The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-27 00:00:00

DISEMBARKATION OF HER MAJESTY

AND THE ROYAL FAMILY.

WOOLWICH, Suignvt.

A telegraphic communication was received at the
Dockyard at 8.40 this morning, informing Commodore
Superintendent Sir F. W. E Nicoloon that the royal steam
yacht and the Vivid, Admiralty steam vessel, having on
board her Majesty, the royal family and suite, had anchored
off Greenhithe, and that her Majesty would arrive at Wool-
wich about noon, and disembark at the dockyard. A party
of workmen were immediately employed to make the neces-
sary preparations for her Majesty's reception, and within
one hour the landing stage wee roofed over, the floor covered
with scarlet cloth, and a numerous body of the Dockyard
police under order' for duty along the Line of road from
Woolwich to Greenwich. After breakfasting on board the
royal yacht, her Majesty, with Prince Leopold, the Prin-
cesses Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice, attended by Lieuten►nt
General Grey, Lady Churchill, and Lady A. Bruce, em-
barked on board the Admiralty steam vessel Vivid, which
proceeded up the river, under the command of Captain
Seymour, and arrived off the dockyard about twelve
o'clock. Three carriages for the conveyance of the royal party
and four vans for the luggage, &c., had previously arrived
from Buckingham Palace ; and, as the Vivid neared the
landing stage, it was found that the water was too shallow
to admit of the disembarkation taking place without using
the royal barge, which bad been towed up from the Victoria
and Albert yacht to meet suck an emergency. The whole
of the heavy luggage was, however, removed from the
Vivid, and conveyed to the wharf in boats ; and the vessel,
thus lightened, was enabled to come close to the landiog
stage, when her Majesty, the royal family, and suite im-
mediately walked from the deck to the stage, and were met
by Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain, Commodore Super.
iatendent Sir F. W. E. Nicol/on, Colonel Maude, A.,
and Mr. Norton. Her Majesty, who was attired in mourn-
ing, sod looked well after her voyage, briefly conversed
with Lord Sydney and the Commodore, and the royal party
immediately entered the carriages. As the royal car-
riages entered the dockyard by the main gate, a
large number of perilous assembled in order, if possible,
to catch a glimpse of her Majesty as the cort.ige passed out ;
but in order to preserve the strictest privacy, as directed,
the carriages left by the factory gate, thus avoiding the
crowd.

Just as the Vivid ►rrived with her Majesty a telegraphic
message was received by Commodore Nicolson to the effect
that the Admiralty steam vessel Black Eagle, Master-com-
manding Whinier, having embarked his Royal Highness
Prince Arthur, left Ostend on Saturday morning and an-
chored in the Downs during the night, and that his Royal
Highness would arrive at Woolwich and disembark at the
Animal Pier this afternoon. The Black Eagle arrived at
the pier at 2.15, and his Royal Highness having disembarked
was received by Commodore Nicolson awl other officers, and
left immediately by the North Kent Railway. The Black
Eagle had a boisterous passage, and from the severity of the
gale her windlass was carried away and other damage sus-
Vtined. The royal steam yacht left Greenhithe at 3 o'clock
for Sheerness, to coal, and will then proceed to Portsmouth.

His Royal Highness the General Command my-i n-
Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Friday, the 31st inid

A meeting took place at the Southampton Audit-
house last week, at which it was resolved to celebrate the
coming of age of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales by
a public ball, to which the Worshipful the Mayor and the
Mayoress will be specially invited, as • mark of the high
admiration his fellow townsmen entertain of his public
spirit, and the dignified manner in which he presided over
the inauguration of the Hartley Institution. It was further
resolved, "That the surplus remaining from the proceeds
be applied to the Lancashire Relief Fund."
The Lord Advocate has consented, in the name of
the subscribers. to present the bust of bin Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales to the High School at Edinburgh, at
the ceremony which is to take place on the ltbli proximo.
The Marquis of Twecddale, Sir William Johnston, Mr.
Adam Black, M.P., and other gentlemen are to take part in
the proceedings.
. . .

Their Imperial Highnesses Prince Napoleon and
Princess Clot;lde, attended by the Countess de Clermont
Tonnerre and Colonel Ferri-Pisani, have arrived at the Cis-
Tendon Hotel from Lisbon.

The Earl and Countega Stanhope have arrived at
the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone.

Frances Countess of Albemarle and Colonel the
Hon. Peregrine Cast have arrived at the Pavilion Hotel,
Folkestone, from the Continent.

Lord and Lady Headley and family have arrived
in Brighton for the winter.
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On Saturday last Lord Lyons left Liverpool in
the mail steamship Scotia, to route for Washington, where
he will resume his duties as British Minister. His excel-
lency, who appeared in much better health than when he
landed at Liverpool some months ago from America, was
accompanir dby his private secretary, Mr. Mullett. Among
Lord Lyons's fellow•parengers is Mr. S. Cameron, formerly
Federal Secretary for War.

The Bishop of Oxford, who is at present on a
wait to Mr. Nisbet Hiunilton, at A rcher6eld, East Lothian,
preached on Sunday week in St. John's Episcopal Church,
Edinburgh. In the afternoon be attend- d Dinh), service
in St. John's Free Church, to bear the Rev. Dr. Guthrie—
the first time, perhaps, that a Scottish free church has re-
ceived the visit of an Anglican bishop. On Thu-sday his
lordship officiated, by commission from the Bishop of Edin-
burgh, at the consecration of the church at St. Baldred's at
North Berwick.

Lord de Grey (a member of the government) and
Mr. Collier, M.P., have just spoken on the American ques-
tion. The Under-Secretary for War was as cautious as
his chief, Sir C. C. Lewis. He defended the course
which the government had hitherto pursued, and
oonteoded that our duty was still to preserve an
attitude of strict neutrality. Mr. CAlier treated
the question of recognition from the lawyer's
point of view. He put aside the merits of the quarrel,
and submitted that " when the South should have shown
that they were in fact an independent nation, that they
were able to govern themselves, able to protect their ter-
ritory from aggression, and that they were able to do so,
not temporarily, but permanently—then it would become
the duty of this country, on the principle of international
law, to recognise them as one of the community of nations."
At the present moment, he thought recognition would be
premature ; but "if the current of events took the course
which seemed to him most probable, it might be their duty
to recognise them at no distant period."
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A deputation from the Manchester Cotton Com-
pany (Limited), consisting of Mr. Hugh Mama, chairman.
Mr. Mosley, and Mr. Haywood, secretary, introduced by
Mr. Barley, M.P., had an interview on Saturday with Sir
Charles Wood on the subject of a pier at the hay of Beitkul
and the roads loading thence to the cotton fields of llharwsn•
The Goldsmiths' Company have followed the
course which they took in 1851, and have voted a sum of
money foe the purchase of some of the finest works in the
precious metals shown in the Exhibition. The works to be
purchased most be of British design and manufacture. A
committee has been appointed to select from the works
exhibitcd.

The lientenent-colonel of the 6th Dragoon
Guards writes to state that Mr. Rogers's appointment so
cornet in the sth Dragoon Guards is to be cancelled, in con-
sequence of the transactions iu which he was mixed up, as
appeared in some of the police report' of Friday.