The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-23 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales,

The Prince and Princess of Wales left Marl"
borough House yesterday for Frogrnore, Their
royal highnesses arrived at Windsor at 6.50, having
travelled in a saloon carriage attached to the quick
ordinary which left Paddington Station at 6.15'
Three of her Majesty's close carriages were in
waiting to convey their royal highnesses and suite
to Frogmore, where it is expected they will sojourn
for ten days or a fortnight.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge i 5
expected to pass a few days with the Duke end
Duchess of Richmond next week during the re°6
meeting at Goodwood.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Caw'
bridge and Princess Mary have left St. James '°
Palace for Cambridge Cottage, Kew, for the season'
His Excellency Prince de la Tour d'Auverge°
the French Ambassador, will leave Albert-gete,
House the week after next for Paris, on leave 01
absence for a few months.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will leale
town the week after next for their estates in Salt.
I land.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda have
left town for the season, and will take a cruise in
the noble marquis's yacht till they take up their
residence at Moore Abbey.
The Earl of Wilton left town yesterday afternoon.
for Cowes, Isle of Wight. The noble earl's yacht coos
to Southampton to-day, in order to receive the countess and
a select party of friends. left
The Earl and Countess of Scarborough have
the St George's Hotel.
We have to announce the death of the Doviager
Countess Amherst on Wednesday last at Bournemouth,
in
the 73d year of her ago. Her ladyship was the eldest
daughter of John Frederick, third Duke of Dorset, 011`;
married, first August 5, 1811, Other Archer, 6.h Fol°
Plymouth ; and 2dly, June 25, 1839, William Pitt, fire
Earl Amherst. Her ladyship had no issue by either Or'
riage. 4
the

Viscountess Palmerston will have a reception,
tast this season, to-night at Cambridgo House.

THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

The Independance Beige of the 20th says--
" Letters from Berlin inform us that the pea°
negotiations will open to-day, July 20, in Vierl93,,
It is stated that they will be conducted by the tWit-
Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Herr von Bierol.9.
and Count Rechberg. It is probable that Pb
mark will be represented by two statesmen 101
belong to the present cabinet, M. de Moltke an
M. de Quaade, ministers without portfolios. France!
which aided Denmark to place herself in comenll3l
cation with the German powers, and assisted 1n
.
sketching out the first negotiations, now holds OM.
pletely aloof. The choice of the city where tb;
negotiations are to take place sufficiently indicated
this ; in default of this proof one would be fen°
in the susceptibility with which Germany repels tl3O
idea of all interference in a question which she e9-„0
siders exclusively her own affair, whether by Eur.
or by a great power. Denmark herself, raoreo/e13..1.
can only gain by throwing herself upon the gene
rosity which her weakness imposes upon her 9d.
versaries, and the control which their diverge°•
interests will exercise over their conduct t°
wards her. We do not mean to say, bolr
ever, that France remains completely jed“
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;
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ferent, although she does not act. The plan of
eventual absorption of Denmark by the Confede:
ration and that of a material aggrandisement
of
Prussia forbid her to do so. Independently of tie
e
reservations upon this point already made by 01
i.,0
Chancellery of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, mention
made of a fresh circular of that minister respecting
the negotiations now open, and in which, occupYle.',.
himself specially with the future government of te:f
duchies, he indicates, it is said, the consultation of
the wishss of the populations as the sole tneaDsthe
settling the rival claims to the sovereignty el al
new state. This view is also that of the 'lberia.
papers of Germany, especially of those which
pear in the duchies. Organs of the sentiments r 9
their fellow-citizens, they show them to us as vein
weary of the state of prolisonal administratiolladi
which the conquering powers hold them, and re ens
to rise against every attempt to impose upon .bait
any other sovereign than the candidate of 01
choice, Prince Frederick of Augustenburg."

