The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-25 00:00:00

Meanwhile they may certainly find tsatisfaction in
the reflection that, though the reduction of 2 (per
cent. made this month in the Bank of England rate
willtendsensibly torelieve_trade, the ralueof money
is still too high to afford any stimulus to unsound
speculation.

!Mt Court.

WDiDBOB CASTLE, N0v.24.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
walked and drove in the grounds this morning.

Princess Louise. attended by Wile. Nocella, and Prisoe
Leopold, attended by Kr. Buff, west oat driving.
Prisons Helena rode is the riding school.

The Prince sad Prisms. of Wales, with Prince Albert
Victor, left Marlborough-house yesterday all noon for
Saadriugharr. •
Their Royal Highnesses were attended by the Countess
of Macclesfield, Major Tesedele,lME. Holzman, and—Z.
Fisher.

A Cabinet Council we'd !held av M the
official residence of the First of the Treasury,
in Downing•street. The ministers present were—
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville, Sir George
Grey, Earl Russell, the Right Hoo. Edward
Cardwell, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right
Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley,
the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. C. P.
Villiers.

Despatches were seat yesterday from the OolooMl-ollice
to the Governor defsed&

VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THE METROPOLIS.
(THIS DAY.)

This morning her Away the Queen, accompa-
nied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena, and attended by
the ladies and gentlemen of the suite, left Windsor Castls
shortly after balf•put 10 o'clock, for town. The morning,
though cold, was bright sad annoy.
On the platform at Paddington Mr. F. Saunders, the
secretary, Messrs. Tyrrell, Kathy,e and Mr. A. Higgins, the
station master, had stationed themselves to receive the
royal party, who immediately left the train, entered their
carriages, and drove from the station amid the salutations
of the numerous spectators. Her Majesty will return by
special train to Windsor in the course of the afternoon.

His Excellency the Prussian ambassador and the
Countess Bernetorff left taint yesterday for Windsor Castla
ass visit to her Majesty.

The Duke and Duchess of Manebeeter will leave
their town residence to a few days for Kisaboltoa Cagle.
Haste.

The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Caven-
dish are entertaining visitors at Chatsworth.

His Excellency M. de Bille, the respected repreeen-
Wive of Denmark at the Court of St. Jaime's, was married
yesterday to Louisa Elisabeth, daughter of the late Sr
Campton Dorarile, Bart., end half-sister of the preesat
bead of the family. The ceremony took place at St. Mary's
Church, Bryaosk.e.eguare.

The poet of Controller of the Stationery Office,
vacated by the death of Mr. John Ramsay M'Calloch, ha;
bees conferred, it is said, on Mr. Thomas Hughes, anther
of "Tom Brown's School Days."

The Indipendance Beige announces that Lord
Grey, "Primo Minister to the Queen of England," had ar-
rived in Brownie, where he had two audienoes with King
Leopold, and them left for Germany.
_ _

Mr. W. E. Forster, M. P. for Bradford, will ad-
dress his coastituents is St. Norge's Rail, in th►t tors, as
the second Tuesday in Jaaaary.

Mr. Spurgeon is to preach ►t Edinburgh on Ban-
dar next, and while the tickets of admiwieu were being
distributed au Wednesday at the Mello Hell the staircases
and pussies were crammed with applicants. Somehow
or other then was a deficiency of tickets, sad the appli-
cants, getting enraged, broke open doom, wad made • for-
cible entrance isto the large hall, where they shouted,
yelled. knocked down seats, and es* or two of the more
darinz jumped on the platform, and attempted a solo
ma the organ. The polies cum* at last clewed the bell of
the rioters.