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London, England, 1863-04-27 00:00:00

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SHAM FOSSILS —Some doubts, says the
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neum, have arisen as to the genuineness of the
alleged discovery of a human bone in the drift. Messrs,
Prestwich, Evans, and Taylor have paid a visitteonsMerws.
Boucher de Perthes, for the purpose of comparing the
facts will' previous discoveries. Mr. Evans is said to have
been struck with the suspicious appearance of one of the
flint-heaps. The axes appeared to have been artificially
stained ; and, on being placed in water, they looked as Hall
the colour would brush away. The general circumstances
are said to have impressed the English geologists with a
strong feeling of uncertainty. No one, of course, can sup-
pose that any part of the mystification- -if there shoul I be
mystification in the matter—lies at the door of M. Boucher
de Perrhes ; it is, however, feared the rewards proposed by
that gentleman for the discovery of h man bones may have
tempted the quirrytnen into a d screditable trick. At all
events this n-w fact in the great controversy as to the An-
tiquity of Man requires to beset free from a very reasonable
doubt,

Mill tlrtgar.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 26.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse,
and Princess Helena, drove out this morning, at-
tended by Major-General Hon. A. N. Hood, Equerry
in Waiting.

To-day is the anniversary of the birthday of her
Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse.
Mr. Tbeodor Janssen has had the honour of sit-
tings for portraits of their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales.

April 26.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louis of Hesse
attended at the private chapel this morning, when
the service appointed for the chnrching of women
was performed by the Hon. and Very Rev. the
Dean of Windsor.

Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness
Prince Louis of Hesse were also present.
The Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales,
Prince Louis of Hesse, Prince Alfred, Princess
Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, Prince Alexander and Prince Henry of
Hesse, the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and
the domestic household attended Divine service in
the private chapel this morning.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor
preached the sermon.

Their Grand Ducal Highnesses the Prince Alex-
ander and Prince Henry of Hesse, attended by
Baron de Rot smann, arrived at the Castle last even-
ing. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, and Prince Louis of Hesse met the
Princes of Hesse at the Windsor station.

Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphiustone.
arrived at the Castle.

The Duchess of Wellington, the Right Hon. Sir
Charles Wood, and the Rev. Mr. Bender also ar-
rived at the Castle.

Her Majesty the Queen will hold a Privy Coun•
cil to-morrow (Tuesday) at Windsor Castle.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of -Wales will honour Oxford with a visit during
the ensuing Commemoration, when the University will
confer the degree of D.C.L., on his Royal Highness, who
will, with the Princess of Wales. arriv, in Oxford on Tues-
day, June 23, returning on the following Thursday morn-
ing. Th, Deanery has been placed at the disposal of their
Royal Highnesses by Dr. Lindell, Dean of Christchurch.
Satur tay last was the 20th anniversary of the
birthday of the Princess Alice Maud Mary (Princess Louis
of Hesse).
The christening of the infant daughter of the
Princess Louis of Hesse took place at Windsor Castle this
morning.

Viscount Palmerston held an assembly on Satur•
day evening at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, previous to
which the noble viscount and viscountess entertained
company at dinner. The assembly was numerously at-
tended.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
entertained at dinner on Saturday evening at their
residence, Grosvenor-gate—the Saxon Minister, the Mar-
chi.ness of Ely, the Marquis and Marchioness ot Normauby,
the Earl of St. Germans, the Countess of Malmesbury, the
Earl Cowper, Loru and Lady John Manners, Viscount and
Viscountess Royston, Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerr-
son, Mr. Lygon, and Sir Anthony and Lady de Rothschild.
The Earl of Chesterfield comes to his new resi-
dence in Grosvenor street to-day from Newmarket, for the
season.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley
will return to town to-day from passing a week with Sir
Walter R. and Lady Mary Farquhar at their seat, Pouls-
den Park, Surrey.

The Marquis of Douglas arrived in town, from
Paris, on Saturday morning. The Duke of Hamilton is
still at Nice. The Duchess and Lady Mary Douglas are
sojourning for the present in Paris,

The Earl Spencer has been detained at Altborp
by indisposition arising from a cold. The noble earl and
countess are expected in town in the course of the week.
The Earl and Countess of Warwick have arrived
in Paris from Nice.

Lord Edward St. Maur is pronounced out of
danger. During the last two days the medical reports have
been favourable

It is more than ever affi,med that the Sultan will
visit England shortly, taking France em route.
The journals announce the death of the Prince
d'Esling, son of Massena, of apoplexy, aged 61.
The uncovering of the Memorial of the Great
Exhibition of 1851 by the Prince of Wales, in the Horti-
cultural Socieiy's Gardens at South Kensington, will take
place on the 10th June.

