The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-24 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, May 21.
The Queen and her Royal Highness the Princess
Lt;nise drove in the morning to the Balloch Buie.
Zn the afternoon her Majesty, with their Royal
HighneNtes the Princess Leiningen and the Princess
Helena, drove by the Bridge of Dee round by
Aberarder.
TQeir Royal Highnesses Prince Leopold and
Princess Beatrice went to the Fails of Garthalt.

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The Prince and Princess of Wales.
The Prince of Wales rode on horseback yesterday
forenoon, attended by Major Teesdale.
Tho Princess of Wales took a carriage drive,
attended by Lady Morton.
The Prince of Wales visited the Grand Duke of
Mecklenberg Strelitz, at St. James's Palace.
His Royal Highness went to the House of Lords
in the afternoon.:

State Concert,
By command of the Queen, a State Concert was
given last evening at Buckingham Palace, to which
a party of nearly 800 was invited.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, attended by the Countess of Morton, tha
Hon. Mrs. E. Coke, the Marquis of Abercorn, Lord
Harris, Lord Alfred Hervey, the Hon. R. H.
Meade, and Major Teesdale, arrived at the Palace
from Marlborough House shortly before ten o'clock.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary, arrived from St. James's
Palace, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and
Colonel Home Purvis.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
arrived from Gloucester House, attended by Colonel
Tyrwhitt.
His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of ?fleck•
lenburg-Strelitz, arrived from S. James's Palace,
attended by Baron von Plesson.
Her Royal Highnesi the Grand Duchess of Meek-
lenburg-Streli; z, and their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, and the Prin-
cess Marie Isabella, were prevented by indisposition
from being present.

His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen,
and her Royal Highness the Princess of Leiningen,
were also prevented from attending the concert.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied
by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary, the Doke of Cambridge,
and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, con-
ducted by the Lord Chamberlain and the other chief
officers of the Household, and attended by the Ladis
and Gentlemen in Waiting, entered the concert
MOM soon after ten o'clock.
The Marchioness of Ely officiated as Mistress of
the Robes for the Duchess of Wellington, who was
too unwell to attend.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales wore
a black tulle dress, with flounces of tulle and jet
ornaments, and a tunic trimmed with lace and jet.
Head dress, a tiara of jet, with jet ornaments. Her
Royal Highness also wore the Victoria and Albert
badge and the Portuguese Order of Isabella.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
wore a black silk dress trimmed with flounces of
tulle, and covered with a deep lace tunic. heal
dress, a tiara of diamonds and pearls, with white
feathers; stomacher, necklace, and ear-rings, pearls
and diamonds.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary won a
white satin dress, trimmed with tulle and satin
ribbon, covered with a tunic of Brussels lace. Head
dress, a diadem of diamonds and water-lilies.
Stomacher, necklace, and ear-rings of pearls and

diamonds.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales wore
the uniform of a general officer, with the insignia
of the Order of the Garter and of the Star of India.
The Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the
Guard, with their officers, Lieut.-Colonel Cooke, the
Ensign, and Colonel Bourke, the Exon in Waitit:g,
were on duty at the Palace.
As soon as their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of \Vales entered the saloon the con!'
cart commenced.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as
Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, held a levee
yesterday at the Horse Guards, About 120 officers
attended.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and Princess Mary arrived yesterday at their resi-
dence at St. James's Palace, from Cambridge Cot-

age, Kew.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have arrived
.n town from Badminton, Gloucestershire.

The Marquis and Marchioness of AilesburY
arrived at their residence in Pall-mall yester&Y)
from Tottenham Park, near Marlborough.
The Earl and Countess Russell, accompanied by
Lady Georgiana Russell hnd family, arrived at their
residence in Chesham-place yesterday from Pew
broke Lodge, Richmond.
The Earl and Countess of Winchilsea have
arrived at the St. George's Hotel.
The Earl of Carnarvon has returned to town from
visiting the Earl and Countess of Portsmouth.

