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 do 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 ie
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 sen 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.
Hastings ; and the Assistant Secretaries Miss Isa Craig and
Mr. Randall. It stated that the working men's meeting
was a feature of special interest, no fewer than 34,960 LW.
plications having beets 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-
cursions. Mr. Carrot, City Treasurer, read the financial
report, which stated that the reveaue 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 thanhs
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 great
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.
THE NEW STAGE AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE."'
In open out-door scenes, where for instance the open
country, or perhaps the open sea, extends far swell
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, over
the stage, and away to where, at the extreme bath'
ward limit of the theatre, it mingles softly with the horizon'
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 la
flat pieces parallel to the proscenium, like the separated
joints of a screen, but planted here and there, 66
Nature plants, carelessly and irregularly—it will be
possible so to close in an out-door scene, as that
there shall be really no flaw or weak place about it, no 10-
finished gaps to which the scrutinising eye can wander 0
the confident hope of ascertaining "how the trick IsT35
done." This personage with the scrutinising eye who 18
always on the look-out for loose screws, who attends places
of entertainment in a spirit by no means friendly to tile
performance at which he has chosen to assist, but rather
spitefully inimical to it; this dreadful individual will, to
use a common phrase, be utterly "done" when he viBif:
the Theatre Royal Lyceum. It is impossible to ee
" off," as it is called. Our glimpses of beer-drinkirigi
our visions of prompter's boxes, of flopping rows es
grooves, of ladies waiting to go on, of seedy ferriwalb.
holding shawls, are over, and done away itb,
The arrangement of the side pieces, slanting le
liquely away from the audience, and appearing to minx
together in masses rather than to stand carefully separated
into regular entrances, renders it quite impossible that an,
member of the audience situated in any part of the house,
should see anything not intended to be seen as part of thee
illusion. Sufficient entrances for all needful purpeee°
left among these side-pieces, but they are most cargtuallY,
masked, and the actor is not seen—unless it is requisite they'
he should be seen—until he emerges clear upon the sta
As to the cunningly contrived entrances by mountain-prey
and rocky descents from the back, those, the insaofsely
leave
able, because the most natural, of all,(sr
artist
tY
as well as a
to Mr. Fechter, who, an accomplished
ieheos the picturesque in
fine actor, is not likely to lose sightinerat._
Dickens ' s " Al
any such matters of stage-arrange
the Year Bound,"
A HURRY-sRuRRY AFTER THE OSTRICHES.--.At
I fired, and of course missed (as I usually do).
On they ostriches)
e still came, and the bolas scented.
b (tihnereqaisition. I shouted to the gaucho to let fly'
now to
nut
lee shook his head and said " Tovadia, not
at them,
in order to try a closer shy with the bolas;
but just as u
j,
t(Neot yet sir). I mounted again and dashsd
I considered the opportunity a good one, 00
towards a
ostrich doubled and went off at a tangent, to my intense
disgust and the amusement of my men. We were 01(4
within fifty yards of them, all yelling and driving ink
out through the bushes; for such game for doubling ail--
turning I have never met with. At one moment you mar,
senor"
sure that you've got him going in a straight line, at fa'
speed, when suddenly he wheels right round and leaves Yett
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 LOT rO-
- We were now six of us after the ostriches (the
re-
mainder having gone after the huanacos), and frequently
were within twenty yards of them. I fired twice and minced'
but the ailed time I was successful, and had the gratiflra:
lion ofseeing one go over and cock up his toes.---5111J)
Rickard's Mining Journal Across the Great Andes.
" REVENONS A Nos MOUTONS ! "—MY rem
bronco of a leg of mutton at Dover.—l had be
long absent from England, and lead consequently elm
lost the sense of mutton, having cheated appetite wf:,
.Rindjleisch and Kalbsbraten (if these were not old slippers
bookcovers, mysteriously accommodes) until mutton bee;ei,s
a myth. The Calais steamer had just flung pee ashorese
ow",,
a state of concentrated misanthropy,
the worthlessness of existence, I walked into the coideu.eie:
of the Lord Warden, where a leg of Southdown
was
set before me. 0 wondrous he bivore, what flesh
si
.latilLl
of
Great Lyric of the downs I What a eensation Wa.fictan
the first mouthful—as of a man passing into:beat;oo on
Mutton It was ambrosia I It was on this
era d
_OO
and a general secnroo
Olympus feasted; and no wonder that the gods w.ir 0
and carelessly immortal. Fugitive flavours, sti itege:are ?
senses into the higher raptures of music, es by are ye
—The nhia 11roceinkr.