The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-13 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Oct. 11.
The Queen went out yesterday morning, attended
by Lady Augusta Stanley; and in the afternoc!
her Mdjesty, accompanied by Princess Helena and
the Dean of Westminster, and attended by Lldf
Augusta Stanley, drove to the Lynn of Muick.
Princess Helena, attended by the Hon. Erg"
Lascelles, went out riding in the morning.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
LUBLCIC, Oct. 12.
The royal yacht Osborne, with the Prince and
Princess of Wales, together with the infant prince'
on board, has arrived at Travemunde.
Their Royal Highnesses will proceed to Gluck'
stadt by special train at 11 a.m.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Waits will not visit Paris before returning to England'
though it is probable that a short stay will be made ju Germs

many.
The Duchess of Baccleuch and Lady victoria
Scott left Belgrave.square on Tuesday to join the duke °-
other members of the family at Drumlanrig Castle' Duur.
friesshire.
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The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury 771
receive a succession of visitors at Hatfield House, Serfs.
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The Marquis of Bristol, who is staying a
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country seat at Ickworth, has been suffering from ver,,
illness during the past week, and on Saturday his lordsb iP
state was such as to excite the serious apprehensions of 11
family. We learn, however, that a favourable change
since taken place, and that his lordship's medical advisers
give good hopes of his gradual recovery.
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has arrived in
town from Jerveaux Abbey, the seat of the Marquis and
Marchioness of Ailesbury.
The Earl and Counts of Derby do not recei"
company at Knowsley Park until the second week in
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ensuing month.
Ttie Earl of Wilton will leave N_wmarktt:
morrow, to j,in the countess at Heaton Hall, near sua-d.-
el-ester. At the end of the month the noble earl
countess go to Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, for the
hunting season.
The Countess Cowper will shortly receive die'
tingu:shed party at Wrest Park, Beds. It is the intention
of her ladyship to give a ball at Wrest to the county
nobility and gerery, and there is to be a grand ball at Der'
shanger Park, near Hertford, before Christmas.
We understand that the marria e of the Lady
Helen M‘Donnell, daughter of the late Earl and Laura
Countess of Antrim, with Sir Malcolm Murray Wareß°r'
Bart., is to take place on Tuesday, the 25th inst.
Toe marriage of Mr. W. W. P. Conseil'
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Brawith Hall, Yorkshire, with Edith, eldest daughter 0
Lord and Lady Charles Kerr, is fixed to take place on ill°

10th Nov Amber at Dalkeith Chapel. Of
The marriage of Victoire, youngest daughter
Mr. M. W. Bait a, to Don Jose Bernardino Fernandez "-
Velaeco, Duke de Frias. was celebrated yesterday at
pal:.
Chapel of the Spanish Embassy, by the Very Rev'
Hearn. After a dejetiner at the house of the bride's fat"
the duke and duehe,s left for Combo Bank, Seven Oak*
Kent, on their way to the Continent.

