The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-08 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, JAN. 7.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Helena,
drove out yesterday.

Earl Granville arrived at Osborne.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended 13f
Major Elphinstone, has returned to Greenwich•
park. -
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The Queen held a Council to-day, which Nve6
attended by Earl Granville (Lord President), the
Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and the Right non.
C. P. Villiers. Mr. Helps, the Clerk of the Council)
attended.

At the Council Parliament was ordered to be
further prorogued from Wednesday, January 13,
to Thursday, February 4, when it is to assemble for
the despatch of business.

Earl Granville had an audience of her Majesty,

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

On the evening of Twelfth-day (Wednesday)
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales entertained, at Frogmore, a juvenile part'',
about 20 in number, among whom were the children
of General Grey, General Seymour, &c.
Yesterday morning his Royal Highness, attended
by his suite, went.skating on the ice in the canal or
ornamental water at Frogmora, and was pleased t 0
invite the officers of the Royal Horse Guards and
Grenadier Guards, now quartered at Windsor, to
the skating party, while the gay scene was greatly
enlivened by the splendid band of the latter regl"
ment, which executed several favourite musical
selections.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales svall
present during a portion of the day, attended by the
Countess of Macclesfield.

Their royal highne:ses afterwards entertained
their visitors at lunch at Frogmore, and in the after'
noon the skating was continued till a late hour.

PRINCE ALFRED.—His Royal Highness Prince
Alfred, accompanied by Major Cowell, left Osborne on
Monday afternoon, for London. The Prince left London
the night train of Monday, and arrived at Edinburgh 011,,
Tuesday morning. The Glasgow Herald understands that
his Royal Highness is to be the guest of Lord and lAcli
Belhaven, at Wishaw House, on Friday and Saturday (to..
day and to-morrow). A select party has been invited to
meet the Prince, and among those invited from Giese
are the Lord Provost and Mr. Coniston, the late Lord Pro'
vost.—Scotsman.

The Earl and Countess of Stamford and `par'
rington are entertaining a shooting party at Bate
gate Park, Leicestershire, including the Earl of Mount'
eharles, Lord Huntingfield, Lord Colville, Admiral the
Hon. H. Rous, General the Right Hon. Cecil Forrester'
M.P., Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, Captain the
Hon. Henry Wyndham, M.P., Sir Thomas Moncrig64
General Hall, Captain Bateson, Mr. C. F. Greville, 141..
Merry, M P., Rev. Alfred Payne, Mr. Batson, Mr. Tes
Beoeck, and Mr. Arthur Payne.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at.
tended by Colonel Clifton, is expected to attend at the
Horse Guards to-day. His royal highness has been Ti!tir
ing the Earl and Countess of Derby at Knowsley 116'f
near Prescot.

The Earl and Countess of Lincoln and childrell°
as we learn by the last letters, are staying at Nice. lbB
countess's health has greatly improved by her shcrt reo':'
dente there. The intended visit to Rome is deferred. a
The Countess of Ellesmere and family, Mr. one
Lady Georgiana Balfour, and Misses Balfour are eniet
the English families of rank sojourning at Nice for the
winter.
Lord Broughton, as we are informed, has nearly
recovered from his recent indisposition.
Lord and Lady Dufferin and the Countess of
Gifford have been staying at Clandeboye House, near )3e/
fast, since their return from Paris. The noble lord is er
petted to come to London for the meeting of Parliament'
The Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady got)
Wood and family are expected to arrive in Belgrave-squers
next week from Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire, for the seesoll'
The Right Mon. Sir George Grey and the Rigl
Hon. C. P. Villiers left town yesterday, by a special trai*
on the South-Western Railway, to attend the Queen''
Council at Osborne. At Gosport the Ministers embark 4
on board her Majesty's ship Fire Queen, Staff-Commander
F. W. Paul, R.N., and arrived at Osborne at a quarter to
one o'clock. After the Council the Ministers returned
town.
MARRIAGE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—Yesterr;
day morning an unusually large number of persons we
attracted to the ordinary service in Westminster Abbelo ils
the hope of seeing the wedding of the daughter its
his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin (so long honoured
Westminster as Dean Trench) and the Hon. Mrs. Tree
and the bridegroom Mr. Lee.

