The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAT EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1861.

Or Court.

HEALTH OF HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, MONDAY, IS O'CLOCK A.N.
" The Queen lira had some quiet sleep during
the night, and remains as calm as, under her affliction, can
Ita *spec:WV_

Tbii Duke of Cambridge left the Castle in the afternoon
for Loodoc.

The Dodger of Cambridge and Primes, fiery arrived
horn Kew in the afternoon.

Major-Geoeral Seymour. Equerry to the Queen, has left
EogLod for the continent to attend the Priseess
who is exported over immediately.

The bulletin issued at Windsor Castle yesterday morning
announcing that " The Queen km had some quiet sleep
during the night, and remains as calm as, under her attic•
Lino, can be expected," was exhibited to the nobility and
gentry at Buckingham Niece. Among the inquirers were
the Bavarian Minster and Bsroness de Cetto, the New
Granada Minister, the Russi►n Ambassador and Barn..
Brusnow, the Netherlands Minister, the Austrian Ambas•
sacks sad Counter Apponyi, the Greek Minister sad
Madame Tricoupi, the Portuguese Minister, Y. and Madame
Ernest de Bunsen, the Attaché to the Prussian Legation,
Lord and Lady Proby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and
Miss Sumner, Lady Brougham, Lieut.• General Sir 0.
Bowles, Berm and Lady Anders:es Q.C., Sir
It. sod the Hots lady Airey, Earl sad Constraint Clamed=
and Ladies Villiers, Dowager Comae= Wesisoomlimd, Ho..
Admiral and Mrs. Deneembe, Dowager Lady Baglan,
sad lady &sale,' of Alder*, Mr. and Km Frederick Peel,
Dowager Viscountess and Mee Hardie., General Sir J.
and lady Burgoyne, Admiral Sr G., Lady, and Mire Sy.
moor. Lord and lady Kenyon, t►e Lord Justice, Lady, and
the Mires Turner, Mr. H. °ravine, Lord Chief Baron and
Lady Pollock, Lady lEiatin,Liertiewant•Coloael and lady E.
al Rm. the Marchioness of Waterford, Professor Owen, the
800. if . Brand, M.P., the Lard Mayor and Lady Mayoress, Sir
Charles Young (Garter) and Lady Young, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Salisbury, Lord Dufferin, Jam Duchies of
Marlborough, Dowager Lady Chola° and Miss A. Seymour.
Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Rectal'', Earl
ad Countess of Erroll, Vioe•Chaocelor and Lady
Lieutenant• Colonel and Lady E. Caveodish,

