The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-02 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 1.
The gleen, the Crown Prince and Princess of
Prussia, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princo
Arthur, Prince Leopo d, Princess Beatrice, and
her Serene Highness the Princess Hohenlohe,
visited her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
this morning et Frogmore House, it being the
anniversary of the princess's birthday.
Her Majesty, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce,
took a carriage drive, attended by Lord Alfred
Paget o❑ horseback.
Lord Alfred Paget and Col. the Hon. D. de
Ros have succeeded Major-General lion. A. Hoed
and Col. Ponsoaby as Equerries.

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Birthday of the Princess of Wales.
The first birthday which her Royal Highness
the Princess of Wales has passed in England was
joyously celebrated yesterday in many places. Ia
the metropolis the bells of the various churches
rang a merry peal, the troops of the Household
Brigade paraded in the court-house opposite Marl'
borough House with their State band, the royal
standards were hoisted on the Government offices,
and the vessels in the river presented a gay and
animated appearance. In the evening the houses
of many of her royal highness's tradesmen were

At Windsor the day was celebrated with the
customary honours paid to the members of the
royal family, and the houses were gaily decorated
with flags.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and the
Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prosle,
attended by their suites, drove to Virginia Water'
and lunched in the Temple, leaving FrograW
Lodge at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and re-
turning at 4 o'clock. The new dining room was
elegantly decorated with wreaths and choice exotiee,
and in the splendid apartments were displayed
the various elegant presents which the princess
had received on this occasion. In the evening
their royal highnesses gave a grand banquet ill
the new dining room, when covers were laid for
27 petsons.
In the evening Herr Herrmann, the renowned
prestidigitator of the Princess's Theatre, had the
honour to perform before the royal parts at
Frogmore by command.
Many of the houses at Windsor were illtnni-
hated ; and the Mayor and Corporation gale 6
ball in the Town Hall, which was attended 1/1
about 70 royal tradespeople of Windsor and Etee.

His Royal Highness the Dake of Cambridge virgs
prevented by slight indisposition from leaving town 01/
Monday to visit the Earl and Countess of Derby at Knows-
ley. His royal highness, we hear, is suffering frelo
obstinate attack of neuralgia.
Their Royal Highnesses the Doke and Duchess
d'Aumale arrived at Hatfield House, Harts, on Monday' °u
a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury.
His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the
Countess Bernstprff entertained at dinner, last evening/ his
Excellency the French Ambassador, the Duke and Dacha-3
of Somerset, his Excellency the Italian Minister, his
cellency the Saxon Minister, the Earl and Countess de
Grey, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston and Lad,'
Victoria Ashley, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, the RigbAt
Hon, Charles E. Villiers, the Marquis de Cadore, P'

small party assembled after dinner.
His Excellency the French Ambassador, the
Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, attended at the Foreign;
office, yesterday, and had an interview with the Earl
Russell.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort arrived ill
town, on Sunday, from visiting the Emperor and Empress
of the French at Compiegne, and have since gone to Bad-
minton, their seat in Gloucestershire, for the winter.
The Duke of Newcastle was rather better yester-
day, but his grace's illness prevented him from attending
the Cabinet Council.
The Earl and Countess of Craven and Ladies
Craven left town, yesterday, for Ashdown Park, Berks.
Viscount and Viscountess Clifden left town,
yesterday, for their temporary seat in Suffolk.
The Countess (Dowager) of Listowel and Lady,
Proby left town, yesterday, for Elton Hall, the :Earl of
Carysfort's s,,at, near Stilton.
Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses
Jocelyn left Lord and Lady Palmeiston's residence, in Pic-
cadilly, yesterday, for St. Leonards.
Lard and Lady Londesborough have left the
Clarendon Hotel for Paris, en route for Egypt. ,1
Lord Crewe left town yesterday for Crewe "1"
Cheshire.
Lord Huntingfield has left the St. Ge"getk
Hotel.
The lion. Mr, and Mrs. Milles have arrived at
the Si
George's Hotel. "Intel
r 'Patton Sykes, Bart,, has left Claridge'4 '—
for Newmarket.

