The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-01 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

During the past week the progress of her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales towards complete
recovery has been uninterrupted—thanks to a good
constitution and the care and attention of her me-
dical attendants and those around her. Should the
health of the princess continue as good as it is at
present, and the weather admit of it, it is not un-
likely that her royal highness will be enabled to
take some little out-door exercise in the course of
the ensuing week. The young prince is also quite
well, and is making as good progress as can be
expected. He is extremely like the Prince of
IV ales.

In return for the generous hospitality with
which the Prince of Wales has shown to the offi-
cers of the garrison of this town, his royal highness
was invited by Lieut... Colonel Baillie and the officers
of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) to a banquet,
which took place on Saturday evening in the mess-
room of the cavalry bat racks, at Spital. A distin-
guished company were present, covers being laid for
between 20 and 30 guests, among whom were
Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Lieu.-Colonel H.
S. Baillie, Captain Gray, Captain R. W. Bulkeley,
the officers of the Royal Horse Guards, &c.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Princess Mary, and the Duchess of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, arrived at Frogmore on Fri-
day morning, on a visit, and lunched with the
Prince and Princess of Wales. The royal visitors,
attended by Colonel Powis, left Frogmore in the
afternoon, and drove in one of the royal carriages to
the Datchet station of the London and South
Western Railway, by which line they returned to
Kew.

His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen Las left
Frogmore on the expiration of his visit to the
Prince of Wales.

Earl Granville, the Lord President of her
Majesty's Privy Council, arrived yesterday at
Frogmore on a visit to the Prince of Wales.
Yesterday afternoon his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, accompanied by Earl Granville,
Lieutenant-General Knollys, and the Lady-in-
Waiting on the Princess of Wales, and attended by
Captain G. H. Grey, visited the Chapel Royal of St.
George's, Windsor, and attended the half-past four
o'clock service. The service was conducted by the
Dean of--Windsor, the Rev. Seymour Neville, and
minor canons.

It is most probable the University of Cambridge
will be honoured with a state visit from the Prince
and Princess of Wales in the course of the ensuing
May term, and arrangements for their fitting
reception are already under consideration at some
of the colleges. _

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, with the members of
the Royal family now at Osborne, will return to Windsor
on Friday next for the season.— Court Journal.
THE CHRISTENING OF THE INFANT PRINCE will
take place at Buckingham Palace on the 10th March, the
wedding day of its Royal parents. The first two names of
the young Prince will be Albert and Victor.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED joined
the annual symposium academicum of the University of
Edinburgh, held on Friday night in the Douglas
Hotel.
VISIT OF THE QUEEN OF DENMARK.—We un-
derstand that her Majesty the Queen of Denmark
and the Princess Mary are expected to arrive in this country
at the close of this or early in the ensuing month from
Copenhagen on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales, in order to be present at the chris-
timing of the infant prince.

THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA has gone to Denmark
with the Prussian army, though he will not take any ac •

ive command during the war.

THE KING OF PORTUGAL has just sent to the
Duke de Morny the insignia of the Grand Cross of the
Order of the Tower and Sword.

THE COUNT DE PARIS has gone to Madrid, on
matrimony bent. He will afterwards pay a visit to Barce-
lona, where the Count d'Eu is serving as an officer in the
Spanish artillery.

The Duke of Cleveland has arrived in town from
Raby Castle, Durham.

The Earl of Warwick passed through town on
Saturday from Warwick Castle, on his way to join the
countess and family at Worthing.

The Earl Granville, after the Cabinet Council
on Saturday, left town on a visit to his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales at Frogmore. The noble earl will return
to town to- day.
The End and Countess of Carnarvon will arrive
in town to-morrow from Highelere Castle, near Newbury,
for the season. The noble earl is engaged to dine at the
Earl of Derby's parliamentary dinner on Wednesday next.
The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey has greatly
mended in health during the last two days. At one
pesiod the countess was in a very dangorgus condition, but
since Friday the medical accounts have been more favour-
able, and according to the report yesterday her ladyship is
in a fair way to recovery.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained
his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess
Apponyi, his Excellency Count Lavradio, the Earl and
Countess Russell, Viscountess Jocelyn and Hon. Misses
Jocelyn, Count Flahault, the Right IL,n. William and Mrs.
Cowper, Mr. H. Calcraft, the Right Hon. Sir Henry L,
Bulwer, and a select circle•at dinner en Saturday evening,
at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. A small party assembled
after dinner.

Lady Elcho and infant are progressing favour-
ably.

Sir John Henniker-Major Bart., of Stratford-
upon• Slaney, has left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn• street,
for Paris.

Mr. R. S. Holford, M.P., and Mrs. Holford are
expected to arrive at Dorchester House, Park-lane, to-
morrow, from their seat in Goucestershire.

The POPE recently gave audience to Captain
Grant, the discoverer of the sources of the Nile, and ap-
peared to be much interested in the maps submitted to him
by that intrepid explorer and his accounts of those tropical
regions.

We understand that a marriage is arranged, and
will shortly take place, between Major Bourchier, 62d Light
Infantry, son of the late Lieutenant-General James Claud
Bourchier, and Miss Harriette Curzon, second daughter of
the Hon. Edward Cecil Curzon.

THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND'S death has caused
another blue riband to be placed at the disposal of
Lord Palmerston, who has already nominated 13 out of 25
knights of whom the Order of the Garter should consist, and
has also to fill up the vacancy caused by the death of the
Marquis of Normanby.

MIL MAGUIRE, M.P,, it is reported, will have
the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by
his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, on the occasion of the
latter's visit to Cork, to inaugurate the statue to the late
Father Mathew. It is the general opinion, moreover, that
no public man in the country is more deserving of being so
honoured.

THE INFANT PRINCE QUADRILLE is one of the
novelties of the day.

THE EXHIBITION OF ALL MULREADY'S WORKS
will be opened at the South Kensington Museum on the
17th of March.

MR. MAXWELL AND MISS BRADDON.—In re-
ference to the report recently going the round of
the newspapers to the effect that Miss Braddon, the novelist,
was recently married to Mr. Maxwell, the publisher, Mr.
R. B. Knowles has written to a contemporary :—As this
rumour is totally without foundation, Mr. Maxwell being
already married, I have read your journal from day to day
since it appeared, expecting that either he or Miss Braddon
would contradict it. Neither of them has done so. In the
presence of this extraordinary statement and still more ex-
traordinaryl ask your pero_ission, as Mrs. Max.
to say that the above report is utterly
sri:elianr.c-leAa'iwa; well was married several years ago
uwneflol,usnudreodtl.le
to Miss Mary Anno Crowley, sister of the late N. J.
Crowley, of the Royal Hibernian Academy--an artist
well known in Dublin and in London. This lady, who has
borne her husband a largo family, is still living. It is not,
therefore, and it cannot be true that Miss Braddon, the
novelist, was recently married to Mr. Maxwell, the
publisher.

Daily service is now held in upwards of 830
Protestant churches and chapels in Eagland.