The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-27 00:00:00

Colonel C. H. Lindaay arrived u groom-in-waiting.

The Princess of Wales drove ont, attended by the
Countess of Morton.

Count Vitzthum left Frog pore on Tuesday.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the Bahamas and Gibraltar.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of Malta, the
Itauritins, Ceylon, Hong. Kong, Labium, the Straits,
Settlements, the Australian Colonies, the Cape of Good
Hope, Natal, and to the Governor-General of Canada.
A meeting of the Judicature Commission was held on
Tuesday hat. Present--Lord Cairns, Sir William Erie,
Sir J. P. Wilde, Sir W. P. Wood, Mr. Baron Bramwell,
Mr. Justice Blackburn, Mr. Justice Smith, the Attorney-
General, Sir Roundell Palmer, M.P., Mr. W. IL James,
Mr. Rothery, Mr. Ayrton, M.P., Mr. F. D. Lowndes, Mr.
Holism., and Mr. Bradshaw, the Secretary.

The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe have
arrived in Paris.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury
entertained at dinner on Tuesday, at their resident., in
Arlington-street, Piccadilly—Hie Ruelimey Count Lam-
dio, Count Vitztbum, Count Strzeleeki, the Earl of Hard-
wick., Viscount and Viaconnteas Enfield, Lord Claud
Hamilton, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Russell, Hon. Mr.
and Mrs. Hallyburton Campbell, Mr. A. Beresford, Mr. Y.
Eliot, &c.

The Earl and Countess Cowley are entertaining
the Dachau of Cleveland and a soled company ►t Drayeott
ll !war inlippetilnitu. . _

The Earl of Zetlan d does not intend to oome to
town for the season until after the Easter races.

His Grace the Duke of Richmond, the Presi-
dent of the Based of Trade, will receive a deputation of
spinners and manufacturers representing some twenty
towns in the cotton districts on the subject of the iatro-
duction of a bill into parliament respecting the collection
of cotton statistics, as soon as he has received the re-
plica to inquiries he has addressed to the various carry-
ing oempanies and others upon the subject.
Last night a crowded meeting wee held at St.
James's-hall for the purpose of hearing Ur. Newman
Hall re-deliver a lecture so the subject of the relations
between this country and America, which he addressed on
his recent visit to the United State, to the principal
members of Congress at Washington. Notwithstanding
that a considerable sum was charged for admission, the
great hall was crowded in every part. The proceeds of
the lecture were winnowed to be in aid of a fend now ,
being collected for the erection of a peoples' lecture-hall
and school-room in Southwark. Mr. John Bright, M.P.,
who, on entering the room, was loudly cheered, took
the chair at eight o'clock. Among the company present
on the platform were Mr. B. Baines, /LP., Mr. Hadfield,
M.P., Mr. Lawson, M.P., Viscount Amberiey, Mr.
W. R. Forster, M.P„ Mr. Baxter, MP, Mr. P. A. Taylor,
H.P. Mr. Staufeld, M.P., cad Mr. Gilpin, M.P.
Deplorable accounts continue to reach Paris of
the sufferings of the native inhabitants of Algeria, who
are dying by thousands from famine. Owing to two years
of unexampled drought, and an invasion of locusts un-
paralleled since the settlement of the French colony, the
harveirthse almost everywhere totally failed, and sufficient
forego tan by no means be procured for the maintenanee of
the mettle.

DESTRUCTION OF THE GRAND VIZIER'S PALACI
By Fizz.—The Lerma Herald give the subjoined dandle
of the burning of the Grand Vizier's palace:—" We regret
to announce the burning down of the fine kaiak of Asti
Pasha. The dams' appear to have already attained eon.
siderable volume within the building before the alarm
Wall given, as the entire wing in which the snidest
originated was soon after ablaze, beyond pewee
of salvation. Several ministers and high for
tionsries were speedily on the spot, with a whole ampy
tolerate*, • but the feeble engines of the latter, t
worked with unusual energy, were powerless to eheticouti
spread of the fire to the met of the maaalon, *deb. in
little we then an harm after the Ant outbreak, Wll4l Mpg.
wZd in flames. Thessiddenness with wide these
last e bed the what heading permithid the
salvage o only aharass
sial documents, at first reported destroyed.y All elm
in the building, including tbe pries , a raker
ble halselicm of antkpribm mai the whet the eel*
fernitur• fella prey to the no
lives were lest, and the bursedialli= attrinved
Mellor in the Iron& of Mead P. Oa lamb' at the
Minder, the Sultan inissedinney mpressed his intention
to indemnify the absent minister, sad the fbe, attar re-
ceived Ail isy—the ass of elb Mead Visism-end ea- I
flounced to him that 1.250010116 WINN be grenlid hem. I
his Majesty'. privy-purse to Wild sad furnish a new stone
mansion for his father."