The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

XISCILLANZOCB TOPICS.

The Tim ct gives some account of the remarks of a repre-
sentative of a French government journal, who was sent to
Manchester the other day to describe Mr. Bright on the
platform. and remarks for its own part that it is a political
fanaticism which the member for Birmingham has now
taken up. He will find it an amusement—not very dan-
gerous, perhaps—but nothing more.
At the present moment, the Daily News observes, such Is
the waste of natural advantages to which Spain is con-
demned by the worst of governments, that there is scarcely
a country in Europe the people of which may not look
down upon it in pity. A dark night has settled over the
kingdom. Elsewhere states may be seen suffering by
the faults or misfortunes of their rulers, but Spain is
probably the only country of European Christendom,
the government of which does not, however feebly,
propose the happiness of the people as its situ.
A great country will not see its institutions permanently
reduced to s barrack and a monastery, but unhappily it is
not so easy to see what is to follow the present misrule.
If the last Bourbon reigning in Europe should be de-
throned, as seems probable, the catastrophe will be rather
the consequence of an effort of natural instinct, reacting
against that which had become absolutely intolerable, than
• of a 'strictly political movement working towards &finite
ends by calculated means.

%he essurt.

BALMORAL, Ocr. 27,

The Queen and the Duchess of Roaburghe rode
on ponies by Abcrarder to the Slughan, where her Ma-
jesty met Princess Christian and Princess Louise, with-
whom the Queen drove home.
The Duke of Buckingham had the honour of dining
with the Queen and the royal family.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India Islands,
Vancouver's Island, New Zealand, and Heligoland.
The Earl and Countess of Derby arrived in town last
evening from Knowsley.
The Bight Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and
Mrs. Disraeli arrived in town yesterday from the seat of
the Earl of Carnarvon, Castle High Clere, Hants.

THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY FROM SCOTLAND.—On
Thursday her Majesty, accompanied by Prince and Prin-
cess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Prince Leopold, anik
Princesses Louise end Beatrice, will leave Balmoral for
Windsor Castle. The Duke of Buckingham will be the
minister in attendance on her Majesty. Prince and Prin-
cess Christian, during their stay at %Indoor, will reside
at the Castle till Frogmore House is ready for their recep-
tion.

The Duke of Edinburgh left Clarence House, St.
James's, yesterday, on a visit to the Prince and Princesa
of Wales at Sandringham.

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—The Earl of Derby,
accompanied by his countess, arrived in town yesterday
from Knowsley. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and
Mrs. Disraeli arrived at their residence, at Grosvenor-
gate, yesterday, from their seat in Buckinghamshire. The
E irl of Carnarvon will arrive in town to-day from High.
clere Castle, near Newbury. Sir John Pakington (the
First Lord of the Admiralty) will arrive at his residence
in Eaton-square to-day from Westwood, his seat in
Worcestershire. Sir Stafford Northeote will arrive in
town to-day from The Pynes, near Exeter. The Earl of
Malmesbury, the Lord Privy Seal, will arrive in town
to-day from Heron Court, near Christchurch, Haute. The
Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole arrived in town yesterday
from Bri7bton. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Stanley,
General Peel, and Viscount Cranborne are among the
ministers already assembled in London.

The marriage of the Earl of Roeslyn with the
Hon. Mrs. Maynard is fixed for the Bth November.
The Russian Empress is expected to spend the
winter at Nice. Hoe sister-in-law, Grand Duchess Mary
of Leuchtenberg, is at present at Florena, raiding at the
Villa Mathilde, which Count Demidoff has placed at her
disposal. The count, it will be remembered, married
Prince's Matbilde, but a legal separation took place a short
time after the marriage. The separated pair meet, however,
on excellent terms, and some years ago it was reported
that the count had proposed a second time for ter
perial highness—who, however, having tasted the bliss of
independence, respectfully but firmly declined the offer.
The announcement of the death of Lady De
Hoghton, in the Herald of yesterday, has, we learn, no
foundation. Lady Heerlen, who died in Park-street,
Grosvenor-square. was Harriet Sarah, the second wife of
the late Sir Henry }fold-Hoghton, who died in 1862. The
announcement should, therefore, have been of the-death of
the Dowager Lady Hoghton ; and we exceedingly regret
that such a mistake should have occurred.

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