The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-04 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE COURT AT OSBORNK

PORTSMOUTH, Mau. 3.

Her Majesty the Queen, the Prince Consort,
and the younger members of the Royal Family, &Waded
by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, arrived at the
Clarence-yard, Gosport, per special train on the South-
Weetern Railway, this afternoon, at half •put four o'clock,
en route to Osborne. Her Majesty's arrival was of a strictly
private character, and she embarked on board the Fairy,
and proceeded on her passage without receiving the custo-
mary formality of a salute from the garrison and the men-
of-war In the harbour. It is understood that her Majesty
will remain in the retirement which Osborne affords during
the remainder of the time appointed for the Court to con-
tinue in mourning, and that her visit will, therefore, ex-
tend to about a month.

The Priacens Frederick William reached Brumella
on Tuesday evening, and proceeded at once by an expreet
train on her journey to Berlin.

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the
Coaster d'Appoayi left Chandos House yesterday on a
visitko the Duke of Rutland, at Balvoir Castle.

The Duke of Newcastle has been entertaining a
mita Forty at Chamber Park, Notts, during the past week.
The Marquis of Clanricarde and Lord Dunkellin,
M.P., left town yesterday for Portamna Cantle, County
Galway. The marchioness has pun on a visit to Mr. Beau-
mont, M.P., and Lady Margaret Beaumont, at their seat in
Yorkshire.

The Marquis Camden has taken a residence in
roereaor-square for the memo°.

The Earl and Countess of Lichfield have loft
Dorsr-street, for their seat, Shugborough Park, Stafford-
shire.

The Karl and Countess Spencer have entertained
the following distinguished circle at Althorp Hall during
the races at Northampton :—The Marquis of Exeter, the
Marquis of Ailesbury, the Marchioness (Marie) of Allem-
bevy, the of Derby, the Marquis of Bristol, the Earl
Graaville, the Bad Strafford, the Earl and Countess of
Dalkeith, the Earl of Cork, the Earl Cowper, the Countess
of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyneuz, Vicount
lady Egertoa, Lady Sarah Spencer, Mr. and Lady Mary
Craven, Sir Joseph Hawley, Mr. C. Greville, Hon. Mrs.
Spiking and Mies Spalding, Miss Seymour, ko.

The -Countess Bessi;oroughleft ;own yesterday
looming for Folkestone. His lordship is expected in town
to-morrow from Northampton.
The Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven
wpm, to return to tows ox Tuesday next, from Ashdown
Park, Berks.

The Countess of Tyreonnel has arrived at
Thoassa's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Bfipin Hall, York-
shire.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are ex-
pected to return to Cambridge House on Saturday from
Broadleede

Boron Lionel de Rothschild has left Kingston
Home for Paris for tea days.
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Lady Anne Beckett has arrived at the Queen's
Hotel, Upper Norwood.

Sir Robert Peal, Bart., M.P., passed through
temp yerterday from Drayton Manor to Brighton, in order
to attend the funeral of his ►unt, Lady Jane Peel, who is
to be buried to-day.

We are glad to learn (aaya the Cheltenham Ex-
aminer) that his Grote the Duke of Beaufort is now in a
fair way of recovery from his recent severe affliction. Hie
gratis is now able to take carriage airing, and it is confidently
hoped that be will moo be equal to horse exercise, to which
he le well known to be so devotedly attached.

Yesterday the contributions received by the Lord
/Ivor, and the committee acting with him at the Mansion
ROOM, in aid of the fund towards the relief of the distress
in Upper India amounted to upwards of 3,5001., making
the aggregate sum, down to last night, about 20,8001. Yes-
terday evening, also, a letter, emanating from the corn.
mates, under the hand of the Lord Mayor, was despatched
to the lord-lieutenants of counties, inviting their attention
to the subject, and venturing to express a hope that they
will be plowed to convene public meetings in their several
°motile to take it into consideration, or to adopt any other
coons they may deem better calculated to promote the ob.
*ls of the appeal to local inhumes.

Rear-Admiral Mundy, C. 8., nailed on the 28th
olt. from Malta in the Hannibal, 91, Captain Farquhar, for
Beyrout, to take command el the division of the feet
neemobling on the coast of Syria.

The Dublin Evening Poet says :—" It is stated
that the office of mown solicitor for the Munster Circuit,
held by the late Sir Matthew Barrington, will be divided
into three parts—Cork and Limerick separate, Clare and
Kerry together. We have heard names nieettioasel, but so
far as we can learn, nothing has yet been determined. A
contemporary estimates the income from the offiee for the
whole circuit at 4,0001. a year. It might have been so at
one time, but of late years, we are told, the duties have
been discharged for amlary of 1,5001. a year. We suppose,
if the offios be divided, each of the new CROWE Delicately
will receive a salary of 5001. a year."
The failure has been announced of Messrs. Black
sad Guild, of New York, with liabilities for about 50,0001.,
the chid portion of which will fall in Ireland and the earth
el inlaid They have as agency at Dundee.

The Journal dr Gen Eve- of the 28th ult., says "
A ',Mange affair has oecerred here. At 6 o'clock yester-
day evening, as M. James Fury was crowing the Post des
Berge" he was stopped by a journeyman jeweller, War.
amid by name, of the Greed Prb. ' Toe yesterday raised
• chair as If you meant to strike me,' said be to M. Fug,
and at the same time he *track him • violent blow in the
face. This aggression caused a crowd to asseentle, and Mar.
eland was arrested and conveyed to prisoo. A. to his MO-
live far this act of violence, which nothing ma Notify, it is
mid to bs the manner in which, on the preceding day, M.
Fast' received a demand addressed to him by the man.
The judicial authorities have, of coarse, taken up the

The lain of the city of Naples, amounting to
two millions and a half of ducat• (►bout 12 millions of
francs), is stated by the Italie of Turin to have been taken
by the banking-house of Magnus, at Berlin, at the rate of
80 per cent.

"Jamaica," says the Post," haa done a wise thing
at last. film has pawed an encumbered estates act similar
in principle to that which has wrought such remarkable
changes in Ireland ; and we trust, and are induced to be-
lieve, that the results will not prove less beasgaial i• the
chief of the West India colonies."

A Quebec letter of the 16th ult. asys :—" The
navigation is expected to open very early this year in Upper
Canada. The late thaws have occasioned tremendous
freshets, and bridges and mills have been carried away, and
many parte of the country are now under water. This has
been the moat singular winter ever known. The quantity
of snow that has fallen is quite unprecedented ; there are
in some place* l 0 feet of snow in our Amens, which, steep
as they are, will, when the real thaw comes, make water-
falls all over the place. A shock of an earthquake has been
felt near &import ; sad on the south shore of the St. Law-
rence a similar shook hes frightened the people."

The Cologne Gazette publishes an address pre-
sented to M. de Them from the Germain residing at
Turin, congratulating him on the amendment he presented
in the Prussian Chamber of Defiance is favour of the right.
of Italy, and ea the eloquent speech which led to the adop-
tion of that anosedment.