The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-04 00:00:00

bt Court.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Prisoner HAMM MA Laub% a drive in open
carriage rA hag yareleg allanrea.loch Lord Al an
hed Prot
sad Cr De PM ereellat as havesbact.
TM Moira et gar as& the Priers of Hohealohe Lan.
raker Arad 114.04.
The Prig rode as leenract in the forenoon, attended by
tie Bey in WAS*.
The Price of WA's, straisd by Colonel the Hon. C. B.
Phipps and Mr. Gibbs, weal yesterday afternoon to East
Ortenvicat, and inameleil the manufactory of the Submarine
tinfe tacos Royal, Masada by Lady Caroline Barring-
tea sod the Earl of Cream, honoured Price's Candle Fac-
tor et Vauxhall with a vier.
The Marquis and Marchisser of Brsadaltane, the Right
Bea. air George Orey, Liar-Glaneral Sir (Meets
sad Mr. Gilder dined lath llegeety in the
The band of the Ist Lek Garda paired during dinner the
flaarring .
March. Potpourri, "Lee Reametres" Mintier.
Selection, " La Favorite"
Alfred
Mazurka, " Emma and Hannah Louisa"Itotlue•etili
d.
The Queen's private bend performed after dinner the fol-
lowing compositions:
Overture, " Der Ahnenschsts"
Selection, "Lee Huguenots" Meyerbeer.
Quartette, " Bigot:Rio " Verdi.
Scene de Dame, "La Bayedere" Auks..

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at
the onlcial residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of
Harrortby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon,
Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the
Right Hon. It. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right Hon.
M. T. Baines.

A deputation from the 111/00011111 of Finsbury Park had en
Interview with Viscount Palmerton yesterday. The dispu-
tation consisted of Mr. Wm. Con, M.P., Mews. John
Savage, Jacob Vincent, William Tyler, William Hervey,
J. J. Downes, C. H. ER, Mr. John J. J. Sudlow, jun. (par-
liamentary agent), and Mr. John Layton, solicitor.
The Roysl Commission for ditteng the site of a new
National Gallery mot on Thursday, at 17, Great Queen-
street, Westminster. Present Lord Broughton (chairman)),ena
the Dean of St. Paul's, Profeesor Faraday, Mr. Cc
and Mr. Richmond.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-o Mos to
the Governors of Moog Kong, Ceylon, and Canada.

(TROY LIM' OAZIETTIL)
BVCRINGUAM-PALACE, APRIL 2.—Her Majesty
in Council was this day pleased, on • repreeentation of the
Hight Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Council on Edu-
cation, to appoint William 9coltock, Eeq., M.A., of Christ
Church, Oilmd, to be one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of
Schools.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL I. The Queen has
been pleased to approve of Mr. Y. Schott as Consul-Gensral
at Gibrsltar for the Argentine Confederation.
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL I.—The Queen has
been pleased to appoint James Vickery Drysdale, Eeq.,_to be
Lieuttinant-Govenior of the Island of Tobigo • and Henry
Bogart Breen, Esq., to bo Colonial Secretary for the Inland
of St. Lida: John Huggins, Esq., to be a Member of
the Council of the Island of Nevis.' and John Earle, Esq.,
to bee Member of the Legislative Council of the Province
of New Brunswick.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 31.
The Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household has
appointed William Bo Donne, Esq., to be ElLSMithar
of Stage Plays, in the room of John Mitchell Notable, Req.,
deceased.

Her Royal Highness the Duchene of Cambridge 1
and the Princess Mary honoured the Viecosat sad Viacom:ars
Sydney with their cowpony at dinner, in Clevelind-square,
on Wednesday last. Among the company were—The Duke
and Ditcher of Wellington, the Earl and Countess Clan-
wOliain, lion. Adelaide Foley, Lord Duferin, Lord Bing-
ham, Count Chotek, Mr. Sneyd, Mr. Henry °reedit, ite.
Lady Geraldine Somerset was in attendance on the Duchess
at Cambridge.
His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the
Countess Persigny have issued cards for a dinner party this
evening at Albert-gate House.
His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer and family have left town for New Lodge,
Windsor Forest.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have left
Nice for Germany. Their graces will not return to England
until the middle of pelt month.
The Earl and Counter Craven and family have
left town for Aandown Park, Berks.
Lady Granville, Mrs. Augustus Craven, Viscount
and Viscountess Sydney, and Mr. Henry °male, left town
yesterday for Paris.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston leave town
to-day for St. Leonard's-on-Sea. A suite of apartments have
been engaged for the Premier and her ladyship at Starkey's
Royal Victoria Hotel, on the Esplanade.
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney have left London
on a visit to Lord end Lady Cowley, in Peril.
The Viscountess Chcwton arrived in town a few
days since.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Stoner have left
town for Stoner Park, near Henley-on-Thames.
Sir William and Lady Maxwell and Miss Logan
have arrived at Edwards's Hotel from Brighton.
The Lady Agnes M. Nisbet gave birth to twin
sow at the Athole Crescent. Edinburgh, on Wednesday.

