The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-29 00:00:00

TIM W 3 PILUIANTRT.

The Times this morning prints a letter signed "An
Ireihwomae," treating of Irish domestic life. The writer
denies that residence in 'tabula is distasteful to Irish
landownese, or that an indisposition to saltiest* habits
of friendly isterwsuse with the isometry prevails
among their wires and daughters. She dwells upon
the rarity in Ireland of a well-regulated household. So
low is the standard of desalinise, tidiness, sad thrift;
that servants have to be imported from liaised or
Scotland. &a Irish housewife is sot aabamed of belga
slatternly is her own person, of seeing her husband in
tatter', or of letting the pig wallow is the same room
with her obildres. "The feminine arts of cleaning,
cooking, and sewing" are mysteries which she has never
learnt awl does not oars to lean. The correspondent
proposes as • palliative the improvement of female indus-
trial training by means of a spsoiAl organisation to
be carried on by ladies, who, she contends,
would distribute ednostionel greets to greater
advantage, and inspect female schools nine efficiently.
than the learned gentlemen who now constitute the sole
examiners. Were proper institutions establiehed, she
believes the most untidy of Irish girls would be mad*
useful in their station. The Times is less inagaine, and
doubts whether any educational process mild change
the prawn young women of Ireland into geed virvants.
It is not poverty alone, but sheer Jukes" and • native love
of disorder, which are at the root of the evil. Liewever,
the ease mast not be regarded aa hopeless, but we must
look upon civilisation as advancing, however slowly, even
in Ireland. Twenty years hence, if the true friends of
Ireland do not relax their efforts, the social state which
now seems to us so immovable may be seen to have been
steadily progressive.

Win Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Mum 28.

The Queen with Princess Helens drove in the
Rounds yesterday aftersooe, sad walked sad drove this
maniac attended by the Hos. Mary Lavellea

The &noon Loanno rode in the Home Put.

Lord Camoys and Major-General F. Seymour, C. 8., time
inoosadod Lord Methuen and laant...oolonal Kinpoote gis
Lud and Groom in Waiting.

A deputation from the Clerkenwell Board of Giardini,
consisting of Mr. H. Flea, Mr. W. Gilliogwater, Mr. W.
Ensteee, and Mr. Sewell (clerk), had an interview with the
Right Hoe. C. P. Villiers, at the office of the Poor-law
Board, Whitehall, yesterday.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the North American Provinces,
British Columbia, and Vancouver's island. Dispatches
were met to the Governor of British Honduras.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey left town yesterday for
Fenodes.

The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson left town yesterday
for Theberton•honse, Suffolk.
We are authorised to state that the Court announced is
to be held by her Majesty at Buckingham Palaoe on Thurs.
day, April the 12th, is postponed till Saturday, May sth.

DISTRIBUTION 01 ERR MAJESTY'S ROYAL CHARi.
TIRE —(Tins Dar).—Tbis morning the ancient sad royal
ohs. Wes aseideatal to Manaday 'Thursday were distributed
to 47 aged men and 47 aged women, at the Chapel Royal,
Whitehall, the 'mashers of each sex corresponding with the
age of her Majesty the Queen. _ _

The Earl and Coo- 'item of Derby oontinne to
Prorreu favor rably.

We are sorry to hear that C. N. Start, Esq.,
formerly M.P. for Dorsetahire, ls dangerously ill.

The Marquis Balbi is expected to return to the
Italian Legation. from Turin, about the 15th ptosimo, to
resume his diplomatic duties.
Viscountess Palmerston has left her residence in
Park-la9e for &eellands, Haat'. _ _ _

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Glad-
stone go to-day (Thursday) to Brighton, on Mooday they
will retain to London, and oa Wednesday next proceed to
Liverpool, ionising at Elawarden Oastle we Saturday week.

We regret to learn of the death last night, in his
84th year, of the Bev. John Biles, incumbent of Holy
Trinity Church. Paddington. The living fe in the gift of
the Bishop of London.

The oldest inhabitant of the Isle of Wight is It
lady gamed °fury, who has just celebrated her hundredth
biithday. She resides at Freshwater, near the residence of
Xrt Tennyson, the poet laureate.

Dr. Newman, in a letter to the Guardian, con-
tradicts a statement which has obtained currency to the
effect that he has been " preveatel by superior authority
from publishing a second letter to Dr. Paley on the sub.
ject of Papal infallibility, cr on say other subject what-
ever. Be denies absolutely that any expression of opinion,
or any advice, or any wish of any kind, has bees conveyed
to him directly or indirectly by any one, whether in sutho-
I rity or not, of the nature of either a prohibition or a dis-
missive. Oo the other hand, various persona in ecclesias-
tical station end of high consideration have urged him to
proceed with the subjects of discussion to which Dr.
Pussy's volume might be coosidered to invite him. Nor,
in fact, did be ever himself intend to include formally
among those subjects that of the Pops's infallibility.
It is annonnoed that the Pope intends sending a
°ordeal's hat to Archbishop Spaulding, the Roman catholic
primate at Baltimore. He will be the first American car-
dinal crested. He has already been constituted apostolic
delegate, with power to convene a plenary council of all the
American bishops.

The learned Cardinal Mezzofanti, who spoke 22
languages, bad the greaten esteem for his colleague, Car-
dinal Tosti, who he+ just died at the age of 90. Hs used
to icy of Taal, " He has no need to learn—be divines ; hi
s'one is capable of speaking with tho Holy Meet.'

An enormous robbery took place in New York on
March 10. The offios of Mr. Rufus L. Lord was ordered,
his safe broken open, sad 1,500,000 dole. in gooney ald
securities mu stolen. The thieves have not been appre-
hended, although 200,00 dots. reward is offered far them.

A Brooklyn Fenian journal, in reporting the
proceed*. of a Fenian mass meeting is that city, joys
the order a rather Bibereian compliment, It says :
" Colossi Jobs Oahooy was greeted with a destining
welcome, as thoughlt

" All the fiends that ever tell
" Had petard the bumr sty of HeU r

In baited= of the Bragliih several of the
Assaniain railroad ecenpaniss intend relaying their lines
with steel mac ?bey out torten as mesh VI lees ups,
bet will wear twice u long. The Hudson River Railroad
will lay 60 milss of read with them at owe.