The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-08 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S COURT.

The Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace
yesterday afternoon.
The Queen wore a black anoiri: antique dress, with a
train trimmed with crape and jet, and a diadem of dia-
monds and opals over the Mary Queen of Scots cap, with a
long veil of white crape lime.
Her Majesty also wore a necklace, brooch and earrings
of diamonds and opal+, a diamond cross suspended from
the necklace, containing a miniature of his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort, the riband and star of the Order of the
Garter. and the Victoria and Albert order.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise wore a train of
rich white silk, striped and thinned with blue velvet, and
a white satin petticoat of tulle over glace silk, trinnned
with bows of blue velvet. Head•dress, blossoms of the
narcissus and convolvulus, with feathers and veil. I)ia.
lleula and ruby ornaments, the Victoria and Albert
order. and the Order of St.
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice wore a dress of
white satin trimmed with swansdown ; bands of blue
velvet in her hair, and pearl ornaments.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice,
accompanied by the Hon. Mn. Grey, the Miesev Grey,
Colonel Lindsey, and General Grey, honoured the Glynipic
Theatre with her presence last evening.
Tho Earl and Countess Russell entertained at
dinner last evening Earl Granville, Lord Eliot, Lord
Edward Russell, the Right lion. Sir David Dumb's, the
Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster, and Lady Augusta
Stanley, ike., at their residence, in Chesham•place.
The Countess of Malmesbury, we regret to state,
continues in the slime hopeless condition. For some days
past the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl and Countess of
Tankerville, and Lady Manners, and other members of the
family, have been with her.

The .Marquis Conynghain left tuwu un Tuesday
for his seat in Ireland.

Viscount Casticrosse arrived on Tuesday last at
his seat, Killarney House, Killarney, from Rome. Vis-
countess Castlerosse and Lady Alice Kerr continue at
Rome. His lordship's return has been hastened by the
state of some portions of Ireland.
Viscount and Viscountess Lismore left London
this morning for Ireland, as the alarming accounts of re-
bellion and bloodshed in the south made his lordship's
presence on the spot necessary at once.

The Right lion. John W. Fitzpatrick left town
on Tuesday lust for his seat in Ireland.

His Excellency Shahin Pacha, General-in-Chief
of the Egyptian army, accomp►nied by Colonel Marnsbly
Bey, Colonel EMatann Bey, and M. Houstafa Effendi.
has arrived at Claridges Hotel from Paris.

The Times is authorised to state that there is no
foundation whatever for the statement in the Ou-/ that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been in communica-
tion with Mr. Bright as to the details of the proposed
Reform Rill.

Mr. Gladstone was one of the speakers at the
annual meeting of the Newport Market Refuge and Indus-
trial School held yesterday. In the course of his address
the right hon. gentleman urged the claims of the houselesa
poor of the metropolis on the practical sympathy of the
well-to-do portion of the community, remarked upon the
shortcomings which had characterised the relief dispensed
at workhouses, and recommended the Newport Market
Refuge and Industrial School to the support of all who de-
sire to shelter and sustain a class of destitute persons for
whom very little provision exists.

The Bishop of London, u Dean of her Majesty's
Chapel Royal, preached the sermon at the 12 o'clock ser.
vices in the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, on Ash
Wednesday. There were many members of both Rouses
of Parliament present, and several bishops. It is said to
be the first sermon his lordship has undertaken since his
severe illness, which commenced towards the close of Sep.
tember last.

On Tuesday Mr. Graves will move in committee
of the whole house that the chairman be directed to move
the house that leave be given to bring in a bill for the
better regulation of publio•bouaes, refreshment houses,
and beer-houses.

Mr. Hubbard next Friday will ask the Vice-
President of the Committee of Council on Education
whether it is the intention of her Majesty's government
that the grants voted to promote elementary educa-
tion be administered in strict conformity with the
principles and regulations of the revised code as
approved by parliament. With reference to section
22 of the revised code, whether the number
of scholars now considered adequate to maintain a school
is greater or less than the number, thirty, for whom
school plans have been provided by the Committee of
Council on Education. Whether families interested in a
proposed school will be allowed to decide for themselves
the suitability of the religious denomination under which
it is to be founded. And whether, in the event of a de-
nominational school not being acceptable to all the families
locally interested, its suitability will be determined by
reference to the majority who can, or to the minority who
cannot, maintain it.

The select committee to try the Tipperary county
election petition will be °bonen on the 25th.

Mr. Sandford intends, on the second reading of
Terumts Improvements (Ireland) Bill, to move, " That it
be read a second time upon this day six months."

Among the miscellaneous advances from the
Civil Contingencies Fund during last year, and which
have to be repaid from the vote to be taken for 1867-8, are
the following :—Funeral of the late Viscount Palmerston,
2,0791. 19s. ; equipage money to the M►rquis of Abercorn
and Lord Chancellor Blackburn, 3,6921. 6s. 2d.; entertain•
went of Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Islands, 2,1141.
Is. Id. ; expenses of electoral statistics, 9,1471. 4s. lid. ;
Mr. Lambert, services in preparing information relating to
the late Reform 8i115,500/.; " Parliamentary Record"
supplied to public departments, 400/. ; repairs to Speaker's
state coach, 27/. 25., &c.

The Ruin which is expected to be required for the
coal commission during this year is about 10,000. The
inquiries have been divided by the commission among five
committees, vis. :—On possible depths of working ; waste
in combustion ; waste in working ; probabilities of finding
coal under certain strata ; and on mineral statistics.

The expenses of Mr. Rassam's mission to
Abyssinia are estimated et 6,610/. For the expenses of
Lord Granville's journey to Germany, in 1865, in attend-
ance on she Queen, the sum of 5831. 16e. Id. is asked,
The outfit of Lord Loftus, Ambassador to Berlin, is
2,5001. The Bishop of Newfoundland, from St. John's
to Bermuda and back, 1201. ; the Bishop of Antigua,
visiting the islands in his diocese, 94/. 19a. Bd.

M. Guizot read on Tuesday evening, in the sa/un
of a friend in Paris, a chapter of the Bth and concluding
volume of his " Memoirs," which is to be published in •
few days. It gives an account of the Pontificate of Pins
IX. and a sketch of the political state of Italy during the
interval between 1846 and the Revolution of Febrwkry.
The volume closes with a summary of the events that have
sine* then taken place in the Peninsula.