Dr. Forbes Winslow has been elected president of
the Amociation of the Medical Officers of the hospitals for
the insane.
It is stated that Mr. Horsley Palmer is about to
resign his poet as director of the Bank of England, which
ho has occupied for 46 years.
Dr. Marshall Hall was recently elected an hono-
rary member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.
Dr. Marshall Hall wee the senior president of this Society
when • student in that city.
Earl Grey has accepted the chair of the North-
umberland Agricultural Society's meeting, to be held at
Cornhill, on Tuesday, July 28.
Mr. Caird of Errol's sermon, preached before the
Queen, has been translated into German, with a preface by
Chevalier Bunsen, and 10,000 copies of It sold.
The Lancet, having given up its columns for several
weeks pest to correspondence relative to the tobacco contro-
versy, to-day delivers its own opinion. Our cetemporary's
conclusions may be thus stated :--1. To smoke early in the
day is excess. 2. As people are generally constituted, to
smoke more than one or two pipes of tobacco, or ono or two
cigars daily, is acres. 3. Youthful indulgence in smoking
is excess. 4. There are physiological indications which, oc-
coming In any individual case, are criteria of excess. "We
most earnestly desire," says the Laurel, "to ace the habit of
smoking diminish, and we entreat the youth of this country
to abandon it altogether. Let them lay our advice to heart.
Let them give up a dubious pleasure fora certain good. Ten
years hence we shall receive their *mks."
Mr. Ruskin, though willing to accept the Pro-
faeotehip of Poetry if offered to him, yet declines to Ida
any active steps to secure his election. This seems rather en
inappropriate piece of delicacy. Mr. Ruskin must know
that elective offices are seldom or never bestowed unsought
—never certainly in Oxford. The sooner, therefore, that
some one of Mr. Ruakin's friends can induce him to over.
come his scruples, or allow himself to be put in nomination,
without undertaking an active personal canvass, the better;
or all the voters will be pledged. and we shall lees tal ohms
of seeming so serviceable a professor.—Letter from Neal
fa the Union.
The Rev Thomas Carter, M.A., one of the Maws
of Eton Co has =1 elected vice-precast,
vice the Rev.
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Beßethell.
DUMAS ON LORD PALMERSTON.—M. Alexandre
Dumas, fits, in Ws hat letter to Le Priem sheet the in
general election., ar • Lord Pahmailem uppeeled to the
people. The=re &heady =id life& akiimperat
returning a a sr I
one than the had would vehh.
For the noble lord tedoehtedif bebop a Oa rallakas
putty IOW& is not ytogreadve—that is, to the low antral ;
and the nate lord has always refused, if not in word at
least i deed, to comsat to any real reforms. Now, the Daa
cry et the ]e ins notion at tide reseased Is for USteV, a"
consoler" al Orr ea esteeeks at the wasp will& ten I
always hilt a vallesee dimly divas% liat
therefor Mew tranniisable. Uri Penaetcm, in laws*
to the elegem of Tfiestl=s }tiny Waled that he would
never comfy via Oa await of these who expected
radial rearm asse him ; art he as only for gradual and
limited ratan Oa the Aar hand. eke members just
elected lave pledged theeradeee le the full amorapliament
of the Wine,- of Ode eteettleeede with reprd to those re-
forms whirls pule *aka seaddent to be necessary, such
theeederisa el the wasp erel rety of ecaselence.
dame of them her ova dedwad that HLord Pidmenton
dYtsst monis' sr Illardee _lbw:would
sea lit le des. 'flu wilier Ms maid to hie aid
Aewe whisk le egad palik Ades. Now he
to vales villt that alest. Do yea essneeiber
what Probes NM' Oar the battle of Beemdeaf " One
men sedeekaory se Wm, esti I 'boll be raised."