The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-14 00:00:00

Vtie Court.

WINDSOR, JAN. 13.
The following had the honour of dining with het
Majesty yesterday :—the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of
Cambridge, the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe
Cobourg, the Prince of Leiningen and the Princess Adelaide
of Hohenlohe, Chevalier and Madame Bunsen, the Lady in
' Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Bareness de Spelt;
Sir James and Lady Graham, the Right Hon. W and
Mrs. Gladstone, the Master of the Rolls (Sir J. RonlillA
and Major Hon. James Macdonald.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attended in the
Castle and
.played during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and
performed the following compositions :
Overture (Op. 44) Ralliwocis
Caro, Tereetto and Ballet Musk —" Dl. luettigen
Welber von Windsor"

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Prince ,Albert, with the Duke of Cambridge and ths
Prince of Leiningen, Ist nt out shooting this forenoon, at
tended by Colonel the Hon. C. 11. Phipps, Lieut.-Colonel
F. H. Seymour, and Major lion. J. Macdonald.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Westminster, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Lord
Raglan, and Colonel Wylde, have been invited, and are
expected to-day.
be Muter of the Rolls left the Castle this morning for
Landon.

Dr. Waller Lewis and Mr. Marion, from the Epidemio-
logical Society, had an interview with Lord John Russell
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yesterday
from Bowood Park, Wilts.

Sir James Graham and the Chancellor of the Eschequst
arrived in town yesterday from Windsor Castle to attend
the Cabinet Council.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The minis-
ters present were the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord
Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord
John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir f'harlse
Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir
William Molcsworth. The Council sat three hours.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—A serious and alarming acci-
dent occurred this afternoon (Thursday) at the Windier
station of the Great Western Railway. Miss Ricardo, nig,
of Sampson Ricardo, Esq., of Times/ Park, Suncinghills
had returned to Windsor by the two o'clock train for ge
purpose of attending the nobility and geutry'a ball, which
takes place at the Town Hall in the evening. She bad jud
taken her seat in an open carriage, which had been scat ti
meet her, and her maid, a French person, had taken be
seat behind, when the groom put the reins into gig
Ricardo's hands whilst he adjusted something in the OW
tinge; at this instant the horses took fright at the noise of
the whistle of the train and galloped off with frizhtful red,
upsetting the carriage and throwing :Mrs Ricardo an her
i maid out with great violence. Miss lticardo miraculoagt
escaped with a few slight bruises, but the poor servant mud
got her leg entangled in the spokes of the wheel, and it wM
consequently so frightfully shattered that it was found no-
emery to amputate the limp, which operation was soon
afterwards performed by Mr. Pearl, surgeon, Windsor, gna
Mr. Brown, surgeon to the Queen. The horses took a
complete circle round the Queen's waiting-room and dashed
up the railway platform before they mu.° stopped. Th.
carriage was broken to pieces.