The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-20 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived al
Marlborough House yesterday afternoon from
Windsor Castle. Their Royal Highnesses were
attended by tt e Countess de Grey and Ripo❑ and
Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel. The Prince of Wales
afterwards rode on horseback attended by his
equerry in waiticg.

Prince Alfred.
(From the london Gazette of last Evening.)
WHITEHALL, Juno 10.

The Queen, as Sovereign of the Most Noble
Order of the Garter, has been graciously pleased,
by letters patent, under the Great Seal of the
Order, bearing date this day, to dispense with all
the statutes and regulations observed in regard to
installation, and to grant unto his Royal Highness
Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Saxony, and
Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, Knight of the said
Most Noble Order, full power and authority to
exercise all rights and privileges belonging to a
Knight Companion of the said Most Noble Order
of the Garter, in as full and ample a manner as if
he had been formally installed, any degree, rule, or
usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the
Princess Mary, paid a visit of condolence to Emily Duchess
of Beaufort yesterday at her residence in Hill-street on the
premature death of Lady Henrietta Morant. Their Royal
Highnesses intend to be present at the festivities at Ash-
ridge Park, Herts, on the 11th proximo.
The Prince di Manganeili and Chevalier Rai-
mond Pettini and suite have left the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn-street, for Pails, on their return to Italy.
The Duke de Montpensier, attended by Colonel
Solis, has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Tunbridge-
wells.

The Count de Paris and Prince Philip of War-
ternberg have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Tun-
bridge .wells.

The Prince Lieven has left Claridge's Hotel for
Paris.

The Prince de Feano and the Marquis Gaetani
have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Rome.
The Duke and Duchess de Chartres arrived on
Wednesday at Loch Earn Head Hotel, Perthshire, where
they proposed to stay for a few days. The Duke and
Duchess went from Edinburgh to Crieff by railway, and
then posted through Comrie, St. Fillan's, and along the
beautiful Loch Earn.

The Duke of St. Albans, the Marquis of Hast-
ings, the Earls of Westmoreland, Uxbridge, and Winchil-
sea, Lords Curzon and Courtenay, Sir Fredk. Johnstone,
&c., have been residing at Stockbridge during the past week.
The Duke an dDuchess of Manchester entertained
a small party of friends at dinner last evening, at their re-
sidence in Great Stanhope- street.
The Marchioness Townshend's second ball this
season took place last night at 35, Belgrave-square.

It is stated that Earl Russell has become tenant
for the present season of Meiklour House, on the banks of
the Tay, and the property of the Baroness Keith and
Naime. It is expected that the noble Earl and family
will take possession in the beginning of August.
The Earl of Portsmouth's party at Huratbourne
Park has broken up.

The Earl and Countess of Cork entertained the
Duke and Duchess of Somerset and a select party at dinner
last night at their residence in Grafton .street.

Earl and Countess Vane will arrive at Holder-
nesse House to-day.

The Countess Do wager of Newburgh entertained
at dinner last evening Prince and Princess Bandini, Lord
and Lady Elcho, Lord and Lady Blantyre, Lord and Lady
Enfield, Lord Hamilton, Sir David Baird, and Capt. Falbe.
Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton were honoured
with the company of the Duchess of Cambridge and the
Princess Mary at dinner last evening. There were present
to meet their royal highnesses his Excellency the Austrian
Minister and the Countess d'Apponyi, the Duke and
Duchess of Buccleuch, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Clanricarde, the Earl of Wilton, Earl Granville, Count
Pahlen, Lord Loughborough, Lord George Kerr, Dowager
Lady Truro, Lord and Lady Wodehouse, Lady Augusta
Cadogan, Lady A. Egerton, Mr. Mitford, &c. Lady Eger-
ton, later in the evening, had a musical party, those assist-
ing in the entertainment being amateurs.

Lord Broughton has been entertaining the Earl
of Zetland and a small party of friends at his seat near
Andover.

Lord Edward St. Maur is nearly recovered from
his recent illness. His lordship, in order to recruit his
strength, has been staying with Lord and Lady Dafferin
ni,
Dufferin Lodge, Highgate.

The marriage of the Lady Isabel Howard, eldest
daughter of the Earl and Countess of Suffolk and Berk-
shire, to Mr. Francis Henry Atherley, took place at Charl-
ton, Wilts, on Thursthy.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have returned to Grosvenor-gate from Oxford.

