The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-14 00:00:00

The King of the Greeks.

The King of the Greeks, accompanied by his suite,
left Victoria Station, this morning, at 9.15 a.m.
by the train of London, Chatham, any
Dover Railway, for Dover, and thence, via Calais,
to Paris. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ac•
companied his Majesty to the station, and his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge was also present.
Hia Majesty was received at the station by Sir
Cusack Roney, one of the directors; Mr. Johnson,
secretary ; and Mr. Bishop, superintendent, who
proceeded in the train to Dover.
A large deputation from the Greek Committee,
also several of the leading merchents and their
ladies were also present.
The whole of the platform appropriated for the
departure of his Majesty was covered with
crimson cloth, upon which the ladies of the members
of the Greek committee strewed the rarest and
most beautiful flowers.

After the departure of his Majesty -.three
voiceferons cheers were given for the Prince of
Wales, and three also for the Duke of Cambridge.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Th, Ring of the Greeks, the Prince of Wales,
Prince Christian of Denmark, and Prince Frederick,
attended by Baron Guldencrone, Lieutenant Funch,
Captain Grey, Captain Lund, and Captain Casten-
schjold, left town at a quarter past ten o'clock yes-
terday morning for Newmarket.
The Princess of Wales, the Princess Christian of
Denmark, and Princess Dagmar, attended by the
Hon. Mrs. W. Grey, honoured the Messrs. South-
well, in Baker-street, with a visit, and sat for their
photographs. Their Royal Highnesses took a drive
in an open carriage in the afternoon.
The dinner party included the Ring of the
Greeks, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the
Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark, the
Duke of Cambridge, Prince Frederick, and the
Princess Dagmar of Denmark.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the
Royal family of Denmark, will visit the Haymarket Theatre
this evening.
The Prince and Princess of Joinville have passed
some days at Amsterdam, at which place they arrived from
the Hague in strict incognito.

The Duke of Newcastle has left Thomas's Hotel,
Berkeley-square, for his seat, Clumber, Notts.
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has left Beau•
desert, the seat of the Marquis of Abercorn, for London,
whence her ladyship proceeds to Severnake Forest, Marl-
borough, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of
Ailesbury.

The Earl and Countess of Zetland are entertain-
,ng a select circle at Aske Hall, their seat in Yorkshire.

The Earl and Countess of Seafield are still at
Balmacaan, N. 8., with a select party, to conclude the
shooting season in the Highlands.

The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor and
Lord Albert Leveson Gower are expected to return from
Homburg the day after to-morrow. The Earl Grosvenor
has improved in health by his visit to the Continent.

The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and Mr.
Chichester Fortescae, M.P., are staying on a visit to Lord
Clermont at Ravensdale Park, Ireland.

Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday
morning from his seat, Broadlants, Hants.
Lord Lyttelton returns to town to-day from
Brighton, on his way to Hagley Park, near Stourbridge, to
celebrate the coming of age of his eldest son the week
after next.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in
London yesterday morning from Scotland,

The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart.,
arrived in town on Monday night from Drayton Manor,
near 'ramworth. Lady Emily Peel has left Geneva for
Paris, on her way to meet the right hon. baronet in London
before going to Ireland for the winter.
Sir Augustus Clifford has arrived in town from
Lord Llanover's, to attend the further prorogation of Par-
liament.

The marriage of the Hon. and Rev. George Her-
bert, third son of the late, and brother of the present, Earl
of Powis, and Miss Sykes, daughter of tho late Sir Tatton
Sykes, is appointed to take place to-morrow.

Cruikshank's Sketches of The Elves ! Th.
Nose 1 and the Goose !

As REELECTED FROM " GAMMER GRETIIEL," BY THE
" SPECTATOR,"
What a picture is that of the elves dressing them-
selves ! When was the human pleasure in trousers
and shirts over before glorified into emotion of such
preternatural joy ? You feel that the little crea-
tures must have been naked a thousand years, and'
had never even conceived the idea of dress for elves
before the good cobbler made them these little gar-
ments. How the trousers sustained the angle of
195 degrees (subtended by the floor), at which the
legs of one of the elves are icelined to each other'
Mr. Cruikshank alone lenows, and no one else could
possibly have told us how au elf's hair is brushed.
Again, what ludicrous fear and embarrassment
sit on that soldier's countenance whose nose
lengthens away
into the infinite like an
early anticipation of the Atlantic telegraph
cable—in which capacity, indeed, it seems to have
acted, for here are his two comrades staring at him
aghast who have been fetched from a distance of
many miles by the sudden appearance in their path
of this extraordinary nasal development, and have
traced it up to its source in his distressed counte-
nance. How naturally the victim himself presses
with his left hand the morbid organ, evidently em-
powered by the difficulty of sneezing effectually
down a tunnel of such enormous extent—and also,
perhaps, wishing to shorten the length of the
heavy catenary curve that his head has to support
by bringing it as soon as possible to the earth.
His right hand is extended es if demonstrating
to his comrades the absolute impossibility of blow-
ing his nose, and expostulating with them for not
having performed that operation for him at the
other end of the organ before they travelled up to
its source. Again, just look at that picture of
Dummling with the golden goose which has the
curious property of causing the indissoluble adhe-
sion of every one who touches it, or who touches
any one else in a direct chain of communication
with it, except its master. Dumnalingis going down
hill with the goose under his arm, with an air of
resolutely ignoring the lengthening human chain
behind him, and plants his staff firmly to resist the
back.
evident pressure on his The three
giddy innkeeper's daughters are the first links in
the chain which the golden goose draws after it,then
follows the bouncing PI jest in surplice and wig,
with the free hand lifted in declamation, while the
attenuated clerk, obviously making responses under
some vague hope that they will liberate him, rushes
behind, closely followed by the two labourers with
pickaxes, while a little street urchin, in great de-
light, is evidently saying " Oh liniiny !" to himself
as the train passes, or inquiring whether the par-
son's mother knows of the excursion, and a vicious
little cur is lifting up its voice to snap at the un-
wonted bustle. Nu wonder the melancholy King's
daughter is holding her sides with her first burst
of laughter at that upper window, while Dummling
purses up his mouth with conceited, ill-concealed
triumph.

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