The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-16 00:00:00

DR. X F.NEALT.

The Tdegraph expresses its amazement at Dr. Kenealy's
ideas regarding the duty of an advocate. When Burke
and Casey were brought before Sir Thomas Henry at Bow-
street, on Saturday, the learned gentleman stated that he
must throw up the brief which he held for the prisoners,
because the explosion of Friday had so ix tluenced his mind
as to unfit him for the task of defence; and because be
was not quite certain that those by whom he bad
been instructed did not " sympathise" with the
wretches who were guilty of the outrage. A more
extraordinary declaration has seldom been made in
a court of justice. Of course, .if a legal gentleman
is so delicate), organised that the commission of
a horrible crime by Fenian on one day readers him unfit
to reason correctly on the next, we have no more right to
blame him than we have to blame a cabman for inability to
drive properly in Bloomsbury, because be has heard that a
lifeboat has been capsized at Yarmouth ; hut policy would
as surely prompt the barrister to conceal the fact that he
bad lost the command of his feelings, as the cabman to
conceal the fact that he bad lost the command of his horse.
Not content with making a damaging confession, Dr.
Kenealy insinuated a damaging charge ; those by whom
he had been instructed, be said, had failed to convince
him that they were not concerned in the outrage. But Dr.
Kenealy was there as an advocate, not as a judge. And,
even supposing Burke, friends to have been implicated,
that was no reason for withholding legal services from
Burke himself.

In relation to the Madeira vintage this year
Messrs. R. Symonds and Son state that, notwithstanding
the fears entertained, from the want of warmth in the
summer, that there would be the same disappointment as
in 1866, and that the produce of the new vines would not
show the improvement that ought to be looked for from
the additional year'. age of the plants, the quality is un-
doubtedly good, and there is now reason to hope that
Madeira is resuming Its place among the best wine-growing
countries.

tht Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dso. 14.
The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday
afternoon, and drove, aseompanied by Princess Louise.
Prince Arthur, &Hooded by Major 112phinstone, arrived
at the Castle this morning.
To-day being the anniversary of ibe death of the
lamented Prince Consort, the Queen, accompanied by the
Royal Family, went to the mausoleum at Frogmore, this
mailing, where her Majesty romained for some time.
The Queen returned to the Castle at 12 o'clock, and
passed the day in complete retirement.
After the Queen's return to the Castle, the mausoleum
was, by ber Majesty's command, opened for all the mein-
bers of the household, including the servants, residents
within the Castle, and most of her Majesty's tradesmen
in Windsor, to visit it.
Princess Christian and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-
Holstein dined with the Queen yesterday.
The Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley
arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of
being invited.
Mr. Theodore Martin has left the Castle. _

DEC. 15.

The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess
Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice,
and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein, and the
ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended divine service
this morning in the private chapel.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster preached the
sermon.

Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Henrietta
remained to luncheon with the Queen.

Prince Christian honoured the officers of the let Bat-
talion Grenadier Guards with his company at dinner, at
the Sheet-street Barracks, on Friday evening.
Despatches were received on Saturday, at the Colonial-
office, from the Governors of New Zealand, Victoria,
South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, the Mauritius,
the Straits Settlements, Malta, Bermuda, and Prince
Edward's Island. Despatches were sent to the Governor-
General of Canada and to the Governors of the Bahamas
and Jamaica.

THE PRINCE OF WALES. —His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales closed his visit to the Earl and
Countess of Dudley at Beckenham-hall, Norfolk, on Satur-
day, and returned to Sandringham. During the present
week the Prince is expected to pay a visit to Mr. H. Ville-
bois, of Marham, with whom be has had some good shoot-
ing in previous years. Preparations ere being made for
the distribution to the poor at Sandringham and the neigh-
bourhood of the usual Christmas presents made by the
Prince and Princess of Wales to their humble neighbours.
To-morrow their Royal Highnesses Prince and
Princess Christian and Princess Henriette of Schleswig-
Holstein leave Frogmore House for New Lodge, IVinkfield,
on a visit to H. and Madame Van de Weyer. From New
Lodge their royal highnesses proceed to Draycott, on a
visit to Lord Cowley, and thence to Osborne, on a visit to
the Queen.

The Marquis of Lansdowne has arrived at Lans-
downe from Oxford, having completed his studies at that
university. The Marchioness of Lanadowue has returned
from Paris, after staying with her father, the Count de
Flahault.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath arrived
in town on Friday from Chatsworth, where they have been
visiting the Duke of Devonshire.

The Earl and Countess of Warwick and family
have arrived at Niee, where they intend to remain for the
winter.

The Earl and Countess Amherst and Ladies
Amherst have left Montreal, the family seat near Seven-
oaks, for the Continent, and intend to pass several months
abroad.

