The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-21 00:00:00

Prince Humbert of Italy.

Yesterday morning Prince Humbert, accoola
panied by his Excellency the Italian Minister, and
attended by General Revel and the noblemen 013'
gentlemen in his suite, left tows shortly before 11
o'clock, for Windsor. Colonel Du Plat, 'equerry' t°
the Queen, also attended his royal highness. Tare°
of the Queen's carriages awaited the party at o°,
station, and in these they immediately proceeded
to Old Windsor, in order that his royal highness
might inspect the establishment of Mr Dailey, Wil°
has a hunting and steeplechase there. The Crow°
Prince also visited Fregmore and the royal fart'
and then drove to the Castle, alighting in the
grand quadrangle, where he was received by Nr,
Seabrook, her Majesty's inspector, in the Lau
Chamberlain's department, and by Mr Miles, bi
whom he was conducted through the privet°
apartments of the royal family. The visitors were
afterwards taken to the Chapel Royal. and shoo
the various objects of interest in thesacred buildivg'
Oa quitting the chapel, lunch was partaken of at
the White Hart Hotel; and at a quarter-past three,
the prince and his suite entered two of the OF°
carriages, each drawn by four bays, ridden by P°
(i
tilions, and drove through tae Long-walk an
Windsor Forest to Cumberland Lodge, for the pa:
pose of visiting the hunting-stables of the Prince °f
Wales, whose harriers are kept here. His royal
highness afterwards returned to Windsor, 110'
passed through the town and Eton en route far
Slough, whence the party returned to London 131
the Great Western Raifvay, His Excellency the
Marquis d'Azeglio gave a grand dinner of a circle
of 20 in the evening. In addition to the prince 0°
his suite and the members of the legation, 11l
°
Marquis de Cadore (the French Charg d'Affaire°)'
the Duchess of Montrose, the Marchioness Sr'
Germans, the Countess of Jersey, Mr and 01
Violet Greville, Mr Odo Russell, and Ceptei°
Lumley, were present.

His Royal Highness the Prince de Joinvil'
arrived at Vienna from Kustendje on the 9th inst.
a
Their Royal Highnesses the Maharajah an:,
Maharanee Dhuleep Singh have arrived south from 11'

highness's shooting quarters in Scotland,
The Duko of Somerset, First Lord of the Ad;
miralty, has arrived at Paris, accompanied by Adolfi
Drummond, and by several members of the Board °
Admiralty. After spending a few days in the Freucil
capital his grace, and the officers and gentlemen by s'ib°ln
he is accompanied, will embark at Marseilies for MO/
whence they will proceed to Gibraltar,
The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe have left
the Clarendon Hotel for Floors Castle.
The Earl of Shrewsbury and Lady Adelaide
Talbot, Lird Richard Grosvenor, and Mr Erskine 11'1
been staying with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland $-
Dunrobin Castle, N.B.
The Earl and Countess of Scarborough's party
at Sandbeck Park, near Doncaster, last week, inclu':ed „
Marchioness Maria of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countreo
of Chesterfield, Viscount Canterbury, Lady Georgia°
Milner and Miss Milner, Colonel the Honourable J03°4.1
Macdonald, Colonel the Honourable H. Fenster, Mr Gee
Drummond, 80.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left Broad'
lands, Hants, yesterday, for Wilton House, near Salisbnd
un a ehort visit to Lady Herbert of Lea. The noble
mier has promised to award the prizes to the success
competitors of the 1 cal riffs volunteers.
Lord and Lady Wharncliffe have been entertain'
ing Lord Loughborough, Lady Gertrude Talbot, o°l3
Egremont and Mrs Lascelles, Hon. Colonel and Mrs Cur'
zon, Hon. Captain Talbot, Mr Darner, and a select Olt/
at Wortley Hall, near Sheffield.

