The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-16 00:00:00

Cite Court.

OSBORNE, Fn. 15.
Her Majesty drove ont yesterday afternoon with
Prince's Helena, Princess Beatrice, aid Prince Leopold.
The Duke of Argyll arrived frees Loudon, sad had the
honour of dining with her Majesty sad the Royal Family,
The Duchess of Roxburgh' has succeeded the Dowager
Dunbar of Athol. as Lady in Waiting.

The Indicts! Committee of the Privy Council mat yeller.
day. Present—Tee Lords Justices %eight Braes and
Turner, Sir E.. V. Williams, Sir J. Cavite, and Sir Laurence
Peel.

Yesterday evening the Prince and Princess of
Wales left Marlborough Home for Windsor, and on their
arrival prooseded to enmberland Lode., the resides°, of
Major-General the Hon. A. N. Heal and Lady Mary
Hood, whose parts the royal visitors were to vemain for
the night. After diaper there was to be a ball, to which •
number of the nobility and members of the leading families
and came of the garrison were invited to meet their royal
highnesses.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary is expected
to arrive at the Duchess of Clarnbeidge's miaow* a 1 St.
James's Palace oa Wednesday mat, from a protruded
visit to the Grand Duke and Graad Duchess of Mooklen-
borgarelits, of &relit&

Lord and Lady Dufferin entertained at dinner
LA maim at their resider", la Gregivesor.eqsare, the
Biarquis et Kildare, the Bari et Dade, Lord and Lady.
Frederick Cavendish, Sir Henry aad Lady Hensad, Mrs.
Edward Oardwell, Mr. sad Mn. Da-bulky Sheridan, Mr.
Brown, to

OUR CONTEMP
(THIB
AIIINDICINT CIS THE CATITI PIAGOZ BILL.

The Post expiable the difference between the pro-
panda of the government aed those of Mr. Hunt, which
the Hones of Commons has adopted. The government
Imposed that the local authorities should peat Beenee
under such circumstances as they deemed expedient for I
the transportation of cattle either by road or rail to
various parte of the kingdom, whereas Mr. Ward-Hunt
advocated the absolute prohibition of all cattle traffic by
nil until the 25th of March, in order to afford an oppor-
tunity for disinfecting the truths now in use, and the trans-
mission of cattle by high road or otherwise only under
conditions expressly set forth in the bill. Oa the goer.
tion that the government clause should be adopted the
committee lad night divided, when the ministry were
beaten by a majority of 84 in • house of 450 members. The
chairman then reported progress, and the consideration
d Mr. Ward-Hind's amendment was proposed till the next
sittiag.
The Times is not sorry that Mr. Hunt's amendment has
been carried. Although conscious that so stringent a
prohibition must be attended with great inconveniences it
believes that the public will willingly endure them ter the
better hope it gives that the measure will be effeetuaL
The chief of them is, of course, the difficulty of supplying
the metropolis and the great towns with meat, but this
may, we trust, be overcome by the establishment of dead
meat markets, as improvement which might well
be made permanent. On the whole, the Times
congratulates the house end the country on the,
ability with willed this measure has been dia-
mond, and the seal with which it Is likely to be
torrid through. The amendment of Mr. Gladstone.
giving half the prise of the animals slaughtered, gives the
farmer a good bargain for his (linseed cow. Mr. Bright's
argument that the seAlon, by giving compossation, would
be only taking on itself the less which would fall on the
particular cattle owner from natural anima, had not the
slightest effect on those who heard them, and is founded
on the wholly errosens view that the slaughter of cattle
on a farm would have no effect but to save the wade of that
very farm from the disease. The Times believes the bin
will be law next week.

The Dail, Nato remarks that a very fallacious argument
bee been used is favour of giving to the owners of dough.
tired cattle larger sums in compeasation than the actual
worth of the animals a► the time of death, plus the bonus
which is deemed necesurry to make farmers honestly de.
clue the disease. It was argued lard night that if you de-
stroy a man's property against his will, and for the good of
others, you are bound to pompom's him for the loss
you indict. Very tr as But if you destroy his pro-
perty when it has cer•el to have any appreciable
value, at his own request and for his own good, the same
obligation doss not SIM% The latter ass i/ that with
which the government he. to deal. Nor is there a whit
more sense in pretending that ma the consumers have a
direct interest in staying the plague, they are hotrod to pay
ter the coat of doing so by reimbursing the losses of the
stook farmers. As consumers they bear their abase of the
calamity in the diminished supply and increased price of
meat. To the member for Westminrter belongs the chief
credit of having placed this matter upon a clear and
mound economical ism.

The house has 'holm, the Herald says. that It does not
tiost the government. It pee the opposition an over-
powering majority—perbape slightly to the astonishment

of the two ministers, who had been postponing small
clauses and surrendering small points all the evening. The
division la indeed a blow to the administration, a distinct
withdrawal of parliamentary coefidence so far as its ad-
ministrative and legislative capacity in reference to home
interests are concerned. In fact, their Cattle Place* Bill
is virtually led se►erely condemned. It is cut in two—nod
that podia' which Mr. Hunt has not destroyed ministers
themselves have mutilated. The Henske rejoices over
this result, which gives us the first hope that the cattle
plague may receive its d ,nth-blow.

The Advertiser foresees that in some parts of the eountry
great dissatisfaction is likely to *rise from the meseures
adopted by the government. The districts which have
hitherto managed to exclude the disease under the difa.
*WU., of its surroundieg prevalence, will be apt to blame
the government should their immunity not be preserved.
Machinery which has been successful already is some
localities will be superseded. Is short, the desired uni-
formity of *dim, although it is impossible to attain it
fully, may be so far accomplished as to inflict partial injury
of a serious kind. The country, after a tedious delay, has
at last been takes by surprise, and legislation has bees
nearly completed without any passibility of explanation or
remonstrance. The result ought to be especially favourable
to justify the measure which the government requires to
peas so hurriedly.