The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-18 00:00:00

anal Tirmlar.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 17.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Pz:ncess Beatrice and attended by the Marchioness
of Ely, Lady in Waiting, end Baronessvon Schenck,
drove out yesterday afternoon.

Major-General Seymour, Equerry i❑ Waiting,
attended on horseback.

Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and
Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Bar-
rington and Captain Sir W. Hoste, went to London
and remained for the night at Buckingham Palace.

Hia Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by
Major Cowell, and Prince .Louis of Hesse, attended
by Captain Westeiweller, also went to London and
were present in the House of Commons to hear the
financial statement of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer.

Her Majesty the Queen, attended by the Mar-
chioness of Ely, Lady Augusta Bruce, and the Mas-
ter of the Household, went to Buckingham Palace
this morning, and returr.ed to Windsor at two
o'clock.

Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and
Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Bar-
rington and Sir W. Hoste, returned with the
Queen.

Departure of the Prince and Princess of

Wales for Windsor (This Day).

SANDRINGHAM, Saturday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales, accompanied by the members of the Prince's house-
hold, took their departure this morning at 10 o'clock from
Sandringham Haa for Windsor.

The Royal party reached Wolverton ktation of the Great
Eastern Railway at about 10 o'clock, when a special train
was in waiting, and, on alighting from their carriages, Mr
Love, the chairman of the company, and several of the direc-
tors, conducted their Royal Highnesses to the saloon-car-
riage, and immediately the train started on its journey,
Mr. Robertson, the superintendent of the line, and Mr.
Kitson, of the locomotive, department having charge of the
engine.

The route taken by the royal train was by Wisbeach,
where great preparations had been made by the corporation
and inhabitants to give their Royal h ighnesses a hearty
reception, the mayor presenting a loyal address on the ocea-
sion. From Wisbeach the train proceeded on to March
and Ely, and thence to Cambridge and London.
It was arranged that the royal train should arrive at
Stratford about 20 minutes past two o'clock, where the offi-
cials of the Great Eastern Railway will deliver it over to
the care of the safe custody of the representatives of the
North London Railway Company, namely, Mr. Mansell,
the manager; Mr. Adams, the locomotive superintendent;
and Mr. Hitch, the superintendent. A North London
engine then takes the train across the marches to Hackney
Wick junction, and, reaching Camden Town station, leaves
the main line and proceeds along the Hampstead Junction
for Acton and Kew, where the officials of the Soutb-Western
Railway take charge of the train till its arrival at Windsor,
which it is expected to reach about four o'clock this after-
noon.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—Their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Pi incet.s of Wales
leave Sandringham today for town. They will return via
Wisbeach, where for more than ten days past active prepa-
rations have been made to give them a suitable welcome.
The Mayor (Mr. R. Young) went down to Sandringham
on Wednesday, and it is now understood to have been posi-
tively determined that to-day (Saturday) the Wi,beachians
shall have an opportunity of displaying their loyalty and
devotion to the Royal pair. From Wisbeach the train con-
veying the Prince and Princess will proceed to town via
March. Wisbeach has not been visited by any member of
the Royal family since 1836, when her Majesty, then Prin-
cess Victoria, passed through the town in returning from a
visit to the Marquis of Exeter, at Burghley. The Prince
and Princess have passed the three weeks which they have
spent at Sandringham in almost complete retirement. The
county press bas respected the privacy which their Royal
Highnesses sought, but one or two morning papers have
persisted, as far as possible, in dogging their footsteps. It
is not expected that they will again visit Sandringham till
the commencement of the shooting season, but during the
autumn and winter they will probably pass some time in
Norfolk. Preparations for extending and improving the
Hall are to be commenced next week.

We are authorised to state that his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales will receive addresses of congra-
tulation from corierations and other public bodies on Wed-
nesday, the 29th inst., at Marlborough House. Regulations
will shortly be published in the Gazette.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary will honour the Duchess of Inver-
ness with their company at dinner this evening at Kensing-
on Palace. There is a select party invited to meet their
_Royal Highnesses.

The Duke end Duchess of Argyll and their
youthful family arrived at their house at Carnpden Hill,
Kensington, on Wednesday, from Roseneath Castle, Dum-
bartonshire.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have
arrived at Northumberland House, from Alnwiek Castle,
for the season.

The Duke of Leinster has arrived at Kilkee
Castle, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of KU.
dare, from Carlton House, near Maynooth.

