The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-20 00:00:00

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BALMORAL, Barr; 18:
The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess
Chliatian and Princess Louise, went ant yesterday.
Dr. M'Leod had the honour of dining with the Queen
and Royal Family het night.
Mr. Helps left the Castle yesterday.

Despatches were sent yesterday front the Colonial-oMee
to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius, Cey-
lon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Australian Colonies, and
New Zealand.

VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THE LINN OF QUOICH.
—The Queen visited the Falls of Quoich last Thursday,
driving from Balmoral via Invercauld Rouse and Allan-
more House. Luncheon was provided at the elegant
summer house erected by the Earl of Fife, and tea was
also served there in the afternoon. The royal party, after
spending some time in the grounds and ►t the Fall, had •
ride of some miles up the Vale of the Quoich, ghillies and
ponies being in attendance from Balmoral The return to
the palace in the evening was made via Braemar.—Dander
Advertiser.

Ilia Exoellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
and the Marchioness of Abereorn, accompanied by the Ladles
Georgians, Alberta, and Maud Hamilton, and Lord Cknd
3. Hamilton, M.P., left the Viceregal Lodge, Dublin, oa
Tuesday last, for Coonskin, county Wicklow, on a visit
the Earl and Countess of Fitzwilliam, where they am ex-
pected to stay till the 25th Met.

The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough are
entertalaing a select party at Blenheim-park, near Wood-
deck.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have made
great preparations for the approaching visit of their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princes• of Wales at Dunrobia
Cud., and a distinguished circle will amemble there at the
invitation of the duke and dachas to meet the Prince sad
Princess.

The Earl Cowper and Lady Florence Cowper will
leave his lordship's shooting lodge in Inverness-shire early
next week for the south.

Lord and Lady Alfred Paget have left the Coun-
ter (Dowager) of Listewera peat in Ireland for their seat
in Norfolk.

Lord Redesdale and the Hon. Mias Mitford, Sir
Thomas Munro, Colonel and Mrs. Campbell, and the AG-
oonntant-General and Mrs. Russell are among the vette
of the Earl and Countess of &afield, at Balmaeaan, N.D.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and
Mrs. Gladstone, hare returned to town from visiting Mr.
F. H. Russell, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth Russell, at Wo-
burn Abbey, Beds.

The delegates from New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia have left the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner,
for a few days, on a visit to the Duke and Ducker of
Marlborough, at Blenheim.
The Baroness de Rothschild and the Misses
Rothschild are at present staying at the Invercauld Ams,
Braemar.—Dundee Advertiser.

On Tuesday the Lord-Lieutenant went on a visit
to Earl Fitzvrilliam at Coollattin Park, in the county of
Wicklow, accompanied by the Marchioness of Abereorn,
the Ladies Hamilton, and Lord Claud Hamilton, A.D.c.;;
Lord Straldishia, Commander of the Forces in Ireland,
joining them at Bray. As the game at Coollattin is well
preserved, and a large number of the best dogs to
be had have been brought there specially for the occasion,
the viceregal party and the other distinguished visitors in-
vited to meet them may expect excellent sport. It is said
that the Lord-Lieutenant will return to the Viceregal
Lodge on the 25th. and will go shortly after to Baron's
Court, his seat in the county Tyrone.

LETTER FROM MR. J. STUART MILL, M.P.,
ON THE REMOVAL OF MR. BELLES.

The committee of the Beales' Testimonial Fund
have received the following letter from Mr. J. Stuart
Still, M.P. :

" Avignon, Sept. 10, 1866.

