The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

tie eourt.

WINDSOR, Nov 18.
Priam Albert, aveompani, d by Sir Charles Wou-1,
...ming to Durith.im Ott, iottrsitng. attended
by
taut tbe Hon. N. Hood anti Limit -Col. the Hon.'
A WOW..
1,„ with the Duchess and Frissons Mary of
amltritils , drove Mrs to, Burnham is an open carriage.
Lord Challis ?item was in attendance cn horseback.
ike Ds,: sod Duchess of Drotant, attended by the Bet-
a mutitdre sad the Cunt and Countess Gustave de
tumuli sensed at Wuttbut Irum Plymouth at 5 minutes
Past r n sl•lt yesterday afternoon.
the DraKt and Ductless of Aunsalo visited bet Majeaty
win%
Lai is.' Lady John Rowell, Sir Charles end Lady Mary
wog, amt A. Rtgbt Hoe. E brazil Cardwell have left the
Castle.
Earl t :my was prevented by indisposition from obey-
me bar Mitseetys commands yesterday.
fM t„d the Foots lusi4er Guards was in attend-
t Eastk, rad performed during dinner yes-
terday.

L.sl J. ho Koren returned to ht.; rasidene• in Ches.
lisas-p:st• Yesantal from a T"it tt. the Queen at Windsor
Castle.
The C onissessitni far inquiring int., the state of the
e4tpult•ery of the City of London .1 meeting yesterday
tu the dossed Otticz. Pres.n• : the Hight Hon. H.
. , the Itight Hon. Sir J. l'arsoon, and G.
C.raossa: E.
on.
Theft.. a li Y. Cardwell returacd to town yesterday
was Wu. ,sos Castle
Despeows Wen seat yesterday fr int the Colonial-office
le the g ram oi Canada.

PEAfit or rue DcbllG or BEACYORT, K.G.—We
,4nt taat his OfIICO the Duke of Beaufort expired
• Thus. .y afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at his ducal residence
!toe, after a lenerthenrd illness. His Grace, who
wu •
the s.nth Dike, wu in hts 61st year, and daring the
l'satasal •r sot was ens ;of the agues de-cutup of bis Grace
the late iot of Wellington. The late Duke was Lnrd
ILO s' ...idol Bristol. He will be succeeded in his titles
awl oat; • by his sea, the Marquis of N'orcester, Qua of the
ambers 'A East Gloucestershire.

Tilt fount Walewski, the French ambassador at
thu roar. his bees summoned to Franca to 'titled the
Emperor. but will return in a Nw daya
Mr. Gray, our new Secretary of Legation in Stock-
Sons, ha, Arrival is that capital.

A NTR.INGE LIGHT TIIIWW.V ON THE
LAIrsoN oRSERFATORY.

Mr. J. K. Hind, the astronomer, who is a native of
riettsse• m, writes to the editor of the local journal to
explain the reason why he has not placed his name on the
Wt of suiotcribers. Ile says :
" The truth is, I hare loses deterred from doing so by
the fear, of which I cannot divest myself, that the value
at the Lawson instruments has been, and still is, enor-
mously ...ousted ; and that when this fact is generally
known— ad generay known it must be, sooner or
later—th, very foundation on which the subscriptions
have be. n raised will be endangered, if not destroyed.
The ditiwoce between the committees estimate of their
value ant ray estimation of it is so great, that I may be
supposed scarcely serious when I state it. They assure us
that their worth is 10,0001., I cannot consider it as oeyond
;;"11. ; indeed, I feel tolerably eunfileat, nesse there are
way instmsents which de not figure in the committee's
hst, that, were I called upon, I could for that sum obtain a
Winton eq-sal, if not superior to it, without the slightest
ddienlty The mischief, bowcver, of their greatly exagge
rated vaioe is extending itself throughout the country ; the
honour to having the control of an observatory, furnished
it the outset with 10,0001. worth of instruments, is being
prettily sought after ; and I can assure you that I have
had many inquiries from persons who have not their duties
▪ setrowanical and meteorological ob to learn, as to
ghat are to be the duties of the dirsctor of the observatory,
what his emoluments—and to whom the nomination of him

low be confided."
Sir James South writes much to the same purpose. He
tays;—" if the 11•fect telescope's cost was originally 1,650
pintas, I have no hesitation in saying that Mr. Lawson
ea tow scaadatously cheated. Present, if you please, my
eipeds .o the Mayor and gentlemea of the Town Council, 1
ad &sours them if they will authorise me to get them one of '
the tame sin as Mr. Lawson's, I will procure them one, epics
sad span new, with a declination circle of 3 feet diameter,
such as (I think) Mr. Bishop's has, with which Mr. Hind
makes his brilliant discoveries, instead of the one of 10
aches diameter, such as Mr. Lawson has, for half of 1,659
guineas, or I will give it them for nothing; whilst if the
tlfeet telescope cost Mr. Lawson 760 guineas, I fearlessly
ware the Mayor and Town Council of Nottingham that he
paid for it at least ten times more than it was worth."

ENGLISH STEAM NAVIGATION ON THE
PARANA.

The new Liverpool steamer, Argentina, had, it
appear by bitten just received (ruin the Plate, arrived at
Buenos Ayres. On the 2lst of September she left
Buenos Ayres for the purpose of ascending the Parana
to Rosario, which port the Argentina made in twenty-one
hours and thirty minutes steaming, having been obliged to
stop at San Nicolas to wood. The Argtotiaa leR Rosario
on the 23rd September, and reached Buenos Ayres in twenty
hours steaming. In passing the island of Martin Garcia
on her ascent, the Argentina, though carrying the English
flag, was fired at by a small war schooner stationed at the
island ; but an her descent Mr. Hadfield, the agent of the
Liverpool ompany, who went ashore, was assured by the
commandant that the guns had been fired wit►out hie per
The vessel was received at San Nicolas and
Rooth° with gnat enthusiasm by the inhabitants.