A STORY OF THE BRUNSWICK FAMILY.—The
hearing has just commenced in the Paris courts of
a case in which a certain Madame de Civry, alleging her-
self to be the daughter of the Duke of Brunswick, claims a
pension of 35,000 f, as alimony. The plaintiff's story is that
the Duke in 1825 became acquainted in English society
with a young lady of rank, Lady —, and under pretext
of marriage seduced her, t,ok her to the Duchy of Bruns.
wick, and installed her in a chateau near the court, where
on July 5 she gave birth to the plaintiff. The Duke's name,
however, was not entered in the baptismal register as father,
but he and Prince William of Brunswick were sponsors.
Lady returned to England with her child, in whose
education the Duke continued to take an interest till, at the
age of 17, she became a Roman Catholic, when he aban-
doned her. She afterwards, in 1347, with his consent
married the Count de Civry, in London—the marriage creat-
ing some talk in the fashionable world. In the announce-
ment of it she was stated to be the Daughter of the Duke
and Lady --, a circumstance which added to his irrita-
tion. He never received either her or her husband, and, as
they have now been reduced to poverty, this action, after
many threats, has been brought. The Duke demurs to it,
because, if the plaintiff claims by the law of France, he is
not liable for her maintenance, since his name does not ap-
pear on the register as that of her father; and if she claims
by the law of Brunswick, a father is not liable for the main-
tenance, of his natural child after 14 years of age. He also
gave a different colour to the story. Plaintiff's mother was
a Miss , who only assumed the name of Lady
as a none de guerre, and the Duke met her, not in society
but at the theatre. There was no seduction or talk of mar-
riage, and she voluntarily became his mistress. He denies
that he quarrelled with the plaintiff on account of her
change of religion. The rupture was occasioned by other
reasons, and among them her extraordinary conduct in
Paris, where she called upon his agent dressed up in man's
clothes. Her marriage with M. de Civry was a speculation
on the Duke's wealth, but it had the effect of increasing his
displeasure with the young lady. He had not given his
consent to it. He would not, however, enter into the reasons
why he declined to give her money, but contented himself
with the legal argument.

THE " COURT JOURNAL." THE DRAWING
ROOM.—Sittuday's number will contain a full and
special account of the Court and aristocratic doings of the
week, and the proceedings of the upper classes of society
in general, giving a most amusing and complete yesumd of
events, and a vast amount of perfectly original news and in,
formation. The sporting intelligence forms an important
feature of this paper, being the most analytical article
published, and written with especial regard to a practical
application. The Drawing Room number of Monday will
have an original, and the only complete, account of the
Drawing Room published. Price sd. ; stamped, 6d. W.
Thomas, 26, Brydges-street, Covent-garden; and all news
agents.

THE PULPIT AND THE POCKET.—Mr. Spurgeon
has just been in the "black country," and a calculation has
been made of the pecuniary result. At Birmingham, the
collections after two sermons, morning and evening, are
stated to have averaged rather more than 5d from every
person present; at Wolverhampton, after evening service
only, rather more than 7d for each person ; at Dudley, after
morning and evening service, nearly 81 At Bilston, after
morning t:ervice only, with a great pressure for tickets, owing
to the insufficient size of the room, the collection showed an
average of more than 9d each person,

The Chevalier de Chaielain believes with Vol-
taire that, " ho renders a service to his country
who translates into its language the beauties of
another tongue;" and animated with this belief, he
has already translated with a graceful facility and
a conscientious care, to which we have again and
again had occasion to pay tribute, some of the chief
beauties of English poetry. The book before us has
evidently been a labour of love. M. de Chatelain tells
11F, in the introduction to this volume, that he feels
an especial admiration for our English poets :--
" Parce man ;Hs oat beaucoup de jeunesse
dans la penses, aussi beaucoup de profondeur, et
de plus une naïveté toujonrs charmante." As an
evidence of this admiration, ho has hare presented
to his countrymen a charming collection of the
" Itly-)ns " and "Reflets" of Eaglish verse.
In this collection are translations from Burns and
Campbell—" The Mountain Daisy" and " The
Battle of Hohenlinden," Lord Byron's " Epitaph
on a dog," Oliver Goldsmith's "Deserted Village,"
Chatterton's " Resignation," Coleridge's "Gene-
vieve," and many others of equal celebrity, together
with a very copious selection from the works of our
modern poets. In turning over these diversified
pages we are fairly bewildered by the wonderful
ease and facility displayed by the translator, and
the versatility with which he adapts himself to
every variety of style end subject—
" From grave to gay, from lively to severe."
As a happy specimen we quote some stanzas from
the graceful translation of Mrs. Browning's " Wis-
dom Misapplied—"

- _
LA SAGESSE MAL APPLIQUEE.
0 Papillon si j'etais toi
Que j'eusse puissance de Roi
Sur I'odorante fleur qui nait ou meure sous moi,—

N'arreOrais certes mon aile
Sur une fleur qui n'est que belle
Mon amour serait Four la pensee immortelle.

