The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, -tfBd7.

took their places like men who had ibiro throug
some exceedingly unpleasant experience-alike poll.
tical bankrupts who had a load of paili
to get rid of, but hardly knew what the process
was like. It is stated on high auffiority that just
before this exemplary but trying display of
acquiescence Lord DERBY distinctly told his sup-
porters that " this was the last time he should
" attempt to deal with the question of Reform, and
" that should he fail now, nothing should induce
" him, wearied and worn as he was with the reopen-
" sibilities of political life, again to accept the
" onerous duties of the position which he now
" occupies." And, apparently, it required nothing
less than this supreme appeal to Conservative
loyalty to bring the party to consent to a bill
which no public man pretends would settle the
question of Reform, and to which even the
members of the Cave object as not doing enough
to give the country assurance of rest from popular
agitation.

Mr. GLADSTONE observed on Monday that the
position of the House was fundamenially altered
by Mr. Disicsam's speech. This was more strik-
ingly shown when at the end of the discussion the
motion for going into committee on the Resolu-
tions was withdrawn without the slightest objec-
tion from the Government. Mr. ROEBUCK had
good reason for declaring that Parliament was
being trifled with when the leader of the House,
who had invited it to go into committee,
withdrew his motion on an incidental remark
which fell from the leader of the Opposition. How
is any legislation to be carried forward under such
management

OUR CONTEMPORARIEf3.
(THIS DAY.)

• Cu .fraurt.
WINDSOR CASTLE, Fn. I&

The Queei, accompanied by Princess Christian,
arare out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty drove this
morning with her royal highness.
Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice rode in the Home
Park, and Prince Leopold drove out.
Prince Christian, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel G.
Gordon, was present at the debate in the House of Com-
' mons last night.
The Earl of Bradford (Lord Chamberlain) and Viscount
Royston (Comptroller of the Household) arrived at the
Castle yesterday afternoon, and presented addresses of
congratulation to the Queen from both houses of parlia-
ment upon the birth of the infant princese.
Her Majesty held a Council to-day at a quarter before
three o'clock, at which were present the Duke of Bucking-
ham, the Earl of Bradford, and the Earl of Devon.
The Duke of Buckingham had an audience of the Queen.
Viscount Hawarden and Lieutenant-Colonel Hun. C.
H. Lindsay were the lord and groom in waiting.
Mr. Helps was clerk of the council.
Lord Stanley arrived at the Castle.to-day at 3 o'clock,
and had an audience of the Queen, after which her
Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Louise, entered the
White Drawing-room, when the Minister for Greece and
the Haytian Minister were presented to her Majesty by
Lord Stanley, to deliver their credentials.
The Hon. P. Campbell Scarlett, C./3., was introduced
by Lord Stanley, and had the honour of an interview with
her Majesty on his return on leave from Mexico.
Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, K.C.8., arrived at the
Castle yesterday, and had the honour of an interview with
her Majesty.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale,
hunted with her Majesty's stagbonnds, at Datchet,
yesterday.

At the council held yesterday by the Queen at Windsor
Castle, a proclamation was ordered to be issued for the
election of a new representative peer for Scotland, in the
room of the late Lord Gray.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, the
Earl of Carnarvon, General Peel, Viscount Cran-
borne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir J.
Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, Lord J. Manners, the
Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas.

A deputation from Sheffield, consisting of Mr. Hadfield,
M.P., the Mayor of Sheffield, and others, had an inter-
view with the Hight Hon. H. Corry (in the absence of the
Lord President of the Council), at the Privy Council-office,
Whitehall, yesterday, on the subject of the cattle plague.

HER bLUESTY'S ARRIVAL IN LONDON.
(THIS DAY.)

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by the
Princess Louise, and attended by the Duchess of Rex-
burghs, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel the Hon.
Dudley De Rol, left Windsor early this morning for
town, and arrived at the terminus of the Great
Western Railway shortly after 11 o'clock, when carriages
were in waiting to convey her Majesty and suite to Marl-
borough House. The Queen, Princess Louise, and atten-
dants arrived at Marlborough House at half-past 11,
accompanied by an escort of Lancers.
After staying with the Primer of Wales about three.
quarters of an hour, her Majesty proceeded to Buckingham
Palace, to hold her first court this season. Her Majesty
and suite are expected to leave Buckingham Palace shortly
after 5 this afternoon, on their return to Windsor.

Mr. and the lion. Mrs. Granville Vernon re-
ceived at dinner last evening at their residence in Bel-
grave-square, the Earl and Countess Grey, Count Strslecki
Dowager Lady Wharncliffe, Viscount and Viscountea;
Pelham, Viscount and Viscountess Sudley, Sir Hamilton
and Lady Seymour, Mrs. Mildmay and Miss Mildmay, the
Right Hon. Henry Brand, M.P., and Mrs. Brand, Mr.
Henry Baring, Mr. C. Smith, kc.
Mrs. Ford received at dinner last evening, at her
residence in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, the Queen's
Advocate and Lady Phillhnore, Lord de Tabley, General
Seymour, Colonel Challoner, Mr. William Harcourt, Mr.
Matheson, Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, Hon. Ashley and
Mrs. Ponsonby, Sir John and Lady Sebright, Sir Roderick
Murchison, Sir Dudley C. and Lady Marjoribanlui, kc.

The death of the Hon. Mrs. Fitzgerald Foley,
which occurred after giving birth to twins on Saturday
last, is announced. The deceased and lamented lady leaves
a numerous young family, and was the wife of Captain
the Hon. F. A. Foley, R.N.

LATEST INTELLIGNIWIL.

STATE OF SPAIN.

" The news from Spain," says the indtipeodance,
" is very dark and threatening., A perfect reign of
terror exists in Madrid. The slightest political
offences are made punishable with death, and this
punishment is not simply a threat. Fusillades
and transportations are the order of the
day. The prisons aro glutted with captures,
the most odious denunciations inspired by party
hatred or private malice are received by the
government with willing ears, and yet in spite of
this compression, which recalls the worst days of
the clerical reaction of 1823, public feeling re-
volts at the regime which is forced upon the
country. Clandestine publications penetrate the
camps and even the ministerial offices. A person
found distributing some of these publications
amongst the soldiers on guard at the Ministry of
the Interior was seized, and, after a summary
conviction, taken away and shot."

client. The jury, however, adopted the theory
of the client sad not of the advocate, and held
Lemairo sane, and guilty without excuse. On
leaving the dock he laughed, and said he should
certainly sign no appeal to the Court of Cessation.

The Bourse was less firm. It was found that
quotations from great provincial towns come lower
than those in Paris yesterday. Rente fell 15e. for
cash and 'Tic. for account, closing at 69fr. 85c. and
69fr. 82}c. Italian fell 10c. Tho uncertainty as
to the financial plans of the new Finance Minister
makes speculators in Italian funds extremely
cautious. Credit Foncier fell 7fr. 60c., and Mo-
biller 2fr. 50c.