The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1867.

measure than anxious what the measure
should be. Now the session is over, the
measure is passed, and the one thing the House
will have to congratulate itself upon is that
this session has placed upon the Statute-book
" the Representation of the People Act of 1867."
Perhaps at the end of so many abortive attempts
to do this, after so many sessions which have been
failures so far as this question was concerned, it
will be distinction enough for the Session of 1867
that it leaves at least this record behind it. No
individual member or minister will get much last-
ing credit from the record of the session—no party
or section can look back with great satisfaction
upon it ; but, on the whole, Parliament may turn
its back upon the scenes of its labours with a
sense of contentment with their result ; and though
individual men and parties may look back without
much cause for boasting, and forward with some
anxiety as to the future, they may at any rate go
to their holiday with the hope and the belief that
if party and personal interests have been en-
dangered, the national interests are safe in the
keeping of an intelligent and high-spirited people.
That which we call, perhaps with a suspicion of
irreverence, the " logic of events," has been
stronger and wiser than the policy of parties, and
Parliament may at least be complacent in the re-
collection that it has but yielded to it.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

Cite Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Anson 20.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Princeu Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, drove in the
grounds this morning.
Her Majesty held a Council to-day at 3 o'clock, at
which were present the Earl of Derby, the Duke of Marl-
borough, Lord Stanley, and the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer.
The Hon. Henry George Elliot, Ambassador at Constan-
tinople, was introduced and sworn in a member of her
Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his
seat at the board accordingly.
The Earl of Derby and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
had audiences of the Queen.
Mr. Helps was clerk of the CoonoiL

Previous to the Council the Queen, accompanied by
Princess Louise, entered the White Drawing-room, when
the Chilian Minister was presented to her Majesty by
Lord Stanley, and delivered his credentials as envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary.
M. Martinez, minister for Nicaragua, was afterwards
presented by Lord Stanley on his arrival on a special
mission.

Lord Raglan and Colonel the Hon. C. Lindsay, Lord
and Groom in Waiting, were in attendance.
The Queen, with Printers Louise, Princess Beatrice,
and Prince Leopold, left the Castle at ten minutes before
ten o'clock p.m. for Kelso on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Rozburghe at Floors Castle.
Prince and Princess Christian, and the infant Prince
Christian Victor, attended by Lady Susan Melville and
Colonel G. G. Gordon, met her Majesty at the railway
station in Windsor, and proceeded with the royal train.
The suite consisted of Lady Churchill, the Hon.
Harriet Phipps, Sir T. M. Biddulpb, Lord Charles Fitzroy,
Dr. Jenner, and the Rev. R. Duckworth.
The Duke of Marlborough was also in attendance upon
her Majesty.
Lady Churchill has succeeded Lady Waterpark as Lady
in Waiting.
The Hon. Harriet Phipps has succeeded the Hon. Emily
Cathcart as Maid of Honour in Waiting ; and Lord Charles
Fitzroy has succeeded Major-General F. H. Seymour as
Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty.

His Majesty the King of the Reliance received the
principal members of the Greek community in London at
Marlborough-house yesterday morning.
His Majesty afterwards honoured Mr. Disderi with a
sitting at his studio ; and in the afternoon visited Mr.
Denm►n's estalxliahment for the sale of Greek wines, in
Piccadilly.
A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho-
nourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-
office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The
lords present were the Lord President, the Earl of
Devon, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Osehorne
Hardy, the Right Ron. Stephen Cave, and Colonel the
Right Hon. Wilson Patten.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor-General of Canada and the Go-
vernor of Heligoland.

The Duke of Cambridge passed through Brussels
on Monday on his way to Germany.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and family
arrived at Tarbet, Cromarty, last week, from Lilleshall,
Shropshire, and in the course of • few days go to Dun-
robin Castle.

The Duke of Richmond will leave town in a few
days for Gordon Castle, Foehabers, N.B.
The Duke of Northumberland remains in a weak
state, and there was no amendment yesterday. morning.
The whole of his grace's family have assembled at Alnwiek
Castle.

The Duchess do Galli:lra has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel from IValtner Castle, Deal.

The Marquis of Clanricarde and Lord Hubert
Canning left town yesterday evening for Portumna Castle,
county Galway, in order to attend the funeral of the
lamented Lord Dunkellin. The remains of the deceased
were conveyed to Ireland for interment at an early hour
yesterday morning.
The Earl of Malmesbury will leave town to-
morrow for Heron Court, near Christchurch.

The Earl of Wemysa and March has arrived at
his seat in Scotland.

Lord Stanley, M.P., will remain a few days in
town after the prorogation of parliament, and then proceed
to Knowsley for a short relaxation from business.

A marriage is arranged, says Echoes from the
Clubs, between the Hon. Alfred H. Tracy, brother of Lord
Sudsley, and Miss Hoare, daughter of the late 11r. Hoare,
of Torquay.

