The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-04 00:00:00

Cin Court.

Lord John Ruse°ll had an audience of the
Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princesses Alice and
HeLon, and attended by the Hon. Horatia &aphid,
took a drive in an open carriage and four yesterday afternoon.
Lord Alfred Paget and Lord Charles Fitzroy attended on
horseback.

The Prince Consort, attended by Colonel the Hon. A.
Hardinge, went to Wimbledon yesterday afternoon.
The Prince of Wales, attended by Major-General the Hon.
R. Bruce and Captain Grey, left Buckingham Palace for
Windsor Castle at 20 minutes before 11 o'clock yesterday
morning. His Royal Highness entertained a party of noble-
men and gentlemen to luncheon, and played cricket in the
Home Park, and returned to Buckingham Palace in the
evening.
The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prin-
cess Alice, the Prince of Wales, Prince Arthur, and the
Duke of Bete Cobourg, honoured the performance of the
Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, with their pre-
armee last arming. In attendance were the Countess
Caledon, Hon. Horatia Btopford, Lord de Tabley, Mader-
General the Hoe. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge,
Captain Grey, Baron Hoehwaechter, and Major Elphin-
stone.

A memorial of inhabitants of Sheffield, on behalf of
Thomas Jackson, was presented to Sir G. C. Lewis, yester-
day, at the Home-office, by the Rev. John Liveseyl ILA.,
Incumbent of Bt. Phillips, Sheffield, and the Mayor al Shef-
field, who were introduced by Mr. G. Hadfield, M.P. for
Sheffield.

13;siatehee were sent from the Colonial-MB°, yealorday
to the Governors of Canada, Hong Hong, Cleyloe, Libman,
Gibraltar, and Malta, and to the Lad High Comm/miaow
of the lonian lalaada.§

DEP A RTU RE or HER MAJESTY AND COURT
roe OSBORNE. —(Tets atv.)—The court left Buckingham
Palace this morning and proceeded to the sow Ageway
station, Wandsworth-mad, travelling by special train cm
the South Western Railway to Clarence-yard, Goa .oat.
The royal party then embarked on board the Fairy en
route to Osborne House.

Mae Coutta gave a grand concert yesterday
afternoon, at her mansion in Stratton•street. Their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge sad the Princess
Nary, and her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of
ecklenbargarelits, honoured Miss Coasts with their
peso ace, arriving at 4 o'clock. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess d'Antnale was also present.

Lady Louisa Douglas Pennant gave a ball last
night at Mortimer House, the new family residence in
Halkin-street, Belgmve.square. 11111 Serene Highness Prince
Victor of Hohenlohe honoured her ladyship with his com-
pany. His Serene Highness the Sovereign Prince of Lich-
tenstein was also present.

The friends of Mra. Gore, the popular authoress,
will regret to learn that the recent operation for the restora-
tion of her sight has not been successful.

The following members of the Irish bar are to be
elevated to the rank of Queen's eounsel:—Mr. H. O'Hara,
Mr. Law, Mr. D. Wean,land, Mr. Faking/ton, Mr. Carle-
ton, and Mews. D. C. Heron and W. F. Brady.

The Empress Dowager of Russia, who still re-
mains at Wildbad, makes that place quite the magnet for
all the petty princes and princesses of Germany, who °Pa-
tinae daily to direct their coarse thither from all quarto/a.
The very day the Neapolitans left Palermo the
°facial Gazette contained the nomination of the Principe di
San Giuseppe as the representative of Sicily in England.
The prince has been a stanch liberal all through, and has
lived in exile. The next day the Principe San Cataldo was
appointed in the same capacity in France.

A New York correspondent writes :—" I meet
the Japanese about in the various shops, where their cu-
riosity or acquisitiveness takes them, and I em struck with
the thoroughly business-like manner in which they canvass '
the goods and beat down the shopkeeper. An education
in Paris could not have made them greater adepts at the
laminae. Photographic works seem to have a greater in-
terest for them than anything else. They are not only
having themselves constantly 'taken,' but they arc alao ex-
amining and buying stereoscopic views and every sort of
photographic works. They go about quietly, under charge
of policemen, gathering little crowds about them wherever
they stop, but with quite aa little trouble to themselves and
quite as unmolested as Lord Elgin's suite were allowed to
go about Jeddo, They are getting anxious for the Niagara
to be ready. The workmen are driving on the work upon
the vessel ea feet as possible, and it is underetood that as
woo as she is ready they will leave."

The total expense of maintenance from the foun-
dation of the British Museum in 1753 to Much 31, 1800,
has been 1,382,7334 13s. 4d.

MAYNOUTII COLLIOL—This morning wan issued
the copy of a report to her Majesty et a visitation held at
the College of Maynooth on the 20th alt., the visitors being
the Roman catholic Archbishops Dixon and Cullen, the
Earl of Fingal!, and Chief Justice Pigott. Three hundred
and ninety-two students answered to their names ; 129 were
absent, of whom 9, having been ordained priests at the late
ordination, bed been recently summoned to their respective
dioceses ; l 0 had, on account of ill health, been ordered to
their homes, at various periods previous to the eXAMiIIII-
- ; and the remaining 90, all the literary business of the
simian having concluded on the 16th ult., had been per-
mitted to anticipate, by a few days, the time of the general
vacation, on the recommendation of the medical

authorities of the college, the general health of
which had suffered considerably in consemenoe of
the unusual arierity of the last winter and spring.
/Ise report proceeds to state that no one had any complaint
to make which called for the interference of the visitors.
The students had taken the oath of allegiance, and " are
Dow allowed tea at breakfast every day, indeed of twice in
each week as at the time of the last visitation." The re-
mainder of the report is chiefly taken up with a statement
of the deficiencies of accommodation in the college, from

which the health of the studenre is believed to IA",
suffered.