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THE SON. LONDON, I UESDAY EVENING, OCrOBER 13, 1863

tine goes on at Westminster, who heeds whether a
less prejudiced and more active administration
might not have spared us this reproach. It is high
time that the work of sanitary reform began in
earnest. Let the recommendations of the commis-
sioners be fully and promptly carried out, and let
the officers of health for each district be appointed,
not from favour, seniority, or influence, but from
their energy and fitness far the task. Let the state
of our barracks be at once looked to, and ]et them
be as far as possible removed from marshy hollows
and river banks to the dry and airy hill stations,
from whence, if needed, they could be quickly sum-
moned by rail. Our Indian authorities had better
look to it, for not even regard for the influential
connection of the GREYS will induce Englishmen
to suffer official inaction and incapacity any further
to trifle with the lives of their fellow-subjects.

An interesting ceremony took place on Saturday
in the Collegiate Institution of Liverpool ; and Gspe-
cial interest was imparted to the proceedings, from
the fact that the Earl of DERBY, who presided at
the distribution of the prizes, himself laid the foun-
dation stone twenty-three years ago. There is no
living orator who, better than Lord DERBY, can
perform a task of this kind. The genial style of
the noble lord's discourses, and his ready sym-
pathy with the progress and prospects of educa-
tion peculiarly fitted him for the undertaking.
His long and comprehensive speech will be found
replete with interest, and will well repay perusal
by all wno take any pains to inform themselves
of the state of education generally, which, without
reference to any particular branch or especial de-
partment, is always well qualified to engage atten-
tion, and to attract notice. As Lord DERBY re-
minded his hearers, at the outset, twenty-three
years was not a long period in the life of an in-
stitution like that before them, tut it was quite
long enough to enable them to take a retrospec-
tive view of the establishment and progress of the
college. It was always useful, and also interesting,
to look back to some definite period, and from that
starting-point watch how much progress has been
made, and of what sort, and in what direction.
Nearly all these queries might be answered satis-
factorily, if we trace the history of education from
fifty years ago, when, as the noble president ob-
served, he himself had been an Eton school-
boy. The deficiency of education at that time
was a striking subject for general regret,
and even when pains was taken the know-
ledge acquired was not of the class that
befitted men for the actual and active business of
life. The elegant, refined, and classic style pre-
vailed to the almost total exclusion of the
useful,
the practical, and the work-a-day character of
instruction. It is well that a change has taken
place in this respect, and if those addicted to old
forms and time-honoured customs are indignant at
the idea of innovation and the mention of alteration,
they should be impressed with the earnest language
of one who has done great honour to the old school
in which he was reared, and during an
active
career in politics has always retained the memory
of the elegant studies in which he once took a
distinguished part. Those social levellers who,
like Mr. BRIGHT, consider that all the aristocracy
are upstart and pretentious, and can recognise no
good, nor acknowledge no greatness that does not
exist within the limits of their own order,
ought
in common justice to study those passages
of Lord
DERBY'S harangue, in which he lays great stress
on the benefits that have ensued from the spread of
knowledge, and the more liberal views
that are
entertained regarding the oulture of the lower
orders. But especially has the state of the middle
classes been improved. Lord DERBY truly re-
