The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-18 00:00:00

ebt Coun.

WINDSOR CASTLE, .7ma 17.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, '
walked and drove in the grounds this morning.
Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, went to Dover
in the afternoon to meet her Majesty the Queen of Prussia.
Lord Methuen and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. D. de Roe have
also left the Castle for Dover to attend the Queen of
Prussia to Windsor.

The C.autesa of Deeart has succeeded the ltarchiooees of
Ely as Lady ia Waiting.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council mat yester-
day. An appeal from Victoria, "Booth v. A. Beckett,"
part beard, was resumed. The lords present were Lo td
Kiogiodown and the Lords Justice. Knight Bruce and
Turner.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and
the officers of the Royal Artillery give a grand banquet on
Wednesday next at the idesaroom. Woolwich, to a dis-
tinguished party. Several of her Majesty's Ministers are
invited to the banquet.

•
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
had a dinner party List evening, at St. James's Palace.
There were pressed their Royal Highness the Duke and
Dunham d'Aumale, his Excellency the Austrian Ambul-
ation and the Countess d'Apponyi, his Excellency the
Rumba Ambassador and the Baroness Brunnow, the
Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland, Count Pahlen, Viscount and Vis-
countesses/03mile, Viscount Smiley, Dowager Lady Truro,
Mr. H. Greville, Dr. Quin, Colonel Puree and the lady
and Gentlemen in Waiting on the Duke and Duchene
d'Aumale. The Duchess of Cambridge received a select
circle after dinner.

The marriage of the Hon. Georgians Susan
Copley, youngest daughter of Lord Lyndhunt. and Mr.
Damns, ILP., is to be solemnised on Thursday next.

A marriage is arranged and will shortly take
place between the Lord Elward-George nimbus-Howard,
M. P., Deputy Earl Marshal, and Miss Wheel-redo de Lisle,
third daughter of Mr. Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle, of
Garendoo Park sad Grace Dim Manor.

We are sorry to hear that Admiral the Hon. Sir
George Elliot., K .C. 8.. is in ■ very precarious state of
health, which occasious much anxiety to the members of
his family.
The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland left Dublin on
Monday, attended by Mr. Hatchell, his private secretary,
Dr. Hatchell. physician to the household, and Mr. Ark-
',right, aide-de camp in waiting, on a visit to Lord George
Hill, at Ballyvar House, near 140181t00, county of Donegal,
He intends to visit the western coast of that county, and
especially Gweedore, where Lord George has so swam-
fully reclaimed both the sterile land and the semi-barbarous
inhabitants.

On Tuesday (says the Edinburgh Courant) their
Royal Highnesses the Due sod Duchene de Chartres visited
the beautiful grounds of Ddkeith Paws, Baffin Chapel,
and Craigmillar Castle. Their royal hien:mew were ex-
pected to leave the Douglas Hotel yesterday, en route for
Crieff, on s tour through the highland* of Perthshire.
The Public Orator was assailed in the Oxford
Theatre yesterday with a running fire of personalities, and
there was a ceaseless accompaniment of shouts and groans
to his sonorous Latin periods. The Chancellor was appealed
to not to permit " the man in the rostrum to make hoes at
his," and to punish him for his had grammar and false
quantities. Now and again, when the orator made himself
heard for a few words, there were patrocusiog (Tice of
" That's good—for you," or "What a idly old lunatic !"
in the drawling Dundreary style ; and oars when the orator
paused in disgust, some one called out, " He's going to
pint--give him a alma of water!" which at once elicited
• unanimous shout, "Oh dear, he never drieks it!" It was
impossible to resift a feeling of compassion for • pave and
reversed seignior thus set up in a pulpit to be bated by the
Audents, for it it much the same every year ; but then one
mast remember that he is more than a match for the young
men at any other time.

Hie Hoyal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
write. to correct an error in a report of his speech on the
case of Sergeant-Major Lindy. He was made to say. "the
rusk of that imprisoement win pot known to me whoa my
memorandum was written ;" wherein he "intended to con-
vey to the house that the fact. connected wild that impri.
sonment were not known to me when my mammoth=
was written."

On the 2Gth Mr. Collier will ask the Attorney-
General whether it ie the intention of the government to
introduce, in the present session, a bill relating to a change
in the thecae.

Mr. Collins intends to-morrow to ask the Attor-
ney-General if his attention has been directed to the report
of, and the evidence taken before, the Lisburn Election
Committee ; sod if so, whether in hie opinion inch evi-
dence is sufficient to support a prosecution for bribery
against John Doherty Barbour, Fog., or Robert Barbour,

The Sea Queen, which was the subject of parlia-
mentary diamunioe about two mouths back on account of the
course pursued by the government with regard to the gum-
tiou of her carrying a mail, bee arrived safely at the Mexi-
can pert of M■tamorsa. Messrs. Bennett and Wake, the
brokers to the ship. have a telegram that she reached her
datiaatioa on the 19th of May, after a panne of 99; days