The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-28 00:00:00

ISE EXPRESS, TUESDAY. EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1860.

gpt Court.

The Queen and the Prince Cetannete accompanied
by the Princess Alice, and attended by lir Hon. Horan'
fitopford, Lord Chula Fitzroy, and Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hot. D. de Roe, honoured Mr. Bell with a visit yesterday
'Serapes, at his *sae, in Douro-place, Kensington.
The Prince Consort presided yesterday at • meeting of the
Cesare of the Ducey of Cornwall, Buckingham-gate, et.
Jame's-park. There IMO else present—The Keeper of the
Privy Seal, Sir William Dauer; the httorney-Genaral,:flir
W. T. Alexander; the TVIONIZIN Colonel the Hon. Sir
Charles Beaumont Phipps ; the Duke of Newcastle ; and the
Secretary, Mr. J. R. Gardiner.
Her Majesty's dinner petty is the evening included the
Pflaollll Alive, the Dachau of Sutherland, Lady Fanny
Reward, the Berl and Countess of Shaftesbury, the Counters
Dowager of Lichfield end Lady Owendolina Antos, Viscount
Sydney, Lord Gillen% Lord Barrie, Colonel the Hon. Sir
Charles B. Phipps, General Sir Frederick Stavin, and the
Deea of Wisdom.

The bead of the Soots Fusilier Guards was in ►ttendance
sod played during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the
drawing-room.

The Duchess of Cambridge sad the Princess Mary visited
the Duchess of Katt, on Sunday, at Buckingham Palace.

A deputation from the rectifying distillers of Loosice,
consisting of Mr. J. B. Burnett, Mr. J. Seeger, Mr. H. Ni-
cholson, Mr. Gordo', Masers. Hodge*, Messrs. Booth, mad
Mr. Vallentine, letredeord by Mr. T. 8. Buncombe, M.P.,
attended by Mr. T. Browsing, bad an Interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing•street.
A deputation from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce,
consisting of Mr. Barley, M.P., Mr. Edmund Potter, Mr.
John Chatham, and Mr. John Ponder, had an interview
with the Right Has. I'. Milner Clitoon yesterday. at the
office of the Board of Trade.

A deputation from the Vestry of Chelsea, emaciating of the
Has. G. H. C. Syne, M.P. for Middlesex, W. Tit., Esq.,
M.P., Rev. R. Burgess (rector of tipper Chelsea), Mr. Han
(ohurehwerdea), Meagre. Pray, Whitehead, Miles, Suetton.
Symons, Richards, sad Gable (yea ryinen), and Mr. Labe.
(vestry deck), had an interview with the Right Hon. W. F.
Cowper yesterday, at her Majesty's Office of Works, White-
hall place.
A deputation, condetiag of /Irma. Hart, Trower, Clark,
Sandman, and Rock, had yesterday an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Calonial•ofoe
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian 'Mania.
Dispatches were sent to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong
Kong, Libaan, and Malta.

Hie Excellency the Ambassador of Fnnoe and
the Comatose de Persigny left Albart-gate Reese yesterday
on a visit to Baron and Baroness Meyer de Rothschild at
Meetmere, Bneldngbamshire.

His Excellency the ➢Sinister for the Netherlands
bee left town to pin his Royal Highness the Prince of
Orange in hie elowsion through England.
The Countess Bernetorff has issued cards for an
assembly to-morrow evening at her mansion on Carlton-
house-terrace.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby
have left the Bt. Otorges Soul fm Brighton for a few days.
Lord and Lady Tredegar have left Grantham for
Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire.

Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss Copley left
town rosearday on a visit to Baron and Baroness Meyer de
Rothschild at Mammon Perk, Buckinghamshire.

Lady Churchill has left the St. George's Hotel.
Lady Mary Wood had en assembly let evening
at her mansion to Belerave-equere.

The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Censmons will hold his full dives levees at the Bpealiet's
hone., Westminster, on the evenings of Wednesday, March
7, and Wednesday, March 14, at hall-past ten o'clock.
Lord Abercromby is to he entertained to dinner
by the tenantry on his different ertah■, at Bridge-of-Allan,
on Friday nest.

