The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1867.

the Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, JCS* 27.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon.
Countess Blucher had the honour of accompanying her
Majesty.

The Queen of Prussia went out driving, accompanied by
Princess Louise.

The Queen and the Queen of Prussia, Prince Leopold,
and Princess Beatrice, went out in the grounds this
morning.

Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington
and Lord Alfred Paget, went to London to be present at
the drawing•room at St. James's Palace.
Prince Louis of Hesse, with the Duke of Leuchtenburg,
visited her Majesty and the Queen of Prussia at the Castle
this morning, and remained to luncheon.
The Right Hon. John Wilson Patten was sworn in as a
member of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council
yesterday, and took his seat at the board.
The Bishop of Rochester was presented to her Majesty
by the Right Hon. Gatborne Hardy, Secretary of State
for the Home Department, and did homage on his ap-
pointment.
The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, the Deputy-Clerk
of the Closet, administered the oath.

After the presentation the Right Hon. Cathorne Hardy
had an audience of her Majesty.
Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for the Foreign Depart-
ment, arrived at the Castle at 3 o'clock to-day, and had an
audience of the Queen.
M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and Baron de
Ceti*, the Bavarian Minister, also arrived, and were pre-
sented by Lord Stanley, and delivered their letters of
recall.

Sir Alexander Malet was presented by Lord Stanley, and
had the honour of an interview with her Majesty en the
termination of his mission at Frankfort ; and the Hon.
E. M. Erskine also had the honour of an interview with
the Queen on his arrival in England.
Viscount Str►thallan, the Lord in Waiting, was in
attendance.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant• Colonel
Beppel, visited Mr. Swinton's studio yesterday morning.
In the evening the Prince of Wales and the Prince and
Princess Louis of Hesse dined with the Belgian :Minister
and Madame Van de Weyer at their residence in Arlington-
street.

A deputation from the ratepayers of St. Mary, Strat-
ford-le-Row, consisting of the Rev. G. T. Driffield, M.A.,
Rev. It. Parnell, M.A., M. Edward R. Cook, Mr. J. M.
Goldie, Mr. S. J. Barth, Mr. F. Wright, Mr. W. B. Dyer,
Mr. W. Warburton, Mr. Martin, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Stokes,
Mr. N. Smith, Mr. B. Giles, Mr. Archer, Mr. Bowler, and
Mr. Day, had an interview with the Earl of Devon at the
office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of the West India Islands, New
Zealand, and Gibraltar. Despatches were sent to the
Governor-General of Canada.

The Marquis of Exeter, the Captain of the Honourable
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, entertained the corps at
dinner yesterday at the Ship, at Greenwich. The Earl of
Tankerville, Lord Steward; the Earl of Bradford, Lord
Chamberlain ; General the Earl of Lucan, Gold Stick in
Waiting ; the Earl of Cadogan, the Captain of the Yeomen
of the Guard ; Lord, Browniow Cecil, Lord Fevenham,
the Hon. Gowan Vernon, and Colonel Evans Freke, were
also his lordahips's guests on the occsaion.

M. and Madame Van de Weyer were honoured
by the presence of the Prince of Wales and the Prince and
Printer Louis of Here at dinner last evening, at their
resident,. in Arlington-street. The party invited to meat
their royal biennia"s consisted of Earl and Countess
Spencer, Earl and Countess Vane, Lord Bingham and Lady
Cecilia Bingham. Berl and Counter of Yarborough, Lord
Hyde, Major-General Lord Frederick Paulet, C. 8., and
the Hon. Oliver Montagu. Colonel Koppel was in
waiting on the Prince of Wales, and Baron Weaterweiler
and Baroness Schenk on the Prince and Prinoete Louis
of Here.

The Duke of Cambridge honoured Maria Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury by his comp►ny at dinner yesterday
at her ladyship's residence in Hertford-street, Mayfair.
The following company met the royal duke :—Prince and
Princess Edward of gaze-Weimar, the Duke and Duchess
of Manchester, the Marquis of Aißebury, the Marquis of
Illandford, Lord and Lady Rendlasham, Lord and Lady
Charles Bruise, Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Des Vcenz, Sir
George and Lady Julia Wombwell, Hen. Mn. Fitawilliam,
Colonel Hon. James and Mn. Macdonald, Mr. Henry
Chaplin, ace.

