The Sun.
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- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER, 18, 18&.

with going over old arguments; but while erro-
neous statements are continually emanating from
the pens of gentlemen who are considered to be
well-informed upon the subject, some remarks upon
the true state of the case may not be out of place.
In the first instance, when towards the end of the
last century it was decided to form a convict set-
tlement at Port Jackson, or as that depot was
generally called, Botany Bay, the country was but
thinly inhabited by a few wandering tribes of
savages, and covered in many parts by dense
forests, and intersected at intervals by lofty ranges
of mountains. By the forced labour of the male-
factors the country was gradually cleared around
the settlement, roads were cut through the solid
rock or carried across swamps, and the country, by
degrees, opened out for emigration, In course of
time New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land
became thriving colonies. Cattle and sheep in-
creased to an unprecedented extent, and speculative
settlers looked for runs for their flacks and herds
less remote from the coast than the back districts
to which their extending prosperity and the in-
creasing population of the colony gradually drove
them. Thus a small settlement was made at Mel-
bourne, on the mainland side of Bass's Straits.
Meanwhile, agriculturists, many of them Germans,
settled further te the westward of where the country
was held open. The prosperity of the colonies
steadily increased, and the desirability of dispens-
ing with convict labot.r was discussed in many
quarters when the discovery of gold, first in New
South 'Wales, and directly afterwards in Victoria,
changed the destiny of the colonies. Hundreds of
thousands flocked in from California and Europe,
and among these adventurers a pretty fair sprink-
ling of roughs, and others of a questionable cha-
racter. The gold mania could supply the gaols in
abundance without the assistance of Millbank or
Pentonville. It was, therefore, quite natural that
the inhabitants of tee south-eastern colonies should
refuse admission to English malefactors. These
reasonable requirements were at once acceded to by
the home authorities, and for a time the co•
lonies were satisfied. In the meantime a small
colony had been slowly struggling into existence
on the western coast of the vast continent, distant
some two thousand miles from South Australia,
the nearest of the eastern colonies, but separated
from it by barren wastes and trackless deserts.
There the soil had but few attractions for the emi-
grants, access to the interior was difficult from the
want of roads, and it seemed only fair to the colo-
nists that the home authorities should give them
the same assistance that had been rendered to the
settlers in New South Wales and Van Diemen's
Land. Again, England was linable to distribute
her criminals satisfactorily at home ; the ticket-of-
leave system, which had answered very well in
Australia, where there was a full demand for labour,
would not work for home. The released convicts,
unable to obtain work, 01 in cases where they had
obtained it, after discharged, on account of their
former history becoming known to their employers
through the well-meant but officious information of
the police, had nothing left them but to return to their
old pursuits. Therefore, when it became known
that the colonists of 'Western Australia would be
clad to receive long-sentenced men, the Govern-
ment were but too happy to meet them half-way.
&cargo or two of these unfortunates were shipped
off, and all seemed to promise well until the eastern
colonies rose in arms to veto the proceedings, because
they were not in accordance with the sovereign will
of two or three colonies in the south-eastern extre-
mity of a vast continent, who, if their territories are
vast in proportion to their populations, are, com-
bined, but a patch in a vast region of which they
form integral harts. These colonies, except in their
relation to England, are as independent of each
other as are the various continental nations of
Europe. What would Europe say, if Sweden,
having agreed to receive our convicts, France or
Italy, or the Sublime Porte were to interfere,
declaring that English convicts must be kept at
home for fear that they might escape from Sweden,
and trouble them with their presence. Ridiculous
as this may seem, it would be more rational than
the absurd demand made by the upstart colonies,
who, not content with the above assumption, would
deny England the right to found penal settlements
on the yet but casually explored region on the
North-Western and Northern coast of Australia.
The sooner these gentlemen who, no matter what
be their motives, whether they be sincere or deluded,
or obtrusive and impertinent, who inundate the
Press with voluminous and wonderful letters on the
ruin which the transportation of felons to distant
parts of Australia will bring upon their own loved
spots at its other extremities, be taught to mind
their own business the better for all parties. Why,
the Yankees, with all theirbluster and bounce, do not
come up to this. The smartest nation in all creation
has not denied to us the right to send convicts to Ca-
nada, and, when they can pay their own passage, re-
ceive them kindly until they misbehave themselves.
We have not paid any special attention in the
above to the supposed cause of complaint, ground-
less as it is, namely, the injury which the moral
status of the old colonies would sustain by the in-
troduction of convict labour at a distance of some
two thousand miles and upwards from the South
Eastern Australian colonies, and double that dis-
tance from New Zealand, to open up the mineral
wealth, which we are informed upon undoubted
ply
of
authority exists in Western. and North-Western
wishafe
wto c
odrawloni e
s attentionarrog a t
arrogating
the
absurd Australia.
presumptionWe
s
to themselves the right to sanction or negative the
enactments of the Home Government regarding a
colony with which they have no connection, and
over which they hold no jurisdiction. Nor can we
see by what right they interfere with the authority
of her Britannic MAJESTY to utilise those portione
of unreclaimed territory, as yet a wilderness, which
she may think fit to turn to account for the benefit
of her subjects.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

