The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-25 00:00:00

MAY 25, 186$.

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B CASTLE, MAT 21.
The Queen wiatinai ha e morning, accompatial
by !lino,' Leopold and Princess Besides, and her Majesty
drove is the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise, THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.
and attended by the Dunham a Atha&
MAT 22.
Tits Queen drove out in the serning, seeempanied by
Pr.notas Lollies.

REIGI NEWS.
(THIS DAY.)

The Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur, arrived at the
Castle, attended by Major Teesdale and Lieutant-Colonel
El phinetone.

The Queen drove out is the afternoon, sooompanied by
Primrose Lorries, and attended by Miss C►thoart.
The Prises of Wales and Prlneekrthur went out fishing

The Princers of Wales, aeoompsaled by Prince Albert
Victor and hince Cony, and attended by the Countess
of Macclesfield and General Sir William /Coolly', was
present on Saturday morning at the annual guard mounting
parade at the Horse Guards in honour of the Qneen's
birthday.

Her royal highness drove out in the afternoon, attended
by the Countess of Macclesfield.
In the evening the Princess of Wales, attended by the
Countess of Mae:lesdeld, Lord Harris, and General Sir
William Knoll" went to Her Majesty's Opera, Drury-
lane.

The Princess of Wales, with the Counter of Maccles-
field and Lord Harris in waiting, attended Divine service
at the Chapel Royal, St. J►mes's, yesterday.
The communion service was read by the Dean, the Rev.
T. V. rovah and the Hon. and Rev. R. Boyle.

Anthem, .• Oml 4 gone up."--Croft.

Snug by Masters Coward and Wood, Mews. Francis,
R. Barnby, Cummings, and Winn.
The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of LOU-
doe, dean of the Chapels Royal, from Ephesiana, c. 11.,
verse 12.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lordof the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmes-
bury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord
Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandoa,
Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L.
Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Man-
ners, and the Earl of Mayo.

THE HEALTH OF THE QUEEN. —We understand
t hat her Majesty's journey to Scotland has been under-
taken solely in conseluence of the medical advice that
has been tendered to her.—/inperia/ Renew.

State dinners in celebration of her Majesty's birth-
day were given on Saturday by Earl Tankerville, Lord
Steward of her Majesty's Household ; Earl Bradford, the
Lord Chamberlain ; the Duke of Beaufort, Muter of the
Horse; Mr. Disraeli, Mr. G►thorne Hardy, Lord Stanley,
the Duke of Buckingham, Sir J. Pakington, Sir S. North-
cote, the Chanoellor of the Exchequer, and the Attorney-
General. Her Mijenty's Body Guard of the Hon. Corps
of Gentlemen at Arms had also a full dress dinner at St.
James's Palace.

His Excellency the Marquis of Abercorn gave a
full dress banquet in celebration of her Majesty's birthday,
on Saturday, at the Vioaregal Lodge, Dublin.
The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale entertained a
select party at dinner on Saturday evening at (likens
House, Twickenham. Later in the evening her royal
highness bad an assembly.

The Count and Countess de Paris entertained at
dinner on Saturday, at York House, the Duke and
Duchess of Argyle and Lady Edith Campbell, the Duke
ana Duchess Decazes, the Earl and Countess Russell,
Francois Counter Waldegrave and the Right Hon.
Chichester Fortescue, M.P., Lord Houghton, the Bight
Hon. the Speaker, and Lady Charlotte Denison, Y. and
Madame Van de Weyer, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone, the Right Hon. G. J. Gosehen,
M.P., Mr. Forster, M.P., Mr. Heywood, M. and Madame
K Duvergier de H►nranne, Duvergier de Hauranne,
Mdlle. Boerio, Mr. Asseline,

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The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and
Frances Countess Waldegrave have received at Strawberry-
hill, since Saturday week, the Earl Cowper, Lord Houghton,
the Right Hon. Sir John and Lady Young, the Right Hon.
Henry Bulwer, the Right Hon. William Gladstone, M.P.,
and Mrs. Gladstone, the Right Hon. G. Goecben, M.P.,
the Right Hon. F. Peel, the Right Hon. Charles Villiers,
M.P., tho Hon. K and Mrs. Russell, Lady Scott, Sir Henry
Hoare, Bart., Mr. Forster, M.P., Mr. Childers. M.P., and
Mrs. Childers, Mr. Borthwick, Mr. Heywood, M. and
Madame Misses Gladstone e 2), Mr. Alderson.
A Londonderry paper announces that the Prince
of Wales intends to visit the north of Ireland in August
next.

