The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-29 00:00:00

Foreign Courts.

PARTS, July 27.
The Emperor is expected at the Camp of Chalons about
the 12th August, where he will remain several days, to be
present at manoeuvres of the troops and hold a general
review.

Pilaw Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, two days back,
visited the experimental silk-growing establishment, or-
ganised by M. Guerin-Meneville on the imperial farm of
Viucennes, near Joinville-le-Pout. The prince went over
the plantations of oaks and mulberry trees, and especially
noticed the fine cocoons of the oak silswo, m, and the diffe-
rent stages from the egg to the worms placed in the hedges,
and making their cocoons in the open air.
The Duchess Dowager d'Albe has arrived at Bagneres
de Bigorre with her grandchildren, the nephews of the
Empress.

The Duke of Marlborough left Blenheim Palace,
near Woodstock, yesterday, to join his yacht at Southamp-
ton. The noble duke intends to make a cruise for a law
weeks to the westward, and during his excursion will visit
the Earl and (Jountess Vane at their seat in Wales.
Lord and Lady Carrington leave town at the
close of the ensuing week for Gayhurst Park, Bucks, for
the autumn.

Lord Rod Lady Abercromby have left Claridge's
Hotel for Scotland.

Lord and Lady Farnham have left Claridge's
Hotel for Aberystwith, North Woks.

Lady Emily Peri left Whitehall-gardens on
Monday for her villa at Geneva. The Right Han. Sir
Robert Peel, M.P., hai gone to Goodwood for the race
week.

The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer
will leave town to-morrow to join Mrs. Gladstone and
tamily at Hawarden Castle, Flintshire,

lint, Marquis of Bristol and the Ladies Hervey
left the family residence in St. James's-square, on Monday,
Tor Dresden, and intend to make a tour of several months
in Germany.

The Earl and Countess de Grey and Ripon, ac-
companied by Lord Goderich, leave Carlton gardens on
Friday next, for S udeley Royal, near Ripon, Yorkshire,
in order to make preparations for the reception of their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, who
are to be she guests of the noble earl and countess for three
d..ys during the ensuing week.

The Earl and C:untess Jermyn left town on
Monday ou a visit to Lord and Lady Wharncliffe at Wort-
ley Hall, near Sheffield.

Tne Earl Granville left town yesterday for
S.indon House, Sussex, to meet a large and distinguished
circle assembled there for the Goodwood race meeting
Count Salim) and M. de Vere have left the Brune-.
wick Hotel for Goodwood.

Sir fitnry kind Lady de Hoghten have arrived
at Maurigy's Hotel from Walton.

Sir Frederick H. Bathurst has arrived at the
same establishment from Clarendon-park, Salisbury, Wilts.

Death of General Lord Downes, G.C.B.

