The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-07 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

EDINBURGH, Aug. 6.
The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at the
Waverley-bridge station at 20 minutes before 8,
and were received by the Lord Provost, magistrates,
staff officers, and others, with the band and a guard
of honour of the 92d Regiment. They drove rapidly
in a carriage and pair through densely crowded
streets to Dauglass's Hotel, in St. Andrew-square.
The way was lined with military. The Prince and
Princess met with a cordial reception, and appeared
at the window of the hotel in answer to the calls of
a vast assemblage in the square., The evening was
beautiful.

Marriage of Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox
and Miss Towneley.
Yesterday the marriage of Lord Alexander
Gordon Lennox, third surviving son of the late Duke
of Richmond, and Miss Emily Frances Towneley,
second daughter of Colonel Charles and Lady
Caroline Towneley, was solemnised according to the
rites of the Catholic Church. The nuptial cere-
mony was performed in the first instance at the
Church of the Assumption (formerly known as the
chapel of the Bavarian Embassy), in Warwick-
street, Regent-street. The Very Rev. Edward
Hearn, vicar-general, officiated, assisted by the Rev.
Thomas Flanagan, of Burnley, Lancashire. The
marriage rite was afterwards performed at St.
George's Church, Hanover-square, in accordance
with the ritual of the Established Church, when the
Rev. Alfred Lennox Peel, cousin of the noble bride-
groom, was the officiating clergyman.
The bride, who was given away by her father,
Colonel Towneley, was attired in a rich white glee&
dress, richly trimmed with costly Brussels lace, the
headdress being a wreath of orange blossoms, and
a veil of Brussels lace. The bride wore a pearl
necklace and diamond locket, the gift of the Duchess
(Dowager) of Richmond; a pearl and emerald
brooch, given by her mother, Lady Caroline Towne-
ley ; and a bracelet with a choice crystal centre set
with emeralds and diamonds, by her father.
The bride was accompanied to the altar by eight
bridesmaids, namely, her younger sister, Miss Alice
Towneley, Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox, Lady
Blanche Craven, Hon. Caroline Stonor, Lady Cecilia
Molyneux, Miss Theresa Towneley, Lady Florence
Cecilia Paget, and Miss Lena Grenfell.
The bridegroom was attended by Sir Charles
Russell, who acted as "groomsman." The brides-
maids were all similarly attired in white, and each
wore a plaid scarf of the Gordon tartan.
A numerous assemblage of distinguished relatives
and friends of the Lennox and Towneley families
assembled at both places of worship, including
among others the Duchess (Dowager) of Richmond,
the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, Prince and.
Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Lord and Lady
Camoys, Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, Lord and
Lady Norreys, the Duke and Duchess of Richmond
and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Towneley, &c., &c.
After the ceremony at St. George's Church the
principal members of the wedding party repaired
to the vestry, where the marriage was duly regis-
tered and attested, after which routine proceeding
the newly married couple and the company ad-
journed to Colonel and Lady Caroline Towneley's
house in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, where a
sumptuous elejeuner was given to a circle of upwards
of 100 persons, connections of both families.
Among the company who met at the dejeuner
were his Excellency Count d'Apponyi (Austrian.
Ambassador), their Serene Highnesses Prince and.
Princess Ed ward of Saxe-Weimar, the Duke and
Duchess of Richmond and Ladies Caroline
and Florence Gordon Lennox and Lord F. C.
Gordon Lennox, the Marquis of Anglesey and
Lady Florence Paget, the Marchioness Maria
of Ailesbury, the Marchioness (Dow.) of Lothian
and Lady Alice Kerr, the Earl of Abingdon; the
