The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-01 00:00:00

UN Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 30.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
drove out yesterday afternoon.
Princess Augustus, with Prince Philippe and Princess
Amelie of `Saxe•Coburg, arrived at the Castle yesterday on
a visit to the Queen.
Her Majesty and Princess Beatrice walked and rode on
ponies this morning in the Home•lark.
Prince.. Christian, I'rincess Augustus of Saxe Coburg,
and Princess Amelie, walked and drove in the grounds of
the Castle.

Prince Christian and Prince Philippa went out walking,
Prince Leopold also walked out, attended by Mr. Legg.
MARCH 31.

The Queen, accompanied by Princessehristian and Prin-
cess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, drove out yesterday after-
noon in a carriage and four.
Princess Louise and Princess Amalie went out walking.
Prince l'hri.tian and Prince Philippe of Saxe Coburg
rode on horseback.

Prince Arthur arrived at the Castle yesterday from
GreenvrichiPark,..tteuded by Major Elphinstone. Countess
Blucher, the Dein of Westminster, and Lady Augusta
St.,nley, also arrived at the Castle.
The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess
Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Beatrice, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, at-
tended Divine service this morning in the private chapel.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster preached the
sermon.

The King of Denmark, the Prince of Wales, and the
gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service at the
Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning.
The communion service was read by the Rev. Thomas
Helmore.

Anthem, " Tut me not to rebuke 0 Lord," Croft, sung
by Messrs. B. Barnby, M. Smith, and Whitehouse. Mr.
Cooper presided at the organ.
The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Llandaff
from 1 Cor., ch. vi., v. 17.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Cambridge
attended the service.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The Ministen pre-
sent were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marl-
borough, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon.
Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Duke
of Buckingham, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. North-
cote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right
Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord
J. Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and
Lord Naas.

A deputation from the members of the Committee of
the Society for the Improvement of the Condition of Mer-
chant Seamen, introduced by Rear-Admiral A. P. Ryder,
and consisting of Captain H. H. Beauiish, R.N., Mr.
Edwin Chadwick, C. 8., Commander W. Damon, R.N.,
the Rev. D. Greatores, Mr. Thomas Gray, the Hon.
Auberon Herbert, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., the
Rev. J. Scarth, Mr. James Southern, 1)r. Domett Stone,
Captain Henry Toynbee, the Hon. C. H. Tracy, Com-
mander E. H. Verney, R.N., and Sir Harry Verney,
Bart., M.P., had an interview with the Duke of Rich-
mond, at the office of the Board of Trade, Whitehall, on
Saturday, on the subject of the improvement of the condi-
tion of merchant seamen.

Despatches were sent on astunley from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of the North American Provinces.

His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock,
on Friday, the bth April.
It is now understood that her Majesty the Queen
will remain at Windsor Castle till after the accouchement
of her Royal Highness the Princess Christian of Schleswig-
Holstein, which event is expected almost daily.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
entertained at dinner, on Saturday evening, at Glouces-
ter-house, Piccadilly, Major-General Lord Geo. Paget,
C.B ; Lord Hotham, Lord de Roe, Lieutenant• General
the Hon. Thos. Ashburnham, C.B. ; Colonel the lion.
R. W. Charteris, Colonel the Hon. Dudley de Res
General Sir Wm. Gomm, G.C.B. ; Sir Charles Russell,
Lieutenant-General Knollys, the Chaplain-General, Ge-
neral St. George, General Stephens, Major-General
Napier, Colonel de Bathe, Colonel Airey, Colonel
Carleton, Colonel Whitmore, Colonel Ringworm, Colonel
Ponsonby, Colonel Bruce, Captain Arehdall, Mr. Ro-
maine, C. 8., the Rev. Mr. Halpin, and Colonel Tyrwhitt,
Equerry in Waiting to his royal highness.

The Duchess of Cambridge and the Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg•Strelitz returned to St. James's
Palace on Saturday from a visit to the Duke of Rutland at
Belvoir Castle. Princess Mary and the Prince do Teak
abo returned to town on Saturday from Belvoir Castle.

Prince Murat has arrived at the Alexandra Hotel,
Hyde-park-corner, from l'aria.

The Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford give
a dinner on Wednesday next expressly to meet her Royal
Highness Princess Mary and his Serene Highness Prince
de Teck. Lady Chelmsford will have a reception later in
the evening.
ILLNESS OF THE EARL Or DERBY.—The friends
of the Premier will be sorry to learn that the Earl of
Derby has been compelled since Thursday last to absent
himself from parliament, owing to a sharp attack of gout
which came on with much severity on Friday. His lord-
ship has to keep his bed. The Countess of Derby's parties
announced for the 6th and 13th inst. are postponed till
after Easter.

The Hon. and Rev. George Herbert, brother of
Lord Pow* has been appointed by Lord Derby to the
deanery of Hereford.

The Hampshire Advertiser of Saturday states that
the chief witnesses who will give evidenoe in favour of
the Australian claimant to be Sir Roger Tichborne will be
the mother, the Dowager Lulynchbome ; Mr. Hopkins, the
Tichborne family's s'acitor ; Mr. Lipscomb, the family doc-
tor ; Mr. Bulpett, the family banker; the Rev. A. Bishop, for
many years the incumbent of Tichborne ; Mr. Super-
intendent Everitt, of the Hants County Constabulary;
and Mr. Baigent, a Winchester tradesman. There appears
to be no chance of the claimant's being ►llowed to take
possession of the title and estates without the decision of a
court of law in his favour. He is still residing with the
Dowager Lady Tichborne, at Croydon, in Surrey. Several
members of the Tichborne family have been to see him,
and have refused to acknowledge him a their relative.

Last autumn Canon Girdlestono published some
particulars respecting the frightfully low rate of wages
paid to the agricultural labourers of Halberton and other
parts of Devonshire. Various persons sent him money as
• removal fund, and within six months fifty labourers
have been sent out to follow their own vocation in
better paid districts, where they are doing well, while
wages in Halberton and the neighbourhood have
risen and the labourer has been in all respects more
liberally treated. The canon even hopes that those
who remain, will, before long, rise to 12s. a week
having • house end garden rent free—the very least
an agricultural labourer can live upon honestly. The rev.
gentleman adds that some of the farmers are accom-
modating themselves to the change in • manly and plea-
sant spirit, while in the ease of others there is no manner
of abuse with which they do not assail him and nu kind
of retaliation in which they do not indulge. " What
little I have done," be says, "will, I hope, be further
developed and made permanent—the formation of an
agricultural labourers' union for all England."

Covent-garden Theatre opens to-morrow night
with Norma, the part of Norma by Madame Maria Wilda,
who made her successful debut in it last year ; anal on
Thursday Mdlle. Lucca, Signor Mario, and Signor Grasiani
are to appear in Fawai e MorgArrita.