The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-11 00:00:00

Cinalar.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 10.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness,
Princess Helena, drove out this morning, attendea
by the Hon. Flora Macdonald.
Princess Louise rode in the Home Park.
Their Royai Highnesses Princess Helena and
Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Bar-
rington, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, and the 11°11'
A. Hardinge, left the Castle this afternoon for
Buckingham Palace.

The Prince and Princess of Wales•
The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Marl
visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marl-
borough House yesterday.
The Duke of Cambridge also visited their royal
highnesses.
The Prince of Wales went to the House of Lords
in the afternoon.

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His Royal Highness the Count d'Eu and her
Imperial Highness the Crown Princess of Brazil, attended
by the Baron and Baroness de Lages and M. Lisboa, invie
returned to the Clarendon Hotel from Claremont.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
de Chartres have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel fr°l3l
Morgan House, Ham.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke de Nenl°urS
and Princess Marguerite of Orleans have arrived at the
Clarendon Hotel from Claremont.
The Duke of Devonshire arrived at Devonshire
House, on Thursday evening, from Holkar Half ne6t
Milnethorpe.
ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.---rrt
recent visitors to this theatre have comprised the
Marquis of Blandford, Earl Granville, Dowager Countess
of Harrington, Viscount Torrington, Viscount Ran°l4l,ll:
Viscountess Holmesdale, Lord Dufferin, Lady Mary Cra,lrerd—
Ldy Molesworth, Lord and Lady Mountcharles, 14%
Foley, Lord Abinger, Lady Rivers, Lord AthlumneY, 14`„"
General and Mrs. Eyre, Hon. Mr. Best, Sir R. Clift°'
M.P., Colonel Baring, Major Carpenter, Hon. F. L. To er;
M.P., Captain Gordon, Mr. Arcedeckne, Hon. Otway Tol.;
Col. Minchin, Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., Sir
Landseer, Captain D. O'Connell, Right Hon. J3ll t
M.P., and Mrs. Hutt, Sir Patrick O'Brien, M.P., Iron OttP
Vivian, &c.
THE KING OF PRUSSlA.—Advices from Han3h
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announce that the King of Prussia, accompanied bY e
do Bismarck, will shortly make an excursion into Th
wig-Holstein. The precise object of the journey is 11-
stated.

The New Royal Academician,
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Mr. John F. Lewis, the accomplished Oriental
painter, was, last night, elected a Royal Acale th.
cian, to fill the vacancy left by the decease 01 '—
David Roberts, R.A.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOB 1:1
ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Geographical, at
Stereoscopic Maps, from Models of Mountainous ..;Oli.;
tries,' Mr. Galton ; ' Gradual Desiccation of S. W. )
Mr. Fox Wilson ; Society of Arts, at B—(Cantor Lee",jes,'
Applications of Geology to the Arts and Manufactt"-0,
Professor Ansted. Tuesday—Photographic, at 8, f
graphic Printing with Sensitive Collodion and Sl- °ti..
Uranium,' Messrs. Cooper and Wharton Simpson ; r: of
quaries, at q, Council ; Syro-Egyptian, at 71, `Ntati„-Eit 8,
Places, Old Testament,' Mr. Cowper; Engineers, of
°
' Metropolitan System of Drainage and Intercept, p..
Sewage from the Thames ;' Royal Institution,
troduction to Chemistry,' Professor Hofmann ;
at Bi, 'New or Rare Birds' Eggs,' Mr. Newton; 'rot
Species of Mollusks,' Dr. Carpenter ; AnthropolngLe3;je•
8, Missionary Efforts among Savages,' Mr. logo
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Wednesday—Statistical, at 4, Anniversary ; geteoro
cal, at 7 ; Society of Arts, at 8, ' Marine Engines
al jn-
-1851 to Present Time,' Mr. Burgh. Thursday-11°5'i, or
stitution, at 3, ' Introduction to Chemistry,' Pr°"-st6l;
Hofmann ; Zoological, at 4, General ; Numismatic, 8"
o,'
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Linnean, at 8, Sir John Richardson's Arctic 14°181311
Mr. Leighton ; Chemical, at 8, Action of Ch10111:ie0,'
Arsenious Acid,' Professor Bloxam ; Vapour Denslldilf
Mr. Wanklyn ; Royal, at 8i ; Antiquaries, at 81.
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—Philological, at 8 ; Royal Institution, at 8, Suus -
face,' Mr. Balfour Stewart. Saturday—Royal Institilti
at 3, Nervous System,' Professor Marshall.—Atheigoflu''o
MR. VINCENT WALLACE, according to
Orchestra, is daily improving in health.
MEYERBEER'S "AFRICAINE" 11,111 be pro
says the Orchestra, in London by Mr. Gye before it Olai-of
out in Paris, and It will, no doubt, form one of tho
attractions of the next season of the English °pert' rle;
pally. Some most magnificent scenery by Mr. Be're.
will lend its aid to the undoubted success of the worl
r,":" Tn.
BARON LIEBIG has received the Cross of ,-,0410
mander in the Order of Merit of Holy St. Michael 00' ill
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King of Bavaria, accompanied by an autograPli, „s• letter tion
which the King thanks him for declining the high of
offered him by the King of Prussia at the Unilrors/'
Berlin.—Reader. j One
THE BONAPARTES AT CORSICA.—The -c1:10,
Napoleon, Prince Napoleon's yacht, is at present stm to
quite ready for sea. It is said that the Prince is 319°11 go
proceed to Ajaccio, in Corsica, touching at Marseille'' tiny
will take with him four bronze statues, rePrei,se- fear
Joseph, Lucien, Louis, and Jerome Bonaparte, t'tee i$ to
brothers of the first Napoleon. A fifth bronze statliTbeS°
be embarked as Marseilles for the same destination• leoo'd
statutes are 7ft. high. The object of Prince 10P°. ecto•
voyage is to inaugurate these statuesin the town of Aii°:oo.3
PUNCH'S COMMENT upon the Emperor Nall°. 019
" Ilistoire de Jules Cesar"—very funnily and sent°lll,loislli
runs thus—" Ceasar and Boney very much alike, ssPv

