The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-02 00:00:00

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11ER, MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 1.
The Queen, the Crown Prince and Princess of
Prussia, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prinect
Arthur, Prince Leopo d, Princess Beatrice, and
her Serene Highness the Princess Hohenlohe,
visited her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
this morning at Frogmore House, it being the
anniversary of the princess's birthday.
Her MajeAy, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce,
took a carriage drive, attended by Lord Alfred
Paget on horseback. de
Lord Alfred Paget and Col. the Hon. D•
Ros have succeeded Major-General Hon. A. Hood
and Col. Ponsoaby as Equerries.

Birthday of the Princess of Wales.
The first birthday which her Royal Highness
the Princess of Wales has passed in England Was
joyously celebrated yesterday in many places. In
the metropolis the bells of the various churches
rang a merry peal, the troops of the Household
Brigade paraded in the court-house opposite Marl-
borough House with their State band, the royal
standards were hoisted on the Government
offices,
and the vessels in the river presented a gay and
animated appearance. In the evening the houses
of many of her royal highness's tradesmen
were

At Windsor the day was celebrated with the
customary honours paid to the members of the
royal family, and the houses were gaily decorated
with flags.
The Prince and Princess of 'Wales and the
Crown Prince and Crown Princess of FrUS6II3/
attended by their suites, drove to Virginia Water'
and lunched in the Temple, leaving Froggore
Lodge at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and re'
turning at 4 o'clock. The new dining room Was
elegantly decorated with wreaths and choice exotics'
and in the splendid /apartments were displayed
the various elegant presents which the princess
had received on this occasion. In the evening
their royal highnesses gave a grand banquet in
the new dining room, when covers were laid fcr
27 persons.
In the evening Herr Herrmann, the renownra
prestidigitator of the Princess's Theatre, had the
honour to perform before the royal party at
Frogmore by command.
Many of the houses at Windsor were
hated; and the Mayor and Corporation gave a
ball in the Town Hall, which was attended by
about 70 royal tradespeople of Windsor and Eton.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge Was
prevented by slight indisposition from leaving town, On
Monday to visit the Earl and Countess of Derby at ICIIO6-
ley. His royal highness, we hear, is suffering from
obstinate attack of 'neuralgia.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale arrived at Hatfield House, Herts, on Moudail °A
a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury.
His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and 0.6
Countess Bernstarff entertained at dinner, last evening? hie
Excellency the French Ambassador, the Duke and DtlebeElg
of Somerset, his Excellency the Italian Minister, his
cellency the Saxon Minister, the Earl and Countess u.'"
Grey, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston and liadi
Victoria Ashley, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, the 1110 t
Hon. Charles P. Villiers, the Marquis de Cadore, &a' .6.

small party assembled after dinner.
His Excellency the French Ambassador, the
Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, attended at the F"e„,ign;
office, yesterday, and had an interview with the 14°'
Russell.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort arrived ill
town, on Sunday, from visiting the Emperor and Empress
of the French at Compiegne, and have since gone to 130-
minton, their seat in Gloucestershire, for the winter.
The Duke of Newcastle was rather better yester-
day, but his grace's illness prevented him from attending
the Cabinet Council.
The Earl and Countess of Craven and Ladies
Craven left town, yesterday, for Ashdown Park, Berks.
Viscount and Viscountess Clifden Jett town,
yesterday, for their temporary seat in Suffolk.
The Countess (Dowager) of Listowel and LadY
Proby left town, yesterday, for Elton Hall, the Earl of
Carysfort's seat, near Stilton.
Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses
Jocelyn left Lord and Lady Palmerston's residence, in Fie°
cadilly, yesterday, for St. Leonards.,
Lard and Lady Londesborough have left the
Clarendon Hotel for Paris, en route for Egypt.
all 11,
Lord Crewe left town yesterday for Crew
e
Cheshire. ,orge'ts

Lord Huntingfield has left the St. Ge
Hotel.
The Hon. M. and Mrs. Milles have arrived at
Talton Sykes, Bart., has left Claridge the St. George's Hotel.
Sir Tat gotel
for Newmarket.

