The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-20 00:00:00

heard.

Mr. A. Sullivan's opera is all but complete. VI(
subject is said to be a legend well known to all versed in

folk-lore.

L. E L.—A writer in the Queen thus describe,.
the app. ararce of Miss Landou :—Dark-brown hair
soft, beautiful, and arranged with taste and care; a slight
and graceful figure, small feet, small hands, small ears— a
beautiful thing in a woman—features not "icily regular,"
as Tennyson has it, nor "faultlessly null ;" plently of
faults in them if you took them to pieces, but as a whole,
harmonious, pleasing, nay, charming. Charming, bec:tuse
of the power of expression in the mouth and eyes. She had
no large forehead, full of intellectual bumps, on which
triumphant phrenology could sit astride; she bad no " roll.
leg black eyes," or fiery orbs of Juno. Her brow was
broad and full, her eyes soft and gentle. She did not
despise a lit tie ornament in her attire, but still dressed
simply and well. A jolly girl, fond of fun, fond of laugh.
ing, and by no means the lonely, morbid being her verses
pictured her. A clever girl, besides the mere facility of
verse-writing—well-read in French and Italian. accom-
plished in most thl,gs, as I have said, except the art of
mastering a pianoforte keys and that of forming ladylike
pot-hooks and hangers. She was a lively talker, and a
pleasing letter-writer. Her chief fault, at one period of her
literary life, at least, was that of indulging too largely in
the tempting luxury of simile. Similes are like anchovy
paste, to be used sparingly; but Miss Landon showered
them over her pugee, and uttered one every third millet°,

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 18.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur arrived a
Osborne on Thursday, attended by 11/I.ijor Elphim
stone, and left again yesterday on a tour.
The Hon. Beatrice Byng has left Osborne.

JULY 19

The Queen, Princess Helena, and Princess
Louise, attended Div'ne service at Osborne this
morning. Tne Rev. G. Prothero officiated.

The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were also
present.

The Dowager Countess of Mount-Edgcumb© has
arrived as lady in waiting.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

On Saturday the Princ: and Princess of Wales
rode in a pony phaeton to ClifdPn. Their Royal
Highnesses were attencltd by Leut.-Genera]
Knollys, C tptain Grey, and the Marchioness of
Carmarthen. The royal party re urned to Windsor
by water, and landed in the Home Park, close by
Albert-bridge, where carriages were in waiting to
convey them to Frogmore.

Yesterday (Sunday) morning, their Royal High-
nesses attended divine service at the parish church,
St 'John. The lessons for the da3 and prayers wer
rend by the Rev. Henry John E iison, vicar of
Windsor; er d an .dmirliblo and impressive sermon
trom toe 24rh chapter o! Detneronotn3, Bth aid 9 t,
verses—" Take heed in the p!ague of leprosy," &c..
was preached by the Rev. T. Rioke.

This morning, at te❑ o'clock, their Royal Hign-
nrsz.es the Prince and Princt-ss of Wales will take
their departure from Frogmore, and proceed to
0, borne on a visit to her Al j-,ry,

Their R qui Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary honoured Lord and Lady Rokeby
by their presence at dinner, rn Saturday evening, at Mon•.
tegu House, Portman-square,
His Royal Highness the Duke of C.mbridge re-
ceived the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess vary
and a select circle at dinner, last evening, at Gloucester
House.

Prince Mestcht rski has arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel, fmna Brussels.
Tne Duke and Duchess of Northumberland in-
tend to leave Brighton to-morrow for Syon House, Isle-
worth, where the noble ouke and duchess intend to stay a
few weeks, and then go to Arnwick Castle for the autumn.
The Duke and Duchess di Flitio have arrived at
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, from Paris.
The Duchess de. Swot:mayor and family have
arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Madrid.
The Marchioness (Frances Aunt) of Londonderry
left ILlderness House, Park-lane, on Friday, for Wynyard
Park, Durham, an t, after a «hod visit to Seaham Hall, will
go to Garron Tower, her ladyship's seat in the north of
Ireland.
The Earl and Countess Grey left town on Friday
for the season. They have gone to Howick Hall, Northum-
berland.
The Earl Vane left town on Thursday to meet his
yacht at Southampton, and then cruise to the westward.
The countess left the same day for her seat in Wales.
The Countess of Portarlington has left town on
a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough at Blen-
heim. The noble earl is visiting the German Spas.
Count Frarc,is Coudenhove bas arrived at the
Clarendon Hotel from the Continent.
The friends of the Err! of Dunmore will be
pleased to hear that his lordship's leg is not broken, as re-
ported. He only received a blow from a croquet ball.
Saturd-1 night Vr-counre.•s P.itners+on had
an assembly at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, when most ,f
the leading tashionables in town were present.
Lard and Lady Belhaven lett town at the close
of the past week for Wishaw House, th-ir seat in Lanark-
shire.

