The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1863.

to this very knowledge, and there is probably a
good deal of truth in his distinction. It is a lesson
which some of our statesmen of the present day
would do well to learn if they would reconcile
power and popularity—independent action with
constitutional government.

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not altogether be forgotten. SHis last decision
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with the execution of the present decree, and they
are sure to carry out the project with zeal, as it is
entirely their own notion, and so fully coincides
with their own views. The Ministerial report
which precedes the decree is sufficiently arrogant
and prejudiced to emanate from such statesmen as
the present Prussian Ministers have shown them-
selves to be. It commences by stating that " there
is no prospect that further negotiations with the
present Chamber of Deputies would lead to any
understanding." This is very likely so far true,
but whose fault is it. Had not the Ministers thrown
every obstacle in the way of all liberal mea-
sures there would not have been any of those
awkward disagreements between the advisers of
the Crown and the popular representatives.
They also refused to listen to any representation
on the part of those who felt themselves
so cruelly aggrieved. Every opportunity was
seized to take umbrage at the conduct of the depu-
ties, and every advantage was !taken of circum-
stances to make all things suit the views of des-
potism. The state of things in Prussia, it is said,
"has not offered any ground for a change in the
propositions of the Ministry which his MAJESTY
had approved. So far as public opinion has
been expressed throughout the country, it has
gone direct against the policy of the Government,
indeed, in many instances, addresses were made,
and remonstrances urged against the late vio-
ient measures which were emphatically denounced
as unconstitutional. The next paragraph refers to
the outward condition of affairs. " Tendencies
have manifested themselves within the limits of the
German Federal Constitution, the evident aim of
which is to reduce Prussia from that position as a
great Power in Germany and Europe, which is her
well-earned inheritance from our forefathers, and
which the Prussian people has at all times been
determined not to relinquish." This is hardly a
fair way of putting the question, when it is an
acknowledged fact that no pains have been spared,
and no chances thrown away, to induce King WIL-
LIAM and his Ministers to take part in the debates
of the Congress recently held at Frankfort. It is
of no use to disguise things in that way, because
people will not believe the subterfuge, however in-
geniously it is worded. Whatever motives may have
actuated the Austrian Powers, the Prussian:Minis-
tere could not prove that their object was an inimi-
cal one, when they refused to take part in any of
the discussions, and rejeeted the prtpositions
in toto, without hearing them. Of course
so good an opportunity of making politi-
cal capital out of the stirring scenes
just enacted was not to be lost sight of, hence we
find an energetic appeal made to the nation to rally
round the Executive at this trying juncture. The
occasion of the approaching elections will furnish
an epoch for a general expression of unity
throughout the country, and the people are urged
to make use of the event. Thus they may exhibit
that " no difference of political opinion is so deeply.
rooted in Prussia as to endanger the unity of the
people, and the immovable fidelity with which
they are attached to the Royal House." This sounds
very grand; but if the people at all respond to
these patriotic utterances and loyal sentiments, it
will not certainly be owing to the good offices of
those in high places, nor to the consideration of the
Sovereign, bat to, their own inherent spirit of
nationality, and the respect and reverence which
they owe to their fatherland. It may be all for the
best, as regards the future interests of Germany,
that there should have arisen these differences be-
tween Austiia and Prussia. United they might
have striven to consolidate their power, and pre-
serve intact their privileges ; but, now that they
appear iu direct antagonism, and complete dis-
severance as regards the settlement of the disputed
questions, some new and brighter hope may spring
up, and as a star in the darkness irradiate the
prospect. If these disputants would commence
their work of adjustment by sacrificing their
cherished schemes of personal ease, or their darling
objects of political ambition, how different would
things become. The Princes who refused to sign the
protocol were unfit to have been members of it at all.
Where is the benefit of convoking a great national
assembly, and then only using the opportunity and
taking up the time of the members in making stric-
tures on the impracticability of this proposition and
that decree, because it is not exactly in accordance
with their views, and runs counter to their doc-
trines of right and wrong. It can hardly be, after
all this excitement, that affairs should relapse into
their old routine. Some impetus must have been
given and some influence spread abroad relating to
the cause of constitutional government in their
wisest and truest sense. Some glimpse may have
been caught, though as yet far off and dimly
shadowed in the future, of the spread of popular
pactihnieeivpelde,s, and the establishment of great and
lasting
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the opportunity thus -
expressing their deep-rooted sentiments and firmly-
fixed opinions in a manner that cannot or will not
be mistaken. These elections are not taking place
to suit their inlet eats, but to serve the convenience
of their rulers. This is no reason why the oppor-
tunity should not be taken to stamp upon the occur-
rence the resolution of an entire nation that cannot
be moved unless for good and great purposes.
Respect for the throne and unity together are
admirable exponents of a nation's faith, but there
are other important at tributes in the character of
a people—independence of spirit and a steadfast
resolve to maintain their rights.

