The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-02 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Sept. 30.
The Queen went out in the morning with Princess
Louise.

The Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Helena
rode on horseback.

Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess of
Wales, Princess Louis of Hesse, Prince Arthur, and
Prince Leopold, drove and walked in the afternoon,

Royal Visits to Edinburgh.
EDINBVEGII., Thursday Morning.

This morning the Crown Prince and Princess of
Prussia, with their family and suite, arrived at the
Waverley citation here en route to Balmoral, by the
night express from London. The public were not
generally admitted to the platform. Their Royal
Highnesses were received by the Lord Provost and
Magistrates, Lord Charles Fitzroy, the Prussian
Consul, and several of the railway officials. They
proceeded to the Douglas's Hotel, St. Andrew-
eqitare, where apartments have been engaged for the
royal party. A considerable number of people
assembled in the streets leading from the station to
the hotel.

Thursday Evening.

The Crown Prince and Princess visited Edin-
burgh Castle in the forenoon and Holyrood in the
afternoon, passing through the principal streets and
round the Queen's drive. They leave to-morrow
(Friday) for Balmoral at 9 a.m. on a visit to her
Majesty.
The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived from
Balmoral at a quarter to 7, and were welcomed at
the station by the Princess Royal and the Crown
Prince. The Lord Provost, Magistrates, Sheriff,
and General Commanding being also on the plat-
form. The royal party drove in the same carriage
to the Douglas Hotel.
To-day the Town Council will present an address
to the Prince and Princess of Wales in Holyrood,
and the Edinburgh ladies' gift will be presented to
the Princess. The ceremony, in accordance with the
express desire of their Royal Highnesses, will be
strictly private.
Their departure is not fixed.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary, attended by Lady Geraldine
Somerset and Colonel Home Purves, are expected to leave
Rumpenheim on Monday next for London, on their route
to Cambridge Cottage, Kew.

The Emperor of Austria is still at Ischl, where he
intends remaining for about a week longer. His Majesty
lately several times went out chamois hunting on the neigh-
bouring mountains.
VISIT OF PRINCE NAPOLEON TO WINDSOR.--
His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon visited Windsor
yesterday. The prince inspected the private apartments of
the castle, and also St. George's Chapel. His imperial
highness afterwards visited the royal gardens and Frog-
more grounds, and inspected the mausoleum and royal
farm.

The Prince and Princess Cronbetzkos and family
have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from the Isle of Wight.

The Prince and Princess Guilino and suite have
left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris, on their
way to Home.

His Grand Ducal and her Imperial Highness the
Princess William of Baden have left Claridge's Hotel for

Germany.

The Duke and Dachess of Wellington have
arrived at Brighton.

The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke arid Lady
Agneta Yorke leave Sidney Lodge, near Southampton, on
Monday next for town, and a few days afterwards will go
to Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire. _ _

Lord and Lady Lyndhurst arrived at their resi-
dence in George-street, Hanover-square, from Tunbridge
Wells, on Wednesday last.
Lord and Lady Proby have arrived at their
residence, Halkin-street West, from the Continent.
Lord and Lady Llanover have a large party still
at Llanover. Amongst the present guests are Lord SUM-
ford de Redoliffe and Miss Canning, Lady Blantyre and the
Misses Stuart, Lady Catherine and Miss Allen, Lord
Taunton and Miss Labouchere, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs.
Herbert, of Llanarth, Lord and Lady Wensleydale, Mr,
Rae hall, Mr. Dillon, Sat.

Viscountess Stormont gave birth to a son on
Monday last, at Scone Palace, Perthshire.
Count and Countess Bonde of Thorne left 16
Grafton-street, on Thursday last, en route by Dover and
Calais, for the Palace of IlOrningsholm, Sweden.
General Le Comte and Madame Schensteine and
family have returned to the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-
street, from Scotland.
Sir F. Graham Moon, Bart., and Lady Moon,
have left Portman-square for their marine residence at
Brighton.

Lady Francis and Miss Gordon have returned to
town from Sir Alexander Bannerman'a seat in Aberdeen-

shire.

