The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-02 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales,
accompanied by the Lady in 'Waiting, left Frog-
more House yesterday afterno3n in a close carriage
and pair, and drove through the Long-walk to the
equestrian statue of George 111., on Snow-hill, a
distance of about three miles, wheu her Royal
Highness returned to Frogmore after about an
hour's ride.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, accom-
panied by Earl Granville, and attended by the
Equerry in Waiting, went out shooting yesterday
morning.

Earl Granville left Frogmore House yesterday for
.own, in order to be present at the Cabinet Council.

Major Teesdale, C. 8., arrived yesterday at Frog-
more House, and has relieved Captain G. H. Grey
as Equerry in Waiting on the Prince of Wales.

The Countess of Macclesfield has also left Frog-
wore, having been relieved from her attendance
on the Princess of Wales as Lady in Waiting.

HER MAJESTY is still in mourning, and Wears her
widow's weeds, though the princesses are all out of mourn-

ing.

THE NEW EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF MEXICO !
—lt is not in March, but about the 25th of February, that
the Archduke Maximilian and the Princess Charlotte are
expected at Paris, or rather that their Highnesses will be
received at the Belgian frontier with the ceremonial due to
Sovereigns. During their star, which will be prolonged
until the sth or 6th of March, they are to reside at the
Tuileries.
THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER is expected to arrive
in town to-morrow, to dine with the Conservative peers at
the Earl of Derby's Parliamentary dinner.
The Duke of Newcastle still continues in a deli-
cate state of health, and by the advice of his medical at-
tendants his grace has been absent from the recent Cabinet
Councils.
The Duchess of Hamilton (nee Princess Mary of
Baden) and daughter are still residing at Brighton. The
duchess and Lady Mary Hamilton are not expected to re-
turn home before the ensuing month.
The Marquis of Blandford, M.P., has arrived in
town from Brighton.
The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have enter-
tained a number of guests during the last fortnight, includ-
ing the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, Viscount
Uffington, the Hon. George Fitzwilliam, Mr. and Lady E.
Bruce, Mr. Leslie, Col. Baring and Mrs. Charles Baring,
Mr. Johnstone, Colonel Steele, Ito. The earl and countess
will arrive in town to-morrow from Deene Park, his lord-
ship being sufficiently recovered from his late accident in
the hunting field to be present at the Earl of Derby's dinner.
Lord Abercromby has arrived at Claridge's Hotel
from Airthrey Castle, Stirling. His lordship has come to
town expressly to attend the banquet at Earl Granville's
on Wednesday evening.
The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey, who was
thought to be progressing favourably, was taken seriously
unwell last evening, and it is feared that the change is likely
to be attended with danger.
Viscount Sonthwell and the Hon. Misses South-
well have left Brown's Hotel for Rome.
Lord Richard Grosvenor, M 2., has arrived at
Grosvenor House for the meeting of Parliament.
Lord and Lady Conyers have left Leamington
for Yorkshire.
Lord Inchiquin, recently elected an Irish repre-
sentative peer in the room of Lord Downes, has purchased
No. 39, Rutland-gate. His lordship, accompanied by Lady
Inchiquin and family, is expected to arrive in town in a
few days.
Lord and Lady Annaly and family have arrived
at their residence in Belgrave-square.
AMONGST THE YOUNG DEBUTANTES of this season
will be the Lady Marian Loftus, daughter of the late
Marquis of Ely. The Marchioness of Ely is one of the
Ladies of the Bedchamber to her Majesty the Queen.

Royal Relationships and Foreign Politics.

Mr. Bright, in his recent speech at Birmingham,
referred to the complications in foreign politics
which arose from our royal marriages. Without
prejudging the question how far the action of our
Government with reference to foreign states is, or
can be, influenced by th 2 family tics of the Sove-
reign, we may point out some of those connections,
some of which are less known than others.

The Prince of Wales, as every one knows, is mar-
ried to the daughter of the King of Denmark, one
of the parties to this German contest. His eldest
sister, the Princess Royal, married to the Prince
Royal of Prussia, one of the parties opposed to the
King of Denmark. His second. sister, the Princess
Alice, is married to the Prince Louis. of Hesse-
Darmstadt, whose mother is a Princess of Prussia,
and whose brother is an officer in the Prussian
army.

These are direct relationships; but there are
others scarcely less so with which the public are not
so well acquained.

Prince Frederick of Augustenburg—the Duke of
Augustenburg, as he is generally called here—
although that title properly belongs to his father,
is a very close connection of our Royal family, and
is much better known to the Court than to the
people of these realms. It will be remembered that
when the mother of Queen Victoria married his
Royal Highness the Duke of Kent she was a widow.
She was first married, in the year 1803, to the Prince
Enrich Charles of Leiningen, who died 4th July,
1814. By this marriage the Duchess of Kent had
one son, born 1804, and one daughter, bor❑ 1807,
who were consequently half brother and half sister
of the Queen.

The Queen's half brother, Charles, Prince of
Leiningen, died 1856, and was succeeded by his
son, Prince Ernest of Lainingen, nephew of the
Queen, who is a captain in the Royal Navy of
Great Britain.

The half sister of the Queen, the Princess Anne
Feodorovna of Leiningen, married in 1828 Ernest
Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. He died in
1860, leaving a widow and five ohildren, the latter
nephews and nieces of the Queen. Of these children,
the third son, Prince Victor of Flohenlohe, who
took the name of " Count de Gleichen" on his
marriage with a daughter of Admiral Sir George
Seymour, is a captain in our Royal Navy. His
next sister, the Princes!! Adelaide Victoria of
Hohenlohe (born IR,Y,;),
derick Chri married in 1856 " Frede-
'nian Augustus, Prince Hereditary of
Sles7;ig - Holstein Sonderbourg - Augustenburg,"
the Pretender to the sovereignty of the imaginary
State of Schleswig-Holstein, who is by his marriage
the Queen's nephew.
Besides these relationships of our royal family
with the contending parties there are others less im-
mediate. The King Leopold of Belgium is the
Queen's uncle. His eldest son and heir, the Duke
de Brabant, is married to an Archduchess of Austria,
and his daughter, the Princess Charlotte, is married
to the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, brother of
the Emperor of Austria, another party to the con-
test. Besides these connections the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, who was a Princess of Hesse Cassel, is an
aunt of the Queen of Denmark, who was also a
Princess of Hesse Cassel.

Every party to the Dano-Germanic contest may
therefore be said to be more or less immediately
connected with the royal fe.mily of Great Britain.

The Emperor of the French has conferred upon
the Comte de Flahault, lately Ambassador of France
at this Court, the high dignity of Chancellor of the Legion
of Honour. No appointment could be more appropriate.
It associates with the second Empire the most illustrious
surviving representative of the first, and places at the head
of the Order one whose extraordinary career from 1800 to
1815 embraces almost all the principal events of that won-
derful epoch. His commission as General of Division dates
as far back as 1813.

MR. LINCOLN is reported to be a mere shadow of
what he was a year ago. The cares of office are evidently
wearing upon him with fearful effect. Ho is a man who
devotes his whole attention, night and day, to his officia
duties, allowing himself no relaxation. His friends are
alarmed for his continued ill-health, and insist upon his
allowing himself more leisure for diversion from the dis-
tracting thoughts that press upon his brain, It is said that
he is only kept alive by his joking, Which is nearly the death
of others, who are taken ill when at length they see it,