The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-31 00:00:00

the Court.

OSBORNE, Dec. 29.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon,
acoompanied by Princess Christian and Princess Bespice.
n
Major-General F. Seymour was in attendances upo

horseback.
Her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with
Princess Beatrice.
Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Prince Henry of
Prussia, went out also.
Messrs. Elkington have had the honour of submitting to
the inspection of her Majesty the shield manufactured by
them, which they intend to exhibit at the Paris Exhibition
lof 1867, the subject of which is from Milton's Paradise
Lost.

DEC. :ie.
The Queen and the royal family saw the American
yachts Henrietta, Fleetwing, and Vesta, under sail off
Osborne yesterday afternoon, they having been ordered
round from Cowes by Commodore DPVickar, of the New
York Yacht Club, by her Majesty's desire.
The Queen and Prince and Princess Christian, Princess
Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice attended
Divine service this morning at Whippingham Church.
The Rev. G. l'rothero officiated.

A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council sat on Saturday, at Whitehall, on the
subject of quarantine. The lords present were the Right
Hon. Spencer Walpole, the Right Hon. H. Hammond, and
the Right Hon. Horatio Waddington. Mr. Harrison
attended the committee.
Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-
(Rae to the Governor of Canada.
The Right Hon. S. Walpole arrived in town on Saturday
from Cambridge. . _

We are authorised to state that Mr. Morton's resignation
as inspector of coal mines has not been accepted.

