The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-19 00:00:00

TO TliE EDITOR OF TILE EXPRESS.

SIR,—Tho following gentlemen have, at Mrs.
Gladstone's request, consented during her absence to act
as a committee to carry out the work she has so well ini-
tiated. Their names will, I am sure, he a sufficient gua-
rantee to those who have supported Mrs. Gladstone's pro-
posals that the money will be well and wisely spent.-1
am, &c., FREDERICK HELBERT, Hon. Sec.
11, Carlton-house•terrace, Nov. 17.

commirrEg.—Lord William Hay, 31. P., vice-president ;
Robert Brett, Esq. ; Lord Frederick Cavendish, M.P. ;
Dr. Andrew Clark ; Stephen E. Gladstone, Esq. ; Sir
Stephen Glynn°, Bart. ; Andrew Johnston, Esq. ; Lord
Lyttelton ; Hon. C. Byttelton ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Neville ; Sir Robert Phillimorc ; Edward Talbot, Esq. ;
Right lion. J. S. Wortley.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales will
leave Windsor Castle on Wednesday or Thursday next, on
her return to Sandringham. The Prince of Wales is ex.
pected to return from Russia on or shout the 2Sth inst.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke intend to
receive a large party of friends next week at Wimp°le
Hall, Cambridgeshire. The company will assemble on the
27th inst.

The Earl of March will attain his majority on
the 27th of next month, and preparations are already
being made to celebrate the event with great rejoicing on
the family estates. _

The following noblemen and gentlemen are now
in residence at Oxford University, viz.:—The Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Jersey, the Marquis of Bute, Lord
Emlyn, Lord Donoughmore, the Earl of Ilcheater, Lord
Warkworth, Lord Dalmeny, Lord I'etersham, Lord Fran-
cis Hervey, Lord Willoughby do Broke, the Hon. A. F.
liertie, the Hon. A. F. A. Hanbury Tracy, the Hon. M.
l'onsonby, and Sir C. F. Bonham, Bart.
It is understood that Mr. Miller, the conserva-
tive member for Colchester, is about to resign his scat,
and in that event Serjeant Ballautine will probably be a
candidate.

Messrs. Bosanquet an,l Co. have undertaken to
receive subscriptions for the relief of those who have suf-
fered by the hurricane in the Bahamas. The Bishop of
Nassau has sent to Englan I one of his clergy, the Rev. It.
Saunders, in the Lope that some assistance may be pro-
cured towards the re-erection of the churches and schools.
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel will gladly
receive and transmit contributions either for that object,
or for the temporal relief of the numerous sufferers.
Parcels of suitable light clothing will also be acceptable.

Mr. Ganly, " the Robins of Ireland," is about
to sell by auction the farm stozir of the late Lord Plunket.
The Fr.-rnian's Journal, under the head of " The Outnt of
a liiisionary Bishop," publishes what it sarcastically calls
" A characteristic inventory of what in evangelical circles
will, no doubt, be looked upon as the complete episcopal
outfit of the late arch-hierarch of the church militant in
Connaught: —ltem first-817 head of cattle. Item second-
-29 short-horned Kerry cows. Item third-5 Durham and
Kerry hulls. Item fourth-77 ditto bullocks. Item fifth-
-244 ewes. Item sixth-159 hoggets. Item seventh-242
lambs. Item eighth-81 two and three-year-old welders.
Item ninth-242 lambs. Item tenth—S2 welders. Item
eleventh-17 rams. Then conies a long list of ' carriage
horses," weight carrying' cobs, ten family and farm
horses, sows and littors, fat pigs and boars, carts to the
number of 11, ploughs six, and harrows four ; single and
I double broughams, phaetons, jaunting cars, chariots, and
saddles ; grubbers and hydropults, scales and ladders."

Mr. Calvert, of the Prince's Theatre, Man-
chester,prothices Antony ar•l Cleopatra with such liberality
as to evoke a letter from Mr. Tom Taylor to one of the
local papers, in which he says :—" I but rseord my un-
exaggerated conviction when I say that in judgment,
liberality, and good taste—apart from the signal merit of
the performance of the principal parts—this revival seems
to me quite deserving of rank with the best of those of
3lacready or Charles Kean."

Mr. Mechi has been speaking at a meeting of the
Braintree Labourers' Friend Society. He upheld Mr.
Bright's statement about the ownership of the land of
this country, and talked about the benefit to Essex from
the construction of the great tunnel now making to oonvey
the sewage of London to the 3laplin Bands.
The steam cultivation inquiry terminates on
Wednesday next in Scotland.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION, 1867.—We are requested
to correct a current misapprehension that this exhibition
will open on the list of May next, and to state that the Ist
of April is the day appointed, which arrangement will
idoubtlem be adhered to. A complete rehearsal of the
opening of the exhibition is to take place on the Slit of
Mareh, 1867.