The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-01 00:00:00

Prince Arthur.

His Royal. Highness Prince Arthur, accompanied
by Major Elphinstone, arrived at Woolwich at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, and immediately pro-
ceeded to the Royal Arsenal, where arrangements
had been made to carry oat a series of interesting
experiments with Francis's corrugated iron military
waggons, which will also serve the purposes of boats
for the transport of troops or stores across a lake or
river. His royal highness was received at the
main gate by Colonel J. C. Kennedy, C. 8., Lieut.-
Colonel O'Brien, and Major Shervington, of the
Military Train Corps, and the party then proceeded
to the canal, near the Government practice range,
when one of the waggons, having been divested of
its shafts and wheels, was thrown into the water,
and his royal highness and the officers named hav-
ing entered the amphibious conveyance, it was easily
navigated by two men with oars. A second waggon
was then tested, and having embarked 16 men of
the Military Train Corps, with its own wheels, and
an additional weight of about seven cwt., was pro-
pelled with ease for a considerable distance, clearly
proving the importance of the invention for military
purposes, especially as a means of transport during
a period of active warfare in an enemy's country.
His royal highness, who appeared delighted with
the experiments, returned to his residence at Green-
wich•park at five o'clock, accompanied by Major
Elphinstone.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are
at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. The noble duke is
in much improved health.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
and Lady Theodora Grosvenor arrived at Grosvenor House
yesterday, from Eaton Hall, Cheshire. The noble marquis
and marchioness will leave town either to-day or to-morrow
for Motcomb Hoase, the seat of the family in Dorset.

Viscount Palmerston left London yesterday for
Wales.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston went yes-
terday to a private view of Sir Edwin Landseer's studio in
Onslow-square. The Duke of Wellington, Lord de Tabley,
Lord and Lady Edward Thynne, Mrs. Lane Fox, &e., were
also present in the course of the afternoon, to view the lions
upon which Sir Edwin is at work.
Lord and Lady Aveland and the Hon. Misses
Heathcote have arrived for the season at their family 'seat,
Normanton-park, Rutlandshire.

Lord Frederick Paulet and Colonel Augustus
Meyrick (ef the Guards) have arrived in town.
The Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers
have arrived at Ostesley Park, near Southall, on a visit to
the Countess (Dowager) of Jersey, from passing a fen'
weeks in Switzerland.

The Hon. Mrs. Abbntt has arrived in town from
visiting her sister, the Marchioness Townshend, at the Isle
of Wight.

The Hon. Adelaide Cavendish, the second daugh-
ter of the late Lord Waterpark, is engaged to be married
to Mr. Clowes, a wellthy widower, who resides near Man-
chester. Miss Cavendish was recently appointed Maid of
Honour to her Majesty.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., hes
returned to his seat in Northumberland, from visiting the
Hon. George Waldegrave Leslie and the Countess of
Rothes, at their seat in Scotland.

THE patriotism of Cardinal Wiseman, as dis-
played at the Malines Congress, astonished all pre-
sent. He spoke out thorough British, both admiringly and
affectionately of En4land, and had good words even for her
Government and Parliament.— Court Journal.

Lieut.-General Sir Gaspard Le Marchant has
recently returned to Malta to resume the Government of
that island.

THE COLONELCY OF THE COLDSTPEAM GUARDS,
vacant by the death of Lord Clyde, rumour assigns to Sir
John Guise or Sir William Gomm, as the two oldest
Guards' Generals.

LORD CLYDE is said to have left the greater part
of his fortune to a son of General Eyre.

Mr. E. G. Papworth is now engaged upon a bust
of Lord Palmerston.

TUE MOORS, CRlEFF.—Thursday and Friday
being very wet, few sportsmen ventured out. Early
on Saturday morning a severe thunder-storm burst over
the north-western district in Perthshire, which was fol-
lowed by torrents of rain that lasted for several hours, The
Turret, and other streams, were flooded to a great extent,
and the small hill burns were much swollen. On Thurs-
day, his Royal Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh
bagged to his own gun, on the Loch Kennard range,
Grandtully, 50 brace of grouse and a few hares and snipe.
Sir Hugh Hume Campbell, Bart., shot on the hill of Non-
zie, in the afternoon, seven brace of grouse. The numerous
sportsmen who are residing at Drummond Castle have se-
cured excellent bags of grouse during the last 10 days. The
sport at Glenartney, Longaide, Lochearnside, ix., has been
good. Grouse aro plentiful, and not the least symptoms of
disease has been among the birds. The Hon. J. C. Dandas
and son left Corriemuckloch on Saturday for the season.—
Scotsman,

MARGARET, PEARL OR DAISY P--" No name has
has been the occasion of more pretty fancies," says
Miss Yonge," than Mapyarartir (a pearl), itself taken
from the Persian term for the jewel, Mervaiid (child of
light), in accordance with the beauteous notion that the
oysters rising to the surface of the water at night and open-
ing their shells in adoration, received into their mouths
drops of dew congealed by the moonbeams into the pure and
exquisite gem, resembling in its pure pale lustre nothing so
much as the moon herself, gran. Margherita,' as Dante
calls her. The thought of the pearl of great price, and of
the pearl gates of the celestial city, doubt inspired the
Christian choice of Margarite for that child of light of the
city of Antioch in Pisidia, whose name as virgin martyr
standing in the Litany W i thou t any authentic history became,
before the sth century, the recipient of the allegory of femi-
nine innocent and faith overcoming the dragon, even as
St. George embodied the victory of the Christian warrior.
Greek though the legend were, as well as the name, neither
flourished in the Eastern Church. The Italians reverence
for Idargherita, or Margherita, as they called her, was in-
creased by the penitence of Margherita of Cortona, whose
repentance became so famed that she was canonised ; and
for the sake of her humility the daisy became her especial
symbol, and took its French title of marguerite, which still
survives in England as magweed, the local name of the
crysauthenium leucanthemunt, or ox-eye daisy. The flower
of the virgin martyr is the poppy, in allusion to the dragon's
blood, and the Margarets of the days of emblems were
divided between pearls and daisies. St, Louis is said to
have had for his device a ring of fleur-de-lys and daisies,
with the motto, Can we lied love beyond this ring ?' If
true, this would prove that the daisy was Marguerite before
the time of the penitent of Cortona, and that the distinc-
tion was a late one. Margaret of Anjou assumed the daisy,
with which the book given to her by stout Earl Talbot is
plentifully besprinkled, Marguerite de Valois, the brave
and clever sister of Francis the First, • was called La
Marguerite des Marguerites, but the pearl was her device.''
DEATH OF A CELEBRITY.—We learn the death.
at Monza of the naval architect Borgni, who under
the first Napoleon had (in 1806) charge of the arsenal at
Venice, and built for him on those stocks a crack Italian
frigate, the BLlkrofoute, which had hardly been launched
when it was captured by the cruisers from Malta, and under
the name of Bellerophon,
did duty as passenger ship for
St. Helena.

RUSSIAN TORTURES.—The azas of Cracow an-
nounces the establishment of the torture in the
citadel of Warsaw ; an iron ring, which can be reduced in
siz‘) by a screw, is placed on the prisoner's bead
tightened until the victim confesses. Itigotous measures
are being taken iu case a revolt should break out in the
capital of the hiugneru. An order has been given to 11".
nacre the prisoners, in case au aticmpt be made to de iver
thew.