The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-15 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, July 14.
The Queen, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold,
attended by the Countess of Caledon and Colonel
the Hon. A. Hardinge, drove out in a carriage and
four.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
The Prince of Wales attended by Lord Alfred
Hervey and Captain Grey, went to Windsor yes'
terday afternoon, where his Royal Highness pre•
sided at the annual meeting of the Prince ConeorL s
Association, and distributed the prizes given by the
Association.

The Princess of Wales took a 'carriage drive.
Their Royal Highncesss went to Her Majesty's
Theatre in the evening.
In attendance were the Hon, ?Ira, Stoner and,
Captain Grey.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Their Royal Nigh.
nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales honoured
the performances at Her Majesty's Theatre with their Pre'
Bence yesterday (Thursday) evening. The suite in attend'
ance upon their royal highnesses comprised the Marchiouf es
of Abercorn, the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, and Captain Grey. The
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland had the honour ot aceow
partying their royal highnesses. Among the distinguished
visitors honouring the theatre with their attendance on this
occasion were—the Earl and Countess of Wertmurelanci,
the
Countess of Hardwicke and the Ladies Yorke, the Viscount
Daub", the Viscount and Viscountess Gort, the Hoe'
Maurice Portman, the Hon. 0 way Toler, the Hon. Elliot
Yorke, Lady Jane Repton, Lady Barnard, Lady Lawls9
Captain Bateson, Lord Gadafort, Mr Charles Brett, it°
Lattey, &e.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will honour the Duke and Duchess of
Buccleuch with their company at dinner to-morrow even'
ing at their villa residence at Richmond, at 6 o'clock.
select party has been invited to meet their Royal High'
nesses in the evening at 8 o'clock to a small and orb'
dance,
THE EX-QUEEN MARIE AMELIE.—This vener'
able lady and suite will leave Claremont to-day Or
Tunbridge-wells, where they will pass the season. 1118
ex-Queen and party will proceed to Waterloo Station V
the South-Western railway, thence to London-bridge
minus, en route for her destination. The usual residence
occupied by her ex• Majesty, Chancellor House, Dloultt
Ephraim, has been prepared for bar reception. The Dillt°
and Duchess of Montpensier also take their departure i°t
Tunbridge wells to-day.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn re'
ceived at dinner last evening at Chesterfield Houso the
Duke and Duchess of Richmond, the Countess Cowper 04
Lady Florence Cowper, the Earl and Countess of Dalteitb'
the Earl Granville, the Earl of Listowel, Viscount 110311;
ton, Lord Claud Hamilton, Lord Dunkellin, Sir Edward
and Lady Caroline Kerrison and Mies Chaplin, Colonel
Tower, Dr. Quin, Mr Oswald and Miss Oswald, &e.
The Countess of Sefton, the Earl of Sefton, 911°'
Lady Cecilia Molyneux win leave Grosvenor-place to-Or.
row for their seat, Croxteth Park, Lancashire.
The Earl and Countess Cawdor and the Ladies
Campbell will leave town to-day on a tourin Germany.
Viscount and Viscountess Holtnesdale have left
town for their seats near Sevenoaks.
Lord Ravensworth and family have left town for
Ravensworth Castle, Gateshead.
Lord and Lady Wharncliffe have left Culla"

street for Wortley Hall, Yorkshire.
Lord and Lady Abercromby will leave town 64
Wednesday next tor their seat in Scotland.
Lady Emily Foley hu left town for Stoke Edith
Park, Herefordshire.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland's piglet/
at Chiswick have commenced for the season. The duchl
will shortly remove to Cliveden-park, near Maidentiel"
Bucks.