Jotanal,
who has hitherto been, according to the
Captain Mayne Reid, the hunter of the prairie,
always riding on buffaloes, or falling into quicksands, or
fighting grisly bears, or being lost in deserts, now comes
before us as the author of a treatise on the popular game of
croquet, with full instructions and a complete set of rules
to meet every contingency of the play.
ARCHBISHOP WHATELY of Dublin is better, but
his foot remains in the same state; and he is more feeble.
The age of this distinguished philosopher, though advanced,
is not extreme, ho being only in his 77th year. There was
no improvement reported in his condition on Saturday.
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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
NEW YORK, AUG. 28, Evening.
(Per the Hibernian.)

Gen. Gilmore officially reports on the 24th inst.
the practical demolition of Fort Sumter after seven
dax s' bombardment. It is a shapeless and harmless
mass of ruins. "A longer fire," he says, " would
make it a greater mass of ruins but scarcely more
powerless for the defence of Charleston harbour.
It is unnecessary to continue to fire on the ruins.
I have established batteries on my left within effec-
tive range of the heart of Charleston, and opened
with them after giving Gen. Beauregard due notice.
My projectiles entered Charleston, and Gen. Beau-
regard designates them the most destructive missiles
ever used in war."

Unofficial accounts to the evening of the 24th
state that Fort Sumter was entirely destroyed, but
had not surrendered. The fleet was preparing to
move up the harbour.

Great dissatisfaction prevailed at the slowness of
the operations of the fleet.
Fort Moultrie.—Greig and Johnston and the
batteries on Sullivan's Island kept up a steady fire
upon the Federals on Morris Island, doing little

damage.
It is reported the Confederates will not regard
Colonel Streight as a prisoner of war, The Federals
will place Morgan on the same footing.
The New York Board of Supervision has passed
an ordinance appropriating 200,000 dole. to exempt
from the draft uniformed militia, firemen, police,
and heads of families. The Mayor has signed this
ordinance, which it is supposed will settle the diffi-
culty between the Municipality and the Mayor.
NEW YORK, AUG. 29, Morning.

The batteries which destroyed Fort Sumter were
located at distances varying between 3,330 and
and 4,200 yards, and remain as efficient as ever.

The New York Herald says—" It is rumoured in
Washington that General Butler will command the
South Carolina department after the capture of
Charleston."

There is a considerable Confederate infantry force
at Port Conway, between the Potomac and the Rap-
pahannock, who are enforcing the conscription.
Colonel Kilpatrick had a skirmish with them,
but was compelled to fall back from his recon-
naisance.

Quantrell's guerillas are being hunted through
the woods and mountains of the border counties
of Missouri. Large numbers of them have been
killed, and their horses destroyed.
Despatches from Stevenson, Alabama, state it is
probable that the Confederates are evacuating Chat-
tanooga, and all East Tennessee. Deserters report
they are moving guns
and important machinery
from Chattanooga to Atalanta.
Confederate cavalry are concentrating at Rome,
Georgia. The Mobile Tribune says there are ten
vessels and six transports in Pensacola harbour.
The New York Herald asserts that the troops
now in New York will be seat to Vera Cruz.

The New York Times urges the Government to
prepare for a war with France. Such a war, it
says, is not certain, but it would be dangerous
and foolish to act as if it were impossible.
The .2Veto York Times has little doubt that
Napoleon has made a secret treaty with President
Davis for the cession of Texas as the equivalent fur
recognition and substantial aid.

The draught has been concluded in New York,
and commences in Brooklyn on Monday. General
Dix has published correspondence to prove that he
called on the Federal Government for troops to
enforce the draught in consequence of the delay of
Governor Seymour in replying to his application
for the services of State troops.

The steamer Cronstadt has been captured off

Wilmington.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Aug. 28, Evening.
Money easy. Gold, 24 premium. Exchange too
unsettled for quotation.
Stocks dull. New York Centrals, 1351 ; Illinois,
133 a ; Erie, 118; 6 per Cent. United States Bonds,
106.

