The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-26 00:00:00

he Court.

WINDSOR, Jaw. 25.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party ,
yesterday.
The Queen, with Prince Arthur aced Prince Leopold,
walked in the Home-pub this morning, and visited the
Duchies of Kant at Programs.
The Prince Consort wont out ahootiog.
Printer Alice, Princess ilakma end Priam' Louisa rode
la the Riding-house.
The Duke of Nemours visited her Majesty at the Castle.
The Countess of Desert bee succeeded Viscountes• Jocelyn
es the Lady la Waiting to her )(sleety. Lord Crofton and
Camel the Has A. Liddell have succeeded the Earl of
libelleid mad Lisettesent-Oeserel Sir F. Stovin r Lord sad

Oreola la Wallas.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the official residenoe of the Chancellor of the
Fscie-
qeer, in Downing street. The Ministers present were :
—The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli. the
Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl
of Hardwieks, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of
Malusesbury, Sir E. Balwer Lytton, General Peel,
Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon.
J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners.

Yr. Primly, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue,
boil as interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
gurney, at ble official 'evidence In Downing-street.
Deeptchm from the Oorentore of the North American
Provisoes and from the Lord High Commissioner of the
Imam Wands were remind yesterday at the Colonial-office.

The Berlin correspondent of the Nord, writing
on Sunday, says—" Her Royal Highness the Price xis
Frederick Wilßam drove out again to-day la her carriage.
Site appears marvellously well. Her face looks fresh and
ruddy. A good story is told of the Regent rolative to the anti•
cipated event. The colonel of artillery, who received the
prince's orders ea to the number of salvos to be fired on the
occasion, appeared to ht shate before he withdrew. ' Well,'
said the Regent, 'You seem to have sourethiog on your
mind." Why—yes—your royal highness. I know how
many 'alone are to be Bred for a prince, and how many for a
princess; but if her royal highness should give birth
to a prince and princess? Then,' replied the Regent, we
will remain faithful to our arnto—Suom Coigns.' "
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are enter-
taining the following company at their seat, Broadlande,
Hants:— Ms Excellency the Preasian Minister and the
Countess de Bernetorff, his Exmllurcy the Sardinian Minim-
ter, his Excellency the Spanish MinWer, the Countess of
Shafteebury, Count Jancourt, BUM Dlarochetti, Count
Louis Corti, Lord and Lady Wodebouie, Mr. and the Misers
Sullivan, Mr. and Mre. Chatuberlayne and Miss Chun-
berbryne, Mr. Flawing, ice.

Lady Elisabeth Coat gavel birth to a daughter
yaslegday, at 13, Eceleston-mture.

The wife of M. de Magnus, eharg6-d'affaires of
Pruaria at the e mit of Brawls, died on last Saturday
sight or Sunday morning whilst giving birth to a daughter,
who survives. The deceased lady had been a resident at
Brussels for about three years, and expired at the early age
of 22 years. Madame de Negates was the daughter of Boron
de Brunnow, the Rorke arobseserlor at London.

Professor Owen, having been elected Fullerton
Preferpor of the R"yal Institutioe, commenced his new drake
yesterday by delivering the first ofa corpse of twelve leotneen
the subject he ham chin being "The phyriology and Mitzi-
dee of towel manitualc-

Mr, Bentley will pnblisb, almost immediately, in
one vol., "The Life of Charles James Fox," by Lord John
Russell.

A ootempornry states that "Ira Craig," the
authoress of the Barns prize poem. la a ynnng Scotch lady,
and that the mysterious mnoneyllsble 'ties" is a brevlate ttr
MOW de plume for Isabella—that she bebop to the tingle
sisterhood, and has been a cmotributor to Chambers' Journal,
the Scotsman, nod the ingli,lotonian's Magazine, and has
published a small vo'vne of peems.
A decision in the case of Messrs. Calvert and Co.,
the brewers. was pronoanoed ye/steeds! mortiog by Vire-
Chancellor Wood on a quesiten raised se to the relative no.
billies of the several partnere. Of the six psrtnere, three
hod joined ugly within the past two or three years—tamely,
Messrs. Johentooe, Phelljw, and N. Calvert, and it was
pleaded that they were not liable fee metals debts of the film
which had been omitted to be &reload to them ■t the time
of joining. One of the meditates Interested accordingly insti-
tuted proceedings to test the point, which have resulte I in
the liability being sitiresed. The amount of debts thus
'doled is supposed to be about 200,0001.

A letter from Parma, in the Opinione of Turin,
states that on the 20th a tal.colonred aq; wag found nailel
over the gate of the univerphy. just above the 0cc..11
escutcheon. It Is addcd that the revolutions*/ emblem was
immediately removed by the pollee.

The Milan Gazelle announces that in eoneequenee
of the clovintt of the two universities of Padua end P►sls,
sever►l families have spored for permit...ion to let their *nth
or relatives tontine° their studiet privately in those towns,
under the tuition of the profeseore ; end that the &aid err-
zel(4oll hos been grantei by the @relit:lake to those pupils
whose previous cludart has justified that confident's.

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The Debits of to-day contains a report of a strange
case w►ich hat jolt been decided by the Correctional
Tribunal of Cohort,. A protestant, named Jacques
listener, wat charged with having lent to a catholl,.
his neighbour, a volume from his litrary mottled
"Doctrine of the Holy Scripture upon the Worship
et Mary," and in which it seems the new dogma of
the immecniate conception to mailed es supersti-
tions. The chief coact la the Indictment charged
I him with having committed en infraction of the law pro-
hibiting the diatribni Ina and oolportage of writings which do
not bear the official stamp. This Se the fret time the law of
colportage has been applied to the simple loon of a book.
The tribunal condemned him to pay • fles of 50 franca and
the oast.