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Mr. Whataly, Q.C., Lady Hairy Spencer Churchill,
Duchess Dowager of Argyll, Sir W. sad Lady JoUiffe,
Lord and Lady Templar:am Mr. Chichester Fortino,"
Counters Dowager of Jersey, two Ladies Poosonby. lady
Deena, Sir J. and Lady E. Tensest, the Marquis cf
Aberoorn, the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, the Narvik
of Bristol. Mr. C. Wentworth Hake, Dockers Dowager cif
Norfolk, Lord sad Lady Fain, the Masher of the Rolle,
Lientsemat-Gewand ad Miss Oavendisii, Mr W. Toyama,
Oakes' Cooks, Lord ad Lady liana Been, lamilearat
Brace, Mr. Marnribsaks, Sir &Imam' Anion's, Mr. Coal-
thurst, Mr. Eland Harriers, the Duke sad Duchess of
Buckingham, Mr. sad Mn. FAlgar Bowing, Countess Fitz.
trillion), Sir F. G. and Lady Moon, the Earl and Countess
of Caniarne, Dowager Coultas of Caraarvon, Mr. W.
Ewan, M.P., and the Mimes Ewan, Sir G. Rayne,
the lard A.dvociate and Mrs. Mottareiff, Sir Alan
Ilaartb, Yr. Haman sad Frances Countess Waldegrave,
Lord St. Leans* the Duke of Rutland, the Marchioness
of Coin egham, Me L sad lady Head, Sir J. and Lady
Emithope, Lord and Lady Colville, Lady Westbury, Earl of
Mashorongh, Lady M. Alford, Mr. G. Gedwis, this Sod sad
Omits= of Kiawiall, Lady Frames sad Mks Ocedea,
Geassal Sir F. Stavin, Earl of Leaman sad Lady E.
llkoonsk the Right Hon. R. Lowe, ILP., the Right Hos.
W. mid Mrs. Beredord, Lord and Lady Radatoek, Mr. law.
rens sad the Meer Lawrence, Miss Burdett Coatis, Sir
T. Phillips, Mr. and Mn. Farquhanon of Irrerciaald,
the Earl of Chunrillina, the Hoe. Robert Heade,
the led of Elleaborciagli, Duchess Dowager of Beau-
tart, Oak:eel Sykes, ILP., and Mn. Sykes, Mr. and
Mrs. Healey, Mr. Merriman, the Chief Rabbi, Vice-
Chancellor sad Lay Page Wood, Mr. C. P. Villiers
IL P., tits Right Hen. B. sad Mrs. Diana, Mr. and
Mrs. Wilbraham Taylor, the Marquis sad Noteblowoos of
Nersmaloy, Mr. sad Yrs. Cardwell, the Bishop af Lades
and Mrs Tan, Sir W. sad Lady Venn, Sir C. aad Lady
lanisba, Mr. sad Mn. Mott, the lion. Smear sad
Mrs Lytteitca, Captain Cooling, Mr. Justice and lady
isidiag, Sir W. sad Lady Hoe* Colonel sad Mn.
Mande, the Earl sad Counter of Zetlaad, lady Cbaatry,
Mr. Wray. lady Georgna Orsy, Mr. sad Mrs. A. West,
Mr. sod lady Y. Wen, lady Bodd„ Lord sod Lady De
Tinley, Lady Howard, Mr Z. sad Lady Pearson, Hen
Mr. and Mn. A. .Xlmeled, Fart and Oenatass Graven, Sir
Moses sad lady Illoolk‘oro, lid mad Ociontess De Orey,
Viscount Clubman% the Chaplain-General and Mn.
Gni& Baton and Banmess Lionel sod Min Rothschild, Sir
Anthony and Lady de Rothschild, together with numerous
oases.

The Right Hero. Sir pwp Grey went to Wirehair
Meth yesterday morning. The right boo. berceet returned
S. tondos is the enmities.

Deepaielsee wen reseived yesterday at Use Colonial-office
from the Governess d Oeasda, the Bahamas, and Heßac).
had. Dispatches were seat to the Lord High Commis.
Meow of the loam Iskads, sad to the Corwin:, of the
West fish' lissom sad British Columbia.

HIS ROYAL MORN MI Pal NeY LIOPOLD.
Oolisoll W. B. F. Minidisk, Groom in Waiting to the
Qum, leaven fee Omni immediately, to take chine a
Nee Prime, i■ the phew of General Sir Edward Bowater,
whine death we eamensed yesterday.

Tirs Kum oV Maio-via.—ina Majesty is ex-
piated*, arrive le Leaden is a few days howl Hanover.
Hie Excellency Oast Kitheasseas is expected al the Ha-
noverian legation to4wwwww is order to welcome the Kiwi.
who will reside at Ike legatios diuiai his sojourn in this
conatry.

Tim Kiwi or TIN Buotawa.—We learn from
good authority that the Meg or the Belgians will shortly
antes on a visit of madame* to the Queen. His Majesty
co embarking at Wiwi wM go direct to Osborne.

We understand that his Excellency the Belgian
Moister has been copilot* to his rosicleoce, Now Lodge,
Windsor, for wow days pa* by *disposition, sod is not
yotsolliekotly recovered to sesame his (Arid duties.

His Isoeileney Count Wacbtmeister, the newly-
appointed Minister for fiwasiss sad Norway, has arrived is
Oreereser-pines tress Swedes.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare have
WI %Rad House for t►e Duchess (Dowager) of Stahl/s-
-had's sea; Cheeks, screr Maidenhead.

