The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-03 00:00:00

The King of the Hellenes,

It is not certain whether King George will visit
the Queen at Windsor or whether he will join the
Court later at Balmoral. His Majesty is at present
paying a short visit to his relations at Rumpen-
haim ; but in consequence of the unpleasant relations
between the German States and Denmark, and also
the position of Greece itself towards the ex-King
Otho, it has been determined that the King of the
Hellenes shall stay but a few days at Rumpenheim.
The vote for the annexation of the lonian Islands
cannot be taken before the second week in October,
and his Mcjesty intends to arrive at Athens imme-
diately after that event.

His arrival here may be looked for either during
the Queen's stay at Windsor or immediately after
her Majesty's departure for Balmoral. In either
ease King George would go to Scotland to take
leave of the Princess of Wales.

Foreign Courts.

PARIS, Sept. 1.

The Empress Eugenie is travelling to Biarritz
under the strictest incognito. The authorities at
Orleans received notice not to make any preparation
for her Majesty's reception.
The marriage of the reigning Count 0 tten de
Stolberg-Wcrnigerode, with the Princess Anna de
Reuse, was celebrated last week at Stonsdorff, in
Silesia.

BERLIN, Aug. 31.

A despatch from Baden-Baden states that the
King left there this morning on a visit to Queen
Victoria at Rosenau. It is expected that his Majesty
will remain but a few hours at Rosenau, and that
he will leave Coburg in the evening on his journey
to Berlin.

The Marchioness (Dow.) of Normanby is staying
at Hamilton Lodge, Kensington. Her ladyship's health is
greatly improved.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have a
select party assembled at Bretby Park, near Burton-upon-
Trent, for the Derby races.

The Earl and Countess Grey will return to
Howick Hall, Northumberland, the week after next, from a
tour in the north of Scotland.

Viscountess Clifden gave birth to a son and heir
yesterday afternoon, at Dover House, Whitehall. Her
ladyship and infant son are progressing favourably.

Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley, and the
Hon. Misses Stanley are expected to return home from their
tour in Germany early in the ensuing week.

The Right Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P., left
town on Tuesday night, to pass a few weeks at Spa, in
Belgium-

We understand a marriage is arranged to take
place between Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Henryßyng, of
the Coldstream Guards, second son of the Earl of Strafford,
and the Countess Henrietta Danneskiold, eldest daughter
of Count Christian Danueskiold Samsoe, and niece of the
Marquis of Ailesbury.

TUE Catholic bishops have decided, at their con-
ference in Dublin, to complete the Catholic University,
and erect a building at a cost of £lOO,OOO. They expect to
raise the sum in five years by collections in Great Britain,
America, and Australia.—The Reader.

Parisian society has just sustained a loss by the
death of the Marquise de Grammont, at a somewhat
advanced age. The deceased lady was eldest daughter of
the Due de Crillon, and in 1829 married the Marquis de
Grammont, deputy for the Haute-Saone, and head of a
noble house, but who bears no relationship to the family of
Gramont of Navarro, or to that of Gramont-Caderousse.
The Marquise de Grammont leaves four sisters, married re-
spectively to the Marquis de Chanaleilles, the Due Pozzo
di Borgo, the Due de Caraman, and the Comte de Levis-
Mirepoix.

A RED RAINBOW !—A curious and rare pheno-
menon was observed on the 25th of June last by
Dr. Mohe of Coblentz, in the shape of a completely red
rainbow formed by the rays of the setting sun. The ex •
terior outline was well defined ; but in the interior the
colour faded away towards the centre. The secondary
bow, equally red, was observed only at intervals; the two
were separated by the dark band observed on former occa-
sions. We need scarcely remark that monocromatic rain-
bows are very raro.
TOMB OF LEONARDO DA VINCI.—The Gazette des
Etrangers says :—" An important discovery in the
history of art has just been made. A few months back M.
Arsene Houssaye was commissioned by the State to direct
researches at Amboise (Indre-et-Loire), with the object of
finding the tomb of Leonardo da Vinci, the position of
which was unknown. Last week the pursuit was crowned
with success. A sort of case, found in an old church at
Amboise, and containing a coffin, was pointed out to the
notice of M. Houssaye. An inscription on the lid of the
coffin is said to leave no doubt of the authenticity of the
remains which it contains. Thus are refuted, as was ex-
expected, the suppositions that Leonardo da Vinci had died
elsewhere than at Amboise."

