The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-16 00:00:00

MN Court.

BALMORAL CASTLE, Ocr. 14.
The Queen drove yesterday to the Lynn of
Quoich and the Lynn of Dee, accompanied by Princess
Louise, the Princess of Teck, and Prince Arthur, and at-
tended by Lady Churchill.
_ . .

Prinoese Christian, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold
went out driving.

The Prince of Wale' and the Duke of Edinburgh went
out shooting with the Duke of Cambridge in Richmond-
park yesterday.

The Pi-Incest of Woks drove out, attended by the Hon.
Mrs. Coke.

In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales and
the Duke of Elinburgh dined with the Duke of Cambridge,
at Oloucester-house.

The Bight Hou. Benjamin Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
left town on Wedneedayafternoon for Fridge Castle, Tun-
bridge Wells, the seat of the Earl of Abergavenny.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India Wands,
Malta, and Gibraltar. Despatches were sent to the
Governor-General of Canada and to the Governor of
Malta.

The Marchioness of Quoensbury gave birth to a
son on Tuesday, at Kinmount, Dumfriesshire.
_ _ _

The Earl and Countess of Dudley are expected
to leave Blaelonount, in the Highlands, to-day, for Witley
Court, Worcestershire.

Lord Bloomfield came to town a few days ago
from Ireland, and left yesterday to join Lady Bloomfield
at Bournemouth.

Sir Augustus B. Paget, Minister to the Court of
Florence, left town the day before yesterday for Paris, on
his way to Italy, accompanied by Lady Paget. They leave
Paris to-day for Florence.

The marriage of Mr. Richard Oswald and Miss
Smith Barry will take place early in December.
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At a large meeting, holder► at Oxford, yesterday,
the following were appointed and requested without delay
to take all necessary steps to insure the return of the Right
Hon. Gathorne Hardy and the Right Hon. John R. Mow-
bray for the University :—Chairman, the Yen. Archdeacon
Clerks, D.D., _Christ Church ; Vice-Chairmen, Rev. Dr.
Memel, Christ Church ; Rev. Dr. Michel, Principal, Mag-
dalene Hall ; Rev. H. Wall, M.A., Balliol ; Rev. E. T.
Turner, M.A., Bramenose ; Rev. R. Faussett, M.A.,
Christ Church ; Rev. G. Petah, M.A., Trinity ; Thomas
F. 1)allin, M.A., Queen's ; and Rev. T. H. Sheppard,
M.A., Exeter.

The Right Honourable Mr. Mowhray, the can-
didate for the University of Oxford, is au EXeter man,
and is the son of the late Mr. Cornish, an oniiitent builder
in that city. The eon took the name of Mowbray on his
marriage. _ _

A letter from Madrid mays that the Dian-lois of
Novalichee does not conceal that he dbutpproved the con-
duct of Isabella's govenimeut, mid that hiswifu had given
up her post at court us Camerrra Mayor on that Itecount ;
but he says that his duty as a military man was to obey
without discussion. Ito is on good terms with the mon of
the present government.

The Empress of Russia has returned to the Villa
from Milan, the waters of the Lake of Como hay-
ing gone down oomiderably.

FOREIGN NEWS.

(THIS DAY.)

GENERAL ESPARTERO.

The following is the letter in which General
Espartero gives his adhesion to the provisional
government of Spain :

SO Ka

THIII DUI' DI LA 10131.

LOOBONO, Oar. 11, 18801.

My Honoured Friond,—l return you and your colleague,'
in the ministry my warmest thanks for the eatoom and
affectice which you manifest towards me in your
honoured communication of yesterday. Everybody knows

what I. my solelapiration. Moreover, I need not repeat,
what every one is already aware of, my determination with
respect to the government which has Just been constituted
under your presidency. That government, I cannot
doubt, will have the support both 411 my own
friends and of all who desire to witness the triumph
of the principle of national sovereignty in all its
manifestations—a symbol of the glorious revolution ems-
mewed at Oarlis—and which none have more interest in

defending, under the critical circumstances In which the
country is placed, than the authors themselves. Accept,
along with all your colleagues, the repression of my
sincere regard, and reckon on the madame of your
devoted servant, BALDAIZIO Beramruno.

RUSSIA.
A NEW MOVEMENT.

The return of the Emperor Alexander and
Prince Gortchakoff to St. Petersburg has been fol-
lowed by meetings of the council of the Empire
under the presidency of the Grand Duke Constan-
tine. The following letter in the Gazefa Narodova
makes known the chief subject of discussion among
Russian statesmen :

It le beginning to be seriously apprehended here that the
Ukraine will become troublesome. This question, com-
bined with that of the Muscovite Germans, constitutes the
principal topic of the moment. The Russian Government
dreads lest Austria should raise the question of the Ruthe-
nian nationality, including Little Prussia, the Ukraine,
Volhynia, Podolia, and White Russia. In that case twelve
millions of the Ruthenian population of Muscovy will turn
their eyes towards Austria, and then indeed will
commence the fall of Holy Russia. It is not the phantom
of Poland which now disquiets the Muscovites; this was,
they my, long since interred, and the monument of fallen
Poland has been raised at Rapperschwyll ; it is the phantom
of the Ukraine, with its Cossacks and the memorable treaty
of Persiaslavi,by which the Muscovy of Catherine guaranteed
the privileges and the national rights of the Ukraine, that
forces reflection on the Russian government at the present
moment. It is on this ride that the horizon begins to
darken. The storm might easily burst in this direction,
and hurl down all the artificial scaffolding which is called
the Russian monarchy. Assuredly Austria, if she under-
stood and knew how to avail herself of this question,
might entirely dispose of the future of Muscovy. It she
can but take it in hand and deal with it skilfully she will
become the mistress of the situation in the east.