The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-19 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 18.
Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal High-
nesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess
Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and Princess Hohenloe,
left the Castle thfs morning at a quarter past ten
o'clock for Osborne.

The suite consisted of Lady Churchill, Lady Caro-
line Barrington, the Hon. Mary Lascelles, Major-
General the Hon. A. N. Hood, Lieutenant-Colonel
Du Plat, Mr. Buff, Mr. Sahl, and the Masttr of the
Household.

Lady ChurChill has succeeded the Countess of
Caledon as Lady in Waiting to the Queen.

Departure of her Majesty for Osborne.

Yesterday morning the Queen, with their Royal
Highnesses Princesses Helena, Louise, and Beatrice,
and Prince Leopold, attended by Major-Gelieral
Hood, Colonel Du Plat, Sir T. M. Biddulph, Lady
Churchill, and the Hon. Misses Kerr and Lascelles,
left Windsor Castle at a quarter past ten o'clock
for Osborne.

Her Majesty and the various members of the
royal family, who, with the ladies and gentlemen of
the suite, were attired in deep mourning for his late
Majesty the King of the Belgians, drove from the
Castle to the Windsor Station of the Great Wes-
tern Railway, where the South-Western Railway
Company had forwarded a special train for the con-
veyance of the Court.

The Queen, on alighting, was received by those
in attendance, and very graciously returned the loyal
salutes of the bystanders on passing to the state
saloon. The rest of the royal family then took their
seats in tho train.

The train, in charge of Messrs. Grierson, Tyrrell, and
Besant, quitted the Windsor terminus at 10:23 a.m.,
and proceeded along the narrow gauge rails of the
Great Western Railway, by way of Slough and
Reading, to the Basingstoke Junction of the South
Western line, where her Majesty arrived at 11:30.
The train was then transferred to the care of Mr.
W. Godson, the traffic superintendent of the latter
line, who had arrived at Basingstoke from Nine-
elms, for the purpose of taking charge of it to
Gosport. As soon as the engines were changed the
route was resumed along the South-Western Rail-

way via Winchester, Bishopstoke, Botley, and Fare-
ham, to the Royal Victualling-yard at Gosport,
which was made at 12.40 p.m. precisely, the trip
from Windsor, about 80 miles, being accomplished
with ease and celerity in two hours and 17 minutes.

The train, on its arrival at the Gosport Station,
proceeded slowly into the Clarence Victualling-
yard. The special paused by the side of the private
station, near the wharf, and her Majesty and the
royal family then left the train, and were met by
several officers, among whom were Admiral Sir
Michael Seymour, the admiral of the port ; Sir
George Buller, the general commanding the South-
Western district ; Capt. Shadwell, superintendent
of the Clarence-yard ; and Capt. Scott, of her
Majesty's ship Victory.

At the time of the Queen's arrival at the port the
tide was rather high, and the royal yacht Alberta,
Commander his Serene Highness Prince Leiningen,
was consequently moored by the side of the wharf
ready for embarkation.

Escorted by the naval and military officers of the
port, who were all in full uniform, her Majesty and
the royal family walked along the covered way to
the afterdeck of the yacht. The Alberta steamed
through the harbour on her way to Osborne, where
the Queen and royal family arrived early in the
afternoon.

His Majesty, it is understood, will reside at Os-
borne for a period of about nine weeks, and it is
expected that on the occasion of the Sovereign open-
ing Parliament in person on the Ist of February
the Queen will on that day leave Osborne for town,
and after the performance of the ceremony return
immediately to the Isle of Wight.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is ex-
pected to arrive at Marlborough House this afternoon from
attending the funeral of the late King of the Belgians at
Brussels.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
returned to Gloucester House, Park-lane, yesterday,
from attending the funeral of the late King of the Bel-
gians. His royal highness was attended by Colonel
Tyrwhitt.

His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, accom-
panied by Sermad Effendi (First Secretary) and M. Paul
Musurus, has returned to the Turkish Embassy, in BrYal-
ston-square, from attending the funeral of the late Sing
of the Belgians. It will be recollected that his excellency
is likewise accredited as representative of the Sublime
Porte at Brussels as well as in London.

