The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

The late Duchess de Montebello,

This lady, whose deans at St. Petersburg was
recently announced, besides being the daughter of
an English baronet, was also, by family descent,
closely allied with Scotland, and with many of the
old families. Eleanor Mary, Duchess de Montebello,
was the daughter of Sir Charles Senkinson, nephew
of the first and the second Earl of Liverpool—the
latter long well known as the eminent Prime
Minister of England. Hermother, Katherine Camp-
bell, was a younger daughter of Mr. Walter Camp-
bell, of Shawfield (Lanarkshire), by his first wife,
Eleanor Kerr, of the family of the Kcrrs of New-
field, a branch of the house of Lothian. Oa her
mother's side the duchess was niece of the
late estimable Countess of Wemysa and March, and
cousin of the present earl of that name. Through
the same channel she was closely related by similar
ties of consanguinity to the noble families of
Ruthven and Belhaven ; and also to the no less
ancient commoner families of Campbell of Islay and
of Skipness, Hamilton of Fynnart, Moncreiff Threip
land of Fingask, Hamilton of Dalzell, Fletcher of
Salton, Grand Suttie of Prestongrange,
&c.; and
through her sisters to the old Irish families of
Nugent and Guinness. The marriage of the duke
and duchess (which took place in 1830) was entirely
a love match on both sides. It was long opposed
by the dowager duchess (who, according to French
law, possessed great power over her scan), both on
account of the comparative want of affluence
of the bride and the Protestantism of her religion;
but the duke was determined to marry no one but
" la belle Ecossaise," and succeeded in carrying his
point. Tne duchess was a woman of great beauty,
amiability, and accamplishments. She always
cherished a warm affection for her English, and
especially her Scottish relatives--a feeling in which
the duke cordially shared. Their marriage was a
happy one, and with her attached husband a
numerous family is left to lament her compara-
tively premature and unexpected death. The duke
(Napoleon Lannes de Montebello) is the son of the
late celebrated :Marechal Lannes, first duke—a
soldier of the Old Empire, who fell at the battle
of Essling. The present duke, who is a man of in-
tellect and culture, and of high diplomatic ability,
.was Minister of Marine to Louis Philippe, and
escaped in disguise, and with much difficulty, from
Paris after that monarch's overthrow in 1848. He
subsequently, though after a considerable interval,
took office under the present Emperor, and has been
successively Am'aassador of France at Berne andßome,
now at St. Petersburg. The marriage of the duke
and duchess is one of the few more recent instances
which still remind us of the o!d relations of amity,
so close and intimate, which once subsisted between
France and Scotland, the past history and yet
lingering influence of which have been 83 fully
traced in Mictiel's work, " Des Ecossais en France,
at les Frangais en Ecesse."—Edinburgh Evening
Courant.

" CHERRY RIPE ! CHERRY RIPE !—FULL AND
FAIR ONES, COME AND BUY !"—From the Athe •
IiCCUM we take the following summary of Mr. Kirton's new
teetotal story, called " Buy your own Cherries" :—Why
should—how can a man buy his own cherries? If they are
his own, why should ho wish to buy them ?—if the wish be
eutcrtained, how can it be carried into effect ? A valid,
legal purchase requires two parties—one who for a conside-
ration transfers, and another who through the considers,•
tion acquires, property. The hero and his doings resemble
the title. Going into the public-house one scorching Satur-
day afternoon, John Lewis, a journeyman carpenter, sees on
the bar a plate of beautiful cherries, and is on the point of
helping himself to one, when the landlady (who had taken
many a sovereign of his earning,) sharply bids him keep
his hands off her fruit, adding, " Buy your own. cherries."
John Lewis takes the woman's advice, leaves theosntoypon
a tiff, and instead of buying liquor spends
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ciency. and sees his children wellplaced in the world. lathe
last page of the tale it is recorded (A UL!, " He has bought
a nice row of houses, from which he receives sufficient to
keep him without work the remainder of his days, and in a
handsome villa' which he has lately built, to which he
has retired, he may sometimes be seen reclining in an easy
chair, viewing with evicboat satisfaction through the draw-
ing-room window a cherry-tree,' which he planted in the
garden with his own hands to grow his own cherries.' "
We trust tippling workmen wlll take the moral to heart,
buy their own cherries, and close their days sitting under
their own cherry-trees,

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rt tirtuliat

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Oct. 29.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds
this morning.
Hcr Royal Highness Princess Helena, attended
by Lady Caroline Barringon and Colonel F. Sey-
mour; U. 8,, went to London, and returned in the
afi ernoon.

The Countess of Ciledon has succeeded Lady
Churchill as Lady in Waiting. _

The Hon. Horatia Stopford and the Hon. Harriet
Phipps ore the Maida of Honour.
Lord Rivers, the Lord in Waiting, and Colonel
F. Seymour, C. 8., the Groom in Waiting to her
klajtsty.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

SANDRINGHAM, Oct. 29.

The Prince of Wales, the Prince Christian, with
the Earl Granville, Captain Grey, and Lieutenant-
General Kaollys, walked over the estate yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, her
Royal Highness the Princess Christian, and her
Royal Highness the Princess D3gmar, attended by
the Countess of Morton and the Countess IL:vent-

low, rode out yesterday afternoon.
His Royal Highness Prince Christian of Den-
mark, attended by Captain Castenehjold, left Sand-
ringham Hall this morning, proceeding from Wol-
ferlon station, by the 6.57 train, en route for Oxford,
to meet Prince Frederick of Danmark.