The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-29 00:00:00

Accouchement of the Queen of Portugal.

Her Majesty the Queen of Portugal gave birth
to a prince yesterday at 1.35 p.m. By the last tele-
gram received her Majesty and infant were pro-
gressing favourably.
The event was announced by a salute of 101 guns
from the castle.

The news of the happy event was transmitted to
the Queen and the royal family at Balmoral soon
after the intelligence reached London from Lisbon.

Towards :the latter end of October her Majesty
will return from Scotland and remain at Windsor Castle a
short time, and then proceed to Osborne. the Queen will
return to Windsor Castle previous to the 13th of December,
where it is expected her Majesty will remain to spend the
Christmas, at which time the festivities of the season will
be resumed.—Cour.l Journal.

His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon, with a
numerous suite, has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel.
The Duke of Somerset arrived at his official reei-
donee at the Admiralty yesterday evening, from Maiden
Bradley, Wilts.

The Duke of Leinster has left town for Worksop
Manor, Notts, on a visit to Lord and Lady Foley.

The Marquis of Bristol and the Ladies Hervey
have arrived at Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Edmunds,
from a tour in Germany.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have left
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, on a visit to the Earl
and Counters of Chesterfield, at Gedling Lodge, Notts.

The Countess (Dowager) of Tankerville has
arrived in town from a tour of visits in Scotland.

The Countess (Dowager) of Westmoreland and
Lady Rose Fane have arrived in town from Scotland.

The Earl of Chesterfield left town yesterday
afternoon for Newmarket.

The Earl Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford,
who are at present at Ashbridge Park, Herts, are not es-
peeted to leave for Madeira until on or about the 7th of
November.

Lord and Lady Wenloek have returned to
Escrick Park, Yorkshire, from visiting the Duke and
Duchess of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle, Northum-
berland,

Lord and Lady Raglan have arrived in town from
the Earl Beauchamp's seat in 'Worcestershire, for the
season.

Baroness de Clifford has arrived at Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from the Continent.

Colonel Sowerby has arrived at Thomas's Hotel;
Berkeley-square, from Putteridge, Bury, Beds.

CARDINAL WISEMAN.—We regret to state that
Cardinal Wiseman has been unable to leave his bed since
Wednesday last, As soon as he can be moved it will be
necessary for him to leave town for a change of air.

ALEX, DUMAS has another novel in hand, which
will shortly appear in the Presse. The subject is borrowed
from the bloodiest periods of Neapolitan history. Yet it
will be called by the name of a saint—" La San Felice."
THE BRITISH ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
will hold their 20th annual meeting at Leeds, during the
week from the 12th to the 19th of October. Lord Houghton

(Monckton Milnes) is the President.
A LITERARY THIEF has carried off from the
Ambrosian Library at Milan the whole of the autograph
correspondence of the Mecici with the Dukes of Milan,
from 1496 to 1510. This treasure was stolen from the study
of Dr. Gatti, the conservator.
" VON BOCKI7M•DOLFFS's FIAT" f.s the title ap-
plied to the newest-shaped cylinders now to be seen in the
shop windows of the Berlin hatters.
ENGLISH AUTHORSHIP IN GERMANY.—Amongst
other translations from English into German which are to be
in readiness for the approaching Leipzig Fair, are Charles
Lever's " Davenport Dunn," Miss Yonge's " Hopes and
Fears, or Scenes from the Life of an Old Maid," and three
volumes of Mr. Spurgeon's Sermons.
MORE LITERARY PIRACY.—The Baron Tauchnit z
has just added to his Collection of British Authors
" Eleanor's Victory," by Miss Braddon, two vols.

DR. ALEXANDER HENDERSON, author of the

" History of Ancient and Modern Wines," published in
quarto in 1824, and of several other works, died at Caskie-
ben, Aberdeenshire, on Wednesday last, aged 83.
ALDGATE ex-Sheriff Lusk will, it

is understood, become a candidate for the vacant
aldermanic gown of this ward, in the room of the late
Alderman Humphery. Mr. Lusk has been a member of
the Court of Common Council for a considerable period and
a resident in the ward for many years—there is, therefore,
every prospect of his attainment of the honourable and nuW
much coveted appointment.
MR. MASON.—The announcement which has
appeared in some of our contemporaries of the
arrival in Paris of Mr. Mason, the diplomatic re-
presentative of the Southern States, is premature.
Mr. Mason is still in London, and, according to present
arrangements, cannot leave for France before Thurs..
day next. In all probability arrangements will per-
mit him to leave on that day; but, till then, his friends will
continue to communicate with him in Upper Seymour-
street.

