The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-01 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

CELEBRATION OF THE EMPEROR'S
BIRTHDAY.

ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 1

The Journal de St. Petersbourg of today an-
nounces that the birthday of the Emperor has
been celebrated in all the chief cities of the empire,
and that loyal manifestations have taken place
throughout the provinces.

The same paper publishes the answer given by
the Emperor in reply to an address presented to
him by the nobility, the municipality of St. Peters-
burg, the corporations, and the peasantry.

His Majesty said :
"The only object of my life is the welfare of our
dear fatherland, and the gradual development of
our civil institutions."

An Imperial ukase has also been published to-
day directing that corporal punishments shall in
future only be employed in exceptional cases.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAY 1.

The .31oniteur of to-day says :—" Several journals
announce that the representatives of the sub-elec-
toral committees will shortly assemble in order to
elect a central committee.
" The Government reminds the public that the
law forbids associations of more than 20 persons
meeting without the consent of the public autho-
rities, even should those associations be subdivided
into sections comprising a less number ; and further,
that the journals would expose themselves to legal
penalties, if they published the resolutions or mani-
festos of such associations."

The Empress, accompanied by the Countess de
Rayneval, Madame de Viry, and Baron de Pierres,
on returning from the review the day before yes-
terday, visited the Exhibition of the Beaux Arts.
BOURSE, April 30.—The reponse de primes has
been made at 69f. 45c. The market continues firm,
with a fair amount of lansness. Threes, for the
Account, are now at 69f. 50c. Mobilier Shares have
also improved. Railway Shares have been rather
offered, but up to the present time prices are not
materially lower. The market closed as follows :

4f per Cents 97 25
Do. end month —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 50
Credit Mobilier..., 1432 50
Do. end month 1433 75
Bank Shares 3375
Credit F oncier ~.,1490
HAIM

Italian Loan 7l 95
Do. end month —
Sew ditto —
Do. end month -
Russian
Austrian

Spanish Threes 52 50
Home Debt -
TAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lO2O .. 1020
Northern ....
New. ditto —
• •
Lyons and Mediterranean 1165 .. 1162 50
Geneva..
Southern .. 762 50 .. 770
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lou. bard
North of Spain
Saragossa,.
Ditto to Barcelona ....

495 - .. 495 -
602 50 .. 600 -
570 - .. 571 25
751 25 .. 752 50
375 - .. 375 -

FUNERAL OF SIR ROBERT BATESON, BART.—
On Tuesday morning the remains of this venerable and
deeply lamented baronet were consigned to their last rest-
ing-place in the family vault at Moira. It was very largely
attended.
DEATH OF SIR AUGUSTUS WARREN, BART.—Sir
Augustus Warren, Bart, died on Wednesday, at Macroom,
in the county of Cork. He was born on the 17th of May,
1791. His ancestor, Wallis Warren, came to this country
as an officer in the army of King William 111.

CALLS TO THE BAH.—lnner Temple, April! 30.
—.The undermentioned gentlemen were this day
called to the bar by the Hon. Society of the Inner Temple :
—Wm, Benett Player Brigstocke, Esq., L. 8., Cambridge;
Thomas Benyon Ferguson, EN., Oxford; William Henry
Milligan, Esq., M.A., Oxford; John Alfred Hudson, Esq.,
Cambridge ; James Edouard Ferdinand Poulin, Esq.,
Francis Ashton Drake, Esq., M.A., Oxford ; Samuel San-
ders, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge ; Percy Arden, Esq., Oxford;
Charles Skidmore, Esq.; Arthur Richard Jelf, M.A., Ox-
ford; Henry Offley Bright, Esq.; John Martyr Ward,
Esq., M.A., Cambridge ; Charles James Jenkins Hannay,
Esq., 8.A., L.L.8., Lon•
dEosnq; ;
and
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Esq
8.A., Cambridge.
Middle Temple, Easter Term, 'M.—The undermentioned
gentlemen were this day called to the degree of the utter
bar :—Henry Cecil Raikes, Esq., B.A , Trinity College,
Cambridge, and of 5, Mitre-court-chambers, Temple;
Ega'grd' Bayswater;
late of Trinity College,
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Charles Lovell Lovell, Esq., of the Reform Club; and
Richard Banner Oakeley, Esq., of Oswaldkirk-hall, York-
shire. Lincoln's-inn, April 30._ The undermentioned gen-
tlemen were this day called to the degree of barrister-at..law
by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-inn : —viz., George Ed-
mund Wick,ted, E.q., 8.A., Oxford; Richard Dickson
Preston, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge; Edward Sr. Aubyn, jun.,
Esq. ; Stephen Blount, Esq. ; Albert Glenie Perring, Esq.,
M.A., Oxford; Thomas Pitts Langmead, Esq.; and Ste-
phen Ellis Rogers, Esq. Gray's-inn, April &J.—At a Pen-
sion of the Hon. Society of Gray's-inn, holden this day,
Nugent Charles Walsh, Esq , was called to the degree of
barrister-at-law.

