The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-16 00:00:00

THE MISSISSIPPI,

The Mississippi ("father of waters") is by far the
largest of North American rivers. Rising in the
small lake of Itasca, on the verge of the middle
table-land, at an elevation of 1,500 or 1,600 feet, it
runs southward through the great central plain, re-
ceiving numerous accessions from either side, and,
after a winding course of 3,160 miles, falls through
a swampy delta into the Gulf of Mexico. lts main
tributaries on the right or Rocky Mountain side, in
which they take their rise, are the Missouri—a
river even longer, larger, and having more effluents
than the Mississippi itself—the Arkansas, having
also many effluents, and the Red River; bile on the
left its chief tributary is the Ohio, with its numerous
feeders from the western slopes of the Alleghenies.
Between the Rocky Mountains on the west, and
the Appalachians on the east, lies, therefore, the
great conjoint basin of the Missouri, Mississippi,
and Ohio, having an area of more than a million
square miles; containing every description of soil
and scenery—prairie, barren, and woodland;
watered by innumerable streams and several navig-
able rivers; and possessing every variety of climate,
from the coldly temperate highlands of Nebraska
to the subtropical warmth of the Gulf of Mexico.
The Missitsippi, we have said, has a winding course
of 3,160 miles, but if the Missouri be taken as the
main stream, its length is 2,260 miles ; while that
of the Arkansas is 2,000, and the Ohio more than
1,000 miles. The breadth of the Missouri and
Mississippi at their confluence is about half a
mile, and the main stream downwards is very
little more. Though gentle, the current is by
no means sluggish; and thus, during floods, from
the melting of the snow in the higher latitudes, the
rivers sweep downwards immense quantities of mud,
driftwood, and other debris. The Missouri is said
to be navigable " from the Great Falls in the Rocky
Mountains to the sea, a distance of 4,000 miles ; the
Mississippi, from those of St. Anthony, 2,240;
while the Ohio, being connected by a system of
canals with Lake Erie, and thence to Lake Ontario,
carries out a water communication between the
Gulfs of Mexico and St. Lawrence." The Delta of
the Mississippi, which projects itself forward into
the Gulf of Mexico, is a low and unhealthy region,
neatly 14,000 square miles in area, and full of
lagoons, creeks, and pestilential marshes.—Page's
Introductory Text-Book of Physical Geography."
--This day published by the Messrs. W. Blackwood
and Sons.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 15.

The Queem, accompanied by her Royal Highness
the Princess Helens, and attended by the Hon.
Harriett Phipps, drove out in a carriage and four
yesterday afternoon.
Major General Seymour attended on horseback.
Her Majesty, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce,
drove out this morning.
Colonel Hon. A. Hardinge was in attendance.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Leopold and
and Princess Beatrice went to London, and visited
the Zoological Gardens, attended by Lady Caroline
Barrington, and Captain Sir W. Hoste.
Captain Hon. F. Egerton, R.N., arrived at the
Castle yesterday.
Lord Cremorne and Captain Sir W. Hoste have
succeeded Lord de Tabley and Lieutenant-Colonel
Kingscote as Lord and Groom in Waiting.
The Marchioness of Ely has succeeded the Duchoss
of Athole as Lady in Waiting to the Queen.

THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.
The following were among the company present
at tl_e South Kensington Museum at the private
view of the presents to their Royal Highnesses the
PLince and Princess of Wales
Dukes.—Roxburghe, Sutherland, Rutland, Somerset,
Devonshire.
Dowager Duchess of Norfolk.
Mar,uises.—Donegal, Drogheda, Ailsa, Westmeath,Lon-
donderry.
Earls.—Vane, Cadogan, Cottenham, Craven, Dartmouth,
Fife, Enniskillen, Galloway, Bat hurst, Effingnam, St. Ger -
mans, Laneaborough, Bantry, Sefton, Eldon, Desart,
Gainsborough, Caithness, Granville, Wicklow, Grey,
Erne. Tankerville, Lindsay, Camperdown, Hopeioun,
Mornington, Stanhope, Powis, DeGrey and Ripon, Monson,
Home.

