The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-11 00:00:00

THE ROYAL VICTORIA PATRIOTIC ASYLUM.

(IRIS DAY.)

ller 'Majesty will lay the first stone of this new
Asylum for orphan daughters of Soldiers, Seamen, and Ma-
rines, at five o'clock thin afternoon, on the site chosen for
the balding, Wandsworth-common, near the Clapham
station. 100 orphan boya (50 from the Duke of York's
School and 50 from Greenwich School), and 100 orphan girla
(50 from the Sailors' Orphan Girls' School and 50 from the
Soldiers Infant Home), will be placed vs :thin the enclosed
space. The royal commissioners and the executive and
finance committee will ensemble at the Royal P►vilion in
levee dress, to receive the Quoen at five o'clock. Her
Majesty's arrival will be ertiounced by • royal e-
late from • lottery of artillery. It will be • most
interesting ceremony, a., in addition to the mem-
bere of the Royal Family, all the great Officers of State will
br present, and the Archbishop of Canterbury will offer up a
blessing for the Institution. A Guard of Honor.- of the
Scots Fusiliers will receive the Queen, also a battery of
the Royal Artillery. The hands of the Foot Guards and
the Woolwich division of the Royal Marines will be present.
A temporary road has been constructed, along which the
royal cortege will proceed to the g.-end reception pavilion,
erected by B. Edglngton. From thence along • covered
platform, her Majesty, mite, and officials, s'l par to the
stone. A large amphitheatre, to seat 2,000 perms, has been
erected by Mr. Alderman Cubist, commanding a view of the
scene, and as the weather is highly favoe-able,the ceremony
will be witnessed by thousands.

lier Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied
by tho Princess Royal, Prince Frederick William of Prussia,
and the younger members, keys Buckingham Palace on the
16th or 18th Jost., for Osborne, to peas a few weeks at her
Majesty's marine residence. It is not expected that the
Queen and court will return to town until after the contem-
plated visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French.

Her Majesty hna granted to Lieut. R. C. Mayne,
R.N., permission to weer the natal' of the Order of the
Legion of Honour —Omits.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Primer Mary leers Cambridge Cottage at
the close of the month for a tour in Switzerland, after which
the royal duchess goes to Rumpenhenn, near Frankfort, to
pass the autumn.

His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen left
Clarence House, IR. larvae's, yesterday, for Portsmouth.
His Excellency the Austrian Minister and the
Countess d'Apponyi are to be hammered by the company of
their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the
Princess Mary at Chandos House this evmeng.

Lady Moiesworth entertained at dinner, yester-
day, his Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess
Bornstorff, the Marquis and Marchioness of Brea&lbane,
the Marquis of Sligo, the Marquis end Marchioness of
elanricarde, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, the Earl
and Countess of Fife, the Dowager Countess of Marley, the
Viscountess Combermere, Mr. Beaumont, M.P., and Lady
Margaret Beaumont, Lord John Hay, M.P., Mr. and Mrs.
Dudley Marjoribanks, the Hon. Waller Harbord, Viscount
Cholla', and Viscount Csatlereese, M.P.

The Baron and Baroness de Keverberg have
arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, 'amp-street, from the
Netherlands.

The Count and Counter de Cutenano have
arrived at the Clarendon, from Part.

We (Western nmes) hear that a marriage is on
the trtpia between Miss Mary Laura Talbot, of Rhode Hill,
in this county, and Mr. Lewin Bentham Bowring, third eon
of Sir John Bowring. The parties are both Roman ratio,-
lick Mr. Bowring is a member of the Civil Service of India
—who has highly distinguished himself se a scholar, having
gained hie appointment se the reward of hie proficiency at
Haileybury College.

The Doke of Manchester has unrestrictedly placed
at the disposal of Mr. Cunningham the whole of the original
autograph letters adhered by Horace Walpole to hie Eton
schoolfellow and nearly lib-long friend, George Montagu.
" To no one of hie many emesnowdents (sheens' the Illus-
trated London lines) did Walpels write wee unreerevedly
than to Montego. When the Were were fast printed many
peseeiee, of ewe% were propely animmened, as affecting
Bring penom. An Miami el forty pee. he removed this
neeeeelty, end the suppmemel poses to the new edifice now
in the press will, of COM% imperr—aod the balk of them
(luckily) in their proper Sam"

A meeting of the members of the Army and
Navy Club has been called for the 27th instant, to take Into
consideration a communication from his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, the patron of the institution. It ap-
pears, Nays the Untied &retie. Gaseits, that bis Royal High.
nese has become aware that gambling has been for some
time carried on in the Club to a fearful extent.

The eldest son of Schiller died on the 20th of
tune, at Stwiterd ;he Isms one q en officer in the Aus-
trian service, the only immediate deeomdeat of the post
bearing his name.