The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-22 00:00:00

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*AL ORAL, Oar. la.
The Queen went out yesterday, twoompauied by
Princess Louise arid Prcncese Beatrice, and attended by
the Duchess of Roxbrrgho.
Sir Stafford.liortbooto had the honour of fling nith
the Queen and the royal family.

Oct. 20.

The Queen and Princess Christian drove to Abergeldie
and visited the Duchess of Animals. In the afternoon her
Majesty went out acoompanied by the Duchess of Awlsle
and Princess Louise.
Princess Christian drove out in the afternoon attended
by the Duchess of Roiburghe.
Sir Stafford Northoote has left the Castle.

The Queen of Denmark, with the Primes' of Wales,
Princess Thyra, Prince Waldemar, the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, and the ladies sod gentlemen in waiting, drove to
the Crystal Palace on Sato day.
The Queen of Denmeek, the A:nee and Prinoess of
Wales, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended
Divine worship yesterday morning.
A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Honounsble Privy Council sat on Saturday, at the Council-
chamber, Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle
plague. The lords present wers—the Right Hon. Spencer
H. Walpole and the Right Hon. H. Corry. Mr. G. A.
Hamilton, of the Treasury, was present. Mr. Frederick
Goulburn (deputy-chairman of the Board of Customs), Sir
Richard Mayne, Mr. Helps, Mr. Harrison, and Colonel
Harass@ attended the committee.
Mr. Hodgson, M.P., and Mr. C. Howard, M.P., had an
interview with the Lords of the Council at the Privy
Couna-office, on Saturday, relative to a memorial praying
for the removal of the restrictions on the rattle trade with
Scotland.
Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of Canada and the Whams.

MIMIC :AT. PARTY AND AUSTRIA.
The Dibats of to-day finds fault in the following
terms with the clerical party for their ingratitude
to Austria in the hour of her aiation :
Although we caneot be . saspected of sympathy with
Austria, we cannot but feel for her a oet:a'n degree of
commiseration, excited. not by her reverses indeed,
but by the reproaches of those whose cause she upheld at
the cost of her own ruin. Aceerding to these persons,
all the misfortunes of Austria were deserved ;
she brought down on her own head the entire vengeance of
heaven. The needle guns executed the office of the locusts.
Austria has been punished for giving herself up to Joseph-
inn, to pantheism, to rationalism, to protertantism, to
Judaism, and freemasonry. She had, however, defended
to the utmost, and to the lart moment, the cause of the
Papacy ; on the eve of the war even she would not nego-
tiate without the sanction of the Holy See. Now
that she has given up everything to secure her
own safety—at least her temporal safety—there is
no insult that is not lavished on her, and her hidden sores
which brought about her wonderful and sudden collapse
are pitilessly exposed to the public gaze. The religions
journals it is which tell us that treason existed everywhere
—even in the highest ranks; that the army was demorsl•
iced, and the administration corrupt ; that the soldiers of
the faith scandalised by their impiety the Prussian' them-
selves ; they tell us in recitals which can only be com-
pared with those in Ceadrillon and La Belk Helene that
the ceremonies of the catholio worship had become
in Vienna itself a kind of pagan rates ; that the mass was
but an appendix to the music, to which ladies of all the
" monde." resorted in order to display their fine toilettes ;
where Patti, announced in the bills, was saluted in tte
midst of the divine office with salvos of applause. Even to
the King of Bavarbs—catholic Bavaria—there is not one—
oh, abomination of desolation—who does not play the music
of the future with freemasons! The misfortune is that if all
this be true, it was as true before se after the war.
It was not to-day or yesterday that this complete demorali-
sation of classes, and of an entire people, was produced.
People exclaim with regret, " Ah, if Austria had made the
concordat in 1815 instead of 1855 all this would not have
happened." On the contrary it would have happened
twenty or thi• ty years sooner. That social state, the
sudden fall of which astonished the world, was
the product of the Concordat, of that violent effort to
throw back a nation for a whole century, which forced all
the intelligent and industrious classes into religions in-
credulity and political opposition, and which left standing
in the empire only bureaux, military Etas, and uncon-
vertible paper.

ACQUITTAL OF COUNT CLAM-GALLAS.
The Emperor Francis Joseph has addressed the
following letter to Count Clam-Gallas :
Dear Count Clam-Gallas, General of Cavalry,—ln con-
sequence of information received from the head-quarters
of the army of the north, announcing that the condition of
your corps d'armee,afterthebattle of Gitschin, necessitated
a suspension of the operations of the principal army it was
requisite that an inquiry should be made into statements
of such grave impm.nnee, and that you should be re-
called from the army. The preliminary investigation
having failed to being any act home to you, I willingly
approved of the council of war which you yourself asked
for with a view to your own reputation, and now I express
to you my complete satisfaction that the council of war,
confirmed in all particulars, has admitted your entire inno-
cence, and that it has thereby preserved without stain to
my army, and to the state, the name and the reputation
of a brave general who has served me and, my house for
many years with true devotion.
fiehonbrunn, Oct. 13.

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