The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-29 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Pi ince of Wales rode on horseback on Satur•
day morning, attended by Lieutenant-Colone,
Keppel.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by
the Countess de Grey and Lieutenant-Colonel Kep-
pd, left Marlborough House at a quarter-past five
o'clock on Saturday asternoon for Windsor Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cam-
bridge visited the Princess of Wales on Friday.
The Prince and Princess of Wales honoured Mr.
Vernon Heath with a sitting for their photographs
at his studio, in Piccadilly.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary left town on Saturday for Cam-
bridge Cottage, Kew, for a few days. Their royal high-
nesses will honour the Earl and Countess de Grey with
their presence at a ball to be given by the noble earl and
countess, on Tuesday, the 14th proximo.
The Duchess of Buccieucti wit! give a grand ball
on the 14th proximo, at the temporary family residence in
Belgrave-square.
The Duchess of Hamilton and Lady Mary
Hamilton have arrived at Baden Baden from Paris, with
the intention of passing several months there. The duke
intends to join the duchess at the close of the season,
The M trquis and IVlctrchioneas of Carmarthen
have arrived at St• Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from
Norwood Park, Notts.
The EArt and Countess of Chesterfield entertained
their Serene Highnesses Prince and Prince Edward of

Saxe•Weimar, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose,
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, Count Strzelecki, V s-
count Andover, Viscount and Viscountess Lismore, Vis-
count Canterbury, Colonel the Hon. Heary Forester,
and a select circle, at dinner on Saturday, at their residence
in Grosvenor-street.

The Earl and Countess of Zetland purpose to
leave town about the 10th proximo for a short visit to Paris,
Viscount Palmerston, who has been slightly in-
disposed during the past week, is now much better.

The Earl and Countess of Tankervilie leave town
early this week, for Chillingham Caatle, Northumberland.

The Baron and Baroness de Hugel have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel from the Isle of Wight. Baron de
Hugel is Envoy Extraordinary from the Court of Austria

to the Court of Belgium.

The Count and Countess Metaxa entertained a
select party at dinner on Saturday last at Willis's Rooms.

The only daughter of the Count and Countess
Metaxa is about to be married to the only son of Mr. Craw-
shay Bailey, M.P. for Monmouthshire. The marriage wPI
take place in London.

The Count and Countess di Fronco and family,
of Serracapriola, have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel,
Je.rtnyn.sireet, from Rome.

Lady Huntingtower and her youthful family have
returned to Ham House, the seat of her Lather-in-law, the
Earl of Dysart.

The funeral of the late Admiral the Hon. Sir
George Elliot, K.C.8., took place on Saturday, when his
remains were deposited in the family vault in the cemetery
at Kensal-green. In accordance with the desire of the
lamented admiral, the funeral was quite private. Only the
hearse and two mourning coaches, followed by the private
carriages of the family and friends, consti uted the funeral
procession. The principal mou. ners were Admiral George
Elliot and Colonel Elliot. (sons of the late admiral), Captain
the Hon. James R. Drummond, C. 8., Lord William
Compton, the Dean of Bristol, and Sir Gregor 111'Gregor.

Mr. Beriah Botfield, M.P., Continues very ill,
but hopes are entertained that the hon. member will
recover.

Colonel Fuller, the " White Republican" of
Fraser's Magazine, has arrived at the Grosvenor Hotel
from Paris.

The E3rl of Derby has given notice of his inten-
tions to bring forward the lonian Islands question, when
we shall doubtless hear an eloquent and telling philippic
against the so-called "foreign policy" of the present Go-
vernment.

The Duke of Saxe-CAurg has resigned his com-
mission in the Prussian army. in which he held the rank

of general.

COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.,--At a meeting of
the Council of this corporation, held on the 27(11
inst., an answer to the loyal address presented by the Coun-
cil to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on the oc-
casion of his marriage, was laid before the Council. The
following gentlemen were elected members of the college :
—Mr. S. Bamford, Ripponden Colleg , near Halifax; Mr.
S. Birkby, Britannia Schools, Banbury ; Mr. F. Caldwell,
Western Collegiate School, Exeter , Mr. W. J. Cartmell,
University College School; Mr. C. G. Dear, Gloucester
House, Dodington ; Mr. F.H.lngram, Crediton Grammar
School; Mr. J. Redfern, Abercrombie Villa School, Hamp-
stead; and Mr. G. T. Sadler, Dale Hall, Manningtree.
"Lost AND SAVED."--A fourth edition of the
Hon. Mrs. Norton's new novel " Lost and Saved" has just
appeared, including a letter from the author on the subjeci
of her work. " There can be no question (says the Daily
News) that this story shows the frailties of good society
with a force and directness that cannot be parried. It is as
impossible not to admire the courage which this required,
as it is to escape the charm with which it is performed•
The elements of the story are genuine, and they are worked
up with inimitable skill. The narrative is rapid, animated,
full of exciting situations, and stirring incidents. The
characters are delineated with great power. Above and
beyond these elements of a good novel, there is that inde-
finable charm with which true genius invests all that it
touches. In the largest sense, too, these volumes have a
noble and courageous purpose, which must commend itself
to the fervent good wishes of every sound hearted reader. '

THE CHARACTER OF THE LATE DR. ALEXANDER,
DIRECTOR. GENERAL OF THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPART-
MENT.—He was most dev.tedly attached to his native town
and his family, affectionately fond of early associations, and
of a most retiring nature, yet prompt and indefatigable in
his duty. Otte act of his will not be forgotten by the
public press, which is, that when Mr. Russell, the reporter
of the Times, was desired to retire from the camp in the
Crimea, it was Dr. Alexander who took him into his feet
and defied interference. We have recently seen a very
beautifully-finished portrait of the Director-General at Mr.
Mouxy's studio, 125, Regent-street, which is most lifelike,
and particularly characteristic of the man it is intended for:

LITERATURE.

