The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-20 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY•

OSBORIs.TE, Dec. 19.
Her Majesty, their Royal Highnesses Princess
Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princeso
Beatrice, and her Serene Highness Princess 110-
henloe, arrived at Osborne yesterday at a little be-
fore two o'clock, having crossed over from Gosport
in the royal yacht Alberta.

HER MAJESTY'S NEW YEAR'S GIFTS.—Her Ma
jesty's New Year's gifts to the poor in the parishes
of New Windsor, Holy Trinity, and Clewer will be dis-
tributed, in the shape of beef and coals, on the Ist of
January next, to several hundred families. The total value
of these annual gifts is about £l5O, and they arc allotted to
deserving recipients by the vicar and clergy of 'Windsor,
the various cases being generally recommended by the dis
trict visitors. Coming at this season of the year, when
meat and coals are dear, the distribution of the Queen's
gifts on New Year's day will be looked forward to with
some anxiety by hundreds of poor people in the Royal

borough.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of \Vales has
been graciously pleased to evince her interest in the Itos-
pital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Bromptol
by a donation of £5O in aid of the funds of that usefll
charity.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
after his return home on Monday from attending the
funeral obsequies of the King of the Belgians, visited his
mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge Cottage,

Kew.
The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle left their
residence in Piccadilly yesterday for Clamber Park, Notts.
The Earl Cowley was expected to leave London
last evening on his return to Paris to resume his duties as
ambassador. The return of his Excellency to the French
capital was hastened by the death of the Hon. Wm. Grey,
the charge d'affaires.
The marriage of the Earl of Sandwich and the
Lady Blanche Egerton, daughter of Harriet Countess of
Ellesmere and Francis, first earl, is to take place at Bur-
wood, Surrey, on the 27th inst.
The Earl of Dunmore, Viscount Canterbury, the
Hon. Captain Elphinstone, and Major Trevor have arrived
at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square.
Lady Constance Marsham was confined of a son
yesterday at the Mote, the Earl of Romney's seat near
Maidstone. Her ladyship and infant are progressing
favourably.
Lady Emily Peel gave birth to a daughter Ye S"
terday afternoon at the Right Hon. Sir Robert rel,i's
s
residence in Whitehall-gardens. Her ladyship's fllu,
• will be pleased to hear that her ladyship and infant
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were both, up to an advanced hour last night, going
favourably.

Leath of the Hon. W. G. Grey.

Yesterday morning information was received 01
the unexpected death of the Hon. William George
Grey, the British Charge d' A.ffaires at Paris, wile/
after an illness of only a few hours, died at the
British Embassy at Paris at 1 o'clock yesterday
morning. The event was so sudden and so 110"
looked for that it has cast a deep gloom over the
whole of the members of the family. During the
conge of the Earl Cowley the Hon. Mr. Grey hat',
been acting as Chargé d'Affaires. He was seize'
with symptoms of cholera on Monday morning/
which increased in intensity, and shortly after 8
o'clock yesterday morning Admiral the lion. Sir
Fredk. Grey, K.C.8., and General the Hon. CWIO
Grey received a telegram from Paris announcing
the sad news that their brother had expired at the
hour stated. The lamented gentleman was the
youngest of the large family of the late Earl Grey
(the eminent statesman), by his wife, the lion'
Mary Elizabeth, daughter of William Brabal°°'
first Lord Ponsonby. He was born Feb. 15, 1.819;
He entered the diplomatic service in the autumn.
1844, being appointed attaché at Hanover, and ill
October in the same year was attached to the eta'
bassy at Vienna, where he became a paid attaché in
1847, and afterwards first paid attaché in 1849'
He was transferred to Paris in Feb., 1852; and ill,
Sept., 1853, was appointed Secretary of Legation at
Stockholm, where he occasionally, in the absence
of the Minister, acted as Charge d'Affaires. 113.
December, 1858, he removed to Berlin, but was
only there a few months, for in July of the succeed-
ing year he was appointed secretary to the British
Embassy at Paris, in which post he has since eon:
tinued. The deceased gentleman was highly
esteemed by those with whom he had official intert:
course, as well as by those socially acquainted had
him. General the Hon. Charles Grey, who 113,0
only on Monday returned from attending, at t%
request of the Queen, the funeral of the late 1CJ136
of the Belgians, left town last evening for FaxiB_.,l
The late Hon. William George Grey was move;
in 1858 to Madlle. Stedingk, only daughter tir
Count Stedingk, of Sweden, one of the bedchoi
women to her Royal Highness the Princess
Wales.

