The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-05 00:00:00

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES

IN ISDINBURGH.

On Friday evening their Royal Highnesses dined
with the Lord Provost, at his residence in George-square.
The preparations made by his lordship for the reception of
his royal guests were on a scale of great magnitude and mag-
nificence. The nurseries at Inverleith-row were liberally
laid under contribution to supply choioe evergreens, flowers
and hot•bouse plants for the embellishment of the various
apartments. Printers and decorators took possession of
the establishment, and lavished their ingenuity in
novel sod effective designs. Mirrors were em-
ployed without limitation to magnify and repoi-
duce the splendours of the rooms, and illuminated
stained-glass windows were introduced to heighten the effect
of the decorations. The dining-room on the ground floor
was most magnificently fitted up. One of the windows over.
looking the meadows was taken out, and an arbour of beau-
tiful plants was formed outside which stretched into a vista,
the end of which seemed an immeasurable distance away.
Long waving palm branches were ingeniously arranged so as
to produce a most striking effect ; rare tropical plants of the
most luxurious foliage, intertwined with delicate-tinted
flowers, were disposed in the roost artistic fashion ; mirrors
were placed so as to reproduce the flowers and the
plants, and magnify the vista till the eye lost
itself in a dim maze of foliage, and the effects of
the whole were heightened and magnified by a blaze
of light. Towards the upper end of the room, a combina-
tion of heather and flowers was wrought into an ingenious
device, in the centre of which was placed a small fountain
of clear water. The furnishings of the dinner table were
of the most sumptuous and costly description, and the
general arrangement of the room was most elegant. On
the decorations of the drawing-room neither labour nor
money was spared, and the effect was strikingly magnificent.
Adjoining the drawing-room was a boudoir for the Princess,
which was most tastefully deigned. The roof was con-
waled by a white lace canopy of fine wavy outline, and the
walla were covered with white muslin. The furnishings

wen extremely elegant, and the whole of the interior fit-
tings realised the idea of a magnificent Oriental tent.
The Prince and Prince. left Stanley's Hotel about twenty
minutes part seven, and drove in • covered carriage to

George-square. The announcement that their Royal
Highs...es were to dine at the residence of
the Lord Provost had the effect of drawing together
• very large crowd in the square, who cheated the royal
couple loudly as they alighted. Their Royal Highness.
were received at the entrance of the mansion by the Lord
Provost and Mrs. Graham Lawson. Dinner was served
precisely at half-put seven, and on the company membling
the Lord Provost had the honour of conducting the Princes
to the dining-room, and hie Royal Highness the Prince
conducted Mn. Graham Lawson. The band of the 3rd
Hunan was stationed in • temporary apartment adjoining
the dnwing-mom, and played selections of music during
dinner.

The Lad Provostalso gave an eveuiag party at half Tut

nine. The Prince and Prinoces remained for about an hour
in the drawing-room, and listened with much apparent
pleasure to several pieces of music played on the pianoforte
by some of the ladies present. Their Royal Ifighneasee de-
parted about eleven o'clock, sod the company left shortly
afterwards.

LORD LYNDHURST.

The announcement of the indisposition of Lord
Lyndhurst occasioned numerous inquiries on Saturday
and yesterday at his lordship's house in Georgeatreet,
Hanover-square. We learn that since Friday the noble
and learned lord has been suffering from a low fever,
attended with the consequent weakness, and it is feared,
owing to his great age (92), that, should the fever
take a favourable turn, the venerable invalid will be
too weak to rally. Yesterday rooming the following
bulletin was issued by his lordship's medical attendant,
Dr. Thomas Hawksley :—" Lord Lyndhurst has been
dangerously ill since Friday, and to-day there is no im.
movement." A later bulletin, issued for the in-
fomatiou of his lordship's numerous friends, stated
that " his condition this evening is more favourable." The
Duke of Wellington sent yesterday to inquire after the
health of his lordship; and among the personal calls were
his Ezosilency Mr. Adams, the United States minister;
the Ifarchioosse of Ely, the Corustess (Dow.) of Tanker-
ville, the Earl of Settee, Mr. Panizzi, Lord Henry Gordon
Lennox, Hoo. Colonel and Lady Margaret Charteris, Lord
and Lady Colchester, Lady Sophia des Vona, and many
others. His three daughters—the Hon. Mrs. H. J. &dein,
the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton Beckett, and the Hoc. Mrs. Do
Cane—were summoned to town as Friday, sad have shim
reached the metropoli►.

The Court Circular states that orders were sent
to Windsor Castle to have all the room morally occupied
by ber Itajesty and the royal family in readiness by the
17th inst. On Wednesday Wit the Queen caused to be
presented to the Windsor Dispensau portraits of herself
sad the Prince Consort, admirably lithographed by Vinter,
from the lut paintings her Majesty and the Prince Consort
ant for to Winterbalter.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Prisons Mary, attended by Lady Geraldioe
Somemet and Carmel Home Parses, leave the duchess's
chateau at Rumpenheim. near Fraaktoi 1, either on Wed-
nesday or Thursday next, for their madame at St. James's
Palace on their way to Sew.
The Earl and Countess Russell and the ladies
Russell inteod to leave Mint* House, near Hawick, Rox-
burghsbire, where they bare been visiting the Earl and
Countess otMiato, for Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park.

Major the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Theeiger have
WI Paris, en route to India.

The marriage of the Hon. Mr. Herbert, brother
et the Earl of Pow's, with lies Sykes, daughter of Sir
Tattoo Sykes, is axed to take place oe the 15th inst.

Sir Aleunder Cockburn left town a few days
sines, on a visit to the Duke and Dunham of Wellington,
at Brighton.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricartle will
leave filtmttoe-dreet tomorrow for their seat, Portumna
Comae, °Away.
The Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P.,
is expected to arrive is town on Wednesday or Thursday
Lent from Dieppe.

Lord Brougham will leave Brougham Hall to-
morrow for Edinburgh, to preside at the annual rosining
of the Social Science Congress. The noble wad learned lord
will he the mat of the Lord Provost during his sojourn in
that city.

It is announced that M. Fonld's letter to the
Emperor, conteinion a full expoeition of the financial pad-
lieu of the Preach empire, is to be published in the Moni.
tear early thin week.

One of the most extraordinary phenomena of our
time is the continued drain of the Irish population by emi-
gration. Daring the seven months of this year, ending
July 31, the number of people that emigrated from Ire.
land is 80,508, against 45,899 during the lame period laid
year, showing an iocresie of 34,807. The total comber of
persons who emigrated from Ireland niece March, 1851, is
even in there return' as 1,378,333.

His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
left the Viceregal Lodge on Saturday morning, for Gar.
pally, the Hosideses of the Earl of Claanarty, where he will
be • Mellor devils' the Mr.

The Arebbiel;op of Dublin still lingers on, nearly
in the same state, suffering less pain io his leg, but beeoai-
iog daily weaker.