The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-25 00:00:00

THE ROYAL VISIT TO FRANCE.

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A letter from Calais saps:—" The news of this
approaching arrival at Calais of her Majesty the Qat'', 0
England, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albin
and their children, is being every day more °maraud, fog
preparations for their reception are accordingly every.
where made. The batteries of the Fort Rohn, which will
fire the royal salute, are being put in order. The railway
company are repainting their station, end the work.
men have received orders to have everything finished
before the 15th of August. The city gates
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the seaside are also being repaired, and the municipality
are finishing the footpaths along the route from the Port to
the Imperial Palace. The latter is at this moment fulled
workmen, who are engaged in embellishing its apartments
and its delightful gardens. In word, the city of Ca*
which hu already received within its walls almost all ih
crowned heads of Europe, will
and more sympathetic reception than that which um
awaits the august ally of France."

Her Majesty has sent to the General Military
Hospital, Portsmouth, for distribution smoog upwards ol
30 selected sick and wounded soldiers, a number of all►
pocket and neckerchiefs and neckties, hemmed by home
and the ladies of the court, together with arm-slings, &e.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent trill
leave Frogmore for Scotland at the Moss of the second wee►
in the ensuing month.

The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady
Adelisa Fatale° Howard have left Norfolk Roue fee
Arundel Castle. The unsettled health of his (Inc. has
precluded the customary hospitalities this season at Norfolk
House.

The Earl and Countess of Roese have gone to
Brighton for a few weeks, preparatory to proceeding to
their family seat in Ireland (or the autumn.

The Earl of Lincoln has taken his departure on a
continental tear. It is undentoed his lordship will extend
his travels as tar as Constaatioople sad Egypt.
Lady Peel and Miss Peel have gone on a tour in
France.

The 2nd Regiment of Life Gaud', under the
esnimand of Colonel Williams, was reviewed at Windsor,
yesterday, by Major-General the Earl of Cardigan.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE FIELD-MARSHAL,

LORD RAGLAN.

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BRISTOL, TIIVIDAY Evaxtxo.
The Caradoc steamer, which has been so long and
anxiously looked for, arrived hers this morning, bringing -
the body and personal staff of the lets Field Marshal Lod •
Raglan. The Caradoc was first sighted off Clevedon at
about eight o'clock, and at twenty•six minutes past Mae
o'clock she reached Kingroad. Intelligence of her arrival
was at ones telegraphed to the Commercial-rooms to the
Mayor, Colonel Patton, and Captain Pryce, the military and
naval commandants of the district, and to the present Lord
Raglan at the Whits Lion Hotel. The cannon on BnuaOte•
bill was also fired, and produced quite an electrical effect
upon the citizens, who rushed from their houses to the cen-
tral points where intelligence was likely to be obtained.
Within a quarter of an hour of the receipt of the first
tidings flogs half mast high were hoisted on the wine
public buildings and on the ships in the harbour.

Almost immediately upon his receiving the news Lord
Raglan accompanied by the Hon. Col. Begot and Capt.
Pryce, R N., proceeded in a small boat; for the puma* of
boarding the Caractoc, which it had been intended should
remain in Kingroad, the Star steamer coming down as •
tender to receive the body. The Earl of Calthorpe, sad
J. 8. Herford, Eiq., at whole mansion he is staying, sls•
went to Shirshampton, intending to take boat with • like
object at Lamplighter's Hall ferry. The coffin, bier, sad
catafalque were in the meantime placed on board the Star,
and the undertaker, Mr. Hooper, and Mr. Lawrence, by
whom the coffin was made, proceeded on board for the pu-
pae of going down to Kingroad to effect the transhipment
of the body.

Just as the Star was getting under weigh for this purpose
intelligence was received that the Caradoe was steaming op
the river, and in a few minutes afterwards she made her
appearance, being towed by the Atlas steam•tug. The newt
of her approach spread with extraordinary rapidity, lad
the sides of the river were speedily thronged by thousand&
of spectators, who, notwithstanding the discomfort occuiond
by a thoroughly drenching rain, which commenced fall*
just as she hove in sight, remained until she had beet
moored in the centre of Cumberland Basin.

An official notice by the Mayor has just been posted on
the C.uncil-house, Guildhall, and other public buildings,
announcing that the disembarkation of the body and funeral
procession will take piece to-morrow morning. A notice by
the water bailiff has also been issued, ordering the removal
of all impedimenta from the fl iatiug harbour, so as to
facilitate the passage of the naval part of the procession.
The families from the eurroarding districts are now flocking
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in fast, and there is a rumour that Lieutenant-General Sir
George Brown has arrived at Clifton, and will have a place
in the precession. His presence is looked forward to with
much interest. The citizens are all busied preparing the
fronts of their houses for the ceremony of to-morrow, and
some of the ships have commenced tiring minute guns.

The following handbill has been circulated amongst
the shopkeepers of St. James's parish, Westminster, by one
of themselves The War.—lt is earnestly suggested that
the inhabitants of this district and others should, as a mark
of respect and sympathy far the relatives and friends of their
gallant countrymen who have fallen in the war, close •
shutter or two at convenience, from the time the late Lotd
Raglan's remains are landed until he is buried."

REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE.

The appearance of placards announcing Sir
Charles Napier as a candidate for Marylebone created
some surprise yesterdsy throughout the borough, the
general opinion being that his name has been used
without his knowledge. Last evening a meeting of
electors, convened by placards extensively circulated
during the afternoon, was held at the Victoria Tavern,
fdornington-road, for the purpose of securing the re-election
of Sir Benjamin Hall. Mr. Thomas Smith, churchwardas
of St. Pancras, presided. The meeting was addressed by
the chairman, by Mr. L. R. Stockton, Mr. M.Bviley, Mr.
Dyke, Mr. Clement George, (to., who expreued their
determination to support Sir Benjamin Hall as a candidate,
and eulogistically commented upon the right honourable
I baronet's political and local services during his eighteen
years' representation of the borough. A resolution pledging
the nesting to use every exertion towards the right hon.
baronet's re-election, having been unanimously adopted
amidst general applause, a committal was appointed, and
the proceedings terminated.

A Mr. Hamilton has issued an address to ths
electors of Southwark, dated from a newspaper °Mos in
Fleet-street, in which, after denouncing the war in at-
measured terms, he says Electors of Southwark! on
the day of nomination I shall stand side by aide with dit
William Molesworth, once the illustrious advocate of peens
and liberty; and I shall contest my opinion in your pre-
sent* against his own, convinced that, at a moment of sunk
peril, you will guard the sacred right of I've debate."
In an address to the electors of Tynemouth, Mr
W, Linskill announces his limeades of soliciting their suf-
frages wb a vacancy occurs. His political principlm
are L iberal Conservative."
We he of the death, at Granada, Spain, front
cholera, of the Rev. Henry Watson Barnard, Cams
Residentiary 04 Wells Cathedral, and Vicar of St. Cuthbert,
aged 63.