The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-26 00:00:00

The Sultan's Birthday.

Yesterday evening M. Musurus, the Turkish
Ambassador, gave a diplomatic dinner party in
honour of the Sultan's birthday, which occurred
yesterday. All the guests wore their state uniforms
on the occasion. There were present—Earl Rus-
sell, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the
Austrian Ambassador, Count Apponyi ; the Rus-
sian Ambassador, Baron Brunnow ; the Prussian
Ambassador, Count Bernstorff ; the French Ambas-
sador, Baron Gros ; the Bavarian Minister, Baron
de Cetto ; the Italian Minister, the Marquis
d'Azeglio ; the Netherlands Minister, Baron Ben-
tinck ; the Portuguese Minister, Count de Lavrado ;
the Danish Minister, M. Torben de Bille ; the Ame-
rican Minister, Mr. Adams; the Swedish Minister,
Count Wachtmeister ; the Persian Minister, Mah-
mond Khan; Sir Edward Cust, her Majesty's
Master of the Ceremonies ; Mr. J. Layard, Under
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Mr. J.
Murray, Assistant Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs; Colonel Ahmed Bey, Major Said
Effendi, Khalil Effendi, and M. Paul Musurus.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
honoured the Countess (Dowager) of Jersey with his com-
pany at dinner last evening, at the Countess's mansion in
Berkeley-square. A select circle met his Royal Highness.
The Earl of Sandwich entertained at dinner on
Wednesday evening Maria Marchioness of Ailes-
bury, the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, the Earl of
Wilton, Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Viscountess
Sydney, Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe
and the Hon. Miss Canning, Lord Henry Lennox, Colonel
and the Hon. Mrs. James Macdonald, the Hon. George
Fitzwilliam, and Mr. and Mrs. John Leslie.
The Earl and Countess of Seafield and Lord
Reidhaven have left the Clarendon Hotel for Cullen House,
Banffshire.
Viscount Palmerston was prevented, by a slight
attackof gout, from being present in the House of Commons
last night.
Lady Willoughby Gordon and Miss Gordon have
arrived in town from the Orchard, Isle of Wight.
Sir Henry and Lady Sophia des Vceux enter-
tained the Marquis Conyngham, the Earl of Sand•
wich, the Earl and Countess Vane, Viscount and Viscountess
Somerton, Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, Hon. Frederic
and Lady Elizabeth Villiers, Hon Mr. Egerton, Mr.
Chaplin, 8:e„ at dinner yesterday evening, at their resi-
dence in Berkeley-square.

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MR. SIMS REEVES.—This popular artist has en-
tered into an engagement with the lessee of Her Majesty's
theatre, and will make his entree on the 7th of July in
Donizetti's opera of " Lucia de Lammermoor." On the
11th Mr. Reeves will appear in " Oberon."
BLINDFOLDED CHESS EXTRAORDINARY.—Pre-
vious to commencing the games left unfinished on
Saturday night, Mr. Blackburne exhibited his extraordi-
nary chess knowledge by playing blindfolded the knight
from any given square over the whole 61 squares, consecu-
tively, without placing it upon any one square twice. This
is styled the knight's problem, and until a recent period
was an unsolvable enigma. Mr. Blackburn resumed the con-
test by repeating from memory the games left unfinished,
which he accomplished with incredible exactness. Mr. But-
terfield's game, No. 6, was won in fine style by Mr. Black-
burne in about half an hour. Games No. 7 and 10, against
Mr. M'Clelland and Mr. Hopwood, respectively, were lost
by the blindfold player, after a gallant contest, in the latter
case extending over 75 moves.—. Manchester Guardian.
THREE PERSONS KILLED BY LIGHTNING.—On
Wednesday Mr. Weller, a shopkeeper in G. lynde, a
h is w ife and
small village in East Sussex, accorapanied
another female, went to Brighton, about eleven miles dis-
tant on some business. On their return in the evening
they were overtaken by a severe thunderstorm.. that pre-
vailed for several hours, and when within about two miles
from home it would appear that the cast was struck by the
electric fluid, and the three inmates almost instantaneously
killed. Their lifeless bodies were discovered at an early
hour next morning by a person who was returning from
Glynde to Lewis-