The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-09 00:00:00

The Princess of Wales,

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, at-
tended by the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey, took a carriage
drive yesterday forenoon, and in thu afternoon took
an airing in an open carriage.

Memorial of the late Prince Consort.
ABERDEEN, Thursday Evening.

A statno of the late Prince Consort, subscribed
for by the noblemen and gentry of the county and
city of Aberdeen, has just been completed by Baron
Marochetti, and received here. It was intended
that the statue should be inaugurated this week,
and her Majesty having been informed of the cir-
cumstance, the Lord Provost (Mr. Alex. Anderson)
has had the honour to receive the following commu-
nication from the Hon. General Grey :

" Balmoral, Oct. 8, 6 a.m.
"My dear Lord Provost,—l am now desired by the Queen
to let you know that it is her Majesty's intention to at►_end
the uncovering of the statue of the Prince Consort on Fri-
day next.

" Most painful a 3 the effort will be to her Majesty, and
entirely unequal as she feels to the exertion, yet she
cannot allow this memorial to her beloved husband to be
inaugurated at Aberdeen, during her stay at Balmoral,
without wishing to show by her presence as well her
own unbounded love and respect as her heartfelt apprecia-
tion of this mark of affection of the people if Aberdeen for
one who dearly loved their country, and considered the few
weeks he pent annually among them as some of the hap-
piest of the year.

" The Queen is sure she may trust to your best endea-
vours, and to the kind feelings of the people, to make her
reception in Aberdeen as little trying to her as possible, so
that she may be better able to get through her part in
what must be to her a distressing and yet a gratifying
ceremony.—l remain, my dear Lord Provost, yours very
faithfully, 4: C. GREY.
" The Lord Provost of Aberdeen."

The inauguration has, however, by desire of her
MajLsty, expressed this afternoon, been postponed
till Tuesday, the 13th.

Health of Lord Lyndhurst.
The following bulletin was issued this morn-
ing :

" Friday, Oct. 9.
"Lord Lyndhurst has had a better night, and
this morning he is not so weak.
" Trios. HAWKSLEY, M.D.

Prince William of Hesse-Darmstadt will arrive
in London this evening, and after a short stay will proceed
to Balmoral on a visit to her Majesty. Apartments have
been engaged for his highness and suite at Thomas's Hotel,
Charles-street, St. James's.
Tee Duke of Newcastle has arrived at Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Clumber, Notts.

The Duke and Duchess de Chartres, travelling
under the name of the Count and Countess de Villiers
have arrived at Vienna.

HAYMARKET TllEATßE.—Their Royal Highs
nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, with the King of
the Greeks, honoured the performances with their presence,
last evening, to see the Countess of Gifford's comedy of
" Finesse," and remained for the farce of " Turning the
Tables."

ADELPHI THEATRE.—The suite of his Majesty
the King of the Greeks honoured the performances, last
evening, with their patronage.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were
sent to the Governor of the Falkland Islands and to the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS.—EDINBURGII,
Thursday.—The sittings of the Social Science Con-
gress were resumed this morning by Lord Curriehill, one of
the judges of the Court of Session, delivering an introduc •
tory address as president of the department of Jarispru-
deuce. Prince Alfred was present, and was received with
lone. cheers, the whole assembly rising to receive his Royal
Highness as he entered the hall. Lord Brougham and
Mr. Joseph Napier were also among the gentlemen present.
The departments met immediately after the close of the
address of Lord Curriehill, and were all well attended dur-
ing the day. Prince Alfred was present in several of the
sections, and listened with interest to a discussion which
took place on an important paper contributed by Miss
Nightingale, upon the cause of the excessive mortality in
our Indian army.

FINANCES OF RUSSIA.—The total revenue of the
empire is calculated at £44,374,248, of which nearly
£8,000,000 is raised from the serfs, and £18,000,000 from
the monoply of the manufacture of brandy, The expendi-
ture is a little more than two millions more, of which
£7,756,598 goes to the debt, £1,000,000 to the Court and
dependents, £665,871 to the Church, £15,225,111 to the
Army, £2,911,404 to the Navy, and £3,818,000 to Finance,
£1,882,000 to pensions,Xl,3o4,o3) to public works, and only
£578,104 to instruction.

A SNEEZE is absurdly described in one of the
halfpenny journals a common-sense attempt, by
Nature, established, to get rid, by a gush of air mechani-
cally emitted through the nose, of some offending sub-
stance. To this end she calls into spasmodic action the
various muscles, but chiefly the diaphragm, that are con-
can well sneeze ;
to it. it. The result
ce r
reason,ned ivolition,
t ofh aesxpniortahtiionng.
being wholly independent of reason, is due to the reflex
nervous function.
T
vx.ttßY OF OCCASIONAL HUGGER-MUGGER
is thus described by a Saturday Reviewer.—The
liberty of dispensing with a hundred conventional necessi-
ties which belongs to lodgings in a crowded watering-place
and to a sauntering out-of-door life—the feeling of roughing
it, in careless defiance of home restraints—often imparts
quite as keen an exhilaration, for a day or two at least, as
the tumbling waves themselves. It is, for most people, the
nearest practicable approach to that infantine dream of per-
fect felicity—life in a travelling caravan, with feather-bed
and blankets inside and a chimney at top. Many a reader
has warmed to that scene of genial hugger-mugger in.
" David Copperfleld," where the hero gives a dinner, and
an almost law leg of mutton offers an occasion for Mr.
Micawber's talents in this line. He calls for a gridiron,
and the formal company arrangements of the table are in-
stantly broken up in 'a joyful confusion of hissing, splutter-
ing chops, shirt-sleeves, and laughter. But Dam ocles'
sword hangs over all these surreptitious joys, and it falls
here most appropriately in the form of somebody's servant.
It is, if we remember right, the villain of the story who
keeps a butler, and this man enters when the fun in at its
highest, and paralyses the guilty assembly by the mere
terror of his presence. And, in fact, servants are the great
bugbears of all lovers of hugger-mugger for the mere com-
fort of it. If people anticipate their servants' duties they
are generally careful that the actual perpetrator of the for-
bidden toil should be anonymous. If a man carries his
own portmanteau to his room, he would rather that the
servant whose business it was to take it should not know
how it came there. Servants, in fact, are quite right to
despise any form of hugger-mugger, and to have pretty
stringent ideas, too, as to what constitutes it, for this is
necessary to their own sense of importance. If masters
once helped themselves, their vocation would be gone, and
the honours and credit of their profession extinguished.
To be sure, a lazy fellow is willing that anybody should
do his work for hire, but he does not the less despise the
doer as one who feels himself unworthy of his services ;
while he bestows all his willing attendance upon those who
recognise his office and place, and accept the restraints,
While they exact the privileges of their own,