The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1860.

et Court.

OSBORNE, Jost S.

Her Majesty am: the Prince Consort gave their
anneal dinner and fete yesterday to the seamen and marines
of the royal yachta, the detachment of infantry stttioned
at East Cowes, the labourers and workmen employed on the
Osborne estate, and the Comet Guard and Trinity House
men.

Dinner was prepared for about 5.10 persons, and was laid
in large tents erected on the lawn.
At 3 o'clock the whole of the party invited marched in
procession to the dinner tables preceded by the band■ of the
Royal M►rines and the let battalion of the 11th Regiinent.
The Queen and Prince, with the royal family and the
visitors staying at Osborne, and the ladies and gentlemen in
waiting ♦saving seen the procession pass, went to the ground
and inspected the dinner tables, atter which dinner name.
diately commenced.
At half-past four dancing and rustic games took place.
A tent was erected for her Majesty, the Prince Consort,
and the royal family.
There were present Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice,
and Prince and Princess Leiningen ; the Belgian Minister,
Madame and Miss Van der Weyer, Miss Horatia Seymour,
the ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, the Rev. Mr. and
Mrs. Prothero, Mrs. Tudor, the Rev. Mr. Hennah, Sir C.,
Lady, and Miss Phipps, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, Captain and
Mrs. F. Sayer, Mn. Du Plat, the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge. and
Mrs. C. Du Plat.

At half-past seven o'clock the bond played " God save
the Queen ;" her Majeaty and the royal family left the
ground, and the party broke up.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by
Princess Alice, Prime's Helena, Princess Louise, Princess
Beatrice, and Princess Leiningen, embarked on board the
royal yacht Victoria and Albert yesterday afternoon, soon
after 3 o'clock, and steamed round the Isle of Wight.
The royal yacht returned to its moorings off Osborne
Pier about 7 o'clock.

JULY W._

The Counter of Deeut, the Hon. Flora Macdonald,
Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel the Hon. A.
Hardin" were in attendance.

Viscount and Viscounts's. Palmerston arrived from Lou-
don on a visit.

The Prince and Princess of Hohenlobe-Schillinpfurst
came over from Hyde and dined with her Majesty.
Divine service was performed at Osborne this morning by
the ker. J. Prothero, before her Majesty, the Prime Con-
sort, Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Princess Helena, and
Princess Louise, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting.
Lord and Lady Palmerston also attended the service.

The telegraphic accounts received daily by her Majesty
from l'ot continue to give most satisfactory mummers
of the program towards recovery which the Princess }Loyal
is making, and also of the health of the infant princess.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present
were Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville, the
Duke of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Rus-
sell, the Right Hou. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles
Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
fi the Duke
of Somerset, Sir George Grey, the •ht Hon. T.
Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers,
and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town on Saar.
day afternoon for Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty.

His Royal Highness.; the Duke of Cambridge
received a distinguished circle at dinner on Saturday, at
Gloucester House, Piccadilly. Their Royal Mew/toes the
Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke mill
Grand Duchess of Meckleuburg.Strelita, and the Princess
Mary came to town from Cambridge Cottage to dine with
his royal highness.

The Duke of Montrose left town a few days since
oa a visit to Lord and Lady Faversham at Dunainibe Park,
Yorkshire. The duchess and Lady Agnes Murray and
Lady Violet Graham will leave Balgraveaquare in a few
days for the Continent.

The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady
Emma Stanley returned to St. Jamee's-equare on Salinity,
from visiting tho Duke and Duchess of Richmond at Good.
wood during the ream

The Fail of Aberdeen has left Argyll House for
Haddo House, near Aberdeen. The noble earl is in ex-
cellent bodily health, but still retains sreat weakness in
his lega.

The Earl of Wilton and Lady Katherine Egerton
closed their visit to the Duke and Duchees of Richmond et
Goodwood on Saturday, and departod for Cowes, Isle of
Wight, where the noble earl, as commodore of the Royal
Yacht Squadron, will remain till the end of the ee.teou.