marked that this term " middle classes' is used in a
" colloquial and well understood significance, but it
would be difficult to define its limits. On the one
hand, the descendant of the peer is absorbed in the
second generation with the community ; and, on
the other hand,we see daily the ranks of the peerage
and of the higher classes recruited from the middle
and lower class of the community, giving
fresh life,
fresh blood, and fresh energy to the ranks into
which they enter, and giving more encouragement
and more stimulus to those from which they pro-
ceed." Such a definition of our social status comes
well from the representative of an old aristocracy,
and in his able description we may trace the germs
of our greatness as a nation, and the secret of our
strength as a people. It is because no one feels
himself really shut out from the intercourse with
those above him who has the talent to obtain notice,
and the ;skill to impress his enterprise upon the
spirit of his generation, that there do not arise
those acerbities of feeling and that bitterness of
jealousy that too often disturb and distract canti-
nental countries and foreign states. All this is
°wing to the spread of education. That is the only
real and legitimate equaliser of men. This high
and honourable influence lowers none, but raises all
who come under its sway. No uprooting of thrones,
and casting sceptres and crowns into the dust, Call
ever make a demagogue fit to rule, or impart wis-
dom to the bully who heads the mob, or knowledge
to the conceited upstart who assumes to know
everything by intuition. It is the great blessing of
our age,
and the crowning triumph of oar efforts,
that where the past possessed units, we can number
tens of thousands who can bring the results of their
own information to bear upon the events of the
present day, and can use the self-control that self-
culture has taught to them to exercise patience if
they do not attain their desires at once ; while they
employ
perseverance steadily, but surely, to win
the day at last. In the subdued light in which
reason views events, ambition finds a safer road to
travel by on which to obtain distinction, and by
which to gain influence and power over
their fellow-men, than the boisterous ways
in which it was sought in the last generation.
Mr. DISRAELI very forcibly touched upon this for-
tunate change that has been effected in an address
to the Manchester Athenaeum some years back,—
I, Instead of the strong arm, it is now the strong
head that is the moving principle of society ; you
have disenthroned force, and placed on its high seat
intelligence." Due honour should be awarded to
thosewho,lke Lord DERBY, come forward to give
their aid and assistance to this great work of public
instruction and national education—to adorn its
meetings with their incomparable eloquence, and
to advocate its tenets with the power that a high
position affords, and the influence that great abi,
lities must always confer. There are many and
great errors in our present ways of life; some evils,
it is to be feared, none of this generation who have
attained adolescence may live to see remedied and
rectified ; but there is unlimited scope for satisfac-
tion in the almost universal extension of learning
ensurtin; its most
success effectu
is al
to
among the population of this busy land. That it
mayand the
go on and prosper is ardently to be desired,
ahnadv ea t , efficaciousstated times,means
subject brought before us in a conspicuous and com-
prehensive manner, In
the address of the Earl of
DERBY We find enli •
ghtened views, noble senti-
ments, and patriotic feelings worthy of the occa-
sion ; and there is every reason
of the Mayor, when he
thatsaid
dto echo the opinion
with delight to a display of they " had listened
that eloquence which
ever made such deep impression on their minds,
and :hey wished to tell Lord DERBY that his pre-
sence there would add another day
e of note to the
annals of that noble inetitution,"

