The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-01 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cam-
bridge visited her Royal Highness the Princess of
Wales on Saturday at Marlborough House.
The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Tees-
dale, rode on horseback.
In the afternoon the Prince and Princess of
Wales took a drive in an open carriage.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales honoured Viscount and Viscountess Syd-
ney with their company at dinner on Saturday
evening, at the residence of the noble viscount and
viscountess, in Cleveland-square, St. James's.
Their Royal Highnesses (who were attended by
the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale)
arrived at a few minutes after eight o'clock.
The party invited to meet the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales comprised the Austrian Ambassador
and the Countess Apponyi, the Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch,
the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, the Earl
and Countess of Tankerville, Lady Cowley, and the
Hon. George Cadogan.
A small party had the honour to meet their
Royal Highnesses after dinner.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge (at-
tended by the Hon. James Macdonald) and his Royal
Highness the Prince of Orange were also present.
Mr. John Parry had the honour to attend to give
an illustration of his clever performances in " La
Lezione di Canto," or Master and Pupil. The second
part of his entertainment was his diverting sketch
of" Mrs. Roseleaf's Little Evening Party."
The Prince and Princess of Wales took leave of
their noble host and hostess at a few minutes past
twelve o'clock.

Yesterday the Prince and Princess of Wales and
the Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service in
the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The communion
service was read by the Sub-Dean, the Rev. C.
F. Tarver, and the Rev. John Antrobus. The
sermon was preached by the Rev. C. F. Tarver.
The anthem was " I was in the Spirit on the
Lord's day."—Blow. The Prince and Princess of
Wales were attended by the Countess of Maccles-
field and Major Teesdale. The Archbishops of York
and Armagh, the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl
of St. Germans, and Viscount Sydney were also
present at the service.

VISIT OF THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES TO

OXFORD.

A delegacy has been appointed by the university
to make arrangements to receive the Prince and
Princess of Wales at the Commemoration, consist-
ing of the President of Magdalen; Rev. E. Evans,
M.A., Fellow of Pembroke ; Rev. H. Wall, M.A.,
Fellow of Balliol ; Rev. S. W. Wayte, B.D ,
Fellow of Trinity College; Rev. W. Duck-
worth, M.A., Trinity College (honorary secre-
tary) ; Rev. J. R. T. Eaton, Fellow of Mer-
ton, &c. The committee have held numerous
meetings, and it is expected that the arrange-
ments will be somewhat as follows :—Their Royal
Highnesses will leave London on. Tuesday, the 16th
inst., at about 10.30 a.m., and will alight at Cul-
ham Station, whence they will drive through Nune-
ham-park to Oxford, entering the city by Mag-
dalen-bridge, where they will be received by the
authorities of the university, and then proceed up
High-street to the deanery. After receiving the
city address they will distribute the prizes to the
volunteers in the great quadrangle of Christ Church.
After luncheon his royal highness will proceed to
the theatre and receive the degree of D.C.L. by
diploma. Their royal highnesses are then expected
to visit the bazaar in aid of the Radcliffe Infirmary.
In the evening a grand banquet will be given to the
Prince and Princess in the hall of Christ Church, and
afterwards they will attend the ball to be given by
the Freemasons in the Corn Exchange. On Wednes-
day they will be present at the Encmnia in the theatre
and afterwards at a grand collation given by the
university in the library of All Souls' College. In
the latter part of the afternoon a procession or boat
race will take place on the river, which their Royal
Highnesses will view from the university barge,
which has been placed at the disposal of the royal
party, and a large tent, capable of holding 1,000
persons, will be erected on the Berkshire side of the
river immediately opposite the barge. It is expected
that their Royal Highnesses will be conveyed in a
boat from Folly-bridge to the university barge,
and an order has been given to Messrs. Salter to
build a handsome craft expressly for the purpose.
In the evening they will be entertained at dinner
in the Hall of Exeter College by the Vice-Chancel-
lor, and will afterwards honour the Christ Church
ball with their presence. On Thursday forenoon
they will return to London.

