The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-23 00:00:00

The Levee,

By command of the Queen a Levee was held yes-
terday at St. James's Palace, by his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales. Presentations at this Court
are by the Queen's pleasure to be considered as
equivalent to presentations made to her Majesty.
The Prince of Wales, attended by his Gentlemen
in Waiting, arrived at the Palace from Marlborough
House, about two o'clock, and was received by the
Great Offic,,rs of State co the Queen's Household.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred arrived, at-
tended by Major Cowell and Lieutenant Haig.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar-
rived, attended by Col. the Hon. James Macdonald.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar and the Count Gleichen were present at
the Levee.

lier Majesty's Body Guard of the Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen at Arms, was on duty in the State Saloons
under the command of the Li,,Aitenant.

The Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the
Guard was on duty under the command of Colonel
Patterson, the Exon in Waiting.
The Princo of Wales entered the Throne-room,
accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Alfred
and:his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and
attended by the Earl of St. Germans, Lord Steward
Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain; the Marquis
of Ailesbury, Master of the Horse; Lord De Tabley,
Lord in Waiting to the Queen ; the Earl of Mount
Edgcumbe, Lord of the Thdchamber to his Royal
Highness the Prince of `Vales; Colonel the Hon.
A. Liddell, Groom in Waiting tothe Queen ; Lieut.-
Colonel Da Plat, Equerry to the Queen ;
Viscount
Bury, the Treasurer of the Queen's House-
hold ; Lord Proby, M.P., Comptroller of the
Queen's Household; Viscount Castlerosse, the Vice-
Chamberlain ; Lieut.-General linollys, Comptroller
acrd Treasurer of the Household of the Prince of
Wales; Mr. Charles L. Wood, Groom of the Bed-
chamber ; and Lient..Colonel Keppel, Equerry in
Waiting to the Prince of Wales.
The Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers were
introduced in the order of their precedence, when
the following presentations to the Prince of Wales,
on behalf of her Majesty, took place in the diplo-
matic circle :

By his Excellency the Russian Ambassador—
M. de Dourassow, Gentleman of the Chamber to his
Majtsty the Emperor of Russia.
By his Excellency the French Ambassador—M.
en mission.
Chas. de Franqueville, Audituur au Conseil d'Etat

By tha Portuguese Envoy—signor Thomaz de
Moraes Sarmento, eon of the late Viecount Men-

corvo.

By the United States Envoy—The Hon, Charles
Hale, Agent of the United States iu Egypt.

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ROYAL ENTERTAINMENT AT CAMBRIDGE HOUSE.
—Their Royal Righnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales honoured Viscount and -Viscountess Palmerston
by their company at dinner last evening, at Cambridge-
house. The banquet was followed by a dancing party.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales,
with the Marchioness of Carmarthen and Colonel Keppel,
arrived a little after 8 o'clock. Dinner was shortly after-
wards announced, when the following distinguished circle
had the honour to meet their royal highnesses :—The Duke
of St. Albans, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and
, Earl Granville, the Earl
of St Germans, the Countess
ury Duchess
and L
of
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Ashle
the Earl and Countess of Shaftes-
bury
Spencer, Viscount and Vis-
countess Royston, Viscount Hamilton, Viscountess Jocelyn
and Hon. Alice Jocelyn, Lord and Lady Dafferih, Lord and
Lady Proby, the Right Hon. W. 1". Cowper and Hon.
Evelyn Ashley. The Prince sat on the right of the noble
hostess, and the Princess on the right of the noble Premier.
Shortly after 10 o'clock the company bog-an to assemble for
the dancing party. The ball room was brilliantly illumi-
nated,and handsomely decorated by a profusion of flowers.
His oyal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, attended by
Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, ex.:iced shortly after
11 o'clock, a large number of other distinguished persons
being present. Dancing commenced at 18 o'clock, the ball
being opened by the Prince ef Wales dancing with Vis-
countess Jocelyn, and the Princess with the Earl Cowper.
At 1 o'clock supper was served up in the dining room.
Five circular tables were appropriated for the supper, the
royal table, laid festivities
forai'arty of 18, being in the wine of
heroom,
were prolonged to an early hour
this morning, T
the
Prince and Princess returning to the ball
room after supper.
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Their Illy- al Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales intend honouring the Duke and Duchess of
Manchester with their company at Kimbolton Castle,
liuntington, early in August.

Their R9yal Highnesses the Princesses Helena
and Louise have announced their intention of honouring
the B,zlar at the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South
Kensington, in aid of the Building Fund of the Female
School of Art, with a visit to morrow.
The Duellers of Wellington will have an assembly
this evening at lipsey House.
The Baroness Biome hus arrived at the Hann-
verisa Legation, in Grosvenor-place,
from Holstein.
The Earl and Countess Craven, the Ladies
Blanche and Beatrice Craven, and Viscount Uffington
have left town fer Combo Abbey, near Coventry.
lhe Earl of St. Germans received a select circle
at dinner last evening at bis residence in Dover-street.

Lord and Lady Belper entertained a select
circle at dinner last evening at their residence in Eaton
square.

Enri and Cuunte3s Russell left town ye2ter-
d3y for Pprnllr,k, T.,riffp. Richmond Park.

The Case of the Bishop of Natal,

JUDICLNL COMMITTEE AND PRIVY COUNCIL
(THIS DAY.)

This morning the first proceeding in England, connected
with the deposition of the Right Rev. Dr. I. W. Colenso,
Bishop of. Natal, from Lis see, was commenced before the
Judicial Committee anJ 131.1 u Council at Whitehall. There
were present the Lord ChaVcoior. Lord Wensleydale, Lord
Kingsdown, Lord Cranworth, Lord Chelmsford, Sir Edward
Ryan, and Sir J. T. Coleridge.

