The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-13 00:00:00

the Court.

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The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Countess
of ruledon ; and her Majesty and Princess Beatrice rode
on ponies in the grounds this morning.
Princess Louise walked out this morning, accompanied
by Miss Grey ; and Prince Leopold went out attended by
Mr. Legg.
The Hoe. Mrs. and Miss Grey left Osborne today.
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The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, axompanied
by Princess Louise.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out.

The Rev. R. Duckworth performed the service this
morning before her Majesty and Princess Louise, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice.
The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were also
present.

The Judge-Advocate-General arrived at Osborne yeater
day, awl had an audience of her Majesty.
The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole arrived in the evening,
and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal
family.
The lion. Mrs. and Miss Gordon have arrived on a visit
to her Majesty.
Colonel George Maude, C.D., has also arrived.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Tres.-
Bury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre-
sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmesbury,
Lord Stanley, the Duke of Burlingham, Sir John
Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the
Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, the Right
Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas.

The plenipotentiaries accredited by the European powers
to the London Conference on the Luxemburg question met
on Saturday for the fourth time, at the official residence of
the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street.
Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial.
office to the governors of the North American Provinces
and Bermuda.

We are authorised to state that the court an-
nounced to be held by the Queen in June will take
place at Buckinghain Palace on Friday, the 21st of
June, at 4 o'clock. Two drawing rooms will be
held in that month, on her Majesty's behalf, at St.
James's Palace, the dates of which will be shortly
announced. There will also be two state concerts
and two state balls at Buckingham Palace in the
course of the season. His loyal Highness the
P►ince of Wales will hold a levee on the part of her
Majesty, at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, the
29th instant.

Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton entertained
his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess
Bernstorff and the Countess Thi,risa Bernstorff, the Duke
and Duchess of Cleveland, the Earl and Countess of Dar-
trey, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Emily
Villiers, the Earl of Bective, Lord and Lady Otho Fitz-
gerald, Lord Brabasos, Lady Molesworth, Hoe. Frederick
Ltveson Gower, M.P., Hon. Thomas De Grey, M.P., Mr.
and Lady Catherire Weiland, Mr. John Lumley, fie., at
dinner on Saturday evening, at the family residenoe in St.
James's-square.

The Right Hon. Guthorne Hardy, NLP., rand
Mrs. Hardy received the following party at dinner on
Saturday night at their residence in Grusvenor-creacent.
Belgrave-square :—The Lord Chancellor and Hon. Miss
Theager, the Earl of Morley, the Right Hon. Charles
Bowyer Adderley, M.P., the Hon. Mr.. Adderley and Miss
Adderley, Sir William Heatheote, Bart., M.P., and Lady
Hestheote, Admiral the Hon. Arthur Duneo.tibe, M.P.,
and Mrs. and Miss Buncombe, Captain Arthur Hayter,
M.P., and Mrs. Hayter, Mr. Smith Barry, M.P., Mr. and
Hon. Mr.. Talbot, and Mr. Fleming.
Prince de Montholon has arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel from Park.

Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, has issued invitations to a State banquet at the
Clarendon Hotel for Saturday, May in honour of her
Majesty's birthday.
At the annual regimental dinner of the 10th
Royal Hussars, which is fixed for Saturday, the 25th inst.,
at Willie's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, the Prince of
Wales, as colonel of the regiment, will be present. At the
annual dinner of the royal regiment of artillery, appointed
to take place on the 31st inst., at the same place, the
Duke of Cambridge, as colonel of the regiment, will preside.
We read in the Times :—" The ministerial
arrangements consequent upon the retirement of Mr. Wal-
pole from the Home-office are not yet entirely completed.
Mr. Walpole remains a member of the cabinet, though
without office ; Mr. Cathorne Hardy will succeed Mr.
Walpole at the Home-office as soon as the state of busi-
ness in the House of Commons will admit of his absence
during the interval necessary for his re-election ; and Lord
Devon will probably be appointed to the Presidency of the
Poor-law Board, though without a seat in the sahinet. No
declaim has yet been arrived at as to Lord Devon's sue-
cesaor in the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lanever.”

We observe that a great public meeting of the
National Reform Union in support of household suffri.ge,
a lodger franchise, and the ballot, will be held at St.
James's-hall on Wednesday evening nest, at A o'tlim. k. Mr.
Samuel Morley will preside, and the mating will be ad-
dressed by Mr. Bright.
The open.' for the week at Covent Garden are
11 Barbiere (to-night), L'Africaine (Tuesday night), Don
Gioranosi, with a new Don Giovanni in Signor Cotogni
(Thursday), and Le None di Pifmiro (Saturday).

The operas for this week at her Majesty's
Theatre are 11 TrOPltore (to-night). Der Preiee'teft (to-
morrow night), and Otto Nioolai's Pala ; or, The Merry
Wires of Win4s”r-Bret time since 1863 (Thursday). In
the first two MdUe. Titiens is associated with Signor
Mongini, in the last with Mr. Mohler as tenor. Mr.
Mohler is entrusted with the part of Fenton, originally
sustained by the late Signor Giuglini. On Saturday anew
soprano, Mdlle. Gissconi (from Genoa), will make her fist
appearance in Lnerezia Borgia.

The Lyceum and the St. James's Theatres will be
closed at the end of the present month. Mr. Fece.ter's
management concludes this season. The St. James's will
be opened for a short season of French plays. In the mean-
time Mims Herbert will resume management. Mr. Walter
Montgomery has gone to Australia. Mr. Neville has met
with an accident to his hand through the bursting of arm.
At the weekly meeting of the members of the
Royal Invtit.ition, on Friday evening, Freq.'s .r Bain de-
livered a lecture "On the doctrine of the correlation of
force in its bearing on mind."

A sturgeon, nearly 601bs. weight, was cau,ht in
the Hasnble river, in Hants, last wok.