The Duke of Hamilton left his residence in
Arlington-street, yesterday, for his seat, Easton Hall/
Suffolk.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury Will
receive a succession of distinguished visitors at Savernake
Lodge, near Marlborough, Wilts, during the week. The
company were to have assembled yesterday.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings
entertained last week at Donington Park the Earl and
Countess of Westmoreland, the Marquis of Anglesey, the
Earl of Winchilsea and Lady Constance Finch-Hattovo
Lord and Lady Alfred Paget; Miss Heneage, Lord Ber-
keley Paget, Mr. J. Thynne, Mr. Rushout, and Capteie
Little.

The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have enter-
tained a numerous circle during the past week, amongst
whom were Hon. Admiral and Mrs. lious, Viscount Canter-
bury, Hon. G. T. and Mrs. Baring, Mrs. Algernon de
Horsey, Colonel and Mrs. Charles Baring, Mr. Newton'
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Paget and Miss Paget, Mr. Booth*
Mr. de Burgh, and Major Mackenzie, A.D.C.
The Countess of Coventry left town yesterday
for Croome Court Worcestershire.

THE CONCORDIA SOCIETY.—T,Tnder this title a
new musical society is about to be established, for
the production of the masterpieces of unperformed masters.
The effort is entirely artistic. No officer will receive Pr
ment of any kind ; so that the whole of the resources, fill
whatever source, will be appropriated to the advanceniai'
of musical knowledge. Such an institution is great!l4
needed, and we sincerely hope the society, when fair'
launched, will succeed in becoming firmly established.
TRUE CARICATURE always exaggerates no doubt;
but the slighter the touch of exaggeration, so that it
answer the purpose, the more complete is the caricature:
When Mr. Pecksniffs piety is to be caricature°.
Dickens manages it entirely by the calmness and ini nlit;
ness of his particularity in alluding to ordinary d°r°,leUr
ticities, while still supposed to bo at once Smarting under
a sense of injury, and overcoming it by an effort Of 0
Christian forgiveness. " Charity, my dear, when you gifor
me my bed candlestick to-night, remind me to pray I,a
Mr. Jonas Chuzzlewit, who has done me an injury;
the bed candlestick is just the touch of exaggeration wL'lso
makes this sentence caricature. His mind remains
calm and transparent through insult that he is not
in danger of forgetting the whole matter, but can cone° to
clearly the minutest incident of the occasion on whicl'hio
wishes to be reminded of the duty of praying for hot
enemy. So, again, the caricature of his candour, Vi a,
he is beaten by Mr. Athony Chuzzlewit, is effected
similar delicacy of touch—" You have beaten m° tivit
stick which I have every reason to believe had 103°71:ei
it; but lam not angry." He will not even assort the fact,
takes care to make it clear that he is only inferring (Perroio
erroneously) to the conformation of the stick from
indentations which he had felt, or supposed himself tu '''rt to
felt, in his flesh during the beating. The "every rat the
believe" is here the touch of exaggeration essential I; gr.
caricature. Or, to take another instance, when P°,° ear
Lillywick, the water-rate collector, is so profoundlis
tivated by the charms of the spinster actress, lgisof the
towker, that, after witnessing her performance ibes it
dance in the " Blood-Drinker's Burial," he desero is
as " absorbing, fairy-like, toomultuous," the caricavtti vod
scarcely exaggeration at all; it consists Only in t owe'
slight magnifying power applied to a water-rata
toittor
tor's conceptions of the Ideal, and the discoverY', wie3
that microscopic examination, of the same state to
in a water-rate collector which induces poets So °;o',lbie",, of
clothe as it were the external universe with the.t.aoooll-
their own minds. Mr. Lillywick's mind NY" at the
tuous" with excitement at Miss Petowker's dance, wore,
length of the back-hair she had let down as ,1
about during the performance of the " 8100d-vi
of 15100
Burial," and he transferred the tumultuousn!ss
own nature to the fairy-like being he was extollin_iio.ht bte
caricature after all consists simply in the very
happy exaggeration of the bald contrasts in levnought:i,
collector's poetic raptures—exaggeration justu that a of
make you feel that his mind was genuinely leolleet°1;;00A
tude which, had he not been a water-rate_
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rather, had ho been a cultivated man, would al
poetic.— Spectator.