Lord Stanley, M.P., left town on Saturday for
Hatfield House, Herta, on a visit to the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Salisbury.
Viscount and Viscountess Holmesdale enter-
tained last week at Linton Park, Staplehorst, his Excel-
lency the Marquis d'Azeglio, the Countess Stanhope and
Lady Maly Stanhope, the Earl Besuchsmp, Lord Eliot,
Hon. Mania Temple, Lady Molesworth, Sir Edmund Fil-
mer, Colonel and Mrs. Burnaby, Colonel and Mn. Mar-
shall, Colonel Palmer, Major Alison, and Mr. CockerelL
On Thursday evening the Viscountess Holmesdale gave a
dance, which was attended by many of the members of
the best families in the neighbourhood.

We (Post) understand that the Star, Collar, and
Badge of the Most Noble Order of the Garter were on
Thursday lest sent through the Foreign-office to his Im•
perial Majesty the Sultan at Constantinople. It is need-
less to remark that the decorations were of the most ex-
quisite workmanship and the jewels of the purest water.

_ .
A vacant chairmanship of an Irish county is at
the disposal of the government by the death of Ur. Brere-
too, Q.C., chairman of the County Galway.

Mr. William Hadfield, the proprietor of the
Bill? Plate Mail, leaves London for Buenos Ayres by the
City of Limerick steamer, with the view of organising an
emigration movement to Brazil and the River Plate in
conjunction with Messrs. T. M. Mackay and Son, of
London.

A meeting of the shareholders of the Dublin
Exhibition Palace Company was held on Saturday, Sir B.
Guinness, M.P., in the chair, and resolutions were
adopted for the voluntary winding up of the unfortunate
concern. A sanguine expectation is entertained that the
government will be induced to include the purchase of the
building and the establishment of a new institution for the

encouragement of industrial science and art among the
objects to which it may properly apply some of the funds,
if parli►ment sanction additional grants.

The following letter from Archbishop ltl'Hale is
publiahed in the Irish papers :—" St. Jarlath's, Tuam,
Dec. 5, 1867. Dear Sir,—Although political subjects may
be viewed from various points, and although some honest
and estimable Irishmen may differ with us on the repeal
of the Union, yet on the blessings and obligations of works
of charity there should be no diversity of opinion. ' For
religion, pure and undefiled is this, to visit the fatherless
and widows in their tribulation.' Such or similar is the
forlorn condition of the families of the men who have re-
cently suffered in Manchester. As you have generously
undertaken to appeal to Christian sympathy in their behalf,
I beg to forward, in answer to your letter, the annexed
bank order for 51., to assist in allevi►ting their sad be.
rerivement.—l remain, my dear sir, your faithful servant,
t JOHN, Archbishop of Thom. Mr. John Martin."

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The Nation suggests the erection of "memorial
crows "to the " martyr,' " in all the catholic graveyards
of the country, and gives the subjoined as a model in.
scription to be placed upon them :—" t Erected by the
inh►bitants of in loving memory of the Irish patriots
William P. Allen, Michael O'Brien, Michael Larkin,
executed at Manchester, and buried in the yard of the
New Bailey Prison, Salford, Nov. M. 1867. Requiascst in
pace. ' God save Ireland.'"

The Dublin Freeman says :—" We understand
that the military court of inquiry which is holding its
sittings, presided over by Colonel Hastings, ILA., at the
Victoria Library, Royal Barracks, has a much more exten-
sive field to go over than merely to inquire into the alleged
fact that Borne soldiers walked in the funeral procession
held in Dublin. It is stated that it sits by order of the
Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief, to inquire
generally into the political feeling prevailing amongst the
Irish soldiers in that part of the British army serving in
Ireland, and to report thereon. The court, which is a
private one, is empowered to call before it and examine
such witnesses as it deems necessary for the inquiry."
For persona who are frequently in the habit of
sending telegraphic messages a new system is coming into
I operation in Paris on the lot of January, which will be a
great convenience to them, and will show at the same time
to how great an extent the telegraphic wires are now em-
ployed. From the commencement of the new year ;Ohl,
sire telegraph stamps will be issued, to be put on the ori-
ginal despatches by the senders themselves. Special
boxes for the receipt of these despatches will be placed at
the Bonne, the tribunals of commerce, and in the different
quarters of the city. These boxes will be cleared every 10
minutes. As the despatches will be sent to the different
offices by the atmospheric tubes, they must be enclosed in
envelopes of given dimensions in order to COMM their
immediate transmission.

M. R4nan sent hie manuscript of " Bt. Paul " to
M. Clap, his printer, some days ago.
The largest yacht ever built at Cowes was launched
there last week. It is about 140 feet long and nearly 330
tons burden.

About 1,0001. have been raised to build s con-
sumption hospital at the Unduelift, in the Isle of Wight.