The Paris Temps says :
In London everyone is looking towards V'e "10
Will the diplomatists be more successful °ll,-6
banks of the Danube than upon those of the Til9/133-ist
In the short space of time from the 20th to the:" d
July will they succeed in discovering a loslsot.
negotiations ? Nothing indicates this at Presies,
The great German powers claim the entire d0c14.130
while the Copenhagen Cabinet still clings to the
chimerical project of a personal union. It is Pod
bable, however, that an understanding will be err' os
at at last, and that the allies, in exchange for
the
Duchy of Lauenburg, will cede to Denmark, 00
northern part of Sleswig, which extenes 't
Apenrade to the North Sea. It remains t° be
whether the; populations interested and Gerl-11
public opinion will ratify this compromise. s /04
According to a ministerial paper (the Beet
to
Gazette) Prussia has determined Lot to eonseOle,
the entrance of Sleswig into the German Corita
ration. The new state, it is said, is to be Pl 4—
under a sort of suzerainty of Prussia.

WILBERFORCE'S Lug AND CHARACTER
A ti
MISED by a Saturday .Reviewer.—The lea icvo
events of Mr. Wilberforce's life are sufficiently well 101°°
©do:
He was the son of a rich merchant at Hull. 1-10 w°4l As
cated at Cambridge. When he left college, be becani e;io
of the most brilliant members of London society, a 5.'.. 00
particular was extremely intimate with Mr. Pitt. li,e, ''T
a
born in 1759. He sat in Farliament in 1780 for 011",:if1114f
in 1784 for the county of York, which ho re res late'', °
no less than 28 years. In 18:2 he became member et,,.13:1
rotten borough of Bramber, and in 1825 he retired{):t°lo
Parliament. Ho died in 1833. The abolition, first -ti
slave trade, and afterwards of slavery, in hich he t'flle
leading but by no means the most laboriousw part, W6r bell't
fnreEat achievements of his life. The position which b° ee
English society, and the extraordinary love and east'
once with which he was regarded, were very reuls,,ear
It
is hardly an exaggeration to say that he mad® f`ii ate
approach to the character of a Protestant Saint, oils; ;0,0
fact that he did so is worth attention, inasmuch as it Sel i,,,V
clearly what the sort of qualities are which strike Vie' OA
men at large as unusually and abnormally virtuous' o,od
had, in the first place, a marvellous charm of nlanllctvl' ell
great abilities of a social kind. He appears to In° 0(0
one of the most pleasing speakers, and also one of al cod
charming and amiable talkers, that , ever lived. 'l,) 091
anedote about him, end all his letters, bear upon theld o'l/
stamp of cheerful quiet affection, mixed with Won °r°
ale
gaiety and sprightliness of mind. These quali,itets ' t),
thrown into bolder relief than would otherwise we ~,glTict-
hem by the faint touch of something like asceticism 1. 0, 0
coloured his religion and reacted upon his conduct. ,116b.;t
a perfectly sincere and honest man, and the chid 'IPA -troo
which attaches to his life in the present day is detive%s- to
the fact that his character would seem, b its otlece,'l,l
mark the point which was reached half ay century "9,00
public feeling. Mr Wilberforce was the sort of 1n°13,1: 001
the grandfathers of the present generation cordie"igoclo'
affectionately recognised as the model of a Christian -
gentleman, " A Do's
,AT NATIONAL INSTITUTION, "a 0
TA 11
M
i ithAr.y," is, we learn, about to bo constitute, ite4
a new footing, as a joint-stock undertaking on tbf;,,lti.g3 I°'
liability principle—Mr Mudie remaining'the arse"'",.:tiv*
prietor and managing director, and three friends of er'
iug already taken half of the remaining shares. i 01°
ture had been made to Mr Mudie for the purchase o or of
library for the purpose of converting it into the pr'Per
i' ad'
a commercial company of the ordinary kind; 1-)A on
vice, Mr Mudie declined the offer, and de,termirred 1, —0 erA
ot of fwehrriict
ha
schoonaupl
da nbye oknn
ot
wh en aabso vpeermsoent hs oI ,
"takingt ,le tt eaib:;:re I) t
in ptomot.Lug the citcaliatiou of the beat liWotarQ."