The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1863

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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 5, 1863.

In the powerful ruler of forty millions of men,
the master of forty legions, who has this day spoken
to all Europe through the address delivered by him
to his new Legislature—Deputies and Senators
waiting upon him to that end in the throne-room
at the Palace of the Tuileries—it is no adulation,
it is simply the exercise of sheer common sense,
to recognise a great man in a great position. For
more than ten years NAPOLEON 111. has reigned
over France as Emperor. During now upwards
of fourteen, during very nearly fifteen momentous
years he has, under various titles, as President for
four years, as President for life, as Prince President,
and, finally, as Sovereign held within his own
grasp the reins, directed with his own voice the
policy, reconstructed at his own pleasure the entire
structure and machinery of the government of
France. He has himself conducted the armies of
France—has himself in the field, and that again
and again, led her troops to victory. He has always
during these fifteen years presided, not nominally,
but practically and actually, over the councils of
hie Cabinet. He has himself conducted, through
ac succession of ministries, the delicate and intricate
diplomacy
of France—maintaining uninterruptedly)
wherever •
it has been in any way practicable, as
with ourselvesot
the E
,that principle of peace which, before
4t,
tordmpire, he proclaimed by a memo-
rtahbelreev?ievoetl
.eaux would be the guiding prin-
ciple of its
l stit
Japan,
if
Mexico, if Austria
If Russia, if China, if
Atistria reproach him with any
violation of that
tahay:notable promise, we at least
here in England
reason. whatever for doing
so. In our regard,na
l'''.
regard to so many
other contemporary paw
Der:, as in regard to
Prussia, to Sweden, to
mark, to Spain, to
Portugal, to Turkey, to
States of North America— (the
e late) United
b.
been faith-
ful, and, what is more, uninterruptedly and
unhesitatingly faithful, to that famous
preliminary
assurance. Still to this day,
in allthetser instances,
liminary
as in so many others here unenumerated,
he has
Kasen true to his promise to the very letter
c'est la pair !'' Wherever practic-
able the sword has remained undreem
Moreover, in the exceptional instances in
which the sword has been drawn by
what appeared to him a dire necessity, never
once in any of those instances before enumerated
has the scabbard, so to speaks been thrown away.
The reproach directed against him more that
once, and from this side of the Channel moreover,
in reference to the greatest of the half dozen wars
upon which he has adventured has been one of an
entirely opposite character. He has been accused
—from this direction—more than once of an over
readiness to bring those same wars to a conclusion.
He it was who took the initiative in Bard to the
neootiationsthet led to the almost abrupt termination
°t the Crimean r r . His precipitancy at Villafranca
a iforded yet another, and a far more signal token of
his placability in regard to the poxer with which he
had contended. England, least of all, among the
nations of the globe has reason to charge him with
the cherishing of hostile feelings, with insincerity
in his fair promise at Bordeaux. Among all the
later Sovereigns of
France he has been the faith
fullest of all our allies. And this, mereover, in
spite of how much provocation, of provocations how
deadly, how malignant, and
cow protracted! That
there have been these provocations, it will be suffi-
cient here to recall to mind two men who have earned
far themselves, each of them,-an unenviable notoriety
by the virulence of the malignity with which
they
have in their several Ways, one through a great
journal, the other through a great book reviled

him in rhetorical Billingsgate—and this at an
interval of ten years from each other--Mr. KING •
LAKE a few months since in his spiteful hashing-up
of old club-gossip, called a " History of the
Crimean War"—his fraternal fellow-labourer of
more than ten years ago being that now almost for-
gotten " Englishman" (shame be }Jig for so dese-
crating the name) that now virtually dead and gone
"Englishman" who was allowed so long to shriek
his revilings through the noble trumpet of
the Times newspaper. The French EMPEROR, by
his silence, his endurance, his calm and imperturb-
able maintenance—according to the fluctuations of
feeling here in England towards him during the
last fourteen or fifteen years of his power over
France and in Europe, through all the variations
of evil report and good report in his regard—the
French EMPEROR, we say, by his calm and imper-
turable maintenance, uninterruptedly to this boar,
of the Alliance with England, has had his revenge,
and a noble revenge it is, over a swarm of enemies.

