The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-25 00:00:00

Despatehes from the Lord High
lonian Islands and from the Governor of Heligoland war
received yesterday at the colonial-oelce.

of the

Visrr or THE PRINCE or WALES TO Gazinwiat
SOIIPITAL.-011 Tuesday evening the Prince of Weiss, ao-
oompanied by Colonel Phipps sad Mr. Gibbs, paid a visit to
Greenwich Hospital. His Royal Highness ma caducted
through the various departments of the hospital by Sir W.
Delyell sad Adjutant-General Wild, and spent some liew
time in oamvssmation with an old peasicaer named Drum-
mond, one of the few surviving sailors of the Victory.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge end the Prisms Mary honoured Mr. sad Mrs. Bates
with their company at diluter yesterday. The following
were invited to meet their royal highnesses:—The Duke and
Duchess of Maathistor, the Netherlands Minister, the Bel-
gian Waster sad Madame Van de Weyer, the Dachas of
Lasater, the Berl sad Countess Grey, Viscount Chelsea,
Frame Countess Waldegrave, Mr. Haroourt, M.P., the
Bishop of Oxford, Lady Elizabeth Murray, the Hon. F.
Brag. Lady Caroline Murray and Major Purvis were in
wait* on their royal highnesses.

L.,it night the Duchess of Northumberland had
• " reception " at Northumberland House, which was at-
tended by above 400 persons of distinction, and most of the
members of the carps diplomatictut. Previously to the as-
sembly, the noble duke and duchess entertained his Excel-
lency Coant Kislmaneegge, his Excellency the Prussian
Minister and the Countess Bernetorf, the Earl and Countess
of Derby and Lady Emus Stanley, the Bari and Countess of
Hardwick., the Earl of Carnarvon, Viscount Pevensey, the
Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford, Lord Redesdale,
Lord John Manners, Lord and Lady Loraine. Lady Col-
dwater, the Right Hon. Spencer and Kra. Walpole, the
Right Hon. J. W. Henley, Sir Michael and Lady Wavle
Shaw Stewart, Sir William Jolla., Sir Frodariak and Lady
Smith, Colonel Taylor, M.P., Mr. Newdegate, M.P., Captain
Wyndham, Ito. Covers were laid for thirty..

The Right Hoa. the Speaker gave hie sixth par-
liamentary full dress dinner last evening, at his mansion on
Carlton Honae-terrace. The following were present :—The
Earl of Lincoln, the Marquis of Stafford, the Earl Gros-
venor, Lord Robot Clinton, Viscount Ebrington, Hon.
Charles Howard, Hon. John Edmund; Elliott, Ben. Arthur
Klausaird, Hon. Henry Berkeley, Sir John Ogilvy, Sir
Harry Verney, Sir Edward North Buxton, Sir las. Maths-
ion, Major-General Buckley, Sir Erskine Perry, Colonel
Sykes, Mr. Hastings Russell, Mr. Heedlam, Q.C., Mr. Ed-
ward Ellice, jun., Mr. Oiler Puller, Mr. Blaney, Mr. Whit-
bread, Mr. Wegnelln, Mr. Pottle* Borer" Mr. Thomson
Hankey, Mr. E. W. Crawford, Mr. Adams, Mr. William
Williams, Mr. Freak Crossley, Mr. Baxter, Kr. J. H. Our-
ney, and Mr. Charles Paget. The Hon. George
grave and the Rev. Henry Drury bad the honour of join-
ing the party.
His Excellency the Saxon Minister left town
last swabs for Paris, to meet Prince George of Saxony,
who will arrive in London on Saturday next.

The Duchess of Wellington and Lady Julia Hay
us sojourning at the Bedford Hotel, Brighton.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon entertained
a select circle at din= last evening, et their mansion in

Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe
have left town foe St. Lecmarde-mi-Ses, where they have
tamed a suite of apartments at the Royal Victoria Hotel.
Sir Francis Scott has left Claridge's Hotel for
Great Barr Hall, near Birmingham.

• after The Times,referring to the Earl of Ellen-
borough's explanation relative to the " Ermines " ob-
Neva :—" Will Lord Derby and Lord Harding. de4 with
aged oonddence that it has ever been in contemplation to
seek for recruits in Canada among the fugitive slaves from
the United States? Or will they smart that the= also
Emmen • only were sought for? Or will they =ode-
MOM d yet further, end inform us bow many lettere or
despatches Lord Ellenborough has shady Deft obliged to
withdraw, and whether it be has that tee of those candsted
of a letter in the Queen's name, ignoring the very isalmos
of the East India Company, addressed to tha Nalterojah of
Owelior, announcing Lord Ellenborongh'e sconnion to the
sovereignty of India in terms of Oriental magoldoence,
before which even the glowing dithyramblos of the Soot-
math proclamation ere pale and Medicinal r.

The Prince of Syracuse is at present finishing a
statue, in white marble, of one of the philosophers of Naples
—Baptists Vice, and which is to be erected in a principal
equate of the city.
ANNUITY TO THE Soft OF SIA HENRY LAW-
mancm—A 'pedal morel court of the Bast ladle Company
is to be held oa the 7th of April, when the Proprietors of
But India Stork will be asked to approve a rembiket of the
Court of Directors granting to the eldest see of lb. less
Major•Geoerel Sir Henry Lawrence en atom* of
with reversion to his younger brother, In the event of the
I death of the elder brother without heir meg.