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[R EUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

DENMARK.

BERLIN, OCT. 13.

Intelligence received here from reliable sources
states that Sweden will not sign the Treaty of
Alliance of Denmark.

The reason is stated to be that the Stockholm
Rigsraad believed the signature would be productive
of no benefit, but great disadvantage to the conclu-
sion of the railway loan of 35,000,000 just deter-
mined upon.

It is further stated that the French and Russian
Ambassadors at Copenhagen have impressed upon
the Government the importance of maintaining

peace.

SPAIN,
MADRID, OCT. 13.
The elections are passing off quietly, but few

persons vote.

The rumours of a compromise between Marshal
Narvaez and some other political faction is un-
founded.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, OCT. 9, Evening.
The Botschcfter of this evening asserts that Eng-
land and France were agreed to despatch notes to
St. Petersburg, declaring Russia to have forfeited
the rights conferred on her by the Treaty of Vienna.
" Negociation9," adds the Botschafter, "appear
to have taken place at Vienna with the object of
maintaining the agreement at present existing upon
the subject of common action. In consequence of
these negotiations the two notes would not be
forwarded to S Petersburg, and a statement of the
case would be drawn up."

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 13.
The royal mail steamer Seine, with the above
mail, arrived off the Needles at 12.20 p.m. to-day.

probable that no one in the house had any con-
nexion, is made a pretext for punishing, imprison-
ing, robbing, and illtreating hundreds of persons.
Innocent men were marched off in troops to prison,
helpless women insulted and driven into the streets.
I would not extenuate the assassinations that have
been committed by Polish agents, and which
have exasperated the Russian officials and troops;
but even these unjustifiable crimes cannot
excuse the barbarities committed by the
latter. One might expect to find the Russian
officers seeking to temper the excitement and violence
of their men, but I regret to say that, according to
most trustworthy ac3ounts (not from Polish sources),
they have in various instances, rather set a bad
example. There has been a vast deal of rapine; from
the Zamoyski Palace alone 16 cases of jewellery
disappeared, and, although there are strong suspi-
cious as to the persons who took them, it of course
would be useless, and probably dangerous, to at tempt
proof. Human life has come to be as lightly regarded
as ever it was in Spanish civil wars or in South Ame-
rican revolutionary conflicts. Mere suspicion, with-
out trial or proof, suffices for summary capital pun-
ishment. You will perhaps already have heard some-
thing of an affair which took place four days ago in
Warsaw, on the premises of Messrs. Evans, two bro-
thers, Englishmen, who have an extensive iron
manufactory there, where they employ 500 to 690
workmen. On the evening of Monday last one of their
men was stopped in the street by the police, either
because he was partially intoxicated or• as a sus-
pected character, and in his possession were found
two or three rudely-cast small shells, pierced with
several holes, and of the diameter, as described to
me by a person who saw them, of about 11 inch.
They were not loaded, but were said to be of :he Or-
sini class of shell, made to be charged with fuami-
leafing powder and thrown by hand. Here was
enough to convict not only the unlucky bearer of
missiles, but the whole establishment in which he
worked. At 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning last he
was shot in the courtyard of Evans and Co's factory,
in presence of all the workmen and of a body of
Russian troops. The workmen were compelled to at-
tend. It was further ordered that the firm should
pay a fine of 15,000 roubles. In vain was it ex-
plained to the authorities that no blame could pos-
sibly attach to the persons whom it was sought thus
to punish ; that a single workman, bent upon cast-
ing such shells as those produced, which were of a
very rough and imperfect manufacture, might find
opportunities of doing it even without its being
necessarily known to the very men who worked
nearest to him; and also that the fabrication of
projectiles was no part of the business there carried
on. The fine was insisted upon, and, if not
paid, the establishment was to be closed. Messrs.
Evans were absent from Warsaw, in England,
I believe—and their partner, a Prussian subject,
named Rau, telegraphed to them for instructions.
In reply, he was told not to pay, but to shut up the
works—which, as business had been extremely bad
in Warsaw of late, could probably be done without
any great loss to the firm. But this did not suit
the book of the authorities, who were not desirous
to have 500 or 600 workmen added to the unem-
ployed, and probably to the discontented and dan-
gerous class in Warsaw. They then wanted to make
Messrs. Evans pay their workmen until they should
have paid the fine. I have no private information
as to the details of the way in which the matter was
settled, but in one of to-day's Berlin papers a letter
of recent date from Warsaw is cited, according to
which the fine has been rescinded and the factory
re-opened, in consequence, it is added, of the inter-
cession with General Berg of the Prussian Consul,
who, on discovering that a partner in the house
was a Prussian subject, seems to have taken a dif-
ferent view of the case from that which he is alleged
to have done when he believed it to have been a
purely Eoglish concern. It is added that a decree
will shortly be published regulating the amount of
responsibility incurred by manufacturers in conse-
quence of the acts of their.workmen.

" With respect to Prussian politics there is no im-
portant novelly to cite since my last. The Cabinet
order, the existence of which has been revealed by
the semi-official papers, and in consequence of which
soldiers ere relieved from the necessity of giving
their votes at elections, is the last topic of interest.
It does not appear that soldiers will be in any way
prevented from voting, should it please them to do
so, but ❑evertheless some of the feudal organs speak
of the order as if its effect were to be the same as
though it comprised a prohibition. We must pre-
sume, therefore, that such will be the practical
working of the measure, at least as regards those
soldiers who are not disposed to support Govern-
ment candidates.

