The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-25 00:00:00

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went out in lbt rotunda yesterday morning, sled drove
in the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Helena
attended by the Hon. Caroline Cavendish.
Colonel Du Plat was in attendance on horseback.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, Scots Fusilier Guards,
arrived at Osborne yesterday.

A deputation from parochial boards in Scotland had an
interview with the Lord Advocate in Spring-gardens yes-
terday, on the subject of the Lunacy BilL The deputation
consisted of Mr. Curror, chairman, and Mr. Grey, in-
spector (city pariah of Edinburgh) ; Mr. M'Lellan, chair-
man, Mr. Beattie, inspector, and Mr. Lomond, solicitor
(barony pariah of Glasgow) ; Mr. Jamieson, chairman
(Aberdeen city parish) ; Mr. Hay, solicitor (Dundee parish);
and Mr. Hope, parliamentary agent.
A meeting of the English and Irish Law and Chaneery
Commissioners was held at 6, Adelphi-terrace, on Monday
last. Present, the Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood,
the lion. Mr. Justice Willes, and Robert Bayley Follett,
Esq. ; W. Neilson Hancock, Eel., LLD., and H. R.
Vaughan Johnson, Esq., secretaries.

Tss TRAINING SHIP WORCESTER. —The Prince
of Wales has consented to honour the committee of the
Thames Marine Officers, training-ship Worcester, off Erith,
on June 28, by distributing the prizes to the cadets ; and
purposes going from there to lay the foundation stone of a
new hall for the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum at
Wan/teed on the same day. _ . .

Tins Panicass ALICE.—To-day is the anniver-
sary of the birthday of the Princess Alice. Her royal
highness was born on the 25th of April, 1843, and was
married on the Ist of July, 1862, to his Royal Highness
Prince Louis of Hesse, B.G.
At a recent meeting of the inhabitants of Kew,
presided over by the Rev. R. B. Byam, vicar of the parish,
it was unanimously resolved that an address of congratu-
lation on the approaching marriage of her Royal Highness
Princess Mary of Cambridge should be presented to her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and accord-
ingly on Monday afternoon the deputation, consisting of
the Rev. R. B. Byam (vicar), the Rev. P. W. Nat (curate),
and Messrs. J. D. Rigby and F. Irwin (churchwardens),
waited on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
by appointment, at Cambridge-cottage, and presented the
address, which was signed by upwards of 250 of the inha-
bitants of Kew. The Duchess returned the following
reply :—" Mr. Byam and gentlemen,—l am much gratified
at receiving the address of congratulation which the clergy
and inhabitants of Kew have been good enough to present
through you on the approaching marriage of my daughter,
the Princess Mary Adelaide, with his Highness the Prince
of Teck. After a residence of nearly thirty years at Kew
I cannot but regard with the warmest affection *place in
which so many years of my life have been passed, and
where I have received from the clergy and inhabitants
such undeviating marks of goodwill and sympathy on this
and on former occasions. It is most acceptable to me to
learn from the kind expressions you make use of that my
daughter's feelings towards Kew have been so thoroughly
appreciated, and you may be certain that her interest and
attachment will remain unchanged. I know it will be a
pleasure to you to be assured by me that I have every
reason to believe that the Princess Mary's happiness will be
secured by this alliance, and that under God's blessing this
marriage will be se prosperous as you all desire. In my
own name and that of the Princess Mary I offer you our
sincere thanks for your good wishes.—(lligned) AUGUSTA.
Cambridge Cottage, Kew, April 73, 1866."
The Owl understands that the House of Com-
mons are to be asked to vote three thousand pounds a
year for Princess Mary of Cambridge on her marriage.
His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Command-
ing-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Tuesday,
Ist May.
The Countess d'Apponyi intends shortly to an-
nounce two balls at Chandos House, in order to introduce
the Countess Helene Apponyi to society.
The Earl and Countess of Derby intend passing

a few days at Colonel the Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma
Talbot's suburban residence at Sudbury, near Harrow-on-
the-Hill. Both the Earl of Derby and the Counteu have
materially improved in health since their recent illness,
but the countess has not as yet regained her strength.
Mrs. Gladstone will have an evening party this
evening at the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer's private residence on Carlton-house-terrace.
Sir Erskine and Lady Perry received at dinner
last evening, at their residence in Eaton-place, his Excel-
: lency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff
i• and the Countess Theresa Bemstorff, the Countess Frances
Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescus,
M.P., Count Maffei, Lady Georgians Russell, Lady Moles.
worth, Lord West, Mr. Bright, M.P., Hon. Edward and
Mrs. Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Higgins, Sir John Medcalf, &c.
I The marriage of Misa Ida Waldegrave Money,
daughter of the late General and Lady Annette L. M.
I Money, and niece of Frances Countess Waldegrave, with
Major the Hon. Edward Boyle, was solemnised yesterday
morning at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.

p, APRIL 25, 18011!Nr''

' INTELLIGENCE.

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THE I.Af3T ADOIRIAN DESPATCH.
Subjoined is** haat of the despatch addressed
Eby the Vienna cabinet to Count Karolyi at Berlin,
iMI proposing a simultaneous disarming, as already
mentioned :

Vienna, April 18.

By order of his government, Baron de Werther has
banded me a note from the cabinet of Berlin, of the 15th,
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in reply to a despatch which I had the honour of addressing
to you on the 7th.
The Prussian government has perceived that the expla-
nations contained in the despatch of the 7th have set
aside, after the mutual assurance of the two sovereigns, all
ideas of aggression ; th►t consequently the reasons for
military preparations fall of themselves, and that any dis-
cussion on the subject of the priority of the alleged arma-
ments becomes superfluous. Neverthadeas, the answer of
Count de Bismarck continues to argue on that idea. The
Emperor of Austria does not believe that to be the true
means of arriving at an understanding so necessary to the
situation, and he has ordered me to submit the subjoined
propositions to the government of King William.
By the repeated and direct communications which I have
bad with the cabinet of Berlin, it has been informed that
there had been some partial movements of troops in
Austria, and that some corps bad been sent towards her
north-west frontier. His Majesty now declares that he
is ready to reverse, by an ordinance which should
be dated the 25th of April, those changes of
troops which the cabinet of Berlin regards as military
preparations directed against Prussia, se well as to take
all the measures which would be the necessary result of
that step, on condition that the Prussian government will
on its side engage to order, on the same or the next day,
the reduction to a peace tooting of the different corps
d'armee which since the 27th ult. have been reinforced.
By this proposition the Austrian government believes that
it is doing all in its power to give a pacific solution to the
exchange of explanations which have taken place.
Your excellency is begged without delay to express
these sentiments to the President of the Council, and to
recommend, in leaving him a copy of this despatch, to the
most serious consideration of the cabinet of Berlin the
proposition made above, which is a new and incontestable
proof of the desire of Austria to maintain poses.
Ds MtIfIIDOILTP.

(RELIT R 8 TZ12011.42111.)

FRANCE AND THE GERMAN QUESTION.
PARIS, APRIL 25.

The Conatitutiowne/ of this morning publishes an
article upon the German question, signed by M.
Paulin Limayrac, demonstrating that France
could do nothing better during the German
difficulty than preserve, with entire neutrality,
all liberty of action and every means of
influence for the moment when they might be use-
fully employed. " Facts," the writer continues,
" justify the course taken by the Emperor. Left
to themselves, Prussia and Austria have agreed to
disarm, but it is very doubtful whether foreign in-
terference would have more easily or promptly
obtained a similar result."