The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-16 00:00:00

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WINDSOR CASTLE, Dse. 15.
Her Majesty and the Princess 'Alija of Hesse
walked and drove in the grounds this morning.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Louis of Hesse rode, at-
tended by Captain Grey.
Prince Arthur left the Castle this morning, and returned
to Greenwich Park, attended by Major Elphinetone.

A deputation, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Alderman
Humphery, Alderman Sidney, M.P., Alderman William
Lawrence, Alderman Phillip', Alderman Abbim, Alderman
Gibbons, Alderman and Sheriff J. C. Lawrence, the Town
Clerk, and the City Rernembrancer, had an interview with
Secretary Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home•office, on
the increase of crime in the metropolis. _ _

Despatches were reoeived yesterday at the Colonist-office
from the Governors of the West India Island.

The Edinburgh Courant states that Lord Elphin-
stone is about to marry Miss Dalrymple-Elphisstons,
daughter of Francis Anstruther Dalrymple-Elphinstone,
Faq., and niece of Sir James Da!rymple-Horn-Elphinstone
of Horn and Logia-Elphinstoss, Bart., M.P. for Ports-
mouth.

On Sunday evening the Emperor and Empress
of the French went to the Theatre do Chatelet, to witness
the 253rd representation of Rothomago. On the previous
evening the Empress was present at the Opera Comique,
the piece performed being Lalla•Roekl.
The Emperor of Austria has prevailed on the
Duke of Modena to disband his small body of troops, at the
Wait, is the spring. A put of the soldiers will be re-
ceived into the Austrian army, and the others sent to their
homes. The officers are already endeavouring to dod em-
ployment, and those who do not succeed will receive half-
pay from the Duke of Modena. One of the numerous
palaces which the duke pommies in Venetia will be placed
at their disposal for a residence.
The house in the Rahleuberg, Vienna, where
Mozart resided when he composed his Eathanted Flute, is
now being demolished, and a splendid rest►urant is about to
be erected on its site.

A Vienna letter of the 11th says :—" The concert
season began here about a month ago, and some of the per-
formances are highly interesting for lovers of clamical
music. The music of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Mozart
is always wall rendered by the orchestra of the Vienna
opera, and some of the symphonies of the former have re-
cently been played in a way that is perfectly marvellous.
A few days ago a ' Serenade' (a symphony in six parts) by
Johann Brahma was performed here, and the profesaimal
world is still load in its praiser. The Emperor by given to
the Misdeal Society of Vienna a piece of ground on which
to build a roaserratoriunt with the necessary concert rooms
and offices."

M. Venillot, in the Figaro, is very severe on M.
Angler's anti-clerical comedy, in which he is personally
attacked, and handles the dramatic author with all the
coarse vigour which characterises his pen. "lif. Angier,"
he says, " compares me to • priest in diagubse. He does me
too much honour. I consider myself merely as the beadle,
and I think I am usefully employed in chastising the hounds
that would defile the temple. M. Augier's friends call him
Aziatophanes. Aristophenes, forsooth, did not spare Cleo°,
though he did bespatter Socrates ; as for myself, I cannot
consider myself as in any way damaged by the mud which
he squirts at me from the gutter where he wallows."
Meanwhile, M. Angier continues one of the lions of the
day, and one of the papers notices, with that quiet irony
peculiar to the French, his presence at a select shooting-
party now enjoying Prince Napoleon's hospitality ►t Ileudon.
M. Horace Vernet has become so much better
within the last few days that he ia abort to be removed to
his residence at By 4es. It is hoped that the milder climate
of that locality will restore his health.
"We have heard," says the Journal du Ram,
that a company is now being formed in Paris for the
purpose of transforraioe the garden of the Palais Royal
mto • winter garden like the immense greenhouses annexed
to the palaces of the wealthier Russian nobles. The coos.
pray proposes to bear the whole expense of making the
garden • place of recreation unequalled in the world. It
would be devoted to onnoects, games of all kinds, artistic
exhibitions, lac. In May, every year, the glass roof would
be removed, and the garden opened to the public as =al."
The Kladderadatech, a Berlin satirical journal,
has published lately • radiator* representing Baron Heusi,
the president of the Saxon ministry, shaking hands in a
friendly manner with M. Heinemann, the director of the
bank, • well-known antagonist to the Franco-Prussian
treaty of commerce. Same days after the reception of
that number of the journal, M. de Best forwarded to the
editor of the Eladderadatich a visiting-card portrait of

himself, in order that it might ia future represent his
features with a little more fidelity.

The siecie, the indtspendance Beige, and the
Courier have to offended the soclesiweical authorities of
the Grand Duchy of Laxembourg that the chief of the
clergy has placed an interdict upon than. The writers in
the Courier (a kcal paper) are &llama to be excluded
from the catholic church until they make public manta.
tam ; while those who subscribe to the paper are told that
' the movement of path's°, will not be valid to them as long
as they are sabearibers.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company have now
lost three steamers near Ceylon, vie., the Ave, /Weber,
sad Colombo.