The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-20 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 19.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia
and Princess Charlotte, drove out this morning in a
carriage and four, attended by Colonel H. Pon-
snnby, Equerry in Waiting, on horseback.
Count and Countess Bernstorff and the Date of
Newcastle arrived yesterday.
The Dike of Newcastle had an audience of the
Queen.
The dinner party consi3ted of their Royal High-
nesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia
.and Princess Helena, the Prussian. Ambassador and
Countess Bernstorff, the Duke of Newcastle, the
lion. Lady Bidlulph, and the Ladies and Gentle-
men in Waiting on the Queen and the Prince and
Princess of Prussia.

Several of the ladies and gentlemen of the house-
hold, as well as several of the Cabinet Ministers,
have occasionally of late had the honour of dining
with her Majesty and some members of the royal
family in her Majesty's private apartments.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Den-
mark visited her Majesty to-day.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

SANDRINGHAM, Nov. 19.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, with
Major Teesdale, Lord Alfred Hervey, Mr. L. W.
Jarvis, and other gentlemen, were out shooting in
the Wolferton wood yesterday.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, at-
tended by the Countess of Morton, drove,out yester-
day afternoon.

The Duke of Devonshire has left Devonshire
House, Piccadilly, for Chatsworth, Devonshire.
The Duke of Newcastle returned to London yes-
terday morning from Windsor Castle.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are among
the English nobility who have been honoured by an invi-
tation to join the party about to assemble on a visit to their
Imperial Majesties the Emperor and Empress of the French
at Compiegne.
His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman arrives this
day in London from Broadstairs, where his health, we are
glad to announce, has much improved.
The Marquis of Bristol is entertaining a family
party at Icksworth Park, near Bury St. Edmunds.
The Marquis and ►Marchioness of Normanby and
family have left town for Mulgrave Castle, Whitby.
The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam and La3ies
Wentworth nzwilliam arrived last week at Wentworth
House, Yorkshire, from visiting the family estates in Ire-
land.

The Earl of Shaftesbury and Lady Caroline Neel
have left town for St. Giles's, Dorset. The Countess and
Lady Victoria Ashley have gone to join the circle visiting
Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton, at Tatton Park, Che-
shire.

Mr. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and Frances
Countess Waldegrave arrived on Tuesday on a visit to their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, at
their seat in Worcestershire. The hon. gentleman and the
countess leave to-morrow for Dudbrooke, the countess's
seatin Essex.

Lord and Lady Blantyre and the Hon. Misses
Stuart have arrived at Erskine House, N. 8., to pass the
winter.

The Countess and Madlle; Stankeiller have re-
turned to the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from the
Isle of Wight.
Le Baron Kahn and M. d'Arnheim have left the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris.
Sir J. Brooke, K.C.8., the Rajah of Sarawak,
has arrived at Brown's Hotel, Dover-etreet.

