The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-06 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 4.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
the Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out yesterday
afternoon, attended by Colouei Hon. A. Hardinge.
April G.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, Princess
ouise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Prince
Louis of Hesse, and the ladies and gentlemen in
waiting, attended divine service this morning in
the private chapel.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor
officiated, and administered the Sacrament of the
Holly Communion.
Viscount Sydney and the Right Hon. Sir George
Grey arrived at the Castle last night.

Accouchement of the Princess Alice,

WINDSOR CASTLE, Sunday.

Her Royal Highness Princess Louis of Hesse
(Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland) gave
birth to a Princess at a quarter before five o'clock
this morning.
Her Majesty the Queen was with the Princess
constantly during the night.
In the room with the Princess at the birth of the
child were her Majesty the Queen, his Royal
Highness Prince Louis of Hesse, Sir Charles Lo-
cock, Dr. Farre, and the nurses; and in the next
room Sir J. Clark.

In the adjoining, apartment were Viscount Syd-
ney, Lord Chamberlain ; Sir George Grey, Secretary
of State for the Home Department ; and Baron de
Ricou, Head of the Household of his Royal High-
ness Prince Charles of Hesse.

Intelligence of the happy event was immediately
transmitted by telegraph to the Grand Dime and
Court of Hesse-Darmstadt, and to the various mem-
bers of the Royal Family.

The following was the bulletin issued
"'WINDSOR CASTLE, April 5. 1863.

" Her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of
Hesse (Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland)
was safely delivered of a daughter this morning, at
a quarter before five o'clock.
" Her Royal Highness and the infant Princess are
going on perfectly well.

" JAMES CLARK, M.D
" CHARLES LOCOCK, M D.
6` ARTHUR FARRE, M.D."

APPROACHING DRAWING ROOMS AND LEVEES.-
We are authorised to announce that his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales will hold a levee, on behalf
of the Queen, at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, the
llth of May, and that her ktoyal Highness the Princess of
Wales will hold a drawing-room, likewise in her Majesty's
behalf, on Satu-day, the 16th of May. There will also be
a drawing-room and a levee, on her Majesty's behalf, in the
course of the month of June. Presentations will be made
at both drawing-rooms.

TFHS PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—
Their R iyal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales continue in the enjoyment of privacy at Sandring •
ham. Excursions in the surrounding country have been
made almost daily, and on Good Friday and yesterday
their royal highnesses attended divine service at the parish
church. Lieut.-General Knollys has infurmed the High
Sheriff and the other county subscribers that the Prince
will be happy to receive the deputation entrusted with the
presentation of the " Norwich Gates" at Sandringham, to-
morrow (Tuesday). Their royal highnesses are expected
to leave Sandringham for town at the close of the present
week. The presentation of the " Norwich Gates" to-
morrow "will doubtless attract a large and influential attend-
ance, and will be in fact the event of the week at Sandring-
ham. The Earl and Countess of Leicester, Lord and Lady
Sondes, Mr. Bentinck, M.P., Mr. Howes, M.P., Lieut.-
Colonel Coke, M.P., Mr. R., J. H. Harvey, and nearly all
the county aristocracy, are among the subscribers.
THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.—His R)yal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, Commander of the Forces,
having completed his duties, left Plymouth this morning,
under a royal salute from the citadel, by the South Devon
and South-Western Railways fer Portsmouth, in continua-
tion of his tour of inspection.
The Duke of Beaufort has arrived at Poictiers,
accompanied by several French noblemen and members of
the Paris Jockey Club. His grace proposes to commence
wolf .hunting in the Department of Vienne during the pre-
sent week.

The Earl of Fife returned to town on Saturday
evening from Edinburgh, where his lordship attended the
dinner given to Viscount Palmerston. The Countess of Fife
has been detained in town by severe indisposition.

