The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

The Crown Princess of Prussia,

Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of
Prussia, who left Sandringham yesterday morning,
arrived in London by the Great Eastern Railway at
a quarter to four, and immediately proceeded to the
Great Western Railway in one of the Court car-
riages, which was in waiting at the station. Her
royal highness left Paddington station by the ex-
press train at five o'clock, and arrived at Windsor at
5.40. There the royal traveller was received by the
railway officials and conducted to her carriage out-
side the Queen's private waiting-room. On reach-
ing the castle, the Crown Princess was received and
welcomed by her Majesty and other members of
the royal family.

Her royal highness, during her stay at Windsor
Castle, will, it is expected, lay the foundation stone
of the new district church which has been com-
menced at Windsor on the Lammas. This cere-
mony will probably take place on the 21st inst., the
anniversary of the Crown Princess's birthday.

APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—A
matrimonial alliance is arranged between Lord William
Pitt Lennox, son of the fourth Duke of Richmond, and
Miss Molyneaux, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Molyneaux.
marriage is also arranged between the Rev. Canon Stanley
(now Dean of Westminster) and Lady Augusta Bruce,
sister of the Earl of Elgin.

DEATH OF LORD CHESHAM.—We regret to an-
nounce the death of Lord Cheeham, which took
place on Tuesday night, at his residence, in Grosvenor-
square. His lordship had only been ill a short time, but
his family were fully aware of the nature of his disease.
The late Charles Compton Cavendish was the youngest
son of George, first Earl of Burlington, by Lady Elizabeth,
daughter of Charles, seventh Earl of Northampton, and was
born 28th August, 1793. He married in Tune, 1814, Lady
Catherine, eldest daughter of George, ninth Marquis of
Huntley, by which lady, who survives him, he leaves a
son and two daughters, namely, the Hon. William G. Ca-
vendish, M.P. for Buckinghamshire; the Hon. Sarah,
monied to Lord Deere; and the llon. Harriet, married to
the Earl of Strafford. His only son, who succeeds him in
his title, is married to a daughter of the late Hon. Win. S.
Lascelles and Lady Caroline Lascelles, a nice° of the
Duchess Dowager of Sutherland, and the Earl of Carlisle.
The late lord sat in the House of Commons from 1820 tiff
his creation as peer under the title of Baron Chesham, of
Chesham, County Bucks, in the early part of 1858. In
1820 and 1826 he represented Newtown, Hants, in the
House of Commons, and in 1831 the borough of Yarmouth.
At the general election in 1832 he was returned member for
East Sussex, for which division of the county he sat till
1847, when he was elected for Buckinghamshire, ia
conjunction with the Right Hon. B. Disraeli and
Dupre.

THE BLACK-LETTER SAINTS OF THE ENGLISII
PRAYER-BOOK were every one excluded from the
first Prayer-book of Edward VI. (1549). In the second
Prayer-b,ok of Edward, three were introduced—St. George,
the patron saint of England; St. Clement, contemporary of
the Apostles ; and St. Lawrence ; and to these names was
added, for the Ist of August, Lammas-day—so called, it is
supposed, from Loaf-mas—the feast of the first fruits of the
harvest. In Queen Elizabeth's Prayer-book, as printed in
1559, no additional saints appear ; but in those afterwards
printed in her reign, the list is nearly the same as at the
present day. Eunurchus was added in the revision of
James 1., and St. Alban and the Venerable Bede in that of
the reign of Charles 11. The movement from the reign of
Edward to that of Charles was in a degree reactionary ;
but that only proves that some strong reason must have ex-,
isted for reintroducing names which before theßeformation
were in common use—that they were social necessities
which called for their reinstalnients. Bishop Mant tells
us that they were partly retained because the returns of the
courts of law were commonly made with reference to these
days, such as Fest Martin, Crest Martin, and Vigil Mar-
tin; one of our law terms, we know, is called after St.
Hilary, Another reason he gives is that mechanics and
artisans could not dispense with their patron saints ; the
shoemakers would not part with St. Crispin, of whom it is
told that, with his Brother Crispianus, on his missionary
tours, he worked at his trade like Paul and Apollos. Welsh-
men would have St. David. Again, churches had been
dedicated to these saints, and fairs and wakes held near
them on their festal days; therefore, it became necessary to
retain their names in the calendar. Also, histories written
before the reformation dated events from these festal days,
as, for instance, Lammas, Martinmas,---and, therefore,
again some guide to the days of the month on which these
festivals fell was necessary.—London Review.
THR MEANING OF FRACTIOUSNESS OF CHIL-•
DREN.—A.II children, says a Saturday Reviewer,
have thoughts which exceed the powers of expression.
Farents know by painful experience, that there is a certain
age at which children become fractious, ill-tempered, and
difficult to manage to the most unpleasant degree. It is
the age at which they have learnt more or lees to think,
but not to speak. They know perfectly well what they
want, try in vain to explain themselves, and are as irritated
and angry at not succeeding as a certain description of
Englishman is apt to be with the stupid brutes of
foreigners who, as he observes, cannot speak a word of any
rational language. A child at this period is not a pleasing'
creature, but it is a vHeroywoddodesanitdthininstkrrtiDvao.es
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must
does not say this, what does it say ? It certainly says or
thinks something, if gestures, expressions of countenance,
and half-articulate sounds have any significance at all. b•
questions would solve the deepest
learning
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such as parrots and starling, can speak perfectly
ss far as the mere articulation of sound goes—but there is
no instance of an inferior animal which ever learnt the
meaning of a single word of the commonest kind, such as
" horse" or " dog.". Human beings—even if they ar°,
idiots, and, what is still more curious, if they are desiv
dumb, and blind—are capable of learning to communicate
with their fellow-creatures by vocal or other signs express'
ing general abstract meanings.
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PET MARJORIE.—An article in the current null"
ber of the North British Review, so entitled, is th 9
production, we believe, of Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgh
author of "Ilab and his Friends." The heroine of the
article, "Pet Marjorie," or Marjorie Fleming, Was an
traordinary child, who was born on the 15th of Januall►
1803, and died on the 19th of December, 1811, at the age of
eight 3 ears. She was a little prodigy in Edinburgh., and
pet of Sir Walter Scott's, who was a friend of her family'
and used to spend hours in prattling with her and hearing
her recite poetry. From the age of six to her death sile
was in the habit of writing little letters, and jotting down.
scraps of verse and prose; and amusing extracts from these
childish and ill-spelt remains are given in Dr. Brown s
paper. They gleam with sense, humour, and, in ,hor
precocious genius; and, with them and with Dr, Brown
setting of them, the article is very striking,