The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-01 00:00:00

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Departure of their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Princess Mary of Cambridge for
Germany.

Their Royal Highnesses and suite left last night by the
8.30 p.m mail train of the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway from ictoria station for Dover, where they em-
barked immediately for Calais on board the London,
Chatham, and Dover Company's special mail packet the
Wave. Their Royal Highnesses were received at Victoria
and Dover by the principal officers of the railway company,
The train ran for the first day on the Admiralty Pier at
Dover, alongside the mail packet. We understand that
both the morning and evening mail trains of the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway Company will in future
land and embark the mails and passengers and their bag-
gage to and from the trains and mail paokete at the Admi-
ralty Pier, thus entirely superseding the use of small boats
and saving the transit to and from the packet and railway.
This will be a greatboon to travellers on dark and boisterou s
nights, and save them the expense of cab or omnibus hire,
and the well-known exactions of that almost now defunct
body of plunderers, the Dover town porters.

Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie
of Russia, his Excellency Count Strogonoff, and Countess
Tolstoy, have left Claridge's Hotel for Torquay,
His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador has left
Bryanston-square for Edinburgh. Madame Musurus and
daughters have arrived at Paris en route to Germany.
His Excellency Count Szielen has left Claridge's
Hotel for Paris.

The Earl and Countess of Lichfield are about to
receive a succession of visitors at their seat, Shugborough,
Staffordshire.

The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, accompanied by
Lord George Hamilton, have left Chesterfield Ileum) to
join the Countess at Tunbridge Wells.
The Countess of Dalkeith will leave town to-day
for Scotland.

The Countess of Jersey arrived in Berkeley-square
yesterday from Osterley Park. Her ladyship will shortly
leave town for Brighton.
The Countess Craven and the Ladies Craven have
returned to Ashdowne Park, Berke, from a tour of visits.
Viscountess Stratford de Radcliffe has arrived at
Oxon Heath, Tunbridge, Kent, on a visit to Sir William
and Lady Geary.

Lord and Lady Forester, who arrived in London
a few days since from the Continent, left town yesterday
for their seat, Willey Park, Salop.
THE DUKE OF HAMILTON.—The Bulletin de Lois
publishes a decree, maintaining and confirming in favour of
William Alexander Louis Stephen, Duke of Hamilton, the
hereditary title of Duke do Ohatollerault, created by Henry
11., King of France, in favour of James Hamilton, Earl of
Arran.

MAP AND CENSUS 1861.—A1l of us have a lively
recollection of au inquisitorial government paper being left
at our residences in April, 1861, requiring our christian
and surname, profession, and age; from which even the
fair sex were not exempt. The collection we imagined was
for the weal of the State, hut are now agreeably surprised
at the same being placed before us in a personally interest-
ing form. This manipulation of otherwise dry figures has
been brought out in the form of a map of England, that
shows on the railways the various towns, with the popula-
tion according to the last census; the counties are tinted
and their names prominently coloured, so that the ready
student, or the interested rustic, instantly traces his native
place, the rail by which it is reached, and the number of
the human family there located. 1n addition, we observe
against each place the name of the agent of Messrs Ilorni-
man, who have caused this map of such wide-spread utility
to be prepared, and exhibited for public view at the vatic/iv
railway statious throughout the kingdom,

LI

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Son and and Heir. A Novel. Three Vols. Hurst

and Blackett.

If this is a first work, it promises well for the
future excellence of its author. The story is
ingeniously conceived and powerfully told. It
is not a sensational novel, and yet it is
likely to awaken in the minds of its readers
sensations of interest, as well as of syrn.
pathy and sorrow far deeper and keener than
are usually aroused by the novels aspiring to that
reputation. The story turns upon an. act of sub-
lime self-sacrifice on the part of the hero—a
sacrifice mitigated by no alluring inducements.
No public demonstrations of sympathy, no friendly
applause or admiration reward him, even his own
" self-approving hour" is dimmed by perplexity
Everard Chalcoto, the hero of this tale of trial, the
" Son" whose filial affections are the source of
poignant ellitction, the " Heir" whose inheritance
is grief and desolation—is the only child of
Sir Hugh Chalcote, of Chalcote Place, Bart.
" Unstable as water," Sir Hugh, with his
kind heart and generous impulses, fatally
errs in the most important crisis of his life—
he " sows the wind" and the " whirlwind" is reaped
not by his hand, but by that of his ill-fated heir,
While Sir Hugh, who "means well," is always in-
tending to do right, Everard, his son, we are told,
"does his duty without thinking of it, and lives a
noble life without knowing it." Here is a fuller
portrait of— . .