Ei.e. Grosvenor and Lady Constance Grosvenor
have arrived at Brighton. His lordship will be in command
of his regiment, the Queen's (Westminster) Rifle Volun-
teers, to .day.
Viscount Palmerston arrived at his residence in
Piccadilly, on Saturday night, from Edinburgh.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey returned tc,
town yesterday from Windsor Castle.
Sir George Grey, Mr. Cardwell, and the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer remain in or near town during the
Easter holidays. Earl Russell is also on duty in the me-
tropolis ; tut the Foreign Secretary is understood to be
Premier pro tem. in London during the absence of ord
Palmerston in Seotl,nd, All the rest of the Cabinet have
taken the advantage of the Easter recess to skedaddle into
the country. Mr. Milner Gibson left town on Thursday.—
Court Circular.

Our great Finance Minister has lately been
seen hobbling about with the assistance of a stick, and
sundry jokes were launched, all of them insinuating that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer was suffering from an
attack of gout, brought on by his drinking too much of the
Gladstone 14s. claret. But the trath of the matter is that
Mr. Gladstone sprained his ankle rather severely in dis-
mounting from his horse atter a ride; and we ate happy to
say his constitution is as yet utterly guiltless of gout. If
there were a trace of it, we might depend upon its being an
article to be taxed in his next budget.—Court Journal.

Letters from Barcelona describe the success of
Signor Mario at the Italian Opera there to have surpassed
expectation, and almost any success of his former cam-
paigns.

Mr. Harrison and Miss Pyne sing at Dublin to
night. Mr. Alfred Mellon accompanies them as leader of
the orchestra. The next English opera season will, it is
stated, be under Mr. Gye's management.
The rumour is repeated that Verdi is at work
upon a new opera called " Salammbo," to ba produced not
later than 1865, and that M. Flaubert will be assisted by
M. Theophile Gautier in the composition of the libretto.
Mr. George Vining leaves the Lyceum and enters
into partnership with Mr. Lindus, at the Princess's.
Madame Arabella Goddard, who has been suffer-
ing from indisposition, is at present on a visit to Boulogne.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean will appear at the Prin-
cess's on the 4th of May, for eleven nights; on the 15th of
July they will sail for Australia.
. .

Mrs, Fanny Kemble is again about to read
Shakespere in London, commencing with "As You Like
It," to-night, and cortinuing the entertainment on alter-
nate nights. _ _

The Trustees of the National Gallery have recently
come into possession of Mr. Lewis's bequest of
£lO,OOO. The will was a little singular. Mr. Lewis left a
portrait of his father, '• Gentleman Lewis," the well-known
comedian, a cronie of George 17., to the nation, and on
condition of its acceptance by the Trustees, he bequeathed
the £lO,OOO in money, to be applied in the first instance in
taking due care of the picture, and afterwards as the autho-
rities shall agree. Tho money, we understand, has been
funded, and the proceeds of it, about £3OO a year, will be
applied generally for the good of the collection.
SHAKSPERE'S FATHER.—" There is Mr. John
Shakspere, in Henley-street—he is a glover, or a
butcher, or a yeoman,' or wool-dealer I--what is he ? Can
no one sum up all the supposed trades, or businesses, and
say, in a word, that they most probably mean he was a
wool-stapler ? Make him of any 6ne of the above trades
actually and solely, and we cannot reconcile the above state-
ments. But, like the 1. ariorum readings of the same names
and tbo same employments in Shakspere's days. if WO
adopt the conclusion that ho was a merchant of the s aple,
we shall easily be able to understand his being called both
butcher and glover. Considering what a staple trade glov-
ing was in John Shakspere's time in his own county, if
he were connected with the mcrcers in London no would of
nectssify deal in gloves. The possessor et land and owner
of cattle, it is the height of probability that he may have
slaughtered his sheep in his own farmyard, in order to have
the skins properly preserved. Butcher he might easily be
called, and so might his son William ; and also be repre-
sented as apprenticed to a butcher, when he was, in reality,
apprenticed to his father.-- Bellcw'sNew Place at Stratford
on Avon.
Burns's sentimental song, "Auld Lang Syne,"
contains the most abominable idea of fellowship
that man ever conceived ; for of the two worthies there
meeting, one does not order in the liquor to hallow the mo-
ment, but he ;lankly cries to th, other,—
" Au' surely you'll be your pint stoup,
An' surely fit be mine;"
the shabby fellow not having the spirit to pay the NOM