The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-26 00:00:00

Ball at Orleans Fouse.

Yesterday evening the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale were honoured by the presence of the
Prince and Princess of Wales at a dinner party at
Orleans House, Twickenham. Their Royal High-
nesses arrived at seven o'clock, from the White
Lodge, Richmond, attended by the Countess of
Morton and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel.

The party invited to meet the Prince and Princess
of Wales consisted of the Prince and Princess
Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Prince of Conde, the
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Earl Granville,
the Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady
Emily Villiers, the Earl of Sefton, Viscount and
Viscountess Ingestre, Lord Frederick Paulet, Lord
and Lady Foley, the Marquis of Bouille, Hon. F.
Byng, Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel, the Coun-
tess of Coiffier, and M. Langel.
A small and select party were afterwards invited
to meet their royal highnesses.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
Mary arrived about half-past ten, attended by
Colonel Home Purves.

The Duke of Brabant arrived shortly afterwards,
attended by two orderly officers.
The Count and Countess de Paris and the Duke
and Duchess de Chartres were also present.
The members of the diplomatic corps and the
foreigners of distinction present included the Aus-
trian Ambassador, and the Countess Apponyi, the
Turkish Ambassador and Madame Musurus, Mdlle•
Musurus, M. Paul and M. Etienne Musurus, the
Spanish Minister and Madame Comyn, his Excellency
the Portuguese Minister, Prince Ysenberg, the Due
de Granada, Count Kalnoky, Count Maffei, the
Chevalier and Madame Aguiar d'Andrada, the Che-
valier de Brito, the Chevalier G. dos Santos, the
Marquis Oldoini, and M. Cortini. The general cow'
pany included the Duke and Duchess of Buccleueh
and Lady Margaret Scott, the Duke and Duchess
of Manchester, the Duchess of Wellington, Dow.
Marchioness of Waterford, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Abercorn and the Ladies Hamilton,
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, Earl Cadogan and
Lady Mary Cadogan, the Countess of Airlie, Earl
and Countess of Fife and Lady Anne Duff, Frances
Countess Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester
Fortescue, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, Iris-
count Pollington, Viscount Jocelyn and Hon. MO
Jocelyn, Viscount and Viscountess Powerscourt,
Lord and Lady Skelmersdale, Mr. and Lady Gwen-
doline Petre, Lady Constance Ashley and the Hon.
Mr. Ashley, Lady Marian Alford, Lord Lough-
borough, Lord William Hay, Lord Courtenay, Lora
Henry Gordon Lennox, Lord Hamilton, Lord
Redesdale and Hon. Miss Mitford, Baron and
Baroness Marochetti and Baron M. Marochetti, Lord
Camoys Lady Egerton of Tatton and Hon. Misses
Egerton, Lady Henrietta Allen, Mr. and Lady C.
Russell, Lord Dufferin, Lady Mary Wood, Mr. and
Miss Wood, Lord and Lady Claud Hamilton and
Miss Hamilton, Lord Lyons, Lord de Tabley and
Hon. Miss Warren, Lord and Lady Digby and
Hon. Miss Digby, Lady Molesworth, Hon. Evelyn
Ashley, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Wodehouse Currie, Right
Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P., and Mrs Cardwell the
Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs. Disraeli.
Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir John Acton, M.P., Sir
Erskine and Lady Perry, Sir Reginald Barnewall,
Sir Anthony and Miss de Rothschild, Sir Coutts
Lindsay, Mr. M'Alpine, Mr. Reid, General Knollys
and Mr. and Miss Knollys, Colonel Morris, C. 8.,
Major Mackenzie, Major Anson and Mrs. Anson,
Captain Lane Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gurney,
Mr. Saville Lumley, Mr. Pearse and Misses Pearse,
Mr. C. Stephenson, Mr. Alfred Rothschild, Mr.
Hussey Arbuthnot, Mr. Greville Howard, Mr. and
Mrs. Hervey and Miss Money, M. and Mdme. de
Bille, Mr. Augustus Lumley, Mr. Wellesley, Mr'
Peel, Mr. C. Skyes, Mr. George Drummond, Mr.
H. Minerel, Madame Graham, Mr. W. Gladstone,
M. Albert Van de Weyer, Mr. Paul Graham, Mr'
and Misses Mildmay, Mr. Farquhar, Mr. Harailton.
Aide, Mr. Jervoise Smith, Mr. Biddulph, Mr. and
Mrs. Holford, &c.
M. Jullien's band played a varied and excellent
selection of dance music during the ball.
A very elegantly arranged supper was served o°ll
after twelve, and dancing was afterwards resumed'

