The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-17 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

SANDRINGHAM, Oct. 16.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and his
royal relatives have already commenced shooting.
This morning the Prince of Wales, Prince Christian,
and Prince Frederick, with several gentlemen of
their suites, used their guns with great effect. The
weather has been very fine, and strongly in contrast
to that of yesterday. Their royal highnesses found
plenty of game and entered into the sport with
great zeal.

The Princess of Wales, Princess Christian, and
Princess Dagmar walked in the grounds in the
morning, and afterwards drove out.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is
expected at Sandringham on Monday nest to join
the royal party.

THE RETURN OF HER MAJESTY TO WINDSOR.--
Her
Majesty, accompanied by the members of the Royal
family, is expected to return to 'Windsor Castle on or about
Tuesday, the 27th instant. In anticipation the private
apartments which are occupied by the Queen are being pre-
pared, as are also those intended for the use of their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and their
suites in the York and Round Towers. The apartments
in the York Tower are being fitted up in a very magnificent
manner.

Prince Frederick ofDenmark, eldest son of Prince
Christian, will shortly proceed to Oxford, and will prose-
cute his studies at the university for about a year.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchestet have been
visiting the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Dunrobin
Castle, N.B. The noble duke was to leave Dunrobin Castle
yesterday for Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland's party at
Dunrobin Castle was to separate to-day, The noble duke
and duchess leave Dunrobin the week after next for Tarbet
House, the duchess's seat, near Cromarty.
The Marquis of Hartington, M.P., who has been
staying with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Dun-
robin Castle, Satherlandshire, was to leave there yesterday
for the south,

The Earl and Countess of Strafford and Ladies
Byng are staying at Savernake Lodge, near Marlborough,
Wilts, where Viscount and Viscountess Enfield and a select
party had met for the marriage of the Hon. Colonel Byng
and Countess Henrietta Danneskiold.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton intend to leave
town for Heaton Hall, Cheshire.
Count Victor Haniskorff has left the Brunswick,
Jermyn-street, for Paris. The Marquis d'Alterre has also
left the same establishment.
Colone', the Hon. Percy and Lady Mary Herbert
left town yesterday, for Po wis Castle, near 'SVelshpool.
The Hon. Leopold A. Ellie, M.P., has arrived in
town from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at
Dunrobin Castle.
LORD BROUGFIAM.—The noble and learned lord,
after ten days of physical and mental labour sufficient to
have more than "half-killed" many men bearing only a
third of his years, left Edinburgh yesterday morning for
Brougham Hall, by the ten o'clock train on the Caledonian

TILE EMPEROR NAPOLEON 'lr. is living quietly
at the Tuileries with the Prince imperial, visiting
daily either the works in progress in the various quarters
of the town, or the Exposition des Beaux Atts at the Palais
d'lndustrie of the Champs E tyrAles ; or, as he did a few
days ago, comforting by his presence and the kind words he
knows so well how to bestow, the last hours of one of
Napoleon's faithful servants, the General Count d'Ornano,
late Governor of the Invalides. His Majesty was walking
the other day along thz lake of the Bois de Boulogne, for
some considerable time, after which he drove about in his
coupe till nearly six o'clock.

THE EMPRESS EUGENIE is prolonging her ex-
cursion in the Iberian Peninsula. She has visited
Lisbon, Seville, Cadiz, on all occasions adopting a strict
incognito, and wearing, when out sight-seeing, the ordi-
nary Spanish costume, a long full black dress with em-
broidered bodice, and black lace Mantilla fastened over a
high comb with two large-headed gold pins. No doubt her
gracious and graceful Majesty is enjoying this unrestrained
ramble and costumed toilette, so suited to her tastes. To-
day she is to be received by her former liege Sovereign, but
now royal sister of Spain, at Madrid, where, we are told,
the Empress's mother, Madame de Montijo, has also gone
to meet her daughter.