Sir Adam Hay and family are at present sojourn-
ing at Pau, In the south of France, where they intend to
pun the spring•

- The late Bishop of Rochester has left a large
family, two of whom are in the church—the Rev. Frands
Hay, rector of Chime!burst, and the Rev. Frederic William,
rector of Bums. Of his daughters, one is Harriet, late Mar-
chioness of Camden; Augusta Ana is the wife of 8:r J.
Pakington; &rah Maris, of R. Capel Cure, Esq. ; Eleanor
Margaret, of J. J. Tufnell, jun., Esq., and there ara four
others.

The Rev. W. J. Rondell, of F ham, has been
appolniti senior curate to the Rev. Hugh Atka, at
Soothwaak.

The select committees to try the Berwick-upon-
Tweed, Pontefract, and Beverley elections will be chosen on
the 13th of March next.

Oa Thunday the Lord Advocate will introduce a
bill further to emend the laws relating to the representation
in par:iatnent of the poople of Scotland.

On Friday Mr. Maguire will ask the Chancellor
of the Esc& quer whether, " with a view to tho interests of
the public service, the treasury contemplate, in the revision
of the Customs department which must neceaearily take
place conaNtient upon the al,erations in the tariff, placing
those odioers on the superannuation or redundant list who
have hitherto been found unworthy of reward or unfit for
promotion; and, further, whether any provision will be made
for the purpose of bringing forward these officers, without
regard to the mere routine system of pronction, who, from
their knowledge of commercial matters and poemsaing the
confidence of the mercantile world, ere more likely to carry
oat the new o:regiment to the satisfaction of the public."
On Wednesday evening last a lecture on " Spain'
was delivered to the members of the Hastings Itechecins'
Institution by their representative, F. North, Fag.

Print* Louis Lucien Bonaparte ha/ paid a second
,Wt to Mr. Mark Antony Lower, of Lewes, with reference
to his undertaking on the dialectology of Europe. We
(Sussex Adrertissr) understand that his imperial highness
has nearly completed his series of the English provincial
dialects, the .abject chosen for philological comparison being
the Song of Solomon. About twenty-four melons of that
sacred poem will, we are informed, make ep tho /tries, ma
more than one of the number will be tualebel by Mr.
Lower.

The Philadelphia Press says :—" Rosa Boaheur is
about to visit the tinite I States prof ssionally. As opu-
lent French gentleman, an isthmian in art, sons the* since
commissioned her ladyship to cross the Allende, proceed to
the great prairies of the tar Wed, and mint, from life, a
herd of wild buffaloes. She wee to take her own time, ac-
complish it in her own way, and Si her own price. At ant
she declined to entertain the proposition, but tidally, alter
turning it over in her mind, and redacting what an original
and splendid work die could make, she hes accepted the
offer, and conies over in the spring to make the picture."

At SL Petersburg on the 16th the Duke de Mon-
tebello, French ambassador, gave • grand ball, which wee
attended by the Emperor, by the Grand Dukes Constantine,
Niaboiae, sad Michael, and by fire archduchesses.

The Rey. M. Jaillerd hee been appointed protes-
tant chaplain to the French expeditionary corps going to
Chloe.

Algeria has already begun sending to Paris peas,
French beans, new palatine, strawberries, sad other vegeta-
bles sad trait., which in Bums only attain maturity in
summer sad autumn.

Mr. W. :Robinson, a Madras gentleman, who
signs himself Commissioner of the " Miasmal Police,"
publishes an advertisement asking for candidates for polies
commands. They must be robust men, nailer 30, sober,
well ciindacted, with a "gentlemanlike tone of honour,"
firm, persevering, just, forbearing, frank, and possessed of
tact; must lays had a "good systems:lc education," and
b• prepared to keep ponies, must have a colloquial fa-
miliarity with nee native language sad a knowledge of
criminal law.

The King of Sardinia has just granted a free par-
don to a priest named Grillo, •ho had teen condemned by
the tetanal of Casale to a yesr's unpile:anent for treason-
able liapage against the Kill', uttered is a ooffee-hones.
The Pirstveranxa of Milan states that the muni-
cipality el that city have addressed to Sir Jame* Hudson a
!Natatorium& the uppertions uttered by Lord Normanby In the
House nt Lard', on the ith inst., in which they declare that
the state of Milan, far from being earming, bas never bin
owe satisfactory fa ewes) respect.