The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-08 00:00:00

The Prince of Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Crown Prince of Prussia, attended by General
Knollys and Major-General the Hon. A. N.
Hood,
left the Windsor terminus of the Great Western.
Railway, in a first-class carriage attached to the
ordinary passenger-train, at 1015 a.m. yesterday'
for Paddington, in order to visit the Smithfield
Club Cattle Show, at the Agrieultural Hall, Isling-
ton. The train conveying their Royal Highnesses
reached London at eleven o'clock.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and
companied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince
Royal of Prussia and the Duke de Brabant,
honoured with their company last evening tile
performance of " Bel Demonic," at the Lyceum
Theatre.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, wb°
arrived in town yesterday from Paris, left in the afternoon
on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, at Lil"
leahall, Shropshire.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll will leave town
at the close of the week for Inverary, N. 8., for the few
weeks preceding the opening of Parliament.
The Earl of Westmoreland, according to the
latest telegram, is progressing favourably, and all danger io
supposed to have now passed away.
His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle, the Lora
Lieutenant of Ireland, will leave town towards the close of
the week for Castle Howard, Yorkshire, and will depart for
Dublin early in the ensuing week.
The Earl of Sefton arrived in town on Saturdsi
from Croxteth Park, near Liverpool, and yesterday left on
a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Winchester, at
A.mport House, Hants.

We learn that the Earl of Radnor continues in
excellent health. His lordship has entered his 85th Year?
and resides chiefly at his seat in Berkshire, dispensing hos-
pitality to all classes.

The Countess of Listowel, who came to town
from the Earl of Carysfort's seat, Elton Hall, left
Belgrave-square yesterday for Convamore Park, coital
Cork.

Lord Wodehouse is expected to leave England
to •morrow on his special mission to Copenhagen, as Minis"
ter Extraordinary to the King of Denmark. The Hon.
Mr. Wodehouse, brother of his lordship, is likely to b
selected as secretary to his lordship's mission, and will
leave the Hague to-day to enter on his duties.
Lord Richard GrOsvenor, M.P., has arrived at
Calverly Park on a visit to the Earl and Lady Constaues
Grosvenor.

Lord and Lady Rivers passed through South-
ampton yesterday for their seat Cranboarne Chase, in
Dorsetshire,

Sir J. Lawrence, the newly-appointed Viceroy
of India, had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir Cha6'
Wood, at the Inclia-office, yesterday. Later in the &IS',
Sir John had a long audience with the Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
.... ...._

Sir Henry and the Hon. Lady St. Sohn Mildnial
are receiving a succession of visitors at their family seat'
Dogmersfield Park, Hants, on the occasion of the county
assizes.

Mr. W. B. Beaumont, M.P., and Lady Margaret
Beaumont arrived at their residence on the Terrace, Piecti"
dilly, last evening, from a Continental tour.
The Dean of Bristol and Mrs. Elliot have re'
turned to their winter residence, York.crescent, Clifton,
from Ventnor. •

THE GALE-LIFEBOAT SERVICES,

ABERYSTWITII, Monday Night.

In addition to the brief report which I forwarded on
Saturday, I am happy to add that the lifeboat of the
National Institution has returned home from her mission
of mercy, having fairly won her laurels for the first time.
I stated that the lifeboat went out on Saturday about three
p.m., in the direction of Aberayron, a distance of 15 miles.
The night having set in, and being pitch dark, the crew
could see nothing whatever of the vessel supposed to be
in distress, but they bravely held on until 11 o'clock,
when they went into Newquay, twenty miles from
Aberystwyth. There they heard of the position of
the vessel, and were told that a boat from Newquay
had boarded her, and had brought ashore the captain's
wife and children. Early on Sunday morning the lifeboat
went off to the ship and put five of her crew on board. After
immense difficulty and great danger they succeeded in
bringing the ship and her crew safely into Aberystwytil•
The lifeboat behaved admirably on this occasion, and the
crew have unbounded confidence in her. A great deal of
anxiety prevailed throughout Saturday night and Sunday
morning as to the fate of the lifeboat, as well as the sinlh
no tidings having been received of either, but when both
returned to port they were welcomed by hundreds of cheer-
ful hearts. The vessel proved to be a brig belonging t°
Scilly, bound from Dublin to Qardiff, The cost of this life-
boat was presented to the institution by Mrs. B. WOO(/'
and the boat is called " The Evelyn Wood," after an offieer
of that name who received the 'Victoria Cross for his die"
tinguished services in the Crimea.

