The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-13 00:00:00

Ilbt Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 12.
Her Majesty drove out yesterday afternoon.

The Prince of Wales, attended by General Knollys and
Captain Grey, went to London this morning, and visited
Marlbnrough•bouse.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at Ted.
worth-house, Marlborough, on Thursday, on a visit to Lord
Broughton.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colooid-office
from the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, and the Mauritius.

THE PHINCDIS ALlca'a PHYSICIAN:3.—We learn
that Dr. Arthur Furs is appointed, in conjunction with Sir
C. Loomis, to attend the Princess Alice in her confinement,
which is expected to take place at Windsor next ApriL
Dr. Arthur Faro's appointment will be stamped by the
profession with universal approbation. He has earned his
reputation by study, hard work as a lecturer and clinical
teacher, and by an immense experience amongst the patients
of his hoepital.—Medical Times.
On the 16th inst. the Crown Prince and Princeas
of Prussia will visit Vienna, where they will be received
with considerable pump and ceremony. There will be a
ifitdtre purl in their honour, a military review, and a grand
dinner in the Imperial Palace at Sehiinbruno.
The Duke of Newcastle has left Thomas's Hotel,
Berkeley-square, for Clumber Park, Worksop.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Northampton
have arrived at Nioe, mid propose to reside there during the
winter. The health of the marquis has improved during
him sojourn in the south of France.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath hare
arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkelspequare, from Long-
hate.

The Earl and Countess of Derby have been
honoured by the pretence of His Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge during the week at Knowsley. A select circle,
including the Duke of Rutland, the Duke and Dueller of
Manchester, the Earl and Lady Coostanos Grosvenor, the
Earl of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyneux, Lord Stanley,
Colonel the Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot, Colonel
the Hon. James Macdonald, Sc., have been present to meet
his royal highness. The Duke of Cambridge, the Earl of
Derby, the Duke of Rutland, and most of the gentlemen
have been daily out shooting, and have bad capital sport.
The party will separate to-day.

The Earl and Countess de (hey intend to leave
Putney Heath on Monday next for Nocton Park, Lincoln-
shire, for the purpose of being prompt at the consecration
of the new church erected by the Countess (Dowager) of
Ripoc to the memory of her husband, the late earl, which
is appointed to take place on Tuesday next. The church
has been built from the designs of Mr. Gilbert Scott, and
is destined to contain a handsome monument to the late
earl by Mr. Noble.
Earl Manvers has left Long's Hotel.

The Earl of Shrewsbury and the Ladies Talbot
have returned to Werke Hall, Staffordshire, from visiting
the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury at Hatfield
House. Herts.

The Archbishop of Canterbury will probably
preach for the BM time in the Cathedral to-morrow, a.
Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury. He will oleo
pay an early visit to the adjacent Minim:au College of St.
Augustine's, erected a few your ego by Mr. A. J. B. Hope.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed the
Rev. William &abbe, DL A., vicar of Nevado* and late
Fellow of Trinity College, Ozford, w the office of librarian
and keeper of the M. at Lambeth Palace. The librarian
will, if all is well, enter on his work after the Christmas
holidays.

The vicarage of St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Flinders= Robins, and
worth about 6001. a year, is in the gift of the Archbishop
of Oanterhary—the first piece of clerical preferment which
has fallen to his grace since hie elevation to the primacy.
Mr. William Henry Gladstone, eldest son of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, took his degree at Oxford on
Thursday, 'moist obtained, alter leaving Eton, a dadaist-
ship of Christ Church, a lest class in moderations ; and, for
his degree, a seem' in classics, and a third in law and mo-
dern history. Hie father took a double first as a student of
Christ Church.

Rear-Admiral Sir John Kingcombe paid a visit
oe Thursday to the maim damn of the Oetion and the
other Premier' corvette sow In Plymouth Boned. Om
leaving he was complimaoted with the meal We* which
wia aokaowladied by his ship, the wow stamultip liatlej,
61, Cas &mealy, whkit sills' la the imolai for her
statism la the Pacific.