The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-17 00:00:00

CRACOW.

street.

A letter from Cracow has the following :—"The
sudden arrival in this city of Count Mensdorff
Pouilly has had the effect of imparting activity to
the zeal of the local authorities in their campaign
against the Polish element in Gallicia. The last
females arrested were the Countess Marie Tarnowski
and the Countess Zaluske, grand-niece of Thaddeus
Koscineko, the most illustrious patriot of Ancient
Poland. The Governor-General declares that he will
adopt the moat egvere measures to make them con-
fess their complicity with the National Government.
The men are treated no better, M. Bentkowski, the
eminent deputy of the Berlin Parliament, who has
been detained for 10 months in an unwholesome cell
without having undergone any interrogation,is dying
of an affection of the lungs. Gen. Kruszwski, for-
merly in the Belgian service, but since settled in
Gallicia for several years, is also ill and deprived of
any assistance from his family. Lastly, General
Count Joseph Ziluska, a veteran of the First Em-
pire, has just been torn from the works of art and
history to which he was devoting the remainder of
his life. A companion of Napoleon I, he was en
gaged in analysing and describing with talent the
wars and combats of which he had been a witness.
His interrogatory commenced on the 27th ult, in
the criminal prison of Przumysl. The following is
an official report of the extraditions published by
the German journal of Cracow :-275 inhabitants
of the kingdom delivered up to the Russian autho-
rities (the journal takes care to add that 46 were
handed over by constraint) ; 359 expelled, probably
to France; 217 sent for fixed residence lionce9gs-
gratz in Bohemia, and 80, belonging to different
❑ations, sent to their respective countries, This is
the official return, but it is very far from attaining
the real number, which we shall give when an op-
portunity presents itself."

FRUIT PROSPECTS IN DEVON.—The country ge-
nerally, and North and East Devon in particular, is
looking remarkably well juet now. The late fine growing
showers came just when they were wanted. lino unusually
severe frosts come on, the prospect for fruit of every kind is
a most excellent one. It is long since such a splendid dis-
play of apple blossom has been see-r. ; the trees and even
whole orchards ate one mass of bloom. Pears are likely to
be abundant and are set, some of the young fruit already
measuring two inches round.—Cherries, too, are forward,
some being an inch and a half round. There is every pros-
pect of plenty of garden fruit,—Tiverton Gazette.
TIGERS IN SINGAPORE.—Captain Nelson, of the
Madras Presidency, induced by the unceasing ac-
counts appearing in the newspapers of the dreadful de-
struction of human beings in Singapore occasioned by tigers,
has written to the Government to suggest that an attempt
might be made to poison the brutes by means of strychnine.
He mentions a case in which ho succeeded in destroying a
tiger, together with a great many vultures, jackals, dogs,
&c., by putting strychnine on the carcass of a buffalo which
the tiger had killed and only partly consumed, and to which
he returned to complete his meal. The method recom-
mended by Captain Nelson is about being tried here by the
commissioner of police, and eve hope it will be found suc-
cessful, although there are doubts on the point, as repeated
attempts have been made in Singapore to poison tigers, but
without any good result. Dogs have been tied up in the
jungle in places resorted to by tigers, their necks having
been previously shaved and rubbed with strychnine, means
being taken to prevent their liekieg off the poison. Calves
have also been tethered in the jangle with their necks pre-
pared in the same manner ; but none of the experiments
succeeded, although Item the marks of tigers' feet all round
the bait in several instances it was apparent that their no-
tice had been attrac'ed to it. In one or two cases strych-
nine has also been placed on the bodies of persons killed by
cigers, but the tigers did not again touch them ; indeed, en
;re assured it has been generally observed that in Singapore
tigers do not return to eat bodies, wieether of men or beasts,
which they have only partly consumed.—Singapore _Free
Press, April 7.

61111

IiER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Saturday.