THE ALEXANDRA CASE.—The London carte'
spondent of the Manchester Guardian says :—"
have been sounding my legal acquaintances about the are
went in the Alexandra case. I find a very strong feeling
among them that the ruling of the Chief Baron will be stir
ported by the Court. If so, I should think it extremely
unlikely that the matter will be carried further, after such
a discussion as it will have received. The general impres'
sion among lawyers seem?, to be that the object aimed at by
the statute was the prohibition of armed ships sailing under
letters of marque of the South American Republics, and
actually equipped and owned by English owners, and that
it was never meant to include such transactions as Messrs.
Laird have engaged in. The language of the act favoura
this interpretation, as do the contemporary discussions and
history,"
THE SUPPOSED CONFEDERATE STEAMER POI'
PERO.—It is currently rumoured in town that Cap-
tain Farquhar of her Majesty's ship Hogue, has received a
communication from tke Admiralty to detain the screw
steamer Pampero, launched by Messrs J. and G. T.heres°ll,
of Glasgow, at the end of last month, if any attempt is
made to take her out of the Clyde. The interference of the
Government, it is believed, is principally with a view of
ascertaining the truth of the allegations made regarding this
vessel by the Glasgow Emancipation Society, that the ves.
sal was believed by them to have been constructed for tbe
Confederate Government, and that, like the Alabama, 0120,
she was intended to prey upon the merchant shipping °'•
Northern States ; that she is fitted with disguised portholes,
and other requisites for a war ship; and craving the (3°.
vernment to make an investigation into the character,
ownership, and destination of the ship. The Pampero is a
screw steamer of 1,000 tons, and was said, when launched'
to be for London owners.—Scotsman.
THE GARDEN ORACLE FOR 1864.—Mr. Shirley
Hibberd, in the preparation of this work, ingeniously sbo"'o
by the growth of plants and the development of flowers the
progress of the seasons instead of by saints' days and anni-
versaries. It is in fact an arrangement of flowers for ever,'
day throughout the year, mingled with some curious reire-
lations as to their history, and secrets as to their successful
cultivation.
AUSTRALIA, emphatically the land of the future,
has'a fauna that may be summed up in the briefest
of catalogues. The kangaroo, the wild dog, the opossum,
and an animal something between a rat and a rabbit, Leak°
up pretty nearly the total of her quadrupeds, and of these
none, with the exception perhaps of the kangaroo, can fairly
be placed on the game list. Of birde, it is true, there is a
semewhat greater variety, but, though headed by the emelt,
the array is but paltry compared with the brilliant muster-
roll of a single square mile of Brazilian forest or Indian
jungle. All this, while it detracts much from the interest
of the explorer's journal, proves a formidable addition to the
perils of his route. No food is procurable save that Which
he takes with him, and provisions form a very serious item
in the "impedimenta" of an expedition of from 2,000 to
3,000 miles, In Africa, a single pound of powder represents
a fortnight's subsistence. In Australia, powder is as in-
convertibleinto game as greenbacks into dollars. The Pas:
sibility of starvation, and the certainty of scurvy frote 183';
of fresh provisions, added to a not unfrequent scarcity of
water, even harder to bear than that of food, make up the
hardships of a campaign more dangerous, if less fertile in
incident, than that of the African hunter.— b'aturdaY
Review.
ARRIVAL OF INDIAN SCULPTURE AT WINDsor.
CASTLE.—Within the last few days a number of
large wooden cases, containing a quantity of Indian sculp'
Lure, apparently presented to her Majesty, have arrived at
Windsor Castle. The cases have been deposited in the
Castle storeyard, where their contents, are being unpacked
and cleaned. The sculptures and carvings, which are of
comprise a small temple of the most beau"
white statuary marble, slightly tinted here and there with
brownish veins,
tiful oriental construction, with delicately perforated ap neler
pilasters, and cornices, ornamented with leaves and cupola,
dome, all finely chisellA by eastern artists ; and two bean'
tifully executed elephants, furnished with housings, bell
round their necks and tassels depending from their 'eacti"
mounted on low flat pedestals, carved in the same ma ter:-
ceur
a pieces the
o f carving, temple.Theare eacha
elephants,boutfour
et high fo
feet in length.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—A fatal accident I.
place on Tuesday evenin b L 3
hr
feet are
h rahaag nuici :i
g, G out 5 p.m. Tho tic°
of the catastrophe was about a mile from
Crewe Station. ailt
the London and North-Western Railway. ItP3 a ers t"{
a large body of labouring men employed in the erection. °-
large steel works near Crewe had just left work and wera
proceeding home down the Chester line of rails, wllcuta'
goods train passing at the time caused them all to get `l:e
the up line, and unfortunately at the same moment
Chester train, due at Crewe at 5 10, dashed up, and be'L-e:
two of the men had time to escape dashed them on tit° ',Tale
killing them on the spot, The engine pulled up 3'
station, when on the buffer plank was found the hat °I,.
of the poor men, and on the buffer some hair and bloon'ers
ELECTING THE JUDGES.—The New York Pr of
have lately been patting forth advertisements for
rival candidates for the election of judges of then Pc,030
Court. At an electioneering meeting Mt. Brady, u '4_6,
foremoet members of the bar, stated that if certain: .tr,
I:louvres should succeed " there will be two person
New York, each of whom will own a judge, body :a
soul." He stated that in many cases he now has toohi 710
back papers brought to him, and say, " can be yeti
service in this case, for it is to be heard by So-ancle.se,_
or
must employ such a man, between whom and the ea:: Is
the judge's partner, friend,
and you will ha,e,
a great affection. Employ him,
chance to maintain your rights in a court of justice.
agent, or huckster, there
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