The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1857.

6De court.

OSBORNE, JOLT 22.
The Qaeen and tbs Prince Consort, drove:ontea-
terday afternoon, in an wen
Hie Royal Higher, Lt Osborne t socesing, attendcd
by Captain the Hoe. Dudley de Eon for fieliilitay, to to
prevent at the meeting of the. Royal Agricultural Anauciation

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of
Ilarrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon,
Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. R. Vernon
Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon.
M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll.

A deputation from the parieh of Chiswick, rambling of
Lord Robot Circevener, Mr. Jonathan Clark, and Mr. Wil-
liam Mills, churchwardens' Mr. F. Bich, and Mr. Robert
Glendinning, evermore of the poor ; Mr. Kelly, and Mr.
Robert Finnie, vestry clerk, had an interview with the
Right lion. Sir Benjamin Hall, yesterday, at the °nice of
Works, in Whitehall-place.
Mr. Andrew, the Chairman of the Euphrates Valley Rail-
way, Major-Oenend Chesney, and Sir John kfaeneill, bad
an interview with the Earl of Clarendon, at the Foreign-
office.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Conseil sat
neter-
dey. Judgment vas given in the appeal from the IJe of
Man. Boardman and another v. Quayle and another." The
petition, Bremer v. Freeman and Bremer " (Prerogative
Court, Lettere of Administration= heard, and the Pad-
dington Estate petition wee pert
The lords present were the Lords 'notice* Knight Brum,
and Turner, Lord Wenaleydale, the Judge of the Admiralty
Court, and Sir W. Made.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAT,—His Royal High-
ness the Prince Consort landed at the Southampton docks
this seaming, from the Fairy yacht, attended by Captain Tie
Rom, on his way from Osborne to Salisbury, to visit the
Royal Agricultural Show there. The Prince was received at
the docks by Messrs. Hedger and Levy, on the part of the
Southampton Doe& Company, and by Messrs. Crumb*
Scott, and Watkins, on the part of the South-Western Rail-
way Company. His Royal Highness returned from Selie-
ban, and embarked for Osborne on board the royal yacht
Fairy, at the Southampton docks, at 5 p.m.

Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and .11bert, Captain
the Ron. Joseph Denman, will embark his Royal Highness
the Prime Consort and mita on Sunday afternoon next, and
convey him to Antwerp, to be present at the marriage of
the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria with the
daughter of the Ring of the Belgians.
Her Majesty late the Queen of the French em-
barked yesterday at Dover, In a special mail-pocket fur
Oel end.

The Doke of Devonshire has left Chiswick for his
villa, in the neighbourhood of Spiel:dim, where Ids grace
intends residing • few weeks, previously to going into
Yorkshire.

The Duchene of Wellington will give a dinner
to b Majesty the Queen of the Netherton& at Maley
House an Monday next. The dinner will be followed by
• conceit, to which a small circle of the aristocracy have
bean invited.

The Duchess of &menet'. morning party at
Wisubkdou Park, announced for Thursday, the 30th inst.,
will not take plus. The (luau will receive, 14 usual to-
MOITOW.

The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, with the
youthful Marquis of Douglas, have arrived In tusn from the
Continent, after a protmeted ableure.

The Earl and Countess Spencer and the Lady
Barak Spume bars lift torn for Altborp Park, North►mp-
taaahbe.

The Earl and Countess of Abergarenny and Lady
Caroline Neville bare left their house in Portland-place fur
Mirttair Manor, near Maidstone.

Laid and Lady Lyndhurst and the lion. Miss
Copley Weed to Isere town at the close of the parliamentary
union for St Imoaard'aoa•Baa. His lordship has taken •
manakin there for th►ee months.

The Duke and Ducherd'Arnale were honoured
with the presence of the Queen of the Netherlands yesterday,
at aids AdrespFere given by their royal highnesses at Ortitles
House, their beautiful villa at Twickenham. The Queen
al rived about four o'clock, attended by the ladles and gentle-
men of her household. Her Majesty was introduced to the
members of the es-royal family of France, of whom them
vim prison; in addition to the Countess de Neuilly, the
Duchess d'Oritems, secornpinied by her sone, the Count do
Park and the Duke de Chartres, the Duke sad Duchess de
Neuman, the Prim and Prisms de Jelnville, and the Duke
sad Dueler dalteceferahr.

