The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-14 00:00:00

Vitt daurt.

WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 13.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
drove in the grounds this morning.
Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and Prince Henry of
Prussia also went out driving.
The Countess of Caledon has succeeded the Duchess of
Roxburgh° as Lady in Waiting.
Lord Crofton and Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. F. Caven-
dish have succeeded Lord Begot and Colonel the Hon
C. Lindsay as Lord and Groom in Waiting.
The Duchess of Roxburgh° remains at the castle on a
visit to her Majesty.

A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-
office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague.
The lords present were the Lord President and the Duke
of Richmond.

A deputation from Gloucester, introduced by Mr. E.
Holland, M.P., and consisting of Mr. R. Holford, M.P.,
Sir M. H. Beach, Bark, M.P., Mr. W. P. Price, H.P., and
Mr. C. J. Monk, 81. P., had an interview with the Lord
President of the Council and the Duke of Richmond at the
Privy Council-office, yesterday, on the subject of cattle
markets.

Mr. Alderman Ryland and the Town Clerk of Birming-
ham had an interview with the Earl of Delmore, at the
Home-office, yesterday, on the subject of anises for that
borough.

A deputation from the Greenwich Ratepayers' Associa-
tion, consisting of Mr. John Nicholls, Mr. Henry Berry,
Mr. G. Weller, Mr. J. S. Long, Mr. Alex. James, Mr.
James Marshall, Mr. G. T. Floyd, Mr. G. Bourne, and Mr
J. F. Kent, had an interview with the Right Hon.
Gathorne Hardy at the office of the Poor-law Board,
Whitehall, yesterday.

HEALTH OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
(THIS DAY.)

No bulletin has been issued to-day ; but the
reply to the numerous inquiries at Marlborough House
was that her royal highness remained just the same as
yesterday.

CABINET COUNCIL. —There will be a Cabinet
Council to-day at 12 o'clock, at the First Lord
of the Treasury•'s official residence in Down-
ing-street.
We have authority to state that the Queen's
Court, which was postponed on account of the
death of her Serene Highness the Duchess of
Schleswig-Holstein Augustenburg, will take place
on Tuesday next, the 19th instant. The court
will go into mourning for her serene highness on
Wednesday, the 20th instant.
It is Mr. Charles Lennox Peel, not Colonel
Cecil Peel, who is appointed private secretary to
the Duke of Richmond at the Board of Trade.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
honoured the Earl and Countess of Bradford with his pre-
sence at a dinner last evening at their residence in Bel-
grave-square. There were present to meet his royal high-
ness the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, the Earl and
Countess of Derby, the Earl Csdogan, the Earl of Dudley,
Lord Methuen, Lord and Lady Londesborough, Lady Con.
stance Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Begot, Sir Henry and
Lady Sophia Des Vim, Mr. Christopher Sykes, M.P.,
and Colonel Tyrwhitt, in waiting on his royal highness.

The Right Hon. w. E. Gladstone, M.P., and
Mrs. Gladstone entertained his Excellency the Austrian
Ambassador, the Earl and Countess Russell, the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon and Lady Emily Villiers, the Earl
Cowper, Lord and Lady Delamer*, Lord Lyttelton, Lord
De Tabley, and a select party, at dinner last evening, at
their residence on Carlton-house-terrace. Later in the
evening Mn. Gladstone had a reception, at which nearly
500 persons of distinction were present, including many of
the members of the diplomatic body, and personages of
rank, without distinction of political party.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisburyenter-
tallied the following company at dinner last evening ►t
their residence in Arlington-stmt, Piccadilly :—The Duke
and Duchess of Cleveland and the Hon. Miss Primrose,
the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl of Carnarvon,
Lord Echo, M.P., Lord John Ray, M.P., Mr. and Lady
Elizabeth Russell, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Adeane,
Count Strzeleeki, M. de Sabouroff, Colonel Talbot, Mr.
Graham, &c.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke received
the Earl of Mulgr►ve, Lord and Lady William Osborne,
Lord William Hervey and Miss Hervey, Hon. Frederick
and Lady Adelaide Cadogan, General and Lady S. Lindsay,
Mrs. Thomas Liddell, Mr. Vivian, Re., at dinner last even-
ing, at the family mansion in Portman-square.

THE SPELIELR'S DINNER. —The Right Hon. the
Speaker gave his fifth parliamentary full-dress dinner last
evening to the following noblemen and gentlemen :—Lord
Eliot, Viscount Amberley, the Hon. Captain Vivian, Sir
John Simeon, Bart., Sir James Power, Bert , Sir George
Stucley, Bart., Sir Thomas Western, Bart., Messrs.
Feilden, Harris, Fordyce, Holden, Lamont, Hunt, Mil-
bank, McKenna, George Leeman, R. Young, Wbatman,
Synan, Waring, Murphy, Monk, Pease, Otway, O'Beirne,
Norwood, R. Needham Philips, T. Potter, W. Price, H.
Selwin , Samuelson, &Londe, F. Russell, W. Stone,O. Stock,
Sheriff, Severna, Rev. Dr. Merivale, chaplain, and Mr.
Alfred Denison, private secretary.

Sir G. Stucky will ask the Secretary of State for
War, on Tuesday, bow be proposes to divide the rum of
22,800/. as a reward to inventors, and who are the in-
ventors to be rewarded.

Mr. Grenfell, on the motion for going into corn-
mittee on Sale and Purchase of Shares Bill, will move that
the bill be referred to a select committee.

Sir Francis Goldemid proposes to make a state-
ment to-morrow respecting the condition of the Berrien
Jews ; and to ask the Seeret-m7 of State for Foreign Affairs
whether the communications between her Majesty's go.
vernment and the government of Berrie afford any hope of
an improved treatment by the latter government of its
Jewish subjects.

Thu appetite for information on the part of
certain members of parliament seems to be appeased by no
number of returns. On Monday Mr. O'Beirne proposes to
move for returns which will put him in possession, not
only of the date of registration of newspapers and the con.
victions of unregistered ones, but also of the names of the
"proprietors, publishers, and printers."

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Attention having been drawn to the statement
that the Bishop of Oxford recently consecrated a chapel at
St. Andrew's, Clewer, with a golden crucifix on the holy
table, and that a banner with a Madonna was borne be-
fore him, we (Times) have ascertained that the report of
the consecration was in these respects inaccurate. No
such ornaments were there.

The cadets of the Military College of St. Cyr
have commenced their exercises with the Chassepot gun.
During the course of next month the whole of the Garde,
which body consists of above 30,000 men, will be served
with the new weapon. Its invention has created a con-
siderable sensation amongst the class from which the army
has hitherto been recruited. The loss or absence of the
front teeth has exempted young men from all danger of
enlistment; but the cartouche having been suppressed,
this defect no longer incapacitates a man from the pleasure
and glory of serving his country. During 1863, 67,080
young men were exempted from various causes from
drawing for the conscription ; of these, three per cent.
were exonerated on account of defective teeth. The
Chassepot gun will therefore restore these to the service.
The Salisbury cattle market was re-opened on
Tuesday after having been closed for 15 months.

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