Cotton declining ; middling upland, 65c.
Flour, wheat, and corn declining. Provisions
dull.

RUSSIA.
WARSAW, SEPT. 7.
The Grand Duke Constantine, accompanied by
his family, is about to proceed to the Crimea,
INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

MARSEILLES, SEPT. 7.

The Messageries Imperiales' steamer Peluse
arrived here at 7 a.m. to-day with the above mails,
and 780 bales of silk.

LITERATURE.

AINSWORTH'S UNIVERSAL GAZETTEER.
PUBLISHED BY MAXWELL AND Co 122, FLEET-

STREET.

A splendid volume of more than a thousand
double.columned pages has, within the last few
weeks, under the above title, made its very welcome
appearance. That it is illustrated by a variety of
woodcuts scattered in abundance through the letter-
press, is, to our mind, its least recommendation.
The enterprising publishers apparently think other-
wise, it is true—not merely, we say this, by reason
of the fact of this work being illustrated at all, bat
mope particularly because of that circumstance being
notified prominently upon the title-page. Never-
theless, to our thinking, that this Universal
Gazeteer is an "Illustrated Universal Gizetteer,"
appears to us a matter in itself of really trifling
consideration. In a scientific book of reference, it
would, of course, be quite otherwise. Diagrams
and other drawings of a kindred description in such
works being of the utmost possible utility—say, for
example, that it were in some volume relating to sub-
jects connected with geometry, mechanics, hydrosta-
tics, dynamic, or other departments of natural philo-
' sophy. But in a Gazetteer the letter-press is hardly
in any way assisted by the introduction of little
vignette landscapes, in which a few trees in the
foreground, and a spire or two in the distance, are
the principal objects of interest. What, we cannot
but think, would have been infinitely preferable to
this lavish squandering about these pages of pretty
little sketches, like those of Buenos Ayres, of
Chateauroux, of Folkestone, and so forth, would
have been the introduction to the work before
us of a well 'selected series of maps—no
matter how restricted the number of those
maps might have been. Say Mercator's Chart; the
the two hemispheres; the Four Quarters of the
Globe, Europe, Asia, Africa, and America—with
the Irishman's fifth quarter, Sir Archibald Alison's
" fifth hemisphere" (vide" Continuation of the Hist.
of Eur.," 1., 9) in Australia and Oceania 1 If to
these were added, each in turn, the principal civi-
lised countries, precisely as they are given in any
tolerable Family Atlas, well and good. And, still
better would it be, were it possible to have the
value of such a series of useful embellishments to
"The Universal Gazetteer" enhanced by an engraved
plan of the world's chief capitals, London, Paris,
Rome, Vienna, &c. ; charts of the principal seas,
such as the Mediterranean, the Caspian, the Baltic,
; together with comparative views of the lengths
of the principal rivers and of the heights of the
principal mountains. Suggestions, these are, which
have been originated purely by the fact of the pub-
lishers of this noble volume having, as it seems to
us, almost extravagantly, distributed through it,
engravings that are nothing less than superfitaties
in the way of decoration. They serve no useful
purpose whatever, these abundant illustrations.
They explain nothing—they simply adorn. If
the " Universal Gazetteer" must needs be illustrated
at all, let the embellishments be marked by their
utility—let them compete with the letterpress by
affording the reader, who consults the work, a mass
of valuable information. Considerably of more in-

