The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-18 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 17.

Her Majesty was prevented from leaving:Windsor
Castle to-day, owing to the unfavourable state of the

weather.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales visited the Queen.

THE COURT.--Every preparation had been Made
at, the Windsor Terminus of the Great Western
Railway for the conveyance of her Majesty and RoYal
Family to Portsmouth. Yesterday moaning, at a quarter-
past 11 o'clock, many of the domestics had left by an earlier
train. AI); w the time, however, when her Majesty intend, a
to leave a-telegraphie despatch had reoched the castle, ad-
vising that she should delay her journey, as it was const-
dared dangerous to cross the Solent in the yacht, under the
command of the Prince of Leiningen, in cons, quenc3 of the
chopping sea, caused by the recent high winds. Tier Ma-
jesty will not proceed on her journey until the weather is
more favourable.

THE CROWN PRINCE AND CROWN PRINCESS
OF PRUSSla.—Their Royal Highnesses the Crown
Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia, who lett England
on Tuesday last, arrived at Mussels the same evening.
Their royal highnesses were to remain on a visit to the
Belgian royal family for a day or two on their way to
Berlin.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will
arrive in town this evening from Longleat, Wilts, where
his royal highness has been on a visit to the Marquis atd
Marchioness of Bath since Monday last.
His Excellency the Austrian Ambasador end the
Countess Apponyi will return to ( handos House to-daY
from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath at
Longleat, Wilts, during the visit of his Royal Highneas
the Duke of Cambridge.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose and the
Marquis of Graham have left town to join the party at
Powis Castle.
The Marquis and Marchi mess of Exeter 80d
Lady Victoria Cecil leave Grosvenor-square to-day for
Burghley-park, near Stamford. The marquis is in ira"
proved health.
The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort and Lady
Geraldine Somerset leave town in a few days to join the
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort at Badminton for Christmas.
Tne Duchess D)wager of Sutherland and Lord
Ronald Leveson Gower are expected to leave Stafford
House, St. James's, for Clifden, Bucks.
The Earl and Countess of Derby will entertail3
a distinguished party at Knowsley-park, Lancashire, ne-t
mouth. The party will assemble the first week in the
.month. _ _

Tine Earl of Powis left Berkeley-square yesterdaY)
accompanied by the Countess of Powis and Ladies LucY
and Harriet Herbert, for Powis Castle, Welshpool, where a
large family gathering is about to take place.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are eX-
pected to leave Cambridge House to. morrow for Broad-
lands, near Romsey.
The D.:wager Lady Clinton will leave St. James's"
place to-morrow for her residence at Hampton Court
Palace.

The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., iki•ro
leaves town to-day on his return to lliekleton Hall, his set'
in Yorkshire.

DEATH OF CANON SIR GEORGE SHIFFNER BART'
—A residentiary canonry in the Cathedral Church of Chi"
chester and tha valuable vicarage of Amport, Hampshire,
aro placed at the disposal of the Dean and Chapter of
Cnichester by the death of the Rev. Sir George Shiffuert
Bart. The rev. gentleman, who was second son of 00
second baronet, was born May 17, 1791.
THE EMPRESS OF THE FttENCIL—The Insurance
Record observes that several offices in the City are aocqt,-
iug proposals for an insurance to a large amount on the life
of the Empress of the French. The risk is being divided
among French and English offices, and the total amount o'
insurance is £200,000.

