The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-19 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 18.
Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal High-
nesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess
Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and Princess Hohenloe,
left the Castle this morning at a quarter past ten
o'clock for Osborne.

The suite consisted of Lady Churchill, Lady Caro-
line Barrington, the Hon. Mary Lascelles, Major-
General the Hon. A. N. Hood, Lieutenant-Colonel
Du Plat, Mr. Buff, Mr. Sahl, and the Master of the
Household.
Lady Churchill has succeeded the Countess of
Caledon as Lady in Waiting to the Queen.

Departure of her Majesty for Osborne.
Yesterday morning the Queen, with their Royal
Highnesses Princesses Helena, Louise, and Beatrice,
and Prince Leopold, attended by Major-General
Hood, Colonel Du Plat, Sir T. M. Biddulph, Lady
Churchill, and the Hon. Misses Kerr and Lascelles,
left Windsor Castle at a quarter past ten o'clock
for Osborne.
Her Majesty and the various members of the
royal family, who, with the ladies and gentlemen of
the quite, were attired in deep mourning for his late
Majesty the King of the Belgians, drove from the
Castle to the Windsor Station of the Great Wes-
tern Railway, where the South-Western Railway
Company had forwarded a special train for the con-
veyance of the Court.
The Queen, on alighting, was received by those,
in attendance, and very graciously returned the lop.,
salutes of the bystanders on passing to the state
saloon. The rest of the royal family then took their
seats in the train.
The train, in charge of Messrs. Grierson, Tyrrell, and
Besant, quitted the Windsor terminus at 10.23 a.m.,
and proceeded along the narrow gauge rails of the
Great Western Railway, by way of Slough and
Reading, to the Basingstoke Junction of the South
Western line, where her Majesty arrived at 11.30.
The train was then transferred to the care of Mr.
W. Godson, the traffic superintendent of the latter
line, who had arrived at Basingstoke from Nine-
elms, for the purpose of taking charge of it t°
Gosport. As soon as the engines were changed the
route was resumed along the South-Western Rail"
way via Winchester, Bishopstoke, Botley, and Fare-
ham, to the Royal Victualling-yard at Gosport,
which was made at 12.40 p.m. precisely, the triP
from Windsor, about 80 miles, being accomplished
with ease and celerity in two hours and 17 minutes.
The train, on its arrival at the Gosport Station,
proceeded slowly into the Clarence Victualling'
yard: The special paused by the side of the private
station, near the wharf, and her Majesty and the
royal family then left the train, and were met by
several officers, among whom were Admiral Sir
Michael Seymour, the admiral of the port ; Sir
George Buller, the general commanding the South-
western district ; Capt. Shadwell, superintendent
of the Clarence-yard ; 'and Capt. Scott, of her
Majesty's ship Victory.
At the time of the Queen's arrival at the port the
tide was rather high, and the royal yacht Alberta)
Commander his Serene Highness Prince Leiningen,
was consequently moored by the side of the wharf
ready for embarkation.
Escorted by the naval and military officers of the
port, who were all in full uniform, her Majesty and
the royal family walked along the covered way to
the afterdeck of the yacht. The Alberta steamed
through the harbour on her way to Osborne, where
the Queen and royal family arrived early in the
afternoon.

His Majesty, it is understood, will reside at 05"
borne for a period of about nine weeks, and it 1.5
expected that on the occasion of the Sovereign open"
ing Parliament in person Oh the Ist of February
the Queen will on that day leave Osborne for town,
and after the performance of the ceremony return
immediately to the Isle of Wight.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is ex-
pected to arrive at Marlborough House this afternoon from
attending the funeral of the late King of the Belgians at
Brussels.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
returned to Gloucester House, Park-lane, yesterday,
from attending the funeral of the late King of the Bel-
gians. His royal highness was attended 12y Colonel
Tyrwhitt.
His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, accom-
panied by Sermad Effendi (First Secretary) and M. Pala
Musurus, has returned to the Turkish Embassy, in Brrs-
ston-square, from attending the funeral of the late Slug
of the Belgians. It will be recollected that his excellency
is.likewise accredited as representative of the Sublime
Porte at Brussels as well as in London.
The Duke of Hamilton left his residence ill
Arlington-street, yesterday, for his seat, Easton gall,
Suffolk.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury Will
receive a succession of distinguished visitors at Save the
Lodge, near Marlborough, Wilts, during the week. 01°
company were to have assembled yesterday.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings
entertained last week at Donington Park the Earl alw"
Countess of Westmoreland, the Marquis of Anglesey,tli°
Earl of Winchilsea and Lady Constance Finch-llattovr
Lord and Lady Alfred Paget, Miss Heneage, Lord 13°r"
keley Paget, Mr. J. Thynne, Mr. Rushout, and Captaiu
Little.
The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have enter-
tained a numerous circle during the past week, amongs,t
whom were Hon. Admiral and Mrs. Rous, Viscount Can
te-
bury, Hon. G. T. and Mrs. Baring, Mrs. Algernon tie
Horsey, Colonel and Mrs. Charles Baring, Mr. Newt°ll'
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Paget and Miss Paget, Mr. BoothlT/
Mr. de Burgh, and Major Mackenzie, A.D.C.
IThe Countess of Coventry left town yesterday
for Croome Court Worcestershire.

