The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, Jan. 15.
The Queen drove ' out yesterday. Countess Blucher
had the honour of accompanying her Majesty.
Lolly Churchill has succeeded the Countess of Gains-
borough as Lady in Waiting.
Earl Russell arrived yesterday, and had an audience of
her Majesty.
Earl Russell left to-day.
His Royal Highness Prince Lords of Hesse visited
Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge yesterday, attended
by Col. the Hon. A. Hardinge and Capt. Westerweller.
The Prince returned to Osborne at half-past five o'clock.

A. deputation from Ashton-under-Lyne, consisting of
Mr. W. Penington, Mr. James Scholefield, Mr. W. Gill,
and Mr. John Clough, had an interview with the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., yesterday at the office of the
Poor Law Board, and laid before him a testimonial, signed
by 1,140 persons, the workpeople of Mr. J. Whittaker,
cotton manufacturer, of Ashton-under-Lyne, and pre-
sented by them to that gentleman in acknowledgment of
his liberality and kindness towards them during the pre-
sent distress. _ .

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of the West India Islands,
New Zealand, Labuan, and Canada. Despatches were
sent to the Governor of Canada.

THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE HIGH SCHOOL
OF EDINBURGH.—Dr. Schmitz, the rector of the

High School, has received the following gratifying com-
munication :—" Osborne, Dec. 24, 1862.—Sir,—I am
directed by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter enclosing a report
of the proceedings at the inauguration of the bust of the
Prince. His Royal Highness desires me to convey to

you his thanks for your letter, and to say how gratified
he is by the feelings expressed in the report, The
Prince will always take great interest in the High

School, and looks back with pleasure to those days in

which he was more intimately connected with Llinburgh

during his own education.—l have the honour to be,
sir, your obedient servant, C. H. Grey.—To Professor

Schmitz."

PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA.—Apropos of Prussian
royalty, I have been told a pleasant anecdote of the

Princess Royal. She was playfully accosted a few days

ago by her father-in-law, who complained that she did not

choose any more to talk politics to hiia. " I dare not,"
replied the Princess (in the story), " nowadays that your
loyal subjects are suspect when they utter their opinions, I

am very loyal, and do not want to get in a scrape."

The

- . .
Berliners have a rooted notion that the Prince and Princess

Royal are thoroughly constitutional, and that they silently
disapprove the political attitude of Papa.—Manchester

(TuLdian.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Northampton

are passing the season at Madeira.
Lord and Lady Overstone are expected at their

residence in Carlton-gardens on Monday from a tour of

visits.

Lord and Lady Skelmersdale, who have been
staying at The Grove, Watford, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon for some days past, will return to

town on Monday next.

Lord and Lady Taunton have arrived at Stoke
Park, Slough, from a tour of visits.
THE THRONE OF GREECE.—The Independance
Beige has the following telegram, dated Vienna,
Tuesday evening :—" Within the last 24 hours England
has put forward the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg as the
new candidate for the throne of Greece. The Prince, having
no children of his own, would adopt the eldest son of the
Duke Augustus of Coburg and the Duchess Clementine
d' Orleans. Prince Alfred would succeed him in the Duchy
of Coburg." In reference to the above, La France, of yes-
terday evening, states, as will be seen by our telegraphic
intelligence, that the Duke of Saxe-Coburg has refused to
become a candidate for the vacant throne.
*THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE
FINE ARTS.—The lecture season of this society
commenced last evening at their rooms in Conduit-street,
when Mr. F. Y. Hurlstone, president of the Society of Bri-
tish Artist, delivered a most able and interesting discourse
on " The Poetry and Drama of Spain " The lecturer
showed himself deeply imbued with the spirit of his subject,
which he illustrated with abundant examples of great force
and humour. An interesting discussion on the Spanish
national character and literature followed. The room was
crowded.

TITSSAIJD'S WAX WORK EXHIBITION.—Amongst
the more recent additions to this old-established
popular exhibition are several beautifully-executed portrait
models of our early English monarchs, from the Conqueror,
attired in the magnificent costumes of the period. Full-
length figures of Caxton, the introducer of the printing-
press into England, and Chaucer, the first of our poets, in
the quaint garments of their respective times, are also
added; and in the Chamber of Horrors is an effigy of Ca-
therine Wilson, the notorious wholesale poisoner.

