The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-30 00:00:00

Cbc court.

The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied
by Prinoe Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Princesses Alice,
Helens, Louise, end Beatrice, left Osborne at 3 o'elock
yesterday afternoon, attended by the Marchioness of Ely,
Hon. Mary Bulteel, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Col.
the Hon. A. Hardinge, the Master of the Household, and
Major Elphlnstone, creased in the Fairy, Royal Steam
Yacht, to Gosport, and travelled by a special train on the
South Western Railway to the private station at Vauxhall.
The Queen was eeeoeted by a party of Light Dragoons to
Buckingham Patios, where her Majesty arrived at a quarter
before &even o'clock.

The Queen and the Prism were remind by the Marvels
of Hash r, Earl De La Warr, the Dote of Beanfort,Tiscount
Newport, imount Btrathallan, Major Penns! Berkeley
Drummond, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C.B.
Lady Macdonald has succeeded the Marchioness of Ely se
the Lady is Waiting. The Hon. Caroline Cavendish and
the Hon. Flora Macdonald have succeeded the Hon. Lucy
Kerr and the Hon. Mary Liuheel as the Maids of Honour in
Waiting. Viscount Swatheßan and Major-General Berke-
ley Drummond have succeeded the Earl of Bliefßeld and Mr.
R. Ormsby Gum es the Lord and Groom in Waiting to her
MOOBl7.

A deputatioe, consisting of the Duke of Argyll, Mr.
Bocharee, M.P., Hon. Moreton Maodoeskl; Mr. Campbell,
of lkonsfield ; Mr. Ramsay, of Eildalten, Islay ; Mr. Greer,
M.P., Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, M.P., Mr. ftollett,
Lori James Stuart, M.P., Mr. H. A. Bruce, M.P., Mr.
Henry Ward, Sir J. Mathesoz, Mr. Dunlop, M.P., and Mr.
Mormon, had an interview with the Earl of Donoughmore
yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
from the Governors of the Cape, Natal, St. Helena, the
hlauritirm, British Columbia, and the Lord High Commis-
, stoner of the lonian Islande.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Pitmen Mary, attendel by Lieutenant-Colonel
Porno, were meant in the House of Commons during part
of the debate last °seeing.

His Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian
Minister and the Countess Platen received a distinguished
circle at dinner last evening, at their residence in GICIOVOIKC-
pIace.

The Archbishop of York and the Hon. Mn.
Momper° arrived at their mansion in Be*rave-square
yesterday, from the archiepiscopal plane, Ilishopethorpe.

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The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn will
return to Channel.ld House on the 14th hut., from Barons
Court, county Tyrone.

The Marqui; and Marchioness of Tirseddals, as-
oompaled by Lady Jolla Hay and Lady Jane Hay, km
arrived at Clarldge's Hotel, from Tester Home, Hadedngton.
The noble marquis has taken apartments at the above seta-
bliehment for the season.

The Earl and Counter of Craven and the Ladies
Craven have returned to „their residence is Charles-street,
from visiting Mr. Graded at Teplow Court, Maidenhead.
The Earl and Countess of Winchilsea have arrived
at the Bt. Jarnes'a Hotel.

The Earl and Countess of Lichfield are expected
in town in a few days from Shmsborough Park, Stafforfahire.
The Earl of Portarlington has taken a residence in
Upper Orceranomareet for the @MOIL
Lord and Lady Norreys are shortly expected in
town from a tour on the Continent.

Lord Edward Cavendish, Lord Richard Grosve-
nor, and the Hon. B. Ashley, eons of the Duke of Devon-
shire, the Marquis of Westminster, and the Evil of Shaftes-
bury, were at Washington when the hat lettere ware
received. They pummel leaving kr New Orisons, and after-
wards would visit Cubs and Calitornia, and proceed by the
Rocky Mountains to Utah and Fraser River.
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has
bees pleased to add the name of Mr. George WCorquodale,
Newton, to the commission of the peace for the county.
The Bury Post says," Mr. Duent, of this circuit,
is spokes of as the future Recorder of Nnewich."
We read in the Glasgow Daily Mail, under the
head of Perth :—" Mr. Millais was kind enough to eat •
large number of his friends and admirers to his studio, on
Wednesday and Thursday last, for the purpose of seeing two
picture, which he intends sending to the Royal Academy
Exhibition, which opens in May. Theme picture' are—
' Digging the Grave of a Carthusisu Nun,' and View in an
Orchard, with apple trees in full bloom.' Into title lest pic-
ture • number of young ladies am Introduced, but the picture
was still unfinished. The 'Sect of twilight in the grave-
digging scene is very beautiful and true to nature. The
apple blossom is a work of great labour, hot as it wee un-
finished, it would be wrong to my anything about it."