Church and Chapel. Bp the author of " High
Church." 3 vole. Hurst and Blackett.
The title of this work does it injustice. We
dread, on taking it up, to be overwhelmed
with polemical arguments and controversial dis-
cussions, but we are on this subject agreeably dis-
appointed. The writer has, it is true, given the title
with intention, but that intention does not inter-
fere with the story, or prevent it from being one of
the most powerful and interesting novels that have
come before us this season. The religious object of
;he :author is to denouhce all secret ien animosities—
" That brother should not war with brother,
And worry and devour each other,"
as did the inhabitants of Chipnam, the fre-
quenters of St. Martin's, on the one hand, where
preached the N ery excellent but very intolerant
Frederick Alland, and the devotees of Vale Chapel
on the other, who sat under the equally excellent
and equally intolerant James Bayforl. Between
these rival preachers, the Rev. Mr. Chark, the
venerable and feeble minister of St. Edward's en-
deavours to exercise a pacific influence. Mr.
Chark's object and the writer's object throughout
the whole narrative is to persuade Church and
Chapel to work together for the general good.
Having so far explained the religious opinions, We
shall not dwell further on that portion of the work.
Theological and controversial discussions being, to
our thinking, as much out of place in a newspaper
as in a novel. Our modern novelists, however, seem
to find a peculiar attraction in clerical heroes. How
many such appear in the popular tales of Anthony
Trollope ! There " Fremley.Parsonage," with its
Parson ; there is " Dr. Thorne," with its reverend
hero; and "The Warden" and "Barcht ster Towers,"
and many others, in which not one, but many, reve-
rend prelates and p reons make their appearance,
conspicuous among them all the irate and impetuous
Archdeacon Grantley, to say nothing of the lady-
bishop, Mrs. Proudie! Again, the delightful writer
of " Chronicles of Carlingford" has fallen into a
similar propensity, one of the first of the chronicles
relating to "The Rector," and the last and most en-
thralling of all being entitled " Seim Chapel." It
is quite in keeping therefore with this pre-
vailing fashion that some of the heroes of
this new novel should also belong to Church and
Chapel. The chief person of the story is the brother
of the Dissenting minister, Robert Bayford, a gene-
rous-hearted, impulsive man, who has returned from
India, where he has made a large fortune, to settle
down near his brother's home, and claim his pro-
mised bride, Amye Saville. Five years previously
Amy Saville, a girl of sixteen, had, on her father's
death, quitted India and her promised husband to
reside under the guardianship of the Rev. Mr. Chark
the benevolent and peace-loving minister of St.
Edward's. Robert Bayford returns, having for five
years cherished the thought of his absent love, to
fluid the young girl a woman, and to find the Rev.
Frederick Alland a constant visitor at Mr. Chark's
villa on the hill. The doubting, wavering conduct of
Amy, hardly knowing her own heart, and acting
more than once with fatal precipitation, is natu-
rally drawn, and is productive of much evil. The
good and the bad struggle for mastery in the pas-
sionate heart and impressionable temperament of
Robert Bayford—the gay scenes into which
his phrenzy takes him, and the episode of
Cissy Daly, 'would have been better omitted
or passed over with briefer mention. The writer is
evidently aware of this, and confesses that he in-
troduces us to such scenes and characters against hie
will, solely from a desire to explain the temptations
that thickened around Robert Bayford, when he
had once taken that fatal "first step," which, in
many instances, as is here happily remarked, "15,
only retarded by the vis inertue of our moral being."
But if Robert has evil counsellors to betray him, be
has also staunch friends to cling to him and tostruggle
for him and with him, through good and through
evil. Foremost. among these is his brother James,
the minister of Vale Chapel. The love of these two
brothers for each Other, through the various changes
of fortune and feeling that befall Robert is very
beautifully and naturally described. With his
yearning human love for his brother, and his un-
flinching righteous indignation against all wrong
doing, James Bayford is a beautiful character, very
effectively and vigorously portrayed. A very im-
pressive scene occurs before Robert's departure
for the Continent, when James is boldly denounc-
ing the error of his brother's ways, and the frail
Cissy listening outside the door, shudders at the
fearful warning which applies Equally to her. Many
powerfully written scenes occur during the three
volumes, increasing in intensity at the last, and so
well is the sequel of the plot concealed, that until
the very end of the story, the reader is in ignorance
as to what that sequel is to be. In this the author
has evidenced his skill. He evidences, however,
more than skill in these pages, they are full of
feeling, and they are full of power. The work will
be read with a very vivid interest. It has, as we •
have said, its blemishes. "It is not," as Mrs. Norton
admitted in regard to her last novel, "a book for
the young," and, however good the purport or the
moral of their introduction, we cannot but think such
characters as Sir Richard Vaughan and Cissy Daly
singularly out of place, especially in a book bear-
ing the denomination of " Church and Chapel."

A Tour in Tartan land.
_By Cuthbert Bede. One

vol., pp. 424. Bentley.

A tour in Tartan-land at this season of the year

is singularly delightful and well timed, and all who
cannot have the gratification of a persona! expedition
to that land of the romantic and picturesque, the
"Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
Land of the mountain and the lioLd,'

may, by the eid of Mr. Cuthbert Bede's pleasant
reminiscences, take an imaginary trip in his com-
pany. In these railway days Mr. Bede reminds
us that a man " can breakfast in France, and lunch

in England, and take a late dinner in Scotland
within the limits of a single day's travel !" Our
mode of travelling is not so rapid however. Wa
are fain to linger over many a picturesque scene
and to recall the romantic associations with which,

thanks to the 1,1, izard of the North, the Scotch
Highlands peculiarly abound. As so many are
said to take their ideas of history from Shake-
spere, so it would appear the Scottish guides and

tourists are mainly indebted for their appreciation
of Scottish scenery to Sir Walter Scott. Here is a
very amusing accouht of the

EFFECT OF THE "LADY OF THE LAKE" UPON SCOTTISH

TOURISTS.