FRANCE.
THE FRENCH NOTE TO RUSSIA.

PARIS, SEPT. 18.
The following is a summary of the despach ad-
dressed by M. Drouyn de Lhuys to the French
Ambassador at St. Petersburg, on the 3d of
August.

M. Drouyn de Limys sees with regret the substi-
tution of inadmissible propositions by Prince Gort-
schakoff in place of the demands of the Powers. He
maintains that the agitation in Poland is not revo-
lutionary, but is the result of a condition of affairs
which has lasted nearly a century, and has contri-
buted more than any other conjuncture to main-
tain revolution in Europe.

"It is of incontestable notoriety." continues M.
Drouyn de Lhuys, " that the entire Polish nation
is connected with the insurrection. Throughout
Europe public opinion has encouraged the three
Powers to persevere in the path upon which they
have entered. It would be obstinately clinging to
a fatal illusion to continue to explain the redoubt-
able convulsions which render Poland by reasons so
little in harmony with the testimony of history."
M. Drouyn de [buys persists in believing that
the immediate development of a wide system of
concessions would satisfy the sentiments of the
nation. He denies that the dignity of a great em-
pire is interested in the continuation of an unequal
struggle, and maintains the right of the Powers to
intervene for the settlement of the Polish question.

M. Drouyn de Lhuys further regrets to be
obliged to state the futility of the efforts of the
Powers to induceßussia to bring about a favourable
:
solution of the Polish question, which continually
gives rise to fresh complicatiocs, and says —'`The
Cabinet of St. Petersburg, in claiming absolute in-
dependence for its resolutions, leaves us entire
liberty in our judgment and conduct. We will
avail ourselves of this liberty of action." M. Drouyn
de Lhuys concludes by making Russia responsible
for the serious consequences which may result from
the prolongation of troubles in Poland. A memo-
randum accompanies the note, demonstrating the
right of the Powers to intervene in the settlement
of the Polish question, and to endeavour to place
Polish rights upon a more independent basis, as de-
tailed by the treaties of 1815.

The Paris papers publish intelligence from
Sumatra, telegegraphed from Suer, announcirg
that Dutch men-of-war had been despatched to
chastise the native chiefs who had torn down the
Dutch flag, The same papers state that the ship
Ocean Mail has beeen lost.
Alfred de Vigny, the well-known author End
member of the Academy, is dead.

