The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, Jan. 23.
The Queen drove out yesterday, accompanied by
the PrlceEs Louis of Hesse.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
arrived at Osborne from London, attended by
Lieutenant-Colonel Clifton.

Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of the Settlements on the
West Coast of Africa.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—A
meeting of the heads of public bodies was held at
Edinburgh on Thursday, to consider what preparations
should bo made to celebrate the marriage day of the Prince
of Wales. The Lord Provost presided, and Mr. Marwick,
town-clerk, stated the arrangements which were proposed
by the magistrates—namely, that there should be a general
holiday—that a review of the military in garrison and Vo-
lunteers should take place in the forenoon, if sanctioned by
the military authorities; that a public banquet of the citi-
zens should be held in the Parliament House, as on the oc-
casion of the marriage of the Princess Royal; that a bonfire
should be lit on Arthur's Seat ; that the Queen's Park and
Salisbury Crags should be illuminated with coloured lights;
and that a discharge of fireworks should take place from the
Castle batteries, the coronal steeple of St. Giles's Church
also to be illuminated. A committee was appointed to co-
operate with the magistrates in carrying out the proposed
arrangements.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—
PLYMOUTH, Friday.—A public meeting of the in-
habitants of this town, convened by the mayor (Mr. W.
Derry), was held to-day in the Guildhall, to take into con-
sideration what measures should be adopted to celebrate the
anticipated marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales(who has recently been appointed Lord High Steward
of this borough) on the 13th of March next. It was unani-
mously resolved that the day should be made a general
holiday in the town, and a committee was appointed to
carry out the intended public festivities.
THE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL.—Within the
last few days Sir Uharles Eastlake, President of the
Royal Academy, and Mr. Cubitt, two of the Committee of
Advice appointed last year to assist her Majesty in the
choice of a design for the national me►iorial of the Prince
Consort, have been engaged at Windsor Castle in making
arrangements for the Queen's inspection of the designs,
seven in number, which have recently been furnished by so
many architects of known repute. St. George's-hall has
been selected as the part of the Castle best adapted for the
purpose. This apartment is 200 feet in length by 30 feet in
width, and 30 feet high; and the designs will be arranged
on screens, so as to admit of their being seen in the best
light and to the greatest advantage. The seven competing
architects, placing their names alphabetically, are—Mr.
Charles Barry, Mr. Edward Barry, Professor Donaldson,
Mr. P. C. Hardwicke, Mr. Pennethorne, Mr. Scott, and Mr.
Digby Wyatt. After the designs shall have been inspected
by her Majesty, probably an opportunity will be afforded
for their being seen by the public.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary propose to remove to their
residence, at St. James's Palace, from Cambridge Cottage,
Kew, early in the week after next.
His Highness Prince Dolgorouky has left Long's
Hotel for Paris.

The Marquis of Hastings has arrived at Long'e
Hotel.

The Earl and Countess of Darnley have left town
for Cobham Park, Kent. _ _

The Countess Dowager of Jersey and Lady
Harriet Ponsonby leave Berkeley-square to-day for Middle-
ton Park, near Bicester. _

Lord and Lady Templemore arrived in town on
Thursday from their seat in Ireland.
Viscount Palmerston has issued cards for a full
dress Parliamentary dinner to the right bon. the Speaker
and the leading members of the Government, on the 4th of
the ensuing month, at Cambridge-house.

DEATH OF LADY MON SON.—Lady Monson died
on Thursday last at Gatton Park, near Reigate,
Surrey, having only survived her husband a few weeks.
The lamented lady, who was the youngest daughter of the
late Mr. Edward Larken, married William John, the 6th
Lord Monson, May 8, 1828, by whom she leaves surviving
issue the present Lord Monson and three other sons, and
an only daughter.
DEATH OF DOWAGER LADY KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—
The death of Sarah Lady Kirkcudbright occurred
on Wednesday last. Her ladyship was daughter of the late
Col. Thomas Gorges and widow of Camden Grey Maclellan,
10th and last Lord Kirkcudbright in the peerage of Scot-
land, who died in April, 1832, leaving an only daughter,
married to Mr. James Staunton Lambert, of Creg Clare,
County Galway.
PRINCE NAPOLEON.—The Constitutionnel states
that there is no foundation for the statement made by some
of the journals that Prince Napoleon had exchanged his
Roman villa in the Champs Elysees for an estate situated
in the island of Elba, belonging to the Prince de Demidoff.
Tftere is, it declares, a rumour that Frince Napoleon wishes
to dispose of that residence, but the report of the exchange
has not the slightest basis..

