The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-14 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, July 13.
The Queen and royal family walked and drove in
the grounds.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended
by the Marchioness of Carmarthen and Captain
Grey, arrived at Marlborough House about twelve
o'clock yesterday morning from Frogmore. Their
Royal Highnesses afterwards proceeded to Wimble-
don, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen,
Lieutenant- General Knollys, and Captain Grey, and
were present at the rifle shooting of the National
Rifle Association.

The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the
Duchess of Cambridge, yesterday, at her residence
in St. James's Palace.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, attended by the Marchioness of Carmar-
then and Captain Grey, honoured the performance
at the Princess's Theatre with their presence last
evening.

Foreign Courts.
PARIS, July 12.

The Empress came to Paris on Saturday after-
noon in an open carriage aid four, without escort,
and paid a visit to the Princess Clotilde at the
Palais Royal. Her Majesty returned to St. Cloud
at 5 o'clock.

VIENNA, July 10.

According to intelligence from Rolm:, much un-
easiness has been occasioned by the reports of the
ill health of Queen Marie of Naples. It appears
that a chest complaint has manifested itself, and
that the malady has already made some progress.
BERLIN, July 11.

The King will leave Carlsbad on the 18th, and
will reach Gastein after an easy journey of about
three days' duration. His Majesty will reside there
about three weeks, and will then visit the Queen of
Prussia at Baden-Baden, remaining till the end of
August. The King will then return to Berlin to be
present at the autumnal military manoeuvres.
The Queen arrived at Coblentz to-day, and will
remain there about three weeks. Her Majesty will
then proceed to Baden-Baden on a visit of some
duration.

ROYAL VISIT TO ALDERSHOTT (THIS DAY).—
The Prince and Princess of Wales having intimated
their intention to visit Aldershott this day, the troops
formed on Bricksbury-hill at 11 o'clock precisely to await
the arrival of their Royal Highnesses. On arriving at the
South Camp the royal party partook of luncheon, and then
proceeded to review the troops. The evolutions commenced
about 12 o'clock, and as the day was fine the review was one
of the most brilliant of the season. The strength of the divi-
vision has been considerably augmented during the past few
days by the arrival of several regiments, among which are
included the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), the sth Lancers,
the 18th Hussars, the Ist battalion Scots Fusilier Guards,
and two batteries of the Royal Artillery. The present
strength of the division comprises seven regiments of cavalry,
12 regiments of infantry, three batteries of Royal Horse
Artillery, and four field batteries, mounting a total of 42
guns. About 16,000 men and nearly 800 officers took part
in the day's proceedings.
VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO YORKSHIRE.
—lt has already been intimated that their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales are about to
visit Halifax. Great preparations are making to do honour
to the royal personages, who, according to the present ar-
rangements, will thrive in Halifax on Tuesday, August 4,
and become the guests of Mr. J. Crossley, the mayor of the
borough. There will be a grand procession through the
principal streets of the town on the following day to the
new Town-hall, which will be formally opened by the
Prince, who, after attending the spacious Piece-hall, to
listen to the rejoicing songs of from 15,000 to 18,000 Sunday
school scholars, and partaking of luncheon in the mayor's
parlour with her Royal Highness the Princess, will proceed
to Ripon and Studley Royal, the Yorkshire seat of Earl de
Grey and Ripon. After remaining at the mansion of Earl
de Grey and Ripon on the night of Wednesday, the sth,
their Royal Highnesses will next day proceed en route to
Scotland.

THE REPORTED ROYAL VISIT TO DUNROBIN
.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, we understand,
will not visit Dunrobin Castle this season. The Edinburgh.
papers were quite right in stating that su:th a visit was in-
tended and arranged with the Duke and Duchess of Suther-
land, but their royal highneises have been reluctantly com-
pelled to postpone the northern journey till another year.—
Inverness Couricr.

