The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-03 00:00:00

Visit of the Prince of Wales to the North,
HALIFAX, Aug. 3.

A message received here yesterday from Marl-
borough•house states that the Princess of Vales
will not accompany the Prince of Wales on his
visit to Halifax.

The visit to Earl de Grey's seat and progress to
Scotland are also postponed indefinitely, as the
Princess Alexandra is indisposed, and unable to
travel from London:

The Prince returns from here tomorrow direct
;o Osborne. _

His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange has
presented the officers of the 2d Battalion of the
Coldstream Guards with a very beautiful Badminton jug of
silver gilt and crystal, from a design selected by Mr. A. S.
Lumley and manufactured by Messrs. London and Ryder.
On the lid is a large Coldstream star and the drum of the
regiment, and on the base the following inscription :
"Presented by H.R.H. William Prince of Orange to the
officers of the 2d Battalion Coldstream Guards, in remem-
brance of a happy week spent with them at Windsor, June,
1863."

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland enter-
tained the Saxon Minister, the Portuguese Minister, the
Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires and Baroness Biome, the
Duke and Duchess Saldanha and Donna Emily, and a
select party at Siop. House, Isleworth, on Saturday and
yesterday. The circle will separate to-day,
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and family have
arrived at Inverary Castle, Argyleshire, for the autumn.

The Duke of Newcastle left town on Saturday
for Osborne, Isle of Wight, on a visit to the Queen. The
noble duke will return to-day.

The Earl and Countess of Darby left St. James's.
square on Saturday, accompanied by Lady Emma Talbot,
for Knowsley Park, Lancashile.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town
for Brocket Hall on Saturday,

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
have been detained in town (otherwise they were
to have been at Eaton Hall, near Chester) by the indisposi-
tion of the marquis, who has been suffering from an attack
of gout. His lordship is much better within the last few
days, and as soon as he is recovered will leave for his seat
in Cheshire.

The Earl and Countess of Zetland left their re-
sidence in Arlington-street cn Saturday for Aske Hall, near
Richmond, Yorkshire.

The Earl and Countess Spencer left Spencer
House, St. James, on Saturday, for Althorpe, Northamp-
tonshire.

The Earl and Countess of Bective and family have
left town for Underley Hill, Westmoreland.

The Earl of Strafford joined the Countess and
family at Wrotham Park, near Barnet, on Saturday, from
staying on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond
at Goodwood during the racy week.

The Right Hon. Sir John and Lady Pakington
have left their house in Eaton-square for a short tour on the
Continent.

Lady Molesworth has left town for her seat,
Pencarrow, Cornwall.

Lord Richard Grosvenor, M.P., and the Hon.
James Frederick Stuart Wortley left town on Saturday for
Paris, and intend to proceed by way of Vienna and Con-
stantinople to Persia. It is doubtful if the travellers will
return before the meeting of Parliament in February.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey has left town
for a few days.
The title of Colonel White, of Woodlands, whose
elevation to the peerage w© recently announced, is to be
Baron Annaly, of Annaly, in the county of Longford.
We regret to learn that the accounts of Lord
Clyde's health are of a most discouraging kind.—Army
and Navy Gazette.

A Dramatic Reading from Shakespeare is to be
given by Miss Edith Heraud, in conjunction with Herr
Krueger, at the Marylebone Literary and Scientific Insti-
tution, on Thursday evening next. The subjects selected
for reading are intended to illustrate the passions of the
human mind. Miss Edith. Heraud has already won for
herself a name as an actress. Of Herr Krueger's powers as
a reader we are not yet able to speak.
A new comic opera, " The Abbot of St. Gallen,',
composed by F. H. Gunther, is making the rounds of Ger-
man theatres.

TRADE WITH THE BALTlC.—llaring the past two
months very extensive exports to the Baltic, espe-
cially to Cronstadt, have been made from the north-eastern
ports, and still continue. The demand has been so consider
able that several old Tyne colliers have been taken out of the
London trade and sent to the Baltic, hence freights to Lon-
don have been up to between 6s. 6d and 78. per ton recently.
The principal articles of export to Russia and the Baltic
have been coals, coke, fire bricks, white lead, and in several
instances chemicals.

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announcing that the sentence of death passed upon John
Gair at the recent assizes for the murder of Alice Gair,
alias English, at Leeds, had been respited during her Ma-
jesty's pleasure. It will be remembered that the jury who
found Gair guilty recomuiended him to mercy, on the
ground of the provocetion he had received, and that after he
had cut the woman's throat he inflicted so deep a wound on
his own that hie life was despaired of, but that by careful
surgical and medical treatment in the Leeds General Infir-
mary ha so far recovered as to be able to take his trial at
assizcs in July. In all probability the capital sentence
will be mitigated into penal servitude for the remainder of
the convict's life.

Husu ! SILENCE IN THE GALLERY !—BEFORE
THE CURTAIN RISES !—The Journal de Geneve con-
tains the following from a Paris correspondent :—" La Vie
de Cesar, par Louis Napoleon,' is printing at this moment.
There can be no further doubt about it ; and I am in posses-
sion of information from the Imperial printing office to the
effect that a first impression, consisting of one hundred
copies, has been struck off, in which the necessary altera-
tions are being made at this time. Workmen have been
selected for this purpose who have been employed in the
office for many years ; and they have been told that on the
slightest indiscretion on their part they will lose their places.
After the printing of each leaf in quarto every form is se-
cured with three chains and three locks, the keys of which
M. Petitin, the director of the printing office, takes with him.
As soon as the printing is completed, the sheets are taken
into the emperor's cabinet; then the collaborateurs set to
work correcting the press, or altering such passages as the
emperor wishes to see redone. You see that measures are
pretty well taken against any information reaching foreign
papers--a subject of great dread with the author. The
work, it is further said, will appear in a few months, and in
two editions—one printed at tb e imperial printing-office, the
pater at Plon."