The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-03 00:00:00

UT, Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, JoLT 2.
The Queen, accompanied by the Prinoesa of
Leiningen, drove out yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty went out this morning, accompanied by
the Princess of Leiningen, Princess Beatrice, and Prince
Leopold.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of
Hesse and Princess Louise, attended by Ludy Caroline
Barrington, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Baroness Grancy, Lord
Alfred Paget, Major von Hesse, and Baron von Rabenau,
arrived at the Castle this morning from London.

Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and Prince William of
nesse visited the Queen this afternoon.
Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
arrivedi at the Castle to-day, and had an audience of
the Queen.

The Brazilian Minister also arrived, and was Introduced
to her Majesty by Lord Stanley at an audience, and pre-
sented his credentials.

Major-General Seymour, C. 8., Groom in Waiting, was
in attendance.

The Dean of Windsor had the honour of dining with
the Queen yesterday.

The Prince of Wales went to the House of Lords yes-
terday afternoon.
The Princess of Wales drove out, accompanied by the
Crown Prince of Denmark.

The Prince and Princes of Wale, aocompanied by the
Crown Prince of Denmark, went to tho Royal Dalian
Opera, Covent-garden, in the evening.

VISIT OF SIR R. NAPIER TO THE QUEEN.

WINDSOR. TIEURSDAY NIGHT.

Tbis evening Sir R. Napier left London by
the 6.15 p.m. train on the Great Western Railway
from Paddington, es rests for Windsor Castle on a
visit to her Majesty the Queen. He arrived at the
Windsor station a few minutes before seven o'clock, and
was met upon the platform by Sir John Cowell, Master
of the Royal Household, who had been deputed by the
Queen to meet him. Captain Bulkeley, one of the direc-
tors of the Great Western Railway, was also present at
the station. Few people were about, but one or two per-
sons recognised Sir Robert, who with Sir John Cowell
walked quietly up to the Castle, where it is understood
the general will remain the guest of her Majesty till to-
InerrOW.

(BY TELEORAPTI.)
WINDSOR, FRIDAY MORNING.

Sir Robert Napier left Windsor Castle shortly after 10
o'clock this morning, and proceeded to London by the
Great Western Railway. The gallant general was accom-
panied by kis Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh.

VISIT OP THE QUEE4 TO ALDERPHOT.—Her
Majesty the Queen with several meiebers of the royal
family, attended by the suite, will leave Windsor Castle
this afternoon at a quarter-past three o'clock on a visit to
Aldershot camp. Her Majesty will drive to the Windsor
terminus of the Great Western Railway, where a special
South Eastern train will be in resales', and leave the
royal borough at twenty minutes past three o'clock. The
Queen will travel over the narrow gauge rails of the Great
Western line, aid Taplow and Twyford, to Reading, where
she will arrive at 3.6.5 p.m. The special train will leave
the Reading station of the South Eastern Railway at 4.45
p.m., and proceed, Via Wokinghem and Wellington
College, to Aldershot camp, which will be made at half-
past 4 o'clock. After visiting the camp her Majesty will
return to Windsor in the evening.

Miss Agnes Zimmermann, the pianiste, had the
honour of playing before Princess Louis of Hesse and
Princess Louise, at Windsor, on Monday last.

Mr. Christopher Sykes, M.P., woe honoured by
the company of the Duke of Cambridge at dinner last
evening at his residence in Seymour-place, Mayfair. A
select party were present to meet the royal duke.

The DUchess of Cambridge, the &and Duke and
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelits, the Prinems
M►ry Adelaide and the Prince of Teck, and the Count and
Countess do Paris honoured the Earl and Countess Vane
with their presence at dinner last evening at Holdernees
House, Park-lane. A select company were afterwards in-
♦ited to meet the illustrious party.
The Earl Forteeeue entertained the Countess
(Dowager) Spencer, Lord Walter Campbell, Lord Cal-
thorpe, General the Hon. Percy Ashburnham, C. 8., lion.
George and Lady Louisa Fortescue, the Right Hon. W.
E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone, Mr. and Lady
Louisa Howard, Admiral and Mrs. Howard, Colonel
'rictus* Miss Fortescue, Mr. Markham, do., at dinner
last evening at his residence in Lowndes-square.

Field-Marshal Sir William and Lady Gomm
entertained at dinner yesterday evening, at their residence
in New-street, Spring-gardens, Lord and Lady Clinton,
Lord Mark Kerr, Lord and Lady William Lennox, the
Bishop of Gloucester and Mrs. Ellicott, Sir Thomas and
Lady Gladstone, Sir George Osborne and Miss Osborne,
Mr. Darby, it.c. Lady Gomm had a select company
after dinner.

The Galatea was officially inspected at Spithead
on Wednesday by Admiral Sir Thomas Palley. The frigate
is in the best order, and the drill of her crew, whether as
seamen, gunners, small-arm men, &c., was found to be
highly satisfactory, and a matter of no little credit to
both officers and men. The Galatea will anchor off
Osborne during the Queen's stay at hor marine palace,
and on the departure of her Majesty and the royal family
to Germany, about the 4th of August, the frigate will
proceed to Devonport to refit.