BourtsE, Sept. 17.—The market has been inani-
mate, but the quotations of yesterday maintained
Threes for the account being now unvar;ed at 68f.
15e. Railway Share Maiket heavy, and with a
decline on some of the lines. The market closed as
follows:

It per Cents 95 95
Do. end month ___
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 25
Credit 111 obilier 1205
Igo. end month 1206 25
Bank Shares 3100

Italian L0an...... 74
Do. end month....
New ditto ....... .
Do. end month....
Russian ........ 93
Austrian ........ 84 50
Spanieh Threes....
Home Debt ......

Credit } oncier 1406

RA IL'

'A.YB.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1032 50 .. 1035
Northern
New ditto
Lyonsand Mediterranean 1037 50 .. 1035
Geneva .. 497
742 50 ..
Southern
..
Western •• „ ---635 .. 537 50
Eastern ..„ - ••
Sardinian
Austrian
lAlTrbard
North of Spain ....
Saragossa,
Ditto to Barcelona

THE POLISS INSURRECTION.

CRACOW, SETT. 18.

IntLlligence from Podlachia to the 7th instant,
states that the insurgent leader Lutyski has Bur.
prised the enemy at Chotyez, and defeated him,
after a three hours'
engagement.
o.
General
hanged at named
General Mouravieff has had a peasant
Popiel.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, SEPT. 18.

The Lower Houseofßeiehsratohhwayskinis an
having
protested
against the arrest
cf Deputy Rga
af rl
ri ag de ymseenttaotflibmeermtyb.ers' privileges, he has been

M A GEN TA. ----A correspondent
/0 supplies the following de-
magenta :—" This vessel," says
_of...battle ship that is to say, she has
those strange-looking machines,
of Tt
int:o6;l:2A: Alt-ttAti‘tir:
scriptiou of the steam
midst of a squadron she might in some
ordinary vessel,
nthoetheeiorgiteiro,
common
ma
olitr:we•
ail
those Monitors, &c., invented by the Americans. When seen
approach disclose some unknown fea-
only lower in the
mfroomasuardeibestantackeeinn tfohre
an
f an enortnous black mass, insensible
the water forward than aft, she pre-
en which the other vessels near
no streaks indicating her rows of
water;tures.
cents thbelluaitgpaphea‘l'iteraemarileteer of*
to the action of the waves
first
044 Very sharp both at stem and
stern, terminating at each end like a wedge, and having at
herteet h gracefully Scarcely
her bows an immense spur Or ploughshare—those are the
the
eill more apparent. Her masts are
glance, but when you go on
with only the rigging indispens-
dhieffredreenokcetsh
ey shownbooo
m ato
them standing. In combat, every-
The boats, instead of
being suspended to davits outside, are on deck, which is
flush from stem to stern, and 33
-° guns are to be seen, with
the exception of two bow-chasers. Nearly amidships by the
ironclad shot-proof kind of
invessel for the transmission of or-
sis
the
theall
means of communicating with
allturret,
d side h
otheroef the
whichn
parfunnel,ts
oa
ders for working her, and f
-°t the fire of her guns. In action
every one goes be, and this turret alone is occupied by
the captain, another officer, some signal men, atti a few
sharpshooters. It is from this turret that all the orders are
given. From the upper deck you descend into the gun decks,
two in number, each having
guns. Those pieces throw 68_ 24 rifled and breech-loading
pound shot with an ordinary
thugs of 51b of powder. All the armed part of the vessels
down to below the water line is ironclad, but the easing does
not extend quite to the stem or to the stern, as in the (,Moireand Normandie frigates, the parts not ironclad are used—
those aft for the cabins of the officers, and those forward for
the quarters of the crew, the cooking, and the hospital—an
innovation of material importance as regards the health of
the sailors. In the ironclad vessels first built everthing
was sacrificed to solidity, and the openings left for giving
air and light were so few that those vessels were regular
ovens. Every one remembers what the crew of the
th, Napoleon, and has a
nor-
mandie suffered when so placed under the burning sun of
Mexico. The engine of the Magenta is Aiittiltir to that of
stew
Under full steam she ca,, IF tom 6? snout 2,700 horse.
- make from 13 to 14 knots an hour.
Her BerelY 11'": six branches The consumption of coal is
140 `one a day, and she can stow aWay from 100 to 800
tons. Moreover, her tpir 'Weighs li tellitti
A VVRAttiA t NbLISHMAN KILLED IN SIBLZY'
Eii'EbITION,— Among tL'e Cain in 6enehl :bley'
expedition was 'Join ibn',V.32.,
a wealthy Englishman, a
grodilafo of 16),fol-a, and formerly an officer on the staff of
1,04.4 itagtn. He had coma from England on a Buffalo
hunt in the North-Weat, and took a nominal position on
General Sibley's staff to gratify his taste of turcenthre. Sent
on reconnoitering service, he was caught in an arebuscad,
and allot down with iron-headed arrows, the savages scalp-
ing him and hacking off one side of his head While he wes
yet elite. He leaves a splendid yacht and a large library
in New Itork.