SERIOUS ILLNESS OF LORD CLYDE.--We regret
to hear that. Field-Marshal Lura Ulde ties alarm-
ingly ill at the residence of General Eyre, Chatham, and
that his medcal attendants give no hope whatever of his
recovery. His lords hip 11,.s be-kn buffering tronindisposition
for some time past, but it atlas only during the pact week
hat hi. illness ast-urned that characttr as to occasion any
elarm among his friends. In answer to inquiries yesterday
evening it was stated that his lordshp was becoming gra
dually weaker, although still in possession of all his tacul les.
DEATH OF MAJOR GENERAL FAtiRER.-1 r e
above gallant and distinguished gallant officer died at his
residence in Park-pl.ce, R. gent's-park, on Thursday last.
at the advanced age of 85 years

lot Einperor Naha eon will go into mourning for
a fort Light on account of i he death of the Duke of H.milton
THE PROROGATION OFPARLIAMENT.—The min,b
reriat fish dinnt r is fixt d for Sal urday next, at th,
Trafalgar, Greenwich. The last vote in supply was only
taken on Friday night. The Appropriation Act will be in-
troduced to-morr ,w (Monday), and it is stilt expected that
Parliament will be prorogued on Tuesday, the 28th instant.
—Observer.

Dr. Wylde has been appointed to replaca Pro-
fessor Taylor, as Gresham Professor of Music.

How 'Warburton set the fashion of disusing
copes. It happened in my time, sir," said the
verger of the cathedral. "Did you ever hear of Dr. War-
burton, sir? A very hot man he was, sir; we never could
Please him in putting on his robe. The stiff high collar
used to ruin.: his tull. bottomed wig ; till, one day, he threw
the robe off in a great passion, and said he would never
wear it again ; and he never did'; and th, other gentlemen
soon left off theirs too."— Watson's _Life of br. Warburton.
COLOUR NOT bHAPF !—A Copy, vouched for as
one of the original fitt3, of Wedgwood's reproduc-
tion of the Portland Vase, was sold at Messrs. Christie,
Manson and Wood's one day last week for 27 guineas
Another copy, in no respect superior, having been sold in
the same rooms a few years ago for newly 200 guineas. On
the same day, and in the same sale, a tete a• tete service of
Sevres china of the famous Rose du Berri gi ound, beautiful
only in that colour, and otherwise quite worthless as a work
of art, sold for about 300 guineas.
THE STATUE OF STONEWALL JACKSON to be pre-
sented, from England, to the State of Virginia.—
Mr. Foley, it appears, has undertaken to make the work for

£l,OOO, and the work is proposed to be seven feet in height,
on a pedestal of granite, designed by Mr. Foley, to bear the

name of the General and dedication from England on um
side ; on the of her. General Lee's order of the day announc
mg the death of Jackson.
RAPIDITY WITH WHICH THE MANUFACTURE
OF COTTON GOODS INCREASED DURING THE LAST
CENTURY.—On the r.ccession of George the Third, in 17 0,
the value of cotton fabrics annually tnAnutactured in Eng-

land was estimated at about £2oo,ooo—whereas the worth
of the cotton goods produced by English looms, in 1860,
exceeded £52,000,000. In '772, British calicoes were made
to the number of 50,000 pieces—iu 1816, the number had
grown to 100,000. So late as the year 1750, the cotton
manufacture employed only 20,000 British workers, annul
ber raiser no higher than 80,000 in the first year of the
prtsent century With the introduction of steam as the
motive power applied to the spindles, b. gan the rapid
.4rowiti of production and tr.de. In 1853 Great Britain

~,ond woik ttir 10,000 steam looins—end last year stie had
in operution 39J,992 Kean) to ms, driven wrih a power of
74,000 horses, and employing 451,600 woc Irpeoplo in 2,887
factories, t bat contain, d 30,387,457 spindles.

RIDICULOUS CONFUIoN IN THE MOUSE OF
'(.l/110P.S.—The hon. and learned me-mher for
Westminster (Sir De Lacy Evans), who h s fought many
orilliant battles in Spain, and who invaded the Crimea
without loss of life or limb, mea,ured his tull length on the
floor of the House of Commons, the other evening, in a
very distressing and undignified manner. The hon. and

galant get ileroan was passing in front of the Treasury
Bench, when his spurs got entangled, some way or other,
in the long legs of the Right Hon. F. Peel, the Financial
Secretthy to the Treasury, and the result was that he lost
his balance and sprawled over the feet of tie whole abinet
Lord Palmerston most fortunately m .naged to get his legs
out of the way in time, ann escaped disaster, but Mr. Milner
Gibson and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were sadly
spurred, although they good naturedly picked up the mem-
ber for Westininater and set him upright. Mr. Frederick
Peel rubbed his shins, as well he might—an operation
which occasioned no email amount of amusement to the
occupants of the Treasury Bench opposite. For the futur, ,
it is clear that Sir De Lacy must either abandon the use o
spurs in the House of Commons, or Mr. Frederick Peel
must keep his legs out of the way. The former, we need
scarcely say, is far more easy of accomplishment than the
latter.—Court Journal.

AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE THIS WEEK.-

ihere are three American steamers, caruing
due at Liverpool this week, viz., City of Baltimore, North
American, and China, The City of Baltimore, which
was to leave New York on tin 11th July, may be ex-

pected to reach Queenstown in the coarse of to-morrow
(Tuesday) ; the North American, with dates from Queb.c

to the 11th inst., may be looked for at Greencastle on
Tuesday night; and the Cunard boat China, with dates
from New York to the 16th inst., may be expented tc,

reach Queenstown on Friday night or Saturday morning
next. As it is quite possible, h..wever, that the City of
bpitimore may call off Cape Race, we shall, should the
wires be working to that point, have a clear week'e later
sews then by the Cunard beat Canada.