The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-20 00:00:00

11 E 2, MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. Feb..
The Queen and Princess Helena walked and
drove yesterday mornirg.
The Hon. Harriett Phipps has -4ucceededthellolll
Emma Llseelles as Maid of Honour in Waitivg.

The Prince and Princess of Wales'
ST. LEONARDS, Feb. 19.
The ioten,s;ed run with the East Sussex fog'
hounds did not take place this morning, a 8h3113,
frost during the night, accompanied by faquen'
fells of snow. having made the earth so hard ag
to be unsafe for hunting purposes. Mr. Carteift
the master, had made every preparation for earrs';
ing out the proposed arrangements bad his 1031
Highness the Prince of Wales desired the honads
to be laid on. The place of meet was the gar°
Inn, Baldsloe, about three miles from liantiqs;
on the summit of an extensive ridge of hills, alongl
which the road from Hastings to Battle is carried
i
On this bleak spot from two to three thousal
persons had assembled, presenting some such
scene as that described on the occasion of the meet
e
at Sidley Green on Tuesday, About noon t:a
prince caused a very kind message to be forwaruel
to Mr. Curteis, intimating that he thought it wcirlis
be unwise to hunt that day, as it would be dangerls
to the riders as well as to the dogs. The 11"°„8
were then taken back to the kennels, and the lea
number of horsemen, carriage occupants, and Pe°.
trians gradually retired.
The cold of the morning has been followed birias
genial afternoon, during which the sun has 511°,'d
warmly and brilliantly, and the change has enab.`e3
her Royal Highness the Princess to take a clricds
along the sea front, in a close carriage, for uPvfar
of an hour.
There has not been so cold a temperature saps'
rienced in the month of February in this place
ea
years. Generally speaking, at this time of Ye is
the temperature is several degrees higher than re
on the adjacent hills, rendering the atoacsPbefor
enjoyable to the many invalids who flock here
winter residence.
The Prince of. Wales took walking exercise, atri
companied by Mej)r Teesdale, to the eastern P.
of Hastings, both in the forenoon and aftern°°,3ut
Tcemorrew, it is believed (according to Preseg.
arrangements), the royal party will visit Mr. h'
Curteis, at his seat near Harstmenceaux.
Dr. Sieceking returned to town this morning'

iioOr
DENIS DUVAL is announced as the title ei r.
Thackeraps last " Unfinished Story," now fcrtheoll3l:3o
(the first of the tour parts of it) in the March number of

Cornhill. made,
71.1 E ROYAL BABY.—A locket has been of
studded with gems, to contain a small particle of the hair
the infant Prince, for a gift t the Queen .11 be
The King of the 13elgio ans, it is thought)
one of the sponsors to the Infant Prince.
We understand that it marriage is to ta
2`Lie
between Captain J. G. Hamilton, late of the :‘,R lot
Guards, and Lady Emily Melville, youngest daugur

