The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-13 00:00:00

CO Coun.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Jas. 12.
The Queen and Princess Helena drove out this
mania( and west to Froncoore.
Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, arrived
Vote Greenwich park, and returned in the afternoon.

Th. bulletin displayed yesterday at Marlborough•houss
was u follows :

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nommout. JAN. 12, IQ3O a.m.
The P613011= at Wake has pawed mother good eight,
sad la progressing es favourably es poribie.
The West Prince continuos quits well.
(Steed) Array' FARR; M.D.
L H. Samna, M.D.
The Winkle, et Marlborough-home ere ecoothuted.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
Foreign•ottice, Whitehall-gardens. The ministers
present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord
Chancellor, Karl Granville, Sir George Grey,
Earl Russell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the
Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, and the Right How. C. P. Villiers.

The Right Hoe. Frauds Ale:seder, Earl of Kintore,
%Weeded, yesterday at the Comma Chamber, Whitehall,
and in the prassoos of Earl Graaville (Lord President) and
the Duke of Somerset, members of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Oristocd, took the prescribed oath as
Lieutenant and Medi of the County of Aberdeen, in the
room of the late Marquis of fluidly.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office,
from the Lord Ingle Comarimioner of the lonise Islands.

THE ACCOECHEMENT OF THE PRINCEES OF WALIS.
—Her Royal Rightism the Princess of Wales has paned
another favourable night, and the public will, no doubt,
be pleased to hear that the Princess and her infant son are
programing favor-ably. We (Times) learn ou the bent
authority that the infant prima though only a 'even.
months child, in in excellent health. For the informs.
tioa of the sutler partial of our readers, who are
curious in these magma it is stated that the exact
weight of the infant prime after his birth was 91b.
Her Majesty again visited the Primes* and her infant son
at Fri:groom yesterday afternoon, and stayed till • late
hour, after which her Majesty returned to the Cutle.
The congretelatory vote to Frogman House were mo-
tioned yesterday, though the calls were not quite so
numerous as on Monday, beteg maimed principely to
pervious resident in the immediate neighbourhood. As our
readers are probably aware, the late interesting event woe
expected to have Ink= plus in Merit, at Marlborough
Houma, where every preparatios had been made for the ad-
vent of "the little aksogar," and no prosisioo had been
made for the sodden ameselos to the Prime's family at
Fromm". Flannel and • few other tbiage absolutely nose.
may were, however, hastily procured et Windsor, sad os
Sunday the whole of the articles at Marlborough BOUM
were received at Frogneore. Prepuntiou are being made
at the Castle for the return of her Majesty to Osborne this
day. Should nothing tuiforemen happen, the Queen will
leave the Windsor leonine, of the Great Western Railway
at ball-put 1 o'clock is a special train, to which the state
ealocu belonging to the South-Weetere Railway will be
attached. Her Majesty, with the Princesses Baleen and
Beatrice, displays the warmest interest in the welfare of
her infant grandson.
Tar Qvnzw AND SHE I:4mm IN LONDON.—
Her Majesty having consideration for the distress which
sight exist among the poor in London in oonsequence of the
• late severe weather, has, with her Majesty's weal limey°.
leers and forethought, forwarded a munificent donation of
1001. to the funds of the Association for the Relief of
Destitution in the Metropolis, 4, St. lLartin'aplace,
nefalgarequare, of which the Bishop of Landau is presi-
dent.

ROYAL ENOLPIR OPERA, COYZNT•GARDRN. —Her
Royal Highness the Duchies-of (bridge and her Royal
Highness the Princess Nary honoured the performance of
W. C. Levey's pordnr operetta, Panehette, with their pa-
tronage last evening. The royal Mahon remained for the
pantomime.

The Earl Granville, the Lord President of the
Council ; the Linke of Somerset. the Right Hon. Sir George
Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., and the Red
De Grey are among the members of the Cabinet who have
already arrived in town far the meet* of parliament.
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Viscount Palmerston is still suffering from gout
in the left arm, and was, is emesequeace, absent from the
Cabinet Comma yesterday. According to present amaze-
meats the noble premier sad Lady Palmerstoe are not ex-
pected to return to Cambridge House until the 20th Met.
The Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone came to town
yesterday, expressly to lathed the Cabinet Council, from
Haman:lea Castle, Flintabire. In the ems* the right hoe.
patters= left town on hi retara to 81r /Aleph= Olyaa's
seat.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
GERMAN POLICY IN THZ DUCHIES.
"The two great German towers," says the
Nord, " remain faithful, notwithstanding numer-
ous assertions to the contrary, to the attitude
which they assumed at the commencement
ou the Schleswig-Holstein question. Oa Monday,
in an extraordinary sitting of the Diet, they
renewed with energy their proposition to invite
Denmark to withdraw the constitution of November
under pain of seeing Schleswig immediately occu-
pied. In, the view of the Austrian and Prussian
governments, this occupation would not imply the
I forfeiture of the treaty of London ; on the contrary,
it would serve to induce Denmark to respect
the stipulations of the treaty. The vote
upon the Austro-Prussian proposition will take
place on Thursday (to-morrow). It is impossible
II to predict what will be its fate, and although it
includes the recognition of the treaty of 1852, it
would be adventurous to predict for it a defeat.
The majority favourable to the pretensions of the
I Duke of Augustenburg is not, whatever they may
say, so compact in the Diet that it cannot be in-
fluenced by the representations which Austria and
Prussia have already made to the states which com-
pose it."
The German journals begin to speak of a secret

negotiation between Austria and Prussia. Austria,
the Rhenish Gazette says, offers to abandon the
Duchies to the discretion of Prussia in exchange
for the guarantee by Prussia of Venetia !
The North German Gazette, a semi-official journal,
endeavours to prove that the Schleswig-Holstein I
question is not based on a principle of nationality
at all :—"No," it says, "it is not the sentiment
of nationality, but national interest which is
urging the German people to the North. If the
present movement owed its origin to the idea of
nationality, the German poople would for a long
time past have turned their eyes towards the
Rhine to recover the provinces there, which they
were forced to cede to France, and would no doubt
manifest that feeling towards her powerful neigh-
bour beyond the Rhine with as much energy as
towards her weak adversary beyond the Ryder.
But the people feel that their interests are not on
the other side of the Rhine ; their instinct guides
them to the north, and tends towards the sea :
Thalatta ! Thalatta ! (the sea! the *ea.!) that in-
dispensable element of the life of civilised States,
without which every nation, however vigorous it
may be, must wither away and perish ! Such is
the Schleswig-Holstein question for Germany."