THE CONCORDIA SOCIETY.—Under this title 5
new musical society is about to be established, fsv
the production of the masterpieces of unperformed masterl-
The effort is entirely artistic. No officer will receive par
ment of any kind ; so that the whole of the resources, WI
whatever source, will be appropriated to the advancenice
of musical knowledge. Such an institution is greetil
needed, and we sincerely hope the society, when fsirli
launched, will succeed in becoming firmly established.,
TRUE CARICATURE always exaggerates no cletlijv.;
but the slighter the touch of exaggeration, so that 1
answer the purpose, the more complete is the caricaturei
When Mr. Pecksniff's piety is to be caricature.
Dickens manages it entirely by the calmness and nOet,,e;
ness of his particularity in alluding to ordinary deincia
ticities, while still supposed to be at once smarting "an t
a sense of injury, and overcoming it by an effort of grew°
Christian forgiveness. " Charity, my dear, when yal g-f°
me my bed candlestick to-night, remind me to Joel ‘,„a
Mr. Jonas Chuzzlewit, who has done me an injury ;" :
the bed candlestick is just the touch of exaggeration whi-11
so
makes this sentence caricature. His mind remains
calm and transparent through insult that he is not °:sre
in danger of forgetting the whole matter, but can COncoo
clearly the minutest incident of the occasion on whic
wishes to be reminded of the duty of praying f°1.1,00
enemy. So, again, the caricature of his candour, W
Di
he is beaten by Mr. Athony Chuzzlewit, is effects- all a
similar delicacy of touch—" You have beaten Me t:
stick which I have every reason to believe had kuc")::ot
it; but I am not angry." He will not even assert the faellapo
takes care to make it clear that he is only inferring (Per toio
erroneously) to the conformation of the stick from Co
urse
indentations which he had felt, or supposed himself to _to
felt, in his flesh during the beating. The "every reason the
r
believe" is here the touch of exaggeration essential oi7r,
caricature. Or, to take another instance, when
redly or
Lillywick, the water-rate collector, is so profounTl pe
tivated by the charms of the spinster actress, 311 tilo
towker, that, after witnessing her performance .0,5 it
dance in the " Blood-Drinker's Burial," ho descri; is
as " absorbing, fairy-like, toomidtuous," the carieat: very
exaggeration at ;it consists only in to
slight magnifying power applied to a water-rate ..tiodot
tor's conceptions of the Ideal, and the discoverY,
that microscopic examination, of the same state
00;03 to
in a water-rate collector which induces poets so
clothe as it were the external universe with Oe.
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their own minds. Mr. Lillywick's mind was t tbe
tuous" with excitement at Miss Petowker's dance,
$ aes
it "
length of the back-hair she had let down ariutor
about during the performance of the "Blood'v_
of DIS
Burial," and he transferred the turnultuousn.assg. Uut
own nature to the fairy-like being ho was elteilliigbt
caricature after all consists simply in the veil
_e_ator-rat°
happy exaggeration of the bald contrasts in a
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collector's poetic raptures—exaggeration just
that Atti;
make you feel that his mind was genuine-,1,
tude which, had he not been a water-rateould Oa' c4-.."_.,0 peen
rather, bad he been a cultivated roan, w
poetic.—Spectator.