The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-23 00:00:00

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vention in the matter. is that we lava the lives
and property of our countrymen. For, as ear cor-
respondent shrewdly observes, had the NsapoMem
tired on the abandoned steamer of the insurgents,
it would have been an utter waste of powder and
shot. When GARIBALDI and his gallant followers
stepped on Sicilian ground they had to all intents
and purposes burnt their ships. At five on the
following morning they had marched away for Se-
lena, and if the Neapolitan steamers and the frigate
which excited the admiration of our blue-jackets at
Marsala are ashamed to sleep on their laurels they
must lose no time in getting back to Palermo.

ebe Court.

OSBORNE, MAT 22.

The Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Princess
Alice yesterday went out walking in the morning. The
younger branches of the Royal Family took carriage airings.
In the afternoon her Majesty, the Prince Consort, the
Princess Alice, and Princess Helena, attended by the Lady
in Waiting and Maid of Honour, drove in the char-i-bank
through Cowes to Newport.
_ .

Lord C. Fitzroy, the Equerry in Waiting, attended on
horseback.

There wu no addition to the royal party in the evening.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the offi-
cial residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were Vis-
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George C.
Lewis: Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle,
the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hou. T. Milner Gibson, Sir
George Grey, the Right Hon. 0. P. Villiers, and
the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.

A deputation aa to the holding of an maize at Leeds for
the Wert Riding of Yorkalure had an interview with Earl
Granville, Lord P e 'dent, yesterday, at the Privy Council
Mee.

Aaoputation from the township of Leeds, consisting of
Mr. G. 8. Beecroft. M.P., Mr. Councillor Longley, and Mr.
William Middleton had an interview with the Poor Law
Board at Whitehall yesterday.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial Office yesterday
to the Governor of Canada and the Lord High Commissioner
of the lonian Islands.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Prinosas Mary, attended by Lady Geraldine
Somerset and Colonel Home Purses, honoured the Duchess
of Insanele with their company at dinner, on Monday
evening, at Kensington Palace.

The Duke of Cleveland entertained at dinner, on
Monday, at Cleveland House, Lord and Lady Aveland and
Hon. Miss Heathcote, Sir John and Lady Jane Walsh, Sir
Ralph and Lady Howard, Sir W. W. Wynn and Lady
Wynn, Sir Thomas and Lady Cochrane, Lady Frederick and
Mn. Cavendish Bentinck, Lady Cecilia des Voila, Sir
Charles Yorke, Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Lovably, and Mr.
Henry MUbanke.

Lord Lyndhurst, after the debate in the House
of Lords on Monday night, entertained at dinner a family
circle, in George•street, on the oeonsion of the venerable
peer's 88th birthday, his lordship having been born in 1772.
Baron and Baroness Gustave de Rothschild have
arrived at Wallace's Hotel from Paris

We regret to announce thedemise of Mr. Spencer
de Horsey, who died on Sunday last at his residence at
Cowes. The deceased, who was well known and highly
esteemed in society, was formerly a member of the House
Commons. He married, in 1824, Lady Louisa Rona,
youngest daughter of John first Earl of Stradbroke, and
sister of the present earl, by whom he leaves two sone,
Captain de Honey, RN., and Lieutenant-Colonel de
Horsey, of the Grenadier Guards, and • daughter, the
Countess of Cardigan.

Mrs. Washington Hibbert's second ball, on Mon-
day evening, in Dover-street, was very numerously attended
by the leading members of the huthionable world.
_ _ _

A nnmerously attended and enthusiastic meeting
of the admirers of Garibaldi was held yesterday evening at
the St. Martin's Hall. Mr. F. Lawrence occupied the
chair, and was supported on the platform, amongst others,
by Mr. Slack, Mr. George Levenion, Mr. Pliny Mills,
Mr. A. B. Richards, Mr. M`Gilchrist,
.Mr. G. Holyoske,
sad Mr. Washington Wilks.
The authorities at the Horse guards have
directed a board of Royal Engineer and other officer to be
assembled for the purpose of making a survey and reporting
upon the condition of the government stores at Purffeet,
Tilbury Fort, and Chatham.

