The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-30 00:00:00

THE SITN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1864.

V. 1449
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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan. 29.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by his
Royal Highness Prince Leopold, embarked in the
Royal yacht Fairy, Commander Simpson, R.N.,
yesterday morning, and visited the Royal Victoria
Hospital at Netley, attended by the Marchioness of
Eiy, the Hon. Mrs, Bruce, Colonel the Hon. Sir C.
B. Phipps, Colonel H. Ponsonby, Colonel Sir T. m.
Biddulpb, and Mr. Buff.

Countess Blucher had the honour of accompany-
ing her Majesty, _ _ .

Her Majesty, with Prince Leopold and the suite,
lanfied at Netley at a quarter before 12 o'clock, and
was received by Colonel Wilbraham, C. 8., com-
mandant, and the officers of the establishment, who
conducted her Majesty to the Hospital.
The Queen went over the various parts of the
establishment to inspect the arrangements, visited
the kitchen, and entered the wards where the sick
are treated, and made inquiries of several of the
patients as to their condition. Dr. Anderson, In-
spector-General, attended her Majesty with the
medical staff of the Hospital. _ _

Mrs. Shaw Stewart, the Superintendent-General
of Female Nurses, and Dr. Minter, of the Royal
yacht, were also in attendance.
At a little before 1 o'clock the Queen re-embarked
and returned to Osborne.

_
The Earl and Countess of Derby arrived at Os-
borne yesterday.

The Duke of the Manchester is expected to
arrive in town on Wednesday next, to dine with the Con-
servative peers at the Earl of Derby's Parliamentary

dinner.

The Duke of Richmond will arrive at his resi-
dence in Grosvenor-crescent, on Wednesday next, for the
meeting of Parliament.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury
arrived at their residence in Arlington-street, Piccadilly,
last evening from Paris.
The Earl and Countess Russell entertained his
Excellency the Danish Minister, his Excellency
the Swedish Minister and the Countess Wachtmeistor,
Prince Gortschakofl, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr, and Miss Gladstone
and the Hon. Lucy Lyttelton, Hon. George Elliot, Sir
Edwin Landseer, Mr, William Harcourt, Mr. C. Dickens,
&c., at dinner last evening at their residence in Chesham-
place. After dinner a select party assembled, the company
including his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the
Countess Apponyi, his Excellency the Prussian Ambassa-
dor and the Countess Bernstorff, Madame Musurus and
Madlle. Musurus, his Excellency the Saxon Minister, his
Excellency the Belgian Minister, Count Paumgarten,Baron
Beck Friis, Viscount Sudley, Lady Cosuio Russell, Hon.
W. and Mrs. Vernon, his Excellency the United States
Minister and Mrs. and Miss Adams, the Earl of Albe-
marle, Mr. and Lady Georgians Romilly, Mr and Lady
Elizabeth Romilly, the Countess Dowager of Westmore-
land and Lady Rose Fane, Mr Van de Weyer, &c.
The Earl and Countess of Derby will return to
town to-day from visiting her Majesty at Osborne, Isle of
Wight.
Lord and Lady de Manley and the Hon. Miss
Ponsonby, Lord Portman, the Right Hon. Edward Bon-
vole, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Bouverie, and Mr. Alfred
Bulkley (of the Admiralty) are at present on a visit to the
Earl of Radnor, at his lordship's seat, Coleskill House,
Berkshire.

