The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-06 00:00:00

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ILATEST INTELLIGAICE.

PRUSSIA.

The discussion upon the address, which com-
menced on Wednesday in the Chamber of Deputies,
promises to be of a lively character. The Minister
of Finance argued against the necessity of any ad-
dress at all ; but after a short debate, in which the
chiefs of the different parties engaged, an immense
majority decided in favour of an address. M. de
Vincke has proposed a counter-address, which
enters upon the legislative topics mentioned in
the royal speech, and touches upon questions
of external policy. This document is any-
thing but ministerial in its tone, and
contains the following significant passage :—" We
profoundly regret that your Majesty's ministers
have given expression to these accusations, and
lent some countenance to the supposition that the
class of Prussian functionaries, so well tried in
their loyalty, could forget the oath taken by your
Majesty." It is reported at Berlin that the King
will not receive this address if it is adopted.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.
Constantinople letters and journals to May 28
have reached us. The following is a summary of

he principal incidents connected with the Prince
of Wales's proceedings, from the 23rd ult. to the
day of his departure, on the 27th :
In the morning of the 24th the Sultan paid his royal
highness one of the most rueful of the many oomph.
meats received by him during his visit About 9 a.m.,
the prince and those of his suite who were to
attend him during the day's excursiln were leaving the
Embassy palace-rite, when his Highness the Capitan
Pacha met him with a =saw of congratulation on the
day—the Queen's birthday—and an intimation that.
in honour of the day and of his royal highness's presence
during it in Constantinople, his Majesty had ordered the
release of all British (Maltese and lonian) subjects
confined in the police and debtors' prisons of Stamboul, for
slight others* or small debts—his Majesty granting a free
pardon io the one case, and in the otter paying the amounts
due out of his privy purse. After acknowledging this sot
of imperial courtesy, his royal highness proceeded on board
the Osborne and steamed up into the Black Sea, some
half a dozen of miles past the Blue Symphlegades, far
enough to have a full view of the coast on either
side of the entrance to the strait. The yacht then
turned and landed the royal petty at Kanlidja, where the
Prince breakfasted with Fuad Pacha. This over, his royal
highness and party crossed the Buyukdeer, and taking horse
there proceeded at an almost unbroken gallop to the forest
of Belgrade. Au hour sufficed to glance at the historic
tree which sheltered Godfrey of Bouillon, and the
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hardly leas historic cottage that lodged Lady Mary Mon.
tagu. Then to horse again, and bridle hardly drawn over
the eighteen miles of intei reale; road, till Prince
and party alighted at the palace gate about 6 p.m.
In the evening the invitations to meet his roysl high-
ness at dinner included Mumtaz Effendi, the Minister
of FIOILOCe, the first secretary of the Sultan, the
Italian, Spanish, and Hellenic charges d'affiiires,ll. Rothan,
the first secretary of the French embassy, sad Donut Lu-
dolf. On the 25th (Sunday) his royal highness attended
Divine service in the Embassy Chapel, when the Rev. C.
B. Cribble preached to a very fell congregation. In the
afternoon the Prince crossed to Scutari, and, under the
guidance of Major Gordon, Royal Engineers, visited
the British cemetery and the neighbouring Turkish
barracks and hospital, occupied by our troops during
the Russian war. Earlier in the day his Highness
A'ali Pack• had been the bearer from the Sultan to
his royal highness of the first clams of the Osmanli in bril-
liant& And apropos of this, we may mention that amongst
the jewels which stud the decoration thus presented—the
first of the new order conferred upon any foreign sovereign
or prince—la one of extraordinary size sod purity of water,
which was formerly worn in • ring by Solyman the
Magnificent. On Monday his royal highness was the
guest of the Sultan at • magnificent luncheon given at
the imperial kiosk at the Sweet Waters of Asia. This
entertainment was all the more special a mark of his
Majesty's desire to do exceptional honour to his illustrious