SYMPA.THY.—The crew of the lifeboat at Filey, who Well
ofl to save two out of three fishermen who had been capsize'

from their coble during the late heavy storm, have gene'
rously handed over to the widow of the poor fisherman Why
was drowned on the occasion, the reward of £6108., granted
to them by the National Lifeboat Institution for their
prompt and valuable services. When the coble was upset
the poor man in question sank at once, having probablf
been injured in the head by the capsizing of the coble. it
will be remembered that the lifeboat had only been on her
station a few days, and that her cost was the generous gift
to the institution of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress °I
York.

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Maria, of Aml wch, 4; schooner Harry Russell, of G-19:
gow, saved vessel and crew, 6; schooner L'Esperance, of
Nantes, 2; schooner Elizabeth, of Whitehaven, 4; barque
Elizabeth Morrow, of Glasgow, 19 ; barque Confidence, of
Liverpool, 23—Total, 125. Making a grand total of 351
lives saved by the lifeboats of the institution during t"
present year alone. Besides these services, the lifeboats
of the society at Walmer, Eastbourne, Aberyetwith, Buda-
haven, Southport, St. Ives, Lytham, and Fishguard, Put
off on Thursday and Friday last, in replies to signals of
distress, with the view of saving life from various vessels.
but they were not afterwards required. These services arc
often attended with as much danger as when the lifeboat
brings a shipwrecked crew ashore, the gallant men lib°
man the lifeboats oftentimes being thoroughly exhausted.
Indeed, in the case of the Walmer lifeboat the crew were
out 11 hours, and returned home nearly perished with cold.
The Ramsgate lifeboat, which is on the plan of the insti.
tution, although not under its charge, was also instrumental
during the gales of Thursday and Friday last, in saving
102 lives from various shipwrecks en the coast. Altogether
nearly 14,000 lives have been saved from various ship-
wrecks since the first establishment of the Lifeboat Insti-
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Ct is tution, for which it has granted rewards. A boat of its great
life-saving fleet,a now
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efficiently worked. As each lifeboat requires about £5O a
year to keep it up effectively, it will at once be seen that
large annual sum is indispensable to the institution's pro'
gTess in its good work. heloyucuadu 1)°:

THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. DAVID'S, having been
reported by Mr. G. G. S:..ott to be iu a dangerous and dis:
graceful condition, is to be restored. The estimated cost 01
the work is £30,000.

A NEW EDIT lON OF BISHOP BERKELEY'S Wougs,
fro
m the Clarendon Press, Oxford, is in preparation, to be
edited by Professor Fraser, of Edinburol, who is under'
stood to have given much attention to Berkeley and his con'
temporaries, and their controversies.
A young son of Queen Pinnate, and sever
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Tahitians, her relatives, who have gone to France
for their education, are now at Nisales. They aro to Pe°
the winter at the educational establishment at. Lavacel:f
near Auch, under the direction of the Freres do Ploermsi,
to whose care they have teen coeLied.
DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN,—On. the 3d lot;
[looms Davies, a superannuated pilot, died at Frog-tee,
Swansea, having attained the age of 100 years, witbi•
days. Deceased was born on the 25th of December, 17.7„'_
Consequently, had he survived until next ChristrnaB"l
he would have been 100 years old.
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