The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-01 00:00:00

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WINDOOR CASTLE, NOV. 30.
The Duke and Dm:sheen de Chartrea arrived at
the Castle yesterday on a visit to her Majesty, and left
again this morning.
and Ripon remained yesterday after the
Earl De Grey
council, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and
the royal family.
The private band played after dinner in the drawing'
room before the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussiade
'
PrincesPrincesHelena, Princess Louise, e Puke and Duchess
Chartres, and the Wee and gentlemen of the household.
The Queen, with Princess Helena and Princes' Louithese,
walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon, and drove
morning with the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia.

In the absence of Earl Granville, Lord President of the
Council (who has left town for a few days), the Duke
of Somerset, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right
Bon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon.
Millar Gibson, and the Right Hon. H. A. Brum, received
yesterday at the Privy Council-office, Whitehill, deputa-
tion upon the subject of the cattle plague. The deputation
consisted of the Duke of Buckingham, Mr. James Osborne
(Maids Moreton). Mr. Crawford (Newton Parnell), Mr.
Henry Thorpe (Mayor of Buckingham), Mr. Thorium Ridg-
way (Bourton), Mr. Richard Treadwell (Shalstone), sad Mr.
Thomas A ttwood (Leekhungstead).
Mr. James Canoe, of Jamaica, bad an interew with the
Right Hoe. Edward Cardwell, at the Colonial-offira, yes-

Wrda7•
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day, at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. Pr/wetLord
Chelmsford. the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner,
Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Lawrenoe Peel.
The Right Hoe. G. J. Geschen, M.P., Vice• President of
the Board of Trade, has appointed William W. En:winos
Tensest, Esq., as his private secretary.

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The Crown Prince and Princess of Prima& are'
now expected to leave Windsor Cutle for the Continent to-

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Their Royal Highnwes the Duke and Duchess
&Minnie hare hosourci the Right Hon. Chiebeeter For-
tescue, M.P., and Frances Counter Weldegrave with •
visit at Dadbrook House, YAM& Tbe viators alio comprise
the Prnuian Ambassador and emotes' Sendoff!, lAdy
Swan Vane Tempest, Lord end Lady NOTIVr, Lady Roles-
worth, the Hon. F. and Km Storm, Sir Chalice Russell,
Mr. Rumen, Mr. Heyward, Mr. Wiliam Harcourt, Mr.
Wardlaw, Mr. De Robeck, and Mr. C. Hamilton.
The Duke of Leinster has arrived on Carlton.
house-terrace from visiting Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald
at their residence near Salisbury.
The marriage of the Earl of Sandwich and Lady
Blanche Egerton will take place at Ratchford, Surrey.
The Duke of Argyll will preside at the anniversary
festival of the British Orphan Asylum, to beheld at Slough,
in March next.
Colonel G. Wynne, Royal Engineers hen been
appointed by the Duke of Cambridge
to corema'ad the Royal
&mincers in Ireland, in succession to Colonel W. Durnford,
who has been appointed to the command of the Royal En.
slavers in Malts. The 64th Foot wu, it is
t expected,
ake up
arrive in Dublin from England next week, and
quarters in Richmond Barracks for the winter. The let
battalion 60th Rifles will anise in Dublin about Wednl
be
es-
day next for embarcation for North America, sad wil
replaced at Newry, Enniskillen, and Londonderry byrs the
Bth Foot, now at Richmond Barracks, the headquarte of
which will be at Newry.
On the occasion of the first performance of the
Africaine it Berlin, the Quc of Prwala seat Mine. Meyer.
beer a valuable vase, accompanied by a gracious autograph
letter. The widow of the illustrious maestro has made pre.
cants to the principal artists who sang in the .dfricaine in
tke Prussian capital.
Ex-President Buchanan is just publishing in
America • volume entitled "The Administration on the
Eve of the War," in which he attempts to justify his policy
while President. He attributes all the troubles of his
country to the repeal of the Missouri compromise, by the
passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in 1854, which be re-
gards as the cardinal error of the South, and to the
Northern defiance of the decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States in the Dred Soots case, by which negroes
were denied the right of citizenship, and slavery woe de-
cided to be the organic law in the territories. The defience
of this decision be regards sa the flagrant clime of the

North.
The Northern Post of St. Petersburg publiahes
• fiat warning just given to the Russianreview. the Coa-
-1 temporary, for articles containing attacks on the prim:dela,
of marriage and property. as well as odious indnuations
against the upper dents and 1• nded proprietors iu general.
At a meeting of the council of the York Parlia-
mentary Reform Association it was unanimously resolved
to hold • public meeting before the assembling of parlia-
ment, with a view of urging upon the government the in-
troduction of a reform bill during the manias onion.
At Naples, on the 27th of November, there
wen 32 cues of cholera and 25 deaths. In the neigh-
bouring commttues there were on that day 29 eases sad 17

deaths.
A correspondent of the Temps states that the
portlier character of the insanity of Dr. Jobert de Lam.
balls, the eminent surgeon, iv an almost total loss of
memory. What he says one minute he has entirely for-
gotten the next. Several times in the course of a day
has
he
will tell his attendants to get his carriage ready, as he
important calls to make. When informed that the car-
riage is waiting, he will hastily go out, but before he has
Wren ten steps he forgets all about his intended visits and
returns to his room. It is said that Dr. Baste@ will sue-1
oeed him es surgeon to the imperial family.
A BIRTHDAY PRESENT TO THIS PRINCRISS OW
WALE/I.— (Tam DAY.)—To-day being the annivesury d
her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra's bkthem
the Prince of Wales has prepared a surprise for ths
Princess in the shape of • beautiful pair of bay puke.
with carrier and harness complete, the whole forming •
handsome birthday present. The pair of ponies alone are
worth probably 450 guises', while the carnage, which
is by • celebrated Lo
dos
being maker, is et an exceed
in
gly novel make, there • front seat, as
usual, the hind pu t Sil the vehicle being pro-
vided with a couple of mats something in the dog-art
fashion, the seat behind being intended for the
groom. The colour of the courier is • chocolate. The
ponies, which are • little over 14 hues high, are splendid
stipples. red with the carriage and hareems. bare been
forwarded to Sandringham, whim the Priam will pressat
them to the Princess of Wake in the emotes Of today.
PREACHING VERSVB PRACTICT. —British philan-
thropy and humanity have been largely employed during
the last four years in behalf of mercy and Christian charity
to Jeff. Davis and all enflamed in his bloody rebellion.
This is British preaching. On the other hand, It upsets
that the black rebels of Jamaica are bung up in rows as
fast upttela are captured. This is Britkh practice. Now
shia ing of 'humuity and brotherly love may be •
very rod thing. but it is practice that makes it perfect.—
New Pork paper.