The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-12 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF' PRINCE I A.POLEON

BO NAPARTE.

Cows, Sept. 11.—His Imperial Majesty's steam yacht
Ariel arrived here this afternoon when the Prince and
his suite landed.

The Earl of Burlington and Lady Louisa Cavendish
have returned to Holkar-hall, near Milnethorpe, from
visiting the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth.
Lord and Lady Lindsay have arrived at Dunecht-
house, N. 8., from the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres's
seat, Haigh-hall, Lancashire.
Lord and Lady Cardross, we regret to learn, have
sustained a domestic bereavement by the death of their
youngest eon, which took place a few days ago at
Edinburgh.
Lady Mary Wood and the Hon. Frederick Grey, who
came to town on Monday, from Hickleton-hall, York-
shire, left town yesterday morning, for Paris. The
Countess (Dowager) Grey and Lady Georgiana Grey,
who bad been staying with her ladyship at Hickleton-
hall, leave there to-day for the north.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, the First Lord,
and Admiral the Right Hon. Sir M. F. Berkeley and
Admiral Richards, Junior Lords, left the Admiralty
yesterday forenoon, by the Great Western Railway, for
Plymouth, Devonport, and an inspection of the naval
establishments in the two districts. Sir Charles and the
other Lords of the Admiralty return to town early in
the ensuing week.
Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., and family have returned
to Tredegar, near Newport, from a tour of visits in
Scotland.
It is understood that a matrimonial alliance will
shortly take place between the Hon. Francis Stouor,
second son of Lord Csanoys, and Miss Peel, daughter
of the late Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel.
Lord Panenure is to pay a visit to the Royal Arsenal,
at Woolwich, this even'ng.
The Duke of Somerset has arrived in town from a
cruise in the Baltic. His grace was unable to attend
the obsequies of his father, not having received intelli-
gence of the late duke's demise until he reached the
Loral coast of Seot'and.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose and family are
staying at Buchanan Castle, N. 8., and do not return to
the south until the second week in next month.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Huntly are enter-
taining a select party at Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire.
The noble marquis and marchioness, with their youthful
family, were present to receive the Queen at Aboyne, on
Friday last, when her Majesty passed through, en route
for Balmoral.
The Earl of Carnarvon, the Countess of Carnarvon,
and Lady Gwendoleen Herbert have joined the select
party at Eggersford, Devon, visiting the Earl and Coun-
tess of Portsmouth.
The Earl and Countess of Resse, we regret to learn,
are plunged into grief by the death of their second son,
the Hon. Wtn. Wilmer Parsons, which took place on
Friday last, at Brighton, after a long illness.
The Rigl:t Hon. R. Vernon Smith attended the
Cabinet Council on Monday at the Foreign-office.
Lord Inchiquin has returned to Drotnoland from
Brussels, after a visit to his brother, William Smith
O'Brien, Esq.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Tuesday,
Sept. 11.—Admissions on payment, 10,656 ; ditto by
season tickets, 628 ; total, 11,984 ; corresponding day
last year, 8,759.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—Return of admissions for six days
ending September B.—Number admitted, including sea-
son ticket holders, 52,899. Amount received for ad-
missions, 2,9381. lie. 3d.
The Minister of State, as a special favour, has allowed
M. Felicien David to cause some of his musical works
Ito be executed at the Conservatoire. The first perform-
ance is to take place on Friday.
The greatest activity prevails in the dockyard at Hach-
' fort in the construction of the Redoubtable and Intre-
pide, screw 90-nun ships. The former will probably be
launched in October next.
THE ITALIAN VINTAGE. The satisfactory appear•
ante of thewineyards in the province of Asti and Ales-
eandria has lately led to a reduction of 30 per cent. in
the price of wine, and the grapes themselves are sold at
a low price.
PAPAL DIPLOLIACY AT A DISCOUNT.—The Venice
Gazette observes that the Papal See has no nuncios at
present in Spain, Sardinia, Switzerland, Brazil, and
New Grenada.
Senior Surgeon Chisholm, of the Royal Artillery, has
been appointed to take medical charge of the York dis-
trict. He is now the only remaining 'Waterloo officer
in the Army and Ordnance Medical Department, and
was on the platform, along with the other officers, on
Thursday last, to receive the Queen on her Majesty's
arrival at York, em route to Balmoral.—Yorkshire Ga-
retie.

