The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-23 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, attended by Countess De
Grey, took a carriage drive in the afternoon.
His Highness Prince John of Glucksburg, at-
tended by Baron Guidencrone, took leave of their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales,
yesterday evening, and left Marlborough House
for the Continent by the South-Eastern Railway.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
attended by Lieut. Colonel Keppel, accompanied
his Highness Prince John to the railway station.
Mr. Henry Weigall has been honoured with
sittings for hi portrait of her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales.

The Duke of Newcastle is still very unwell, but,
according to the medical report yesterday, his grace was
progressing favourably.

THE DUKE OF RUTLAND'S HEALTH, we are gra-
tified to hear, has greatly improved of late, and his hunting
friends may have the pleasing anticipation of seeing his
grace with his hounds again next season.
The Earl and Countess of Warwick have arrived
at their residence in the Stable-yard, St. James's, from
Worthing.

Tne Earl and Countess of Verulam and Lady
Harriet Grimston have left town on a visit to the Earl and
Countess Craven, at Caonibe Abbey, near Coventry.

The Earl and Countess of Wilton will entertain
a large circle of visitors during the Croxteth Park race
meeting.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will return
to-day from visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle, and
will then go to Broadlands, llants, for the Parliamentary

recess.

Lord and Lady Londesborough leave town to-
morrow for Grimston Park, Yorkshire.

Lord Harries has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-
square, for Eveningham Park, York.

The infant Prince has, it is said, been very cleverly
photographed by an eminent photographer.
The VACANT RIBBON OF THE ORDER OF ST.
PATRICK has been conferred on Lord Lurgan.

THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN, during his sojourn
as Archduke in Paris, spoke of Napoleon 1., his great uncle,
as the Emperor Napoleon.
THE MARRIAGE OF THE COUNT DE PARIS with
his first cousin, the Infanta Donna Maria Isabel
of Orleans and Bourbon, will take place on the 19th inst.
in the Palace at Seville, with great solemnity. The cere-
mony will be performed by the Cardinal Archbishop of Se-
ville, and will be followed by the rai ification of the marriage
articles. The President of the Audiencia of Seville will act
as Chief Notary of the Kingdom, representing the Minister
of Grace and Juqice.

THE LATE MR, WILLIAM ROTHERY,

Of the men who seem to connect the present with the
past history of this country another has just been taken
away whose long and meritorious services as a public servant
deserve a passing notice at our hands. ' Mr. W. Rothery,
who was until lately the legal adviser to the Treasury on all
matters connected with the slave trade, died on the 6th
inst., at the advanced age of 89 years. He was born on the
9th of April, 1775, a few days only before the first blood
was shed in the War of American Independence on
an attempt by some British soldiers to disperse a body
of Americans exercising on Lexington-green, and re-
membered well being taken by his father to see the
burning down of the chapel in Lincoln's-inn•fields by the
Lord George Gordon rioter,. In early life Mr. Rothery
entered the office of the King's Proctor in Doctors Com-
mons, and by his abilities and steady applicevion to business
soon rose to the head ot that establishment. The zeal and
ability which he showed in the discharge of his duties gained
for him the good will and regard of the two greatest judges
who have ever presided in the Court of Admiralty—Lord
Stowell and Dr. Lushington, with both of whom he was on
terms of the closest intimacy. In 1821 Mr. Rothery was ap
pointed by the Treasury to be their Lordships' referee on
slave trade matters, and held that appointment up to the
year 1860, when at the advanced ago of 85, owing to in-
creasing infirmities, he was compelled to resign his office;
but so high an opinion had the Treasury of his long and
faithful services that on his retirement they granted him for
his life a pension almost equal to the full amount of his
salary. The questions on whica he had occasionally
to advise her Majesty's Government required the exercise
of the greatest judgment and discretien, and his long expe-
rience in the King's Proctor's-office during the European
and American Wars proved to be of essential service to him.
There were very few of the leading statesmen either of this
or of the past generation to whom he was not well known,
and who had not at one time or another occasion to rely
upon his great practical knowledge and sound judgment.
Mr. Rothery was also frequently employed by the Go-
vernment on matters not immediately connected with his
regular official duties. In the years 1830-2 he was engaged
with some eminent lawyers and civilians in framing rules
tar the guidance ot the Vice-Admiralty Courts in our coke
airs, the excesses of which had become notorious. In the
year 1840 he was associated with the present Sir Henry
Lyt ton Balwer for the purpose of settling, in conjunction
with two commissioners nominated by the French Govern-
ment, the amount of compensation proper to be paid to
some British subjects for the forcible interruption of
their trade by the French at Portendio, on the coast of
Africa; and in the year 1814 he, in conjunetiele with the
present Judge of the Court of Admiralty, Admiral Den•
man, and the late Mr. Bandinel, was appointed to prepare
a code of instructions for the guidance of naval officers Oa-
ployed in the suppression of the slave treele, There are very
few indeed who have led so 10-11 and useful a life, fewer
still who through all the triebs and difficulties of life have
shown a more equable temper, or been more respected by
those with whom IIP, had to act in business, end especially
by the civil eev;ants of the Crown,

PORTRAITS Or SIR ROWLAND HILL, K.C.B.—
A,". the present time there is perhaps no public man
of whom a good portrait can be more welcome to all classes
of the community than Sir Rowland Hill, who gave sittings
on Saturday last for a series of cartes de visile to Messrs.
John and Charles Watkins, of Parliament-street. The
form and features of most of our distinguished men have
been made familiar by the beautiful art of photography,
and Messrs. Watkins have done much to gratify popular
taste in this respect, but few of their excellent and interest
ing productions can compete with these. " Sir Rowland
le Grand," as our friend Punch humorously styles the
great " man of letters," has kindly afforded the artists an
opportunity of making a Lumber of vat lonely posed studies,
each of which evidences the artistical knowledge and taste
which are so often wanting in photographic portraiture.
We predict for these ea? (es—what they certainly deserve—
an enromous circulation.

A TALE FOR THE MARINES. There is a
wenderfut Iliudoe chess-player at present in
London. He plays three games blindfolded, and wins.
At the same time he plays a game of cards, and
wins. During the game a bell is touched every one or two
seconds, and he gives the number of times it has been
touched. A man stands behind and throws little pebbles
one by one against his back; these, too, he counts; and
atter the games are told he recites a poem iu perfect rhyme
which ha ilas colupevAl Litirtha the sitting.