The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-07 00:00:00

Vie Court.

wrsrosos CASTLE, APRIL fi.
The Queen, accompanied by Prinome Louise,
went out in the grounds this morning.
Prisms Beatrice rode in the Home-park.
Prince Arthur, attended by Lieutenant Pickard, left the
Castle last evening far Greenwich-park.
Countess /Ember and the Right Hon. Bighorns Hardy
have aleo Lift the Castle. _ ..

Kr. Hathorse Hardy, the Dean of Windsor, and the
Dean of Cork had tho honour of dining with the Qualm
and the royal family last evening.
The Judge-Advocate-General bad an audience of her
Ithefeety this afternoon.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert
Victor, Prince George, and Primer Louise, left Marl-
' boreitgli House yesterday afternoon for Sandringham. The
Hon. Mn. W. Grey, General Sir William Knoll's, Major
Grey, and Mr. Heiman were in attendance.
On Saturday the Prince of Wales honoured Mr. Lowe.
Dickenson with a concluding 'Ming for the portrait of his
Mal highness re oolonel of the 10th Himears.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
Aloe from the Governors of the Settlements on the West
Goad of Africa, the Straits Settlements, Labium, Hoeg-
Hoeg, sad the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches
were sort to the Governor• General of Canada, and to the
Governor of Malta.

Among the distinguished visitors at the private
view of the French Exhibition of Pictures on Saturday
woe his Royal Itigitaess Prima Arthur, attended by Lisa-
twat IL Pickard ; the Bight Hon• the Earl Grey, Lord
Boars, Lord Bt. Leese:de, their Knell/notes the
American Minister, the Turkish Ambaesador, the Beigies
Minister, the Spanish Minister, the Portuguese Mlnielec,
the Bight Hem. Sir Stafford Northoote, Admiral Sir
Augustus Clifford, Sir W. IL Reilly,Bart. , Sir C. Douglas,
I Sir Hy. Timespeen, Colonel Sir T. P. °antler, Sir Prowls
G. Moon, Lady Eastlake, the Hon. A. Kinnard, ILP,
IMateaast•Coloaal Fielding, tom Hon. P. P. Beaver*
Mr. D. Belmont, ILP., Professor Owen, &a.
Her Royal Sighing' the Duchess of Cambridge
left her miaow* at St. James's Palace yesterday for Cum•
bridge Cottage, Ker, for the ?maw holidays.

APRIL

OREtGS NE
(?llrB DAY.)

PIACI OR WAR.
r 4 The Tiberiof of to-day has the following brief
article on this subject :
The Opisiota **mak has published on the question
" Pages or War," a leader which Lae been commented en
by several journals without, however, throwing much light
on the =Meat. Hem is cue conclusion. To the
,question
—Shall we have war ?—Yen reply : No. Things reply:
Yee. Will things prwrall over men or men over things?
Echo answers: Things. _ _

The Italian comic journal, Fzachietio, puts the
same question in a very humorous caricature.
Europe, represented as an old woman with her
eyes bandaged, is dancing the Cancan on a E oor
strewn with eggs, marked the Eastern Question,
Abyssinia, the Rhine, Schleswig, &c. A French-
-1 man, Prussian, Austrian, &c., are looking on and
asking each other, Ste a veciere se la walla finirei
5e1124 far la frittata. "The question is whether
the old woman will finish without making an
omelette ?"

THE JEWS IN THE PRINCIPALITIES.
BUCHAREST, APRIL 6.

In answer to an interpellation of the deputy
Gorgiu, the Minister of the Interior energetically
protested against the proposition presented against
the Jews. The Assembly passed the following re-
solution :—" The Chamber, approving of the opi-
nions expressed by the Minister, passes to the
order of the day." Out of 96 members present,
only 12 opposed the motion.

(trowels IIILIBGRA118.)

BERNE, APRIL 7.

The strike of the workmen at Geneva is not yet 1
at an end. To-day a general meeting of employers
will be held, when measures for arriving at a satis-
factory understanding with the men on strike will
be considered.

Movements on the part of the working men are
also taking place at Zurich, Berne, and Lausanne.

AMERICA.

DIY ISLAMIC TILISOZAPIT, 11111013011 Mt. RIUTIVS AOZNCT.)
WASHINGTON, Aram 6.

The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the
usual monthly statement of the public debt of the
United States. The total amount of the debt on
the lit April was 2,842,000,000 dole., against
2,648,000,000 dole. on the Ist March last, being a
decrease of 6,000,000 dole.
The cash in the Treasury on the lit inst. was
122,500,000 dole., against 128,000,000 dole. on the
let nit., being a decrease of 5,500,000 dole.