THE PRINcE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—Their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, with
the Duke of Cambridge, are expected to be the guests of
the Earl and Countess of Leicester at Holkham-hall, Nor-
folk. The royal visitors will probably arrive at I lolkham
to-day. The Prince of Wales, having quite recovered from
his recent slight indisposition, will be enabled to partici-
pate in the sports of the field, which will be shared by
several members of the aristocracy.
V7SIT OF THE DCKEoIEDINIsCRGHTOTHETRINITY-
HOusE.—On Saturday afternoon a special court of the
Elder Brethren of the Hon. Trinity Corporation was held
at the Trinity-house, Tower-hill, for the purpose of swear-
ing in the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P.. Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Hon. Sir Stafford
Northcote, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, as
elder brethren. The Duke of Edinburgh, the master of
the corporation, attended in the uniform of the body,
and presided as chief of the court. The Chancellor of
the Exchequer and Sir Stafford Northcote, who were
elected at a previous court, in the place of the late Lord
Northbrook and Admiral Sir W. Parker, also wore the
uniform of the brotherhood. On the ceremony of swear-
ing in the new members being concluded, the Prince
The usual review of the year appears in the and the eld
s. er brethren retired to the model room for
columns of our contemporaries to-day. The events chro-
nicled refreshment
are, of course, almost identical ; but the method in Cabinet Councils, it is understood, will be
which they are narrated and the reflections which they resumed on Tuesday. the Sth of January, by which day all
occasion vary according tothepoliticalviewsof each journal. the ministers will be in town. This will give four weeks
The Times concludes its summary with some remarks on for deliberation before the session commences on Tuesday,
the probable future of Lord Derby's government. The February 5. The Si mlay Ga:c!te states that there is good
recent English policy, it says, of withdrawing as much as reason for believing that her Majesty will open parliament
possible from foreign complication; is not likely to be re- in person.
versed during Lord Stanley's tenure of office. In England The Earl and Countess o
near f Carnarvon
oilwil leave
the creation of a North German power was generally re- Highclere Castle, their seat Newbury, the h7t
garded with satisfaction, not unmixed with anxious re- proximo, for town for the season.
Sections on the comparative weakness of a small volunteer The Earl Groarenor has gone on a visit to Lord
army. Political attention is principally directed to do- Leconfield at Petwortb, Sussex. Lady Constance Gros-
mestic questions, and mole especially to military orgaui- venor and family have left town to spend a few days with
sation and to parliamentary reform. The position of Lord the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland, at Cliveden, near
Derby's government is necessarily studefined, es he Maidenhead.
has only hell (Ace at the end of a session and during Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse and Lady
Alice Kerr have arrived at Cannes for the winter.
the recess. The disadvantage of representing a minority
has, perhaps, been virtually removed by the consequences
Viscount and Viscountess Cranborne and
of Mr. Bright's agitation. Mr. Gladstone has been abroad
family return to town early in the week from visiting Mr,
during the autumn, and his future intentions have not
been disclosed ; but on the opening of the session, if Mr.
A. Beresford Hope, Iff.P., and Lady Mildred Mope, at
Disraeli should ppose a reasonable measure of Bedgebury Park, Kent.
ro
reform, Mr. Gladstone must choose The late death of the wife of Mr. Holman Hunt,
s` former colleagues and allies " an between his
d the small the distinguished artist, wan, it seems, in childbirth. Mr.
parliamentary section which follows Mr. Bright. Hunt was residing at Florence, on his way to the East,
The great body of liberal members will prefer the and has not been a year married.
settlement of the reform controversy to the party There is now in the aviary at Knowsley (says the
pretensions which were paramount in 1859. The erection Lirerixml Albion) a turtle dove which hatched two young
of the necessary edifice is more important than the choice ones, in a tree in the open ground, on Christmas-day
of a presiding hero or a patron saint. The conventional morning. The same pair of doves batched on Christmas-
right of Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone to give their day last year in the same tree, and on New Year's-day the
names to a Reform Bill has been waived for the present year before.
by the errors of judgment and deficiency in tact which The Fete York Times says :—" A clergyman of
caused or excused the defeat of the bill of 1866, Western Blassachussets who had prepared with much
The country cues little whether the conservatives labour and care an appropriate discourse for the recent
are entitle,' to the honour of performing s task thanksgiving services at his church, was greatly annoyed
which has become indispensable to the national to find only about thirty hearers, and a majority of those
welfare. It is not forgotten that the Duke of I not of his own flock. The following Sunday, being
Wellington passed catholic emancipation, and that Sir unusually pleasant, a very large congregation assembled
Rabert Peel repealed the corn laws. If Lord Derby, by lat his church, but no minister appeared, and though
r:conciling his party to a liberal extension of the suffrage, i several times sent for at his residence, he left his con-
slits Inns the denitegogues who endanger public safety, he gregation to go home sermonless."
will I‘e at liberty to settle the question of the political . It is related in the American papers of a son of
consistency of himself and Isis colleagues with his nart
• - Y' ! . General E. Lee that at a recent dinner party in Richmond
with his conscience, and with future history.
----e-----.--- , one of the guests proposed as a toast, "The Fallen Flag."
: Colonel Lee promptly placed his hand upon the glass and
UONITI,ERATION OF TIIE NORTH AMERICAN CO- ' arose. " Gentlemen," said he, " this will not do. We
I tnNtEs.—The delegates from the British North American are pardoned prisoners. We have now but one flag, and
Provinces, in se-' for several weeks at the Westminster that is the flag of our whole country—the glorious old
Palace Hotel, have succeeded in revising the Quebec scheme stars and stripes I can recognise no other, fight for no
seas to secure a unanimous vote of all the provinces repre• other, and will drink to no other."
sntell—that is to say, Upper and Lower Canada, Nova ' CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES.—Mr. Hughes, M.P.
Scotia, and New Brunswick. The resolutions passed at for Lambeth, laid the corner atone of a new co-operative
II Quebec in their revised form, have been forwarded to Earl store at Darwen, near Bolton, on Saturday afternoon last.
tarvon forcon sideration. All the knotty points and diffi- It is only a little over six years since the cooperative
Canl
movement commenced in Darwen, and its career has been
cultieswhiehmesentedthemselves,sofarascolonialinterests one of rapid progress. In Marc',March, 1861, a small store was
are cncered, have beensuccessfullycombated. Island,v opened in Green-street for the Kale of groceries and pro-
made for enabling the colonies of Prince Edward s
Newfoundland, the North-West Territory, and British
\ visions, on the principle of the Rochdale pioneers, with
ait
sif°ncemetTiebenr4thne asosltyrihbedas colitaoloofiiiag°l.lre.asirgeriyn‘
Columbia to enter the Confederation on equitable terms yearcapital and members. The new store will be a substantial
test
' hereafter. A draught bill hissed on these resolutions, it and handsome three-gtoried building, 117 Pert long and
is expected. will be prepared and submitted to parliament 46 feet broad. It will have separate depments for
early in the ensuing session. The conference is compose•l
reel:Tel:a returg: will
gwililf holalladholUu:111;07. 'ranee laenctdutrlTO
as follows: -Canada: the Hon. Messrs. J. A. M'Douald building altogether will be one of the mostP:arrple'te of its
(chairman). G. E. Cartier, Howland, Langevin, 31'Dougall, kind, and an ornament to the town. In the evenings public
and Galt. Nova Scotia: the Hon. Messrs. C. Tupper, tea party was held, which was well attended. Mr. Hughes
IW. A. Henry, J. W. Ritchie, J. M'Cully, and A. G. presided at the meeting afterwsrds, and several speeches
Archibald. New Brunswick: Messrs. S. L Tilley, P. were delivered on co-operation by
.gentlemes connected
with the various co-operative stores in Lancashire, and by
sliteliell, C. Fisher, D. Wilmot, and J. W. Johnson.— Mr. E. O. Greenin
Tined. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—The
THR LATE LoRD MACACLAY.—A bust of Lord number of patients relieved at this hoepital during the
Macaulay has, with the permission of the Dean and week ending Dec. 29 was 2,320, of which 714 were new
Chapter, been placed in Westminster Abbey by his sister, cases.
lady Treveleau. It rests upon a handsome bracket. CRYSTAL PALACE. HALT-A-CROWN DAY.
,hadened by Mr. Scott, in the immediAte neighbourhood SATURDAY, DEC. 29.—Admissione on payment, 1,829; ditto
of the grave and of Addison's statue in Poet's Corner. by season tickets, 5,141 ; total visitors, 6,970.

