The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-19 00:00:00

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RER MAJESTY•

OsBORNE, Jan. lb.
Her Majesty, their Royal Highnesses Princess
1-leena, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold at'
tended Divine service yesterday afternoon apt
Whippinghana Church.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor
preached the sermon.

The Princess of Wales.
The following bulletin, the last that will be
issued, was received from Fregmore yoterdA9

" The convalescence of he' rFirtoogyma
lo e
oShanne. siB the
Princess of Wales continues to make steady progress,
" The infant Prince is quite well.
" Her Royal Highness's recovery is so far sa-
vanceu that it is considered unnecessary to issue al
more bulletins.
(Signed) " ARTLTUR FARRE,
M.P
JENNER, ;
" E. H. SIEVEKING,

evening :

His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh 1143
left Claridge's Hotel for Bombay.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Grafton leaves tows
this week on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of ar3ft°l4
at Wakefield Lodge.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland has arricea
at Stafford House, St. James's, from Cliefden, near Maideir

head.
The Earl Cadogan is, we learn, only sutierifi
from a slight cold, so that his illness is not of a seric'tis
na tura. tia
The Earl Russell, together with the countess
family, are e,LpLcteu at their town residence, iu
place, to-morrow, from Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Pa-t

for the season.
The Countess of Aylesford and Lord Guernsei
have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Packington 11311;
The Countess Vane and family have arrive°.
Claridge's Hotel.
The Marquis of Galliffet his left of
Hotel Hotel for Kimbolton Castle, on a visit to the Vu

Manchester.
Lord Broughton has quite recovered frombis
recent severe illness. tar
Lord and Lady Blantyre and Hon. Misses Stull
have arrived in town from Scotland. efed
Lady Hermoine Graham and family are egle-al
to arrive in town to-morrow, on a visit to the Dui°
Duchess of Somerset, from Netherby Park, Cumberlan' tit,
Lord Henry and Lady Ulrica Thynne have
rived in town from their residence in Wiltshire. left
General and the Hon. Mrs_ Forester bac°
the Clarendon Hotel for Meaford Hall. dOn
Sir Charles Grey has arrived at the Clare°
Hotel from Tunbridge Wells. ver
The DukE. of Cleveland died at Baby Castle 'OO
terday afternoon between three and four o'clock.
Grace had had been seriously ill since Friday.