The Archbishop of York entertained st dinner,
on Satkrday, at his grace's residence in G roavenor-place
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Dublin,
the Bishops of London, Bangor, Chester, Gloucester,
LlAndaff, Oxford, Ripon, So David's, Kilmore, Limerick,
Tuam, Christchurch, Honolulu, Jamaica, Labium, and
Sierra Leone.

The operas announced for the present week at
Covent-garden are La Sonnambuta (to-night); La Favorita
(to-morrow night) ; Don Giovanni (Thursday); the/ ugue-
nota (Friday—first time) ; and Den Pasquale (Saturday).
Meanwhile the Italian version of Auber's Domino Noir,
with new recitative by the composer, is in preparation,
for Mdlle. Lucca (Angela), and Signor Mario (Horace).
The performances announced for the current
week at Her Majesty's Opera are Signor Arditi's concert,
in which all the company of her Majesty's Opera ere to
take part, and Mdlle. Hinson is to give the much-talked.
of scene of Ophelia's madmen and death, from the fourth
act of M. Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet (this afternoon) ;
Don Giovanni (to-morrow) ; " a favourite opera" (Thurs-
day) ; and Chernbini's Medea, with Mdlle. Titian. as
Medea, and Signor Mongini as Jason (Saturday). An
Italian version of Herr Wagner's Lohengrin is in prepara-
tion, as well as one of Gustave 111., in which Mdlle. Nill-
son is to play Oscar, the page, with some new music, com-
posed expressly for her by Auber himself.

It is understood that tho South-Eastern Railway
Company have resolved immediately to issue perpetual
debenture stock, in lieu of the whole debenture bond debt
of the company, giving to their proprietors the option of
subscribing pro ratd, and that the amount will be called
up in payments of 5/. at intervals of four months, between
August, 1868, and August, 1873, during which period the
bulk of the existing outstanding debentures of 4,330,6461.
will fall due.

A West-end hotel manager complains that many
racing and other gentlemen who pride themselves upon
being very " wide awake " by day are singularly care-
less when they go to sleep at night. They not only
neglect the simplest precautions, but obstinately refuse
to adopt the means provided to protect themselves
and their property. With locks so contrived that the
door cannot be opened without its special key, and a fasten-
ing inside which prevents access to the room even U the key
has been left outside, with notices in three languages in
every room informing the occupier of the arrangements
made for his security, gentlemen leave their doors un-
fastened, and when through their own recklessness they
have been robbed claim compensation for their loss.

The New York advices mention that the smaller
denominations of United States bonds are in request at
relatively advanced priced owing to their being largely
used in place of letters of credit. Formerly the news-
papers were crowded with advertisementa from bankers,
inviting travellers and men of business to buy their letters
of credit, and a large amount of business was transacted
in this way. Bonds are now substituted, especially by
German and Continental travellers visiting Euro,ie.
" They find them much cheaper and more easy of tezo-
Cation than the uldLiaitioned eocumenta."

The Sultan of Turkey has just ordered to be
manufactured in Paris a silver table, the price of which
will not be loath= three millions of francs !

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Just before the gate at Magdala was blown up- —1
the last act of destruetion—a loathsome cripple, covered
with mores, was diaoovered near it by &corporal of the 33rd, I
and carried by him to a place of safety. There are many
In the force, remarks a correspondent, who would only too
gladly have joined the storming party and risked their
lives in the narrow path, but who would bare shrunk
Pram this safe and simple act of heroism. It is, however,
but one, perhaps striking, instance out of many.
ORYINAL PALACM.—SIVIIN-AND-81IPINNY DAY.
—SATURDAY. MAT 23. —Admissions by mama tickets,
11,917 ; ditto on payment, 3,10€ ; fetal Adieus, 15,025.