The Press.
London, England, 1858-01-02 00:00:00

THE PRESS, JANUARY 2, 1858.

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Her Majesty and the Court have spent the week
at Windsor.
After dinner on Thursday, Herr Wiljalba
the famous Russian physician and prestidigitateur,
had the honour of exhibiting his extraordinary per-
formances, by special command, before the Queen
and Prince Consort, the Princess Royal, the Prince
of Wales, and the royal and distinguished visitors
enjoying her Majesty's hospitality.

Their Highnesses the Siamese Ambassadors have
returned to Claridge's Hotel, from a lengthened tour
in the manufacturing districts.
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His Excellency the Fersian Ambassador has re•
turned to town.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
THE programme of the ceremony of the marriage of
her Royal Highness the Princess Royal on the 25th
inst. is now complete. Her Majesty nud the Court
will return to town from Wiudsor on the 15th.

A series of theatrical representations will take place
at Her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday, the 19th ;
Thursday, the 21st; and Saturday, the 23rd of
January, at which her Majesty, the Royal Family,
and foreign visitors will be nresent. On the 20th
her Majesty will give a state ball at Buckingham
Palace.
Prince Frederic!: William will arrive on the 23rd.
After the marriage ceremony, on the 25th, the Prince
and Princess Royal will leave Buckingham Palace
for Windsor Castle, attended by a limited suite. Her
Majesty will give that evening a state concert at
Buckingham Palace, to which the persons present at
the marriage ceremony, the Corps Diplomatique, the
members of the Government, and a number of the
aristocracy, will be invited.
On the 26th, most of her Majesty's guests will
return to the Continent.

On the 27th, her Majesty and the Prince Consort,
with the junior members of the Royal Family, will
join the young inanied couple at Windsor Castle,
where, on the 28th, her Majesty will hold a Chapter
of the Garter, for the purpose of investing Prince
Frederick William with this distinguished Order.
The Knights of the Garter attending the Chapter
will be her Majesty's guests at the Castle, and will
be present at a grand banquet to be given in honour
of the occasion.

On Friday, January 29, her Majesty, the Prince
Consort, and the Royal Family, with Prince Frederick
William and the Princess Royal, wit' return to town,
and be present in state at a representation at her
Majesty's Theatre in the evening.
On the following day, January 30, her Majesty will
hold a Drawing Room, at St. James's Palace, for
the purpose of receiving congratulations on the
happy event.
The departure of their Royal Highnesses is fixed
for Tuesday, February 2. Their Royal Highnesses
will embark at Gravesend, in her Majesty's yacht
Victoria and Albert, and cross over to Antwerp, and
proceed by Brussels, where they will sleep ou the
3rd, to Cologne on the 4th, Magdeburgh on the sth,
reaching Potsdam on the 6th. From Potsdam they
will proceed to the Chateau of Charlottenburg,
whence they will make their solemn entry into Berlin
on the Bth.

With respect to the preparations at St. James's
Palace, we need simply state that there will be no
procession from Buckingham Palace to St. James's.
The processions will only be formed within St.
.James's Palace.

In consequence of the limited space within the
Palace, no more tickets of admission will be issued.

llttropolitan.

THE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS have fixed
to hold a conference of representatives from institu-
tions in London and the neighbourhood with a view
to the organisation of local boards in connection with
the examinations. The conference will take place on
Monday evening, the 11th of January, when the
attendance of two or three representatives from each
institution is invited. Representatives from institu-
tions not in union with the society are also invited to
be present. The council have assented to the pto-
posal made by the Institutional Association of
Lancashire and Cheshire, that they may be allowed
to hold the prel►minary examinations for 1559 in
Lancashire and Cheshire in Easter week, six weeks
before Whitsuntide, instead of twelve weeks before as
laid down in the programme; the report to be
furnished to the council not less than five weeks
before Whitsuntide.
A PAUPER OF ST. PANCRAS stuffed himself with
cold plum•pudding to that degree, last Saturday

night, that he fell down in a fit of apoplexy a
died. The coroner'3 jury returned a verdict

