The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-28 00:00:00

int Can.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 26.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
walked and drove in the grounds this morning.
Princess Helena rode in the riding-school.
Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Florence Seymour,
and Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Buff, went out driving.

Nov. 27.

Princess Helena, attended by Lady Carolina Barrington,
the Hon. Emily Cathcart, and Lord Charles Fitzroy, went
to London last evening, and honoured tho performance at
the Olympic Theatre with her presence, and returned to
Windsor Castle at a quarter before 12.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wont arrived at the Castle
yesterday.
The Queen, Princess Helms, P.lncess Beatrice, and
Prince Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting,
attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel.
The Very Bev. the Dean of Westminster, preached the
sermon.

Oo Saturday, at the Council Chamber, Whitehall, Lord
Wenlock took the oaths as Lord Lieutenant of the East
Riding of York hire, in the nom of the Earl of Ouija*
resigned.

A Cabinet Council was held on the
official residence of the First Lord of the
in Downing-street. The ministers present were—
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Gran ' le, Sir George
Grey, Earl Russell, Earl de Grey, the Right
Hon. Edward Cardwell, Sir Charles Wood, the
Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Earl di Cla-
rendou, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

Despatches were received on Saturday at the ordonial-
office from the Governor of Malta. Despatch., were sent
to the Governors of the North American Provinces, Ber-
muda, Gibraltar, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and
the Auatralian Colonies.

Their Royal Highness the Duke and Duchess
d'Atunale and the Prince de Conde left town on S►turday
wrening for their residence near Statham.

His Excellency the Baron Brnnnow and Baroness
Bronnow entertained at dinner last night—his Excellency
the Italian Minister, his Excellency the Portuguese
Minister, his Excellency the Spanish Minister and Madame
Comps, his Excellency the Mexican Minister, ea Marquis
and Marchioness of San Germano, the Marquis and Mar-
chicane d'hiarligni„ Count Maffei, Baron Beck Friis, Bunn
Frankel, M. and Madame Merry del Val, and X de Se-
Dowell.

'Viscountess Palmerston bad a small and early
party on Saturday night, at Cambridge HOMO, Piccadilly.
All the principal foreign ambaseadots and ministers wars
present, together with about 50 persons of distinction at
present in town.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have
entertained a distinguished party at Hatfield House, their
fine old baronial seat in Hertfordahire, during the put
week.

We understand that the absence of the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone from the Cabinet Council on Satur.
day last arose from a slight cold. Yesterday the right bon.
gentleman was no better, but fully calcidated to be able to
attend at the meeting of his colleagues to-morrow.

We have to announce the death of Lord Eliot,
who expired shorUy after 10 o'clock on Saturday morning,
at Port Eliot, the family slat in Cornwall. The Hon. Wm.
Gado° Cornwallis becomes heir apparent to the family
honours.

Mr. J. flume Burnley, secretary of legation, has
(says the Mental been appointed Charg6 d'Affaires in the
usual muss during Lord Lyons' abeam° in Europe.
Prince Napoleon gave his first dinner of the
seine last week. There were present—Prince Napoleon,
Princess Clothilde, Princess Julie Pauline Bonaparte, the
Chevalier Nigra, the Duchess tAbratites, M. Pope Hen-
nessy, M.P., the Viscount Hoary Bertrand and the Vis-
countess Bertrand, the Count de Rayneval, the Baroness de
In lionclere le Notary, and the Baroness Barbier.

The vestry of St Martin-in-the-Fields have re-
ceived notioe from the office of Woods and Forests that the
government will require the whole of the workhouse and
the site for the purposes of the National Gallery, and in.
rites this body to send in their estimate of its value.