At Marlborough Hduse the other day, at the re-
ception of the deputations, the Prince of Wales
appeared in the uniform of a general in the army, and was
decorated with the Riband .f the Garter and the Cordon of
the Legion of Honour. Her Royal Highness the Princess
of Wal.s wore a tight-fitting morning dress of a rich mauve
coloured silk, and a delicately-worked lace pelerine, which
had more the appearance of a cape than a collar, with a
single costly diamond brooch on her breast. The sleeves of
the dress were large and open, and richly worked in lace,
falling from the elbow somewhat after the fashion seen in
me pictures of some of the Tudor Princesses.

LATEST TOILETS AT LONGCHAMP.—The Em-
press was there, one of the most important prizes
of tha day being that called the Empress's prize. Her
Majesty was dressed in a very pale grey taffetas dress, shot
with blue, the casa on being similar to the robe, and the
sleeves and front of the latter trimmed with narrow bands
of the same material, edged with white, placed like bran-
denburgs, and terminated at the point of each narrow band
with a white silk button, the whole costume having some-
what of a sporting air. The bonnet worn by the Empress
was of the same shade of pale grey as the dress, in crepe,
very simply crnarnented by a tuft of blackberries or
currants.

Various alterations and changes are taking place
et Fostainebieau in preparation for the reception
of the Prince and Princess of Wales; and an entertain-
ment, to be given by the Prefect of the Seine, is to surpass
everything of the kind given by the Ville de Paris, even
including the celebrated ball iu honour of Queen Victoria.
The temporary horse-shoe staircase, erected on that occa-
sion in the Cnur Henri IV., is about to be replaced by a
magnificent and permanent marble staircase, of the same
form, but of the richest design and ornamentation.

EATENSWILL GAZETTE AND EATENSWILLIy part o
INDE;
PEN DEN T.—From a fly-leaf in the monthly
Good Words, we extract the following choice paragraphs in
reference to its religious contemporary, ?he Record news-
paper :—" In reply to several clergymen of the Church of
England, who have written us in reference to an onslaught
on Good Words and its writers, which has lately been made
in The Record newspaper, we beg to state that we have at
present no intention of taking any notice of it. If we should
ever do so, it will certainly not be to defend ourselves or
our contributors against such groundless and illiterate
ctuumnies, but to illustrate from them the low condition to
which criticism has fallen in the columns of a journal
which, strange to say, claims to represent the opinions at d
the spirit of a section of the Evangelical party of the Church
of England I The articles in The Record are characterised
by such sustained malevolence, gross mist epresentation, low
vulgarity—such shocking irreverence in the .pplication of
Scripture—as to deprive them of the privilege of literary
courtesy. They can have no other effect than to degrade
their author and publisher. We think it right to state, for
the satisfaction of our correspondents and others who feel so
justly offended by these articles, that though their writer
professes to be an attached member of the Church of Eng-
land, and speaks of it affectionately as "our own beloved
Church," and of its creed as " our own thirty-nine Ar-
ticles," yet, incredible as it may appear to every Christian
gentleman, he does not belong to the one, nor has he sub-
scribed to the other. lie is, we are ashamed to say, the
Pre.byterian minister of a chapel somewhere in Chelsea."
MILITARY ESTIMATE OF MR. KINGLAKE'S HIS-
TORY.--The Quarterly, following the Edinburgh
Las done for the military part of "Eothen" what the
Edinburgh effected for the historical narrative, so that the
two portly volum s are now resolved into heaps of matter
morally like those Danish mounds of which geologists
make so much at present. It would be very hard for them,
however, to extract anything useful out f the debris of Mr.
Kinglake's nine years' work. The Quarterly writer has
evidently had the assistance of Sir George Brown's accu-
rate knowledge of the particular scenes in which he bore a
part, and contradicts
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sailed them has been treated by the princit al periodicals in
England, which in that treatment but indicated the sense
entertained of thin mischievous book by the officers of the
British army who fought against and with our sturdiest
enemy and our most valiant ally. The Quarterly shows
how Mr- Kinglake rewarded Admiral Dundee by a charit-
able silence for the hospitalities of the fleet. Had not criti-
cism so scalped the work, our ambitious officers might re-
gret that they were not all fortunate in being able to extend
such small favours to the illustrious visitor to the East in
1854.—.4inny and Aavy gaztuf.