The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-14 00:00:00

Efts Court.

OSBORNX, MAT 13.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice rode on
ponies in the grounds this morning.
Princess Louise walked out, attended by the Hon. Flora
Macdonald ; and Prince Leopold walked ont, attended by
Mr. Legg.
The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole left Osborne to-day
for London.

Tho Plenipotentiaries accredited by the European Powers
to the London Conference on the Luxemburg question,
met yesterday for the fifth time, at the official residence of
the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street
A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-
office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague.
The lords present were the Lord President and Lord Robert
Montagu. Mr. Harrison sad Dr. Alexander Williams
attended the committee.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Victoria, South Australia,
Tasmania, New South Wales, the Straits Settlements,
New Zealand, Canada, British Honduras, and Italta.

We understand that it is her Majesty's inten-
tion to visit the gardens of the Royal Horticultural
Society after the ceremony of laying the first stone of the
Hsdl of Arts and Sciences, on the 20th inst. The council
of the society have announced • Floral Fete in honour of
the occasion, when it is expected that the chief exhibitors
will be well represented. As the Queen arrives at half-
past 11, the various doors will, on this occasion, be open
at 10 o'clock.

On Sunday the Prince of Wales attended divine
service at the chapel of the British embassy at Paris, and
in the evening dined with the family party of Lord Cow-
ley. The evening before was Lady Cowley's reception,
which was preceded by a grand dinner. Amongst the
company present, in addition to the English Prince, were
the Princess Marie of Baden, the Duke and Duchess of
31anchester, the Prince of Weimar, Marshal Canrobert,
the Duchess de Maisano, the Marquis de Moustier, the
Japanese Prince and his suite, the foreign diplomatic
body, and a great number of English visitors to the Exhi-
bition.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left
nloneester House, Park-lane, yesterday, on a visit to Sir
Henry and Lady Sophi► Des Van:, at Drakelow, their
seat near Burton-on-Trent.

The Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgb-Strelits, and the
Hereditary Prince Adolphus, and the Princess Mary Ade-
laide Princess of Teck and the Prince of Teck honoured his
Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess
Apponyi by their company at dinner last evening, at the
Austrian Embassy in Belgrave-square. The following
were also at dinner : —The Netherlands Minister, the
Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, the Marchioness of
Ely, the Earl and Comatose of Clarendon, the Earl and
Counter of Stanhope, the Earl Granville, the Earl
Cadogan, the Earl of Mahnenbury, As Right Hon. General
Peel, M.P., and Lady Alice Peel, Admiral Tegetthoff,
and Count Kalooky.

The reception of the Emperor and Empress of
Austria at Buda-Pesth, the other day, was again most
enthusiastic. On this occasion, favoured by the season,
the houses were decorated with green wreaths and garlands,
and the streets from the railway terminus at Pesth to the
palace at Buda were strewn with flowers. The Empress,
with the Crown Prince and the Archduchess Gisella, will
reside in the imperial villa in the Auwinkel, close to
Buda, until the preparations for her reception at the
Chateau de Godidlii, the recently acquired crown domain,
are completed.

The Darmstadt Second Chamber have petitioned
the Grand Duke of Reese to consent to a reduction of his
civil list by 50,0008., which were additionally granted him
some years ago.

The marriage of the King of Bavaria has just
been fixed for the 12th October, the anniversary of that of
his father, Maximilian L, in 1842, and of his grandfather,
Louis 1., is 1810.