The same authority announces the approaching
marriage of Mr. John Angenrtein, eldest son of Mr. W.
Angerstein, of Woodlands, Kent, and Miss Hoare, daughter
of Sir Henry and Lady Hoare.
DEPARTURE OF HER MAJENTY FOR SCOTLAND.—
Yesterday evening, shortly before 10 o'clock, her Majesty
the Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Ain-
, ewes L Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, Prince and
Princess Christian and Prance Christian Victor of Sables-
wig-Holstein, left Windsor Castle for Balmoral. The
suite in attendance included Lady Churchill, Lady Susan
Melville, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Sir T. M. Biddulph, CoL
Gordon, the Hon. Mn. Gordon, &a. A special train,
onosisting of an engine and 14 carriage', including the
royal and six other double and sioglo saloons, was pro-
, Tided by the directors of the London and North Western
Railway for the conveyance of the Queen to the North. Her
Majesty's saloon and the other carriages were richly fur-
nished and equipped, and the whole of the train was fitted
with the system of electric communication invented by Mr.
Marten, the company's electrician, who was in attendance.
The arrangements for the journey were ably carried out by
111 r. J. Grierson, the general manager of the Great Western
line, and Mr. Vii Cawkwell, general manager of the London
and North Western Itailway,aisieted by Mr. Tyrrell, of the
former, and Mr. Charles Mason, of the latter company. Mr.
Alfred Higgins, divisional superintendent of the Great
Western Railway. was also present. The Queen and suite
on quitting the castle drove to the Windsor station of the
Great Western Railway, where they were received by the
various officials and attendants, and conducted to their
respective carriages. Her Majesty and her Royal High-
ness Princess Louise occupied the royal saloon, which was
the seventh carriage from the engine and in the centre
of the train. The double saloon at the rear of this was
exclusively for the use of their Royal Highnesses Prince
and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and their in-
fant son with his two nurses. Prince Leopold, with Mr.
Duckworth and Colonel Gordon, at in the next saloon, the
adjoining carriage being set apart fer Lady Churchill, Lady
Susan Melville, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Sir T. M. Bid-
dulph. Behind this was a saloon for the Minister of State
and railway directors, the Queen's fourgon and breaksbring-
ing up the rear. The cam of the special, as far
as Bushbuty, fell to Mr. J. Grierson, the general
manager, and Mr. Tyrrell, of the Great Western
line, and over the North Western to Mr. W.
Cawkwell, general manager of the latter railway,
and his assistant, Mr. C. Mason, and Mr. Marten, the
telegraphic superintendent. At Kelso her Majesty and
the royal family will quit the train and proceed to Floors
Castle on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh°,
with whom the Queen will remain as a newt till Friday
night. Her Majesty will leave Kelso at half-past 10
o'clock in the evening by the same special train which
brought her from Windsor. It will reach Edinburgh, 52
miles from Kelso, at 12.23 a.m. on Saturday, and will p s
through the station at slow speed. The rate of travelling
will then be quickened, and the larbert station of the
Caledonian line will be reached at 1.28 a.m. Her Majesty
will travel either from Aboyne or Balloter by road to
Balmoral, which will be reached early in the day. The
Queen is expected to return to Windsor about the close
of October.

FUNERAL or THE EARL OF MAYO.—The remains
of this mneh-regretted nobleman were interred on Monday
in the family vault at Painestown, county Meath. The
funeral was iu every respect similar to that of Lady
Kayo's in February last. The coffin on its arrival from
London on Saturday was placed in an apartment suitably
prepared for its reception, and during the afternoon of Sun-
day the body was visited by nearly 300 persons. The coffin
was carried to the grave by the tenantry, who were arrayed
in scarfs and hatbands. It bore the following inscription
on the breastplate :—" Robert, sth Earl of Mayo, born
12th January, 1797, died 12th August, 1967." The chief
mourners, following on foot, were the Right Hon. the
Earl of Mayo, M.P., Colonel the Hon. John Jocelyn
Bourke, Hon. Robert Bourke, Hon. and Rev. George
Wingfield Bourke, Hon. Charles Fowler Bourke, and the
Hon. Henry Lorton Bourke, sons ; Lord Naas, Hon.
Maurice Bourke, Hon. Algernon Bourke, and Master
Walter Bourke, grandsons of the deceased earl ; Earl of
Donoughmore, 800. Walter Hutchinson, Kr. Gustavus
Lambert, Mr. Henry Perry, Mr. John Thomas Follett, and
Mr. Johnson, confidential attendant on the late earl for a
number of years. The burial service was mad in a solemn
and impressive manner by the Rev. Maurice T. De Burgh,
vicar of Nasa. Amongst those present at the funeral
were—The Marquis of Headfort, the Earl of Beetles, Lord
Gormanatonn, Lord Dummy, Lord Athluraney, Right
Hon. Frederick Shaw (Recorder of Dublin), Hoe. lonia)
Preston, Sir John Dillon, Mr. M. E Corbally, LP., Mr.
Francis Lambert, Lady Fanny Lambert, ka.