Royal Institute of British Architects•!

At the meeting of the fellows and associates :
the Institute of British Architects on Monday elelloo
m g—Mr. Beresford-Hope in the chair—a paper '2V
read by Mr. Gambier, of Paris, recently electedsto
honorary fellow, on the application of painting to
architecture. In treating the subject he took 11/10,
consideration the associated arts of painting, se:lo,lt
ture, and architecture, and endeavoured to poix'"At
some principles of combination by which they 13/101
be advantageously brought to bear in the ereetnor
works of the most perfect beauty. He took- to
granted that, at the periods when the fine
witS
were in the highest state of perfection, colour 0,
generally applied in sculpture and in architee DV
but he contended that as colour is almost incarlilori
imparted by nature to living objects, it is neeel of
to employ it artificially to give the appear3newd
life, and that without it sculptured figures
look cold and dead. A considerable portion ° t
„if that
paper was occupied with the consideration "" 00t
subject. He advocated the colouring of st 3 to
not only because it was the practice of tbeviog
sculptors of Greece, but as being essential tc'i that
out the beauty of the figure, and he dente eil#
there is any sensuous feeling produced by it.
abstract beauty of form, he observed, is onlY gooier
ciable by very few, while colour adds to the a Di
without detracting from the admiration eattioc;
well-disposed light and shade. He made 5..,
tion, however, between colouring and paintlinore'l
strongly objected to any painting of a sell'Pea
figure by which the lights and shadows prodn.ed tho
the chisel are interfered with. In consider"pt'
decoration of the interior of buildings witb P.orist°
ings, Mr. Gambier denounced as most inaPPrt::t
the representation of sky, or clouds, or clist,.h
jects, which are altogether inconsistent
d he
character of a solid enclosed building ;ana St
forced the necessity of discipline .in the
that the coloured decorations might be W.ll).sotood.
to the objects of the structure they vOre..l;tavicc.
to adorn. He strongly censured the Prior
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taste that leaves the stone walls in the interif scrag'
building bare, and the barbarous practice 0re00,4
ing off the original whitewash in mod oicielo
tions; for such covering, when tinted,be (:)1,113.te0
tends to harmonise the whole and to 11°4.10 °llO
architectural effect. Mr. Gambier Wrings
of te,
compared the encaustic and fresco painitni9fgoe pifscof
ancients, and recommended the revival " too
id
tice of using wax as a medium for eel°llDitcettle,l)
varnishing when colours are applied to a;ritD 44,
decoration. Mr. Gambier read his PaPerviiiioV;t.
earnestness, with great variety of tone auhr
t Ta tioA"
and it was received with much applause e
Professor DONALDSON made sot tiluerheiG,foc
respecting the colouring of statues, corie"
sidered a great improvement when
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far, and he considered it most desirarto clet;3i "i
definite principles should be establish_.ie a be orr. oeL-
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the extent to which the colouring sh°. coot
Mr. KERR, on the other hand,. said coioo'
to be of the old school, which rejected t"
nilde
roPer' j
of sculpture as unsuitable and iruP ,ir. e tl3
Mr. Digby Wyatt, Mr. Padrnorel ". .oed
the president, and other golden-leo n gi°,leucii.toeopea
discussion, and thanks having . a
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