The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-02 00:00:00

ut court.

OSBORNE, J. L
Her Majesty walked out this morning, accom-
panied by Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice.

THE BURIAL OP SIR CHARLES EASTLAKE AT
FLORENCE.

A letter from Florence of the 27th ult. says :-1
"The [Maine of the late Sir Charles Eastlake, P.R.A.,
were to-day consigned to their last resting-place in the
English cemetery here. Sir Charles, as you are aware,
died at Pisa, after & tedious illness, but it was no doubt
thought that this city had a prior right to be selected for
the obsequies of one so intimately connected with the fine
arts, &a., whose distinguished professional claims as well as
his estimable personal character were so well known and so
highly appreciated by the Florentine community, Italian
as well as English. The body was brought at an
early hoar by railway from Pisa, and was accompanied by
Lady Eastlake, who was accompanied by Mrs. Romilly and
the Misses Horner, and wis met at the station by many
sympathising friends that followed the body in • long
cortege to the amatory. The funeral service was very im-
pressively performed by the Rey. Mr. Greene, British
chaplaio of Pisa, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Pendleton, chap.
lain at Floreuoe. Among the many mourners present were
the Eton. Mr. Elliott, her Majesty's Minister at Florence ;
the Rev. C. B. Elliott, Mr. Webster. R.A., Mr. Archer
Shoe, Mr. Power, the American sculptor, Mr. Fuller, Mr.
Kittowe, and many of the English residents and visitors,
all anxious to manifest their respect for the late artist."
The Florence correspondent of the Post says " Like
the late Count Cavour, Sir Charles has fallen a victim to
professional ignorance and prejudice, and if his life was
prolonged for stew weeks the result is solely due to the
decision of Lady Eastlake, who telegraphed from Milan to
his English medical adviser, and, on his arrival and by
his advice, at once put • stop to the merciless
course of blood-letting which was still in progress.
From the moment of his arrival in Pisa it was
evident that his chances of rallying entirely de-
pended on his power of taking nourishment, but
his mind continued so tranquil, and, one might almost say,
his spirits continued so buoyant, that his death took his
friends, his Pisan medical attendant, Dr. Grisanowsky, and
Lady Eastlake, by surprise. To those, and their name is
legion, whom ties of friendship, and gratitude, and esteem
have long and closely bound to Lady Eastlake, the know.
ledge that never was husband in a last fatal Moms
more carefully and affectionately tended by • wife
than Sir Charles Eastlake has been from the mo-
ment that he was first struck down by illness at Milan,
will convey nothing new ; but to the many thousands
by whom he was only known in his public character
and duties, or to whom her tame is only familiar
as that of • leader of society or a gifted and genial writer,
the statement may not prove uninteresting or unaccept-
able that not even the last, the saddest, the most harrowing
1 of all duties to the husband who died in • foreign land
was left unfulfilled by the bereaved survivor ; and
although it was not easy to recognise at first in the thickly
veiled figure which to-day stood at the grave—so crushed
and bent did it seem with sorrow—her commanding
figure, the mournful sympathy reflected from the looks of
all around would at once have revealed to a stranger that
she was the one beyond all others at the heart's core of
the common loss and the common grief."

The Order of the Garter is about to be con-
ferred upon King Leopold IL of Belgium, and Lord Sydoey
will shortly proceed to Brussels for the purpose of investing
his Majesty with the insigoia of the order, en behalf of the
Queen.

The Right Hon. Mr. W. Cowper has been elected
President of the South of England Literary and Philoso-
phical Society, in the room of the late Lord Palmerston.

Among the foreigners sojourning in Rome last
week were the Earl and Countess of Liatowel, Sir Robert
K., Lady, and Mir Arbuthnot, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Russell, Hon. G. C. Mostyo, Mr. and Mn. Millais,
Countess of Beesboroogh, Hoe. Osman Daffy, Countess
Dowager of &Amore and family, Hoe. A. Corry, RN.,
Lord Dankellin, Mr. Greville Chester, Sir Henry and Lady
Pottioger, Sir R, Knightley, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fenton,
Colonel and Mrs. Adams, die.

Mr. Russell Gurney, Q.C., Recorder of London,
and Mr. J. B. Manle, Q.C. and. Recorder of Leeds, will, it
is expected, leave Southampton today in the Royal Mail
steamer Atrato. They will reach Jamaica on the 21st in-
stant. Mails will leave that island on the 25th instant and
on the 6th proximo, and will reach England on the 13th
and 28th proximo respectively.

Lord Alfred Paget repeats in the Times the ex-
pressions of hi+ opinion that steamers crossing the Channel
are driven at too high a rate of speed in thick weather and
on dark nighty, and adds " if all the pamengers and the
mails bad been lost on the cumaion is question (which
must inevitably have °mune' if the Samphire bad not
been built in watertight compartmesta), and farther, if a
cabinet minister or a foreign ambassador bad perished in-
stead of the unfortunate ladies, all England would have
stood aghast, and the public would have taken up the
matter of ►igh speed on dark nights."

The engagement of Princess Dagmar, of Den-
mark, with the present hereditary Grand Duke of RUSSIA
is now regarded in Germany ae a settled thing, though not
yet officially announced.

In painting through Madrid on Thursday last,
the King and Queen of Portugal were met at the station by
the King-Consort, who met with no sign of respect what-
ever from the crowd ; but when, after an accolade between
the two monarchs, these, together with the Queen of Por-
tugal and the infant prince, made their appearance and
took their seats in the court carriage, the hats not only
went off, but were even waved in the air, while shouts of
" Firm' los Reyes Liberalea de Portugal !" were heard on
all sides. The Queen of Portugal held her infant child on
her lap. The Spaniards present admired the " digaified
stature and bearing," of Maria Pia, "her lithe aad slender
figure, her rosy complexion, auburn hair, blue eyes, and
sweet expression ;" they were in perfect replete* about
the wino hermosinimo, the infant "ruddier than his pa-
rents, with the hair almost of an Albino." The sovereigns
of Portugal were in moaning ; the King in plain clothes ;
UM Quota wore a black dress and black velvet mantle.

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The mineral oil mines just discovered at Trow-
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as to the material found being adapted for the manufacture
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