The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-04 00:00:00

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deep and bear fruit in thatinl;l;l)s yearn. We
are not passing, we have'pasestVlbko a nesn'APlN ,
of political life, and the class so well repre- I WINDSOR Cf*STLII, Dec. 3.
atonal yesterday must soon be formally admitted I The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
within the pale of the constitution. When a went out in the grounds this morning.
Reform demonstration musters for a march within I Princess Louise went out walking, and Prince Leopold,
pistol-shot of one royal palace and in the court- attended by Mr. Legg. also went out.
yard of another, and within hail of Whitehall, it I Prince Christian went out shooting this morning,
attended by the Hue. Korthnsr Sackville Wert. Lord
is surely a sign that the change which has actually Crofton and Colonel Loyd Lindsay had the honour of
come over our political life will soon be recognized accompanying his Royal Highnem
in an Act of Parliament. I Prince Henry of Prussia arrived at the Castle last even-
ing, attended by Captain Von Schroetter.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left the Castle to-
day for London.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon-
onrable Privy Council sat yesterday on matters relating
to the cattle plague. The lords present were—the
Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote and the Right
Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander
Williams attended the committee.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India Islands,
Ceylon, and Hong Kong. Despatches were sent to the
Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, end
Lebuan.

We understand that her Majesty, following the
precedent given by her predecessors, William 111.
and George 111., and in gracious remembrance of the
place of her birth and education, has subscribed the stun
of 900/. to the building fund of the new parish church of
Kensington.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh,
attended by Lieutenant Haig, and accompanied by Prince
de Took, left Sandringham yesterday morning for London.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary Adelaide left Kew yesterday
afternoon on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Duke of Newcastle has left the St. George's
Hotel.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings
entertained during the past week the Duke and Duchess of
Newcastle, the Earl and Countess of Winchilsea and Lady
Constance Finch-Hatton, Viscount and Lady Constance
Marshem, Lord and Lady Rendlesham, Miss Heneage,
Lords Alexander and Berkeley Paget, Sir Frederick John-
stone. Mr. Henry Savile, Hon. Oliver Montague, &c.
The Marquis of Bath has left town on a visit to
Col. the Hon. Richard and Lady Margaret Charteris.
The Earl and Countess of Derby leave town to-
day for Knowsley Park.
The Eat! of Malmesbury has left his residence
in Stratford-place, on a visit to Colonel the Hon. Richard
and Lady Margaret Chaxteris.
The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have re-
turned to Deene, from visiting the Earl and Countess of
Chichester, at Stsnmer Park. Lord and Lady Cardigan
will receive a succession of visitors at Deene until the
meeting of parliament.
A marriage is arranged (says the Kentish Gazette)
between the Hon. Miss Beillie Cochrane, daughter of Mr.
Baillie Cochrane, M.P. for Honiton, and the Hon. W.
West, second son of the Fan of Delawarr. Mr. West will
inherit from his mother (only surviving sister of the third
Duke of Dorset) the Barony of Buckhurst, and the mag-
nificent residence and satiate of Knole, in Kent.
The death is announced of Lady Charlotte Jane
Dundas, youngest daughter of Lawrence, first Earl of
Zetland, by his marriage with Harriet, third daughter of
General John Hale, who died on Thursday last, at St.
Nicholas, Yorkshire. Her ladyship was born July 2, 1803.
Letters from Rome says that Prince Bandini
has given a grand dinner in honour of Lord Clarendon and
Mr. Gladstone.
The Empress of Russia will spend a portion of
the winter at Nice.
The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden
have returned to Carlaruhe, after an excursion in Switzer-
land and the month of France.
Mr. Fox, the Secretary of the United States'
Navy, has paid a lengthened visit to Chatham Dockyard,
and was occupied for some time in the inspection of the
various vessel/ under construction at that establishment.
During his visit he wax attended by Mr. Thornton, master
shipwright, and other heads of departments, who accom-
panied him on board the ironclad ship Hercules and the
turret ship Monarch.
A meeting of main line shareholders and " share-
holders in the general undertaking of the western
extension capital" of the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway was held yesterday, Mr. Hartridge in the chair.
Two committees were appointed to confer with the
directors—one with respect to the Kent Coast and Seven-
oaks lines and other subjects, and the other as to main
line interests only. Thus every distinct class of share-
holders now appears to be represented by a oonunittee of
its own. . .

LATN3T INTELLIGENCE.

The Protestant Consistory of Caen, like that of
Valence, has taken a step which is producing a lively sen-
sation in the bosom of French pea...tuition. It has just
decided that no protestant elector shell be inscribed on
the parish register, if he does not subscribe affirmatively
to this question :—" Do you belong to the gospel faith as
it is met forth in the Apostle's (Seed!" The same question
will be sent to each elector already inscribed cm the regieffer,
and if he should reply in the negative his voting paper
will not be received. When it is considered, says the
Sick, that the two parties into which French prates-
tandem is divided are almost equal In number, the gravity
of this proceeding may be easily conceived. It is nothing
less than a little coup d'itat by means of which that or.
thodoxy of which M. Gullet is the pope would expel all
liberal protestant. from the consistories. The sumer of
this attempt would deprive of temples and pastors half of
the followers of the reformation in Prince. We trust,
continues the Side, that it will completely fail, for it is
not possible that consirtories should have the right of
modifying at pleasure the conditions which have hitherto
existed as necessary to exercise the right of suffrage in the
reformed church.

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