The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-18 00:00:00

EER MAJESTY.

The Count and Countess Chrapowieky have left
Claridge's Hotel for Tunbridge-wells.
Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses Jocelyn
have arrived in town from St. Leonard's-on-Sea.
Lord Broughton left town yesterday for Tidworth
Park to pass the autumn.

TIIE EMPEROR, it is expected, will shortly visit
Cherbourg.

DEATH OF ADMIRAL 0. V. HARCOURT.—We
(Leeds Mercury) have the melancholy duty of
chronicling the death of this estimable gentleman, which
took place at the residence, Swinton Park, near Masham,
on Friday last. He was a younger son of Dr. Edward
Vernon, late Archbishop of York (who took the surname of
Harcourt by royal sign manual, in January, 1831, on his
corning to the estate of the late Earl Harcourt). The
gallant admiral was born on the 26th of December,
1793, and was consequently in his 70th year. He has ever
been a great benefactor to the church. He built, at his own
expense, a very handsome church and parsonage, at Healey,
near Masham, which he amply endowed; also another
church at Brent Tor, in Eevonshire, the endowment of
which he considerably augmented. He also restored at his
own cost, in a most efficient manner, the parish church at
Masham, besides contributing very largely to the funds for
the restoration of several other churches, not only in this
but in other counties. He contributed with princely muni-
ficence to the Riddell Memorial Mechanicss' Institute, in
Masham, the Masham Grammar School, at Kelbank, near
Masham, as well as to the funds of all the local charities.
He was also a kind and liberal landlord, and as such his
memory will ever be held dear to a numerous and devoted
tenantry,

MR. JOHN THOMAS'S Cantata for the " Eistel-
vod," which is to take place at Swansea in the earliest days
of September, bears the title of "Llewellyn."
A PARODY of the "Dame aux Camelias " is now,
says the .Reader, being performed at the Theatre
Dejazet in Paris. It is entitled "Madame Camelia before
Sebastopol," and represents the French soldiers before
Sebastopol playing the younger Dumas's piece, then in
vogue at Paris, without a book, and entirely cx tempore.
A corporal plays " Armand Duval," the father is a tam •
bour-major, and a full-grown vivandiere is the consumptive
heroine.
PRINCESS MATHILDE is still absent from Paris,
and will remain away a month longer.
MDLLE. TITIENS will make her debut before the
end of the month at the French "Grand Opera" in the cha-
racter of Valentine in the " Huguenots."
MR. 'VINCENT WALLACE has a new work ready
for the coming winter season of Miss Pyne's opera com-
pany.

