The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-24 00:00:00

Cfte Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, APRIL 73.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
drove in the grounds this morning
Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold, attended by Mr.
Sahi, went out walking. Princess Beatrice rode in the
Home-park.
The Austrian ambassador and Countess Apponyi arrived
at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining
with the Queen and the Royal Family.

Mr. Louis Mallet, C. 8., and Mr. H. Reader Lack (mem-
bers of the Austrian Tariff Commission) have left the
Board of Trade for Vienna.

Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the governors of the settlements on the West Coast of
Africa.

DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY FOR OSBORNE.—
The Queen, with the junior members of the royal famly,
is expected to leave Windsor Castle for Osborne early next
week. The necessary preparations are being made at Os-
borne for the Queen's reception. Prince and Princess
Christian will not go to Osborne with the Queen. Her
Majesty will reside in the Isle of Wight for ►bout a fort-
night, and then return to Windsor Castle, where nume-
rous improvements are being carried out, including the re-
erection of the grand staircase and alteration of the Nor-
man Tower, the residence of General Grey.
The commercial travellers of Ireland held their
annual banquet on Monday night in the Lecture-ball of
the Molesworth-street Institute. In the absence of the
Lord Mayor the chair was taken by Mr. Andrew Bigot.
A most encouraging report was read, showing in a marked
manner the very great success the institution had at-
tained in a comparatively short period.
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Mr. Peabody has received from the Empress
Eugenie an autogr.ph letter complimenting him for the
munificent liberality he has displayed on both sides of the
Atlantic, and characterising him as " the great benefactor
of humanity."

We read in the Moniteur of yesterday, "His
Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon leaves this evening
for his estate at Prangins, in the canton of Vaud (Switzer-
land). The absence of the prince will be of very short
duration."

By way of keeping up a record of the distin-
guished foreign visitors, the arrival of two white camels of
the Mahan species at the Paris Exhibition is noticed.
They come from the southern province of Constantine, and
are the only once of the kind ever seen in France. They
have been sent by order of theGovernor-General of Algeria.
At the park they were located under tents erected by the
War Department in Section 3R, known all the encampment ;
and, after a welcome rest of two days, they were sent to
the Acclimatising Garden, where they receive hospitality
now, and where they will be located permanently after the
Exhibition is over. Every morning they are conducted to
the park, and are carefully taken back at night.

A catalogue of the pictures belonging to the late
Mr. Augustus Stevens, of Paris, announces the sale of his
known collection of old muters, which is to take place on
the let of May. There are in this collection Rackhuysens,
Coyne, Vander Hoydens, Ruyadaela, Rredas, Dows, Dyeks,
Holbeins, Ostades, Rembrandt', Terriers', Wouvermani,
Potters, and other known artists of the Dutch school.
Other collections are likely to be offered this summer,
under the impression that the Exhibition will invite a
buying public.

Much complaint has been made respecting the
system of charging extra for several places within the park
at the Paris Exhibition, such as the centr►l garden, the
church, the Mexican temple, and other places ; but, as a
weekly ticket obviates all this, visitors should not fail to
take with them a photograph portrait, without which these
tickets are not issued. Of course there are plenty of pho-
tographers in the neighbourhood and in Paris who are
ready to " take " you, but a day at least is lost before a
copy can be printed, even if you can get one within so
short a time.

A letter from Luxemburg states that the Prus-
sian garrison has not been increased of late ; that it is at
this moment below it., ordinary strength, and that it con-
sists only of two regiments, one from Nassau and one
from the Rhine, with two companies of artillerymen and
a few engineers.

A Marseilles letter, in the Pharr de la Loire,
says :—" The situation of the workmen does not seem to
be improving in this neighbourhood. The labourers at
the opal mines of Fuveau are now on strike. A meeting
of the working-tailors of this city is about to be held at
the Café du XIX. Siecle, with the object of raising pecu-
niary resources to send to the tailors on strike in Paris.
A note published in the journals invites the workmen of
other trades to aid them in carrying out their views."
The Imperial Russian squadron, under the com-
mand of Rear-Admiral Kern, recently returned to Europe
from the North Pacific, and now anchored at the Mother-
bank, off Ryde, consisting of the screw frigate Askold
(flag), 17 guns, Captain Polozoff ; the screw corvette Va-
riag, 17 guns, Captain Lundh ; and the screw despatch
vessel Izoumroud, 5 guns, Captain Brilkin, are waiting
orders from St. Petersburg, which are expected for Cron-
stadt on the clearing of the ice.

DEATH OF MR. WEATHERALL, THE CHIEF CLERK
OF VICIECHANCELLOR WOOD.—This gentleman. who had
held the appointment for a number of years, died suddenly
of disease of the heart, at his residence, Highbury, on
Good Friday. He attended on the previous day and dis-
charged the duties of his office in apparent health. At pre-
sent the vacancy has not been filled up. It is in the gift of
Vice-Chancellor Wood.

DZATH OF MR. PAUL FORRETT. —We have to
announce that the severe illness which Mr. Paul Foskett
has endured for some time back had a fatal termination
yesterday morning. Mr. Foskett took an active part in
politics during the earlier portion of his life; but in later
years had acquired celebrity as a religious lecturer, and as
an earnest and ever ready defender of the "protestant in-
stitutions" of the country. He was also the author of
works of a "prophetic" tendency. His body will be in-
terred at I o'clock on Friday next, at the Extra-Mural
Cemetery. —BrigAton Quard4ast.

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