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

Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse, who arrived at Buckingham Palace
from Scotia ou Wutincollay, intended to learn
London for the Continent last night by the Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway. In consequence,
however, of the receipt of a telegram from Dover
announcing that a heavy sea was running in the
Channel, their royal highnesses postponed their
departure till to-day. Should the weather mode-
rate, the prince and princess will leave the Victoria
station this morning for Dover, whence they will
proceed to Calais on their return to Germany.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Louis of Reese and suite honoured the Adelphi
Theatre last evening with their presence to witness
Miss Bateman's admirable and popular performance
of " Leah."

Lord Llanover has left Llanover, South Wales,
on a tour of visits in Scotland,
THE NEWLY-APPOINTED FRENCH AMBASSADOR.
—His Excellency the Prince de la Tour d'Au vergne,
the recently-appointed ambassador to the Court of St.
James, has resigned his post as Minister Plenipotentiary at
the Court of Prussia to his successor, in order to replace the
Baron de Gros, the present representative of the Emperor
of the French in this country, whose departure is expected
to take place on or about the 15th of next month. The am-
bassador is the eldest of three brothers, one of whom io
Archbishop of Bourges, and the other a lieutenant-colonel
of infantry, who was for a long time orderly officer to the
Emperor. His Excellency is 42 years of age, and has an
only sea by an English lady, who is now deceased.

SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of the
local committee was held at Edinburgh, on Wed-
nesday, for the purpose of receiving the report of the hono-
rary local secretaries, and winding up the affairs of the late
congress. Professor Archer read the report, which refers
to the gratifying way in which the people of Edinburgh had
sustained their reputation for hospitality, and to various
bodies and persons to whom the thanks of the Association
are due—including the Hon. General Secretary, Mr. G. AV-
Hastings ; and the Assistant Secretaries Miss Isa Craig and
Mr. Randall. It stated that the working men's meeting
was a feature of special interest, no fewer than 34,960 ap-
plications having been received for admission, of which only
about 3,600 could be gratified, and the order of the meet-
ing, and deep interest taken in the proceeoing,s, were such
as to excite the admiration of all. The report concluded by
adverting to the great success which had attended the ex-
cursions. Mr. Carrel, City Treasurer, read the financial
report, which stated that the revenue of the general fund,
from the sale of tickets was £1,747 145., and the disburse-
meats £203 ; leaving a balance of £1,539. The local sub-
scription fund amounted to £305, and the disbursements
to £BO2, leaving a balance of £lO2. It was proposed to
transmit immediately the sum of £1,500 to the Association
in London. The reports were approved, and votes of thanks
were tendered to all who had given their services or in
other ways promoted the success of the meeting, special
notice being taken of Professor Archer, on whom the great
bulk of the work, as the acting local honorary secretary,
had devolved. A vote of thanks to the Lord Provost for
presidieg closed the proceedings.
THE NEW STAGE AT TUE LYCEUM THEATRE.--"'
In open out-door scenes, where for instance the open
country, or perhaps the open sea, extends far away
into the distance, the sky will close the scene in over-
head : an unbroken canopy extending from a certaia
point behind the proscenium and high above it, over
the stage, and away to where, at the extreme back'
ward limit of the theatre, it mingles softly with the horizon'
One may, without being too sanguine, believe that this
great arched canopy, spanning the stage from side to side,
and from front to back, will lend itself to all sorts of beauti"
ful and truthful effects. With trees or rocks, or whatever
else may be needed at the sides—not, indeed, pushed on to
flat pieces parallel to the proscenium, like the separated
jooats of a screen, but planted here and there, as
Nature plants, carelessly and irregularly—it will b°
possible so to close in an out-door scene, as that
mere shall be really no flaw or weak place about it, no
un-
finished gaps to which the scrutinising eye can wander in
the confident hope of ascertaining "how the trick was
done." This personage with the scrutinising eye who
is
always on the look-out for loose screws, who attends pls.ces
of entertainment in a spirit by no means friendly to the
performance at which he has chosen to assist, but rather
spitefully inimical to it; this dreadful individual will, to
use a common phrase, be utterly "done" when he visits
the Theatre Royal Lyceum. It is impossible to sea
" off," as it is called. Our glimpses of beer-drinkirig,_
our visions of prompter's boxes, of flopping rows of
grooves, of ladies waiting to go on, of seedy females
holding shawls, are over, and done away
The arrangement of the side-pieces, slanting
ob-
liquely away from the audience, and appearing tomingle
together in masses rather than to stand carefully separated
into regular entrances, renders it quite impossible that anY
member of the audience situated in any part of the house,
should see anything not intended to be seen as part of the
illusion. Sufficient entrances for all needful purposes arc
left among these side-pieces, but they are most carefullY,
masked, and the actor is not seen—unless it is requisite 0,10
he should be seen—until he emerges clear upon the stage'
As to the cunningly contrived entrances by mountain-Pa
and rocky descents from the back, those, the mos Lt. ogler:yea
able, because the most natural, of all, ace nrYt
assafw4L
as a
to Mr. Fechter, who, an accomplished. athrter
Dickens's
in
fine actor, is not likely to lose sight %f t.
Dickens's "
any such matters of stage-arrange meat'
the S Tg
gaucho
Et So.
the Year Round,"
last I fired, and of course missed (as I usually do).
still came, and the bolas seemed
now to be in requisitionA HURRY-eICURTLY
On they (the ostriches)
.
i
s head and said "
i
1 ovadia nor
at them, but he shook AlFTshEoltutTedliEto the let fly
senor" (Not
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yet sir). t I mounted again and dashedtowards tnem, in order to
ry a c oser shy with the bolas;
but just as I considered the opportunity a good one. the
ostrich doubled and went off at a t ingent, to my inter's°
Iv
disgust and the amusement of my men. We were 32°1.
within fifty yards of them, all yelling and driving irr-
out through the bushes; for such game for doubling and
turning I have never met with. At one moment you mays
sure that you've got him going in a straight line, at fait
speed, when suddenly he wheels right round and leaves Yell
to shoot ahead twenty or thirty yards before you can turn
I was " sold " several times in this way, and eventuilli'
gave up the bolas as a bad investment, and took to mY re'
volver. We were now six of us after the ostriches (the re
mainder having gone after the huanacos), and frequentlywere within twenty yards of them. I fired twice and mitoe",4
'
but the third time I was successful, and had the gratifics-
lion of seeing one go over and cocie up his toes.--i/lefir
Rickard' s Alining Journal Across 11w Great Andcs.
" REVENONS A Nos MOUTONS ! "—My n 1110131;
brance of a leg of mutton at Dover.—l had ber,%t
long absent front England, and had consequently ahlt:b.
lost the sense of mutton, having cheated appetite ivirild
.kindilcisch and Kalbsbraten (if these were not old slippers
bookcovers, mysteriously acconiniodis) until mutton bee :it
a myth. The Calais steamer had just flung me ashornso
a state of cencentrated misanthropy, and a general
sons
the worthlessness of existence, I walked into the coffea.cloy,
of the Lord Warden, where a leg of Southd own wassqt:,o
set before me. 0 wondrous herbivore, what flesh
s' of
Great Lyric of the downs ! What a sensation t
waatification -
the first mouthful—as of a man passing into:be that
Mutton ! It was ambrosia I It "
ibis
fooderejoyanS
Olympus feasted ; and no wonder that the gods wirr_vg the
and carelessly immortal. Fugitive flavours, stcse
rare?
senses into the higher raptures of music, why are y
—Vie Coriihig [el .iVor,einber•