The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-04 00:00:00

MR. HENLEY.

Here, finally, is Mr. Henley, in his high coloured buff
waistcoat. The face is radiant with shrewd sense. it is
eminently English—the incarnation of practice as op-
posed to theory—the embodiment of the right honour-
able gentleman's favcurite exclamation, "That is all very
well, but how will this bill work ?" Mr. Henley is looking
at a bill, and if, when he rises, he is heard to say, " What
do I find in this bill ?" the author of the msasure, if an in-
dependent member, may as well withdraw it at once. No
living speaker excels Mr. Henley in homely, nervous, idio-
matic English. In committee on a bill nothing escapes his
microscopic eye, and he is evid-ntly scrutinising the clauses
of the measure before him with wolfish and eviscerating
intentions.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, June 2.
The Queen)
accompanied by Princess Louise and
Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday morning,
and in the afternoon Walked and drove, accompa-
nied by Princess Helena.

Princess Helena went out riding in the morning.
Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, end Prince
Arthur went to Invercauld.

Dr. Caird left the Castla yesterday morning.
4.

The Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, and the Princess Mary leave town this morning for
Ascot, to meet their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales at the Royal Stand.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left Staf-
ford House, St. James's, on Tuesday, to pass the Ascot
race week with the Duchess (Dow.) of Sutherland, at
Cliefden House, near Maidenhead.
The Prince and Princess Bandini have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel, from Rome.
The Earl and Countess Warwick and family
come to town on Friday, from Warwick Castle, for the
season.

The Earl and Countess Spencer returned yester-
day from Clifton, near Bristol, and for the present are
staying at Viscount Clifden's villa at Roehampton.
The Earl of Westmoreland has arrived at the
Bedford Hotel, Brighton.

The Earl of Essex was married yesterday at
Trinity Church, Chelsea, to Lady Louisa Boyle, the eldest
daughter of the Viscountess Dungarvan. The earl had been
previously married, having espoused, in 1825, Lady Caro•
line Capel, daughter of the eighth duke of St. Albans, but
was left a widower in 1862.

The Countess Apponyi will have a bail at Chan-
dos House on Tuesday next, the 9th inst.

Viscount Maraham, the eldest son of the Earl of
Romney, is about to be married to Lady Constance Hast-
ings, the youngest daughter of the late Marquis of Hast-
ings, and of Barbara, Baroness Grey de Ruthyn.
Lady Edith Abney Hastings has arrived in town
from the Lord Warden Hotel, Dover.

Lady Bailey has.left her Mansion in Belgrave•
square for her country seat in South Wales.

Lady Catherine Alien's ball is fixed for the 23d
of June.

The Count and Countess Coudenhove have ar-
rived at Claridge's Hotel, from Paris.

ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY.

The society's second grand fete and flower show,
or what may be termed the first summer exhibition,
was held yesterday in their picturesque gardens in
the Regent's-park, and was truly a glorious summer
display of Flora's favourites. In the vast amphi -
theatrical marquee, arranged on grassy banks, were
splendid roses, dazzling azaleas, curious and beauti
ful orchids, gorgeous pelargoniums and cinerarias,
and many beautiful and rare plants too numerous
to mention. The roses were very fine and well
grown. Amoug them were some varieties called
Auguste Mu, Paul Perras, and Lela, all delicate
coloured and very fine; a pi etty little white noisette
called Miss Gleg ; and among the tea-scented, Ma-
dame Villennor and The President. There were
also some very beautifully variegated petunias,
some fine large flowered gloxinias, and curiously
marked miroulu-, bizarre pansies, very fine verbenas,
a dwarf peach tree, full of fruit, a fice specimen of
the lattire plant with leaves like skeletons or lattice
work ; splendid grapes, good cherries, strawberries,
&C., and many more beauties and curiosities.
The American plants exhibited by Mr. Waterer
are now in full bloom, and form quite an exhibition
of themselves, rivaling the general display.
The bands of the Ist and 2d Life and the Royal
Horse Guards (Blue) were in attendance, and played
numerous selections.

The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary of
Cambridge honoured the garden with their presence.
Subjoined is the list of prizes :
EXTRA GOLD MEDAL-16 Stove and Greenhouse Plants :
Mr R. Peed, gardener to Mrs Treadwell, St. John's Lodge,
Norwood. 30 Exotic Orchids : Mr G. Baker, gardener to
E. Bassett, Esq., Stamford-hill.
LARGE G OLD MEetaL-16 Stove and Greenhouse Plants :
Mr J. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, Bart., Lower
Cheam, Surrey. 20 Exotic Orchids : Mr W. Mitford,
gardener to E. M. Morland, Esq.
MEDIUM GOLD MEDAL-16 Stove and Greenhouse
Plants Mr H. Baxendine, gardener to H. Smallpiere,
Esq., Guildford, Surrey. 10 Stove and Greenhouse Plants :
Messrs Fraser, nurserymen, Leyton, Essex. 10 Stove and
Greenhouse Plants : Mr H. Chilman, gardener to Mrs
Smith, Ashtead, Epsom. 10 Roses, in pots: Mr W. Paul,
Waltham-cross. 20 Exotic Orchids : Mr E. Peed. 12
Exotic Orchids : Mr C. Penny, gardener to H. H. Gibbs,
Esq., Regent's-park.

