The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-24 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince of Wales rode on horseback yester-
day morning attended by Lieut. Colonel Keppel.

The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, at-
tended by Countess De Grey.
The Hon. Mrs. Bruce has succeeded Countess de
Grey as lady in waiting on her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales left Marlborough House at a quarter past
five, and proceeded by the Great Weetern Railway
to Windsor Castle on a visit to the Queen.
Ia attendance on their Royal Highnesses were
the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel,
and Dr. Hoizmann.

Mr. R. Dowling has had the honour of submit-
ting his portrait of his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wates, which he has painted for the Government
of Tasmania.

MANSION-HOUSE.—His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge has been pleased to accept an invita-
tion to a banquet to be given by the Lord Mayor on Easter
Monday. The Lady Mayo•css (Miss Lawrence) has issued
cards of invitation to a juvenile ball on the evening of Wed-
nesday week, the 6th of April.
Her Royal filAhness the Duchess of Cambridge,
accompanied by the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Stre-
Litz and the Princess Mary, has left St. James's Palace for
Cambridge Cottage, Kiw, where the royal duchess and her
daughters will reside for several weeks.
Tne Duke of Newcastle continues to improve.
Yesterday the medical bulletin stated that the duke had
passed a favourable night, and was much better in the

morning.
Tae Dnke and Duchess of Roxburgh° have left
the Clarendon Hotel for Floors Castle, Kelso.
The Marquis of Abercorn has left town for
Beaudesert Park, Staffordshire. The marchioness and
Lady GeorgLna Hamilton are on their journey home from
Nice.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury have
left their house in Pall-mall for Savernake Park, near
Marlborough, Wilts, for the Easter holidays.
The Earl and Countess of Scarborough have left
the St, George's Hotel.
The Earl of Cork has left town for Marston
House, near Frome. The countess has gone to stay with
Mk'. S. Beaumont, M.P., and Lady Margaret Beaumont, at
Lansnowne Villa, Richmond.
Lord and Lady Annaly and the Hon. Miss
White have left Belgrave-square for St. Leonardo-on Sea.
Lord and Lady ,Harry Vane and the Hon.
Misses Primrose left town on Tuesday for New Battle
Abbey, Sussex,
Lord and Lady Clarence Paget left his lordship's
official residence at the Admiralty yesterday for their seat
in Wales.
We understand that a marriage is arranged and
will shortly take place between Mr Henry Widenhanx
Smith, of Castle Widenharn, County Cork, and Miss Robarts,
daughter ut the late Mr Abraham Wildey Robarts.
DEATH OF LORD ASHBURTOV.—It is with great
regret that we have to announce the death of Lord
Ashburton. The melancholy event took place at half-past
ono o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Grange, and was
comparatively unexpected. His lordship had almost en-
tirely recovered from the series of dangerous pulmonary
attacks under which he had recently suffered, but expired
suddenly from heart disease, to which he had been subject
from youth.

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THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW.—Mr. Wyld, of
Charing-cross, has published a very useful map showia
the locality selected for the forthcoming review.
TRE AMBASSADORS FROM MADAGASCAR.—Their
Excellencies the Ambassadors from Madagascar, with their
interpreters, accompanied by the commander of the Fisgard
flagship, visited the Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich, on 'rues"
day, and inspected the laboratories, the gun factories, tbe
carriage and other departments. They appeared delighted
and astonished at the working of tne ponderous and cony
plicated machinery, and at the vast stores of Nuns, shat
shell, and other warlike munitions,
PROGRESS OF NEW ZEALAND.—The Registrar'
General reports the European population of New Zealand
125,812 at the end of the year 1862, 79,680 males and 46,1 V
females. This is exclusive of the military and their Wei'
lies, 7,302 in number. It is an increase of 23 per cent
the year. 410,8320 z gold, worth £1,591,389, were exported
in the year, and 9,839,2651 b wool, worth £674,226. V°,
registert.d tonnage of New Zealand had increased to 28118'
vessels, of 10,825 tong, employing 931 men and boys.

revenue had risen to £1,186,009.
MIRACLES OF ART.—At the soiree of the RoYal
Institution, on ;,-:atut day, the pnotograPhic
statuettes exhibited by Claudet excited much curiositi.
this is a piece of French ingenuity. The sitter takes Lill
stand in the centre of a circular building properly ligbte'
all round ; 24 cameras are levelled at him from all sidel,'
and 24 photographs taken. A pentagraph is set to sr°r°
on a lump of clay, and follows the cartoon el each 1311°t°'
graph. When it has traced out in the clay the unaine
the two dozen, all that remains for the modeller is tore
move a few imperfections, and the statuette is turned It
The specimens exhibited were effective enough. Bat di,'
modeller was said to be Willens, well known in Paris so
very clever designer for the jewellers and bronze workers :
and the difficulty is to say how much of the Merit of for
statuettes may be due to him. Altogether, the inaproio..
seemed to be that the sculptor's art was not in any ju-'l3l_l,
mut danger from this new application of the photograph°
apparatus,