The recent unfortunate occurrence in the county
of Galway has called forth an expression of feeling,
alike honourable to themselves and the Lord Lieu-
tenant, from the noblemen and gentlemen of that
part of Ireland. It was hardly to be expected that
so marked an affront to the representative of her
MAJESTY, as well as a direct personal insult to a
peer universally respected for the courteous and
gentlemanly manner in which he fills his distin-
guished office, would be altogether passed over by
the notabilities of the district which has been made
so unpleasantly conspicuous by an act whose ab-
surdity almost equalled its insolence. It will be
I remembered that the Earl of CARLISLE, while
travelling through Galway, had occasion to pass
by Maam, where he intended to remain a night at
the end of the stage. Unfortunately the owner
of the place is the Earl of LEITRIM, who, for some
fancied affront to his dignity, cherished a bitter ani-
mosity against the Government. Why he selected
the Lord Lieutenant as the victim of his wrath is
perplexing, as he could be scarcely be personally
answerable for the decisions of the other members
of the Executive. At all events, Lord LEITRIM
allowed his anger to hurry him to lengths that
would have disgraced an ignorant peasant, by offer-
ing a direct affront to the dignity of the QUEEN,
through her representative, and by so forgetting
the courtesy due from one gentleman to another,
as to put the Earl of CARLISLE in a most inconve-
nient and embarrassing position. Hearing of the
Lord Lieutenant's intended movements, he de-
despatched strict orders to the landlord of the only
inn in the place to fill the rooms with his
tenants, so as to refuse the Earl ad-
mittance on his arrival. The letter was
couched in the most stringent terms, and the
landlord had of course no choice but to obey. The
plan, which had in it something of a schoolboy's
silly trick, would have been carried out to the letter,
only fortunately some of the police authorities were
wise enough to hurry off an intimation of the state
of things to the Lord Lieutenant before he reached
Maam. The postboys agreed to make a further
effort to push on another stage, and accordingly the
Earl of LEITRIM must have had the satisfaction of
learning from his tenant that no application had
been made for the occupied rooms. It is to be hoped
he paid the bill with a good grace. So silly and
purposeless a trick would, of course, have been left
unnoticed, so far as the Earl of CARLISLE was per-
sonally concerned, but the Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land could not in his offieial capacity pass over such
intentional disrespect to the highest authority in
the kingdom. Accordingly the Earl of LEITRIM has
fresh cause for complaint in the deprivation of his
Lord Lieutenancy of the county ; and probably,
should the Earl of CAneisLE trust himself again
within his reach, he will devise some still more
ingeniously annoying reception. The incident
which has brought this affair again forward is the
presentation of an address to the Lord Lieutenant,
signed by seven peers, 20 deputy-lieutenants, and
98 magistrates of the county of Galway, expressing
in the most decided and unmistakeable terms their
regret and indignation at the recent occurrence.
The address was transmitted to his Excellency by
Lord CLANRICARDE, who aseured him at the same
time that if such proof of unanimity had been re-
quired, it would have been signed by every land-
owner in the county. The address, brief as it is, leaves
nothing to be desired. It reminds the Lord Lieu tenant
that the inhabitants of that country have never
been wanting in loyalty to their SOVEREIGN, and
that whatever may be their personal or party
feelings, they have never been suffered to influ-
ence the respect shown to the representative of
the QUEEN. It adds that nothing in the acts of
the present occupier of the office has afforded the
slightest pretext for departing from this rule—a
tribute eminently deserved by the Earl of CAR-
LISLE, whom all creeds and parties have united
in admitting to be one of the most affable and
moderate holders of a responsible and somewhat
invidious nost. The answer of the noble earl to
this address is worthy of him. He expresses the
gratification which he could not fail to feel at so
public a testimony of the esteem in which ho is
held, and then he says in words which will at
once pain and gratify every Irishman, that a want
of hospitality was the very last contingency he
had expected to encounter on Irish soil. It is to
be hoped that the nobleman whose churlish con-
duct has given rise to this address will accept
the reproof so pointedly conveyed, for having so
far fallen short of the geuerous open-handed cha-
racter of his countrymen, whose faults, whatever
they may be, have never been lack of ready kind-
ness and courtesy. The popular idea of an Irish-
man at home is the very essence of hearty
and genial welcome, and one would feel more
sure of a hospitable reception if entering un-
invited to share a dinner of potatoes in
an Irish cabin than in intruding into many
colder, if wealthier abodes. That an Irish-
man
should fail in respect to his QUEEN,
courtesy to his superior, and hospitality to a tra-
velleris certainly a combination that deserves to
be set
'uviti among the wonders of the day ; and
samee
w e ar
warm-hearted
years'
notrß , surprised
residence
that Lord CARLISLE, after
among that quick-wilted,
people, should express astonishment
as his chief teeun
g at so marked a discourtesy.
He cannot at all events include the rest of the
country in this breach of etiquette, and should he
have occasion again
to visit that part
thoef tlhanedcloournds-
d° " as the guest of some
t gentlemancoun-
try, h e
probably Fill
take caret h
on the road are not tampered
with The con-
duct of the Earl of LEITRIM
"Barnes, as Lord
CARLISLE justly observes, undue importance from
the position of the party insulted, and so great
an "where been
in
worse affront
tasteto
th a
n authorityn Icroeul
altnl d ave
where
the
Earl
of
LEITRIM should have remembered the dangerous
example he was setting to disaffected persons.
How can we expect the lower orders to obey the
laws, and conduct themselves decently and respec-
tably under English rule, when they see a noble-
man of high rank and distinguished position offer-
ing them an example to do the very contrary ?
We are glad to see the long list of notable names
appended to the address, a fact which the Earl of
CARLISLE may take as evidence of the esteem in

