The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-17 00:00:00

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According to the present arrangement& (writes
our Windsor correspondent) her Majesty the Queen will
leave Windsor Miele on or about the 3rd day of the ensuing
mouth, and return to Osborne, Isle of Wight.
Her Majesty coutemplates visiting the Highlands at an
early period, and returning to Windsor, from Balmoral, in
Jams

After a stay of about a fortnight at the Castle the Queen
will proceed to Osborne, and again visit Balmoral towards
Use wad of the season.

Her Majesty, we are happy to learn, is in the enjoyment
of excellent health. and takes her daily walks and drives in
the quiet and secluded vicinity of the Home-park. Now
of the royal family have been seen in Windsor slue the
return of the Queen to the Castle, and the away
indication of the court being there is the waving
of the ! royal stand►rd on the round tower, the absence
of military music on mounting the Castle guard, and
the closing of the state apartments. The day after the re.
tarn of the court to Windsor, as the evening was closing,
and all had left the chapel, the Queen, accompanied by four
of the royal princesses, entered the sacred edifice by the
private antrum leading from the Deanery. The illustrious
party advanced to the bottom of the altar steps, where •
brass plate indicates the entrance to the royal vault, be-
neath which the remains of the late Prince Consort are
temporarily deposited ; here they remained for a short
time, and each placed a wreath of flowers on the marble
which coven the pave. Similar wreaths were again placed
over these drooping Bowers yesterday evening by her Ma-
jesty and the princesses.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll have been
visiting Alfred Tennyson, the poet laureate, at his seat at
Yarriugford, in the hie of Wight.
The Earl and Counted, of Craven and the Ladies
Craven left Coombe Abbey on Saturday for Ashdown.
Park, Berke.

The Earl of Dalkeith has arrived in Be'grave-
square from &whin, Selkirk. Her ladyship remains at
Bowhill. .

The Earl and Countess of Tankerville have left
town for Paris.

Sir Robert and Lady Emily Pool entertained a
select party at dinner on Saturday evening at their reel.
dense in Whitehall-gardens.

The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland returned
a few days silos to Cliefdsu, her seat sear Maidsohoad,
from Trentham. Om Saturday toe Duke and Duchess of
Argyll kit tows to visit tho duchess.
. . - . .

His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame
Vsa de Weyer had a dinner party on Friday ►t the Belgian
Leption in Fortland•phwe. . .

•
His Excellency the French Ambassador and the
Counties de Mahal:lt entertained a distinguished circle at
dinner ea Saturday 'veiling, at Coventry House, Pic-
cadilly. _ _ _

ETA and Countess Russell had a dinner party,
c Friday, at the family mansion in Cheeham-place. no
guests included his Excellency the Russian Ambassador
and Baroness Brunoow, his Excellency the Spanish Minis-
ter, hie Excellency the Portuguese Minister, Lord and
lady Wodehoose, Lady Wm. Russell, the Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer sad Mrs. Gladstone. Ste.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received a
large circle at dinner on Saturday evening, at their residence
in PiesdNy. Later in Cie evening her ladyship opened her
saloons for the reception of a very numerous assemblage of
the rank sad hake at primmest is tows.

THE PRINCE OP WALES IN EGYPT.

ILisoa 8.

The Prince of Wales arrived here on the let inst.
He landed at the railway terminus, and at once went on to
Cairo, where the Viceroy awaited his arrival and received
him with every possible attention. The train wan driven
direct to the Dacha's palace of Kasr-en-Nil, on the teaks
of the Nile, whence, after a sheet interview, the Prime
and his suite were conveyed in carriages to the
palace prepared for their residence. On the follow-
ing day the Viceroy visited the Prince, bat without
form or state, in consideration of the privacy in
which his royal highness travels. The Prince, on Monday,
in like manner, returned the calls of the several members of
the Viceroy's family who had come to pay their respects to
him. With these few unavoidable exceptions, the Prince's
visit to Cairo bas differed but little in its circumstances
from that of a private gentleman. On Sunday afternoon
his royal highness attended divine service at the English
chapel, and on his excursions into the town few of the
Odrenes who beheld him riding through the basun on the
ordinary moisture of the city can have suspected that they
looked upon the future King of England.