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The Dublin Freeman says :—" One of the largest
audiences that we have seem collected within the walls of the
Theatre Royal glace the 'nights of Jenny Lind,' assembled
therein yesterday (Monday) evening to witneee the opening
performance of this year's opera season. The opera was the
Treratore, the cast giving us the Leonora of Madame Grist,
the Maurice of Signor Mario, the Count di Lena of Signor
Gmxiazd, the Azucena of Madame Vierslot Garde, and the
named° of Signor Lanzoni. Both in the solos and in the
concerted pieces with Signor Mario and Signor Grattan',
Madame Grist was admirable, winning encores and rapturous
plaudit.. Signor Mario was .offering from cold and alight
hoarsens, which marred in some degree the effezt of his
exquisite tenor voice in the arduous music incidental to the
part of Mandel:o."
The amount of two days' sale of the Libri col-
lection, by Mears. Leigh, Sotheby, and Wilkinevn, is over
1,3001.
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The Calcutta Phasic says:—" A ball was given
en the god instant by his ilighneee Prince Golam Whams&
to the Right Hoc. Lady•Canniog and the Governor-General,
who arrived about half. pest 9 with their suite, Major Bowie,
Major Bowerle, the Hon. Capt. Stanley, Capt. Burin, itc.
The Lieutenant-Governor with his site wired eoraewhet
later. The civil orrice end the military were well repro.
sentel. A guard of honour of her Majesty's 99th Regiment
and its bend were in attendance, playing alternately with a

private band.— Their Bighneseea Prince Golam Mohomed,
his son Priam Femme Shell, end other Myrore princes con-
ducted Lady Canning and the Governor-General to the ball-
room. Supper was partaken at about 11 o'clock, supplied
by Mauro. D. Wilson and Company. Dancing was kept up
till 3 o'clock."
The Ceylon Times understands " that the Pearl
Necklace subscription so long in abeyano, has at length
been approprtated, though not In the manner originally
intended. Slr Charles MacCarthy will, we ere told, be the
bearer of Lankier' Gift' to tho Prince's Royal of
England, now the Princes, Frederick William of
Prussia. It will consist of • richly worked silver
box, mounted on en elegantly carved ebony pedestal, end
surmounted by the gold elephant, shandy alluded to as the
intended gift. Beside the elephant will be placed a pair of •
bracelet, set with the shoicest pearls from the Arippo
Fishery; and the whole will be mooed in a richly carved
ebony cabinet."
It appears, from the Hurkare, that the Calcutta
mail which arrived this morning, brings petitions to both
house, of Parlbunent from the Compensation Committees
The petition to the Home of Lords is t r be entrusted to Lord
Ellenborongh, and that to the House of Comnrne to Mr.
Roebuck. The Govetner-General had declined giving any
information to the committee as to the result of the investi-
gations of claims. "Of the mull of the petition," says the
Berkarr," there is but little room for doubt —notwlihstand-
ing some of the sufferers ahnott despair of receiving cam.
petsition. If the estimate of the committee is cornet, that
' the whole amount claimed will not exceed 1,600,000/., the
stun b. comparatively rraking, so small and the ways of
recompensing the sufferers are so many, that we feel sure
parliament will seknowedge the claims, and adopt measures
for paying the same. It is possible that the question will
not be settled this year. The financial difilcultiee of the
mete, together with prehapa • reference to India, may lead
to its porpouement, but eventually payment to the last pie
will be made."
A meeting has been held at Delhi at which it wee
resolved to erect "a plain and handsome monument in the
Delhi churchyard over the remains of the victims of the
massacre of May, 1837, which have been recovered end there
1, interred."
Although only just returned from Cireassia, M.
Alexandre Domes has already commenced publishing in the
Nettleton of the Moniker a history of an episode in the were
of the Cancans.
The Correvondaseia Autografa states that the
Spanish government bee authorised • gentleman, named
Boyd, of London, to make surveys fir constructing • mari-
time canal, In ooremneicedim wit! the Ebro and other rivers
dm uniting the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The start-
ing point in the lied;terramen it to be Los Alf squat, near
the mouth of the Ebro ; the point of arrival, somewhere in
the Bay of Biscay. The mums are to be completed in two
years.