The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-28 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by
the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale,
visited the Horticultural Gardens yesterday morn-
ing, and also paid a visit to the South Kensington
Museum.

The Prince of Wales rode on horseback, attended
by the Equerry in Waiting. The Princess of Wales,
attended by the Countess of Macclesfield, took $
drive in an open carriage.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had
dinner party last evening at Marlborough House.
The company consisted of the Hereditary Prince of
Reuss Schleiz, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch,
the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Countess
of Macclesfield, the Earl and Countess of Hardwicket
the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, Viscount
Hinchingbroke, Viscount and Viscountess Bury,
Lord and Lady Foley, Lord and Lady Stanley of
Alderley, Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel, Cob
the Hon. Sir C. B. and Miss Phipps, the Hon. R-
H. Meade, Lieut.-Gen. Knollys, Lieut.-Col. Da
Plat, Capt. Hilldorff (in attendance on the Heredi-
tary Prince of Reuss Schleiz), Major Teesdale, Mr.
F. W. Gibbs, and Mr. Holzman.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne
have arrived at Lansdowne House from Bowood. The noble
marquis and marchioness are about to make a lengthened
sejour on the Continent.

Toe Earl and Countess of Malmesbury are
passing the holidays at Heron Court.
The Countess of Dunraven gave her first dancing
party last evening at the family residence at Buckingham.'
gate.
Lady Ebury has issued cards for a dancing parts
to-morrow evening at her residence in Park-street.
Mr. and Lady Augusta Fitz william have arrived
in Chesham-street for the season.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have returned to Grosvenor Gate from Hughenden Manor
Bucks.

The remains of the late Miss Georgine Johnstone
will be removed from Grosvenor-square this evening to
Heatless Hall, near Scarborough, for interment in the
family vault.

SIGNOR MARIO has recently been delighting hiS
audiences, says the Reader, in the " Barbiere." If
on one night, when his voice is weak and husky, he seems
as if he could have but a few months more of vocal life, on
another his tone is (comparatively) so clear and so rich as
entirely to defy any such suggestion. Listening to hies
the other evening, in his favourite part, one felt as if never
could a male larynx have produced tones more enchanting.
Here and there will be noticed a failure of power, seeming
to indicate the wreck of a noble voice; but anon there will
come some trait of perfect vocalization, some exquisite',
refined cadence, which atones for a thousand shortcomings'
The quantity of rags and paper imported into
this country during recent years is as follows :
Rags. Paper. 1856 .... 10,287 cwt
1857 12,206 „
1858 11,394 „
1859• 14,621 „
1860 16,154 ~
018 „
1861 20,486 „
1862 23,943 „
Our exports of paper during the last five years were---itt,
1858, 106,557 cwt ; in 1859, 126,454 cwt ; in 1860, 112,51'
cwt; in 1861, 91,958 cwt; and in 1862, 129,440 cwt.
A SUFFICIENT REASON !—ln to-day's Telegraill°
will be found the following rather naive announcement
" G,neral Thomas Francis Meagher has resigned the COW
mend of the Irish Brigade. He says tkat the brigade 924
longer exists !"
OLD ABE'S LAST.—During the last week a gentle-
man called on the President and solicited a pass for Rich"
mond. " Well," said Old Abe, "I would be very happy t°
oblige, if my passes were respected; but the fact is, sir, .r.
have within the past two years given passes to 250,000 men
to go to Richmond, and not one has got there yet."—Next/
York Herald,
LADY NESDALE, the aristocratic profligate Who
is never found out, as described by the Hon. 3l;
Norton, in her new novel " Lost and Saved." Never
loving, she had always the power to lead or to govern the
men who became enamoured of her. In general, she 9
ceeded in evading any very vehement claims on her regards
but where, as in the case of Trehe.ne, and one or two other''
a suitor resolved not to be trifled with,' she bought hid
conquest with her sin instead of her coquetry, as she
sc°ll'
have given a hundred guineas for a shawl she could aclt
buy for thirty." She kept no carriage, because it was 13°t
convenient for assignation, " She went, as she herself:
laughingly expressed it, ' hithering and thithering
she ' rested in a shop,' she got into a cab,' all
she managed matters so well that no one could pare
told what became of Milly from one day's end to an'
other." She wrote little notes in cypher to her lovers and
left them with milliners, or gilders in Wardour-street
She went out shopping,' and passed in at one shop en-
trance and out at the other, Heaven knows where. She had
`appointed to lunch with her cousin,' or 'sit with a sick
friend,' and ready Aunt Myra took her away and set her
down at those doors. She went to study art at picture'
exhibitions; where she looked at one picture, and then
vanished. She took her poor children out, and left them
sitting tinier a shady tree with the little French bonne,
`till mamma came back.' She went to country balls, and
took rooms in the hotel because it was so far to drivel
home ;' or she went quietly down into the country for a
couple of days,' and then walked furth to contemplate tombs
in a neighbouring churchyard, till the whistle of the rail'
way engine told her that the need not wait many more
minutes without seeing Montagu appear. She attended
that political pretence, the Ladies Gallery in the House of
Commons, and laughed through the grille at her grave
husband as he sat dangling some local bill, before she wide('
her lace mantilla closer round her and skipped away with
her lover."

