The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-13 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

SANDRINGHAM, Nov. 12.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales went
out shooting yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales,
attended by the Countess of Morton, drove out yes-
terday afternoon.
Hisßoyal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
by Lieutenant-General Knollys, Major Teesdale,
and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, paid a visit to the
Castle Rising estate this morning, and spent the
day shooting with Lord Alfred Hervey and other
noblemen invited to meet his royal highness.

Mr. Odo Rusell left Sandringham House this
morning for town.
Tne Prince of Wales has not yet been out with
the West Norfolk hounds, but has graciously inti-
mated his intention of subscribing 50 guineas per
annum towards the pack.

The Duke of Leinster has left his residence on
Carlton house-ter. ace for Cartou House, his seat near M ay-
noo, h, Ireland, for the winter.
'lnc Eat and CountesA of Warwick are shortly
expected at their residence in the Stable-yard, St. James's,
from their country seat, Lord Brooke and the junior mem-
bers of the family have already arrived.
The E,ri of Lonsdale has recently arrived in
town from his seat, Lowther Castle, Westmoreland.
Tne Countess of Newburgh arrived from the
Continent at her residence in Wilton-terrace on Friday

last.
Count Polskoy has left the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn-street, for Paris.
Lord and Lady Blantyre and the Hon. Misses
Stuart left town yesterday for their seat in Scotland.
Lord and Lady de Blaquiere have given up their
residence in Norfolk-street, Park-lane, and have taken 9
Stratford-place, the late residence of Mr. Wm. Peel.
The marriage of Colonel the Hon. A. H. A. Anson,
V.C., brother of the Earl of Lichfield, with Miss Claughton,
elder daughter of the Rev. Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Claughton,
and niece of the Earl of Dudley, is appointed to take place
on the 2d of December.
LORD BROUGHAM.—Lord Brougham left town
yesterday afternoon for Paris en route for Cannes, where he
will pass the winter. The noble and learned lord, who is
now in his 86th year, and is in excellent health, was ac-
companied by Mr. John Mayall, jun., son of the eminent
photographer. His lordship will stay in Paris 10 or 12 days
before proceeding to Cannes.
The Hon. Mrs. and Miss Hamilton have returned
to the Brunswick Hotel, from St. Leonards.

The Hon. Charlotte Fitzgerald. sister to the late
Lord Talbot de Malahide, died at The Firs, Bindeld, Berk-
shire, on Monday last.
Sir George and Lady Boswell have arrived at the
Portland Hotel, Southsea.

THE LATE SIR G. C. LEWIS.—The committee
appointed at the Hereford county meeting for raising a me-
morial to the late Sir G. C. Lewis have decided that it shall
assume the form of a statue in bronze of the right hon. gen-
tleman, to be placed in front of the Shire-hall at Hereford.
The work is to be intrusted to Baron Marochetti, who has
undertaken its execution for the sum of £l,OOO.
THE EARL OF CLARE.—We regret to announce
that this nobleman is in a very precarious state of health.
Lady Wodehouse, La.!), Elinor Cavendish, and Lady Louisa
Dillon, his lordship's daughters, have been summoned_to
town in consequence of the illness.

Veterans of the Camp, the Church, the
Study, and the Senate,

man.

