The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-21 00:00:00

QUEEN OF OUDE AT SOUTHAMPTON

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Night.
The Indus arrived this evening with the heavy portion
of the Indian mail. Amongst her passengers are the
Queen Dowager of Oude, and the brother and son of the
ex-King. with one hundred and six foliowere. "The
Queen Dowager is a good-looking woman, of dark com-
plexion, fifty five years of age, and very intelligent. She
is very eanguine as to the success of her mission to this
country for the restoration of her son to the Throne of
()tide,

She has 80,0001. for current expenses. The jewellery
she lost on her voyage was worth 50,0001. Some por-
tion of it was intended for presents for the Queen of
Englaud. The brother of the ex-King is a fine tall man,
and is a general in the Oude army.
The son of the ex-King is a very handsome youth.
They dress in the most magnificent style, their head
dresses being covered with diamonds and emeralds
Many of the followers are small, poor-looking men, and
exc-edingly dark. They are shoemakers, tailors, cooks,
and of other trades. They were working all day lang
on board. The cooking apparently never ceased. The
Queen of Oude and suite occupied the whole of the fore
part of the ship, where a cooking galley was fitted up.
The party lived upon rice, curry, sheep, and lambs be-
tween Alexandria and Southampton. The dishes were
usually served up of curries and pillaus. The Queen of
Oude occasionally sent into the saloon for the English
passengers a curry or pillau, and such dishes were found
to bo delicious.

An eunuch is with the party ; he is a very extraordi-
nary looking personage. He has long hair, and a
feminine bust and voice.

There are six maids of honour in attendance on the
Queen every day. A screen was erected on deck, the
enclosed part was carpeted, and the Queen and ladies
wPre escorted up behind the screen, and guarded by the
eunuch, who bebaved with remarkable severity in keep-
ing all persons from gazing on the ladies. He is a
general of infantry in the Oude army.
Owing to the state of the tide the Queen and her suite
could not land to-night. The Indus will arrive in dock
about seven o'clock to-morrow morning. The most in-
tense interest exists in the town to see the Queen and her
suite. The whole of White's Royal York Hotel has been
taken for them ; it was uninhabited, and workmen and
charwome❑ have been working night and day to clean
and fit up the hotel. The Queen is to pay 12 guineas a
day for the use of the hotel.

Five houses inßegeot's-park, London, have been taken
for the Queen Dowager.
One of the party, a monshee, or writer, died on the
voyage. He lived for a long time entirely upon opium.
It is believed that the box of jewellery which has been
said to be lost was stolen.

The ex• King of Oude is expected to leave Calcutta
shortly fur England, with 150 followers.
The treasures which the Queen has on board consist
chiefly of the most costly Cashmere shawls and jewellery.

THE JUDGES PLAYING ON THE GRHAT ORGAN.—OR
Monday evening, after adjourning the business of the
South Lancashire Assizes, at Liverpool, to the following
day, Mr. Baron Bramwell and Mr. Justice Willes went
into the large concert-room, St. George's-hall, and
played several pieces on the great organ, Mr. Baron
Bramwell having the whole power of the instrument,
and all the stops in operation.
STEALING RAILWAY TICKETS.--On Tuesday, John
Lynn, a journeyman painter, of Manchester, was charged
before the magistrates of Huddersfield with stealing two
railway tickets from the Denbydale Station. The evi-
dence of Thomas Leaver, the Denbydale station-master,
George Blacker, the porter, Thomas Lamb, ticket-col-
lector at Miles Platting, and George Eccles, railway
policeman, tended to show that the prisoner was sent
from Manchester to the Denbydale Station to paint. Oa
Thursday last he was so engaged in the booking-office ;
when, being left alone for a short time, he secured two
tickets from Denbydale to Manchester, and used one of
these the same night, the object apparently being to
avoid paying for lodgings at Denbydale. The prisoner
had a pass, which, however, he could not use before
Saturday night. He pleaded guilty, and begged to be
allowed to pay for the tiekete, and have his name posted
along the line. He also produced a character for good
conduct from Mr. W. Davies, of Broughton, but this did
not avail to save him from an imprisonment of two
months. It was stated that similar frauds, committed
at other stations at which the prisoner bad worked, had
not been detected,—Manchester guardian.