The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-29 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Dec. 28.

The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers arrived at Osborne
on Sunday, and had an audience of her Majesty.

Dr. Watson and Dr. Jenner also arrived from
London.

The Queen and Princess of Wales drove out this
morning.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred went out
shooting, attended by Lieutenant-General the Hon.
C. Grey, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. D. de Ros,
and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel.

The Right Hon. T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt
M.P., and Mrs. Sotheron-Estcourt, have left Farrance's
Hotel for Estcourt, near Tetbury.

The Hen. Capt. Elphinstone has left the Bruns-
wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Newport-Pagnell.
Major and Mrs. Wombwell have left the St.
George's Hotel.
Madame do Pereira and family have left the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, on their return to Paris.
Mr. M'Cann, M.P., and Mrs. M'Cann have left
Brown's Hotel.

M. Gonnod's " Faust" has been produced at New
Yhrk, with Miss Kellogg as the heroine.
TRACTION ENGINES ON COMMON ROADS.—A ape'
cial meeting of the waywardens of the Faversham
Highway Board was held yesterday for the purpose of con-
sidering a resolution, of which notice had been given a
the previous meeting, to the effect that in the opinion of the
Board the use of locomotives on the public highways le
dangerous and inconvenient to the public, and therefore
that an application be made to the Home Secretary, under
the powers of the 24th and 25th of Victoria, cap, 70, to pro-
hibit the use of all kinds of locomotives on any highway
whatever within the district. The motion was supported
by Mr. Carter, the deputy-chairman, who contended that
the engines were altogether unsuited to the roads in the
district, and that their passage to and fro was exceed-
ingly dangerous. An animated and lengthened discussion
took place, from which it appeared that steam traction and
ploughing engines were now most extensively used in Kest,
there being as many as 20 working in that district alone. It
was also contended that there was more danger by the
passing of traction engines by night than by day. Several
of the owners of the engines, including Messrs. Aveling
and Porter, of Rochester, who have made upwards of 100
of the engines, attended, and argued against the suicidal
course proposed to be adopted. On a division only two
hands were held up for the prohibition, and more than 50
against it, Lord Harris, who is a large Kentish landholder/
voting with the latter.
THE QUEEN AS A RULER,--Of the deep and
ready interest which the Queen has manifested in
every great public event, whether calamitous or glorious,
which has occurred during her reign, she has given more
than one memorable proof. We most of us remember a re.
markable letter from her Majesty to Lord Palmerston which,
was read in the House of Commons on the occasion 0'
certain Ministerial explanations between that noblenial
and Lord John Russell, in which she intimated bet
pleasure that no important despatch should be issued
from the Foreign Office until she should have been made
acquainted with its contents, and her pleasure taken-
thereupon ; and it is well known that she required to be
kept thoroughly informed as to the nature and the grounds
of every Ministerial decision on the great questions of the
day, so that, without in 'the least degree hampering the
action of the Cabinet, she might be able to exercise an inde"
pendent judgment on the course of affairs, and to discuss
them intelligently with her advisers.. During the Crimean
war her sympathy with each day's tidings was painfully
intense ; no one who witnessed it can ever forget the eager-
ness with which she questioned every competent messenger
from the scene of danger as to all the details of that heroic
struggle, and the prompt and spontaneous tenderness with
she sought to alleviate the sorrows both of sufferers and
mourners can never be effaced from the memories of either.
There was a vigilant solicitude in her every word and
action throughout that sad and terrible crisis of our history
which perhaps did more than any other incident in her reign
to endear her to the nation's heart. It was a perfect corn'
munity of feeling, reaching from the hovel to the throne.--
Victoria Maga:me for January.