According to the present arrangements the
Queen will arrive at Windsor Castle on Saturday
next, where her Majesty will reside one month, and then
proceed to Osborne. Her Majesty will return to Windsor
on Wednesday, the 29th of July, and on the following
Saturday take her departure for Germany. Her Majesty's
stay in Germany will extend to one month, when, after
again visiting Osborne for a short period, the Queen will
take up her abode at Windsor for the winter.--Court
lout nal.

On Saturday next the Queen will return to
Windsor from Balmoral, and the Prince and Princess of
Wales will remove from Frogmore to the Castle, and remain
on a visit to her Majesty till the Monday following, when
it is expected their Royal Highnesses will return to Marl-
borough House for the remainder of the season.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will leave town to-morrow for Frogmore,
where they will reside during the remainder of the week.
It is the intention, we believe, of the Princo and Princess to
visit Ascot on two days of the races—Thursday, the Cup
day, of courea, being, one.
The health of the King of the Belgians is pro-
gressing. His Majesty was very ill last week.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary, attended by Colonel Home,
Purves and Lady Geraldine Somerset, honoured Lord and
Lady Ebury by their company at dinner on Friday at their
house in Upper Grosvenor •street. A distinguished party
met the royal guests.
Prince Alexander Dolgorouki and Connt George
de St. Priest have left the Clarendon Hotel for Paris.
The Duke of Newcastle arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel on Saturday from his seat, Clumber Park, Notts.
The Marquis of Anglesey has let Bcsu•dezert for
a term to the Marquis of Abercorn.

The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury are ex-
pected to arrive in Stratford-place to-day from Heron
Court, near Christchurch, Hants,
The Earl of Wilton, accompanied by Viscount
and Viscountess Grey de Wilton and Lady Alice Egerton
will leave town to-day for Queen's Hill, Ascot, where the
noble earl will entertain company during the race week.
The Earl and Countess of Zetland have arrived
in Arlington-street from Paris.
The Countess of Morton leaves town to-morrow
for Homburg, for the benefit of her health.
Viscount; and Viscountess Palmerston arrived in
town on Saturday from their seat, Brockett Hall, Herta
The noble viscount and viscountess are in good health.
Viscount Combermere has left London for Worth-
ing, where he will remain a week, in order to recover from
his recent attack of gout.

Lord and Lady Pelham and two of their servants
were in the train on Friday when the accident occurred at
Streatham. The servants were both severely bruised, but
Lord and Lady Pelham escaped without any injury.
Louisa Countess of Seafield and Master Lennox
Massey have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Nor-
wood, from Ireland.

The widow of the Right Hon, George Bankee,
late Judge Advocate-General, is about to marry Mr, Buller,
brotber of Lord Churston, and late M.P. for Devonshire,
_ _

The Prince of Orange it is said, lost abou
43,000 on the Derby,

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

The following is the answer of the Cuunt do
Montalembert to the public proclamation as well as
to the private circular of the Prefect of the
Daubs

