The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-21 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY,

BALMOBAL, May 18.

The Queen drove in the afternoon with their
Royal Highnesses the Princess Leiningen and the
Princess Beatrice.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince of Wales rode on horseback yesterday
afternoon, attended by Msjor Teesdale.
The Prince and Princess of Wales took a carriage

drive.
The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the
Drace of Cambridge yesterday evening at Glouces-
ter Hauee. Ia attendance were Lady Morton and
Major Teesdale.
A deputation of ladies from Ireland attended at
Marlborough licuee to present some lace to the
Princess of Wales.

The deputation consisted of the Marchioness of
Waterford, the Marchioness of Drogheda, the Mar•
chioness of Clanricarde, the Marchioness of Kil
dare, the Countess of Cork, the Countess of Erne,
the Viscountess Gort, the Lady Annaly, the Lady
Clermont, and Mrs. Taylor.
The Marquis of Kildare accompanied the ladies,
and presented an oak casket.
A deputation of ladies from Worcester attended
to present to the Princess of Wales three vases of
Limoges enamel, manufactured at the Royal Porce-
lain Works, Worcester, and presented by the ladies
of Worcestershire.

The deputation consisted of Lady Georgina Ver-
non, Lady Raglan, Lady Blount, Lady Pakington,
and Mrs. Holland.

A deputation of gentlemen from the city of Wor-
cester attended to present a breakfast service.
The deputation consisted of Mr, Alexander
Gunes (Sheriff and Mayor of Worcester), Mr.
James Dyson Perrins (Sheriff of Worcester), Mr.
Richard Woof (Town Clerk), and Mr. Richard W.
Binns, F.S.A., of the Porcelain Works.
Mr. Leonard C. Wyon was honoured by the
Prince of Wales with a sitting for his portrait on
the medal of the Society of Arts of which his Royal
Highness is president.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was
honoured by the presence of their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales at dinner yesterday evening,
at Gloucester House. The Prince and Princess of Wales,
who was attended by the Countess of Morton and Major
Teesdale, arrived at 8 o'clock, and were welcomed by the
Duke of Cambridge. There were present to meet their
royal highnesses their Serena Highnesses the Prince and
Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Duke and Duchess
of Buccleuch, the Marquis of Hartington, the Earl and
Countess de Grey, the Earl of Ellenborough, the Earl and
Countess of Beasborough, the Countess of Westmorland,
Earl Cowper, Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount Hamilton,
Lord and Lady Proby, &c. Their royal highnesses did not
leave until after 11 o'clock.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Lady
Victoria Scott return to their residence in Belgrave -square
to-day, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of
Exeter, at Burghley House, near Stamford.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter have
entertained a distinguished party at Burghley House, near
Stamford, on the occasion of the review of the Northamp-
tonshire Volunteer Rifle Corps. Among the company were
the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Lady Victoria
Scott, the Duke of Grafton, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl
of Pomfret, the Countess Dowager Spencer, Lord and Lady
Overstone, Lord end Lady Lyveden, Lord Burghley, Lady
A. Cecil, Lord and Lady Brownlow Cecil, Sir Colin Camp-
bell, Geneial Bouvarie, Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, Mr Knight-
ley, M.P., and Mrs Cust, &c.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon entertained
his Excellency Baron de Beust and a select party at dinner,
on Thursday evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-
crescent.
The Earl and Countess of Morley, with Lady
Catherine Parker, have taken up their residence for the
season at 24, Grosvenor-place.
The Earl and Countess Russell received a select
party at dinner, yesterday evening, at Pembroke Lodge,
Richmond •park.
' Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Right

Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., have been entertaining
company during the week at Dudbrook House, Essex. The
party, which comprised the Earl of Abingdon, Lord and
Lady Norreys, Lord and Lady Clermcnt, Lady Molesworth,
Lady Hislop, the Hon. T. and Mrs. Stonor, the Rev, C.
Harcourt, Mr. Henry West, Mr. W. Harcourt, andM►. G.
Russell, separated on Thursday. The countess and Mr.
Fortescue will return to town on Monday.
Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe has arrived at the
the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood,
Viscount and Viscountess Hill have arrived at
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-equare, from Hawkestone,
Shrewsbury.
The Lord Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait have
moved from London House, St. James's-square, to Fulham
Palace, Middlesex, for the remainder of the season.
Le Baron Pierre de Pirquet has arrived at Cla-
ridge's Hotel from Paris.
Le Baron and la Baronne Reedtz Thott have
arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Germany.
Lady Marian Alford's second dance will take
place on the 30th May, instead of the Ist June.
Lady Howard de Walden has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel, from Brussels.
Lady Sitwell and the Misses Sitwell have arrived
at London House, St. James's-square, from Huntercombe,
near Maidenhead, for the remainder of the season.
Lady Wake and family have arrived at Preat
Malvern, Worcestershire, from Brighton.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliveira have arrived at Upper
Hyde-park-street, from Spain, for the season.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Geographical, at 1,
Anniversary. Tuesday—Linnean, at 3, Anniversary---Eth-
nological, at 4, Anniversary—' Empirical and Scientific
Physiognomy, Dr Donovan—Engineers, at 8, 'Machinery
employed in Sinking Artesian Wells on the Continent,'
Mr Burnell—Zoological, at 9, Occurrence of a Species of
Fin-Whale on the Coast of Norfolk,' Mr W. H. Flower--
' Species of the Cuckoo of the Genus Neomorphus,' Dr
Sclater—Royal Institution, at 3, Animal Life,' Professor
Marshall. lVednesday Geological, at 8, ' Notes on
North - Western Himalaya,' Captain Godwin - Austen--
Cetacean Fossils, termed Ziphius by Cuvier,' Professor
Huxley—' 11,13istic Beds and White Lias of Somerset,' Mr
Dawkins—British Archalogical, at Sepulchral Anti-
quities, Helmingham, Suffolk,' Rev Mr Cardew—' Obi.
tuary Notices of Members deceased during 1863,' ME
Pettigrew. Thursday—Antiquaries, at A MaPP''
monde by Leonardu da Vinci,' air R. H. Major—' Relics
from an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Oxon,' Mr Stephen Stow
Antiquities from Saxon Graves, near Bedford, AD
Perceval—Royal, at 81—Royal Institution at 3, ' Music
1630-1750," Professor Hullah. Friday—Royal Institu
tion, at 8, ' Greek Art,' Mr Poole. Saturday--Boyd
Institution, at.. 3, ' Falling Stars; Mr A. lierschel,
Athenceum.
HERR MOLIQUE'S NEW MASS, as performed of
Sunday last at St. Atoysius' Church, Somer's
town.—" It is a great and real pleasure," says the Atli!
nceurn of to-day (just published) "to be able to commen
so heartily, as wo must do, the Mass by Herr Moliqul
which was produced, as promised, on Whit-Sunday, an
proves to be the highly-toned work of a reverential an
thoroughly accomplished master of his art and science,
every respect good and individual, if not startling by an
very marked originality. Though it was heard to dis''
vantage, with an organ to replace the orchestra, at
though those could not fail be wearied who did not ti
lish the melancholy, long, and florid homily which inte
vened between Gloria' and Credo' a propliel
of expression, a vigour of structure, a sobrie
of tone without dullness, an elevation without bou
bast, a variety of modulation without approach to erudi
—in short, a thorough mastery over every secret of cot
position, could not fail to make themselves felt. And,
it be remembered, that, to treat this grand series of Wu
anew is Mass by Mass, becoming more and more diffieu
In particular the ' Credo,' with its disjointed clauses of
phrases of belief, is full of knots bard to untie. °
favourite Credo' has long been that to Beethoven's Dl°
in c major, though the grandest setting of any single Oat
is, indisputably, the Crucifixus' from Sebastian Bac]
Mass in n minor. By our naming these two giants on such
occasion, it may be seen how highly we rate Herr Moiiqu
version of the Credo,' which is conceived in a spirit of
own. The believer, though ss ell assured, commences
a tone of greater lowliness than we have been, for t
most part, used to hear. The act of Faith at its co
meacement is not untinctured with holy fear, and ri
gradually, as the close is approached, to that triuroPh
strength which almost bridges over the Valley of
Shadow, when the pilgrim approaches the gates cf Ilea"(
The Qui tollis 'in the Gloria,' and the Benedietus;
last movement, again, most difficult to treat, after
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and Beethoven,) deserves especial remembrance. Butt
whole composition, we repeat, is vigorously beautifuaki e
singularly well sustained ; one to which we shall t 8
earliest opportunity of returning. This income
must not be closed without due honour being paid to
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excellent and thoroughly artistic singing of the sopy
part by Madame Rudersdorff. The Mass, we learn, N
repeated to-morrow morning.