DEATH OF LORD SINCLAIR.—The Right Hon.
Charles Lord Sinclair died on Wednesday last at Pilmuir,
near Torquay, at the advanced age of 95, having been born
at Edinburgh in 1768.

PROFESSOR WILSON (Christopher North) and
ALLAN RAMSAY are each to have a statue in the Prince's-
street Gardens, Edinburgh, where workmen are already
preparing sites for the two memorials.

WHAT GOETHE DID FOR " HAMLET."—it is im-
pressed upon us that nobody understood " Hamlet"
until Goethe expounded its meaning. What, then (asks a
critic in the Times), was the wonderful discovery which.
Goethe made ? He discovered that Hamlet is an irresolute
character, and that, having a great deal to do, he does it
not I What an enormous mouse I We are to suppose that
nobody ever saw this mouse before. It is a huge discovery
to tell us that Hamlet is slow to act, and that Laertes is
contrast to him is swift to act. We take all this for granted
—it lies on the surface; and English critics, not troubling
themselves with such a palpable truism, advanced to the
further question—ls Hamlet mad or half mad ?Is that
irresolution of his the result of a sound or of an unsound
mind. When Goethe's truism is thus forced upon us as s.
great discovery, we find ourselves in the position of a man
who cannot answer a very simple question about something
which he knows perfectly well. He may know every nook
and corner of his house, and yet be unable to tell offhand
how many rooms there are in it. The house agent is supe-
rior to us in this kind of knowledge, and can tell the exact
number of rooms without hesitation. It is this house agent
sort of superiority that the German critics display. It is
the same sort of superiority as dumb-founded M. Jourdain
when he discovered that, without knowing it, he had been.
talking prose all his life.

CRUIKSHANK'S DISCOVERY ABOUT GHOSTS--
anticipated by Partridge in Fielding'a " Toni
Jones I "—As Hotspur himself must admit that any num-
ber of spirits may now be summoned from the vasty deep,
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Howrotessotro dressPepp your
ghost ghost ? becomes a matter of pressing importance. We
lately noticed an amusing pamphlet by Mr, George Cruik-
shank, who objects to the common ghost•stories that the
ghosts ought never to be dressed at all, since there cannot
be ghosts of clothes. A chapter in "Tom Jones" may
be consulted with advantage. Fielding makes his hero
take dear simple old Partridge to see Garrick in " Hamlet.''
What man is that in the strange dress ?" asks Partridge.
Tom Jones answers, " That is the ghost." To which.
Partridge replies with a smile, " Persuade me to that, sir,
if you can. Though I can't say I ever actually saw a ghost
in my life, yet I am certain I should know one, if I saw
him, better than that comes to. No, no, sir, ghosts don't
appear in such dresses as that, neither." This mistake, the
novelist adds, caused much laughter in the neighbOurhood
of Partridge. But was not Partridge right? The ghost
purported to come from the nether world—the suit of com-
plete steel in which he was clad Partridge knew must at
that moment be in the royal armoury of. Denmark. Thero
had been a divorce between the royal Dane and his coat of
mail. The ghost of a king, Partridge could imagine----tho
ghost of a helmet and corslet, he could not so easily realise.
" No, no, sir, ghosts don't appear in such dresses as that,
neither."

A WOltD FOR OUR SMALL BIRDS.----It is no
argument for destroying the birds that they do not
rid us of the w orse enemy. We know, by abundant evi.
dence,that the t 'mall birds which most frequent our gardens
and dwellings do dispose of an infinite number of cater-
pillars, grubs, flis, , and worms in feeding their young af.
well as themselves. That there is still more than they can
dispose of is no wonder, considering the destruction of birds
which has been going .on now,
faster and faster, more and
more spitefully, for yea/ s past. It should be remembered
that the insect increase hoes on at au accelerated tate atter
the natural check is once, impaired.
The escaped prey of
one pair of finches or sparrows or robins, will not only
grow up to spoil half-a-dozen vegetables, but will bring
forth a progeny which will ruin scores of plants, and leave
enough heirs to run through the property of hundreds
more. While, therefore, I have wireworms, slugs, larvae
of mischievous. moths, Sze-, in my garden, I shall let the
birds try what they can do with the mischief which I cer-
tainly cannot manage in any clumsy human method,--
eilee a Week.