The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-31 00:00:00

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.

NORWICH, TUESDAY E♦IXING.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, with her Majesty the Queen of Denmark, and
the ladies and gentlemen of their suite, viz., Lieutenant-
General %polity, and Major-General Grey (in waiting on
the Prince of Wales), the Hon. Mrs. Stonor (in waiting on
the Princess of \Vales), the Countess Reventlow (in wait-
ing on the Queen of Denmark), and Captain Cruscenachield,
left Sandringham-house this afternoon on their visit to
Lord and Lady Stafford, at Costessy-hall, near Norwich,
whose guests they will be until Thursday morning, when
the Prince of Wales leaves Norfolk for St. Petersburg, for
the purpose of attending the marriage of th 4 Csailwite2.
with the Princess Darner. Her Majesty the Queen of
Denmark has declined with thanks the presentation of an
address from the Norwich town council. The present pro-
posed to be made to the Princess ofWales by the ladies of
Norwich is a recherche album.

THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY FROM SCOTLAND.
The royal party will leave Balister at 2.10 p.m. to-
morrow, and arrive at Windsor at 8.45 on Friday morn.
ing. The royal train, provided by the London and North
Western Railway Company, will be under the charge of
Mr. Charles Mason, the assistant-general manager, Mr. S.
M. Martin, the electrical engineer, and Mr. R. Bore, the
carriage superintendent. Her Majesty's saloon as well as
the other vehicles of the train will be fitted up with Mr.
Martin's system of communication, in which her Majesty
has evinced upon former journeys during the present year
so much interest.
THE COURT AT BALMORAL.—On Sunday morn-
ing her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince and Princess
Christian, and by the Princess Louise, attended divine
service in the parish church of Crathie. She was attended
by the Duchess of Roxburghe, the Duke of Buckingham,
Colonel H. Ponsonby, Sm. The Rev. Mr. Stuart, from
Edinburgh, preached. The day was bitterly cold, showers
falling as interval', and the church was more thinly at-
tended than it been for nearly three months. The
higher hills are covered with snow.—Scotsman.
His Excellency the French Ambassador, who was
expect'd to arrive at Albeit-gate House last evening
from Paris, was detained at Calais owing to the rough
weather.
On Thursday the Earl of Onalow reached the
great age of 89 years, and the event was celebrated with
rejoicings at his lordship's estates at Riohmond and Clan-
don.
The marriage of Mr. H. A. Herbert, M.P., of
Muckross, with the Hon. Emily Keane, only child of Lord
and Lady Keane, was solemnised yesterday at St. George's
Church, Hanover-square. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Edward Wright, the resident clergyman of
Muckross.
Mr. H. Lowe, M.P., sends some sharp criticisms
upon the Public School Latin Primer to the Times, in-
spired to do so by a strong conviction that a vast amount
of preventible human misery lies bid behind the-e uncouth
words and phrases and interminable subdivisions :—" I
am not," he says, " insensible to the merit which Dr.
Temple claims for this Primer—that of being accepted by
the principal schools of the country. Ido not, therefore,
ask that it should be altered. Let an abridgment be pre-
pared for the use of little boys, leaving out the metaphy-
sics, the subtle subfiv isions, the new words, the involved
phraseologar—the obccuruer per °Orreries. Let it be
limitril to a few simple rules and examples, and let the
study of transcendental grammar be reserved for the boys
of hillier classes who, hay in had experience of the differ-
ent inflections and forms of construction, may possibly, in
some degree, attain to the understanding of their abstract
expmssion in a new and barbarous language."
Last night a concert was given at Easthampetead
Park, Berke, by permission of the Marchioness of Dosn-
shire, in aid of the fund being raised to liquidate the debt
incurred by the rebuilding of the parish church. The
amateurs who took part in the performance included the
Marchioness of Downshire and the Lady Alice Hill, the
Marquis Balbi, Earl of Hillsborough, Major Palliser,
Captain Stracey, Miss Codrington, and others.
A Vienna letter, of the 27th, says :—" The
night before last there was a Monster Concert' here
for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the soldiers
killed during the war. The choruses were executed with
wonderful precision, although 1,200 singers and two
military bands were engaged in their performance. The
enthusiasm of the audience was great, and Mr. Herbeck,
the accomplished and indefatigable capellnisister, has
every reason to be satisfied with the compliments he has
received from the writers for the press. The concert took
place in the great riding-school in the Imperial Palace, and
the audience consisted of 2,000 persons or thereabouts.
' On the 14th of November, 1847, Mendelssohn's oratorio I,
Elias was given in the Brit sade, and since that time it
has not, until the night before last, been used for musical
purposes. Poor Mendelssohn was to have led at the first
performance of is great work in Austria, but he died at
the beginning of the above-mentioned month."
A Berlin correspondent writes :—" The Emperor
Napoleon a few weeks ago told the Empress of Mexico that
her husband bad better cede a couple of provinces to the
United States, an expedient which, he said, would pro-
bably result in the consolidation of his rule. The Empress
replied that she had hoped the Emperor Napoleon would
make her husband King of Poland, if he could not main-
tain himself in America."
The Princess Dagmar, on the occasion of her
approaching marriage with the Grand Duke, heir to the
Russian throne, has resolved to present a dowry to each of
eight young Danish girls without fortune, who may be
married in the course of the next three months.
General Count Philippe de Segur, member of
the French Academy, inthor of the " Histoire de la
Grande Armke," has just completed his "Memoires." They
are said to be full of curious information about Napoleon
1., and the high personages of that reign. M. de Seim is
DOW 87 years of age.
The Espanol of Madrid publishes the following :
—" We learn that the Captain-General, exercising the
powers conferred on him by the exceptional state of the
country, has suspended the publicatimi of the Oorreepon-
&mei° for a week, and condemned the director to 200
crowns fine for publishing false news."
An inhabitant of Mont-aoua-Vandrey (Jura) has
discovered that a brandy with a very fine aroma can be
distilled from medlar", which grow in great quantities in
that district. The process is as simple and the yield as
good as in the case of cherries.