The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1867.

with the three ambassadors to Paris, Constantinople, and
Vienna. 'What hebu brought them together for the future
will reveal.

THE BELGIAN CABINET.

The Aoenir National has a special telegram from
Brussels, stating that the entire ministry have sent
in their resignation to the King. The principal
point of division was on the question of the inter-
ference of the clergy in primary education. The
King's endeavours to reconcile them had, it is
stated, failed.

I urriz's ruscawas.)
THE DANISH WEST INDIES.
COPENHAGEN, Mc. 23.

The plebiscitum in the Danish West Indian
Islands upon their sale to the United States is to
take place in the course of January next.

the Court.

OSBORNE, Din 21,

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise
and Primer Beatrice, walked and drove in the grounds
yesterday afternoon, and her Majesty walked out this
morning accompanied by Princess Beatrice and the Prime
of Leiningen.
Prince Leopold also went out.
The Hon. Emily Cathcart has succeeded the Hon. Flora
Macdonald as Maid of Honour in Waiting.

Dec. 22.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon accompanied
by Princess Louise and attended by the lion. Emily
Cathcart.

The Equerries in Waiting were in attendanoe on hone-
back.

Prince Arthur arrived yesterday from Greenwich-park,
attended by Major Elphinstose.
Her Majesty, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, attended by the Ladies
and Gentlemen-in-waiting, were present at Divine Service
at Osborne this morning.

The Rey. R. Duokworth officiated.
The Dowager Countess of Gainsborough has =weeded
Lady Waterpark as Lady-in-waiting to her Majesty.

Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial.
°Moe to the Governors of the North American Provinces
and Bermuda.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESB OF WALEB.—Their
Boys' Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will
visit the Earl and Countess of Leicester at Holkham Hall,
Norfolk, early in January. It is not improbable that
Prince and Princess Christian will also join the party. The
Prince of Wales shot over the estate of Mr. Villebois, of
Markham, in the course of last week. The following gen-
tlemen were invited to meet his royal highness :—The Earl
of Dudley, the Hon. A. T. Fitzmaurice, the Hon. C.
Vivian, Captain Bagge, Captain Bathurst, Captain Sumner,
Mr. Dyke, and Mr. TheUlm:a. The West Norfolk hounds
will meet at Sandringham to-day (Monday), and the hospi-
talities of Sandringham House will be extendedto the field.
The usual Christmas sifts of the Prince and Princess of
Wales to the poor of Sandringham and one or two of the
adjacent villages will be distributed this week.

MINISTERIAL Movammrra.—The Earl of Derby
has left town for Knowsley ; the Duke of Buckingham,
accompanied by the Duchess, left Chandos-house, on
Saturday, for Stowe, Bucks, for the Christina' holidays ;
the Duke of Marlborough left town on Friday evening to
join the Duchess and family at Blenheim, Oxon ; the
Duke of Richmond left his residence in Belgrave•square on
Saturday, for Goodwood, Sussex ; Earl Mayo left town by
mail train on Friday night, for Dublin. The Lord
Chancellor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Gathorne
Hardy,SirJohn Paidngton, Mr. H. T. L. Corry, Lord John
Manners, and Mr. Walpole remain in town ; Sir Stafford
Northcote left town on Saturday for the Pynes, his seat In
Devon.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had
a dinner party on Saturday at Gloucester House.

The party at New Lodge, the residence of M.
and Madame Van de Weyer, invited to meet Prince and
Princess Christian and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-
Holstein, included the Duchess of Marlborough, Lady
Cornelia Churchill, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney,
Lady Susan Melville, Prince Alphonse de Chimay, and the
Hon. Leslie Rottman. There was • small dance on Wed-
nesday evening, and on Thursday, before leaving, their
royal highnesses planted two Wellingtoniu as • memorial
of their stay at New Lodge.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Ladies
Margaret and Mary Scott have left Montagu House,
Whitehall, for Paris, on their way to Cannes, where the
noble duke and duchess have made arrangements to pus
the winter.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland left
Northumberland House on Saturday for Albury Park,
Surrey, for the Christmas.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol and
Lady Mary Hervey left their residence, in St. James's-
square, on Saturday, for Ickworth Park, near Bury St.
Edmund'', to spend the Christmas.

The Marquis Cony ngham has left town to spend
the Christmas with Lord and Lady Churchill, at Cornbury
Park, Oxfordshire.

A Florence letter in the Times says :—" The
system of opening, detaining, and even confiscating letters
passing through the Roman post-office is being carried to
an unprecedented extent. I have positive knowledge of
letters between Florence and Roam being a week on the
road. In some COMM the Roman postmark is a week older
than that impressed at Florence. In others no attempt
has been made to disguise the fact of the letters being
tampered with—the opening and reclosing being manifest
at a glance, and apparently executed by very dirty hands.
When appearances are thus neglected it seems as if the
clerical investigators were losing something of their cun-
ning, and forgot the well-known saying that ' un bien-
arerfi en rata deux.' Persons who have anything to say
to friends in Rome which they do not wish to meet the
eye of the Papal police will hardly intrust their letters
to the post-office, but will seek other means of forwarding
them."

Goculdass Tezpall, an enlightened Bhattia mer-
chant, who died in Bombay recently, left more than
100,0001. for educational and charitable purposes.
The obituary in the Bombay papers of the 29th
ult. includes Brigadier General C. Ireland, Madras Staff
Corps ; Colonel W. F. Eden, Madras Staff Corps ; Captain
George Gibson, 24th Regiment ; Captain H. E. Stanley,
23rd Fusilier.

Friday night was a great night at the ltaliens,
at Paris, as P►tti made her debat as Elvira in Ernani,
Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm of the andienoe.

A farmer named Poynton, residing between
Ballymalion and Keenagh, county Longford, was shot on
Friday while ploughing, by • man disguised. The out-
rage is believed to be agrarian. Hopes are entertained of
his recovery.

The effect of a reduction of rates in stimulating
business has again been illustrated in the came of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company. The charge for a message
was altered on the lit inst. from 101. to 51.55., and since
that date the receipts have shown an average daily excess
of 2001. over those of the preceding time.
PLYIfOITTH, DEC. 23.—Advisee from St. Helena
per the Norseman announce the death at that place of
Chief Justice W. R. Phelps, eldest son of Mr Phelps, the
tragedian, on the Zird November, of enteritis.
THE LATE CATASTROPHES IN NEWCASTLE—The
funeral of Mr. Bryson, the late town surveyor of New-
castle, killed by the explosion on Tuesday last, took place
on Saturday afternoon. It was a very imposing and
affecting spectacle. Mr. Bryson was an elder in
the Rev. J. H. Rutherford's chapel, Bath-lane,
and the body was removed there for the funeral service.
It was attended by the mayor, aldermen, and council,
and other authorities, and a peat number of private
carriages. The funeral procession subsequently proceeded
to Jesmond Cemetery, where the body was interred. The
funeral of the late sheriff. Mr. John Mairson, will take
place to-day, and as he is the only one of 400 which New-
castle has had, who has died while in office, and on account
of the melancholy circumstances of his death, and the great
esteem in which the deceased gentlemen was held by
all classes of the inhabitants, the funeral will be •
very large one. A subscription is being got up on behalf
of the widow and children of the policeman, Donald Bain,
I who was also killed by the explosion. The amount of
I injury done by the alarming Sr. in Queen-street, on the
Quay side, will be covered by from 8,0001. to 10,0001., not
over. The estimated lose of from 50,0001. to 60,0001. is an
exaggeration ; neither is there any roman to believe that
the fire was caused by incendiaries.

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