I vsimarnumnismOM
111'
PREJUDICE, AS DEFINED BY A SATURDAY
VIEWER.—There
VIEWEIL—There are companies in which to ePrfiii,
a belief that Louis Napoleon Buonaparte means mischic .
his proposed Congress would be at once scouted 58 Ptl-,
judice, and to call it prejudice would be thought all ii,
answer that it deserved. Undoubtedly such a belief 3,
prejudice, because it is a judgment pronounced befor ii.
while the evidence is still unknown or imperfect, and wanof
therefore may possibly be reversed by the actual cour.4°
oil.
events, It is as yet quite possible that Louis NaPelevy
may sincerely desire the liberation of Poland, and t' t,
reconciliation of Denmark and Germany, without the leas
eye to the frontier of the Rhine. The feeling against 1°i.6,;
is therefore, in strictness of speech, a prejudice; but it a.
not an unreasonable prejudice, because it is grounded °t
the experience of all his past acts. Those acts aftbrd:f
quite sufficient presumption that any future acts Will h '°liet.
the same kind. This presumption is quite enough totioix
upon—that is, quite enough to put all other nations 012 bo.,
guard. Still it is merely a prejudice or presuniPTintivar
cause we have not as yet the evidence before us, B'll erfeetly'
turn out to be wrong. Here is a prejudice, but opine Man-
reasonable prejudice. But the way in which the't
AA extent, a•
was often spoken of 15 years ago was, to a grßusomparte,
case of unreasonable prejudice. When Presideut bile, there"
assumed the chief magistracy of the French bile,
as ore
were undoubtedly many presumptions of various
a, tre
against him, but they ware none of thein
deprive him of every mates prima go
fairstrong trial
r.a,..
He obtained his post by a pezfectly fair election,
0n:.,,
though even then it showed dangerous recklessness
t."-f0..,.
part of the electors, was certainly honourable rather
.7,e.
otherwise to the elected. To condemn him beforehand
tiae,
it were not the sign of a superhuman pre-science, Wll3sp_,,,t,
sign of a prejudice which certainly was not just. We s;
.7t
.
that some of those who from the beginning sneered m
on°l_ a
.14oie right to a
w.r.:41
terly at every act of the President would now be
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among the most abject flatterers of the " FuPeLim::.y ,_ A
su- peer that some of those who have untlinch
whol hua..„o
that there is such a thing as right and wrcortte,
who hay re
never held that success justifies or
would be foun, 1,
any courtly euphemism can gloss
never thought that perjury and massacre
over,
those who pleade a
among
fifteen years ago, to have been
had not then forfeited tb 0
for a candid hearing for a man wheoscep
t convicted etiminal. e.
rights which belong to all iz::
judgment may be in 8011 0
astaleiarteeasre 'natters whit la
It is possible that their presentis in some sort a disappointmen t•
dt,iisappointmcnt, a bad return, as it
degree embittered by what is
espected any good; still tl it
They may not have adc.f
a candid hearing, Still, such
were, for the mere
sg
of judgment cannot make any veil
increased bitterness
is at the utmost the merest sharp a-
result is felt as a kin
essential difference; it
.v.
yet when such men argue that a the
ing of the edge.
. a already deceived the world is likely to (10-
who has so otte
• this reasonable inference from experience !i°
ceive it spill, Od
uncommonly pooh-poohed as mere prejudice.
not
whatever of prejudice, that is of unreasoning prejut'
course rant
dice, there is in the matter, lies the other way—a Preitt:
dice, namely, in favour of success, of daring, of the uni.o '
of power and mystery, sot:lean:Les the mere abject prejudic:
in favour of everything w Lch, never mind by what Means'
come to be called Maj,ls‘y and Highness, and ell, ' .

peopla to bow knees and kiss; hands belore it.
" MEMOIRS OF JANE CAI tERON," Female Couvict.
By a Priliou !Alatron. 1.1 -vulb. " 'lbis 13 arratio,
etsitviearean well believe, is truth.fa tin every important I' C.
is'
a--' a f,,..ch of a v, eturaa's tall and xescu
it aNe.
book'thatl ought toronicle be with ly read. It has bau
undertaken with a view of showing lit'w the poor and igll('
rant are led into crime, and iu that way to suggest ' a el'i°
to the mystery of temptation, and deuxolistrate to phil37-',..
thropists when?, rho first effort should 1,,e made to turn 011'
weak and erring from the danger.' And t his is done, as ' 4.
as a book can do it, by the honest and eloquent writing 7
the authoress of 'Female Life in Prison; If this ire..
womanly book can quicken public zeal ontoehalf of the corvli
minals who can, by proper measures, Jed back. Jr _
wrong doing, and better still, be saved from cuterittg uP°9:
it. it will be, in its own way, for a few in our own day, '
little gospel."—Examince. u thivl
c;TIIANKSGINING.—Joiti Bull--"Dont't yo
3,froieu.n'dd
?he,....tte.rr,,woia off your war paint before going' to cbwcii'
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