The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-29 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, July 2S.
The Judge Advocate-General had au audience of
the Queen yesterday.
His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen and her
Royal Highness Princess Leiningen dined with her
Majesty and the Royal family.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived from
London, and had an audience of the Queen.
The Queen held a Council to-day, which was at-
tended by Earl Granville, Viscount Palmerston, Sir
George Grey, and the Right Honourable W. E•
Gladstorle.
Mr. Arthur Helps, the Clerk of the Council,

attrinded.
At the Council Parliament was ordered to ba
prorogued from this day (Friday) to Thursday) the
13th of October.
Earl Granville and Lord Palmerston had Audi'
ences of the Queen.

Tide Prince of Wales is expected to lay the
freundation-;lone of a cross, in memory of the
oaedical officers who fell in the Crimea, on Monday
next, at Netley Hospital.
The Earl and Countess Russell will leave Pere'
broke Lodge to-morrow for a few days, on a visit
to Lord Harry Vane.
The Earl and Countess of Erroll and familY
have arrived at Slains Castle, Aberdeenshire, from
Grafton-street.

The Countess of Essex gave birth to a eon on
Wednesday laet, at Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire.
Lord and Lady Londesbarough will b 3 anDq
the visitor's at Cowes during the regatta week. 1115
Lordsh4's yacht, the Albertine, has been at Coif°
for sAnna days.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE KING Og
PRUSSIA.—It is announced tc-day that the Eroper(lt
will have an interview with the King of Prussia in the
second fortnight in August.
NAPOLEON HEALTH AND POrULARITIP°
Accounts from Vichy represent his health as having
greatly ber.efited by the waters. Two nikhts ago there was
a soldiers' ball there, and he attended, figuring in a quadrill°
with a bouncing country lass for a partner, and a sergeant
of -V oltigeurs for a vis-a vis. The men were naturally
d'.ilighted, and loudly cheered him as he left the Salle.
THE EMPEROR'S FATHER.—A funeral service 1°
the memory of Kiag Louis Bonaparte, father of the
Emperor, was celebrated yesterday in the church of Si. L°ll
(Sine-et-Oise). Marshal Valliant, Minister of the Sul;
peror's Household, was present with the functionaries c'
the arrondissement, and a deputation of soldiers of the First

Empire.
DEPUTATION TO SIR CHARLES
Wednesday, Lord Shaftesbury, the Hon. Mr N-ie'
naird, Rev. H. Venn, secretary of the Church Missionari
Society, and Mr Thomson, lately a member of the Madras
ilovernment, waited en Sir C. Wood for the purpose to
hearing explanations on the subject of grants in aid
private, and particularly missionary schools in the Bonwej
Presidency. New rules have been lately introduced in that
presidency on the principie of payment for results. Sir C;
Wood was attended by Mr. Edward Howard, Director
Public instruction for Bombay. The deputation expreqs6d
themselves as entirely satisfied with the explanatioll6
afforded.
PUTTING Too FINE A POINT UPON IT !"'"-A,ll
ingenious shopkeeper at Vichy has put a sign to ble
establishment, " The Three Theological Virtues," flit°.
trated by medallions representing Faith, Hope, and Charith
personified by portraits of the Emperor, the Prince loPe-
rial, and the Empress.
THE NORWEGIAN WAR SHIPS .—The Kong
Sverre and St. Olaf, the two frigates of the Norwegian fleet
riot
which anchored in Leith Roads for several deg, left
not
Frith on Monday evening. The corvette Ellida had
departed on Tuesday evening.—Scotsman.
THE YELVEETON CASE.—A minute off reference
to oath has been lodged by Mrs Yelverton, the
practical result of which is to prevent the judgment being
made final in Scotland until the parties to the suit's' have
been examined on oath. Their evidence given in Ireland
is considered most important.
THE ToM TIT, the TOAD, THE SNAIL, TO5
SPIDER, AND TILE BEE.—I used to see toads fre'
quently sitting under the landing board, and only ecenrlY
discovered they were there " seeking whom they could
devour.' On one of these ugly visitors being laid open his
maw was filled with bees which he had sucked into his ugly
jaws. The tomtit, also, is a dangerous little enemy. Ile
perches on the landing place of the bees on a wet day, tape
with his bill, apparently inquiring after the health of 01'
inmates ; a watcher bee comes out to reconnoitre, and i 5
snapped up by the wicked hypocrite. The spider, 018°'
catches weary bees in his web, but the occasional use of
brush disposes of this peril. The snail attracted by the
warmth occasionally creeps in. The bees successively
attack him, but find their stings blunted and broken by the
shell as shot is by our ironsides. Failing to injure or re-
move the intruder they have recourse to a plan which
with Pi'
cater more than instinct. They cover him up
polls, a kind of gum which they use for stopping up crevfel
and not cnly does he die for want of air, but he is preventer
from giving forth offensive odour by the air-tight ease
shroud.—The Times Beenzaster.
A STYRIAN LANDSCAPE.—A pilgrimage-leek t 0
church shone white upon a hill, and in the distance Jo
the west rose the rocky barrier of the Caldron—one in
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stony mass in particular, the Eaducha, representing v
this direction the last bulwark of the Alps ; eastward ne':.
lay the plains of Hungary, and then the Carpathiall't
With two heavy farm horses we started for Cillf r`tnis
eleven o'clock. At the leisurely pace they took, it 7
at night before we reached it—all down a widening val:er'i:
expanding till it was almost a plain. and a cluster of
peeks on the backward horizon alone remained of the Willi,
tain world. The day was pleasant, with a fresh auturn.
feel in the air. Gardens, gay with dahlias and Chilitube
asters, orchards laden with plums, corn plots Wit'oc,d,
harvest all gathered, low hills covered with w arid
crowned with small white churches by the dozen; a
stretching into hezy, sunshiny distance on either 11014
river flowing broadly in the centre, and bearing W2113:310
rable timber-logs, to be formed lower dow:a into rafts for this
navigation of the Save and Danube.-such wes
Styrian landscape. This was to be our last drive, as tb
previous afternoon had seen our heft walk, ..and five
chatted over all our Dolomite ad ve attires. f
o'clock the valley had become quite a I ,lain, an OL1:03'-;
Indian corn, though still bordered by b ills. Villages allyro
ened, and twice or thrice a tract of blackened tfl3l,bel
-
showed that one had been destroyed b y fire. Then An--,
low cloud of dust marked a high road in the distance, •
chateaux, in a sort of dishevelled grandeur, lifted their -ga
nets here and there. Suddenly we ere in the broad sr
itself, not more interesting than that, of Barnet in tinlo°
yore ; but unlike that of Barnet, for ,here an avenue turlecil
off to a mansion, a great golden crui;iflx was fixed, tlieLEo
man's testimony to his religion; while further 01 al-to
lofty statues, in marble, of sainted ecolesiastics marl' diets
limit of his estate, and shone far over a telandscape• :opt
were seen lounging abou t the inns andvfl 'ages-011011'4 a at
suggestion of crowded quarters at Chi, which aPPelli:ed by
last in the distance, glimmering over :trees and bnc'e lot
castle ruins on a hill. And there—tit, are are the 1013gtical
lines of the rail I Oh, how different it t their mathern4 oof
rigidity from the soaring, sweeping, toi sing, broken feiDeol
mountain and hill, and the trembling lines of Isit moje6
stream that had been our delight so to ng I— TA° '9°-