The Ltd and donntess of Shaftesbury arrived in
tows yesterday from At. °dim Nisitiihirc

Viscount and. Viscountess Palinereton are ex-
pected to lam town is a few days for ftroallande.

Lord Londenborongh has left thus country for •
smiles in the Modiesseasess, sod purposes to winter in
NUS or Sirit.

tly Herbert will shortly have Nice for Genoa.
The youthful Lord Herbert, encoded by Mr. Badtaase,
he. left town to meet her ladyship.
Mr. and Mrs. Chatoberlsyne entertained last
wash. st their sest, Cranbury Park, sear Wisclieder,
party of friends to meet kis &Irene Hirpheees the Prince of
Lettingen:. Aram, the einspeny am.-bled were the Earl
el Wks, the lad et Uxbridge, Viscount Turnoar, Sir
Frederick and Lady Hatharst, ko.
CHANCILIALIZIP a CAMINIDOS
iky UN &sae hie keys! Higbee= the Pricer Consort the
Chaneelkinidp of the Hideosity of Cambridge becomes
esermi. Modesties el s Chancellor must be within 14
days shwas vessay, and is wore bergerter et. His Royal
Higbee= wee sleeted Is 1017, es the dark of the Duke of
Ifartkortmbodesd, es whisk occasion he was opposed by the
Isle Ned of Pawls. Os the part of Easy members of the
Usirseeity, a desire prevails to elect the Priem of Wales
se ensenwer fie his father. bat hie extreme youth it is
dheingld may be a bar to that wish belag ful9llnd. Amongst
Wog swelissin whom cum ere freely nreationed in con-
geries with the sheacelicesiip are Lad Falinanton, of St.
Jeksh Collage (M.A. 1806); the Duke of Drresshate. of
Thu* Clellege, who was emend wrangler in 1811; the Frei
of Hardwicke. of Queens' College (LLD. 1838); the Mar.
qui of lassiewsra sir Malty College (LLD. 1811) ; the
Dori of Telles& of Trinity College (ILA. 1818); the Duke
of istaissalk. of St. John's Collage (M.A. 1137) ; and Lord
Lysdhuurt. of Triolty College, at mew Lard High Steward
111 the traivereity.

&CUFF or ART{.—We ere requested to state
that Y coaasemiare of the lensatted &ea of his Koval
Ilistiness the Prises Comfort, the President of this society.
the meeting appended for to-niarruw, the lath inst., will
net Übe place.
Rinthiel a " Perfumed Almanac" for 1862 is the
best eseented sinless, of the kind that has yet appeared.
Met.% tatte e. diaphowl in the erearnental desire, and the
perfume Into the hares la sweet and pleaaast. A " Violet
fr 1461," has been published with the Luse diatioctive pro.
pular.

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
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OFFIOUL BIILLITIN. -(THIS DAY.)

WINDSOR CASTLE, TCZYDLY Noumea.
The Queen has passed a quiet night, and slept
several hours.
Her Majesty continues calm.

THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.

We are authorised to state that the funeral of
his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort will
take place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, on
Monday next, at 12 o'clock, and that, in accord-
ance with the understood wishes of his late Royal
Highness, the funeral will be a private one.

