The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-24 00:00:00

THE CITY MEETING.

The Herald and the Standard seem greatly pleased with
the proceedings at the City meeting, and adjure the liberals
to lay the moral of the catastrophe to heart. The Herald
sap there is no doubt whatever that " the voice of the
people" was emphatically against Mr. Gladstone and hie
allies. "What right," we quote the Herald, "has the
Adelphi gang to dictate to the citizens of London, or claim
the use of the Guildhall for the ventilation of their radical
balderdash i"

Cite Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Am 23.

The Queen, Prince Leopold, and Princess Bea-
trice left Buckingham Palace this morning at a quarter-
past ten o'clock, attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe
and the Equerries in Waiting. Her Majesty drove to the
station of the Great Western Railway at Paddington,
escorted by a detachment of the 17th Lancers, and pro-
°ceded by special train to Windsor. Her Majesty arrived
at the Castle shortly after eleven o'clock.
Major-General Ormsby left the Castle yesterday.
The Dowager Duchess of Athole and lam Macgregor
have left the Castle.

The Hon. Lucy Ken has arrived at the Castle as Maid
of Honour in Waiting.

Prince Arthur, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Elphin-
done, left Buckingham Palace this morning for Chatham.
Prince and Princess Louis of RIMS attended by Baron
von Babenau and Major von Hesse, dined with the Prince
and Princess of Wales, at Marlborough-house, last
evening.

Prince and Princes Christian, Princes Louis, and
Prince Arthur, attended by Lady Barn Melville, Baroness
Glancy, and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell and Lieut.-
Colonel Elphinetone, honoured the performance at the
Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, with their presence
Let evening.

The Prinoess of Wales drove out yesterday, attended by
Viscountess Walden.

In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales and
the Crown Prince of Denmark, attended by Viscountess
Walden, Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, and Captain Lund,
dined with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Staf-
f ord.bonse.

Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday
to the governors of the settlements on the West Coast of
Africa.

A deputation from the Committee of the City of London
Orphan School, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Bed-
ford, Mr. W. C. Fowler, and others; and a deputation
from the inhabitants of Stockwell, consisting of Mr. W.
Millman, Mr. B. Swete, and others, had severally an inter.
view with the Del of Devon, at the office of the Poor-law
Board, Whitehall, on Monday.

The Earl Forteecue received at dinner yesterday
evening, at his house in Lowndes-square, the Earl and
Countess of Albemarle, Lady Rolle, Lady Catherine
Allen, Hon. James F. Stuart Wortley, Hon. Mr. Brodrick,
Sir William F. Williams, Mr. lon Hamilton, M.P., Capt.
Seymour, Mr. St. Aubyn, and a select party.
The marriage of the Earl of March with Miss
Amy Ricardo, daughter of Mr. Percy Ricardo, will
take place in the autumn.
Count Andrew Bernstorff left Prussia HOW*
last night for Berlin.

Lord and Lady O'Neill entertained at dinner,
at their residence in Be!grave-square, last night, the Lord
Chancellor and Lady Cairns, the Marchioness of Huntly,
the Earl and Countess of Bandon and Lady Emily
Bernard, Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald, Mr. and Lady
Margaret Beaumont, Mr. and Lady Louisa Forteecue and
Miss Forteecue, Lady Laura Grattan, Colonel Probyn,
Major Benham, and Mr. Torres; M.P. In the evening
her ladyship received a select assembly.

His Excellency the Danish Minister, General
de %low, is mitering from an attack of the liver, and
has been coaxed to bed for several days.