The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-29 00:00:00

Cu Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Jost: 27.
The Queen went out in the grounds yesterday
afternoon, and afterwards went out driving with Princess
Louis of Hesse and Princess Louise.
The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by Colonel the Hon.
Augustus Liddell and the Hon. Eliot Yorke, arrived at the
Castle last night after dinner ; his Royal Highness having
arrived at Portsmouth in her Majesty's ship Galatea in
the morning.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princesses, and attended
by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, met his Royal
Highness at the entrance to the Castle. His Royal High-
ness arrived in very good health.
Prince Louis of Hesse returned from London to Windsor
Castle lest evening with the Duke of Edinburgh.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince
Leopold, went out in the grounds this morning.
Princess Louis of Hesse went out driving.
Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park.
The Duke of Edinburgh went to Frogmore, and visited
the Prince and Princess Christian.
His Royal Highness afterwards went to London,
attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke.
The Duchess of Buccleuch arrived at the Castle yester-
day, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and
the Royal Family.
AWE 28.
The Queen drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon,
accompanied by Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold.
Princess Louis of Hose and Princess Louise went out
driving.
Prince Arthur, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Elphinstone,
arrived at the Castle yesterday.
The Queen, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, the
Duke of Edinburgh, Prince and Princess Christian, Prin-
cess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and
the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended divine
service this morning in the private chapel.
The Rev. H. P. Liddon preached the sermon.
Prince and Princess Christian remained at the Castle to
luncheon.

The Duke of Richmond arrived at the Castle yesterday,
and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the
royal family.
?Jailor-General Simmons, C. 8., has also arrived at tho
Castle.

The Princess of Wales, attended by Vlsountoss
Walden, drove out on Saturday.

Mr. Philip Westoott had the honour of submitting some
pictures for the inspection of the Prince of Wales.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, and the Crown
Prince of Denmark, with Viscountess Walden, General
Sir William Knollys, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, and
Captain Lund, attended Divine service at Westminster

Abbey yesterday.
The Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Clarence House on
Saturday, from Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness rode
out, accompanied by the Prince of Teck ; and in the even-
ing, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke, went to the St.
James's Theatre.

The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz arrived at St. James's on Friday afternoon from
the continent. Lady Caroline Cast, Baron de Lube, and
Baron de Both are in attendance upon their Royal High-
nesses.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Tree-

sury, in Downing-street. The ministers present
were :—The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord
Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl
of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy,
Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and
Chandoe, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. North-
cote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke
of Richmond, and Lord J. Manners.

Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal High-
nesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by the ladies
and gentlemen of the Court, is expected to leave Windsor
Castle to-morrow week, the 7th July, for Osborne, when
the royal circle will be joined by Prince and Princess
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. Her Majesty, it is un-
derstood, contemplates a visit to Germany after leaving
Osborne, and will be accompanied by several members of
the royal family.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has
subscribed fifty guineas to the fund now being raised to
purchase an annuity for the widow of the late Mr. Wil-
liam Dargan. "It is not," says the letter from General
Knollys, "the practice of his royal highness to lend his
name to public subscriptions in favour of a private indi-
vidual ; but the special circumstances attending the pre-
sent case, the Prince feels, are sufficient to warrant the
deviation from the rule."