The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-21 00:00:00

SANITARY REFORM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPRE4B.

SlR,—May I take the liberty of employing your
columns as a means of calling public attention, and espe-
cially the attention of all municipal and corporate authori-
ties, to the example that is set to them, at the present
time, by the corporation of Manchester? lam just re-
turned from • short visit to that town, where I heard and
saw the many improvements that have been instituted
by that public-spirited body. Vast thoroughfares are opened
in many parts ; the streets, courts, and alleys are regularly
cleansed; pavements arc almost everywhere laid down;
the smoke nuisance is in rapid course of abatement ; public
drains and sewers are constructed; the cesspools that re-
main, will, I hope, he speedily removed, and an aoundant
supply of good and soft water is so admirably distrilsulcd,
that, in a short timr, the smallest tenement will enjoy au
unlimited quantity at an almost 'imams( price. The
benefits to the mass of the people are quite incalculable.—l
am, sir, your obedient servant, SHAFTESBURY.
N•veiaber 18th, 1863.

Vbe Court.

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WINDSOR. Nor. Iv.
The dinner party yesterday ineiaded the Niche%
of Brabant, the Duke of Brabant, the Ducheas Kent, the
Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary 0.. unbridge,
the Belgian Minister, the Marquis of Aberco.o . the Lady
in Waiting to the Duchess of Brabant, the L,. 5 in \reit.,
lug to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness 4! 'peth
Sb
George Ceuper, Count Gustave de Lanny,o bad Fitton
Ktosebork.

The band of the Ist Life Ouards attended in the Cattle
during dinner and played the following compe..m.ms,
morel
overture, " Figaro"
Walser, " lavitatkm I la Dom^
Potpourri, "La Clarsa Leers* ..... &»•d.
Glee, " laynhorr Vanduock" Sir It R. 8144.
" Sandell* "
Her Majesty'. private band afterwards attend. and
formed the following selection :
Owerture, "Midsummer :eight's Drone_
Muck
Coro, "
"IIAt" 'I"Oario"
Selectson "Sonnambula"
Las Dame aux Camelia' Valise tuo.
The Queen, with the Dathem of Brabant, dr. out this
forenoon in an open pony phaeton. Lord Cloales Fitzroy
was in attendance on horseback.

Prince Albert, with the Duke of Brabant, We out
shooting, attended by Lord Waterpark. Col. the Hon. C.
B. Phipps, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. A. Gordon, t,unt Guts
tave de Lannoy, Lieut.. Col. Parker and Col ILzon (emu.
mandiseg offiaers of the Ist Life Guards and Mil Battalion
Scots Fusilier Guards), had the honour of joining his Royal
Highness.
The Duchess and Princess Mary of Casalwilde, and the
Marquis of Abercorn, lett the Castle to-day I,lr London;
also the Belgian Minister, for New Lodge, W:hkfield.
The Duke of Cambridge arrived this aterboon, on
visit to her Majesty.
The dinner party today included the Duchess of Bra.
bant, the Duke of Brabant, the Michela of Kett the Duke
of Cambridge, the Lady in Waiting to tbs. !Nehru of
Brabant, the Lily in Waiting to the Duck, pi of ti,sit,
Lady Charles Fitzroy, Lady Frances Bruce t-e Hon.
Mrs. A. Gordon, Colonel the lion. C. B. Ph.pps, Count
Gustave de Lannoy, Major the lion. James Nlacdonald,
and Mr. Gibbs.

The band of the Scats Fusilier Guards Mk,. ,ed in the
Castle, and played during dinner; and her pasty's Pri-
vate Band performed the following selett...ol in the
evening:

Overture, Rey Mae^
lutroduedon, "1l Cyanide ,ertseer.
March, `. Les Detu Journees"
Ave de Ballet, " L'EnLint Prodigee"
Nov. 20.
The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, si.e Princess
Royal, and Princess Alice; the ladies and gensi..men of ;he
court, and the domestic household am nded Leine Service
this morning, in the private chapel of the I otle. The
Duke of Cambridge was also at the service. lion. and
Rev. G. Wellesley officiated. •

The Mayor of Plymouth had an interview wi,?. the Gene.
ral Board of Health on Saturday, at their of&e•, Whitehall.
Despatches were sent (rein the Collnial-ofhe. on Satur-
day, to the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar, ar..l the Lord
High Commissioner of tLe lonian Islaads. :)espatches
were received on Saturday, from the Govee,.ors of the
West India Islands.

A cabinet council was held at the Poi eign-office,
Downing-street, on Saturday. The mioNters pre.
sent were the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, tl.. Marquis
of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, tli, Earl of
Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the liancellor
of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, > .1 Chiles
Wood, the Right lion. Sidney Herber. and Sir
William Molesworth. The Council sat ti e hours.

PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TILE PRORO(ATI( X OF P.%R•
LIAMENT.—Her Majesty is expected to bold a I my Corned
in the middle of. this weck at Windsor Castle. •,r the pur-
pose of settling the period of the further p rfltation of
I parliament, which at present stands ao.journe, u Tuesday,
the nth of November.

HER MAJESTY and the royal family, N% ,th a circle
of distinguished visitors, are • spected to remov, portly from
Winds:r to Osborne, Isle of Wight, to sojourn t• !Christmu.
Me. MILNER GIBSON sailed, on the 11 h inst., in
hisiacht from Malta for Corfu.
DEATH OF THE PRINCESS NICHOLAS ESTER.
11.112 Y.—We have to reeord the deceue of this 11,1 y, daugh-
ter of the Earl and Countess of Jersey, in the Ouse of her
life, after an illness of several months. The prince's et.
pired on Thursday morning, shortly after i o'clock, at
Torquay, of consumption. After trying the I, Mu of kohl
and Ems, the princess bad been recommendeu to repair to
her native air, and on arriving in this country .• few weeks
back proceeded to Hastings. There no impn..ement woe
made in her health, and her medical advisers or ered her to
try the milder climate of Torquay. Her high,toss,who was
eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess 01 Jersey, was
born the 12th of August, 18t2, and married the Sth of
February, 1842, to his Highness Prince Nisi ales Ester.
boxy, only son of his Excellency Prince Pau, Esterbazy,
many years Austrian Ambassador at the Court of St.
James's, by whom she leaves a youthful taindy, her two
eldest children, Paul and Itldolphe, being wit., the mem•
hers of the family at Torquay.