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cara'
bridge and the Princess Mary have left their residence
in the Ambassadors' Court, St. James's, for Cambridge
Cottage, Kew. This evening the Duchess and princoee
dine with the Duchess of Inverness at Kensington
Palace, and a numerous and distinguished party will meet
the royal guests.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge Wu
honour the Earl and Countess of Wilton with his cove'
pany at dinner on the 9th June. A distinguished cire'e
is invited to meet his royal highness.
His Royal Highness the Duke de Brabant visited
Viscount Palmerston yesterday afternoon at Cambridge
House, and had a long interview with the noble viscotiv:iit'
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury *virw
receive a distinguished party at Hatfield House, Herts,

the Ist of June.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and
Lady Victoria Cecil have arrived at the family residene°
in Grosvenor-square, from Burghley House, Stamford, for
the season.
The Earl and Countess Percy have left town Of
Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, where they remain WI:
month, the noble earl having to attend with his reginlel3-
of militia, which has been called out for active duty
The Earl and Countess of Cardigan entertained
at dinner on Wednesday last the Earl and Countess °',
Stradbroke, Earl of Rosslyn, Mr. and Lady Evelyn 13111 c%
Colonel the Hon. J. Keane, Mrs. Stewart Paget and gis"
Paget, Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Douglas, Mrs. De Horsey'
Miss Clements, Colonel Knox, Colonel Hagart, blajor
nesley, Captain Greville, and Mr. Courtenay.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton returnedto torn r
yesterday from visiting the Duke and Duchess of 130111 N
at Badminton, Gloucestershire.
The Countess of Derby will give her third assem-
bly to-night at the family mansion at St. James's-scluare'
The Countess Amherst will have an assembly °ll
Tuesday next at the family mansion in Grosvenor-scrus,r,,e
The names of Admiral the Earl of LauderclaZ
K.C.8., the Astronomer Royal, and Captain Clarke, B•A'l3,
were accidentally omitted from the list of guests at
Duke of Somerset's state dinner on the Queen's birtuds9;o
Lord and Lady Farnham have left Claridge
Hotel to pass a few days at Tunbridge-wells. on
Lady Susan Milbank gave birth to a 130 11.
Wednesday night, in Eaton-place. Both are doing Wea,i,
Lady Gardiner's first dance will take place at 1'
Lower Brook-street, on Friday, June 16.
Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembll to-
morrow night at Cambridge House, Piccadilly.

FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE.—Tho Meuse contail3°
an account of a terrible catastrophe at Haraier'
Luxembourg. A farmer's son, named Hubert \Vera, vic
returning home with a flock of 12 sheep, and had erri 1
,il
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terrified animals refused to advance. Wera then
mined to wait, and himself took refuge under bll5
~a,
His brother, finding that he did not come home, ete";ci
to meet him, or ascertain the cause of the delay, ancl_,:it-
rrived within 20 yards of the spot where Hubert w he r
jv
ing, when a fearful clap of thunder was heard, and ho.
the whole flock of sheep and bush enveloped ha one
1000-
mense mass of lightning. The brother was thrown "
and received a severe shock, but on recovering his feehe
t %v.
beheld Hubert and 126 of the sheep lying dead before hi. ,c
The young man had been struck on the head by the eleetarl4
fluid, which had carried away his scalp, left a black nark
down his forehead, face, and breast, and had col:01%10.
stripped him of his clothes, which were torn to ehr'ost
The sheep were covered witblood, and showed the re_o6,
extraordinary effects of het ightning ; the heads .;:d
ere
were pierced through and through, whilst others
removed from the bodies. The young man killed
aged 21.