NAPOLEON 111. IN SEARCH OF HEALTH AND
QUIETUDE.—His Majesty, who has gone to Vichy
for the express pprpose of regaining the health and spirits
worn to tatters by the late politic.l excitement and anxiety,
says the Court Journal, has publicly announced in the
Moniteur that he refuses to receive any solicitors, peti-
tioners, complimenters, or congratulators whatever. Not-
withstanding this warning, whole convoys of these peculiar
specimens of unhumanity are daily leaving Paris, each one
with the hope that an exception will be made in his favour,
all with the conviction that their own merit is sufficient to
secure the preference.
ALARMING ILLNESS OF THE DUKE OF HAMILTON.
—lt is with sincere regret that we have to announce
the very serious illness of the Duke of Hamilton. On
Wednesday last his grace left London by the way of Paris,
to join the Duchess of Hamilton and daughter at Baden-
Baden. While in Paris the Duke was seized with illness,
and on Sunday his grace's medical attendant pronounced
that he was suffering from congestion of the brain. The
Duchess and Lady Mary Hamilton were telegraphed to, and
as soon as possible repaired to Paris. The Marquis of
Douglas was telegraphed to in England, and instantly on
the receipt of the news departed for Paris. The numerous
friends of the duke will learn with regret that the accounts
received by telegraph in the course of yesterday were very
discouraging, and that he is in a most precarious condi-
tion.

RATE OF THE WESTMINSTER CLOCK.—The Astro-
nomer Royal reports to the visitors of the Royal
Observatory that the rate of this clock, which records itself
at Greenwich daily by galvanic connection, "may be consi-
dered certain to much less than one second a week." The
original stipulation was that it should not exceed a second.
a day, and that was attempted to be set aside as impracti-
cable by some of the candidates for making the clock. Mr..
Airy's testimony to its accuracy is the more valuable, as he
had retired in 1853 from the joint superintendence of the
work, on account of some differences with Mr. Denison,
Q.C., who designed the clock and invented the "gravity
escapement" for it, which has since been adopted in other
large clocks. It may not be generally known that most of
the wheels are of cast iron ; the hands and other appendages
weigh about a ton and a half, and the pendulum 6 cwt. The
dials are 22} feet wide, or 400 feet in area each, and cost
more than the clock itself. The cracked Big Ben still hangs
in the tow,r, with a hole cut in its side, by which Dr. Percy
investigated its real state, and reported it as " porous, un-
homogenous, unsound, and a defective casting."
THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—Some of the boats
connected with Great Yarmouth which have been
engaged in the mackerel fishery are already " making up."
The fishery has been attended with unsatisfactory results,
and some of the boats will scarcely cover their expenses.
Prices have been forced down, notwithstanding the far from
abundant catches, to 15s. per 100 in consequence of large
importations of fish from Norway packed in ice. Similar
complaints of want of success came to hand from Lowestoft.
The
.parties engaged in the midsummer herring fishery
peak of failure in that respect also.
FORTIFICATIONS ON THE SOLENT.—The old feudal
pile of Hurst Castle is, we understand, to be used
future merely as a magazine, but on the shore line, both
above and below it, are to be erected a double tier of case-
mated granite batteries—the lower tier mounting 50 guns
laid a jleur d'eau, like the batteries of the Dardanelles, to
hit ♦essels on the water line; the upper tier about 50 feet
from the water, and carrying the same number of guns of
the same calibre, that is to say, the heaviest that our ad-
vancing knowledge of artillery will enable us to construct.
Above this again will probably be another line of guns in
embrasures, so that the entire range of defences on both sides
of the Needles passage will amount at the lowest to 250 guns,
of which at least 100 will be always able to concentrate their
fire an a ship, whatever part of the Channel she may be
steaming. Such a number of guns firing into one vessel
would be, one would think, enough to stop anything that
can float We believe the works will immediately corn-

Inence.—Hants Independent.
TEE MURDER OF MR. FITZGERALD.—.THE TRIAL
OF DILLANE.—LIMERICK, :Monday.--The Hon.
Judge Keogh opened the commission for the county at ten
o'clock this morning. The Attorney-General and Solicitor-
General attended. Matthew Dillane, Ns hose brother was
executed after last assizes for procuring the murder of Mr.
Francis Fitzgerald, having been placed at the bar, the
Attorney-General stated that although there was evidence
sufficiently strong to place the prisoner upon trial for the
capital offence, that evidence could not be admissible in a
legal form. Therefore the Crown would only proceed upon
the minor counts of the indictment.. Mr. Coffey, as counsel
for the prisoner, pleaded, guilty, and the learned judge,
after a most impres,ive address, sentenced Dillane to ten
years' penal servitude, directing that he should be sent off
at once, without being allowed an interview with his
friends.