The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-10 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, OCT 7.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena
and Prince Arthur, and attended by the NO'
Emma Lucelles, drove to Loch Callater yesterdaY.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have
arrived at Cambridge House from Broadlands.
Despatches were received at the Colonial office an,
Saturday from the Governors of Gibraltar era
Ceylon. Dispatches were sent to the GOver"rB
of the Falkland Islands and Canada.

THE LATE MR JOHN MACDONALD.—We learn that
on hearing, on Saturday last, of the alarming illflt
of Mr John Macdonald, who, from the regularity of his
autumnal visits to the respected minister of Crathie, vies
doubtless well known by personal appearance to the Queerit
her Majesty immediately requested her physician, Dr tie
ner, to wait upon him ; awl the same evening, having ilea'
of his death, the Queen sent a message to the manse to ea'
press how deeply struck and grieved she was to hear of the
sudden and unlocked for event. The private telegraph °f
her Majesty to Balmoral was at once offered as a means of
conveying tidings to Mr Macdonald's friends in
burgh, and was used several times in the course of the day
On Tuesday morning her Majesty sent to the manse to ill'
quire whether any of the relatives of the deceased gentle-
man had arrived, and manifested great anxiety to learn
whether any service could be rendered in paying the hot
duties to his remains. This case adds another to the rasa
Proofs we have had how tenderly her Majesty sympathises
with efiTction in all its forms, and how kindly an interest
she takes in all familiar faces. We may add that the re,
mains of Mr Macdonald were conveyed from the manse to
the railway station at Aboyn oa Wednesday morning hi ti
small company of relatives and other mourners, and Or°
thence taken south by railway to Edinburgh. On Fridayt
they were interred in the Dean Cemetery,—Edinburgh
Courant.

DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM TYLER.—This gentle'
man, for many years proprietor of the vast esta4
blishment known as the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardener
died on Sunday last, after a short illness, at his residence,
Cringleford, near Norwich. Mr Tyler became proprietor of
the gardens in 1844, having previously been secretary t°
Mr Cross, the original founder of them, and he continued
the proprietorship till 1858, when the property was vested
in a limited liabiiity company. The grand music hall WO
afterwards used as a chapel by Mr Spurgeon, and is OW
doing duty as the temporary site of St Thomas's Hospital'
GUNPOWDER STORES.—The Home-office hes.ind
stituted inquiries as to the quantity of gunpowder in stora
in the several localities where it is kept to any large amount'
It is remarkable that there is a provision respecting the
quantity kept where the manufacture is conducted. That)
is also a limitation of the amount kept on hand by the
licensed retailers of the article. There are also stringent
regulations for the protection of the Government stores 11
sea and land. But it is in the large warehouses of the
manufacturers and wholesale dealers that the greatest
quantities are to be found, and it is to these that the neiV
legislation on the subject will be specially directed.'
Observer.
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT,--The Lord Chan'
cellor and the commissioners who will be appointed
by Her Majesty assemble in the House of Lards on Thurs-
day next, the 13th instant, for the purpose of proroguing
the Imperial Parliament until Friday, the 11th November.
There seems to be misapprehension in the public mind, had
erroneous statements have appeared in several newsPaPer,
in reference to the duration of the present Parliament.
was " begun and holden on the 21st of May, 1859, ' and will
not legally expire until the close of next year. The last was
the "sixth" Session, and as Parliament is septennial,
" seven" cannot be holden. According to the usual prat"
tine the dissolution will take place next spring, and the
new Parliament assemble in November following for a
short time, and then adjourn to February or March for
the transaction of general business.
SUICIDE FROM WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—On St 4
turday morning, shortly before 10 o'clock, a man, apparently
50 years of age, leaped over the parapet of the centre arch
of Westminster-bridge, the bridge being at the time crowded
with foot passengers and vehicles. On the alarm being
raised, Henry Phelps, pierman at the Surrey side of the
bridge, put off in his boat, and succeeded in coming up With
the unfortunate man before he, had sunk the second timer
and brought him ashore alive, but senseless. He was taken
to 'Westminster Hospital, where, despite the efforts of the
surgeons of the institution, he expired in about 20 minu'es.
DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF LAUDANUM.—Oa
Saturday an inquest was held by Mr Richards, at the Ada"
and Eve Tavern, Hoxton, on Sarah Ann Reynolds, aged
49, who died from the effects of laudanum. The deceased,
who was a sempstress, had been suffering a long time front
nervousness and ticdoloreux. On Tuesday last deceased told
one of the lodgers that she would have no rest until eh°
took some laudanum. A female named Mears called to ece
the deceased on Wednesday morning, but could not make
her hear. The door was forcibly opened, when the deceased
was discovered dead, lying with her head on the bed and
her legs upon a chair, with a bottle by her side. Mr Hickot
surgeon, who made a post mortem examination, stated that
he found the lungs and brain congested, which had been
caused through an overdose of laudanum. The deceased
had been in the habit of taking large quantities of laudanum'
The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from the
mortal effects of laudanum, taken to alleviate pain.
AMERICAN BLOCKADE.—HaIifax, Sept. 22--The
blockade runners the Lady Sterling and the Armstrong
cleared for Bermuda yesterday. The Little Hattie, which
sailed a few days since, returned to-day. Havannah, Sept'
17—The Denbigh arrived on the 15th from Galveston, end
the Susanna, on the 12th, five days from Houston. Tll°
latter started wifh 325 bales of cotton, but reached this porS
with only 73, having thrown the balance overboard to feel•
litate her escape from a Federal cruiser off Cape Sall
Antonio. The Federal steamer Honeysuckle reports the
capture of the Matagorda (formerly the Alice), with 600
bales of cotton, and the arrival of the prize at Key West'

