The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-08 00:00:00

place among the Powers of the world to peewit
her neighbours to be indifferent fo her political
condition at home. And if when they find a
government assuming to be founded on the na-
tional will, established by the votes of millions of
electors, afraid to let thirteen independent
citizen; men of unimpeachable character, meet
in a private room to consult togither to
choose candidates for an election, they may
be excused for doubting the durability of an
edifice of which the corner-stone is but a theatrical
" property." M. BERRYRR, and his eloquent col-
leagues in the defence of these thirteen members
of an electoral committee, cannot possibly regard
the sentence of the Court of Correctional Appeal
as a defeat. The trial itself has been a triumph. On
the one aide a Government which strikes off eight
thousand electors from the increasing population of
tle capital ; which permits its functionaries and
dependents to form electoral committees, and to
"organise" universal suffrage by a wholesale
system of fraud and intimidation, even to breaking
the seals of private letters and ransacking private
houses. On the other, thirteen harmless citizens
accused of constituting an illegal association of
more than twenty persons, and by the aid of the
tortured text of an article in the Code prosecuted
for an offence they could not, by reason of their
number, have even technically committed, even if
such an offence were known to the plain letter and
spirit of the law. The true significance of this trial
will not be lost to France or to liberal Europe.

CU Court.

WINDSOR CIA.STLE., Duo. 7.

The Princess Helena, attended by Lady Caroline
Barrington and Lieoteunnt•Colonel du Plat, wan by the
South Western Railway to Kew yesterday, and yielded the
Duchess of Cambridge and remained to luncheon.
Her royal highness afterwards visited the Count and
Counter of Paris, at Twickenham, and returned by road to
Windsor Castle.

The Queen, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley and Major-
General F. H. Seymour, drove out yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Helena and
Princess Louise, and attended by the Hon. Florence Sey-
mour, drove in the grounds this morning.
The Princess Beatrice went oat walking.
lzuly Napier h►d the honour of dining with her Majesty
last evening, and left the Castle to-day.
Viaconnt Torrington and Lieutenant-Colonel F. Cavendish
have succeeded the Earl of Caithness and Captain Sir W,
Hosts as Lord and Groom in Waiting.

The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer left
town yesterday for Clamber, Notts.

THE QUEEN'S INSPECTION OF THE WINDSOR
GARED3ON.—A D♦ucHTER OF THE Rzon(xlci.—lt Mil be
remembered that during the Qiiesn's inspectMn of the 2nd
battalion Coldsltems Guards on Saturday last, her Majesty
paid a visit to Mrs. Creme, the regimental sergeant-major's
wife, who lias recently been confined. On Tuesday a letter
was received by Lieut,Colonel Fading, the officer com-
manding the battalion, from 001, the lion. Sir C. B. Phipps,
the keeper of bar Majesty's peivy purse, stating that the
Queen, baring heard that the child (a little girl) was yet tin-
baptised, desired that it might be named Victoria Alberta,
in commemoration of her Majesty's visit to the barrack.
With the letter a cbegne for the sum of 5/. was forwarded,
as a present from her Majesty to Mrs. Cresgb, and which
was at once handed to the highly-gratified recipient.
His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador has
returned to Chancing Howse, from Vienna, after an absence
of three months. The Countess Apponyi is expected in
town next week from Paris.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester left town
yesterday for limboßoo Cattle, Hosts.

The bake of Somerset will quit his official resi-
dent* at the Admiralty, early in the following week, for
his mat, Storer Park, near Totems, Devoe, where his grace
and family will stay until after the Christmas holidays.
The Earl and Countess Russell left Pembroke
Lodge yesterday on a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.

The Earl and Countess Spencer left Spencer
Hones yesterday for Brighton. when they intend to stay till
the 90th inst., and then go to Althorp Hall.
The immediate cause of Lord Carlisle's death was
paralysis moulting from softening of the brain.
The funeral of the late Lord Carlise is fixed for
Tuesday. The body will be deposited in the family bury.
ing place—the mausoleum in the park at Castle Howard.
It was Lord Carlisle's wish that his funeral should be a
private one, but there is a strong desire in Yorkshire that
the led sad °Hoes of public respect should be paid to the
remains of this lamented oobleman.

Great preparations are making at Romeey for
the opening of the new Corn Exchange there by Lord Pal.
mersion on the 15th bask

Mr. Ruskin had a " talk" with the boys of the
Manchester Free Grammer School. yesterday, in his own
interesting and sunset manner. He wee well received in
the school, and was enthusiastically cheered when. as •
practical illustration at his advice—" Boys ought to be eager
to play and ready to work"—he asked for • holiday.
The extensive collection of modern pictures of
the highest class, the property of Means. Hayward and
Leggett, the well known picture dealers and publishers,
was yesterday submitted to public comnetitios (in Coble'
queue of the death of Mr. Leggett), at their Gallery in
Chaagr•lley, Corehill. by Mears. Christie, Meneo•, and
Woods. The amount realised was upwards of 7,24381. The
sale was resumed this day.

The following firma have a!ready announced
their intention to clews their establishments on the 26th,
and • large majority of the persons employed in them will
hare leave of absence from Friday to Tneaday :—Mesers.
Leaf, Sous, and Co. ; the Fore•street Warehouse Company ;
MUM Cook, Son, sad Co. ; Marra. Ellis, Howell, and
Co. ; Maws. J. and C. Boyd and Co. ; Messrs. J. and R.
Morley ; Mews. W. and IL Morley ; Manna. Bradbury,
Gre►tonz, Beall, and Co. ; and Masan. Caldsoott, Sons,
and Willcooks.

The Royal Sovereign, turret ship, was yesterday
brought down from her moorings in midetream in the
upper part of Poetemouth harbour, and again placed at bee
old berth alongside Portsmouth dockyard. This course has
been adopted is order to enable the dockyard authorities to
complete the required alterations to the ship's fittings on
the upper deck somewhere about the middle of January—
the stipulated tune—it having been found impossible to
carry out the work satisfactorily with the ship lying at so
great a &Mance from the dockyard en her late mooring
bee*.

The portion of the Redbrid4e and Andover Rail-
way between Redbridge and Romney is completed, and the
line between Southampton and Romney direct will shortly
be open for traffic.

The railway between Christchurch, in Hants, and
the Isehimable watering plans of Bournemouth is about
to be eommemed.

General Todleben, the defender of Sebastopol,
has taken his departure from Paris for Nice, when be is to
welt oa the Empress of Rorie.

A few evenings since a drama of the Duke de
Iforny's was played at Compi4ne in the PTIMINICO of the
court. It is ectitied Lea Finesses (tea Mari. The hero
•od heroine--th•t ir to my, the most objectionalge
characters—of the piece are a husband and wife,
who deceive each other, and each of whom tries,
by means of " the detectives," to hod out something
that will leave the opposite party room to throw • stone.
The locidents are of such • kind that at court they
have been termed " situations seabreness," and the witti.
cisme eoongb to make a captain of Hassan hesitate before
giving utterance to them. The Emperor did not know ea.
icily what kind of • play the President of the Legislative
Assembly bad composed until it was played before him.
It is said that on seeing it he expressed the greatest dim-
pleasure, and ordered that It should be forthwith erased
from the repertoire. On the first of this month more Moo.
mat tableaux vivant* were acted. Oa* subject was " The
Sleeping Beauty in the Wood." The Marquis of Gallifet
was the Chatelaine, and the pretty Countess Pourtales the
Sleeping Princess. Hercules spinning at Orophales feet was
introduced the same night, and when this tableau wee di►
posed of the Coaster Walewska appeared attired as a
Cambria..