The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-02 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 1.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
and atteuded by the Duchess of Roxburghe, drove
out yesterday afteruoon.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise
walked and drove in the grounds this worniug.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went
out.

NE IV AIIIERICA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The public references made to my book,
" New America"—first by Dr. Ball in the House
of Commons, and still more recently by the Ameri-
can Ambassador at Newcastle—require from me a
word of explanation.

I never meant to offer my pictures of the Mor-
mons and Free Lovers as " samples" of American
religious life. Q► lite:otherwise. I described them
as " disturbing forces" in that life. The key-note
of "New America" is givJu in the Preface in these
worth

"The men who planted these Free States—doing
the noblest work that England has achieved in his-
tory—were spurred into their course by two great
passions—a large love of liberty, a deep sense of
religion ; and in our great plantation liberty and
religion exercise a power over the forms of social
and domestic life unknown at home. In the heart
of solid societies and conservative churches we find
the most singular doctrines, the most audacious
experiments; and it is only after seeing what kind
of forces are at work within them that we can ade-
quately admire the strength of these societies and
Churches."

I have seen too much of the work effected by the
American religious societies, not in the UnitJd
States alone, but in Syria and Egypt, not to hold
those societies in the highest respect. 01 course,
the facts recorded in my book are public property,
and every one is free to draw from them his own
conclusion. My conclusions are no secret ; they
are stated in my Preface, and Mr. Iteverdy John-
son is clearly entitled to say, as he said .at New-
castle, that " nothing in Mr. Dixon's book justified
the inference" that the free religious life of America
is a failure.

W
St. James's-terrace, April. I.HEPWORTH DIXON.

ANO7HER MURDER IN IRELAND.

A. farmer DUBLIN, Thursday Night.
thirteen named Topham, living at Boffana,
miles from Clonmel, was shot dead last
night on his own farm.
morning with two body was found this
bullet holes through the head.

LORD S7ANLEY AT GLASG
_________

GLASGOW,a a 8L
oArdPr Rector
he Lord Stanley was installed to-day
of Glasgow University in the college.
Afterwards
he delivered an inaugural address in the City
Hall, where he met an enthusiastic reception
from a brilliant assembly. The address was plain,
practical, and learned, and gave universal satis-
faction.

ANOTHER VOLUME OF " FUN."—Better than a
"Shilling's worth of Nonsense—one of the earliest pro-
ductions of the Punch contributors—far better than any
" Shilling's worth at Nonsense" is the Half-yearly Volume
of the only successful rival during more than half-a-dozen
years of the London Charivari—Fun! Here is the eighth
volume of the New Series, the fifteenth of the Old Series
—spick and span in crimson and gold—full, as the name
implies, of fun, never (what so many of the comic papers
are, unhappily,) vulgar, or unfair, or in bad taste, but
running over, for the most part, with innocent merriment,
and, as a rule, thoroughly good humoured.