The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-02 00:00:00

the Court.

BALMORAL, Ocr. 31.
The Queen drove out with Princess Beatrice,
attended by Lady Ely.
The Duke of Buckingham had the honour of dining with
the Queen and the royal family.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Keppel,
went out shooting yesterday in Windsor Great Park.
His Royal Highness afterwards took luncheon with the
Prince and Princess Christian, at Frogmore.
Major Grey has succeeded Lieut.-Colonel Keppel as
Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of Wales.
The following deputation. had interview. with the Earl
of Devon, at the office of she Poor-law Board, Whitehall,
yesterday, viz., from the parish of St. Luke, Middlesex,
consisting of Mr. John Harrison and Mr. R. Stiff (church-
wardens), Mr. J. Wilson, Mr. Dale, Mr. Telfer, Mr. G. P.
King, Mr. W. W. King, Mr. Powell, Mr. Ezell, Mr.
Callow, Mr. Herd, Mr. J. Brown, Mr. G. Thomas, Mr.
Cutler, Mr. Bridgland, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Tutil, Mr.
Clitherow, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Adams, Mr. &midi, Mr.
Lawrence, Mr. J. Morland, and Messrs. Parson and Hayne
(clerks). From the Lewisham Union, consisting of Mr.
U. W. Adams, Mr. C. Atkins, Mr. F. H. Hart, Mr. Cay,
and Mr. T. Parker (clerk). From the parish of Plumstead,
consisting of Mr. Cook, Mr. French, Mr. Boishall, and Mr.
Hughes (vestry clerk). From the Stepney Union, con-
listing of Mr. Spence, Mr. Longetaff, Mr. Robertson, Mr.
Derby, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Blundell, Mr. Dicker, Mr. Vasey,
Mr. Henwood, Mr. Boggon, Mr. Walter, and Mr. Swop-
stone (clerk). From the Poplar Union, consisting of Mr.
W. Hickson, M. J. Y. Gibbs, the Rev. G. T. Driffield, Mr.
K L Bracebridge, Mr. H. Edgcumbe, Mr. C. Hoare, Mr.
J. Atherton, Mr. J. W. Morris, and Mr. J. R. Collins
(clerk).
The name of Mr. William Lawley, the chairman of the
Local Government and Taxation Committee of the Cor-
poration of London, was omitted from the list of the de-
putation who had an interview with the Earl of Devon on
Thursday last.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the settlements on the West Coast
of Africa. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the
West Indi► Islands, British Columbia, Bermuda, the Aus-
tralian colonies, and the Cape of Good Hope.

ARRIVAL OP PRINCE ARTHUR IN DOVER.—Yes-
terday afternoon his Royal Highness Prinoe Arthur
arrived in Dover, and will remain for a brief in.
serval. The youthful Prince, who is now in his
eighteenth year, was accompanied by Major Elphinatone,
C. 8., R.E., and Lieutenant Pickard, R.H.A.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at-
tended by Major Grey, honoured the Haymarket Theatre
with his presenoe last evening.
The Prince and Princess of Wales leave town
next week for Windsor Castle to stay with her Majesty
and the royal family till over the Prince's birthday. The
Prince and Princess are expected to leave about the 13th
inst. for Sandringham.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have
arrived at Alowick Castle from visiting the Dowager
Duchess of Northumberland, at Stanwick Park, York-
shire. The Earl Percy has left town to resume his studies
at Christ Church, Oxford.

The Karl and Countess of Dudley have arrived
at Dudley House, Park-lune, from Paris.

Lord Brougham is expected in town on Wednes-
day next from Brougham Hall, Westmoreland.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs.
Disraeli on Thursday paid a visit to the Castle, the Par-
liament House, Holyrood Palace, and other places of inte-
rest in the city. In the evening the Lord Advocate enter-
tained • party to dinner in honour of his distinguished
guests. Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli were to leave Edinburgh for
London yesterday morning.
The Prince of Wales will send to Leeds "The
Indian Tent," by Sir Edwin lAndseer, R.A., " An Italian
Serenade," by Rudolph Lehmann; "The Bivouac in
Egypt," by Carl Werner ; " The Fight for the Diamond,"
by E. Corbould, and " The Emperor of Russia and the
Prince of Wales Sleighing," by N. de Swertschkow.