GOLD MEDAL-10 Stove and Greenhouse Plants : Mr 0.
Rhodes, Sydenham, Kent. 10 Stove and Greenhouse
Plants : Mr Wheeler, gardener to J. Philpot, Esq., Stam-
ford-hill. 10 Cape Heaths : Messrs Jackson and Son,
Kingston. 8 Cape Heaths: Mr B. Peed. 10 Roses., in
pots : Messrs Lane and Son, Be►khampsteed. 8 Exotic
Orchids : Mr S. Mosley, Cheshunt, Herts. 12 Exotic Or-
chids : Mr T. Page. 12 Pelargoniums : 11r C. Turner.
12 Pelargoniums : Mr T. Bailey, gardener to T. Drake,
Esq., Amersham.

LARGE SILVER-GILT MEDAL-10 Stove and Greenhouse
Plants Mr W. Cutbush, B .rnet, Herts. 10 Stove and
Greenhouse Plants : Mr Wm. Kailo, gardener to Earl
Lovelace, Ripley, Surrey. 6 Steve and Greenhouse P.ants :
Mr T. Page, gardener to W. Leaf, E; q. 10 Cape Heaths .
Mr 0. Rhodes. 8 Cape Heaths: Mr T. Page. 6 Roses,
in pots : Mr T. Terry, gardener to C. W. Puller, Esq. 6
Azaleas: Mr C. Penny, gardener to H. H Gibbs, Esq 6
Azaleas :Mr C. Turner, nurseryman. 12 Exotic Orchids :
Mr Green, gardener to Sir E, Antrobus. 6 Exotic Or-
chids: Mr J. Wiggins, gardener to W. Beck, Esq., Morton
Cottage, Oak Lodge, Clapham-park, Isleworth. 6 Fuchsias:
Mr Gardner, gardener to J. Stoller, E,q, 12 Pelargonium-:
Messrs J. and J. Fraser. 10 Pelargoniums: Mr J.
Shritupton, gardener to A. T. Boxth, Esq., Putney-
heath,

LARGE SILVER MEDAL 6 Stove and Greenhouse
Plants : Mr Tegg, gardener to Baron Hatalbro, Roehamp-
ton, Surrey. 6 Cape Heaths : Mr H. Chilman. 6 Exotic
Orchids : Mr G. Smith, gardener to the Duke of Northum-
berland, Sion House. 6 Fancy Pelargoniums: Mr C.
Turner. 6 Fancy Pelargoniums : Mr T. Bailey.
Above 15,000 tickets were sold.

THE SOURCE OF THE NILE.

Discovered at Last by Captain Speke and

Captain Grant.

Both Mr. Punch and Mr. Wyld are" up to time"
nearly as soon as Sir Roderick Murchison himself.
Scarcely is the extraordinary announcement made
public in this country—that ac last the fountain
head, or heads (for the old river god turns out to be
somewhat Hydra-like or Cerberus-ian in that parti
eular at least): scarcely do we learn here in Eng-
land that the sources of the Nile have at length
been brought to light, when Mr. Punch's artist,
ready pencil in hand, is there instanter upon the
spot cracking his apropos joke upon the discovery !
While the member for Boomin has issued from the
press with all that marvellous rapidity to which he
was so long accustomed us, one of those.happily-
timed maps, that make clear, at a glance, the
obscurest intricacies of the travelling geographer.
Here, in Mr. Wyld's new map of Africa, is
exactly a case in point. In it we follow
out with the utmost possible ease, the routes taken
by Captains Speke and Grant, in 1861 and 1863
the one from the coast of Zinzibar, in a north-
easterly direction to the shores of Lake Victoria
Nyanza, henceforth to be known as the headwater
of the Nile ! The other, from its emptying itself
into the Mediterranean, due south, up the Bahr el
Abiad, orWhite Nile, to the same point—the object
of search now for 3,0 A years,and at length reached
by British determination. The routes taken by
former explorers are here also 0. irefully traced out,
viz., those of Rebmann end Eirapf, 1847.49 ; of
Livingstone, Oswell, and Murry, 1849.0; d An-
derson and Geltoii, 1850-51 ; Anderson, 3853;
Livingstone, 1853-56; Moffat, 1856 ; Burton and
Speke, 1857.59; Du Uhaillu, 1856.59;
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in bright red, those of the succeet, sful discoverers and finally,
For this wonderfully well-timed snap we have
geop a pher.
especial cause to thank her Majesty's

THE CROPS IN THE NORTH.—The month of
May has been generally Cry and ratter cold, but,
upon the whole, not unfavourable to the growing crops.
The dry weather, moreover, has enabled farmers to get the
turnip land prepared in first••ra c condition, although tLE.,
r 1,• w? ',Ave ~t.fl ;tf,, 01,3 i%;
,„,,. O. ,;E., and barley Lac said to be lueldb wc;11 :„;Id the
car;y-planted potato;; in many places are cowing up
healthy and strong,....rikop,";,ffeetge.