The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-12 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales,

THE DEATH OF THE CELEBRATED TRAVELLER
AND NATURALIST JUN WITHIN, well known by his
curious and important labours in the field of botany and
ethnography, is announced. He started in life as a sur-
geon in the Frussian army. Condemned, in consequence
of a duel, to be imprisoned for 20 years, he escaped after a
few months, and became, first, a sanitary officer in the
French army in Algiers. He then entered, in the same
capacity, the Dutch service in Sonde, where he had col-
lected a vast quantity of materials for scientific works. He
died at the age of 52 years.
A letter from Archangel of the 22d June says :
" Trade is very active here, and the wind having
been favourable, a large number of vessels have arrived
A forest of masts cover the whole port. The first ship that
reached us was a Danish schooner from Liverpool in 30
days. More than 100 foreign ships hay. sliieo entered the
port. From the North D wine, above 800 small vessels have
come in, among the number being five steamers, of which
two belong to the monastery of Solovetzky ; they convey a
large number of pilgrims to visit the old convent, which has
played so great a part in the war."
The Moniteur publishes an Imperial decree pre-
scribing the publication of the arrangement signed
on the 24th ult. between France and Italy, for regulating
the quarantine measures in the French and Italian ports in
the Mediterranean. Another decree creates for holders of
3 per cent. rente nominative titles, provided with coupons
of interest payable to bearer. Those titles will be exchanged
for insoriptions to bearer when applied for.
The Second Chamber of the Grand Duchy of
Hesse-Darmstadt, in its last sitting, discussed the question
of the reconstitution of the Zollverein on the basis of the
Franco-Prussian Treaty of Commerce, when 35 votes to 5
were given in favour of the adhesion to the treaty and of
the maintenance of the Zollverein. The following motion
was afterwards brought forward—" There is reason to re-
gret the hesitation of the Government and the injur
why which
has been already caused by it to the country," which
was
voted by 30 to 10.
TRADE OF CARDIFF.—During the month of June
111,824 tons of coal, 15,418 tons of iron, 1,733 tons
of patent fuel, and 1,786 tons of coke were exported, against
106,996 tons of coal and 15,000 tons of iron in the previous
month, being an increase of nearly 5,000 tons of coal and
41b tons of iron. The slight increase is attributed princi-
pally to the reopening of the West Bute Dock for traffic.
The total number of ships engaged in the foreign trade was
348, being an increase of 65 on the previous month. The
West India Islands, as usual, took the largest quantity of
coal, no lees than 21,013 tons having been cleared for the
West India ports. The East Indies and Chins took 7,521
tons, Italy 13,163 tons, Spain 16,319 tons, France 120rth,849
tons, the English colonies 8,471 tons, Egypt and N
Africa 6,945 tons, South America 5,762 tons, and North
America 2,298 tons. A large coasting trade was also done
and the imports art gradually in-
during the month,
creasing.
VILLAGE MAY MEETINGS,—There is a crowd
outside and in the house. The band is thomping
its big drum, and rending the air with its screams of agony
in polka measure. The flags of the order are unfueled.
The treasurers carry their wands, and sear their decora-
tions. The farm labourer who is a member of this club,
appears with his brother members in a blue and white cot-
ton band over one shoulder, tie:l in a bunch of red ribbon
under the other ; and the procession starts for church. In
church, the regalia, as the trumpery is designated, is placed
in a conspicuous position; it was once put upon the com-
munion-table. Morning Prayer is read by the curate, fol-
lowed by a sermon from the rector, who always receives,
and generally accepts the invitation to dinner. Far be it
from our purpose to write one word tending to lessen good
influence among the rural poor. The sermon will be on the
duty of bearing one another's burdens, of the strong help-
ing the weak, or charity and brotherly kindness will have
been enforced, and so far well ; but we must not forget that
the clergyman's assistance upon such occasions is, in the
eyes of the members of the club, a visible sigh that
L'eeir
scheme has the approval of the Church.--Dickens' 6,,211
the Year Round."
LONDON PAST AND PRESENT.---A man need not
be grey headed to remember London in the days of
hackney-coaches, oil lamps, and Charlies. How slow and
gloomy old London seems to the imagination, in contrast
with the activity, order, and gassy effulgence of
.our time.
Then you might see about once in every five minutes an
old-fashioned, stuffeeand creaky hackney-coach pitched high
aloft, dangerously weak in the springs, and jolting over the
stones of Cheaeside, with a heavy and swaying motion very
perilous even to look at; the said coach driven by a dilapi-
dated Jarvis, wearing a smashed hat and a drab great coat
with innumerable capes, and drawn by two shambling,
crook-kneed, broken-winded, spavined horses, high in the
bone and low in the flanks, and trotting stiftly, like
wooden automata badly put together. You might see
shops, too, with low, greenish looking glass windows, not
kept too clean, exhibiting few goods for show, and having
no prices ticketed; pavements sloppy with mud in winter
and dusty in summer ; and in the evening an artificial
illumination, maintained with little, round bottomed lamps,
holding a vase for oil, and giving a sickly, yellow light, the
smoky and flickering glimmer of which once suggested
that the Russians who escorted the Cair to this country had
been indulging in a surreptitious banquet from the contents
of the vase. Should you be lying awake at night, you might
•
hear a cry of " Stop thief 1 " or "Murder I" issuing from
the dark corner opposite your house, followed by a quick
pair of heels down the street, and the clatter of a rattle ; or
if quiet reigned, and you were wondering what time it
might be, your ears were gratified with the information from
ancient Charlie,
who, as he stumped past your door, chimed
{,half-past 12 o'clock 1 "—City Press'
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The Prince and Princess of Wales returned to
Marlborough House yesterday morning, from a
visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by
the Marchioness of Carmarthen, Earl Spencer,
Lieut.-General Knollys, and Captain Grey, went to
the Clothworkers' Hall in the City, where his Royal
Highness was enrolled a freeman of the company.
Theirßoyal Highnesses afterwards took luncheon
with the Master and Wardens of the company.
The Prince of Wales rode to Wimbledon in the
afternoon.

