The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-17 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will prolong their residence at Abergeldie
till the close of the week after next, and will then
go to Sandringham, Norfolk, for a few weeks.

Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is
expected to arrive at utuucester House to-day from Rum-
penheim, near Frankfort, whcro hio royal highness has
been staying with tho Duchess of Cambridge and the
Princess Mary.
Prince Lieven has arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel.

The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland and Lord
Albert Leveson Gower have left Stafford House, St. James's,
for Clivedan, near Maidenhead. We understand that the
duchess has abandoned her intention of going abroad.

The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe have left
the Clarendon Hotel for Floors Castle.

The Duchess of Montrose and Lady Violet
Graham, the Earl and Countess of Bective, Lord
and Lady Rendlesham, Lord Dunksllin, the Hon. Miss
Canning, the Hon. G. Cadogan, Sir Robert Brownrigg, Sir
Hedworth and Lady Williamson, Mr. H. Hodgson, M.P.,
Captain Beaumont, M. Van de Weyer, Mr. A. Baring, &e.,
are now visiting Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont at
Bretton-park, Yorkshire.

The Eari and Countess of Warwick are shortly
expected at their house in the Stable-yard, St. James's,
from visiting the Earl of Wemyss at the family seat in
Scotland.

The Earl of Orford has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel from Aylshaw, Norfolk.
The Earl of Annesley is expected to leave Don-
caster (where, as one of the stewards, he has been attend-
ing the races) on Saturday, for his seat in Ireland.
_ _

The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey, accompanied
by Lady Harriet Ponsonby, left town yesterday to spend
the autumn at Brighton. _ _

Viscount Dupplin and the Hon. Misses Hay have
left town for Dupplin Castle, near Perth.

Lord and Lady Londesborough arrived in town
last evening from Doddington Park, near Chippenham.

THE FRENCH CAMP AT CHALONS is now entirely
broken up, and no troops remain there except the usual
garrison.

THE VOLUNTEERS' total enrolled strength is now
159,000 men of all ranks, of whom 1,300 are cavalry, 23,000
artillery, 2,500 engineers, and 132,000 rifle volunteers.
EFFECTUAL WAY OF LAYING A PATENT GHOST.

—The latest in the ghostly line is the announcement at
Bristol, made this week by public advertisement, that, owing
to an unforeseen circumstance, the ghost could not appear
till further notice. 1 his sudden indisposition of the ghost

is the first instance on record. It appears that they smashed
his speculum on the rail, and tnus laid the ghost effectually.
The recipe is valuable.

IT is calculated that 700,000 people had flocked
:o Paris for the late Fete de l'Etnpereur.

Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King at Arms, and

the well-known author of the "Peerage and
Baronetage," was educated at the College of Caen, where he
carried off, amongst other prizes, that awarded for exemplary
conduct. To preserve the pleasing memory of his youthful
triumphs, he sends every year a splendidly-bound cppy of
one of his own works to be added to the prize awarded for
exemplary conduct. At the last distribution of prizes, the
volumes kindly sent by Sir Bernard were presented to M.
E. Tessier by M. Bertrand, mayor of the city of Caen, who
presided over the solemity.
LONDON IMPROVEMENTS.—The Inns of Court
Hotel Company are about to commence operations
between Lincoln's-inn-fields and Holborn, and at the same

time will most probably be begun that gigantic undertaking
by which the Government proposed to unite Farringdon-
street and Leicester-square on one side by a road straight
through Shoe-lane, Chancery-lane, Carey-street, Princes-
street, Drury-lane, and Great Russell-street; and on the
other side to open a new means of communication between
Holborn and the Strand, through Lincoln's, inn-fields and
the dirty regions of Clare-market.
IIIE MOON !—Atiyoue, says Professor Phillips,
who goes to see the process of extracting the silver
from lead ore may have an opportunity of witnessing, on a
small scale, causes in operation producing exactly similar
effects to those observed ,n the surface of the moon. After
the process is completed, and the litharge all blown off from
the pure silver, the observer may be very apt to go away,
nothing apparently remaining to be seen ; but it he wait
for a short time, as the mass of silver cools, he will soon see
its surface torn up by explosions from within, caused by the
extrication of oxy gen gas, and elevations and fissures pro-
duced exactly resembling those on the surface of the moon
as observed in the beat instruments.

THE GHOST A LA PEPPER.—This very day I have
seen some hundred ghosts, and sures of people saw
them with me, though not consciously. It was in an om-
nibus, passing from Charing-cross to the City. The plate-
glass in the shops had dark backgrounds, and became thus
the dark chambers of Porta, and everything that passed by
was projected by the vision into the shops. It was a per-
fect phantasmagoria, and it was the plate-glass that pro-
duced the effect " polished like a looking-glass on both
sides." I had occasion afterwards to enter a butcher's
shop, the front open, and a counting-house in the interior,
glazed with plate •glass. Projected into this glass were
dozens of ghosts of the sheep and beeves hanging up in
front. They were as clean as photographs, and with a
similar effect.—Once a Week..

INTERESTING DISCOVERY AT WlNDSOrt.—Cardi-
nal Wolsey's Chapel is now being restored and beau-
tified, and while erecting some richly carved stone-work last
week, it became necessary for the workmen of Messrs.
Poole (who have charge of the restoration) to cut away a
portion of the wall on each side of the doorway opening into
the cloisters, opposite St. George's Chapel. On remaoving
the masses of stone from the mortar in which they were
imbedded, sixteen or eighteen of the pieces were discovered
to have formed (it is supposed) a portion of the chapel
erected by Henry 111. These interesting relics form por-
tions of the jamb of a doorway with ogee mouldings
pillars, and other parts of an ancient ecclesiastical
edifice. On one of the stones is an angel's wing, while
the mouldings and surfaces still bear the crimson, green,
red, and black colours with which they wore decorated in
curved and zig-zag lines. The whole of the stones seem
to have belonged to the early English and Norman periods.
They have been examined by Mr. Batchelor, the anti-
quarian of Windsor Castle, and it is believed that in the
reign of Henry VIII. they were used in the construction of
the present edifice in forming the interior wall. A photo-
graph of the stones has been taken by Mr. Poole. The
carving will be taken to the Castle for her Majesty's in-
spection on her return from Scotland.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES.—AII great acces-
sions to geographical knowledge, observes a Satur-
day Reviewer: Nearchus' descent of the Indus, Do Gania's
passage of the Cape, the voyages of Columbus and M'Clure,
the journeys of Lander and Livingstone—have been wel-
comed with exultation. The early settlers in America
toiled long in felling the forests that enclosed them, for they
sheltered the Indian and the wild beast, and when the tra-
veller ventured into the shades, the horror of darkness
troubled his spirit. So the axe sounded cheerily till at last
men found their landscape bare, and their stock of fuel
almost:gone, and passed laws to save what remained. Some •
what in this way do we begin to shrink from the comple-
tion of the survey of the world. Every one, except each
successive asjrant for himself, wishes the Matterhorn to
stand as it has stood, the maiden peak of the Alps, un-
sealed and unapproachable. We had half hoped that at
least one problem of geography would outlast our day. It
is strange enough that that problem should be the very
secret which is recorded to have first roused mell's curiosity
—the source of the Nile. Even this has at length found
its solution ; and the last link which joined us to the old
world is snapped, now that the question of Tibullus is an-
swered :
Nilo pater, quanam possum to dicere causa,
Aut quibus in taxis, occuluisse eaput,