The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRES WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1863.

trbe Court.

oESHORNE, JOLT 14.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princeee Loiningen,
drove out yesterday in scarring° and four.
Viscountess Jocelyn and Colonel the Honourable A.
flardinge were in attendance.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Mar-
chioneu of Carmarthen, Lieutenant-General Ku*llys, and
Captain Grey, left Marlborough-house, at balf•put 9 o'clock
yesterday morning for the private station at Vauxhall, and
prooecded by special train for Aldenhott.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge,
attended by the Countess of Mecclesfield, joined the Prince
and Princess at the station, and accompanied their royal
highnesses to Aldenhutt.

A deputation from the Society of Chairmen of Quarter
Sessions, consisting of the Earl of Pelvis, the Marquis of
Salisbury, the Hon. Fred. Villiers, Sir Baldwin Leighton.
Rat., ILP., Sir Brook Brydges. Bart., M.P., Mr. Scourfield,
M.P., and Mr. Henry Philip Markham, Clerk of the Peace
for Northamptonshire, had an interview with Sir George
Grey, yesterday, at the Home-office, to represent certain
points in the Hiahway Act which require amendment.
A meeting of the Royal Commissionen of the Patriotic
Fund took place yesterday at the Palace of Westminster.
Present, the Duke of Newcastle, K.G., chairman; Earl
Nelson, Lord Rokeby, Lord St Leonardo, Lord Lyveden,
the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Sir Jobn Pakington, Sir
John Burgoyne, Sir Morton Peto, Mr. Thomas Baring.
Colonel Wilson Patten, and Mr. J. G. Hubbard.
Captain Fiehbourn, R.N., and Colonel Lefroy, R.A., the
honorary secretaries, attended.
A joint deputation from Leeds and Sheffield in support f
an application to her Majesty's government for the grant
of separate assizes for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and
for the appointment of Leeds and Sheffield as maize towns,
had an interview with Lord Palmerston yesterday. 'The
deputation had also an interview with Sir George Grey at
the Home Office, yesterday, on the same subject.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES AT
ALDERSHOTT.

The grand day of the season at Alderebott was
yesterday, when the Prince and Princess of Walee, accom-
panied by the Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Mary,
were present at • review of about 12,000 men of all arms,
under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir J. L. Penne-
father, K.C.B. The Prince of Wales, who wore his uni-
form as colonel of the 10th Hussars, took leave of his royal
consort after the march past, and mounting his charger,
rode away with General Pennefather to witness the evolu-
tions of the troops, with whom he remained during the entire
day. The Princess of Wales and the Princess Mary left their
carriage and took shelter from the scorching rays of the son
under • friendly hank, where, jealously guarded by a party
of the garrison military police, and wader the charge of the
Duke of Cambridge, they witnessed the opening of the
mimic battle. As the tide of war rolled away from the
position they occupied their royal highnesses proceeded to
the round reservoir, and, ascending the slopes leading to
the basin, they enjoyed the view from this spot, and could
not have failed to be highly delighted with the magnificent
spectacle before them. The Princess of Wales was con-
ducted by the Duke of Cambridge, who repeatedly pointed
out to bar royal highness the progress made by the troops
in repelling their imaginary foe. In about a quarter of an
hour it was necessary to take up another position, and to
do this the slope was to be descended. There was • short
hurried consultation on the edge of the bank, which the
Princess settled by at last running down it. It was a very
steep slope, and slippery as glass, but when once (says the
Times) her royal highness bed begun to descend it, there was
no resource but to go on, and in little quick steps,
which showed she knew her risk and was quite equal to
it, she kept her feet and went down it like an arrow. The
Duke of Cambridge dares do all that ere became a man,
and he dared this descent after the Princess too, but it is no
discredit to one of his inches to say that he accomplished
the task with much more difficulty and far less grace than
the young Princess whu had set him the example. Of
course, after this, etiquette expected the rest to follow, and
the Prince stood on the edge of the slope, and sought to
induce the Prinoesa Mary, who at once declined. His royal
highness was in • manner more successful with the Mar-
chioness of Carmarthen and the Countess of Macclesfield,
whom he persuaded to come to the edge of the bank
twice, but no further. The more they looked at the da-
unt the less they seemed to like it, and at length, with
laughter, they too reined, and the Prince, like •
max chevalier, accompanied them back to where the step.
affords d them a tolerable certainty of alighting on their
feet In the meantime the Princess bad gathered up her
dress, and was hurrying across the furze and heather to
another bill at • fast pace—too fist, indeed, to last, for the
heat was fearful, and the sultry air came op from the plain
like the blasts of • young siniocen. With the Duke of
Cambridge, however, she traversed a wide space of thick
stunted gorse until the hill she wished to gain rose steep
before her, and then a halt was called and the carriages
were waited for. In these the party gained the hill com-
manding the Long Valley, " happy once—now stormy,"
along which there was such an upheaving of dust and roar
of gins and rifles as baffled all military penetration to know
what was going on within it.
At 3 o'clock, almost as suddenly as the fight began, it
ceased, when close on camp, and the Prince and Primus,
with the duke and the Princess Mary, proceeded to head-
quarters—to the house of Sir John Pennefsther. Here
Lady Penneather had the honour of entertaining the whole
party at lunch, and at 4 o'clock the Prince and Prioress
drove through the camp, aid returned to Frogmore, after
one of the most brilliant field-days which Aldershott has
seen for two years pad.
Mr. Coxwell's email balloon was inflated, and kept in
mid air during the whole day, in order to allow of sketches
being taken by two officers from this elevated position,
and also to test the real advantage to be derived from
serestatic aid on the battlefield, _

