The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-06 00:00:00

NOZOONTZifTS.

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Marlborough. Lucan Chelmsford Redeadale
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Bath Shrewsbury Colchester Skelmersdale
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fit Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, NAZI= 6.

The Queen with Princess Helena, and attended
by the Hoe. Emily Cathcart, drove in the grounds this
morning.

Prince Alfred and the gentleman in waiting attended
Divine Service yesterday afternoon at St. George's Oliva.

The Prince of Wales went to the House of Lonis yew.
terd&y.

The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive.
A deputatioo,f oossisting of Messrs. Thomas Powell,
Frederick Hepburn, Henry Page, and Alfred Latinos, had
an interview with Earl Granville at the Privy Counoil-oflioe,
yesterday, on the &mom in the Cattle Plague Bill vela I g
to the removal of hides and skins.

Devpstobes were received yesterday at tbe ColoniaLodlite
from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Hoeg, Matta, Hell-
Roland, Canada, the Falkland Islands, the Bahamas. sad
Vaimonver's Mend.

The Prince and Princess of Wales will, it is under.
stood, prolong their autumn stay at Abergeldie till the last
week in October; sad the triennial musical festival at
Norwich, which they have promised to attend, will foc
their Royal Bighorns's' o-nvsnieoco be postponed till the
lut days of Ootobor and fit st easy, of November.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wsles will hocosr the Dake and Duchess of Marlborough
with their company at dinner on Weloesday. the 21st Inst.,
at their resides°. is St. James's Roars. Lear in the
evening the clochees will give adaadag party to meet their
royal highnesses.

The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle and family
leave town in a day or two for Clamber Park, Notts, till
after Easter.

The Countess Russell entertained the following
aompany at dinner hat evening, at her resMesee in Cho&
ham-place :—His Rainßepay the Italian Minister, the lied
Cowper, Viseount and Viscoustess Ambetley, Lord and
Lady Wm. Compton, Lord and Lady Frederick Cavendish
Lord Ebony, Lord Charles Russell, Led; Georgians Romig
the Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta
Stanley, Sir James and Lady Mary Wilde, k The Bari
Reuell was unsbis to join the patty owing to sliiht hid/-
position. The Countess Russell will have an assembly to.
morrow at the official residence of the First .Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street. . .

The Speaker's levee, announced for Wednesday,
the 7th of March, ia =avoidably postponed.

This morning a copy was issued of the corre-
spondence whirl has taken plane relative to the sickness
and mortality in the god battalion of the 9th R.giment.
and 2nd battalion of the 11th Regiment, in China and
Japan. A return bas also appeared of the mean annual
streagth, total annual sickness, mortality, and in-
validing of the troops of ea* arm, ofsoers, end
men, at Hong gong, from the year 1850 to 1865,
both inclusive, and of the number of deaths annually on the
voyage to England by the troops invalided. The mean an-
nual strength last year of European troops at Hong gong
wag 1,350 ; the average number of sick wan 172 (in 1864
it wee 75, in 1863, 95); the death. were 117 against 47 la
1864, 31 in 1863, 48 in 1862, Ste. The invalided were 254,
against 168 in the previous year, 114 in 1863, and 65 in
1862. No less than 66 died on the passage to England,
while in the previous year there bad been only eix oases
of the kind, in 1863 eight, in 1862 one. It should be said,
however, that the mean annual strength of the European
throe last year were 353 stronger than in 1864, 321 more
than in 1863, and 226 more than in 1882.

The publisher Abeladorf, of Berlin, against whom
a prosecution had been instituted, on the demand of the
French government, for an insult to the Bmpe•or Napoleon
oostsiced in a work entitled, " Life of the New Caw,"
has been eondemned to a floe of 60 ths'ere (18710. This
being his third osedestnation his privilege of bookseller
has been withdrawn.