The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-13 00:00:00

the Court.

OSBORNE, Jam 11.
The Queen drove out yesterday, attended by M.
and Madame Van de Weyer. .

Colonel Ponsonby was Equerry in Waiting.
JAN. 12.
The Queen, accompanied by hinceas Louise, drove out
yesterday afternoon.
Miss Van de Weyer had the honour of accompanying
her Majesty.
The Queen, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Beatrice, attended divine service at Whippingham this

owning.
The Rey. George Prothero officiated.
The Ladies and Goat Lames in Waiting were in attend-

Despatches were sent from the Colonial-aloe on Satur-
day to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, and to the
Governor-General of Canada.

TILE ROYAL Fsunx.—The Princess Mary of
Cambridge and Prinoe Teek are expected to visit Stockton
today, on their way to Wynward-park, the seat of Earl
Vine. The town council will receive their royal highnemes

an their arrival.
THE ROYAL Viarr ro lavanzoor..—On Saturday
last the Prince and Princess Christian, Lord Walden, the
Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein, and suite, after
a week's sojourn at Knowsley-ball, the seat of the Earl of
Derby, left Hnyton station, en route rid Willesden, to
Windsor Castle. At Hnyton the preparations were much
more demonstrative than those which awaited the first
visit of Prince and Princess Christian. The weather was
not pleasant—snow and sleet fell fast all the morning,
and none but those who trusted to thick solos and strong
constitutions assembled at Huyton station. The prows-
tions at Huyton for the departure of the royal guests were
good and appropriate. From the entrance to the station
on the Knowaley-road there wee a foot walk covered with
white and scarlet cloth, lined on the right-band with a fine
display of evergreens on artificial platforms, while' in con-
junction with the entrance, a very neatly guarded
way had been sot apart for the reception of
the visitors in the ladies' waiting-room. The train,
which left Liverpool at 11.30 a.m., had attached to
it oneof the saloon carriages generally used by the London
and North Western Railway Company, and arrived at
Huytoa station about 11.50. In the meantime, the
royal party had arrived from Knowsley, in covered car-
riages, the drifting and falling snow preventing them
from coming in open barouches, in which, had the weather
been fine, they would have been conveyed to the station.
The company which left Knowsley-hail were the Princes
Christian and Arthnr,Princesses Christian and Henrietta of
Schleswig-Holstein, Lady Melville, Lord Walden, and Mr.
Engelhardt. tutor to the Prince Arthur. The reception at
Huyton station was of the most enthusistic character
and as the royal party left the station they were applauded
heartily. The railway arrangements in connexion with
the departure of the Earl of Derby's guests were under
the immediate inspection of Mr. Pilling and Mr. Shaw, of
the London and North Western Railway Company.
On Saturday evening Prince and Princess
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and Prince Arthur re-
turned to Windsor, on the sonclasion of their visit to the
Earl and Countess of Derby at Enemas,.
The Prussian Ambassador and the Countess
Bernstorff and the Countess Therese /Senator( have re-
turned to the Prussian Ember*, on Carlton-house-terrace,

from ting Viscount and Viscountew Holmesdale at
Linton Perk.
The Northern Whig has the following :—" We
have been informed that Mr. Charles Lanyon, the junior
M.P. for Belfast, received • communication yesterday
morning from the Lord Lieutenant, informing him that
the government had decided on offering him the honour of
knighthood, and that Mr. Lanyon had decided on accept-
ing the offer. The grounds stated in the Lord Lieu-
tenant's letter for conferring this honour on Mr. Lewin
are ' his professional standing,' and his position as repye-
seating so important • commercial town as Belfast."
The new head master, the Rev. J. J. Hornby,
M.A., is expected to arrive at Eton to-day,
At Melbourne, on the 26th of November, the
Duke of Edinburgh attended* cricket match, and in Sc.
evening be was the GOVINDOe• guest at • grand ball given
by him in the Great Exhibition building. There ware
about 2,000 persons present. The Duke opened the ball
with Min Manners Button. waltzed frequently, and at an
advanced period of the evening danced a Scotch reel.
While the bail was proceeding • number of Irishmen were
getting up • row about an Orange" transparency at the
Protestant Hall. It oonunencod in an attempt to destroy
the transparency, and the assailants were fired upon from
the building. One man was shot—it is said mortally—
and three others wounded.
At the last state ball at Paris, the object of
attention was a negro general, the splendour of whose
uniform extolled that of his European brethren. Oa in-
quiry be proved to be the late President of Hayti. Two
young Japanese ladies were likewise among the novelties
of go imam. The Empress's dress was whit* tulle over
whits satin, sniped with gold and diver. Her diamond
nesithee eonsisted of ten rows of glesdid stones ; • very
mall row of dimmed; fastening an aigrette yam en tie
WI Me, was her IN* head ornament.
MA.rzsrr's Taurus.—The 'curio= state-
mesas which haws resently heap published as to the k
mediate lelsallaig of Her Malistre Theatre have
an authoritative esatrallatisa. The reins of the
allies ere being shared sway "to save thee,* but no
site has yet lostmarrived at as to the ultimata disposition
of ib sits.