The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-13 00:00:00

The Prince and Frincess of Wales.

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LUBLCK, Oct. 12.
he royal yacht Osborre, with the Prince
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Princess of Wales, together with the infant Ponce'
on board, has arrived at Travemunde.
Their Royal Ilighnesses will
.proceed to Gluck'
stadt by special train at 11 a.m.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prince°
of Wales will not visit Paris before returning to Brghincl'
though it is probable that a short stay will be made ill Ge"
many.
The Duchess of Bucclench and Lady Victoria
Scott left Belgrave-square on Tuesday to join the duke oa
other members of the family at Drumlanrig Castle, Dullv.

friesshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury Will
receive a succession of visitors at Hatfield House, Herts.
The Marquis of Bristol, who is staying at hie
country seat at Ickworth, has been suffering from severe,
illness during the past week, and on Saturday his lordship."
state was such as to excite the serious apprehensions of 1216
family. We learn, however, that a favourable change has
since taken place, and that his lordship's medical advisers
give good hopes of his gradual recovery.
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has arrived
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town from Jerveaux Abbey, the seat of the Mdrquis and
Marchioness of Ailesbury.
The Earl and Countess of Derby do not real"
company at Knowsley Park until the second week in th
ensuing month.
Tne Earl of Wilton will leave N.wmarket to
morrow, to join the countess at Heat= Hall, near gall;
chester. At *the end of the month the noble earl and
;ountess go to Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, for the
hunting season.
The Countess Cowper will shortly receive a die'
tingu'shed party at Wrest Park, Beds. It is the intention
of her ladyship to give a ball at Wrest to the county
nobility and gentry, and there is to be a grand ball at Per-
shanger Park, near Hertford, before Christmas.
We understand that the marriage of the Lady
Helen M'Donnell, daughter of the late Earl and Laura
Countess of Antrim, with Sir Malcolm Murray M'Gregort
Bart., is to take place on Tuesday. the 25th inst.
The marriage of Mr. W. W. P. Consett, of
Brawith Hall, Yorkshire, with Edith, eldest daughter
of
Lord and Lady Charles Kerr, is fixed to take place on t""
10th November at Dalkeith Chapel.
The marriage of Victoire, youngest daughter of
Mr. M. W. Balfe, to Don Jose Bernardino Fernandez de
Velasco, Duke de Frias. was celebrated yesterday at the
Chapel of the Spanish Embassy, by the Very Rev. Dr'
Hearn. After a dejeiincit at the house of the bride's father,
the duke and duchess left for Combs Bank, Seven Oaks'
Kent, on their way to the Continent.

THE COMMON LAW COURTS.—The Court of Conl4
mon Pleas will sit at Nisi Prius in Michaelmas Term"
in Middlesex, on Thursday, November 3, and Wednesclaio
November 9, and in London on Monday, November 7, and
Monday, November 14. The Court will sit, after term, in
Middlesex, on Saturday, November 26, and after term, ill
London, on Thursday, Deo, 3. The Court of Exchequer
will hold its first sitting day in term, in Middlesex, 013
Thuteday, November 3; second sitting day, Wednesdal9
November 9; third sitting day, Wednesday, November 16;
and in London on Monday, November 7, and Monday, Na"
vember 14. The Court will sit after term, in Middlesex, on
Saturday, November 26, and in London on ThursdaYt
December 8. The Court will sit in Middlesex at Nisi Prius
in term by a4journmeut from day to day until the caus6ll
entered for the Middlesex sittings are disposed of.
OUR DOGS.—The dogs of Great Britain are an
increasing race. The £39 12s annutl tax was paid
upon 81 packs of hounds (of 66 or more) in the financial
year 1859-60, and upon 84 packs in 1861-62. The packs of
greyhounds (of 15 or more) were 29 in the former year and
38 in the latter; the duty is £3. For dogs of any other do'
scription the tax is 12s a •year, and it was assessed on 324,754
in 1853-60, and on 3.6,862 in 1861.62. The returns do not
carry these details down to a later year as yet, but the prO'
duce of the dog-tax increased in the ye tr 1862-63, and again
in the year 1863-61.

