest in Western Europe, says the Times, is
Russia. Throughout that empire this year the crops have
not only been large in quantity but favourable in quality,
and the export trade, especially from Ode's*, is already
commencing on a full scale, large orders having been sent
from London. From some of the German ports there may
also be a good supply for shipment, but the requirements
of France, which last year had an unusually large surplus,
are likely to be heap;, and from America no arrivals of
wheat are to be expected, the crops there having been se-
riotuly damaged by rain. Of Indian corn, however, the
yield in America has been larger than ever before known,
and for this there will be an increase in the demand in
proportion to any advance that may take place in the price
of wheat. The importation of wheat from Russia is not
likely to be attended by any immediate outflow of gold,
the state of the St. Petersburg exchange having long been
very adverse to that country.

Mayence, which is now occupied by the Prus-
sians, is quite as celebrated for its hams and smoked
sawing.' as for its fortifications. It has been aLeady
stated that the new occupiers have lost no time in is Ming
to work on the fortifications, but they have, it seems,
fallen to with equal vigour on tho stores of pork flesh for
which the city is so famous. The consequences are said to
have been a fearful amount of indigestion, and edged»
mortality among the Prussian garrison.
The trade in roses, as is well known, is of con-
siderable importance in France. Rase trees are culti-
vated in different parte of the country in open fields, just
as turnips or cabbages. Thus, there are 500,000 rose trees
sear Orleans; 200,000 near Metz ; 1,000,000 near Angers ;
1,500,000 near Lyons ; 2,000,000 near Paris ; and 2,000,000
in the thirteen tonunanes of Brie-Conte-Robert. The
varieties celled Ross-The, the Bourbon, and afeueseste
flourish particularly in the environs of Paris and Orleans.