The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-26 00:00:00

TEE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER'' 26, 1857.

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WINDSOR, Daa.
The Prince of Leiningen arrived yesterday on a
vials, sad dined with bat Majesty in the evening.
Prints Alfred arrived from Alverbank, ettaided by
Lieutenant Cowell, R.E. _ .

The Queen end Prince Coehart, the niece of Wales, the
Primers Royal, Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, Princess
Bekaa, ths Duchess of Kent, and the Prince of Letningen,
the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic
household attended Divine Service this morning in the
private chapel. The lion. and Very Rev. the Dean of
Windsor performed the Service, sad administered the Holy
Sacrament.

The band of the Royal Horse Guards wee in attedanos
during the royal dinner party in the Cutts yesterday, and
performed the
Overture, " Lodoiaka,"
Duet, " Vepree Mediums" Verdi.
Quadrille, " Juno"
Descriptive Fantasia, " Ocean Voyage" Bohme.
°elope, " Malakoff " Lamont.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards played in the
drawing-room
Overture, " Le Philtre "
Lieder otute Warta Meodelaeohn.
Selections, " Rigoletto "
Bolero, " Fanehannette "

Meetings of the Cambridge University Cocendesionare
were had on Tuesday, the 22nd , Wedineeday, the itihd
and Thursday, the 24th, et 6, Addphl•teeeoe. Tim Cour
miselonere geesent were—The Bishop of Cheater, Lord
Stanley. M.P., the Right Bcm. gir Lawrence Peel, the
Right Hoe. M. T. Baines, M.P., the Dun of Ely, and the
Rev. Dr. Venghan.

The Zeit of Berlin publishes the arrangements
decided on, relative to the journey home of Prince Fredric
William of Prussia end the Primer Royal of England miter
their marriage. Their royal hightteeme will emirs& at
London on the 2nd February, on hosed the royal watt, for
Antwerp, and will pans the 3rd at the Court of 'transit. They
will sleep on the 4th at Cologne, on the 6th at Magdebearg,
and will reach Potsdam on the 6th. They wm May at
Hanover a few hours. From Potsdam they will proceed to
the Chateau of Charlottenbourg whew. they will make their
solemn entry into Berlin on the Bth.

His Excellency Ferukh Khan and suite left Cla-
ridge's Hotel yesterday morning, in open carriages, foe
Sidearm, where bin Racenary visited the Crystal Palama
The Duke and Dachas, of Sutherland have a large
Melly cads 'rambled at Trentham for the Chrirna• holi-
days. Aram the company staying with the noble duke and
dacha. are the Duke end Duchess of Argyll, the Marquia
sad Marchioness of Stafford, the Earl of Carliala, the Bari
sad Lady Constance Grosvenor, and Lords Albert and
Eceald Larson Garr.

The Doke and Duchess of Richmond have a select
family &de at the deal mat, Goodwood, Sum:, where
the newel pieties of the use will be prolonged until alter
Twelfth Night.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are entertaining
a badly thole et Hadratnton.

Th;Dake of Rutland's party at Belvoir Cutle,
Licestenblis, is mined to the members of the family.

The Marquis of Lansdowne has a namerous party
emanated at Bowood Path, Who, where the greatest
hospitality will reign during the festive 1101•112 . The Earl
and Countess of insalburne and family, Count and Countess
de Flahault and Hon. His. Rip/instate Flahault, sad Hon
J. K. and Lady Louisa Howard are staying with the vener-
able marquis, who will receive a snooession of visitors and
the 7th pavzhno. _ _

The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury an
riesiviag company at Baraaake Lodi% arr Marlbaralk..

.
The Earl and Countess of Derby have a family
drab sammbied st Knowsley Pork, sear Liverpool.
The Earl and Counter of Westmoreland are
passim the holidays at Aptborps, Northamptonahire, sur-
rounded by a ssisrt circle of Means sad friends. .

The laxl and Counter Cawdor are entertaining
• family circle at their seat In Wales. The Earl and
Countess of Ellesmere and Viscount sad Viscountess Emlyn
are of the circle.

The Earl and Countess of Harrowby's party at
Beradoa Hall, Statbralttre, is milked to a family obeli.
The Earl and Comatose of Hardwieke have a
*het party et Wiutpole Hail, Clusbrklgeibire.
The Earl and Countess of Abergavenny are at
Birlbur Kano; Kest, eurtounded by a largo Emily circle.
The boapitalition el the wax will be kept up than alter
Ike "good old English" custom, nail attar We 6th maim°.