All the details of the funeral have been in-
trusted to Messrs. Banting, who have for so
many years conducted the royal and public
funerals in this country. But, few and simple
as are the rites which mark these solemn occa-
sions, a great amount of preparation is neces-
sary beforehand. St. George's Chapel, Windsor,
where the interment will take place, has to be
draped and carpeted with black, the royal vault
to be opened, and time allowed foe the arrival of
the representatives of foreigu courts who will
be deputed to attend on this occasion. All
these arrangements have been carefully con-
sidered, and the shortest possible time in which
they can be completed is by the date we have men-
tioned. At the funeral his Royal Highness the
Prime of Wales will act as chief mourner, sup-
=by the Duke of Cambridge and by the Crown
of Prussia. The remains will be laid in the
royal vault. There are two vault. beneath St.
George's Chapel—the Gloucester and the royal
vault. The former was finally built up after the
interment of her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester, the last member of that branch of the
house of Hanover. The royal vault is kept apart ex-
cluaively for the coffins of the immediate members of
thereigumg family. Three gates close the entrance
to this final resting-place of departed royalty, the keys
of which are kept by the Sovereigo,the Lord Chain-
berlain, and the Dean of the Chapels Royal. Except
for the burial of the Queen Dowager, who was laid
by the side of her royal husband, this vault has
not been opened since the death of William IV.,
and the descriptions which were put forth by some
of our contemporaries as to the place in which the
coffin of the Duchess of Kent was temporarily de-
posited in this mausoleum were purely imaginary.
The royal vault was never opened ou that occasion
at all, and the coffin only remained at the entrance
to the first gate till the mausoleum at Frogmore
was completed. During yesterday the inner shell
and leaden coffin which will enclose the remains of
the Prince Consort were forwarded to Wiudsor.
According to custom, the body will be interred in
four coffins„ the inner one or shell being of
polished mahogany cased outside with lead,
then an outer, plain, but very massive, coffin
of mahogany ; over all comes the state coffin
or case, of crimson velvet and with massive
silver gilt ornaments. On the leaden coffin is to be
a silver plate, engraved with the style and titles of
the deceased Prince. The outer mahogany coffin
will simply bear a plate with his name and the
date of his birth and death. On the state coffin
will be the customary silver-gilt plate, bearing an
inscription similar to that on the leaden coffin.
"The Emperor and Empress of the French, on
receiving news of the death of the Prince," says a
Paris letter in the Journal de Rouen, " immediately
sent • telegraphic despatch to Windsor, expressing
to the Queen their deep and in the evening
• cabinet courier was to leave or tior London with two
autograph letters for her Majeety. The Emperor
has besides decided that, without waiting for
a notification of the demise of his Royal Highness,
the court shall go into mourning."
The Paris Motaiteur of to-day announce,s that in
consequence of the death of the Prince Consort
the Emperor will go into mourning for 21 days.
The Belgian Moniteur of last evening states
that the Belgian court will continue in mourn-
ing up to the 14th of Febrnary next. The
same official journal, in the course of an
article on the deceased Prince, observes :
"Liberal, firm, and enlightened, of • supe-
rior education, versed in the sciences (which
he cultivated almost with passion), Prince Albert
loved to surround himself with intelligent and use-
ful men, whom the amenity of his manners, the
qualities of his heart, tho nature of his mind, and
the variety of his information drew towards him.
Prudent in the councils of the state, endowed with
great judgment, of unshaken political probity, his
opinion was eagerly and respectfully sought by the
men who directed the destinies of England. The
English people, whose entire affection he bad
secured, had profound confidence in him. The
Prince took pleasure in originating reforms which
his remarkable intelligence enabled him to under-
stand. He used all the great influence which he
pommelled for good. Death has smitten this brilliant
organisation, this enlightened and benevolent man,
this affectionate husband, this tender father, this
Prince so devoted to the interests of his new
country and to those of humanity at large.
It is au immense loos for the country to
which he consecrated his beautiful life. It is a
family grief for the dynasties of England, Belgium,
Portugal, Saxony. -Every heart will participate
in the grief of the august widow and children whom
this terrible blow has overwhelmed. Every Bel-
gian will share in the profound affliction which
our monarch and his family experience for the
unlooked-for death of their illustrious and beloved
relative."

A supplement to the London Gazette Ertra-
ordinary of Sunday was published yesterday,
giving the following directions with regard to
mourning :

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S 01IYICT, Dec. 16.
Orders for the Court to go into Mourning for
his late Royal Highness the Price Consort :—The
ladies attending court to wear black woollen studs,
trimmed with crape, plain linen, black shoes cud
gloves, and crape fans. The gentlemen attending
court to wear black cloth, plain linen, crape hat-
bands, and black swords and buckles. The mourn-
ing to commence from the date of this order.
Ceases or Ames, Dec. 16.
Deputy Earl Marshal's Order for a General
Mourning for his late Royal Highness the Prince
Consort :—ln pursuance of her Majesty's com-
mands, this is to give public notice, that upon the
melancholy me:ma of the death of his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort, it is expected that
all persons do forthwith put themselves into decent
mourning.
EDWARD G. F. HOWARD, D.E.M.