REPRESENTATION OF WEST KENT.—It is stated
that Sir E. Filiner, one 'of the present Conservative
members for West Kent, has detet2ised upon retiring
from the representation of the county.
A HALE OLD DIGNITARY.—The Dean of Win-
chester,who is in his eighty-eighth year, lately left Bishops-
gate Rectory, after breakfast, for London, where, in the
church of St. George, Hanover-square, he officiated in the
baptism of hie infant great-grandchild, the daughter of P.
0. Papillon, Esq., M.P. for Colchester, and after the cere-
mony returned to Bishopstoke to dinner, being a journey,
gait - and returning, of more than 150 miles.

AUSTRALIA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 18.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Pera, Captain Jamieson, with the heavy
portion of the Calcutta, China, and Australian
mails arrived this morning. She brings 86 passen-
gers, four packages specie, value £19,140, 10
packages valuables, value £53,880, also 880 packages
general cargo, including 665 bales raw silk, value
£60,000.

Thu Pera spoke off Lisbon on the 14th, the Royal
Mail Company's steamer Magdalena, bound for the
Brazils, and off Cape Roca the English yacht
Columbine, steering northward, and, on the 17th,
off the Start, spoke the American ship Constel-

lation, steering west.
Her Majesty's ships Pysche, Queen, and Hiber-
nia were at Malta, and at Gibraltar the Procris,
Redpole, the American frigate Constellation, and
the Italian corvettes Valarosa, Eurydice frigate, and
Re Galantuomo.

The Spanish Government have ordered for the
eventualities of the service the assembling in the
pert of Malaga 't the war steamers Bunoventina,
Alerta, Lepanto, and Ceres, and the Alava and
Santa Teresa at Alicante, on account of the recent
occurrences at Melilla.

The Spanish frigate Esperanza and sloop Con
cordia arrived at Cadiz on the 9th.

The Spanish screw-frigate Petronila, 34 guns,
was wrecked on the Bth ult. while entering the
port of Mariel in the waters of the Havanah. The
crew succeeded in taking out the guns and stores,
but the hull and machinery was expected to be lost.
Her Majesty's troop-ship Orontes left Gibraltar
on the 9th with the 2d battalion of 7th Fusiliers
for Malta.

The effects of the short supply of rain last season
was beginning to be severely felt in the country
about Tangier, where nearly all the wells and
springs are dried up.

Intelligence from Malaga says that the Spanish
Government intends sending a division of 5,000
men to Mellila in order to effect a settlement of the
boundary question, and keep the Ruffians in check.
Three Spanish War steamers were at Malaga, and
others were expected there, to convey the troops.
It was also stated that the Spanish Government
had demanded from the Emperor of Morocco the
presence of a body of Moorish troops at Melilla to
chastise the Ruffians for their recent aggression,
and to prevent the Spanish garrison being molested
in its occupation of the new limits. A Malaga
letter says that the late attack was in con-
sequence of the Riff tribe not having
received from the Sultan the promised in-
demnity for the ceded lands. The Gibraltar
Cdronzcle adds: If this were so, one can hardly
blame the Riffians. They were clearly entitled to
receive the stipulated price before they allowed
the Spaniards to enter upon the permanent occu-
pation of their lands, and might well demur to
exchange the material guarantee for his Sheriffian
Majesty's I. 0. U.

