The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-22 00:00:00

Cbt Court.

OSBORNE, Sim= 2L
The Queen and Prince Comet rode on horseback
this morning.
The Princese Alice and Primate Helens crowed over to
Gosport and visited Prima Lelningen.

A deputation ow the subject of a bUI brought is by Pricers
Candle Company, consisting of Mr. Alderman Halo, Mr.
John Field, Messrs. Ogilby and Co., end Mr. O. Hingsson,
introduced by Mr. T. J. Millar, M.P., had an interview
with the Peel of Donoughmose and Loed Loraine ysetaday
at the °Mee of the Board of Trade.

i;p7Catiiiitr;isti; 6ciaidiosa of the city of London
Union, wedeln at Mr. Abbies, Mr. Whiteside, Mr. War-
wick, Mg. Sharp, Mr. Heath, Mr. Baylis (solicitor), and Mr.
Doming (clwk) ; and also • deputation from the pariah of
Clorkene4l. assisting of Mr. Her, Mr. Eunice, Mr.
Bonito, (alit:Rot), sad Mr. licargiU (clerk), had as inter-
view with the Right Hon. the Bari of March yesterday, at
the dike of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall.
was received yesterday at the Colonial-o Mes
frompiarbilGovernors of Ceylon, Bong Kong, the West India
Wont:lt frees the Lord High Commissioner of the
Reba

Her Majesty and his Royal Highnes the Prince
Consort, accompanied by the youtleal somnbers of the royal
Sunny, purpose, according to present arrangements, to have
Osborne on Tuesday next for Buckingham Palace.

Lady Chelmaford'e ball, announced to take place
to-morrow, in unavoidably port/mod.

Sir Thomu and Lady Arabella Heaketh have
wind at Claridge's Hotel from Raiford Hall, Lartoaahfre.

While urging one of the moat important points of
his argument, in the Hones of Commons, hat alight, Lead
Staley was interrupted by the crying of a obild in the
led& gallery. The incident stopped the noble Iced, ead
analsed the house with laughter, amidst which the em-
phatic "hush, bush I" of the mother was distinctly head.
Whether in accordance with the fact, or to give point to the
circumstance, it was freely stated that a young mien of the
home Resell was the disturber of order. The Bevil
says that the my wee caused by a attirel apprehend= ler
the fete of its noble parent, "at the moment vridolng ender
Led Stanley's sameam."
At the House of Commons, at 4 o'clock yesterday,
the benches were fully occupied. Many members, sac at this
early period of the sitting, were Mao up to the galleries, on
°salary occasions at the same houseboat vannented. The
etreogea' gallery was ailed as sour as opined; In the peers'
gallery wire Earl Grey and Xt. Dallas, the American
Minister.

Among the notable incidents arising out of the
cementation of petitions in the Mouse of Commons, hat erot-
ism we may notice the amen that greeted Kr. Barley, the new
member for Manchester, no he presented a petition signed by
13,100 inhabitant, of Manchester, neatly tied up in the form
of a cotton bale and which the hon. gentleman shouldered
be the most heady end porter-like manner when celled to
bring it up to the tabic ; the Ironical cheers from the oppo-
milks that greeted Mr. Garnett, whom he presented the first
petition in favour of the government scheme; and the ap-
ples'. with which Mr. Bright wee received when he pre,
seated a petition with 40,000 signatures from Birmingham
egaleat the bill.

lo a letter to the Bradford Advertiser, General
Thompson, MX., says he Las given hie rent to a iroggestion
that "in the event deny change of government, the fries&
of the ballot ehould persist in occupying their present eittiage,
by way of demonstration that they will not march through
Coventry with soy government which does not show signs
ef establirhing the ballot."

Denying that he had anything to do with the
authorship of the tt Vestiges of Creation," Professor Nichol
writes —"I did not marvel at the time my name sp-
pared among the list of permeate whom the authorship was
attributed. Lectures of mine, end *auk, anrestraised cm-
varieties of mine, gave meals justification to that conjee-
tare. Row far I apes with the conclusions in that volume,
and how very for I differ from thorn, considering them as
schntlfie emeclusions, I hope ere long to make apparent."