_ .
His Excellency the French Ambassador had •
dinner party at the French Embassy, Albert-gate, last
evening, when among the guests were—The Durham
(Dowager) of St. Albans and Lady Diana Beaucierk, the
Marchioness of Downahire and Lady Alice Hill, Prince
Alphonse de Chimay, the Marquis and Marchioness d'Aoust
sad Madlle. • d'Aouat, the Earl of Clarendon and Lady
' Emily Villiers. Viscount d'Espenilles, Baron and Baroness
' de Baude, Baron de Munch Bellinghausen, Count de l'Aigle.
Baroness Biome, the Marquis de Clermont de Tonnerre,
AL Mure, Madlle. Vaughan, ke.
_ _

Earl St. Maur is expected shortly to arrive in
England from his lengthened tour in the East, to join the
family circle at Bulstrode.

Lord and Lady Dufferin and Clandeboye have
arrived at Balatrade Park from Highgate.
Visoount and Viscountess Sydney had the honour
to entertain the Duchess of Cambridge and the Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelita at dinner yesterday at
their residence in Cleveland-square. There were present
to meet the royal guests the Duke of Grafton, the Duke
and Duchess of Cleveland, the Earl and Countess Gran.
villa, the Earl of Clanwilliam, the Countess of Bradford,
the Countess of Tsnkerville, Viscount Hamilton, Loll
Dunkellin, Captain Hon. G. Edgcumbe, Sir Edwin Land-
seer, do.

The Marquis of Exeter, the Captain of the
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arma, entertained the
corps at dinner rokerday, at the Ship, at Greenwich. The
Earl of Tankerville, Lord Steward ; the Earl of Bradford,
Lord Chamberlain ; General the Earl of Lama, Gold Stick
. Waiting; the Earl of Cadogan, Chaplain of the Yeomen
of the Guard ; Lord Brownlow Cecil, Lord Faversham.
the Hon. Gowran Vernon, and Colonel Evans Freke were
also his lordahip's guests on the occasion.

We (Post) understand that though M. Van de
Weyer ceases to be accredited to the Court al Bt. 31111164
his Majesty the King of the Belgians has by a royal decree
continued to X. Van de Weyer the title and rank el
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
WILLA AND BaQueere.—The will of the R;ght
Hon. Sir John William Spencer Brownlow Egerton Cast,
Earl Brownlow, of Belton House, Lincoln, was proved in
her Mairity's Court of Probate, oa the 20th inst., by the
Hon. Peregrine Francis Cust, the great uncle, and Right
Hon. Adelbert Wellington, Earl Browulow, the brother,
heretofore the Hon. A. W. B. Horne Cust, power
being reserved to the Right Hon. Lady Marianne Megaret
Alford, his tordsb,p's mother, to hereafter. The
personalty was sworn under 160,0001. His lords's will,
and a codicil bear date respectively Oct. 11, 1864 hip ; and
his lordship died Feb. 20, 1167, et Maltose, in Franco,
aged twenty-five. He has left liberal bequefte and an-
milks to his servants and ettendants, stewards, house-
, valet, yardarm, hunboman, and Mowers. To his
moiber,e
Lady Alford, besides other provision, his lordship
has kat a legacy of GAOL and the Ellesmere estate for
her li:s. All ammds, jeweils:7 pictures, plate, articles
of virtu boob, and furniture at the maniocs at ABM idge
and Beitondnior daewheri, and the carriages, horses, farm-
ing stook, her, stone, marble, he., be leaves to his
brother, the present earl. to whom be bequeaths the whole
of his real estates end the residue of the per.onalty abso-
lutely. Baleares elaissy of 0031. to the West Het FospitaL
The will of Clarkson Stanfield, EN., LA., was proved in
the London Murk= the 7th inst., by his rePet, the sole
executaix, sad the personalty wee sworn under 20,0001.
This dialing:Limbed artist died et the ne et 73, at his
residence at Hampstead, on May 16 last, having execii:ed
his will August 14, 1864, and a eodio l March 30, 1867 ;
the sigma' are to the latter is way feebly written. By the
will be bequeaths the whole of his property, real and
his wife absolutely. By .Ise codicil be
directspersonal to
th at his sketches and drawings, and his collection
of engravings ard other works of art, shall be disposed of,
his wife reserving for her own hairpin, or for the members
of his family, what she may think proper to select, and
from the proceeds to pay and divide amongst his seven
sons and daughter, in various proportions &sum of 6,6001.,
if the sale will admit thereof, otherrrise to abate propor-
tionately.—The Lite Miss Olivia More, of Lath has left to
the Bri.bh and Foreign Bible 6001. ; to the Mo-
ravian Missions, 5231. ; ChurchSoc'etT for
Africa and the East, 10(W. ; Irish Ch Kimmins,
1001. ; and 2001. to maw* the schools for poor children
inAug the paddies et Ken sad Shelve.—/ihistreledLondoa