At a meeting of the Middlesex magistrates held
at the Clerkenwell Sessions House yesterday the
present state of prison discipline was among other matters
discussed. The present state of the law, or rather the prac-
tice at the Home-office, was strongly censured, hardly any
member being frond to rage his voice in its favour; but
some gentlemen were for deferring action tin the Ire.) el
Commission appointed to investigate the question had made
its report. In the end, however, it was unanimously agreed
to appoint a committee to consider the question.
HINTS TO THE HORSE GUARDS.—From almost
the first day of his arrival in the regiment, the re-
cruit in Frame is taught how to cook every sort of
food he is ever likely to have; how best to dress rice, hard
biscuits, vegetables; how to make bread, to make soup, and
generally how to make the most of a little. Every man has
his turn in the kitchen, and he who dishes up the best soup
or ragout receives the congratulations of his comrades. He
has the honour of being elected chef de cuisine on certain
festive occasions, such as the fete day of the Emperor, when
the troops receive extra and daintier rations. He gets more
than hollow praise, for he is allowed to select, for himself
and a few of his own chums, the best of the tit-bits. So
far and further is the recruit taught. All this he must
know practically before he can aspire to-the rank of cor-
poral. When he has finished drill,,feneing, gymnastics,
dancing, swimming, and thoroughly understands the work
of a good practical soldier, and the duty of subordina-
tion, he has books delivered to him in which he may
learn how to instruct recruits, may gain a theoretical know-
ledge of what he knows practically, and may prepare him-
self to compete for the chevrons, and ultimately to become
a distinguished officer—for the French military authorities
seek talent in every class fortune being with them quite
an inferior consideration. Let a man only show aptitude,
and the Government will furnish him with means to sus-
tain any rank it may confer. More than that ; wise mili-
tary laws and regulations will compel him to live within his
pay—not within his private means, but his military pay.
It is not many years since the purchase-system was abo-
lished in the French army. The present laws or ordinances
regulating adva cement in the French army, came into life
at different periods of the Revolution ot'93 ; were collected,
revised, and decreed as a code, by Napoleon the First ; and
have remained in force under each successive dynasty. So
clearly do these la vs specify that merit, and merit alone,
shall entitle to promotion, that a clause in them authorises
a m.ritorious man to prove his right to it, when any arbi-
trary act of administration has deprived him of his just ad-
vantages. The mode of reclamation is indicated as follows :
" Any soldier, non-commissioned officer, or officer, having
any claims to pr motion or other rewards, shall be enabled
to reclaim them of the general inspector, when that officer
visits the corps at the time of the inspections,"—Diekene 8
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the arrival there of Jefferson Davis and General Johnston,
says :—" We are happy to see the President in excellent
health and spirits. His presence in the State which has
honoured and loved him so long at this critical juncture
will be worth almost as much as an army with banners.'
Everybody seemed to be reinvigorated and better contented,
when it was ascertained that the President had arrived.
We augur much good to the cause to grow oat of his visit-
ing and encouraging the troops, and overlooking personally
our various defences. With his keen and quick soldierly
tact, he can tell at a glance what is needed to save us from
the devastation of the Northern vandals ; and we doubt not
that new life and vigour and a more heroic and determined
spirit will mark the conduct of the soldiers wherever he
goes. A committee of the House of Representatives visited
the President this morning to invite him to address the
that he had
legislature. His reply was, come to work not ,
to speak ; but he would do in Mississippi what he would
not anywhere else. He would meet the legislature either
publicly or privately, advise with the members is secret
deliver an address in the hall to the people. He
session, or •
left for an important point yesterday evening, but will re-
turn in a day or two, when he will comply with the invita-
tion of the legislature and the universal wish of the people.
The reception of the President among his old friends and
neighbours was, of course, most cordial; and notwithstand-
ing the vast responsibility, which would weigh heavily upon
any other an,
yet ho met his friends with the same plea-
sant warmth, and courteous unassuming candour of former
and less eventful times,"
NINETEEN NEGROES HUNG IN CHARLESTON. 7
A Norfolk letter coLtains the following :—" A Big-,
tish subject who came here from Charleston, South Caro-
lina, within a few days, brings the information that nine-
teen negroes were hung in the streets just prior to his de-
parture. This occurred in consequence of a discovery made
in a rather singular manner. The whites there for some
time past have been closely watching the movements of the
blacks, and tb: •
inking they observed an unusual number of
funerals among them, a white man disguised himself, and,
following in one of the precessions, on arriving at the bury-
ing ground he discovered that the coffin contained arms,
which were taken and buried in a vault in which a number
had already been deposited. The consequence of this dis-
covery was the execution of 19of • '
the most intelligent of the
conspirators."