UNWILLING PASSENGERS.—A female camel, with
her young one, arrived in Southampton yesterdan
to be sent out in the Bremen mail steamer New York to the
United States. They were accompanied by an Arab keeper.
By no contrivance could the elder camel be induced to cross
the gangway from the dock to the ship, although the Aral
tried by blows and by coaxing with a bag of oats to get hex
on board. The young camel, about the size cf a pony, and
covered with beautifully soft silky hair, stuck to his data'
As the tide was about to elp, the pilot on board the bhir'
became' impatient, and called out "Have the aniratO
shipped." A number of the German passengers on board
the New York rushed on shore, and, amidst shouts °I
laughter, took the young camel up in their arms and carried
him bodily on to the steamer, and the ship was obliged tc
leave the side of the dock immediately, leaving the she
camel behind. The young camel began to cry in the ra°Bl
pitiful manner on being separated from his dam, and the
latter, hearing the cries, moaned distressingly; her eye!
were moistened with tears, and her head was sloWly on'
solemnly moving to and fro, looking fur her young one. Al
length she was put into a horse box and slung on board
steam-tug and taken out to the New York, which waited
the stream for her.

CRYSTALLOGENIC FORM.—Under this titla IST.
Kuhlmann has just addressed a paper to the Aca'
demy of Sciences, his object being to show that all mineral
particles have a tendency to arrange themselves in crystals
or at least in strata, or in nodules. Thus gypsum, dissefai'
nated throughout a mass of clay, will in course of time IA
found collected under the form of crystals, its particles
having by slow degrees penetrated through the clay it
virtue of the force of attraction. In the Bidache limestone
(Basses-Pyrenees) silex has formed distinct strata; and it
the chalk formations concretions of silex are often found 01
short distances from each other. M. Kuhlmann 81101/1
that very flexible brass wire may become brittle by frequent
vibration ; the same is the case with iron wire, which, owin
to this circumstance, is now universally rejected as a mate
real for the construction of suspension bridges. The errata'.
lization of wrought iron has often been the cause of ace'
dents, as may be seen from the frequent breaking of axle
trees. Those of railway carriages are safer than those 0
common vehicles, because they do not receive such violet]
shocks on rails as the others do on stone pavements; the:
are, therefore, chiefly liable to wear out. M. Kuhlman]
states that he had, on the Northern Railway, examine,
axletrees, the iron of which still preserved its fibrous texture
though it had travelled over several hundred thonsan(
kilogrames of rail. The axletree of a common carreag
when it breaks presents a granulated or crystalline frac
ture, which it would not have had when fresh from fb
anvil—hence, by constant motion, the particles of the iro]
have passed from the fibrous to the crystalline stilt(
Similar changes take place in sheet-iron ; thus
specimen of the latter, of excellent quality, havin.
been used for the construction of a boiler, has no'
become quite brittle, after having been for the space c
20 years exposed to the constant vibrations produced by tl
ebullition of water; even the rivets which held the Oat
together have become brittle. M. Kuhlmann points out a
easy way of discovering at any time whether the change di
scribed has taken place, and whether the iron under exam
nation can still be depended upon or not ; this is, to polif
a few square centimetres of its surface with a smooth fit
and then to expose it for a few minutes to the action of site
acid. If the texture of the metal has become crystallio
this new slate will thus become apparent.
THE DISTRESS IN PRESTON.—The distress in tb
town has begun to assume proportions which wet
there not grounds for believing it to be of a transient ell
ratter, would be calculated to create alarm as to the state
the operatives during the ensuing winter. At the week]
meeting of the Relief Committee, held at their office
Crooked-lane, on Monday, it was reported that 2,156 cae'
comprising 8,162 persons, had been relieved during tl
past week, at a cost of £225 Bs. 6d., being an increa
on the previous week of 229 cases, 1,001 persons, ar
£25 Os. 6d. expenditure. The total increase in fl
number of persons relieved since September 18, wbc
the distress was at its minimum, is no less that
3,347. The committee have just taken the census 1
the factory population by a house-to-house visitation, wile
t was discovered that no less than 6,894 factory operativ,
have either emigrated, found employment elsewhere, or ha'
been removed by the guardians. The chief constable
weekly report as to the state of employment shows al
there are 23 mills totally closed out of the 87. Thenunib,
of operatives working full time is 8,583; five days, 2,757
four days, 496 ; three days, 4,503 ; two days, 67 ; and total
unemployed, 10,913. Seven deaths from fever havil
ensued during the past week, an inquiry as to the sal'
tary condition of the infected districts was ordered, with
view of checking the further progress of the epidemic/
possible.
An in
TAE DECIMAL REFORM MOVEMENT.-'-An
fluential meeting of commercial men was held on Tuesels
in Liverpool, at which it was resolved to form a provision 1
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committee with the view of establishing a branch of I
international association for obtaining a uniform deciT2
system of measures, weights, and coluage.