The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-11 00:00:00

the Court.

The Queen will hold a council at Balmoral on
Friday next
A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Hon. Privy Council sat yesterday at the Council-chamber,
Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords
present were :—Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. H. Corry,
and the Right Hoa. H. Waddington. Mr. Helps and
Colonel Harness attended the committee. _ _ .

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Malta, Gibraltar, and of the
Settlements on the West Coast of Africa, Despatches
were sent to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope,
Natal, St. Helena, Malta,Oeylon, Hong Kong, and Labuan.

The Spanish Minister and the Marchioness de
Molina have left Brighton for Pencarrow, on a visit to Lady
Blolesworth.

Baroness Charles de Rothschild and Miss Emma
de Rothschild have returned to Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-
square, from &Aland.
Colonel Las:ence, United States Consul, has
arrived at Cateldi's Hotel from Florence.

Mr. Layard, M.P., left Milan for Venice on the
7th.

Rear-Admiral Frederick Warden, C. 8., has been
appointed second in command of the Channel Fleet. It is
probable that Admiral Warden will succeed Rear-Admiral
Hastings Reginald Yelverton, C. 8., in the chief com-
mand of the fleet.

The Western Morning News mentions that
among the guests at Lady Molesworth's seat in Cornwall
arc, at the present time, the Right Ron. Robert Lowe
and Sir Stafford Northcote.

Archbishop Manning writes to a contemporary to
state that his argument as to the temporal power of the
Pope is as follows :—" 1. That the supreme spiritual office
of the head of the church requires for its free and full ex-
ercise the perfect independence of his person. 2. That
the independence of his person cannot be secured without
exemption from all temporal superiors. 3. That this ex-
emption requires a sphere of its own. 4. Tbat the pro-
vidence of God has actually so exempted the head
of His church from temporal powers, and has actually
given to him, as the sphere of his independence,
the city of Rome and its provinces, which belong
to him by the sacredness of every right and title.
From this, sir, you will perceive that all transfer
of Rome or of the Roman State to any other temporal
power is in express terms excluded. But, as I then went
on to say, when the conflict is between an unarmed and
defenceless pastor and a great military force, I have no
confidence but in God and justice. Nevertheless these
must at last prevail."
The success which has attended the middle-class
examinations for boys has induced the Universities of Cam-
bridge and Edinburgh to extend the scheme also to girls'
schools. On Saturday a meeting of ladies resident in the
chief towns of the West Riding was held at the house of Dr,
Heaton, in Leeds, to discuss this question, and Mr. J. E.
Fitch, M.A., Assistant-Commissioner of the Schools inquiry
Commission, Mr. Sales, hon. sec. of the West Riding Edu-
cational Board, and Miss Davies attended. Mr. Fitch

spoke at son.e length, explaining the character of the eta-

minations and the adyantagea resulting from them, and,
after a discussion, it was decided to form a committee to
superintend the examinations which will be held in that
town in December.

Prince Napoleon in hourly expected at Havre.
His yacht is ia readineu for sea, and the Prince has sig•
nified his intention of cruising round the southern coast
of England.
The sudden death of Doctor Burguesse, of Havre,
is announced under rather peculiar circumstances.. He
was attending on a lady in her confinement, when all at
once he called for help, and expired almost immediately.
The shock to his patient was so great that she gave birth
to a dead child.

" Two young priests," says the Vigie de Cherbourg,
" °De the vicar of a parish in the neighbourhood of that
town, the other a tutor is a reipecteble family, attracted a
large mob on Thursday night by appearing in the Place
d'Arrnes in a state of complete intoxication. Some good
Samaritan took pity on them, sod took them to an hotel
out of the jeers of the crowd."
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Some experiments have been lately made at
Bremen, under the direction of Captain Werner, of the
Prussian navy, on a rocket apparatus for saving crews of
wrecked ships. The experiments are said to have been
most satisfactory, and to have proved that this apparatus,
which has been prepared in Spandau, is much superior to
anything of the lame kind that has yet been brought for-
ward. In this appends.s the saving line, which can be
thrown further than by the English system, is of common
hempen cord coiled round a roller, which is itself enclosed
in a sort of basket of wicker work.