The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-01 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY, &c.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 31.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Christian and Princess Augustus of
Saxe Coburg, drove out yesterday afternoon in a
carriage and four.
Princess Louise and Princess Amelie went out
walking.

Prince Christian and Prince Philippe of Saxe-
Coburg rode on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur arrived at the
Castle yesterday from Greenwich Park, attended
by Major Elphinstone. Countess Blucher, the Dean
of Westminster, and Lady Augusta Stanley also
arrived at the Castle.

THE COURT.—It is understood that her Majesty
the Queen will remain at Windsor Castle till after the
accouchement of her Royal Highness Princess Christian of
Schleswig-Holstein, which event is expected almost daily-
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had
a dinner party on Saturday at Gloucester House. Among
the illustrious duke's guests were—General Sir William
Gomm, G.C.8., Lieutenant-General the Hon. Thomas
Ashburnham, C. 8., Lord Hotham, Major-General Lord
George Page; C. 8., Lieutenant-General Knollys, Lord do
Ros, the Chaplain-General, Colonel the Hon. Richard W.
Charteris, General St. George, General Stephens, Major-
General Napier, Sir Charles Russell, Colonel the Hon.
Dudley de Hos, Colonel Airey, Colonel Kingscote, Colonel
Whitmore, Colonel Ponsonby, Colonel Bruce, Colonel do
Bathe, Colonel Carleton, Captain Archdall, Mr. Romaine,
C. 8., the Rev. Mr. Halpin, and Colonel Tyrwhitt, equerry
in waiting, to his Royal Highness.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz returned
to St. James's Palace on Saturday from a visit to the Duke
of Rutland at Belvoir Castle. Princess Mary and the
Prince de Teck also returned to town on Saturday front
Belvoir Castle.

Prince Murat has arrived at the Alexandra
Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, from Paris.
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The Marchioness (Maria) of Ailesbury, the Earl
of Coventry, the Countess of Bradford, Viscount Canter-
bury, Mr. Lumley, and Mr. Gilmour have been among the
Duke of Rutland's guests at Belvoir Castle to meet their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Princess Mary and
Prince de Teck.

THE PREMIER.—The friends of the Premier will
be sorry to learn that Lord Derby has been compelled since
Thursday last to absent himself from Parliament, owing
to a slight attack of gout. The Countess of Derby's parties
for the 6th and 13th of April are unavoidably postponed
till after Easter.

THE NEW BARONETS,

We append brief notes respecting the public life
of those gentlemen upon whom the honour of
baronetcy is to be conferred. The Right Hon.
Joseph Napier is a descendant of the Merchistoun
branch of the house of Napier. He was born at
Belfast on the 26th of December, 1804, and after
receiving his first education at the Academical In-
stitution
of Belfast, he graduated at Trinity College,
Dublin, where he distinguished himself in classics
and science. Making the law his profession, he was
called to the Irish bar in 1831; attained the rank
of Q.C. in Ireland, 1844, and was sworn a Privy
Councillor on being appointed Attorney-General for
Ireland under Lord Derby's Government in March,
1852. He held the office of Lord Chancellor of
Ireland, under Lord Derby, in 1858-9. He entered
Parliament in 1848, as member for his University,
which he represented as a strong Conservative till
his elevation-to the Chancellorship.
Mr. Bagge,:M.P. for West Norfolk, was born at
the seat of his father, at Stradsett Hall, in 1810, and
married the daughter of the late Sir Thomas Preston,
Bart., of Beeston Hall, in 1833. Educated at the
Charter House and Balliol College, Oxford, he suc-
cessfully contested an election for Norfolk in 1835,
but was elected in 1837, and retained his seat until
1857. He was re-elected in July, 1865. He voted
for agricultural protection in 1846, and was among
the minority of 53 who censured free trade.

Benjamin Lee Guinness, M.P. for Dublin, is the
head of the brewing firm of Guinness and Co. ; ho
has been Lord Mayor of Dublin, is an hon. LL.D.
of the University of Dublin, and is an Ecclesiastical.
Commissioner for Ireland. He was first returned
for Dublin as a liberal Conservative in 1865, after
having restored St. Patrick's Cathedral, which made
him very popular.

It is said with respect to Mr. Lawrence, her Ma-
jesty's serjeant-surgeon, the fourth of these gentle-
men, that no more distinguished member of the pro-
fession could have been selected for the honour of
baronetcy. But Mr. Lawrence's principal distinc-
tions were won, say fifty years ago, when he de-
livered his unrivalled lectures, as professor of
anatomy and surgery, at the Royal College of
Surgeons, 1815-19.—Sunday Gaiette.