At the Court of Common Council yeallerday, it will be
sees by reference to another column, a resolution of
nondolesee with her Majuty in her at was
solemnly pseud, and this course was followed
is more than one provincial town. In all part
of the country from which we have received sdviesa the
same feeling of sorrow aad sympathy as those diaplaved is
the metropolis have been manifested, and the public evi-
dently regard the demise of his Royal Highness, not only as
• severe bereavement to our most gracious Queen, but at
this moment u a great public loss. We are gratified
to Ism (from oar Windsor correspondent) that her
Majesty continues to sustain her heavy trial with undi-
minished fortitude. Her Majesty was advised by the
physicians to leave the Castle an early as possible after the
death of the Prinb Consort, sod yesterday was tho day first
filed upon for her departure to the Isle of Wight. It was
afterwards postponed till this day, but her Majesty could
not make up her mind to quit the Castle at so early
a period. To-morrow (Wedseaday) is the day now sexed,
both is said to be very uncertain whether she will not
join the Prince of Wales at Progrnore until after the
funeraL

The Prince Consort expired to the apartment known oa
the King's-roorn, in which King George IV. and William
IV. died.

At an early hoar yesterday morning orders were received
at Portsmouth to coal the royal yacht Victoria and Albert

with all deerateh. It was supposed that she would groomed
to Bermuda, to receive his Royal Highness Prince Alfred fres
the St. ()verge, 91, and return with him to England. It was
else thought probable that if the Princess Frederick Wit
limn of Prussia has not already started for England, the
Black Eagle will be despatched for her service.
It willbe seen, on reference to our telegraphic intelli-
gent*, that the Crown Prince of Prussia is expected to set
out for Windsor to-morrow. The Princess Royal will, it
is feared, be unable to accompany him, on account of the
state of her health.

The Mark-Lane Express says :
" In our own repeated visite to the royal farms, in re-
cording his successes as an exhibitor, and in noticing the
favourable auspices with which he commenced his year of
office, we have from time to time testified to all the Prince
Consort was doing for agriculture. His was no merely idle,
passing patronage or casual aid, but it was rather • pursuit
he delighted in, and one that he followed out with equal
energy and Advantage. The most practical man could not
go that pleasant round from the Flemish farm to the Nor-
folk, and so back again by the home and the dairy, without
learning something wherever he went. The very last
meeting which we believe the Prince ever presided over was
that of the Agricultural Council in November; while the
culminating point to such a career should have been but
during the next few months. Regarded either as one of
the arta generally, or more especially as a grand gathering
of that society he had consented to preside over, the Great
Exhibition was undoubtedly growing from under the late
lamented Prince's design and development. There is •
settled gloom now east over its prospects, from which it can,
never hope to recover, oven if, under the circumstances, the
project be proceeded with. The bustle and crowd of a
World's Fair will scarcely harmonise with the heavy heart
of the august lady, in all the fresh, bitter pang of her
widowko)d.*

Many stories are told of the royal courtship,
meal whirl, if not true, is at least graceful. It is stated that
the deceased Prince playecithe part of a royal lover with all
the grass peculiar to his house. He never willingly absented
himself from the Queen's society and present* and her every
wish was anticipated with the alacrity of an unfeigned
attachment. At length her Majesty, having wholly made
np her mind as to the issue of this visit, found lines& la
some measure embarrassed as to the flt and proper mesas
of indicating her preference to the Prince. This was •
perplexing task, but the Queen acquitted herself of it
with equal delicacy and tact. At one of the pals belle
she took occasion to present her bouquet to the Prince at
the conclusion of a dance, and the Dint was not lost upon
the polite and gallant German. His close uniform, but-
toned up to the throat, did not admit of his placing the
Persian-like gift where it would be most honoured ; so he
immediately drew his penknife, and cut a slit in his dries
in the neighbourhood of his heart, where he gracefully de- '
posited the happy omen.