THE SCHOOLMASTER ADROAD.—It is by no
means a matter of congratulation for those who speculate
on the great improvement which has takes place in the
education of the working class that, at an inquest held on
Saturday last in this town, 11 out of 14 jurors were unable
to write their own names. Yet such is the fact. Fortu-
nately it did not require but the most ordinary capacity to
arrive at a verdict, after the coroner fully explained the
nature of their duties. Let us hope that in the next gene-
ration such a circumstance as we chronicle will be as great
a rarity as the friends of education will desire.—Dundallc
Examiner.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.—The traffic re-
ceipts of the railways in the United Kingdom for
the week ending 29th January, 1864, upon a mileage of
11,154 amount to £645,743; being equal to £4B 18s, per
mile. For the corresponding week of last year the receipts
were £489,250; the number of miles open, 10,699 t, or
£l5 14s. per mile. A comparison of the two weeks shows
an increase in the aggregate receipts of £56,493 ; and of
miles open, 457 i ; being at the rate of £123 10s. per mile.
On the lines having termini in the metropolis the increase
has been on the Blackwall, £lO ; Great Eastern, £2,193 ;
Great Northern, £5,877; Great Western, £4,947; London,
Chatham, and Dover, £1,955; London and North Western,
£8,760 ; London and South Western, £242; Metropolitan
Extension (London, Chatham, and Dover), £640; Mid-
land, £5,285; North London, £187; South Eastern, £4ll,
On the Metropolitan lines there is a decrease—upon the
Brighton, £851; Metropolitan, £497. On the principal
lines in England and Wales there has been an increase in
the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £3,501; Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire, £3,132; North Eastern, £4,845
North Stafford, £906. On the Scotch lines the Caledonian
shows an increase of £2,098; the North British, £1,032;
the Edinburgh and Glasgow, £1,239; Scottish North East-
ern, £232, In Ireland the principal increase has been upon
Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford, £617 ; and Ulster, £459,
On 50 lines of railway, with 9,8781 miles open, the returns
of which enable us to distinguish the receipts of goods and
mineral traffic from those of passenger traffic, the aggregate
receipts for goods and minerals were £298,675 ; and for the
corresponding week of 1863, on the same number of lines,
with 9,638 t miles open, £260,903; showing an increase of
£37,772. The receipts from passenger traffic on the same
lines were £206,320; for the corresponding week of last
year £188,956, showing an increase of £17,364.—Railway
News.

THE ACCIDENT AT THE AGRICULTURAL HALL.—
Last evening the medical report at St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital as to the state of the man who was injured
by the lions at the Agricultural•hall en Thursday was that
he was "doing well." The severe injuries he had sustained
to the right hand and arm rendered necessary the imme-
diate removal of the hand. This was performed by Mr.
Lawrence, the senior surgeon of the hospital. The shock
to the system renders his case very precarious.
THE ALLEGED POISONING AT HAYLE.—Mr.
Richard Ope Millett, the surgeon of Penpol, who is
in custody on the charge of poisoning his brother, Mr.
Jacob Carnew Millett, was again brought before the magis •
trates at Hayle, on Thursday. The substance of the evi-
dence given in the first examination of the prisoner was
published in our impression of Tuesday last, and it may
be remembered that up to that time nothing of a weighty
character had been adduced in support of the charge. A.
lad named Rawlings, 13 years of age, who had dined at
Mr. Millett's on the day when the deceased was taken ill,
was the first witness examined. He narrated the common-
place events of the dinner table, and, as far as the inquiry
was concerned, it seemed difficult to understand why he had
been called. The same might be said of William Bryant.
William Gilbart, Mary Mitchell, William Oliver, and Ed-
win Edmonds, a surgeon, whose respective statements were
entirely devoid of evidence at all tending to establish the
charge made against' the prisoner. The magistrates then
adjoin-fled the inquiry to Saturday.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT To A COLUMBINE.—Mr.
John Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, held an
adjourned inquest yesterday respecting the death of Miss

Mary Ann Tliorne,a Columbine at the Pavilion Theatre,
who was known to the public as Madame Marie Charles.
It will be recollected that during a performance of the pan-
tomime at this theatre on the evening of the 6th inst., the
dress of the deceased caught fire and she was so severely
burnt that she died at the London Hospital a few days
afterwards. The question for the jury was whether the
gas lights which ignited the deceased's dross were protected,
and also whether precautions had been used by the manager
for the safety of the ballet corps. It appeared from the
evidence given yesterday that the accident was caused
through the deceased stepping over the board which was
placed in front of some gas jets, and that she had stated
that it was entirely her own fault, she having gone between
two rows of gaslights, which she was warned were danger-
ous. A damp blanket, which was kept at the side of the
stage, was thrown over her when her dress caught fire.
The jury returned the following verdict—" That the de-
ceased died from the effects of burns arising from her dress
taking fire at a ground-light while performing on the stage
at the PavilionTheatre, and that her death was accidental;
and the jury recommend that in future the dresses of ballet
dancers should be rendered non-inflammable, and that all
ground-lights should be protected, and the coroner is re-
quested to forward these suggestions now to the Lord
Chamberlain."

LONDON STEEET TRAFFIC.—The Midland Rail-
way Company are stated to be carting about
100,000 tons of goods a year through tho streets of London.
But it is a prodigious mistake to suppose that these goods
are carted to the southern lines. They are intended for the
warehousos of the London merchants and warehousemen.
Not more than 10 tons a day come up from the Midland
Railway to the southern Railways. The goods traffic
betwaen the liass on the north and those on the south of
the Thames:Pt, in truth, very small, and little street traffic
would .be saved *by the proposed circular lines. The coal
exc*fioliC although it would have to
carriage by water. About
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