The Earl Cathcart has returned to Maurigy's
Hotel, from Thornton-le-Street, near Thirsk, Yorkshire.
. _

The Earl of Essex has arrived in town, from
Cashiobury Pa k, Herts.

The Earl and Countess Grey have returned to
town from visiting Lord and Lady Lovaine at Albury Park
near Guildford.

The Earl and Countess of Durham have arrived
in town from their seat, Larobton Castle, Durham. His
lordship has taken a residence in Upper Grosvenor-street
for the season.

Lord Llanover has arrived at his residence :n
Great St: nhope-street from his seat in Wales. Lady Llan-
over is not expected until the middle of Alsy.
Lord and Lady Rendlesham have arrived at the
Clarendon Hotel, from Paris.
Lord and Lady Blantyre and family have arrived
at their residence in Grosvenor-place, from Erskine House,
Renfrewshire.

Lord Broughton has returned to town from
passing the parliamentary recess at Tidworth Park, Wilts.

The Right Hon. H. Hamilton Nisbet came to
town on Tuesday, from Paris, and has since gone to Blox-
holm Hail, near Sleaford. Lady Mary and Miss H. Nisbet
are still in Paris.

Lady Farquhar has left Brighton for Petworth,
on a visit to Lord and Lady Leaconfield.

L'dy Caroline Lane Fox has arrived at her house
in Chesham-place.

Sir Charles Grey has arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel, from Tunbridge Wells.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR TIIE
ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Asiatic, at 3; Archi-
tects, at 8. Tuesday—Statistical Society, at 8—" Direct
Imperial Expenditure, Colonies," Mr. Purdy ; Engineers,
at 8—" Scindo Railway," Mr. Brunton ; " St. German's
Sluice of the Middle Level Drainage, Dr. Hawkshaw;
Royal Institution, at 3—" Animal Mechanics," Mr. Mar-
shall; Zoological, at 9—" Pheasants" Dr. Sclater ; " Birds,
East Africa," Dr. Hautlaub. Wednesday—Geological, at
8—" Gneiss and other Azoic Rocks, Bavaria and Bohe-
mia," Sir I. Murchison; "Section at Mocktree, near Lud-
low," Mr. Lightbody ; Society of Arts, at 8—" Construe.
tion of Twin Screw Steamships," Captain Symonds ;
Archmological Association, at Bi—" Roman Villa, Beiks,"
Dr. Palmer; "Roman Antiquities, Corinium," Professor
Buckman; "Peaked Hats," Mr. Cumming. Thursday--
Antiquaries, at 2—Auniversary ; Royal, at Gi ; Royal In-
stitution, at 3—" Geology," Professor Ansted. Friday
Horticultural, at 2—Election of Fellows ; Royal Institu
tion, at 8—" Luminous Meteors," Mr. Herschel. Saturday
—Royal Institution, at 3—" Language," Professor Max
Muller.—Athenaum.

THE BABRAHAM HERD.--The first sale of short-
horns from the herd of the late Mr. Jonas Webb
took place on Wednesday, when 82 animals realised £55 15s,
a piece, or £1,571 14s. in all, Six families were named in.
our notice of the herd last Saturday, descendants respec-
tively of cows named Celia, Dodona, Sylph, Beauty, Bodice,
and Gwynne. Thirty-nine irons the first of them fetched
£2,019 33,, or £5l 16s. 6d. each; 15 from Dodona realised
£5O ss. 2d. each; 11 from Sylph made £55 78. 3d. a
piece; seven" Beauties" averaged no less than £lO2 188.,
:even from Bodice fetched £44 ss. a piece; and three
Gwynues tirade £53 4s. each. Among the more noteworthy
paces were 100 guineas frr Beauty, the mother of one
of the above families, now a 10 -year old cow, bought by Mr.
Hales, of North Frith ; 160 guineas given by Mr. Betts for
her daughter, Red Rose, and no less than 225 for Drawing-
room Rose, another daughter, just 11 months old, given by
Mr. Irving, of Sydney. In several instances 100 guineas and
upwards were given for cows of the Celia, the
Dodona, and Sylph families ; and the average price of the
whole sale is very high, coy sidering the number disposed of.
A good many of these cattle were bought to go into Ger-
many; several will be despatched to Australia; others are
bought for Scotland, Ireland, and distant counties,
and many remain near home in the eastern counties, where
im2roved stock is much needed. The second and final sale
takes place on the 24th of June, the day having been
altered from the 15th of July, for which it was originally
announced, because that falls in the week of the Inter•
national Agricultural Exhibition at Hamburg.