AN INDIAN FLOOD.—The Lahore Chronicle lei
ports an unusual eccentricity on the part of t
river Chenab, which has caused considerable dan3el,,nt,
nooltan, if not to other stations in its neighbourhood.'
some time its unusual shallowness had been remarked "1
the Lahore editor, and attributed by him to a landslip ,t).
glacier which had dammed up the river in some of the self
tildes of the Himalayas—when all at once it burst on 1400 hi
tan with a fury it had never been remembered to 011 i-
- A correspondent from the latter city writes
"The water has flowed in so suddenly and with such veto
city, that we awoke this morning only to find ourselves 8
it were on an island, every direction as far as the eye eti,
reach being a perfect sea. All communication between
city and cantonments has been completely cut off. rr"..,
commissioner's house has three or four feet water rouse
The greater portion of the suburbs of the city, inclail3l
Toles Khan and Emam Poro, have been submerged, and
market-place has shared the same fate. The stanning Cr°s
have all been destroyed, whole villages washed down, 61'
the' panicstruck inhabitants know not whither to fly or 11°
to escape from the deluge. Woodlands, the property
General Van Cortlandt, the favourite resort of the reeiclel3l•
of the station, is all but a wreck, Its flue walks, its gay
den, containing the choicest flowers, and its orchard eieci‘A'
with the most delicious fruits, are all submerged. '
around is desolation—the flood has extended for sevet
miles, as far as the railway line ; and the destruction
property caused by it must be immense." Great exertil
were made by the local engineers to divert the course of I
flood, but to no purpose, the water toppling over the
almost immediately they were erected.—Homeward lag
P itOPOUED ABOLITION OF TURNPIKE I.IOLLS'°
Yesterday an important meeting of the ratcpaie,
of the parish of Lewisham was held, for the purpose of to
ing into consideration the proposed abolition of the tolist
the various gates on nearly 40 miles of roads, forming
south-eastern outlet of the metropolis, and extending forming,(
St, George-the-Martyr, Southwark, to Dartford, Kent. .1
chair was occupied by Mr Atkins, churchwarden,
plained that the meeting had been convened in conseqae,'
of a letter received from Sir G. Grey, in which he 1°1:
for an expression of the opinion of the ratepayers of
several parishes as to the desirableness of abolishing
continuing the present system of tolls, which, I.
less renewed by an act to be passed in the next sess:
of Parliament, will cease to exist on and after the 11'.
November, 1865, the expense of keeping the roads in all
to be borne by the carishes through which such roads P'
l'he present annual cost of maintaining the roads the V
on which are proposed to be abolished is £12,750, CllB
buted as follows :—St. George the Martyr, Southwark''
a mile, £l,soo—Camberwell, 14 mile, £1,200—,St.
Pi
Deptford, 21i miles, £1,700 Greenwich, 31 miles, X2,3(10
Lewisham, 6 miles, £2,700—Bromley, 4i miles,
Beckenham, 31 miles, £2oo—Lee, 1 mile, £4oo—Klthw.
miles, £BOO Footscray, 21 miles, £lBo—Charlton, 3 19,1
£loB—Woolwich, II mile, £2so—Plutustead, 1 millet
Bexley, 411 miles, £27o—and Dartford, 1 mile, £lOO.
considerable discussion it was moved by Mr isf
seconded by Mr Saunders, and unanimously carried
" That the extent of roads within the parish of Letwi6l
,
being some seven or eight miles (an extent of nearly
miles having been omitted in the above measurement)'
cost of maintenance would be a great burden and lisr'de
on the ratepayers, inasmuch as the said roads aro 11°'
the ratepayers of surrounding parishes and the ger''
public, while their proportion :of the road of the till
trust if abolished would be comparatively small•
meeting, therefore, expresses its opinion that if the tru6
abolished the cost of maintaining the roads she'lldi
equitably distributed over the whole area—and if
arrangement cannot be made, this meeting opposes till
position to abolish the trusts." A vote of thanks °
chairman closed the proceedings.
& SHOCKING ACCIDENT THROUGH PLAYING s
FIRE.--On Monday evening Hannah Jilt
whose parents reside in Apollo-court, Mile-end, wit c
alone in their room. Finding some firewood and 1110
matches she commenced, by way of amusement, erco
an imitation grotto. The flames from the lightcdb
communicated to her clothes, and when the neigb
alarmed by her screams, rushed into the room,the9l'l,
the poor little creature one mass of flame, and her
frightfully burned all over, scarcely a feature beiob6
tineuiehable,