The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-30 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

On Tuesday last the Prince and Princess of Wales
drove to the Den of Abergeldie, about half a mile
from the castle, and took luncheon in that quiet,
romantic spot. Wednesday brought a regular down-
pour of rain, which lasted all day; but, notwith-
standing, the Prince of Wales, Prince Louis, and
Prince Alfred were out shooting till dark, and
brought down several stags and some hinds. The
Prince and Princess of Wales leave Abergeldie on
Thursday. Their departure is hastened on so that
the Princess may see her brother, King George,
before his final departure for Greece.

THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, on his recent arrival
in Paris, alighted at the HOtel du Rhin, in the Place Ven-
.l.)me, and occupied the same apartments the Emperor Na-
poleon did in 1848.
THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS of the French will
visit Compiegne on the sth of October.
H.I.H. PRINCE NAPOLEON and suite visited the
Hammam (76, Jermyn-street), yesterday, and enjoyed the
luxury of a Turkish bath.
CARDINAL WISEMAN.—We are glad to hear that
the health of his Eminence has improved.

The Duke of Montrose has arrived at Buchanan
Castle, N. 8., on Monday last, from London. The Duchess
and Lady Violet Graham left Belgrave-square oa Monday,
for Scotland.

The Marquis of Normanby has arrived at 96,
Queen's-gate-terrace, Kensington, from Nova Scotia.
The Marchioness of Westminster and Lady
Theodora Grosvenor have arrived at Stoneleigh Abbey, on
a visit to Lord and Lady Leigh. The noble marquis re-
mains at Motcomb.

Count Nesselrode has returned to Alaurigy's
Hotel, from a visit to the Marquis of Bath, at Longleat,
Wilts.

Viscount Hamilton, M.P., has joined the party
visiting the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Gordon
Castle, N.B.
Lord and Lady Rokeby and the Hon. Miss
Montagu have arrived in Paris, with the intention of making
a short stay.

Col. Lord Seaton has arrived at Fenton's Hotel,
from Bert House, Athy, after attending the funeral of his
relative, the late Lord Downes.
Lady Ebury and Hon. Miss Grosvenor have ar-
rived at Paris on a visit to the Earl and Countess Cowley.

The Dowager Lady Ward has arrived at Dudley
House, Park-lane, from Norfolk.

The Baron and B Aroness Oldendorff and family
have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for the Isle
of Wight.

The Hon. Col. Thesiger left town yesterday for
Switzerland to meet Lord and Lady Chelmsford and Hon.
Miss Thesiger.
General Sir Wm. and Lady Gomm are expected
to arrive in town to-day from their seat in Hampshire.
THE ANNAMITE AMBASSADORS, who have Come

to Paris in the hope of buying Cochin-China from the
French for about seventy millions of francs, are said to wish
to come to England, being rather curious about our bar-
barous habits I

THE EMPEROR AT PAU.—The Monieeur publishes
the following letter from Biarritz:—" The Emperor
left Tarb es at nine yesterday morning, after having ex-
amined, with M. Fould and the principal functionaries,
all the questions which interest the department of the
Hautes-Pyrenees. His Majesty performed the journey
from Tarbes to Pau without either suite or escort, in a
light open carriage driven by a postillion of the country.
The Emperor, nevertheless, received on his way numerous
marks of the feelings of the inhanitants. His Majesty, iu
spite of his precautions to travel incognito, was anxiously
looked for at Pau by all the people who went out to meet
him, and followed his Majesty with loud acclamations dur-
ing the whole time he remained there. The Emperor went
to the Chateau to visit the embellishments which have been
executed there, and then took a walk through the town,
accompanied by the mayor and the prefect, who pointed out
the improvements made or projected in the place, which is
rapidly increasing in size. The Emperor returned to
Bayonne by the new railway, which is not yet open to the
public, and at five in the afternoon rejoined the Empress
and the Prince Imperial, at the villa, after an absence of
three days well occupied. This day his Majesty reviewed
the troops of the garrison of Bayonne, and distributed re-
compenses, meeting on every side with the warmest accla-
mations from the people."

