The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-26 00:00:00

THE FRENCH AND PAPAL RTATES.

The limitation of the French occupation to the seaport
will help the Italian government, the Times observes, to
meet the grave difficulties with which it will find itself
encompassed on the opening of the parliamentary session.
If the solution of this question is postponed, there is
every danger of a disruption of the Italian kingdom, and
though the Emperor may have found that to restore order
in Rome was an easy achievement, to bring to reason five-
and-twenty millions of revolutionised Italians would be
an Atlantean task. The occupation of the Papal States by
the French,or even the unsettled state of the Roman ques-
tion, leading periodically to a reoccupation, is a perpetual
source of danger. The Frenchman cannot set his foot on
Italian ground without ►wakening the German's jealousy.
It peeing evident that the Emperor, aware of these jealou-
sies, is anxious to retrace the step he has taken. He hopes
a conference will relieve him of a burden of responsibility
which begins to weigh intolerably on himself, and if the
conference turn out a failure, we trust he may come to the
conclusion that the maintenance of the temporal power,
which lie is unable to induce all the I'owers of Europe to
undertake, is a task too difficult and too dangerous for
himself.

The Post inclines to the opinion that a conference to be
successful must be composed of parties who have before.
hand made up their minds to a pacific solution.

the Court.

WLNDSOR CASTLE, Nov. Si.

The Queen went out walking in the grounds this
morning. Princess Beatrici and Prince Leopold also
walked out.

Princess Louise rode in the Home Park, attended by the
Hon. Flora 51acdonald.

Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, has left
the Castle for Greenwich Park.

The Right Hon. H. T. Lowry Corry arrived at the Castle
yesterday and had the honour of dining with the Queen
and the Royal Family. The Dean of Windsor and the
lion. Dirs. Wellesley, and the Rev. Charles Vaughan, D. D.,
and Mrs. Vaughan, had also the honour of receiving
invitations.

The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel the Hon.
J. Macdonald, arrived at Frogmore on Saturday, on •
visit to Prince and Princess Christian.

Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington,
dined with Prince and Princesr Christian. The dinner
party also included Lieutenant-General Pio Ron. Charles
and Mn. Grey, Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph,
Lady Susan Melville, Sir John Cowell, Lieutenant-Colonel
George Gordon, and Mr. Gardner Englebeart.
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Their Royal Highnesses afterwards bad an evening
party, at which Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold were
present. The ladies and gentlemen residing in the neigh-
bourhood had the honour of resolving invitations.
Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Henriette, and
the Duke of Cambridge, with their suite, attended divine
service on Sunday morning in the Chapel, Windsor-park.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise,
attended by Lady Coaoline Barrington, visited the Soho
Bazaaryeewmhty.

The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue and
Frances Countess Waldegrave received at dinner, in Carl-
ton-gardens, last week—his Excellency the Prussian Am-
bassador and Countess Bernstorff, his Excellency the
Italian Minister, the Earl of Airlie, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, Lady Molesworth, Lady Sott, the Right Hon.
Charles P. Villiers, M.P., the Right Hon. W. A. Glad-
stone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone, the Right Ron. R.
Lowe, M.P., Sir Henry Bulwer, Mr. Childers, M.P., and
Mrs. Childers, Mr. Henry Grenfell, M.P., Mr. Bernal
Osborne, M.P., Mr. Hayward, Mr. P. Alderson, Mr. W.
Harcourt. &o.

The Marquis of Huntly has arrived in Paris on
his way to Egypt and the East Indies.

Mr. Watkin, on Thursday, will ask the Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs when he proposes to lay
further papers before the house in reference to the ques-
tions under discussion between the government of her
Majesty and the government of the United States ; and
whether he proposes, before the house adjourns, to make
any statement to the house as to the negotiations which
have been in progress during his period in office.
To-marrow Mr. Newdegato will bring forward
hie bill for the commutation of church rates.

Mr. Hardcaatle's bill for the " abolition " of
church rates stands for Tuesday next.
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Mr. Ayrton intends, after the recess, to move
for a select committee on the collection of poor and other
rates.

Mr. Pease will ask the Home Secretary, on
Thursday, whether it is the intention of the government
during the present session to introduce any measure by
which the granting of licenses for the sale of spirits, wine,
and beer 'hall be placed under the same jurisdiction.
The general committee of elections for the pre-
sent session consists of Mr. IA Whitbread, Mr. J. Clay,
Mr. E. F. Gower, Sir F. W. Monate, Sir W. Stirling-Max-
well, and Mr. A. F. Egerton.

Upwards of eleven millions of persons, the Pays
states, passed through the turnstiles of the Universal Es-
hibition.

THE WEST AFRICAN SETTLEMENTS. —MT. Arthur
E. Kennedy, C. 8., baa been appointed Governor of the
West Aitken Battlements.