The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-19 00:00:00

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OSBORNE, MAY 17.
Prince Albert went over to Gosport yesterday and
♦leited the forts now erecting. The Prises rateraed to
Osborne about 2 o'clock. and dries oat with her Majesty
in the stannoos. • .
MAT IS.

The Duchess of Keot arrived yesterday from Loudon on
a visit to her Majesty. The Duchess erased over from
Southemptoa is the Fairy, attended by the Eton. btu;
Seymour and Lord James Man.,.
The Dodson' of Kent, &Waded by the Hoe. Mary Sey-
mour and Lord James Murray, left ►er reridence, Clarence
Rouse, St. James's, es Saturday morals', fee Osborn, Isle
of Wight.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday after.
noon at the Foreign-ofdoe,Downing-st rest. Present:
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Bart of Cla-
rendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chasmllor
of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right
Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley,
and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. The Council at
two boors and a quarter.

M. Mammas, the Turkish Ambassador, transacted bud-
misa at the Foreign-tibia oa Saturday.
Viscount Palmerston left tow* attar the Cabinet Council
au Saturday aftemom for Bracket Hail, Rents
The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in London oa Satur-
day morning from his Bowood Pack, Wilts, for the
purpose of attending the Cabinet Council held at the
Foreiga office.
Lora Stanley of Alderley anived in town on Saturday.

CEREMONY OF LAYING THE FIRST STONE
OF VICTORIA HOSPITAL BE THE QUEEN.-
(THIS DAY.)

The following is the programme of the ceremony
observed on the occuioa of her Majesty the Queen's laying
the lint rose of the Royal Victoria Hoephal, at Netley,
this day :
It Y 'spewed that the Queen will land at the jetty at
eleven o'clock a.m.

A guard of bosom. will be drawn up M receive her
Majesty.
Oa landing her Melody will be received by the Secretary
of State for the War Deportment, the port admiral of
Portsmouth, and the general commanding the emath-western
district.

The Royal Standard will be bolded on a fiarstaff, and
military bands will play the National Anthem.
Her Majesty will receive upon the jetty an addrese from
the Mayor end Corp 'ration of Southampton, which will las
presented to her 111. j sty by the Meyer, and banded by the
Queen to the Secretary of State.
The Queen will then be conducted to the plate prepared
for her Majeety, preceded by the Ohne, military and
naval, in atteadance upon the general and admiral, by the
gegen' and admiral, the high sheriff and the l r.l lieu-
tenant of the county, the bishop of the dinette sad tae
Secretary of State, end followed by the suite of her Majesty
end his Royal Highness the Pricers.
A gaud of tomer will be drawn up to receive her
Majary on the sit. of the intended bufldiag, and the
troops will be formed in lino on the north side of the stone,
to mitoses the cerem,ny.
When her Majesty arrives at tie place when the sties is
to be laid, the commanding engineer will present to her
Majesty the Vans of toe building 0 be erected, explaining
shortly the intended arraogements.
_ _

Her Majesty having gig:died her approval of the plats,
will then place in the ovpper boz, pr .pued for the pur
pose, the coins, medals, and cross, sod the vellum does•
meet reomdieg the event. This last will be signed by her
Majesty, his Royal Highs's. the Prices, and the Seentuy
of state; aid the hoz beteg then clued, ber 11t•j?sty will
plate it in the cavity of the atone.

The eeremoey of laying the stone will then be pomaded
with, the military bands playing ; tad the moment when
the Qama strikes the stone, alter having ascertained that
it is correctly Laid, a signal (leg will I,* hoisted, the ships in
the river will salute, the troops will present anne, and the
military bands will ;lay "Oirl save the Qamn."

Her Majesty will ;he; direct the Seerstery of State to
dollars that the Ent ideas of the Military litspital is laid,
sad that her Msjesty has bees pleated to mewls is
called the Royal Viet‘ria HospitaL
_ _

TOG bishop of the diocese will tbita oder up prayers, sad
proaosaise a bbsesiag, sad the 100th Pisan will be seep by
the choir.