THE EMPEROR'S short journey to Normandy is
;o be commemorated by a medal being struck.
MRS. STIRLING, long absent from the London
stage, will reappear very shortly at the Adelphi in a new
comic drama.
GENERAL FLEURY is to be made a General of
Division and Master of the Hunt to the Emperor—the
latter appointment having remained vacant ever since the
death of Marshal St. Arnaud.
" OLD CRITICS' NOT TO BE CAUGHT WITH
CHAFF.—The Athenceunt thus begins one of its
last notices of a little book of—Poetry I—We are told that
Zoilus was presented by Apollo with a sack of wheat that
had not been winnowed, and told to pick out all the chaff
in return for his very querulous and fault-finding review.
Nowadays, Apollo too often presents the critic with a sack
of chaff, through which we seek in vain for a single grain
of wheat.
THE PRECISE VALUE OF A LIFE !—A boatman
at Worthing, a few days ago, was presented with the mag-
nificent sum of 6d. by a person whose life he had saved
when attacked with cramp whilst bathing.
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON is said to have sent
a Parisian engineer, M. Daus, to Tunis, in order to make
some topographical researches, for the purpose of gaining
certain knowledge relative to the life of Csesar.
CRINOLINE, occasionally, makes some slight
amends for the disasters it caused, At one of the
Paris theatres, for example, last week, a stage trap-dour
was left open, through which a favourite actress would
have been precipitated had not the abundant size of her
crinoline filled up the vacancy and suspended her fair frame
between the world above and the realms below until assist-
ance came to her.
A DISTINCTION WITH A DIFFERENCE !--Colonel
Stirling declares that all the motley collection of donkey-
drivers, of many languages, collected at Alexandria, aree
in calling Pompey's Pillar "Bumbay's Billows." g
THE NATURE OF EVIDENCE.--All the facts with
which we are acquainted, visible or invisible,
internal or external, are connected together in a vast series
of sequences which we call cause and effect, and the consti-
tution of things is such, that men are able to infer from one
fact the existence, either past or future, of other facts. For
instance, we infer from a footmark on soft ground that a
foot has been impressed upon it. From the fact that a man
is planting his foot on soft ground, we infer that it he com-
pletes that motion a footmark will appear. Any specific
fact, or set of facts, employed for the purpose of inferring
therefrom the existence of any other fact, is said to be
evidence of that fact. Suppose the question is whether
John Smith is living or dead ; A says, " I knew John
Smith, and I saw him die." B says, " I knew Jolla Smith.
I saw him in bed ; he looked very ill. I shortly afterwards
heard he was dead, and saw a funeral procession, which I
attended, and which every one said was his funeral,
leave his house and go to the churchyard, where I saw
a coffin buried with his name on it." C says, "Z told me
that he heard from X that John Smith was dead." D
says, "I had a dream that John Smith was dead.'' Each
of these facts, if used for the purpose of supporting the in-
ference that John Smith w aosonrevainlloyindgea;dt,hveaotulofd bce evidence
of of his death. The assertions of A and B would, under or-
dinary circumstances, be
satisfactory, and that of D altogether idle, except to a very
superstitious person.
.This would be usually expressed by
saying that the assertions of A and B would be good evi-
dence, that of C weak evidence, and that of D no evidence
at all of the fact of death. But this is not quite a correct
way of speaking; whether one fact is evidence of another
depends on the way hi which it is used. If people usually
believed in dreams, the assertion that a man had dreamt of
John Smith's death would be evidence of his death. Whe-
ther or not it would be wise to allow it to be evidenc3 of his
death, would depend on the further question, whether in
point of fact tha practice of inferring the truth of the dream
from the fact of its occurrence, usually produced true be-
lief.--Stephens' General View on the Criminal Law of
Entiland.

The annual public sitting of the five Academies
took place yesterday at the palace of the Institute,
M. Paulin-Paris, President of the Academy of Inscriptions
and Belles-Lettres, in the chair. Near him were seated
MM. Villeraain, Guignot, Velpeau, Jouffrcy, and Naudet,
delegates of the several academies, The sitting was opened
by an address from the president, and the proclamation of the
biennial prize of 20,000 fr. awarded to M. Oppert. A report
was afterwards read on the competition of 1863 for the
prize founded by M. de Volnary. That of 1,200 fr. for a
work of comparative Philology was given to M. Adolphe
Pictet, of Geueva. IK. Wallon read a paper on The
Fall of Richard 11. ;" M. Couder one on " The Character
of Art in General ;" and General Morin one "On the im-
provement in the dwelling-houses of the poor." The sittnag
Was closed by
M, Yieimet reading some of his fablesi,

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The Queen in Germany.
Oa the arrival at Cologne, on Friday evening, of
the train conveying her Majesty, the princes and
princesses, Earl Granville, and the suite in attend-
ance on the royal party, no halt was made, and the
journey to Rosenau was continued.
On reaching RJlandseck, at eight o'clock, her
Majesty and the members of the royal family
alighted, and partook of dinner in a room at the
station which had been specially prepared for the
accommodation of the royal party. The journey
was resumed at half-past nine, when the route
taken was by way of Mavence, over the Hessian
Ludwig's Railway to Darmstadt, and thence by way
of Aschaffcnburg.
The English residents on the Lower Rhine in-
tended to assemble, and to offer a demonstration of
loyalty to the Queen, but this idea was reluctantly
abandOned, as it was ascertained that a desire had
been expressed that nothing of the kind should
take place.

The Count of Flanders has arrived at Abergeldie
on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales.
The Prince and Princess William of Baden have
returned to Claridge's Hotel, from Cowes, Isle of Wight.
The Marquis of Londonderry continues in a very
weak condition, and but faint hopes are now entertained of
his ultimate restoration to health.
The Earr of Coventry joiaed the circle visiting
the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Gordon Castle,
Fochabers, N. 8., on Wednesday last.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have left
town, on a tour of visits in the north.
The Earl de Grey and Ripon, as Secretary of
State for 'War, has been on a tour of inspection of the for-
tifications in progress and in contemplation at the various
points on the south-west and western coast ; also the Chan-
nel Is:ands. The noble earl will leave Plymouth to-day for
the westward, and is not expected to return to town until
after visiting Milford Haven.