The Prince and Princess of Wales went to the
Italia Opera, Covent-garden, in the evening.

Departure of her Majesty for Osborne.
Yesterday afternoon, shortly before four o'clock,
her Maj esty,accompanied by theirßoyal Highnesses
Princess Helena, Louise, Alice of Hesse, and Bea-
trice, and Princes Louis of Hesse and Leopold, and
attended by Colonel Sir T. M. Biddulph, Colonel
the Hon. A. E. Hardinge, C. 8., Lieut., General the
Hon, C. Grey, Major-General F. H. G. Seymour,
the Countess of Caledon, &c., left Windsor Castle
for the Windsor station of the Great Western'
Railway, en route for Osborne.
Her Majesty and the various members of the
Royal family drove from the Castle to the terminus
in carriages drawn by white ponies. The Royal
party on entering the station-yard drew np, and her
Majesty, with the Princes and Princesses, were re*
ceived by the official's of the Great Western Rail-
way, Mr. Tyrrell, the general superintendent ; Mr.
Kelley, the divisional superintendent, and M.essrs.
Rawlinson and Mathews, and conducted to the
state saloons attached to a train of five other cat.'
riages furnished for the occasion by the London and
South-Western Railway Company.
A large concourse of ladies and spectators had
gathered together on the station platform, and to
these, as her Majesty was stepping into the saloon.
the Queen very graciously turned, bowed, and
smiled in acknowledgment of their loyal greetings.
Her Majesty was in mourning, and looked rather
pale.
Precisely at four o'clock the special started frorl
the station (the lowering of the standard on the
round tower announcing the fact of the Queen's
departure) on its way, under the charge of Messrs.
Tagnell and Kelley, to Basingstoke junction, which
was reached at 4.55 p.m. via Slough and Reading'
At Basingstoke the care of the Royal train vise
transferred to Mr. Godson, the traffic soperiater
dent of the South-Western Railway, who scare'
panied the special to the Royal Clarence
Victualiing.yard, Gosport, via Winchester and
Bishopstoke.
The Royal train arrived at Gosport about tel
minutes past six o'clock, when the Queen and Royal
family embarked on board the Fairy, and at once
proceeded to Osborne, which would be reached
t about seven o'clock.

