The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBEX 9, 1863.

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BALMORAL. Oce. 7.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
and attended by Lady Churchill, went out yesterd►y
morning. _ . _

In the a•ternoon the Queez, accompanied by the Crown
Prince and Princess of Pruasia and Princess lonise, drove
round by the Lynn of Mulch.
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Primer Helena, and
Prince Arthur, rode up the Gland Mulch, and drove back
from Alt-na-Guithauch.

The King of the Greeks and the Priam of Wales, attended
by Lieutenant Fanch and Captain Grey, went yesterday
morning to Richmond-perk, and spent the day shouting, in
company with the Duke of Cambridge.
The Princess of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mrs. W.
Grey, took a carriage drive in the forenoon, and in the
afternoon took an airing in an open carriage.
List evening the King of the Greeks and the Prince sad
Priem, of Wales honoured the performance at the Hay-
market Theatre with their presence. The mite in atten-
dance consisted of Baron Guldencrone, Captain Grey, and
the Hon. Ida. W. Grey.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonisl•oftioe
from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were sent to the
Governor of the Falkland Islands, and to the Lord High
Commissioner of the lonian Wands.

PRESENTATION OP A WOVEN ADDRESS BY
THE CORPORATION OP COVENTRY TO HER
ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OP
WALES.-(THIS DAY.)

This afternoon the Mayor of Coventry, Thomas
Soden, Fag., and his daughter, Miss Soden, waited upon her
Royal Ilighncee the Prinoem of Wales, at Marlborough
Rouse, to present a worm address from the corporation of
that city, and a gold watch from the ladies of Coventry.
The addrem was as follows :

" To HEE ROYAL Montan Tax PIIICISS 01 WALES.

" May it plasm your Royal Highness,—We, the mayor,
aldermen, and citizens of the city of Coventry, in wooed
assembled, beg to express to your royal highness our
warmest congratulations upon your royal highness's mar-
riage with his Royal Highness the Priam of Wales.
"We join with all our hearts in the general welcome of
your royal highness to this oountry—a welcome which will
have been to your royal highness the most gniteful proof of
the satisfaction with which the august alliance is everywhere
regarded.
" We rejoice that while it renews an intimate connexion
between the royal families of Denmark and England, it is
also hailed with enthusiasm by the people of both nations,
a unison of feeling which cannot fail to promote the good-
will sad friendly intercourse eo long subsisting between
them.

" Our ardent prayer is that the event may be blessed
with abundant happinme to your royal highness and the
Prinoe, imparting joy to our beloved Queen, and wide-spread
helmets to this kingdom.
" Given under our common seal the 24th day a March,
in the year of oar Lord, 1863.

"Teo. SODKtf, Mayor."
(Corporate mil).

