The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-18 00:00:00

Cot Court.

The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by
the Count of Flanders, rode on horseback on Saturday
morning, attended by the Hon. Horst& Stanford, Major.
General Seymour, and Lient,Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe.
The Queen, accompanied by Prince Arthur and the
Princess Helena, and attended by the Counter of Germ-
borough, took a drive la a meriege and four in the afternoon.
Major-General Seymour attended on horseback.

The Prince Consort and the Count of Flanders rode on
horseback, attended by Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. D. de Rca
and Major Burnell
The Queen, accompanied by the Count of Flanders,
honoured the performance at the Olympic Theatre with
her preens°e in the evening. In attendance were the Hon.
Oareline Cavendish, the Hon. Horatio Stopford, Viscount
Tonington, Major-General Seymour, and Major BurnalL
The Priam Consort, attended by Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.
D. de Rce, presided at a grand dinner of the °Mears of his
regiment, the Grenadier Guards, in the Banquet-hall, St.
James's Palace, on Saturday, the two hundredth anniver-
sary of the regiment,

The Princes Alice, attended by Lady Caroline Barring.
ton and Major General Wylde, honoured the performance
at the Princess's Theatre with her presence on Saturday
evening.
Yesterday, the Queen and Prince Consort, the King of
the Belgians, the Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, the Prin-
cesses Helena and Louise, the ladies and gentlemen of the
court, and the domestic bousehoki, attended divine service in
the Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace. The Rev. J. W.
Reeve preached the sermon.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were Vis-
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran-
ville, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Atwell, the
Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Her-
bert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon.
T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers,
and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.

A deputation, conabding of Mr. Thome Maps, Mr.
William Brooke, Mr. Jas. Drisooll, and Mr. Thomas Porker,
bad an interview with the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, on
Saturday, at the office of the Poor-law Board, on the sub-
ject of a superannuation for Poor-law album
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Orouncil eat on
Saturday. An appeal from Canada, "Shaw v. Jeffery," was
heard. The lords present were the Lords Justices might
Bruce and Turner, Sir J. Coleridge, and Sir E. Ryan.
Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of the West India Islands, and the
Governor of British Columbia.

We (A lo rdeett Herald) learn, from pretty reliable
authority, that her Majesty may be expected at Balmoral
Castle during the first week of August.

The Duke of Argyll is nut yet sufficiently re-
covered from the measles to resume his duties in parliament,
nor was his grace able to attend at the meeting of the
cabinet ministers on Saturday last.
The Countess de Bernstorff has issued cards for
en
assembly at Prussia House on Monday next.

Frances Anne Marchioness of Londonderry will
give a ball at Holdernesse House on the 28th inst.

The Countess of Derby had a reception on
Saturday night, at the fondly mansion in St. James's..
square. Their Serene Highimeme Prince Jules and Prince
John of Holetein.Olucksbnrg, &ince Frederick of Holstein,

and the Princess Edward of Bss►Weimar honoured the
Minion with their presence. Previously to the assembly
the noble earl and countess received the following circle at
dinner :—The Duchess of Manchester, the Earl sad Countess
of Dslkeitb, the Earl and Countess Vane, the Earl of Dun-
more, Viscount Hamilton, Viscount and Viscountess Grey
de Wilton, Lord ►nd Lady Cecilia Bingham, Lord Otho
Fitzgerald, Lord Loughborough, Sir Robert and Lady Emily
Peel, Lord Stanley and Lady Emma Stanley.

Viscountess Palmerston had an assembly on
Sturdy evening at Cambridge House. Previously to the
assembly the noble viscount and viscountess entertained a
edict circle at dinner.

The Queen hes presented the Rev. John Newton
Rlazarn, vicar of Durnford, Wilts, to the rectory of Bu-
ford I. Martin, io the diocese of Salisbury, vacant by the
elocution of the Hoe. 8. WsWayne' to the see of Carlisle.

Lord John Russell has appointed Mr. William
Pony, who had served twenty years as consul at Panama,
to the Consul-Oenerulship at Venice, varaat by the death
of Mr. Jamie. Mr. Charles Alan Henderson, now consul at
Pesegesy, fe appointed consul at Panama, in the room of
Mr. Perry. 'he consulship at Parsgay will not be filled up.
Archdeacon Robinson, the Master of the Temple,
has intirratedhis intention of resigning the Rectory of The'-
field, to which he was appointed by Lord Cranworth during
the time he was Lord Chancellor. The living, which is worth
LOOM ►year, la in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St.
Paul's, and it will be taken by the Rev. Thomas Dale, one
of the canons residentiary, who has just given up the Vicar-
age of St. Pancras.

The Dean and Chapter of York assembled at the
cathedral of that city on Thursday last, and, in obedience
to her Majesty's writ of conf (retire elected the Most
Rev. C. T. Langley (Bishop of Durham) to be Archbishop
of York, in the place of the late archbishop (the Most Rev.
Dr. Musgrave). The Venerable Archdeacon Creyke, in the
absence of the Very Rev. the Dean of York, presided. The
proceedings were of a formal character.
We (Salsa/Airy Journal) are authorised to state
that the rectory of Bt. )fury's, Southampton, rendered
vacant by the promotion of Archdeacon Wigrarn, the late
rector thereof, to the see of Rochester, has been conferred
by the crown on the Rev. Mark Cooper, M.A., of Si. John's
College, Cambridge, and incumbent of Brainsbaw, Hants
sad Wilts.

A member has been returned for Belfast in the
room of Mr. Devises, who has retired from weight of yeah
and failing health. Mr. Samuel G. Getty, moderate con-
servative, has obtained his election without a contest. The
Northern Whig speaks of him as " much less objectionable
than many other gentleman whom the tones might have
selected." Mr. Getty has been several times mayor of
Belfast.

The new postal arrangements between London
and Dublin are to be carried into effect (ruin the lit ANNA
next, when all necessary preperetions will be completed by
the Peet-offiee.

A mot of Garibaldi's is quoted by the papers:—
"I came to Sierly, where I beat an army without a amoral;
I am now going to Rome, to beat a general without as
army."

The Correspandalice Bailier says:—" Madame de
Larnoriciero has just arrived in Perim from Horne, sad is
goieg in a few days to the gowevara eountry house. Not-
withstanding the daily denials of a certain portion of the
press, it seem to be certain that Generic! de Lamoti-
rime is not quite plowed with his pretties at Rome, mad
some eapreesiome whish Irmo dropped from his wife teed
to coefirm the het that there we mat Mennen behrose
him and the lisfred College."
Blondin has most with a rivaL A man named
Di Late had mead the Pain& ea a rope 800 foot in With,
" dapping in the mane to be photographed."