The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, DEC. 27.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse,
drove out yesterday.

The Prince of Wales and Prince Louis rode on horseback.
DEC. 28.
Her Majesty the Queen, their Royal Highnesses the
Prince of Wales, Prince and Princess Louis, and Princess
Helena received the Sacrament of the Holy Communion
this morning at Whippingham Church, which was ad-
ministered by the Rev. G. Prothero.
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Arthur,
and Prince Leopold attended the morning service.
The Countess of Gainsborough has arrived as Lady in
waiting.

The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers arrived yesterday, and
had an audience of the Queen.
Mr. Kraus, architect of Mayence, had the honour of sub-
mitting to their Royal Highaesses Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse plans and designs for a palace about to be
erected at Darmstadt.

Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial
Office from the Governors of New Zealand and the Cape of
Good Hope.
Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands.

The Dake of Sutherland has left Paris on his way
to Marseilles. His Grace will embark at that port on board
his steam yacht, which left the Thames a fortnight ago,
and go direct to Naples to meet thq Duchess, who has been
residing there for E ome weeks past.

The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland has left
Stafford House, St. James's, for Cliefden Park, her Grace's
seat in Buckinghamshire.

The Earl of St. Germans (the Lord Steward), ac-
companied by Lord Eliot and family, has arrived at his re-
sidence in Dover• street from Port Eliot, Cornwall.
The Earl and Countess of Craven and the Ladies
Craven leave Ashdown Park to-day, on a visit to the Earl
and Countess of Clarendon, at the Grove, near Watford.
Count and Countess de Flahault and Miss
Elphinstone de Flahault will leave Bowood at the latter end
of the week for Torquay,'_on a visit to Lord and Lady
Willoughby de Eresby.

The marriage of Viscount Royston with Lady
Georgiana Wellesley will take place early in the ensuing
month at Paris.

Lord and Lady Elibank have left Brown's
Hotel.

The Right Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, M.P., and
Lady Theresa Lewis and Miss Lister will leave town in a
few days for the Grove, near Watford, on a visit to the
Earl and Countess of Clarendon.

Mr. and Lady Isabella Schuster left town a few
days since for Brighton.

Captain and Mrs. Dancombe and family have
left Brown's Hotel for Brighton.

The Marquis Roberto Taparelli d'Azeglio, Sena-
tor of the Kingdom of Italy, has just died at Turin aged
seventy-two.

LORD ASHRURTON.—The friends of Lord Ashbur-
ton will be happy to Jearn that there is every pro-
spect of his lordship recovering from his recent dangerous
and alarming illness. The accounts received from Paris on
Saturday and the preceding
.day were of a more favourable
tenour. The noble lord is staying at the Hotel Bristol, but
it will be some weeks before he can reasonably be expected
to leave for the south of France with Lady Ashburton.
TIGHT LACING.—The editor of the New Orleans
Times says the corsets worn by the ladies of that city will
bear a monstrous strain, judging from a lady he saw, who
was so nearly cut in two that a man would be considered
amenable for bigamy should he marry her.

BIGAMY AND AS BAD.—It having been stated
that a man in New York got himself into trouble by
marrying two wives, a western editor remarked, that
" Men in Michigan have done the same by marrying only
one."

CLOWN AND PANTALOON—Show themselves
hilariously reckless of every moral tie and every
social obligation. To sit upon the tender frame of infancy
in the heaviest manner possible—to assault the blue-coated
officers of the law—to trifle even with the scarlet-clad
guardians of our national honour—to look upon !grey hairs
as a sufficient provocation for knocking down their owner
—all these are amongst the little peculiarities of the worthy
couple, and all these are welcomed with delight by a
moral and tax-paying people.
NAPOLEON 111. AND ROTHSCHILD.—At Terriers
the other day the Emperor planted a cedar to com-
memorate his visit, and asked when it would reach its
full growth. " Sire, " said the Baron Rothschild, " the
tree will not grow so long as your dynasty 1"
M. Alphonse Royer, ox-director of the Grand
Opera, who was recently nominated Inspector-General of
the Fine Arts at the Ministry of State, has entered on his
new functions.

The Charivari publishes a wood-cut representing
a number of Greeks lying in ambush behind a wall,
armed with sticks and other chance weapons, and evidently
looking out for some one about to pass. In the distance is
seen an infirm elderly man quietly proceeding along. The
leader of the group exclaims—" The first that passes so
much the worse for him I For we certainly will nominate
him King I"
THE DAM AT MARSHLAND.—We are informed
by a correspondent that the dam at Marsh'and
Sluice was not carried away by the high tide of last Sun-
day, which rose higher than any tide during the previous
ten years, and was accompanied by a violent gale of wind.
The dam and bank resisted the tide at its highest, but when
it had fallen two feet in the River Ouse, a portion of the
new bank which connected the dam with the old bank, and
in the making of which some slit had been deposited, fell
in, and a breach was made nearly eight yards long and be-
tween two and three yards deep; this might easily have
been repaired before the next high water, but some of the
commissioners of Marshland, who visited the works the
same day, declined to authorise any steps being taken for
the repair. Mr. Harding was the contractor for the dam,
and Mr. Page the engineer, who, however, had resigned
his appointment about a week before, in consequence of a
difference in his views and those of the commissioners
about providing a permanent drainage for
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