The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-23 00:00:00

Cbr Court.

The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at
Buckingham Palace.
Hie Excellency Sidi Mabomed it Shames, Ambassador
from the Emperor of Morocco, and Hadjes Abdenahman all
Angee, Envoy, had an audience of the Queen, introduced by
Lad John Hassell, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Lieut.-General the
Hon. Sir Edward Oust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of
the Ceremonies.

Hie Excellency was accompanied by the General Raid
bsdj Maadonee and Mr. Ben Amu, also by Captain Lynch,
R.N., CH., and Mr. James Drummond Hay, C.B.
Her Majesty was attended by Viscount Torrington, Lord
In Waiting, and General Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in
Waiting.

The Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of Wales,
and attended by Lieut.• Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe, visaed
the National Gallery yesterday morning. His Royal
Highness inspected the Hon. Artillery Company, of which
corm he is Captaia•General and Colonel, in the afternoon,
at the Artillery Ground.
The Count de Flanders went to Tunbridge Wells yester-
day morning and visited the Countess de Neuilly. His
Royal Highness returned to Buckingham Palace in the
afternoon.

Professor Henslow has bad the honour of delivering a
course of lectures on botany at Buckingham Palace. The
last of the series was given yesterday in the presence of
the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Alice, and other members of the royal family.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Alice and Prince
Arthur, and attended by the Hon. Horatio Stopford, took
a drive in a carriage and four in the afternoon. Major-
General Seymour and Lord Charles Fitz Roy attended on
horseback.

The Hine* of Wales, attended by Lieut.-Colonel
%appal, honoured with a visit the French Exhibition in

Th• Qom pve last evening • state ball, to which a
party e(1,991 were invited.
The Queen ware a black silk dress with a deep Imam of
Meek Nottingham lace, trimmed with lilacs and green
leaves, and ornamented with diamonds. Her Majesty's
head-dress wee composed of a wreath of lilacs and green
harm and diamonds.
The Princess Alice wore a dress of white tulle over a
rich white glace, studded with pansies and bows of black
velvet. The head dress was formed of pansies and dia.
snoods ; ornament., diamonds.
The Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelits
woes • dress of white tulle with silver. The stomacher,
necklace, and earrings, of diamonds. Her royal highness's
head dress was composed of • tiara of diamonds, heartassas,
and silver wheat ears.

The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore • pink crape dress
covered with ► tunic of Brussels lace, trimmed with bouquet.
d pink Bowers and silver cord. The corsage to correspond.
A pearl and diamond stomacher. Her royal highness wore
• tiara of diamonds and pink dowers as • head dress.

Her l'itajerty and the Prince Consort will leave,
according to present arrangements, on Monday next, for a
visit to the Camp at Aldershott, and will pass one night at
the Pavilion. The Queen and Prince Consort, on their
return, will dine with the Duchess of Cambridge.

The Prince of Wales, attended by the Earl of
St. Germans, the Lord Steward of the Queen's Household,
sad • large retinue, will leave on the 10th proximo for
Canada. The Prince goes out in the St. George, 90, steam
mew AM, Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton.

Her Imperial Highneea the Grand Duchees Marie
d RUM* with Count Strogonoff and a numerous suite,
have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Paris. Sir Joseph
011iffe, physician to the British Embassy in Paris, accom-
panied her imperial highness as far as Dover.

The Prince Wittgenstein and suite have arrived
at Longs Hotel from Paris.
Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile entertained
at dinner on Thursday evening Melia Marchionees of A iles-
bury, the Earl and Counter of Clarendon, Lady Constance
Villiers, Lady Emily Foley, Viscount and Viscounts.. Grey
de Wiltcy Hon. Mrs. Villiers, Lady Auguste Cadogsa,
Mr. and Mrs. DIWSOII Dune; Marquis of Sligo, Lord Robert
Montagu, Dad Otto Fitsgerald, Lord Skelmenidale, Captain
Berkeley, Mr. Hayward, Mr. Gregory, M.P., &c.

Lord Ramer, orth's first morning party will
take place on Wednesday, July 4, instead of Saturday,
July 7, at Perey's-eroas.

The Bishop of Durham has instituted the Rev.
Robert Powell Powell, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxfonl,
late chaplain of her Majesty's ship Waterloo, to the rectory
of Bellingham, Northumberland, on the nomination of the
commissioners of Greenwich Hospital.
We read in the Hull Packet :—" Lord Lender
borough bas returned to Grimatoe, from a voyage in his
riling yacht Ursuline, in which he had been for some
weeks on the coast of Francs and Spain. He arrived
England from Gibraltar one day too late to witness the sale
of the Grimetee staid. It is stated that on Friday last his
lordship sent for M. W. Scott, the stud groom at Kirkby
Paddocks (who has bad the entire management of the stud
since its foundation), and, as a mark of appreciation of the
valuable services rendered by Mr. Scott to his late father,
handed to him ',cheque for SOW."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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CONCESSION BY THE CHINESE TO THE
ENGLISH AND FRENCH DEMANDS.

ASSASSINATION OF THE EMPEROR OF
JAPAN.
QUEENSTOWN, FamAT.
The Arabia, just arrived here from Boston and
Halifax, brings the following important news
The North Star bad arrived from Aspinwall,
with 1,400,000 doles in treasure, and brought
advice' from Japan, viA California, overland to the
2Srd April, and from China to the 10th ApriL
The Chinese had concluded to pay the English
and French governments their expenses, and to
accede to their demands. The Chinese ports and
rivers were to be free. • The Chinese authorities
had issued a proclamation against the Coolie trade.
The Emperor of Japan was assassinated on the
sth March. While on his way to the Palace he
was attacked by 14 Japanese dressed as travellers.
Six of the Emperor's guard were killed and several
wounded. Thirty suspected parties had been
beheaded, and two Princes of high rank were per-
mitted to disembowel themselves. An insurrec-
tion was threatened.

THE REVOLUTION IN SICILY.
GENOA, Jots 23.

According to advice; from Naples to the 19th
inst., the government had despatched three columns
from Naples, viz. : one to Basilicata, another
towards Salerno, and a third to the Abruzzi. The
chateau of St. Elmo had been fortified. It was
asserted that it was the intention of government to
restore the two captured vessels. The American
minister, however, desired reparation for the insult
offered to his national flag.
The King was ill, and was staying at Portici.
20,000 more soldiers would leave for Sicily.
News from Messina to the 16th inst. reports a
disembarkation of Garibaldians at Melito.
OENOA, Jun 22.

Advice. from Palermo to the 19th inst state
that the Neapolitan troops had entirely evacuated
that place. The Neapolitan frigates had quitted
the roads of Palermo.

VIENNA, Jun 22.

The Austrian Gazette says :
" Signor Petrulla, the Neapolitan Ambassador,
has been summoned to Naples, in order to carry

out the reforms which existing Circumstances have
rendered necessary. It is said that he has declared
himself ready to use all his efforts for the realisa-
tion of this object, without, however, accepting
any particular poet in the ministry."

FRANCE AND 8'

ZURICH, J CDR 92.

Switzerland in her note to the Powers, a sum-
mary of which has already been published, also
points out that France has taken military occupa-
tion of the neutralised provinces.
Switzerland, therefore, declares that she persists
in her views on the question, and maintains her
protest before the Powers against the annexation
of those provinces to France. She also asks for an
immediate convocation of the Conference.

THE UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, &warms.

The Royal Mail steamer Arabia, which toweled at
Queenstown yesterday evening. pawed Holyhead at 9 this
morning, and is due here at 3 o'clock p.m.