THE ITALIAN ARMY is at present distributed as

follows :-9 battalions at Geneva, 6 at Turin, 9 at Aless
an-
dria, 12 in Tuscany, and 120 distributed in the valley of rile
Po from Ancona to Milan, supported by 60 squadrons cif
cavalry, and 250 pieces of artillery; at Naples, 18 batta-
lions of the lines, 2of Marines, and 6 of Bereaglieri, with-
-32 squadrons of cavalry; in all, 82 battalions of infantry,
in addition to 6 regiments of Carabineers, and detachments
of the Gard Modili. There are also 22 battalions in Sicily.

SHAKSPERE'S FOREST OF ARDEN.—The English,
above all other people, are addicted to annual flit-
tinge; but we are almost the only people, says the Athe-
mown, affiliated to the tribe of Gad, who aro given to visit
repeatedly well-known localities abroad, instead of explor-
ing the historical shrines, the woodland scenery, and thee
natural beauties which abound at home. London itself,
within a morning's ride by train, is girdled by scenes of
delight and storied mansions, the proprietors of which
generously throw them open to the public, who know,
nothing of them. There are people who could thread the
Black Forest, and yet are ignorant of the whereabouts of
the Forest of Arden. Thanks to Mr. Hannett, that plea-
sant place is now laid open to them—in his recently
published " Topographical and Historical Account of the
District between and around Henley in Arden, and tramp-
tan, in the County of Warwick." Accompanying himp
they may exclaim, with some sense of rejoicing, " Here we
are in Arden!" though no one will have reason to add,--
"The more fool II When I was at home I was io a.
better place." We know no class of holiday makers to,
whom this exquisite district does not offer attractions. As
up at Bettws y Coed, where the various visitants are
divided into the " Turpentines," the "Paper Stainers," the
" Water Whippers," and the " Wanderers," so in Ardent
the painters in oil colours may find the effects they most
long for ; and the water colour artist, ladies as well as gen-
tlemen. may pitch their tents, and find picture wealth be-
fore them ; and anglers need never throw fly in vain, nor
the tourists have once occasion to say, after art eight days'
exploration, from Henley to Elmdon, that " all js barren.'
As for the young ladies, to whom Bettws y Coed is dear for
various good causes, we can tell them that there are green.
lanes and wooded dells, and convenient brook shies in
Arden, where honest love may be as fairly dealt in as up at
the old Welsh station whose name signifies "the Ch.pel in
the Wood." The Forest of Arden is close to some of oat
manufacturing districts, but it has preserved its old rustic.
features. The forest is not there, any more than you could
now find one in the Forest of Soignies ; but there are noble
mansions, quaint and stout old moated houses, dense alai
shady woods, abundance of rich hedgerow timber, every*
where save in the mid portion of this Warwickshire dis-
trict ; spreading prospects, SMeeping undulations, beautiful
valleys, mossy lanes, secluded by-ways, purling brooks,
winding streams, amid a hearty and healthy folk to bid the
traveller welcome. And there is good fare in Arden, too ;
albeit Warwickshire ale is not known by ill; old significant
names of "Mad Dog," " Angel's Food,r "Dragon's Milk,"
or " Merry .go-down." And there are fine old traditions to
talk of over your Warwickshire cups.
THE MYSTERIOUS MAIL-BAG ROBBERIC AT
HULL—On Saturday morning the missing cheques
were received at the Beverley branch of the Yorkshire Dink-
ing Company (their destination when posted in the letter
at South Cave). The envelope in which they have been
posted bears the Hull post mark, and it therefore appears
probable that the person (Hrs. Cooke) now in cfmtody
posted them at Hull prior to her attempt to get the £2B 4s.
cheque cashed at the Hull branch of the above company.
We are not aware that any one else has yet been taken into
custody on the charge of stealing' the mail bag, but investi-
gations are being made by the Post-office and police autho-
rities which will probably lead to the apprehension of
another party. It is said that the, woman accounts for her
possession of the cheques by stating that she came from
Hessel to Hull on Thursday evening., and thac some one
in the same train gave her them,--Leeds Mercury,