COLONEL CRAWLEY's DEFENCE.—The follONVing
is the letter referred to in the address. Not hay-
ing been put in evidence during the trial its contents
could only be distantly alluded to by Colonel Crawley
My dear Sister and Brother,—This is, indeed, a pain-
ful moment—a task I never expected to have to tell
you. My beloved husband is no more. He died of apoplexy
on the morning of the 25th of May. It was so sudden; he
was tolerably well the day before. Dear sister, in mercy
go to our father and mother : I cannot write to them. The
blow will be too much for them. I am staying with Ser-
geant-Major Cotton and Mrs. Cotton. I was to have gone
into hospital, but doctor says I shall not last long, so I don't
think I shall be removed before anything happens. I can-
not write any more. I cannot sit up, My best love.—
Your loving and affectionate sister, CLARISSA LILLEY.--
Mhow, June 7."
SUPPOSED SUlClDE.—Yesterday the body of
a respectably-dressed female was discovered floating in the
water of the Regent's Canal, near the New Globe- bridge.
The deceased was seen by a surgeon, and had been in the
water a fortnight. The description of the deceased has beet'
circulated, and the body was removed to the Mile-end-
Workhouse, Bancroft-road, Stepney, to await an inquest.
In a letter from Brisbane, giving an account of
his passage out, an emigrant says :—" Among the
female passengers in the second cabin was a young lady
who frequently had hysterics, and who would burst sud-
denly into tears in the dead of night. When asked her
reason for so doing she would reply "her young man
had
poisoned himself." It turns out that she is known here ag
the notorious Madeline Smith, of Glasgow, whose trial for
murder some years since caused such a sensation. 511°
ryas
not the best conducted young lady in the ship."
MUNIFICENCE OF AN ARTIST.—The distinguished
marine painter, Mr. E. W. Cooke, A.R.A.,
has forwarded to the National Lifeboat institution £2OO, to
pay the cost of a lifeboat, to be stationed on the coast. Ml.'
Cooke said in his letter :—" Having felt for many ye r 5
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greatest interest and sympathy in the cause of the •Lb°:
National Lifeboat Instituiion, and in admiration of the
gallant deeds of the crews of its numerous boats established-
on our dangerous coasts, I am desirous to place a liteboO
on some point where one is required. I beg, therefore, t°
forward a check for £2OO towards the establishment of a new
lifeboat. I trust ere long that some good friend to this noble
cause may be induced to assist in adding the
boathouet
with its appropriate gear, to complete the object I have in
view. We shall doubtless readily find a crew of Heartds
of Oak' who will cheerfully man the ' Van Kock," and
who may be the means, under Divine Providence, of savia
many a valuable life."
ECLIPSES OF THE SUN IN 1864.—Next year tiler@
will be two eclipses of the sun. The first will be 0/.
the sth of May. It will begin on the earth at 930 P-Vii
of London time, in 126 deg 56 min of east longitude, andp,
deg 23 min of south latitude. It ends on the earth on th;
following day at 3 3 a.m., in longitude 130 deg 25 11%
west, and 20 deg 9 min of north latitude. The total felil7l.l
will be visible only in the North Pacific Ocean, and it wr..
be visible as a partial eclipse in part of Siberia and the o°ia.
thernmost part of North America and the north of Austral
The second eclipse of the sun will be on October 30.
will begin on the earth at 3 31 p.m. London time, in I°q:,
tude 100 deg 14 min west of Greenwich, and 6 deg. 2 a'l•rt
north latitude. It will end on the earth at 6 30 P*liicie,' 119
longitude 6 deg 26 min west of Greenwich, and let" cresa
deg 25 min south. The line of central eclipse passcs,i%de,
South America between 20 deg and 30 deg of south ll' south
and will also be visible in the South Pacific and for
Atlantic Oceans A partial eclipse will be visible coast
short time in the United States and on the yo ern
of Africa, at the first for a tew moments after sunrise, "
at the latter just before sunset.
HIERATIC PAPYRI LATELY DECIVIE
that Chagas,
appears, says the Spectator, _
Dennkuidlor")!
upon the saw,'
French Egyptologist, has been
some portions of
papyri (which are facsimiled in.teetnPigosn':;;;;
and has just published his tran..n
with that which )Ir.
thew. This agrees, in th® tly , the differencs beins
iiiniote:,:en:ydleon'ccur between two trans*
Goodwin has arrived at
no greeter than thoee
labors of a Hebrew or her
translated is not a short nsc trip lob, concerning the mean"
two scholars might by accident blunder into
ocher
i ancient text, And the text
ins of which
agreement—it. is a story of three hundred lines, relating the
of au Asiatic wanderer about B.C. 2,400, that
is,
before the date usually
assigned to Abraham,
person flees from the Court of King Anaraenemos I. int°
Ethiopia, where he is hospitably entertained, marries th°
daughter of a chief,
he longs to return to Egypt, and writes to the
Kin returns Bing I°l'
pardon. rho and grows a rich wan. In his old ago
rcturns a gracious one% er, and a OP,
of his letter is given. The adventurer describes his return
to
Egypt, the awe with which the King's prestreee inspire ta
him, the mistaken zeal of the courtiers, who, fan( ying'
the King is about to punish the fugitive, cry out that Lc,:
guilty; the turning of the tables by the Ring, who p
with
a him innocent, instals him in a splendid house avf
a handsome pension, builds him a magnificent tomb,l ;
continues to smile upon him till the day of his death. This
story has all the appearance of genuine history. n.,h3
GLASGOW INSTITUTE OF THE FINE ARTS.
100 guineas, offered in three premiums for the be
pictures exhibited, were awarded as follows :-50 netiss
b
A .;
fur the best figure picture in oil, to J. Noel Paton,
30 guineas for the best landscape in oil, to Samuel eSO
.
130
A R.S.A. ; 20 guineas for the best water-colour irratsiP _„4
of subject, to Henry Tidey, London. The competition ou
confined to British artists and to pictures painted
witlrrn
the last two years. d
11. ETTINGt,HAUSEN has recently pr.:we:es,
eie
large work, illustrated with magnificent plates, on th
ton of leMres (Blattskelette der Dicotyledonen.)
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