Dame Abeille si comme toi
Pouvais creuser dans la paroi
Des roses tout l' or.roiel qui rends de bon aloi,

Aupres de I'homme, chose sate,
N'irais point placer d'aventure
Lea excellents produits de ma manufacture.

O fier aigle si j'etais toi
Que plisse mettre en dessaroi
Le tonnerre et I'eclair, et lour jeter I'effroi,

Ne batirais certes mon aire
Sur le pinnsalle d'une calcaire
Que I'orage une nuit peut re:Mire en poussiere.

Jo parlais, je parlais, j'allais parler toujours
Quand sur mon front sentis quelque chose d'etrange;
El s'arreta soudain mon orgueilleux discours
El puis it me sembla que j'entendais un Ange.
L'Ange me dit : Si j'otais toi
De mon temps ferais mieux l'emploi,
Wit critiquer de Dieu les oeuvres et la loi;
No gaspillerais pas mes peines
A poursuivre des ombres vaines •
A vouloir reformer de l)ien les ph6nomenes.

Je ne rougerais pas mon frein
Comme toi pour un coin mondain
Mais vers Dieu je prendrais un elan surhuruain,

Repudierais ce monde infame
Pour le ciel je ceindrais mon 6.111 P,
Pour la vie immortelle et sa celeste flamme,

De chanter done fais toi l'oetroi,
Beau chanteur I mais apprends de moi
Que blte, mouche, oiseau sont plus sages que toi !
This extract will give some evidence of M. de Cha-
telain's charming style of versification ; but his
singular aptitude as a translator can only be appre-
ciated by a glance through the varied contents of the
volume itself.

Adrian L'Estrange : or, Moulded out of Faults.
One vol., pp. 319. Smith, Elder, and Co.
" They say, best men are moulded out of faults"
is the motto of this story, but assuredly Adrian
L'Estranee is a very unsatisfactory specimen of the
class. He is of a weak and vacillating character,
like the son of the Patriarch of old—" Reuben,
unstable as water, thou shalt not excel." He is first
devotedly in love with Lilian Davenport, the
daughter of a fraudulent speculator who is in
concealment abroad. Then, through the machina-
tions of one Darcy Pierrepoint, the villain of the
story, he is led to believe her faithless, and he en-
gages himself to Catherine Vernon, a very charm-
ing heroine, whose character is delicately drawn.
A few days before the marriage, he meets
with Lilian's sister and learns the details of a story
of the highly sensational cast, of which madness
and poisoning form conspicuous parts. He leaves
his betrothed bride and hastens to seek his deserted
Lilian in a lovely town in the North, and that epi-
sode of his career closes with a scene of true melo-
dramatic character, which afferds as much scope
for tragic scenic effect as the " Colleen Bawn," or
"Peep o' Day." The future fortunes of Adrian are
worthy of one who has passed through such a catas •
trophe. He travels for health and diversion of mind,
takes part in the relief of Lucknow, and then, by a
probable sequence of events, is wounded in the
battle of Solferino! It is to be regretted that the
author of this work, whose discrimination of
character is clever, and whose descriptions are
many of them happily and tenderly drawn, should
have sought materials for interest of such a startling
and improbable character. The heroine's Lilian
and Catherine are beautifully sketched; so is Rachel
Desborough ; while the cousins Lucy Eustace and
Laura Medway are a gracefully contrasted pair.
We do not see much of Lord Medway, but we hear
quite enough to make ns glad to escape from his
society. In the occasional comments respecting
him, the peculiarities of his disagreeable, but not
uncommon, character are cleverly hinted at. Darcy
Pierrepoint, the evil genius of the tale, is somewhat
overdrawn. The scene in which he learns from
Adrian's father the history of his son's love for
Lilian, and surprises from the mercenary General
the secret of the Davenport's hiding place, is well
described.