On Tuesday at mid-day his royal highnome left Cairo for 1
I.l"ppm Egypt. The Puha'. steamer conveyed the Prince
and has suite from the palace of Kaar-en•NO, and they were
aooompanied by Vimnsul °gout for the first day. At
Djirsh the Viceroy again received his royal highness in per-
son, and Colonel Mimi exhibited to the Prince and his party
some of his recent improvements in the rifle. On the shore
every variety of Eastern means of locomotion had been pro-
vided by the Viceroy and awaited his royal highness's arri-
val—carriages, horses, asses, and dromedaries. The
last mentioned obtained the preference, and a keg
cavalcade of richlycapar•soned dromedaries wound De way
through the green fields and palm groves of Djirah,
under the declining • t of a glorious evening, to the
platform of the Py The sun had just set when the
Prince and his party came into full sight of that
memorable view. They had just time to survey the
oolosml features of the Sphinx and the general out-
line of the Pyramids b' the fading light, and then retired—
not to the ordinary bivouac in which the European tra-
vellers rough it in the desert, but to the sumptuous
tents supplied by the Viceroy. Here, otter a late meal,
the party retired to rest till they were roused by early
dawn to make the ascent of the Great Pyramid before sun-
rise. The Prime, who was the earliest of the party, excited
the astonishment of the Bedouins by climbing to the sum-
mit without assirtance, a feat which, as all who have tried
tt, an well aware is anything but a light one. "Is that the
go a I Why does he go alone?' was the question the
Bsdoains put in their broken English. The Ina.
rise revealed in its usual beauty the wonderful
view that spreads itself out at the foot of
the Pyramids, and, after enjoying it at their leisure,
the Prism and his raite descended again to their tents. An
hoar or more wee devoted to the examination of the other
antiquities in the neighbourhood, and the cavalcade returned
as it bad come, not without having been successfully aught
by the skill of Mr. Bedford, the photographer, who moons-
[ried the Prince's suite. At Djuish his royal highness re-
oad the steamer, when he was met by Mr. Colqnhoun,
Majesty'set consul-general, who accompanies him to
Upper pt. The Prince will return to Alexandria about
' the end the month, when he will re-embark for Syr a.—

Sir John Rainsden has left town on a visit to the
Right Hoe. Edward Herman, at Ashby St. Ledgers, North-
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A public meeting, called by the Lord Mayor of
Dublin for the purpose of taking steps to erect a suitable
memorial to the late Prince Consort in Dublin, was held on
Saturday. The prooeedinp were t►ken part in by the
Lord Chancellor, Mr. Benjamin L. Guinness, the Right
Hon. Joseph Napier, George Roe, D.L., the High Sherif
of the °minty of Dublin, Alderman Reynolds, and Sir
James Power, Bart.

An influential meeting of noblemen and gentle.
men, desirous to establish an institution in Dublin, which
would afford to all classes of the citizens • means of
rational and civilising recreation, was held on Friday, at
the residence of Mr. Benjamin Lee Guinness. The chair
was taken by hi Grace the Duke of Leinster, when a
resolution was proposed by Mr. Gannon, seconded by Lard
William Fitzgerald, that a company ahor'd be formed
under the Joint.etock Company Act (limited liabiPty), with
a capital of 50,0031., to carry into effect these objects.
Lord Palmerston, in giving evidence before a
parliamentary railway committee last week, stated that he
had turned his attention very much lately to the defences
of the country, and that it was most important that all the
arsenal/ should be connected by railway, and of similar
gauge. His lordship also stated that it was in contemplation
to make some defences on an Island in the British Channel,
and that it was advisable that Portsmouth and other
arsenals should be connected with Bristol by • railway
without break of gauge. Pembroke, his lordship said in
answer to • question, wan not an anenal, it was simply •
building and refitting yard. His lordship also stated that
be was in favour of connecting all towns on the south coast
by rail._ . _

