The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-21 00:00:00

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THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND.

BALMORAL, Oct. 18.

Mr. Theed's statue of the Prince Consort, which
has bon placed in the principal corridor at Belmont!,
was uncovered yesterday morning.
The Queen, the Crown Prince and Princess of
Prussia, Prince and Princess Louis of Hess, Princess
Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, Prin co
Arthur, and Prince Leopold assembled in the cor-
ridor at half-past 1 o'clock.
The ladies and gentlemen of the household in
waiting were, by her Majesty's permission, present,
as well as the servants and gillies who had been
particularly attached to the Prince Consort's
service.

At her Majesty's command the covering was re-
moved from the statue by Mr. Theed, and the
Queen was pleased to express her entire approval
and admiration of it. The statue, which is of
marble, represents the Prince Consort in the High-
land dress, with a rifle in the left hand—the right
resting on the head of a favourite dog.
Upon the pedestal is the fillowing inscription,
selected by her Majesty:—" Albert, Prince Con-
sort, 1861 ; his life sprang from a deep inner sym-
pathy with God's will; and, therefore, with all
that is true, and beautiful, and right."
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena and
Princess Louise, and attended by Lady Churchill,
drove yesterday to Alt-na-Guithasach, and returned
in the evening.

BALMORAL, Oct. 19.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,
and attended by Lady A. Bruce and Lord C. Fitz-
roy, attended Divine service in the parish church of
Crathie yesterday afternoon. The Rev, A. Ander-
son officiated.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

SANDRINGHAM, Oct. 20.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Royal
Highness Prince Christian of Denmark, with Cap-
tain Grey, Captain Castenehjold, Dr. Holtzman,
and Colonel Cifton, haTe been oat shooting this

morning.
The Princess of Wales, the Princess Christian,
and the Princess Dagmar walked iu the grounds
this morning.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
attended by Colonel Clifton, is expected to leave Sandring-
ham, Norfolk, after visiting their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales, on Thursday next.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary, attended by Colonel Home
Purees and Lady Geraldine Somerset, have arrived from
Paris, in which capital they made a few days' stay on their
way home from Rumpenheim, near Frankfort.
Prince Gortschakoff has arrived at the Alexandra
Hotel (late Wallace's), from St. Petersburg,
His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and
the Countess Bernstorff and family arrived at Prussia
House, Carlton House-terrace, on Monday, from Brighton.

The Duke of Leinster arrived at his residence on
Carlton House•terrace on Monday, from visiting Sir Edward
Baker at his seat near Blandford.

His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and
Baroness de Cetto arrived at the Bavarian Legation at
Hill-street, Berkeley-square, yesterday, from Brighton.

The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland and the
Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, arrived in town last
evening from Ciiefden Park, near Maidenhead.
The Duchess de Sotomayer and family have left
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Madrid.
The Earl of Chesterfield arrived in town on Mon-
day from Newmarket. The countoss has gone to Bretby
Park, near Burton-on-Trent.
Count d'Haussonville has arrived at the Claren-
don Hotel from Paris.

Lord and Lady Begot are expected to arrive in
town from the Continent in the course of the week, on their
way to Blithfield Park, Staffordshire, for the winter.
Baron and Baroness Von der Heydt have left
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square.

Colonel the Hon. Henry Byng, second son of the
Earl of Strafford, was married a few days since, at St.
Katherine's Church, Savernake Forest, Marlborough, to the
Countess Henrietta Danneskiold-Samsoe, eldest daughter
of his Excellency Count Christian Danneskiold-Samsoe.
The ceremony was performed by the Hon. and Rev. F.
Byng, the brother of the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev.
Plater Browne.

DEATH OF MR. J, H. LANGSTON, M.P.—Mr.
James Houghton Langston, one of the members for
the city of Oxford, died at S irsden on Monday. Mr.
Langston, in his early career, became an unflinching Li-
beral, and was a strenuous supporter of the ballot. The
vacancy thus caused in the representation of Oxford will,
it is anticipated, bring several gentlemen into the field,
Mr. Fletcher, of the Reform Club, and Mr. Cartwright, of
Ay nhoe, being amongst those who have been announced as
cpndidates. Mr. A. Peel, the rejected of Coventry, has
also been named.

