The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-22 00:00:00

COURT DRESS.

HER MAJEsn is administering a gentle rebuke
to the gentleman who rather unworthily !moored
ut " American manners "in the House. The male
guests at the breakfast at Buckingham Palace this
afternoon are to be all attired in the costume of the
stage American. Columbia leads the fashion, and
we mey henceforth expect an extensive export
as well as import trade in the books and
pattern cards so dear to the hearts of dandies and
fine ladies. The following notice appears in the
morning papers :—" We are authorised to state
" that at her MAJESTY'S breakfast this day (Mon-
" day) gentlemen will appear in evening coats
" with morning trousers, &c., and that orders and
" decorations will be worn." The first question
arising to those anxious to remodel their costume
is, what is meant by " &c." ? Wo know exactly
what the orders and decorations will look
like by daylight. The citizens of a timo-honourod
provincial capital had an admirable opportunity
of estimating their effect a few days gizmo, when
the Earl of ZETLAND and the members of the
Grand Lodge of English Freemasons laid a foun-
dation stone with full masonic honours. The
Past-master's and Royal Arch jewels, to say
nothing of the purple and gold insignia worn on
that occasion, would throw every male orna-
ment displayed to-day into the shade. But tho
accompaniment to the articles which were formerly
unmentionable to oars polite? Men are asking
each other, what is it ? Can it bo a decorated
apron, in order that the masonic analogy may
be fully curried out ? Be this as it may,
it is impossible to avoid the conviction that
the nab,: mid gentles arrayed in a hybrid,
between isioriii;:g. and evening dress, will look
rather queer. When the Princess MARY of TECIC
was married, the blue and brass-buttoned dross-
coats and the light kerseyrneres of the bridegroom
and the mule gtwata were thought unfavourable
to portly figures ; and our observation of the
gentlemen engage d at such places as SWAN
and Erman's and Waterloo House confirms
this view. The Prince of WALES Was credited,
some years vim°, with the desire of modifying the
present funeral festive dress, and of establishing
a new costume, in which black velvet and Imick-
erbockers should predominate. To-day's royal
breakfast would have been an excellent oppor-
tunity for attempting the experiment.

The new fortifications at Hurst Castle, at the
entnince of the Solcut, are nearly completed.

Mdllo. Schneider, tho original " Dacha:se,"
amaze to-night (Monday) in her proper pert •t the Bt.
James's Theatre.

The Doerre, of Genoa, publishes the following
letter from General Garibaldi:—" Dear Rovaggi ; I hope
to go to !tome with you, but I fear it will be late if we
do not Phut up the priests' ',hops in the rest of Italy."
A Correspondent of the Nord mentions that the
Emperor Napoleon is very feud of taking solitary walks
in the Forest f Fontainebiftn, and making experiments
with the small 1 orteb's pump which has been used with
so much advantage by the English in Abyssinia. It is
raid that his Majesty has discovered by its means a sul-
phur spring in the forest.

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SIIMULAR PAM` IN•NATII141. HISTORY.—About
a fortnight eine°, a Rest of nightingaYei wee taken rat fhe
«ono. u, together with the old birds. Subsequently the
btu wits liberated, and the male bird has ever since de-
voted his enim to rearing oat° of the young brood.
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