spired by his pereonal qualities and conduct, no
less than as a tribute of respect to his office, and
through that to her Majesty the QUEEN. •

It is always an advantage to find social questions
put forward with clear common sense, and free
from affectation and exaggeration. Thus the paper
hbaiycah: Misstwaoi
lme
detailed
women
accountiatrhe fuenll a g
oa f
engaged."
theed Edinburgh
. ~It"unfit
is
a b employmentss
urd t furnisheso
withri en a
which
con-
tradict the statements and satirise
the proposals of
would-be reformers when the case is
clearly against
them in point of argument. A favourite assertion is
that women are better at home, and that their duties
ought to be confined to their families. It is not the
question if they may work, but that they must, and
how are they to do so as profitably as possible.
Great numbers have no homes to shelter them, no
families to engage them, and of those who have they
are compelled to contribute to the support and
maintenance of their families. As affairs are at
present arranged it results that thousands of females
pursue kinds of business totally unsuitable for them,
and which can but prove demoralising and degrad-
ing to their characters. Again, in what are consi-
dered the legitimate spheres of toil for women of
the middle or upper-lower classes, what injury is
inflicted on their health ! The close hours, the
crowded rooms, and the scanty rest, all tell
fearfully against the health. It seems, then, a con-
tradition in terms for really well- meaning persons
to declaim against the notion of females engaging
in arduous and active:employments, when we are
informed, on competent authority, that "striking
examples are to be found among the occupations
of women, many of which, though sanctioned
by custom, are destructive alike to their
physical and moral constitution." It is well to take
note occasionally of some of these anomalies in our
social system; and it cannot be entirely,delusive to
believe that there are within our realm Christian,
wise, and kindly men to take up the subject in a
right spirit, and to institute some reforms into a
system that is now so deleterious to the health of
the body and to the welfare of the mind.
The facts here adduced by Miss FAITIIFULL
are enough to rouse indignation and awaken
horror in the minds of all capable of appre-
ciating their importance and influence. For in-
stance, very lately, in Brecon, some complaints
were made that the railway company furnished the
coal very small, and the reply was that the cause
proceeded from " women filling the trucks," but
that men were in future to assist in lifting the
larger lumps. There must be many employments
more suited to feminine strength, and more con-
sistent with womanly dignity, and yet those un'or-
tunate beings are doubtless very glad to have
recourse to this hard and wearying life to obtain
the necessities of existence. In the district near
Wigan, women are found working the canal boats,
and even with the " boat-line across their shoulders
drawing the boats." It is no longer a question of
morbid sentimentality, nor of Utopian projects,
when the civilisation of the nineteenth century can
subject its women to such toil and drudgery. All
these evils result from the plan of leaving things
to take their chance. Instead of denying facts, the
wise ones of our generation had better have acknuw-
ledged them and provided for tho emergency.
If women aro to toil for their daily bread,
to endure exertion, and to undergo sacri-
fices for their maintenance, the claims
of humanity, the voice of justice, and the
decencies of society demand that the work should
be such that the enlightened and considerate can
honestly aver, in the sight of GOD and man, to be
meet, right, and fitting. This vexed ques-
tion had better be simply resolved into the
simple query of right or wrong ? If the exist-
ing state of things is not in accordance with right,
it should be altered immediately. No comfort, ex-
pense, or expediency should be suffered to stand in
the way of the reforms of radical evils and the rec-
tifying of social abuses. It cannot be impossible to
find something for females to do that they may en-
gage in with ail their powers, without interfering
unduly with work that they are not fit for, men-
tally or physically, and without being brutalised
by tasks that disgrace themselves and degrade those
who employ them. In the higher positions of
society much might be effected to impart to females
a more useful, and hence a more happy, existence;
but that is not of such vital consequence in compa-
rison with the urgent claims of the poorer classes.
Miss FAITHFUL truly states that the habit of
treating women as " mere machines" has crested
many of the existing evils. It is not the custom to
apprentice girls to any trade but millinery, hence
they are confined, per force, to the coarsest and
roughest branches. Let this subject at once engage
the attention of all qualified to judge, and who are
capable of rendering practical service in the cause.
In the first place, instead of disputing as to whether
women ought to wcrk, let them decide in what
manner they shall work. It was a divine command
that bade man to toil, till he returned to the dust
from whence he was taken ; but human readings
of the command have necessitated that the burden
should often be shared, if not entirely borne, by
women in many cases. Work that is suitable for
the sex, rank, and capacity of the worker, is one
of the greatest benefits and highest blessings that
can be bestowed upon humanity, and the happiest
and liveliest method of rendering this sad and
stormy life in any way peaceable or praiseworthy.
But, then, moderation must be employed, and it
will not do for those who rule the events of the
day, and sanction the customs of society, to fold
their hands and take their reat, when their verdict
has sent forth women to do the work of beasts that
perish, while men are idling away in effeminate
pursuits. Nor yet can they lay claim to immunity
when, in really feminine pursuits, health, life, and
reputation are wantonly sacrificed. There must be
some remedy for all these abuses and anomalies,
`and it is their duty, as it should be their pleasure,
to seek it out, and apply it profitably when disco-
vered. So shall they meet the best reward that
can crown all endeavours in minds at peace, and
render a satisfactory account of their work and
its issue to their country now, and to their GOD
hereafter.