"The very notorious Police President of Konigs
berg, Maurach, has been promoted to be President
of the Government of Gumbinnen. On the Bth
inst. M. von Bismark completed one year's service
as President of the Council and Minister of Foreign
Affairs. On that joyful anniversary, as we are in-
formed by a journal that befriends him, he received
many testimonies of respect and reverence. When
a public man has few supporters it is highly desir-
able that they should be active and zealous, so as to
form, in theatrical phrase, a claque to applaud and
do him honour. If the Government dues not suc-
ceed in getting up at least a respectable minority at
the next elections it will not be for want of pressure,
and it will prove how determined is the hostiliq
even of many who depend on it. The circular of
the Minister of Commerce (similar to that of Count
Eulenburg) has been addressed to very numerous
classes, to all the persons employed in the de•
partments of post-office and railway, and of the
mining and building administrations. The papers
mention various cases of refusal to pay taxes,
in consequence of the Budget not having been
legally voted. In the neighbourhood of the Rehr
several members of the Fortschritt party have
refused payment, and suffered their goods to be
seized. At Essen, M. von Bernuth, a proprie-
tor of coal mines and a near relative of the former
Minister of Justice, and M. Waldthausen, a former
Deputy to the Chamber, preferred letting the fur-
niture be seized to paying, and the sale by auction
of M. Von Bernuth's tables and beds is appointee
for the 15th inst.

Prince Ladislas Czartoryski has arrived from
Paris, at Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street, St. James's.
We regret to hear that the Dowager Duchess of
Sutherland is suffering in her eyesight.
The Earl and Countess Spencer, accompanied by
Lady Sarah Spencer, left Spencer House, St. James's, yes-
terday, for Paris, on their way to Egypt, where they pro-
pose to pass the approaching winter, with the view to the
benefit of Lord Spencer's health, which, from over• exertion
in the hunting field and occasional colds, is not so strong
as could be desired.
The Earl de Grey arrived at his house in Carlton-
gardens last evening from Studley Royal, near Ripon.
The Earl Annesley, who came to town yesterday
from his seat in Ireland, left in the evening for Newmarket,
to attend the race meeting.
The Earl and Countess of Clancarty are receiving
a succession of visitors at their seat, Garbally Park,
county Galway. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant
honoured the earl and countess with his company during
the Ballinasloe fair ; and among the guests have been
the Marquis of Waterford, the Marquis of Downshire, the
Earl and Countess of Erne and Lady Louisa Crichton, the
Earl of Tyrone, Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile,
Viscount Poweiscourt, Mr. and Lady Anne Lloyd, Mrs.
and Miss Jones of Pantglas, Captain Wynne, Mr. Gordon
Ives, Sc).
The Countess (Dow.) of Westmoreland and Lady
Rose Fano, who have been staying on a visit to the Earl
and Countess de Grey at Studley Royal, Yorkshire, leave
this morning on a tour of visits in Scotland.
Viscount Palmerston will leave his seat, Broad-
lands, near Romsey, early in the forenoon, for LondoL, for
the purpose of attending the Cabinet Council.
Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe and the Hon.
Miss Canning arrived on Friday last on a visit to the Earl
and Countess de Grey at Studley Royal, Yorkshire, and
leave to. day. Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe is in
Scotland,
Viscount and Viscountess Clifden left Dover
House, Whitehall, for Suffolk.
The Lord Chancellor has arrived in town from
his seat, near Basingstoke. The noble and leartied
lord will give a do euner to the judges and Queen's counsel
on the 2d proximo, the first day of Michaelmas Term, pre-
viously to which the Lord Chancellor will receive the
Lord Mayor, the Lord Mayor-elect, the Recorder, Sheriffs,
and other civic functionaries, as customary, to signify the
cordial consent of the Queen to the selection made by the
citizens of London of their chief magistrate for the ensuing
year.

ROYAL ENGLISE OPERA,

"THE DESERT rLOWER."

