The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-14 00:00:00

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Tim Prince Consort rode on horseback yesterday
morning, attended by Lieutenant• Colonel the Hon. 1)
de Roe.
The Princesses Alice and Helena rode in the ridiog•house
of Buckingham Palace.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were Vis-
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall
Lewis, Lord John Ruaaell, the Duke of New-
castle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset,the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley
of Alderley, Sir George Grey, the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell

The Commissioners for the Exhibition of 110;2 met yes.
tenlay at the Council-offlos. Present : Eel Granville, the
Marquis of Cbsodos, Mr. Baring, M.P., Mr. C. W. bilke,
and Mr. Thomas Fairhairn.

11;o1Nshop .4 Mauritius had an interview with the Duke
of Newcastle on Tuesday at the Colonial-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yester•
day. Judgmenta were given in the following appeal, from
tie High Court ,1 Admiralty :—" Maud v. hoes, the Julia,
bLord Kimpdown ; •' North Gemisn Lloyds 4team Ship
Pto, v. Rider and others;" "'the Schwalbe," by Lord
Clehnsford; "Kagan and others,. Alexander and others ;"
"The Emit Lothian," by Lord Chelmsford. An appeal
WY heard, " Glllllll3 v. Meek end others," Vice-Adnuralty
Court of Lower Canada, ship Margaret. The lord. pre-
sent were Lords Kg.owsi and Chelmsford, the Right
lila. Dr. Leshisgtoo, and tiir K. Ryan.
IMO received yesterday at the Colonial-dike
frousiltilaseGewarams of Ike West Cbeet of Africa, New
Zealand, Aweirabs, Ceylon, and Hoeg Kong. Dtspstclies
were sent te the tievrenier of Ghee&

Hint WILAIRreII Flan Laves ems SwooN.—
The alieneas ler Majesty, accompanied by his Royal
Highness the Priam Consort, left Buckingham Palace, at.
tended by the Lords and Ladies in Waiting, with an escort
of Herm Guanbi, and proceeded to St. James's Palace,
when bar Majesty held the first levee of the season. The
laves was moat numerously attended, and her Majesty
loudly cheered on her way to the palace.
Her Majesty the Queen, in appreciation of the
important and philanthropic character of the work of the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, has signified her in-
tention to become an annual subscriber of Wf. to its Nada.

The National Zeitutay mays :—`•AooonlHaii; to re-
port, the queen of Prowls, with the Crown Prince sad
Crows Princess, will, towards the end of May, visit the
English Coen at Balmoral, where, on the 24th of the
math, the birthday of Queen Victoria will be celebrated."

The Countexa de Peraigny will leave Albert-gate
House oo or about the Mb inst. for Paris.

Maria Marchionexa of Ailesburyantettained at
dinner on Tuesday evening, at her residence, in Hertford-
street, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. their
Serene Highnesses the Prineeand Princess Edward of Saxe.
Weimar, the Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess of
Westmoreland, the FAA and Countess of Chesterfield and
Lady Evelyn Stanhope, Viscount and viscouatssaNewport,
Colonel the Hon. James and Mrs. Mao&meld, and Captain
Falbe.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have
arrived k town from Brighton.

The Earl and Countess of Roeebery are expected
in town shortly from Dalmeny Park, N. B.
Lord Henley has taken a residence in Chesham-
place for the scams.

The following preachers have been nominated
by the Lard mop of Loodoa for the special services at
St Pees :—Sunday, Feb. 17, the Lord Bishop of Cork ;
Feb. VS, the Lord Bishop of Carlisle ; sod March 3, the
Bee. Thomas Dale, cation of 81. Faure

Arrangements are on foot for the restoration of
the Chaptsr•house of Westminster Abbey, which is justly
regarded as one of the finest examples of early English
architecture.

In his fourth lecture at the Royal Institution,
ea Tuesday, Professor Owen entered on the masideratiou of
the earliest known forms of fishes.

A requisition (says the Buth Chroniek) is being
got op to Mr. W. H. P. G. langton, who formerly sat for
the Western Divisios of Sonsenetaltim to oome forward in
the room of Mr. C. A. Moody, who retires when the pre-
sent palm:test dissolves.

Mr. Alexander Stewart Mellen has been appointed
Recorder of the city of Loodonderry in the room of the late
Recorder, Mr. Leathern.

Commander J. E. Bingham and Lieutenant
E R. J. Balfour have been appointed naval mail agents on
the Southampton station.

The Emperor Napoleon's lite concession to Bri-
tish subjects is respect of passports being restricted to per-
sons arriving in France direct from England, Englishmen
entering Feline, from Italy require a French rise. At
Civits Vecchia no Englishman going to Marseilles is received
on board a French or Italian steamer unless his passport has
been ridd bens, or bears a French visa, ton poor on an, the
term of which is not yet expired.

A letter from Ate:andAs of the 2wl sayA:—" The
Viceroy's little son Tongues Pacha, shortly before his
father's departure, underwent at Chao the rite of circum-
cision. The ceremony was performed without any of the
display customary on such occasions, but it was followed a
few days afterwards by a military fete and banquet. The
little Ynnoe, having now attained the mature age of seven
years, eaten upon the enjoyment of • separate establish-
ment of his own. Towards its formation be has already
been presented with a couple of Circassian female slaves,
while the English nurse under whose charge he has hitherto
been is about to be discharged."

A letter from Gaeta, in the A ugshurg Gazette,
baa the following :—" The King and Queen inhabit three
low and damp rooms in the ruminates, arrived at by •
sorrow staircase terminated by • kind of ante-chamber, in
which it is necessary to keep • lamp burning all day. Ad-
joining is another room rather larger, in which no furniture
is to be seen but a writing table, two beds, anti some
arm chairs. This is now the residence of a sovereign
who only • short tune ago possessed the most splendid
palaces in the world. The streets of Gaeta almost resemble
newly ploughed fields. As to walking in them, it most not
be thought of. The Queen visits the hospitals at least once
a day ; @be goes from bed to bed, takes a memorandum of
the moons of the wounded and dying; arises the stu-
glow is applying bandages, and if perchance a shell bursts
near, she pays not the slightest attention to it."
Godard, the aeronaut, made a balloon ascent
the day before yesterday, as Marseille& After floating soros
time over the city, ha shot up to a great height, but finding
before long that tie wind was likely to carry him out to sea,
he effected • dread close to the town. This ascension is
the Sent be has nada