The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-23 00:00:00

Cps Court.

O3BOKNE, ILLY 22.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort rode on
Nubia, yesterday, ecconipanied by Prince Alfred, Prin-
s, Abse and Primes Helena,

The Queen, the Prime Consort, and the Royal Family went
into mourning on Monday hat fur a month, for the late
lamented Queen of Portugal.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Tree-
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sury in Doening-street. The ministers present
were Visomint Palosennon, Berl Granville, the Duke
of Argyll, Sir G. C. Levi., Lord John Rumen, the
Right Hoe. Sidney Herbert, the Duke of New-
outle, Sir C. Wood, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Somerset,
the Earl of Elgin, the Bight Hon. T. Milner Gib-
son, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, and the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers.

A deputation from the Ecuador Lend Company had an
Interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yeetradey,
at hie official residues in Downing-street. The dwtation
consisted of Mr. Isidore Guttenberg, Mr. Edward Raul-
wood, Mr. R. F. Gower, Mr. George Pritchett, Mr. W.
Meyeretain, Mr. Montagne Levemon, (attending MI snit_,
Mr. L. Simonsen, Mr. Charles Sevin, Mr. Siegemond
Stielial, Mr. W. H. Bishop, Mr. L. Backer, Mr. Joseph
Leeta, Mr. George Roach, Mr. W. Balhmt, !Ir. L. Levin-
mho, Mr. Lewin Lee, Mr. Edward Dixie, Mr. T. Samuel,
and Mr. Van Yon.
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Despatches were sent from the Colonial-Aloe yesterday to
the governor of Canada, end the governor of Newfoundland.

We (United Service Gazette) have much pleasure
in stating that 614 Roysi Highnem the Prince of Wales, in
recognition of the services of Mc. J. R. Holman, surgeon,
R.N., serving in the Osborne, and specially appointed to
attend upon hie royal highness on his voyage home from
Gibraltar, has transmitted to that gentleman a valnable gold
ring set with diamoude, together with a letter from Colonel
Sir Charles Phipps, expressive of the Prince's @addiction at
the attention received.

The Marquis and Marehionees Calabrini have left
the Queen's Hotel, Tipper Norwood, for town.

The Marqu;s andMarehioneas of Huntly and the
Ladka Gordon have arrived at the Burlington Hotel, East-
bourne, from Tnnlxidge Wells.
The Earl and Countess of Clare have arrived at
the °Wands Hotel, Walton-o -Than.

A matrimonial alliance is arranged to take place
between Mr. Fremantle, eldest ma of Sir Thomas Fre-
mantle, Bart., mad Lady Augusta Scott, mooed daughter of
the lat. Earl and Countess of Eldon.

We (Ssfolk Chronicle) regret to learn that Hugh
Z. Adair Esq., M.P., is starring from rem indispoeleion
and that, in compliance with hie physician's advioe, be ha's
proceeded to Bavaria, whore we hope thebon.gestlasaan will
'paddy regale his wonted health and strength.
Mr. A. B. Cochrane, M.P., will visit his con-
stituents at Honitco, oa Tuesday next, whoa, recording to
the local paper, the.. will he a dinar provided in a large
pavilion erected in • Add adjoirdag the house of Mr. H. V.
Mules for about 300, end tea in the evening for about 800.

The Bishop of Exeter (aye tits Sunde►land
Ewald) is now "in residence" at the College, Durham. His
Walsh) appears to to i• the enjoyment el Lis usual good
basitb, and takes daily carriage exorcise. . .

Bit John Bowring i., we (Western Times) hear,
dstabeed is tom by public business la connexion with his
late goverment. Divers of his fellow townsmen wish to pay
some mark of raped to We worthy son of old Isom when h.
returns to his hoes. at Larkbesrs.

Sir James Brooke, K.C.8., Rajah of Sarawak, who
Ms toss sejoarnlng es the Seymour Hotel, Totnee, for the
bemadt at hie health, has returned to town mach restored.

Dr. Armstrong, Deputy Inipector General of
liespit kft Boutharoptm on Wednesday, In the Pere, for
the Moditaransen.