The necessity of reforms in the university is dis-
cussed, and the most eminent of the Russian pre-
heats continua to demand through the press
greater liberty of instruction.
The Journal de St. Pettrabourg publishes an im-
portant note, believed to be official, relative to the
affair of the Suttorina. The Russian journal as-
serts that the Austro-Turkieh Convention of 1853
relative to the territory and to the Austrian mili-
tary road was virtually abrogated by the treaty of
Paris, by the terms of which Austria, as well as other
great states, is forbidden any ibolated intervention in
Turkey, and, consequently, taking summary justice
for itself without previous concert with the other
guaranteeing powers. The Russian government
declares, through the Journal of St. Petersburg,
that these governments must cause the principles to
which they have given their guarantee, to be re-
spected, and that, "as long as Russia has a voice
in the peaceful councils, and its weight in the
balance of the forces of Europe, such an interven-
tion shall not take place."

The Nord believes that this article is but the
echo of • more direct official communication, and
that we have not heard the last of the affair of
the Suttorina.

(sztrrn'e numaAmlL)
FRANCE.

PARIS, Dec. 17.
The Moniteur contains an imperial decree dis-
banding the 103rd Regiment of the Line and the
let Regiment of the Foreign Legion.
Another decree deprives M. Laprade of his
Professorship of Literature and Fine Arts. A
ministerial report, which precedes the decree,
explains the motive of this resolution. It states
that M. Laprade published a piece of poetry in the
Correspondent, containing injurious allusions to
the Sovereign, elected by universal suffrage, and
to the nation which he gloriously governs.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Die. /7.
Zeitung of to-day announces
to both

PIUMOUS SO TO WOW. MBA= WORM WIVILIDAY,
N. Britain—S.W. to W. sad B.W. to N.W.—Fresh, some rota
N. W.—Fresh, some rein. or snow
Ireland —B.S.W. to N.W.— !JAW. to W. and N.—Ralny,
Freak. some rate In gaiters. to places stow.
Central—W. to N. sod N.N.Z. W.d.W. to N. W. end N.-
-Fresh to moderate, duo. Fresh or moderato, Mac
LCeest—W. to N. W. and W. to N.N.W. sad N.N.Z.—
N.—Moderate to trash, tine. Modena* arse.
N. Zasrland--Shnilar. W. N.W. to N. and NAPA
Moderate, fteht, ens.
WLA.NATION.
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B.—Barometer corrected and roducad to 99 deg, at masa am
level : each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about one-handveith
of an loch diminution : and each 10 deg., above U des.. candy':
nearly three-hundredths increase. P..—ltrpofted thermometer
in shade. 11.—Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew
point). D.—Direction of wind (true—two points kfi of mag-
netic). Y.—Force (I. to 1g estimated). C.--Cloud (1 to 9). I.
b, bias sky: a, dead. (detached): f, fog: b, ball: I.
lightning in, misty (hag) ;o, overcoat ld r, rain San.
t. thunder. —mu diatarbeoce (1 to 9). W.—Wet, min-fall.
or coo., or hail, since tut report, in inches and decimal'. &
tem.

The Christmas season is in fall bloom through-
out Berlin, with reel forests of Chriatmu trees, booths full
of sweetstuffs, hooey cakes, ornaments and playthioge in
millions of nice end fancy contrivasces. Hundreds of shops
and public halls have been metamorphosed into exhibitions
of recreation sod wonder. The theatres are perform-
ing in aid of contribution, to supply the children of the
poor with indispensable Christmas presents. The stores
sad shops of confectioners and coeditors are teeming up to
tie ceilings with the truly native inimitable, and, it would
appear, unexportable "honey cake," which is consumed
at every Christmas in quantities ontsweetening whole
hundred weight. of plums sad suet which the English
nation and all its colonies could oppose in the
shape of plum•poddiogs. Politics will be forgotten until
after the Boxing.day, and all Berliners sweeten their Christ-
mas-days with honeyed bard-bake, and keep on wandering
from one exhibition to the other, visiting each other, and
making merry and happy by allowing themselves to he
surprised by presents, and distributing, sending, and posting
them for sweethearts and relations of every degree.