The circumstances which have given rik.'s to this petition
to the Judicial Committee of Privy Council for the pro-
ceedings. cannot be regarded in the light of an awn!, inas-
much as the Bishop of Natal denies the power of the Bishop
of Cape Town to depose him) are of such recent date, end
have been so fully discussed that it is not necessary to re•-
peat them in detail. Dr Colenso, who was s fellow of St
John's College, Cambridge, and Rector of Forne.ett 'St
Mary, Norfolk, was nominated to the bishopric of Natal in
1833 by the Duke of Newcastle, who was then Secretary
of State for the Colonies, and was consecrated by the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury. His letters patent bore date Novem-
ber, 1853, and the letters patent to the Bishop of Cape Town
as metropolitan were dated 1853. In the former it is set
out that the Bishop of Natal and his successors shall be
subject and subordinate to the see of Cape Town, and to the
Bishop thereof and his successors, in the same manner as
any bishop of any see within the province of Canterbury
is under the authority of the archiepiscopal see
of that province, and of the archbishop of this same. The
Bishop of Natal denies that the language used conveyed to
the Bishop of Cape Town jurisdiction over his suffering,
and that the metropolitan is not by law authorised to sum-
mon before his tribunal any one of his suffragans, or to
exercise jurisdiction over him. Some months ago the
Bishop of Natal came to England and published some works
on the subject of the Pentateuch, the contents of which are
known to ell the world. He was "presented" by the Dean
of Cape Town and other clergy to the Metropolitan, who
cited him to appear in his court; but Dr Colenso disre-
garded the summons, and the trial proceeded in his absence.
The result was that he was deposed from his bishopric by
the formal decision of the Bishop of Caps Town in his
court.

The Petition before the Court this morning had reference
to this deposition.
Mr James, Q.C., 'Mr J. Fitzjames Stephen, and Mr I.
Westlake appeared tor the Bishop of Natal. The proceed-
ings being ex parte, no counsel appeared for the Bishop of
Cape Town or the prosecutors
The petition, the details of which were stated by Mr
James, prayed that her Majesty would be pleased to declare
the petitioner to be entitled to hold his see until the letters
patent granted to him should be cancelled by due
process of law for some sufficient cause of forfei-
ture, and to declare that the letters patent
granted to the Bishop of Cape Town, in so far as they
purported to create a Court of Criminal Justice within
the colony, and to give to the Archbishop of Canterbury
an appellate jurisdiction, hiid been unduly obtained from
her Majesty and did not affect the petitioner's rights. Tho
petitioner also prayed that the pretended trial and sentence
were void and of no effect, and that an inhibition, as was
usual in ecclesiastical cases, should issue against the pro-
ceedings under the sentence pending the appeal.
The. Lord Chancellor, in the namo of their lordships,
ordered the petition to stand over until the sittings of the
Judicial Committee of Privy Council in or after Michaelmas
term, with liberty to Dr. Colenso to serve the petition in
the meantime on such persons as he might desire to serve.
Their lordships, ho said, declined for the present to enter-
tain the question of inhibition, since to grant it would be to
assume jurisdiction on the part of the Bishop of Cape
Town.

The case was then ordered to stand over until the
Michaelmas sittings.

The Bishop of Natal was present during the proceedings.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBING GENTLEMEN IN THE HATMARKET.—Tivo
CHARGES AGAINST A FEMALE.--GANG ROBBERIES.—
Elizabeth Wilson, a stylishly dressed female, was charged
before Mr Knox with stealing a watch, of the value of £25,
from the person of Mr Mortimer Collins, a gentleman at
present residing at the British Hotel, Cockspur-street. She
was further charged with robbing M. Jean de Belmont, a
French gentleman, residing in Stanhope-street, Regent's-
park, of his watch and chain.
Mr Mortimer Collins stated that ho was walking down
the Haymarket about half-past two o'clock this morning
on the way to his hotel, when the prisoner stepped up to
him and put her arms round his waist. He immediately
pushed her away and found his watch chain hanging down,
and on putting his hand into his pocket found that his
watch had been abstracted. The prisoner ran away, but
he followed her, and while doing so a man, who shammed
drunkenness, tried to intercept him. Having pushed the
man away he continued his pursuit of the prisoner, and at
last overtook her and gave her into custody.
In answer to Mr Knox, the prosecutor eaid he was per-
fectly sober at the time, and never spoke to the prisoner till
he told her to go away. He hag just before looked at his
watch, which was of the value of £25.
The prisoner, who pretended to cry, stated that she never
saw the prosecutor till he charged her with robbing him.
Felix M'Mahon, 165 C, said that en the prisoner being
given into his charge she said the gentleman had made a
mistake. The watch was not found.

The prisoner, who shed some forced tears, said, in answer
to the magistrate's qaestion of whether she wished to plead
before him, that it was hard to say she was guilty when
she was innocent.

Mr Knox having been informed that a second gentleman
wished to press a charge,

M. Joan de Belmont, cf Stanhope-street, Regent'e-park,
said that about half-past 12 last night he was under the
arcade in the Haymarket—the Opera•arcade—when the
prisoner came up to him and felt him about, but knowing
how persons were robbed by reading the reports in the
papers he kept a sharp lookout. Directly after the prisoner
laughed, evidently as a signal, and up walked a young man,
no doubt, to receive what the prisoner had taken. He (111.
De Belmont) noticed his watch and chain in the prisoner's
hand, and took them from her, and she ran away. He then
spoke to and assisted the police for two hours in looking for
the prisoner, and then left the constable for a short time,
after which the constable came up and said he had got the
woman. He considered the conduct of the police very good.
The prisoner, who, as soon as a second charge was pre-
ferred against her, quite altered her tone, assuming a defiant
air, was then committed for trial on both charges.