The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANII.

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JAN.

The Queen Princess Helene, Prince Arthur,
sad Prime Lsepiikid attended divtee words* yesterday attire
sees at Whipidegiteas (Ater* where the Bev. G. Freebie*
cilkiated.

The Queen will hold a Council et Osborne o Saturday
next _ . .

Tie Hight Hon. Sir George Grey arrived in town horn
Exeter yesterday &Heenan°.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-odtoe
from the Governors of the West India Islands and Van.
couver's Island.

Yesterday morning, at 10 o'cdook the ceremony
of distributing her Majesty's sew yrer's gifts to the poor of
New Windsor and the district took plans In the Bonham
Market, beneath the Town-hall, Windsor, In the preemie
of Mr. W. R. Hems, the mayor; the Rev. H. J. Ellison,
Aar of Windsor; the Rem. Mr. Simpson, Rooks, sad
Stens, of Windier; the Rev. T. Carter. of Clever; the
Rev. H. Hawkey, of Holy Trinity, ho. The Queues
bottaty consisted yesterday of portions of beef of
and quantities of man from 1 cwt. to S cwt.
the Seed quality, weighing from 3lb. to 75.,
The coals were dooms* delivered at the reeklencee of the
recipient,. The beef was presented in the market, the dis-
t:initial to several hundred persons being superlnteodad
by Mr. Miller, the clerk controller of the kitchen at Wind-
sor Castle, insisted by Mr. Renwick. During the distri-
hullos the belle of the pariah church of St. John rang out •
merry peal.
Their Royal Highneasee the Prince and Princess
of Wale., attended by the Marchioness of Centerline sad
Captain Grey, left Sandringham yesterday morning by road
for Bonham, where they will remain until after the ball
on Thursday, returning to Sandringham on Friday. It Le
understood that the Prince will join the lard-Ueinesant
for a day or tires shooting is the splesdid coven, and
will also inspect the most intensive and highly-cultivated
estate is Norfolk.

Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess
de Paris hemmed Frames Countess WsMacaws sad the
Rright Hes. Chiebsstsr Fartesese with their easspaey al
dinner ea Friday wear& at Strawberry Hill.
The Duke of Grafton has been delayed in his
departure far the Oestinsat, owing to ea saddest is tiro
huMWa•deld the 'seek before last.

Lord Broughton is entertaining a large circle of
triads at Tide:ea Park, Wile.

The Lord Chief Jusiioe of England (Sir Alexan-
der Osakhan, Bart.) hes lett town oa a virit to Lord
Hematites as Tedwarth. _ _ -

We have to announce the death of the Hon.
Charles Hoary Yarned, only sue of Vlsocatat Maynard,
who expired at his boon in Hillidnet, Berkeley. poen,
yesterday, is his 51.1 year. He mania. ant, Lady Frames
Julia Murray, slater al the late Duke of Athol' ; &mealy,
the daughter of Mr. Beery Fitzroy, by whom he leans
two daughter.

Mr. Beecroft, M.P., was entertained at a ban-
quet at Leeds yesterday, there betas a rally of the OMNI.
neve party. The member for Beverley, Cokeel Edwards,
nem to hare bees the chief exporrader of oreeervative
policy at this briquet.

A-letter from Rome, dated Christmas-day, says

." Daring the list week this arrivalahan bus was=

Y many as a thomead, It is mid, basieg mime la ou cam
day, 'bangs 300 Raft for Naples. There are new in Rome
Lord* Gray, Chelmdard, Mint°, Vass. Talbot de /Walk*
Deagannen, Carnarvon. and Sinclair, together with a bast
al WRAC luminaries , so that the mason is not, after ill, so
bed. The facilities of madam looornoodou are, however, so
great that so large a settled popelatirm mono& be expeced
as is former days." _ _ .

