The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-16 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
by Lieut.-Gen. Knollys and Lieut.-Col. Keppel,
accompanied his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge on a visit yesterday morning to the Royal
Military College, Sandhurst.
The Princess of Wales, attended by Countess De
Grey, honoured Mr. Heath, at his rooms in Picca-
dilly, with a sitting for her photograph. Her
Royal Highness, attended by her Lady in Waiting,
took a drive in an open carriage in the afternoon.
The Prince of Wales had a dinner party last even-
ing at Marlborough House. The company consisted
of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the
Austrian Ambassador and Countess Apponyi, the
French Ambassador, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Hamilton, the Duchess of Northumberland, the
Duchess of St. Albans and Viscount Falkland, the
Earl of Sandwich, the Earl of Sefton, Viscount and
Viscountess Kinnaird, Countess de Grey, Lieut.-
General the Right Hon. J. and Lady Alice Peel,
the Hon. Victor Montagu, Sir Edmund and Lady
Head, Sir Fred. Stovin, Lieut.-Colonel and Hon.
Mrs. Loyd Lindsay, Mr. Lawrence Oliphant, the
Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge, Colonel Tyr-
whitt, Lieut.. General Knollys, and Lieut.-Colonel
KeppeA.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in at-
tendance during dinner,.

The Princess Mary of Cambridge, the Dowager
Duchess of Sutherland, and Mrs. Gladstone, were among
the numerous persons of rank present at the early proceed-
ings of the House of Commons last evening.

The Duke of Northumberland was-better yester-
day, and is progressing favourably towards recovery from
his attack of gout.

The Duchess of Marlborough's evening party,
announced for the 22d of June, is postponed.
The Duke and IJuchess de Galliera have left
Claridge's Hotel far Paris.

The Duke d'Acquaviva has left the Brunswick,
Jermyn-street, for Brighton.
The Marquis Camden has announced a ball for
Wednesday, July 1,
Vicomte de la Redone has left the Brunswick,
Jermyn-street, on his return to Paris.

Sir Courtenay and Lady Honywood have le
the St. George's Hotel.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have left Grosvenor-gate for Oxford, and are the guests.
during Commemoration, of the Public Orator and Mrs

General and Madame Le Respeine and family
have arrived at the Brunswick, Jermyn-street, from the
Isle of Wight.

The Marquis and Marchioness Cholmondeley
have left town for Houghton Hall, Norfolk.
Lord Clyde is improving in health, and his large
circle of friends will learn with pleasure that, beyond a
slight weakness, his robust constitutional health is in no
way affected.

Lady Knatchbull will have a dancing party on
Saturday next.

Bazaar at the French Embassy.

The grand fancy bazaar held yesterday at the
residence of the French Embassy, which is to be
continued to-day and to-morrow, will without doubt
result in a considerable accession to the funds of the
French charitable association (the Societe Fran gaise
de Secours), in aid of which the project was set
on foot.

The bazaar is under the patronage of the Empress
of the French, who, jointly with the Emperor, had
sent four very valuable and remarkable specimens
of the renowned Sevres manufacture to be disposed
of for the benefit of the society. These magnificent
vases are executed in the highest style of art,
and were much admired throughout the day.
Besides these vases, many other articles of great
value have been sent from France to enrich
the funds of the society. Of these the most
noticeable, perhaps, is a life-size portrait of her
Majesty Queen Victoria, presented by Messrs. Breton
fr eres. It is a lithograph, enlarged from a photo-
graph, and is remarkable for the ability displayed
in the execution of such a work on so large a scale.
Of the other objects contributed, mention may be
made of a beautiful painting on porcelain, repre-
senting Cupid and Psyche. This was presented by
the great French banker, M. Pereire. Messrs.
Pleyel, Wolff, and Co., of Paris, a vase of Algerian
onyx marble ; while Messrs. Hachette and Co., the
French publishers, have sent a copy of Dante's
"Inferno," which is enriched with 76 plates by
Gustave Dore. A large inkstand in bronze, with
spiritedly-executed figures of dogs and a wild boar,
contributed by M. Giroux, of Paris, completes the
list of the more noticeable objects contributed. All
these articles, including the imperial presents, will
be disposed of at a tombola on -Wednesday. The
price of each chance is a sovereign, and aiready
five-sixths of the proposed number of subscribers
have entered their names, so that but little time
remains for those who yet intend to do so.
The association, which is under the patronage of
his Excellency Baron Gros, the French Ambassador,
has also been well supported by the efforts of many
lady patronesses, among whcm are—the wife of the
Turkish Ambassador, Madame Musurus ; of the
Austrian Ambassador, the Countess Apponyi ; of
the Russian Ambassador, the Baroness Brun •
now ; of the Prussian Ambassador, the Countess
von Bernstorff ; and of the Belgian Minister,
Madame Van de Weyer. In a work of charity,
as may be supposed, British ladies have not shown
less zeal, for the list of those who have extended
their patronage to the society comprises many of
great rank and influence. Of these ladies the fol-
lowing also presided at stalls :—Lady Constance
Grosvenor, the Countess of Westmoreland, the
Countess of Winchilsea, the Countess of Shaftes-
bury, the Countess of Tankerville, Countess Cowley,
the Countess de Flahault, Viscountess Ingestrie,
Viscountess Castlerosse, Baroness de Rothschild,
Mrs, Dudley Carleton, and Mrs. Henry Baring.
The Marquise de Cadore, the wife of the First Se-
cretary to the French Embassy; and the Marquise
d'Andigne, the wife of the Military Attache, also
lent their aid in a similar manner; while Lady
Catherine Coke kindly consented to preside in the
refreshment room.

