The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-18 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP—MARcir 17.

A letter from India gives me a very lively description or
the reception of the Duke of Edinburgh in the Puujilb.
His reception at the railway station was a most maw'
cent spectacle. There were nearly seventy elephants, in
prgeous trappings, and with howdahs of green vel-
vet, embroidered with gold. A large number .of rajahs
were invited to meet the Duke, and their cau?
was one of the sights of Lahore. The Naha-
rajah of • Cashmere, being a very great swell, put
up at a house. At the State dinner there were about 30
untlemen and 14 ladies, and a most sumptuous banquet
it. was. Still more brilliant was the conversazione after
dinner. But the grandest sight of all was the dance in
the Montgomery Hall. The splendid uniforms and the
v,ried costumes of the native princes, together with the
elaborate toilettes of the ladies, made up a luxurious feast
of colour. In the morning before the ball the Prince
had .to go
.through the formality. of receiving the
Rajahs. Etiquette is a very serious thing in ,
India,. and the Duke had to be "coached" 'IP
beforehand as to the amount of attention he •
was to chew to each prince. He had a throne with a carpet
around it, and according to the rank of the rajah was the
nature of the Duke's movements on the carpet. The ICing
of Cashmere had to be met on the edge of the carpet, and
to be led hand in hand by the Duke to a seat beside the
throne. Tho King's son, a little boy of eight,
was to be
.met in the centre of the carpet ; other rajahs had to be
received standing, others sitting. The Duke went through
the formality very well, and altogether he won golden
opinions by his affability, and by the respectful courtesy
which he chewed towards the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir
Donald M`Leod. One of the presents offered by the
King of Cashmere to the Duke of Edinburgh was a shawl
worked by hand, and which had taken 100 men threP
years to make.

An American letter, written from on board H.M.
Monarch, describes the interest which that vessel has
excited. Considerable curiosity was manifested in the
vork'ng of the compound pivoting gun-carriage invented
by Capt. R. A. E. Scott, R.N. When the secretary
the navy, and some members of Congress went down to
Annapolis, to see the vessel, Captain Commerell got UP
steam and went down the bay, and fired one round from
each gun. Altogether the Americans have been greatly
impressed by the vessel and her armament.
The chief event in the literary world is the illegal
selling of the American edition of Tennyson's poems
by no fewer than four Glasgow publishers, and the legal
proceedings to which this incident has given rise. In the
statement of facts set forth by Mr. Tennyson and hill
publishers, Messrs. Strahan, it is stated that the latter
have the sole right to publish the Laureate's works for a
period of five years. Of course neither author nor pub-
lisher could let such a glaring infringement d
copyright pass unnoticed, and a legal injunction
has been obtained against the sale of the American edition.
The title of Miss Evans's (" George Eliot's") new poem,
which is to be published in " Macmillan's Magazine," is
" The Legend of Infal," and Mr. Anthony Trollope%
new tale, which is to appear in the same periodical,
entitled " Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite." B 7
the way, Mr. Trollope is re-publishing in a volume hiS
" Lotta Schmidt " and other tales which he ,has con-
tributed to some of the magazines anonymouslY•
Mr. Hepworth Dixon's book, which I referred to
some months ago-, is to be called "Free Russia," and will.
as I said then, deal with the emancipation of the serfs.
The book will be out very shortly, and leave its author
free to look after his new venture, the paper which he 15
about to start under the name of Light. Professor Max
Miiller's lectures on the Science of Religion, which he has
been delivering at the Royal Institution, are to be pub•
lished in four consecutive numbers of Eraser's Magazine.
A new weekly, called Charles's Wain, is to appeav,
on the 22nd, at the low price of a penny. It will be;
published by Captain Charlton Tucker, a former officer 4
in the army, who has -lately entered the publishing bull•.
ness, and is shewing much spirit and enterprise. This
gentleman is publishing a new edition of Mr. Charles,

Kent's poems, which edition will include many newpiecee
written by the author during a recent Continental journey
Mr. Robert Buchanan will have a new book, "The Book.
of Orm the Celt," out in a few days. Miss Phelps, the
American authoress of "The Gate's Ajar," has just pub-3
dished a new book called " Hedged In." The new volume
of Macmillan's " Sunday Library " will be by Miss Keay,'
and the title of it "Nations Around." Mr. HenryWheatley's
" Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall," just out, con-
tains some interesting information about Burlington
House. Mr. Lowell has republished a series of his

magazine articles with the title "Among my Books."
Mr. Austin, author of " The Season," turns out to be the
writer of the clever but somewhat spiteful criticisms upon
Tennyson, Browning, and other poets, which appeared
some little while ago in Temple ,far; the czalcioDlS trl
being republished in a volume,