The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-08 00:00:00

CIE Court.

The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied
by the Princess Alice, rode on horseback yesterday after-
noon, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Charles
Major•Oeneral Sir H. Bentinck, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Pcsioaby.
Her Majesty's dinner party in the evening included the
Princess Alice and the Duke of Cambridge, the Maharajah
Dhuleep Singh, the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland,
the Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam, Lord and Lady Wodi-
hoose, Mr. T. Baring, M. P.,Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8.,
the Equerry in Waiting to the Duke of Oandridge, and
Major Eaphinstone,
The band of the Boots Fusilier Guards waa in attendance,
end played during dinner.

A deputation bad an interview with Viscount Palmer.
stou yesterday on behalf of the Deans of Residences of the
Queen's Colleges, Ireland. The Rev. Henry Murphy,
A.M., Episcopal Dean of the Queen's College, Belfast, re-
presented the Deans of the Queen's Colleges, Inland.
A deputation on the subject of the Bleachers and Dyers
Short-tune Bill had an interview' with Sir G. Cornmeal
Lewis yesterday at the Home-offloe.
Senor Don Carlos Calvo' Chargé d'Affaires du Paraguay,
transacted business at the Fore -dike es Saturday.
A deputation respecting the BMaedrng and Dyeing Works
Rill had an interview with the President of the Board of
Trade yesterday.
Meetings of the Cambridge University Commissioners
were held at 6, Adelphi-terrace, on Friday, the 4th, and
Saturday, the sth instant. The Commissioners present
were the Right Hon. the Lord Stanley, M.P., the Right
Hon. Sir Lawrence Peel, the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, sad
Horatio Waddington, Esq.
A deputation on the regulation of tolls on steam carriages
c:reabali trne ome
had an with Sir G. C. Lewis yes

The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalhane
are expected at their mansion in Park•lane in a few days,
from Scotland, for the season. . . .

The Marquis and Marchioness Townsend arrived
at their residence in Stratfontplace a few days since from
Itaynhem Hall, Norfolk, for the season.
The Earl of Dundonald has recently undergone
an operation for the stone, which has been successful ; but
his lordship is now suffering from an attack of gout, which
causes great prostration.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke entertained
at dinner, last evening, at their residence in Portman-
square, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the
Earl and Countess of Milk, Viscount Barrington, Lord
mid Lady Chelmsford and theßoa. Misses Thatiger, Colonel
Ike Hon. W. P. Talbot, Lady Mary Craven, Mr. Joseph
Yorke, Mr. Adcane, Lc.
Lady Sondes' ball, fixed for Thursday, the 10th,
is postponed for the present, owing to the death of a re-
lation.

Lady Sykes will give • ball at her house on
kriton-home-terrace an Friday, Juno 1. - ...

The Countess of Kinnoul gave her second soiree
liNilleftit lilt evening, at her residence; in Portman-square.
We regret to learn of the death, on Saturday
bat, of the Counter of Strathmore, wife of the Right Hon.
W. Hutt, M.P.
On Saturday the newly-appointed Chief Justice of
Ceylon, Sir E. S. Creasy, late Deputy-Assistant•judge of
the Middlesex Sessions, was entertained at dinner at the
Ship Hotel, Greenwich, on the occasion of his appointment.
♦bout one hundred gentlemen were present, Mr. f3erjeaut
ghee occupying the chair. Among those present were Mr.
Justice Wales, Mr. Locke, Q.C., ILP., Mr. Bovill, Q.C.,
M.P., Mr. Serjeant Patty, Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Ser.
leant Petersdorff, and most of the members of the Home
Circuit. Letters of apology were received from Lord
Chelmsford, Mr. Baron Channel', Mr. Baron Bramwell,
and others. .

The Stock Exchange committee yesterday re-
sumed their investigations in connexion with the transac-
tions carried on for Pullinger by members of that house,
bet it hes been arranged that nothing shall transpire while
the inquiry is proceeding.
Captain Paynter, of the Racoon, has been
liomoured by the King of Sardinia with the Cross of Com-
mander of the Order of St. Maurice and Warns, for
baring been the Ant to salute the national flag in the port
of Ugh= on his Majesty's arrival there.
Count Cavour has addressed a letter to the Mayor
of Viatimiglis (in answer to one in which that functionary
begged to be informed whether the place in question was to
be ceded to France) stating that there can be no doubt
about the nationality of its inhabitants, and that therefore
it is to remain annexed to the Italian kingdom, to which it
has always belonged.
The Nord mentions a rumour that • double
union is shortly to be effected between the princely families
of Portugal and Hohenzollern. According to the statement
the Hereditary Prince Leopold de Hohenzollern Sigma-
Amgen, aged 25, will marry the youngest sister of the King
of Portugal, Donna Antonia (born in 1845), and the King,
Don Pedro himself, will wed the youngest daughter of the
Prince de Hobensollern, the Princess Marie, also born
in 1845.

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Accounts from the Red Sea of a reoent date
(says the Journal du Havre) state that Captain de Russel,
of the French navy, had signed at Gondar with the King
of ♦ i ' a treaty of commerce and friendship very
as to France.

1860.