The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1866.

TES INW mar.

According to the Telegraph, Sir F. Kelly waives his
claim to the attorney-generalship, reserving himself for
one of the chief judgeships which will very shortly be
vacant. Admiral Sir Sydney Colpoys Decree, K.C.8., has
accepted a seat at the Board of Admiralty as First Naval
Lord. The post waa offered by Sir John Pakington purely
on the grounds of Sir Sydney's services and high nrofes.

lions' standing, without any regard to his political opi-
nions, which ►re thoroughly liberal.
The Pug does not at all see why the new government
should be considered merely u an interregnum, and pro-
mites it a general support.
The Standard, announcing Sir E. B. Lytton's elevation
to the peerage with the style of Baron Lytton of KneL-
worth, reviews the various literary successes of the new
peer, in an admiring vein,—coming to the conclusion that,
as a man of confessed genius, as a consistent politician, a-
s country gentleman, and, indeed, in every sense, Sir
Bulwer Lytton is unexceptionably fitted for the position to
which he has attained,

The Times ascribes the influence of the retiring Lord
Chancellor in the House of Lords to his experience
In both branches of the legal profession, and to hie un-
blemished personal character. The weak point in his
public life is his want of sympathy with the reforms of the
law. lie has done little to realise the vast designs I e
queathed to him by Lord Westbury in his valedictory
address to the House of Lords. Those designs, involving
the formation of a complete digest as the proper basis for
a future code, yet remain to be atrried out. It would be
too much to expect of the new Lord Chancellor that he
should devote himself to the execution of a project which
originated with a political opponent, and the honour of
accomplishing it will probably be still reserved, as it
should be, for a liberal government.

rite Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Juts• 5.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by the
Queen of the Belgians, Princess Helena, and Prince
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, drove out yesterday after-
noon in a carriage and four.

Tho Princess Louise and the Princess of Leiningen also
went out driving.

The King of the Belgians walked in the grounds,
attended by M. Brewer.

Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the King
and Queen of the Belgians, the Prince and Princess
of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Helena,
Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, the Duchess of Cambridge,
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, the Prince and
l'rincess of Leiningen, and Prince Frederick of Holstein.

Aster •linner her Majesty's private band performed i..
the drawitg•room before the royal party and the ladies
and gentlemen in waiting.
The Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, Sir
Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph, and the Hon. Mn.
and Miss Grey, had the honour of receiving invitations.
The marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Helena
Augusta Victoria, third daughter of her Majesty Queen
Victoria and of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort,
Duke of Saxony and Prince of Saxe Coburg and Gotha,
with his Royal Highness the Prince Christian of Schle:-
wig-Holstein-Sonderburx-Augustenburg, was solemnised
to-day, in the chapel within Windsor Castle, at half-past
twelve o'clock.

The parents and brother and sisters of Prince Christian
were unable to accept the Queen's invitation to be present
at the ceremony.

The Duke of Cambridge Wm prevented by illness from
being present ; but was represented by his equerry, Colo-
nel Clifton.

The bridal bouquet was presented to the Princes Helena
by Mr. Veitch.
After the ceremony of the mnrriago luncheon was
Nerved privately to the members of the royal family in the
Oak Room.

The visitors were entertained at a buffet in the Water-
loo Gallo/.
At a quarter-past four the Prince and Princess Christian
of Schleswig-Holstein took their departure by,special train
for Southampton, en route for Osborne.
The Queen accompanied the bride and bridegroom to
the grand entrance, attended by the Great Officers of State
of her Majesty's Household, and by the Ladies and Gen-
tlemen-in-Waiting upon the Queen, and upon the members
of the Royal Family present.
The Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
were attended by Lady Churchill, Lady-in-Waiting to the
Queen ; Lady Susan Melville, Lady-in-Waiting to Princes;
Christian ; and by Major-General Francis Seymour, C. R..
Groom-in-Waiting to the Queen, who was specially ap-
pointed by her Majesty to attend their royal highnesses on
their journey.

Lieutenant-Colonel George(;. Gordon, Equerry to Prince
Christian, attended their royal highnesses to the railway
station at Windsor.

A Privy Council will be held at Windsor to-day,
when the seals of office will be delivered up by the out-
going ministers and handed to their successors.

DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OP LANSDOWNE, K.G.—
We have to announce the des th of the Marquis of Lansdowne,
which took place yesterday, shortly after 12 o'clock, at Lens.
downehouse, Berkeley-square. The lamented nobleman
was seized with paralysis late on Wednesday night, and
such was the severity of the attack that he expired in
about 12 hours. The deceased, Henry Thomas Fitztnaurice,
fourth Marquis of Lansdowne, was the second and only
surviving eon of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, third marquis,
by his marriage with Lady Louisa Emma Fox-Strangways,
fifth daughter of Henry Thomas, second Earl of Ilchester.
He was born, January 5, 1816, and married first, August 18,
1840, Lady Georgiana Herbert, fifth daughter of George
Augustus, eleventh Earl of Pembroke, who died in
February, 1841 ; his lordship married secondly,
November 1, 1843, the Hon. Emily Jane Elphinstone
de Flahault, eldest (laughter of Count de Flahault and the
Baroness Nairne and Keith, by whom he leaves issue two
sons and a daughter. He succeeded to the marquisate on
the death of his father in 1863. Previous to being created
Baron Wycombe, in July, 18.56, he represented in the
House of Commons the borough of Caine, namely from
1847 till July 5, 1856 ; from December, 1847, till August,
1849, he was a junior Lord of the Treasury, and in July, 1856,
was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
when he was summoned to the House of Lords in his
father's barony of Wycombe. His lordship was for several
years chairman of the Great Western Railway, a post
he resigned on succeeding to the marquisate. He is suc-
ceeded in the family honours and extensive family estates
in Wiltshire and in Ireland, by his son Henry Charles
Keith, Earl of Kerry, born 14th January, 1845. His lord-
ship was educated at Eton and Baliol College, Oxford,
which university he left just twelve months ago.