The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-05 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales dined with her Majesty on Tuesday even'
ing at Windsor Castle.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at'
tended by Col. Keppel and Mr. Fisher, wont out
hunting with the harriers yesterday morning. The
meet, which was well attended, took place at Bag'
shot. After about two hours' running, with but
indifferent sport, the Prince returned.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales,
attended by the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, drove out yss'
terday afternoon.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED, since
his residence at Holyrood Palace, has, with his RoYsl
Highness Prince William of Hesse, played frequently 111
the Racket Court, Rose-street, Edinburgh.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCE O
DENMARK, who has been studying at Oxford UniversilYo
has left that city for Denmark on a visit to his royal
parents.

Their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess
Edward of Saxe-Weimar, who has been residig
at Molcombe Lodge, near Goodwood, were visited on Too"
day by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary (attended by Lady Geraldirl°
Somerset), and lunched at Molcombe. The royal finches°
and Princess Mary, before returning to Brighton, We°
over Goodwood House, accompanied by Prince and Prince$e
Ed ward of Saxe-Weimar,
The Duke and Duchess of hichmond and family
arrived at Goodwood Park, Sussex, on IVednesday last, froU'
Hillingdon, where they made a short stay, on their Wei
from Gordon Castle. The duke and duchess will remsill
at Goodwood until the meeting of Parliament.

His Excellency Count Apponyi returned to the
Austrian Embassy on Thursday evening from visiting the
Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at Hatfield 1101°
Herts.

We learn that the Earl of Westmoreland, Will!
on a visit to the Emperor of the French at Compiegne, I.'
seized with a violent attack of illness from which serious
results were feared. The Emperor sent for his own phPl,-
clans from Paris, and it is now hoped that his lordsiliP
malady will yield to medical treatment.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke and La"
Agneta Yorke, who have been staying since Monday on t!
visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at gal
field House, Herts, left there, yesterday, for Wimpole gal
Cambridgeshire.
The Countess Frances Waldegrave and Mr'
Chichester' Fortescue have entertained the following' c°131,,,a.
pony during the week at their seat in Essex :—The DU
and Duchess d'Aumale, the Prussian Ambassador (Count
Bernstorff) and the Countess Bernstorff, Count Corti, Lora
Norreys, Sir Erskine and Lady Perry, Mr. and Lel
Horatia Wardlaw, Lady W. Hervey and Miss Hervey,
Charles Russell and Mr. G. Russell.
Lord and Lady Londesborough have arrived ill
Paris on their way to Egypt.
The marriage of the Hon. Adelaide Cavendish'
daughter of the lute Lord Waterpark, with Mr. Same
William Clowes was celebrated on Thursday last at Oke.
over, and created much interest in the neighbouring dia.'
tricts.

The marriage of Mr, Paulet, oldest son of the
Rev. Lord Charles Paulet, with Susan Amelia Georgina
Carr Standish, second surviving daughter of the late Nr.
William Standish Standish, of Duxbury, took place on
Thursday last at St. George's, Hanover-square.

The late Mr. Nutt, the Eminent Bookseller.

Mr. Nutt was educated at Merchant Taylors'
School, which, however, he left at an early age, e!
a vacancy occurring in the counting-house of
large mercantile firm in the City. Here he re;
mained for several years, working his way up fro'-
junior clerk to a position of much• responsibility'
during which time he acquired those business habit
which secured his success in after life, when 11°
embarked in the bookselling trade on his own tle-
count. Mr. Moberly, the senior partner of the firea!
introduced Mr. Nutt to the late Mr. Asher, the sei
vent bibliographer, and founder of the house 03
Asher and Co., of Berlin, who had just foundrequisite to quit St. Petersburg for politie'
reasons, and who, having a large stock of valielble
books, required an agent in London for its disposal.
At first Mr. Nutt occupied only his spare titneS
chiefly of an evening, in distributing catalogues an
attending to orders received; and during the
period many works of great rarity passed through'
his agency into our national collection in the Bri;
tish Museum, and into the libraries at Oxford and
at Cambridge, besides others which iound their
way into those of Lord Spencer, Mr. Grel"
ville, and other well-known book collectors. Soar
however, it became necessary that he Ehould &then
give up his clerkship or his agency. Hie friend
Mr. Moberly would not allow him hesitate
looked back which to select; and to the advice of that gentle-
man e-
inn on that occasion
gratitude, as having fixed the
Mr. Nutt always
ooked back with
starting-point of his successful career in
love of books, more particularly
of old rare books,
had become a kind of second nature to Mr. Nutt,
which never left him up to the time of his denths
His stock of books relating to Church and Ciene
.deg
History—including such works as the "Recueil es
Historians des Gaules et da la France," by Bougu,st
and the Benedictines of St. Maur, the " Monume _
Germanise Historica" of Pertz, our own various cot
lections of Monkish Historians,the large collections °,
the Councils by Labbe, Cossart, Harduin, Calet,
and
Mans', the noble and grand editions of the Fathers el
the Church by the Benedictines—is one of the fine,e;
ever brought together. Of this stock and his colt 07
tints of Foreign Theology generally, he
which is qhoted AS
printed an
octavo catalogue of 700 pages,' which
rAtoty
teur des Livres," and by Dr. GI mese
an authority frequently by Mons. Brunet in his neo
edition of the " Manuel du Libraire, et
des Livres Rarer." Upon the death of the late Nit''
in his " Treeer
Robbins of Winchester, Mr. Nutt, at the sugge6:l'
tion of the head master, Dr. Moberly, purchase
the goodwill of the Winchester school business fret:
his widow; since which time his connection With
wykeham's College as its bookseller and publistle`
has been no less satisfactory to the Warden, ll'hel;
lows, and Masters than to himself—the care of
valuable library being in some measure entrusted t°
him, and to his representative, Mr. Joseph Wells;
under whose able management the Winches
t%
business has been mainly conducted. Fut iitr,
not as a successful merchant and publisher a-i°"B
that Mr. Nutt will long be missed from among esi
His was a large heart; and, combining the higtle
ever
integrity with the noblest generosity, he was
foremost to aid those whom he thought &Benin!:
both with counsel and purse—often finding r ern
stbi
nerative employ ment and kindly affording OW uvg
to relieve the sting of disappointment to some _ors
aspirant to literary fame, and never, in his
prosperous career, forgetting a favour reed ,tlgst,
earlier days. His friendships were hound and
_,OlO
iog ; ho was slow to take offence, and over atr:vige.
to be reconciled to those with whom an es iarge
meat had arisen. Ho will long be missed byecaele,is
circle of sincere friends, suck as few meta sus
tri"iuu
attaching to themselves. Mr. Nutt v2:l_,,ez., of
married. His first wife Wee a Miesdoh
Oxford, by whom he leaves a daughter.. 11
is the granddaughter of the late Mr.
. ef
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fast
to daY''
711 e Reader, of
Albemarle street, the predecessor of the 18/ii, to
Murray. By her he leaves a youthful
mourn his 10e.5e....
published.