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THE CuMAION LAW COURTS.—The Court of ve—
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mon Pleas will sit at Nisi Prius in Michaelmas Term'
in Middlesex, on Thursday, November 3, and Wednesdalci
November 9, and in London on Monday, November 7, an
Monday, November 14. The Court will sit, after term,
in
Middlesex, on Saturday, November 26, and after term, rn
London, on Thursday, Dec, 3. The Court of Exclle€l2%
will hold its first sitting day in term, in Middlesex, e'"
Thursday, November 3; second sitting day, Nireduescbre:
November 9; third sitting day, Wednesday, November
and in London on Monday, November 7, and Monday, N°.,
vember 14. The Court will sit after term, in Middlesex, cu
Saturday, November 26, and in London on Thursdal;
D,cember 8. The Court will sit in Middlesex at Nisi priu
in term by a journment from day to day until the cause
entered for the Middlesex sittings are disposed of.
OUR DOGS.—The dogs of Great Britain are an
increasing race. The £39 12a annual tax Wee Pali
upon 81 packs of hounds (of 66 or more) in the financial
year 1859-60, and upon 84 packs in 1861-62. The packs 47.,
greyhounds (of 15 or more) were 29 in the former year an
38 in the latter; the duty is £9. For cogs of any other de:
scription the tax is 12s a -year, and it was assessed on 324,70'
in 185 J-60, and on 3.6,862 in 1861-62. The returns do not
carry these details down to a later year as yet, but the Po'
duce of the dog-tax increased in the year 1862-63, and 8013
in the year 1863-64.
UN WILLING PASSEN GE RS.—A female camel, Wall
her young ono, arrived in Southampton yesterdai,
to be sent out in the Bremen mail steamer New York to the
United States. They were accompanied by an Arab keeper.
By nu contrivance could the elder camel be induced to crest!'
the gangway from the dock to the ship, although the Arab
tried by blows and by coaxing with a bag of oats to get ill
on board. The young camel, about the size ef a pony, an
covered with beautifully soft silky hair, stuck to his dare'
As the tide w.ts about to ebb, the pilot on board the ship;
became impatient, and called out "Have the animals
shipped." A number of the German passengers on board
the New York rushed on shore, and, amidst shouts of
laughter, took the young camel up in their arms and carried
him bodily on to the steamer, and the ship was obliged to
leave the side of the dock immediately, leaving the she
camel behind. The young camel began to cry in the most
pitiful manner on being separated from his dam, and the
latter, hearing the cries, moaned distressingly; her eyes
were moistened with tears, and her head was slowly and
solemnly moving to and fro, looking for her young one. A'
length she was put into a horse box and slung on board a
steam-tug and taken out to the New York, which waited in
the stream for her.
CRYSTALLOGENIC FORM.—Under this titl3 3.1•
Kuhlmann has just addressed a paper to the Ma'
demy of Sciences, his object being to show that all mineral
particles have a tendency to arrange themselves in crystals;
or at least in strata, or in nodules. Thus gypsum, dissetni'
nated throughout a mass of clay, will in course of time be
found collected under the form of crystals, its particle°
having by slow degrees penetrated through the clay i°
virtue of the force of attraction. Ia the Bidache limestone
(Basses-Pyrenees) silex has formed distinct strata; and in
the chalk formations concretions of silex are often found at
short distances from each other. M. Kuhlmann shovi°
that very flexible brass wire may become brittle by frequent
vibration ; the same is the case with iron wire, which, owing
to this circumstance, is now universally rejected as a mate'
rial for the construction of suspension bridges. The crystal"
lization of wrought iron has often been the cause of acci-
dents, as may be seen from the frequent breaking of axles
trees. Those of railsBeay carriages are safer than those of
common vehicles, because they do not receive such violent
shocks on rails as the others do on stone pavements; they
are, therefore, chiefly liable to wear out. M. Kuhlmann
states that he had, on the Northern Railway, examined
axletrees, the iron of which still preserved its fibrous texture,
though it had travelled over several hundred thousand
kilogrames of rail. The axletree of a common carriage
when it breaks preseno.s a granulated or crystalline frac"
ture, which it would not have had when fresh from the
anvil—hence, by constant motion, the particles of the iron
have passed from the fibrous to the crystalline state.
Similar changes take place in sheet-iron ; thus a
91,ecimen of the latter, of excellent quality, having
been used for the construction of a boiler, has noW
become quite brittle, after having been for the space of
20 years exposed to the constant vibrations produced by the
ebullition of water; even the rivets which held the plate.
together have become brittle. M. Kuhlmann points out an
easy way of discovering at any time whether the change de-
scribed has taken place, and whether the iron under exami-
nation can still be depended upon or not ; this is, to polish
a few square centimetres of its surface with a smooth file,
and then to expose it for a few minutes to the action of nitrio
acid. If the texture of the metal has become crystalline,
this new state will thus become apparent.
THE DISTRESS IN PRESTON.—The distress in thitl
town has begun to assume proportions which were
there not grounds for believing it to be of a transient cha-
racter, would be calculated to create alarm as to the state of
the operatives during the ensuing winter. At the weeklY
meeting of the Relief Committee, held at their cifices,
Crooked-lane, on Monday, it was reported that 2,156 cases
comprising 8,162 persons, had been relieved during the
past week, at a cost of £225 Bs. 61, being an increase
on the previous week of 229 cases, 1,001 persons, and
£25 Os. 6d. expenditure. The total increase in the
number of persons relieved since September 18, when
the distress was at its minimum, is no less than
3,317. The committee have just taken the census of
the factory population by a house-to-house visitation, when,
t was discovered that no less than 6,894 factory operatives
have either emigrated, found employment elsewhere, or have
been removed by the guardians. The chief constable's
weekly report as to the state of employment shows that
there are 23 mills totally closed out of the S 7. The number
of operatives working full time is 8,583; five days, 2,787;
four days, 496; three days, 4,503 ; two days, 67 ; and totally
unemployed, 10,988. Seven deaths from fever having
erreued during the past week, an inquiry as to the sani-
tary condition of the infected districts was ordered, with a
view of checking the further progress of the epidemic, if
possible.

lIE DECIMAL REFORM MOVEMENT.—An in°
fluential meeting of commercial men was held on Tuesday
in Liverpool, at which it was resolved to form a provisional
committee with the view of establishing a branch of the
international association for obtaining a uniform decimal
system of measures, weights, and coinage.