The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-01 00:00:00

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WINDSOR CASTLE, .Icrws 30.

Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess He-
lena and attended by Lady Augusta Brine, Lieut.-General
Hoe. C. Grey, and Major-General Hoe. A. N. Hood, went
to London to-day. and visited the South Kensington Mu-
seum, and impacted the new courts and the dodges for the
proposed decorations of them in mosaics and majolica. oho
the new galleries with the national competition drawinp of
the schools of art of the United Kingdom now exhibition.
The Queen returned to Windsor at one o'clock.

The (Man of Prussia, attended by the Countess Schwerin
and Count de Bon, went to London this morning and re-
turned in the afternoon.
The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale and the Duke de Mont-
prosier visited her Majesty.
The Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the Countess of
Gaineborough am lady in waiting.

The Princess Mary of Cambridge visited the Princess of
Wales yesterday at Marlborough-house.
The Prince of Wales rods oa horseback, attended by Lis' et.
Colonel Keppel.
The Princess of Wales, attended by the Marchioness of
Carmarthen, took a carriage drive.
A meeting of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of
1951 was held yesterday at the Pa/ace of Westminster.
There were present Earl Granville, the Duke of Bucking-
ham, the Earl of Derby, Lord Overstone, Lord Taunton,
the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., the Right Hon. W.
E. Gladstone, M.P., the Right Hon. R. Lowe, M.P., Sir
Alexander Spearman. Bart, Mr. Thomas Baring, LP., Mr.
Thrill', and Mr. Edgar Bowriug, C.B. (Secretary).
Despatches were received yesterday at the Golonial.offrae
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.

Tel Quirre or Paoaclla.—We understand that
the Queen of Prussia will close her visit to her Majesty at
Windsor Castle on Friday next. The Queen of Prussia on
leaving Windsor purposes to take up her residence for a few
days at the Prussian Embassy in Carlton House-tenses.
According to present arrangements her Majesty will remain
the guest of his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and
the Countess &rostra until the Monday following, when
her Majesty and suite depart for Cohlents., on their return
to Berlin.

The Queen of Prussia honoured Mews. Phil-
lips with a visit at their establishment in New Bond-street
yestenlay, and made several purehmes of majolica
vases, Lc.

Their Royal Highnesses the Count de Paris, the
Duke de Mootpensier, and Prince Philip of Wurternberg
arrived last evening at the Clarendon Hotel from Tunbridge
Wells.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duohesa
de Chartres returned last evening to the Clarendon Hotel
from Scotland. Their Royal Highnesses entertained at
disoer the Count de Paris. the Prince and Princess de Join-
rills, the Dake and Duchess d'Aumsle, the Duke de Mont-
pensier, Prince Philip of Wurtemberg. &c.

The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland gave a
dejeflner yesterday afternoon at her residence at Chiswick.
A variety of amusements were provided in anticipation of
the honour of a visit from their Royal Highnesses the
Prime and Princess of Weiss, but in consequence of the
death of the Hereditary Prince of Denmark, the illustrious
prince and princess did not grace the fete with their

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The marriage of the Hoe. Gerard Noel, M.P.,
second ion of the Earl of Gaiusborough, to Miss Lowther,
second daughter of Colonel the Hon. H. C. Lowther, M.P.,
took plate yesterday at St. George's, Hanover-square, in the
presence of a numerous assembly of the relatives and hien&
of both families.

The conflict between the municipality of Nogent-
le•Hotree and the cure of that town is terminated. It
arose out of the refusal of the latter to celebrate the rites
of the church over paupers' graves. The Bishop of Chartres,
who was ler exclusive than M. Is Cure, hu put an end to the
dispute by the following decision; —''d. priest of the commune
of Nogent-le•Rotroo shall be appointed to meet the dead at
the door of the church of Notre• Dame and precede them to
the grave. This priest shall be accompanied by a clerk in
a surplios and a child carrying holy water. There shall b.
I so chanting, but the clerk shall utter the responses to the
priest's prayers which are contained in the aloe. The
same service shall be celebrated without any distinction
both for poor and rich."

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL —The Bishop of London
has appointed the following gentlemen to be the special
morning preachers at St. Paul'. Cathedral for the present
mouth —Sunday, July IS, the Rev. William Josiah Irons.
D.D., of Queen's College, Oxford, vicar of Holy Trinity,
Brompton , Sunday, July 12, the Rev. Benjamin Morgan
Cowie, 8.D., of St. John's College, Cambridge, vicar of St.
Lawrence Jewry ; Sunday, July 19, the Rev. Thome.
Jacksoo, M.A.. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, rector, Stoke
Newington ; Sunday, July 26, the Rev. John k'Award
Kemp°, M.A., of Clare College, Cambridge, rector of St.
Jamea'a Piccadilly.

HEREFORD CATHEDRAL.—For about a quarter of
a century this venerable fabric has been under repair,
and yesterday there was a public reopening, cooducted
with great oarenicey, and attended by tame thou.
sande of persona, including two bishops and nearly 400
clergy. The choir and nave were both used for Divine ear-
moo • the screen dividing the two portions of the sacred
adiftCe—lately so prominent an object in the International
I Exhibition—though sufficieetly dividing the nave from
the choir, permits the occupants on both sides to join
together in worship. The restorations, commenced by Kr.
Cottingharn, have been continued by Mr. Gilbert Scott, and
they afford the meet striking church restoratioos of modern
times. The cathedral, is fact, looks almost like a new
edifice, melee the improving and restoring heeds of mason
and embellisher. The total expenditure in the restorations,
which ea we have already said have extended over nearly a
quarter of a century, has exceeded 40.000 f. Towards this
sum the Dean and chapter of Hereford have railed 13,0007.
by mortgage on the fabric estate, sod the cathedral body
have subscribed about 10,0001. in addition from their
private re. iurcea. The public have contributed some few
thousands more, and there is still ea outstanding balance to
a rather large amount.