The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-16 00:00:00

Tonal TinnTat

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Oct. 14.

The Queen and her Royal Highness Princess
Helena returned on Friday evening to Balmoral,
after visiting the Dowager Duchess of Athole at
Dunkeld, attended by the Marchioness of Ely and
Lieutenant-General Hon. Charles Grey. Her Ma-
jesty rode over the hill from Kindrogan to the
Spittal of Glenshee.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse and Princess Louise returned on
Thursday from a tour to Inverness by the Caledo-
nian Canal, Loch Lomond, &c.
The Prince and Princess. attended a ball last
night given by the Prince and Princess of Wales.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by
Capt. Haig, remains at Abergeldie Castle.

Foreign Courts.

PARIS, Oct. 15.

The Ministers and members of the Privy Council
held a sitting yesterday at the Palace of St. Cloud,
the Emperor presiding. It is said that, by orders
of his Majesty, a detailed report of the sanitary
state of Paris was presented. This document, based
entirely on official figures, is said to prove that the
cholera, during the time of its appearance in the
capital, has made but few victims.
The King and Queen of P3rtugal and the Prince
Royal have left Paris for Brussels. They are about
to visit Belgium, England, Germany, and Italy,
and will afterwards return to Paris, as stated, to
proceed to Compiegne on a visit to the Emperor
and Empress.
Count Walewski, President of the Legislative
Body, has returned from Biarritz.
On the 15th anniversary of the death of Queen
Louise of Belgium, the day before yesterday, the
annual service at the Church of Notre Dame at
Laeken was celebrated. The King, who had not
for several years been able to attend, was present,
with the Duke and duchess of Brabant and the
Count de Flandre. The civil and military func-
tionaries, and a large number of persons of all
classes from Brussels, were also in the church.
The King and Queen of Partugal, on arriving at
Brussels, were received at the railway station by
the Count de Flandre and the Portuguese Minister,
Viscount de Seizal. Their majesties were at once
taken in court carriages to the Hotel de Belle-Vue,
where appartments had been prepared for them.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse and the Princess Louise, with their attend-
ants and servants, arrived at the Trossachs Hotel on Wed-
nesday, remaining there all night, and, passed through
Callander on the following morning for the 9.30 train on
their way to Balmoral.
His Excellency the Russian Ambassador and
Baroness Brunnow are likely to prolong their residence at
Brighton until the second week in next month.
His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and
Baroness de Cetto who arrived is Paris from Munich on
their way to London.
The Duke of Beaufort arrived in town on Satur-
day from Newmarket. To-day his grace leaves for Bad-
mington, Yorkshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have
been entertaining a succession of visitors at Hatfield House
Herts, during the past week, including, among others, the
Countess Brownlow, the Earl of Eldon, Count Pahlent
Lord and Lady Eustace Cecil, the Right Hon. Benjamin
and Mrs. Disraeli, Hon. Mr. Legge, Hon Mr. Vessey,
Lane Fox, &c.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol intend
to leave his lordship's shooting box in the north of Scot-
land, in the course of this week, on their way to Ickwortil
Park, Bury, St. Edmunds.
The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have left
their seat Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, for Filey, Yorkshire/
for her ladyship's health.
The Earl of Lonsdale arrived at his mansion, on
Carlton-house-terrace, on Saturday last, from Lowther
Castle.
The Earl of Dalhousie, who arrived at Brechie
Castle on Wednesday from Dundee, has since gone to Iv
vermark.
Lord Broughton will receive a large party ()f
friends at Tidworth Park, Wilts, during the present
Lord Ravensworth and the Hon. Misses Liddeu
have left Drummond Castle, near Orloff, for RaVOUSWOrtiI
Castle, Durham.
Lady Emily Peel arrived at her residence in
Whitehall-gardens on Saturday, from.hieneya.
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
since he left Scotland to attend the funeral of his sister-in-
law, has been staying in privacy at Haywarden Castle,
Flintshire. Mrs. and Miss Gladstone are staying at Sir
Thomas Gladstone's seat, Fasque, Kincardineshire.
Sir Edwin F. Scudamore Stanhope has arrived at
Maurigy's Hotel from Holme Lacy, Herefordshire.

THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT EXHIBITION will be
held in April next, in the old refreshment wing of the
Palace of 1862.
A NOBLE LIFEBOAT.—The following is an itc-
count of the important services rendered during
gales of wind by the Ramsgato lifeboat, in conjunction
with the harbour steam tug, in saving life and property el'
the Goodwin and the neighbouring sands during the poi
11 years :—The brig Wilhelmina and her crew saved;
barque Queen of the Teign, do. ; six lives rescued fro
the schooner Marie ; tho schooner Pauline and her erel
saved; six lives rescued from the schooner Jessie Anci°;
the brig Bartly and her crew saved ; the schooner Sophie
and her crew saved; eight lives rescued from the bare
George Forster; sixteen lives rescued from the bare!,
Kilby ; the brigs Hedwig, Amalie, and Ida and theP
crews saved ; eighteen lives rescued from a PortuglOt
brig ; the schooner Wisch and her crew saved; schooee'
Sultana, do.; barque, Martha, do. ; brig Quickstep,
four lives rescued from a schooner in Pegwell Be;
seventeen lives rescued from the Spanish brig Sarearl;
tano ; schooner Omnibus and her crew saved ; schooli°-
Jane and her crew saved; nine lives rescued frora tb
barque Linda ; 13 lives rescued from the barque Ariel,'
the brig Bradford and her crew saved ; the barque Cere"
do. ; the brig Norma, do. ; four lives rescued frora
Ketch Mary ; the brig Annie and her crew saved ; 120
saved from the ship Fusilier, 19 lives from the ship Dete;
rara, five lives rescued from the brig Royal Thistle, ft"
lives saved from the brig Cheny ; the barque Clayton, 04;
sel and crew saved ; 11 lives saved from the brig Las Tree
Hermanos. It will thus be seen that in addition to sovi'L
18 ships from destruction, this valuable lifeboat has,
conjunction with the steam-tugs rescued probably 400
by
from a watery grave. Such noble services performed
one lifeboat are unparalleled in the history of the danger;
ous lifeboat work. The Ramsgate lifeboat is a self-riglltiliv
one, like the boats of the National Lifeboat Institutiolif
and was invented and built by the late Mr. James Beecili;
ing, of Great Yarmouth. She was bought of him I/ t'"
then harbour commissioners of Ramsgate, and was tenth
ferred by them along with the harbour to the control er
the Board of Trade. The lifeboat is now unfit for furtbe,
service, and is to be replaced by a magnificent lifeboP:
the gift of Bradford to the National Lifeboat Institute 0d
She is being built by the Messrs. Forrestt, and is expeete,,
to be on her station about Christmas. Much of the sue,
cess of the Ramsgate lifeboat, under Providence, is 7/;
doubtedly due to her gallant and devoted crew, who 11%t
never faltered for a moment during the fiercest naidnigeo
storms in going afloat in'the boat when the huge 1.°:,0
were rolling like mountains over the sands, and I°';:ja
they often expected that they and their noble craft wc"-00
be ongulphed in the whirlpool. It is also a renualcaho
fact that not a soul was ever lost from the lifeboat. ri.c.
late Captain Martin, acting under the Harbour Cogcil;
sioners, and Captain Walke, H.C.S., of the Board of TT'ig,'
and Captain Shaw, the present harbour-master of 1W: to
gate, have always been indefatigable in their effertr
make the Ramsgate lifeboat establishment complete„S
every way. We pray that the same splendid succP'iti
will attend, under God, the now lifeboat of the Ntiel/
Lifeboat Institution. tit°
" RESPECTABILITY " IN ENGLAND, says 0,
Spectator, is becoming as exclusive as ever aril 10,
racy was in France. A correspondent of the
quietly urges Mr. Cowper to expel all seedy, ill-dr&;e01
ill-bred ragamuffins from the parks, and the ietl.froil
itself, in a sketch of their present condition, end 0011'
that advice, declaring that the parks are intended Die
for the " health and recreation of the respeet:s,
members of the public, to whatever rank they may
Why not go a step farther, and be logical as well g 5 nee
potic, assign the streets to respectables and leave the 1. t 136
muffins the lanes, let only income-taxpayers travel'eloa
squares, and compel all men out at elbows to sliol‘•
through the mews ? A ragamuffin smells no syNe.ht o° de,
Regent-street than in Hyde-park, and may offend t'itoill'
outside the rails in Piccadilly as well as inside. Dri% ti
in Madras object to Pariahs throwing their shadoWs pie
path, and surely Brahmins in broadcloth may be go/oB
tidious. The masses whose toil maintains those Brat t 13.,
might perhaps, under those circumstances, think tb''' °'
French idea of equality had advantages, but as the c'tjlef
that idea would fall on the black coats excluslveY,. jost.
have of course a right to risk it. Only we should 1170"
for the sake a consistency, to Pee Christianity aboliol'e