The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-11 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, August 10.
The Queen and Princess Louis of Hesse drove out
yesterday.
Lieutenant• Colonel Da-Plat was in attendance.
Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the Dowagsr
Countess of Mount•Edgcumbe as Lady in Waiting.

Departure of the Prince and Princess of
Wales for Scotland.
Yesterday evening their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Priccess of Wales, accompanied by
their infant son, Prince Albert Victor, left London
on their way to Abergeldie, where, as it is under-
stood, they will remain for about xis weeks.
Their royal highnesses, who were attended by
Hon. Mrs. Coke, Lieutenant-General Knollys, and
Major Teesdale, travelled by the .8.40 limited
express mail," on the London and North-Western
Railway. Two royal saloon carriages, a first'clas3.'
and a luggage van were attached to the train, and
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behind were three large Post-office carriages and
some heavy vane.
out-
A considerable number of persons collected
side the station and within the entrance Yard'
while the platform itself was by no means nate'
nanted. Oa the arrival of the prince and princess
at a few minutes after the appointed time they
were received by Mr Moon, chairman of the COIv
pany, and some of the principal officers, by Wbctil
they were conducted to the saloon in which they,,
were to travel. The handsome carriage is divided
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into two compartments, in the first of which
the prince and princess, and in the second the
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young prince and two nurses. A door allows
communication between the two divisions. •he
;
spectators outside and inside the station cheered
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the prince and princess most heartily on Wn
arrival, and redoubled their acclamations wileo,
Prince Albert Victor was seen in his nurse's arill
The hurrahing was, indeed, so loud that the 038
infant's slumbers were evidently disturbed. I."ii
Prince of Wales conversed for a few moments with
Mr. Moon while the preparations were being COai
pleted ; but in a very brief space after the rq
travellers had entered their carriage the Signal Vi 3
given, and the train sped on its way.
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The prince and princess intended to P 4-0
direct tc Stirling on their way to the Troseac".ll
after visiting which their royal highnesses
continue their journey to Abergeldie. will
It is expected that the prince and princess .
visit Gordon Castle and other places during their
stay in the North.

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The Prince and Princes of Wales will visit Deuce
mark at the conclusion of their stay in SCotl°:nd
The visit would have been made at an earlier per'
but for the recent hostilities.
Prince William of Prussia, the eldest son of the
Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussist who
has been on a visit to her Majesty at aiborne f°`
some time, will return to Berlin in a few
Major von Schweinitz, adjutant to the Cr°" 0
Prince, has been deputed to accompany Plinc

William home.
The Earl and Countess of Tankerville are about
to leave Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, far
the North.
The Earl and Countess of Malmesburyt 14.!
nave been visiting the Earl and Countess of Tankel,s
ville at Criillingham Castle, go to the noble earl
shooting box in the Highlands to-morrow.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland, who hag
been on a visit to her Royal Highness the Crown
erincess of Prussia (the Princess Royal °I. i
Eng-
land) at Potsdam, has left for
remain several weeks in Switzerland.
His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio left the
Italian Legation yesterday, for Belgium, on his Wag
to Aix-la-Chapelle.
Geneva, and will
The Duke of Newcastle left Carlton-bagse-
terrace yesterday for Clumber Perk, Notts, ace,°l3l:
panied by Lord Edward Pelham Clinton. "et
duke's health is somewhat improved, but g"ai
care will be required before he regains I°s-
strength.
The Earl and Countess of Winchilsea have left
the St. George's Hotel.
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON 111., whose health 1:
said to
.be very much improved by his recent sojourne
Vichy. returned to St. Cloud on Sunday evening, where
was received with great; joy, and the loudest accl6`--
dons.

