The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-24 00:00:00

Cbc Court.

OSBORNE, MAY 23.
The QUeell and Prince Consort, with the King of
**Peloses. walked cat in the grounds this morning.
'He Prism et Wake is smarted to arrive at Oeboree
beriay.

Viscosel Parmelee salved is Leedom yesterday treat
Itreeket•ltall. Herb.

Dark.he; moo ressived yoolwdy st tin Colcsiskillos
bon the Governor d tie Cape of Good Hops. Deopsteboo
wore osai is Yo GIMININC a/ Oromio, wad leas Gorman
of Oho aoldawailr al Os Wont Canal of Atoka.

Tad Qtr nt% Bidldhare—This day her Majesty
Queen Vire& esespielas her 42ad year, laving bra bone
at Earistea Paw" Nay Ilk 1411. Owing to her
WNlyi tem& hairvearat dr day will he hers privately
at Oars% sad the public esisbration will he this year
droned is the area west in July.
Their Royal nightmare the Duchess of Oaat-
bridse sad the Priasees Nary hosourod the pertonesaer
at the Royal Iran Opus with this presser het 'tea*.
Thar vs* biehismass orwried the Queen's box.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
Ilinioured Lard sad Lady Cleaver Peer with hi. wimpany
at dimmer on Wedarday evening, at their resideire at the
Admiralty. A molest party were invited to meet his royal
WWI I&
' The Duke of Argyll arrived at his residence on
Oarepden.hill, on Wednesday evening, from Soothed.
The Counters of Derby will have an assembly oa
the 19th June at her residers is Bt. Jamee's-egeare.
The Countess Dowager of Clare has left the
Queen's Rotel, 'Upper Norwood, for Ryden.
Lord Ashburton, as President of the Royal
Geographical Society. will give his second convenaniose on
the sth of June at Bath Rome.

Lord Dynevor gave a ball last evening at Ilex
mammon la Primer gardens.

The Right Hon. W. K Gladstone left Downing-
skeet Ims• tar itiatatire.

Mn. GladstZioe's Friday evening receptions are
unavoidably postpoesd for the present.
Mn. Clarke Tbornhill's ball will take place this
evening. at 14, Bateavoqmtra.

Mn William Paynter's concert takes place this
wonky, io Balgrera-agaare.
Mrs. Rolls' ball is fixed for the 21st of June.
Miss Burdett Coutts entertained a party at
Stratton•street yesterday main& at which Mr. Fighter
gave!' readiag fres Estaist.

- The handsome new &strict church of St. Anne,
Hanger-laps, SissiforidiM, beilt b the muninoent
libera-
lity of F. Newman, rag, Mai&Ai in the oeighbourhood, is
now jest lashed, and will be coossorsted in July. The
Pow. J. D. Letts, KA., domestic chaplain to the FA?, of
Forma, of Staunton Harold, Leioestershirs, Ism been ap-
pointed incumbent by the founder.

The government have at length disposed of the
'rows solicitorship, left vacant since the death of Sir
Matthew Barrington. Cork has been given to Mr. Gilman,
Limerick to Mr. Wiliam Roche, and Kerry with Clare to
Mr. A. Morphy, each solicitor having* salary of 900 f. a year,
out at which he will have to defray all summary expenses
The remarkable work of M. Choilln in attacked this
morning by Dr. Gray, of the British Museum, in two additional
hitters—own addressed to the Tina and the other to Oh.
MoruOut Adeerfriser. Is the course of the latter Dr. Ovsy
nays :—" I doubted M. Ds Cimino having been into or
reads the oollectioa In the interior of Equatorial Africa,
bemuse his collection centrals, species which have only been
found in different parts of the Wont Coast of Africa, and
which it is very unlikely should be eciogregeted together
in a eagle locality of limited extent ; for this is a fact en-
tirely opposed to our present knowledge of thegeographical
distribution of animal, ; and, further, because I do not
hod in his work any special journal, itinerary, or area
the magnetic bearbigs of his routes, which are universally
found in travels in a new country. There is also an entire
want of those descriptive particulars of the localities
visited, which at once characterise the olwerratione of an
missal scientific traveller, or even of an ordinary writer of
a previously unknown country. These double are con-
hind by the fact that is the three or four letters which I
have received from the Oubooo, during the last six or
maven years, I do not And the slightest notice of M. Du
Chaillu having been making any explorations, which, when
we consider the small aim of the European community
there, one would expect to have been an object of
interest.'

Tuesday heat was hotter than any day during the
year 1840, as the following record will show :—Mean tern.
pasture is elude, ail deg. ; greatest heat is shade, 791.
Is 1860 the mean temperature of the two warmest day, was
641 deg. as the Ilad of May, arid 631 deg. on the 15th of
July. ma greatest heat occurred as the same day last
year—vis, the 31st of May, sod the temperature reached
was the sense is both years, via., 791 deg. In former years
a much higher temperature has been reached, the greatest
beat in shade being for May, 1846, 811 deg. ; 1847, 841
1848, ; 18.13. 8211414. ; 1860, 811 deg. ; and 1668.
640 deg. la contrast to this, the greatest beat is May,
1842 and 1813, only reached 871 deg., and in 1815 oely
WV deg. Dunce the last fifty years the coldest May was
I. 1850 i, when the mean temperature was only 48'5 deg.,
the hottest May being 1848, when the mean temperature
evacied 600 dog.

The great cricket match between the Eleven of
ragleed and Twenty-two of Ireland termi•ated at Dab•
lie oe Wednesday le the triumph of the Saio•e, after •
spirited •ad well-ee•te■ted game.

Signor Chinni ix now in London for • short
time. Donne his stay he proposes to deliver two leetares
on the prestot state of affairs in Italy and the proepecta of
the future.