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 is
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 Bake of Cambridge is
expected to pass a few days with the Duke and
Duchess of Richmond next week during the race
meeting at Goodwood.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam..
bridge and Princess Mary have left St. James's
Palace for Cambridge Cottage, Kew, for the season.
His Excellency Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne
the French Ambassador, will leave Albert-gate
House tho week after next for Paris, on leave of
absence for a few months.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will leave
town the week after next for their estates in Scot-
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 Mcore Abbey.
The Earl of Wilton left town yesterday afternoon
for Cowes, Isle of Wight. The noble earl's yacht comes
to Southampton to-day, in order to receive the countess and
a select party of friends.
The Earl and Countess of Scarborough have left
the St George's Hotel.
We have to announce the death of the Dowager
Countess Amherst on Wednesday last at Bournemouth, in
the 73d year of her age, Her ladyship was the eldest
daughter of John Frederick, third Duke of Dorset, and
married, first August 5, 1811, Other Archer, 6 h Earl of
Plymouth ; and 2dly, June 25, 1839, William Pitt, firs
Earl Amherst. Her ladyship had no issue by either mar-

riage.
Viscountess Palmerston will have a reception, the
last this season, to-night at Cambridge House.

THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

The Independance Beige of the 20th sa3 s—
" Letters from Berlin inform us that the peace
negotiations will open to-day, July 20, in Vienna•
It is stated that they will be conducted by the two
Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Herr von Bismark

and Count Rechberg. it is probable that Den-
mark will be represented by two statesmen who
belong to the present cabinet, M. de Moltke and
M. de Quaade, ministers without portfolios. France,
which aided Denmark to place herself in communi-
cation with the German powers, and assisted in
sketching out the first negotiations, now holds coin-
pletely aloof. The choice of the city where the '
negotiations are to take place sufficiently indicates
this ; in default of this proof one would be found
in the susceptibility with which Germany repels the
idea of all interference in a question which she COn'
siders exclusively her own affair, whether by Europe
or by a great power. Denmark herself, moreover.
can only gain by throwing herself upon the gene"
rosity which her weakness imposes upon her ad-
versaries, and the control which their divergent
interests will exercise . over their conduct to-
wards her. We do not mean to say, how-
ever, that France remains completely indif•
ferent, although she does not act. The plan of an
eventual absorption of Denmark by the Confedee
ration and that of a material aggrandisement of
Prussia forbid her to do so. Independently of the
reservations upon this point already made by the
Chancellery of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, mention is
made of a fresh circular of that minister respecting
the negotiations now open, and in which, occupying
himself specially with the future government of the
duchies, ho indicates, it is said, the consultation 0f
~.
the wishss of the populations as the sole means of
settling the rival claims to the sovereignty of the
new state. This view is also that of the liberal
papers of Germany, especially of those which sr
pear in the duchies. Organs of the sentiments of
their fellow-citizens, they show them to us as veil
weary of the state of proeisonal administration ill
which the conquering powers hold them, and read/
to rise against every attempt to impose upon them
any other sovereign than the candidate of their
choice, Prince Frederick of Augustenburg."
The Paris Temps says:
In London everyone is looking towards Vienna'
Will the diplomatists be more successful on the,
banks of the Danube than upon those of the Thames
In the short space of time from the 20th to the 31st
e
July will they succeed in discovering a basis of
negotiations ? Nothing indicates this at present'
The great German powers claim the entire duchieel
while the Copenhagen Cabinet still clings to the
chimerical project of a personal union. It is Pre,:
bable, however, that an understanding will be arrive:
at at last, and that the allies, in exchange for th,,,
Duchy of Lauenburg, will cede to Denmark the
northern part of Sleswig, which extends from
Apcnrade to the North Sea. It remains to be seen
whether the: populations interested and German
public opinion will ratify this compromise.
According to a ministerial paper (the Breslau
Gazette) Prussia has determined rot to consent to
the entrance of Sleswig into the German Confedo
ration. The new state, it is said, is to be placed
under a sort of suzerainty of Prussia.

WILBERFORCE'S LIFE AND CHARACTER ENT°'
MISED by a Saturday .Reviewer.—The leading
events of Mr. Wilberforce's life are sufficiently well knowv•
Ile was the son of a rich merchant at Hull. He was schl:
cated at Cambridge. When he left college, he becarstl °11:-
of the most brilliant members of London society, and
particular was extremely intimate with Mr. Pitt. Ile v1""A
born in 1759. Ho sat in Parliament in 1780 for Hull, an
in 1784 for the county of York, which he represented or
no less than 28 years. In 1812 he became member for the
rotten borough of Bramber, and in 1825 he retired fr°*t
Parliament. He died in 1833. The abolition, first of tile.*
stave trade, and afterwards of slavery, in which he {po t°
:
leading but by no means the most laborious part, were tb"ri
great achievements of his life. The position which 1013°1;
in English society, and the extraordinary love and rece,:,
ence with which he was regarded, were very remarkabwi
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that ho made s tithe
approach to the character of a Protestant Saint, and
fact that he did so is worth attention, inasmuch as it she"-
clearly what the sort of qualities are which strike Esglisqll:
man at largo as unusually and abnormally virtuous•
had, in the first place, a marvellous charm of manner, I'll.,
great abilities of a social kind. He appears to have bee";
one of the most pleasing speakers, and also one of the 10f3ir
charming and amiable talkers, that ever lived. .c.4hr.10
antidote about him, and all his letters, bear upon theme"„i
stamp of cheerful quiet affection, mixed with woncler' ,";
gaiety and sprightliness of mind. These qualities stto
thrown into bolder relief than would otherwise beloug
them by the faint touch of something like asceticism wilia)
coloured his religion and reacted upon his conduct. ll° t
a perfectly sincere and honest man, and the chief inter-'
which attaches to his life in the present day is derived
the fact that his character would seem, by its success' 1%,
mark the point which was reached half a century sg°
public feeling. Mr Wilberforce was the sort of roan vlb° d
the grandfathers of the present generation cordially stil3o,
affectionately recognised as the model of a Christian an
gentleman.
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LIBRARY," is, we learn, about to be co tituteu.
a new footing, as a joint stock undertaking on the limi •
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liability principle—Mr !Audio remaining the chief Pri.°,_
prietor and managing director, and three friends of hi oh
mg already taken half of the remaining shares. -All
lure had been made to Mr Mudie for the purchase oflibrary for the purpose of converting it into the properr.ta,
a commercial company of the ordinary kind ; bat, oa
vice, Mr Mudie declined the offer, and determined lain's If
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to form a company on the above metho"
d, the harehoillec;t
of which should be known as pevans tabing an inter
in promoting the circulation of the best literature."
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