His Excellency the Bon. P. Campbell Scarlett,
the newly wasted Savoy and Minister Plenipotentiary to
the Emperor of Zaire. left yesterday to eater on We
slowly appointed duties. Mr. Middleton goes oat as pee.
mist esonstary ; sad Mr. R. L. Susses as ander-seeratery.
The munificent donation of 1,0001. has just
bees forwarded to the Newportaarlist Map by Messrs.
Albert and D. fieroca, the saw of the labs dietiegniabed

=earliest and phlianthiepiet, Yr. David Bamorra,el
It will be rensessbered that radio attention wan first celled
to this .melba* obesity by a writer m the Daily Nose.
The letter iaolseleg the dlenation says that the donors wish
the etas to be invested in the forms beet celesdated to give
pernseneoos to the institution sad Wend its benevolent

indoseess.—" We shill be lisppy to he guided is this by
Mn. Gladstoutes kind sweeties', her war Mina ao
ample sanusam for the proper dispositiorn being taken."
An improvement is about to be made in the Long
Valley at Aldershot, which, if enoennfol, will in after
yews deprive it of its desert-like spininess. Over wart-
ime porno's of the resume, new Bones Plats sad the
Los, Valley, large quantities of mum bare been de.
posited, with a view to shortly &Misr a number of yang
Umbels molt pleearbe trees will be so planed se to shelter
the camp and town from the drif lbw diced. of mad which
onus so touch diniomfert is dry aid windy WORiblf.

The renowned 600-pounder Armstrong gun
known by the =gnomes of " Big Will." weighing 22 tons
18 est., end having • horn of 131 in., has bees landed at
the gun-wharf in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, and is
ordered to be fitted with its carriage and platform. The
gun hag been varnished over the exterior, and, ootwitbstood•
log the lengthened and severe mune of trial which it un-
derwent at Shoebtuysese, its appliances is now equal to
that which it bore oe being turned eat of the factory new.
A greater portion of the Harman& cigars im-
ported to this cenohy, and also large importations for the
French government, are now brought to Southampton by I
the Royal Mail Company's steams's. The Seine, which
arrived at that port on Saturday morning, brought 882 came
of elms from Havannah, of which number 530 eases
were for the French government. Mort of the mass for
France contain 10,000 cigars each. _ _

Count Karolyi, Austrian minister at Berlin, is at

present in Parr, far the purpose, it is said, of marrying the
Pricers freguszko, sister of MIMS Adam fiapiehs, the last
thief of the Polish National Government The oouut is raid
to have elapsed DOM to swept any diplom►tic post in
1 RUlii.

On the 21st nit. the library of the Cathedral
Church of Strongnsee. Swedes. was destroyed by doe. It
eoataioed a groat number at Elemedivestian antigen/se. valu-
able manuscripts, sad rare boots. whiob ewe* from the pil-
lage of the °assents of Bohemia sad of Moldavia daring the
thirty years' war. The library was founded le the lath
century, and mimeo sad literature hays by this catastrophe
suffered au immesh lona

A retired officer has just died st Vienna, after
making • will by which la• leaves theirrater part el bee pre.
peaty to a sepbew ea eoeditkie that be atoll erne reed •
eewapaper 1 To neon the met eereseplishoeat et bin
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wiehes:the testator hes left oonsklerahle loonies to three et
his friends whom be charges to keep strict watch over his
nephew in turns. In awe of infringing the prohibition, the
nephew will be immediately deprived of the enjoyment of
his snele's seta* and the ezerestese will dispose of it au
directed in the will. The nephew is employed le the yogi-
c/dim

The Nations of Moslem says :—" Das works

have already eeseassed la the Oaks of Yee The thadred,
The eoeset of Ma Orrelase M essiplal. Oa the fad of
Jaseaary thee of Sea Appoileala wM be free, wed Is the
early pert of *be ease swath He swariterp Debt eldrlte-
Santo. The Wang of tits Pomerosto will be ilosotod to
the Court of Appeal aI Plenara"