The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY iii*NING, JUNE 1,1.86 et,

strafing with the court se Madrid, but will remind Okili
that for six mouths a SpoOsh fleet lay Inactive in"Valpw.
raiso harbour, awaiting Slit Republic's sessptance of taw
which wan not unsatisfactory to Bvitin, said were probed
upon both governments by England lad Trance.
The Star refers to Mr. Cavan Duffyk lecture at the
Society of Arts as grappling successfully with the misre-
presentations of Mr. Marsh and Mr. Lowe respect-
ing the Australian colonies. The worst fault of colonial
life is probably the prevalence of slander, of unadvised
speaking, of the use of language in relation both to public
and private affairs which could scarcely be ventured upon
in England with respect to Englishmen or English mea-
sures. Mr. Loweand Mr. Marsh are unhappily ao far afflicted
with this colonial weakness that the one has said of his
unenfranchised countrymen what hews. obliged to retract,
and the latter has said of the members of the Victoria par-
liament what we are sure he cannot prove, and what,
indeed, in answer to Mr. Duffy's challenge, he declined to
substantiate, and ought therefore to have had the grace to
retract.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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CLIVEDEN,
Her Alaieity went out yeaterdet
attended by the Duchess Dowager of Athole.
In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess
Helena, and attended by the Duchess of Athole, drove
out.
Princess Helena drove out in the morning.

A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon•
Privy Council met yesterday, in the Council Chamber,
Whitehall. Present :—The Lord President, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., the
Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. W. Monsell,
the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, and the Right Hon.
IL A. Bruce. Mr. Helps and Colonel Harness attended.

It is stated that her Majesty will be present at
the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of
Cambridge and his Highness Prince de Teck at Kew
Church, on the 12th inst.
The Prince and Princess of Wales will honour
the Countess Vane with their presence at an assembly, at
Holderness House, on the 7th inst.
The Princess of Wales, who wore pink on Tues-
day at Ascot, was yesterday in blue. A blue dress with a
tulle slip, a blue silk jacket with a tulle slip, trimmed
with rich white lace, a tulle bonnet with blue ribbons and
blue nemophilas, became her royal highness admirably, and
it only needed, to render her costume nerfect, the bouquet
of tea roses which she carried in her hand. The Princess
Mary wore a dress of lavender and white stripes, a mantle
of llama bordered with white silk, and trimmed with black
lace and black velvet ribbon, and a bonnet of white deli-
cately bordered with lavender.
The Duke of Edinburgh will reside at Clarence
House, St. James's, as soon as the mansion is in a thorough
state of repair.
There is no foundation for the report circulated
that The Lodge, Bushey-park, formerly occupied by
Queen Adelaide, is to be given up to the Princess Mary of
Cambridge.
Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg and Princess
Leopoldina of Brazil, Duchess of Saxe, attended by a very
numerous suite, have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel,
Albemarle-street, from Southampton.
His Excellency the Belgian Minister is confined
to the house by the rupture of a ligament near the ancle.
The Archbishop of York received the Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of
London, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Carlisle,
the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Oxford, the
Bishop of Soder and Man, the Bishop of Brisbane, the
Bishop of Derry, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of
Grahamstown, Mr. Egerton Harcourt, Mr. E. Wilmot, and
Mr. Crosthwnite at dinner yesterday evening, at his resi-
dence in Mansfield-street, Cavendish-square.

The Earl of Chesterfield, according to the medi-
cal report, remains in precisely the same hopeless condition.
The medical gentlemen in attendance give no hope of his
recovery.
The Earl and Countess of Devon entertained at
dinner last evening, at their residence in Brook-street,
Grosvenor-square, the Right Hon. William Monsell,
M.P., Colonel Crealock, Mr. and Mrs. Locke King and
Miss King, Mr. and Mrs. Fowler, Mrs. 31alcoln, and Mr.
Caulfield.
We (Times) are authorised to state that there is
no foundation whatever for the paragraph which was
copied in our impression of yesterday from the OW, to the
effect that the late Dowager Lady Truro has bequeathed
to her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge
the whole of her fortune and the house in Eaton-square.

Lord Henley and his relatives have been placed

in mourning through the death of hie eldest daughter, the
Hon. Florence Mary, who died on Monday last at 'Malvern.
She was born in 184 S.

The Bishop of Chichester has had a new pastoral
staff presented to him by his clergy on his reaching the
25th year of his episcopate and the 80th year of his age.
The Dublin University foot races and other
athletic games commenced on Wednesday, and seemed to
have attracted all the people in the city who could get
away from business. It is said that 10,000 tickets were
issued for the reserved part of the College Park, and there
must have been fully that number in the free part. The
Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess of Kimberley arrived
shortly after l o'clock, and met an enthusiastic reception.