A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND IN LIVER-
POOL.—On Saturday evening last an unfortunate
occurrence took place, resulting in the death of a womb
named Catherine Lewis, wife of Richard Lewis, a master
carter, residing in Church-street, Soho. It appears that on
the evening in question Lewis returned home and found
his wife in the yard preparing provender for the horses
which he kept, and the dwelling••house which adjoins the
yard being closed, he asked her for the key to
open the door. She was then partially intoxicated, and
was unable to furnish him with the key, and
getting alarmed she ran to her sister's in Bennett-street.
The house in the meantime had been entered by means of a
ladder, by which a man named Radcliffe, in Lewis's envie.,
scaled the outer wall, and Lewis then went to his sister-
law's and brought his wife home. Radcliffe and a man named
Williams, also employed by Lewis, accompanied the latter
into a publichouse, where they had some drink, and the
deceased also bad drink in the same place. On reaching
home Lewis and the deceased remained together apparently
on friendly terms, and nothing more was thought of the
unpleasantness which had originally arisen. It seems that
Lewis, when alone with his wife, made some further 21215:
understanding with her respecting the disappearance 01
some bed-clothes, and while she was sitting in a chair lo°
dealt her a blow on the neck with his hand, which caused
her almost instant death. He made every exertion to revive
her, but his efforts being unsuccessful, he obtained the atten-
dance of Dr. Taylor, Springfield, but the medical gentlemarl
on his arrival pronounced lily to be extinct. Lewis, wile
has been habitually a sober man for a considerable tiole,
was deeply affected at the unfortunate issue of the dispatei
and when taken into custody shed tears copiously. He R
be, brought before the magistrates for examination this day
(Monday).—Liverpool Courier.
A DELIRIUM OF NIGHTMARES.—Every supersti-
tion that has ever disturbed the soul of ignorant
man lent some one awful feature to the crowd of hidestfa
images uprising in this man's mind, Awful Chaldean g°l
and Carthagenian goddesses thirsting for the hot blood (in,
human sacrifices, greedy for hecatombs of children 01,3,1;
shrieking into fiery furnaces, or torn limb from HMI)
savage beasts; Babylonian abominations; Egyptian 151sor
.
Osiris ; classical divinities with flaming swords and pa,'
impassible faces, rigid as the destiny whose type they 'O6l
ghastly Germanic demons and witches—all the drea
avengers that man, in the knowledge of his own wicks of
ness, has ever shadowed for himself out of the darkness -
his ignorant mind, swelled that ghastly crowd until the
artist's brain reeled, and he was fain to sit with his head 111
his hands, trying, by a great effort of :the will, to elorc.,
these loathsome phantoms.—Miss Braddon's Tohn 31arch
mont's Legacy.
BAVARIAN MORALITY AND INFANT MORTALITY'
—ln Lower Bavaria, illegitimate births are one in four ; 161
the Palatinate, where freedom from vexatious I°l6
(through the introduction of the Code Napoleon) produces
less proportion of crime, more contentment, and far greater,
prosperity, they are one in nine—and in Saxony and Frs
sia, one in 13. In Munich, in one year, there were I,‘ r
legitimate and 1,702 illegitimate births—nor is it rare 0.
the illegitimate births in one month to exceed the KW:,
mate. But the worst side disclosed by these statistics
the the proportion of deaths. In the whole of Bavaria Inc)..
die under 14 than over—and the number that die helot";
attaining one year is four times as great as the mute_
which comes next to it, grown-up people who die betivid 14`
60 and 70. That is, in one year more than 69,00thOeschol
chi,-
died, and only 62,000 persons are over 14. of greatest
dren 63,000 were under one year, whereas
between
eDnoewraile
caanrogon,
so I
Sunday
number of deaths above 14 were 13,000, 01:311:ipclhe.
60 and 70. Wilberforce's Social Life
Ca ta.Ei
le, a salltunAgAGl
MUTINY ON BOARD TELE GOLD
the crewun vLa
erEts.isne,
aonori
~_sailed from the Mersey
Monday last the Golden B9gt
about 690 or 600 tons, the proPderg
utmy on the highwasaye
which Messrs. Poole
fchartered ebyy
vt Messrs.ag
and Co. were the consign!es.
the river, and in theHesetteencntghat a day or tsawsst:aoek
tody on a charge °f ,nu
Martintiny
arrived at the police-efface in Dale'
o'clock Captain
thestatement
cue°
and made which led to the interfer _
street,
of the police.
when
Liverpool, the ship was off the coast of Wales, some
aeArnfethetiou rrnutnhtoose doe:fleet:oos.
distance from Holyhead, the crew mustered and came aft,
requesting to see him. He asked whether they had any.
down upon
complaint to make, and said if they had he would take 16
his official slate for transfer to the log. They
did not, however, make any complaint, but returned for 1:
short time forward. Afterwards they again came aft, seise:
the captain, tied him with a rope, placed him in his at.'llo
room, and stationed a sentry at the door. At the same OW_
they secured the two mates. They then reversed the course
of the ship and came back to Liverpool, keeping the caPrtat.
a prisoner until their arrival in the Mersey.
vessel entered the river a boat came off, and the stewarail
acting under the captain's orders, got the boatman
board. The captain lay upon the table in the cabin an _
d other
feigned sleep, while the steward got the log-book an
documents, tied them about him, and got into ',the
.e.o_o,
leaving a rope hanging over the ship's side es bo sot
The captain then jumped up, rushed past the sentrYc/:4
upon deck, slipped over the side into the boat, and es e
to shore. Upon the receipt of this information at th
tl:ce
lice-station, Inspector Horne, Inspector Cairns, Dete,c__je,
Soon after
Beattie, and 12 constables went off to the Golden
and there took into custody ten of the crew. :Yestercla! the
ten men were brought up at the police-court, Wile:A.
captain's statement was received, and the case adjourn