ROSSINI'S FETE DAY !—Signor Mereadante ns.
written an ode for out• door performance by 400 voices at
a commemoration festival in honour of Rossini, irl-lie-‘1 1.5
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a s."\ i beir heldrecently
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givenPesaro.p ANt
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thei Aug.E
ROUGEworld,
Some Account of the Parish of Ash-next-Sandwich, in'
Historical Sites and Existing Antiquities." ..., yvat
understand that the contract was B
HE PURCHASE OF ASTON PARK, 11131 - - '
o CARCoolrlerr Vorli.lJelnVt; Isio..r!
HA3I.—We have much pleasure in learning that this lung
delayed purchase is nearly on the point of completi"" We
yesterday. The corporation's and the canipanY'a seal have
been attached to their respective documents, and it only
rbemains for the conveyance to be settled Broome the matter to
ntirely completed and the property to the pas'
Captain Semmes, session of the town.—Birminghana Gazette.
igned and exchanged
TEE " NEW ALABAMA." The neVir ship
for,
Awhich will probably be ready towards the close
ugust, is reported as over 4,000 tons, and will be protect
a
Freat power,
with solid steel plates 2lin thick. She is to be called th.
building on the Co'ntinent and
New Alabama, and will be armed with Armstrong gaLl6o:f
she is built for a ram, will be furnished with engl'aes...p.
haveing w
theate water
veryoandn hl
aerrgweoi Iplcpopomonspesnleestmss.
et
nh Ite t means
000 f intendedtatheraf thrown
nri,
tgf
r.iellsirti i'" :to:
are offered a bounty of £lO each on joining, iv" ?"' Pot-
month wages, and prize money equal to that of her co
e.„
is wander, Captain Semmes ; in other words, the prize Will;
offitoebe divided pro rata by all en board. Moat of t
rs and crew of tine sunken ship 11 . til°
N'sv
wilt join . ,
Alabama. It is intended that she will commence operatio%
near Boston, United Statos. Federal ships of war era
watching her progress, and will dispute her first attempt t()
go to sea.—John Bull.
THE SATURDAY REVIEW SPEAKING "A BIT O
ITS MIND" TO SIR CHARLES WOOD ! —lt is iropos'
entirely i
sible to say that he is by any means either an admirable or
a pleasing specimen of the British statesman. Perhaps'
never occupied itself with.
themore business ofunor Government.d For more than 30 years
ha
been an inevitable member of every Whig Administrte
Lion, but his warmest friends would scarcely venture to
ginal min
assert that he has ever displayed powers beyond those of a
painstaking and industrious clerk. lie has been Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and President of the Board of Control,
for
and
India; Firstb a Lt
ito Lord
cannotof t the eb
esaisaid
Admiralty,tha ti nanadn
yS
capacity
above the level of tho dreariest commonplace. It is certaina
that he has never uttered a word in public which naaniLia
will take the smallest interest in remembering ; and Wu ii_rs°
not aware that he ever originated a measure which bin
will care to associate with his acme. He is best known:e:
his contemporaries by a style a oratory which perPrio
and exasperates even the friendly listener, and wilic,o.
singularly fitted to make the better reason appear the u".
If he has ever deviated into vivacity, it has been at the
hoe ISiatastreisert
expense of conventional proprieties whiel a wiser man ic?ilia
have studiously respected. The most lively passage Of ,
public career that we recollect was his farcons controve.7,J
with Mr Laing, when he pulled to pieces wit h tine !li'
frankness the facts and figures of the Indian Yinsa,c,e *Li3ti
nister, and rudely discredited the policy of a.n ,w'a ; ir,
meritorious colleague, 'alio, whether mistaken c't 11,°,', to
the particular questions at issue,
courteous treatment. Of his temper and deportvaeo° tAllebo
is, unfortunately, nothing to be said but what it vinul'uo
more agreeable to leave unsaid. Sir Charles woadan to
never enjoyed tho reputation of being a pleasant et or
work with, or under. Art has done nothing to cart%re ;
conceal the acerbity of a harsh and ill• conditioned nature;
conceal
candid to deny him the
and charity hers. if has no resource but to assume °II" 0
is wholly unconscious of peculiarities'r wilic4
are
is of mann-
Id be u>3'
offensivewas at least evtitieo
them
to others. On the whole, though it Wail which
are valuable in a public servant, he can
possession of some qualities takeat
only beleadeop
at the best, as a type of laborious, not to sal
..6 tbaa
mediocrity ; and the country would learn with 101.aouso
complacency that he had made his last speech in
sinister'the Ho
of Commons and served his last term as a Cabinet a
We have had a very long spell of Charles Wood, and
heaviest of heavy Whigs is cure to be generally popular i 9
of Lords -
always provided that promotion to the Haus In fact,
understood to mean retiremoat from official life.:seco...
with perhaps the one exception of the prese lin
6 the categorf
Upper House) whose final withdrawal from
acceptable'
ily accep
tary, there is no living public man (not 16lready in the
of pcesible PEl:listen+ Would be more universa