terest to us than the mere circumstance of its being
illustrated, however, is the really noteworthy fact
that the whole work has been compiled under
the editorial supervision of so accomplished a
geographer and so experienced a traveller
as Mr. William Francis Ainsworth, F.R G.S.,
F.S.A., Corresponding Member of the Geo-
graphical Society of Paris, of the Oriental
Society cf Germany, of the German National Verein
of the Natural History Society of Moldavia and we
don't know what all besides—but far better known,
than in all these respects, among literary
classes here in England as a very able contributor
during many consecutive years to the various
magazines edited by his gifted namesake,
William Harrison Ainsworth, the celebrated
Novelist and Historical Romance Writer. Another
peculiarity about the work, quite as remarkable at
a first glance as the one already particularised, and
oue to a certain extent of a kindred character, as
evidencing the almost extravagant scale upon
which the getting•up of the volume was planned
originally by its open-handed projectors, we would
now at once direct attention to. Meaning by this,
the far larger scope, seemingly, at first allowed to
the editor in the arrangement of his huge compila-
tion! 'What is thus referred to, may be, perhaps,
the most readily indicated by remarking that,
whereas the whole Universal Gazetteer is com-
prised in 1,040 quarto pages of doubled columned
letterpress, about half that number of pages in it
have been filled up before the alphabetical arrange-
ment of the contents has carried us to the end
of D ! Dzoungaria, a region of Chinese Turk-
istan, appears upon the middle of page 509
E only then and there commencing with
Eagle, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire. Yet
within as nearly as possible the same space that
was apparently found necessary for the adequate
record of places comprehended under the four first
letters of the alphabet—those requiring to be de-
fined under the remaining twenty-two are com-
pressed together. It is as if the four leading sec-
tions of the alphabetical list had been stretched out
to the utmost possible extent upon a procrustian
framework of gigantic proportions : A, B, C, and
D, including thereby under those respective initials
villages, rivulets, and places of comparatively minor
importance. While to the same identical length of
framework, the residue of the twenty-six letters,
have had to be restricted inexorably. By
reason of which modification of the original
scheme of the Gazetteer, very many places of
corresponding insignificance have had to be dropped
out of those t wanly-two twenty-eixths of he
compi-
lation: We have hero been particular in thus
specifying, distinctly, at the outset, the two only ex-
ceptions that could in reason be taken by any cap-
tious caviller, upon searching vigilantly through
this noble volume in quest of its salient merits and
demerits. One exception, it will be perceived, ap-
plies simply to what we have already in-
dicated as a mere lavish superfluity of (as it seems
to us) quite unnecessary illustrations. Tile other and
graver exception relating to a modification of the
original outline of the projectors of the work—a
modification that really and truly appears to us
little less than a conspicuous improvement. For—
supposing the original plan to have been persisted in,
the Gazetteer, instea of inevitably (as it is) completed
in one volume, must have expanded and
multiplied into three or four, if it failed to reach a
good round half dozen. Upon a reissue of the
work, later on, we would therefore suggest to the
Editors and Publishers, in the event of their ad-
venturing upon any kind of comprehensive revi-
sion of this work by way of improvement—
the substitution of a well-selected series of maps for
the present vignette embellishments now squander-
jug among the letterpress; not folding maps, but
whole page maps,
or, in some instances, double-
page maps, giving, we will suppose, the two hemi-
spheres in confronting leaves of the volume. That—
as the first possible enhancement of the value of the
work as a book of reference. And as the second—
the elimination of the minor places mentioned in
the first half of the Gazetteer, actually reduc-
ing the bulk of the volume, and thereby
aff, rding room for any really desirable additions
that might be deemed nquiaite. As it is, how-

ever, even now, we may, with reason, be thankful
for the mass of valuable and instantly accessible

information afforded by Ainsworth's Universal
Gazetteer," in reference to almost any place, of any
importance whatever, upon the surface of the habit-
.. -

able globe. Considering the immense variety of
statistics included in the mass of this motley infor-
mation, the book is a marvel of accuracy. As a
reliable work of reference, not only statistical and
geographical, but scientific, political, and otherwise,
the volume merits for itself a place upon the library
table alike of merchant and man of letters, of dates-
man, of magistrate, and of journalist, as well as
of any and every active member of the group
of the learned professions. Even in regard to
the mere material peculiarities of the publica-
tion under notice, its handsome and substan-
tial binding, its clear and excellent typography,
the book (bearing in mind, when we say this, that,
as a book of reference, it is certain to be continually

handled by its possessor) is entitled to the highest
commendation.

Miinoire sur Scytho•Cimmerienne de la
Langue Romans. Par D 7. le Duc du Roussilloa.
The object of this able and original paper, which
was read last year before the Royal Society of
Literature by the Duke of Roussilion (who is, we
believe, the 36th inheritor of that title, which is
the oldest in France), and is now published in a sepa-
rate form, is to establish the fact that the Romansch
language is not, as is generally supposed, a dialect of
the ancient Latin, but that it is a relic of the Scytho-
Cimcrerienne, that is, of the language of a nation
who anciently dwelt on the northern shores of
the Black Sea having, emigrated from the summits
of the Hymalayan mountains. The Duke, in sup-
port of his theory, proceeds elaborately to examine
at very great length the names of a vast number of
places, and certainly arrives at some surprising re-
sults, which will be new to our antiquarians and
archaeologists, to whose attention we earnestly re-
commend the book. Some of our readers may not
be aware that Romansch is spoken by the peasantry
at Coire, in Switzerland, and that there is a news-
paper published there weekly in that language)
entitled Il Grischuna.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE,

CAMBRIDGE, Sept. 4.

