The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1881.

Prince Philip of Wurtemberg left the Castle yesterday.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most Hon.
Privy Council, appointed for the ounsideration of an ordi-
nance, framed by the Oxford University Commissioners, sat
yesterday in the Councilethamber.
The following petitions were considered :
A petition of the President and Scholar., of St. John
Baptist College, in the Univeraity of Oxford, praying that
the ordinance of the commissioners may he rejected. That
a proposed ehewe of your petitioners, with additions and
modifications' may he subetituted in the place of the Mid
ordinance. Or that the said ordinance, or the proposed
scheme of your petitioners, may be modified and altered in
such manner, and that such regulations and ordinances may
be established, as to your Majesty shall seem meet.
A petition of the Master and Wardens cf the Merchant
Taylors' Company in the City of London.
A petition of Robert Appleton, M.A., Head Master of
the Grammar School, Reeding.
Petitions from Mr. Edward Cooiluitt Dermer, Mr. Wil-
liam Marshall, Dr. Stanley, and Lancelot Arthur Sharpe,
B. LP.

The Lords present were the Lord President, Lord Craig-
worth, the Lord Justice Knight Bniec, the Right Hon.
Spencer Walpole, and the Right Hoe. Robert Lowe.
Mr. Helps, Clerk to the Privy Council, attended.
The Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General were in
athrodanoe as assessor.

Mr. It. Palmer was heard against the onlinaoce, and in
support of proposed new statutes for St. John's College,
Oxford.

beeps tche* for the Governors of Cara& and for the
Governors of the settlemente on the West Coast of Africa
were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office.

Viscount Palmerton will give a grand parlia-
mentary dinner on Monday, the 4th of the ensuing month,
to the Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons,
and the leading members of the gorernnteut having seats in
that assembly, at the noble Premier's residence in Pic-
cadilly.

Hip( Excellency the Sardinian Bliuister comes to
town to-day from Broadkods.

The Earl and Countesa of Scarborough have left
town for the Redford Hotel, Brighton.

The Earl of Munlingtou has arrived at the
Clarendon Hotel from Paris.

Lord and Lady Sa!tom and family have arrived
in Herefordatreet from Neer Castle, N.B.

Lord Aahley, M. P., arrived in town on Tuesday,
from Torquay. His lordship has since left for Northamp.
ton. Her ladyship Main* at Torquay.
The Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte
Denison are expected to arrive on the 2nd proximo at the
right hon. gentleman's official residence at the New Palace
of Westminster, from their seat in Nottinghamshire.

The Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M. P., and Mrs.
Cowper have returned to town from visiting Viscount and
Viscountess; Palmerston, at Broadlancla. Mr. Cowper will
leave town on Saturday, for Wrest Park, on a visit to the
Countess Cowper.

Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Richard Dundax left
town yesterday, for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her
Majesty.

Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel, accompanied
by Lady Jane Ray, have left town for Drayton Manor.
Sir John and Lady Shelley have arrived at
the Bedford Hotel, Brighton, from Mareifield Park,
Summer.

Adollama Brandt, F.aq., liararinu C.maxil-Genu-
nil, and family, have arrived at the Cavendish Hotel,
Jermyrrstreet, from the Continent.

Lord and Lady Cremorne'N family have been in
a state of painful suspsese since Saturday last, occasioned
by an accident to their third sou, the Hon. Richard Dawson,
a youth of 15 years. It appears that on Saturday the lion.
esey Dawson, the elder brother, and the Hon. Richard
Deem; were amusing themselves at shooting with a small
pistol front the back sitting-room window at a mark in the
garden. During the time so engaged it seems the younger
brother, anxious to shoot, in a playful spirit rushed at his
brother, in order to obtthn the pistol, when in the scut%
the weapon went off aoadantally, and the Hon. Richard
Dawson was wounded by t►e bullet in the left skis, just
above his hip. rht Tuesday the medical gentlemen pro-
nounced him out of danger, sad yesterday it was stated he
was pra„messing favourably, although we understand the
bullet has nut been found.

Prufeemor Owen commenced a couree of twelve
lectures "Oe the Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, and
Fossil Remains of Fishes," at the Royal Institution, on
'Tuesday afternoon. The introductory lecture was on the
general character of vertebrate animals.

The auuual competitive trial of small-bore rifles
will, by the permission of hie Royal Highams the COM-
mantlerhs-Cha, take place at Hythe on Tuesday, the 12th
of February, at 10 d'elock

On Saturday or Sunday next, when the tides
range high, an attempt will be made to float the Queen Vic-
toria at Plymouth, by (.Initain Daniel Russel, from Lloyd's,
• gentleman who has had much experience in operations of
the kind. Harris, the diver, has examined her, and reports
that a smooth rock, Ti to 3.i feet long, is right under her
mainmast and pushes up the keel ; the after part of the
ship, which was buoyant some time after grounding, has
now sunk down on the beach. The Queen Victoria
is divided into three compartments, and it is proposed to
draw the water from the forward compartment with one of
tiwynue's pump., worked by an engine of Iftherse power,
and cspable of lifting 1,(100 gallons per minute. The after
compartment is provided with another pump, worked by a
6-horse engine, which lifts .100 gallons per minute. When
these compartments are empty (the cable being landed), it
is hoped that she will float sufficiently to be taken into the
large graving dock in the Plymouth (;rent Western Docks.
The cable is believed to have received •o material injury,
and tests very well. It is intended to rejoin the wire and
thoroughly test the whole.

"The childreu's ball which was lately given by
the Princess Matbilile in honour of the Prince Imperial,
was," says the Sport, "wort charming. It commenced at
four o'clock in the afternoon, and ended at shout eight.
The Emperor arrived at four, and the Prince Imperial, who
wore t►e costume of a marquis of the old regime, at •
quarter past. His imperial highness was received by
all the little guests, who grouped themselves me
Ida passage. The orchestra was composed of children,
all in sacoesliogly pretty costumes, and the prince insisted
on dancing with the lad who played the Bute. Millie.
Widewski was attired to represent a butterfly, and the
prince danced several times with her. Mdlle. Minetta
Vimercati, daughter of the director of the hunting este-
Wishment of King Victor Emmanuel, was in the costume of
a Spanish girl, and the son of Zhao. Hisot am a postillion
of the time of Louis XV. The ball concluded with the
quadrille of 'Orphde.' . _

A letter from Trieste states that, fur hygienic
reasons, the remains of the Count and Countess de kfoote-
molin had to be interred within • few hours after death,
the interment taking place in the cathedral of St. Jug, in
that city, where the bite lion Carlos reposes ; but that, on
the 17th, • %Menai ❑mss for the ripose of the souls of the
prince and princess was celebrate) in that cathedrsL