We have to record the demise of General Lord Downes,
G.C.8., Colonel of the 29th (the Worcestershire) Regiment
of Foot, intelligence of whose death was received in town
yesterday. The sad event took place at his lordship's resi-
dence, Bert House, county Kildare, Ireland, after a few
days' illness. Much sympathy is felt not only by the nume-
rous friends of his lordship, but by the tenantry and others
located in the immediate neighbourhood of the family estate,
during tne several bereavements recently experienced by the
noble family of which his lordship was the head. The late
gallant Ulysses de Burgh, Baron Dowries of Aghanville,
King's County, in the peerage of Ireland, of which peerage
his lordship wag a representative in the House of Lords.
was the son of Mr. Thomas Burgh. He was born in Dublin
in 1788, and married on June 20, 1815, Maria, only
daughter of the late Mr. Walter Bagenal, who died in 1842;
and, secondly, in August, 1846, Christophena, widow of
Mr. John Willis Fleming, of Stoneham, Hants, who died in.
October, 1860. By his first marriage he leaves surviving
issue Anne, wife of the Earl of Clonmel; his other daugh-
ter, wife of the present Lurd Seaton, having died only re-
cently. The late Lord Downes entered the army as en-
sign in May, 1804, and was appointed aide-de-camp to
General Sir John Cradock, whom he accompanied ►o Por-
tugal in November, 1803, where Sir John held the chief
command until May, 1809, when he (Sir J. Cradock) was
succeeded by the Duke of Wellington, with whom Lord
Downes remained as aide-de-camp and assistant military
secretary, during the whole war, end was present at the
battles of Talavera. (where he was slightly wounded), Bu-
saco, Fuentes a'Onur, and El Bodon; sieges of Ciudad
Rodrigo and Badajoz; battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, and
the Pyrenees; siege of San Sebastian; battles of the Ni-
velle (at which his horse was killed under him), Nive, and
Toulouse (where he was slightly wounded). His lordship
received the gold cross and one clasp for Vittoria, Pyrenees,
Nivelle, Nive, and Toulouse, and the silver war medal and
six clasps for Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Ciudad
Rodrigo, Badajoz, and Salamanca, Fur his long and me-
ritorious services in the army he was, in 1860, made a
Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. The gallant noble-
man had held the post of surveyor-general of the Ordnance
trom 1820 to 1827, and several staff appointments in the
United Kingdom, and was much respected by all classes
in the British army with whom he was brought in contact.
Among the honours bestowed upon him by foreign so-
vereigns he was a Knight of the Tower and Sword of Por-
tugal, and of St Anne of Russia. His commissions bore
date as follow Mem:l3l, 1804 ; lieutenant, Nov.
12, 1804; captain, Sept. 4, 1806; major, March 31, 1811;
lieutenant-colonel, Sept. 5, 1812 ; colonel, May 27, 1825;
major-general, Jan. 10, 187; lieutenant-general, Nov. 9,
1846 ; general, June 20, 1854; and colonel of the 29th Re
gtment, Aug. 15, 1850.

We are sorry to see that another edition of Re,.
nat.'s " Vie de Jeaus"—the fourth—has left the press.

The Royal Library at Copenhagen, founded by
Christian I numbers at this moment no less than
400,000 volumes.

A curious invention is reported from France,
namely, the decreasing of the scabbard of the bayonet by
cue-halt when tne bayonet is withdrawn.
Mr. Frith is said to be proceeding rapidly with
his picture of the Royal Marriage. He has been constantly
at work durieg the season; and most of the royal and aris-
tocratic personages whose portraits are to be introduced
therein have given him sittings.

DOLCI FAIL AIEIsTE.—A day or two ago a friend
of mine, says the Paris correspondent of a contem-
porary, having occasion to visit one of those kingdoms
(Austria and Prussia) on " urgent private affairs," want off
to the Legation of the country of whica he is a naturalised
subject. I would not mention its name for the world, as I
do not wish to bring down condign punishment on the
offender, but would rather give a word of advice and warn-
ing io youthful Attaches and other foreign officers who are
sent from Swell•street, let us say, to aid and protect their
Majesties' subjects abroad. Needless to say that at this
season "his Excellency"
to-day, was aux Faux. The First Secre-
tary ?--not in; the First Attache;—out. No chalice, then,
so an appointment is made for the morrow. The
Secretary—like the late lamented Charles Lamb, he begins
late, but "then see how early ho leaves off"—will be in the
" Chancellerie" from 12 to 2. The naturalised one takes
the "mean time," and keeps his appointment at 1 o'clock.
fie is to leave Paris that evening, and has much to do. He
waits 10 minutes, when an ufficisl-louking porter comes to
him to say that " the Secretary cannot see him because he
is in his bath." To such a stern fact there was no reply, an
so the poor man has gone " passport-less" away.
FOUR AT A BIRTIL—The German journals state
that an event of rare occurrence took place on the
23d inst. at Mulheiw, on the Kuhr, when the wife of a day
labourer gave birth to four infants, two boys and two girls.
The mother and the children, adds the report, "are doing
well."

NEW ZEALAND.—The ship Shalimar, Ciptitin
Allen, from Lyttleton, New Zealand, April 16, has arrived
in the Channel. ,She landed three of her passengers and
her letters at Penzance on Monday,