The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-08 00:00:00

TEE , EXPBESS, TUESDAY E VENNI

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Th. Queen and Privies Consort drovo yesterday to
13i.kthedl, proceeding thence up Olen Ueda.
The Ditcher of Kent and Lord and Lady James Murray
were Mandel In the dinner party in the evening.

Despraebee wee received at the Colonial:office yesterday
been the Governors of the North American provineea, the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, eed the
Governor of Falkland Islands.

The Edinboro' Daily Express 'aye :,--" The
Rev. Mr. Card, of Errol, whose sermon, Religion in
Comae Life," gave such high satisfaction to the Queen and
Prince Albert, was to preach before her Majesty in the church
of Coothie, :on Sunday Est.—The Rev. John Stuart, late of
Newton-upon-Ayr, who has just been presented to St.
Andrew's church, Edinburgh, has brat appointed to preach
before the Queen at Crathie church, on the 20th inst.

The Earl and Countess of Malmesbary have been
entertaining at Achnacary, in the Highlands, the Duke de
Richelieu, Lord and Lady Manama, Lord and Lady Dee-
mer*, the Comities of Glengall and Lady Margaret Butler,
Lord Loughborough, Lord Edward Thynne, the Hon.
George Barrington, and Mrs. and Miss Meynell Ingram.
Boone stags hare been killed, but grows are nearly extinct
on Lordlier. moors, chiefly in consequence of the burning of
the heather, which has been universal on this estate.

Anna Maria, Marchioness Dowager of Ely, ex-
pired at Harepten Court Palau. on Sunday last. The
deceased Marchioness was the eldest daughter of the late Sir
Henry Watkin Daahwood, Baronet, of Kirtlington-park,
Oxon, and married, in 1810, John, second Marquis of Ely,
by whom she had a numerous family. Her ladyship was
Maid of Honour to her Majesty Queen Charlotte, and for
some years Lady of the Bedchamber to her Majesty Queen
Adelaide. She was born in 1783, and was consequently in
her 73rd year. Her ladyship had been for mom time past
suffering from repeatod attacks of chronic bronchitis, under
which discus she erentually sank. At her express desire
her mortal remains will be deposited in • vault at Kenn!.
green Cemetery, where those of the late marquis, her eon,
were lately interred. The funeral is to take place on Satur-
day next, end will be strictly private.

The North British Daily Moil says :—Lady
Barnard, the afflicted widow of General Sir Henry Barnard,
la Bring in retirement at Sendgete, where the deepest re-
spect and interest are felt for her. Her eldest eon is
with the army kfore Delhi, and she has several other
cbildrea. Her leolythip iy by birth Cranford, of the Lind-
say sad Balcarree !scaly.

Mr. W. H. Gore Langton, Ml'. for Bristol, has
transmitted a donation of 40/. to M.. John Vining, mayor
of that city, on amount of the fund now being raised for
the rang of the waivers by the mistimes in India,
The KentisA Gazette gives currency to a report
that M•jor-Oeneral Sir W. F. Williams, commandant of the
garrison, la about to be nominated to the sppointment of
Governor and Comeseader-imChief of Malta, in succession
to Msjor-Oeneral Sir W. Reid and Bir J. L. Pennefather,
whose terms of Ake will shortly aspire.
The Eases Herald says:—"Major Warburton,
M.P., ham takes advantage of a brief visit to Harwich to
deliver a Wham at the National School-room, on ' Hero-
ism' The subject was rendered highly interesting by the
lOWA lecturer, particularly the touching part relating to the
hastiont of the gentler ass. Major Warburton received •
ocefflal vole of thanks at the close.••

THE BISHOP OP Itiroy.g.vn THE LYDIAN

MUTIXY.

Dr Robert Bickerstetb, Bishop of Ripon, has
issued the following tette, to the clergy of hi. dime*:
" The Pance Ripen, Sept. IM7.
I•

" Rev. and Dow Brethren,—lt is duty during the
present crisis in India to implore the help of A finighty God
by special eepplication. In thy hands are the helms al
battle. The mutiny which has taken place is kllOllll to 110
of fearful extent. No one can my to what further extent the
rebellion may reach. Already mach precious blood hen hoes
shed. Hundreds of our peaceful end unoffending fellow-
countrymen lam been massacred by the trewhomus muti-
neers, mad net a kw have endured horrors worm than death.
It Y evident that before this conflict is over, many more lives
will inevitably he sacrificed. Not only are oar troops in
India surrounded with all the perils of wee, but the nume-
rics families from this country who maids to the disturbed
districts, am exposed to risks which it Is fined
to contemplate. Meanwhile, those who have relatives ar
friends in India are unavoidably in deep anxiety and sup
pease on their account. The circumstances WI for epeciai
and united prayer, and I venture, therefore, to recommend
the clergy throughout the diocese, at public morning and
evening prayer, to ask the prayers of the congregation 'on
behalf of our fellow-ecumtrynwit at home and abroad who

