The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-26 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 25.

Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness the Princess of IVales, drove out yesterday
afternoon, attended by Lieut.• Colonel the Hon. D.
de Ros on horsebtck.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse drove.

The Queen, attended by the Iron. Mrs, Bruce,
walked and drove in the grounds this mornidg.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, attended by the Countess of Morton and
Lieut.•Coi. Keppel, rode on horseback.

We are authorised to state that the reception by
her Majesty the Queen of the addresses front the
corporations of London, Dublin, and Edinburgh,wbich w,ll
take place this day, will not be in state, but as privately as
possible. Her Majesty has made an effort to come from
her retirement upon the occasion to receive exceptionally
these addresses, in order to be able personally to assure
these important and central b dies of the deep feeling of
ratification with which her Majesty has witnessed the late
universal and enthusiastic display of loyalty and attach-
ment.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—It ap-
pears that the Mayor of Lynn (Mr. L. W. Jarvis)
has been in correspondence with Lieut -General Knollys in
reference to the presentation of an address from the town
council to their Royal Highnesses on the occasion of their
visit to Sandringham, and that the gallant gener<.l has in-
dmated that the compliment had better be postponer for
the present, and until after their Royal Highnesses have
arrived at Sandringham. The Norwich presents to the
Princess of Wales were ordered to be forwarded to Wind-
sor Castle on Tuesday, under the care of the town-clerk.
They comprise three shawls, by Messrs. Clabburn, Sons,
and Crisp; an opera cloak, by Messrs. Middleton and
Ainsworth ; poplins, by Messrs. Willett awe Nephew ; a
raised velvet rind white silk cloak, by Messrs. Hinde ; a
shawl, by the Norwich Crape Company; poplins, by Messrs.
Bolingbroke and Co. ; and shawls, by Me-firs, Fowler,
Rowling, and Allen. All these artic es are of great
beauty.

His Excellency M. de Bille, the Danish Minister,
and the members of the Danish Legation, met their Royal
Highnesses Prince and Pr;ncess Christian and family on
Tuesday morning at the London-bridge station, and had the
honour of accompanying their royal highnesses to Dover
on their way to the Continent.

The Duclatsu (Emily) of Beaufort and Lady Edith
Somerset have left town to visit the Duke and Duchess of
Beaufort at Badminton.

The Marquis of .Ailesbury was sworn in yester-
day Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wilts before the
Lord President and other mi rulers of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council.

The Countess of Desert and Lady Alice Cuffe
have left Wallace's Hotel for Knipton Rectory, Grantham,
Viscount Palmerston wi I leave town on Satur-
day next for Glasgow. The noble Premier will stay about
five days in the North.

Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse left town
yesterday, for Great Malvern, for the Easter holidays.

Lord Palmerston's Visit to Scotland.

The arrangements for the various public enter-
tainments to do honour to this illustrious statesman
ire now all completed. His lo.rdship will arrive in
Glasgow on Saturday evening, and take up his
residence with the Lord Provost while there. On
Sunday, it is probable he wilt attend Divine service
in the cathedral, and on Monday at one o'clock, he
will be formally installed as Lord Rector of the
University of Glasgow ii, Sr. John's Church. The
students have agreed, irrespective of political par-
ties, to present Lord Palmerston with an address.
Immediately after the installation the nob'e lord
will be entertained at luncheon by the Senates
Academicus in the Fore Hall of the college, where
a select party will meet his lordship. The banquet
in the City-hall in the evening will be a brilliant
affair. At least 22 members of Parliament will be
present, and several members of the House of Peers,
besides nearly all the loc"1 celebrities. The chair
will be taken at six o'clock by the Lord Provost,
with Messrs. Buchanan and Dalglish, the city
members, as croupiers ; and, as the toast list is not
a very lengthy one, it is supposed the proceedings
will be over by 10 p.m. The Lord Provost will give
the usual loyal toasts. His lordship will then pro-
pose the toast of the evening," Viscount Palmerston."
Sir James Campbell of Stracathro is to give " The
Houses of Parliament ;" the Hon. W. Cowper,
NI.P., the Duke of Argyll, or Loi d Dunfermlire,
will probably reply. Mr. Dalglish is to propose
"The brave defenders of our country ;" Mr. Bucha-
nan, " Success to Representative Governments
throughout Europe ;" the Lord Advocate," Economic
principles of Adam Smith ;" Viscount Palmerston,
" The Lord Provost and Magistrates, and Prosperity
to the City of Glasgow ;" the Duke of Argyll, " The
University of Glasgow," which, of course, will be
responded to by the Rev. Principal Barclay ; Lord
Belhaven, " The Clergy of Scotland." Sir A. Alison
and Sir Edward Colebrooke, M.P., will also give
toasts. On Tuesday his lordship will be as busily
employed as on Monday. At Greenock, about one
o'clock, on Tuesday, he will be presented
with an address by the authorities; at six o'clock
the same evening he will be entertained at a soiree
in the City Hall of Glasgow by the working men
of the city, when another address will be presented
to him. An address will subsequently be presented
to him by the unemployed of the city. The same
evening a ball will take place in his honour in the
Corporation Picture Galleries, where he is expected
to be present. On Wednesday he goes to Edin-
burgh, where a grand political banquet will take
place; and on Thursday he visits Leith, and wilt be
presented with another address.— North Braid?.
Daily Mail.

