The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-23 00:00:00

ttrs. Alanners Sutton's ball will take place

Wednesday, the 24th of June, and not on the 23rd proximo,
as previously announced in error.
Mrs. Miles will give a ball a her mansion, 44,
Belgravesaquare, on Friday, June 12.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick West and family have
arrived at IS, Great Cumberland•street, for the season.
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Laity Sykes gave a magnificent ball last evening
at the family mansion, in Carlton-house-terrace.

The Earl and Countess Craven entertained at
dieser tad evening, at their residence in Charles-street, the
Hart and Comte.. of Clarendon, the Countess of Sefton and
Lady Cecilia Mulyncus, the E.trl and Count°. of Bela-
borough, the Earl of Sefton, Viscount and Viscountess
Sydney, Lord Cavendish, Hon. John Forteseue, Hon. F.
Byng, &e.
Lady Henniker had a musical re-union last night
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The member" of the Orphetta Unionen-
tertained her ladynhip's vacate with a performance of a
choice 'election of glee", fcc. _ _ _

Prince Metternich, the veteran statesman, is, if
the continental papers be well informed, about to publish a
pamphlet on Hungary, and on the agitation of Koaeuth in
that country previous to the outbreak of 1848.
A despatch from Vienna, dated yesterday evening,
says Marsha Radetsky, while walking in his room, fell
and broke the upper part of the bone of the left thigh."
The water, such as it is, supplied by the water-
companies to the parks, has hitherto cost government
1,8004 a year. But a discovery has been mode during the
recent alterations, which, it in supposed, will effect a saving
Peso-half this sum. In that island, surrounded by the or-
namental waters of St. James's-park, which the Merry
Monarch" named Duck Island, and of which he onceappointed
Evrernont governor, there wee found to exist a powerful
spring, yielding pure water in sufficient abundance to supply the
whole lake, and perhaps to prove available for other purposes.
From a well of ten feet wide, mink to a depth of twenty-five
feet, five thousand gallons of water a minute are now ob-
tainod; and it is anticipated that a still larger supply will be
attainable. The water evidently comes from the Thames,
being filtered on ita passage through a bed of sand two.
thirds of a mile in thicknees.
On the Ist proximo the Duke of Cambridge opens
Calthorpe Park, Birmingham. The day is likely to be ob•
served se • general holiday.
The Earl of Forteecue will lay the foundation
stone of the 14000111 C Hall, at Torquay, on Thursday next.
"Little Dorrit" will be completed on the 30th.
Mr. Alexander Smith has a new poem in the
prima, devoted to the subject of town and country life."
Tennyson has in the press a new poem. The sub-
ject is, we (Leader) hear, one of Tennyson's early fa.
vouritee, King Arthur; being, in tact, a further contribution
to his unfinished Epic, " Morte d'Arthar."
A 601. bank note was found in the booking-office
of the Great Northern Railway, Hull, on Thursday morn-
ing, and delivered to one of the clerks until the owner can
be found.

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A meeting of the Royal Commission, to consider
the extent and boundaries of the, several dioceses of Canter-
bury, London, Winchester, and Rochester, was held yester-
day at No. 13, Great George•streei, Westminster. Present—
The Archbishop of Canterbury (president), the Earl of
Harrowby, the Earl of Chichester, the Right Hon. Spencer
H. Walpole,the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, Dr.
Travers Twills, the 'Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair, the
Venerable Archdeacon Jones. Mr. Felix Knyvett, the
seezerary, also attended the meeting.

A Vienna journal states that the pilgrims who
some Um beet left that city for Jerusalem, were, on their
way leek iftlel the holy city to Beyronth, gado prisoners by
• bead of Bedouizoi, and forced to pay a heavy ransom.