DEATEI OF LADY HAWKE.—On the 11th instant
Lady Hawke died at Clavering-place, in her 98th year.
DEATH OF LADY KATHERINE ST EWART.—Several
noble families are placed in mourning by the de-
mise of the above lady, who expired yesterday at her resi-
dence in Bryanston-square. The late Lady K atherine
Stewart was the only surviving daughter of Francis, Lord
Elcho, eldest son of the sixth Earl of Wemyss, brother of
the late Earl of Wemyss and March. She married, Nov. 19,
1805, the Hon. Edward Richard Stewart, son of John,
seventh Earl of Galloway, by whom (who died in August,
1851) her ladyship had a largo family, including Jane
Duchess of Marlborough.
The Prince de la , Tour d'Auvergne's removal
from Rome to London, in place of the Baron Gros,
as the new Imperial Ambassador from France to the Court
of St. James's, has caused some sensation in political
circles, as showing clearly that Count Walewski refuses to
be mixed up in foreign affairs until the termination of the
Polish question, in which he naturally takes so great an
interest. The prince is a devoted supporter of the interests
of the Pope, and is a staunch Roman Catholic. Such an
appointment can only be made to show the pacific disposi-
tions of the Emperor of the French.

THE LATE KING OF GREECE.—The Ost. Deutsche
Post states that a part of the effects of Otho, the
late King of Greece, and of Queen Amelia, have arrived at
Venice tram Athens. The most precious objects, and espe-
cially the Queen's jewellery, the private library of the King,
&c., are still at the palace at Athens.

A GRATIFYING INSTANCE OF THE GROWING
CORDIALITY between man and man, which Young
Men's Christian Associations, the Volunteer Movement,
and other institutions are supposed to be calculated to ensure
between class and class, individual and individual—An en-
thusiast in the pit of Covent Garden on the first night of
Wallace's new opera, finding his hat impeded him in his
struggles to maintain a precarious foothold upon a side of
that precipice which terminates in an abyss just by the
centre of the dress-circle, took it off, and placing it upon
the flat edge of the dress-circle, said to his neighbour
therein, before whom he had laid it, "Will that be in your
way, Sir ?" to which his neighbour answered, with great
distinctness of enunciation, " Very much indeedoh I"; where-
upon heevree;
upon the enthusiast uttered the driest "
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a very painful character reached town last evening, to the
loss effect that a great of life had been occasioned on a branch
of tho Dunstan diggings, by the sudden fall of an immense
mass of accumulated snow. On instituting inquiries to
ascertain the truth or otherwise of this report, we were
favoured by Mr. Branigan, the chief commis-
sioner of police, with a copy of the following official
communication, which we are permitted to use :—Half-
way House, 16th August, 1863.—Duncan Escort.—
Sir,—
the I regret to report that when at the Deep Creek,
on instant, I was informed by a party of nine
miners, whose names appear in the margin (John Tip-
pings, T. Blair, C. Clerk, S. Harriss, G. Bonham, --
James, It. Bligh, J. Abercrombie), that an accident of a
fearful and most melancholy nature took place at the head
of the Serpentine Gully, situated ten miles from the Black
Ball Hotel, the particulars of which are as follows .—Jobn.
Tippings and his mates, together with some 40 miners,
sere working in a small gully at the head of the Serpentine .
Their tents were pitched immediately under a huge cliff or
bank. On the morning of the 14th inst. an immense snow
drift, which had formed on the top of the cliff, fell upon.
the tents, completely covering them all. Tippings' tent
being situated further from the cliff than the others, he
and his mates, after great difficulty, managed to effect
their escape. After several vain attempts to rescue the
unfortunate inmates of the other tents, who, they state, are
covered with some 40 or 50 feet of snow, they were obliged
to desist. When they arrived at the Deep Creek, some
seven miles from the Serpentine, two of their number were
terribly prostrated. I h Lye also to report that I left Con-
stable Finnigan at the Upper Taieri Station, with instruc-
tions to proceed without delay to the scene of the accident,
and if he found the statements of the miners correct, upon
finding any of the bodies, to communicate immediately
with Mr. Bailey. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed),
Gilbert F. Percy, Sub-Inspector.—St. John Barnigan,
Esq., Commissioner of Police, Dunedan.—Otayo Daily
Times, iinpig 18,