The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-12 00:00:00

THE PRINCE OF WALES AT NAPLES.

A letter from Naples of the 6th says :—" I have
to announce the arrival of his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, together with the Prince and Princess of Prussia.
Their royal highnesses bad been expected on Monday, but
as it blew ► hurricane they did not leave Sicily until the
evening, when the weather mimed • little, though the
waves still ran high, and white squalls at intervals swept
across the sea. The Osborne, which WI accompanied by
the Doris, stopped or entering the Bay at the Island of
Capri, and the royal party entered the Blue Grotto ; the
weather was, however, so unpropitious that many who
made the effort were compelled to return. The Prince of
Wales did not accept the proffered hospitality of the go.
cerement, but remains on board the Osborne. The royal
carriages were,' however, in waiting, and the Palace of
Capodimonte had been prepared for the reception of the
royal party. His royal highness preserves the strictest
incognito, and amens himself like a private gentleman,
omitting no opportunity, as was the cue during
his residence in Rome, of seeing all that is to be
seen. On the afternoon of their arrival the Princes took
• drive on the Strada Nuys, and the Princess of Prussia
I sketched the Bay' from that enchanting spot. Yesterday
they went to Sorrento by that beautiful road which, in
point of the picturesque, may vie with any road in Europe.
The plans which have been visited by the Prince are
Palermo, Tunis, Malta, Syracuse, Catania, and Messina.
During the early part of the excursion the weather was very
beautiful, but towards the end of last week and the begin.
ning of this it blew • gale. Now, again it has calmed down,
and we have • ant as unruffled as • lake, and are enjoying
• perfect summer. This morning the Princes and Princess
and their suite are gone to Vesuvius. No day has been
fixed for their departure, but the impression is that the
Prince will have on Monday for Civita Vecchia and Rome,
spending his birthday in Naples. The London, the Doris,
and the Magicienne are in port. The Magicienne went out
yesterday morning and returned in the evening, and entered
the military port not far from the Osborne."

CELEBRATION OF THE MAJORITY OF THE PRINCE
OP WALES AT BIBMINGRAN.—At *Meeting last week con-
vened by the then mayor (Mr. Manton), it was suggested
that the birthday of the Prince of Wales should be celebrated
by a public dinner to some two or three thousand of the
poorer inhabitants. The meeting, however. passed a moo-
]ration in favour of deferring the demonstration till the ap-

proaching marriage. A number of gentlemen, however,
thought it desirable to carry out the original suggestion of
the mayor, and subscribed the necessary funds for the pur-
pose, so that about two thousand poor persons were regaled
with an excellent dinner of good old English fare—roast
beef and plum pudding—in Bingley-hall yesterday ('rues-
day) afternoon. The braes band of the police force was in
attendance, and among the gentlemen present were Mr. W.
Scholefield, M.P., and Mr. Charles Stine the newly-
elected mayor, &c. _ .

The members of the Liverpool Corporation have
adopted a congratulatory and loyal address on the occasion
of the Prince of Wales having attained his majority.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin gave a grand enter-
tainment at the Mansion-house, in celebration of the
majority of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, on
Xonday, Above cm Ix-mired pests were invite.). 'ft:
Oak-room was elegantly and appropriately laid out for the
occasion. Amongst the distinguished guests were the Lord
Lieutenant, and the Chief Secretary for Ireland.
On Monday the ceremony of inaugurating the
marble bust of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
executed by Mr. John Steen, took place in the Hall of the
High School, Edinburgh, in presence of a large and dis-
tinguished assemblage. The bust has been presented to the
High School by a number of her former alumni, who desire
to commemorate the Prince of Wales' visit to Edinburgh in
the summer of 1859, and especially the presentation by his
Highness of the Carson medal to the succensfal competitor
at the High School that year.
His Excellency the Russian Ambassador and
the Baroness Brunnow are expected at Challis= House on
Saturday next from Brighton, where his excellency and the
baroness have been staying for some weeks past

The Marquis and Marchionees of Salisbury are
entertaining a select party at Hatfield House, Herts.
The Earl and Countess of Fife are expected at
their residenoe in Grosvenor•place at the latter end of the
month, from Lines House, Moray.

W The
Earl of Shelburne arrived at Lansdowne
House yesterday from Bowood. The Marquis of Laaadowoe
and the Countess of Shellauno remain at Bowood.

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The Earl inti Countess ig liaddiugton lave
arrived at Wallace's Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, from Swit-
zerland. _ .

The Earl and Countess of Euston have left Euston
Hall for Wakefield Lodge, Stoney Stratford.
Mrs. Lane Fox has arrived at Hatfield House,
Harts, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchionesa of Salis-
bury, from Oakley Park, Bedfordshire.
Mr. George Cavendish arrived in town a few days
since from Paris, and has since left for Compton Place,
Eastbourne, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire.
Mr. Henry Buabby and Lady Frances North,
youngest daughter of the late Earl of Guilford, were yes-
terday married at St. George's, Hanover-square.
The ex-King Louis of Bavaria lately visited the
ex-Queen of Naples on passing through Augsburg, when pro-
cording to Munich.
On the front of the house in which Mme.

Schneder-Devrient, the grad singer and actress, died at
Coburg, there has just been placed a marble slab, on which
is inscribed in gilt letters, " Here died Wilhebnine
Schrieder-Dewrient on the 2tith Janu►ry, 1860."
_

M. Mathieu (de la Drome) has addressed a letter
to the Paris journals, in which, after attain to the means
now acted on in England for prognosticating storms some
hours, sad even a day beforehand, declares that he will,
whenever it may be wished, furnish to Franco and to all
the countries of Europe the means of foreseeing all atmo-
spheric phenomena not one day but half • century in ad-
vance
• " • ''

The following despatch has been published in the
American papers Department of State, Washing-
too, Oct. 1862.—1 t having recently been discovered that
the practice of sending private letters to this department
for the purpose of being forwarded to the arc of ministers
and consols of the United States abroad has been abused
for disloyal purposes, notice is hereby given that no such
letters will henceforward be transmitted. All letters to
ministers and commis which may hereafter be sent hither
to be forwarded must be left open for inspection by the
departmeet.—Wailaw B. SzwAan."
WELLINGTON COLLEO&—The beautiful chapel de-
signed by Mr. Gilbert Scott, of which hie Royal Highness
I the Prince Consort laid the first stone in July, 1861, is now
nearly completed, and will be arced after Christmas. A
new library, of spacious dimsnwons, has also been coin-
I meeoed ; both them Matins's will be connected with the
: collage by an elegant cloister and gateway, and the west
wing of Si. south front will be thus completed. Six of
the eight statues and above twenty of the busts in breeze
'beady executed have been placed in their niches. These
memorials of the personal friends of the peat duke, and of
the statesmen and principal officers with whom be sated,
I are arranged upon a plan famed by the Priam Consort.
! Of this design the college now pommies a most interesting
draught. which has just been presented to it by her Ma-
jesty. being the original sketch in his royal higknods own
ndwriting, and with his latest eorrectioes. During the last
week, at a confirmation held in the temporary chapel by
the Bishop of Oxford, seventy of the boys were confirmed.