Countess Craven and Ladies Craven (2), the Earl of
Sefton, the Countess (Dow.) of Jersey, the Countess
of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyneux and Hon. R.
Molyneux, the Countess of Newburgh, the Countess
of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, and Hon.
Alice and Hon. Edith Jocelyn, Count Wimpffen,
Count Corti, Viecount and Viscountess Stratford de
Radcliffe and Hon. Mies Canning, Viscountess Grey
de Wilton, Lady Aveland and Hon. Misses Heath-
cote (2), Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, Lord
Henry Gordon Lennox, M,P., Lord George
Lennox, M.P., Lord and Lady Norreys,
Lady Mary Craven, Lady Seaiord and Miss
Hardy, Dowager Lady Raglan and Hon. Cathe-
rine Somerset, Lord and Lady Camoye and Hon.
Misses Stonor, Lady Maria Molyneux, Dowager
Lady Shelly, Lady Howard,Lady Eveline de Burgh,
Lady Anthony Rothschild and Misses Rothschild
(2), Lady Harriet Ashley, Lady Arthur Lennox and
Misses Lennox (2), Hon. Henry Stonor, Hon. Mrs.
J. A. Villiers, Hon. H. C. Vivian, Hon. Mrs. and
Miss Heneage, Hon. Leopold Agap Ellis, Hon. F.
Bertie, the Right Hon- Henry T. L. Corry, M.P.,
and Miss Corry, Sir F. Johnstone, Sir C. Russell,
Sir Malcolm Macgregor, Sir Rowland Errington
and Misses Errington (2), Sir Laurence Peel, Mr.
C. and Lady Elizabeth Scrase Dickins, Mr. and
Hon. Mrs. Pereira, Colonel Farquharson, Colonel
Marshall, Major and Mrs. Mansfield, Mrs. William
Russell, Mr. Algernon Greville, Mr. Chaplin, Mr.
H. R. Grenfell, M,P., Mr. C. Pascoe Grenfell, M.P.,
Mrs. Lane Fox, Mr. Macgregor, Mr. Alderson, Mr.
Peaeocke, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Buckley, the Rev.
A. Lennox Peel, Mr. Percy Doyle, Mr. Earle, Nix.
Baldwin, Mrs. Charteris, Mrs. John Leslie. Mrs.
Hobhouse, Mr. George Russell, Mr. and Hon, Mr s.
Maurice Drummond, Miss Drummond, Mr. and
Mrs. John Toweeley and Misses Towneley and
Mr. R. Towneley, &c.
At 20 minutes past three the happy couple took
their departure for Goodwood House, the seat of
the Duke of Richmond, in Sussex, to spend the
honeymoon.
The bridal presents were valuable and numerous.
The birthday'of Prince Alfred—his Hoyt a High-
ness having been born on August 6, 1844—was celebrated
at Windsor yesterday whniteh the
ssthceustcomouanry rejoici gs.
Count
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Major Burnell and suite, have arrived at the
Clarendon Hotel from Brussels.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and. Ladies
Lennox leave town early in the ensuing week for Gordon
Castle, Fochabers, N.B.
The Duke of Newcastle is far the present sojourn-
ing at Hyde, Isle of Wight.
The Earl and Countess of Harewood and family
are staying at Harewood House, Yorkshire.
A SAYING OF MON TROND'S, WORTHY OF
ROCHEFOUCAULD. " S'il veus arrive gm:Nue-chose
d'heureux, ne thanquez pas d'aller le dire a vos amis, afin
do leur faire de la peiile."—Gronow's Recollections and
Anecdotes.

SUAKSPEARE'S HANDWRITNG.—His " mind and
hand"—his first editors put on record, to their own con-
fusion in all after-time—" went together ; and what he
thought, he uttered with that easiness, that was have
coarse received from him a blot in his papers." Yet of
all these prccious, priceless INISS. not one solitary leaf

remains I
MOLIERE has been the subject of a great num-
ber of works of late, the last end best of them being
"Les Recherches sur Alolire et sur sa Famine," by M.
E. Soulie. _ _

GROWTH OF THE BRITISH MUSEIRC—From its
foundation in 1753 to the 31st of March, 1863, it is
calculated that the sum of £3,339,177 has Leen expended
upon the maintenance and collections of the British
Museum. 'The number of visitors to the general collec-
tions at various periods of ten years apart will serve to
show the progress of the institution. In 1805 the visitors
were 11959; in 1815, 31,409; in 1825, 127,643 ; in 1635,
259,104; in 1845, 685,614; in 1851 (the Exhibition year)
2,597.216; in 1862 (rile internatiunal Exhibition year)t
895,077.