The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-26 00:00:00

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THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND,

BALMORAL, Sept. 24.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of
Wales and Princess Helena, drove out yesterday.
The Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill,
rode on horseback.

Despatches were received yesterday at the
Colonial-office from the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
returned to town yesterday from visiting the Earl and
Countess of Chesterfield at Gedling Lodge, Notts.
His Grand Ducal Highness Prince William and
her Impeiial Highness Princess William of Baden, have
arrived at Claridge's hotel from Torquay.

His Highness the Prince Maharajah Dhuleep
Singh has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Yorkshire. .

The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde,
Lord Stratford de Radcliffe, Lord Ulic Browne, the Bishop
of Ripon and Mrs. Bickersteth, Dr. and Mrs. Vaughan,
Mr. A. Hayward, Q.C., Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth, &c., are
at present on a visit to Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont,
at Bretton-park, Yorkshire.

The Earl and Countess of Derby returned to
Knowsley Park yesterday from visitirg the Earl and Coun-
tess of Chesterfield at Gedling Park, their seat in Notting-
hamshire.

The Earl of Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford
leave town in a few days to embark on board his lordship's
yacht for Madeira, there to pass the winter.
The Earl of Dalkeith, who returned from a tour
of the German Spas in the earlier part of the week, has
gone to meet the Cuntese at Beaudesert.

- The Earl and Countess of Belmore have returned
to Brown's Hotel.

Viscount and Viscountess Dillon, and Lord and
Lady Burghley have left Brown's Hotel.

The marriage of Colonel the Hon. Henry W. J.
Byng and the Countess Henrietta Danneskiold, niece of the
Marquis of Ailesbury, is to take place next month, at
Tottenham Park, Wilts.

Lady Caroline Charteris has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel from Tunbridge-wells.

The Bev. F. Faber, of the Oratory, at Brompton
(whose name, it may be remembered, was so very recently
before the public in connection with the late controversy
about young Mr. Harrison), we regret to learn, expired at
seven o'clock this morning, after a long and painful illness.
DEATH OF MR. DEPUTY PEACOCK.—We have
to record the death of Mr. A. Peacock, who was for more
than forty years a member of the Court of Common Coun-
cil, and twenty-six years Deputy of the Ward of Farriug•
don Without. Mr. Peacock was a man of sound business
habits, and has been connected with many of the most im-
portant movements in the city. He was eighty-five years
of age.

NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH.—On Thursday the
first stone was laid, by the Very Rev. Dr. Manning, of a
new Catholic church at Turnham-green. Although the
day was very inclement, a considerable number of Catholic
clergymen and laymen attended on the occasion. When
the usual ceremonies appointed by the Catholic ritual had
been gone through, a sermon was preached by Dr. Manning
appropriate to the event. The church is to be of the Gothic
order, and will contain about 600 persons. The architects
are Messrs. Willson and Nicholas, of Marylebone-road.
ERRATUM in regard to our first leader of yester-
day. It was at Rayners, and not at Hughenden Manor,
that Mr. Disraeli spoke upon the occasion of the Harvest
Home Festivities.

THE NEW FRENCH TRANSLATION OF
SPERE by Francois Victor Hugo is not at all founded on
Letourneur's version, but it is one made entirely from the
English text itself, and illustrated with ,notes, historical,
legendary, and critical ; and the appendices occasionally
give the entire legend upon which the play is founded,
from manuscript and printed sources.

A TIMELY TRIBUTE TO SIIAKSPERE.—The second
part of Mr. Booth's reprint of the '° Shakspere" of
1623, containing the Histories, will be published during
next month. Part 111., containing the Tragedies, is in-
tended to appear about the end of next March—the three
editions being issued complete on the 23d of April following
the tercentenary anniversary of the poet's birthday.

The first stone has been laid of a Murillo monu-
ment in Seville.