The Countess do Persigny gave a " Rjpruments-
tion Theltrale" on Saturday evening, at Albert-gate House,
which was honoured with the presence of their Royal High-
nesses the finches* of Cambridge and the Princess Mary,
and their R..val Highnesses the Grand Duke and Duchess
of Mecklenburg-Strelits and his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge. His Serene Highness the Sovereign Prince of
Lichtenstein was also present.

His Excellency the Moorish Ambassailor awl
suite leave tows to-day for Purtminouth, where apartments
have been engaged for their acoonitnuthition at Dent's t ieorge
Hotel, it being the intention of his excellency to visit the
dockyard and other points of interest in the port before
leaving for Morocco. It is expected that his excellency
will reeinlauk on board her Majesty's ship Melpomene at
Spithead to-morrow.

On Wednesday Mr. Edward Ross, the young rifle
clumpion, returned to Yorkshire fur the purpose of resum-
ing his studies under his tutor, the Rev. Mr. Headlam
When be reached Barnard Castle, the head-quarters of his
corps. the Tetedale Rifles, he met with a most gratifying
reAmtion. The Rides, with their splendid band, were drawn
up at the railway station, and wakomod their young repro-
mutative and comrade with the loudest and heartiest
cheers, the band playing the •• Couquei lug Hero."
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We tuideretsUrf that a large volume will be pub-
lished, under the direction of the kitrocionier Royal, of the
records of the different aatrouorners of the Ilinialaya ex-
pedition.

DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE.

With the close of her Majesty'd Theatre on Satur-
day, and the last week of the performances at the Royal
Italian Opera announced, the emielusion of the musical
SUMO may be said to be imminent. The only concert
et importance still before us is that fur the lamellt
of madame JuWen at the Surrey Gardens to-
morrow, when, with , a hest of other awl varied
talent, Madame Alban', Miss Pareps, cud Mr. Sims Reeves
are to appear, with Mimi Archella Goddard as ',imitate and
Mr. Alfred Mellon us conductor. At the Royal Italian
Opera Dun Geuetinni is to be given to-night, cod the
Prophite to-morrow, Thursday, and Saturday, the last
I three nights of the season. At the English theatres there
is scarcely any novelty. The Tlsynwket, with the On eland
Raab', gives us only such afterpieces as The ilmiluind at
Sight and Amy Port ia a Sturm. At the Princess's the
&tomes appear in Pus de Fatale sans Few and Les Petites
Minims de la Vie Hunutine. At the Adelphi The Ea-
chanted late is to be revived ou Thursday. At the Olympic
Miss Louise Keeley commences her engagement to-night in
Suntelsada Else, on the 001,114i091 of Mr. Einden's benefit, and
at the Strand Mies Button takes a helmet to-night, when
Tke Yulunfrer Ball, the new coniedietta, cud the burlesque
of The Maid and tke Aloapier, will be played. A week of teem
striking variety or novelty has seldom demanded notiee.

MONUMENT TO THE LATL EARL OF ELLESMERE.
—Mr. Noble, the sculptor, has just completed a very fine
monumental statue of the late Earl of Ellesmere, for the
church of St. Mark, erected by his lordship at Woolley.
The statue is larger than life-size, and recumbent, with hands
crossed over the chest, like the sepulchral elegies of the
medieval sculptor.. 'The robes of the order of the Beth
(for the first time, we believe, represented in a monu-
mental statue) afford the opportunity for an effective Ault
suitable arrangement of drapery, and recall the long mar-
tial tunic and surcoat, and regal dal:intim of the ancieut
giagies. Behind end above the bead will be A stained glass
window, and the effect of the head &nil feature% in this
light is extremely expressive. The expression is indeed in
the highest degree artistic and appropriate. The
spectator can scarcely tell whether he gases on
profound death-like sleep or gentle sleep-like death—
s, hushed and still, and reposeful is the figure, yet so
pregnant with Intent thought sod refinement, and benignity
is the head We may venture to express a regret, both for
the sake of the sculptor awl the public, that this very beau
tiful work of art has not been exhibited.