THE POLICE AMALGAMATION BILL.—At a meet-

ing of the vestry of St. George's, Hanover-square,
held last night, the Rev. Mr. Howarth in the chair, it was
unanimously agreed to present a petition to Parliament
against the bill for the amalgamation of the City and
Metropolitan police, on the ground that the measure was
uncalled for by the citizens of London or the ratepayers of
the metropolis. The meeting was addressed, amongst
others, by Mr. Westerton, Major Lyon, Lord Foley, Lord
Camperdown, and Mr. 113.3uverie, N.P.

THE GURNEY DIVORCE CASE.—The Gurney
divorce case is at present before Vice Chancellor
Wood. Mr. Gurney, of Catton Hall, Norfolk, was married in
1846 to his cousin, Miss Mary Jury Gurney. Previously to
1859, when cohabitation ceased, there were two children of
the marriage, the infant co-plaintiffs, On the 13th of
December, 1859, Mrs. Gurney eloped from her husband's
house, in Kensington Palace Gardens, with one Taylor, a
groom in Mr. Gurney's service. On the 23d of December
she left England, accompanied by Taylor, for France,
where they remained until the 13th of September, 1860.
Mr. Gurney immediately after the elopement commenced
proceedings in the Divorce Court, and on the 13th of
February, 1861, obtained a decree nisi for the dissolu-

tion of his marriage, the final decree dissolving the
marriage absolutely being dated on the 22d of May,
1861. On the 4th of May, 1861, Mrs. Gurney, who had
continued ever since her elopement to live with Taylor,
was confined of a full-grown male child, the defendant in
the present suit. Under these circumstances a bill was
filed fa. the purpose of carrying into execution a set-
tlement made by Mr. Gurney in January, 1862, for the
benefit of the children of the marriage; and in order to
exclude the child born to Mrs. Gurney in May, 1861, a
declaration was prayed that the two infant co-plaintiffs,
as the only children of the marriage, were alone entitled to
the trust funds comprised in the settlement. Evidence
was given at great length for the purpose of rebutting the
ordinary presumption of legitimacy. Though Mrs, Gurney
had been previously resident in France with Taylor, she
returned without him to London, and took apartments in
the Marylebone-road, while the plaintiff was at that time
also resident at Abbey Lodge,
in the Regent's-park, It
was proved also that she had visited the Zoological Gar-
dens then, and had sent a person to several clubs to inquire
fur Mr. Gurney. Another witness deposed that she ac-
companied Mrs. Gurney to Abbey Lodge in a cab at her
request, and when near the house got out and delivered a
message to Mr. Gurney to the effect that Mrs. Gurney
desired to see him, and that he thereupon immediately lelt
the room, so that she received no answer. Another
witness deposed to seeing the message delivered; that
the woman was in an imploring attitude, and exclaimed
" Do take me back,'' and that Mr. Gurney raised both his
arras as if to repel her. Upon the other hand, it was ad-
mitted by the plaintiff's so'icitor that upon the Ist August,
1860, he went to Paris at the latter's request to see Mrs.
Gurney upon business—the nature of which he declined
to divulge—taking with him Mr. Gurney's younger son,
with that gentleman's assent, The case is still going en.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 30,

The Queen, the Prince and Princess Louis of
Hesse, Princess Victoria of Hesse, Prince Alfred,
Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice,
and Prince Leopold, attended by the Dowager
Countess of Mount•Edgcumbe, Lord Charles Fitz-
roy, and Major Cowell, left Windsor Castle for
Osborne at half-past two this afternoon.
Their Grand Ducal Highnesses the Prince Alex-
ander and Prince Henry of Hesse, attended by Baron
de Rotsmann and Captain Westerweller, left the
Castle for London.

Earl Russell and Viscount Palmerston arrived at
the Castle yesterday, and had audiences of the
Queen.

The Dowager Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe has
succeeded the Countess of Desart as Lady in
Waiting.
Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Col. Du Plat
have succeeded Major-Gen. Hon. A. N. Hood and
Col. Hon. A. Hirdinge as Equerries in Waiting,
Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone,
arrived from Greenwich Park, and left with the
Royal family.

WINDSOR, April 30.
Precisely at half•past two o'clock this after-
noon her Majesty left the Castle for Osborne,
accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Hesse and infant princess.
Prince Alfred, Princesses Helena, Louise, and
Beatrice, and Prince Leopold. The royal party
were received at the station at the Great
Western Windsor terminus by Mr. Matthews
and Mr. Kelley, traffic inspectors, who attended
the royal train to the Basingstoke station,
where the engine was changed, and the train taken
on to Gosport under the charge of Mr. West of the
South-Western.

The Court will return to Windsor in a fortnight,
and after remaining here about two days her Ma-
jesty will proceed to Scotland.

PORTSMOUTH, April 30.
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of
Hesse and their infant princess, the Princes Alfred,
Arthur, and Leopold, and the Princesses Helena,
Louise and Beatrice, and attended by their respec-
tive suites, arrived by special train at a quarter be-
fore five this afterncou at the Royal Clarence Vic-
tualling Yard, from whence the royal party em-
barked on board the royal yacht Fairy, Captain his
Serene Highness Prince Leiningen, and proceeded
to Osborne. The Efin, royal yacht, Master-Com-
mander Balliston, embarked the royal retinue and
equipage, and followed shortly after the Fairy. The
arrival and departure of the royal party was strictly
private.