THE PORTRAIT OF PRINCE ARTHUR (by Jan de
Mabuse, A.D. 1501), son of Henry VII. and Eiiza-
beth, daughter of Edward IV., has been recently discovered,
and is now in that Prince's native city of 'Winchester.
From pictorial history we find that Mabuse became ono of
the most famous portraitists of his time, and having assidu-
ously cultivated his rare talents by studying in Italy, was
thereby enabled to first teach the Flemish masters how to
delicately treat in their compositions historical and allegori-
cal subjects. He gained great reputation from the portraits
which he painted while in England, by command of Henry
VIT. He was also highly esteemed by the Emperor Charles
V., and in fineness of colouring and graceful delineation of
costume he surpassed all his contemporaries, and his pictures
are as highly finished as those of Gerhard Douw and Mieris.
This portrait of Arthur is painted on a gold ground, and the
ornate crimson robe,with the regal jewels in the cap and
breast, and the flower (doubtless emblematic of the white
rose, held in the chastely-painted right hand, are exquisitely
executed,
A NEWLY•INVENTED PROJECTILE has been re-
cently tested at New York, which, when discharged
from an ordinary 6-pounder gun, pierced a target composed
of 8 inches of iron, backed by 4 inches of wood, at the dis-
tance of 90 feet, the charge of powder being only' llbs. It
is asserted
that this Projectile will penetrate the armour
plating of any iron clad now afloat, at a distance of 500
yards, with only half the above charge of powder,

STANFORD'S MAP OF NORTH AMERICA.

