The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-12 00:00:00

the Court.

'WINDSOR CASTLE, Arm 11.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accom-
panied by Princess Christian.
Prince Christian, attended by Lieut.• Colonel G. Gordon,
went out riding.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and
attended by Lady Churchill, drove out this morning.
Prince and Princess Christian took a drive.
Princess Louise walked in the grounds of the Castle.
Prince Henry of Prussia, attended by Captain Von
Schroetter, also walked out.
Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Legg, went to London.

The Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Flora Mao.
donald have succeeded the Hon. Lucy Kerr and the Hon.
Emily Cathcart as Maids of Honour in Waiting.

The Prince of Wales rode ont yesterday, attended by
Captain Ellis.
The King of Denmark left Marlbourough•house in the
evening for Dover, en route for Copenhagen.
The Prince of Wales accompanied his Majesty to the
terminus of the South Butern Railway at Charing•cross.
In attendance on his Majesty were the Danish minister,
General d'Oxholm, and M. de Scheele.
General Knollys was also in attendance, and proceeded
to Dover with the King.
A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council eat yesterday at the Privy Council-
office, Whitehall, on matter, relating to the Cattle Plague.
The Lords present were the Lord President and the Duke
of Richmond. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams
attended the Committee.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial•
office from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches
were sent to the Governors of Malta, Gibraltar, and
Canada.

His Excellency the French Ambassador enter
tamed the following company at dinner last evening at the
French Embassy, Albert-gate :—His Excellency the Aus-
trian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi, his Excel-
lency the Spanish Minister and the Countess de Vistaher-
moss, and Mdlle. Owens ; his Excellency the Swedish
Minister and Baroness Hochachild, his Excellency the
Greek Minister, the Portuguese Chargé d'Affaires, and the
Countess Rilvaa ; the Belgian Chargé d'Affaires, Baron
and Baroness Biome, Baron Planner, ko.
The Earl and Countess Amherst received the
Earl of Longford, the Countess of Ashburnham and Lady
Katherine Ashburnham, Lord and Lady Josecline Percy,
Lord Richard Grosvenor, M.P., Lord Warkworth, Mr. and
Lady Charlotte Montgomery and Miss Montgomery, Mr.
and the Hon. Mn. W. Rose, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Rice, kc.,
at dinner last evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-
square.

Sir D. Coutta Marjoribanka, M. P., and Lady
Marjoribanks received his Excellency the Proadan
humidor and the Countess Berustorff, and the Countess
Th6risei Bernetorff, Lady Mildred Beresford Hope, and
Misses Hope, and a large party, at dinner last evening, at
their residence, in Grafton-street.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland leave
Stafford House, St. James's, on Tuesday next, for Trent-
ham, Staffordshire, for the holidays.

Sir Michael Hicks Beach intends, on the motion
for third reading of Testa Abolition (Oxford and Cam-
bridge) Bill, to move, " That it be read the third time
upon this day six months."

On the second reading of Sale of Liquors on
Sunday Sill, Major Jervis will move, " That it be read •
second time upon this day six months."
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Mr. Baillia has deferred his notice respecting the
seizure of the Tornado by the Spanish frigate Gerona, and
the correspondence respecting the seizure of the Queen
Victoria by the Spanish revenue cruiser Toro till Friday,
May 3.

THE PRINCESS OF WALES.—A relapse, for which
no exciting cause could be traoed, took place towards the
latter end of last week, and has served to check the
progress of her royal highness towards recovery. The
saute symptoms of this attack subsided under treatment
in the course of a few days, leaving the joint, how-
ever, in a necessarily less satisfactory state than it
presented previously. On Saturday last, during the
attack, the Princess was seen by Mr. Omar Hawkins,
serjeant-surgeon to the Queen, and Mr. G. D. Pollock,
surgeon to the Prince of Wales, who consulted on this
occasion with the surgeons in constant charge of the
patient, Mr. James Peget and Mr. Prescott Pewett.
Our readers will hear with much regret of this recur-
rence of inflammation, the import of which as in-
fluencing the eventual duration of the illness they will
readily understand. Under existing circumstances the
attack, of course, signifies something much more serious
than the mere lois of time—the four or five days, for
instance, during which the acute action lasted. The
source of anxiety lies in the fact itself that the joint
malady has proved susceptible of relapse—that the gra-
dual healing process has been rudely stopped by fresh
inflammation with its attendant effusion, negativing at
once the reparative changes which it had already taken
several weeks to effect. We are glad to turn to the other
and more cheerful side of the picture and to notice several
points of a satisfactory nature in her royal highness's con-
dition. The character of the inflammation was unchanged,
and its subsidence has left the patient in good general health
and excellent spirits, without any febrile excitement.
The position of the affected limb is perfect. With slight
exception, the night's rest has latterly been very good in-
deed, natural sleep of many hours' continuance having been
procured without assistance either from narcotics or the
ideal " hop bed," which has lately made the round of the
journals. Need we add that, with an urgent necessity for
the moat absolute rest, the rumour respecting an approach-
ing voyage by her royal highness to Denmark is quite
apocryphal ?—buseet.
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. —The reports as to the
health of the Prince Imperial, who is under the care of
MM. Nekton and Bertha, are conflicting. Great anxiety
is entertained at court in consequence of the successive
breaking out of two large abcesses, the development of
which would seem to have been favoured by some con-
stitutional condition, and to betoken the probable
existence of a diseased state of the thigh bone. The
absence of the Prince Imperial at the opening ceremony of
the Exhibition only tended to increase the anxiety of the
public.—Lancrt
MR. Bouvntrz, M.P.—We are sorry to learn
that the cause of Mr. Bouverie's absence from the House
of Commons is ill-health. We understand that he is at
present sojourning on the continent by medical advice.—
Greenock TrlegrapA.
ETON COLLEOE.—The college will close to-day for
the Easter vacation, the Great Western and London and
South Western Railways running special trains for the
convenience of the boy.. The holidays will last about a
month.

CLERGY ORPHAN BOYS' SCHOOL, CANTERETRY.
—At a meeting of the comnuttee of the Clergy Orphan
Corporation held yesterday afternoon at Lambeth Ace,
under the presidency of his Grace the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, the Rev. Charles Matheson, principal's aseistsuit
master at the Blackheath Proprietary School, and classical
examiner at Merchant Taylor's School, was elected to the
mastership of the Clergy Orphan Boys' School, at Canter-
bury, rendered vacant by the presentation of the Rev. D.
Butler to the rectory of Greet Chart. Mr. Matheson was
formerly a Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, and ob-
tained a first claw in daisies at his final examination in
IN.A. lie was also elected toe Pusey and Ellurton Hebrew
scholarship in 11151, and toe Kennicett Hebrew scholarship
in lshd.