Dowager Countess of Jersey; Countesses—Zetland,
Gainsborough, Ranfurly, Cowper, Airlie.
Viscounts.—Middleton, Gage, Enfield, M.P., Canterbury,
Andover, M.P., Nevill, Torrington, Doneraile, Lifford,
Strangford, Galway, M.P., Hamilton.
Archbishop of Canterbury.
Bishops.—London, Winchester, Exeter, 03tford.
His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman.
Lords.—A. H. Trevor, Brougham and Vaux, Cremorne,
Claud Bamilten, Belper, A. 6. Churchill, M.P., Sudeley,
Delamere, John Manners, M.P., Clarence E. Paget, M.P.,
Taunton, Harry Vane, Robert Clinton, k itzhardinge, De
Freyne, Blantyre, Gran. ley, Downes, Sondes, Tenderden,
Thurlow, Redesdale, Carew, Chelmsford, Keane, Dormer,
Wharncliffe, Lyndhurst, Colchester, Rivers, Truro, Lennox,
M.P., Wensleydale, Muskerrey, Raglan, R, Montague,
M.P., Proby, M.P., Vaux of Hari owden, Fermoy, M.P.,
Vivian, Bateman, Walsingham, Carrington, Clyde,
Henley, M.P.
Ladies.—Mackenzie, MacDougall, Charlotte Schreiber,
Shelley, Rolle, Bruce, Eastlake, Bryant, Lowe, Jenkins,
Lewis, Grant, Stewart, Rowe, Lamond.
Baronets and Knights—Bulwer 14) tton, M.P., P.
O'Brien, Henry and Lady Rich, J. P. Boileau, John Mel-
lor, Hugh Cairns, M.P., Massy Lopes, M P„ W. Farquhar,
M.P., W. P. Gallway, M.P., J. V. Shelley, M.P., W.
Scott, M.P,, W. Wallace, J. B. Byles, J. P. Wylde, G.
Forster, M.P., W. J. Alexander, M.P., G. S. Mont-
gomery, H. J. Stracey, M.P., B. W. Bridges, M.P„ E.
Laudseer, R,A., J. Trelawny, M.P., J. V. B. Johnstone,
W. J. Hayter, M.P., John Ogilvy, M,P., Alex. D. tairdon,
T. E. Colebrook, W. G, Joliffe, M P., James Prior, Ed-
ward J. Mildmay, Sir A. and Lady Weldon, J. E. D
Acton, J. Matheson, M.P., Francis Scott, W. M'Arthur,
Colin Blackburn, F. W. Heygate, M.P., J. Burgoyne,
K.C.8., W Davison, H. H. Bruce, M.P., W. Atherton,
G. ,P. Lee, H. S. Keating, W. Dunbar, M.P., Charles
and Lady Rowley, William Russell, M.P., -F. Madden,
M. W. R'dley, M.P., C, E. Eastlake, P.R.A,, W. Topham,
E. Kerrison, M.P., W. Page Wood, F.R.S., F.L.S.,
Richard Levinge, M.P., J. Fakington, M.P., A. W. Buller,
M.P., J. Fergusson, M.P., C. Compton, Lawrence Palk,
M.P., Stafford H. Nortlicoto, Cr. Bowyer, M.P.,
General Sir E. MacArthur, Lieutenant-General Sir H.
Bentinck, K.C.B.
Right Honourables.—C. P. -Villiers, M.P., John Denison,
M.P., Sir Robert Peel, M.P., spencer H. Walpole, M.P.,
G. C. Norton, J. R. Mowbray, M.P„ H. A. lierbert,M.P.
B. Disraeli, M.P., Edward Horsman, M.P., James Mon-
creiff, M.P., C, Duncombe, F. G. Headlam, M.P,, E. P.
Bouverie, M.P., F. Peel, MX., Adderley, M.P., W.
Hunt, M.P.
Honourables.—Percy S. Wyndham, Colonel Foley, R.
Curzon, C. P. Berkeley, MX., W. C. a albot, F. C. Howard,
F. Byng, George Browne, A. Thesiger, H. G. Liddell,
M.P., P. P. Bouverie, H. Duncan, W. B. Portman, M.P.,
G. Denman, R. H. Dutton, W. Stuart Knox, M.P., W
W. Addington, Wilbraham Egerton, M.P,, C. W. S.
Howard, Spencer Littleton, Gerard Noel, M.P., Ashley G
J. Ponsonby, M.P., G. Wrottesley, F. Calthorpe, M.P., C.
H. R. Trefusis, W. E. Gladstone, C. S. Lennox, M.P., E
C. Curzon, E. Cust, E. Curzon, Lieut.-Col. R. T. Rowley,
Lieut.-Col. Coke, M.P., Miss Baring, Mrs, Law, Miss
Jocelyn, Mrs. G. Campbell, G. H. Heathcote,
Baronesses—Mayer de Rothschild and North.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.
Aldermen.—W. Copeland, D. Solomon, M.P., R. Besley,
T. Challis, T. Dakin, G. Gibbons, R. S. Phillips, Sir R.
W. Carden, Thomas Gabriel, Sir F. G. Moon.
Ambassadors, &c.—His Excellency Count Apponyi, Count
Bernstorff, the Marquis d'Azeglio, Count Wachmeister,
Baron de Gros, Mr. D. Longuinoff, Commander de C.
Moreira, M. de Biile, Count V. de Eckstaedt, Chevalier
F. R. d'Andrada, Prince Y esenberg, Baron Donald Mackay,
Marquis de Cadore, Chevalier F. dos Santos, Don Juan B,
Valdivia, Chevalier d'Oliveira Silvo, Baron Beck Frus,
Captain Falbe, Monsieur le Baron Billing, Stephen Musu-
rus Boy, Don Madame Jose Sanz, Marquis d'Audigne,
Chevalier J. A. de Souza Correa, Viscount Cavalho, La
Baronne, F. de Langlade, Count Lamimi.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasur3
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir Geoi ge
Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon.
T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, and
Lord Stanley of Alderley.

