The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-11 00:00:00

Cbt Court.

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OABORNE, JAN. 10.
The Queen walked out this morning in the
grounds.

- The Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred,
and the Gentlemen in Waiting, skated yesterday afternoon.
Despatches were received ) cvtenlay from the Lord High
Commissioner of the lonian Islands, at the Colonial-office.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of Ciimida, Hong-
Mang, Istbnan, Ceylon, and Malta.

The Earl and Counteas of Westmoreland enter-
tained a select circle at dinner last evening at their re4i-
denoe in South Audley-street.

Dammam Meyer de Rotbnchild will give a ball
at Mentinore on the 31st inst.

Lady Theresa Lewis and Mimi Lister hare re-
turned to the Grove, Watford ; Sir George C. Lewis re•
me•iiss in town. •

Miss Coutta entertained at dinner last tveniug
Lord and Lady Wensleydale, the Bishop of London and
Mrs. Tisi, Archdeacon Sinclair, Rev. J. Barlow and Mrs.
Barlow, Mr. and Mrs. Jennings, Captain Gordon, Mr. and
Mrs. Margate, Captain and Mrs. Cumming, Mr. and Mrs.
ar. After dinner Miss Coutta had a small evening
party.

The marriage of Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C., to Lady
Victoria Howard, the eldest daughter of the late Duke of
Norfolk, was solemnised in the catholic chapel of Arundel,
on Monday last. Long before the hoar appointed for the
eseemony the chapel, which is a small building, was filled
with spectators. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Father Faber, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Butt, in the form
peculiar to the Roman catholic church. There was nothing
particular to note in the appearance of the building, further
than that the altar was decorated with ten vases of beauti-
ful flowers. Everything was conducted in the must quiet
sad unostentatious manner. The youthful bride was led to
the altar by the Rev. Canon Tierney, and was simply attired
in a white glace silk, with a Brussels lace veil ; but without
• wreath ar ornament of any description. There were six
brichamsida, hang the five sisters of the bride, Lady Minna
Charlotte, Lady Mary Adeliaa, Lady Etheldreda, Lady
Philips, and lady Ana Howard, with the youthful daugh-
ter et Mr Hope Beat. They were dressed in pale blue
glace silk drams, with white cashmere mantles, and white
chip bonnet, plainly trimmed with white ribbons. There
were present also youthful Duke of Norfolk and Lord
Edmund Howard, the younger son of the late Duke of Nor-
folk. The Duchess of Norfolk also witnessed the ceremony.
The bride and bridegroom left in the afternoon for Norfolk
1101210.1 t /I mite for Abbotsford, the estate of Mr. Hope
Anna.

We regret to announce that Lord Vivian met
with a torero iscsident whilst hunting on Saturday last,
one* a disloostion of the shoulder. His lordship is, how-
MC. doing well.

The Rev. .Join Rich, M.A., haR been iustituted
by the Lord Bishop a Gloucester and Bristol to the vicar-
age of Chippenhani, Wilts, vacant by the death of ►he
Rev. Levi■ Purbrick. Patrons, the Dean sod Chapter of
Christ Church, Oxford.

The Rev. Win. Dyke, 8.D., has been instituted
by the Lord Bis Lop of Gloucester and Bristol to the rectory
of Bagendon, near l'irencester, meant by the death of the
Bev. Thomas Price. Patrons, Jesus College, Oxford.
On Tucaday List the Rev. Augustus William
Noel, M.A., was instituted to the rectory of Stanhoe, in
Norfolk, on tho preseoLition of Hiss Sophia Harzuret
Host., of Barwick House, in the Name county.

By the liberality of a Manchester gentleman,
Mr. T. B. Potter, of Belie-lull, the Peel Park
Museum at Salford is now, we believe, to be en-
riched with • fair bust of Cromwell, the original
east of which, haying just seen it in Mr. Noble's
studio, Brutne-street, we are glad to be able to approve.
It is moulded of the size of life. There is the expresaion of
life in its countenance. and what we seldom get from sculp-
ture, a glaom of life in the eyes. It may occur to some
vintois when they first look at the robust features of this
face, that, massive mid strong as they are, they do yet weer
• certain aspect of frank, jolly grace and manly tenderness,
which comports not with the vulgar conception of a turbu•
lent and sturdy " barbarian," as Oliver Cromwell has been
termed in the euphonious style of Mr. David Hume. But
recollecting the juster impressions of his character which
Mr. Carlyle and recent biographers (Mr. Langton Sanford,
the Isi.t awl one cf the best) have aided us
to form that objection vanishes, which might per-
haps unconsciously arise from some lingering shade
met upon him in our imagination by the Epicurean Tory's
aimless epithet. of slanders.

A change of considerable importance to the pro-
fession of attorneys and solicitor, in Ireland has recently
been lElfle with respect to the admission of apprentices.
Hitherto no qualification was required beyond the psyment
of stipulated fees, hut, in compliance with the recommen-
dation of the Society of .tttorucys and Solicitors, the
I...Ascher' resolved upon subjecting the candidates to strict
testa of their ~reneral knowledge, and • regular examination
of a comprehensive and severe character has bees instituted.

In the list of railway bills for next session are
the foUowing from the north of Ireland :—Banhridp Ex-
tension, Enniskillen and Bondonin, b ie.lerry ant
Lough Swilly, Dovropatrick and Xewr,.; unction, Duli:in
and Antrim Jtmction, Portadowt, Dungannon, and Omagh
Junction.