Constructed by Alexander Keith Johnston.
Published by E. Stanford, 6, Charing-cross.
Another of his magnificient series of _Library
Maps—the most lipropos of them all—has, in this
superb publication, just now been issued from
Mr. Stanford's Establishment. It is the fourth in
sequence from the time when the series was com-
menced. In its dimensions it is precisely of the
same size as its three predecessors—namely, that
of sixty-five inches by fifty-eight. It is particularly
noticeable, however, that while the superficial
dimensions of these huge maps are identically the
same, the scale upon which the four have been con-
structed within that framework of 65 inches by 58,
has necessarily been very different. Whereas the
scale of Mr. Stanford's Library Map of Europe was
one of 50 miles to the inch, that of Australia of
64 miles to the inch, and that of Asia of 110 miles to
the inch—this new and, at the present moment
peculiarly acceptable Map of NORTH AMERICA is
constructed upon a scale of" eighty-three" miles to
the inch. A variation of scales attributable, of
course, to the relative geographical area of the four
vast tracts of land requiring to be pourtrayed
within the
inches by same rigidly prescribed outline of sixty-
five fifty-eight. As with regard to the
three preceding Library Alaps, I. Europe, 11.
Australia, 111. Asia, so also with reference to this
IV. North America, the Library Map so announced
may be procured, according to the fancy of the
purchaser, for three guineas and a half, for three
pounds, and for six pounds sterling, that is, mounted
to fold in morocco case, mounted on roller varnished,
and mounted on roller with patent spring. One of
these forms enabling the map to be ranged with its
fellows, as another noble volume upon our library
bookshelves. The other forms adapting it, according
to preference, either to occasional or to permanent
display, upon the walls, whether of library, office,
or schoolroom. To say of this immense and
highly elaborated map of North America
that it is the noblest map of that vast con-
tinent that has ever yet been produced,
is to say of it, according to our belief (and recollec-
tion), the simplest truth. When to the announce-
ment of the scale upon which it has been
constructed, moreover, is added the intimation that
the hand, so constructing it, upon that scale, is no
other than the same master-hand by which the
earlier maps of the series have been produced,
the statement made in our last sentence might be
regarded by many, and not unreasonably, as some-
what superfluous. The Editor of " The Physical
Atlas" has taken his place permanently in the front
rank, and at about the very head of that front rank
of the most skilled and gifted among our modern
geographers. And remembering that—knowing
that perfectly well, as we do—our confidence in
the accuracy and beauty of any new geographical
work of more than ordinary importance and mag-
nitude, such, for example, as this very Map of
North America, coming to us from the hand of
Mr. Johnston, is attributable not alone to our
recollection of what ho has already done in this
way ! It is attributable yet more to our sense of
the fact that he has already done so much and so
well that he applies himself now to the production
of any fresh work of this kind, of more than usual
magnificence, with a perfect consciousness on his
own part that he has a reputation to sustain. The
Editor of the "Physical Atlas"—that superb illus-
trative companion to the Cosmos of Humboldt,
the Geography of Maltebrun, and the Siluria of
Murchison—as a mere matter of course, cannot be
expected by any, even the minutest proportion, to
advance or elevate the reputation acquired for
himself by that magnum opus—which must always
be regarded as his undoubted masterpiece, for he
can hardly be expected to surpass it. By an
obvious necessity, it would be a thing quite imprac-
ticable for him to surpass it by any one isolated
'nap, even by a map upon the magnificent scale
and noble dimensions of the library series of which
this very map now under consideration is the latest
instalment. The utmost we could rationally hope
for, would be, what is certainly here recognisable
upon a careful scrutiny of Stanford's New Library
Map of North America—namely, that by this one
I isolated performance Mr. Keith Johnston still
I does veritably contrive to sustain his reputa-
tion ! That reputation acquired for himself
steadily and progressively during the last score
of years by so many chartographic works
of real and even exceptional excellence, but most of
all, as already intimated, by what is incomparably,
and must always remain, his greatest work—" The
Physical Atlas." Never, by possibility, could any
map of North America appear at a time at which it
would be likely to prove more welcome. This crisis
of the great civil war now raging between the Fede-
rals and the Confederates—constituting of itself for
such a publication what we might almost call a
wonderful " puff preliminary," blown through the
war trumpet. There are other questions,
moreover, besides that of the momentous alter-
native now being fought out upon the soil of
the once United States, the alternative of re-
Union or of permanent Severance—questions con-
tinually directing the attention of thoughtful ob-
servers in Europe, to a more and more careful
scrutiny of some reliable map of North America.
Several among the more remarkable of these same
difficult and complicated questions relating to
North America, the prospectus issued with this
Library Map has thus happily summarised :
" What to do about telegraphic communication via
Behring Strait versus Greenland ; or the Hudson
Bay territory—or Federation and Confederation—
or Abolition of Slavery—or Overland Transit be-
tween Canada and Vancouver—or Mexican diffi-
calties—or the various projects for rivalling the
Panama Railroad—wherever the mind is directed
on this great continent, some great movement is
found to be claiming attention." And it is in the
midst of the everyday discussion of these all-im-
portant subjects of international solicitude that
Mr. Stanford's Library Map of North America now
makes its admirably well-timed appearance. A
map of North America upon so large a scale had
latterly, moreover, become nothing less than a ne-
cessity. It was a want quite as much as it will (now
that that want is supplied) be found to be a luxury,
No General Map of North America upon a very
large scale was anywhere to be turned to, except one
so old as almost, one might say, to be obsolete. As
it has been here produced at length, with Mr.
Stanford as the publisher and Mr. Johnston as the
geographer, it will be all the more clearly recognised,
the more carefully it is studied, as a work of the
very highest class—a map for which every
student of modern history will be grateful, more
particularly such as come practically under that
denomination as diplomatist or administrator, as
journalist or as statesman.

