The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-17 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY, &c.

OSBORNE, Jan. 16.

The Queen, accompanied by the Dowager Duchess
of Athole, drove out yesterday afternoon, and her
Majesty walked and drove this morning with Prin-
cess Christian.

Princess Louise and Prince Arthur skated in the
grounds yesterday afternoon and this morning.
Her royal highness was attended by the Hon. Lady
Bidduiph and the Hon. Emily Cathcart.
The other members of the royal family walked
out.

Lady Waterpark has succeeded the Dowager
Duchess of Athole (who remains on a visit) as Lady

in Waiting.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur has been exa-
mined before the Council of Military Education, at
their offices in Great George-street, for admission
into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich ; and
it having been declared that he passed the exami-
nation most satisfactorily, he will join the Royal
Military Academy as a gentleman cadet on the
11th of February.

MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF CRAVEN

AND MISS BARRINGTON-(THIS DAY.)

This morning, at half-past ten, the Right Hon.
George Grimston Craven, third Earl Craven and
Viscount Uffington, and ninth Baron Craven, was
married, in the parish church of Shrivenham, to
Miss Barrington, daughter of the Hon. George
Barrington, M.P. for Eye (by Isabel Elizabeth,
daughter of Mr. John Morritt), and granddaughter
of Viscount Barrington. The service was fully
choral, and the officiating clergy were the Right
Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford and the Rev. G.
W. Murray, Vicar of Shrivenham. The bride was
accompanied by her fa6her, and attended by the fol-
lowing young ladies dreised in w hi teC hamberry gauze
trimmed with white silk, tulle bonnets trimmed with
clematis ; Lady Emily Georgiano. Craven, sister of
the Earl of Craven, Misses Constance, Florence,
and Alice Barrington (sisters of the bride), and the
Hon. Caroline Agar, daughter of Viscount and
Viscountess Somerton, and granddaughter of the
Earl of Normanton and of Viscount Barrington.
The bride wore a rich ribbed silk dress, trimmed
with Brussels lace, a Brussels lace veil, and a wreath
of orange flowers. After the religious ceremony,
and the formal attestation in the register, Viscount
and Viscountess Barrington entertained about 40
relatives and friends at the " breakfast" in Beckett
House, Shrivenham—the guests including Viscount
and Viscountess Somerton, Earl and Countess Cado-
gan, Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea, Lord and
Lady Ravensworth, Viscount and Viscountess Grey
de Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Coventry, Mr.
and the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Sartoris, Mr. J. H. L.
and the Hon. Mrs. Anstrather, the Rev. Thomas
and the Hon. Mrs. Mills, the Lord Bishop of Ox-
ford, the Hon. Percy and Mrs. Barrington, the Hou.
and Rev. Lowther John and Lady Catherine Bar-
rington, the Rev. G. W. Murray, &c. After the
usual toasts the Earl and Countess left Beckett for
London, ald thence went by special train to Wood-
rising, NorfOlk, the seat of Viscount Chelsea. The'
bride's presents were very costly, and the number
exceeded 100.

THE QUEEN AND THE OPENING OF PARLIA-
MENT.—Her Majesty is expected to leave Windsor about
the 4th of February for Windsor Castle, and on the sth
will proceed thence to London, in order to open Parlia-
ment in person. Her Majesty, it is understood, will re-
turn to Windsor Castle, after the ceremony, and remain
there for the night. The Queen will probably reside at
Osborne till after the 10th or 12th of next month.

Madame Sainton-D9lby's Ballad Concert.

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A very attractive " ballad concert " was given
yesterday evening at St. James's Hall by Madame
Sainton-Dolby. She was assisted by Madame
Lemmens-Sherrington, Miss Banks, and Mrs.
Osborne Williams, Mr. George Perrin, Mr.
Lyall, and Mr, W. H. Weiss. A capital selection
of well-known glees and madrigals was given
under the direction of Mr. Fielding, and they
oved so attractive that in almost every case they
were encored. The instrumentalists were Madame
Arabella Goddard (pianoforte) arid M. Sainton
(violin). Madame Dolby, who was in. ex-
cellent voice, sang for the first time a
new song by Blumenthal, " Clear and cool,"
" The Alpine Mother," " When all the world is
young," " Bye and bye," and " Janet's choice,"
the last especially, a delicious bit of ballad-poetry,
simply and charmingly rendered. In " Bye and
bye" Madame Dolby, who accompanied herself in
all her ballads, was enthusiastically recalled. Ma-
dame Lemmens Sherrington was encored in the
fine ballad " Come back to Erin." The instrumen-
tal part consisted of a duet from " Les Huguenots,"
arranged by Thalberg and De Beriot, and performed
in admirable style by Madame Arabella Goddard
and M. Sainton, and a fantasia for the violin,