A NEW PROSE COMEDY, in four acts, "LeS,Ptile
lais," by Louis Leroy, has been just produced a'
Odeon Theatre. 15
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Mr„ Maplesol.
about to take advantage of the extraordinaryls°ceo
brity acquired by M. Gounod's " Faust," and to gice,llo
nine or ten representations of it in English atHer gNeswe
Theatre. The first performance is announced to take Ppipesa
on Saturday next, and the other performances will be greti
on the Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays in the fir,
following following weeks. The singers are Mr. Sims Reeves
Santley, Mr. Swift, Mr.Dussek, Signor Marchesi,
Lemmens Sherrington, Mdlle. Florence Lancia, all'„nera
dame Taccani. The band and chorus of the Italian yr 0
will assist, and Signor Arditi is engaged as conduct°r gefl
far "Faust" promises to be an eminent success in ccille.
garb. We hoar, too, that two songs, one for Siebei ("co),
Florence Lancia), and one for Faust (Mr. Sims ge,e,'
have been written expressly for the English version el tia
Gounod. It is to be hoped that the director of HerMajes
Theatre will meet with a result commensurate with
energy and enterprise. A 'Olt/
MR. THACKERAY.—It having been stated
a `"1I'
Exeter paper that Mr. Thackeray, when
went to school at Ottery St. Mary, the Rev. Dr. C°
the vicar of that place, has written to contradict it., a
appears that the stepfather of the great novelist renteo
estate near Ottery St. Mary, and that the latter, 41:04
stopping there, used to visit at the vicarage and 10.,r, of
books of Dr. Cornish. The doctor says that the sceoce.'l,Jte,
Clavering St. Mary and Chatteris, in " Pendennis,"
spends in minute particulais with that of Ottery
St' that
and Exeter. One of the little marginal vignettes tollttery
famous novel is a picture of the clock tower of is
Church. Church. Thackeray describes the youthful Penci°: /Of
galloping through " the Iliad and Odyssey, the trag'ol
writers, and the charming wicked Arietophanes, ‘l7b° •ictO
vowed to be the greatest poet of all," When the autherraio
about the age of his young hero he borrowed of Dr. „ chic
Carey's translation of " The Birds of Aristophanes, turned
he read, says the doctor, with intense delight, aud htea'lcer4
with three humorous illustrative drawing.
says in " Pendennis" :—" It was at this period of A"otija
Chronicle with some verses with which he
ence that Pen broke out in the poet's corner of the coctli
was
per
grog
well satisfied." Dr. Cornish says that when theeoder
Catholic emancipation meeting took place on 0116,
heath, Thackeray brought him some verses wilio.oo an
afterwards forwarded to an Exeter paper for ineerlo ti'`)
duly appeared. These verses, the doctor thinks, '8; ptY
first composition of the great humorist that were ec
fished. Blgrms
THE DATE OF SIIAKSPEARE'S '
Corney says, " If Shakspeare was born 00 ',id yOof
-
of April, 1564, he had just completed his fiftraec°(,,3
on the day of his decease. But it is recordeclovibetroe
monument) that he died in his fifty-third Year 'beet, id
upon, Mr. Corney urges that the poet must ha v° ogee,
onebefoeref
tAhpermi
many
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cases 4.
fThis, r our
arising
ogr rfersopmonad
b'i on
merit of words in popular speech. "StricaY sPeat.l'd y:
of a person's ago is completed, not on his birt for, c.ii°oo
the last instant of the day before his birthda9; coo' of
puting time, the legal rule, which accords wi jotir
fag
usage and convenience, is to disregard the ~.°5 st.
the birth and to conider the day on which tm,ea The 5'
born as the first day of the first year of his 6b-. FtIIG
clef ostt.
man's minority terminates at midnight of the oott
uo
his birthday, or, in other Words, just before til,ftvlaY a his
of his birthday. On the first instant of hie bleolete o„ct
twenty-one years of age, that is, he has co/30'sec 05
twenty-first year and has entered upon lais t tereci 0t',610.
year," On this legal principle Shakspeare e./11 v„..23ldid
fifty-third year a moment after midnight that 11° nee,
Consequently, the statement in the inscriptiou
01 biS
le:lo:sive r
on the 23d of April, 1616, in the fifty-third Yet'ro3aofg,„.
is consistent with his having been born on the.;ter att(l
mod
1561,
Li`
1561, So far, therefore, du gas,as the evidenco ofreglhe esn°
scription goes, we have no reason to °
tradition that Shakspeare died on his birth
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH ?---1110stCD
,„h is
join in the chorus of congratulations Ti'ition
resounding through the country, on the lataciva, 13,11)1
.11‘
Royal family, and, we trust, to the caufort
_ft, enter, 700
of the Queen. But with equal heartiness de, 70 OElO'O4
protest against the bad language in which
event has been promulgated. The first a'
indeed, which we read in the Times, told
delivers
seree et
ect
comingly that the Princess had been " sign
fine boy. But to this was subjoined a bulletin' that, efer
by an M.D. and a surgeon, acquainting pia of
Royal Highness was "confined of a Prineae; a, bearrscif
mortal Englishman, educated or uneduecii°,gap he 419
such an expression ?We would defy Mrs. sloP;004
to beat it ; and sure we arc that the famousur
World, 0 ad'
ushered Mr. Shandy's son and heir into t
the word
go,
have been heartily ashamed of it. Was these,ote
livered" repudiated as not sufficiently refidae
t:lo'r
approP.
tlemen ? And yet what expression can be tne_i_ii.ool',,,esr
suggestive at once of safety, and ot the tea :st; 01000;00,
for the escape from danger ? We alwaY rt ovevt in'
when reading the fantastic details of the Couthe preeefiolt
what must foreigners think of us ? Audtistton the 131;0°
stance, we blush to imagine the commenieh mustos colt
reading public who tolerate such trash,
by the many strangers to our soil who yet ".000, gras criticallY
ia
Z,
versant with the English tongue. CounneYpet at °°t'efOrir
and the real signification of words are
all theor
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the wretched attempt to appear above uslll,6ioo 15100‘j
eLI
eil
decent phraseology of our own full and fcluu,,,,,et are
Then, again, all subsequent notices of thc :1;10'
ow ettor.,r'ofe.
" Accouchement of the rincess." This i„a
_ffe„ting,
_,lOlO
which we have heretofore commented, 0:,011
_a in DP;, I-
Bider the event too indelicate to be men ;
.004:11,003:
mittiug any delicacy to exist, except 'n
and therefore taking
be
in
Plirlf6
refuge in a foreign pruric.tiod
of the would-be cuphernist, the idea could
5 _koroa
ce
refined, by clothing it in French I —lt is ic
two aillao
fititSCY. —A week
or „or
CRIME IN SOUTHAMPTON. ofig
SoutlialPW,,it t"'
perpetrated in the neighbourhoods of a shocking outrage on a
,do to c°l3)"
corded. Last week On attemp s. worof,aa,
~
far outrage on another respectable
attacked
19
same neighbourhood, She was attail;a haseistattreftioat
respectable wit oi,
dragged to a ditch, but her cries brsoi:nti.:,
.„, „info
miscreant did not succeed in his des
psfol4r's todo ;000
escaped capture. The Southmanoipne.g., uovurileo
daring garotting case in the sa
latio the
OP'
complaints are made of tlio Wade Yv.