The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-07 00:00:00

:he Court.

The Queen went in state yesterday to the House of
Peers to open the amnion of parliament with a speech
from the throne.

Her Majesty wore a rkh black silk dress, with tnin
trimmed with miniver and crape, a Mary Quest of Scots
cap, with a long veil, the cap ornamented with large dia-
monds, with a small coronet of diamonds and sapphires
worn at the back of the head.

Her Majesty wore a dilmond necklace and cross (the
latter containing the miniature of his Royal Highness the
PrinoaConsort), and the kob-i-noor as a brooch, as well as
the riband and the star of the Order of the Garter and ,the
Victoria and Albert Order.

The Qaeen left the palace at a quarter to two o'clock
and was escorted by a detachment of the Royal Home
Guards.

Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk Marshal, attended her Majesty
on horseback.

The Queen returned from the House of Lorda to Buck-
ing Palace at three o'clock, and was received by the Lord
Chamberlain and Vice-Chamberlain-
The Prises and Prince= of Wales, attended Ly the
Countess of Macclesfield, the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, Earl
Spencer, the Earl of Mount-Edgeumbe, Lord Henri.,
Major Teesdale, and Mr. C. L. Wood, were present in the
House of Lord..
The Prince and Princess Hermann of Hohenlohe sod
Prince Christian of Sohleswig-Holstein, were also present
in the House of Lords.
The Princess Helena visited the Duchies of Cambridge
at St. James's Palace.

The Queen, accompanied by Primer Helena, Princess
Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Christian, left Buck-
ingham Palace for Windex. Castle, at half-past 4 o'clock,
attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athol!, Lieutenant.
General Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel Hon. D. de Boa, and
escorted by a detachment of the 6th Dragoon Guards.

The Prince of Wales mot to the House of Lords yester-
day afternoon.
The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by
the Countess of Macclesfield.

The Earl and Countess Cowley and Lady
Fewlorowna C. Wellesley have arrived at Olaridge's Hotel,
from Frognal, Rent

The Earl of Dalhousie and Lady Christian
?bade have arr:ved at Claridge's Hotel from Brecht's
Castle, Forfarshire.

Lord Minkellin, M.P., is still at Naples, and is
not expected to return home at present.
It is remarked in one of the accounts this morning
of the scene in the Bosse of Lords yesterday, that one of
the most notable of the new arrivals was the lady who came
into the hones escorted by the Earl of Lovell, e, and who
was reeognieed as the Lady Anne Isabella Noel Sing Noel,
the granddaughter of Lord Byron. As she took het seat
among thepearesses' daughters there were few who did not
regard with a pscul,ar interest the somewhat pale fax,
light brown hair, and bright intelligent look of the daughter
of " Ad i."

The Chancellor of the Exchequer to-morrow will
Wag forward a bill to enable the Public Works Loan Com-
abinism to make advance. towards the erection of dwell.
lip for the labouring classes in populous plant.
Mr. Hibbert, on the 27tb, will introduce into par-
Himont a bill to permit capital punishments to be carried
out, ender certain regolations, within the interior of
prisons.

On the 6th of next month Mr. O'Reilly will move
for • select committee to inqui7e what changes may with ad-
vantage be made in the system of national education in
Irellnd in order allow greater freedom and fulness of
religious teaching in schools attended by pupils of one re-
ligious denomination only, sod to guard effeatually against
proselytism and protect the f►ith of the minority is mixed
schools.

ro insure accuracy and facility in taking divi-
sions, in the House of Commons, it is requested that
every member, whether personally known to the division
clerks or not, will give his name, distinctly sod audibly, as
he passes the division desk.

The Post has an amusing account of an ancient
ceremony which was performed yesterday by some 70 per-
eons—peer;, oommoners, officers of the household, Tisanes
of the guard, policemen of the A division, marshals, and
heralds—viz., of going, each with a lantern in hood, through
the various rooms, corridors, vaults, and the lower parlia-
mentary regions generally, on the " searoh for Guy
Faux." No such conspirator was discovered in
the vaults, but one vulgar wag was heard to
say as the last membsr of the prooessiou disap-
peared down the trap-door behind Kr. Speaker's chair,
that ell the Guys had gone down. Not only wen there so
conspirator concealed in the collars, but, strange to say,
there are no cellars in which he could conceal himself. All
the lower regions traversed are broad spacious halls, formed
into galleries by rows of piers carrying the arches which
support the basements or floors. Everything below is is
perfect order, clean whitened ; had the erploration, how-
elvee interesting in a seisietdic point of view, or however
gratifying to the curious, answered no practical purpose.
The French Opposition deputies lately held a
meeting at the !eidetic* of IL Ittr:e. k. Thiers was
present, as also three now 'osmium M. Girod-Pourol,
Doug, and Hallos-Cleparide. It wes decided that three

matMdestate should he prompted ; ono oa Algeria;
sesther for as arricultaral loquiry ; end • third to &mead
the " eempletioe of the edifice." A emstraittee, composed
of MW. Jake &moo, Jules Fevre, LeojaMds, Palleams,
said Picard, was °Waal with the task of preparing those
esatediasits.