The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-02 00:00:00

the Court.

CLIVEDEN, Juts! 1.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,
went out yesterday morning, and also in the afternoon.
Princess Louise drove out in the afternoon.
Prince Leopold went out driving.

A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour.
able Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council-chamber,
Whitehall, upon the subject of the cattle plague. Present:
The Lord President, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the
Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Chichester
Fortescue, and the Right Hon. W. MonselL Mr. Helps
and Colonel Harness attended the committee._

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Heligoland. Despatches were
sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, British
Columbia, and Vancouver's Island.

DEATH OF THE EARL OP CHESTERFIELD.—We
hots to announce the death of the Earl of Chesterfield,
which occurred shortly after 10 o'clock last night at his
residence in Grosvenor-street. The deceased Earl, from
hie long connexion with the turf, and expensive studs,
was well-known in the sporting world. He carried off
some of the greatest prises known in racing annals, and
was one of the chief supporters of the turf. The
deceased, George Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, county
Derby, and Baron Stanhope, of Shelford, county Notts
in the peerage of England, was the only son of Philip,,
fifth earl, by his second marriage with Lady Henrietta
Throne, a daughter of the first Marquis of Bath. He
was born 73rd May, 1805, and consequently was in his
Glad year. He married in November, 1830, Hon. Anne
Elizabeth Forester, eldest daughter of Cecil Weld, first
Lord Forester, by whom he leaves a son and daughter,
namely Lord Stanhope, M.P. for South Nottinghamshire,
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formerly in the Regiment of Horse-guards, and lady
Evelyn, married to the Earl of Carnarvon.
The Duchess of Cambridge and tho Princess
Mary and her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Meek-
lenburg-Strelits honoured Mir Courts with their company
at dinner last evening at her residenoe in Stratton-street.
The following had the honour of meeting their royal
highnesses : the Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson,
the Bishop of Ripon, the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl
and Countess of Hsrdwicke and Lady Agneta Yorke and
Hon. Victor Yorke, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Lord
and Lady Chelmsford, Lady Cr&nworth, Count Strzlecki,
Lord and Lady Dufferin, Lord Houghton, Lady Charles
Wellesley and Miss Wellesley, Sir Stafford and Lady
Northoote and Miss Northeote, the Iliqbt Hon. Sir G.
Grey, M.P., and Lady Grey, Sir James Kay Shuttleworthr
Sir Edwin Landseer, Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., Mn.
Tait, Mrs. W. K Gladstone and Miss Gladstone, Mr.
William Gladstone, jun., and Mrs. Browne. Colonel Home
Purvey and Lady Geraldine Somerset were in waiting on
the royal party. After the banquet Miss Contra gave a
grand concert, which was most fashionably attended.
The Karl and Countess Cadogen entertained his
Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess
Bernstorff, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde,
the Marchioness of Ely, the Countess of Shaftesbury and
Lady Victoria Ashley, Viscount and Viscountess Sudley,
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord Frederick Paulett,
Mr. Calmat, Mr. Dyke, kc., at dinner last night at their
residence in Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square..

The answer to inquiries made yesterday (Friday)
at Sir Mint* Farqubar's residence was that " he was •
little better.

The Professors of University College will hold
their evening receptions on Friday, the Bth of June, in
Gower-street. This year the learned body are trying the
experiment of inviting ladies to their reunion.
Cards have been issued for the Society of Arts
connersozione for Wednesday, the 13th of June, at the
South Kensington Museum.

The London Glee and Madrigal Union, which
gave its last concert of the first series on Thursday after-
noon, announces a second series, to be also given in Bt.
James's Hall, commencing on the Thursday afternoon of
the next ensuing week.

There is now, we (Gardeners' Chronicle) hear,
every prospect that the success of the International Hor-
ticultural Exhibition will be rendered complete by a
favourable balanoe•sheet. During the past week the num-
bers visiting the show have been approximately as fol-
lows :—Monday, 16,000 ; Tuesday, 30,000 ; Wednesday,
25,000; Thursday, 11,000.
The Salisbury Meeting of the Bath and West of
England Agricultural Society is the chief agricultural
event of the coming week. On Monday the open judging
of horses and poultry will commence. The yard will con-
tinue open until Friday evening.
A curious press trial has just taken place at
Berlin. On the occasion of the baptism of Prince Frederick
Charles' eon, then five weeks old, the Kreiaz Zeitung
published an article relating the part which each personage
took in the solemnity. In reply the Bowie Gazette spoke
more especially of "the conduct of baby," demanding if it
had been equal to the occasion so ably desenledby the other
journal. The Gazette was in consequence seized ; the
tribunal admitted the plea of the Public Minister against
the liberal newspaper for " an insult committed against a
member of the royal family." The defendant demanded
that doctors should be summoned to attend and decide if
an infant of five weeks old, although a Prince, could be
considered as a personage, and as having pursued any
• conduct." The tribunal finally pronounced an acquittal,
though blaming the defendant for his disregard of pro.

A letter from Schaffhausen mentions that M.
Ziegler, President of the Tribunal in that town, has tom-

mitted suicide by blowing out his brains with s patoL
CRYSTAL PALACL.—ONI SHILLING DAY.—FRI-
DAT, Jcwz I.—Admission on payment, 3,27 8 ; ditto by
mason tickets, 1,433. Total TWtors, 4,711.