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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, April 26.
Her Majesty and her Royal Highness Princess
Louise drove out yesterday, attended by Lady
Churchill.

Her Royal Highness Princess Helena also drove•
Lady NVaterpark has succeeded Lady Churchill
as lady in waiting.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales are expected to leave Sandringham on Tuesday,
next for Marlborough House. Owing to the death of the
Czarewiteh their royal highnesses are expected to seek
retirement for a few weeks.

ROYAL BIRTHDAY AT WlNDSOR.—Tuesday being
the 22d anniversary of the birth of her Royal Higlines!
Princess Alice Maud Mary, the event was duly celebrated
with royal honours at Windsor. The bells of the Chapel
Royal of St. George and parish church rang out merry Peels
in the morning, when a salute of 21 guns was fired in the,
Long-walk and answered from Fort Belvedere and the
Royal Adelaide frigate at Virginia-water.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and Princess Mary propose to return to town next week
from Cambridge Cottage, Kew.

The Count and Countess d'Eu on Saturday left
Brussels for Antwerp, where they visited the monument°
of the city, and then took their departure for Genitan
by way of Liege. They will first visit the Hereditari
Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (sister to the liin6
of Portugal), and afterwards Gotha, Dresden, and Vienna•
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and
family have arrived at their house in St. James's-square
froth Blenheim Palace, Oxon.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
and Lady Theodora Grosvenor come to town next Wei'
from Motcombe Park, Dorset, for the season.

The Marchioness of Salisbury will give her &Oh
assembly to-morrow evening at the family residence io
Arlington-street, Piccadilly.
The Earl Granville will return to town to-dor
from visiting Lord and Lady Rivers at Rushmore
Lodge.

The Earl of Lonsdale is expected to return to --11i3
residence on Carlton-house-terrace early in the ensuing
week, from the Isle of Wight.

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The Earl de Grey will leave town to-day to ill-
spect the fortifications on the coasts of Hants and Devol4
as Secretary of State for the War Department.
Lord Stanley, M.P., has arrived in town fro°
Knowsley Park, Lancashire.

We are authorised to contradict a report vihicil
has appeared in our columns, of a marriage about to Ur,
place between the Dowager Lady Holland, of Holley('
House, and Rear-Admiral Yelverton, C. 8., second in c°132.:
mand in the Mediterranean. We are informed that her
ladyship will spend the summer at Kensington.
HEALTH OF LORD PALMERSTON.—During the last
few days some extravagant rumours have been in cirolle-

tion respecting the health of the noble Premier. We learn'
however, that the extent of his indisposition is a slight at-
tack of the gout in the right hand.

Richard Cobden, the Emperor of the French

and Prince Napoleon.

The following letter of sympathy has been re"
ceived by the family of the late Mr. Cobden :
Aux Tuileries, le 20 Avril, 1865•
M.-Chas. Cobden.

Monsieur,—J'ai pris une grande part au malheur cllllll
frappe votre famine ; car M. R. Cobden avait toujoui'
montrd pour la France une grande sympathie, et eon 1117
fluence our ses compatriotes ne pouvait que contribuer
resserrer les liens qui unissent I'Angleterre et la France'
Je vous prie d'être aupres de sa veuve 'lnterpret° de des
sdrieux regrets, et de recevoir l'assurance de mes sentireeli
de haute estime.

NAPOLEON.
The Tuileries, 20th April, 1865.
Mr. Charles Cobden.
Sir,—l have deeply participated in the misfortune WIJ
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has stricken your family ; for Mr. Richard Cobden ha
always evinced for France a great sympathy, and his in
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fluence over his countrymen could not but contribute ,
draw closer the ties which unite England and France.
I pray you to act towards his widow as the interpreter
of my serious regrets, and to receive the assurance of 353 J
sentiments of high esteem.

- NAPOLEOS'

BENJAMIN DISRAELI IN 1865. Among the
leading statesmen of this country there is no one
who occupies so peculiar a position as Mr. Disraeli. it
would be very difficult, in the annals of Parliamentary his-
tory, to find a politician who has filled so large a space
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the records of his own time, and yet has had so little res
influence on the policy and legislation of the country. The
leader of a numerous and well-organised party since 18'
and twice whon in office the leader of the House of Celn-
mons, he sits at the head of the Opposition against the
secret wishes of a considerable section of his supporter°,
with no personal following, with very slight weight withio,
the walls of the house, and with absolutely none out et
doors. The rank that he holds is due exclusively to the
brilliant power of debating with which he took the hour
by storm some 20 years ago. Since that time his career
has been a conspicuous one ; in some of his Parliamentary
conflicts he has parted at least on equal terms with very
formidable antagonists, yet he has failed to reap ie
power and influence the legitimate fruits of so marl
years of unremitting labour. Unlike most political
leaders, he stands no higher in public estimation than h°,
did a dozen years ago. His party seem to feel a want
confidence in him, though he has worked for them so 105
—and in spite of the effort that he has made from time t°
time, he has been unable to enlist in his favour the syor
pathies of the public.—From the First No. of the NO/
Magazine, Samuel Lucas's Shilling Magazine (for big)
just published.

