The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-15 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, attended by the Marchioness of Carmar-
then, Lieut.-General Knollys, and Captai❑ Grey,
left Marlbarough House at half-past nine o'clock
yesterday morning for the private stoion at Vaux-
hall, and proceeded by special train for Aldershot.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of
Cambridge, attended by the Countess of Maccles-
field, joined the Prince and Princess at the station,
and accompanied their Royal Highnesses to Alder-
shot.

We understand that it is the intention of her li
Majesty the Queen to go abroad for a short time
early in August. Her Majesty will travel under the same
title of DucheEs of Lancaster as upon the last occasion, and
will maintain the strictest privacy. Her Majesty, after
paying a visit of a day to the King of the Belgians, will
proceed direct to the Castle of Rosenau, near Coburg, the
birthplace of the Prince Consort, which the Duke of Coburg
has kindly placed at. her Majesty's disposal. The Queen's
stay abroad will probably not exceed four weeks.

Their. Royai Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary honoured Lady Marian Al-
ford by their presence at dinner on Monday evening, at her
ladyship's house at Prince's Gate. The Earl of Sandwich,
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Hon. Colonel Peregt lee
Oust, and a select circle had the honour to meet their royal
highnesses.

His Excellency Marshal Duke de Saldanha and
family have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from Paris.

The Duke of Leinster arrived at his rt sidence on
Carlton House-terrace yesterday from Carton House, May-
nooth, Ireland.

The Duke de Bagnara Ruffo, the Prince di S.
Antino Ruffo, and Emmanueli Ricciardo di Camalvoli have
arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from raris.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort have
arrived at the St. George's Hotel.

The Earl and Countess of Darnley have left town
for the season for Cobham Park, Kent.

The Earl of Lindsey and the Hon. Mr, and Mrs.
Bertie have left town for Uffington House, Stamford.
The Earl of Rosslyn and Lady Harriet St. Claire
have left Claridge's Hotel, for Dysart House.
Lord and Lady Vault of Harrowden and family
have left town for Ireland.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
entertained at dinner last evening, at Grosvenor-
house, the following circle :—Lord and Lady Calthorpe,
Sir Alexander and Lady Arabella Bannerman, Colonel the
Hon. Dudley and Lady Elizabeth de Ros, Hon. Mr. and
Lady Catherine Coke, Lady Alice Egerton, Lady Caroline
Kerrison, Mr. Cecil Parker, Hon. Major Anson, Hon. Alan
Pennington, Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Captain Lane, Mr.
Des Vcaux, Mr. Laird, &c.

THE DUKE OF HAMILTON.—Their Royal High-
nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales sent from
Marlborough House early yesterday morning to make in-
quiries after the health of this much esteemed nobleman, and
the calls of distinguished persons at the noble duke's resi-
dence in Arlington-street, for the same object, were iaces
sant throughout the day. The Duke of Newcastle, the Earl
Granville, and Viscount Palmerston were among the earliest
inquirers, and the Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary sent messengers yester-
day, on their return from Aldershot. The latest telegraph
on Monday, night led the friends of the duke to hope a fa-
vourable change in his condition. had taken place, but ,a
despatch received at 5.15 p.m. yesterday states that "Since
the morning the improvement has not progressed."

SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS.

(From the Edinburgh' Review for July )

He accep' ed the editorship of this review on the
death of Mr. Empson, at the close of the year 1852,
and conducted it successfully until he became Chan-
caller of the Exchequer in 1855. In 1853 he had
been offered the Government of Bombay, and wrote
thus in relation to it :—" India is an interesting
field, especially at the present moment : but it
would have cut short a great many threads which I
have begun to spin. I therefore remain constant
to the _Edinburgh Review, and am just about bring-
ing out another number."

The reader will, we are sure, peruse with interest
the followirg extract from another of his private
letters, dated March 18th, 1855, with reference to
his acceptance of the post of Chancellor of the
Exchequer;—" Events have succeeded one another
so closely with me of late, that I really have had
no time to write to you. Scion after my return to
London after my election, I received quite unex-
pectedly the offer of the office of Chancellor of the
Exchequer in Lord Palmeraton's Government. I had
just returned from the country : I had had no time
to look into my private affairs since my father's
death. I had not even proved his will. I had the
Edinbugh Review for April on my hands, and the
last part of my volumes on the Roman history. I
had been out of Parliament for two years, and I did
not know the present House of Commons. 1 had
to follow Gladstone, whose ability had dazzled the
world, and to produce a war budget with a large
additional taxation in a few weeks. All these cir-
cumstances put together inspired me with the
strongest disinclination to accept the offer. I felt,
however, that in the peculiar position of the Go-
vernment refusal was scarcely honourable, and
would be attributed to cowardice, and I, therefore,
most reluctantly made up m 3 mind to accept. I
remembered the Pope, put in hell by Dante—
' Che fece per viltade it gran rifiuto.'
My reelection passed off without difficulty. I went
down to Harpton for two nights, and made a speech
in the Town Hall at Ridnor. Since my return to
London I have been engrossed with the business of
my office, and have hardly had a moment to spare.
There is an awkward question about the newspaper
stamp which I have had to plunge into. There are
also all the preparations to be made for the impend-
ing budget, and measures to be taken for providing
sufficient sums to meet the enormous extraordinary
expenditure which the war in the Crimea is causing.
Gladstone has been very friendly to me, and has
given me all the assistance in his power."
To all who knew Sir George Lewis well the ex-
tracts from these two letters will appear most cha-
racteristic; they will know that the simplicity with
which he comments on his refusal of the Indian
government, and states his embarrassment at the
offer of the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, is of
a piece with the whole tone of his feelings; in any
other man affectation might be suspected, but i❑
him it was impossible.

The sing of Portugal has sent his congratula.
tions to the Emperor on the taking of Mexico.
CITY HAYMAKERS.—Such was the surrounding
of one City churchyard that I saw last summer, on
Saturday evening towards eight of the clock,
a volunteering
when with astonishment I beheld an old old man and an
old old woman in it, making hay. Yes, of all occupations
in this world, making hay I It was a very confined patch
of churchyard lying between Gracechurch-street and the
Tower, capable of yielding, say an apronful of hay. By
what means the old old man and woman had got into
it, with an almost toothless haymaking rake, I
cuuld not fathom. No open window was within
view ; no window at all was within view, suf-
ficiently near the ground to have enabled their old
legs to descend from it; the rusty churchyard-gate was
locked, the mouldy church was locked. Gravely among the
graves, they made hay, all alone by themstives. They
looked like Time and his wife. There was but the one rake
between them, and they both had hold of it in a pastorally-
loving manner, and there was hay on the old woman's black
bonnet, as if the old man had recently been pl.yful. The
old man was quite an obsolete old man, in knee-breeches
and coarse grey stockings, and the old woman wore
mittens like unto his stockings in texture and in colour,
They took no heed of me as I looked on, unable to
account for them. The old woman was much too bright
for a pew-opener, the old man much too meek for a beadle.
On an old tombstone in ;he foreground between me and
them, were two cherubim ; but for those celesfal embellish-
ments being represented as having no possible use for knee-
breeches, stockings, or mittens, I should have compared
them with the haymakers, and sought alikeness. I coughed
and awoke the echoes, but the haymakers
,never looked at
me. They used the rake with a measured action, drawing
the scanty crop towards them; and so I was fain to leave
them under three yards and a half of darkening sky, gravely
making hay among the graves, all alone by themselves
and I want Jel a medium ?"
Perhaps they wore spectres,
Qb rite Dickens in "4U the Year liegowl."