There will be congregations on the following days of the
ensuing Michaelmas Term :—Thursday, Oct. 1, at ten ;
Thursday, Oct. 15 and 29, Nov. 12 and 26, and Dec. 10, all
at twelve.

DEATH OF Mit. JAMES MANSON, OF THE " GLAS-
GOW HERALD."—We learn with regret that Mr.
James Manson, late of the Glasgow Herald, died at an early
hour on Friday morning. For some years past Mr. Manson
had been labouring under a complication of diseasec,
attended with a total loss of sight; and his demise will
hardly surprise those who knew the melancholy state in
wLich he was dragging out existence. In the days of his
health and strength he was a man of great bodily as well
as mental vigour, As a pedestrian he had few superiors,
and the amount of mental work he went through, evinced a
naturally powerful physique. Mr. Manson began life as a
clothier—his father's business ; but his active mind was not
long in developing itself in a passion for music and literature.
To a thorough knowledge of the science of music he united
considerable proficiency as a performer on the violoncello,
His reading was very extensive, and some of the fruits of
it were produced a number of years ago in these columns
in the shape of brief extracts culled by his own hand from a
wide range of authors, under the heading "Facts, Conceits,
Definitions, and Counsels." To the early volumes of the
Citizen he was likewise an occasional contributor of original
articles both in prose and verse. The admirable volume of
original lyrics published by our late townsman, Mt. David
Robertson, under the title of "Whistle Binide," was
adorned by many pleasing contributions from his pen ; and
and to several biographical dictionaries he furnished most of
the musical memoirs. It was his good fortune at length to
obtain permanent literary employment on the staff of the
Herald, and in that situation he continued until stricken
with decay and blindness. One of his last mental efforts
was to assist in putting a collection of his poems through
the press ; and like poor David Gray, he had the gratifica-
tion of knowing that his volume was actually to appear.
Nay, he lived to feel it with his hands, and to be assured
that it looked well. As a prose writer he always showed
information and vigour. His views were decided, and he
expressed himself with readiness and force, But he lacked
training and polish for a thorough mastery of prose; and
it was chiefly in his poetical effusions that the graces and
tenderness of his nature were manifested. Altogether,
James Mansion was a remarkable man. Much of what he
did best was for temporary and ephemeral uses, doing ex-
cellent service at the time, though leaving the nobler
dreams of ambition unsatisfied. Nevertheless, he is not
unworthy of being ranked among the minor bards of Scot.
land, in virtue of some few things which many who are to
come after him will read with satiafaction,—Glasgow
Citizen,

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—That the prestige
which this institution has attained is owing to the
well-selected and popular character of the entertainments
provided for the amusement of a large portion of the sight-
seeing public, is a matter beyond dispute, and we are happy
to find that for some time past the number of visitors has
been unparalleled in the history of the Polytechnic. For
many Saturday and Monday evenings especially the
audieLces have numbered upwards of 800, and on some
occasion from 150 to 200 of the public have been turned
away because there was no room to be ha& To dilate
upon the many varied objects of interest which delight
the habitues of the institution would be needless, because

