The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-12 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 10.
The Queen walked and drove iu the grounds of
the Castle this morning, accompanied by her Boyd
Highness Princess Helena.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, attended
by the lion. Emily Cathcart, took a carriage drive.
DEc, 11.
The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived tit the
Castle yesterday.
The Queen, their Royal Highnesses PrieGesAs
Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, tie"
Prince Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentlemen to
Waiting, attended Divine service this morning ie
the private chapel.
The Rev. W. R. Jolley read the prayers, and 1?
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury preached tue
sermon.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
returned to Gloucester House, Park-lane, on Friday evert
ing from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath abt
Longleat, Wilts. A distinguished party was invited to Zee
the
H royal duke.
er Royal Highness the Princess Mary of CEO'
bridge, is expected to return to Cambridge Cottage) l'e/rf

early in the ensuing month from Germany. Ileft
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have
Brighton for Calais, on their way to Nice, where the'.rc:
pose to spend a few weeks before returning to dilill'1"
Castle.
The Dec de Richelieu has arrived at the St'
George's Hotel.
'Cho Earl and Countess Craven have been enter;
taming a succession of visitors at Coombe Abbey, a
Coventry.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke's party
assemble at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, to-morrow....
Lord and Lady Etcho are expected to arrive 111
town on Thur6,l6l from visiting Sir Edward iierriseil:
Bart., M.P., and Lady Caroline lierrison, at Broome
Lady de Danstanville has returned to town from
visiting the Earl and Countess Fortescue at, Castle /1`
Devonshire, and from a tour in Cornwall.
Lady Churchill has left the St. George's lintel;
Lady Francis and Miss Gordon have returned t
5, Wilton-crescent, from a tour of visits in Ireland. ~fr
Sir Win. Alexander, Sir Edwin Landseer,
and Mrs T. G. Baring, and Mr and Mrs A. Buckle'', hag
been among the visitors to Mr T. Baring, M.P., at Noru'°
Court, Hants, during the past week.
Tnu VACANT GARTER.—The Garter vacant bi
the death of the Duke of Newcastle has been contorted°.
her Majesty on Earl Spencer.

ETON COLLEGE.—The autumn half, which CO
menced on the 21st of September, terminates on Friday
the 16th inst., on which day the whole of the scholars "
take their departure. There are at present about 810 bolBh%
the college roll, some 40 of whom will leave the school
Christmas. The ensuing vacation will last about five Wee;stli.
and terminates on Wednesday, the 18th of January, sv;
the return of the lower boys. On the following Thars":
and Friday the fifth and sixth forms return to the Collavt
when the whole school will have re-assembled,
AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE AT Lllllo4t
POOL THIS WEEK.—There are three steamers due,4
Liverpool this week with the American and Canaui.o
mails—viz., the Etna and Nova Scotian, the former •
dates from New York to the 3d, and the latter with curr'a
sponding dates from Portland. The Etna may be e%Pec,ti ce
to reach Queenstown, and the Nova Scotian Greenano
in the course of Wednesday next. On Saturday pei,;fts
Cunard steamer Asia, from Boston on the 7th and tra--,i
early on the morning of the 9th, will, no doubt arrive
Crookhaven or Queenstown.
THE WRECK OF THE DALHOUSIE.—TheI eff°rft:
of Watson, the diver engaged by the owners, the
continued on Thursday, but, owing to the state of
weather, with vary little success. He was to have retarl'er
next day, but the underwriters have now taken the master
of the hands of the owners, and have engaged Liie
Hicks, of Falmouth, and his crew in order to search `7l.
ship, send up the cargo, and if possible raise the /i °lie
There are still 11 of the supposed passengers and si% °-
f
crew to be accounted for, 17 bodies having already
beoe
found. Sumo apprehension is entertained that another Dfi—a
uas still to be added to the fatal list, a lady being iD(11;f:t
for who is thought to have gone on board the veaBe4
Newcastle.
THE LEADER OF THE d
VERMONT RAin.--"Wliel
the war broke out, Lieut. Young was a tueological k3tui-:(1111
iu Kentucky, and engaged to be married to a young 1.1,0
of very respectable parents. During some of the 10r410
operations there the residence of his intended's father Wee
operations
fired and entirely consumed. The young lady receive"
shock from which she never recovered. She died 0000L'fnefi
—how and in what manner we know not. Young t/llci,
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aside hi. th..1.1s
i..lboobs and donned the Confederates
form, expecting and willing to loan Icier life in O.° 8°1;
Hence his appearance in St. Albans to murder, Walt "

