The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-16 00:00:00

Cbt Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 13.
Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinatone,
left the Castle this morning for Greenwich-park.
The Queen walked and drove in the grounds, attended by
Lady Augusta Stanley.
Primes Helena rode in the Home-park, and Princess
Beatrice went out walking.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.office
from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were sent to the
Governor of Canada.

Prince Alfred, among numerous other lectures
he is attending at Bonn, has enrolled himself as one of the
pupils of Herr von Sybel, the noted liberal politician.

The Duke of Northumberland yesterday com-
pleted his 72nd year. The noble duke, with the duchess,
is at Alnwick Castle, in excellent health.

The Duke of Devonshire and Laxly Louisa
Cavendish and the Marquis of Ildrtington, M.P., returned
on Monday to Chatsworth, from attending the funeral of
the Earl of Carlisle at Castle Howard.

The Duchess of Hamilton and Lady Mary
Harai!too have recently arrived in Paris from their chateau
at Baden-Baden.

The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland arrived
at Stafford House, St. James's, on Wednesday, from Castle
Howard, Yorkshire, where her grace was present on the
occasion of the funeral of the Earl of C►rlisle.

The Earl and Countess of Hardwic•ke are sur-
rounded by a large circle of friends at Wimpols Hall, Cam-
bridgeshire. The guests comprise the Earl of Malmesbnry,
the Earl of Dunmore, Viscount and Viscountess Royston
►nd Lady Feodorowns Wellesley, Lord Loughborough,
Lord and Lade Blomfield, Right Hon. Sir W. H. Jolla°,
M.P., and Miss Jollitfe. Colonel the Hon. P. W. Talbot,
S:c. The company assembled on Tuesday, and the gentlemen
have since then had capital sport with the gun. The
dinner party earh evening has numbered 18 guests.

Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., with the Right Hon.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mn. Gladstone, has
been entertaining a large party at Hawarden Castle. Flint-
shire, including the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Ladies
Talbot, the Countess of Meath, Viscount and Viscountess
Fending and Ladies Feilding (2), Viscount Milne, Lord
Lyttelton, Lord firabezon, Lady Louisa Pennant and Miss
Pennant, Lady Egerton of Tattoo and Hon. Miss Egerton,
Hon. Evelyn Ashley, Hon. Mr. Tracy, Hoc. Neville Lyt-
telton, the Misses Gladstone (2), Mr. Totten:niche, Mr. Rota,
Mr. E. J. Talbot, Mr. Warburtosa Colonel Keppel, &c. On
Tuesday night Sir Stephen Glynn* gave a grand ball to the
local nobility and gentry, Mrs. Gladstone misting in the
booms* of the reception. The house party broke up yes-
terday.

Cannes has at present a large proportion of visi-
tors. Notwithstanding the great increase of buildings
within the last two years, most of the villas are let, and
the ehief hotels and lodging.hotuses Sr. nearly full. Among
the F.nglisb of distinction. besides Lord Brougham, may be
mentioned the Earl and Countess of Mount.Edgcumbe,
Viscountess Cramley, Sir John and Lady Duckworth, Lord
and Lady Thomas Hoy, Lady Kay Shuttlewortb, Lady
Ellis, Sir George sal the Hon. Lady Phillips, the Hon.
Lady Grey, General and Lady Frances Higginson, Lady
Mary Egerton, the Duke and Duchess of Grafton, and Lady
Charlotte Fothringbam.

A solemn tribute to the memory of the late Earl
of Carlisle was paid on Wednesday evening by a number of
ladies and gentlemen at the Dublin Rotunda, the Pillar.
room of which was crowded. It was a musical perform.
anal, under the direction of Mr. Gaskin, whose pupils were
the principal singers. A portrait of the late earl occupied •
prominent place under the orchestra. and a bust of the same
nobleman, draped in black serge, was placed in another
part of the room. Several of the windows were also hung
in mourning. The vocalists were nearly 100 in number.
The performance commenced with • rendering on the piano-
forte of the " Dead March " from the oratorio of Soul. The
next piece was the Prayer from Mures in Egypt, sung by the
whole company. Mozart's twelfth mass, The Kyrie, was
then performed. The duet. " Who has not felt 'ninth
azure skies," the words by the late E trl of Carlisle, and
the music by Mr. Gaskin, was next sung. The ancient Irish
herdic requiem, to the words of "0 ! eon of Howard, why
didat thou die r concluded the performance.

THE LIBERAL CAUSE IN ESSEX.

MALDON LIBERAL INDEPENDENT CLUB.

Yesterday (Thursday) evening, this large and
influential club held its anniversary festival at the Public
Ball, Maldon, when about 200 of tLe leading memben
and supporters were present. Sir THOMAS B. WrSTER.S.
Bart.. presided, supported on the right and left by the
Mayor of Mahlon (J. Barritt, E,q.), T. Sutton Western,
M.P., C. Fortescue, M.P., the Rev. Sir John Page
Wood, Bart., Sir Thomu Powell Buxton Bart., Charles
&into°, Esq.. M.P., John Gordon Hobos,. Esq., can-
didate for Colchester, R. Wingfield Baker, Esq., R. J.
Baphaw, Esq., candidate for Harwich ; Major Rnssell,
Colonel Western, Captain Byng, R.N. ; Rev. C. Lawrence,
Mr. C. Wood, Mr. R. Honywood, Rev. B. Luard, Mr.
Courtauld, Mr. !faddy, Mr. J. Vaizey, Mr. Sari!, Mr.
lle Wairey, ke.

Over the platform was suspended a large yellow banner,
with the inscriptions "The Queen and Constitution,"
" Economy and Retrenchment," &a.
Over the gallery was suspended another banner with
" Electors, assert your independence."
Mr. C. FORTIESCCE, M.P., in reply to the "Celt of
"Her Majesty'. Mioiaters," addressed the meeting on
the subject a the policy pursued by the government in
New Zealand. He justified the present war ; and while
he regretted to say that by the last accounts it was quite
evident that it would take another campaign to finish it,
the government were in hopes that in all future time an-
other such war would become unnecessary. He contended
that our conduct tow►rds the natives had been mild and just,
but that the native. would not accept the rights
and privileges of British citizens accompanied by
the obligations of order and submission. Passiog to Au..
tralian questions, he congratulated the meeting on the
abolition of the final remnant of transportation to Western
Australia, 'but condemned the cooduct of some individuals
at Melbourne in agitating to such an extent as to procure
the sending back of the expirees. He next ■poke of the
projected confederation of the Canadian provinces in terms
of praise, observing that it would produce no ch►nge except
it might be a beneficial one io their relations to this oountry.
Turning Whom. quantities, heoontsoded that the government
were perfectly right in the course they took oo the Danish
question, but that course did not imply the adoption in all
its absoluteness of the principle of non-intervention. The
hon. gentleman sat down amid the cheers of the meeting,
after stating th►t there was every prospect at the next
geoeral election that the tory stronghold is Ewa would be
broken op.

Mr. SUTTON WENTLItN, M.P., and Mr. BUXTON, M.P.,
afterwards addressed the meeting, and the proceediop did
not eonclude till s late hour.