they are generally known and appreciated, but we ven-
ture to commend the new lecture, by J. L. King, Esq.,
entitled "Pneumatic \Venders," illustrated with new
experiments, models, &c., and the new " pneumatic
parcels despatch apparatus." This is followed by a num-
her of laughable conjuring tricks which betray many ot
the mysteries of the necromantic art. The new musical,
vocal, organophonic, and ventriloquial enterteinment by
Mdlle. Cavalho is very comic in its character and surpris-
ing. But the great event of the day is "Professor Pep•
per's adaptation of Mr. Dircks's original anct most startling
ghost illusion," in three scenes, First scene, read-
ing from Dickens's" Haunted Man," and appearance of the
ghost and spectre of the sister. Second scene, the artist's
studio, the ghostly visitor in the form of a rival artist, the
ghost drinking a glass of water! (the programme very fairly
states, " This illusion must be seen to be believed, the living
being enveloped by the spectre. Third scene, the reading ot
the love letter, and mysterious arrival of the little postman
Cupid. We feel we should spoil the effect by entering into
details after the manner of over zealous novel readers,
who are not happy till they have communicated to their
friends by anticipation the denouement of the work they
have been reading with intense interest. Suffice it to say
that these ghost scenes are of the most ingenious and mar-
vellous description. The spectre drinking a glass of water
--the'envelopment of the real living worthy. Genius (Mr.
Cussens), by the spectre, and the handing of the letter by
Cupid to the love-sick damsel at her spinning-wheel, ars
wonderfully pourtrayed. These scenes at once put to
shame the many surreptitious and worthless efforts made
in some quarters to imitate or follow out this very clever
discovery. Herr Sueman's remarkable imitations of
birds and beasts are: as deservedly popular as ever. We
regretted to hear on Saturday evening that Mr. Lionel
Brough was suffering from illness, which prevented his
appearing as the chorus in the burlesque of " Der Freis-
cuutz." In his absence, however, Mr. Kir g, who is
always ready to render service, read the descriptions attach.
ing to the beautiful dissolving views of Ancient and
Modern London. These charming works were hailed with
as much enthusiasm as when they first appeared some time
ago. But we have now run the length of our tether, and
can only advise our readers, young and old, above all other
places of amusement, first to visit the Polytechnic.
CURIOUS MIRAGE SEEN It THE WEST INDIES,
witnessed by Dr. Thomson, of British Guiana, on
the 28th July, 1863, in British Guiana, on the Essequibo.—
We were then in the closing part of the long wet season,
with great sun heat and heavy showers alternating, and
much rain, following thunder, had fallen in the early part
of the day. Towards 2 p.m. the rain clouds took up, and a
brilliant sky opened, such as is often witnessed in South
America in the rainy months. Having occasion to ride to
a plantation on Wakentiam Island, some miles oil, to take
boat for one of the islands higher up, I came to a spot which
commands no view beyond a narrow circle of luxuriant
trees and pasture. I beheld the whole scene changed. Be-
fore me the land dwarfed, and Hog Island, from its north-
western line, onwards to its north-eastern, was seen, with
the channel between. Though a little hazy, I satisfied my-
self that the outline was correct, with the tall courada and
mangrove trees which gird the beach. It was a marvellous
deception, produced probably by strata of air, of unequal
density and temperature, not far from the earth. On get-
ting out upon the river, which was very calm, and looking
to the north, in the direction opposite to that of the mirage
described, I beheld a small island at the mouth of the Es-
sequibo floating, so to speak, in air. This phenomenon I
have often seen. At night the moon was surrounded by u
white halo, about 20 deg. in radius, not unlike the one men-
tioned by Humboldt as seen at Cumana. During the night
a cold land breeze blew, and the following morning opened
with threatenings of heavy rain ; the river was calm, and
the foliage of the neighbouring island obscured, the aspect
of nature being gloomy and inteneoly tropical. But the rain
did not fall, and a strong sea breeze followed,
TOURISTS,--!'here is little doubt that the reason
Royalty pitched its tent on Deeside was that,
uponwhy
trial, it had been found about the least offensive dis-
trict in the United Kingdom in the matter of intrusiveness.
The Aberdeenshire folks ate a dry, shy, undemonstrative
race; and, though they are by no means profusely polite,
they have a deal of self-respect, which would prevent any
amount of loyalty or curiosity from tempting them to c(an-
mit an act of vulgar rudeness, But it was impossible to
prevent the mob of tourists from pouring in—and they have
done it with a witness, as the saying is. Days are changed
on Deeside since you got a good breakfast at Invermay for
9d.—oat cakes, butter, honey, and tea—or took it in more
aristocratic style from Mrs. Clarke, at Castleton of Braemar,
who spread bolero you for 15d., salmon, grouse, and venison
in their seasons. Then, the lone pedestrian, or the small
family party who had wandered so far off the beaten track
in a pony vehicle, were objects of great attention and solici-
tude—now, they are lost in the brilliant mob at the table
d'hote.—Ecotsman.
The great line-engraving, after Sebastian° del
Piombo's "Raising of Lazarus," in the National Gallery,
upon which Mr. Don, K.A., has now been engaged several
years, approaches completion.
The Siecle says that the necessary authority has
been sought to establish liberal journals at Tours, Angers,
and several other cities in France, and has been in every
case refused,

Ttrurf Tianlar.
414

HER MAJESTY.

ROSENAU, COBURG, Sept. 2.