A Melbourne correspondent writes :—" Sir Red-
mond Berry, ooe of the Judges of the Somme Court, asses
to England by the overland mail, sod will act u one of the

oommusionen for Victoria at the Great Industrial Ex-
hibition. Sir Itedmoad is • great benefactor to this
oolony. We owe the Melbourne University, of which he is
Chancellor, to his exertions, and I believe he was the origi-
nator of the public library, which has since grown under his
exertion, to a splendid collection of 27,000 volumes. It is
not too much to say that his example of well-directed
energy bus influenced the formation of other useful institu-
tions. The Supreme Court Library which now contains
4,000 vols., the growth of ten years, has also been =stained
by his vigilant care. Catalogues of these librarire have just
been printed in such • manner as to exhibit the state of
typography in this colony, and copies will be bound with the
same view. The other commissioners are Mr. Charles

Bright and Mr. J. G. Knight, the architect of the Houses
of Parliament, who proceed to England in the Great
Britain, and about 400 tons of articles for exhibition will
follow them in ships to sail forthwith. It will be found
that we grow other things besides gold in Victoria."
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Nearly a third of the members of the Legislative
Body dined with the Emperor and Empress Napoleon on
Thursday. In the evening there was a reception.
It seems to be generally believed that the Em-
peror of the French will pay a visit to Loudon this year,
for the purpose of seeing the Exhibition, to the magni-
ficence of which hie own subjects have contributed so
largely, and possibly his imperial Majesty will make this
visit coincide with the period fixed for the opening. Other
illustrious foreign personages likely to be present are
the King of the Belgians, with the Crowe Prince and
Princes Royal of Prussia, Prince Louis of Hesse, to.
The Debate of to-day, alluding to M. de Bour-
queney's explanation' (mentioned in our Paris correspond.
cone) as to his statement that the press was freer in Mittens
than in France, observes :—" After all, M. de Bounmeney
has maintained his assertion. Facts Sr. facts. An by the
terms of a recent law the Vienna journals will in thinning
established without the authority of any one ; as the editor
will have to deposit but a trilling sum as caution money ;
as the journals will cease to be visited by warnings—a cue.
tom imported from France—and can no longer he suspended
or suppretsed but by the authority of justice after a legal trial
and the arguments of counsel, there is no senator in the world
who can maintain that the mewl is less free at Vienna than
at Paris. All that the purest patriotism can suggest is to
urge that license reigns at Vienna, while at Paris the salu-
tary principles of good order prevail. M. de Bourqueney
has not thought it apropos to express himself on this point,
and we imitate his reserve."

The civil marriage of Mdlle. Adele de Rothschild
with Baron Salomon de Rothschild took place on Wednes-
day at Frankfort. The religious ceremony was performed
on the following day at the synagogue by the great rabbi of
the Consistory of Paris. All the members of the Moths
child family from Paris, London, and Vienna were present.
Baron James de Rothschild, on the occasion of the marriage
of his ion Salomon, has presented 2,000 fr. to the maim of
the ninth arrondissement at Paris for distribution to the

poor.
Dr. Maggiorani, one of the moat eminent pig-
Alicia:A of Rome, whilst hastening to attend • patient in an
alarming state of illness, was stopped the other afternoon
by • large body of police in plain clothes, who left the
patient to shift for himself, and escorted the doctor back to
his own residence, where they made a most rigorous exami-
nation of all his books, papers, and private correspondence.
The search lasted several hours, but nothing was discovered
at all inculpating him. Meanwhile Lis patients were sadly
alarmed at his protracted absence, and some female mem-
bers of his family were frightened into fits by the unusual
and importunate visitors who detained him at home.
DRBPATCH or Ausztokx Meta—The Cunard
Royal Nail steamer China was on Saturday despatched from
Liverpool for New York with the mails for British North
Amens, United States, Bahamas, and Havannah, together
with • lags cargo and 40 cabin passengers. Oa Wednesday
the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia OempaaY•
steamer will be deseatebed from Liverpool tor
New York with mails foe the United States, ke.