The eighth and last seasun of the Fyne and Har-
rison management commenced last evening under
the highest patronage, and in the presence of one of
the largest and most fashionable audiences that
probably ever assembled within this magnificent
theatre. Every stall, box, and seat were occupied
previous to the rising of the curtain, and those who
had the misfortune to arrive a few minutes after the
opening of the door had the unpleasant necessity
forced upon them of either taking up a standing
position in the lobbies, or of having their tickets
altered for another evening. The announcement
that their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales, his Mejesty the King of the Greeks,
and the Royal Family of Denmark would honour
the theatre with their presence, no doubt contributed
in a great degree to the overflowing audience, as
the portion of the theatre that received more visitors
than it could under any circumstances accommodate
was opposite " the Prince's side." In the royal box
sat the Prince of Wales, by his side the King of
the Greeks, next bim his sister the Princess of
\Vales, the Princess Dagmar, and Prince William.
The Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark and
their attendants were also present. To the musical
portion of the audience the great event of the even-
ing was the production of a new opera, by the
author of " Maritana," " Lurline," &c., Mr. V.
Wallace, entitled, "The Desert Flower." The plot
of :the new opera is by no means novel, yet it has
the merit of being clear and simple, perhaps more
then ordinarily so, and is founded on the dangerous
yet delightful, perplexing yet provoking, handiwork
of little Master Cupid. The scene is laid in Dutch
Guiana, and on the rising of the curtain the first
scene—a delightful specimen of the painter's ant—
is the exterior of a Dutch settler's dwelling, near
Surinam. To this place a certain coil ardly Major
Pumpernickle has been despatched by his Govern-
ment, to quell a revolt that has broken out amongst
an Indian tribe—the Anakowtas—whose queen is
Onita, " the Desert Flower." Attached to the
staff of the Major is one Captain Maurice, who, at
first sight, falls over head and ears i❑ love with
the beautiful queen, against whose people
he is at war. Onita, with one of her followers,
Casgan, in order to lure the Dutch into the im-
penetrable forest, voluntarily surrenders herself a
prisoner, her great object being to find the comman-
der of the expedition, in order that he may become
the first victim of Indian vengeance. Pumper.
nickle, in order to secure himself, magnanimously
hands over the command to Captain Maurice, and
thus the two future lovers are brought in contact.
At first she scorns the peoffered love of Maurice,
who is an invader of her territory, but very shortly
after mutual love springs from hate, and then Onita
is as anxious to save the lite of her lover as she was
before desirous of sacrificing it. Casgan, the re-
jected lover of the Queen, discovers her attachment
to Maurice, and dining a friendly meeting of the
foee he works upon the feelings of his tribe, and
the result is that Maurice is taken prisoner
and condemned to death. Onita, in order
to save him, offers to maka him king by
marriage, a proposal the young Dutchman
is only too joyful to accept. But the course of true
love never did, and, we suppose, never will, run
smooth, for Maurice fiads, to becAae an Indian
King, he must bow to idols, abjure his country and
religion, which rather than do he prefers to die.
Onita contrives her lover's escape, and then takes
the place prepared for him on the funeral pyre ; but
just as the savages are about to kindle the fire,
Maurice returns with a troop of soldiers, rescues
Onita, shoots Casgan, and, we suppose, eventually
marries the Desert Flower.

