The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-27 00:00:00

Abe court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dic. 26.
Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday com-
prised the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, Prince Alfred,
and the Princess of Leiningen, the Prince Louis of Home,
the Prince of Lsiningeo, Lady Caroline Barrington, Major•-
General the Hon. 0. sad Mrs. Grey, Major-General the Hon.
R. and Mrs. Bruce, Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles and Mk.
Phipps, the Dean of Windsor, and the Hon. Mrs. Weller
Isy, the Hon. Mrs. T. M. Biddulph, Baron von Wester-
welter, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel. Major Cowell„
Major Elphinstone, R.E., and Mr. Woodward.
Ludy Augusta Bruce and Lady Emmy Howard had the
honour of joining the party in the evening.
The Queen, accompatied by Princess Alice, Princess
Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Louis of
Hesse walked in the Home Park this morning, and visited
the Duchess of Kent at Progmore.

Prince Arthur and Primo; Louie of Hesse skated on the
ice. The Prince Consort with the Prime of Wales and
Prince Alfred went out shooting; attended by Major• General
the Hon. R. Bruce and Colonel Ponvouby.
Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell and Major Du
Flat, left Windsor Castle at half•past 2 o'clock to-day for
Dover, en route to Berlin, where the Prince will remain for
a few days on a visit to the Prince aced Prince.. Frederick
William. His Royal Highness will afterwards visit the
Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg at Gotha, and return to
England by Brussels about the sth of January next. It hi
understood that Prince Alfred will embark at Plymouth on
the 15th of January in her Majesty's 'ship St. George, Cap-
tain the Hon. F. Egerton, and proceed immediately to the
North American and West Indian station.
General Sir Edward Bowater has succeeded the Hon.
M. Sackville Wert as Groom in Waiting to the Queen, and
Colonel Pomonby has succeeded Major Du Plat as Equerry
in waiting to the Prince Consort.

On Friday and Saturday in the put, and on Monday sad
yesterday in the current week, her Majesty's royal bounty
and gate alms were distributed to aged and meritorious
poor in lAmdon and ita vicinity under the superris,on of
the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner ; the Rev.
Dr. Jelf, Sub• Almoner, by Joseph Hanby, Fag., Secretary
and Yeoman of her Maiesty's abnonry in ordinary. The
applications for aid were unusually numerous. The num-
bers relieved amounted to nearly 1,000 pane•.
Despatches were received at the C,lonial•of(lce, yesterday,
from the governors of the North American provinces.
Despatch= were sent to the Governors of Canada, the
Australian Cobalt's, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, Mauri-
tius, Malta, and Gibraltar.

Lady and the Miaaes Graham Lave arrived in
Park-street, from Vienna.

The Right Hou. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
hare pawed through town for lialdon Howe, Exeter, on e
vent So fier Lawrence and Lady Palk.

The Right Hon. Sir Edmund Head, Governor.
Gesand at thaweda, sad lAdy Head and the Misses Head,
have left Flleffllltell Hotel on a visit to the Duke of New-
castle at Clamber P.

We (Poet) are requested to contradict the report
at the weak state of the Earl at Yarbareemdt ; him lordship's
health is, ou the coatrary, greatly improved.

We (P,...0 understandthat a marriage will shortly
take plane between Caplan' Ferguson, of the Grenadier
Guards, only sou of Admiral Ferree)), of Pitinur, N. 8.,
and the Hon. Mrs. Fagusoa,ead MIMI Hood, eldest daughter
of the Hoo. Colonel sad lady Nary Hood.

Marshal Pefinder, Doke of Malakhoff, still occu-
pies the hotel of the Legion of Honour, where be is to be
replaced by Admiral Mamba The marshal, previous to
his departure for Algeria, is organising his administration,
and selecting the feectionerie■ who are to accompany him
to Algiers. The government of the Duke of Malakboff
will be a perfect vice•royaly. He will be completely hide.
pendent of the ministers, and will communicate directly
with the Emperor. Marshal Mosier will quit Paris next
week to take possession of his command.
A letter from M. Kossuth to a friend in Paris
contains the following purge relative to Count Ladislaus
Teleki :—" Had he really travelled with a false passport?
Ido not know. Rot I declare, on my honour, that be
travelled on his private affairs only, ■od that his excursion
to Germany had nothing whatever to do with politics."
The conduct of the Porte under similar circumstances pre.
smite a striking contrast to that of the Saxon government.

A letter from Runic, of the 18th, says Poli-
tical discord has now invaded even the euphonious pre-
cincts of the Philharmonic Bomety. Stormy discussions
took place last night lathe green-ruorn of theft accomplished
amateurs, with regard to the mode of conducting the repre-
sentation of an opera in Prince Torlonia's newly constructed
theatre, the Aliberti, for the benefit of the evening schools
for the poorer classes in Rome. The greater part of the
amateurs protested against the direction of this charitable
performance being assumed by a government committee in-
stead of a philharmonic one, and decd ired that if there was
any intention of mixing politics with charity, by getting up
in the theatre a demonstration in favour of the Pope, they
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should decline giving their services for the OCCAUIIOII. The
female patios, of the amateurs were, if passible, more de-
cided in the expression of their sentiments than the male—
tenon sod ilassi proton& yielding the palm to soprani and
contralti. The result was a decide! want of harmony in
the philharmonic body—the president, Count Alborghetti,
with a minority, who, like himself, have places in the
palace, or are from principle attached to the Papal r••'•linio,
reserving to themselves the alternative of appealing to the
government committee before coming to any definite repo.
lutioe."

The Bishop of Orvieto has circulated a pastoral
letter in his diocese, condemning the circulation of all "ir-
religious, immoral, rod lying books." The " Bible of Dio-
dati" (the Urban Protestant version), the almanac called
"l'Amico di Cara," the " Four Words to the Inhabitants
of Umbria sad the Marches," std the "Compendium of
Controversies betwaeu the Word of God and the Roman
Theology," are the works especially denounced by Kg.
Vespignani. "Burn, burn," be erica ; " remember bow
the Epliesians obeyed St. Paul, and committed their boobs
to the fl...incs at the desire of the .1 purtle—they did not
hesitate to sacrifice 50,000 silver denaris' worth, and you
should not shrink from destroying pernicious works like
these, which will corrupt and contaminate you."
The number of patients treated at the Samaritan
Free liospitil for Wornen and ChiLlnoo, Edvranls.street.
Portman square, during the week ending Dee. 22, was NS,
of which 2.2 were new eaves.