The Madrid Constitutional says : The engage-
ment with the Moors appears to have originated in
the reluctance with which the tribes viewed their
lands transferred to the Spaniards. Parties of con-
victs had been for some time employed in filling up
the ditches and levelling old Moorish works in the
newly ceded district, and cutting dewn the prickly
pear hedges. The Riff ins viewed these proceed-
ings with an unfriendly eye, and continue to
call the soil theirs after it hats been ceded to
Spain, assembled in great numbers, and attacked
the convict guard, the governor sent for reinforce-
ments and upon some companies of the Vergara
and Fijo de Centa Regiments coming upon the
ground, the Moors were driven back. Desultory
firing between the Moors and Spanish troops was
kept np till sunset, when th© latter withdrew to the
fort. The 94 Moorish prisoners turn out to have
been Moors who were inside the walls of Melilla
for the purpose of trading when the attack was
made outside, and who were detained as a measure
of precaution.

GIBRALTAR, SEPT. 13.

The following British ships base arrived here
since the last mail :—steamer Ripon, 5 days from
Southampton; steamer Windermere, 71 days from
Cardiff; schooner Grape, 12 days from Liverpool ;
brigantine Mary Herbert, 21 days from Newport;
schooner Mar wood, 18 days from Liverpool;
schooner Carria Bell, 17 days from Liverpool.
Exchange on London-90 days' date is 492 to 4;
Paris, sf. 29c.; Marseilles, sf. 28c. to 29c.; Genoa,
sf. 29c.; Madrid, 8 days' eight, par; Cadiz, par;
Seville, par to -14- die.; Malaga, par to prem.; Bar-
celona, =tl prem.; Almeira, y die.; Valencia, par;
Alicant, par. Freight unchanged.

ORIGIN OP THE SYMBOLS OF NUMBERS AND
MMASURES.—Ten, as the radii of numerical compu-
tation, has been raised to the dignity it iloW holds by the
circumstance of its expressing the number of a Matt's fingers.
A digit is a finger's breadth; an inch, the length of the
thumb; a nail, from the tip of the middle joint of the longest
finger; a palm, the breadth of four fingers; a hand, the
fist, with the thumb uppermost; a span, the space between
tips of thumb and fingers extended to the utmost; a foal
that of a man; a cubit, from the elbow to the end of the
longest finger; a yard, girth of a rash's body; a step, when
each foot advances alternately; apace, tWo steps; a fathom,
width to which a man's arms and hands can extend.

WOR/sINGI MEN'S CLtll AND INSTITUTE, ST.
MARTIN-IN•THE-FIELDS.---an Monday, July 20,
1863, a pub is meeting was held at St. MartiteS Hall, the
Hon. Sir Frederick Grey, K.C.8., in the chair, nt which
it was resolved that a club and institute should be form4P.l
in the parish of St, Martin-in•the-Fields, for the purpose
of providing rooms for social conversation, newspapers,
library, classes, popular lectures, readings, entertainments,
games, and refreshments for the working classes. It is
hoped that the club will be opened by Michaelmas.
NEW WlNDsolt, IttOISTEAVort. The revision
of the lists of voters for this borough took place
at the GUildhall, Windsor, oh Wednesday, betOrS Henry
Blencowe Churchill, Vsq., the hdriister appointed to libld
the swim. Messrs. C. S. Vouls, G. H. LoEg, Ond C. T.
dprimigd 410 Clinservatives, and the Liberals
were represented by Mr. B. O. biligitti in the parish of
Clewer the Conserfatites made six claims, al whisk three
were allowed, and three failed ; the Liberals made and sus-
tained three claims. In the same patishi the Gonser*atiVes
made fottr objections, all of which were sustained, &Rd the
Liberals made 12 objectiohsi Whitths Were successful and
7 failed. In the parish of New 'Windsor, tl:i6 OondervatiVes
made 14 el.aiiilei of which 12 were al:owed and twd felled ;
and the Liberals ritailti 2 etairat, of which 1 was successful
and the Other farle'd. the objections made by the Conser-
vatives in Voir Windsor parish Weft 16 It number, of
which 9 were sustained and I failed. The Liberals made
12 objections in that parish, of which 7 were stiegiessftil and
5 failed. The result of the revision is therefore as follows
--Conservative claims ailov>ed,,---Clewer 3, New Windsor
12, total 15, Liberal clair..s allowed—T.l.o*er 4, New
Windsor total 4 ; Conservative gain on clairdsi 11;
Conservative objections allowed—Clewer 4, New Windsor
9, total 13, Liberal objections allowed—Clewer 5, 18ew
Windsor T, total 12; Comervative gain on objections, 1;
total Conservative galii, 11= _ _

