The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-24 00:00:00

FROM THE "OWL."

The Princess of Wales will leave England in the
second week in August. Her royal highness will proceed
on board one of the royal yachts to Rotterdam, whence she
will pursue her journey up the Rhine, on her way to the
waters recommended to her.—On Monday last the Sultan,
at his own special desire, paid a visit to Lady Palmerston,
the only private visit his Imperial Majesty has paid in this
country. The Sultan said to her ladyship that Lord Pal-
merston was the Englishman he had most desired to see,
and that, as he had been removed by inexorable fate,
it was his (the Sultan's) wish to pay homage to his
name by visiting her ladyship. —His Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge ham given important evi•
deuce before the Select Committee of the House
of Commons appointed to consider the system of retire-
ment at present existing in the army. The report, which
will be presented in the course of the next few days, is
likely to suggest some material modifications of the plan
now sanctioned.—The Slade Baronetcy ease has been com-
promised. General Slade, according to the term, of ar-
rangement brought about by the action of mutual friends,
abandons all claim to the title and estates, receiving from
his nephew, the present inheritor, 23,0001., and
the amount of cost■ for which he has become
liable in connection with the recent expensive litigation.—
The committee of the cabinet to consider the proposition
for the acquisition by the state of the Irish railways have
adjourned the comthleration of the subject until Saturday
next. —lt is believed in parliamentary circles that the
ministerial whitebait dinner which precedes the formal
wind-up of the session will take place nut later then Satu-
rday, the 10th of August.—The House of Commons eon-
st.-uction committee. over which Mr. Headlam, M.P., pre-
sides, have made their first report. They recommend that
the architect, Mr. Barry, be authorised to collect plans
of the leading Continental and American Represen-
tative Chambers, with the view of submitting them next
session to the committee, should the house, as they eon-
eider expedient, 'unction its re.appoiutment. It has
further been suggested that Mr. Barry ought to make per-
sonal inspection of the Continental chambers. Lord Chas.
Russell gave evidence before the inquiry closed. Im-
portant alterations of the ladies' gallery and the suite of
rooms set apart for the Fourth Estate are contemplated.—
Mr. M'Evoy has abandoned all intention of proceeding
this session with the Ecclesiastical Titles Act Amend-
ment Repeal Bill, and the order for its second reading no
longer remains on the journals of the House of Commons.—
Dr. Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, was examined
yesterday at great length by the Ecclesiastical Titles Com-
mittee of Mr. M'Evoy. His eminence stated that, as a
Christian and an Englishman, be protested against being
compelled to violate the law of the land, but th►t he had
no alternative, as ho could not exercise episcopal func-
tions without doing so. He also urged upon public
grounds, that it was in the last degree undesirable that
when catholic princes and ambassadors came to this
country they should find the bishops of their own church
not only ignored. so far as their sacerdotal character was
concerned, but made the subject of pains and penalties in
the nineteenth century.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Acista, attended by the Count and Countess Versate de
Castiglione, Count llalbo, Count Morro, Chevalier Sava-
dego, and a numerous retinue, left the Clarendon Hotel
yesterday morning for Paris. Their royal highnesses were
accompanied by his Excellency the Italian minister. Pre-
vious to their departure they received visits from his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Prince of Tech,
her Majesty's ministers, and the foreign ambaswulon.