The music of the opera is certainly not of an
elaborate description ; in many parts it is pretty,
melodious,and telling, yet much of it is common- place.
Of course,ithere must have been great difficulty in
dealing with a subject of such quaintness, where
Indian marches, dances, and choruses must of neces-
sity abound, but Mr. Wallace has succeeded in sur-
mounting the difficulty, and also in introducing
several pretty ballads, which may, when they be-
come familiar, prove popular. Miss Pyne, as Onita,
the Desert Flower, has a piece of this description,
entitled " Why throbs this heart into rapture new,"
which she rendered with most delicious sweetness.
The " ood-bird's song" is one of those difficult
and elaborate compositions that invariably falls to
the lot of Miss Louisa Pyne in all new operas, but
the fatigue of rehearsals, and the anxieties of a
first night rendered some parts of her voice less
clear than on ordinary occasions, so that the upper
notes had to be attained with some apparent diffi-
culty. Mr. Harrison, as Maurice, in the first act, has
one of his usual characteristic songs, in this instance
he carols the pleasure of a hunter's life. It was given
in his best style, and elicited great applause. "Since
Honour's star cloth o'er me Blaine,' and the love
song " Though born in woods," the two ballads
allotted to the part of Maurice, were both sang with
much taste and feeling, although we think they
were in some parts rather above the register of Mr.
Harrison's voice, but to the cause already noticed,
62%), many of the false notes be attributed.
Mr. Weiss, as Casgan,,acquitted himself in a more
than ordinarily satisfactory manner ; he both anted
and sang the music of the part capitally. There
was none of that pumping up of his notes, a bad
habit he has of late fallen into, but, on the contrary,
his ballad, " When wandering through the forest
drear," was a perfect flow of melody. The choruses
were characteristic and telling, and there is also some
gay sparkling dance music, which cannot fail
to become popular. Tae opera is certainly destined
for a lengthened run, as its success was at once com-
plete, decided, and unmistakeable.
The scenery is really splendid. The tropical
forest in the second act, with its myriads of gorgeous
parasitic plants, its overhanging trees, and trans-
lucent water, and the wonderful effect of light in
the changes from the crimson noon to grey evening
and silver moonlight, was a perfect marvel of scenic
art. The calls for Miss Pyne, Mr. Harrison, Mr.
Weiss, and Mr. Wallace throughout the evening
were very numerous, and on the appearance of each
the most enthusiastic applause was bestowed, the
Royal party being not a bit behind the lees aristo-
cratic in their expression of delight and gratification.
The Royal party remained till the close of the per-
formance, and quitted the theatre amidst the
swelling and majestic notes of the National
Anthem.

THE DEATH OF MR. FRANK FOWLER. The
friends of this accomplished young author have
formed a committee to raise a fund for the support of his
widow and three little children. The names of the com-
mittee may be accepted as a guarantee for the merits of the
case, and the right application of the money subscribed.
The following are the names and addresses of the commit-
tee, to whom subscriptions may be sent :—The Dowager
Lady Filmer, 54, Onslow-square, South Kensington, S, W.
—.The Lady Catherine Long, Landthorne, Farnham—
Fre deri
ck Birkmyre, Etq., 4, Now Bank-buildings, Lon-
don,
E.C.—Sir Robert; W. Carden, 2, Royal Exchange-
buildings, EX.—the Rev, John Congreve, South-
field,M.A.,Rugby—J. J. Merriman, Esa., 24, Avenue-road,
New-road, Hammersmith, W.—Tom Taylor, Esq.,Laven-
der-sweep, Wandsworth-road, S.—Sydney Waterlow,Esq.,
Alderman, Carpenter;' Hall, London-wall, E.C. Subscrip-
tions may also be forwarded to the account of the " Fowler
Fund," which has been opened at Messrs. Ransom, Bou-
verie, and Co.'s, Pall-mall Ea- t, London—or to Mr. Wm.
Walter, 18, New Bridge-street, Tilackfriars, London, E.G.,
who has kindly undertaken the duties of honorary secre-
tary to the fund. We sincerely hope that the committee's
efforts may be crowned with all the success they deserve.
AN AGREEABLE COMPANION 15 ono in whom
travelling breeds a disposition to disparage and
sneer at everything he sees—One persists in looking only at
the weak side of foreign institutions and foreign character,
and who never loses an opportunity outing up unfavour-
able comparleens and vaunting something that is some-
where else. There is soraething peculiarly provoking in
such a temperament, and nothing can be more utterly fatal
to enjoyment than to have to visit fine churches, admire
great paintings, and gaze upon sublime or beautiful land-
scapes, in the company of a carping critic of this kind. And
it is impossible to take sure precautions against joining a
companion who may turn peevish, or moody, or unsympa.
thetic. The changed circumstances among which travel
naturally throws him may make him as different as possible
from his usual self. When Gray set oat to travel with
Horace Walpole, he never dreamt that he would have to
cut him in a few weeks for surreptitiously opening other
people's letters. We never can be quite sure how la man
will stand the test of !ravelling companionship until we
have tried him; and, unluckily, the duration and arrange-
ments of life do not allow us to make very many experi-
ments, in vase the first ollie OE two should f4il, -,Sate relay
Prim.

