The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-03 00:00:00

Cbt Court.

OSBORNE, Jas. 2.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and
the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Hohenzollern, drove
out yesterday in a carriage and four.
Her Majesty in the afternoon gave presents to all the
servants of the honsehokl at Osborne, for whom Christmas
trees had been prepared by her Majesty's command, in the
stoward's room and servants' hall.

Her Majesty, accompanied by all the Royal Fatuity, pro.
needed at six o'clock to the rooms where the servants w: re
aseembted, and personally di+tiibuted the gifts. satiated by
the Princesses and Prince Arthur.
The Prince and Princess of Hohenzollern took leave of her
Majesty this morning and left Osborne for London, attended
by the Countess Renaud and Baron Brauchitsch.
Princess Helena and Prince Arthur, attended by Lady
Churchill, Lord A. Paget, and Major Elphinstone, crossed
over to Southampton with the Prince and Prima in the
Royal yacht Alberta.
Lord A. Paget and Colonel the Hon. A. Harding. have
succeeded Colonel the Hon. A. Hood and Lieu.enant-
Colonel Du Plat as Equerries to her Majesty.

A deputation from South Lincolnshire, consisting of
Joseph Chamberla'n Barker, Esq., the Rev, the Sabdean of
Lincoln, Mr. John Clark, Mr. J. Ward, and Mr. Ayliff
(Clerk of the Guardians of the Bolbeach Union), transacted
business with Mr. Waddington at the Home office yester-
day, their object being to present two petitions signed by
1,500 ratepayers of South Lincoltuthire, oe the subject of
the cattle plague, addressed to the Queen, praying for the
immediate assembling of parliament and the institution of
national insurance of cattle under the government sanction.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the North American Province' and
Bermuda.

His Excellency Count Wachtmeister, who has
been appointed Swedish and Norwegian Savoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the court of
Copenhagen, left town yesterday for Denmark. Baron
Beck Friis will act as charge d'affaires for Sweden and
Norway till the appointment of Count Wschtmeister's
MIECINISOr.

The Due de Richelieu has arrived at the St.
George's Hold.

The Marquis of Hastings has left the St. George's
Hotel.

THCRSDAY.
Chiefly southwesterly,
trash to a gale, some
rain or snow.
S.W. to N. W. and back. Wrarrarall. S.W. to N.W., strong,
settled. strong, squally, nn- unsettled.
As next above.
Elimllsr: to above.

PlweauLla.
01 NOaralltall FRIDAY.
Wan& Southerly and westerly,
strosett lewd. squally, ins-

8017121 w. As next above.
laietinut. Similar to above.
.

Northern=Scotland. Wortern=lreland, Wales. and adja-
cenclas. Bouthern=Enillah Channel and Bay of Blacay.
Sastaru=ltaatward Itnaland and North Sea.

THE JAMAICA COMMITTEE.—This committee will
be represented in the approaching inquiry in Jamaica by
two counsel, their second representative, Mr. J. Horne
Payne, of the Home Circuit, having sailed in the Atrato
yesterday. The letter of instructions which has been
addressed to these gentlemen will shortly be published.
DEPARTURE OF THE WEST INDIAN MAlL—COD-
siderable interest was manifested yesterday at South-
ampton in the departure of the Royal Mail steamer Atrato
for the West Indies. An unusual number of passengers
went out by her. Amongst them were Mr. Russell
Gurney and Mr. Mettle, the government commissioners.
There were also several barristers, government and other
short-band writers, and correspondents of English journals,
all bound for Jamaica. When Sir Henry Storks was ordered
to Jamaica be telegraphed to his aide de camp Lieu-
tenant Strahan, at Malta, to leave at once for England, viA
Marseilles, for the purpose of following him in the Atrato.
The telegram arrived in Malta just after the Marseilles
steamer had left, and consequently Lieutenant Strahan was
obliged to come to England in the Ripon, which arrived at
Southampton yesterday, half-an-hour before the departure
of the Atrato.

