The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-01 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, MARCH 31.
An official denial has been given to the rumour
that General Concha intends to resign.
The statement that the Government disapproves
the conduct of General Dulee has also been denied.

A difference of opinion on political questions is
said to exist between Marshal Narviez and M.

Mon.

Letters from Madrid speak of an incident which
has caused some agitation in the higher circles of
the Spanish capital :—" The Duchess de Fernan-
Nunez invited, with the consent of the Queen, to
the ball which she is about to give, Mme. de La-
grange, at present singing at the Opera at Madrid,
and who to her great talents adds the merit of irre-
proachable character. Tie invitation has, however,
excited a complete tempest in the fashionable world,
and one-half of the persons invited, and particularly
some ladies of the diplomatic body, have declared
that their dignity would not allow them to be in the
same salon with Mme. de Lagrange. There the
matter rests for the present."

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 31.

The Queen and Princess Louise, attended by
Lady Augusta Bruce and the Hon. Horatia Stop-
II
ford, walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon.
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and
Princess Beatrice took a carriage drive.
The Earl and Countess of Derby arrived at the
Castle yesterday.
Earl Russell arrived at the Castle this afternoon,
and had an audience of the Queen.
The Senator Antonio Gonzalez, Spanish Minister:;
Count W acht meister, Min ister Plenipotentiary from
Sweden and Norway ; Mahmoud K han-Nasserol-
molke (Conseiller Prive), Persian Minister; M. J.
Sanz, Peruvian Minister ; and Mr. F. E. Dubois,
Minister Resident d'Haiti, were severally presented
to her Majesty at audiences by Earl Russell.

Arrival of Prince Alfred in England.
DOTER, Tuesday.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred arrived at
Duver this afternoon, at 3 o'clock, by the Royal
Mail packet Prince Frederick William, Capt. Wer-
ter Clark, specially retained for this service. Cap-
tain Sir Luke Smithett was in attendance on his
Royal Highness from Calais, and, on the steamer
reaching her moorings, Col. Cuppage, R.A., Capt.
Triscott, R N., and other officers proceeded on board.
After landing, his Royal Highness partook of lun—
cheon at the Lord Warden Hotel. and proceeded for
Windsor by the 3.45 p.m. -train, the necessary
arrangements suitable .to the xank and dignity of
his Royal Highness having been made by the statio❑
superintendent. Royal salutes were fired from the
Drop Battery both on the arrival and the i.eparture
of the Prince.

WINDSOR, Tuesday.
This afternoon, at 4 o'clock, an unexpected com-
munication was received at Windsor by the South-
Western telegraphic line, to prepare for the recep-
tion of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred at seven
o'clock in the evening. Shortly before that hour
her Majeaty the Queen, accompanied by the Prince
of-Hesse, the Princess Helena, and the junior mem-
bers of the Royal family came to the station by the
private drive through the Home Park, and awaited
the arrival of the Prince in the Royal saloon, which
has been prepared for the special accommodation of
the Royal family. The Royal party was attended
by Major-General Seymour and Major-Gen. Grey.
Precisely at 10 minutes past 7 o'clock the Prince,
with his suite, arrived by special train, under the
charge of Mr. Godson, traffic manager, and as his
Royal Highness stepped from the carriage her Ma-
jesty came on the platform and most affectionately
embraced him.
A number of the most respectable inhabitants
were kindly admitted on the station by the South-
Western authorities to welcome the Pi ince's arr
was aln
The Prince, although he appeared thin,
excellent spirits, and in much better health than
could have been expected after the recent illness,
and he appears to have grown nearly as tall as the
Prince of Wales.

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THE PRINCESS OF WALES AND THE LADIES OF 1
THE PRINCIPALITY. —The present from the ladies
of Wales to the Princess is likely to take the form of a brooch
of diamonds and emeralds in the shape of Wynn,k, the national
emblem of the country. Sir Henry W. the father
of Lady Williams Wynn, of Wynnstay, the originator of
the movement, was formerly for many years the representa-
tive of England at the Danish Court, and his daughter was
on terms of intimacy with that Court. She has, therefote,
exerted herself to organise a fund for presenting
ladies, an offering
exerted ffering
worthy the acceptance of the Royal bride. Six
for each of the Northern counties, have undertak
resentsen the
carrying out of the project. Lady Wynn rep Den-
bighshire, as honorary treasurer, Mrs. Gladstone for
shire, Lady Lady Louisa Pennant for Carnarvonshire, Lady Vane
for Montgomeryshire, Mrs. Wynne for Merionethshire, and
it is thought that Lady Williams Bulaeley will act for
Anglesey. The connexion between the Principality and the
newly married Prince has canned the warmest feelings of
loyalty throughout the country.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—A
most magnificently-executed group, representing
the marriage of his Royal highness with the Princess
Alexandra, by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, is
now added to Mad. Tussaud's Historicat
Galler
isy, in Baker
street. The portrait of her Royal Highness truthfully
depicted, and the dress is elegant and costly; it being com-
posed of white and silver moire antique, rimmed with rich
Honiton lace and choice flowers, in strict imitation of the
one worn on the occasion.
APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—A
marriage is arranged to take place between Lady
Jane Hay, daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of
Tweeddale, and sister of the Duchess of Wellington and
Lady Emily Peel, with Col. Richard C. H. Taylor, C.B.
(late of the 79th Highlan era), Assistant Adjt.- General at
Shorncliffe, brother of the hon. and gallant member of the
county Dublin.
_

