The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-08 00:00:00

EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER

the Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 7.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of
Wales, drove out this morning.
Princess Louise went out walking, attended by the Hon.
Emily Cathcart.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Christian, attended by
Major-General F. H. Seymour and Major Grey, went out
shooting this morning.
Lord Begot and Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey
had the hocour of accompanying their royal highnesses.

Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Hentiette
dined with the Queen yesterday.
Sir Stafford Northcote, Secretary of State for India,
arrived at the Castle this afternoon.

Judge ManockjeeCursetjee, of Bombay, also arrived, and
was presented to her Majesty by Sir Stafford Northcote on
his departure for India.
The Marchioness of Ely and Lord Begot were in
attendance.

Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Lady Susan
Melville and Lieutenant-Colonel George Gordon, drove to
Hampton Wick to-day, and were present at the marriage of
Miss Emily Maude (daughter of Colonel Maude, C. 8.) and
Mr. Baird.

Their royal highnesses afterwards honoured Colonel and
Mrs. Maude with their company at the wedding breakfast.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre-
sent were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marl-
borough, the Earl of Malniesbury, the Right
Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke
of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Pakington,
Sir S. Norilicote, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of
Richmond, Lord J. Manners, and the Earl of Mayo.

A deputation, consisting of Messrs. A. G. Robinson,
M. Von Thal, jun., A. Alexander, and Giblett, had an
interview with the Lord President and the Vice-President
of the Council, at the Privy Council-office, yesterday, upon
the enbje, t of the importation of foreign cattle.
A deputation, consisting of the Rev. James Cohen, M.A.,
rector of Whitechapel ; Rev. Thomas Soon, MA., chap-
lain of London Hospital ; Mr. Godfrey Harris, Mr. James
Blackburn, Mr. Henry Lashbrook, and Mr. George Stout,
had an interview with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy,
as the Home-office, yesterday.
A deputation of merchants, bankers, and others resident
or being interested in the colony of Natal, introduced by
Mr. Gilpin, M.P., and consisting of Mr. George Mechem',
Mr. Richard Harrison, Mr. Septimus Maitland, Mr. A.
Mowbray, M.D., Mr. Philip Blyth, Mr. George Ledgett,
and Mr. F. S. Angier, had an interview with the Duke of
Buckingham and Chandos, et the Colonial-office, on Wed-
nesday.

Deputations from the guardians of the parish of St.
George, Hanover-square, consisting of Colonel Hogg,ILP.,
Dr. Brewer (vice-chairman), and Mr. Chappell (clerk);
and from the guardians of the Hackney Union, consisting
of Mr. W. Turner (chairman), Mr. W. Norris, Mr. T. N.
Kebbell, and Mr. Stanton, had an interview with the Earl
of Devon, at the office of the Poor-law Board. yesterday.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Coloniaboffice
to the Governor of the Mauritius and to the Governor.
General of Canada.

The commissioners appointed to inquire into the con.
etitution of the courts of law and equity held their first
meeting at 6, A.delphi.terrace, on the 6th inst. Present—
Lord Cairns (chairman), Sir William Erie, Vice• Chan•
cellor Wood, Sir James Wilde, Mr. Baron Bramwell, Mr.
Justice Smith, Sir }Wendell Palmer, M.P., Mr. Ayrton,
M.P., Mr. G. W. Hunt, M.P., Mr. Qusin, Q.C., Mr.
Rothery, Mr. Hollows, Mr. W. G. Bataan, and Mr. Brad-
shaw, the secretory.
A deputation from the vestry of St. Msrylebone, con-
sisting of Mr. Carr, Mr. Tyler, Mr. T►vener, and Mr.
Field, accompanied by Mr. W. E. Greenwell, vestry
clerk, and Mr. T. G. Browning, surveyor, bad an inter-
view with Lord John Manners, M.P., at her Majesty's
Office of Works, &c., yesterday, upon the subject of the
improvements in Oxford-street by the Marble-arch.

THE PRINCESS or WALES.—Yesterday after-
noon her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, ac-
companied by her Royal Highness the Princess Louise,
drove through Windsor and Eton in an open pony-phaeton
drawn by a beautiful pair of iron greys, much to the grati-
fication of the inhabitants. Her Royal Highness, although
looking delicate, appeared in excellent spirits. The Prin.
ceases remained out an hour.

Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales and Prince Christian drove to the preserves in
Windsor Great Park, and had some capit►l sport amongst
the pheasants and other game in the neighbourhood of
Virginia Water, and returned to Windsor at 2 o'clock
to luncheon. Their Royal Highnesses were attended by
Major• General Seymour and Major Grey.

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Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Lady
Susan Melville and 'Lieutenant-Colonel George Gordon,
drove to Hampton Wick on Wednesday, and were present
►t the marriage of Miss Emily Maude (daughter of Colonel
Mande, C. 8.) and Mr. Baird. Their royal highnesses
afterwards honoured Colonel and Mrs. Maude with their
oompany at the wedding breakfast.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge re-
turned to town yesterday from visiting General Hall at
his seat near Newmarket, where there has been a battne
of two days.

His Excellency the Lord-Lieutanant will be en-
tertained at a public banquet by the dtizens of Limerick
on Wednesday, the 18th of December, to commemorate
the opening of a new graving dock.
His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and
Countess Bernstorlf and family return to the Prussian
Embassy on Monday next from Mecklenburg.
The Earl and Countess Spencer left town yester-
day for Chatsworth, on a visit to the Duke of Devon-
shire.

The Earl of Derby will give an official dinner on
Monday, the 18th inst., at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.

Lord Russell has issued cards for a p..rliainentary
dinner, at which his principal supporters in the Upper
House are expected to be present.
There have been festivities at Harewood this
week in celebration of the coming of age of Viscount
Nacelles, eldest son of the Hari of Harewood. On Wed-
nesday 800 of his lordship's tenantry from PonUfract,
blorthallaton, km, were entertained at Harewood House,
at a grand ball and supper, and the rejoicings were con-
tinued yesterday, when about 500 of the cottager, and
labourers upon the earl's extensive estates were enter-
tained. Viscount Lascelles was introduced, and cordially
welcomed by the tenantry and others who assembled on
the interesting occasion.

Her Majesty's screw troopship Urgent, Captain
S. H. Henderson, will sail from Portsmouth, on Tuesday
next, unless the disastrous effects produced by the hurri-
cane at St. Thomas should cause her earlier departure for
the West Indies, with naval officers, seamen, and marines
to join her Majesty's ships on the North American and
West Indian and the Pacific stations. The Urgent will
call in at Plymouth Sound on her w►y down Channel.
The officers and men for her Majesty's ships on the North
American and West Indian station she will disembark at
Bermuda, and those for her Majesty's ships in the Pacific
at Colon, for Panama, by way of the Isthmus Railway.
In consequence of several cases having recently
occurred of engineer students, apprentices in her blijegty's
service, who have been educated at the School of Naval
Architecture, Kensington, having immediately on the
completion of their period of study entered the service of
private firms, an Admiralty order has been received at
Chatham directing a new clause to be inserted in the in-
dentures of all apprentices, who will in future be re-
quired to enter into a bond, in the snm of 501., to re-
main in her Majesty's service for five years after the
completion of their term of apprenticeship and atholutic
course.

Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor of her Majesty's
navy, was a passenger by the up-train from Cabin for
Paris, which met with the serious collision on the 27th
oh., but two days elapsed after the accident before he
felt any serious effects from it beyond a severe shaking.
He has since been lying for some days at Corbeil, in
France, suffering from a concussion of the brain, but is
now considerably better, and is expected to be sufficiently
convalescent very shortly to return to England and resume
his duties at the Admiralty. Perfect repose and quiet are
still imposed.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THZ HURRICANE AT ST. THOMAS.

The following additional telegram was received
at Lloyd's this morning :—" Tornado at St. Thomas,
Oct. 29.—Steamer Rhone and crew lost at Peters
Island ; Wye and part of crew lost at Buck
Island ; Conway, ashore at Tortola ; Derwent, at
St. Thomas ; Solent and Tyne, dismasted ; only 12
passengers by steamer for Southampton saved.
Fifty vessels reported ashore."

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 8.

Telegram; received by the Liverpool under-
writers confirming the news of the disaster at St.
Thomas, state that the crew of the Rhone were lost
and part of the crew of the Wye, and only 12 pas-
sengers by the steamer for Southampton were
saved.