WELLINGTON is a remarkable illustration of how toil,
responsibility, and the liabilities of fame, may be borne
when the moral nature and training are a help instead of a
drawback. His strength of will, his power of self-reliance,
his simplicity of mind, his unconsciousness of doubt or
scruple, end his very narrowness of political view, in com-
bination with his military comprehensiveness of knowledge,
enabled him to do and live through what would have killed
half-a-dozen men of more sensitive fibre, and a more ego-
tistical sort of humility. In him, as in LORD CLYDE (who
might have lived to the age of Wellington), LORD COM-
BERMERE, who is still alive and vigorous at ninety, the
French MARSHAL D'ORNANO, who has just died at the
age of ninety-two ; LORD SEATON, who has departed this
year at the age A eighty-seven; and SIR HOWARD
DOUGLAS, who was a great professional authority and
public benefactor till he died two years ago, at eighty-five,
we see that the toils of military life, and the gravest re-
sponsibilities, do not shorten the existence of men consti-
tutionally adapted to that career. The LATE ARCHBISHOP
or CANTERBURY was past eighty, the present BrsHor or
EXETER is eighty-Six, and ARCHBISHOP WHATELY has
just ,departed at seventy-six. Sir DAVID BREWSTER is Still
active and occupied at eighty-two. The late MR. TOOKE
did not puzzle his brain about the Currency too much to
be still up to the subject at eighty-six, Six R. Mon-
cHrsozi is past seventy, and so is Silt J. HERSCHEL.
METTERNICH was thrust aside because his work was a
failure, and not because he was himself incapable of action.
NESSELRODE was Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Chan-
cellor of the Empire to successive Czars till he died last
year at ninety-two, clear-headed and fall of interest for
Russia as he had ever been. LORD LYNDHVRST had some
infirmities at ninety •one ; bat nobody to the last associated
any idea of decrepitude with him,--much less of senile
weakness. LORD LYNDHURST was eight years younger
at his death ; and we saw in him more of the familiar attri-
butes of failing executive powers : but he, too, had a clear
and calm mind, and a bright interest in the life around him,
and at an age when the traditional octogenarian should
have been lingering in second childhood. That LORD
CAMPBELL should have been hard at work, head and hand,
till death fell upon him in his chair, is hardly surprising to
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those who had long studied his constitution and his course.
To those who knew his fibre, physical, mental, and moral,
the question was whether he would ever die, and why : and
if he had lived over a hundred, doing all the work of his
particular judgeship or any other, the final surprise would
have been,—not that he had lasted so long, but that he
should ever come to a stop. lam myself so tired of reading
the incessant remarks—not altogether considerate to LORD
PALMERSTON'S own feelings,—on the marvellousness of his

being still as clever and serviceable as ever at seventy-nine,
that I shall not enlarge upon the case. It speaks for itself ;
it may confirm some inferences yieldel by the whole
class of cases; and it is a fact of strong and peculiar inte-
rest far beyond the bounds of our own empire ; but it ought
not to be considered miraculous by us.who saw Nesselrode
as he was last year, and Lyndhurst as he was last month—
the one thirteen, and the other twelve years older than Lord

Palmerston is now. Two of his political contemporaties
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remain—one active, the other passive, as far ae the public
life is concerned. Lord BROUGHAM is the active one, of
course ; and at the recent Social Science Congress he ob-
served that Lord GLENELG and himself were the only sur-

vivors of their generation of members of the Speculative
Society; Lord Glenelg is eighty; and that he should have
lived so long is the more remarkable from his being a twin,
the survivor of his twin brother Robert by many years.
We do not forget him ; but we hear nothing of him. As
for Lord Brougham, he speaks fur himself so abundantly
that I may leave him to that description. There is one
more remarkable statesman, who appears at seventy-five,
as able as he ever was to guide and shape the fortune of
rulers and their dominions and people. Men must be old
themselves to remember the interest of the first clear dis-
closures of the ability of Lard Stratford de Redeliffe—Can-
ning's cousin—in the field of diplomacy. When he reached
his threescore years and ten, he came home from the East—
but not to be wrapped in cotton-wool and set down by the
fireside, but to render in Parliament services on Eastern
questions which no other man is competent to render. May
he be there to do this till Eastern questions become better
able to take care of themselves I—Once a Week.

SOME OF BLAKE'S RAVINGS !—A scrap quoted in
Gilchrisi's Life of that Painter—
,6 Great wits to madness nearly aro allied,
And thin particions do their realms divide."

I was in a printing-house in hell, and saw the method in
which knowledge is transmitted from generation to genera-
tion. In the first chamber was a dragon-man, clearing
away the rubuish from a cave's mouth; within, a number
of dragons were hollowing the cave. In the second chamber
was a viper folding round tho rock and the cave, and others
adorning it with gold, silver, and precious stones. In the
third chamber was an eagle with wings and feathers of air;
he caused the inside of the cave to be infinite. Around
were numbers of esgle-like men, who built palaces in the
immense cliffs. In the fourth chamber were lions of flam-
ing fire raging around and melting the metals into living
fluids.
" A robbery of letters addressed to this town?,
says the Journal d'Elpeuf," is reportel to have taken
place, by the cutting open of the mail. bag received at Pont
de l'Arche. Five registered letters were stolen, one of
which contained a sum of 12,000 f. in Bank notes."