The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-28 00:00:00

'CO Court.

WINDSOR, Dab. 21.
The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess
of Kent, Prince Leopold of Size Coburg, the Lady in
Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Bironess de Speth,
Lord James Manny, and Lieut.-Col. lion. N. and Lady
Mary Hood.
The band of the Ist Life Guards attended in the Castle
during dinner, and performed the following pieces :
Munk, Pairs BearL
Overture, " arum's" Mererheer.
Walser, " DM Previa:Welt"

Feetdein Tans, Open Mad
Ilelegion, '• lloantalo Sylph o Barnett.
Polka, . Bonsivant" Berson.
Her Majesty's private hand was afterwards in attendance,
and performed the following selection:—
Overture, . Egmont "
Trio, "Guillaume Tell"
Selection, "La Proph4tit "
Scene de Dense, "La harndfre"
Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg left the Castle early this
morning for Lisbon, rid Southampton.
The Queen and Prince walked in the Home Park this
morning. His Royal Highness and the Oentlemen-in-
Waiting enjoyed the diversion of skating.

Her Majesty will hold • Ferry Council to-morrow
(Thursday). at Windsor Castle.
Despatches were received at the Cotont-I-office yesterday,
from the Lord High Cummiaaioner of the lonian Wends,
and the Ouvernor of Malta.

A large circle of relations and friends are assem-
bled at Blenheim to celebrate the anniversary of the birth-
day of the Duke of Marlborough. The Doke yesterday
completed his 60th year. The festivities are to be kept up
during the whole week. The Marchioness of Blandford
does the honours.

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE CZAR
NICHOLAS AND COUNT NESSELRODE.

[From BAVAOII Li.111:00105 New Book—" Last Fruit from

.e Old Tree "j

P. ICUOLAIL—It Mealy Count Ne;selrode, that you have
not a word to soy.
NUSELItODI.—Your Majesty bad not spoken.
!Cie.—lndeed! I thought I had.
N majesty seemed pre-occupied.
wonder. These cursed Turks, Nadjid at the
head of them, affront me. I did believe the young man was
effeminate.
Naas.—The effeminate are sometimes unwieldy, the weak
intractable.
Ntc.—l did believe that the couceuions he had already
surreddered to we in favour of my protectorate, or rather
my headship at the Greek Church, would have alientred
from him all devout Mahometans. Instead of which, tolerant ;
end generous as they always are wherever the government
is concerned, the miscreants applaud him for his exercise of '
thew virtues, and are rabid against me for demanding more
and greater concessions.
Nass.—Certainly they are reused, and even exasperated.
Nic.—That would be nothing; I might, indeed, have de-',
sired it; but the voice of Europa is encouraging them in',
their obstinacy.
Ness.—Too true.
Ntc.—Too true le that all ? Has a minister of state,
a prime minister, to say nothing but too true ?
Ness.—Mey it please your Majesty, it seldom has hap-
pened
that ministers have been censured for the objection.
able too true.
Ntc.—l do believe thou but by nature a grain or two of
wit in the vortexes of thy brain. The smallest of these
quantities is enough to undo a politician. Speak seriously;
for matters and times ate serious. . . . .

Nass.—Sire, it is in such =Wen and times that a single
thought of less gravity than the rest is a godsend.
Nn.—Worse and wone ! First • witticism, now a
reflection ! Nesselrode, I can well believe that you are
growing old, but not in a court. What is to be done ? No,
Ido not ask what is to be done, but how to do it. lam
resolved to execute my design, to continue my operations.
Consistency and firmness have always bees among my
attributes ; n must I lose them in the eyes of my
people and of the world.
Naas.—lt would indeed be disgraceful, and what is
worse than disgraceful, it would be dillicult and detrimental
to retract. _ .