THE CONGRESS AT MALINES.—Major O'Reilly,
in a letter to the Morning News, says :—" As I per-
ceive that my name has been mentioned as one of the Irish
who had purposed attending the Catholic Conference at
Aialinep, will you allow me to explain, through your
columns, that not only had I purposed doing so, but had
devoted what little leisure I possessed to preparing materials
m
for a paper on the progress of Catholicity in Ireland since
the commencement of this century. Unfortunately, the
miousielnint,estso oafboannedoonf my children
intention.
The compelled
rectore , at
of
verythe e
lastsr moment,
the Catholic University of Ireland, who had also made ar-
rangements to be present, was likewise obliged, by urgent
business of the university, to remain in Ireland. I felt the
more this disappointment, as I had taken the deepest inte-
rest from the first in the project of my Belgian friends,
which has produced such glorious results."
A MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN has been discovered in
Swedish Lapland, on the left bank of the Rautus-
joki; and the vein, which is several-feet thick, promises to
be one of the richest scurces of natural magnets at present
known. Mr. Berg, to whom it belongs, hopes to obtain
from it enough to supply specimens to all the collections in
Europe. Among the facts mentioned in proof of the mag-
netic force which these magnets derived fr om this source,
it is stated that a galvanometer traverses 10 degs. or 15 degs.
in their presence, and that a contact of a few minutes im-
parts a sufficient charge to a piece of soft iron to enable it
to support a weight of one or two Swedish pounds. A
natural magnet weighing 400 pounds has already been ob-
tained, and larger ones may be expected. M. Done of
Berlin has already possessed himself of one weighing 68
Swedish pounds; the price varies from eighty centimes to
three francs the kilogramme. The Abbe Moigno, from
whose admirable journal, Les Mondes, we have borrowed
the above account, remarks that the extraordinary mag-
netism of this mountain suggests the question whether the
magnet pole of the earth mast not be sought in Lapland
rather than in. Siberia, the more so as the existence of the
pole iu Siberia is more than doubtful.
EGGS FOR THE MILLION.—What a fact it is that
we have not only not eggs enough for the very
limited use we make of them in our cookery, but are import-
ing them to the value of more than half a million of pounds
sterling a-year ?In the last table of imports, the number
for 18b1 stands as 203,313,300. Ido not forget that eggs
are largely used for some of our manufactures; bat that
does not affect the question why they are not produced at
home. Upwards of two hundred millions of eggs pro-
duced for us by foreigners, while Englishwomen are want-
ing employment at home I Surely this is a mistake which
must soon be rectified I The thing is, we have not studied
the art of poultry-rearing as foreigners have, and as we
ought to have done long ago. Even at this day, I aro►
occasionally asked whether I believe in the possibility of
regularly inducing hens to lay all the year round, and even
whether it is possible to obtain a succession of eggs through
the four seasons. Suoh points should not be left for
foreigners to answer at this time of day.—Once e Week.
FORTUNATE RESCUE AT 6EA.—The Phare de les
_Loire states that on the 20th ult. Capt. Leveque, command-
ing a vessel sailing from St. Maio, while in lat. 37.10 .N.l,
long. 15,50 W., saved 13 men, forming the crew of. the
English vessel, Seaman, Captain Stopwith, bound from
the North Sea to Shields with a cargo of corn. A short
time after the English sailors were taken off the vessel she
sank,