The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-07 00:00:00

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALE&

HOLKHAM, JA. 6.

Theb•ll given last night by the Earl and Countess
of Lamer to their Royal Highs's= the Prince and
Primer of Wales was • meet brilliant and eumemlni sake-
Wessel. The oempay alighted at the great antes= of
Hoikham Hall, with the splendour of which the Prime and
Princess were not unnaturally =premed, and entered the
Fezrptiaa-hall. This was brilliantly lighted, antique busts
on psdests/a being pissed at intervals along the aids, while
blooming Bowels were laMrtwLed between the dated lonic
pillars. A seariee ametioth was also laid slung the metre
to the Wow. The apartment devoted to the ball and its
emissaries were the same, the south-west and south-east
drawling-room, and the status and the elands Lorraine
galleries. The guardroom was prepared as • cloak-room
for ladles ; and the audit-room for gentlemen. The mak=
with the south-west drawing-room, were especially devoted
to the ball, the statue gallery being the sapper
room, while the south-east drawing-room wm adapted
as • card-room. The sail and countess received
their guests in the saloon, which was brilliantly lighted by
300 wax lights. The portion of the mouth frost, into whit%
the saloon op= by three large wisdom, was enclosed for
the orchestra. It was formed in imitation of a bower ; three
Lap as tiled with now= were in the metre, and it was
lighted by candelabras oa pedestals The Prime of Wales
led elf with the COWIN@ of Leicester in the first quadrille.
and the Earl of Leicester had the Princess as a parkas%
Supper was announced soon after midnight, when the Prince
of Wales led the Countess of Leicester and the Earl of
Leicester the Prise= of Wales to the statue gallery, where
m'estertainment was provided on a reuse*/ and regal-
treat scale. A *shot party sooomp•aied the royal gee=
to the supper-room, and after • Mort interval parties of the
ether =Hors followed. Deming was prolonged to
a• early hour this morning, the Rim mad Prin.
aw remaiaing with the party nearly to the /me
The Prince sad Princess of Wales will leave Holkhara
to-day ; on Mt, that they will honour Lord midday Wei-
tzel= with • visit at Meet= Hall on the 20th instant.

It is expected that their Royal Highnesses the
Prison sod Priories of Woks will honour Lord sod Lad?
Walmioshom with s visit it Merton Ball, Norfolk, duel.'
the postal month.
Prince Alfred of Great Britain arrived on the

Sod In Berlin, from Goths, to speed part of the holidays
with his sister, the Crow. Prisms. The early port of the
vacatioa he ham passed at the court of his uncle, the Doke
of Ea:e•Cobsrg-Ootha.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, who
strived la town as Wedsenday from Paris, have left town
foe iiimboltea Castle, Hunts.
The Earl and Countess Craven and the Ladies
01111,114 »two to town in the early part of the imsuieg
week, preparatory to the marriage of the Eat of Coventry
and Lady Blanche Craven.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston leave
Broadlaede for the season about the 13th inst.
The marriage between Viscount Sudley, eldest
eat of the Couatem of Arran, and the lion. Edith Jocelyn.
mooed daughter of Viscountess Jocelyn, will take place
next month.
A marriage is arranged between Lord Roscbill,
of the Soots Flunks. Guards, sad Ml Elliot, eldest
daughter of Admiral George Elliot, Admiral-Superintendent
at Portsmouth.
The Empress Eugenie wore on Saturday last, at

a dinner gives to the ministers and chief Akers of the
crown, • dress of white muslin with • tunic of wise satin,
jet and black Inc., end a diamond necklace mounted on
black velvet.
The Queen of Prussia is much interested in the
reforms which Florence Nightingale baa carried out is
Brit= military hospitals. With a view to their iotraduc-
tioe into the Pram= army, her Majesty has request= Dr.
Glen, one of the chief army surgeons, to prepare a report
on the state of female attendance on the sick and wounded
is the field hospitals of the Prussian Army.
Mdme. Rossini has just received • valuable New
Year's gift from M. Gustave Doti, the artist, io the shape
of a fan, decorated by drawings from his pencil. He has
taken the mune of the wag, " 0 Mathilde, idols demon
late !" end u the ordinary forms of the notes appeared to
him not very gracious, he has replaced than by cupids
whose heads occupy the required place. The additional
limes are represented by fin= and violin bows. For the
doable crotchets, the cupid' are put together is boats which
they are maoceurring with case. " The spirit, men, and
expression of the various head.," says Galignani, " are
admirable."
We (Spectator) have reason to believe that nego-
tiations are now to progress for • commercial treaty with
Austria, which, if 000cluded, will confer very great benefits
on Austria, and not inconsiderable ones on England. The
difficulty, of =zee, for as is the dieloulty of finding •

