The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-05 00:00:00

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF
WALES.

At the court at Osborne-house, Isle of Wight,
the let day of November, 1862, present, the
Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Her
Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare
her consent to a contract of matrimony between
his Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of
Wales, Duke of Saxony, &c., and her Royal High
new the Princess Alexandra Caroline Maria Char-
lotte Louisa Julia, daughter of Prince Christian of
Denmark ; which consent her Majesty has also
caused to be signified under the Great Seal.—
Gxvtte.

THE MAJORITY OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—
The Mayor of Birmingham is raising a fund for the purpose
of providing a dinner, to be given to 2,000 poor and aged
inhabitants of his borough, in celebration of the attainment
of his majority by the Prince of Wales. The dinner is to
take place in Bingley Hall.—A New Brunswick paper
states, on what it considers good authority, that on the
occasion of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
attaining his majority, the honour of knighthood will be
conferred on all the mayors of the cities through which
be paned in the course of his visit to British North
America in 1860.

" The royal yacht Osborne, escorted by the frigate
Doris," says the Malta Ti Ws of the 30th nit., "arrived
here early this morning from Marseilles and Tunis, having
on board the Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince and
Princess of Prussia, with their respective suites. As the
royal party is anxious to preset re a strict incognito, all
salutes, guards of honour, or other public manifestations of
respect were declined. The governor waited on their royal
highnesses on board the yacht, and soon after the
party landed and took up their residence at the
Palace, which his excellency has given up for
their accommodation. The machinery of the Osborne

having sustained damage, she will be detained here three or
four days for repairs, after which she is to proceed to
Sicily and Naples, where their royal highnesses purpose
making a more prolonged stay. The sea voyage was exceed-
ingly tempestuous, and it is said that the Princess Royal
suffered much from sea-sickness, but has otherwise im-
proved in health. At 3 p.m. to-morrow the Prince of Wales
will attend a review of the troops on the Florian% parade-
ground:" . _ _

A Kiel letter in the Moniteur nays :—" On the
occasion of the marriage of the Princess Alexandra of Den-
mark, the city of Copenhagen is preparing to present the
young Princess with a reproduction of the celebrated statue
of Hebe by Thorw►ldsen. The execution of two pictures
representing views of the capital of Denmark have been
confided to two Danish painters, and will be also presented
to her royal highness. In the provinces a subscription,
headed by ladies, has been opened for the purpose of pur-
chasing for presentation to the Princess a porcelain service
from the royal manufactory, ornamented with views of
the most picturesque sites in Denmark and the most beau-
tiful specimens of Danish flowers."
•

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Count/me de Flahault and Miss Elphinstone de Flahault
have left Albert Gate House, oa • visit to the Duchess of
Sutherland, at Glidden, near Maidenhead.
The Marchioness of Clanricarde will leave Strat-
ton in • few days, on • visit to Mr. and Lady Margaret
Beaumont, at Bretton Park, Yorkshire.
The Earl and Countess of Cork arrived in town
on Monday from visiting Lord and Lady Lyveden at Farm-
ing Woods, Northamptonshire. The noble earl and her
ladyship leave town to-day for Manton Howe, Somerset-
shire.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield leave town
to-day for Highclere, near Newbury, on a cleft to the Earl
and Countess of Carnarvon.

Viscount Falkland has left Prince's-gate for
Paris.

Viscount and Viscountess Bury and family have
arrived at their residence in Rutland•gate for the winter.

Lady Howard do Walden and the Hon. John
Ellis have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyntireet, to join
his Excellency the Lord Howard de Walden at Brussels.

Lady Herbert of Lea and the Hon. Misses
Herbert, who left Wilton House the week before last for
the Continent, have arrived at Pau, where they purpose to
pass the venter.
Mr. W. Beaumont, M. P., and Lady Margaret Beau-
mont, who have been in town some few days, will leave
Piccadilly to-marrow for Bretton Hall, Yorkshire.
The Duke of Hamilton and Brandon has arrived
at the Hotel Bristol, Perim, to join the duchess. Lord and
Lady Chelmsford have arrived at the same hotel.
Mr. Layard, tinder-Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, has arrived at Turin.

_ .
The marriage of the Hon. Elizabeth T. Lister,
daughter of the late Lord Rik&leadale, and step-daughter
of the Fen Russell, with Mr. Melville is appointed to take
place on the 12th inst.

.
Colonel the Right Hon. Cecil W. Forester, M.P.,
brother of Lord Forester, is about to be married to the
Hon. lbs. Dyes Sombre, youagat daughter of the late
Visoouut St. Vioesut.

At the court at Osborne-house, Isle of Wight,
the lit day of November, 11162, present, the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by her
Majesty in Council that the parliament which now stands
prorogued to Thursday, the 13th day of November instant,
be further prorogued to Tuesday, the 13th day of January
next.—Garette.

Mr. W. H. Ashur:it has been appointed solicitor
to the Post-office. His claims for that position were sup-
ported by high commercial testimonials and strengthened
by the recollection of the services of his late father, 23
years ago, to the cause of Post-office reform.
_ .

A meeting of the Canterbury Diocesan Education
Society was held at Canterbury yesterday, when Mr.
Gathorne Hardy, M.P., made a speech on the subject of
education. Incidentally noticing, in order to condemn, the
views on religion which were put forward by certain cler-
gymen and church dignitaries, he proceeded to contend for
definite religious teething in our schools, and in that respect
expressed his dissent from the opinion favourable to secular
education which Sir John Pakington put forward the other
day at Edinburgh.
. . _

The Herald and the Standard of thin morning
assert that the Emperor of the French has already com-
municated, or is about to communicate, a proposition to
the English government for the joint recommendation of an
armistice to the contending powers in America, by the three
great maritime powers of Europe—England, France, and Rus-
sia. In the eventof the principle being accepted, " the condi-
tions of the suspension of hostilities would be readily drawn
out, probably with the cognizance of the mediating govern.
meats ; and one of them would be the opening of certain
Southern ports for the export of cotton. In other respects
the armistice world follow the ordinary practice of belli-
gerents. It would prohibit all active military operations,
the despatch of reinforcements or warlike material. It
would, of coulee, provide for the free provisioning of the
armies, the furnishing reliefs, dm."
For his remarks on the Tarragona case, "Argue,"
the sporting correspondent of the Poe, has been, in due
form of law, warned off Newmarket Heath, of which the
Jockey Club ere the lessees under the Duke of Rutland.
THa MARQUIS or BRIADALZARL —We are sorry
to learn that a telegram from Lucerne, received in London
yesterday at noon, Is unfavourable. It was despatched by
Laiy Elizabeth Priegle, his lordship's sister, who, with
other members of the family, Is with the marquis. The
bulletin states that " Lord Bresdalbene continues still in a
state of great weakness."