are suffering by reason of the war in the &M.' And 1 also
recommend the use of the prayer whkh is appointed to be
used 'in the time of war and tumults? Permit me, also, to
waging the propriety of pointing nut to your amgregetions
the duty of tracing the hand of God le this visitation, and
of earnestly beseeching him, for the meriea sake of Christ, to
grant a speedy termination of the 'kik, end, above ell, to
over-rule the calamity, for the glory of his holy name sod the
farther advancement of his kingdom on earth.
I am, reverend and deer brethren, your faithful servant,
"R. Giros."

STREET PREACHLyG7SERIOUS RIOT IS

BELFAST.

BELFAST, MoN DAY.

A very serious riot took place here on Sunday,
arising out of greet preaching. The riot act eras read, and
the people fired on by the police. Several rename have been
'overtly wounded. A young Mao, named George Walker,
wee shot in Kin-street. At present th. town Is quiet.

CANADIAN PATNIOTPIL—h the Quebec CAroniele
of August 21 we reed We learn that the Ottawa Militia
Field Battery have at their eerviees to the imperial go.
mamma', and volunteered to serve in India."

THE LATE I4S. PLATT, ESQ., M.P. ?OR OLD-
RAW.—The funeral of this deeply-lamented gentleman pre-
sented an affecting scene. The body was intoned in the
new cemetery. and thousands of the inhabitants, with most
of the workmen attached to the firm to which the deceased
belonged, about 4,000 in number, were spectators of the
solemn rites. Mr. Platt wee sincerely respected by the inha-
bitants of his native town, sad his influence as partner in one
of the largest maehioe-makiart establishments in the world
had always been exereiscd with a view to advance the inte-
rests of Oldham sod the comforts and welfare of all classes
of hie fellow-townsmen. A epeetator on the day of the
&weal mites that " there were numberless carriages pnwent
from the rat and wealthy, and the lord bishop of the diocese
hastened to exprem his deep comniieeration with the afflicted
Rirlivry. There was a long procession, not a mere show.
But the tree greatness and glory of that unersospied Irene
wee the manifest overwhelming sorrow of a whole district in

DEATH or MR THOMAS HUGHES :It is with
feelings of regret we here to announce the demise of Mr.
Thome. Hughes, an actor of considerable note in the pro-
einem end also urine the stages of overeat of our metropolitan
theatree. Mr. Hughes seas educated so an artist. having, in
conjure non with Ma brother, Mr. Ball Hughey, who Achieved
a very high preition, executed • work of art in sculpture that
even now is remembered with pleasure and admiration it
was exhibited to the public reeve years ago, and represented
" the descent of our Saviour from the Cross." Idiom many
other., however, the charm* of the stage overcame his other
predilection. for sot, and he abandoned a_purnit of which,
under other circumstances, he would doubtlem have become
a diens:o6l:rd proferwor. Hie Inclination. led him in a
di&rent direction ; and had he not met with • merlow acci-
dent in one of his professional engagements in the province.,
he would doubtleas hove been now found in the foremost
rank, of our metropolitan perforniera. Since this accident
Mr. Hughes has been unable to resume his profersional co-
mer, and to Mr. John lints., whose brotherly affection and
kindly consideration hare soothed the lest momenta of the
sufferer, ha .S. indebted for undeviating attention ever
since be became incapacitated from following his profession.
He died on Sunday morning, in the 49th year of hie age.
MADRID IN THE IJOG DATa.—The sun blares
pitilthely out of an indigo sky ; there is no coolness in the
f vide breeze which acutely stirs the striped awning. of the
bakonies, or rustles the leaves of the rare-laurels in the win-
dow; the streets are deserted; at yonder corner. group of
porters and lanaroni lie sleeping on the pavement; on
the otter site of the plane, the gown-vellera beer with-
drawn thennelves end their merchandise within the deep sha-
dow rd the arcade., and slumber on their choirs, insured
meabst customen at this torrid hour; the puffy quail, which
hangs, in whet appears to net a cruelly small cage, at a
neighbouring window, has ceased his monotonous call, sad
is taking the Siesta; the lest lingering Menthe of snow haw
malted from the Gusdarama summits, now dimly aeon
through the sultry mina that shroud them : it is dna weather
for sleep—ale° for brain fever and hydrophobia, but certainly
not fur any kind of ezertice.—Blockircrod's itagatiow for
seve.