The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

nespatebes acre sent from the
charge of Count Haptieto Metsia.
Despatches ware tent. yeeteeday, to the °oversews of the
North A raerican Pros :stove and to the Colognes OD the West
Coast of Africa.

t.o Corfu, in

Dospetchas were rec•ierd, yeetrwley, at the Colonial-
oMee, from the Governors of Ceylon, the Mauritius, and
Malts.

The Earl Amherst has purehaeed a mansion in
raneesor-elywe, We the residoece of the Earl of Cr--

The Earl of Motrave leaves town to-day on a
slit a ths Boa. H. B. rod Mrs. Brrade, at Glynde Flat*,
saw Lamm

Visemrat and Viscountcy. Combermere are enter-
taining a select circle of the nobility at Combo-mete Abbey.
Viscount and Viecoanteas Campdat and family
have arrived at Clintlkea Hotel, front Carapden Home,

Lord and Lady Fermium are still at Duncombe
Park, tairsaadad by a finally circle. The noble lord and
her ledyahip are expected is town early next month.

Lord and Lady Southampton hare arrived at the
Clarendon, from Whitt{gory, Tormerter.

Lord Edward Thyme has left the Earl of Mal-
mestere' s electing gnartere in the Highlende fur Drunttaa-
rig Cutte,ett Die vraysonth..
. . .

Lady Elizabeth Hope Vete and family have arrived
in Perk-lane front Folkestone.

The Hon. Edmund Phi ppo,who hu been rery much
Wisp:rod trc some months pada, b samewlutt Leiter.

The Right Hon. Frederick and Mr*. Peel, who
have been on a tom in Italy, are expected In town the latter
end of neat month.

Lord Brougham has arrived at Brougham Hall.
The Bishop of Oxford 15... tilde pled&

This afternoon the Fruit Exhibition for the season
of the ilorticultand Gaiety, was evened for view at
RODIN. Four 111102.11119 tables, oroupywg about 1,400 square
feet, not to mention side table., were (steered with the finest
poduro of the fruit garden which modern shill can tut Dish.
. - . .

The meetings of the Trustees of the National
Poetrait Gallery is Great George-strest, Westminster, will,
it is expected, soon be resumed, and the pictures, when
waleciently somerous and fairly in order, will be ells& &coer-
cible to the public. Massada]a the public w ill Lo glad to
hear what portraits hem been already obtained for their as
and iastrnetioa —we (AtArioroiri)therofore append ape, free
list,—Ororp Frederick Handel, Arthur Murphy, Dr. Pen,
Spsk•r Lenthel, James Thomann, Horne Tooke, Dr. Meade,
First Earl of Carlow, Sir William Wyndham, Marley Bret
Earl of Diked, Eklund Cumberland, La Bolle
Demlateme V Chresenast, Coleridge, the Chandoe Shakapearm
the GM Earl Stanhope, and Stothard the painter.

The Conway papers, which ha, e just been pkeed
Omr rye twin the State Paper-office, extend over several
Armies, end we of extreme importance, ceperially for the
rigs ir Charles the First.

It is said that inessetres are in contemplation to
warm Illeas 'rpm et tlis Noistitester Art Treasatto
betidiag, eel it la mom clime blelding beloaring to the
City, perhaps tie rm. TAW* HAL
The Weekly Register of this day says:—" We are

this week endolid o Winanaris W masirtion.listo dos Churvh
of Rama) of the Rev. Charles Althea Roberts, curate of
Bt. Jahn's, Nesting-bid, by tbe Very Raw. Provost Manning,
D.D., al bio (buret at Bayswater."
Herr Carl Formes arrived in Liverpool yesterday,
and to-day (Saturday) la sails is the steamer Canada for the
United &Alec Rem Forma, who is engaged for four
months by Mama Thalia," and Ullmann, will warn to
Englad in Mn. to fail his darles at the Now Italian
Open-boor at Comet-prim