Dr. Hook was installed in the Deanery of
Chicheeter Cathedral on Saturday last. On Sunday the very
Rev. Dean preached in the cathedral before sa immense
congregation.
The illness of the Bishop of Rochester continues
to be of the most serious &snider. With the single excep-
tion of the Archbishop of Armagh, the Right Rev. Dr.
Murray is the oldest bishop of the episcopal bench, having
been consecrated Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1813, and
translated to the see of Rochester in 1827. Fors long time
plat be has teen anxious to retire from his see could •
favourable arrangement to that effect have been made with
the government, and the subject was entertained by the last
ministry before they quitted aim
The head mastership of the King's School, Can-
Mrbery, has been conferred upon the Rev. John Mitchinson,
/LA., of Pembroke College, Oxford.

The Royal Agricultural Society have informed
the Sown Council of Canterbury that they propose to hold
their manual meeting for 1860 in the neighbourhood, and
they desire to know whit amount of eaoouragement, in the
shape of local support, will be offered them.
Mine Victoria Balfe has been engaged for the
approaching season of Italian opera, and will make hoe Mit
at Drorylene 'Theatre in la BounamBtsla, supported by the
new tenor, Signor Monett, u Elvino.

The students of Berlin recently solicited the Prince
Regent to be allowed to organise a procession by torchlight
In hie honour, on the occasion of his birthday. But the
prince has refused ; from regard for the King, he will not
sanction any sort of joyous celebration.

The French papers appear much impressed with
the proceedings taken in this country in respect of its nary;
at the magnitude of our reeouroes, and at the erect of the
operations which there reaources permit as to undertake.
A Parisian journal decline that all the dockyards of all
the mealtime powers la the world amid not, even by cam-
bhneg their effort', actemplish M a single year what we pra-
t:sae to effect before this thus twelvemonth—vim., the can-
enaction of twenty sit powerful men-of-war, including
fifteen line -of-battle-ettips. _ _ _

A letter from Alexandria says that M. de Les-
see, with the a•aiatasos of some of the directors of the Sou
Canal who scoonspanied him to Egypt, has engaged a som-
ber of persons at Alexandria and Cairo for the Barrios of the
company. "The can't:mere and the principal officers of the
company have left thin pleas in order to verify the correctnese
of the first survey.. The directors are to visit Suez eat the
chain of mountains font which it is proposed to obtain the
steno required. They will also Marine the dea•rt, and
ascertain the extent of Me port of Pelarium."
There is a talk of another grand review of the
who army of Paris on Sunday next.
An apparatus, which was employed with income
in the Crimea for radociog tumours, similar ti the one with
whit► King Ferdinand is afflicted at the present moment,
hes bees pent to Naples from Paris.

Col. Waugh hag written an impudent letter to the
Timm, deting hen "near Marseilles, March 10, 1869,"
deciorhar his inteetioa to return toLoadoe for the purpose of
powecuting that journal. In giving vent," he says, "to
your vindictive feelings you h•ea hr oatoteppsd the bounds
of fair and legitimate criticism, sad have again laid yourself
open to legal proceedings, which I now I ledge myself to
adopt—ris aeon as say ate. al Meath will &doll."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE,

FRANCE.

THE PROPOSAL OF A CONGRESS.
(111 T 111731U3.17111 AND BIM= :aisoLUL.)

PARIS, TVEHDAT.

The Moniteur states that Ru is propose &Con-
gress, to prevent further difficulties upon the Italian
question, the Congress to be composed of the pleni-
potentiaries of France, Austria, England, Prussia,
and Russia, the place of meeting to be some neutral
city. The Emperor adheres to the proposition of
the Cabinet of St. Petersburg; the Cabinets of
London, Vienna, and Berlin have not yet replied
officially.