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The Prince and Princess of Wales.

A deputation of the Council of the Society of Arts
had the honour of waiting upon the Prince of Wales,
at Marlborough House, yesterday, and presented an
address, to which hid Royal Highness was pleased
to return a gracious answer. The deputation con-
sisted of Mr. Wm. Hawes, chairman of the council;
the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Henry Lennox,
M.P., Mr. John Dillon, Mr. George Fergusson
Wilson, F.R.S., the Hon. and Rev. Samuel Best,
Mr. W. B. Siwpson, Mr. Thomas Wink worth, Dr.
Odling, F.R.S., Mr. P. Graham, rtfr. Thomas
Twining, Mr. P. Le Neve Foster, Secretary, and
Mr. S. T. Davenport, financial officer,
The King of the Greeks, the Prince of Wales,
Prince Christian of Denmark, and Prince Frederick,
attended by Captain Grey, rode on horseback yes-
terday morning.
The Princess of Wales, the Princess Christian,
and Princess Dagmar of Denmark, took a carriage
drive.

The Duke of Cambridge paid a visit to the
Princess Christian of Denmark •at Marlborough
House.

A deputation of the Royal Entertainment Com-
mittee of the Corporation of the City of London,
consisting of F. W. Truscott, Esq., chairman, H.
L„ Taylor, Esq., sub-chairman, and the Town
Clerk, had an interview with the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales, and presented a slight memento of
their Royal Highnesses, visit to the City of London
on the lath of June, 1863.
The King of the Greeks, the Prince of Wales,
Prince Christian of Denmark, and Prince Frederick,
attended by Captain Grey, Captain Lund, and Cap-
tain Castenschjold, went to the Crystal Palace,
Sydenham, in the afternoon.

The Princess of Wales, the Princess Christian
of Denmark, and the Princess Dagmar, took a.
drive in an open carriage in the afternoon.
The King of the Greeks, the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales, the Prince and Princess Christian of
Denmark, Prince Frederick, and Princess Dagmar,
attended by the Hon. Mrs. Grey, Countess Revent-
low, Captain Grey, Lieut. Funch, Captain Lund,
and Captain Castenschjold, honoured the perfor-
mance at the Covent-garden Opera last evening
with their presence.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey left his seat,
Falloden, Northumberland, yesterday, for Scotland,
to attend the Queen.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office from the Governors of the North Ameri-
can provinces.

The Prince Consort Memorial at Aberdeen.

Her Majesty the Queen and the members of the
Royal family will be received at Guild-street, Aber-
deen, to-day, by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and
Town Council, his Grace the Duke of Richmond,
the Sheriff of the county, the Convener of the
county, and the committee appointed by the sub-
scribers for the erection of the memorial. A space
for the carriages in the procession will be lined by
the Aberdeen depot battalion, the Aberdeen artil-
lery and rifle volunteers, the naval reserve, and the
police of the city and county.
The order of the procession will be as follows :
Body of Police.
Detachment of Cavalry.
The Convener and Master of Hospital of the Incorporated
Trades.
The Principal and Professors of the University of Aberdeen,
Baron Marochetti and the City Architect.
His Grace the Duke of Richmond, the Sheriff of the County;
The Convener of the County;
And the Committee of Subscribers to the Memorial.
The Lon') PROVOST,
And Magistrates and Town Qouncil.
The Suite in attendtmce on her Majesty and the Royal
Family.
Lady Augusta Bruce (in attendance on the Queen).
Countess of Hohenthal (in attendance on Crown Princess).
Baroness Schenck- (in attendance on Princess Louis of
Hesse).
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
The Princes Alfred, Arthur, and Leopold.
Lady Churchill (Lady in "Waiting).
The Princess Helena.
The Princess Louise.
The Crown Prince of Prussia.
.The Prince Louis of Hesse.
The Princess Louis of Hesse.
The Crown Princess of Prussia.
THE QUEEN.
Cavalry Escort.

