The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-08 00:00:00

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BALKORILL, does 5.
The Queen drove out yesterday, accompanied by
Princess Louise.
Princess Helena went out riding.
Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, left the Castle
yesterday for Edinburgh.
The Queen, accompanied by the royal family, will leave
the Castle tbis day at 12 o'clock for Moyne, where a special
train will be in readiness to convey her Majesty, the royal
family, and suite to Windsor Castle.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Jim 6.

Her Majesty, axompanied by Prince Alfred, Princess
Helena, Primness Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince
Leopold. left Balmoral yesterday at half-put 12, and
arrived at Windsor Castle at 9 o'clock this morning.
The suite in attendance consisted of the Lady Augusta
Bruce, Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey, Lord Charles
Fitzroy, Major Cowell, Mr. Buff, and Mr. Rutland.
The Ducheu of Athole attended her Majesty to Perth.
The Duke of Argyll travelled with her Majesty, and left
for London.

The Prince and Princess of Wales visited her Majesty.
Lord Talbot de Malshide and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell
are the Lord and Groom in waiting.

Major-General the Hon. A. Dl. Hood and Lieutenant-
Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe are the Equerries to her Ms-

The Maritimes' of Ely has succeeded the Duchess of
Athol. as Lady in Waiting.
The Hon. Beatrice Bog and the Hon. Emily Cathcart
have arrived a. Maids of Honour in Waiting.

SUNDAY.

The Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince
Alfred. Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Leo-
pold, and the Lidice and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended
vine service this morning in the private chapel. The Rev.
Lord Wriotheslsy Humid! officiated.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll. Sir George Grey,
Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl de
Grey, Sir Charles Wocul, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon.
T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Card-
well, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon.
C. P. Villiers.

The Duke of Atoll arrived in town on Saturday from
Scotland.

Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Heligoland. Despatches were
seat to the Governors of Canada, the Bahamas, and to the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.

LEVEE.-(THIS DAY.)

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales held a
levee this afternoon at St. James's Palace, by command of
her Majesty. The levee was numerously ►ttended.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Prince= Mary honoured the Countess
(Dowager) of Jersey with their company at dinner, on Satur-
day evening, at her ladyship's residence in Berkeley-square.
A aslant party had the honour of meeting their royal
highnesses.

Viscount and Viscountesa Sydney will have the
honour to entertain the Duchess of Cambridge and the
Princess Mary at dinner in the course of the present month.
The Earl Brownlow is expected to arrive from
Madeira early in the present week. There will be grand
doings at Ambridge Castle m the second week in July, to
celebrate the coming of age of the young earl.

The Countess (Frances) Waldeirave gave a grand
entertainment on Saturday evening, to their Royal High-
DOOM the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale. The following
were invited to meet their royal highnesses :—The

sea %AMON'S they, sae ...N....a.. aome.w ..one wensley-
dale, Lord and Lady Norreys sod Lady Elisabeth Bert*
Lady Molieworth, the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Deni-
son, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Hon. Arthur
Kinnard, M.P., Sir Edwin Landeeer, Mr. and Mrs. Higgins,
Mr. Frederick Peel, Mr. Ralph Soeyd, Mr. Cole, to
Ou Saturday afternoon Professor Thomson deli-
vered the second lecture of hie worse on the "Electric To-
lorrlngdt." at the Royal Institution. At the cooclusion of
the lecture several telegraphs were shown is action, sod
=mg them was a gigantic repreesetatioe of the traamenis-
sion of signals by a Mono instrurneet, is which the symbobi
were marked by electro-chemical decomposition ea a broad
band of paper that paned nearly woes the lecture-room.