" Death fr.= suffocation."
THE CHURCH-RATE CONTEST AT GREENWICH haS
been terminated, after a poll, by a majority in favour
of the rate of 533—the numbers being, for the rate,
021 ; against, 388.
THE NEW ACT FOR DULWICH COLLEGE, after
Thursday the 31st ult. took eflect. The incorporation
which has so long existed dissolved on that day, and
the various oflces abolished, and from the dissolution
a new state of things is to arise. The new scheme
gives the name of " Alien's College of God's Gift, at
Dulwich•" The Archbishop of Canterbury is to
continue visitor. There are 10 new governors, eight
of whom have been elected by the parishes of St.
Botolph, Bishopsgate ; St. Saviour's, Southwark; St.
Luke's, Middlesex; and St. Giles, Camberwell ; and
the remaining eleven or "non-elective" governors to
be appointed by the Court of Chancery, one of whom
is to reside at Dulwich, and to be called the" Dulwich
Governor." The property is vested in the governors,
and the allowances made from the 31st ultimo
are as follows :—To the master, 1,0151.; to the
warden, 8551. ; to the first and second fellows, each,
500/. ; to the third and fourth fellows, 466/. ; and to
the poor brethren and sisters, 1501. each. These
sums a►e to be paid half-yearly. The scheme pro-
vides fur schools, the appointment of officers, the re-
lief of poor brethren and sisters, the appointment of
almspeople, and the preservation and management of
the property. Provision is made for Divine service
and tither matters, to make available through the
institution " God's gift " of charity at Dulwich.
Mn. THACKERAY presided at the annual dinner of
the supporters of the Commercial Travellers' Schools,
held on Saturday night at the London Tavern. In
the course of his speech on the occasion, Mr.
Thackeray spoke of the present cost of education in
this country :

I wish we had an institution where our children could
he educated, and well educated, at a moderate cost. At
present our children are only educated at an awful cost;
and here I am reminded of the respected, the highly
respected proprietor of " Dotheboys Hall," when he found
from time to time the announcement that the advertiser
proposed to take only a limited number of pupils. Now I
should say that he takes the limited number of pupils, not
that he is in love with them, but because he desires to
extract the largest amount of profit. He looks to, and
thinks of the profits to be screwed out,pf their unfortunate
little bellies. Then why cannot we, as men of letters,
think whether we cannot adopt such a system as this—and
whether we, the men of the line, cannot emulate the men
of the road. Only a month ago I visited a friend of mine
who is making, perhaps, 1,0001. a year, and he showed me
the amount for a half-year for his two little boys at school.
The one was born iii the year 1852, the other was a year
older, so that these little heroes were of the ages of six and
seven years. They were certainly placed at an excellent
school, and they came home with a bill amounting to 751.
for the half-year. Now, the poor " Paterfamilias " has to
pay his life assurance, his income-tax, and his house tax,
and, no doubt, as in all such cases, he has poor relations;
so, perhaps, has his wife, and she is obliged to supply them
with millinery, and at present, of course, the enormous
prices and size of la lies' dresses consume nearly one
tenth part of his income.
In thanking the company for the manner in which
they had received the toast of the evening, Mr.
Thackeray said he would only ask one privilege, the
absence of which gave him intense agony in places
to which he had to resort. He travelled about a
great deal, and went to inns and hotels. He often
stopped and asked fur his room, and had to pass by
a room where about eight o'clock the cheering influ-
ences of tobacco smoke prevailed. He ventured to
hope that in future where his name was known, and
he knocked at the door, the commercial travellers'
room would be opened to him. Donations to the
amount of nearly 5001. were announced.
THE DEATAS IN LONDON have declined from 1,234,
last week, to 1,003 in this week. The births for the
same period amount to 1,409.