Tile Countess M. de Pruchoff has arrived at
Long's Hotel.

Lord and Lady Londesborough entertained the
following company at dinner yesterday evening at
their residence in Grosvenor-place :—The Duke 0351
Duchess of Beaufort, Bail Annersley, Viscount and Vis'
countess Grey de Wilton, Sir Henry and Lady Sophia DO
Vceux, Colonel Hon. James and Mrs. Macdonald, Colonel
and Mrs Charles Baring, Hon. F. Calthorpe.
A ROYAL PRESENT FROM AUSTRALIA.—The CO'

toms' authorities at the port of Southampton received an
order from the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty'e
Treasui y on Saturday sanctioning the delivery duty tree of
a magnificent gold casket, bearing an inscription to the
effect that it is a bridal gift from Lady Young and the
ladies of New South Wales to her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales. It measures about Bin. in width IV
about 4in. in depth and across, and is lined with rich velvet'
The ca,ket is ornamented with wreaths of flowers, and tge
xey represents an opossum on a tree, the whole being
solid gold. The workmanship is most beautiful, and the
chasing very elaborate, the casket being altogether one ef
surpassing richness and beauty. It is valued at £7OO, ad
the duty upon it at 17s. per ounce, would amount to quite.
£lOO. This elegant present from the antipodes was brought
to Southampton ty the Peninsular and Oriental Company
steamship Delhi, which arrived there in the early part of
last week with the Australian mails.

THE THAMES POLICE BOAT.—OvViDg to the
rapid progress which is being made by Mr. Kitson, the
contractor for the Thames Embankment between Watt O. )0'
bridge and the eastern end of the Temple-gardens, 0,,a
Royalist, the Thames Police boat, which has been anclovo'ci
for some years past at the end of Norfolk-street, Me
yesterday to shift her quarters lower down the river. rto
Royalist is one of the vessele which went out to t

ArrctAicurLegaiomnsEisnTsAeAarychDofESpior
sJioThsn F(lrBan6klcic—. A
return
" of the Amount invested in the Public Funds, Exchalter
Bills, and Cash, to the Account of the Accountant-O°Z
ral, as Deposits on the Railway Bills presented to I'srmi
ment during the present Session," states that the al,°:11,19;,
of cash deposited was £667,335 15s 8d; Exchequer 13'.^-1"
£578,800, and stock transferred, £5,076,754 1s 7cl; t°t"
£6,322,889 17s 3d. t Of
SPREAD OF SPECULATION.—A corresponctex—
a Boston paper gives the following account of 1131:
ladies of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York :—" They ‘vt.'l,o
all talking stocks. A parcel of young brokers live to 01
house, and every evening they were sent over to tile A evot
bole' to execute the commissions of the ladies. I di' OS
ask any of their husbands what they thought of
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arrangement. A lady took me in tow, and we sailed d`'teill.,
the drawing-room, looking and listening to what was to
done and said. Jenny,' said a very pretty votra' jets
another, You'd better buy some Michigan Southeriliriody
sure to go up to 140.' Now, Lizzy,' replied ber ,t
It's no use for you to be bulling the market. I dorelorted
lieve any such a thing." Oh, you horrid bear, you, tovo
Lizzy, you've been selling short, you knew Y°llrt from'
So we passed along, hearing conveisation of this 5° iv or
women who held stock-lists in their hands, and eage,r
and
quired if their brokers had returned from the coalhoi,raia
what they had done." If this be true, what are we c_s°
to ? Are we about to turn into a nation of gal-abl:a: lots
make a second Baden-Baden of New York? If
and matrons indulge in this dangerous game of beg,f,'ll;ooo
neighbour, the next generation will come honestlY_edjubt-
by a wholesale mania for throwing dice, and Will
u'._‘tead
edly erect statues to Fortune or to Secretary Chase,
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of to the heroes of the war,—.Nov York Paper'