The Queen, Accompanied by her Royal Highness the
Princess Helena, and the Prince and the Princess of
Leinirgen, arrived at Balmoral at half-past three this day.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Louise, the Princess
Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, with the Princess Alberta of
leiningen, and the Royal suite, arrived shortly after,
Lady Churchill, the Lacy in Waiting, joined the Royal
train at Oxford.

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The Prince and Princess of Wales.

l'h3 Prince and Princess 6f Wales, attended by the Hon.
Mrs. W. Grey and Mejor Teesdale, went in the forenoon
yesterday to see Mr. Holman Hunt's picture in Hanover-

The Prince rode on horseback, attended by 'Major Tees
dale.

The Princess of \Vales took a carriage drive, attended
by the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by Lord
Harris, the Hon, W. and Mrs. Grey, and Major Teesdale,
went in the evening to the concert given by the Philhar-
monic Society at the Hanover-square Rooms,

The Dake of Somerset, the First Lord of the
dtniralty, will entertain a large party of naval and civil
officers attached to his department on Tuesday next, at his
official residence at the Admiralty, Whitehall.
The Duke of Devonshire and Lsdy Louisa
Cavendish left Devonshire House on Saturday last for
Chatsworth, Derbyshire, to pass the holidays.
The Duke of Marlborough has left town to meet
his yacht in the Southampton Water, in order to take a
cruise in the Channel. During his cruise his grace will
visit Cherbourg and other parts of the coast of France.

The E trl of C.trnarvon leaves town to-day on a
visit to the Earl and Countess of Portsmouth, at Hurst-
bourn Park. The countess will remain :n town.

The EArl of Wilton left Grosvenor-tcpare
day for Badminton, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Beaufort during the Bath race meeting.

The Earl of Coventry, Viscount Canterbury, the
Earl Annesley, Viscount Curzon, Captain Hnn. Frederick
Curzon, Sir Joseph Hawley, Sir Henry I)es Vceux, Colone 1
Hon; James Macdonald, Colonel Hon. H. Forester, Captai
Leslie, Mr C. Greville, Mr Payne, Mr W. G. Craven, and
a large party have left town for the Bath races, and will be
among the guests at Badminton.

The Earl de Grey, as Secretary of State for War,
will give a full-dress banquet on Tuesday next, at his man-
sion in Carlton-gardens, to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge and a distinguished party connected with the
military department over which the noble earl has control,
in celebration of her Majesty's birthday.

The Earl of Powis is expected to return to town
towards the close of the week from doing duty with the
yeomanry.

The Earl Russell, the Secretary of State far the
Foreign Department, will give a full. dress dinner to the
foreign ambassadors on Tuesday next, in celebration of the
Queen's birthday,

We understand that the marriage of Lady Con.
stance Villiers, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess
of Clarendon, with Captain the Hon. Frederick A. Stanley
(the Grenadier Guards), youngest son of the Earl and
Countess of Derby, will take place on the 31st inet

Loid and Lldy Dufferin have left the Palace
Hotel, Buckingham-gate, for Clandeboy, Ireland, for a few
days.

The marriage of Lord Frederick Cavendish,
second son of the Duko of Devonshire, and the Hon. Lucy
Lytcleton, second daughter of Lord Lyttleton, and Maid of
Honour to the Queen, is appointed to be solemnised on the
7th of the ensuing month.
Tins MARQUIS OF AILESBURY is recovering
from his recent indisposition, which prevented his Lordship
attending at Court.

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE is better. His
Grace of late has derived much benefit from tranquil nights,
and has regained much of his lost strength.
THE ACCOUNTS OF THE VENERABLE EARL
RADNOR are such as to give uneasiness to his friends.
Lady C. Bulk& y (his Lordship's only child by his first
marriage with Lady Catherine Pelham Clinton) has gone

to Coleshill, where Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone
are expected,

TUE EARL HOWL 13 considerably better, and is
ast recovering from his recent indisposition.

Drinking Fountains,