The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-21 00:00:00

lIER MAJEST Y.

WINDSOR CASTLE, FEBRUARY 20.
Her Majesty drove out this morning, accompanied by
Princess Beatrice.
Her Majesty, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and
Princess Beatrice, left the Castle at a quarter before four
this afternoon, and arrived at Buckingham Palace shortly
before five o'clock.

Viscountess Clifden and the Hon. Mary Lascelles were
in attendance.

THE LATE BISHOP OF EXETER.

A Melbourne paper says :—The will of Henry Phill-
potts, for nearly .half a century Bishop of Exeter, has
been proved in the Supreme Court of Victoria. The
necessity for proving it in this colony arose from the fact
that he had about £lO,OOO invested in property here. The
administration was entrusted to the attorney of the
English executors.

METROPOLITAN FREE 110 SPT AL, DEVONSHIRE-
SQUARE, CITY. —The aggregate number of patients relieved
during the week ending Feb. 18 was—medical 957, sur-
gical 608 ; total 1,565.
The standard of musical degrees at Oxford has
lately been raised. There are now two examinations to be
passed in lieu of one for the degree of Mus. Bac. The
first examination under the new statute will take place on
March Bth, at the Music School, at ten o'clock.

The election for the County of Westmoreland to
fill the vacancy caused by the elevation of Earl Bective
to the Upper House, takes place at Appleby on Tuesday.
The only candidate in the field is the son of. the late
member.

A Ryde correspondent telegraphs that early on
Monday morning Mrs. Sivier, who has been ill for some
time (being subject to fits), the landlady of an hotel at
Ryde, jumped out of her bedroom window into the sea,
and was drowned.

Notwithstanding the extension of the telegraphic
system during the last year, the large towns are not yet
content. A memorial to the Government on the subject
of greater facilities has been placed in the Glasgow Ex-
change, where it received 700 signatures.
Tli 0 Orchestra says :—The Savage Club is to be re-
constructed.— Rumour whispers that Mr. Boucicault will
shortly break the cordon of London managers shutting
out his plays by becoming a London manager himself.
The Lyceum and the Olympic are both.named in connec-
tion with this prospect.
We (Observed) have much pleasure in announcing
that Mr. Leslie Stephen has been appointed to the editor-
ship of the Cornhill Magazine. Not only is Mr. Stephen
well qualified, from his high literary reputation, to fill this
post, but there is a special fitness in the editorship of the
Cornhill being held by a son-in-law of the great novelist
under whose auspices the Cornhill Magazine was first
produced.
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THE SMALLPDX EPIDEMIC.—The DIOTe we have
inquired into the progress of the epidemic which now
prevails, the more thoroughly are we convinced that
it is in a complete system of vaccination and re-
vaccination that the true preventative lies. Once
give the smallpox a locus standi by even a partial
neglect of vaccination, and we must acknowledge our
impotence to stamp it out by isolation, disinfec-
tion, and other% means of direct treatment. We
cannot hope to check its progress in the densely
crowded courts and stifling rooms of the poor. In
the narrow streets it spreads from house to house. In
Shoreditch there is a court of 13 houses. Smallpox has
occurred in Nos. 1,2, 5,8, it, 12. Twenty people have
been attacked, and in one house six deaths have occurred.
Workmen have positively refused to go and cleanse the
rooms. In one street smallpox has occurred in Nos. 10,
11, 12, 19, 22, 23, 24, 27, and 29. In twelve weeks 190
persons have died in this parish ; and, at the very lowest
calculation, there must have been more than 2,000 cases
within the last two months, or at the rate of 300 fresh
cases every week. It is evident that such large numbers
cannot be effectually dealt with on the principle of isola-
tion iu hospitals. At no moment have the authorities
been able to meet the hospital retirements even of the
pauper class. Complicated systems of isolation and dis-
infection are, at beet, but palliatives in face of a contagious
disease which it defies our skill to trace. It will remain
for the committee of the House of Commons Co ensure
for the poor a remedy which, if it does not destroy the
contagion, renders it perfectly harmless.—The Lancet.
BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COM-
FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has
rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re-
marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which
govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a
careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa,
Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately
flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors'
bills." Each packet is labelled—Teams EPPS tt Co., lioinceo-
pathic Chemists, London. Also, makers of Epps's Cacabine„ a
very thin evening beverage.—Advt.