The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

be Court.

The Queen rode on horseback, with the Prince=
Alice, on Saturday morning, in the Riding-house of Buck-
ingham Pekoe.

The Prises Consort, attended hy Colonel the How A.
Harting*, went on Saturday morning to the New E.
mental Hospital of the Grenadier Guarda, in Boaster.
row.

Prises Alfred, attended by Major °oweit, honoured Mr.
Maya with a visit, et his photographic eatablialunent, in
Regentatreet, cm Saturday.
The Prison Comport went in the afternoon to the South
Keseingice Mileasm.

The iastess bad a dinner party Is the evening. The
comply beleded the Prince of Wales, the Primmer Alise,
Prises Alfred, Prince Nicholas of Nassau, and Prince
Victor of Holtenlobe ; Lady Caroline Barrington, the Earl
sod Coulee@ at Tnakerrine, the Earl and Counter of Chi-
charter, Visemat and Vieeountawi Newport, Lord Clarence
Paget, Lied !Annoyer, the Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs.
Hertient, W. E. Gladstone, the Right Hon. Sir John
Remaly Menke of the LOU.), Professor de V Rive (of
Gessira), Majo► Cowell, and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel.
The bead of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance,
end played daring dinner.

Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the
Drawing-roost.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Consort, the Prince of
Wales, Primal Ahem, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, the
Princesses Helena and Louisa, the Ladies and °enflames of
the Court, end the domestic household, attended Divine
Berries is t►e Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace. The
Bee. Dr. Vanessa preached the sermon.
Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood and Captain Du Plat have
relieved Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel the Hun. A. Her-
dinge In their duties as the Equerries-in-Waiting to the
Queen and Primp Consort.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers prc
sent were Viscount Palmerston, the Duke
of Ariel, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Rus-
sell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, Sir Merles Wood, the Chan-
cellor of the Eichequr the Duke of Somerset,
the Right Hun. T. Milner Gi:sion, Sir George
Grey, the Earl of Elgin, the High.. Hon. C. P.
Villiers, and the Right Hon. E. CardweLl.

A deputation consisting of Mr. W. Hon, Mr. E.
Mr. G. Brown, and Mr. G. Palliser, ratepayers of
1114.1:kies, Middlesex, had an interview with the Right
Row. C. P. Villiers, at the o&e of the Pour.law Board,
Whitehall, on Baturd.y.
Despatches were received' on Petuniay at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of Vancouver's Island and British
Columbia. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the
West India Wands.

Their Royal nighttime. the Ditches. of Cam-
bridge and the Prince% Mary, attended by Colonel Purees
sad Indy Geraldine Somerset, left their residence in St.
Jamie Palace on Saturday for Kew, for the Feaster holi-
days.

The Duoheu of Somerset had a reception on
Saturday eight at the Pint Linl of the Admiralty's racial
miasma in Whitehall.

The Earl auil C.,untoaa of Derby and Lady
Emma Stanley have left town for Knowsley Park, Lama-
shire, fur the Parliamentary ream.

Vinoount and Viscountess Pa!menden enter-
tained • select circle at dinner on Saturday evening, at
Cambridge Howe, Piccadilly.

Field-Marehsil Lord Beaton wad lady Seaton aad
the Hoe. Mow Colborne have arrived at Tarrasees
Hotel. from Ireland.

The Bishop of Loudon and Mrs. Tait are etaying
at Starkey's Royal Victoria Hotel, Mt. leseerds-cmeSes
. .

We are glad to le•rn that the health of the right rev. prelate
has improved since his arrival at this salubrious place.
We (Haddisighin Courier) understand that the
Marquis of Dalhousie intends fixing his residence, during
the summer months, at Coalston House, in this immediate
neighbourhood. Wd are glad to learn that • `real
pavement has taken place in the health of the Marquis,
and that his friends entertain the hope of soon seeing him
restored to health. His lordship now dispenses with the
sim et tie centavo, and is able to take • good deal of alum-
museis•

IheOlder Nom has the following " stop
peso'—" Telegraph No. 1, March 2R--Francis M. Calculi
to Cannel Taylor, M.P.—Did Calcutt, to Colouel Taylor's
insowhige, ever apply for tunas to the Carlton Club!
Pray, talapapb reply. Telt-7,mph No. 2 -Colonel Taylor,
M.P., P. M. Waal, Esq., March 28—Never to my
ksowlailea.*

After a sharp siege, the seat for Londonderry,
termed by the death of Sir IL lemmas, bee bees won by
WOarsdek, the eminent railway contractor. He pro-
femme to be a moderato, conservative. The other candidates
were Mr. Skipton, moderate whir, and Mr. Greer, ultra
liberal, a radical (r in the start. The whir nowhere on the
peal, and thesoeforward it wee a pliant nee between
Meese. 11'Cormick and Greer, the former wine* by a
majority of 19. The following were the gross numbers at
the chew : 111•Cormick, 328 ; Grim. 307 ; 13kiplos, 82.
An adjudication in bankruptcy has been made
spinet the Phoiniz Life Assurance Company, of Leaden-
halletmet, Louden, and Mancheeterdiuddiage, Liverpool.
Thies is the wooers that for some time mit, frost its WWI.
till* title, km eased gnat aanoysitioe to the Phomix-oilles,
of Lombard-street. on- of the bar:feat and most mrectable
of the London Ire mammas. companies.