A Profane Puff of the Bible.

In a flagrant " puff preliminary" advertisement
of a new edition of The Bible, the advertiser, who
is apparently (judging from his maw', address, and
style of writing) some Scotch relative of our
esteemed "Jenkins" (for whom see Punch), and
probably a Gaelic cousin of Mr. Thackeray's
" Semmes," actually goes the length of thus profanely
appealing to the aristocracy of England for en-
couragement to his enterprise—saying, among other
pretty things :
" A copy of this Bible has been presented to the Prince
of Wales and the Princess Alexandria—through Lord
Shaftesbury—who have been graciously pleased—especially
the Princess, that brightest of orbs in the
.firmament of
living beauty express their high admiration of it."
He then goes on as follows :—" I appeal first for patronage
to that bright galaxy, of more than Circassian beauty,
those fairy forms, cast in celestial moulds, whose meeds of
praise poetry itself fails to find language to award—the
Royal Bridesmaids. I solicit the honour of each of their
names for copies. I appeal next to the Royal relatives,
and the nobility and gentry of the country. Next, to a
splendid array of, in most instances, self-made aristocracy
—a class who have risen by their talents, energy, industry,
and enterprise to the occupation of proud and meritorious
positions—the Lord Mayors and Provosts, and Mayon; and
Provosts of towns, and their ladies and daughters."

BERWICK ELECTION.—TWO candidates for the
vacancy in the representation of Berwick are before the elec-
tors of that ancient borough. Mr. W. W. Cargill, a
London banker, comes forward on Coneervativo principles,
and Mr. Mitchell, of Stow, as a Liberal.—Newcastle
Journal.

SUGAR STATISTICS.—A return made to Parlia-
ment, on the motion of Mr. Moffatt, gives the sugar
statistics of Mt!. The total quantity imported into the
United Kingdom was rather more than 10,200,000 cwts.,
being a decrease of 430,000 cwts. as compared with 1861,
but an increase of above 1,000,000 over 1860. The decrease
in 1862 is in sugar from the Mauritius, India, and Java,
and the Philippine Islands. The produce of the Mauritius
probably finds a better market in Australia than in Eng-
land. The supplies from India have decreased 50 per cent.
since 1860. Those from the slave-owning countries have
greatly increased. From Brazil we took above 1,250,000
owts. last year, being more than in 1860 and 1861 added
together. The West Indies and British Guiana are pro-
greasing favourably; in 1860 they sent us 3,375,610 cwts. ;
in 1861, 3,690,297 owls. ; in 1862, 3,864,771 cwts. The
quantity of sugar entered for home consumption in the
United Kingdom last year was 9,379,819 cwts., yielding to
the revenue the-large sum of £6,215,346 net, an increase
both in quantity and in money over 1861.

This accomplished and popular pianist gage his
annual concert on Thursday, at the Hanover-square
Rooms, with great success. His skill and taste as
a performer are too widely known to need criticism,
and were fully displayed on the present occasion.
Herr Kuhe played a Tema con Variazioni, by
Mozart ; a sonata, by Beethoven, and other clas-
sical pieces, together with some of his own graceful
and harmonious compositions. Prominent among
these was the closing piece of the concert—a fan-
tasia entitled, " Homage a Meyerbeer," founded
principally on the beautiful airs in the " Hugue-
nots." Madame Lemmens-Sherrington, Madame
Sainton-Dolby, and Herr Reichardt were the voca-
lists, and, as they are all popular favourites, their
performances gavegreats;ltisfaction. MadameDoiby
sang an air by Blumenthal, which was well adapted
to her voice; and Madame Sherrington a new song
called " The Seamaid's Grotto," and Rhode's cele-
brated air with variations, with her usual brilliant
execution and wonderful vocal skill. The two
ladies did not sing the duet from " Jessonsla," which
was set down for them, Madame Sherrington
singing in its place a duet with Herr Reichardt,
the only fault of which duet was its brevity. Herr
Reichardt also sang the new song of his own compo-
sition which bids fair to become a concert favourite,
" Love's Request," and a French rcmanza by
Boildieu. Altogether the programme was well and
carefully selected, and the performance went off
with great eclat.

The Late Debate in the House of Commons
on Italy.

FATHER CURCI'S POSITIVE DENIAL OF LORD

PALMERSTON'S ASSERTIONS.