The Earl and Countses of Stanhope have a party
net at Chersitick Park, mar tieveaoaka, for the Christmas
holidays. _ _

Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley are surrounded
by s Isms family dxN al A Worley Park, Cboabire.
The Right Hoe. Sir Charles and Lady Mary
Wood have also a nozooroas family circle at likklotoa Hall,
Tortola».

The Right Hon. Sir Francis and Lady Arabella
Isitsg have a said party at Stratton Park, Rasta, fur tho
holidays.

The Right Hon. W. E. and Mn. Gladstone and a
select puiy hare congregated at Halyard= Castle, Er
Stephen Olynne's seat Ia Flintehire, but owing to the recent
demise of a much lamented member at the fatally, the cus-
tomary beepitalities will this year be dispensed with.
Lieutenant-Colonel James, R.E., Superintendent
of the Ordnance Surrey, has bean appointed Director of the
Coaeolidated Topographical Department of the War-olloe,
which is to include the topographical branch of the Quer-
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termaeter-Generare-othoe, none Guards, the Ordosnes
Surrey, end the topographical daps< established by the Duke
of Newcastle in the War Department.—Prew.

The meetings of scientific societies during the
leaning week ars:—Monday—lsatitute of Actuaries, 7.
" On the Vella of We Annuities yielding a gloss Rate of
Interest, the Capital to reproduce the Purchase Mosey being
invested at another Rate," by Mr. Wilholt. Friday—
Ardis°logical Institute, 4. Saturday—Aslatic., 2.

A new fortnightly European illustrated Art-
Revise is announced for the beginning of the year in Paris.
The title will he GISMO dos Burr Arts, Courtin Zemke";
its I' Art it dr to Obtrierite. The distinguishing characteristic
will he a special est correspondence ben all parte of Europe.
The Jerrold " In Memoriam" in sufficient to secure
an annuity, we (Mon "'god Loans News) are told, of 1201.
a year for Mrs. Jenvld and her unearned daughter, and
the survivor of the two.

A work of interest to every man of English
blood la In the press, sad will be shortly (*eye the Atlio
seem) given to the public under the unction of 81r John
Romilly. TMe is a catalogue (compiled by Mr. T. Dodo
Hardy, of the Record•oftice) of all existing materials toe
the History of England from the earliest time to the final
dose of the wars of the noses on the accession of Henry
the Eighth—the point at s hick modern history bogies.

The Illustrated London News states that the
Aides of the We Mr. Crater ere very numerous, "full of
mysteries of state, and matters of moment in politics and
literature." When the public is likely to see say portion of
these memoirs left in MS. Mr. Crabtree executors have not
yet decided:
. . _

M. Louis Blane's appeal against the Marquis of
Normanby will not—the Leader says—be a mere refutation,
but a disclosure of history as Illustrated by the " Year of
Revolution." M. Louie Blanc tells of hie visit to the pri-
mmer of Ham in '4l, and of his relations with that dialin-
guiehed foreigner in London. After the events of Jena,
1843, If. Louie Blear, proscribed and chased oat of Frazee,
stayed a shc rt time at an hotel in Jermyn-street. The very
Bret visit of condolence from his friends was one from the
Fremont Emperor of the French, who burst into the room—to
my he walked would &truly describe hie generous fervour—
and, embracing the expatriated member of the Provisional
Government, exclaimed, " Ah, lea mitirablee I ila von. oat
peoserit I " M. Louis Blanc will publish, it appears, for the
fret time, a variety of similar reridnimencee.

A Lubeck letter of the 22nd says :—" Commercial
teeseactions here ere still in a state of complete prostration.
The conditions on which the Bank of Prussia is to advanoe
1300,000 Rulers to the town are not settled, but it is hoped
that the transaction will be speedily armagol."
SACRED HARMONIC S. OCIETT.-llsydn's Creation
will be produced on Friday, the Bth Jeatwry, when Mr.
Sims Reeves makes his Brat appearance this mem
We (Athenoum) understand that some of the
foreign singer, who went in " the AV to America, with
the hopes of gleaning a golden harvest there, kegs shandy
returned—public music having hem virtually Ilibuied by
the " sashes•' on every aids of beak sad 1,11111601111111, end
miscalatord odke.