quid pro quo.
The Kreutz Zeitung of Berlin has not yet done
with the Muller affair. It Ina published another article,
mon than three whim in length, on this subject. The
concluding words a the article sufßciently characterise the
value of it. They run thus :—" And now one thing in
conclusion : What a sad illustration of the genuine consti-
tution►l monarchy is it that the ' ruler ' of about 200,000,000

of December a brewer, named mulawoon was of the human ries is enable, even upon the petition of
convicted at Worship-street of torturing a dog to the princes most nearly related to her, and though the
death, and the magistrate, to mark his sense of most serious doubts are urged upon her, is unable, we say,
eior:rom Diezdk aoorGr
four andiourey.
the defendant's "gross and unmitigated brutality," to
knee l)
th peso f ths
pee throe o
sentenced him to prison for two months, refusing A number of mechanics and labourers have been
,t
been
to commute the punishment for a pecuniary fine. discharged during the week from the factory department of
Wherever cruelty is practised for its own sake the Woolwich Dockyard, and others are announced to follow
magistrates impose severe sentences, and properly shortly, owing to a reduction ordered by the Board of
so ; the law should smite heavily acts which are Admiralty to meet Use estimated &Bowsaws.
so anti-social in their effects and tendencies. But Wims AND Brousers.—The will of Count de Vig-
ra of !napes...ohms !turf bepreonplicarv.yirEitgLatz.thetheexsoutestrixtor.
we should like to ask on behalf of the public
why the Society for the
,Prevention of Cruelty to accoling to the tenor of the will, being his esteemed friend
Animals does not more frequently assail in its head. I tisticros. Louise Likud, wit: of Y
hom . Chlisaries Alex. der
quarters the evil it exists to combat We refer ; ems], higerte.l4l,Bifthltreetiese out UlT't
to the New Cattle Market, in Copenhagen-fields. I this lady he has lett hie lands, capital, and all his reel end
Against the regulations of the Market for the re- ; Wystaiiirdsit'sq illshile.itsrsry p
from fxgole,w. °Lib will
ception and accommodation of cattle, we have ' Heine Dined is to be divided between her son (the testator's
nothing to say. While the important business of ram) sad her daughter. The wall of the Right Hoy.
the day is going on there is little if anything to sin
; ghsoir, brratui :ftifferrly ,aisflre°, was
--.„Bovired.
complain of ; but when the valuable stock has been the London court, under 25,0001. personalty in tie United
removed, a crowd of the worst looking persons to ' Kingdom. The eteeetere7l.22.ted are the es" and the
elated sou, Henry Trail Esq. The testator has
be seen anywhere except at a hanging, infest the ' berviessimmil to his wife the whole of his personal estate He
place, either terse hangers-on of the legitimate was formeti Mist Judge of the Court of Reriow,iad miter.
market or miecellaneons dealers, offering for sale I wards traoseeer
eesigse is 1845_1 attltteed°,°lunttN4ovCerberlasP4.eattls'ehiche t;
a goat or a donkey, or horse that ought long seventy-nix. was will of Thomas Rammeus, of Sitg.
since to have been killed. On the outskirts of , court. Osithteerbary.vras provdi London
t under 26,0001.
the market, a set of the lowest class of horse job. , Ere-Teen!' the ecerwild wdn
eb.% Leh brother-
ben The teehrdior has left to °his wife his
bers are also to be seen, and there, as in the market
plans itself, may be witnessed such fiendish wanton- which aft ieeter'd is toftretedlividZiamon7srrtrhaelir cheialtra
nem of cruelty, more especially to horses, as must se she by will may sprint. The late Mrs. Hodpon, wife
indeed be seen to be believed. There is probably Hants, key' T. Hedge", IL L, et Beet wwdher.
has bequeathed legacies of 6001. to the Societies for '
more downright wilful cruelty perpetrated in the Promoting Cladien Knowledge sad the Propagation of the
. Oar in Foreign Parts. TM late Mr. Ambrose Lanigan
immediate neighbourhood of the market on a Thum
day afternoon, between two and four o'clock, than oiteciuLlTik4r:l'ihirritegheleg ab4lu:fithisd..WthetbLittlei:rd
in all the rest of London in a month. It is true Foreign Bible Society, and the iondonocifiesionary Society,
601. each ; and to the Sunday School Society, Dublin, and
AM this cruelty being concentrated in a limited the Begged School Union, 261. each'—lttustrotrd London
area does not offend the public eye or wound Nom