"Electors,—Official and other documents charge the
Catholic and Liberal candidate with wishing to paralyse
the energies of France, to imperil her security at home as
well as her legitimate influence abroad, to give up the coun •
try to hazard, to pave the way for fresh revolutions, to dis-
turb and endanger the Empire.' In a word, he who during
10 years represented you is, according to these documents,
a man of disorder and revolution. My whole life is on.
long contradiction to the calumny. I never attempted to
overthrow any Government; I never had a hand in any
conspiracy, never figured in dny adventure, never ap-
plauded any revolt, and never profited by any revolution.
I am driven to declare that among the servants and
the panegyrists of the Empire there are not many who
can say as much. The whole of what they tell you
amounts to this :—You must name deputies docile and
resolved to do everything the Emperor tells them. If this
be so, the shortest way is to suppress the Legislative Corps
altogether; for if it be composed only of salaried approvers
it is but a costly and useless piece of machinery; its sup-
pression will simplify matters and reduce t he amount of the
Budget. The Emperor will be very well to go on alone.
He has no need of a crowd of advisers all paid to be always
of his opinion. But the Emperor himself one day said
that ' his Goverment needed control and publicity,' and
the country has taken him at his word. The whole of
France is at this moment shaking off its sleep. in all direc-
tions she is calling back to public life men of whom I feel
[rid:, and honour to bo the friend—Thiers, Dufaure, Ber-
ryer, Odillon Barrot. These are men who have given proofs
of independence and patriotism in the most stormy times,
and therefore the more competent to exercise salutary con •
trol in times of calm. They have all responded to the call
and come forward as candidates. Not one of them has put
forth pretensions incompatible with the maintenance of the
Empire, though all have demanded the restitution of the
rights which France long possessed, and which sooner or
later she will obtain from those wb o have thehonour to govern
her. Like them, and with them, I demand—less of taxation
and more of liberty, fewer conscripts and greater control, less
of arbitrary rule and more of responsibility, less police and
more discussion. My programme is comprised in three
words. I want three things as necessary for the country as
they are advantageous to the Government—viz., peace,
economy, and liberty I

" CH. DE MONTALEMBERT."

Count de Persigny, Minister of the Interior, has
addressed the following circular to the prefects :

" Paris, 28th May.
" Monsieur le Prefet,—For the first time since the esta-
blishment of the empire, the parties hostile to the institu-
tion which France has given herself, dare to attack them
in the face of universal suffrage. Men of 1815, of 1830,
and of 1848, coalesced in a common effort, endeavour on
several points to surprise the good faith of the country, in
order to turn against the Emperor the very liberties which
he has recently given, and all, as if obeying a common
watchword, have recourse to the same manceuvra.
"Not being able to deny the grand things which have
been accomplished during the last ten years—for every one
has them before his eyes —they attack the means which
nave served for their accomplishment--that is to say, the
finances of the State, because, as few persons are conver-
sant with questions of that kind, they hope to be able with
greater impunity to disseminate falsehood and error.
"'Their calculation is very simple. If they could suc-
ceed in disturbing public opinion as to the state of our
finances, they would at the same time weaken the faith of
the country in our institutions, and that is the secret of
their attempts.
"The country, however, Monsieur le Prefth will not be
the dupe of lying assertions. If the Emperor has been able
in 10 years to raise France to so high a degree of prospe-
rity, it is because he had known how to admirably employ
our resources for public prosperity, and a good management
of the finances are not able to go on one without the other,
"In order to satisfy the great interests of the country
abroad and at home, the debt has been increased by 87 mil-
lions of rente, but as the increase of the public revenue
amounts to 3uo millions, without any addition made to the
taxes, that charge is insignificant in comparison with the
results obtained, and with France enlarged by three depart-
ments. So much for the debt.

" As for the—btidg et, which is not two milliards, as is
erroneously stated, as there must be deducted 550 millions
of expenses which,
according to our system of keeping ac-
counts, are only entered for the sake of order, there follows,
in our day as in all times, the ascendant progress given to
it by the development of social riches. But while the
Government of July had successively increased it by 500
millions, the empire has only added to it 300 millions to
effect the great things which you are so well aware of. Thus,
on this nobly-employed budget, without reckoning innu-
merable public works, roads, churches, schools, &c., the
empire has found the means of devoting one milliard to our
railways ; and that milliard has produced for the country, in
our towns and in our rural districts, more than milliards of
wealth,

" The financial state of France is, therefore, as solidly
established as ;he result of the operation of the empire is
striking. This is the truth—this is what the French people
will in their good faith comprehend—and this is what his-
tory will relate to the glory of the empire.—Accept, &c.,
" F. DE PERSIGNY."

The following is a correct list of all the candidates
in the nine districts of the Seine—of the Uovern-
rnent as well as of the Opposition :