The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-23 00:00:00

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WINDSOR CASTLE, FM 21.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louis
of Here, drove in the grounds this morning.
The Viscount and Viscountess Sydney arrived at the
Coatis yesterday and returned to London to-day.
The Queen, accompanied by the Prince's Louis of Herr
drove out in a carriage and four in the afternoon, attended
by the Dowager Counter of Yount Edgctunbe, the Hon.
Yre Bruce, and Lord Alfred Paget.
Prise Louis of Here rode on horseback.

Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinatoue, arrived at
the Castle in the evening from the hanger's lodge, Green-
wich-park.

SUNDAY.

Her Majesty, and Prises and Princess Louie of Helms,
Princess Helena, Primer Louise, Prince Arthur, and
Prince Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentlemen of the
Court, attended Divine service in the private chapel this
morning.

The service was performed by the Hon. and Very Rev.
the Dam of Windsor.

The Fan of St. Germans and Viscount and Tiecoturtme
Palmenton arrived at the Castle yesterday. Lord St. Ger-
mane and Lord Palmerston had audiences of the Queen.

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, Sir G. C.
Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, 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.

A deputation from the pariah of Bermondsey had an in-
terview on Saturday with the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, at
the Office of the Poor Law Board, Whitehall.
Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of the North American Provinces,
Bermuda, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands.

Tai HELLTH or PRINCI ALPHXD.—We are
gratified to leant that the report' of the illness of
Prince Alfred have been much exaggerated. On Saturday
the Duke of Newcastle received two telegrams from Malta,
the first dated 11.30 cm., and the other in the evening, both
of which represented the Prince as progressing favourably,
although he was weak from fe►er. Yesterday, we believe, a
telegram, dated at 10.30 a.m., from Malta, wasreoeived, which
announced, through Major Dowell, that Dr. Armstrong
represented that his Royal Rightism was still progressing
very favourably.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, and mite honoured the performanora of the
Adelphi Theatre on Saturday evening.

A Copenhagen letter of the 17th says :—" The
nearer the time fixed for the departure of the Prince.
Alexandra for England approaches, the more clearly is
evinced the attachment to her royal highness which is felt
by all classes of the community in this kingdom. A grand
ball was given a few evenings ago by her father, Prince
Christian of Denmark, at which all the distinguished per-
sonages in the capital were present ; and as it was meant
that an opportunity should then be afforded to the ami►ble
princess to bid adieu to those to whom her royal highs..
has so greatly endeared herself, not only the Danish and
foreign ministers, but all who have acquired a name either
in state affairs, in literature, or in art, vied with each other
in expressing their regrets at Denmark being thus deprived
of one of its brightest ornaments, though they could not at
the same time refrain from offering their congratulations to
one in whom the whole nation interested, on the brilliant
career on which her royal highness is about to mika."

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, with the
youthful Narvik; of Stafford, have returned to Naples in
his pea's stem yacht from Alexandria and Malta. The
duke and duchess went to Egypt at the invitation of the
late viceroy, Said Pacha, but when they arrived in harbour
they were informed of the sudden death of his bighorns.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury en-
tertained his Excellency the Austrian Azobeasedor and the
Oonnt-at d'Apponyi, his Excellency the Saxon Minister,
the Earl of Malmenbury, the Marquis and Marchkeess de
Oaderonte, the Countess (Dowager) of Westmoreland. Lord
sad Lady Moho, Lord West, Mr. W. Peel, and a select
party at diluter on Se turday evening, at the family house
ba Arlington-street.

Lord and La ly Colchester received at dinner, on
Saturday amnia& the Marcbionesa of Ely, the Earl end
Countess of Derby, Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady
1 Mary Stanhope, the Evl of Etlenboroegh, Laura Countess
of Antrim and Lady Helen M'llonnell, the Earl et Bel-
mont, Viscountess Newry, Viscount and Vienountese
Hobncedale, Viscount Hood, Viscount Chelsea, Hon.
°card Noel, Mr. Bather Johnstone, and Mr. Henry
=banks.

Lord Ebury entertained at dinner on Saturday
evening at his residence, in Park•street, Grosvenor-square,
the Duke of Somerset, the Marquis of Westminster,
Fail Russell, Visoount Enfield, Lord Lyveden, the Right
Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., the Roe. henry Bland, M.P.,
the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, M.P., the Right Hon.
Mr Charles Wood, and Captain the Hon. R. Grosvenor.
_ _

The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his second full
dress parliamentary dinner this erasion, on Saturday, at
his official residence. There were present the Right Hon.
Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, Lord Stan-
ley, Lord Nara, Lord Cland Hamilton, Hon. Frederick
Lygon, Colonel the Right Hoe. G. Cecil Weld Forester,
the Right Hon. Sir John Pakingtoo, Bart., the Right Hoe.
Spencer Walpole, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the Right
Hoo. William Bereeforal, the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley
the Right Hon. John B. Mowbray, Sir Stafford H. North:
cote, Bart., Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Sir Hugh Oahu., Colonel
Dunne, Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, Mr. Whitman, Mr. H.
Baillie, General the Right Hoe. J. Peel, Colonel Taylor,
Yr. F. Winn Knight, Mr. Claiborne Hardy, Mr. George,
Mr. Ormsby Gore, Mr. David More, sod the Rey. the
Ohoplaio, and Mr. Alfred Denison, private secretary to the
I altalker-

Mr. Samuel Whitbread, M.P., is still detained
at Brisbtoo by the delicate state of his health, which pre-
cludes km from attending in the House of Commons. In
consequence of his continued indisposition the duty of the
making oat the recent navy estimates bas devolved chiefly
upon Captain the Hon. James B. Driunniond, C.B.

A New York letter of the 10th says :—" New
York has for the whole of this day been in a fluster of
excitement. Broadway hem swarmed with crowds that
blocked the passage aphid pedestrians, unless they chose
to take the middle of the road and mingle with the stream
of omnibuses and carriages. At Gracechurch there was a
jam of vehicles, ►od the police had the utmost difficulty
in preserving order amld a multitude of almost frantic
women, clamouring, shouting, and pressing to force their
way into the sacred edifice. Oppoeite the Metropolitan
Hotel was soother multitude, gazing up at the windows
and refusing to move 00. It was the marriage of a male and
a female dwarf, under the auspices of Mr. Phineas T.
Barnum. Genwal Tom Thumb, 31 inches high, had mar-
ried Miss Lavinia Warren, 27 inches high, and Barnum had
given away the bride."

The Prussian censure has adopted the plan of
blotting out with printers ink objectionable pictures and
persgraphs in foreign journals, after which process thaw
are delivered to the persons to whom they are addrceeed.
This blackening process bas mostly been applied to Ponca.