The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-16 00:00:00

the !Court.

OSBORNE, Fee. 15.
The Queen went out yesterday afternoon, accom-
panied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice.
This morning her Majesty and all the Royal Family
walked and drove in the grounds.

A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall, on the sub-
ject of the cattle plague. Tho lords present were the
Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole and the Hight Hon. Ste-
phen Cave. Mr. Helps and Dr. Alexander William■ at-
tended the committee.

A deputation introduced by Mr. Scholefield, M.P., and
consisting of the Mayor of Birmingham, Mr. Alderman
Hawkes, and Mr. Alderman Ryland, of Birmingham, Mr.
Councillor Price and the borough treasurer of Leeds, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in
Downing-street yesterday, on the subject of the aaaesament
of public buildings to the inhabited house duty.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yester-
day. Present—Sir E. V. Williams, Sir R. Kindersley,
Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor-General of Canada.

There will be a Cabinet Council this afternoon
at the First. Lord of the Treasury's official residence
in Downing-street. The council is appointed for
three o'clock.

Lady Stanley of Alderley will have an evening
party to-night at the noble lord's residence in D3ver-street,
Piccadilly.

A marriage is arranged to take place between
Lady Marion Loftin', daughter of the Marchioness of Ely,
and Mr. Springfield, of the sth Dragoon Guards.
We (tit4iffurdshire Adrectiser) understand that a
marriage is in contemplation between Lord Watcrpsrk and
Lady Constance Finch Hatton, eldest daughter of the
Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham.

The death occurred on Thursday of Sir Arthur
Msgenh, G.C.B.

We regret to see it stated that Mr. Waddington,
the permanent Unilsr Secretary of State for the Home
Department, was seised yesterday by a sudden attack of
illness, which is thought to be serious.

On Monday laat (Bays the Army and Nary
fla:ette) the Lords of the Treasury, with a view of relieving
the gre►t distress prevailing at the east end of London,
gave authority to the war department to order 1,000 tone
of iron fit for the manufacture of guns to the hfillwall
Iron Works Company.

The Spectator says that Lord Chelmsford de-
fended Chief Baron Kelly in the House of Lords with
great bitterness and ability, but made one stupid mis-
take. Mr. Kelly challenged his libeller in 1835, and
Lord Chelmsford observed that Mr. Wagon thought it
best to be guided by the Christian rule, 'Be not
high-minded, but fear," and applied to the police.
"That is to say, the first judge in the land, the
' keeper of the queen's conscience,' considers that for
a lean not to commit a murder when public opinion re-
quires it is a disgraceful offence, which ought to be flung
in his teeth thirty years afterwards !"

Writing to this Manchester E.rantiner, Mr. Gold-
win Smith says:—" The details of Mr. Disraeli's plan
have scarcely yet emerged from the shadowy limbo
of his mystic mind. But the fundamental principle on
which he wishes to base his and all constitutional
legislation is clear, and against this principle, as un-
patriotic, lout, in the worst sense, revolutionary, we
are bound to protest, We are bound to protest that Eng-
land is not • group of hostile interests, to be balanced
against each other, with false weights put into the scale for
the benefit of • particular claw, but • community ; and
that parliament isnot a conference of delegate■ from has.
tile interests, but • council, which we mean to make a
worthy council of a nation."

A meeting under the auspices of the Reform
League was held last night in the Leeds Town-hall " for
the purpose of considering what steps should be taken in
reference to the conduct of the government on the question
of reform." Mr. Alderman Tatham presided, and there
was a large and enthusiastic attendance. Resolutions were
adopted, declaring that the manner in which the govern.
moat had treated the question of reform was an insult to
the working chimes, and c►lling upon the House of Com-
mons forthwith to affirm its want of confidence in the
ministry. _

A deputation of working men, headed by Mr. J.
Stuart Mill, M.P., waited yestenlsy on Mr. Walpole, and
urged upon the right hon. gentleman to either substitute
for one of the present members of the Trades' Union Com.
mission just appointed a working man, or allow represen-
tative working men to watch the interests of the various
trades during the inquiry. Mr. Walpole, in reply, said
that he was given to understand by the deputation that
waited upon him last week respecting the matter, and
who, he understood, represented the trades' unions, that
if he got Mr. Harrison on the commission the trades would
be perfectly satisfied. He had since done so, and he could
not further interfere with the construction of the commis-
sion. With regard to the suggestion that representatives
from the trades' unions should be allowed opportunities to
watch the interest, of their respective trades, he promised
to write to the head of the commission, Sir William
Erle, on the point ; but that was the only further step in
the matter he could promise to take. He was confident
that the commission would afford the representatives of
the trades every opportunity of being heard.
Madame Celeste is in Australia, and the Era of
this week publishes a letter from her, dated Melbourne,
Dec. 25, describing her voyage.