DEArit OF LADY ALVAICLEY. —lntelligence was
received in town on Saturday afternoon of the use:ported
dormice of Lady Alvenley, at Thorpe Perrow Hall, York-
shire, the seat of M. and Lady Augusta H. Milbank, where
her ladyship had been staying since the early part of Octo-
ber. Her two brothers, the second and third Dukes of
Cleveland, have died within lees than twelve months. Her
illness warn bat brief, and was not considered to be of a
serious nature.

Dram or JULES G ERARD. —At the last sitting
of the Paris Geographical Society, M. Molte-Brun read a
letter he had received from M. Braoueme, French consul at
Sierra Leone, and which confirms the account of the death
of Jules Grrard, the lion-killer, who was drowned in at-
tecilpting to cross the river Joub.
DEATH OP Ma. DAVID ROBERT; R.A.—Wo have
to mourn the sudden death on Friday evening of this die-
tingniehed painter and Royal Academician, whose pencil for
so many years has enriched the walls of the Royal Academy
in Trafalgarsquare. In the afternoon, while walking in
Bernersatreet, he fell down in a fit of apoplexy. To the
people who went to his rescue he was able to utter only
two words—Fitzrqatreet. He never spoke afterwards,
and he died at 7 o'do-dr. Born four years before the close
of the last century, Roberta began his active life as a house.
Fainter in Edinburgh ; he rose in 1822 to be a soene-painter
rn Drury-lane Theatre, along with another academician, Mr.
Clarkson Stanfield. After that he began to exhibit in the
Real Academy. He travelled in Spain and in the East,
and published more than one tine series of sketches thus ob-
tained, which gave him a great public reputation, and which
entirely justified his election into the Aaidemy in 1841.
The beet known of all his works is his "Sketches in the
Holy Land, Syria, Idioms, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia," in
four volumes folio, with letter-press by Dr. Croly—one of
the largest and most important works of the.kind ever pub.
limed in this country. Very many of Roberte's best paint-
ings have been engraved, end to this fact is due some
portion of the wide-spread reputation of hie exquisitely
gifted and graceful penciL Mr. Roberta was manual, and
has hit surviving issue.
THE JDNIOII. Aver.N.Euß.-012 Saturday evening
the members of the committee inaugurated this new club
by a dinner, to which a number of gentlemen well known
in the literary, scientific, and artistic world, were invited.
The greatest satisfaction was expressed by visitors and
members at the arrangements and decorations of the club,
whilst the dinner itself gave substantial proof that in the
department of the cuisine the club would at once take its
stand with the foremost establishments of a similar charac-
ter in London. The club opens with • goodly list of mem-
bers, and with a long roll of applicants, and there is every
raison to believe that, supplying es it does a recognised gap
in club life, occupying neutral ground in politics, avoiding
all class distinctions, it will gradually take • vary prominent
position.—Heruld.

ClamAz. PALLaa. Hay-Csovnt DAL
&mum; Nov. 26.—Adatimions ea payment, 2,267 ; ditto
by mood *kali, 4,793; total, 7,062.

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Letters received from Tunis to the 20th inst.
state that the Chief Gherdsoux had declared that Bait=
was ready with his confederate► to pay a poll-tax of 10
piastres, but that they wouldrecommenos the struggle if a
iarger sum were demanded.

Los Dos Scorrisu VoLuicrinita. —On Saturday
evening • regimental ceremony of much interest took place
in Westminster-hall. The London Scottish assembled be
receive at the hands of Lady Ebb° prises woo by the more
distinguished marksmen in their ranks, and to hear from
their lieutenant-colonel, Lord Elcho, a short address on
the present state of the corps and the arrangements for
the coming regimental year. There was a sign attendance
of friends of the officers sad members, so that, to afford
the spec* requisite for drawing up the eight companies of
which the regiment is composed, the male portion of the
bystanders had to be roped up within narrow bounds at
' either side of the hall. For the ladies present seats were
placed on the steps and terraces at the upper end leading to
St. Stephen's, where they totted themselves more comfort.
ably placed, sad contributed at the same tine &drama.
pettily to the general effect.