MR MACLISE'S GREAT PICTURES, " The Interview
between Wellington and Blucher after Waterloo,"
and " The Death of Nelson."—lt has been the custom
(on the occasions of the opening of Parliament by
the Sovereign), to have a double range of seats fitted
up for the accommodation of persons witnessing the cere-
mony. These seats are kept in store ready to be framed for
use. They are so inconsiderately constructed that the backs
of the sitters hide, if they do not even touch, the surface of
the pictures upon the walls. It is obvious that there is
great risk of damage being done to the works upon which
Mr. Mediae has spent some of the best years of his life, to
a result wholly admirable. These pictures, moreover, were
intended to form, so to say, integral parts of the ceremonials,
as the scene of which the Royal Gallery itself was especially
designed. It is surely desirable that the works should bo
delivered from even the chance of damage, and that they
should be seen as they were intended to be seen. We are
quite sure that the responsible authorities need only to be
informed on the subject to induce them to take steps to the
desired end. If the authority of the late Prince Consort is
needed in the matter, let us say that it may be found in the
shape of a sketch, made with pencil by his own hand upon
the framework of mouldings surrounding tho picture first
named above. This sketch shows an arrangement sug-
gested for the purpose of his Royal Highness. In order to
preserve the sketch it has been covered with water-glass,
so that it will remain safe from injury, unless Sir C. Barry's
extraordinary expedient of painting the solid stwework be
repeated.—Agtenceum.

A CONGRESS OF VITICULTURISTS iS proposed to
be held very shortly at Paris, to find a solution to
the vexed question that has for so many centuries given
rise to endless discussions among our neighbours on the
other side of the Channel—" Which is the best wine pro-
duced in France 21' It is added that three illustriouo
orators will speak on the occasion. The announcement i 5
now going the rounds of the French journals, but wo con-
fess our inability to discover whether it is seriously meant,
or intended only as a gentle parer', of the existing rag°
for holding congresses that pervades the Conthient at the
present day, and of which we have lately witnessed so
many examples, from the culminating congres,3 of sove-
reigns at Frankfort down to the congress of working men
held at Leipsie the other day. As many people prefer
claret, Burgundy has its supporters, and there is no lack
of people who lean towards champagne. It appears to us
simply a matter of taste, and, as such, precluded from
serious competition with each other in the sense proposed
for solution by the congress.—
Wine Trade and Review.
LORD DUDLEY remarked once to that genialeot
of wits, Sydney Smith—" You have been laughing at me
constantly, Sydney, for the last seven ears;y and yet is
all that time you never said a single thing to me that
wished unsaid."

VOLUNTARY EMANCIPATION.—The work of jai'
mediate emancipation, by owners voluntarily setting
their slaves free, is going forward quite extensively ill
Platte county. Yesterday N. J. Alexander, Esq., residing
near Weston, liberated eight of his negroes. His wife 1101
all their clothing washed out and put in order ; Mr. A. fur'
niched them with transportation and funds to meet incident 4
expenses, and provisions to last them until next spring. AV°
fear that the.se negroes will never find a home such as the/
had in the family of their late master and mistress. Mr'
Joseph Pence informs us that he shall do the same with bis
slaves as Mr, Alexander has ; and that they are only waiting
to hear from Kansas, before taking up their line of mad.),
Large numbers of slaves, we learn, have beea liberated in
this manner in different ports of the county. A genaeunst
informed us that some 50 had been set free and started for
Kansas in one day. Platte County Sentinel, Sept. 24.
GALLANT RESCUE OF A LITTLE CHILD FRO)
DROWNING.—On Monday afternoun, at 20 minutes
past 2 o'clock, a child about four or five yea). s of age, havirt!
through some accident, fallen into the ornamental watero
St. James's-park, must infallibly have been dre f lwned but
or
the instant promptitude of a gentleman who havpened t _
passing by. The child bad sunk when this g entlenufto
years
hesitation,of a age, plunged
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though
a o f s
moment'sixty
water chd"
even to take off his over-coat. Having rescued the qtr.
the amateur claimant upon the attention of the Royal!.,,i,
mane Society coolly swam off again for the recovery 01
hat I—Me.