The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-11 00:00:00

Foreign Courts,

ET. PETERSBURG, Oct. 2.
At one o'clock to day a salvo of 101 guns, fired
from the ramparts of the fortress, announced to the
inhabitants of the capital that the Hereditary 3
Grand Duke would 1.-hardy be united to the Prince°
D!gmar. At the same time the subjoined notifica‘
tion was posted on the walls :
" Ia conformity with a despatch received from
his Majesty the Emperor, the GovernoraGeneral
St. Petersburg informs the inhabitants of the car
tal that his Imperial Highness the Hereditary
Grand Dake Cesarevcitch has been affianced to tile
Princess Dagmar of Denmark. Ia giving the order
to announce this happy event to the population c
the capital by a salvo of 101 guns, his Majesty odti's
that he is persuaded that all his faithful subject
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will partake his joy, and with him will implore,t,lie
Divine benediction on the august young couple.
BERLTN, Oct. 8'
The King is expected to return from Baden °ll
the 14th inst.

According to the testamentary dispositions draw
up by the late King Frederic William IV.I bi
body was to be deposited in a vault before the altar
at the Friedenskirche, in Potsdam. Hitherto tbere
instructions could not be culled out, and ja t
meantime the coffin has remained in the sacrist,' °t
the church on the left of the altar, near a 6e4
arranged for the Queen Dowager, who 06verrile
times a week has visited the church, and has tbe'f
offered up her silent prayers. The injunctions of
the late King will now be obeyed, and his PreBek%
Majesty has appointed Oct. 15, the birthday of P 1
brother, as the day on which the mortal reo3Bl°o
shall be transferred to their last resting-place'
It is announced that Prince Freeeri-... of Sable"
wig-Holstein-Noer will, on the 18;h instant, Warr/
the daughter of a rich North American gentleman'
BRUSSELS, Oct. 9.
On the sth instant his Majesty the King of the
Belgians arrived at Darmstadt, on hie way t.,cl
Heidelberg. His Majesty was met at Mayennel3,4
Prince Louie, and at the railway station the Prlll
cess Louis (Pr incers Ali2e) was in waiting to P-'eelye
the venerable King. After dining at the pail° At 3
his Majesty continued his journey. He reached
Baden on the next day, accompanied by the Grand
Duchess Marie of Russia, and Princess Eugenie of
Leuchtenberg. His Majesty proposed to eta!' at
Baden for some days.

