The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-09 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Friday.

The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Princess
Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Christian, drove
out yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four, and
again this morning, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Louise, and attended by the Hou.
Mary Lascelles.
Prince ChTistian of Schleswig-Holstein visited the
Infantry Barracks.
Countess Gleichen and Major-General and Lady
Emily Seymour had the honour of dining with the
Queen and the royal family yesterday.

The Visit of the Prince and Princess of
Wales to Lord Suffield.

GUNTON, Friday.
The ball in honour of the royal visit was attended
by the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Earl of
Leicester and Lady Gertrude Coke, the Earl of
Dunmore, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Lard
and Lady Alfred Paget, Lord and Lady Rendlesham,
Lady Sophia Macnamara, Viscount and Viscountess
Royston, Viscount Hamilton, Lord Berkeley Paget,
Colonel Hon. E. Coke, Hon. Ralph and Mrs. Har-
bord, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Randell Burroughes,
Hon. H. and Mrs. Harbord, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. F.
B. Stonor, Mrs. Henry Baring, Lieut.-Col. Keppel,
and the Marchioness of Carmarthen (in attendance
on the Prince and Princess of Wales), Admiral Hon.
and Mrs. and Misses Woodhouse, Hon. and Rev.
John and Mrs. Harbord, Sir Jacob, Lady, and
Miss Preston, Colonel F., Mrs., and the Misses
Astley, and Colonel and Mrs. Fitzroy.
The " meet" with Lord Hastings's hounds yester-
day was a great disappointment to every person,
as the rain fell incessantly all day. The fixture
was at Gunton, and early in the day the Prince of
Wales on his beautiful favourite chestnut hunter,
accompanied by the princess on her valuable
hunter, said to have cost 600 guineas, and accom-
panied by the Earl of Leicester, the Earl of Dun-
more, Lord Rendlesham, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord
Hamilton, Lord Royston, Lord Berkeley Paget,
Colonel Coke, and the rest of the noblemen and
gentlemen, joined the field. His royal highness
shook hands and chatted with Lord Hastings, the
popular young nobleman who hunts the East Nor-
folk country, and who had sent forward a splendid
horse for his royal highness to ride, without know-
ing that the prince had brought his own hunter
with him. Lady Suffield and the other ladies also
joined the hunt, but in carriages ; with the excep-
tion of Lady Macnamara, whosefinished and daring
riding is the astonishment of the East Norfolk
yeomen.. There were not fewer than 500 horsemen
present in pink, green, and black, and the carriage
company was very numerous. The park was not
drawn, as that was being reserved for the following
day for shooting ; but the Antingham, Thorpe,
Suffield, and Hanworth woods were drawn blank,
and the rain falling almost in torrents, about half-
past three it was found necessary to give up for
that day without having so much as seen a fox.
Thus terminated with great disappointment the
first blank day of the East Norfolk and the Prince
of Wales for this season.
It was the theme of conversation in every quarter
how boldly the Princess of Wales retained her seat,
and clung to the last to the hope of obtaining a
run. The failure was a sort of evident mortifica-
tion to Lord Suffield, as well as to Lord Hastings,
the more particularly that one or two dog foxes
were seen on the previous day.
Lord and Lady Suffield gave another dance on
Thursday evening to about 60 of the aristocracy of
the neighbourhood. Mr. Walter Howlett's band
was in attendance. The Prince of Wales led off
the first quadrille, and Lord Suffield with the
Princess of Wales. Godfrey's " Hilda" Waltz was
requested several times over.
To-morrow the prince and princess will post to
Lord Sondes's residence at Elmham, where their
royal highnesses will take their luncheon, and pro-
ceed thence to Sandringham by special train.

THE COURT AT WINDSOR.—Her Majesty and the
royal family, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the
Court, are expected to leave Windsor Castle for Osborne
some time between the 15th and 20th inst. It is not anti-
cipated that her Majesty will remain longer than a fevr
weeks in the Isle of Wight, when the Court will again re-
turn to Windsor.

THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS HELENA.—The
preparations for the bridal trousseau of her Royal Highness
Princess Helena have been commenced, and several of the
Court tradespeople have received instructions to prepare
the numerous articles which will be required. Prince
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, the intended husband of
the Princess Helena, has, since his arrival at Windsor
Castle, occasionally accompanied the Queen and princesses
on their excursions round the Castle. His Serene High-
ness is residing in a splendid suite of apartments within
King Edward Ill.'s Tower. No date has yet been an-
nounced for the marriage of the Prince and Princess. Frog-
more Lodge has been pointed to as not unlikely to become
the home of their Royal Highnesses, especially as a num-
ber of improvements have been recently carried out at that
very pleasant royal retreat.
_ _ _

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador re-
turned to Chandos House, Cavendish-square, yesterday,
from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury at
Hatfield House, Herts. _ _

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the
Countess Bernstorff and the Countess Therese Bernstorff
arrived at the Prussian Embassy on Carlton-house-terrace
yesterday, from Hatfield House, Herts, where they have
been among the guests of the Marquis and Marchioness of
Salisbury. _ _ _

The Earl of Shrewsbury and the Ladies Talbot
will leave Hatfield House, Herts, on Monday for Wim-
pole Hall, to visit the Earl and Countess Hardwick°.

Viscount and Viscountess Sydney have returned
to Frognal, in Kent, from visiting the Earl of Sandwich
at Hinchingbroke, Huntingdonshire. _ _

Lord Brougham has been staying at his residence
in Grafton-street, since Taesday last, when he came to
town from Brougham Hall. The noble and learned lord
is expected to leave London in the course of the ensuing
week for Cannes, to pass the winter. The friends of his
lordship will be pleased to hear that he is in remarkably
good health.
FORTHCOMING NEW NOVELS !—The new serial
tale in the January number of Macmillan's Magazine will be
"Old Sir Douglas," by the Hon. Mrs. Norton; that in the
Cornhill Magazine is to be from the pen of Mr. Anthony
Trollope ; in London Society Mr. Mark Lemon will accom-
pany his readers " Up and Down the London Streets ;" and
Mrs. Oliphant commences, in Good Words, next month,
"Madonna Mary, a Story of English Life."
LAMENTABLE DAMAGE TO THE WOLF ROCK
LIGHTHOUSE.—One of the most natural and yet
remarkable accidents arising from the late gales is hitherto
unreported. We say natural, because of the exposed posi-
tion of the Wolf Rock—remarkable because the casualty
shows the wondrous strength of the sea, and of the
masonry on which it made a successful onslaught. The
Wolf Rock lighthouse is built up as far as four courses
of granite blocks will raise it ; but these four only just
elevate the structure below the natural hollow, somewhat
enlarged by blasting and quarrying, in the rock itself.
Of the fifth course 32 stones were laid, every stone joggled
and dovetailed to its neighbours, laterally and vei tically,
secured in its place by cement as hard as iron, and bolted
to the course below by powerful metal bars. This fifth
course was a little ledge, which offered some opposition
to the sea, in addition to the rock itself, on which the
surges have beatin many a hoarse, wolfish strain, for ages.
The sea, moved to fury by the recent gales, has swept
away every stone of the fifth course, and in a day the
summer's work of 60 men is undone. The metal bars
still stand up from the fourth course—some very much
bent, others nearly upright; showing the violent watery
upheaval which rent three-ton stones from their bed.
Whether the sheer, terrible force of the unaided sea did
this ; whether some of tbo stones, quarried from the
adamantine Wolf Rock and thrown into, compa-
ratively, shallow water, were raised from -the vasty
deep and hurled against the finely worked and
compact granite rampart ; whether one more hapless vessel
was dashed on the place which, years hence, would, with
its welcome light, have warned her from her peril, and, a
single block first going, the others followed, will be matter
of conjecture. The public, more especially its seafaring
members, will learn with regret that the labour of one
favourable season, valued at £1,500, is swept into 40 or 45
fathoms of water, and that the work of humanity is delayed
Not delayed, however, should fine weather permit, a minute
longer than can possibly be helped. The Trinity work-
men heard of the loss with as much sorrow as if it had
been their own ; they feel proud of, as well as interested
in, their work; and every exertion is already, and will be
made to repair the damage with the least delay.—Cortu.
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