The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-20 00:00:00

ANNOUNCEMENTS BY THE " OWL."

We are enabled to state that the deliberations of
the Cabinet yesterday resulted in a determination on the
part of ministers to tender their resignations to her
Majesty, and that a special messenger left town
last night for Balmoral with a communication to
that effect from Marl Russell :to the Queen.—
The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitc, who for the
last few days has been on a visit to this country, has
been called on by Prussia to furnish a contingent to
the army, a demand which his Serene Highness is not
inclined to accede to. He will leave to-day for Germany-
-We believe it is likely that Lord Alfred Churchill
will be appointed to the government of Jamaica.—
We have much pleasure in announcing that Mr. John
Lumley has received a well-deserved promotion by being
appointed her Majesty's minister at Dresden.—We are in-
formed that in addition to the Hector and Prince Consort,
ordered to the Mediterranean, in anticipation of eventual-
ities, other iron-clads are being prepared to further
strengthen the squadron in that sea.—lt will in-
terest many in London society to hear that the Duke of
San Arpino has been appointed on the staff of General
La ?Sermons, and is now with him on active service.—
The extreme inconvenience mused by her Majesty's absence
at Balmoral may be estimated when it is remembered that
it will be necessary to hold a Privy Council to announce
our neutrality in the continental war, and that to do
this some right honourable gentlemen will have to per-
form a long journey to Scotland, and a delay
of two or three days will be unavoidably incurred
should the Queen not return immediately to Windsor.—
The secret object of Prince Charles of Hohenzollern's
assumption of power in the Principalities, and the inten-
tion of those who sent him thither, will be made manifest
before long, if, as it is expected, he attacks Austria,
and thus creates a diversion on her frontier. The
troops of the Kaiser will thus have to face
attacks from every direction, all skilfully directed
by the master minds who have surrounded Austria
by a perfect circle of foes. The disturbance thus raised on
the Danube, and, in all probability, in the European pro-
vinces of Turkey, will give an excellent excuse to those
who may seek for one for redistributing territories and
compensating Austria for the loss of Venetia and of Ger-
man influence.

A marriage is arranged between Miss Percival,
daughter of Mr. Philip Percival, and Mr. Treherne, son of
Mr. Treherne, M.P. for Coventry ; and between Miss
Elliot, daughter of the late Admiral Sir George Elliot, and
the Hon. Nassau Jocelyn, youngest son of the Earl of
Roden, and Second Secretary to the British Legation at

Florence.
Prince Sigismund, whose death is announced in
a Berlin telegram, is the second on of their Royal
Higlinegses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia.
The funeral of the late Earl of Gainsborough
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took place yesterday afternoon, when the remains were
deposited in the same vault, in Teston Church, Kent,
where the three first wives of his lordship are placed. The
present earl, on arriving at the station at Wateringbury,
accompanied the widowed countess, Lady Louisa Agnew,
Lady Victoria Buxton, the Hon. Mrs. Henry Noel, and
other female relatives, to the church, where seats were
provided for them in front of the reading desk, and apart
from the congregation. At the conclusion of the service
the body was removed to the vault opening on the north
side of the church, around which the whole of the as.
senibled relatives and friends clustered.
At a meeting yesterday, at York, of volunteer
officers commanding corps in the North of England, it was
decided that the review, which the Prince and Princess
of Wales have promised to attend in that city, shall be
hell on Saturday, August 11. The Duke of Cambridge is
to be the reviewing officer.
TheDevonportElectionCommittee will be chosen
on the 4th of nest month.
The Grand Dukes Alexander and Wladimir of
Russia have arrived at Copenhagen, where they intend
staying afew weeks. It is supposed that the betrothal
other Royal Highness Princess Dagmar with the Czarovitch
will be shortly proclaimed.
Private Cranston, of the 51st Regiment, was
put on trial yesterday before a court-martial at Dublin
charged with stating, in February last, to men of his
corps, that sworn Fenians among the military in Rich-
mond Barracks, Dublin, were, just before the premedi-
tated outbreak, to put bits of sponge in the nipples of the
guns of all non•Fenians, to prevent them from firing, and
that they were then to be fired on unless they joined in
the mutiny.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 18.—The Queen has been
pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the
great seal granting the dignity of a baronet of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Thomas Wat-
son, of Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, in the parish
of St. Marvlehone, and county of Middlesex, Doctor of
Medicine, President of the Royal College of Physicians,
and one of her Majesty's Physicians Extraordinary, and
the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.—iliazdte.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, SOUTH KEN-
SINGTON.—At the fortnightly meeting of the fellows of
this society, held yesterday, Mr. Sigismund Rucker,
F.L.S., in the chair, the most prominent feature of the
show was a collection of zoned pelargoniums, which were
most striking. Amongst plants in pots were three curious
species of Drusera, from Messrs. Veitch, and Eriogonum
umbellatum,froniMr.Thompaon. Amongst cut flowers were
several beautiful orchids, and splendid specimens of the
rare Fremoutica Californica (on which Mr. Bateman gave a
lecture), a sterculiaceous plant, equally remarkable for
beauty and botanical interest ,• also a collection of double
Pyrethra, from Mr. Salter, which anticipate and almost
equal the China asters of autumn. Several new fellows
were elected, and the Buckingham Horticultural and
Floral Society admitted into union.
Tits ROYAL Araosmr.—On Monday evening, at
a meeting of the Royal Academicians, Baron Marochetti,
A.R.A., and Mr. George Richmond, A.R.A., were elected
to fill the vacancies caused by the deaths of Mr. John
Gibson, R.A., and Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, P.R.A.,
Baron (Charles) Marochetti, born at Turin in 1805, and a
pupil of Pm-io, is known for hie colossal Richard C,eur de
Lion. his equestian statue of the Queen, his portrait-busts
of the l'rince Consort, the Countess Grosvenor, &c. Mr.
Richmond was born in 1809, and is a distinguished minia-
ture painter and artist in water colours, and, recently,
celebrated for his portraits in oil. He became A.K.A. in
1857, and, if report speaks truly, he is especially accom-
plished as a sculptor. At the same meeting of the Royal
Academy Mr. Linn was elected travelling student in sculp-
ture.
CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.—Dr. Arthur Julius
Pollock, a younger son of the Right Hen. the Lord Chief
Baron of the Exchequer, was, at the close of the poll on
Monday evening, declared elected amistant-phyalcian to
Charing-cross Hospital by &majority of 30 votes over Dr.
William Tilbury Fox. Dr. Pollock is an associate of
King's College, London, became member of the Royal Col-
lege of Physicians in 1859, and of the Royal College of
Surgeons is 1860, graduated M.D. of St. Andrews in 1861,
and was lately pathological registrar and assistant de-
monstrator in King's College Hospital.
UNIVERSITY COLLEOZ HOSPITAL.—Number of
patients relieved during the past week, 5,109; of these
471 were new cases.
JUDGMENT IN THE BANDA AND KIRWAN PRIEM
CASE.—Yestertlay at the Admiralty Court, Dr. Lashing-
ton informed the bar that the Court would give judgment
in this case on Saturday, the 30th inst. The booty, be-
sides interest, amounts to 450,0001., and as 37 (*meal
were employed the costa will be very large, probably about
50,000/.
CRYSTAL PALACE. —ONE SHILLING BAY.—
TCESDAI, Juits 19.—Admissions perinea fit 3,018;
ditto by *moon tickets, 1,253. Total vititort. 4,211.