The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-31 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince of Wales rode on horseback yesterday
morning, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel.
The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive,
attended by the Countess de Grey.
The Prince and Princess of Wales gave a dinner
to the King of the Belgians last night. The fol-
lowing were invited to meet his Majesty :—Prince
Edward of Saxe-Weimar and the Countess Dorn-
berg, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de
Weyer, Earl Granville, Earl Russell, the Earl of
Clarendon, the Earl of Sefton, Countess de Grey
and Ripon, Viscount and Viscountess Pahnerston,
Viscount-Hamilton, Lieutenant-General Hon. Sir
Edward Cust, Sir George Grey, Sir Charles Wood,
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right Hon.
Edward Cardwell, General Count de Moerkerko
and Dr. Koepl (in attendance on the King of the
Belgians), Lieutenant-General Knollys, and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Keppel.
Sir Robert Montgomery waited upon the Prince
and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House, on
Tuesday last, and presented to their Royal High-
nesses some costly presents from the North-Western
Provinces of India.

Mr. John Parry performed on the piano, and
sang at Marlborough House on Wednesday evening.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale honoured Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli with their pre-
sence at dinner, yesterday evening, at Grosvenor-gate.
There were present, to meet their Royal Highnesses, the
Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Marchioness of Salis-
bury, the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath, the Mar-
chioness of Ely, the Earl of St. Germans, the Earl of
Derby, Sir Ldward and Lady Caroline Kerrison, Mr. and
Lady Elizabeth Russell, M. de Rothschild, and the Lady
in Waiting on her Royal Highness.

His Royal Highness the Count d'Eu and her
Imperial Highness the Crown Princess of Brazil, with
their suite, have left the Clarendon Hotel for Claremont.

The Princess de la Tour d'Auvergne, mother of
the French Ambassador, left the French Embassy yester-
day on her return to Paris.
The Duchess (Eleanor) of Northumberland is
expected to leave Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, for
town on Wednesday or Thursday next. _ _

Louisa Marchioness of Waterford has left Far-
rance's Hotel, for Ford Castle, Coldstream, N.B.
The Earl and Countess Spencer will entertain a
distinguished party at Althorp Hall next week, for the
Northampton races. The company will assemble on Tues-
day and separate on the Friday following.

The Earl and Countess of Bessborough enter-
tained a select party at dinner yesterday evening, at their
residence in Charles-street, Berkeley-square.
The Earl and Countess of Belmore and Sir

George and Lady Macpherson Grant have left Brown's
Hotel.

The Earl and Countess of Seafield. and Lord
Reidhaven have left the Clarendon Hotel, for Cullen
House, Banffshire.

The Countess Stanhope had a small dancing
party last night at the family residence in Grosvenor-
place Houses.
Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redeliffe
had a party last evening at their residence in Grosvenor-
square. _ _ _

Count E. de Viel Castel has left the Clarendon
Hotel for Paris.

Lord Llanover has left town for Llanov er, South
Wales.

Mr, Newdegato Again.

Sir Charles Clifford presents his compliments to
the Editor of the 7 imes , and would be much obliged
by the insertion of the enclosed correspondence in
that paper.
Coldham-hall, Bury St. Edmund's, March 28.

" Coldham-hall, Bury St. Edmung, March 23.

" Sir,—The correspondence between yourself and Mr.
Langdale has been brought to my notice. I should not
have deemed it requisite to address you on the subject had
it not been for the concluding sentence in one of your letters,
in which you infer that the relations and friends of ladies
resident in convents in England have not hitherto given
attention to their condition and to the treatment of their
inmates.

"I cannot allow an inference so devoid of truth to pass
without remark. I have a sister who was a nun in the con-
vent of Colwich at the date of the charges you bring against
that convent, and who is now the superioress of the con-
vent at Atherstone, which you have also attacked. From
the relationship mentioned above I have taken very great
interest in the convents named by you, and paid much
attention to the treatment of the inmates ;' and I am in a
position to assure you that you have been grossly deceived
by your informants, and that your 27 witnesses,' if their
evidence amounted to anything at all, have either shame-
lessly perjured themselves or were prepared to do so. I can
hardly hope that anything I can say will induce you to alter
your expressed determination not to leave your privileged
position, and thus allow a refutation of the grave charges
made in your place in the House of Commons ; yet I think
you must recognise a great difference between Catholic
members of Parliament objecting to the Legislature ap-
pointing a committee to pry into the private affairs and
social arrangements of ladies living in communities and
relatives of those ladies requiring proofs of charges affect-
ing their individual character.
" The regulation and order of convents and the treatment
of ladies within them are well known, not only to every
Catholic nobleman and gentleman in England, but to many
Protestants also ; under these circumstances, I hope that
you will still embrace the opportunity offered to you of
being undeceived in your ideas of their condition, and thus
be enabled to make the am,ende to ladies at least the equals
of your sisters or your daughters.—l am, sir, your obedient
servant, " Cm s. CLIFFORD.
" To C. Newdegate, Esq., M.P., 3, Arlington-
street, Piccadilly."

" Arbury, Nuneaton, March 25.

" Mr. Newdegate presents his compliments to Sir Charles
Clifford, and regrets that Sir Charles Clifford should con-
sider Mr. Newdegate's reply to the Hon. Charles Langdale,
jun., discourteous or insufficient, since it is evident that
Sir Charles Clifford, when he wrote his letter of the 23d,
did not anticipate that Mr. Newdegate could consistently,
under existing circumstances, make any other or further
reply than he has made to the Hon. Charles Langdale, jun.
Mr. Newdegate, therefore, does not consider any further
apology for or explanation of this reply necessary.
" Sir Charles Clifford, Knight, Coldham-hall,
Bury St. Edmunds."

" Coldham-hall, Bury St. Edmunds, March 28.

" Sir Charles Clifford begs to acknowledge the receipt of
Mr. Newdegate's letter of the 25th, received last evening,
in which Mr. Newdegate professes to regret that Sir Charles
should consider his reply to Mr. Langdale discourteous and
insufficient. That reply, containing no apology for grievous
slanders against a near relative, adds the further insult of
inferring inferring that the Catholic nobility and gentry of England
are indifferent to the treatment of their sisters and daugh-
ters. Sir Charles certainly did not anticipate that Mr.
Newdegate would make any other or further reply, but
that he could and ought to have done so Sir Charles is per-
suaded will be the opinion of the large majority of English-
men. Mr. Newdegate has, under the shelter of a privileged
position, cast the most shameful imputations upon a com-
munity of ladies of whom Sir Charles's sister is one, and
when asked for proof or retractation has again availed him'
self of his privilege to refuse either.
" Sir Charles Clifford is of opinion that Mr. Newdegate
is guilty either of compounding a felony, or of refusing to
make the only reparation in his power, by acknowledging
that the evidence collected in such underhand ways is
utterly worthless and untrue. Sir Charles is happy in be"
lieving that Mr. Newdegate is the only man who, after
endeavouring to inflict so cruel an injury, would have fol-
lowed the course he has chosen—a course which must be
reprobated by every English gentleman.
"To 0. N. Newdegate, Esq., 3, Arlington-
street, Piccadilly."

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