The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-05 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales dined with her Majesty on Tuesday even
ing at Windsor Castle.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at-
tended by Col. Keppel and Mr. Fisher, went out
hunting with the harriers yesterday morning. The
meet, which was well attended, took place at Bag
shot. After about two hours' running, with bah
indifferent sport, the Prince returned.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales►
attended by the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, drove out yes•
terday afternoon.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED, since
his residence at Holyrood Palace, has, with his neY,„'.l
Highness Prince William of Hesse, played frequeutil'
the Racket Court, Rose-street, Edinburgh.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCE Cf
DENMARK, who has been studying at Oxford Universitii
has left that city for Denmark on a visit to his or"
parents.
Their Serene Highnesses Prince and Prince?
Edward of Saxe-Weimar, who has been residing
at Molcombe Lodge, near Goodwood, were visited on Tue6'
day by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary (attended by Lady Geraidli!
Somerset), and lunched at Molcombe. The royal daoln
and Princess Mary, before returning to Brighton, seeili,
over Goodwood House, accompanied by Prince and Princes
Edward of Saxe-Weimar,
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and
arrived at Goodwood Park, Sussex, on Wednesday 1554 fr°7,
Hillingdon, where they made a short stay, on their Wei
from Gordon Castle. The duke and duchess will remt'ill
at Goodwood until the meeting of Parliament.
His Excellency Count Apponyi returned to the
Austrian Embassy on Thursday evening from visiting ti,
Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at Hatfield ID'
Herts.
We learn that the Earl of Westmoreland, Whiol°
on a visit to the Emperor of the French at Compiegne, %,
seized with a violent attack of illness from which seri°,d
results were feared. The Emperor sent for his own P 1.1;;;
cians from Paris, and it is now hoped that his lordsla
malady will yield to medical treatment.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke and DM:
Agneta Yorke, who have been staying since Monday (Lilt,
visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, scli,
field House, Herta, left there, yesterday, for Wimpols
Cambridgeshire.
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The Countess Frances Waldegrave and
Chichester Fortescue have entertained the following coa
pany during the week at their seat in Essex :—The9nt
and Duchess d'Aumale, the Prussian Ambassador ("n—ci
T.
Bernstorff) and the Countess Bernstorff, Count Corti, la:.,
Norreys, Sir Erskine and Lady Perry, Mr. and sir
Horatia Wardlaw, Lady W. Hervey and Miss Hervey'
Charles Russell and Mr. G. Russell. a ill
Lord and Lady Londesborough have arrive"'
Paris on their way to Egypt.
The marriage of the Hon. Adelaide cavendishl
i
daughter of the late Lord Waterpark, with Mr. Sall'ue.
William Clowes was celebrated on Thursday last at °!(3,„
over, and created much interest in the neighbouring*
tricts.
The marriage of Mr, Paulet, eldest son of the
Rev. Lord Charier Paulet, with Susan Amelia Georgina
Carr Standish, second surviving daughter of the late gra
William Standish Standish, of Duxbury, took place 01$
Thursday last at St. George's, Hanover-square.

The late Mr. Nutt, the Eminent Bookseller'

• ,
Mr. Nutt was educated at Merchant Ta
School, which, however, he left at an early age, t„
a vacancy occurring in the counting-house 01 -
large mercantile firm in the City. Here he re'
mained for several years, working his way up ir,lll
junior clerk to a position of much responsibilit,c
during which time he acquired those business habibe
which secured his success in after life, wheive,
embarked in the bookaelling trade on his own
count. Mr. Moberly, the senior partner of the
introduced Mr. Nutt to the late Mr. Asher, the
house it
neat bibliographer, and founder of the it
Asher and Co., of Berlin, who had just fenrld-cal
requisite to quit St. Petersburg for Polit,:bie
reasons, and who, having a large stock of :1,111„11,‘ al.
books, required an agent in London for its 3ri..--siee,
At first Mr. Nutt occupied only his slg° -Lod
chiefly of an evening, in distributing catalogoes,„-os
attending to orders received ; and during
period many works of great rarity passed thrli.
his agency into our national collection in the %I'd,
tish Museum, and into the libraries at Oxford it
at Cambridge, besides others which loui id,,theev.
way into those of Lord Spencer, Mr. t:o-;
vine, and other well-known book collectors. P„°l,-„;
however, it became necessary that be should .eTild
give up his clerkship or his agency. His frie
to
Mr. Moberly would not allow him to befsle-
which to select; and to the advice of that g•ways
man on that occasion Mr. Nott4 gield the
looked back with gratitude, as havleg Ica A
starting-point of his successful career in bee.okey
love of books, more particularly of old I.:sr-
Nutt,
had become a kind of second nature t 0 death,
which never left him up to the time of hisn eat
Hie stock of books relating to Church Ana e dee
History—including such works as the "Becuel`
u_s
Vouce
Historiens des Gaules et da la France," by
6i mon urns° t,
and the Benedictines of Sr. Maur, the coy'
Germanise Historica" of Pertz, our .own various 0
lee tions of Monkish Historians,the large collectioe
ceci
the Councils by Labbe, Cossart,
Menet, the noble and grand editions of the Fat hers
the Church by the Benedictines--is one of the 114,
ever brought together. Of this stock and his 01,14
Coletf 50
of
tiota of Foreign Theology generally, beep rintel Pro
octavo catalogue of 700 pages, which i quoleci
_if
an authority frequently by Mons. Brunet in his tteo,
edition of the " Manuel du Libraire, et de
ee•
teur des Livres," and by Dr. Grease in his "
FAO
des Livres Rams." Upon the death of the Lai el‘lls,
Robbins of Winchester, Mr. Nutt, at the stiggeee
tion of the head master, Dr. Moberly, base
the goodwill of the Winchester school business fr°ll
his widow ; since which time his connection Wl'
has been no less satisfactory to the Werdo.o,
Wykeham's College as its bookseller and publish:l,
lows, and Masters than to himself—the care of
the
valuable library being in some measure entru 44110
him, and to his representative, Mr. Joseph -"re:e ;
Be
under whose able management the Wilt( t
he" 10
business has been
mainly conducted. iieeo
not as a successful merchant anti, publisha
that Mr. Nutt will long be missed from amongheot
His was a large heart; and, combining the hig-cer
integrity with the noblest generosity, he °ins eief,f,
foremost to aid those whom he thought deeervoe
both with counsel and purse—often finding re by
nerative employ ment and kindly affording sre3P,o%
to relieve the sting of disappointment to 5013 e Yrore
aspirant to literary fame, and never, in hised to
prosperous career, forgetting a favour reeeld
earlier days. His friendships were sound allooo
ing ; ho was slow to take offence, and ever Tangs'
to be reconciled to those with whom an
_es, loge
meat had arisen. He will long be missed h 3., ja
circle of sincere friends, such. as few Men eLl'C.iiico
Nutt was i"
attaching to themselves. Aer- aiareer,
married. His first wife SVIS a Miss fare
wool;
Oxford, by whom he leaves a daughter- 11,1.11er, o
eate
of the to
Albemarle-street, the predecessor f I
is the granddaughter of the late Mr. Ali' RV.
Murray. By her he /eaves a youth u.O
-mourn his loss. -V ,Ileacler•
published.