The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

S5Dt Court.

Her Majeiity and the Prince Cowart, nevem-
paaied by the Princess Alice and the youthful members of
the Royal Family, are expected, according to present
arrangements, to leave Balmoral either on the 22nd or 'Gird
instant fur Windsor Castle.

The Marquis sod Marchioness of Exeter and
lady Mary Coca arrived M the hinuly residence ID Gros-
venorsquare, yesisray, from Burghley House, near

The Earl of Harrowby, Viscount Sandon, and
family COM* to tows to-cloy, from Sandia Hall, Stafford-
shire.

Viscount Falmouth arrived in town yesterday
horn Mereworth Castle, Kent, on his way to Newmarket.
Thu Earl and Counters of klardwicke are enter-
taining a ,elect family circle at Wimpole Hall, Cambridge-
shire. Lady Hazy Craven left town yesterday to join the
Peril _ _ _

The Earl and Countess Spencer are expected to
111TiVO at Spencer-house, St. Jaws's, tomorrow, from Al-
thorpe-hall, Northamptonshire.
Viscount and Viscount: 8s Clilden leave Lord
Tanaton's seat, Stok►park, near Windsor, at the end of the
week, for Gowrea Castle, the noble viscount's rest in the
county ILDlumoy.

Lardy Georgiana Fane has arrived at her house in
Upper Brook•stmet, from New York.
Lord Palmerston has consented to distribute the
esetiataiss to the eacceeeful candidates in the late Oxford
local oxastiostioa, at a public media& which is to be held
at the CarlkaArms, Southampton, cm Friday, the 11th fart.

Sir Roderick Murchison has been addressing stone
of the farmers of Norfolk on subsoils in relation to agri.
culture. The occasion was the dinner of the Wayland
Agricultural Association, at which Lord Walsingham pre.
sided. Sir Roderick especially alluded to the value of those
phosphatic substances which are found under the soil, and
which, he said, made manure u fertilising as any guano in
the market.

It appear+ that the fourth waion of the Inter-
national Philanthropic Congress is to be held in London
next year, on the occasion of the Great Exhibition. Among
the noblemen and untlemen wh3 hare expressed their
concurrence, are, Lord Brougham and the Council of the
National Association for the Promotion of Social Science,
the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl Ducie, the EMI Fortescue,
Lied Ebury, LorJ Beriberi', the Right Hon. W. Cowper,
M.P., Sir Thomas Phillips, Alderman Medd, Mr. Harry
Chester, Mr. Samuel Gurney, M.P., Mr. Edwin Chadwick,
C. 8., Mr. Henry &beim, Mr. George Godwin, F.R.S.,
Mr. T. Twining, Dr. Sutherland, F.R.S., and Dr. South-
wood Smith, F.R S.

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The Hon. W. W. Addington has issued an
babe= to the electors of Plymouth, in which he says :
" I belong to the liberal conservative party ; and though
not prepared to pledge myself to an undeviating support of
party measures, I may distinctly state that my opinions
are in impend accordance with those which guided the late
government of Lord Derby. Approving of the manly and
patriotic course adopted by the present government in its
relation with foreign powers, more especially se regards the
Italian question, I shall esteem it my duty not to offer a
factious opposition to their measures with the mere object
of placing soother party in office."

Mr. idwarde:GOvernor of Labunn, had an in-
terview with the Doke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Co.
loohd-olEce.

The Stromboli and Chanticleer are both hourly
expected to be ecessiesioped at Portsmouth, to reinforce
the West lodia &gumdrop, with reference, most probably,
to expected operations on the coast of Mexico. Both
vends are masted, end are boiog rigged and stored with
the greatest possible despatch.

ileopatehim were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-Ake from the Governors et the West India Islands,
the North American Provisoes, &WA Columbia, and the
Lord High Conunissioaer of the Italian lehiade.

We read iu Ga!ignan :—" Mr. En Watk iu Edwards,
accompanied by hie Meads, Mr. Realms Aiseworth and
Mr. Lyster O'lleirse, arrived at Paris oa Paturtlay last in
his steam yacht Penelope, belonging to the Royal Victoria
Yacht Club. Hyde, laving successfully navigated the Seine.
This, we believe, is the first Engli.sh yacht that has ever been
mowed off the Tuileries, and is consequently au object of
great curiosity to the Parisians."

A letter from Naples, 24th tilt., has the follow-
lag :—" The British protestant chapel has undergone an
important improvement, inasmuch as the obligation of
paying for sittings has been abolished, and visitors am
contribute as they think proper tovranls the fund for main.
Mining public worship. Our new chaplain, the Rev. J.
Maitland, is an estimable man. His sermons are good and
' well received by the congregation." _ _

M. Pik th; French hlitorical painter, who ob-
tained the medal of hamar this tear for his painting of
"The Passage of the Alma," has recently arrived in Algiers,
being char,,,tl by the Ilinister of State to execute a large
painting repre.roting "The Reception of the Arab Clash
by the i.:el; error." daring their Majesties visit to Algeria,
and in order to represent the scene more aocurately, Y.
Yds has gone to make his sketches on the spot.