VESPERS FOR THE DEAD AT THE ORATORY,
BROMPTON.—Yesterday evening, at 8 o'clock, the
mortal remains of the late Very Rev. Frederic William
Faber, D.D., superior of the Oratory, were taken in a coffin.
covered over with a magnificent pall from the house into
the chapel of the Oratory, where the solemn vespers for the
dead were sung. An enormous congregation filled not only
every available seat but every passage and every corner of
the spacious building, and over 2,000 persons must have
been present. Owing to the crowd which occupied the
passages, the bidy was not borne up the nave as was in-
tended, but through the sacristy, to a spot in front of the
altar. the priests and attendants chanting the " Miserere"
in mournful and impressive effect. Vespers then com-
menced—Psalm 114 (" Dileai quoniam"), 119 (" Ad
Dominum clamavi"), 120 (" Levavi oculos"), 129 (" De
profundis"), and 137 (" Confitebor"), being first chanted.
After a few versicles had been sung, the " Magnificat" was
chanted, also without the organ; and with a prayer for the
absolution of the deceased (" Absolve Domino, animam
famuli tui," &c.), the solemn office was concluded. The
funeral of Dr. Faber will take place to-morrow, privately,
at Sydenham, after high mass in the Brompten Oratory.
THE LATE CANON CARTON, K.L.—The late
celebrated Abbe Carton, a Knight of Leopold, has
just died at Bruges, after a short illness, in the Asylum for
the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, of which he was the founder
and director. He was born in 1802, at Pitthem, in West
Flanders, and, after taking priest's orders, concentrated all
his energies in providing for the deaf, dumb, and blind
children, whose pitiable state had, from his early years,
attracted his sympathies. Encouraged by the support and
encouragement of the late Mgr. Bousseau, Bishop of Bruges:
he founded the sisterhOod of the Children of Mary, a com-
munity which has been most successful in educating chil-
dren labouring under the above afflictions. The most in-
teresting of all the lions of Bruges, " that quaint old Fle-
mish city," as Longfellow calls it, was the acting by the
deaf and dumb children of the Litany of Loretto, while the
blind boys sang it.
LORD STANLEY TAKING A LEAF OUT OF ME.
SQUEERS'S SCHOOLBOOK.—Iambics are wrong, but
pumps are far worse. Making a pump is not more useful
than cleaning windows, and Lord Stanley's theory is really
that of Squeers, and the boys io his school would not only
be taught to spell " window" but have to polish their mas-
ter's glass. Still we allow that making pumps, and even
cleaning windows, ought to form a part of a boy's educa-
tion, or something very like them. It is a great thing for
ahoy to be ingenious and handy, and to be able to shift for
himself. But this ought to be a part of home education, or
of play hours at school. A boy may most usefully learn.
how to saddle and feed and clean a horse, how a ship is
rigged, how potatoes are boiled, how a salad is made. But
as a matter of fact, he does learn things like these at school
already, and if parents took a little trouble, he would learn.
the rest at home. When it is asked how an imaginer),
scholar would get on if wrecked on a desert island, an easy
triumph is won by the uneducated, who picture him sitting
on the shore making Greek iambics and starving. But in
real life the maker of Greek iambics has probably also
learned to shoot, to play cricket, to row, to climb trees, to
ump, and to swim. All these things would help him on
his desert island, and as an English gentleman expects to
live in England, and not on a rock in the Pacific, this brings
him quite near enough to the capabilities of the savage• It
would be a fatal mistake to make these things, and things
like them, a part of the ordinary school teaching. Thabet
masters of most public schools give little enough now of. t
education which strengthens and liberalises the orhararinY
mind ; but if the pump theory were once estahiii: try to
general favour, they would give none. We
weld, sense-
prevent them forcing our stupid boys to do bald, -6
our slt"b r yds
ltehsesiriapmocbkicesangbuotuwremwoinllebye
and
do fihramndiinngprotesting ailabinnst
over to bungling imitations of the arts of the P ean
the carpenter.—Saturday Review.
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF THE IRISH SOCIETY.---
It is understood that the present Lord Mayor will succeed
to the valuable and honourable post of governor of the Irish
Society. vacant by the death of Alderman Humphery, it
being generally conferred on the Lori Mayor in whose term
of office it is vacated. The emoluments are considerable
being generally reckoned at £l,OOO a year.