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 Abergeldie, about half a mile
from the castle, took luncheon in that quiet,
romantic spot. esday brought a regular d9Vin-
pour of rain, w lasted all day ; but, notwith-
standing, the Pri of Wales, Prince Louis, and
Prince Alfred wee out shooting till dark, and
brought down sev stags and some hinds. The
Prince and Prince.* g 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-
dome, and occupied the same apartments the Emperor Na'
poleon did in 1848.
THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS of the French Will
visit Compiegne on the oth of October.
H.I.H. PRINCE NAPOLEON and suite visited the
Hammam (76, Jermyn-street), yesterday, and enjoyed tits
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 Mondah
for Scotland.

The Marquis of Normanby has arrived at 46,
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 Maurigy'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 Baroness 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 today from their seat in Hampshire.

THE ANNAMITE AMBASSADORS, who have corn°
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

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 inhabitants. His Majesty, in
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 coffim
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 body 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 ("Dilexi 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" wag
chanted, also without the organ; and with a prayer for the
absolution of the deceased (" Absolve Domine, animanl
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 Brompton 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 found
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 MB-
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 in his school would not only
be taught to spell "window" but have to polish their maw.
ter's glass. Still we allow that making pumps, and evert
cleaning windows, ought to Rem a part of a boy's educa-
tion, or something very like them. It is a great thing for
a boy 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 imaginary
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 en
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.
would be a fatal mistake to make these things, and things.
like them, a part of the ordinary school teaching•
masters of most public schools give little enough now of thr
education which strengthens and liberalises the ordina
mind ; but if the pump theory were once established
general favour, they would give none. We will toeynste.
prevent them forcing our stupid boys to do bald,
bay.'
less iambics; but we will be also firm in protestina:,
against
their pocketing cur money and handing our stupid boys
over to bungling imitations of the arts of the plumber and
the carpenter.—Saturday Review.
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF THE IRISTI 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 liumphery, t
being generally conferred on the Lord Mayor in whose term
of office it is vacated. The emoluments are coneiclerabic
being; plurally reckoned atl
44000 a year,