The Press.
London, England, 1855-12-22 00:00:00

tout an lastion.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Prince
Albert and the Royal Family, left Osborne yesterday
morning, and arrived in safety at Windsor.
Prince Ernest of Leiningen, visited her Majesty
at Osborne, on Wecfnesday, on his return from the
Baltic.

Her Majesty has commissioned Mr. Ward, RA.,
to paint a cartoon, representing the Installation of
the King of Sardinia as Knight of the Garter.

The Duke of Richmond has left Brighton for Good-
wood, where his grace will pass the Christmas holi-
days with hi. family. East Lodge, the Brighton
residence of Colonel Wyndham, of Petworth, will be
occupied by the Duke of Richmond and family on
their return to Brighton, early in January.
The Earl of Westmorland has left town for Ape-
thorpe, Northamptonshire.
Lady Margaret de Burgh is about to be married
to Mr. Wentworth Beaumont, M.P.

Viscount Palmerston entertained the Turkish,
Austrian, and Sardinian Ministers at dinner, on
Wednesday. The noble lord leaves town this day for
Broad] an ds.

The Marquis of Lansdowne has arrived in town,
from a visit to Lord Ashburton, at the Grange.

The Earl and Countess of Hardwieke, and the
Ladies Yorke, have arrived at Deane-peak, on a visit
to the Earl of Cardigan.

01i I I al.

OPINIONS ON THE WAR.

THE Dux OF RICHMOND, at the inauguration
banquet of the Mayor of Brighton, on Monday, in
returning thanks for the army, alluded briefly to the
many gallant services of the English army, but in
particular called attention to the conduct of the men
on board the Birkenhead, at the time of her loss,
where, after putting the women and children into
the boatq, the whole detachment on board sank
with the ship. ".Such conduct," continued his grace,
" shows—

that the British army cannot be beaten, because as long
as you have a disciplined body of men, and having the
esprit de eeePe, you may depend upon it that your officers
and your soldiers will he brave, cool, and collected, and
preserve their presence of mind, which, after all, is the
essence of true bravery—that as long as you have an army
in that condition, they will undergo without the slightest
hesitation dangers which would appal men of weaker
nerves. (Loud applause.) It was an army of such
heroes—for heroes they are—that carried the heights of
Alma, fought at Inkermaun and Balaklava, and showed
themselves worthy of defending those colours which they
carried under the great Duke of Wellington. (Loud and
continued applause.)
LORD ALFRED HERVEY, on the same evening, with
reference to peace, observed that we went to war
for the object of destroying the preponderance of
Russia in the Black Sea, and of securing the inde
pendePce of Turkey, and that until we could attain
those objects he believed the war ought to be car-
ried on with " the utmost energy and the utmost
vigour," though he thought, if we could now obtain
satisfactory and lasting terms of peace consistent with
the objects of the war, the nation would rejoice at the
termination of hostilities.

MR. CRAUFORD, M.P. for the Ayr Burghs, in an
address to his constituents on Monday last, reviewed
the proceedings of the session, and, with reference
to peace, stated that, although he would not carry on
the war one moment longer than was necessary, he
did not conceive we should arrive at a satisfactory
peace through the interference of so treacherous an
ally as Austria. He believed that the Czor was de-
termined tc carry on the war, and until material
guarantees were offered by Russia he (Mr. Crauford)
would propose to fight it out to the last.
CAPTAIN BOLDERO, at the Chippenham Agricultural
Association, approved of continuing the war until
just and fair terms of peace were offered by Russia,
but be condemned the manner in which it was car-
ried on by England. The Government was divided
in its councils this year by mismanagement—we
had scarcely supplied the casualties of war in our
army—and for the next, he doubted much if we
could raise 30,000 additional men ; the Government
should call out the local militia, and make the
militia of the day fill up the vanancies.

Mn. KENDAIL, M.P., at the Callington Agricul-
tural Association last week, assured his hearers that
be would not be a party to peace at present, as he
believed it would be no guarantee of the peace of
Europe. He was for a vigorous prosecution of the
war until Russia would accept terms which should
secure the peace of Europe. In the course of his
remarks, Mr. Kendall observed that he thought Mr.
Gladstone was a very dishonest or a very theoretical
man, that be regarded Mr. Disraeli with suspicion,
that lie feared, "from the statements of Tun
VaEss, Lordi,,Stanley's paper," that a strong party of