guest from the fact of its being wholly without precedent
in the annals of Ottoman court ceremony. Both the Gnarl
Duke Constantine and the Duke of Brabant breakfasted, en
partieulier, with the late Sultan on the occasion of their
visit to Constantinople ; but his present Majesty resolved
to pay a much more remarkable compliment to the British
heir-apparent, and for this purpose invited his royal high-
ness to a quasi-public dejedner, at which for the first
time in Turkish history his Majesty's chief ministers
and other distinguished personages were to sit at
table with the Pedischah. This novel act of hos-
pitality—which is significant of more than • mere expres-
sion of his Majesty's extreme cordiality towards the royal
traveller—took place about half-past one p.m., in the dining
scale of the exquisite little building whose exterior, at least,
is so well known to local residents, and whose whole in-
terior is • eltelcrieurre of the richest ornamentation. HL
Majesty the Sultan occupied the end of the table—aa oval
one—and on his right sat the Prince. Next to his royal
highness sat Sir Hoary Bulwer, and below his excellency,
A'ali Pacha, Prince Leiningen, and Kiamil Pacha in
the order named. On the left of the Sultan eat
their highnesses Feed P•oha, the Capital' Pacha.
and the Seraskier. The chef de euisirse for the occasion was
Mr. Petals, of the Hotel d'Augleterre at Toerapia, whose
staff of waiters served outside the dining-room ; inside the
service was performed by palace servants in the new impe-
rial livery—blue with white facings. During the hour and
• half which the luncheon lasted, his Majesty's private
band played, at intervals, • choice selection of operatic sirs,
sod at its close " God NM the Queen." The usual fleck of
coffee:and pipes wound up the entertainment, and as a me-
meat* of the event, his Majesty immediately afterwards asked
his royal highness's acceptance of the magnificent narghildi
which he (the prime) had smoked on the occasion.
This very beautiful apparatus, which was gorgeously chased
and thickly diamondatudded—it estimated value being
nearly 3,oool.—was shortly afterwards seat on board the
Osborne in charge of Arifi Bey, the first &simian of the
Divan, sod was accomp►nied in another box by a splendid
snit of the new Zouave uniform, the gift of his Majesty to
Prince Alfred. In the afternoon. his royal highness re-
ceived at the Embassy palace their Highasseas Murad
Effendi (the heir apparent), Hamid Effendi, Reshad
Effendi, and Kemal-Eddeen Effendi, the nephews of hie
Majesty and sons of the late Sultan.
On the 27th, which brought this round of visit, sight-
seeing& and entertainments to • close, his royal highness
received the Grand Vizier A'ali Priebe. and the Cepitan
Pacha at the embassy, where their highnesses delivered
the Sultan's message of valedictory compliment, and
afterwards joined the Prince at lunch. A couple of
hours later, the Magicienne got under way, as avant-
courier to the royal yacht, ►nd saluted the Turkish flag,
as she proceeded out into the Marmora. At half-past 6
p.m., the Prince embarked from the palace stairs, and the
Osborne shortly after headed south, under a royal salute
from the Fetid, which, as also the adjoining corvette,
dressed and manned yards as the yacht steamed rapidly
past. His royal highness will halt at Myteline to visit Troy,
after which be will proceed without further stoppage to
Athens, and thence, after • look in at Malta, to Marseilles
and Paris.

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His royal highness arrived at the Pireus on
the 29th, and was received by the President
of the Council and by the Grand Marshal
of the palms. The Prince declined the apartments
which the court offered him, and stopped at the
bowie of the English ambassador• His royal
highness has since visited the King and Queen,
and his Majesty has returned the visit.
(ascrra's :aaoaars.l

MALTA, JrNI 6.
The royal yacht Osborne arrived here at 7 o'clock
yesterday morning. The Doris and Magicienne

followed.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales landed
at 11 a.m., amid great popular rejoicings.
The Prince will leave for Marseilles to-morrow.

HESSE CASSEL
CASSEL, Jinn &

The /Lasseter Zeitung of to-day says :—" The
Elector, taking into scrims consideration the re-

construction of the ministr/, has ordered General
Major Lomberg to form a new cabinet."
The Municipal Council of C 11118431 has unani-
mously voted M. Oetker tie freedom of the city.