Mr. Nicholson, organ builder, of Macclesfield, has
met a singular death. He was in the act of " voicing "
or " sounding " a pipe, and applied his ear to it, when
from some cause or ether, a splinter flew out, entered
his ear, and gradually penetrated to the brain ; after
three weeks' illness he expired, suffering great agony.
MILITARY. BARRACKS AT DUNFER3ILINE.—Robertson's
factory has been leased by Government, and is to he
fitted up as a barrack. The place, which is walled in
all round, and at a distance has rather a military look,
would, including mill, weaving shops, and hackling
shops, be capable of lodging a whole regiment, and
could be turned into the purposes intended at very little
cost.—Ediuburgh Courant.
THE HON. F. H. BERKELEY.—We regret to learn that
our respected representative the Hon. F. H. Berkeley,
has met with an accident which deprives him for a time
of the power of writing. While in the act of raising a
window the pulleys gave way, and the sash descended
with such violence as to fracture the bone of his right
thumb. Medical aid was immediately summoned, and
two surgeons attended the honourable gentleman and set
the bone. The pain and irritation, however, consequent
upon the accident, we are sorry to add, brought on a fit
of gout.—Bristol Mercury.
The Spa of Buxton is at present full of company. On
Sunday afternoon the Rev. Dr. M`Neil, of Liverpool,
preached in the open air. The rev. gentleman took his
stand in the colonnade of the Crescent, and preached a
powerful and eloquent sermon to a large and attentive
audience.
THE WILL OF THE LATE ABBOTT LAWRENCE.—Besides
numerous private gifts, the will of the late Abbott Law-
rence bequeaths 130,000 dollars for public benevolence,
as follows :—The Lawrence Scientific School, 50,000
dole. ; for building model lodging-houses, 50,000 dols. ;
Boston Public Library, 10,000 dole. ; Franklin Library
in the city of Lawrence, 5,000 dole. ; American Bible
Society, 5,000 dole.; American Tract Society, 5,000 dole.;
and Home Missionary Society, 5,000 dols. One-half of
the net rents of the lodging-houses is to be annually dis-
tributed to various charitable institutions in Boston, and
f the other half is to accumulate in order to constitute a
I fund for keeping the lodging-houses in order.
Lieut. A. Campbell, of the Scots Fusilier Guards,
eldest son of Archibald Campbell, Esq., of Blythswood,
at present serving with his regiment in the Crimea, was
wounded on the 22d ult. by a piece of shell which struck
him in the face. The wound, we understand, is not of a
serious description, and his parents have had the satis-
faction of receiving a letter from the young officer, written
by his own hand, assuring them that such is the case.
IfUNGARY Count Nugent was attacked
on the 28th ult. with cholera, while at his country house
of Susika, and on the following day he received the last
sacraments. Letters from Fiume, the Hungarian port
in the Adriatic, however, state that he afterwards ral-
lied, and that his physicians now declare him to be out
of danger.

The Peninsular and Oriental Royal West India Mail
and General Screw Companies have arranged with the
Electric Telegraph Company codes of night signals, by
which the arrival of their different steamers is commu-
nicated to the Telegraph Station at Hurst Castle, situated
at the entrance of the Solent Sea, and by that means
intelligence of these steamers is conveyed to London and
Southampton in the dead of the night, two hours before
the arrival of the ships at the latter port. When a
steamer arrives off Hurst Telegraph Station in the night
a gun is fired from it, which awakens the telegraph clerk.
Lights, differently arranged, according to what com-
pany the steamer belongs, are then hoisted on board the
steamer, and as soon as the telegraph clerk has recog-
nised them he hoists a light which informs the captain
that his signal has been seen and understood. The sig-
nal is hoisted on board and understood on shore while
the steamer is in motion.

PRICE OF GOLD.—TIIO quotation of gold at Paris is
about at par (according to the last tariff), which, at the
English Mint price of 31.175. 100. per ounce fur stand-
ard gold, gives an exchange of 25.17 ; and, the exchange
at Paris on London at short being 25'121, it follows that
gold is about 0.18 per cent. dearer in Paris than in Lon-
don. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is
427 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31.
, 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange
of 13'6 ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on London at
short being 13.41, it follows that gold is 0 59 per cent.
dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex-
, change at New York on Landon for hills at 60 days'
sight is 110 per cant. ; and, the par of exchange between
England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it fo!-
lows that the exchange is nominally 0,12 per cent. in
cfraorgu re
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of Englandtransport ; aanndd , after
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sent rate leaves a small profit on the importation of gold
from the United States.
NEW FOREST.--Ten thousand acres of land in various
parts of the New Forest are about to be planted. About
70 acres of the New Forest were sold last week by the
Government, and fetched about 231. 10a, an acre. The
land soil is on the outskirts of the forest, and is covered
with furze. It has to be fenced by the purchasers.
Among the numerous inventions which are being
shown at the French Exhibition, the portable press of
M. Itarueneau has particularly attracted the attention
of the Emperor, who has watched the working of the
machine with much interest ; and on his last visit with
the Queen of England their Majesties both expressed
their satisfaction at witnessing the process by which any
one can produce as many copies as he pleases of writings,
circulars, music, drawings, &c., with the greatest
facility.

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