The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-19 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY, &c.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 18.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice rode on ponies
yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty drove out This morning. Countess
Blucher had the honour of accompanying her
Majesty.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, attended by
Lady Churchill, went out walking.
Prince Henry ofjPrussia, attended by Captain
Von Schroetter, left the Castle this morning for the
Continent.

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, attended by
the Rev. R. Duckworth, accompanied his royal
highness to the railway station at Windsor.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by
Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle to-day
from Greenwich Park.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, attencl
by Lady Caroline Barrington and Lord Alfred
attend
Paget, went to London this afternoon and visited,
the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough
House. Her royal highness honoured Mr.
Lawlor with a visit to his studio, and afterwards re-
turned to Windsor Castle.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Ladl
Emily Villiers left Grosvenor-crescent yesterday for the
Grove, near Watford, Herts.
The Earl and Countess of Cawdor and Lad
Muriel Campbell have gone on a visit to the Countess ,
Ellesmere, at Burwood.

The larl and Countess of Dartrey left town O
Wednesday, on a visit to Colonel and Mrs. Long at tli(4
moat in Kent.

The Earl of Clanwilliam has arrived at Abider
leis, Queen's County, on a visit to Viscount and Vis-
countess De Vesci.

The Earl of Longford, who left town on Mon"
day, will remain at Pakenham Hall, Westmeath, till Mow
day week, when he will resume his duties at the War J 3
partment as Under Secretary of State.
TILE PRINCE IMPERIAL.—We are enabled t°
state upon authority that the progress of the
Prince Imperial has been very satisfactory. The abscesf;
on the posterior part of the thigh, after having been twice
opened by M. Nelaton, as wo lately mentioned, has been
treated by the introduction of a tube a drainage, and it 15
slowly closing. There has been some fear, and voryl33tti-
rally, of a troublesome secondary complication ; but 10
apprehension is now entertained on that score. The little
Prince eats well, sleeps well, and is very cheerful. Ile o'4
at the window the other day to witness the review of the
troops in the Court of the Tuileries, and his early restora-
tion to his former health and activity is confidently antici-
pated.—British Medical Journal.

Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., on Reform.

Last night Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., addressed hie
constituents at Halifax on Reform; Sir Francis
Crossley, M.P., in the chair.
Mr. STANSFELD said when last he addressed the
people of Halifax Lord Palmerston reigned supreme'
He then ventured to make two prophecies, which he,
thought events had not gainsaid. The first was tbav
the question of Reform could no longer be delayed'
and the second was that in all probability the/
would owe their greatest success on that question to
the Opposition, and to the mistakes of those who
opposed themselves to all Reform. It had generally
appeared to him that when great questions were
matured for a settlement they gained even more by
ci
the opposition of those who failed to understand
their urgency than by the advocacy of their best
friends. This question of Reform was no exeeptlolll
to that rule, for their Conservative friends, 111'6'
their recent conversion, had played their hereditary
part of proceeding by opposition to the cause of Re-
form. After observing that the bill of last year wag
a moddst one, and they who rejected it were the
Radical Reformers—now her Majesty's Ministersi
(laughter)—he said that result of the resignation °,
Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone was a widesprea°
agitation on Reform which no one now affected °
despise. The consequence was that there was a bll
now before the house which professed to be tare 11
liberal and advanced than the measure of last year;
a bill which in many of its details, and he believe'
in its intention, was tricky, delusive, and n3is"
chievous ; but which there was reason to hope might
if the Liberal members of the House a commons.
acted unitedly with spirit and determination ulti-
mately issue from their hands, despite the intentions
of its authors, a wide, large, simple, and satisfactory
measure of Reform. (Cheers.) Having closely
argued the compound householder question, the
hon. gentleman noticed the probable future action
of parties and public men in committee on the
The Liberal party was not as one upon this WO-
tion ; differences had already shown themselves;
the seceders last year were led by Lord Grosven°r'
who was opposed to Reform. Those men were
at this moment in collusion with the Administratioo
in the expectation that, the illusory matter of a rat-
ing household suffrage having accomplished its pa'
pose of sowing dissension in the Liberal ranks, the
Government would fall back upon Lord Grosvenor o
amendment now upon the table of the house, the
object of which was to weld together all possible
limitations, to retain the personal payment of rates/
and to add to it a hard and fast line of rating. lie
trusted the Liberal party would oppose that. Ile'
for one, speaking with no authority and no know-
ledge, did not believe that Mr. Gladstone, his en-
abling provision having been defeated, was the luau
now to propose to the house the restrictive measures
with which it was associated. Ile believed there wav
a better course, a safer position, and a more hopeful
future for the Liberal party in their further dealing
with the measure iu committee free from the neeee‘
sity of any counter scheme. They would be able one
by one to deal with the faults of this measure—deal
with its restrictions, its invidiousness, its injustice,
and its occasions for corruption and fraud, and bring
it out a measure satisfactory to themselves and the
country. In the future he was confident they would
still win victories in spite of the somewhat depress
ing effect of their recent defeat. Mr. Gladstone had
been taunted with a desire to draw a stiff, hard line
below which no one should come into 'the franchise,i
That taunt came from men whose political lives ha,
been spent in opposing any concession whatever °fßeform, and who now only turned round at the last
h'
moment and endeavoured to outflank and outEn'
neeuvre him, not because they had changed their
convictions, but because they had changed the Bid:
of the house and the seats they occupied ; but that
taunt would find no echo in the country, which ar
preciated the character and geniusof that well-kilo/fu
statesman. Speaking his own opinion, he bad no
doubt of the course Mr. Gladstone would take ; get
ing as the exponent not merely of a party but of '
nation's wish, he would set himself against all red'
strictions and those occasions for corruption all
double residences, and those who were below a eer;l`
1
tain line ; and if the result of this operation sli°l.l
be that the bill should come out a larger measilf
than any party had yet ventured to submit, be be;
lieved that he and the leaders of his party had too
much confidence in the judgment, the patriotislT
and the good sense of the country to fear or to stria
from that result ; he, for one, should rejoice at t.
As for the Tory party, hoist on their own pettird.to
let them at their own peril refuse to carry to
completion their own amended, purified, and e
larged measure of Reform. (Loud cheers.)
Sir F. CROSSLEY having made some remarks,
vote of confidence in Mr. Stansfeld was passed.

ENGLAND AND SPAIN.—Lord Stanley bast Ti;
believe, declined for the present to press upon the SPiLI3-of
Government the question of indemnification in the cOci-),
the imprisoned crew of the Tornado. The claim los Hsu.
by Sir John Crampton on the 11th of February in Purse
ance of instructions from her Majesty's Governmen"
Pall-Mall Gazette,
THE ENGLISH MINISTER AT MADRID.—We
Ag
from Madrid that our Minister, Sir John Crampton, lige
already commenced paying a series of farewell visits•
is supposed to be about to leave Madrid for some tiino,t)r,
leave of absence. The reason of his departure, bow e -
may take a different complexion under existing circilin,
stances, and may be viewed either as a temporary n161'66015
caused by the necessity for his presence in England clu.„00
the d6cussiou of the Tornado case, or even as a natal I-
serious exodus.—Oikatta C'hronicie, April 2!