The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-04 00:00:00

Wbt Court.

OSBORNE, JAN. 3.
The Queen walked and drove in the morning and
afternoon of yesterday.
Dr. Norman M'Leed arrived at Osborne, and bad the
honour of dining with the Queen and royal family.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial•ofiioe
from the Governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, Labium,
Gibraltar, and Malta. Despatches were sent to the Gover-
nors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Litman.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will honour the Earl and Countess of Leicester
with their presence at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, on or
about Tuesday next, when a select circle will meet their
royal highnesses. It is expected that the Prince and
Princess of Wales will leave Holkham Hall on Friday for
Sandringham.
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have left his
grace's official residence at the Admiralty for Stover Lodge,
Devonshire.

The Marquis of Hartington has joined the party
visitioit the Earl and Countaes of Westmorland at
Apthorpa Park, Northamptonshire.

The Counters Cowper is still seriously ill at
Panehanger.
The Earl and Countess of Westmorland are
entertaining a select curdle at Apthorpe Park, Northamp-
tonahire.

The Earl St. Maur is stayiog with Sir Frederick
sad Lady Hermioae Graham, at Netherby Park, Cumber-
land.

The Rev. Dr. Cumming, defending in the
Times the Church of Scotland public service, writes:—
"Nor does your fine liturgy want faults. Is not the
morning service too loog ? Is it not, I appeal to all, often
wearisome, not only from its length, but its repetitions?
Nor does tour liturgy insure uniformity. Let any straeger
go in socceasion one Sunday to the Rev. Mr. Boyd's, at
Paddington ; the next Sunday to AU Saints', Margaret-
street ; the next to St. Alban's, and the next to St.
George's-in-the-East, and he will find that no stretch of
imagination can induce him to believe that these churches
are all under one bisboo and belong to one national church,
and have one Act of Uniformity."

During the past year over 4,000 cases were ad-
mitted into the Newport Market Refuge, and supplied with
8 on. of bread and a half pint of coffee, night and morning,
during their stay. Out of this number about 500 have
procured employment of a more or lees permanent chit.
meter, as schoolmasters, doctors' assistants, clerks,
mechanism, labourers, and servants. Many poor girls thrown
out of work have been supplied with food and clothing, and
had places provided for them; while several girls and
young women "of the streets" have been sent to homes
and penitentiaries. Many of them are already doing well
in the world as domestic servants ; some have been restored
to their friends, and others are still on probation.

Diluter COMMISSIONS.—We (Times) are requested
to announce that the examination for direct commissions

expected to take piece In the month of February seat has
bees postponed WI further sotios.

Cautionary onrush' repented to-day.
raosaMm.
01 NORTE/OW SATURDAY.
Gomm. S.W. to , fresh to
• gale, squally. un-
settled.
W/181-1011. W. N.W. to 8.8. W.,
fresh to a gale, some
rain.
8. to W. varying from sorrniza. Between S.W. and
a gate fresh, some N.W., fresh to strong,
rain. squally.
Al ntxt above. KARIBA As next above.

FRIDAY.
Southerly and westerly,
gales at intervals,
rain at times.
As above.

Northern=anotland. Westarn=lreland. Wales, end ad's-
concise. Sontharn=Enallah Channel and nay of Biwa".
'tail/ernEastward ZWand and North Sea.

It is stated that a box containing a number of
rifle., cutlasses, and a flag of a peculiar description, which
arrived from Liverpool per the city of Dublin steamship
Windsor on Sunday night, was on Tuesday taken posses-
sion of by one of the Custom-house officers at the corn-
ynny's store, Northwall, who had it taken to the Queen's
stores, Custom-house, where it is at present retained The
authorities, under the circumstances, have thought proper
to keep the name of the person to whom the box had been
consigned private.

A New York paper advises the Feniane, instead
of wasting their money in fruitless attempts to bribe
Ciblahony into leading an invading force to Ireland, to
spend it in bringing the "Irish Republic to America."
The 5,000,000 dollars squandered in the last 'even yews
would have paid the peerge of every Irish Fenian to
d =wins, where he could live anywhere by his labour.

The following appears iu the Paris Temps :
" Jateph Mazzini is at this moment ill in an humble dwell-
ing in ltrompton-road. The man who for so long was the
incarnation of Italian unity expires in the fogs of the
North and in a climate which kills him. Now that the old
conspirator no longer is in a position to terrify any one,
why does not the King of Italy allow him to breathe his
lut on his native soil r

Among the passengers by the Atrato, which left
Southampton on Tuesday, were eight Sisters of Charity
from Chartres, in France, proceeding to Guadeloupe, in the
West ladies, to fill up the places as hospital nurses of
those who have just died of the cholera in that island.
Most of the eight sisters who went out in the Atrato were
very young women, and some of them were rem►rkably
good-looking. They were dressed in the gsrb of the sister.
hood—viz., coarse woollen gowns and large white bonnets.
The toll-bars on the York and Malton and Malton
and Scarborough coach roads were removed at midnight on
Sunday, nod the cost of the maintenance of the roads will
in future be borne by the respective parishes. Since the in-
troduction of railways in these districts, horse and carriage
traffic has much decreased on the highways.
Two Liverpool shipwrights, who had been ox-
pelted the shipwrights union for an alleged infringemNit of
the rules, to the deprivation of the sick allowance of one of
them, carried the caw before the Liverpool magistrates
yesterday, who made an order in their favour and against the
union.

THE JAMAICA COMMISSION.—In noticing the fact
that the Jamaica Committee has despatched two legal gen-
tlemen to watch the proceedings of the Royal Commission,
the Pall Mall Gazette of yesterday says:—" We have
re•soo to believe that the Colonial-office has promised to
afford these gentlemen every facility in collecting iofornsa-
Moo, but has distinctly refused to recognise their torus
standi before the commission." The latter part of this
statement is quite inaccurate. The Colonial•ofiice has
"distinctly refused" nothing of the sort. Is leaves the
royal oommissioners quite free to conduct their inquiry in
their own way, and there is not the slightest reason to
suppose that the commissioners will refuse to recognise the
torus slaadi of the gentlemen to whom Mrs. Gordon and
others deeply concerned in the proceedings have resolved to
entrust their Gaunt —Star.

THE GETHIN COLLIERY CALsmirr. —The in-
quiry into the deaths of the unfortunate 34 men who
were killed at the Gethie Upper Pit, near Aber-
canard, on the 20th ult., was rammed yesterday at the
Bush Hotel, Merthyr, before Mr. T. William., deputy.
coroner ; and in consequence of the illow Of Mr.
Brough, government inspector of the western district
and Monmouththire, which hm prevented him from in-
specting the pit, was further adjourned until Tuesday
next. The coarser, in adjourning the inquiry, eluded to
the mew of evideme which was likely to be provided, sad
stated that it woe the intention to select, if poosible, rely
that which bore more particularly upon the care of the
unfortunate calamity. It is gratifying to keow tint Mr.
erawehay, the proprietor of the pit, hes made provision
for the present for them who have bean by the Illesidiat
deprived of their mew of support.