M. LEON FOUCAULT, of Paris, has Vie Medea. in
measuring the at:isolate velocity of light by means
of the "turning mirror "—an e7Ol,erimental determination
of no little interest and significance. I-Te concludes that it
cannot differ ranch from two hundred and hintreight
millions of French metres per seoond, or 18.5,170 Vn-4•11211
miles, Which is a notable diminiition upon the velocity pre-
viously derived from astronomical data elope. The time
which light requires to travel from the sun to the earth is
itnown with great precision; at the mean distance of the
latter it rath6r less than Bmin. 18sec., and if this number
be combined with I} Foucault's measure of the velocity it
will be evident that the rec;:i.;":"4 distance is too great by
about one thirtieth part—that light, in Nt, has not so far
to travel before it reaches the earth as genetally supposed.
BADEN-BADEN has seldom beer so full of visitors
as during the present year; the nu' ',/er lest wed; in the
city
_irkg 31om

SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

120, Pall-Mall, S.W., Sept. 17, 1863

Sia,—The following note from Mr. Squier, of
Dover, with enclosure signed Adolphus Francis,
has been sent to me, as one of the Secretaries of the
National Shakespeare Committee :

Gentlemen,-- Can you inform me if the enclosed is a
genuine affair ?

I am, gentlemen, yours truly,

J. D. SCIUIER.

Wellington Hall, Dover, Sept. 16, 1863.

43, Cumberland street, Hyde park,
26th August, 1863.

Gentlemen,—l am directed by the Committee promoting
a National Monument to Sltalcespeare;to solicit the gratui-
tous use of your hall for one evening during the ensuing
session, for the purpose of giving a Dramatic Reading in
aid of the funds of this noble movement. Should you
concur i❑ the desire to honour the bard of all time, and are
disposed to give your co-operation, I beg you will kindly
name an evening in September or October that will be suit-
abla for your institution and locality. The selection will be
made from the programme tip/moved by their Royal High-
nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, and performed
with great eclat under their august patronage at Drury-
lane Theatre, June 30.—Waiting your early reply, I am
yours faithfully, ADOLPHUS FRANCIS, Hon. Secretary.
As the same sort of question has been asked
from other quarters besides Dover, I beg of your
ciurtesy to reply publicly, and once for all, The
National Shakespeare Committee, of which the
Archbishop of York, the Duke of Manchester,
the Earls of Carlisle and Stanhope, Mr. Charles
Dickens, and Mr. Tennyson are vice-presidents,
have no knowledge whatever of Mr. Adolphus
Francis' Entertainment. Mr. Francis is not one
of their secretaries, nor has he any authority
whatever to act in their name.—Your obedient
servant, W. HEPWOItTH DIXON.

CfurtN N Cinnbr.

