The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-02 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 1.
The Queen, the Crown Prince and Princess of
Prussia, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince
Arthur, Prince Leopo d, Princess Beatrice, and
her Serene Highness the Princess Hohenlohe,
visited her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
this morning tit Frogmore House, it being the
anniversary of the princess's birthday.
Her Majesty, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce,
took a carriage drive, attended by Lord Alfred
Paget o❑ horseback.
Lord Alfred Paget and Col. the Hon. D. de
Ros have succeeded Major-General Hon. A. Hood
and Col. Ponsouby as Equerries.

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Birthday of the Princess of Wales.

The first birthday which her Royal Highness
the Princess of Wales has passed in England was
joyously celebrated yesterday in many places. Irt
the metropolis the bells of the various churches
rang a merry pcal, the troops of the Household
Brigade paraded in the court-house opposite ;Marl-
borough House with their State band, the royal
standards were hoisted on the Government offices,
and the vessels in the river presented a gay and
animated appearance. In the evening the houses
of many of her royal highness's tradesmen were
illuminated.

At Windsor the day was celebrated with the
customary honours paid to the members of the
royal family, and the houses were gaily decorated
with flags.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and the
Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia,
attended by their suites, drove to Virginia Water,
and lunched in the Temple, leaving Frogmore
Lodge at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and re'
turning at 4 o'clock. The new dining room was
elegantly decorated with wreaths and choice exotic°,
and in the splendid apartments were displayed
the various elegant presents which the princess
had received on this occasion. In the evening
their royal highnesses gave a grand banquet ra
the new dining room, when covers were laid for
27 persons.
In the evening Herr Herrmann, the renowned
prestidigitator of the Princess's Theatre, had the
honour to perform before the royal party at
Frogmore by command.
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Afany of the houses at Windsor were
nated ; and the Mayor and Corporation gave a
ball in the Town Hall, which was attended bi
about 70 royal tradespeople of Windsor and Etoo.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge WI
prevented by slight indisposition from leaving town on
Monday to visit the Earl and Countess of Derby at Knows'
ley. His royal highness, we hear, is suffering from 6°'
obstinate attack of neuralgia.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and niche°
d'Aumale arrived at Hatfield House, Herts, on Monday, (;4
a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury.
His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the
Countess Bernstarff entertained at dinner, last evening,
Excellency the French Ambassador, the Duke and Duche'''
of Somerset, his Excellency the Italian Minister, his
cellency the Saxon Minister, the Earl and Countess d°
Grey, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston and 1-'3llt
Victoria Ashley, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, the Well.
Hon. Charles P. Villiers, the Marquis de Cadore, &o.

small party assembled after dinner.
His Excellency the French Ambassador, tllO
Prince do la Tour d'Auvergne, attended at the Foreign.
office, yesterday, and had an interview with the
Earl
Russell.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort arrived
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town, on Sunday, from visiting the Emperor and En 2 Pre,s4
of the French at Compiegne, and have since gone to 133"
minton, their seat in Gloucestershire, for the winter.
The Duke of Newcastle was rather better yester-
day, but his grace's illness prevented him from attendl
the Cabinet Council.
The Earl and Countess of Craven and Ladies
Craven left town, yesterday, for Ashdown Park, Berks.
Viscount and Viscountess Clitden left WO,
yesterday, for their temporary seat in Suffolk.
The Countess (Dowager) of Listowel and Lad)'
Proby left town, yesterday, for Elton Hall, the -Earl of
Carysfort's s.ot, near Stilton.
Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misseg
Jocelyn left Lord and Lady Palmerston's residence, in Fie-
cadilly, yesterday, for St. Leonard's.
Lord and Lady Londesborough have left the
Clarendon Hotel for Paris, en route for Egypt.
Lord Crewe left town yesterday for Crewe
Cheshire.
Lord Huntingfield has left the St. George '°
Hotel. at
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Milks have arrived
the St. George's Hotel. -ante'
Sir Tattoo Sykes, Bart., has left Claridge's 1-s''
for Newmarket.

PREJUDICE, AS DEFINED BY A SATURDAY BS;
VIEWER.—There are companies in which to 0,;27
a balief that Louis Napoleon Buonaparte means miscP",,--
his proposed Congress would be at once scouted 'll`trbee
judice, and to call it prejudice would be thought a;
answer that it deserved. Undoubtedly such a belief 's
prejudice, because it is a judgment pronounced before 1101:
while the evidence is still unknown or imperfect, an.dscrbie„i
therefore may possibly bo reversed by the actual covrse
:t
events, It is as yet quite possible that Louis Napele°.
may sincerely desire the liberation of Poland, and Pt
reconciliation of Denmark and Germany, without the lad
eye to the frontier of the Rhine. The feeling against Dij3.3o
is therefore, in strictness of speech, a prejudice; but it ift
ofp r all This
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pi
presumption
po na s
tthaac
ttsa.n y
afTught
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not an unreasonable prejudice, because it is grounded 19-
quitett
hhee
seamxspueeffir ikeeininecndet.
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upon—that is, quite enough to put all other nations
guard. Still it is merely a prejudice or presuelPtA
rfe°
l(Tt9 aeY
cause we have not as yet the evidence before us, an
e --131tly
turn out to be wrong. Here is a prejudice, but
reasonable prejudice. But the way in which the o°3° T3O.
was often spoken of 15 years ago was, to a great Ott' rte
case of unreasonable prejudice. When President
ere
assumed the chief magistracy of the French Republic, t7Toiti
were undoubtedly many presumptions of various to
against him, but they were none of them so strong
deprive him of every man's prima facie right to a fair tr.
p,
He obtained his post by a perfectly fair election, WD'ito
though even then it showed dangerous recklessness 0n.411
part of the electors, was certainly honourable rather
otherwise to the elected. To condemn him beforehacd'oo
it were not the sign of a superhuman pre-science, was eot
sign of a prejudice which certainly was not just. We anti
that some of those who from the beginning sneered mph 1140
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terly at every act of the President would now be,f(3.oro
among the most abject flatterers of the "Emperor: ,eld,
su,pect that some of those who have unilinchinglY ag
that there is such a thing as right and wrong, who 117/0
never held that success justifies or palliates crime, who 1n,.„,
never thought that perjury and massacre are matters wlnlcir,
any courtly euphemism can gloss over, would be forbid'
ot then forfeited °
for a candid hearing fur a man whom had n
fifteen years ago, to have been among those who pleade
rights which belong to all men ecept convicted crimina.°.
It is possible that their present judgment may be in se
ointment, a bad return, 11.9
ected any good; still
degree embittered by what is in some sort a disappointiVe.,o
ePclapndid hearing, Still, t3li';
resultwl'hereey fmiosraftehl nteoa
as have arkevi
no da
grantcot af adolilfsyaap
increased bitterness of judgment cannot make any
essential difference; it is at the utmost the merest shear;
Yet when such men argue that 1/I,le,
ing of the edge.
who has so otten already deceived the world is likely t°
ceive it again, this reasonable inference from experietlo6f
not uncommonly pooh-poohed as mere prejudice.
course whatever of prejudice., that is of unreasoning
dice, there is in the matter, lies the other way--4 0
dice, namely, in favour of success, of daring, of al° die°:
of power and mystery, sometimes the mere abject Pre•"-ors
in favour of everything which, never mind by what fa: et;
has come to be called Majesty and Richness, and e%*e

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