MR. THOMAS ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE writes,
says the Spectator, with a simper of self-approbation, and
in the varied mood of a man who sits in the spirit con-
sciously supreme over exclusive but adoring tea-tables.
There is an exquisite flavour of patronage in his tone which
recalls the manner of the young clergyman, the hero of a
female congregation, under whose every footstep not roses
but slippers spring, who to spiritual ane innumerable graces
both of body and of mind unites the man of the world, and
whose varied refinements and high accomplishments—his
sonorous and elegant enunciation of lovely Italian names
and phrases, " La Signorina Stella," " Enrico Palmieri."
" Giulio Malatesta," the " Signorina Stella Altamari,"
" La Madonna di San Luca"—fill gentle bosoms with un-
speakable emotions, and a kind of earthly foretaste of in-
finite and perennial beatitudes.
THE LIBERATED SLAVES IN AMERICA.—The
results of the removal of slaves from the plantations
of their former masters through the agency of Federal sol-
diers continued to be attended by painful revelations. One
New York journal remarks that,—" To effect the possible
advantage of incorporating a considerable number of negroes
in the service of the general Government great suffering
has been inflicted, so that now Adjutant-General Thomas
advises in explicit terms that all except able-bodied males
remain on their plantations. A letter from Vicksburg,
giving a pitiful tale of suffering, disease, and death, says :
'lt will be well if this recommendation is heeded and
carried out. The contraband camps scattered about through
this department are full to overflowing, and no possible
stretch of imagination or hope can induce any sane man
who sees one of these camps to pronounce the condition of
the blacks within them preferable to plantation life. I rodo
pit one the other day, and by the roadside I saw five dead
bodies, so far gone with decomposition and so much muti-
lated by hogs that I could not discern the full conformation
of any one body. I inquired, and learned that they had
been lying there unburied for several days. It was a hor-
rible, disgraceful sight. Such things are not unfrequent.
The first idea of the freed coloured people is that now they
have nothing to do.kFreedom is immunity from labour. It
is impossible to fairly correct this mistake while they are
retained in these camps, for here they have absolutely
nothing to do but to eat and sleep, and they abandon
themselves to this freedom most completely, leading a
most brutal and sensual life.' "

THE " SCENE IN COURT" reported in the papers
as having taken place between the Common Ser-
geant and Mr.Ribton, must have the effect of adding to the
scandal which has already arisen from conflicts in open
court between counsel and judge--conflicts which generally
end in the discomfiture of the former and in discredit to the
profession to which both belong. In this case we cer-
tainly cannot help thinking that there were faults on both
aides—the balance being against the counsel, who very pro-
perly manifested his sense of his own error by apologising
next morning for what had taken place. If the Common
Sergeant had exercised a little more temper in his treat-
ment of Mr. Ribton, he would have been entirely in the
right. The " dodge" (for we can call it by no more dig-
nified name) of addressing the jury for the defence in a loud
tone of voice, so that the witnesses for the defence, who
are excluded from the court, may hear a description of
the case which they have to be called upon to
support, is most reprehensible, and the Common
Sergeant had a clear right to prevent it by every means in
his power. A mild intimation to counsel that he had
better moderate his voice, followed by a temperately ex-
pressed threat to adjourn the ccurt in the event of disobe-
dience, would have effectually put a stop to Mr. Ribton;
but the dictatorial tone which the judge assumed gave an
opportunity for the little flourishes about " speaking as my
mind dictates," and " duty to my client," which popu-
larity-hunting barristers know so well how to employ. 31r..
Ribton's observation, that he always spoke loudly when be
was nervous, and that he should continue to do so, was
about as absurd and illogical a remark as well could be
made. Certainly that gentleman has gained no credit by
his escapade, but the reverse. These " scenes" between.
bench and bar bring only disgrace and disrespect upon all
parties concerned, and should be entirely discountenanced
by all respectable members of the profession.—Law flints
of to-day.
CURIOSITIES OF FASTIION.—It is a question, I
think, whether the fashion influences the age, or the ago
moulds and shapes the fashion; but it is obvious that there
exists a subtle relationship between them. A high-bred
courtesy, a certain elevation of manner, a loftiness of lan-
guage, and even a refinement of thought, seem naturally
to associate themselves with the rich and stately costume
of the men of the sixteenth century. Look at the Cava-
liers in the glorious pictures of Vandyck; who can be-
lieve that from the lips of such be-ruffled and be-plumed
gentlemen ever dropped any coarse rioaldry or vulgar
slang ? Those grave and potent seigniors who glow on the
splendid canvas of Titian ; can you believe them capable
of the deeds in which delighted the buckskin-breechesdayas cif
cocked hats of our Macaronis and Mohawks in the
the second George ? When I look upon the sweet and
noble women of Vandyck, and compare them with the
bare-bosomed beauties of Lely, I trace in the distinction
of costume and fashion the difference of morals and taste,
and the wide gulf between the pure household life of the
reign of Charles I. and the social abandonment of that of
Charles 11. Morals and manners keep pace with the changes
of costume, utd aro indicated by theul•—Zmaoly ~5001c/y,