AFTER THE BOAT RACE.—A youth, adorned
with a blue and yello w rosette, cried out, in the
"I say, they are properly pumped,
hearing of Mrs. Dodd,
both crews are :" then, jumping on to a spoke of her car-
riage-wheel, with a slight apology, ho announced that two
or three were shut up in the Exeter. The exact meaning
of these two verbs passive was not clear to Mrs. Dodd: but
their intensity was; she fluttered, and wanted to go to her
boy and nurse him, and turned two must imploring eyes on
kissed her with gentle vehe-
mence, and offered to run and see. ,c What, amongst all
those young gent'emen, love? I fear that would not be
proper. See, all the ladies remain apart." So they kept
quiet and miserable, after the manner of females.
each Mean-
time the Cantab's quick eye had not deceived him
coll; in
psed
racing boat ware two young gentlemen leaning a
over their oars; and two more who were in a cloud, and
not at all clear whether they were in t his world still, or in
their zeal had pulled into a better. But their malsdy was
not a rare one in racing boats, and the remedy
always at
hand. It combined the rival systems. Thames was
sprinkled in their faces—Homoeopathy : and brandy in a
teaspoon trickled down their throats—.A.llop
momentathy : you
eyesth
and spirits soon did the rest; and, the their
opened, their mouths opened ; and, the moment their mouths
opened, they fell a chat:ling.—Charles Reads' " Very Hard
Cash," in Dickens's " All the Year Bound."
THE NEW BISHOP OF QUEBEC.—The Rev. Dr.
Williams, who has been elected to the bishopric of
Quebec, in the room of Dr. Mountein, deceased, was born
in 1825 at Overton, in Hampshire. Ile received his early
eduction at Crewkerne, whence he proc•eded to f embroke
College, Oxford, and graduated in 1851, when he took a
third class in classics. Almo4 immediately afterwar
the curds
acy
he
was ordained by the present Biqhop of Oxford to
of High Wycombe, Bucks. Subsequently, he served the
curacy of Huish-Champflower, near Wiveliscombe, Somer-
set. In 1857 he went to Canada to open he grammar
school in connection with Bishop's College, Lennoxville,
and in that coll-ge he has since held a professorship.
TFIE LATE RIOT AT STALYBRIDGE AND NEIGH-
BOURHOOD.—The Manchester Guardian of yester-
day says :—The committals up to Monday were as follows :
—3l committed to Chester from Stab bridge ; three to the
sessions from Ashton ; seven to Cho ter assizes, two to the
sessions from Dukinfield, and six to Chester from Hyde;
or a total of 44 to Chester, and five to the sessions. The
district is now quiet.
CRYSTAL PALACE--The Palace and grounds will
he open on Good Friday from 9 in the morning.
Extra trains will run all day, as well as excursions from
many parts of the country. Mr. Sims Reeves, Madame
Rudersdorff, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Thomas Harper will taace
part in a concert of sacred music at 3 o'clock. The Pal
will be lighted up in the evening, to enable visitors to re-
turn at leisure. The North London line by way
of Ken-
sington being now available, a large number of visitors are
expected from the northern districts of the metropolis.
pa One
total visitors,
Shilling Day, Tuesday, March bl.—Admissions on y-
ment, 819 ; ditto by seasr.n tickets, 1,038;
1,857.
REPRESENTATION OF THETFORD.—AIthough no
addresses have yet been issued, it st is genet -
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Charles Leunder-
stood that either Lieut. •Col. Lord Auguus nthe
nox Fitzroy, Equerry to the Queen, the second son of
Late Duke of Grafton, or Lieut.-Col. Lord Frederick John
Fitroy, of the Grenadier Guards, the third son of the late
Duke, will become a candidate for the representation of the
borough of Thetford, rendered vacant by the elevation of
the Earl of Euston to the Dukedom. In the event of
neither of the noble lords offering himself for Parliamentary
honours, Colonel Fitzroy, who resides in the neighbour-
hood of Thetford, and who has much local influence,
will probably announce himself as a candidate. Thet-
ford returns two members to the House of Commons, and it
generally happens that one is and a connection of the Duke
a Baring) and
the other a Liberal (a Fitzroy,
of Grafton). This arrangement is not likely to be disturb..d
on the present occasion, as the two families have lately be-
come more closely connected by marriage.