BRINDLEY AND THE WEDGWOODS.--James Briskt
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.ey was a popular character in the Potteries. 14:
uncommon ingenuity, great practical skill, persistent
dustry, and reliable honesty of purpose had led by degr.to
to a great range of business, which was as varied in /
character as scattered far and wide. He constructed 01:
heads inYorkshire,built or improved silk-mills atCoeglet,°,
and Macclesfield, sank wells in the agricultural distrin7,
applied to many of the old mills upon the watershed to thui
north of Burslem machinery for the grinding of calci110:
flints and other potter's materials ; and as time went p 0
busied himself with the construction of steam engines lirit
a principle of his own. Wide as this range of duty was' 0
,
centred locally in Burslem ; and here, in 1750, or sorael"to
before, he had hired a millwright's shop belonging o
Thomas and John Wedgwood, which, situated down
eo
yard in the vicinity of the spot on which they were a
building the Big House, was environed with pot-works 611
gardens. Thus brought into connection with the Wecig;
woods, and employed by them in various ways, an intires°'d
of a most friendly character sprung up between there °lit
the engineer. It was only limited by Brindley's
and lengthened absences from Burslem. But when he
there, either on business to his wheelwright's shop, c'f,De
see his brother John Brindley, who had settled in
village, the hospitable meal, the cup of sparkling Statf°rlo3
shire ale, the glowing hearth, and the hearty hand-sli3do
were his under more than one roof-tree of the well-t°-
Wedgwoods.-11feteyard's Life of Wedgwood. a
CIVIL SERVICE ATHLETIC SPORTS.—The sec°':o
annual gathering of gentlemen connected with taiP
Civil Service, and associated together in the frieutoi
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rivalry of athletic sports, will take place to-morrow
Saturday at Beaufort House, Walham-green—the oP'to
commencing each day at 2 o'clock. The various sP°.OO
and games are open to amateurs only, and, as was the cia
last year, are to be under the management of a genefal
executive committee, composed of names well knosoooo
the official world, with Lord Bury heading the list. Tl/0 0
sports have evidently taken firm root in the science, I/ of •
means of bringing out the muscular energies of a bodtl4ol •
gentlemen whose occupations are chiefly of a sedan
character, and to whom the systematic training inv.°ls, °0(
in physical displays of the kind cannot fail to Pollord
the utmost advantage. Gentlemen who wield the oritof
in other departments of her Majesty's service have 131,, oo •
facilities for cultivating out-door sports, and we can seedreason why the gentlemen who manipulate the 1)011beit
rack their brains in the bureau should not folio', 'alio
example. Tho love of field sports is increasing In
es
country, and gymnastics are now held in high estoelor.to
portion of the physical education of youth. In /I the
Turner Verein will be held at the Crystal Palace, an
co-
present gathering is of a kindred character, althoughloot
fined to members of the Civil Service of the Crown• c u'
our great annual boat race between the Oxford and 6,00
bridge Universities does in the way of bodily develoP.isia
and in keeping up the manly tone and vigour of °"111 d°
men, these athletic sports to a still greater extent ill
for the Civil Service. Nor can we help thinking tit!to la
proportion as the young blood in the Civil Departniemoor
kept in a state of healthful activity, and the musculessporo
glee of officials are developed by means of such inalalY,o3ter
and rivalries, shall we find people less prone to 0
about 'routine' and circumlocution.' As the pliP3l:ld vie
maintained so will the mental capacities improve ; "st 0011
regard these innocent and sinew giving exercises rwbut
as beneficial to the individuals who practise then% pip"
really benefiting the State, and through the State, 0,,,,,u0r
lic. There is a growing tendency in favour of the in lost
holiday, and we consider the athletic sports initiateg; 000
year, and to be continued with increased eclat this, In
of the most healthful signs of the great freoh-gir
mutt.