plunder.--American Paper.
TILE LUDGATE STATION of the London, Chat
and Dover Railway will soon (says the Athena° is)
be open to the public. That portion of the line Wilitcv
extends from the so-called Blackfriars Station, °Tihi
c
Surrey side of the Thames, comprises the bridge ",,,-is
now forms one of the handsomest works of its class in To
country. From Earl-street to West-street, at the illilat-the
with the Underground 11,,tilway in FarringdoU-N4'
lino is about halt a mile in length, on this length ec°ll-
1,0
the Ludgate-hill Viaduct, which carries the line acrell:ila
of the most crowded thoroughfares in the world, and °„10a
a point of view designed by IrsTren for St. Paul's, sybe-„ of
fine architectural composition was made with the EP`r,"ilo
the church of St. Martin, Ludgate, and the dew° °,u,' pis
Cathedral. it is a great pity that so valuable an
of what is rare in London should have been marred; to
surprising to find popular writers so ignorant of art
au
aver that tho arrangement of the spire and dote°

unfortunate one.
TILE LION'S DEN.—In his Thanksgiclll6'd
H°
the
sermon, on the 24th of November, the Rev. -, the
Ward Beecher rendered a high tribute of praise -
the
American Ministers at the Courts of St. Jarode 41,1„0ce
Tuileries. Mr Beecher went on to say :—" We are to
and likely to continue so with foreign nations. Netie,ri-;et
but beasts of prey. Humanity and justice are lac)" Joh
strong enough to control nations. They follow their 0e 08
interests whenever they can do it safely. Whether Vif?'
any better than European nations is yet to aPPe4,bese
nation that cannot defend itself, let loose amol
nations, is like a sheep strayed amongst wolvo, WW),- tie
ref and rage amongst themselves, not to defend, but shat
terraine which shall seix 3 it. There cannot be a doom- r,
we owe our immunity from attack to the salutary poe'
nations who are friendly to those who eau make war "j 004
rous. We have been four years in the lions' d°/11
has shut the lions' mouth. q,e 05:
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EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF GOVERNMENT '
—A very extensive system of fraud upon the Gov stagier
has just come to light. It appears that hlessre• 'itoch
and Frost, shipowners and coal merchants, of Wee'lcool to
have for a long time contracted for the snpplY (31'
the Royal Artillery Barracks, the Engineer dcPai:: est
the military hospitals, and other Cloverrauc°' 150
blishments. It having been suspected that 1, airs
quantity of Government coals were imProPer'ichor"
posed of during their conveyance from tll,ieetectice
to the garrison, police-constable Ling, a -A
to 1116
officer of the H division, took such measures as 10. 0011
discovery that coals forwarded from the wharf °Stela°,
for the barracks by a matt named Skipton, °e,,reetoiee„-
of Messrs tiunter, were taken and deposited co r" Ili
belonging to a coal dealer named Burley. Both 11leeiriti)10
were apprehended and placed at the bar before groptoil
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at the Woolwich Police-court, on Saturday, Wll°ll
pleaded guilty of stealing, and Burley of receivl- it Bite
tons of Government coal on the previous Thilrelf',.ootll,l
extraordinary that the tickets or cheques produce„rvisfde,
garrison officeaccounted for every ton of coal Tta,
from the wharf, although several tons were abstractaetea tha;
non-commissioned officers who were examined tee a)
they could only account for this discrepancy bets #l2°
srtp
tickets and the number of tons actually received cnipiociel
position that the carman watched an opportunitY °soca (.),
some tickets on the file during the temporal,' ar' vereoil'
the clerks in the office. It is believed that othebeou user
are concerned in the frauds, which must lulu. oaat
viously discovered bat for their complieflY^ don 01'41
said he hed no doabt the system had been carrle., fooe
long time. The magistrate ordered that the cce; Polio"
the premises of Burley should be detained by
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and remanded both prisoners.
held t"° ito
THE SHIRLEY MURDER.—Breen
with the murder of Mrs Culborue":
001 heShir
near Southampton, on Saturday evening 10'1' Dig"Wir,
at the South Hants Infirmary, watched day an s!all'ji' if
two policemen, He passed a very quiet dal'
0% ill, aver.,.
and and slept several hours. Inflammation haos, recoveroiti
this eau be subdued there. is every chance
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The remains of 1115 victim were conaignoJ t reorle-.eri,
Thursday in filo presence of a vast cencoureo ,
des beillg 01c' et
on the bodies of children who had died fromot T0r.,0
FornuleiintgiLipiottiEertsstituaroci.cAuT:ti)::l2l.3e:tspsvere Die:i
at night while sleeping in bud with their ru ~°1131_611,,:,
iluse cases occurred iu Shadwells and two iu
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and it was kilted by a medical gentleman 01% v.7111♦.,0$
her of infants perished from this calls° dental
(1063
months of the year. A vert of acciao2
returned in each case.