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Sept. 15.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess
Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Prin-
cess Beatrice, and attended by Lady Churchill, Lady
Augusta Bruce, Lieut.-Gen. Hon. Charles Grey,
Major-General Seymour, Nlajor Cowell, Mr. Buff,
and Dr. Jenner, arrived at Balmoral at 20 minutes
past 6 p.m. Her Majesty was received at the Castle
by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales.

After remaining some time at Perth for break-
fast, the Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,
attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Lieut.-Geo.
lion. C. grey, proceeded to Blair Castle, and
honoured the Duke and Duchess of Athole with a
short visit. Her Majesty incurred this additional
fatigue purposely to see the Duke, whose precari-
ous state of health precluded his coming to meet the
Queen at Perth, as he had wished.

His Grace, however, accompanied her Majesty
with the Duchess to the station at Blair.

The last time her Majesty was at Blair was ill
October, 1861, in company with the Prince Con-
sort.

The Queen returned to Stanley junction at 12.45
p.m., where the rest of the Royal family joined her
Majesty.

The Queen's Visit to the Duke of Athole.
On Monday night a telegram was received in.
Blair-Athole to the effect that on the following
morning her Majesty intended to pay a visit to

his grace the Duke of Athole at Blair Castle,
where that nobleman is at present suffering under
a severe affliction. On Tuesday morning the tidings
of the intended Royal visit oozed out in Blair-
Athole, and by half-past ten o'clock—the hour at
which the Royal train was expected to arrive—a
crowd of about 200 people had assembled outside
the railway station. At ten o'clock about a score
of the duke's ghillies, in Highland costume, were
marched to the station, at the entracte to which
they were arranged as a guard of honour ; and,
within a few minutes of the advertised time for the
arrival of the train, a couple of carriages and pairs
arrived from Blair Castle, the first being a boat
carriage for her M,,jesty's suite, and the second an
open carriage, containing her Grace the Duchess of
Athole, and her son, the Marquis of Tullibardine.
Punctual to the moment the Royal train arrived.
The Queen was received by the Duchess of Athole
(whom she saluted with a kiss), the Marquis of
Tullibardine, Mr. Drummond, of Megginch, and
Mr. W. Evans, of Eton—the latter two gentlemen
being at present on a visit at Blair Castle. As the
Queen kissed the duchess, and graciously extended
her hand to her, the latter was deeply affected, and,
unable to control her emotions, burst into tears.
A length of cloth of the Athole tartan pattern had
been laid across the platform from the Royal saloon
to the steps of the carriage in waiting, on which
her Majesty stepped. She was only accompanied
by General the Hon. Charles Grey, the Princess
Helena, and the Lady Augusta Bruce—Prince
Alfred and the Princess Louisa having remained in
Perth. Her Majesty was then handed into the
barouche by General Grey, and motioned the
Duchess of Athol° to be seated beside her on the
right. The word had been previously given from
the station that all should be as quiet as possible,
but as the carriage drove off every head was un-
covered, and her Majesty acknowledged the silent
wave of salutation on each side by one or two bows•
In the following carriage were the Princess Helena,
the Lady Augusta Bruce, the Hon. Charles Grey
and the Marquis of Tullibardine. Both carriage
drove eastward to the principal entrance to th
Castle, and remained absent about an hour.

