The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-01 00:00:00

Witt eaurt.

OSBORNE, JAN. 31.
Her Majesty drove out yesterday afternoon with
Princess Chsistian.

The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole and Lieutenant-
General Sk George Buller, commanding in the western
district, arrived yesterday, and had the honour of dining
with the Queen.

Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Bidduiph had also the
honour of being invited.

The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive yesterday,
attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
private residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in St. James's-square. 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, the Earl of Carnarvon, Gene-
ral Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. North-
cote, Lord John Manners, and the Right Hon.
Gathorne Hardy.

Mr. Alderman Stone (chairman of the Police Committee
of the City) and the Itemembrancer attended at the Home-
office yesterday, on the subject of a bill for regulating the
traffic of the metropolis.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the settlements on the West
Coast of Africa. Despatches were sent to the Governor-
General of Canada.

The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive yes-
terday, ►tttended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Christian and
Prince Arthur arrived at Portsmouth harbour yesterday
morning from Osborne on board her Majesty's paddlewheel
yacht Alberta, Captain his Serene Highneu the Prince
Leiningen, on a visit of inspection of some of the prin-
cipal of the land and coast defensive works of the garrison
and port.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Misses
Loogley have arrived at Lambeth Palm*, from Addington
Park, Croydon, for the season.

The Duke of Buckingham, as Lord President of
the Council, had a dinner party last evening at Chandos
House, Cavendish-square, for the pricking of the sheriffs
for the present year. There were present—The Duke of
Beaufort, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl of Bradford,
the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Cranborne, Lord Stanley,
Lord John Manners, the Bight Hon. Sir J. Pakington, the
Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, the Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Spencer H.
Walpole, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Mr. Harrison,
Mr. Helps, ke.

On Tuesdaylast the Rev. Thomas Lyon FeHowes,
clerk, M.A., was instituted to the vicarage of Honing-
ham with East 'ruddenham, in Norfolk, on the presenta-
teflon of the Right Hon. Emma Baroness Bayning of Hon-
inghain HIM. On the same day the Rev. Frederick
Thomas Hetling, clerk, 8.A., wee instituted to the rectory
of Testerton, in Norfolk, on the presentation of John
Hall Morse-Boycott, Esq., of Sennoweville, Bushey, Herts.

Two deputations, one of railway directors, and
the other appointed at the meeting held on Wednesday in
Dublin, waited yesterday upon the Lord-Lieutenant to
present memorials in favour of the purchase of the Irish
railways by the government. His excellency stated that
the government had already given the subject its most
serious consideration, but could not pronounce a decided
opinion until the report of the royal commission bad
been published. He hoped that the report would be
favourable to some action being taken. The Attorney-
General observed that the Irish executive bad unani-
mously recommended the government to take the rail-
ways under its control, and he hoped parliament would
sanction the project.

The privittesulom now open at Paris for perio-
dical reception are those of her Imperial Highness the
Princes Clotilde, Duchess Porto, Countess d'lndq, Coun-
tess Dengue, Madame de Brie, Countess Duch*tel, Prin-
cess Csartoriska, Countess Walawska, Madame Troploeg,
Countess du Bens, Madame Leverrier, ftc. The usual
ministerial evening receptions have commenced at the
various hotels of the cabinet ministers.

The crown jewels of France will bo exhibited in
the Champs de Mars doting the Universal Exhibition
in a pavilion in the centre of the reserved park. This
pavilion will be constructed in such a way as to sink into
the ground at night.

The Mon lien; gravely announces that a squadron
—under Lord Clarence Paget—has arrived at Cairo / The
Mooiteur probably thinks the gallant admiral commands •
squadron of horse marines.

The Paris concert season, which always accom-
panies fashionable arrangements at this period of the
year, has commenced. At the Conservatoire the old pro-
gramme is reconstituted ; the performances have little
variation, but the routine is observed, because it is rarely
destitute of good taste. At the popular concerts of classical
music there are some excellent instrumental performances-
It is said that the Paris General Omnibus Com-
pany will run 1$ new omnibuses during the exhibition.
TILE LORD RECTORSHIP ()PST. ANDREW'S UN IVER-
arrY.—Our correspondent, writing from St. Andrew's yes-
terday, says :—" Now that the day is at hand on which Mr.
J. S. Mill is to be formally installed as Lord Rector of the
university here, the desire to be present on the occasion is
manifested with an tmlooked-for unanimity. Unfortu-
nately the eagerness of the public of St. Andrew's to
hear Mr. Mill cannot be gratified to the full. The hall,
or rather library, in which his predecessors have deli-
vered their addresses can contain but a small number of
persons, while the town-hall is to be occupied for other
less purely intellectual and academical purposes. Never-
theless the reception he will meet with will probably not
be limited in warmth by the dimensions of the room in
which the ceremony is to take place. Judging from expres-
sion, of opinion made by the inhabitants of this city, the
feeling appears to be general that to bays such a Lord
Rector is an honour of which they are proud."

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CONSCIENCE MONEY. —His Excellency the Go-
vernor has received halves of new Bank of England checks
for 750 t., and the Hon. E. Hushworth the other halves
from a person in England, who states that it is a sum
which the Jamaica revenue had been defrauded of.—
Jamaica Gleaner, Jan. 8.