EXPECTED VISIT OF VIE PILINCF. OF WALES T°
THE HIGHLANDS.—The Prince of Wales, it is understood,
will come north, as he did last year, for the shooting, and
will again occupy Abergeldie Castle. While in Scotlsad
his Royal Highness, it is confidently expected, will vjeit
the Duke of Sutherland at Dunrobin Castle. The promis°
was given last year, and there is every reason to iielieve it
will be fulfilled.—lnverness Courier.
PRINCE ALFRED.—The Aurora, which is to con:
vey his Royal Highness Prince Alfred to Norway, arrived
in the Firth of Forth on Sunday. Instead of proceeding t°
Leith Roads, as was anticipated, she made for Burntislan''
Roads, and cast anchor a little off the pier, almost alongsid°
the French corvette Expeditivo, still lying there. She Wu'
remain at Burntisland till she is joined by his Royal WO'
ness Prince Alfred.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of CO:
bridge and Princess Mary honoured the Earl LIP'
Countess of Malmesbury by their company at dinner 5.13513;
terday evening, at their residence in Stratford-place. 1
Duchess and Princess, attended by Lady Geraldine Sorrier
set and Capt. Ellis, arrived at eight o'clock. There wet°
present to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duke de Riebe°i
lieu, the Marquis of Blandford, the Earl and Countess
Hardwicke, and Lady Agneta Yorke, the Earl of Anneslsif
Lord Stanley, M.P., Lord Courtenay, the Dowager VI
Truro, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Emily
and Mr W. Lytton.
The Empress of Austria has left Kissinger t°
return to Vienna.
The Botschafter of Vienna announces that 1;-irl
William of Prussia will in a few days arrive in that cap
it''
accompanied by Count de Bismarlirand General de ft
teuffel. His Majesty will remain for five or six days

Schconbrunn,
The Grand Ducal Court of Baden left on the
7th, to pass some time at Minau, on the Lako of 01.
stance.
His Excellency the Marquis de la Puente tig
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the Marchioness do la Puente and family have arrive
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley•square, from Madrid.
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The Earl and Countess of Belmore have -
Brown's Hotel.
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The Earl of Bantry has left Thomas's +.°-
tel
Berkeley-square, for Bantry Castle, Ireland. left
Colonel and Lady Henrietta Ogilvy have

Grafton. street for a tour in Switzerland. lot
Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner,
evening, the Duchess of Montrose, the Marquis and
chioness of Cadore, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbutit ,4
count Torrington, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., ifiot
Dunkellin, M.P., Mr Bernal Osborne, Mr Gregory) 4,
Alfred Seymour, Mrs Henry Baring, Mr H, Temple, of
H. W. and Mrs Dudley Carleton, Mr G. Vivian, Par A,4
Lady Dorothy NcTill, Mr calcratt, Mr George Russell,
Mr Delane. Aitir
Sir George and Lady Musgrave, and Miss -
grave have left Brown's Hotel for Eden Hall.
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Sir W. Scott, Lady Scott, and the Misses Pe-os
have left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, for Anell
edburgh.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL GARDENS.—The
of Buccleuch's conversazione to the fellows of the ittg,
Horticultural Society will take place to-morrow eveiv of
when their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prince'l°io
Wales will be present. The conservatory and arcade!' T.
, be iiluminated.

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AFRICAN EXPLORATION.—News has at le"'e r
been received from Khartum of that enterprising 0111°:01
Mr Samuel Baker. It will be recollected by all Nvb° 01
interested in Nile discovery, that after the departnfe
Captains Speke and Grant, Mr Baker started for the 01130
in search of the reported lake, Luta Nzige. His part/o'
now been mot with returning to Gondckoro, a few V-01
march from that place, and as one of the swiftest vesseloof
the river, placed at his disposal by tho generosity ci..01
Petherick, was waiting his arrival at Goudokoro, we_.,o.
hope soon to hear of his descending the Nile and cosy
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nicating the results of his journey.
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AN ENGINE-DRIVER KILLED.—On Sandal' of
one of the trains was leaving the Hammersmith statie°
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the Hammersmith extension line, for Shepherd's BON.
fatal accident occurred to the engine-driver of the tAfa'lol
named Nicholas Clarke. He was leaning over the Si ",1%0
his engine, when his head struck a post on the line.
blow knocked him from the engine close to a wail that the
runs beside tho railway. Ho fell between the wheels ol
engine and train, and was cut to pieces. Clarke leaTes

wife and two children.
HEAVY COMPENSATION CASE.—THAMES
BA.NKMENT.—Yesterday the case of " Gwynn° a' floe
Metropolitan Loard of Works" was concluded after 000
days' proceedings. It was a compensation claim of ts",'es'
on account of the embankment at the bottom of P6-ioes
street, Strand. Mr. Gwynne, an engineer, had Prel:l3,
near the Tonple-pier. After the case for the claimant
concluded the Assessor awarded £ll,OOO compcnotiQteli
FORLSTERS' FETE, LEICESTER.—There has
a disgraceful riot, Mr. Coxwell, the aeronaut, was bru'veti
mobbed, and Lis balloon burrAt, Several persons 115°
injured,