The Matagorda was from Galveston for this port.
BEAU NASH.—His laws were suited to his times,
and this is the test of a good legislator. He was
obeyed, both in these and other particulars; nor did he
admit tho claims of rank or fortune to an exemption from
his ordinances. The balls were to begin at six and close at
eleven. He would not suffer them to continue a moment
longer, on account of the invalids, and for the sake of the
reputation of the waters. Not even for the Royal famill
would ha deviate from any of his rules. The Princess
Amelia once applying to him for one dance more after ho
had given the signal to withdraw, he assured her royal
highness that the established rules of Bath resembled the
laws of Lycurgus, which would admit of no alteration with"
out an entire subversion of all his authority. He now set
himself to correct the ball attire of his rude subjects. Ir
appears that the ladies offended by coming in white apronos
and the gentlemen by appearing in riding boots. So un•
compromising was his aversion to the former, that he once
divested a duchess of her apron at a ball and threw it among

the waiting women, saying none but Abigails appeared in
white aprons. The dechess acquiesced and begged his Nil'
jesty's pardon. Whenever any gentleman, through iglic)"
ranee or haste, appeared in boots, Nash would make up to
him, and, bowing in an arch manner, would tell him that
he had forgot his horse, But a more serious undertaking
was to induce gentlemen to leave their swords behind
them. These inconvenient appendages were sometimes
alarming, for they were apt to get unsheathed on very light
provocation, and sometimes with fatal effects. A duel took

place in the Grove by torchlight between two gamesters, the
tragical consequences of which had the effect of aiding tha
policy of Mr Nash. Ho at length carded his prohibition
ireo effect, and they ceased to be worn at Bath, to the great
relief of the ladies resorting thithcr. And if he heard of

challenge given and accepted, he instantly had both parties
arrested."—Eade 's Guide to Bath.

FATAL LEAP OVER EDINBURGH CASTLE Rocg.
—On Friday morning, about 5 o'clock, a private 0
the 74th Highlanders, named Robert Wilson, expired 10
the Castle Hospital from injuries he sustained by falling
or throwing himself from the Argyll battery of the Castle
on Thursday morning. He was discovered lying at th°
foot of the Castle rock, near the railway, about 21i11°
o'clock on Thursday morning, and he was remove°.
to the garriton hospital. 'Wilson was a man of about
35 years of age, and had been 18 years in the regiment'
He bore a good character generally, but was occasionally
addicted to over-iadulgence in strong drink, and his strange

behaviour on some occasions gave his comrades the iropresr

sion that his brain had become affected during his servica
with the regiment in India. It is said that on Wednesds9
night ho had been drinking, and it is conjectured that he
had thrown himself over tho parapet of the battery while

suffering from delirium tremens- .—icolsman.
COOKING WITHOUT FIRE.—The ingenious 31'
Babinet, of the French Institute, has discovered the
means of cooking without fire. He has just laid before the
academy the result of his experiments. His recipe is''
Place your food in a black pot, coverei with sundry Pall
of glass, and stand it in the run, The water soon boils, ancl
the food is said to be of better flavour than if cooked in tha
ordinary way. But we are in a season when, in Londoa
at least, it will hardly do to trust to the sun as a substitu to
for a kitchen firs, and the probability is that this new 111"
vention will ba about as useful as that attempted in t"
land where the inhabitants cccupied themselves in endeay."

outing to extract sunbeams from cucumbers.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM GUNPOWDER.--°ll
Soturday, Frances Turner, 12 years of ago, residing °.
Brook-green, Hammersmith, was playing with her father
powder horn, when the powder exploded, shattering L-€ r
r;ght Land in a dreadful manner, and otherwise eerie:Wl
ibjaring her,