Ititc.—lf France had been silent and quiet about the
Hole Places, I might hays been too.
Ness.—Louis Napoleon wanted to conciliate the Pope
and to bring him for bis coronation to Paris round by Jeru-
salem. Louis Napoleon is long•sighted and puts out
an arm without an object which he is certain he can seise.
If the Pope refuses him now, he will bring his Holiness by
the ear into Notre Dame. _ _

Nte.—l admire the man's resolute character, and only
wish I may a have to deal with it. I ought to have'
entertained a suspicion that he would, directly or indi-
rectly, thwart me in my steps against the Ottoman empire.
Noss.—Sire, it might have been seen easily and clearly. I
was not encouraged by your Majesty to deliver my opinion
at full length upon that subject; military men and noble.
of ancient family, your Majesty deigned to assure me, had
sot their hearts upon it.
Nic.—Searcely was there a courtier who had not fixed
wen the sits of palace, and villa, and garden, round Con-
stantinople.
Moss.—This I knew ; but I likewise knew that those
hearts, whetter light ones or heavy ones, must be cast down
from the pleasant places they were set upon, sad that the
Turks will continue to lie along them at full length, or with
legs erased nadir them, Ea some time yet.
Nic.—this is vexatious to think of. It may not he.
Rather would I bawd a war with half Europe.
Naes.—Pcrhaps your majesty might encounter Mrs
than half Europe in this enterprise.
Nte.—lmpossible ; Austria is under my thumb.
No.a.—Under the soft part of it, may it lbw your Ma-
jesty. Austria is greatly more interested W Foveae the
absorption or the partition of Turkey than any ethos power
is. The Danube rolls indolently now shag hardeminions ;
it might swell into formidable activity against her under
the steam and the fortresses of your majesty.
Dim —France has always turned her eyes towards th
East; England will counteract her interference.
Miss.—England has even a greater interest in maintain-
ing the Ottoman Empire than France has. England will
tie so insane as to take an active part in hostilities on
this question : bat the catholic powers and the conterminary
powers will unite, if necessary, in active opposition to your
Majebty's progress.
Rte.—lles France forgotten that we once spared her ?
Hs. Austria that we lately saved her ?
Naas.—No, Sire; and neither of them ever will forget
or forgive it.
Nic.—l am not the man to eat my words, and my threats
are the least digestible of any.
NEB.l.—We may so masticate our words, and remove so
Mich, by a dexterous use of the fingers, of what is gristle
as husk, that the operation is far from diflicalt or un-
pleasant.
ffic.—France and England can never act together.
Nees—They did at Navarino.
Nic.—lt was but for the day. You ace grown over-
cautious and somewhat timid—l would not willingly gay
conscientious ; I would not hint at incapacity, ia a We/Mu
who ha, served me so long and faithfully. Yon sssa dome
to apprehend a coalition against me.
Nass.—God forbid Luckily for us, the.. is only IWO
vigirous mind among the arbiters of human affairs.
Nic.—Nesselrode ! Neeselrode ! No battery l WWI
makes you siert ?
Ness..—Sire, my incomplete =waist; was, that at pm-
seat there is only one vigorous nsisd sown on the powers
of Europe which could inspire the fear of me liundlistion.
Certainly, too certainly, the time is saissaiar when the
sikkf continental powers will unite ht *at maisderaey.
Already there is not a single one of them that doe not see
distinctly that Russia is too formidable ;Persia
hea lag seen it. While the kings of bring
Omsk and Latin close together, Persia and Turkey will
unite their sects in one common cause abissuitiog " There
is but one God, mid Mahomet is his PrOgimpt." _
_

tc.—You shall:newt be mine. You an capable of ma-
naging the weak ministiti of Potentates round about me,
be• sot me. Constantinople is already island!, before me.
NESS.—The Greeks deprecate the doignistlem of their
ciureh in its transfer from Mascow or Pesseebeng ; and the
)I,:sscovite nobility-, is the c:ty of their easeassee, are
pier mend the Kremlin than they ever :will be round the
Smo Tower,. Those firs, of Constantinople will crack
and split your trui,:re.

GIBRALTAIL—The accounts received from the

Rock, per Enzine, represent the inhabittnta as still suffer-
leg all the evils of restricted trade and famine prices. A
private letter, dated the 17th inst., says:—" There is no
alteration in affair' here—great &palely prevails to learn the
result of the deputation to Eng:and. No supplies of any
kind are buffered by the Spaniard' to COOS from Spain.
Relict trim Melrid seems hopeless. The officers of the
Garrison contemplate a meeting of the Calpe Hunt at Tan-
oa Id.widay neat. It is generally believed that the
6r4 rep towards reemeilicion with Spain would be by
removal of Sir it. Gardiner, our Governor, to whose in-
discreet and insulting conduct towards the neighbouring
autl.orities is to he attributed the late retaliatory measures
..1...,Q(C11 which taAb so heavily on the poor
of the community."