At about ten minutes to 12 o'clock the carriages
returned, and this time, to the astonishment of the
crowd, his Grace the Duke of Athole himself ap-
peared, along with the duchess, accompanying her
Majesty. He was closely wrapped up, and looked
alarming ill. In the boat-carriage were the Princess
Helena, the Hon. General Grey, the Lady Augusts
Bruce, the Marquis of Tullibardine, Mrs. Drummond
of Megginch, and Miss Evans, On entering the
station, her Majesty recognised and spoke to Mrs.
Drummond and to the Hon. T. C. Bruce, chairman
of the Perth and Inverness Railway Company. She
expressed to Mr. Bruce her entire satisfaction with
the arrangements on the new line, and the pleasure
she had felt at passing through such magnificent
scenery ; and then took leave of the Duke and
Duchess of Athole. She first took leave of her grace
by kissing her on the cheek and extending her hand
to her, which the duchess respectfully kissed, curt-
seying as she did so. Her Majesty then turned to
the duke, and extended her hand to him, which,
with a deep reverence, he also kissed. Her Majesty
then gave them a parting bow, and was assisted
into the, Royal saloon, in front of which the Duke
and Duchess of Athole stood for a minute or two
till the train was in motion. Still no cheer was
raised by the crowd, and, in obedience to her
Majesty's wishes, none would have been raised,
but the noble duke, removing his hat, called for a
hurrah for the Queen. Three very cordial cheers
were then given, in the midst of which the Royal
train moved slowly away.—Dundee Advertaser.

Arrangements have been made at Balmoral for
her Majesty to stay there a month; but doubtless the
length of the sojourn in the North will entirely depend upon
the continuance of fine weather.—Court Journal.

Count Bernetoff, the Prussian Ambassador i tt the
Court of St. James's, has arrived at Berlin from Carlsbad,
and may be expected to return to London within a few
days.
The Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Ce tto
have arrived at Brighton.

Count Nesselrode has left Maurigy's Hotel on a
visit to Mr. Francis Charles Hastings Russell, M.P., la
Endsleigh, Tavistock; and to the Marquis of Bath, ftt
Longleate, Wilts.
Count Renard has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel
from Berlin. _ _ _

The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbnry and
the Countess Henrietta Danneskiold Samson are expected
shortly to leave Jerveaux Abbey, Yorkshire, for Tottenham.
Park, Wilts.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury
will
entertain a succession of visitors next month at Iliad&
House, Herts.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will enter-
tain a select party next week at Broadlands, Hants.
Viscount Ingestre, M.P., and Viscountess Ingestre
have left Brighton for Ingestre Hall, Stafford.
Lord Brougham is staying at Brougham H all,
but leaves there the week after next for Edinburgh. 'Cho
noble and learned lord, who is in excellent health, will co m.
plete his 85th year tomorrow.
Lord Ernest Bruce, M.P., has arrived in town
from a tour of visits.
Lord and Lady Londesborough have left Thomas's;
Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Fuleham, Gleniela, his lord •
ship's shooting quarters in Perthshire,
Lord and Lady Lyndhurst intend to prolong their
residence in Tunbridge Wells until the close of the ensuing
month, or the first week in November.
Lord and Lady Catmoys and the Hon. Miss
Stoner hasp left Minshead for Pencarrow, the seat of Lad)'
Molesworth.
The Right lion. Sir Hamilton Seymour, the Roll.
Lady Seymour, and the Misses Seymour, have left Port
Elliott for Pencarrow, on a visit to Lady Molesworth.
Mai or- General W. F. Forster, military secretary
to his Royal Highness the Puke of Cambridge, resumed-
his duties at the Horse Guards on Wednesday last, atter a
few weeks' leave of absence.
PRINCE *ALFRED and one of the Danish _Princes
it is expected will be present at one of the concluding meet-
ings of the Social Science Association, which is to assonble
in Edinburgh on the 7th of October.
THE NATIONAL SHAKSP ERE FUN D.-0 tA Mond.ly
evening, with a view of adding to the funds of he
National Shakspere Memorial Committee, Miss Edith
Heraud and Herr Kruger commence a series of Shakspe-
ian entertainments, of the most attractive description, at
the Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Strand. The
programme issucd is of the most attractive character, but
when the intrinsic merit of the Shaksperian cause is added
to it, it is to be hoped that the success it merits will ensure,
a brilliant success.
A NIULREADY EN.IIIBITION IN 1861.—1 t is pro-
posed to hold, in the spring of next year, at the South Kew.
ngton '',„;-aseurn, as complete a collection of the works
uE
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