The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-20 00:00:00

trbt Conn.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dir. 19.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louis
of Besse, walked and drove this morning.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Louis of Hesse, attended
by Lieutenant-General 'Coolly', and Captain Grey, went to
London this morning.

Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, has re-
turned to Greenwich-park.
Reel Granville, Viscount Sydney, the Reverend Doctor
Stanley, and Mr. Arthur Helps, have also left the Castle.

Earl Granville arrived in town yesterday, from Windsor
Castle.
Despatches were sent yesterday, from the Colonialmffice,
to the Governors of the Australian colonies.

THE LATE PRINCE OONSORS.-LORD CHAMBER-
LAIN'S OPTIC; Dec. 18,—The remains of Field Marshal his
Royal Highness the Prince Consort, husband of her Majesty
the Queen, and Knight of the most noble Order of the
Garter, were this day removed from the entrance of the
royal vault, in St. George's chapel, Windsor, in which they
bad been temporarily placed after the funeral of his Royal
Highness, on Monday, the 23rd December, 1861, and were
deposited in the mausoleum prepared for their reception in
the grounds at Frogmore, in the premium of his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, K.G., his Royal Highness
the Prince Arthur, his Royal Highness the Prince Leopold,
and his Royal Highness the Prince Louis of Hesse, K.G.
The Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's
Household ; Lieutenant-General the Hon. Charles Grey,
private secretary to his Royal Highness the Prince Consort ;
Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Phipps, K.C.8., treasurer to
his Royal Highness the Prince Consort; and Colonel Bid.
clulph, master of the household, were also present on the
occasion.—Gazette.

The Earl and Countess of Malmeebary are enter-
taining a select party at Heron Conz t, Christchurch.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. George Barrington and
family are expected in town today from a tour of visits.

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Sir George and Lady Julia Wombwell have left
town for their seat, Newburgh Park, Yorkshire.
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The Right Hou. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have passed through town from Hughenden Manor, Burka,
for Torquay, Devon. .

We (Edinburgh Courant) understand that the
marriage of the Hon. the Muter of Polwarth with Lady
Mary Gordon, eldest daughter of the Fan of Aberdeen, will
be celebrated in March next. The Hon. Master of Polvrarth
was born io 1838, and his fair flaw* in 1844.

The Rev. Canon Woodruff° (says the Sussex Express)
having resigned the vicarage of Alton, on his appointment
to the living of Peperharrow, Surrey, the Rev. Octavius
Arthur Hodgson, M.A., of Magdalen College, Oxford, has
been preferred to Alton (value about 6001.) by the Dean
and Chapter of Winchester.
Professor Frankland will lecture on "Air and
Water," at the Royal Institution, on Saturday next (Juve-
nile Lectures).

The benchers of Gray's-inn have resolved that
the arms of Mr. Napier, the ex-Lor7d Chancellor of Ireland,
dual be placed in a compartment of one of the windows of
their ball. The right hon. gentleman bas acknowledged the
compliment in an eloquent letter to the treasurer.
The Monday Popular Concerts are to be resumed
on the 12th of January next.

Next spring Mdme. Goldschmidt-Lind and Herr
Otto Ooldschmidt are to give a series of concerts in Lou•
doe, and afterwards to make a farewell tour in the
provinces.

Signor Verdi is in Paris, on his way from St.
Petenbarg, possibly to superintend the production of his
Lombardi at the Italian Open► there. Herr Wagner is also
immediately expected in Paris.
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3i Ley. has commenced the first picture of the
series which he has been commissioned by the authorities of
Antwerp to execute for the Hotel do Ville of that city.
The first will represent "The Joyous Entry," as it is
styled, of Charles the Fifth when be cams to Antwerp to
swear to maintain the liberties of the place.

The Royal Academy prizes have been given this
year as follows :—A silver medal to Mr. Henry Thomas, for
the best drawing from the life—the Name to Mr. Freida
Holt, for the best drawing from the antique—the same to
Mr. Thomas Webb, for the best perspective drawing—the
same to Mr. George Hall, for a specimen of sciograpby.
The late Ozford Convocation has empowered the

Vice-Chancellor to make certain alterations in the Ashmo-
lean Museum, which will greatly increase the usefulness of
that institution. The basement story of the edifice is to be
converted into a room to receive the Arundelian Marbles ;
the ground-floor will contain an arcluenlogical museum, sod
the first-floor serve as a writing-school, with ► private room
for the use of the examiners.

Mr. Swanborough, the 'ewe of the Strand
Theatre, will on Moods, next devote the entire receipts of
the evening to the relief of the distress in the Lancashire
districts.