The Merchione; of Aileabery's "dance." lest
sewing, at the family resnaton In Pell-melt, eras hanoned
retth the premare et the Duchers of Cambridp end the
Princess Mary, the Duke of Cambridge, the Prince and
Primer Edward of ease Weisner, and Prince Frederick of
Hohteln,

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Counters de Persigay were honoured with the pumas
of the Duke of Cambridge at dinner at Albert-gate House
last evening. The following were invited to meet his royal
highness : Prince end Princess Edw it'd of Saxe-Weimar,
the Austrian Minister and the Countess d'Apponyi, tho
Duke de ()turnout, the Countess of Wilton and Lady Cathe-
rine Grey Egerton, the Earl Cowper, Daum and Daremees
dllanteweree, Hon. Julian Fine, Mr. Lumley and Mr.
Augastes Lumley. Col. the Iles. J. Macslousld was in
ateendanoe on the Duke of Cambridge.
The Earl and Countess of I krby entertained his
EmeGracy the Premien Minister and the Countess Berm-
tar!, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Abercern nod
and Ladles Louise and Catharine Hazoiltcm, the Earl of
Liston!, the Countess of Joresy and Lady Clementine Vil-
liers, Loud and Lady Churildlk Lad Loughborough, Lord
Dangannon, Lord litho Fitzgerald, Lord end Lady Emma
Stanley, lest evening, at the leanly minion la St. James's-
square.

The F.arl of Eglinton received the Nferquie of
Salisbury, the F..rl of Coventry, Lord and Lady Poltimore,
Lord and Lady Sondes and the Hoe. Mi.. Males, Colonel
and Barmen North and Ma Doyle, Hon. Mr. North, lion.
J. Pommes, Mr. Hamlike, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Campbell
and Was Campbell, and @sleet party, et dinner on Tuesday
evening, at hia resident* in St. Jantairequare. ;.-rj

The Worcester Hera/rlgives currency toattondit
that Lord Ward is about to many Mademoiselle riccolumfol.
The Rev. Reginald Wynniatt, hes been in-
stituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the
rectory olOskaey,Wßta, on the presentation of Rise Ryder, of
Daley.

LYCEUM TREATRE.—Msdame Riotori, who, pre-
vious to her aspoitara tram Ragland is giving a parka of
dad predonnances in all he greatest characters, appeared
yesterday evening on Lady Macbeth for the last time during
bar quad easogoowat. The boom was crowded, and the
audience were enthrisstla is their applause.

Isrit Use or Pews.—The eeeleitiologist's bugbear,
yiant Oen
ualities
n Its senses an ,thproted scat,
.in its form it
Is and smith q, though it
sib We peeves le mimed them to hie eloquento invem
kits have as mew eawasgles with each other, and
meth CCEslired separately II we Weald arrive at any
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Na chrecthe. Eash mods al in
the congregation in
hes ev applated seals, has its Own advantages ;
bet we ethest idle be& It is to imsgine pious
crew& sheath* Wm the &web, sad, la the fervour of their
tlereelloa, ethersotthi wirer/elms they ore placed. Main ell
tiers ',width we lath char records, alscollanseua ngem-
Wee 1w the purpose of worship hays been liable to
ehleetions of a we, serious character. On the other
lisadmiadevitioal, le sr Med by the juxtaposition of kindred
and sad the association of Ike with like, in
the house prayer. Attention to ili.tracted by frequency
of ebony sad weeny of position. The poor man's bembhil-
sue fe nuke r Msty to take alarm an the rich WWII pride,
if the bblONOt lads hind/ elbowing his master; and if yet
mere theregresthe sad nassmaly assoeiations are brought
sheet by gismo, the esatissat they surgeet will not, we
her, le dte theassualen of Wats "or the equality of all
ba,g. Gat" The cpseetion, unfortunately, ia not how wo
shall god room for these who are hurrying to come in, but
how we shall attract those who are not sorry to have an ex-
cuse for staying away. Nothing to found tot:endow so mach
to regular church 'Wisdom as the preeresion of a fixed
place. We bare seen a half-empty church filled by allotting
the enperfiuoua free seats; and the nominally tree seat. are
MM. SO InlllllTl7 filled Me by occupon's to whom long maga
seems to have paves a yresmiptive right. Nor is there any
weight in the objection that yew, make people late for church.
If the certainty of getting a seat snakes them unpunctual in
setting out, the uncertainty of getting one would make
them much oftener absent themselves altogether. —guar-
Orly Amine, new number.