The King of Prussia visited the Queen on Mon-
day afternoon. The King arrived by special from
Baden, soon after five o'clock. at Oeslau, where
Prince Alfred and Prince Louis of Hesse met his
Majesty, and accompanied him in the Queen's car-
riage to the Rosenau, where he was received by the
Queen, and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess
Helena, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice.
The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were in
attendance.

The King remained with her Majesty till half-
past seven o'clock, when his Majesty took leave of
the Qaeen, and drove to the railway station, accom-
panied by Prince Alfred and Prince Louis.
His Majesty was attended by only an aide-de-

camp.
The Duke of Coburg has arrived at the Kailen-
berg, and with the Duchess visited the Queen this
afternoon.

Prince Alfred left yesterday morning, attended
by Major Cowell, for Hummelsheim, on a visit to
the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Altenburg.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse spend the greater part of every
day at the Rosenau with the Queen.

The Queen, with the junior members of the royal
family and suite, will to-morrow night embark at Antwerp
on board the royal yacht, and leave for this country early
on Wednes Jay morning. _ _

His Majesty the king of Hanover is expected in
London in a few days, from Hanover, fora short stay.

The Emperor of Austria arrived in Vienna on
the sth. Great preparations were made to give him a grand
reception. The corporation gave unlimited credit to the
burgomaster, in order that nothing might be spared; and
the day was kept as a general holiday.
A matrimonial union is contemplated between
the Princess Ann, of Hessen, born in 1843, and Archduke
Ludwig-Victor of Austria, born in 1838, younger brother
of his Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph.
_ _

The Archduke Joseph of Austria was betrothed
to the Princess Clotilde, daughter of Prince Augustus of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, on the 22d ult.

The Princess of Leiningen will quit Osborne in
the royal yacht to meet her Majesty at Antwerp. And the
Court will remain at Windsor until this day week, when
the Queen will proceed on her journey to Scotland.

The Duke of Leinster is prolonging his visit to
Mr. George Repton, M.P., and Lady Jane Repton, at their
seat in Bedfordshire. '

The Marchioness of Salisbury and family re-
turned to Hatfield House, Herts, from passing several weeks
at Bournemouth, on Friday last. The noble marquis has
also arrived at Hatfield.

The Earl and Countess of Zdtland left their
residence in Arlington-streer, Piccadilly, on Friday, for
Upleatham Hall, near Gainaborough. _ _ _

The Countess (Dowager) of Lichfield and Lady
Gwendolena Anson have arrived at their, house in Hill-
street, from a tour in Switzerland.

Lord Loadesborough has returned to Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Scotland.

Major the Hon. Augustus H. Anson, V.C., has
returned to London from a tour in Switzerland. The pre-
cise day is not yet fixed for the marriage of the hon. and
gallant major and ➢liss Claughton, niece of the Earl of
Dudley.

The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart,. M.P.,
has left the house in Whitehall-gardens, for Drayton
Manor, Staffordshire, for partridge shooting.
HEALTH OF EARL BEAUCHAMP.—The state of
Lord Beauchamp's health has been such as to give his family
the greatest anxiety, but it is with satisfaction that we feel
ourselves enabled to say that the symptoms are not now so
immediately threatening Worcester Journal.
THE DUKE OF ATHOLE.—The Grand Master of
the Grand Lodge of Scotland, his Grace the Duke
of Athole, is so seriously ill that no hope is entertained of
his recovery. His disease—cancer of the nape of the neck,
which no skill can arrest or cure—makes rapid progress ;
and his dissolution, it is feared, cannot be many days pro-
tracted. The Duchess, and their only offspring*, the Mar-
quis of Tullibardine, are in attendance upon the unfortu-
nate sufferer. The Duke is in the 49th year of his age.