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HER MAJESTY,

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 4,

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Christian of Denmark and Princess Dagmar visited
her Majesty at the Castle this morning.
Toe Queen, attended by the Countess of Caledon
and Major-General Hon. A. N. Hood, went to Lon-
don in the afternoon. Her Majesty honoured the
Dowager Duchess of Hamilton and the Dowager
Duchess of Sutherland with visits at their residences,
and returned to Windsor Castle.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
SANDaINGIIAM, Nov. 4.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales drove out this morning.
The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia arrived
at Sandringham this afternoon, from Edinburgh, on
a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, met their
royal visitors at Wolferton Station.
Count Farstenstein, Captain Leucadon, and the
Countes Hohenthal were in attendance on their
royal highness.

Departure of the Prince and Princess

Christian of Denmark.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Christian of Denmark left London yesterday for the
Continent.

Their royal highnesses visited the Duchess of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary yesterday morn-
ing at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, and afterwards
proceeded to Windsor by the loop line of the South-
Western Railway.

After a short stay at the Castle their royal high-
nesses returned to town by the South-Western
Railway:

At half past three o'clock in the afternoon the
Prince and Princess, accompanied by the Princess
Dagmar, and attended by Captain Castenchjold
and other members of their suite, left the Victoria
Station for Dover, by special train on the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway.
Their royal highnesses were received at the sta-
tion by Lord Harris (the deputy-chairman of the
company), by Sir Cusack Roney, and others of the
directors, and by Mr. Forbes, the general manager
of the company.

On arriving at Dover their royal highnesses em-
barked on board the Breeze, a new steamer belong-
ing to the company, which had been specially en-
gaged, and started for Calais.

The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of

Prussia.

Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and
Crown Princess of Prussia, attended by the Countess
Hohenthal, the Count Furstenstein, and Captain
Leucadon, left Edinburgh on Tuesday night for
Sandringham, on a visit to their Royal Highnesses
t►:e Prince and Princess of Wales. The Crown
Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia left the
Northbridge Station of the Scottish North-Eastern
Railway at 10.15 on Tuesday night, proceeding by
the Scotch mail train. Shortly after leaving Edin-
burgh the train had a narrow escape of an accident,
as a goods train had got off the line, and a portion
of the footboard of the composite carriage containing
their Royal Highnesses' attendants and servants
was broken off in the attempt to get past. For-
tunately the train was going at very much slackened
pace, or it is impossible to say what the result would
nave been. The train containing the royal party
was delayed some hour and a half or two hours by
this circumstance. This episode of the journey
over, nothing further occurred deserving mention,
except that the train, which was due at Peter-
borough at 7.40 a.m. yesterday, did not arrive till
9.30 a.m.

Their royal highnesses breakfasted at the Great
Northern Hotel, Peterborough, and subsequently
walked from the hotel to the cathedral dur-
ing the time of morning service. As their royal
highnesses entered the building the " National
Anthem" was played on the organ, the service
being temporarily suspended for that purpose.
They were received by the bishop of the
diocese and escorted over the cathedral. The
ancient monuments and objects of interest were
pointed out; and their royal highnesses stood for
some minutes over the simple marble slab which
alone marks the spot where the unhappy Queen of
Scots was interred after her execution at
Fotheringay. On leaving the cathedral their
royal highnesses entered the bishop's palace and
there partook of refreshment. On their return to
the station a large crowd followed at a respectful
distance and cheered most heartily.
The Crown Prince and Crown Princess left Peter-
borough at 11.30 for Lynn, and thence to Wolfer-
ton, where they arrived at 1.25, and were met on
the platform by the Prince and Princess of Wales,
attended by Major Teesdale. Their royal high-
nesses proceeded to Sandringham in a waggonette
drawn by a pair of greys and driven by his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales. It is expected that
their royal highnesses will stay a week or a fort-
night at Sandringham.