" Rondo Mazurka," composed by M. Saintoef
and performed by him in a style which deve-
loped all the qualities which, many years ago,
gave him a front rank among the performers on

,hat instrument. Madame Goddard almost elec-

trifled the company by her brilliant performance
of Thalberg's arrangement of some of the leading
themes in " Masaniello," especially the well-known
" Tarantelle," which was given with incomparable

force and finish. The concert was, in every sense,
a success.

Mr. Charles Dickens's Readings.

The following is the Times' account of the delight-
ful entertainment already described as having taken
place on Tuesday evening :
In spite of the inclement state of the weather, the largo
room in St. James's-hall was completely filled when, ou
Tuesday evening, Mr. Charles Dickens commenced his neW
series of readings. His reputation as a reader now nearly
equals his fame as a novelist, and his immense popularity in
both capacities was proved by the applause which greeted
him when he-quietly mounted the platform, and with scarcel/
an introductory word plunged at once into the short did'
logue between the guard and the traveller that opens the
story of "Barbox Brothers." Pleased to recognise the
good-humoured, familiar face, illumined as it was by the
row of concealed gaslights that always forms part of gr.
Charles Dickens's apparatus, and delighted to catch the
accents of the well-known voice, the audience had 0,
sooner heard the inquiry "Guard! What place is this ?'
than they seemed all to perpetrate an internal chuckle
and confidently to prepare themselves for two hours:,
thorough enjoyment. The paper selected for the "reading
had the double advantage of being perfectly fresh in the
memory of the whole assembly, as forming a considerable
portion of the last Christmas number of All the leer
I?ound, and of being read for the first time to a Londcle
public.
It is scarcely necessary for us to state that ligarbo%
Brothers" contains a mixture of the comic and quiet',
pathetic elements, in which the latter somewhat proder°l"'
nates. For startling effects it affords little room, and the
characters, delicately drawn, require to be delicately tresle
by the reader. The manner in which Mr. Dickens aecell3..
plishes his task is worthy of a minute study, as 51101
the perfection to which the art of reading has been broogh
and how closely it is beginning to perform the functtilr,
supposed to belong to histrionic talent only. Indeed but
Dickens not only delivers his dialogue dramatically, !ve
to a certain extent he may be said even to act his narratl_,
passages. We had a striking instance of this sort of peeforwa
ante when he read the description of the storm, in "Dash
Copperfield,"and we now have another, when he sets 0:10
the peculiarity of " Mugby Junction." He does not deser',o,.
only, but ho conveys a notion of the feelings which the
scribed objects would awaken in the mind of a spectato
1,
The actual personages in "Barboxßrothers" are war sed,
in the reading with admirable discrimination. Vie °a
slightly morose Mr. Young Jackson, the genial but hoult-De
Lamps, are always clearly discernible. The grief of
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penitent woman is gracefully toned down so as to 1)(3_4
phatic through its very tranquillity, and contrasts str°M.
with the port precocity of the child Polly. Of the
ridden Phcebe Mr. Dickens exhibits a conception W.'0,0
would hardly be deduced from the book itself. Ito el! is
that something like a melancholy consciousness that eilovio
debarred from the pleasures granted to others of bel:ion
age exists in spite of her resignation, and on one
occ
the generally hidden feeling almost rises to tho surfaeceova
As for the " Boy at Mugby," which forms th o
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part of the entertainment, it is given by Mr. Dic!rof,P
his heartiest spirit of " fun," and raises a continnouD 006
Uu Tuesday, the 29th, the same pieces will be ttei4l
fat Qt Jame 's
-hall.