The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-17 00:00:00

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OSBORNE, JULY 16.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon,
attended by the Duchess of Rozburghe.
Prince Arthur and Prince Louis of Hcue rode on
horseback.
The Judge Advocate General bad an audience of the
Queen.

A Committee of the Lord' of her Majesty's Most Hon.
Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office,
Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The
lords present were the Lord President, Lord Robert Mon-
tagu, Sir Thomas) Fremantle, and the. Right lion. Colonel
Wilson Patten.

His Highness Fuad Pacha, Turkish Minister of Foreign
Affairs, with his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, had
an interview on Monday with Lord Stanley, at the
Foreign office.
A deputation, consisting of Dr. Richardson, Dr. Ballard,
Dr. Dudfield, Dr. Wynn Williams, Dr. D. Goss, Dr.
Rogers, Dr. Paul, Dr. Prosser James, Dr. Greenhalgh,
Dr. Ray, and Dr. Seaton, had an interview with Sir
Graham Montgomery, at the Treasury-office, Whitehall,
on Monday last, on the subject of the exclusion from the
franchise in the Scotch Reform Bill of medical graduates
of the University of St. Andrew's.
A deputation, consisting of the Hon. Francis Scott, Mr.
Isaac Ellis, Mr. George Best, Mr. George James Hull, Mr.
Daniel Hooker, Mr. Edward Hooker, Mr. William Miles.
Mr. J. L. Hewett. Mr. W. E. Elkins, Mr. W. E. Carter,
Rev. G. R. Portal (chairman and vice-chairman of Guild-
ford Union), Mr. Charles White, Mr. Samuel S. Aard
(guardians St. (Have's, Southwark), Mr. C. H. Best
(chairman South Stoneham Union), Mr. Percy H. Crutch-
ley (chairman, Windsor Union), Mr. A. S. Mathison, Rev.
J. S. Sapte (chairman and guardian Hambledon Union),
and Mr. E. Kerrick (chairman Dorking Union), had an
interview with the Earl of Devon at the office of the Poor-
law Board, Whitehall, yesterday.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of the Falkland Islands. Despatches
were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands,
British Honduras, British Columbia, and Bermuda.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
D'Aosta were among the distinguiahed visitors at the
Zoological Gardens on Sunday last ; and on Monday paid
visits to the royal family. Yesterday their royal high-
nesses went to the Crystal Palace,and remained until a
late hour. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
and the Prince 4, Teck have visited their royal highnesses
at the Clarendon Hotel.

His Imperial Majesty the Sultan will be present
at an evening entertainment at Stafford House on Saturday
next, after the review at Wimbledon, and will be enter-
tained at a ball at the Turkish Embassy on Monday, and
also on some day next week, not yet fixed, by the Duke
and Duchess of Wellington, at Apaley House.

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His Highness the Viceroy honoured the Duke
and Duchess of Muntrose with his presence at a grand ball
last evening, as the family mansion in Belgravesquare.
The house and ball-room were brilliantly illuminated, and
decorated with choice shrubs and flowering plants on the
occasion.

Major-General Lord Frederick Paulet has been
appointed to succeed Colonel Home Purees in the house-
hold of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge.
The fief hears the Sultan, on leaving Paris, pre-
sented Madame de Moustier with jewels to the amount of
4,3001.

The naval review of this day is to coat the
country, the Owl says, 50,000!.

Mr. William Edward Forster, on Friday, will
ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies when be
will lay upon the table of the house the instructions which
he informed the house would be 'bent tothecolonial governors
for their guidanoe in case of insurrection ; and, if not able
to do so at once, whether he would object to state the pur-
port of such instructions.

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Mr. Taylor, on Tuesday, will call attention to the
decision of a Cornish magistrate, sentencing six persons to
imprisonment for trespassing off • path through a wood ;
and move a resolution.

Next Thursday, Sir John Pakington intends to
move, in army estimates (supplementary), a vote of
83,2301. for increase of pay to the militia.

Mr. Remington Mills intends to ask the Under
Secretary of State for the Colonies on Monday, whether,
under the difficulty of carrying through the present session
of parliament the West India Bishops and Clergy Bill, he
will submit a measure early in the ensuing session for re-
lieving this country of the burden of paying 20,3001. per
annum for the ecclesisatical establishments in the West
Indies imposed by the Act 5 Viet., sets. 2. o. 4 ; and whe-
ther any appointment requiring to be made in the mean-
time shall be subject to the future regulations of par-
liament.

On Friday Mr. B. Cochrane will call the atten-
tion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the petition of
William Henry Barber, solicitor, presented to this house
on the 15th of Hay last, setting forth that be has sus-
tained, from an unmerited prosecution by the Lords of
the Treasury, a direct pecuniary loss ; and ask if any
course is contemplated to meet this appeal to the justice
of the state, and for giving fuller effect to the unanimous
report of the select committee that the petitioner's case
" is exceptional, and that he has strong claims on the
favourable consideration of the crown."

On Friday Earl Russell will ask the Secretary of
State for the Colonies whether his attention bad been
called to the remarks made by a stipendiary magistrate in
Jamaica, Mr. Purcell, on the charge of Chief Justice Cock-
burn in the case of General Nelson.