Thor Mayor and corporation, having agreed upon the
above address, determined that it should be presented In a
manner worthy of the well-known loyalty of the city, and
that it should be executed in a moves fabric, as • mesa, of
representing the capabilities of the Coventry loom and the
skill of its workmen, and in order that they might show that,
althoughthecity has passed through =ordeal of unparalleled
severity, yet that misfortune has not had the effect of
damping either the energy or loyalty of its citizens.
The carrying out of this resolution was, by general con-
sent, entrusted to Mum. John Ratliff and Son, who
were honoured by being allowed to give the me of their
saachir or, and the services of their establishment gra-
tuitously. Messrs. John Ratliff and Son secured the ser-
vices of Mr. R. Holmes, F.S.A., as designer, and of whose
skill this address m not an unworthy example. The style
of the ornamentation is based upon the principle which
formed the guide of the school' at the close of the fourteenth
century, wiper extended patronage had been the means of
raising the deocrativs arts to a pitch of unexampled mole--
dom. The text, which is written in the Gothic hand of
the period. is enclosed on all sides by a border of interlaced
golden branches, which form a series of clasped medallions,
in which are introduced, alternately, the badge and mono-
gram of the Prime of Wales. The form of the feathers
is Mks. from those on the tomb of the Black Prinos.
Between the medallions the symmetry of the border is pre-
served by spray. of leaves and flowers, of various colours.
In the centre of the border, at the top, are the arms of
the city of Coventry—per pale, yule% and vest, an elephant,
on his back a castle triple-towered, or, surmounted by the
crest, a cat, or. On each side of the shield la an ostrich
feather with the motto " Ida Dien," as represented on early
sad% nisi plumes hays been always emaciated with the
arms of the city, in remembrance of the intimate coons:ion
which it was its honour to enjoy with Edward the
Black Prince. The banners on each aids represent
the " Dannehrog," the national standard of Denmark.
At the foot of the design are the sword and mace—the aria
insignia ; on the dexter side of which are the arms of the
Princeof Wales—England quartering Scotland and Irelead,
with an inescntcheon of Saxony ; and over all a label of
three poiats, the distinctive mark of the oldest eon. On the
sinister side are the arms of the kingdom of Denmark—or,
suede of hearts, guise, three lions peasant, mars. In the
aussotion of the work two 900 Jacquard maphiass have been
misplayed, sitylag 2,188 cord; mid making 16,312 oasis ;
end the shuttle has had to traverse, in ocesplstiog the Ads
dolga, from 10,000 to 11,000 times. As a spsoimea, there-
for% of milanfacture, it is probably the most elaborate
thigh the looms of Coventry hays ever produced.
Thor maks% to bold the address, designed and mad* by
filtidmore's Art Manufactures Company, Coventry, is
fonadad, Ilk* the einichment of the address itself, on historh
sal examples ; the period chassis is the era comprising
British, Saxon, and Scandinavian art, when Danish Whey
became so closely woven with British, and Danish Map
reigned in Eogiand. The details of silver filsgre% the
lobed crystals, amethysts, earbsoclos, sad ivory, with
which it is enriched, are in keeping with many beautiful
remains exhibited in the Lose Museum of 1862 ; and the
noticed museums and private cabinets of England and
Dromark contain many choice examples of this character.
Teaspoon's " Idylls of the based upon British
winds of history, is chosen for the illustration ; the de-
sks, by Teanial, represents the crowning portioo of F,oid's
destine to her wounded husband, the Prince Gamut.
The watch (soaaufactured by Rotherham and Sons,
Osseatry) which MA presented this afternoon by "the
ladies of Corsairs," is a small gold open-face watch, 1 and
5-10 the of ant inch in diameter. On the back of the case,
which Ia engraved, is a monogram surmounted by the
Princess's croon, the former compoeed of brinks& and rose
dlamouds, the latter of brilliants, romdiansoods, rubies, sad
emeralds. On the case there are in all sixty brilliants sad
sixty-four rose diamonds. The dial is of chased gold, with
black painted boars. The movemsot is a half-plate laver,
with compensation balaace ; all the holes for the pivots to
work in are jewelled—the larger ones in rubies, and the
small ones in rubies and diamonds.

The Duke and Ducheee of Wellington have re-
turned to Apotoy Homo from Iltightoo.
—. _ .

The Kea aid Countess Spencer and Lady Sarah
*IMO& will leave BPSOCK ROOM oa If oaday for Park so
roam for Egypt.

The marriage of the Hon. Colonel Byng with the
Countess Howlett& Danaeskield Samos, Oise@ of the Mar.
guts of Aileabary, will take plaoe on the 15th inst. at Tot-
tenbam•park, Marlborough.
The christening of the infant son and heir of
Visoottat and Viscountess Clifdea took place yesterday at
St. Margaret's, Westminster ; Lord John Thyncia sub-dean
of Westmitater, officiated at the ceremony. The godfathers
were the Hoe. Henry Howard, brother to the Earl of Car-
lisle, and the Hoe. Frederick Leesson Gower, brother of
the Earl Gnawing ; the godmother beteg the Countess
Spacer.

" A port of the property of King Otho and of
AiDeus o Greece hoes," says the Ose Deutsche Poet,
" arrived at Vatic., from Atlases. The moat ribald.* arts•
eke. particularly the Qom's% jewels aad the Kleg's private
library, still remain is the palace at Athena."

T 1; Cardinal Arohiiabop of Cologne bu just
deeded list wines 'hall not as, lowor be permittd•to
shag omen is singe in the cathedral of that city, but that
the r►fa shall in faun be chanted only by men. The
archbishop has, hummer, consented to allow a last man is
mimic to be sung on the occaaion of the inauguration of the
deamp.