The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-09 00:00:00

DEPARTURE OP THE COURT PROM OSBORNE.

PORTSMOUTH, Maims 8.
Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, accompanied by the royal children, and at-
tended by the ladies and gentlemen of the court, left
Osborne at • quarter-past two o'clock this afternoon,
and embarked on beard the Fairy, for conveyance to
the Clurence-yard, Gosport, en route to Loudon. The
royal yacht entered the harbour at half-past three o'clock,
the customary salutes being fired from the Victory (flag-
ship), St. Vincent, and Princess Royal. Her Majesty was
received by the principal naval and military officers of the
port and garrison, and left Gosport at twenty minutes to
four o'clock, per special train on the South-Weetern
Railw►y.

(mit LAsr naafis aAurre.)

Downirso-nnumr, MARCH 6.—Tho Queen has
been pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Sir John
Young, Bart., K.C.8., G.C.M.G., to be captain•general
and governer-in.chiet in and over the colony of New South
Wales.

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DOWNINCHITHRIT, MARCH 7.—The Queen has
been pleseed to appoint Edward Douglas, Faq., to be
assistant coludal eserstary in the despatch branch of
the dice of the Cokola Secretary for the Island of Mau-
ritius.

FEB. B.—The Queen has been
pleased by Wan patent passed under the pest seal of the
oiled Kingdom to appoint Colley Harman Scotland, Esq.,
larrisiersit-law, to be chief justice of the Supreme Court of
Madras.

INDIA-OFFICE, MARCH 7. —The Queen baa been
pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Edward Henry Stanley,
commonly milled Lord Stanley, to be one of her Majesty's
conimianoners to inquire into, and report upon, the mea-
sures which it may be expedient to take for maintaining
and improving the health of all ranks of her Majesty's army
serving in India. The Queen has also been pleased to ap-
point Colonel Henry Marion Durand, C. 8., to be a member
of the said eomniiamion, in the room of Ma}orGeneral Sir
Robert John Hussey Vivian, K.C.B. ; and James Brown
Gibson, Esq., M.D., C. 8., to be a member of the said com-
mission, in the room of Thomas Alexander, Esq., C.B.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
smitertalasd a select circle at diaper last main at Glow
water House.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailea have
returned to the Burlington Hotel from Sir John Cathcart's
nest, Cooper's Hill, near Windsor.

Loni and Lady St►nley of Alderley entertained
• select party st dinner but evening •t their residence in

Count d'Alton has left the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn.street, for Perim, on his way to Rome.

Sir Charles Lemon has left the Burlington
Hotel, Cork-street.

The Connttaa Stanhope held her second assem-
bly this semen lam evening. at the family residence in
Grosveoorplace. Previously to the assembly the earl and
countess entertained at dinner the Earl and Counter of
Itasebery, Count Strzelecki, Viscount Mahon, the Right
Hoe. Edward Ellice, M.P., Sir Roderick Murchison, Mr.
Edward Ellice, M.P., and Mrs. Ellice.

The Artiste' Benevolent Fund dinner takes place
oaths 23rd inst.

Mr. Egg has left London on a visit to the ex-
treme south of France. fur the recovery of his health.
The following arrangements for lectures at the
Royal Institution after Easter, 1861, have been made :
Three lectures "On Fishes," by Prot. Owen,—three ler.
tures " On Electricity" by Professor 'Tyndall,--six lectures
" On Modern Music," by John Mullah, F.sq.,—six lectures
"On the Devonian Ap of the World," by William Pen-
gully, Pag..—nine lectures " On the Science of Langan.,"
by Professor Ma: Muller,—two lectures "On Musical
Acoustics, and on the Physiological sad Psychological
Muses of Musical Harmony and Discord," by Professor
Helmholtz, of Heidelberg.

At the Council Meeting of the Royal Academy,
on the 2nd, Mr. Jceeph Bonomi was appointed curator of
the Scene Museum. The list of candidates was unusually
strong.

The next congress of the Archaeological Institute
will be held at Peterborough, in the last week of July.
There have been 230 caustw set down fur hearing
in the Divorce Court, and up to the present time 70 have
been disposed of, leaving a balance of DO untried. The
court has been sitting about three months, and, taking the
average of man to be adjudicated upon at 2.5 per month,
deducting Enter and the Long Vacation, it would bring the
last cause on probably about March, 1862. Then Sir C.
Creswell will find another monster wren of more than 200
new nuns staring bim in the face.

The Rev. Wei. R. Lawrence, A.M., has boon
admitted and lioensed by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester
sad Bristol to the perpetual curacy of Chipping Sodhury, in
the county at Gloucester, vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. J. Clifford ; patron, the Rev. & Nash, vicar of Old
Bodbury.
The Rev. Edward Cheese, Ron-in-law of the
Bishop of Durham, was inducted into the rectory of Hanel-
tori.le.Skerse on Friday Lot. The Rev. J. D. Dade, vicar
of Ayclitle, and about twenty parishioners were proem:it.
The rector, after rho ceremony of induction, went round
and shook hands with his new friends, expressing his con-
viction that "he should find the parish a very comfortable
ale."