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

COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHS,

We lately mentioned a dispute which had arisen
between a M. Ricco of Modena, and Col. Baratti,
Director of the Camera Oscura, a photographic
journal published at Milan, about priority of in-
vention, both claiming to have found a method of
producing photographs in the natural colours of the
originals. We now find, from a number of the
Camera Oscura, that the invention is fur from being
so important as was at first supposed ; still it is
worth describing as a decided improvement. Sap-
pose it be required to colour the photograph of a
man in a black coat, whose hair and beard are fair,
and whose figure is projected on a white foreground,
slightly shaded off. The process of the inventors is
as follows :—The photograph taken by daylight
lies in'a basin full of water ; it is dark, and the
subsequent operations are performed by candlelight.
Two solutions are at hand, one A, consisting of one
gramme of chloride of gold and 10 of acetate of
soda dissolved in 1,000 grammes of water ; the other
B, consisting of 20 grammes of hyposulphite of soda
dissolved in 100 grammes of water. There are
besides two more basins with water, and a quire of
blotting-paper. The photograph is taken out of
the water, and put between the leaves of blotting-
paper; it is then laid flat on a pane of glass, and
the whole surface except the face and hands re-
ceives, with a water-colour brush, a coating of
solution A. By this means the parts subjected to
the action of the gold soon change their tints into
black. The photograph is then put into clean
water again, and left there for a few minutes,
during which the operator prepares a second
photograph, if required. The former one being
taken out, is put into solution B, where it stays for
a few minutes, and is then washed and rinsed as
usual. Now as the time of immersion Ns i'.l influence
the depth of colour, by successive immersions an
orange-coloured cravat will be obtained in one
minute, a coffee-coloured great coat in five, violet-
coloured trouseis in 10, and a black coat in 30
minutes, while the hyposulpbite of soda, or solution
B, gives colour to the flesh and hair. Hence cer-
tain colours though, not quito the natural ones,
may be obtained, which is a decided step in
advance.

GOOD SPor.T. Doke of. Cambridge, Lord
George Manners, oR T . he
—GTenieral Hill, Colonel Macdonald,
and Colonel Newton have shot this week over the Links
P
preserves,
near Newmarket, and made a bag of 636 head—
viz., 332 pheasants, 256 hares and rabbits, and 48 partridges.
On a secona day the same party shot in three hours in
CneveleyPaik 100 pheasants, 60 hares, 23 rabbits, two par-
tridges, and one woodcock. The Duke of Cambridge has
also shot over the covers of General Hall at Weston Cul.
vile, in the same neighbourhood, with the Duke of Beau-
fort, Lord Mount Charles, Lord Stamford, the Marquis of
Salisbury, and Colonel Macdonald. In two days 1,260
pheasants, 324 hares, 101 rabbits, and 10 partridges were
shot, ratikipg a total of 1,695 head.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 11.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness the Princess Helena, drove in the grounds this

morning.

Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of
Prussia (Princess Royal) arrived at Windsor Castle
from Sandringham in the afternoon.
Lord de Tabley and Lieutenant-General Sir
Henry Bentinck have succeeded Lord Rivers and
Colonel F 6eyraour, C. 8., as Lord and Groom in
Waiting.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
SANDRINGHAM, Nov. 11.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, drove out
this morning.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, with
Major Teesdale, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppal, Gene-
ral Knollys, and Mr. Fisher, went out covert shoot-
ing to-day.

Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of
Prussia, attended by the Countess Hohenthal and
the Count Furstenstein ; hii Royal Highness Prince
Frederick of Denmark, attended by Captain.
Lund; and his Serene Higness Prince Edward
of Saxe-Weimar, left Sandringham Hall this
morning at half-past ten, for Wolferton station,
accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales, who were attended by
Lieutenant-General Knollys, Major Teesdale, Lieu-
tenant-• Colonel Keppel, and the Countess of Morton.
The royal party left Wolferton by the ordinary train
at 11.57.

The Crown Princes proceeded to Windsor on
visit to Ler Majesty, and Prince Frederic k of Den-
mark returned to Oxford to continue his s: tidies at
the university.