Mountains. _
THE CONDEMNED CONVICT PARICER.--.4ftcrt
sentence of death had been passe d upon ro'ke,,n 11,
expressing
receive
the Nottingham assizes he manifested: a perfect indiffer„cied
himself somewhat confide Judy that 10 sh,°pot
a repri‘ve, but complained the t his counsel di', 01
cross-examine the witnesses sufficiently. Since ills 'II,
the gaol chaplain, the Rev. W. Howa: cd, h. as been tor,eflof
ting in his exertions to bring the wretched man to a eisl3o
penitence for the awful crime :se had committed. 110 ;'Dis
reads his Bible with much attention, and appears to fee' jet
awful position. He asked tho ehapl sin if he could °5030
him in getting up a petition to Sir ( leorge Grey 1114'6, do
inhabitants of Fiskerton (the :place o f the tragedy) ''P",cd
neighbourhood, where he was N tell known, but was iofor— ~
by that functionary such a pr oceedilig was out of 1;0 Prot
vince, recommending the prisoner to write to his 001
take
place on Wednesday, the 10tla of August) ill
on the subject. The execution will, it is understoo, '"he
the
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front c
county gaol at Nottingham. ~r est
THE
CROPS IN SCUM WALES,—The .-1
1 ft'
prospects in South Wales are upon the svhci'e i°ll he
promising character, and it i:i expected the crops vl ig iP
fully equal to last year. In m any districts the wl3ctit "x-
,rd
full ear, and the early sown be rley and oats are in a Fars
state. Tho little rain that has t alien during the last feW5 re.
has done a vast amount of goo I, although much rOre.: . of
quired, and there is a general complaint of the scarcl )10
keeep owing to the drought. The greater part of the ba3:itber
been secured in good condition, but the crops Were r
light. • 1-etiog
COPPER ORE SALE.—At the Swanseate. fto
on the 26th the following were the averages °1206,1
copper ore sales :—British produce, CL—do. price, 5.. e
,l 9
—standard, £llO ss. foreign produce, 22--de• prl„,a
l9s—standard, £lOl Is. 'I he average produce ot British
080,
foreign reached 16—average price, £ll s,—avP.44ha
nd•
dard, £lOO 4s. The total salon were 619 tor.s 13r111'
62 tons fareign,