PROBABLE EFFECT OF MR. SOMES'S SUNDAY
CLOSING BlLL.—Workman: Well, Betsy, if they won't
let us get any refreshment o' Sunday out o' doors, we must
lay in a stock, and drink at home, like the pious Scotch."
—Punch.

CHARIVARL—The Charivari publishes a wocdcat
in which Europe, as a female fi,ore, is represented
interrogating severely an enormous Russian armed to the
teeth. This latter points to a diminutive child in the Polish
dress and replies, "It is not my fault, I assure you. It is he
who began. He is always maltreating me!"

The Mdependance 01 Brussels relates the following,
which we must hope to be devoid of foundation :
"Last summer the Princess of Alexandra being in this city,
visited the Zoological Gardens. That very morning a pony
had been foaled in the stables of the establishment, and her
Royal Highness expressed a wish to stand go imother to it.
She gave it the name of Alexander, but as the word was
rather too long that of Joujou was subs ituted at the sug-
gesi ion of the Duchess de Brabant. The protege of the
Princess of Wales is going on well, and above his box is
painted
- the date of his .biith and the honour which he re-
ceived. On the day of the Princess Alexandra's marriage,
an Englishman went to the Zoological Gardens, and having
sent for the director, asked if it was true that Joujou was
the godson of the future Queen of England. The reply
being in the affirmative, the Englishman said in that case
here had been a want of consistency in not decorating the
animal on such.a day with a white rosette, and that he
would himself give money for the purpose. Since then the
English residing at Brussels perform pilgrimages to the
Zoological Gardens to see the animal."
BURLESQUES and extravaganzas have now be-
come so completely recognised institutions t"at it
seems strange to call them in question. And yet it may be
doubted whether there is really any drollery in, for exam-
ple, calling King Lear " a monarch the reverse of leery,"
and making him the subject of seven or eight hundred lines
of limping rhyme, garnished with street slang and mutilated
English. It is a favourite fiction with the manufacturers,
and, indeed, with the newspaper critics, that the verbal
distortions which form the great attraction of these pro-
ductions are puns. They are nothing of the sort.
A pun is a play upon words, but these are merely words
beaten out of shape, and ill-treated in a way that does not
suggest even horse-play, for there is a stupidity about it
which is not characteristic of that member of the equine
family, Nevertheless, if a man can perpetrate a good num-
ber of these outrages, sufficiently vulgarise some well-known
piece of literature, and throw in plenty of allusions to your
poor feet, your hatter, or any other man, be is sure to keep
a crowded house in a state of guffaw for a couple of hours
on a stretch. Even this small amount of pains and intel-
lect is not absolutely necessary. If he is physically
equal to the task, all he has to do is to jump up and down
in striped calico, singing a perfectly meaningless song.
By these means he will so endear himself to an apprers'ative
public that his portrait will be in every music-shop, he will
have engagements seven deep at the Music Halls, and the
directors of the Crystal Palace, suspending their own
judgment rn the subject of popular improvement, will be
compelled to recognise him as a vehicle for conveying in-
struction to the people.—,S'atmikiY Review!