NEVER SAY DlE!—The Ministry spared no eV/
to bring up their men. Baron Rothschild,
member for the City of London, had been absent from tl'"
house for two years, owing to illness, but come down is tll,l°
Monday before the division ; however, his strength fail':
him, and he left immediately. Wi,h a great effort 00,J
brought him down on the night of the division, and carried
him in behind the Speaker's chair. But the most wets'/;
choly instance of pros-ure was in the case of Lord Reber.
Clinton, a brother of the Duke of Newcastle. He 04
brought on a stretcher to the cloisters, and carried ups 011°.
to the Treasury-office—when the division bell first rang 1/,"
was brought to the door of the house, bat the whips tentl7
they did not want him—he was then too weak to go bite,'
to the Treasury-office, and was laid down in the 1011
under the care of Mr. Agar-Ellis. At last the final
die
sion came, and Lord Robert Clinton was carried in-
was, however, too weak to stand up or pass through 1,'":
wicker, so they laid him down on his mattress beagle tP'
clerks, and allowed him to put his hand on the wicket so
form to denote his presence. In this way the sick ea"'
ber gave his vote. 'There were 9 members of the Colter;
vative side ill, but no such attempt was made at the tie!'
life, to to catch a party victory.—London Letter in the 'hair
chester Courier.
EXTRAOEDINARY ESCAPE." An Eyewitue°
writes to a contemporary :—I have to record one °I.
the must extraordinary escapes from death I ever heard
llOa
read of, and which but for the promptitude, energy, fid
coolness of one individual must have enued fatally ter 6fr,
bureau lives. To-day the canal boat Lincolnshire, beludgit
to the trustees of the Duke of Bridgewater, Capt. Thos
Whitehouse, Whitehouse, which was proceeding on her 7oyage 0°1"
Wolverhampton to Bilston, laden with 228 sacks of grsiPP
when opposite Mr Major's chemical works, Munmore:
green,Wolverharapion, and while going round a very
curve in the canal, was caps'zed, being pulled conaPoteel
P"
bottom upwards, in consequence of the horse attaell";
thereto having passed on the wrong side of the telegre
posts, being brought back by the man, escaping from hit:
and running suddenly to the stretch of the line. The
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tain's wife and three children, the eldest of whom Is e1913,,.c,
six years Old, were at this time in the cabin of the h°-}i
which was completely submerged in about five or ail feet
water, and to all appearance their escape from death
impossible; but it fortunately happens that Mr Major era
ploys a bow builder, who being at work near at hand, s'3o
seeing what had ^ccurred, immediately ran and julliPedhcyr
:he bottom of the boat, at the same time sending stwt-,ee
man for his axe. In the meantime the boat slightly alte
re
her position, showing about 15 inches of the side of tilea
bottom of the cabin. Monk (the boaebuilder) then Pl'ect,
his ear close to the exposed side, and, listening for a see°l34-
marked the place where the poor creatures were, and et
commenced to cut throu7o. her timbers (three inch o','"
and in about the space of 10 minutes made an oPerlitrij:; ,
through which a tiny hand immediately grasped the br°%.o
planks; and, as the hole increased in size, so the rao,e
eagerly were both mother's and children's hands thrust Ot,liit
thus rendering the task of the deliverer more difficult ; ,
t of
at length the hole was made sufficiently large to pers°'"
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the bringing out of the youngest ceild, an infant ci,
months, and in about 2U minutes from the time the
dent occurred the whole of the imperilled family were ',el
leased, and taken on board one of Mr Major's heeta
cared for. I can assure you, Sir, it would take an abler qe
than mine to describe the affecting incidents of the ape
than
from beginning to end, but I certainly am of- opinion td,el
so are all who witnessed the catastrophe) t. at if the ra'ui.
of the Humane Society is ever given for prouipti tude,
OdOyß
ness, and energy in the hour of danger, it terra tnly 10 so
to the efforts of the man Joseph Monk, who displayed °lel;
qualities in the highest degree I have to ado that
efforts were seconded most efficiently by the cooper of
Major's establishment, Christopher Hutton.
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SALMON BREEDING IN AUSTRALIA ,--The -foot
bourne correspondent of the Times writes -
great salmon-hatching experiment is proceeding gas,
prosperously. The bulk of the late consignment et A°os
per the Norfolk, are forwarded to Tasmania. Bree,T
ponds, according to the newest piecicultural lighter 'lest
ben there prepared for the precious charge, and, °Yager
advices, many young salmon had burst tro m the evroi
and many thousands more were expected. The t opt
ova, also, were doing equally well. Smell as 15 rot'
own portion of this enterprise, it is not the less lute end
ing. It is conducted by cur Acclimatisation SuoietYP eof
an ice-making factory at North Melbourne is the sceildea
operations. A sort of inclined plane of pans, hell -,011)
with gravel, is so placed as to allow a continuous stiicl3,
of water from melting ice to ripple over each pan, in the
spread upon the gravel,lie the ova. These ova are ah°ll-pitte
size of small peas, and aro of a pale rose colour. 601:at: oget
or ten of them have died each day, but a bcut ten d°l- The
among the births appeared the first salmon in Austral'''e-v. 13e14
Argus had a leader upon the illustrious young atro
How ho looked, how he struggled and wriggled-I'4 /1%01
so long as a finger-nail, with the adherent torn ovlo3 09
hanging about him—and how he went to sleep as
da de'
he could plunge into the gravel, were all faiths" be
scribed. Day by day bulletins issued, announcing 1100/
was getting on, until one irreverent and eceptical 'e
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ventured to doubt whether he was a salmon at '311;010
piously insinuating that the proprietor of the ice"; the
had slipped a tadpole into one of the pans to 11°5-g
,e 0
President
of the Acclimatisation Society, and asserler'elieee
time would yet show the first Australian salmon t°
5000
four legs. Since this scandalous assertion, however, boo
150 or 160 other metamorphoses from eggs to Ole tee
taken place ; all are healthy and strong, and es I'tot.
nature of the creature), aro gradually absorbing the eyirpg
dant ova which once contained them. The first "I_o
salmon parr does after he breaks 4om his prison is to "