The scientific meetings for the ensuing week are
—Monday. Royal Institution, 2, general monthly meeting.
Tuesday. Horticultural, 3, general meeting ; Syro-
Egyptian, 7i, "Invasion of Palestine by Assyrians and
Babylonians," Mr. Sharpe ; " Rare Samaritan MSS.," Mr.
Kraus; Anthropological, 8. Wednesday. Geological, 8,
" Loess and Gravel Deposits of the Valley of the Somme,"
Mr. Taylor. Thursday. Linnean, 8, " Reptiles of British
Guiana," Mr. Theobald.

The A thaw-um says that Bishop Percy's folio
manuscript has been offered to the trustees of the British
Museum at a reasonable price.

Mr. George Dennis, who has explored in the
Etrerian sepulchres, in Sicily, and lately near Benghazi,
where he was consul, has been appointed by the govern-
ment to a consular poet in Asia Minor, with a view to allow
scope for his archaeological capabilities.

Mr. Woolner will probably contribute to the
next Royal Academy Exhibition a large statuette in marble
which represents Elaine," the lily maid"of the Laureate's
idyll—a sculpture which has occupied the artist during
two years last past, and ham been wrought for Mr. Jaime.,
of Edinburgh.

MR. Lowa AT EDINBIIROII.—Last evening Mr.
Robert Lowe, M.P., delivered an address at the Philo-
sophical Institution, Edinburgh, on public education.
After expressing his views on the compulsory system of
elementary tuition, he spoke of the necessity of a complete
reform of the higher education, of breaking down the
ascendancy of Greek and Latin, and giving a fair stage for
the neglected branches of study—English history, law and
letters, the modern language, and the physical sciences.
He did not despise Latin, Greek, and mathematics,
hut he wished all branches of instruction to be put on
equal terms, and that parents should be left to choose
what branches should be studied by their children. Un-
less our higher education was brought into accord with
the necessities of the age the higher classes would not
recover the influence they were likely to lose by impend-
ing political changes. The lecture was received with much
applause.

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THE COURT AT BALMORAL. —On Monday last
her Majesty and party drove from Balmoral Castle, on the
north side of the river Dee, via Invercauld-house and
Alienators,, to the Falls of Quoich, &c. After a short
time spent in the vicinity, the royal visitors returned
through Braemar to her Majesty's Highland palace in the
evening.

ST. JAMIE'S PALACE, OCT. 29.—The Queen has
been plea■ed to appoint Eliza Horatio Frederica, Visoounteas
Clifden, to be one of her Majesty's Ladies of the Bed-
chamber in Ordinary, in the room of Frances Elizabeth,
Viscountess Jocelyn. resigned; Frances Elizabeth, Vi.-
countess Jocelyn, to he an Extra Lady of the Bedchamber
to her Majesty ; and the Honourable Lady Biddulph to be
Honorary Bedchamber Womattin Ordinary to her Majesty.
—Gazette.

FURTHER MEMORIALS.—Her Majesty's screw
yacht Fairy, in the steam basin of Portsmouth dockyard,
is having her internal fittings in the royal apartments
taken out of her, together with her machinery and boilers
preparatory to breaking up her hull, and thus removing
her name, for a time, from the list of the squadron of her
Maio-4y'. yachts. All the main features in the decors-
-601111 and furniture of the royal apartments are being re-
moved from the yacht with the greatest we, it being un-
derstood to be her Majesty's desire to preserve at Osborne
all that can possibly be converted into memorials of •
vessel oolong a time the favourite yacht of herself, the
late Prince Consort, and all the numbers of the royal