The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse, who arrived at Buckingham Palace
from Scotland on Wednesday, intended to leave
London for the Continent last night by the Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway. In consequence,
however, of the receipt of a telegram from Dover
:announcing that a heavy sea was running in the
Channel, their royal highnesses postponed their
departure till to-day. Should the weather mode-
rate, the prince and princess will leave the Victoria
station this morning for Dover, whence they will
proceed to Calais on their return to Germany.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse and suite honoured the Adelphi
Theatre last evening with their presence to witness
Miss Bateman's admirable and popular performance
of " Leah."

Lord Llanover has left Llanover, South Wales,
on a tour of visits in Scotland,
THE NEWLY-APPOINTED FRENCH AMBASSADOR.
—His Excellency the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne,,
the recently-appointed ambassador to the Court of St.
James, has resigned his post as Minister Plenipotentiary at
the Court of Prussia to his successor, in order to replace the
Baron de Gros, the present representative of the Emperor
of the French in this country, whose departure is expected
to take place on or about the 15th of next month. The am-
bassador is the eldest of three brothers, one of whom is
Archbishop of Bourges, and the other a lieutenant-colonel
of infantry, who was for a long time orderly officer to the
Emperor. His Excellency is 42 years of age, and has an
only son by an English lady, who is now deceased.
SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of the
local committee was held at Edinburgh, on Wed—
nesday, for the purpose of receiving the report of the hono-
rary local secretaries, and winding up the affairs of the late
congress. Professor Archer read the report, which refers
to the gratifying way in which the people of Edinburgh had
sustained their reputation for hospitality, and to various
bodies and persons to whom the thanks of the Association
are due—including the Hon. General Secretary, Mr. G, W.
Hastings ; and the Assistant Secretaries Miss Ise Craig and
Mr. Randall. It stated that the working men's meeting
was a feature of special interest, no fewer than 34,960 ap-
plications having been received for admission, of which only
about 3,600 could be gratified, and the order of the meet-
ing, and deep interest taken in the proceedings, were such
as to excite the admiration of all. The report concluded by
adverting to the great success which had attended the ex-
oursions. Mr. Curroi, City Treasurer, read the financial
report, which stated that the reveuue of the general fund
from the sale of tickets was £1,747 145., and the disburse-
ments £208; leaving a balance of £1,539. The local sub-
scription fund amounted to £305, and the disbursements
to £BO2, leaving a balance of £lO2. It was proposed to
transmit immediately the sum of £1,500 to the Association
in London. The reports were approved, and votes of thanks
were tendered to all who had given their services or in
other ways promoted the success of the meeting, special
notice being taken of Professor Archer, on whom the grea.t
bulk of the work, as the acting local honorary secretary.,
had devolved. A vote of thanks to the Lord Provost for
presiding closed the proceedings.
TUE NEW STAGE AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE.
In open out-door scenes, where for instance the open.
country, or perhaps the open sea, extends far away
into the distance, the sky will close the scene in over-
head : an unbroken canopy extending from a certain
point behind the proscenium and high above it, oyes
the stage, and away to where, at the extreme back-
ward limit of the theatre, it mingles softly with the horizons
One may, without being too sanguine, believe that this
great arched canopy, spanning the stage from side to side,
and from front to back, will lend itself to all sorts of beauti-
ful and truthful effects. With trees or rocks, or whatever
else may be needed at the sides—not, indeed, pushed on in.
flit pieces parallel to the proscenium, like the separated
joints of a screen, but planted here and there, as
Nature plants, carelessly and irregularly--it will be
possible so to close in an out-door scene, as that.
mere shall be really no flaw or weak place about it, no un-
finished gaps to which the scrutinising eye can wander in
the confident hope of ascertaining "how the trick sy3s
done." This personage with the scrutinising eye who is
always on the look-out for loose screws, who attends pla cos
of entertainment in a spirit by no means friendly to 00
performance at which he has chosen to assist, but rather
spitefully inimical to it; this dreadful individual will, to,
use a common phrase, bo utterly "done" when he visits
the Theatre Royal Lyceum. It is impossible to COB
" off," as it is called. Our glimpses of beer,drinking,
our visions of prompter's boxes, of flopping rows of
grooves, of ladies waiting to go on, of seedy females
fielding shawls, are over, and done away with.
The arrangement of the side pieces, slanting nb-
liquely away from the audience, and appearing to rail'
ole
together in masses rather than to stand carefully separated
into regular entrances, renders it quite impossible that siti
member of the audience situated in any part of the hour`''
should see anything not intended to be seen as part of th
illusion. Sufficient entrances for all needful purposes are
left among these side-pieces, but they are most carefully.
masked, and the actor is not seen—unless it is requisite that,
be should be seen—until he emerges clear upon the stage.
As to the cunningly contrived entrances by mountain-paths
and rocky descents from the back, those, the ms.ofsetlyagh,..re.eveb
Able, because the most natural, of an,
athe picturesque in
fine actor, is not likely to lose sight Lt...... Dickens, 8
any such matters of stage-arrange m
to Mr. Pechter, who, an accomplish/warn:MY as well as a.
THE 0 S.,„TRI CHES.—At
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ostrich doubled and went off at a t Lngent, to my intens
disgust and the amusement of my men. We were nee g
within fifty yards of them, all yelling and driving in and
be,olatts
out through the bushes; for such game for doubling and
turning I have never tnet with. At one moment you melee
sure that you've got him going in a straight line, at full
speed, when suddenly he wheels right round and leaves yob'
to shoot ahead twenty or thirty yards before you can turn,
I was " sold " several times in this way, and eventually
gave up the bolas as a bad investment, and took to nay r°'•
volver. We were now six of us after the ostriches (the re'
maincler having gone after the huanacus), and ;region°
were within twenty yards of them. I fired twice and taist3e'
but tile third time I was successful, and had the gratilie"-
lion of seeing one go over and cock up his toes.--069r
Richard's Mining Journal Across the Great Andes.

" REVENO.NS A Nos AlonzoNs!" My remem-
brance of a leg of mutton at Dover.—l had been
long absent from England, and had consequently almost
lost the sense of mutton, having cheated appetite with
Rind.fleisch and Ea/ bsbraten (if these were not old slippers nand
brmitcovers, mysteriously accommodes) until mutton becaraah
a myth. The Caleis steamer had just flung me ashore;
0'
a state of cencentrated misanthropy, and a general senso
the worthlessness of existence, I walked into the eoffeerocau
of the Lord Warden, where a leg of Southdown was quic.
set before me. 0 wondrous hethivore, what flesh is thine
Great Lyric of the downs What a sensation was
catio tha.t,
n
the first mouthful—as of a man passing- into:beatifi
Nlutcon It was ambrosia It was on this food %
Olympus feasted; and no wonder the; the gods werejoYl.
and carelessly immortal. Fugitive flavours, sti.riog rd?al
senses into the higher raptures of music, by aro jeso za
—2 lie cornhiM for Arocember.