THE RETINA OF THE EYEBALL, according to 1
graphic paper on the subject in the current number
of the Social Science Review, is virtually a photographic
surface, and the eye, as an instrument, is the same to its
owner as the camera is to the photographic artist. In health,
when +he oxydation of all the organs of the body is perfect,
the picture formed on the retina is absorbed, or perhaps it
were better to say, is transmitted instantly to the brain,
where we may almost regard it as photographed again.
When, from any circumstance, the oxydation or nutrition,
or, in other words, the molecular motion of the retina no
impeded, then the image is not immediately transmitted,
but is held, as it were, on the surface for a time—gradually
fading away. A smoker once after long indulgence could
retain a faint imageof any bright object on which he looked for
so long a period as six minutes after the eyes were closed up°
it. If, for instance he looked at the window in the daylight
the picture of the window was impressed on his retina 815:
remained there in miniature, the panes of the window bet
filled up with what seemed to him red light, while the 101;
were dark. I have observed the same phenomena in 039
own person, not only atter tobacco, but after experiments
with nitrous oxide, and ether. if a bright light, such
a lamp or candle, be placed before the eye, the impression
also is retained, but no image is retained that has not
certain size and luminosity; letters of books are lost, as sis"
are the minutia) of objects which present many lines °I.
figures. That the symptom here spoken of may arise et;
elusively from smoking is proved by the fact, that it begin
and is intensified during the act, and gradually dies o'sl
as the cause is withdrawn. Whenever it appears, it jai...-
good indication to the smoker that he has gone far enough'
at leaat for that time.

THE FIRST PRINTER AT WEBIIIINSTER.--/Ire
will ask the reader to Imagine 14 years passed sir3o.,gc,
Caxton first began working at Ws new art. It is not du%
cult to picture the wooden structures in the Almonry ocalet
pied by his sedate but busy workmen. We can look ,1-1.
yonder window and see the venerable master printer 11":0
self " sittyng in his studye where as lay many and Ouer...r
paunflettis and bookys." The great towers of Westuansly
Abbey cast their shadow over the room, for he is an ear,4,
riser, and already at work upon his translation of the n'ild
French Romance called "Eneydos." The " faYre
ornate terms" of his author give him "grete plasyrr" and h
labours, almost without intermission, till the low sullrv'
ing from the western windows, warns him of the day's do.
cline. Again, we watch him passing with observant
caneJ
through the rooms where his servants are at work ; weo
see the movements of the compositors, who,
narrow windows, ply their rapid fingers; we can hear
11 to'
thud-thud of the wooden presses as the workmen P
1" and "send home" the bar, discussing, meanwhile,,.. who,
latest news; and we sympathise with the binder
looks in
hammering away at the volume between hisknees,teee
and
despair at the ever-increasing progeny of his u.3.9;38,,0, and
close
ar
tit Jae.
Piles of books and printed " quayers" rise on aliitiL of
many a wise head is ominously shaken at the foolishnessurc.e
supposing that so many books can over find p
But Caxton pursues still his busy course, with
tuildagt:"di
ing and instructing his workmen in that art_
...""puen5e.,,,....
body ever at work, preparing copy. for the press, and
be had
learned at Bruges,
Blades' Ziff of Caxton!
at “grete charge and Ws