The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-29 00:00:00

Irks &flirt.

WINDSOR CASTLE, tiLtace 2t3.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady
Churchill.

Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington,
also drove out.

The Queen held a court to-day at Buckingham Palace,
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess
Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, left Windsor Castle at 20
minutes past 11 a.m., and arrived at Buckingham Palace
shortly before 12 o'clock.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, left
Buckingham Palace at half•past four o'clock, and visited
the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough-house.
Her Majesty and her Royal Highness afterwards drove
to Paddington station, escorted by a detachment of the
14th Harare, and returned by railway to Windsor,
attended by the Lady and Gentlemen in Waiting.

The Duke of St. Albans and the Hon. Mrs. and Miss
Grey left the castle yesterday.
The Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy arrived at the castle
yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen
and the royal family.
Major-General Sir Thomas M. Bidolulph and the Hon.
Lady Biddulph had also the honour of being invited.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Colonel Kingscote,
rode out on horseback yesterday.
Mr. Tilt (of Meson. Dickinson and Tilt, of New Bond.
street) had the honour of a sitting from the Prince of
Wales for a miniature.

CABINLT COUNCIL.—There will be a Cabinet
Council to-morrow at the First Lord of the Treasury's
official residence in Downing-street.

Viscounteas Stratford de Radcliffe held a recep-
tion at her residence in Grosvenor-square last evening.
Previous to the assembly the noble viscount and viseountess
received at dinner the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanti-
cards, the Earl and Countess of Airlie, the Earl and Coun-
tess Grey, the Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary
Stanhope, the Earl of Morley, Lord Richard Grosvenor.
M.P., the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., and Mr. W.
Peel.

His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and
the Countess Bernstorff entertained the following party at
dinner last evening, at the Prussian Embassy, on Carlton-
bouse-terrace Excellency the Netherlands Minister,
the Duchess of St. Albans and Lady Diana Beauclerk, the
Marchioness of Downshire, L►dy Alice Hill, the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon and Lady Emily Villiers, the Earl
of Hillsborough, the Earl Cadogan, Frances Countess Wel-
degrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P.,
Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald, Sir Ralph and Lady How-
ard, Count Maffei, Hon. Harris Temple, Sir Charles Rus-
sell, Bart, H.P., Sir Ivor Guest, and Mr. Christopher
Sykes, M.P. The Countess Bernatorff had • small and
early party after dinner.

The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his seventh
parliamentary full dress dinner on the evening of Wednes-
day last, to the following noblemen and gentlemen :
Lord F. Cavendish, Lord William Hay, Lord Milton, Lord
Henley, Hon. F. Cidthorpe, Lord Augustus Harvey, Hun.
Captain Grosvenor, Sir Rowland Blennerlumett, Sir
William Scott, Sir Thomas Lloyd, Sir Francis Crossley,
Colonel Packs, Hon. A. Kinnaird, Captain Hayter, Mr.
Akroyd, Mr. Ayrton, Mr. Baines., Mr. Bass, Mr. Crawford,
Mr. Buxton, Mr. Graham, Mr. Locke, Mr. Merry, Mr.
Barclay, Mr. Biddulph, Mr. Calcmft, Mr. Eykyri, Mr.
Nugent Greville, Mr. Barnett, Mr. Brett, The O'Donoghue,
Mr. Tit*, Mr. Harvey Lewis, Mr. Finley, Mr. White, Mr.
Grosvenor Hodgkinson; Rev. Dr. Merivale, Chaplain; Mr.
Alfred Denison, pro-Secretary. The right hon. gentleman
afterwards held a levee, which was very well attended.
THE PRINCESS OF WALes.—We have the satis-
faction to report that, although it cannot be said that
much change has taken place in her royal highness's con-
dition during the peat week, she has yet shown a steady
tendency towards recovery. The pain and swelling of the
knee joint are slowly diminishing, while the general health
is considerably improved. With only such occasional
attacks of restlimeness as are always liable to occur in •
case of this kind, her niches have been for the most part
very good, and this notwithstanding the constrained posi-
tion which is necessarily still maintained, and which is
now, perhaps, as much required to prevent any accidental
irritation retarding progress as for the treatment of the
existing injury.—