The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-28 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by
the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale,
visited the Horticultural Gardens yesterday morn'
ing, and also paid a visit to the South Kensington
Museum.

The Prince of Wales rode on horseback, attended
by the Equerry in Waiting. The Princess of Wales,
attended by the Countess of Macclesfield, took a
drive in an open carriage.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had a
dinner party last evening at Marlborough House•
The company consisted of the Hereditary Prince of
Reuss Schleiz, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleucho
the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Countess
of Macclesfield, the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke•
the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, Viscount
Hinchingbroke, Viscount and Viscountess Bury,
Lord and Lady Fo'ey, Lord and Lady Stanley Of
Alderley, Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel, Cal'
the Hon. Sir C. B. and Miss Phipps, the Hon. 111
H. Meade, Lieut.-Gen. Knollys, Lieut.-Col. Du
Plat, Capt. Hilldorff (in attendance on the Here'
tart' Prince of Reuss Schleiz), Major Teesdale, gr'
F. W. Gibbs, and Mr. Holzman.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne
have arrived at Lansdowne House frail Bowood. The noble
marquis and marchioness are about to make a lengthened
sejour on the Continent.

The Eirl and Countess of Malmesbury are
passing the holidays at Heron Court.

The Countess of Dunraven gave her first dancing
party last evening at the family residence at Buckingham'
gate.

Lady Ebury has issued cards fora dancing parti
to-morrow evening at her residence in Park-street.
Mr. and Lady Augusta Fitzwilliam have arrived
in Chesham-street for the season.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have returned to Grosvenor Gate from Hughenden Manor
Bucks.

The remains of the late Miss Georgine Johnstone
will be removed from Grosvenor-square this evening t°
Hackness Hall, near Scarborough, for interment in the
family vault.

SIGNOR MARIO has recently been delighting hi°
audiences, says the Reader, is the " Barbiere."
on one night, when his voice is weak and husky, he seems
as if he could have but a few months more of vocal life, on
another his tone is (comparatively) so clear and so rich as
entirely to defy any such suggestion. Listening to hire
the other evening, in his favourite part, one felt as if never
could a male larynx have produced tones more enchanting.
Here and there will be noticed a failure of power, seeming
to indicate the wreck of a noble voice; but anon there will
come some trait of perfect vocalization, some exquisitelf
refined cadence, which atones for a thousand shortcomings'
The quantity of rags and paper imported into
this country during recent years is as follows :
Rags. aper.
1856 .... 10,287 cwt
1857 .... 12,206 „
1858 .... 11,394 „
,01 „
1859 .... 14,621 „
1860 .... 16,154 „
18 „
1861 20,486 „
1862 23,943 „
Our exports of paper during the last five years were--11
1858, 106,557 cwt; in 1859, 126,454 cwt ; in 1860, 112,61'
cwt; in 1861, 91,958 cwt; and in 1862, 129,440 cwt.
A SUFFICIENT REASON !—ln to-day's Telegrams
will be found the following rather naive announcement
" General Thomas Francis Meagher has resigned the C 0132-,
mand of the Irish Brigade. He says that the &WA° °-
,
longer exists !"
OLD ABE'S LAST.—During the last week a gentle'
man called on the President and solicited a pass for Rich-
mond. " Well," said Old Abe, "I would be very haPPY t°
oblige, if my passes were respected; but the fact is, sir, ,
have within the past two years given passes to 250,000 men
to go to Richmond, and not one has got there yet."—.New
York _Herald.
LADY NESDALE, the aristocratic profligate who"
is never found out, as
described by the Hon. Nir;
eoNorton, in her new novel " Lost and Saved." "retrie,
loving, she had always the power to lead or to govern tte,
men who became enamoured of her. In general, ebe °
ceeded in evading any very vehement claims on her regarl
but where, as in the case of Trehe ne, and one or two othew'
a suitor resolved not to be trifled with,' she bought bra
conquest with her sin instead of her coquetry, as she W°ll
have given a hundred guineas for a shawl she could not
buy for thirty." She kept no carriage, because it was 21if
convenient for assignation, " She went, as she here*b,
laughingly
expressed it, hithering and thithering
she rested in a shop,' she got into a cab,' an
she managed matters so well that no one could have
told what became of Mills from one day's end to an-
other." She wrote little notes in cypher to her lovers and
left them with milliners, or gliders in Wardour-street:--
~ she went out shopping,' and passed iu at one shop elk'
trance and out at the other, Heaven knows where. Shelled
' appointed to lunch with her cousin,' or 'sit with a sick
friend,' and ready Aunt Myra took her away and set her
down at those doors, She went to study art at picture-
exhibitions; where she looked at one picture, and then.
vanished. She took her poor children out, and left thole
sitting under a shady tree with the little French 3006
'till mamma came back.' She went to country balls, and
took rooms in the hotel because it was so far to drive
home;' or she went quietly down into the country for
couple of days,' and then walked forth to contemplate tombs
in a neighbouring churchyard, till the whistle of the rail-
way engine told her that she need not wait many more
minutes without seeing Montagu appear. she attended
that political pretence, the Ladies Gallery in the House of
Commons, and laughed through the grille at her gray;
husband as he sat dangling some local bill, before she Rat
her, lace mantilla closer round her and skipped away With
her lover."

THE RETINA OF THE EYEBALL, according tet:
graphic paper on the subject in the current uulliLier-
of the Social Science Review, is virtually a photogralt
surface, and the eye, as an instrument, is the same to I"',L
owner as the camera is to the photographic artist. In health;
when the oxydation of all the organs of the body is perfect?
the picture formed on the retina is absorbed, or perhaps it
were better to say, is transmitted instantly to the brain,
where we may almost regard it as photographed again.
When, from any circumstance, the oxydation or nutrition,
or, in other words, the molecular motion of the retina /0
impeded, then the image is not immediately transmittedf
but is held, as it were, on the surface for a time—gradually
fading away. A smoker once after long indulgence could

retain a faint imageof any bright object onwhich ie looked f°

so long a period as six minutes after the eyes were closed upa"
it. If, for instance he looked at the window in the dayligl.
y
the picture of the window was impressed on his retina and
remained there in miniature, the panes of the window help°e filled up with what seemed to him red light, while the bit,
were dark. I have observed the same phenomena in 0/,
own person, not only atter tobacco, but after experiniet
with nitrous oxide, and ether. if a bright light, such
a lamp or candle, be placed before the eye, the impressi°ll
also is retained, but no image is retained that has not i!
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certain size and luminosity; letters of books are lost, as als°
are the minutia) of objects which present many lines °r
figures. That the symptom here spoken of may arise
elusively from smoking is proved by the fact, that it beg°
and is intensified during the act, and gradually dies 0111/
as the cause is withdrawn. Whenever it appears, it is
good indication to the smoker that he has gone far enough
at leaat for that time.

THE FIRST PRINTER AT WESTMINSTER.--We
will ask the reader to imagine 14 years passed sive°
Caxton first began working at his new art. It is not dial'

cult to picture the wooden structures in the AlmonrY t
Occu-
pied by his sedate but busy workmen. We can look in 1"