The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-23 00:00:00

State Concert•

By command of the Queen a State Concert WO
given last evening at Buckingham Palace, to which
a party of about 700 was invited.

I heir Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, attended by the Countess of Morton, the
Hon. Mrs. E. Coke, Earl Spencer, the Earl of
Mount Edgecumbe, Major Teesdale, and the Hon.
R. Meade, arrived at the Garden entrance of the
Palace about 10 o'clock.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cala'
bridge and Princess Mary arrived, attended by LA'
Geraldine Somerset and Colonel Home Purvis.

His Royal Highness the. Duke of Cambridge ar-
rived, attended by Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald.
The Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the
Guard was on duty in the Palace, under the com-
mand of Capt. Parker Rickford, the Exon in Wait-
ing. Lieut.-Colonel Cooke, the Ensign, was also
present with the corps.
A guard of honour of the Scots Fusilier Guards
was mounted in the Court of the Palace.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied
by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge/
conducted by Viscount Sydney (the Lord Chamber-
lain), and attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen ill
Waiting, entered the Saloon shortly after 10 o'clock,
when the concert immediately commenced.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will
honour tho officers of the 10th Royal Hussars with
company at dinner, the 3d of June, at Willis's Rooms.

PRINCE ARTHUR.—Yesterday morning, at a qua'
ter past 6 o'clock, his Royal Highness Prince Arthur,
attended by Major Elphinstone and suite, embarked a!
Calais on board the Admiralty paddle-yacht Vivid, and
steamed across the straits for Dover, whore the prince itc-
rived at 8.15 a.m. His royal highness has, it will be re"
membered, for the last two or three months been engaged,
in visiting the various scenes of interest in the East, 89'
has just completed his continental tour. His royal
ness landed at the Admiralty-pier, where he was received
by Captain Bruce, the Admiralty superintendent ; Lieu'
tenant Morgan, the superintendent of the London, Chathanit
and Dover Railway Company's fleet; and Mr. Bishop, the
out-door superintendent of the line ; and was conducted to
the saloon carriage which was attached to the B.lO'llP
morning train, by which the prince travelled to the -Vic-
toria. Terminus, Pimlico, where ho arrived at 10.35 a 0"
the journey throughout having boon performed with the
greatest ease and celerity. Yesterday evening his royal
highness left town for Balmoral, travelling by the limited

mail on the North-Western Railway.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge 1138
issued cards for a party on the 31st inst., at Gloucester
House, Piccadilly.
Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess
d'Eu (Crown Princess of Brazil) returned to the Clarend°3
Hotel yesterday morning from Claremont. In the evening,
their royal highnesses gave a grand banquet to their BOYt',
Highnesses the Count and Countess de Paris, the Duke "e
Chartres, the Duke de Nemours, the Princess Margaret d
Orleans, the Prince and Princess of Joinville, the Duke an
Duchess d'Aumale, the Count and Countess d'Aquila' the
Princess d'Aquila, the Baron and Baroness de Barral,
Reille, Madlle. Bernard, the gentlemen in waiting on their
Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess d'Aquila,
The Duke and Duchess of Sunderland will 110 e
a party at Stafford House, St. James's, on the 29th just'
The Earl of Fife has taken for a short WWI
from the end of the present season, No. 1, Grosvenor-Place
Houses, late the residence of the Duke of Cleveland, ltd
his lordship's now mansion is ready for occupation. a
Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Egerton have arrived
in Albemarle-street from Southsea.
Sir Rowland Errington and the Misses Staniel
Errington have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Paris. t
Sir Frederick and Lady Smythe have arrived 3
Brown's Hotel, Dover-street.
Mrs: Gladstone will have an assembly to-morrovr
instead of this evening, as originally appointed, Aftmr,-
thei
Chancellor of the Exchequer's full dress dinner, in eel"
tion of the Queen's birthday. '
Colonel and Mrs. Oliphant have left Claridge
Hotel for Halthrope Castle, Gloucestershire.
and
Captain and Mrs. Henry Barnard HankeY
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Miss Webb have arrived at their residence in Loivnue
square from the Continent.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS [OF ZETLAND.----
death of the Countess of Zetland took place on illy
night in the family mansion in Arlington-street, rinea",,t r
The late Sophia Jane, Countess of Zetland, was dallg'...red
of the late Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart., and n 1311.1
the Earl of Zetland 6th Sept., 1823. There is no issue'

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bath
We learn that the promoter of the Turkish. --
at Genera, Mr. David Urquhart, formerly a Tier;
ber of the English Parliament, after having paBsolf
winter at Geneva, has quitted us to establish hialse—:(l,
Mount Prarion (near St. Gervais). Mr. Urquhart is Wl' th
ing, 6,000 feet above the level of the sea, a Turkish llde
to try its efficacy for the cure of Cretinism.—Jolirria.

Geneve, May 6.
e follow.'
GARIBALDI ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS. Th
mg is a translation of a letter from General Garibtl
to the editor of Public Opinion:—"Sir,-1 always °II-4;
dered from the beginning that the American question '`d"
one which concerned all humanity and the whole ell.
and I was grieved to see that a part of the Engli,h Furb,-I°t
were opposed to the restoration of union in tho g—gf
republic—which arose, it is well known, from oat'seg.,„°;
rancour which pre- existed between England and nteri-
t it was a sad thing that the good sense of the Pe°l3iio
who first established the principle of emancipation oft -11
slaves did not manifest itself in applause to tho
ts
Americans, who showed themselves to be the instrinnei)„,
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of Providence in carrying out that sublime idea. go tha
lords of the ocean agree then for the good of orPretbat
humanity ! Sons of the same mother, may they see, of
their noble race is now-a-days the bulwark of the right
nations, and that despotism foments dissensions betviif
them because it fears them, and because it knowS tiTt to
they were on good terms it would be impossible for
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execute its designs, which are fatal to liborty elsewhorv*
Yours, dm, G. GARIBALDI. Caprera, May, 1865 ''

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