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS recently sold in Poi° 1'
Henry the Fourth to the Marshal de Bouillon, 128 fratlsti;
A Letter from Tasso, 125 francs—Sully to Louis de
Twelfth, 111 francs—Henry the Eighth to Madame do
Ferttl, 276 francs—James the Second to the Count
Lamm, announcing his departure from England, 51 tea
—J. J. Rousseau, 32 francs—Diderot to Garrick, 86 ft—

—Scott, 42 francs—Alfieri, 36 francs.
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So APPROPRIATE.—Of all the oddly-oL's;:ea
subjects for commemoration by stained glass that Weve%lo
heard of, one recently selected for the west window of
.0. 0
ford Church is the most striking. This window c°l3"l-00
Adam and Eve, Isaac and Rebekah, Ruth and 1309%0A
Marriage of the Virgin, and the Feast of Cana, 01'00
gravely stated to commemorate the Marriage of the ft-

of Wales.
THE CAVERN OF BRUNIQUEL contains not 0! d'
traces of man's industry, but of man himself, acc.4°r
ing to MM. Garrigon, Martin, and Trutat. This te
hollowed out of the jurassic limestone, and is siraiill"
those before-mentioned ; the floor of it has already ,,,"-($1
excavated to the depth of three metres; in the clayey b,O
especially, worked flints of all sizes and shapes at Pre,' fr
known have been found in great abundance. The fol,°oo
ing species of animals are represented in the Vv,
remains --- reindeer, antelope, Cervus elephas °toe
mois, B-s primigenius, Rhinoceros tichorhinus,
buck, goat, horse, wolf, dog, fox, a carttaid,
somewhat smaller than a fox, two gallinacia), a large ,;tiO
and two species of fishes. The reindeer is the charactery it
species of the age of the Bruniquel cavern, which pisee4oo
in the third pairoontological epoch of M. Lartet.
humerus of the large bird before mentioned bears ecllap".
tured upon it rude representations of several parts of el'v eb
This would suffice of itself to prove man's presence 10 of
cave; but there is still stronger evidence in this C‘o,
in the shape of portions of two human jaws, fob 4
we are assured, in the presence of ten witneo.47,,
two metres down in the clayey stratum closely on,
ciated with flint implements and bones of different rallie-
limits. Hero, then, we have Abbeville outdone, and Pis
haps the nucleus of another cause celebre ! The bloW Soa
brought the first half jaw to light bruised the condllem to
loosened several teeth, which it was found imposeihtO
recover ; one only (the first large molar) was left °oil
place. The first jaw, which belonged to an adult, i 5
lower one on the right side; the second one found °fro,"
mistakably that of an old man, and slightly differs I`-tio
the former one ; the second large molar is missing, an
alveole alveole has disappeared.
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SCULPTOR'S WORK !—The sculptor, havor,
signed a figure, first makes a sketch of it ill tool/
few inches only in height. When ho has satisfied
with the general attitude, a cast is taken of hie st bo
and from it a model in clay is prepared of the full B—ht of
designs for his statue, whether half the natural heig' 00
life-size, or colossal. The process of building the ‘141:00
it is called, upon the strong iron armature or 91(e 004
on which it stands on its pedestal, and the ben tuts
fixing this armature into the form of the limbs, Oast' Li/
work of vast labour of a purely manual sort, for I/ tjlo
performance all artists able to afford it erePl°lTlie,
skilled workmen to be obtained in Rowe' f tl7
rough clay, rudely assuming the shape !atoll
intended statue, then passes into the oc"ao' Wei
hands and undergoes his most elaborate v 0 °t °A,
Mien, by which it is reduced (generally after the
bd
several months) to the precise and perfectly-fieise doe
he desires should hereafter appear in marble. 11115, .0 cle;
the foronatore takes a cast of the whole, and the clay
ill
strayed. From this last plaster cast again in duo first
marble is hewn by three sstccessive workmen• decol°:A
gives it rough outline, the second brings it by rule 0° ail
pass to close resemblance with the cast, and tileppiello
finishes it to perfection. It is a question debated r 411
artists whether the work of this third marble Otte '0111„ir,
finishes the statue, ought not to be perfotnied by !Illy
for himself. Without urging the point, I shall ree..,,ei
mark that Thorwaldsen, Canova, Gibson, and "rev_Pr,e 07;
left all their statues, with one single exeeption, t°
no tOtt,
finished by men in their employment, and hey!, titioo
thought it necessary for them to add manual ex'e_
their perfect designs in clay, and to chisel their eviel;oo
than for an architect to lay his own bricks and
tiles.

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COMnI
-RT-LOVING ANIMALS.—A homee
way back to its stale, a cat has a strong attachweli.io
particular house, and a dog will track out for 01
master and follow Lau,