The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-13 00:00:00

THE mires AND PRINCESS OF WALES AT
NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
or Wales honoured the Duke and Duchess of Northumber-
land with their presence last evening, at • princely enter-
tainment given in their honour at Northumberland Hones.
. This hoe old baronial residence, the magoidoset hand-
Wines of which have • world-wide reputation, baa not of
late been opened for the reception of company so frequently
as formerly, owing to the imperfect health of the noble
duke, who tuff's., painfully from gout, a severe attack of
which yesterday unhappily deprived his grace of the
pleasure of presiding at his hospitable board. In the duke's
absence the Duchess of Northumberland was assisted iu
d2iiilte. honours of the evening by Lord Loraine, heir
're to the dukedom,.
By kindness of the noble host the Queen's Owe
Westminster Ride Corps were allowed to supply a guard of
honour to receive the Prim* and Princess. Acoorffingly •
gaard compoeed of 130 men. with six of cers, were drafted
from the Grenadier companies of the corps ; 1(0 men being
stationed oo the garden-front of the. house where the Prince
and Princess were to alight, and 30 mea being appointed
for duty in the court-y.2A of the mansion. On the garden
front an open pavilion bad been erected, in which the band
of the Coldstream Guards, led by the elder Godfrey, wee
stationed during the evening.
At half- past seven o'clock extra pressure was applied to
the fouotaine in Trate/gar-square, while the bells of St.
Martin's Church struck up • merry peal. The rueste invited
to meet the Prince and Princess included 60 ladies and
gentlemen.
The general company present after dinner included shunt
180 members of the ariatocracy.
At 11 o'clock the Prince and Princess of Wales entered
the ball-room, where dancing immediately commenced to
the music of oom and Tinney's orchestra. The Prince and
Princess dapped in several sets.

SOCIETY YOE THE PROPAGATION OP THE GOSPEL.
The manual City meeting at this amilety was held yesterday,
in the Zgyptian-hall at the lianeion-hotwe ; the Lord Mayor in
the chair. On the platform were the Archbishop of
the Bishops of London, Mauritius, and Orange River,a
Nelson, Bir H. Young, Mr. (leeches, MP., Mr. Hubbard,
M.P., Archdeacon Hale, Canoe Charnpneys, and a large
body of the clergy. Tb. Bev. Mr. Perth read the report,
which referred with satisfaction to the acceptance by Dv,
Doughty, the Archbishop of Canterbury of the office of Prod.
dent of the society. The report, which was of some length,
stated that the society hat now been engaged for 161 years in
endeavouring to plant the church of Christ among our coos-
trymeo abroad and among the heathens. From North Ame-
dcaits operations have gradually been =tended to the West
Indies, Australia, helm, Booth Africa, New Zealand.
Ceylon, Borneo, and British Columbia. There ere now
congregations under the pastoral care of npwanla of 3,000
clergymen, of whom 450, beetles a large number of
catechists nod lay-teachers, statioaed generally in the most
destitute places, are maintained wholly or in part by the
society'. The British possessions abroad extend over a ant°
face of about 9,000,000 quart Miles, nod are the seat
'of 42 bishoprics. la 1862 the society's receipts were
93,3'251. 1= general food, 77,0211.. ; appropriated, 9,7251. ;
special, 6,5771.) The demands on its reIO4ICMS inseam
year by year. The society desires to provide this year,
from its general fund, for the maintenance of niimionaries in
Australia, Bengal, Bombay, Borneo, British Columbia,
Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Constantinople,
Oh' lAbrad9r, Madras, Mauritius Natal, New Bruns-
wick, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Laporte-
laud, Bt. Helena, Tasmania, West ladles. The Bishop of
Louden moved the first reeultion as follows :—" That the
fresh ampules recently given to emigration by the didrese
his the nmonfacturing districts imposes upon the tried@ of
the today the duty of iocreased efforts to anion,' its ro-
oftrees, move ethecially with a view of meeting the spiritual
waste of our countrymen during the first years Cl their
settlement is the colooiea." The Archbishop a Armagh
wooded the resolution, which was supported In b Mr.
,Goecbso. M.P., and carried, as were several others fur-
therance of the objects of the association.
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