All the stalls were furnished with objects well
calculated to please the taste of visitors of either
sex. It would, indeed, appear that a spirit of
generous rivalry had actuated the fair ladies in their
charitable work, for they had displayed before them
such a tempting array of articles that few could
escape (if so minded) from becoming purchasers;
and thus the efforts of the ladies who for the nonce
had assumed the unwonted charactersofboutzquieres
Nere generally remarkably successful, and it may
be safely stated that many who went to look re-
mained to pay. We certainly heatd that one or
two of the fair stall-keepers have distinguished
themselves in their charitable labours ; but we
cannot be invidious, feeling sure that in this case, as
in all works of charity, a good action is, as it
should be, its own reward.

SOMETHING LIKE A DRAWING ROOM. The
walls (says an artist in the last number of the Corn-
hill Magazine) should be panelled with frames of ebony
filled with velvet of a rich violet colour. There ought to be
magnificent mirrors, let in here and there in place of the
velvet ; and round the mirrors the ebony should be enriched
with the most delicate carving. The chimney-piece should
be of pure white marble sculptured by some great sculptor.
Against your violet velvet beautiful statues should relieve
themselves, and between each pair of statues a noble picture
should hang. All round the room, silver candlesticks of
exquisite design should spring from the ebony frames of the
panAls, each a separate invention. The furniture might be
either ebony with orange damask, or gilded with violet vel-
vet. In the one case you would carry the woodwork of the
walls into the furniture; in the other, the hanging. The
carpet might consist of a chequer of alternate lozenges of
needlework, in one of which an orange pattern Was pre-
sented on a violet ground, and in the other the same pattern
heraldically counterchauged to violet upon orange.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

Major-Gen. Stransham, Inspector-General of the
Royal Marines, has been engaged at Portsmouth for
the past week in inspecting the two divisions quar-
tered there, the artillery division, under the com-
mand of Col. Taite, and the light infantry, under
Col. Ayles. The Major-General appears to have
been well pleased with the artillery division, but in
his address to the light infantry division he in-
formed them that they were not in such good
order as they had been last year at the two last in-
spections. _ _

The screw steam troopship Himalaya, Capt. Ed-
ward Lacy, from Dover, which arrived at Plymouth
on Wenesday last, being unfit to convey artillery-
men to Ireland, as first intended, was on Friday
taken from the Sound by the tugs Zephyr and
Prospero, and is now alongside the ,hulk Endymion
in Hamoaze, where her defects will be made good.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com-
mander Johnstone, having been repaired and re-
fitted, made an experimental trip outside Plymouth
breakwater on Friday, and is now at anchor in the
Sound, waiting orders from the Lords of the Ad-
miralty.
The following appointments were made at the Admiralty'
yesterday :

Promoted to Naval Cadetships :—Mr. Maurice P. R.
Bayley, Fredk. Brind, Hon. Robt. Walter Craven, Mr.
Wm. C. H. Gill, Walter W. B. Graham, Richard N.
Greeley, Arthur F. G. James, Henry D. Mackenzie, Arthur
W. C. Prother, and Thomas R. J. Ross.