The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-12 00:00:00

Ch, Court.

WINDSOR. CASTLE, MAT n.
The Queen walked in the grounds this morning,
and drove, accompanied by Princess Louise.
Prince Leopold also went out, attended by Mr. Duck-
worth.

Prince Arthur, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Elpbin-
stone, left the Castle this morning for Shoeburyness.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has also left the Castle
for London.

The Arebbiebop of Canterbury and the Dean of Windsor
and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley had the honour of dining
with the Queen and the Royal Family yesterday.

The Prince of Wales drove out yesterday aftornoon.
The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Hon.
Mrs. Stoner.

The Queen will hold a council at Windsor Castle on
Thursday next.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Gibraltar,
Malta, and Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the
Governor of Malta, and to the Governor-General of Ca-
nada.

A deputation from chambers of commerce, consisting of
Sir Philip Grey Egerton, M.P., Lord Egerton of Tatton,
the Mayor of Macclesfield, Mr. Leonard Bruton (Bristol
Chamber of Commerce), Mr. W. E. Forster, M P., Mr.
T. E. Potter, M.P., and others, had an interview with the
Right Hon. Stephen Caye, at the office of the Board of
Trade, yesterday, in reference to the 14th clause of the
Railways Regulation Bill.

SINCE the close of the civil war there have been
nearly as many Americans on the Continent as
English. At a Christmas party in Rome last
winter four hundred Americans wore present, and
a similar number attended the preaching of a
New York clergyman on a late Sunday at Dres-
den. Continental journalists notice the in-
cursion, and criticise it freely. " Your hospi-
" tality and audacity," says M. ANDRE Lao
to them, "your enterprise, and your im-
" meuse works are left behind you at home.
" What you do bring to Europe above
" all are the pretensions of your infant
" aristocracy ; and although your chronicler has
" met among you warm hearts and cultivated
" minds, he cannot find in your idlers the great
" motive power of your race." Put nut's Maga-
zine, on the American side, replies that these
travellers are not representatives of the race.
They are mainly mere "pleasure seekers, invalids,
" families bent on educational experiments, and
" restless seekers after novelty." The mania
for absenteeism is chiefly felt by Ameri-
can women, some of whom seek the
gratification of social vanity which has been
baffled at home, and others, an escape from the
cares of the household and from the frivolous and
The Prince of Wales has again intimated his
conventional in society. The Broadway censor I
pleas
ure to be a pat of the King's Lynn Royal Swam,
proceeds pitilessly to condemn
" the aimless, sethes subscribed twenty-five guineas to the fund.
"gregarious, material, and as it were reckless The Prince of Wales has signified hie iiilkntion
" vagabondage," and says of his countrymen that lof being present at the annual dinner of the 10t Royal
" they herd together in Paris,, cling to their Hunan, which is to take place on Saturday, thole& inst.,
" whisky and buckwheats, never oliplorn what is at Willis's Rooms.
"historic, or assimilate with the ciocially gifted. ! Field-Marshal his Royal Bighntes the Duke of
"Idlers, they grow selfish without dissipation ; Cambridge held a military levee at the Horse Guards
"bold and unrefined, they cherish neither revmence yosgrdsvafter"... liPeards of 90 .16°m attend'''.
Viloonntesa Cornbermere has issued invitations" nor admiration for the interests of wisdom and
: for a ;Hamer and evening party on Thursday, *ham, I
" faith; extravagant, indiscriminate, snobbish, meet their Royal Hishness volt plume 1,111, .intamok
"thee misrepresent ahroal all *Alit musingly var.
"characteristic of one :inslttutions.,or t The Royal Humane Society have scatcded a
"our national life:" This awes' bag we medal to Mrs. Elizabeth Poigndeolore, the wife of I Jena, I
think less of it when we find that the con- t clergyman, for rushing into the sea and scv:ng a man from ;
Rimmed ebject is to agord consolation tip those being drowsed in February leek
who are. °meet se mar et home, is, quite PArerrr-orricz Sousa $9.&2111i0201t.
~,uque„e, arras twit pg ow,q{t'~
paors of visitore
(Leal sober sines itow the week sadist May 9. 2,&19;
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HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING•ROOM.

(THIS DAY.)

Her Majesty the Queen held a drawing-room
to-day at Buckingham Palace, being attended by several
'members of the royal family. There was a large attend-
ance of ambassadors and foreign ministers, with most of
the cabinet ministers. The number of names of ladies to
be presented, and which have been submitted to her
Majesty during the last few days. has been consider►ble,
and for some hours before the doors were thrown
open for reception, carriages lined the various approaches
to the Palace. The carriages of the great officers of state
proceeded by Conslitutice-hill and Marlborough-gate ;
those of ambassadors, foreign ministers, and cabinet
ministers, by Birdcage-walk ; and those of persons not
having the privilege of the entrée by Buckingham-gate into
St. James's-park setting down at the principal quadrangle
of the palace.
The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princesses
Louise and Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, attended by Lord
Fitzroy and Lady Gainaborongh, left Windsor at 38
minutes past 10. The Quren remains in London to-night,
in order to lay the foundation-stone tz -morrow at St.
Thomas's Hospital.