The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-21 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

-WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 20.
The Queen and Princess Louis of Hesse walked
and drove in the grounds this morning.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales left
Windsor Castle today, attended by Major Tees-
da,e, to honour the Earl and Countess Spencer with
a visit to Althorp-park, Northampton.
The Hon. Lucy Kerr and the Hon. Victoria
Wortley have succeeded the Hon. Beatrice Byng
and the Hon. Emily Cathcart as Maids of Honour.
By a telegram received this morning, his Royal
Highness Prince Alfred, who has been suffering
from an attack of fever on board her Majesty's
ship St. George, at Naples, had arrived at Malta,
and is in the hospital there, progressing favourably.

ROYAL SYMPATHY.—The Right Hon. Earl
Shelburne has received an autograph letter of condolence
from her Majesty, on the death of his late father, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, expressive of her deep regret for
the loss of so trusty a councillor and so sincere a friend.—
!V lishird _Mirror.

The Princess Mary of Cambridge and the Duchess
d'Aumale honoured the performances at the Olympic
Theatre with their presence last night.
The latest news from Berli❑ states that the chil-
dren of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia,
who were stated to be indisposed in our journal of yester-
day, are now much better.

Viscountess Palmerston's party, intended for this
evening, is unavoidably postponed to Saturday, the 28th of
February,

Lord and Lady Bayning arrived at the Pavilion
Hotel, Folkestone, on Thursday.

Sir Frederick atid Lady Smythe have left Brown's
Hotel.

The Hon. Senator Hervey, Baron Manveri, M.
Cheveria, and M. de Krone have left the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn-street, for Paris. .

ST. NAMES'S THEATRE.—Among the distinguished
company who visited this theatre during the past
week were the following :—The Marquis of Clanricarde, the
Earl of Essex, the Earl of Clanwilliam, the Countess of
Eglinton, the Countess of Kinnoul, Lord Vivian, Lord
Scarsdale, Lord Camoys, Lady Costae Russell, the Hon.
James Macdonald, Major Elliston, &c.

A painful loss has just been experienced by a
family connected by close ties with the Emperor of
the French. Tho Princess Julie Bonaparte, Marquise de
Ruccagiovine, suddenly left Paris a few days back for
Rome, to be near her daughter, who had been seized with
typhus fever. The Princess only arrived in time to re-
ceive the child's last sigh, as she died on Saturday in her
mother's arms.

DEATH OF LORD SUDELEY.—We have to an•
nounce the death of the Right Hon. Lord Sadeley,
which event took place at Pau, Basses Pyrenees, on Thurs-
day, the 19th instant. His lordship was born in February,
1801; and married, in 1831, Emma Elizabeth Alicia,
second daughter of George Hay Dawkins Pennant, of Pen-
rhyn Castle, Carnarvonshire. By her—who survives him
—he leaves five sons and five daughters. His eldest son,
Sudeley Charles George, Captain Grenadier Guards, born
1837, succeeds to the title and estates. By the death of the
noble lord, the lieutenancy of the county of Montgomery
becomes vacant.

We are requested to announce that a new edition
of "My Good-for-Nothing Brother" will be published
by Mr. Bentley next week.

MR. GEORGE MELVILLE.—It will be remembered
that this gentleman met with an accident by a fall
whilst playing in the drama of "Peep o' Day" at the
Lyceum, which has ever since suspended his professional
career. His numerous friends will be glad to learn that ha
is now quite convalescent, and will appear on Monday next
(23d), at the Theatre Royal, Portsmouth.—Era.
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A SOMERSETSIIIRE CALIFORNIA.—The Mendip
Hills, in the vicinity of Wells, have recently be-
come a scene of busy industry in " diggins ;" wherein,
however, lead takes the place of gold. Professor Ansted's
recent discovery is a consolidated mass of lead in the parish
of St. Cuthbert, lying in the bed of a long dried-up stream
that ran for ages through ancient mine workings, forgotten
in the past, but now valued by him at many hundred
thousands of pounds, and requiring only the cutting out
with a spade and rewashing, to produce the already
granulated metal, has resulted in a smelting association
bearing the name of the locality. Several old California
emigrants having engaged themselves in the matter, the
work has been set about in the true business-like fashion of
the diggings. Powerful stamping and washing machines
have been placed on the ground, and a crowd of labourers,
whose busy " workings" in a spot so lonely and remote
recal vividly the stories of a similar enterprise in Cali
fornia. St. Cuthbert's Mine has become one of the local
curiosities, and is visited by far and near from the adjacent

country.
WELSH AND ENGLISH.--In all parishes in Wales
in which Welsh is commonly spoken it is required
by law that the ordinary parochial services in the church
shall be in the Welsh tongue. The Bishop of Bangor has
laid before the House of Lords a bill giving power to the
bishops to license in such parishes chapels for the perfor-
mance also of Divine service according to the use of the
Church of England in the. English tongue.
PENAL SERVITUDE.—There have been several
meetings of the Royal Commissioners on the ope-
ration of the Penal Servitude Acts, which have taken place
and still continuo on Tuesdays and Fridays at the Commis-
sion.office in Abingdon. street. Sir Joshua Jebb, Captain
Powell, the Governor of Chatham Prison, and a warder
of the convict servica have been examined. The examina•
tion of Sir Walter Crofton has been deferred, as the Com-
mission proposes next to examine some very important
witnesses from the Australian colonies.—Civil oServiee
Gazette.

SURVEY OF LOCHLOMOND.-It will be satisfac-
tory to tourists and others visiting Lochlomond on
pleasure or business to know that charts of the Government
survey of this most interesting of Scottish lakes have now
been prepared, wherein all sunken rucks, shoals, and banks
are accurately delineated,