"The success of the poem was immediate and extraordi-
nary, and its effect upon tue country which it so faithfully
and beautifully described was no less immediate and atra-
traordinary. Up to the time of the publicatiou of the poecor
no carnage had been seen at the Trosaclas. In the year
after, 60 carriages had tound their way there, and Lockhart
says that tne post-horse duty rose to an extraordinary de-
gree in Scotland, fnm the eagerness of travellers to visit
the localities of the poem. Previously, then knowled6a was
confined to Loch Lomond, the most accessible of the Scot-

ash lakes. I myself,' says Macculloch, writing to Scott
in 1824, was one of the first, and I believe the very first
absolute stranger who visted Loch Cateran. I had then a
Scottish map in which it was not even inserted; you and
the Lady of the Lake' can tell another tale now.' Scott
himself, in speaking of this suti et to Washington Irving,
who had told him that he was answerable for the yearly in-
flux of English tourists, said that an old woman at Glen-
ross, who kept a little inn, came to him and said she under..
stood that he was the gentleman who had written a bonny
book about Lock Katrine; and she begged him to write
abut their lake also, for she was told that his book had
done the inn at Loch Katrine a muckle deal of good.
Which, undoubtedly, is a fact; thoug'n, since the old
woman's days, ;.the inns have multiplied and beautified
themselves, and may almost be taken as so many memorials
to the genius of Sir Walter Scott.
"Loch Katrine and the Trosachs, more than any other
Highland district of similar size, owe their present popu-
larity to the great novelist and poet. Until he had edu-
cated the public into an admiration fer their many beauties,
they were either but half appreciated or were altogether
passed by. His poem described them in words which were
not only poetry, but were as clear to the dullest compre-
hension as the plainest prose of a guide. book. The 20,000
copies of The Lady of the Lake' that were sold within the
first few months after the publication of the poem, neces-
sarily carried the scenery of Loch Katrina and the Trosachs
before thousands who had probably up to that Limo never
heard of such places, and Placed the scenes before them in a
series of descriptive pictures, which, for ease of language
and truthfulness of delineation, have never been surpassed.
The scenes described were new, the t tyle of the poem was
also novel and forcible; and it is not surprising that the im-
press ion it made upon the public was such as to draw them
by a talismanic influence to the lovely spot where Ellen
met thv Knight of Snowdoun, and where Fitz-Jarats's
gallant grey sank eabawited. Indeed, so forcibly 04 truth-

sully has Sir Walter Scott narrated the various incidents
of his poem, that his dramatic action and characters have
long since passed from the realms of Fancy to the domain
of Fact ; and the guides, with the scrupulous accuracy of
men attesting to the truth: pointed out (and still continue
to point out) the very soots where the gallant horse ex
hausted fell,' and where Ellen's boat 'touched the silver
strand,' and so on through all the incid, nts of the poem.
And, certainly, the association of these shadowy fictions
greatly enhances the charm e a district where nature has
been so prodigal in her gifts."
Animated with similar feelings, many readers
will gladly pay a visit (at page 227) to Ellen's
Isle—" as lonely an islet jewel as was ever set upon
the fair bosom of a highland lake. It is a class of
rock, thickly covered with trees, with one little
bay—that which gave access tti the shal,op of the
fair lady of the lake.' As the little craggy island
rises to its highest p.,int in its centre, and as its
trees are compactly massed together, its general
outline is so perfectly oval that when the sun is
shining upon its bright green foliage, it needs but a
slight effort of fancy to imagine it a ♦eritable
emerald set in diamonds and silver." There is a
Tery amusing description, or rather want of descrip-
tion of Abbotsford. "At the end of ten minutes or
a quarter of an hour," says Mr. Bede, " you emerge
from a suite of rooms which are as interesting and
wonderful as any of the romances of their
gifted creator, and you endeavour, it may be, to
arrange your reminiscences and to question
yourself as to what you have seen in
those brief minutes. The task is a perfectly
hopeless one"—so abundant and so multifarious are
the treasures there contained. If Mr. Bede's
manner is occasionally superficial and even slovenly,
his book, on the whole, will be found both interest-
ing and amusing.