The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-26 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a
meeting of the Council of his Royal Highness, held
at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham-
gate, St. James's park.
There were present the Duke of Newcastle, Lord
Warden of the Stannaries ; Sir William Dunbar,
Keeper of the Privy Seal; Sir Wm. John Alexander,
Attorney-General ; Col. the Hon. Sir C. Beaumont
Phipps, Receiver-General; Lieut.- General Knollye,
Comptroller of the Household of his Royal High-
ness ; and Lord Portman.
Mr. Bateman, the secretary, attended.

The Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess
de Grey, took a drive yesterday in an open carriage.
The Prince of Wales, attended by Earl Spencer
and Lieut.-Col. Keppel, rode on horseback.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had a
dinner party at Marlborough House last evening.
The company consisted of his Royal Highness the
Duke of Montpensier, the Duke and Duchess of
Marlborough, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the
Saxon Minister, the Spanish Minister, the Mar-
chioness of Ely, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Westminster, Earl Cowper, Earl and Countess of
Carnarvon, Countess de Grey, Lord and Lady
Rokeby, Lord and Lady Portman, Lord and Lady
Raglan, Lord and Lady Hobart, Lord and Lady
Lwaine, Col. Percy, Col Solie (in waiting to the
Duke of Montpensier), Lieut.-General Knollys, and
Lieut.-Col. Keppel.

The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attend-
ance, and played during dinner.

The Sultan's Birthday.

Yesterday evening M. Musurus, the Turkish
Ambassador, gave a diplomatic dinner party in
honour of the Sultan's birthday, which occurred
yesterday. All the guests wore their state uniforms
on the occasion. There were present—Earl Rus-
sell, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the
Austrian Ambassador, Count Apponyi ; the Rus-
sian Ambassador, Baron Brunnow ; the Prussian
Ambassador, Count Bernstorff; the French Arrbas-
sador, Baron Gros ; the Bavarian Minister, Baron
de Cetto ; the Italian Minister, the Marquis
d'Azeglio ; the Netherlands Minister, Baron Ben-
tinck ; the Portuguese Minister, Count de Lavrado ;
the Danish Minister, M. Torben de Bille ; the Ame-
rican Minister, Mr. Adams; the Swedish Minister,
Count Wachtmeister ; the Persian Minister, Mah-
moud Khan; S:r Edward Cust, her Majesty's
Master of the Ceremonies; Mr. J. Layard, Under
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Mr. J.
Murray, Assistant Under Secretary of Stat 3 for
Foreign Aff4irs ; Colonel Ahmed Bey, Major Said
Effer.di, Khalil Effendi, and M. Paul Musurus.

His Royal Highness the Dake of Cambridge
honoured the Countess (Dowager) of Jersey with his com-
pany at dinner last evening, at the Countess's maneion in
Berkeley-square. A select circle met his Royal Highness.

The Earl of Sandwich entertained at dinner o❑
Wednesday evening Maria Marchioness of Ailes-
bury, the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, the Earl of
Wilton, Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Viscountess
Sydney, Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Reach&
and the Hon. Miss Canning, Lord Henry Lennox, Colonel
and the Hon. Mrs. James biacdonald, the Ron. George
Fitzwilliarn, and Mr. and Mrs. Johu Leslie.
The Earl and Countess of Seafield and Lord
Reidhaven have left the Clarendon Hotel for Cullen House,
Banffshire.

Viscount Palmerston was prevented, by a slight
attack of gout, from being present in the House of Commons
last night. _ _ _

Lady Willoughby Gordon and Miss Gordon have
arrived in town from the Orchard, Isle of Wight.

Sir Henry and Lady Sophia des Vceux enter-
tained the Marquis Conyngham, the Earl of Sand-
wich, the Earl and Countess Vane, Viscount and Viscountess
Somerton, Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, Hon. Frederic
and Lady Elizabeth Villiers, Hon. Mr. Egerton, Mr.
Chaplin, &o„ at dinner yesterday evening, at their resi-
dence in Berkeley-square.

MR. SIMS REEVES.—This popular artist has en-
tered into an engagement with the lessee of Her Majesty's
Theatre, and will make his entrée on the 7th of July in
Donizetti's opera of " Lucia de Lammermoor." On the
11th Mr. Reeves will appear in " Oberon."
BLINDFOLDED CHESS EXTRAORDINARY.—Pr e-
vious to commencing the games left urifinished on
Saturday night, Mr. Blackburne exhibited his extraordi-
nary chess knowledge by playing blindfolded the knight
from any given square over the whole 64 squares, consecu-
tively, without placing it upon any one square twice. This
is styled the knight's problem, and until a recent period
was an unsolvable enigma. Mr. Blackburn resumed the con-
test by repeating from memory the games left unfinished,
which he accomplished with incredible exactness. Mr. But-
terfield's game, No. 6, was won in fine style by Mr. Black-
burn° in about half an hour. Games No. 7 and 10, against
Mr. M'Clelland and Mr. Hopwood, respectively, were lost
by the blindfold player, after a gallant contest, in the latter
case extending over 75 moves.—illanchester Guardian.
THREE PERSONS KILLED BY LIGHTNIN G.—On
Wednesday Mr. Weller, a shopkeeper in Glynde, a
small village in East Sussex, accompanied l•y his wife and
another female, went to Brighton, about eleven miles dis-
tant on some business. On their return in the evening
they were overtaken by a severe thunderstorm that pre-
vailed for several hours, and when within about two miles
trom home it would appear that the eas t was struck by the
electric fluid, and the three inmates almost instantaneously
killed. Their lifeless bodies were discovered at an early
hour next morning by a person who Was returning from
Glynde to Lewis.