The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-22 00:00:00

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WINDSOR CASTER, JUNI 20.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Queen of
Prussia and the Princess Helena, drove out yesterday
afternoon in a carriage and four, attended by the Equerry-
in-Waiting.
Prince Alfred, attended by Major COWOII. left the
Castle Ibis morning for London, and proceeds this evening
to Portsmouth to embark on board her Majesty's ship
Racoon. to whist) his Royal Highness reappointed.
The Princess Helena and Priooe Leopold, attended by
Lady Caroline Barrington, Captain Sir W. Hosts, and Mr.
Buff. went to London this morning.

SUNDAY.

The Pintoes. Helena, attended by lady Caroline Barring-
ton, was present at the drawing-room yesterday, and re-
turned to Windsor Castle ate quarter before six o'clock.
The Queen, accompanied by the Queen of Prussia.
Princess Helena, and Princess Beatrice, took a drive yester-
day afternoon, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Ham
D. de Ron on horseback.
Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinatone, arrived
at the Castle from Greenwich-park.
The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of the
Queen.
The Queen. the Queen of Pruisia, PAWNS, Helena,
Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, with
the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine ser-
vice in the private chapel this morning. The Rev. J.
St. John Blunt officiated.
The Prince of Wales rode on horseback on Saturday, at-
tended by his equerry-in-waiting.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess bury visited
the Primus of Wales at Marlborough-hoar.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Coun-
ter de Grey and Lient..-Colonel Keppel, honoured the per-
formance at the Olympic Theatre with their presence on
Saturday evening.
Yesterday morning the Prince and Primus of Wales, the
Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, aged the Duke
of Cambridge attended Divine envies lathe Chapel Royal,
St. James's. The Communion service wee read by the Sub-
Dean and the Rev. H. M. Birch. The sermon was preached
by the Rev. H. M. Bitch, chaplain to the Queen and the
Prince of Wales, from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians,
chap. 3, verses 13 end 14. The anthem wu, " 0 Lord.
Thou het searched us out* (Croft). Mr. Goss presided at
the organ. The Prince and Prince's of Wales were attended
by the Hon. Mrs. Stotler and Lient.-Coloul Koppel. The
Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of St. Germans, end Via-
count Sydney were present at the service.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll. Sir George Grey,
Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl de
Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset. the Right
Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers.

Despatches were sent on Saturday from the ColonieLoffios
to the Governor of Canada.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales will
give her first tell oa Monday next.
Lieutenant his Royal Highness Prince Alfred
rejoined her Majesty's screw corvette RSOOOI4 Captain
Count Gleichen, at Portsmouth, on Saturday, on return
from leave. The Racoon goes out of Portsmouth harbour
to Spitheed to-day.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess d'Aumale will
have an afternoon party et Orleans House on the 29th inst.
liar royal highness will give a ball on the 4th proximo.
Viscountess Palmerston "received" on Saturday
evening at Cambridge House. The thinioo was most bril-
liantly attended, many of her ladyehip's guests appearing in
the oortumes worn during the day at the Drawing-room.
Previously to the assembly (Lord Palmerston being engaged
to dine with the Elder Brethren at the Trinity House) the
noble viscountess entertained at dinner the Countess
Dowager of Tankerville, Count Pahlen, Count Nemairods,
the Earl of Shaftesbury and lady Victoria Ashley, Lord
and Lady Forester, Lord and Lady Dufferin, Viscountess
Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses Jocelyn (2), the Right Hon.
W. F. Cowper, M.P., soil Mrs. Cowper, Hon. Frederick
Lawmen Gower, Hoe. Harris Temple, Captain Ellice, Hon.
Henry Dutton, Mr. Henry Calcraft, kn.
The Duchess of Buccleuch held an assembly on
Saturday evening, at the family residence in Belgravo square.
Upwards of 600 members of the ariatoffecy and fashionable
world avaqed themselves of paying their respects to the
dart..., who was assisted in the honours of the reception
by bar daughter, the Lady Victoria Scott.
Mr. Chichester Forteacue invited a select circle
ef Meads on Saturday "to meet a cosmopolitan party" at
Serawberry Hill. Their Royal Highnemees the Duke d'Aumale
mad the Count de Paris honoured Mr. Fortesieue with
their company, arriving together about 2 o'clock. The fol-
lowing noblemen and gentlemen were present :—The Earl
Somers, Viscount Eofield, Lord Dufferin, Lord Wodeboues,
Hoe. Evelyn Ashley, Hon. F. Levacon Cower, Sir Cuutta
Lindsay, Mr. C. Clifford, ILP., Mr. Thomas Baring, ILP.,
Mr. B. Moockton Milne., ILP., Captain Douglas Gelton,
Professor Leslie, Mr. Austin, Mr. Henry Graafian, the Right
Hoe. Robert Lowe, 1L P.. Mr. Leighton, Mr. G. F. Watts,
Mr. Tom Taylor, Mr. Oliphant, Mr. Kinalake, Mr. Walter
Severn, Mr. George Cayley, Mr. W. Beaumont, M.P., Mr.
Sartori', Mr. Dalton, Hon. Alfred Seymour, Mr. Kenneth
Macaulay, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. George Loch, Q.C., Mr.
Giant Duff, Mr. Hodgerie, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Elliott, Mr.
Prinsep, Mr. Stanfield, Mr. Layard, M.P., Mr. W. Cue.
aingham, Mr. Woolner, As.
Her Majesty has appointed Lord Hobart, Mr.
Huxley, and Mr. Ceird, M.P., the royal commissioners for
inquiring into the subject of sea fisheries.
Commander John Hay, RN., the naval examiner
to the Royal Mail Company, has just been awarded the first
class prize medal of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic So-
ciety for the invention of a nautical instrument called the
compound protractor, which affords the readiest means of
projecting courses on a chart, of obtaining the amplitudes
and azimuths of celestial or terrestrial objects, of steam
pointing, or fixing the exact position of a chip or shoal, tic.
The reception which Lord Carlisle has met on his
tour in the north-meet of Ireland from the conservatives
and orangemen has caused considerable surprise. The Lou.
deader?? Sentinel, which circulates amore the conservative
putty and clergy in the north-western counties, describes
the progress of the lord-lieutenant in terms as glowing al if
he were as conservative as Lord Enniskillen. Whether in
the protestant town of Strabane, or the Roman catholic
town of Letterkenoy, or passing through the wild moon.
tam and lake scenery of Donegal, his excellency was met
with cheers by the crowds of peametry who flocked to see
him pass.
A letter from Paris says :—" The Exhibition of
Paintirge is again open, after an interval of a week or so for
the purpose of arrangement. Like the last, it contains a
good many battle pieces ; the French troops are once more
taking at the bayonet's point the village of Magenta, as
they did two years ago the village of Solferico. There are
scenes from the met and from the west. We have the French
army landing on the coast of Syria ; passages of life in the
desert ; Neapolitan fishermen ; peasants of Alsace and
Brittany ; Creeks and Romans, ancient and modern ; grand.
setpears of the time of Louis XIV. ; banquets in baronial
halls ; sketches of domestic life ; weddings in Burgundy ;
funeral ; mothers bending over the deathbed of their (laugh-
end daughters watching by their expiring mothers ;
G....mzu bee !shops ; saints, male and female, in a state of
eostazy ; V.Liatte Italian ladies ; blooming peasant girls ; and
Venus nprint"S from the MS foam, or standing on the trees
of a tiny wave, ..7111# 'IP her Pl"' Wt."