Boney ! " Reader/
ALEXANDER DUMAS, according to the
has written a " Vie de Jules Cesar," essentially 111„1-epl'era
its deductions from those promulgated in the P-4 hiS
Napoleon's life of Caesar. Dumas read a portion
work before an assembly in the Rue Cadet Yes.troier
so'nnight, in which Omar is represented as the des der of
of a republic of 500 years' duration, and the real loan
the fierce despotism which disgraced imperial W 11164000
ANCIENT PORTRAITS OF OUR LORD.—Patia
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all the miraculous part of the legend resPeo
Veronica and King Abgarus (about which we °lcPiieaeSSt
opinion), and still more the story that Pilate had s'is%eres;
taken of our Lord for his own purposes, there 00'
reason for attaching credibility to the accollo'raere
Veronica, r
the widow of the son of the child It
[Herod], during her lifetime erected a statue of the 'el.reace'
caused a portrait to be taken of Him,
and that King Abgarus, with a like feeling of re,,;iig,
his ambassador Ananias, as related by John D'''''"osare"
and further, that the bronze statue in Paneas, °r red
Philippi, which the Christians there so long 11°13°„: realll
their church as a true portrait of their Saviour, vr,';, in
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such ; and that this likeness has really descended ""ocies:
whilst prese'" tio;
one or more of the before-mentioned now existing sti3,llo
portraits of our Lord at Rome, at Genoa, at Nsiarke
at Moscow.—The Englishman's Magazine for Jiaren"..---vji
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THE LATE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAS-;;00,
committee of the National Lifeboat Institt'siaerA
its last meeting, Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P., viceteof
in the chair, unanimously passed the following ire'idept:
of
dolence with the widow of its late valued Pre,s;coase
" That this committee, in recording the lamented 'l3l.dro "
their president, Admiral his Grace Algerilel2 had CO
w;
Northumberland, K.G., who for so long a Peri°-
‘i
dially and unceasingly co-operated with them ill ii`atioll
out the great and philanthropic objects of the dials
Lifeboat Institution, are bound by every prineiPis (,)g .11
respect to place on their minutes the largo debt 0' 7. it wito
which the lifeboat cause owes to their late presidelloeptio
ever be remembered that his munificence in 1852 I),r o;Plscepg
practical use the self-righting lifeboat, which is Ong the
in large numbers around the coasts of the United oars to io;
and which has contributed during the past 12 Ye„t oalf
saving of thousands of lives from shipwrecks, l'igo cos
our own shores, but also on those of many fereo.rAce eAPect
tries ; and that the kindly interest which his Ls tell" rt
formly evinced in the welfare of the institution
greatly to bring about the large amount of eocievy
and sympathy now so generously extended to Imcers sior,
That this committee respectfully tender their sill filoaliwit
path), and condolence to his sorrowful wid°v(kort),
Duchess of Northumberland, with their earilestler sad 00
it may please the Almighty to sustain her in. „olio
reavement." Signed with tho seal of the instituwave
presence of Thomas Baring, chairman ; Tlwrat's
ry•
deputy-chairman ; and Richard Lewis, secrets
lost,
EXHIBITION OF ARTS AND MANUFACT t oleo
NORTH-EAST LONDON.—On Thursday I°,s_stted in
the
ing of employers of labour and artizans intereDeld in the
manufactures of North-Eastern London was for
cal
Board-room of the Agricultural Hall CoraP:lo. Via
purpose of taking into consideration a preP°s ,he oostio,
Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures during itoistaie
autumn. The chair was taken by W. 11. 130cIV,
judge. The proposal was unanimously ado Poe,
a resolution appointing a general committee
r'_!ossls
li
to make arrangements for carrying
effect. The movement is entirely uncoi! 601011:130
Working Men's Industrittl Exhibitions, havi:lbsbip ,inc
its object the promotion of the art worlail:4o d!po,
district. The Exhibition will consist of pa
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divisions—a Manufacturers' Department, a uaraates,,oi
partment, and a Loan Department. The g s2,oe and
tiog,
asked for by the promoters a the Exhibitionthee
the said puoveted 1,101,
which about one-third was guaranteed at
l.
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a considerable portion of the remainder pro