MR. BRIGHT AND THE CHILI AN BLOCKADE.—
The following communication has been received by the
chairman of the Brassrnasters' Association from Mr. Bright,
M.P., in reference to the Chili= difficulties :—" Rochd►le,
December 23rd, 1865. Dear Sir,—Lord Clarendon is, I
think, sanguine that the Spain and Chili business will soon
be settled. This government, in conjunction with the
French government, has proposed to use its good offices in the
dispute. The proposal was met in a conciliatory spirit at
Madrid. The terms are considered equally honourable to
the contending parties, and were agreed to (at Madrid) with-
out hesitation. They have been sent out by the last mail
to Chili, and if they are received there in a proper spirit
there will be an end of the quarrel. I hope, therefore, the
disturbance to your trade may soon be removed. A formal
reply to your memorial has, I think, been forwarded to you,
but I thought you would like to know what Lord Clarendon
has written to me on the subject.—Yours very truly
(Signed) JOHN Butclir.— Geo. A Everitt, Faq., Bir-
mingham."

Lord Loftus, the new English ambassador at
Berlin, has already taken leave of the Bavarian court, and
will shortly arrive in London, after having had an inter-
view with Lord Napier at Bailin. The new ambassador
will take up his guidance in the Puma= capital in a short
time.

Besides the names already given in connexion
with the Jamaica Inquiry Commission may be mentioned
those of Colonel E. A. Whitmore, unattached, who pro-
ceeds to the colony as assistant military secretary to Sir
Henry Storks ; sad of Captain E. Baring, IL A., who goes
out as Sir Henry's aide•de•camp. Colonel Whitmore was
formerly military secretary to the commander•in-chief in
Ireland.

It is understood that Mr. Forsyth, M.P., Q. C.,
has been appointed to act as deputy judge of the Mayor's
Court of the Corporation of Londou during the absence
of the Recorder in Jamaica.

The Sea Fisheries Commission, appointed on the
motion of Mr. Fenwick to inquire how the supply of fish
could be increased, and to what extent the present fishery
laws prevent that result, have come to the conclusion that
there is no foundation for the charge of the line fishermen
that the trawlers lessen,d the supply of fish by destroying
■pawn and killing immature fish, so far as the deep-sea
fisheries are concerned, and very little ground for it in re-
spect to the in•ehore fishin;. They recommend, in effe:t,
that all the laws relating to sea fishing, with slight local
exceptions, should be abolished.

The United States War Department has been for
some time prepariog an army registir, which will contain
the names of all the soldiers io the Federal armies. When
completed it will be cow pose I of five volumes of 600 pages
each.

It is stated that orders have been issued that the
Trajan column. in bronze, which has been deposited in seg-
ments in the Louvre, shall be erected in the centre of the
Court of Napoleon 111.

The present occupation of some of the Federal
generals is thus given by the Philadelphia correspondent of
the Times :—" Burneide is • railroad agent in the Penn-
sylvania oil region ; Butler is • Massachusetts manufac-
turer; Scharr is the Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune; Sigel is the editor of • German paper
in Baltimore ; Franklin is superintending Coles armoury at
Hartford; W. S. Smith, of the cavalry, is selling groceries
at Chicago; M. F. Patrick, provost•manhal general of
Grant's army, is a New York farmer; Ferrero is teschieg
dancing ; Percy Wyndham is a fencing master. Among
the Confederates Buckner is a New Orleans editor ; Gar-
diner, of Port Hudson memory, is • local reporter ; the
general who drove off Franklin and his 15,000 troops at the
famous attack upon Sabine Pass is a barkeeper at Houston,
Texas ; G. F. Anderson was first • butcher, but new an
auctioneer; D. M. Thomas is clerk on • Mississippi river
steamboat ; Forrest runs a sawmill in Tennessee ; and
Wheeler is a commission merchant at Augusta, Gevrgia."
Intelligence has been received from Russia that
the Emperor has confirmed • concession to Sir Morton
Peto, on behalf of Mesas. Peto, Betts, and Waring Bro-
thers, of • railway, in prolongation of the one from Rig•
to Danabonrg and Witebek. from the latter place to Oriel,
a distance of 500 miles. This enterprise, it is said, will
not come on the money market of England, as the capital,
which is about 6i millions (guaranteed by the govern-
ment at 5 per cent.), has already been subscribed
by • combination of bankers in Germany, formed by
Messrs. Fitibling and Gosehen, and Biachoffsheim and
Goldschmidt. Apart from the capital being guaranteed
by the Russian government, the line itself is represented
to be probably the best commercial railway in tits empire,
forming, as it will, the middle link of • continuous and
direct chain of communication from the Baltic to the Volga,
and traversing throughout the greater portion of its route
the immense area of what is known as the " Terre Noire"
of Russia.