PREJUDICE, AS DEFINED BY A SATURDAY 13'.
VIEWER.—There are companies in which to' express
a belief that Louis Napoleon Buonaparte means mischief ill
his proposed Congress would be at once scouted as pre'
judice, and to call it prejudice would be thought all
answer that it deserved. Undoubtedly such a belief io
prejudice, because it is a judgment pronounced beforehaA
while the evidence is still unknown or imperfect, and whieb;
therefore may possibly be reversed by the actual course 0'
events, It is as yet quite possible that Louis Napo's°
may sincerely desire the liberation of Poland, and tb:
reconciliation of Denmark and Germany, without the leat'
eye to the frontier of the Rhine. The feeling against 121'33
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ireenacseo noaf b
allle prejudice, u
pastdi c e,
acts. because
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is therefore, in strictness Of speech, a prejudice; but it 'S
quite sufficient presumption that any future acts will bu
notthe ae
experience
the same kind. This presumption is quite enough to ac.:
upon—that is, quite enough to put all other nations on tftei-
guard. Still it is merely a prejudice or presuruptieii; bey
cause we have not as yet the evidence before us, etd„rifeotly
i sage trrna ffeloerda 43;
turn out to be wrong. Here is a prejudice, but u wart
reasonable prejudice. at the way in which the gl--
was often spoken of 15 years ago was, to a great extells, so
case of unreasonable prejudice. When President heretionart
assumed the chief magistracy of the French de
were undoubtedly many presumptions of various kinds
against him, but they were none of them so' strong as.
deprive him of every man's prima faoie right to a fair trial
He obtained his post by a perfectly fair electic ars, whis_l3t
though even then it showed dangerous recklessness on th:
part of the electors, was certainly honourable rather dial
otherwise to the elected. To condemn him beforehand t,t,.
it were not the sign of a superhuman pre-science, was t
sign of a prejudice which certainly was not just. We su sPe.,c.
that some of those who from the beginning sneered most, lo'ci
terly at every act of the. President would now be folt,Tio
among the most abject flatterers of the "Emperor." IY,,a
su-pecu that some of those who have unflinchingly hi
ve
that there is such a thing as right and wrong, who ha
never held that success justifies or palliates crime, who ha
never thought that perjury and massacre are matters whi
i
any courtly euphemism can gloss over, would be foul d!
fifteen years ago, to have been among those who plead
for a candid hearing for a man who had not then forfeited the'
rights which b3lone-, to all men except convicted crirains
It is possible that their present judgment may be in so;
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degree embittered by what is in some sort a disappointme at'
expected any good; still 111.6
They may not have actaally
result is felt as a kind of disappointment, a bad return, to it
were, for the mere grant of a candid hearing, Still, et,c/I
increased bitterness of judgment cannot make any v
ery
essential difference; it is at the utmost the merest sharp co'
bag of the edge. • Yet when such men argue that a 01;
a
who has so often already deceived the world is likely to e::
ceivo it again, this reasonable inference from experienoi
not uncommonly poohspo3hed as mere prejudice.
course whatever of prejudice, that is of unreasoning Pre if
dice, there is in the matter, lies the other way—a Pr`43,-;
dice, namely, in favour of success, of daring, of the los
e
of power and mystery, sometimes the mere abject prejad tea
in favour of everything which, never mind by what tueai'=",
has come to be called Majesty and lliiihnees, and eXPt''t°
peopl3 to bow knees and kiss hands before it.
"MEMOIRS OF JANE CAMERON," Female Coll/let.
By a Prison Matron. 2 vols.—" This narratic"
as we can well believe, is truthful in every important P3r,
ticular—' a faithful chronicle of a women's fall and resotteec i;
It is a book that ought to be widely read. It has b
undertaken with a view of showing how the poor and
rnua
rant are led into crime, and in that way to suggest 8030_
to the mystery of temptation, and demonstrate to Pit
trip
thropists thropists where the first effort should be made to to ell
'ea
weak and erring from the danger.' And this is &twilit:noi
as a book can do it, by the honest and eloquent Wrt. stro
the authoress of Female Lila in Prison.' If this ri.-
of the c
womanly book can quicken public zoal on behalf
c.
mina's who can, by proper measures, be led back
uP
wrong doing, and better still, be saved from
enteri a
own day,
it, it will be, in its own way, for a few in our
little gospel."—Examilier. atil3l('
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;TIIANKSGIYING.—John Pull— chore
you'd better wash off your war paint before going' to
friend ""--Fein,