"Dear Sir,—Your letter of August :oth did not
reach me until too late to send a letter which
could be read at the meeting in favour of a testimonial
to Mr. Beale'. I think it quite right that
reformers should make compensation to Mr. Reales for the
pecuniary loss to which he has been subjected in conse-
quence of the prominent part he has taken in urging the
claims of the working classes to representation in parlia-
ment. I see no force in the reasons assigned as a justifi-
cation of this treatment of Mr. Beaks. Strong politi-
cal convictions are not considered a disquali-
fication for much higher judicial offices than
that of revising barrister, nor are ever likely to
be considered except when the opinions are on the aide
opposed to the ruling powers. To exclude from the seat
of justice all who are decided politicians, would
be to keep out all the fittest men, for who,
in the present state of the world, is withon.
strong political opinions of some sort except be-
cause he is wanting either in mental cultivation or in the
public spirit requisite for taking due interest in the sub-
ject? And to say that the opinions shall he an exclusion
because they are known and avowed would be still
more absurd, since it is precisely when they are
known to the world that there is least danger
of their exercising an improper bias on the
judgment. Besides, even if the reason were good
against appointing an active politician for the first time,
it cannot hold against retaining him, who, having been
appointed, heal bi the acknowledgment of even 'dyer.
saries proved his impartiality by his conduct.—l am, &c.,
" J. S. Mu.L."

EtscrioN EXPENSES. —An abstract of the re-
turns of candidates' expenses and of theehargee of returning
officers for every county, city, and borough of the United
Kingdom has just been issued. No accounts have been
furnished from 31 constituencies, and with regard to 26
the abstracts are incomplete, but as far as the information
goes the following results are shown :—Total amount of
the costs incurred by candidates for counties in England
and Wales, 315,6661. ; for cities and boroughs,
315,9941.13 e. Old.; foroounties in Scothurd,32,244/. 112.11 d.;
for cities and boroughs, 19,431/. 13s. sd. ; and for counties in
Ireland, 44,801/. 6s. ; and cities and boroughs,
24,610/. 4s. 20., making in all 752,6101. 4e. 20. The
charges made by returning officers in counties (England
and Wales) are stated at 15,655/. Bs. 3d. ; and cities and
boroughs, 26,2751. Ils. 10A. ; counties (Scotland), 9391.
6s. 1)d. ; and cities and boroughs, 1,206/. 12s. 4d. ; and
counties (Ireland), 2,2391.55. 84d. ; and cities and boroughs,
1,004!. 4s. 70., making a total of 47,3201. Bs. Ild. The
cost incurred by the candidates collectively at Lancaster
is returned at 2,529!. 7s. 2d. ; Reigate, 2,636/. 18s. scl. ;
Totnes, 7861.75. Ild. ; and Great Yarmouth,l,63Bl. 114.7 d.

ROYAL NAVAL COAST VOLUNTBZIIB ♦ND NAVAL
EMERY& —This morning were published returns of the
number of men who have annually enrolled themselves in
the force of Royal Naval Coast Volunteers from 1863 to
1866, and of the number of men enrolled in the Royal
Naval Reserve who failed to present themselves for drill
daring the years 1865 and 1866. The number of men who
enrolled themselves in the Coast Volunteers was 905 in
1863, 1,209 in 1864, 1,470 in 1865, and 691 in 1866. Of the
Royal Naval Reserve, of which the total strength was in
1665 16,936, and in 1866 17,021, there were in the former
year 3,660 men, and In the latter 4,050, who failed to
present themselves for drill.

The Pacific and New Zealand mail packets after
lasting New Zealand for Panama only go near the Pitcairn
and Wiper's Islands in the Pacific. A coal depot for
the packets is to be established on one of the latter islands.
Another of the Galapagos is a convict settlement be-
longing to the republic of Ecuador. This Pacifio nail line
having been established, a man can now travel round the
world in about 100 days, touching twice at Europe, once at
Africa, twice at Asia, four times at Australasia, and four
times at America. Thirty years ago a mail packet took
forty days to reach America from England ; now a person
can travel by sea nearly ten times that dietaries in a little
more than twice the time.

Tii Houssuras Pooa LAw Aer.—Aocording to
an *Maki document just Mimed, there were in 1864 only
612 pommel admitted nightly into Poor•law wards ; and
thin pot the number nighty has reoehod to 1,263.