The troops will then march past her Mejesty in quick
time, and the Queen will return ti the jetty sod re embark.
The 'roiled must he kept quite clear by the military,
end no persona will be allowed to stand neer the Royal
party but the lord lientatent ct tie county, the Secretary
of State, the general eammanding the distriat, the port
admiral, and the memben of the household in attendance
ern her Majesty.
The staff of the general and ad 'Aral, end all other autho-
rities not above aimed, will beat pleats reserved for them,
when they will net interrupt the view et the ceremony.
Cud are the prayers to be need on this *cassias :
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Prevost us, 0 I.lrd, is all our dotage, with Thy moat
gracious favour, sad forther as with Toy toutlasal help;
that is all our works Megan, ciatirtusd, and traded tu Thee,
ws may glorify Thy holy name, mad dually, by Thy mercy,
obtala everlasting life, through Je►us Christ oar Lord.
Alliall.

" 0 Lord oar Ood, who but taught es is Thy Holy
Word, that strut Thou build the house, their labour is
bat lest that build It, great Thy blearing, we beseech Thee,
to this oar usdertskieg, aid prooper the work of our hoods
epos as. Be Thus gracious, 0 Lord, unto auk es hereafter
shall be the trustee of this house of healing : auks them
sot afraid for the pestiltecs that walketh le duke's., nor
for the sickliest that destroulth le the non-day; 11411 Tby
easels charge over then to keep th, m in all their ways;
hear thew when thry all sport Thee ; ye., be Thou with
them in all their trouble, to the day of sickness', sad In the
boar of death; deliver tb•m, sod show them Thy salva-
tion. Gnat, filially, that all they to whom Thou shalt see
it to restore the blueing of health, essay pass the rest of
their pees with thankful hurts aid a loyal spirit, and ever
he devoutly given to serve Thee in good work., to the
glory of Thy ease, through Jens Christ oar Lord. Amu.
" The uses of Ood,wblch passeth all eaderstaaddig,keep

your hearts aad Riads is the kaowledie mad love of God,
sad of His Boa Jnae Christ our Lord : sod the blvesiag of
God Almighty, the Father, the Sou, and the Holy Ghost,
be amongst you, had remain with you always. Amen."

PORTSMOUTH, Man IS.
The weather to-day does not sugar a See ate for
to morrow's earremoay of laying Use hmadatioa stow by her
Majesty of ea new Military Hospital at Ramble. AU day
it has bras blowing a gale from the S.W., with octasloaal
shaven of rata. Commaoication by boats with the float at'
Spithiad is pat a stop to, the Alain, 91, barley sigeallsd
this amino*n that she caild sot send the mud guard.
blot ea shore till the wind moderato& The Arrogant, IS,
'mew Must*, Captain Lycer, left last night far Reath-
septet Water. Th. commander in-chief will go oat la the
Fire Quist to.mono,r, and hoist his flag on board this
camel fat Use day. Last eight the fallowing orders were
lamed :

H.M.S. Algiont, Spithead.
°The following are the gumbo its that will form the snort
for Wuhan* ea her lbjesty oo Moaday, the 19th net,
oa the undo* of her promediag to Southampton Water t•
lay the fouadaboa atone of the Military Hospital :—Port
Divisioa—Starliag, Changer, Rudy, Gramhopper, Piaelmr,
Heuer. Starboard Dtriaioa—Beaeou, Parent, Bluer,
Perseter, Weems. Biter.

" The followiag gunbuto ore is hold themsolvas la mi-
dtown to supply the place of either of the shore which may
be dolayad or prevented by outdone from joisiag the egaad-
raa they will, there( rre, be ii attendance at a convenioat
distance :—ltenbrosat, Waiting.
" R. J. CODILIXOTOX, Captala V Ott Rod Division."
" R.N.& Mahon, May 17.
The guaboats aimed math* *quadrat for bee Mejssty's
escort are to get up steam for slow spied to-morrow at halt-
past 1 p.m., and they aro the, to move out of hartoar as
moat osavrraiont to avoid calieimes. They will thou nen-
lemons nom the Algion,aodoonvesiestly dear of Mu ships
at Spitbood. I will rhea tate owansaad of them, and move
those e• to as anchorage at lb. oatrasco of Boatbampton
Water, whore they writ rounds at anchor darheg goods,
might. "R. J. CODILIKOTOK, Captain of Red Divi►ion.
"To the Mean commanding the Gunboats of
H.ll Ewen."

Tba
gals bat viand ammo delay in oarrylag Mt above
Candor, bat %boy will no doubt bo •ff•eted la tbo cause
of tbo altarsoos el to-day. There are abrtady symptoms
of tbo triad baying &early tab tattod Wolf. la aoneogasato
ot the gale all tha ably. at Spitboad bays struck topgallant
nosh sad yuds.

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