The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-30 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Days

LONDON, March 30.—Wind this day at noon—West;
fresh breeze and showery.
PORTSMOUTH, March 29.—Wind N.W.--Arrived—
lon, from Rio Janeiro for Cowes.
Cowas, March 29.—Wind E.—Arrived—Cuban, from
Mauritius.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, March 30—Isle of the South, from Sydney—
Pilicia, from Manilla.
Sailed, March 30—Lord J. Russell, steamer, for Dun-
kirk—Neptune, from Havre.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed—Pelican, from Manilla—Robert Burns, from
Colombo—Chevalier, from Demerara—Merry Monarch,
from Alexandra—Havannah, from Porto Rico—Universe,
from Smyrna—Persian, from Apolina—Fortuna, screw
steamer, from Palermo—Lucy, from Oporro—Havannah,
from Pernambuco—Shepherd, from St. Vincent—all for
London.
Passed, March 29—Helen, for Trinidad—Syria, for
Algoa Bay—both from London.
Passed, in tow—Murray, from Adelaide, for London.

MADAME TIISSATIVS.—Two most beautifully-
executed figures, representing King Henry IV. and his
Queen, Joan of Navarre, attired in the gorgeous costumes
of the period (1399), have been just added to Madame
Tussaud's Historical Gallery, in Baker-street. The model
of George Victor Townley, in the Chamber of Physiognomy,
continues to be a great attraction.

SWALLOWING THE EVIDENCE !—The late Mr.
Peter Burrows, an eminent Irish barrister, was on
one occasion, while defending a prisoner, oppressed with a
cough, which he sought to soften by the occasional use of
lozenges. The client whom he was defending was indicted
for murder, and it was deemed important in his defence to
produce the bullet with which it was alleged the deed was
done- This he was about to do, and held the bullet in one
hand and a lozenge in the other, when, in the ardour of
advocacy, he forget which was which, and, instead of the
lozenge, swallowed the bullet.
BARBARA'S HISTORY. By Amelia B. Edwards.
—Messrs. Hurst and Blackett have just issued a new edition
of this charming story. "It is not often," says the Times,
" that we light upon a new novel of so much merit and
interest as Barbara's History.' It is a work conspicuous
beyond the average for taste and literary culture, and feli.
citous in its delineation of some very delicate and refined
shades of character. It is a very graceful and charming
book, with a well-managed story, clearly cut characters,
and sentiments expressed with an exquisite elocution. The
dialogues especially sparkle with repartee. It is a book
which the world will like, and which those who commence
it will care to finish. This is high praise of a work of art,
and so we intend it

The Countess Sophia Jodzieska (says the Patric)
whose arrest has been mentioned by telegram, was
one of the ladies of Cracow, the most honoured for her
devotedness to the sufferings of her countrymen. After a
domiciliary search by the Austrian police unattended with
any result, she was placed in close confinement, and pre-
vented from taking any means for her defence or being
visited by her relatives. Notwithstanding this treatment
the Countess has more than one illustrious alliance with the
Court of Vienna. Her brother Count Ryszczewski,
married to the Countess Stadion, is attached as Chamber.
lain to the Archduke Francis-Joseph, uncle of the Emperor,
and a cousin-germain is married to the Prince do Lichten-
stein.

A dreadful muder has just been committed at
La Seyne, near Toulon. A farmer and his wife, on their
return from the town, where they had been to sell their
milk, found their daughter, a girl of seven years of age,
lying on the bed dead, and the body covered over with a
sheet. Death, which must have been instantaneous, was
caused by three blows on tho head with same heavy instru-
mexat. Itobbery was the cause o the act,

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 29.

His Royal Highness Prince Philip of Wurtemberg, at-
tended by Baron von Guttenberg, arrived at the Castle
yesterday on a visit to the Queen.
The royal dinner party included his Majesty the King of
the Belgians, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, her
Royal Highness Princess Helena, His Royal 'Highness
Prince Philip of Wurtemberg, the Lord and Lady Taunton,
Admiral Sir George and Lady Seymour, the Hon. and Very
Roy. the Piean of Windsor, General Count de Moerkerke
and Dr. Koepi (in attendance on the King of the Belgians),
Baron von Guttenberg (in attendance on Prince Philip of
Wurtemberg), Mr. Woodward, and the Ladies and Gentle-
men in Waiting on the Queen, and on their Royal High-
nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.

In consequence of the death of her Royal Highness the
Landgravine of Hesse, the grandmother of the Princess of
Wales, the princess did not join the royal dinner party.
The Queen, accompanied by his Royal Highness _Prince
Arthur, walked in the grounds this morning.
Professor Owen had the honour of delivering, before the
Queen and royal family, the first of a course of four lectures
on natural history.