EDINBURGH LADIES' GIFT TO THE PRINCESS OF
WALES.—The gift of the ladies of Edinburgh to the Prin-
cess of Wales, subscribed for on the occasion of the marriage
of her Royal Highness, is now ready for presentation. The
subscription was instituted a week or two before the Royal
marriage by Mrs. Henry Graham Lawson, daughter-
of the Lord Provost, and carried out with great spirit, the
proposal having met a most hearty and unanimous response.
Instead, however, of making an immediate purchase of a
piece of jewellery, it was resolved to delay the presentation
till the Princess should visiG Scotland, and to employ the
interval in the preparation of a work of native art. A de.-
sign for a magnificent jewel casket, Scottish in its materials
and decoration, was submitted to the committee of ladies by
Messrs. Mackay, Cunningham, and Co., her Majesty's gold-
smiths for Scotland, and obtained their approval. An ela-
borate and beautiful work has now been produced, exhibit-
ing excellent taste and finished workmanship. The cask et
is 13in. long, 71 broad, and 10 high. It ia wrought in gold,
inlaid with upwards of 1,000 Scottish pebbles, representing-
all the varieties found in Scotland. In the front is the shield
of Scotland enamelled in heraldic colcurs, forming the centre
of a panel composed of Scottish pebbles in relief. A flat-
tened arch of bloodstone surmounts the panel, in the key of
which is the crest of the Prince of Wales, and the motto
" Ich Dien" inscribed on blue enamel on a gold riband.
The arch is supported by pillars formei of pebble with gold
capital bases, and the panels formed above the arch are
filled in with red Campsie pebble with gold scrolls in relief.
At the lower corners ofthefrontare Scottish pearls obtained
near Taymouth Castle. Between two gold cords above tho
near panel and carried round the four sides is the inscrip-
tion, " Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, from the
Ladies of Edinburgh—Charles Lawson, Lord Provost."
Over the inscription is a border of bloodstone with a Runic
scroll in relief, relieved by central bosses of Scottish gemo—
namely, cairngorm, amethyst, aquamarine, and garnet, and
surmounted by a pierced rail of Scottish thistle. At each
corner of the casket, on pillared niches, are unicorns sejant
in dead gold, supporting the shields of arms pertaining to
the Scottish titles of the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Roth-
say, Earl of Carrick, Baron Renfrew, and Lord of the Isles,
the shields enamelled in heraldic colours. The top of the
casket, which is its most attractive feature, is composed of
four panels of Scottish pebble in mosaic, forming a broad
outer border, and of six inner panels of pebbles set in high.
relief. In the centre, set on a splendid white cairngorm, is
a jewelled crown with pearl arches, surmounted by the
Scottish lion, "in defence." The ends of the casket are
filled up by Scottish pebbles inrelief, with alarge cairngorm
in a richly pierced setting in the centre. On Om back the
Edinburgh arms, enamelled in heraldic colourn, form the
centre of the panel. The gold framework of thee casket is
enriched throughout with Runic, Celiic, and Go this en-
graving. The gift, it is understood, will be presented to
the Princess in Holyruod Palace on her return fr, om the
Highlands. _ _

THE QUEEN AND THE WARWICKSHIRE M ors-
TRATES.—It will be in the recollection of moat of
our readers that a county meeting of th® Warwickshire,ma-
gistrates, presided over by Lord Leigh, was held at War wick
a few weeks ago, to express to her Majesty their disap,pro-
bation of such exhibitions as that at Aston-park, which re-
sulted in the death of the Female Blondin, and to prom iso
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trates of the county of Warwick have unanimously resolved
to exercise whatever influence they possess to prevent the
repetition of such dangerous and degrading exhibitions as
that which lately ended fatally to the poor woman exhibit-
ing.—Sincerely yours, C. B. PILIPPS --The Lord Leigh."
THE LATE LORD CLYDE.—It has escaped the
chroniclers (says the Army and Navy Gazette) that
Lord Clyde was commissioned by her Majesty to pros geed to
Potsdam with the insignia of the honours bestowed ma the
the Crown dau gh Princete daughter of fB
Britain. 'i
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riaisgbowl heith
went down to Windsor to receive instrucgtions, and on leav-
ing he was told the orders and badge, &c., would be for-
warded in a box to his address in London. The box, with
the Windsor seal, duly arrived, and Sir Colin, attended by
his then ever-haunting umbra, proceeded direct to Berlin,
where ho was welcomed with all proper marks of respect.
The hour was officially announced for the interview at
which the Crown Prince was to receive the representative of
the Crown, and Sir Colin, in full uniform, went to the box
to take out the badges and insignia given to his charge..
The amazement--we won't say dismay, for it is not a word
suited to the man—of Sir Cohn may be imagined when ho
discovered that he was indeed in the wrong box, and that.
ho carried so carefully along
with him a plum-cake and
some other little tokens of affection sent by the Princess
Royal to her betrothed, which had arrived before the
Windsor officials had packed up the more stately, but per-
haps less welcome, offerings. Ia a day or two the box came,
and the mission was duly performed.
By the appointment of Major-Gen. Sir Robert
Percy Douglas, Bart., to the command of the Cape, in suc-
Wynyard, who has returned home,
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