The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

The Crown Princess of Prussia,

Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of
Prussia, who left Sandringham yesterday morning,
arrived in London by the Great Eastern Railway rc.t
a quarter to four, and immediately proceeded to the
Great Western Railway in one of the Court car-
riages, which was in waiting at the station. Her
royal highness left Paddington station by the ex-
press train at five o'clock, and arrived at Windsor at
5.40. There the royal traveller vas received by the
railway officials and conducted to her carriage out-
side the Queen's private waiting-room. On reach-
ing the castle, the Crown Princess was received and
welcomed by her Majesty and other members of
the royal family.
Her royal highness, during her stay at Windsor
Castle, will, it is expected, lay the foundation. stone
of the new district church which has been com-
menced at Windsor on the Lammas. This cere-
mony will probably take place on the 21st inst., the
anniversary of the Crown Princess's birthday.

APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—A.
matrimonial alliance is arranged between Lord William
Pitt Lennox, son of the fourth Duke of Richmond, and
Misa Molyneaux, daughter of the Rev. Mr, Molyneaux. A
marriage is also arranged between the Rev. Canon Stanley
(now Dean of Westminster) and Lady Augusta Bruce,
sister of the Earl of Elgin.

DEATH OF LORD CHESHAM.—We regret to an-
nounce the death of Lord Chesham, which took
place on Tuesday night, at his residence, in Grosvenor-
square. His lordship had only been ill a ehort time, but
his family were fully aware of the nature of his disease.
The late Charles Compton Cavendish was the youngest
son of George, first Earl of Burlington, by Lady Elizabeth,
daughter of Charles, seventh Earl of Northampton, and was
born 28th August, 1793. He married in June, 1814, Lady
Catherine, eldest daughter of George, ninth Marquis or
Huntley, by which lady, who survives him, he leaves a.
son and two daughters, namely, the Hon. William G. Ca-
vendish, M.P. for Buckinghamshire; than Hon. Sarah,
marded to Lord Deere; and the Hon. Harriet, married to
the Earl of Strafford. His only son, who succ.icds him in
his title, is married to a daughter of the late Hon. Wm. S.
Lascelles and Lady Caroli'ne Lascelles, a niece of the
Duchess Dowager of Sutherlar.d, and the Earl of Carlisle.

Tae late lord sat in the House of Commons from D.:20 till
his creation as peer under the title of Baron CheshaLn, of
Chesham, County Bucks, in the early part of 1858. is
1320 and 1826 he represented Newtown, Hants, in ,the
House of Commons, and in 1831 the borough of Yarmout.y•
At the general election in 1832 he was returned member for
East Sussex, for which division of the county he sat till
1847, when he was elected for Buckinghamshire, in
conjunction with the Right Hon. B. Disraeli and N.
Duprai.
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THE BLACK-LETTER SAINTS OF THE ENGLISIJ
PRAYER-BOOK were every one excluded from the
first Prayer-book of Edward VI. (1549). In the second.
Prayer-book of Edward, three were introduced—St. George,
the patron saint of England; St. Clement, contemporary of
the Apostles ; and St. Lawrence ; and to these names was
added, for the Ist of August, Lamoas-day—so called, it is
supposed, from Loaf-man—the feast of the first fruits of the
harvest. In queen Elizabeth's Prayer-book, as printed in
1559, no additional saints appear; but those afterwards
printed in her reign, the list is nearly the same as at the
present day. Eunurchus was added in the revision of
James 1,, and St. Alban and the Venerable I:ede in that of
the reign of Charles 11. The movement from ,the reign of
Edward to that of Charles was in a degree re.lctionary ;
but that only proves that some strong reason must' have ex-
isted for reintroducing names which before theßefo rmation
were in common use—that they were social necossities
which called for their reinstalments. Bishop Mant tells
us that they were partly retained because the returns of the
courts of law were commonly made with reference to those
days, such as Fest Martin, Crest Martin, and Vigil Mar-
tin ; one of our law terms, we know, is called after St..
Hilary, Another reason he gives is that mechanics and
artisans could not dispense with their patron saints ; the
shoemakers would not part with St, Crispin, of whom it is
told that, with his Brother Crispianus, on his missionary
tours, he worked at his trade like Paul and Apollos. Welsh-
men would have St. David. Again, churches had been
dedicated to these saints, and fairs and wakes hold near
them on their festal days; therefore, it became necessary to
retain their names in the calendar. Also, histories written.
before the reformation dated events from these festal days,
as, for instance, Lammas, Martinmas,—and,, therefore,
again some guide to the days of the month on which these
festivals fell was necessary.--London Review.

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TIER MEANING OF FRACTIOUSNESS OF CHIL-
DREN.—AII children, says a Saturday Reviewer,
have thoughts which exceed the powers of exprextion.
Parents know by painful experience, that there is a ce,-tain
age at which children become fractious, ill-tempered, 41nd
difficult to manage to the most unpleosant degree. It is
the age at which they have learnt more or loss to think,
but not to speak. They know perfectly
."ell what the y
want, try in vain to explain themselves, and al'e as irritate
d.
and angry at not succeeding as a certain des.lription.
Englishman is apt to be with the stupid brutes of
foreigners who, as he observes, cannot speak a word of an y
rational language. A child at this period is not a plc .asirtg
creature, but it is a very odd and instructive. IVh at is
passing in its mind ?. How does it think ? Does it say to
itself, in words, I want this or that—what a fool my nurse
must be not to see what I want, and give it me ? If: it
does not say this, what does it say ? It certainly says or
thinks something, it' gestures, expressions of countenance,
guilldifiscoall;ceethaet aclleleineAst
and halfe-aarntsic;l:tteo sthoteisnedsghneasvteinanusywsni
comp
of all problems respecting human knowledge. Such
answer is probably not to be had—yet there is a strong rei
son to believe that at this troublesome stage of its life a
is the power of thinking in
child is, for the first time, learning to exercise the distinc-
tively human faculty, whatever its proper name may be. It
general terms
power of speech is
the outward and visible' of which Ole
siom Many
animals, stnuechmeare spnarrtrionts
:inantidonsotearlsionngna
as ,cgannessp—eabrrap.tehreferectliy;
us far
no instance of an inferior animal which ever learnt the
m:tuning of a single word of the commonest kind, such as
"r " dog," Human beings—even if they are
idiots, and, what is still more curious, if they are (lest:
dumb, and blind—arc capable of learning to communicate
with their fellow. creatures by vocal or other signo c:vre.3s•
ing general abstract meanings.
PET MARJORIE.—An article in the current num-
ber of North British Review, so entitled, is the,
production, we believe, of Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgh..
author of Rab and hi. Friends." The heroine of the
article, "Pet Alutjorie," or Marjorie Fleming, was an ex-
traordinary child, who was born on the 15th of January,
1803, and died on the 19th of December, 1811, at the ago of
eight sears. She was a little prodigy in Edinburgh, and a
pet of Sir Walter Scutt's, who was a friend of her family,
and used to spend hours in prattling with her and _hearing
her recite poetry. From the age of six to her death she
was in the habit of writing little letters, and jotting down
scraps of verse and prose; and amusing extracts from these
childish and ill-spelt remains are given in Dr. Brown's
paper. They gleam with sense, humour, and, in short',
precocious genius; and, with them and with Dr, Browns
setting of thew, the article is very strikigs.l