The Bristol Mrrcury moor& the death of Bar-
tholomew Barry, Esq., for nearly half a century a leading
publisher of Bristol. Mr. Barry, who had attained the almost
giatrlsrehal age of 92, began Wetness nearly seventy years
ago, In the house, 21, Hlgh.street, is the occupation of
which he sense led the late Matthew Made.* Esq.,
M.P. for Bristol, who carried on bushier there as a woollens
draper, and likewise lived to a vary advanced age. Mr. Barry
had for a little while a animate.' with the press of Bristol,
having originated the Bristol Chrotsielr, which, however, bad
not a lota career.

Mr. foal Taylor hu &Windmill the following com-

musication to a literary contemporary;—" With reference to
the impression of Mr. Devito, of Warrington, that I have
►vaild myself of a play of his, printed and performed at
Warrington, in planning my comedy of TM Contested
Election, lately produced at the Haymarket Theatre, lam
anxious to take this opportunity of assuring Mr. Carley,
Swoosh you, that I have never seen his play; that until last
week I never heard of his play, or any incident contained in
It; that I first learnt its existence from Mr. Daviee's letter ;
red that I am wholly at a loss to account for the room-
bubo* be appeals to in proof of his inference. My comedy
of The Contested Election Is strictly an original work. The
main source of my electioneering incidents will be found fa
the evidence given before the St. Alban's committee. The
incident of the balf-notes was suggested to me by an ens°.
dote I heard from Mr. Norton (of the Home-office, end late
Chief Justice of Newfoandland) of an occurrence at an Irish
, aimticet."

A cabinet of books purchased by the non-electors
el the borough of Tyncusouth will be promoted to Mr. W. 8.
'Seamy, M.P., about the latter part of August.
The Art season draws near its end. The Royal

Academy opens its doors to the public for the last time to-
day. The Ezhibitiou of the /today of Britbh Artists clone
next Sourlay, on which day the Water Colour Societies
tires their galleries also. Osly the British Institution and
the Freach Gallery remain, and the latter will soon follow
the assolpls of its neighbours.
The Independance Beige says:—" There is a ru-
mour in Paris that the minion of W. Collared, to Zurich,
still requires contlematinn, the cabinet of Viensa having
meallested a repugnance to authorise its plecipoientisry to
negotiate with a representative of Sardinia. If this *tate-
oast, which appears very Improbable, be true, Austria will
be saltless likely to consent to a ("regrets to which Sardinia
shall be admitted, even for the mere purpose of Lein con-
sulted with the other states of Italy." The writer add.,
" All these difficulties will probably oblige the Emperor Na-
poison to forego his intended ezeornion to Plombilien Far
this he will compensate himself Ity secompanylopt the
&uprose to Biarritz, 'after the 15th of August. This jour-
ney will he attended with rest pomp, and will be preceded
by the esteem entry of the troops who have been engaged in
We campaign of Italy."
A despatch from Brescia announces the death of
ths Duke of Moulton, son of the famous 'mut, who was
emended at the battle of Solferizo. The thigh bad to be
amputated, and the patient did not hug survive the opera-
tion. The Asks was chief of the staff of one of the divisions
of the army of Italy.

The body of the Prince Wiadirehgralz, who fell at
the battle of Solferinn, and which, It will be remembered, was
discovered by the French in the midst of a hasp of slain, sad
handed over to the Austrians, was brought to Frage° nn the
17th Inst., and deposited in the garrison church. On the
mat day s mad teligioun mammy was held. during which
the body was blotted, wheel It was causeyed to the bores-
gate of the tows in the midst of a splendid military proses•
sloe, and thence conveyed to the family vault at Teams.

The German journals con+ aM melancholy news
ecoorruing Prof. Karl Simrock, of Bonn, the eminent trane-
leder and interpreter of the masterpieces of old Germs*
poetical literature. Hie nind has been &morel by an ex-
cess of fear and anxiety. it is aesarted, in claw:gamma of the
late political events, and his friends have reronvad bias ea-
coediagly to a private asylum near Stuttgart, where, we sin-
cerely Impe, a 'edict am treitmeat may aeon give him back
to health. to his family, and to his so soddenly and so sadly
hibwropted labours.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The Medical Times says the
Duke of Northumbeilencl hae jo•t sent a 'beamed bottle. of
old *berry, thirty yams in hittiv, to the Westminster Hoe-
pital, toe the me of the patients.