The Duke of Roxburgh, Earl of Fife, Lord Erskine,
and Lord Hatherton were accidentally shut out from voting
with the minority on the Paper Duties Repeal Bill. Lord
Willoughby de Broke was shut out from voting against the
second reading of the Bill, and the proxies of the Earl of
Buckinghamshire and Viscount fltrathallan were aociden-
tally omitted. _ _

Mr. }Linglake, on Friday, will call the attention
of the house to some recent despatches attributed to M.
Thouvenel ; and ask the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs whether he is willing to lay upon the table of the
house any documents existing in the Foreign-office tending
to show the purpose which the parties to the treaties of
1815 had in view when they provided for the neutralleation
of Northern Savoy, And, whether, consistently with due
regard to the interests of the public service, he could give
the house any information as to the present state of the
negotiations arising out of the treaty of Turin.
Information has been received in Egypt of the
death of Mr. Plowden, her Majesty's consul in Abyssinia.
Re is stated to have died of wounds received in an attack
made upon him by one of the chiefs under Negouni, the
rebel governor of Tigre, while he was travelling through
that province on his way from Gondar to Maseowa. Re
was ransomed by King Theodore for 1,000 dollars, but was
already in a dying state. The assistance rendered to the
Governor of Tlgrd by the French, in return for the grant of
territory which he has made to them on the seacoast, is said
to be largely contributing towards enabling him to resist
the authority of Theodore. _ _

A letter from Berlin says :—" The King of
Prussia has been obliged to give up carriage exercise, as he
seen too much from the jolting. His Majesty is now
drawn about in a Bath chair in the alleys of Bans-Souci
The court will, it is said, vacate Bans-Bouci this rammer,
to give place to workmen who are to make some changes in
the palace, and repair it generally. The King's apartments
an so badly arranged that they cannot be properly warmed in
winter. The small Palace of the Isle of Peacocks, near
Potadam, is being prepared for his Majesty's summer
residence."

Last evening Rossini's rarely-heard opera of
Semiranude was produced at Her Majesty's Theatre with
the following caste :—Semiramide, MdAe. Titiena ; Alsace,
Madame Alboni ; Ora, Signor Vialetti ; Idreno, Signor
Belart ; and Amur, Sig. Ererardi. Signor Arditi was the
conductor.

Six of Madame Grisi's announced series of 12
"farewell performances" are over. The sixth took place
last evening. when the great artiste played for the second
time this season one of her greatest parts, namely, Donna
Anna, in Don Gioranni, with all the " fiery virtue" and
mental, if. not physical, vigour which made the glory of her
prime.
The Milan Gazette states that the committee for
the subscription to a million of muskets has taken measures,
together with the Municipal Junta, for sending the sums
collected to Garibaldi. The OOMMUII3 of Lodi, which had
already voted a sum last year towards that subscription,
has just voted another sum of 6,000 fr. teethe same purpose;
and the communal council of Como has voted 60,000 fr. in
aid of the Sicilian insurrection.

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A sharp shower of rain has unfortunately caused
some very serious damage to the Cairo and Suez Railway.
A portion of the embankment in the Desert, over en extant
of about sit miles, has been more or less washed away, and
telegraph poets have come down, thereby interrupting the
communication with Suez. This part will soon be remedied,
but the injury done to the embankment will be more diffi-
cult to repair, and it is said will require st least 15 days'
labour of some 2,000 men. _

WAR 01P1ICI, MAY 22.—The Queen her been
graciously pleased to eve orders for the appootosant of
Cherie, 'Lennox Wks, Eact., . her 'Neely's Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Heiken
republic, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Divisioe
of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the Hod
Honourable Order of the Bath.—Oeserts.