From

OUR CONTEMPORARIES,

(TlilS DAY.)

TURKEY AND SERVIA.
CONSTANTINOI'LE, DEC. 30.
France has confidentially advised the Porte to
yield to the demands of Servia, and generally to
endeavour to pacify its Sclavonianaubjects.
The Candian insurgents have been reinforced by
fresh arrivals of volunteers, and are preparing to
engage the Turkish troops.

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THE WEST INDIA, MEXICAN, AND
PACIFIC MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 31.
The Royal Mail Company's steamship Shannon,
with the above mails, has arrived. She brings 69
passengers, 1,613,830 dols. in specie, and 3,298
packages of cargo, consisting chiefly of cocoa,
I
indigo, cigars, bark, and tobacco.
She left St. Thomas on the 16th, and expe-
rienced fine weather. The yellow fever has greatly
decreased. The Shannon had about five cases, and
only one death, which occurred ten days since.
Dr. Wiblin, the medical superintendent of qua-
rantine, has communicated with the Lords of the
Privy Council. It is expected that the Shannon
will be admitted to pratique forthwith as there ap-
pears no reason for the detention of ship or paa-

sengers.
In Chili the press in the radical interest con•
tinues to denounce the government.
The allied fleet were to leave Valparaiso about
the 20th of November, for the purpose f attack-
ing the Spanish merchant vessels in the Atlantic.
A slight shack of an earthquake was felt at
Valparaiso on the Bth. A tire also occurred
there on the 2nd, and entirely destroyed the
market of that city, reducing numbers of
families of the lower classes to want
and ruin. In Valparaiso the market was
active, and considerable transactions were taking
place in nitrate of soda. Bar copper had
declined 37c. per quintal. Exchange on London,
46d. to 4.0 d. On Paris, 480 fr. Bar silver per
mare, 10 dole. 25c. Freights to Liverpool and
Swansea, &is.
Peru continues to fortify Arica and Callao—the
latter port, it is said, will soon be capable of resist-
ing the most powerful fleet. The telegraph
i between Arica and Jana was completed and will
shortly be in operation between Islay and Ariquissa.
The Secretary of the Exchequer had resigned
in consequence of a misunderstanding between I
the other members of the cabinet. The troops sta-
tioned on the Chincha islands had mutinied, and
having seized a boat made their way to Pilaw, and
returned to their homes in the interior.
In Costa Rica dry weather prevailed, and a great
improvement was shortly expected in business.
The Central American republics were in the en-
joyment of peace.
The difficulties existing between the President
of Bogota and the archbishop had. been amicably

arranged.
A revolution in Antiognia against Mosouera,
and an invasion of the Canes by that state was
expected.
The Jamaica legislature was to meet on the 10th
December. The government had manifested a de-
sire to economise the expenditure. It is expected
that numerous offices of emolument will be
abolished. The north side of the island had been
unusually wet ; on the south side rain was wanted.
In some parishes sugar making had commenced,
and the yield was expected to be good. The
coffee supplies were small, and had sold at from
40s. to 455. Rum, 2s. Gd. in bond. Sugar, 14s.
to lie. Exchange on London, 2 per cent.
The weather at Trinidad was unsettled, but
public health had improved.
Genial rains had fallen at Antigua, and crops
were flourishing, and were expected to be good.
Granada had been visited by a terrible storm I
which had done great damage to property. The
cane fields and cocoa fields in some districts had
been laid waste.
The yellow fever and small-pox still prevailed at
St. Thomas, which although not to the extent
' I reported by the last mail are nevertheless very had.