The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-02 00:00:00

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Cleveland Fitzwilliam Stradford de Harris
Devonshire Fortescue Radcliffe Netherton
Grafton Granville Sydney. Kenry
Manchester Grey teller) BISHOPS. Leigh
Rutland Harrowby Cheater londeshorough
Somerset Kimberley Peterborough. Lyttelton
MARQUISES. Lichfield LORDS. Lyveden
Camden Lovelace Helper Mont Regis
Salisbury Minto Blantyre Mostyn
Westminster Morley Boyle Overstone
RAMIS. Morton Canioys Ponsonby
Abingdon Romney Charlemont Romilly
Airlie Russell Chaworth Stye and Selo
Albemarle Selkirk churchill teller;Somerhill
Camperdown Shaftesbury Clermont Stanley of
earns/won Sommers Clonbrock Alderley
Chesterfield Spencer Cranworth Sundridge
Chichester &Mend De L'lsle and Taunton
Clarendon Dudley Truro
Cowper T 19001711111. De MsAi'ey . Vernon
De Grey De Vied Duntermlin Wealock
Denbigh Rveraley Murry Wentworth
Duels Bellies Foley Wrottesley
Effingham Harding. (Renard

the Court.

OSBORNE, Ammer 1.

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The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with
Princess Louis of Hesse, and her Majesty walked in the
grounds this morning accompanied by Princess Louise and
the Princess of Leiningen.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out.
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, with the Princesses
Victoria, Elisabeth, and Irene, took leave of the Queen
last night, on their return to the Continent.
Their royal highnesses embarked ►t ten o'clock on
board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert (Captain the
Prince of Leiningen), which left for Antwerp shortly
afterwards.

Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstene, accom-
panied their royal highnesses in the yacht.

Captain Von Westerweller wu in attendance upon
Prince Louis.

Previous to the departure of Princess Louis, Miss Du•
rant had the honour of executing a medallion portrait of
her royal highner.

The Queen will hold a council at Osborne to-marrow
(Saturday) at one o'clock.
A deputation, consisting of a committee of the parishes
of Tottenham, Hornasy, Heat Barnet, and the visiting
justices of Oolney Hatch Lunatic Asylum had an inter-
view with the Right Honourable Oatborne Harty at the
Home-oflice yesterday on the subject of the Lee Valley
drainage. The following were present :—Lord Enfield,
Mr. Labonchere, M.P., Mr. Hall, Mr. Clarke, Col Jeakes,
Mr. Michael, Mr. Richmond, Rev. C. E. Hadow, Mr. Wal-
ton, Mr. Bazalgette, C.E., Mr. Heath, Mr. Parker, Mr.
Potter, and Mr. Marshall, C.E.

Sir James Ferguson, Bart., Under-Secretary of State
for the Home Department, attended at the Homo-office
yesterday.
A deputation consisting of Mr. W. Nicholson (Chairman
of Sunderland Shipowner,' Society), Mr. R. M. Hudson
(Vice-Chairman), Mr. J. Dryden (Chairman of Tynemouth
Shipowners' Society), Mr. S. Shotton (Vios-Chairman of
Tynemouth Chamber of Commerce), Mr. M. H. Atkinson
(Secretary of Tynemouth Insurance Societies), Mr. Ingham,
M.P., Mr. J. Cowen, M.P.. Mr. J. Hartley, M.P., and Mr.
John Candlish, M.P., had an interview with the Right
Hon. Stephen Cave, at the office of the Board of Trade
yesterday, respecting the previa' iona of the Merchant
Shipping Bill.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to
the Governors of the West India Islands, British Columbia,
the Australian Colonies, and New Zealand.

The Duchess of Cambridge and the Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Mealenburg-fitrelitz have arrived
at the Duchess of Cambridge's chateau at Rumpenheim,
near Frankfort. The royal party slept ►t Bonn, on their
way to Rumpsnbsim.

The King and Queen of Portugal will quit Paris
on Monday next, and will embark at Bordeaux to return
borne.

On his way to the Orleans Railway station on
Saturday evening the Viceroy of Egypt met with an acci-
dent which might have been attended with very serious
consequences. His horses took fright and overturned the
vehicle, but his highness escaped with a few bruises, and
was able to continue his journey without delay. The
Viceroy, who has only gone to Vichy for the benefit of the
waters, which have been recommended by his physician,
has not yet taken leave of France. Ismail Pasha during
his residence in Paris and London has made a considerable
number of presents in snuff-boxes, bracelets, caskets, and
various descriptions of valuable jewellery.
The quaker missionaries who left Southampton
for Madagascar a short time since, arrived at Antannarivo,
the capital of the country, on the 3rd of June last. They
visited Mauritius on their way, which island they state
contains a population of 340,000, 250,000 of whom are
East Indiana, end are either Hindooe or Mahomedans.
Ignorance, superstition, and immorality abound, say the
miasionaries, among these people. The missionaries left
Port Louis, in Mauritius, for Tamatave, in Madagascar, ra
distance of 450 miles, in a French bullock ■hip. They were
invited by the native governor of Tomato's to meet him,
and they describe him as a man of ability and of dignified
and pleasing manners.

The corporation of Taunton, Massachusetts, in
the United States, have sent to the municipal authorities
of Taunton, in Bngland, two handsomely bound volumes,
containing copies of their charter of incorporation, of their
municipal records, and a catalogue of books in their public
library.

According to the llth annual report of the London
Reformatory and Refuge Union there are 291 institution'
in connexion with the Union, which can accommodate
22,554 inmate', and nearly 300,000/. is ■pent yearly h. the
diriatian work of this Union.

Yesterday the Manchester Board of Guardians
passed a resolution to pay 1001. per annum to a Roman
catholic priest who has for many ran discharged the
duties of chaplain to their two workhouse*.

THE HiALTH OF THE QUEEN.—When, a fortnight
since, we stated that we had good grounds for making
public the seasons which prevented her Majesty from ap-
pearing at evening crowded assemblies, the statement was
neither exaggerated nor incorrect. There have, however,
been some exceptions to this rule. These would be scarcely
worthy of notice had not the writers slummed that they
were more or less authorised to impugn the accuracy of the
paragraph which appeared in the Lanai. Upon a subject
of so much delicacy we spoke with what we believe to have
been a becoming and justifiable reserve. Our report was
in no respect sensational or over-stated. It was a plain
narration of facts, which, in justice to her Majesty and to
the source from which we obtained it, we felt bound to
make public. The appearance of the Queen in tublio on
a recent occasion was followed by a most distrasaing attack
of sickness and exhaustion, which lasted for several hours.
is
The inner life of the court necessarily known to but
few ; even those in immediate attendance upon the Queen
are not always in a position to arrive at a correct know-
ledge of her Majesty's real condition. The privacy of the
sovereign should be as much respected as that of the
humblest of her subjects. There are occasions, however,
on which that privacy may be held too sacred. This is
more especially the ease when erroneous reports have
gained general eredenoe. Then it is right to be known
that bee MajestT, with the greatest desire to fulfil all
throe duties which appertain to her dignity or her hospi-
Miley, is occasionally prevented from performing them by
bodily suffering of a character most difficult to be borne.
—Lanett.