When her Majesty and the Royal family have taken their
places, the Very Reverend the Principal of the University
will open the proceedings with prayer. An address from
the contributors to the memorial will be presented to her
Majesty the Queen. The statue will then be uncovered.
At the conclusion of the ceremony her Majesty, the royal
family, and suite, will return to Guild-street station with.
their escort, by the same route as they arrived.

The Northern Club-room buildings directly fade the site
of the statue. In front of the lower windows a platform is
being erected for the accommodation of the Queen and royal
party, who will be set down at a portico erected at the front
door. The Queen will pass from her carriage into the lobby,
and thence into the billiard-room—a handsome lofty room,
which forms a half oval at the end towards Union-terrace
—and which will be fitted up plainly but elegantly for her
reception. There are two windows in the room from which
an excellent view of the statue can be got, should it rain,
and in front of these the royal platform is being fitted up.
The windows will be open, and the royal party will pass
by them on to the platform. The large table in the centre
of the room will be laid out with refreshments for the royal
party and suite; and the committee of the club have inti-
mated to the members that the house will be closed to them
until her Majesty's departure.
The statue is, of course, kopt closely muffled up. The
figure represents the late Prim le Consort seated with the
robe of the Thistle over a field-morshal's uniform, while he
holds in his hand a scroll, intended' to represent the address
delivered by the lamented Prince at Aberdeen, on the occa-
sion of his presiding over the British Association for the
Advancement of Science. The height of the figure as it is
seated is 6 feet 6 inches, and the likeness to the deceased
Prince is said to be striking. The statue is placed on a
granite pedestal. The plinth, 10 feet by 81 tet, is of grey
granite, dressed. Above this is a moulded base of red gra-
nite, polished. The die, also of red granite, poNshed, and
surmounted by a cope of the same material, is 5 fee!-, 8 inches
by 4 feet 2 inches, and 4 feet 2 inches in height. There
are bronze enrichments on the base and the cope.

The Aberdeen Herald expresses a hope that the citizens
of Aberdeen—so signally honoured in this matter—will
scrupulously attend to the wishes of her Majesty; and.
" that nothing will occur to jar the feeling of sacred plea-
sure with which she regards the occasion—the uncovering
of the first statue yet raised to do honour to her lamented.
husband, ' Albert the Good,' and the first occasion on which
she has appeared publicly since his death."

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales are expected to leave Marlborough Rouse on the
16th inst., for Sandringham Half, Norfolk.
ness Prince Alfred attended the sittings of
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°:1 : (L) ima tnYe n t House. The prince listened to the
reading of all the papers on co-operation—six in number—
and to the greater ,nortion of the discussion which followed.
On Sunday forenooL the prince, with Major Cowell, attended
Divine service in ti ‘.e High Church, when the Rev. Dr.
MtLetchie preached. Prince Alfred occupied the royal pew.
The Lord Provost ant I magistrates were present in their
official robes. Mr. Glaa'stone and Professor Lyon Playfair,
D. 8., hadi the honour-k If taking luncheon wiih hls royal
highness in the afternoon.
Their Royal Highne et .es the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary will'
return to St. James's Palace on
or about the 15th inst., from Paris.
The Emperor of Russia 1 as arrived at the Chateau
of Orienda, on the southern
coast of the Crimea. His
severallaies tywweeilkls.ri etersburg, it is thought, fur
nut return to St. P%
The Emperor Napoleon has. just presented to the
'ts of himself and the
tEoLnwnpreo:`..s.Bordeaux two fine ports,
"
Prince Napoleon has again left 1 aria for his estate
of Prangins on the banks of the Lake of Geneva.
ci. queen Hortense
. travelling
The anniversary of the death of
was celebrated on Thursday by the usual .religious service
in the church of Rueil.
The Duke and Duchess de Chartres,
under the name of the Count and Countess de Villiers,
have arrived at Vienna.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberla. Pa have
during the past week entertained the Hon. Chu les and
Mrs. Bertie Percy and Miss Percy, and a succession of
guests, at Alnwick Castle.
The Duke of Somerset arrived at his official
residence at the Admiralty last evening, from Stover P ark,
his seat in Devonshire, in order to attend the Cabr'net
'
i Calmed to-day.