Their Royal Highness; the Prince and Priccese
of Wales are expected to arrive in England from the G°ll'
tinent on or about the 28th inst.
PRINCE ALFRED.—We (Scotsman) understand
that his Royal Highness Prince Alfred is expected
to arrive at Floors Castle, near Kelso, on the 17th insta°4.,
on a visit to their Graces the Duke and Duchess alta
burghe. It is as yet uncertain whether he will be Pre;
sent at the Kelso races, which take place on the 19th and
20th, although it is very likely that he will be; but the
main object of his visit is to enjoy the sport of salmon
angling for a day or two in the Floors water. Fr°,131,,
his success last autumn on two different occasions in the
same water, coupled with his practice along with the Dak°
of Roxburgh° in Norway during this past summer, the
Prince may be regarded now as a successful, as he is
keen, angler; and it is to be hoped that the Tweed, willeh
is at present, from the continued drought, in a very lesv
state, and rather unsuitable for angling, will be by tae
time of his visit in such a condition as will ensure Id
Royal Highness some satisfactory sport.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
arrived at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, on Saturday last, frcra
visiting the Earl of Scarborough at S mdbeck Park, near
Tickhill, Yorkshire, and Lord and Lady Foley at WorksoP
Manor, Notts,
The Earl and Countess do Grey arrived et
Wishaw Castle, Scotland, on Friday, on a visit to Lora
and Lady Belhaven.
A marriage has been arranged between the gee'
George Fii zwilliam and Miss E, Anson, youngest daughter
of the late Hon. General Anson,
Sir Coutts and Lady Lindsay have left Farrance'e
Hotel for their town residence in Grosvenor-square.
The marriage of the Hon. and Rev. Welter
Berkeley Portman, youngest son of Lord Portman, and:
Rector of Corton Denham, to Alice, youngest daughter oft
the late Sir John Mordaunt, Bart., and sister to Sir Charles
Mordaunt, Bart., M.P. for South Warwickshire, Wa°
solemnised in Walton Church, on Wednesday last, in the
presence of a select circle of distinguished guests. Among
those who witnessed the ceremony were the Marquis Cam-
den and Lady Augusta Pratt, Lord and Lady Portman'
Lord Willoughby de Broke, Lady Willoughby de Broke'
Hon. Miss Verney and Hon. Walter Verney, Sir John and
Lady Pakington, Sir C. Mordaunt, Hon. Ellen and Louisa
Portman, Mr Gustavus Smith and Lady Mordaunt,
Edward Portman, Hon. Maurice Portman, &c. The mar'
riage ceremony was performed by the Rev F. Murray'
assisted by the Rev E. Cadogan. After passing a few days
at Lord Portman's re -idence at Prince's-gate, the newly
married pair left London for a tour on the continent.
On Saturday last, the Bth inst., Sir Charles
Henry Coote, premier baronet of Ireland, of Ballyfin
Queen's County, expired at his town residence, 5, C5ll-
- The deceased represented Queen's Ceuta
in Parliament for many years. He is succeeded by his eell'
Charles Henry, born at Ballyfin in 1815.
The little difficulty between the Marquis et
Donegall and the freemasons !Ica been settled. Tile
Grand Lodge of Ireland has received communications Will
the noble marquis containing assurances, given in the
frankest manner, that in the observations which he made
on the occasion cf his installation at Belfast as Provinoia*
Grand Master he had no intention whatever of infringing e
fundamental rule of Mesonry, and expressing his siucer.,,a
regret for having done so. The amende has been offered h.'
his lordship in terms so unreserved ,and emphatic that the
Grand Lodge have accepted it in a generous spirit, and die'
missed the subject. They have deemed it right, hoWeverP
to address an admonition to the masonic body to avoid any
discussion calculated to produce disunion in assemblies 0'
Freemasons, and also impressing upon the brethren gene.
rally the necessity of excluding all persons not belonging to
the order from meetings conveyed to carry out the business
of this ancient institution.
Professor Aederson makes a very fair offer to the
Davenport fraternity. He says :—" I offer them the use at
St, James's Hall, illuminated as it is during my own per"
formance, for any night they may select, if they can the°
and there perform—l care not by what means—the tricks
(I mean no offence in the word) they now do under tile
cover of darkness, and, as I believe, with the assis:anes Of
confederates (else wherefore the darkness 1') I will not ()nil
acknowledge their right to take any name or assume rull
attributes they think proper, but I will pay the sure of
£lOO into the hands of the Lord Mayor for charitable Pur-
poses. 1 thus offer them an opportunity of satisfying the
public that they do possess such attributes as warrant theal
in assuming the supernatural agency they are laying clarru
to. 01 course, should this challenge be accepted, I reserve
to myself the right of explaining any natural means or sP'
pliances by which the tricks are performed."
A GIRL DASHED TO PIECES.—On Friday last all
inquest was held at Donington, before Mr Bidlakof
on the body of a young woman named Jackson, 20 years of
age. Deceased's father is chartermaster of a pit at LOP
Bank, and on Thursday had occasion to descend the pit
company with another man, leaving his daughter standing
on the bank. The men had arrived at the bottom of the

shaft in Eafaty, and were turning to enter the woriciuk
when they were alarmed by hearing the sound of a 13°Y
falling behind them. On louking round Jackson ,vas ller-
rorstruck at discovering the mangled body of his daughter
lying on the ground. Had the unfortunate girl fallen
minute earlier both men must have been killed. It aPPear,:
that she was leaning against a chain which fens: s the
of the shaft, and this giving way, she was precipitated t°
the bottom, a distance of 190 yards. The body was literally
dashed to pieces. The jury returned a verdict of accidental
death.

AN OEPIIAN WANTED.—At the weekly IneetioX
of the St. Luke's board of guardians a letter 1014
read from a gentleman in the neighbourhood of the City'
road setiing forth that he had been requested, on behalf of
a lady of property, to ask if the Board had "a cotoPiet°
orphan," with blue eyes and flaxen hair, not more than
two years of age, and cf gentle manner, to be given up to
be adopted, the lady agioAng to take such a child, educat°
her as a lady should be educated, and finally to will ovl'f
,-c..1300 per annum. The letter was referred to the House L',"
Visiting committee, to see if there might be a " blue-eYeui

flaztak-iaoiled, coluklete orphan!' in the TJuion.