THE DUKE OF SAXE COBURG AND THE THRONE
OF GREECE.—The Weimar Gazette announces,

although with some reserve, that the Duke of Saxe-Coburg
has accepted the throne of Greece on the condition that the
House of Bavaria renounces its rights, and that he may at
the same time retain the regency of the Duchy of Coburg-

Gotha. The Independance says :—" The visit of Duke
Ernest of Saxe-Coburg tJ Brussels has given credence to

the report of his acceptance of the candidature of the Greek
throne, This acceptance is anything but certain. The duke
hesitates, and if he yields to the appeals made to him, it
will not be without very precise and absolute conditions.

However, the mere possibility of his acceptance and the
measures which would have to be taken as to his succession
in his hereditary duchy and in Greece put diplomacy in a
terment. The German courts especially are discussing the
assent at this moment to the throne of Gotha of a prince of

the English house, and of the part he may play in the
Confederation. The French Government, which might
have raised some objections, has the good sense not to dis-
turb itself about influences the bearing of which may be
exaggeratei to any extent. Finally, the liberal German
unity party fears to lose with Duke Ernest the natural
protector of its principles and its best support.
The Duke d'Aumale has been engaged for the
last few years on an important work, "The History
of the House of Conde," to which House he himself be-

longs. Two volumes, which brought the work down to the
early part of the reign of Louis XIV., were completed, and
were soon to appear in Paris and London. The publisher,
M. Levy, and the printer, M. Claye, gave the usual notice
to the Government when they were about to put the work
in type. The Government made no objection, granted the
requisite authorisation, and for the last year the proof sheets
have passed regularly through the Post-office between Paris
and Twickenham, and Twickenham and Paris, without let
or hindrance up to Thursday last. On that day it was noti-
fied, by the Prefect of Police, to both publisher and printer,
that they must not proceed with the work; an 1, to make
assurance doubly sure, on Friday morning a commissary of
police, with his agents and a carriage, presented themselves
at the printing .office, seized the whole impression (which
was still in sheets), and carried it off, telling the panic-
striken printer that if he wanted satisfaction for what was
done he might, if he pleased, appeal to the Council of State
for permission to prosecute the Police Prefect I The cause
of this act is said to be the following incident :—On
Tuesday last the sale of the pictures of M. Demidoff, the
husband, I believe, of Princess Mathilde, commenced at
the Salle de Vente, Rue Drouot. Among these was
" The Stratonici," a chef d'oeuvre of Ingres, and which
formerly belonged to the Duchess of Orleans. For
this picture there was a warm competition. Among the
bidders were an agent of the Duke d'Aumale and a cham-
berlain or an orderly officer of the Emperor. After a
smart contest the picture was adjudged to the Duke
d'Aumale's agent for 94,000 f. When the name of the pur-
chaser was announced by the auctioneer it was received by
those present with repeated clapping of hands and other
signs of applause. It was on Tuesday that this little in-
cident took place ; it was on the following Thursday that
the publisher and printer received notice that the Duke
d'Aumale's work must not appear; and it was on Friday
that the whole impression was seized.
PORTSMOUTH, Friday, 6 p.m.—The weather here,
which had moderated from the violent W.N.W.
gales of Monday and Tuesday last to strong winds from the
same quarter during Wednesday and yesterday, again last
night increased in roughness to a strong gale; the wind
during its greatest strength veering out to S.W. This
morning after daylight the wind moderated a little, but it
yet blows stifly, has got into the west, and shows an incli-
nation to get further round to the northward. At 10 a.m.
this morning the mercury in the bar meter had fallen in
the previous 24 hours from 29.8 to 29.64. It has since risen
to 29 78. The schooner Magdalen, of Cardigan, Captain
Thomas, from Havre to Portsmouth with potatoes, struck
on the East Pole Bank, off Chichester, and sank, The
crew were saved. No accounts of any other serious accident
along the coast have as yet been recorded.
HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF
SCOTLAND.—The half-yearly meeting of this society
was held at Edinburgh on Wednesday, the Duke of Argyll
presiding, The arrangements were reported for the annual
cattlexe on the
sh ,w of the society, which takes place this year at
3dof
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tenant
Stirling.
re-
quisition received from a large body of landowners and
farmers
A I.eau:al:ion from Inverness, to hold the show
of 1865 there,
for machinery and implementsroved which proposed that premiums
remitteda to the directors for considera-
tion. A report was
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tinned, except in the case of new inventions. 146 new meta-
bora were ballotted for and admitted,