the late Earl of Leven and Melville. - ' • g
M. de Falloux is at present engaged in prePSr.-
itife.
for publication a number of letters of the Abb6 Lacoro
Mr. Charles Dickens has consented to presii:iipt
the annual dinner of University College Hospital at 14"
Rooms on Tuesday, April 12. pt
M. JULES JaNIN has finally resolved to re: tile
himself for election in place of M. Alfred de Vigil 8-
French Academy. a Of
DEXTEROUS SWORDSMEN.—An eye-witne
the assault of arms the other day at the St. J''lnellsoo
hall, writes :—lf I were under sentence, say for tressff
(horrible supposition), and my head was to be cut °T., ad
should, as a last request, send my compliments to C°4l/10.
St. John, and beg him to do me the friendly ofgee.s,,,o
,
dexterity would almost reconcile one to the circun'—
of
He would not take two blows. He rivalled the fe3/4tsion
Saladin with his scimitar ; those of Richard of the ord
Heart with his mighty two-handed weapon, and his Stlkoagand'
equalled the feats of the mythical Excalibar. 3
kerchiefs dropped in the air were deftly cut in tw; •rS)
single stroke. Ribands (I hope they came from C°/-1,1;rod
were cut into fragments. Thick bars of lead were se'r-oas
with single strokes. A whole sheep, hung upon et colors
with much ceremony by the guardsmen, was Cll4 fl'a
cleanly than ever was sheep by the knife and' s and
butcher. Then an apple was tied in a handker°b'ih,
cut into two pieces at one blow, without a thread of 1"1,10
being severed. Corporal-Major Waite did this, seuA rhit
the " Charley Napier" feat. This is a verY 091/ his
feat. One guardsman laid an apple in the palut,sliG
hand, and the other took a sharp-edged sword and ':tDas
in two without cutting the hand at all, and this WO"
once. a 0°
DEVASTATION MADE IN THE RAM'S
~,,,,911
NOBILITY, titled and untitled, during the In
" Thirty Years' War" of the White and Red ildse,-;stert
the thirteen battles fought between York and 14,,,5e-diaors
fromr, that of St. Albans, in 1455, to that on P_stiggie6
own, near Bosworth, in 1485,—in nine of which struggle
flos
the Yorkists were the victors, yet they ultimata lost
great prize at Bosworth,—there perished in flght',,b,lB,
der, or under the axe, two kings, four pri'l-,-„; s4s‘
dukes, two marquises, one•and-twenty earls, t' tallY
counts, and seven-and-twenty barons. To til:sttotr
be added, one lord- prior, one judge, one hundred and was°
nine knights, all noble; four hundred and le raaetle'
esquires, the eldest sons of knights, and a bodY °L tPly, the
man, or untitled nobility, of coat-armour and aucesutober
number of whom is variously stated, but which ooldierS'
being incorporated with the death-roll of private and
rho
try's bs'
swelled the great total to nearly eighty-six
Such was the cost to the country of that coustrYedaja
blood, shed in a quarrel which, after all, ended intiw
by way of compreniiee. n t e/erja
INDIAN FATALISM,—In this universe -0 Willed
straw shakes with the wind unless it Were sc)ii?
before. Fate rules supreme—what avails muffs tale 0:
is weak, who strong, who good, who bad, exceP
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predestined to be so ? Mortal ruen and immortal
ii yet'
that much is in them—nothing is beyond 0.5 lea
verily, they ere puppets, under the control of sts/3"iii it ll'
hands of Ono above. Yes I this world is a stage "joisible's
act as we are bidden: the I'ower that directs us is
dase,
He alone knows why we dance, cease to dance, 3 prOfif,il
again; to Him alone is it plain why some are asitta
others oppressed; why this quarrel arose between. ',I. his Is".
Wis Wamitra, and why Arichandra is to euffor doe!
noconce and purity of heart. .Let Ilisll b°
oitig
Arichandia. Or cr
THE ANTI-GERMAN TOAST.--T-- 0 rer° g
Advertiser, in referring to the writer of thrroorelo,
given in our columns of yesterday, emphaticelll
0ur..0000P,1
the truth of its statement. We do so, says u
se'ver:e
racy, from the very best information, derived fl ra
sources ; and should the denial of the accuracyoo 10 tip
graph be persisted in we shall be more sPec'
meantime, suffice it to say, that the terms ix% boa er
toast alluded to was proposed were, as may errs
ferred from the wording of our paragraph, rat., evee
than we described them to be. It is due to out
lot
contemporary to state, that he does not eilaars,Ditsmio
originating the story of "The Toast." 11, t we 'felt
" the piece of gossip was going about," Old ,t'fot 10°1,00'
only given it " currency." But we aboulu not 0 vie
it right to give the story "currency," 113c1 dot arras'
assured of its accuracy. We repeat, therefore,strieof
stated on the subject, and a good deal more/ la the c,O
THE URDER AT LEICESTER.-"Sr°o bor°",io
quiries made by Sergeant Wright, echot 005
police force, it is quite coma/wive that t:.obleSiedd,
Upton, whose body was found bearing uulnse'3,eiolis fleotit
of violence, floating iu the canal on rho pall, eurosotal,
has been brutally murdered. On gr. ot lief 10,11,
carefully examining the body, he discovered tb f the 5.„.01
about six inches in length, down the centr.se°o pre,0:1110
and also the gash on the hip, had evidentlYhut.
Na 'teC
by some sharp instrumeat, probably 0 lot° c,
afar
at
next to the ear and an ,ther on the side ".eels 1110 , tos
cauecd by a job with a blunt pied of irl'af; the rite Da
case the poker seems to bave broken one °
siovcar
cca
other ribs are also broken, and the bodY,
111,* oiotireitotO°
been frightfully mutilated. From the i3ei°..o. ,feeocc
.a dor;
by Sergeapt Wright, and the singular Girthti3O,2.3s; t
iariqiry had been made by the parent 3 ofthe 1:obodY
log the three weeks ho has been missing, ',riot:s te
the woun4s appear to have boon caused Pre, whorl
Cl,ireet'
going thrown into the water, the doceasecrr'ia pove
11,4
-Upton, a framework knitter, now living, on a ° 10
was apprehended on 'Wednesday evelli.rl,..°s takes beevalea
perpetrating the crime. The prer;er cl9,:tice) 1:v
magistrates on a hursday morning, ds of ju'le rho
(which to publish would defeat the enior, b.i"civert `aft
boon received, he wee remanded till 11107,
the priet Oa,
ceased was missed, about three weeks 6gtreet (11e$
cif to 0° ,13„1,0
then lived in B,;rkley-street, Craven.!
_eroore t
of the canal where the body was Mlua)r!eisee3
street, and lately to the place of l'isoL pink 55,011
th
police have taken pos;ossion of u c farther tody,
found the prisclaer',l hor_se, and 3:t tbe:3
peon,i,sei bf:in;,;made. iin iD (1'1,0e.; s o bErs,At, `sae
prLA:l4teil 6noeiiiug rippee.ranec, w 0010001,,,
jovy LL it
ecroner, I`,lr, J. Gre4erv, nt the AOl to ;irk
Thurscl..ly eveni:,., and after mew, bee,
&nee ...;;; to tine of the LOY "`'
adjourn td,—Le6cfs ill crew- y.