The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse, who arrived at Buckingham Palace
from Scotland on Wednesday, intended to leave
London for the Continent last night by the Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway. In consequence,
however, of the receipt of a telegram from Dover
-announcing that a heavy sea was running in the
Channel, their royal highnesses postponed their
departure till to-day. Should the weather mode"
rate, the prince and princess will leave the Victoria
station this morning for Dover, whence they will
proceed to Calais on their return to Germany.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse and suite honoured the Adelphl
Theatre last evening with their presence to witness
Miss Bateman's admirable and popular performance
of " Leah."

Lord Llanover has left Llanover, South Wales,
on a tour of visits in Scotland,

THE NEWLY-APPOINTED FRENCH AMBASSADOR•
—His Excellency the Prince de la f our a'Auvergne,
the recently-appointed ambassador to the Court of St.
James, has resigned his post as Minister Plenipotentiary at
the Court of Prussia to his successor, in order to replace the
Baron de Gros, the present representative of the Emperor
of the French in this country, whose departure is expected
to take place on or about the 15th of next month. The am-
bassador is the eldest of three brothers, one of whom is
Archbishop of Bourges, and the other a lieutenant-colonel
of infantry, who was for a long time orderly officer to the
Emperor. His Excellency is 42 years of age, and has sa
only son by an English lady, who is now deceased.
SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of the
local committee was held at Edinburgh, on Wed-
nesday, for the purpose of receiving the report of the hono-
rary local secretaries, and winding up the affairs of the late
congress. Professor Archer read the report, which refers
to the gratifying way in which the people of Edinburgh had
sustained their reputation for hospitality, and to various
bodies and persons to whom the thanks of the Association
are due—including the Hon. General Secretary, Mr. G. W.
Hastings; and the Assistant Secretaries Miss Ise Craig and
Mr. Randall. It stated that the working men's meeting

was a feature of special interest, no fewer than 34,960 ap-
plications having been received for admission, of which only
about 3,600 could be gratified, and the order of the meet-
ing, and deep interest taken in the proceedings, were such
as to excite the admiration of all. The report concluded by
adverting to the great success which had attended the ex-
cursions. Mr. Curros, City Treasurer, read the financial
report, which stated that the revenue of the general fund
from the sale of tickets was £1,747 145., and the disburse-
ments £2OB ; leaving a balance of £1,539. The local sub-
scription fund amounted to £305, and the disbursements
to £BO2, leaving. a balance of £lO2. It was proposed to
transmit immediately the sum of £1,500 to the Association

in London. The reports were approved, and votes of thanks
were tendered to all who had given their services or in
other ways promoted the success of the meeting, specie'
notice being taken of Professor Archer, on whom the great
bulk of the work, as the acting local honorary secretary",
had devolved. A vote of thanks to the Lord Provost for
presiding closed the proceedings.
THE NEW STAGE AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE.---

a open out-door scenes, where for instance the open
country, or perhaps the open sea, extends far away
into the distance, the sky will close the scene in over'
head : an unbroken canopy extending from a certain
point behind the proscenium and high above it, over
the stage, and away to where, at the extreme back'
ward limit of the theatre, it mingles softly with the horioon•
One may, without being too sanguine, believe that this
great arched canopy, spanning the stage from side to side,
and from front to back, will lend itself to all sorts of beailti"
ful and truthful effects. With trees or rocks, or whatever
else may be needed at the, sides—not, indeed, pushed on is
flat pieces parallel to the proscenium, like the separated
joints of a screen, but planted here and there, Its
Nature plants, carelessly and irregularly—it will be•
possible so to close in an out-door scene, as that
there shall be really no flaw or weak place about it, no un-
finished gaps to which the scrutinising eye can wander in
the confident hope of ascertaining "how the trick was
done." This personage with the scrutinising eye who is
always on the look-out for loose screws, who attends pfsess
of entertainment in a spirit by no means friendly to the
performance at which he has chosen to assist, but rather
spitefully inimical to it; this dreadful individual will, to
use a common phrase, be utterly " done" when he visits
the Theatre Royal Lyceum. It is impossible to sea
" off," as it is called. Our glimpses of beer-drinking,
our visions of prompter's boxes, of flopping rows of
grooves, of ladies waiting to go on, of seedy females
holding shawls, are over, and done away wit.
The arrangement of the side pieces, slanting °l:‘
liquely away from the audience, and appearing to mil:3o
together in masses rather than to stand carefully separate('
into regular entrances, renders it quite impossible that any
member of the audience situated in any part of the house,
should see anything not intended to be seen as part of the
illusion. Sufficient entrances for all needful purposes are
left among these side-pieces, but they are most carefully
masked, and the actor is not seen—unless it is requisite that
he should be seen—until he emerges clear upon the stage.
As to the cunningly contrived entrances by mountain-paths
and rocky descents from the back, those, the most agree-
able, because the most natural, of all, we may safely leav°
to Mr. Fechter, who,
an accomplished artist as well as
fine actor, is not likely to lose sight of the picturesqu,,e 1.1
.:
any such matters of stave-arrange ment.—Diekens's
the Year .Round."
A HURRY-SKUItnY AFTER THE OSTRICIIES..---At
last I fired, and of course missed (as I usually do)•
On they (the ostriches) still came, and the bolas seemed
now to be in requisition. I shouted to the gaucho to let 01
at them, but he shook his head and said " Tovadia nes
senor" (Not yet sir). I mounted again and dashed
towards them, in orier to try a closer shy with the bolas;
but just as I considered the opportunity a good one. the
ostrich doubled and went off at a tangent, to my ireten°
disgust and the amusement of my men. We were ils'VA
within fifty yards of them, all yelling and driving in 074
out through the bushes; for such game for doubling an
h:
turning I have never met with. At one moment you ras7l
sure that you've got him going in a straight line, at u7l
sure
speed, when suddenly he wheels right round and leaves YO-
to shoot ahead twenty or thirty yards before you can turn.
i,
I was " sold " several times in this way, and eventually
gave up the bolas as a bad investment, and took to my re-
volver. We were now six of us after the ostriches (the rr
mainder having gone after the huanacos), and frequently
were within twenty yards of them. I fired twice and missed,
but the third time I was successful, and had the gratilie.,ar
tion of seeing one go over and cock up his toes.----""
Richard's Mining Journal Across the Great Andes.
" REVENONS A Nos MOUTONS ! "—My rernein:
brains of a leg of mutton at Dover.--I had beeut
long absent from England, and had consequently
withai
lost the sense of mutton, having cheated appetite
,a
indfieisch and Kalbsbraten (it these were not old slippers 1-_,O
bookcovers, mysteriously accominodes) until mutton be s":__
a myth. The Calais steamer had just flung
a state of cencentrated misanthropy, and a general seas ON
the worthlessness of existence, I walked into the coffee.° j;
of the Lord Warden, where a leg of Southdown wassqttl.l,_e
set before me. 0 wondrous hei bivore, what flesh
wasi of
Great Lyric of the downs ! What a sensationt
hat
-fictioa I
the first mouthful—as of a man passing into:beati 0 .
itat
Nlutton ! It was ambrosia! It was on this I:ect__ooo
Olympus feasted ; and no wonder that the gods w.e
.3°l
the
stririi3g
Me ashore;
ox
and carelessly immortal. Fugitive flavours, _ ore
senses into the higher raptures of music, why are ye 0
•
Cornhill for Zroventher.