Unfortunately we are obliged to close this account by
at .tiog that some casualties occurred daring the day, and
that an unfortunate sergeant, named Casey, of the 87th
Regiment, fell dead while advancing with his regiment in
the morning to take up their allotted ground.

We understand that it is the intention of her
Majesty the Queen to go abroad for a short time
early in August. Her Majesty will travel incog.
under the title of Dimbess of Lancaster, as upon
the last occasion, and will maintain the strictest
p-ivacy. Her Majesty, after paying a visit of a
day to the King of the Belgians, will proceed direct
to the Castle of Rosenau, near Coburg, the birth-
place of the l'rince Consort, which the Duke of
Coburg has kindly placed at her Majesty's disposal.
The Queen's stay abroad will probably not exceed
four weeks.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has
graciously become a patron of the City of London Hospital
for Diseases of the Chest, Victoria•park, and has forwarded
• donation to she funds of this valuable institution.

The Countess de Grey gave a dance last night al
ber bonne in Carlton Gardens.

His Excellency Marshal the Duke de Saldanba
and family bate arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Paris.

ViacoUntess Palmerston has issued cards for
assemblies on Saturday nest, and on Saturday, the 25th
instant.

On Monday Lord Stratheden will cal the atten-
tion of the Home of Lords to the recent declaration
of the French government, through the Monittur, that they
are ready to acknowledge the Southern Confederacy when
Great Britain does so.

Mr. Harvey Lewis will ask the Attorney-General
to-morrow, whether the attention of the Lord Chancellor
has been called to the case of the " Countess Della Seta o.
Lord Vernon," beard before Vice. Chancellor Sir Jobs
Stuart, and to the language and demeanour of the Vice-
Chancellor to the counsel and others concerned in the case ;
and, if so, whether his lordship intends to take any steps to
prevent a repetition of similar promedinp.

At the annual exhibition of the hie of Wight
Agricultural `Society, on the 22nd hut., there are to be
prime given to the best bhitioneiths. The shoes and sidle
are to be made and the hones &hod et the place of exhibi-
tion'.

PROPORRD AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL Ex-
HTBITION ru Paws, ry 1867. —The Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council for Trade have received from the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs a cony of a French Imperial
decree, providing that an Universal Exhibition of Agricul-
tural sod lednstrial productions shall take place at Paris is
1867, in the Palace of Inelmtry, Carri de lfariguy. The
Exhibition will be opened on the lit May of that year, and
will be dosed on the 30th September following. The pro-
ductions of all nations will be admitted. A further decree
will determine the conditions to be observed, end the regu-
Latious to Fe adopted, and the nature of the various articles
which will be admitted for ashibition.—(wile.