His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh has
returned to Claridge's Rotel from Middleton, Yorkshire.
The Marquis of Townahend and Mr. and Lady
E. St. Aubyn have arrived in Park-lane from Br ghton.
The Marchioness of Salisbury and Mr. and Lady
E. Russell aro on a visit to the Earl and Count,ss Delawarr
at Buekhurst. Sir Alexander and Lady Bannerman and
Mrs. Lane Fox are also expected on a visit to the earl and
countess,

The Countess Dowager of Westmoreland and
Lady Rose Fame are expected in town this day from
Brighton.

The Earl of Dalhousie and Lady Christian
Maule have returned to Claridge's Hotel from Scotland.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale and
the Ladies Hay have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, Brook-
street, from Earl-Stoke Park.

Field-Marshal Lord Seaton, Lady Seaton, and
family are still residing at Valetta House, Torquay, where
they have been passing the winter months for the benefit of
his lordship's health.
. . _

Lady Howard de Walden has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel from Brussels.
Lord Ravensworth and family have arrived at
their residence, Percy's Cross, Walham- green, from Ravens-
worth Castle, Durham. .

The King of Hanover has just bestowed the gold
medal of honour for art and science on the celebrated vio-

Mist Vieuxtemps, at Paris.

The races at the Bois de Boulogne on Sunday
were honoured by the presence of the Emperor and the
Empress. The course was crowded by an immense number
of smart equipages, and thousands of pedestrians.

THE INEW BARONET.—Toe Rev. Gilbert Frank-
land Lewis, M.A., who succeeds to the baronets)
rendered vacant by the death of Sir George Cornewall
Lewis, is a younger brother of the late 6ectetarY of State
for War. He was born in 1808, in the same year with
Canon Wordsworth, of Westminster; but his name does Lot
appear in the list either of mathematical or cta.sical hon-
ours. In 1831 he was ordained deacon by Dr. Huntiugford,
Bishop of Hereford, and in 1833 was admitted into priest's
orders by Dr. Grey, who had meanwhile succeeded to
the bishopric of Hereford. Immediately atturwards he
was presented by Sir Velters Curnewall, Bart., to the
rectory i,f Mornington-on-the,•Wye, near Hereford, worth
£260 a year, and about the same time to the rectory et
Gladestry, Radnorshire, worth £350 a year, a living in th,
gift of the Prince of Wales, hut at the same time of coarse
really in the gilt of Earl Grey, who was Prime Minister.
In 1860 he was nominated by Lord Palmerston o a canonry
residence in the Cathedral Church of Worcester. Sir
Gilbert Lewis is married
Bart,h,sister to te eldesof the present member
t daughter of the late
Sir Edmund Antrobus,
for Wilton.
SIR TATTON SYKES, says Bady's Magazine, once
showed plink to the father of Mr. Tattersall. H
was already in the 3 ellow leaf, when the two went together
to the theatre at Doncaster, and were sitting on the back
row of the boxes. A person afterwards came in with a
cigar in his mouth, which, as some ladies were in the box,
he was requested to put out. The man refused, and Mr.
Tattersall, who, though lame, was strong, opened the door
with one hand, and swung the fellow out Nk ith the other.
The aged baronet immediately jumped up, buttoned his
coat, and said in his mild way, " Leave him to me, sir; it
he comes back, leave him to me, sir," The man came not,