The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-26 00:00:00

MINING MARKET.

TUESDAY, Two o'Clock.
nunn the Mining Market the dealings have been
i)r erous. The shares chiefly in request have been
r,m, .ince of Wales, Great Retallick, Seton, and West
kiverton. Annexed are the current quotations :.__.
earn Canaborne, —s —s ; Chiyerton Moor, 7 74 ; Chon-
tales
!NGold 94 24 • Clifford Amalgamate, 51 Gi ; Cooks'
:Etotion, 7 Drakewells, —s —s; East Basset, rii 20 ;
at Camden, 5 54 ; East Cam Brea, 3 34 ; East Lovell,
94; East Russell, 34 34 ; East Wheal Gronville, 2 2i;
great Laxey, —; Great North Downs," —.— ; Great
Itetallack, GOs 70s ; Great South Tolgus, —s —d —B ;
Groat Wheal Yor, 154 164 ; &lark() Valley, 4 44; North
Crafty, 41,- b; North. Roakear, G 7; North Treskerby,
2} 24; Prinoo of Wales, 3e.) ZS] Od; Prosper United, 34 4;
Itechnoor, 9s lls ; Synth Condurrow. —a —d ; South
13Grenville, —s 01 a ; South Herodf-foot:, —; Tincroft, 12
; West Caradon, ; West Chi t'
GO G 2 ex di
;
West Drakewells,
.„"sl. Soton, ;
48 Ss; Wheal
liaeset, —; Wheal Bulle:', ; Wheal Chiverton,
8 84 , Wheal Grenville —; Wheal Seton, 105 110.

BRITISII 7UNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
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gra tiraftar.

HER MAJESTY, acc.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 25.
The Queen and her Royal Highness Princess
Louise walked and rode on ponies in the grounds
this morning.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, Feb. 25.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales slept
for some hours during the night, and is generally
improved.
The infant Princess is well.
(Signed) ARTHUR FARRE, M.D.
WILLIAM JENNER,
E. H. STEvEKIN, M.D.
The Prince of Wales rode on horseback yesterday
morning, attended by Major Teesdale.
His royal highness was present at the debate in
the House of Commons in the evening.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh
graciously caused his intention to join the Highland
Society of London to be intisiated to Sir Patrick
Colquhoun on the part of that society.
The Countess of Shaftesbury will have a reception
on Friday next at the family mansion in Grosvenor-
sq uare.

Lady Egerton of Tatton will have an assembly
his evening at the family residence in St. James's-

square.

Mrs. W. E. Gladstone will have an evening party
,o-morrow evening at her residence on Carlton

House- terrace.

LYCEUM THEATRE.—Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge, and their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess cf Peck, honoured this theatre with
their presence last evening.
IVe are authorised to state that the lists for all
the Courts to be held by the Queen at Buckingham Palace
this season have now been completed.

A meeting of the Liberal party, including the
Adullamites, was held at the residence of Mr. Glad-
stone's this afternoon.
The Committee of the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution gratefully acknowledge the receipt of £4O,
being the proceeds of the third private ball held at the
Hanover Square Rooms,.on the 24th January last, in aid
of the funds of this institution.
THE HILD EBRANDT C OLLECTION. —The last
number of the Illustrated London News contains an
engraving of a " Street in Cairo," from the exhibition of
water colour drawings, by E. Hildebrandt, 48, Pall-mall.
This exhibition had to be closed, already, in January, in
consequence of the insecurity of tho building, and the
Hildebrandt drawings will, therefore, not be exhibited
again at the same gallery.

MR. ARTHUR SKETCHLEY, the caricaturist, author
of the Mrs. Brown papers in Fun, is said to be the Rev.
G. Rose, who was at one time a curate at Stoke Newing-
ton, and afterwards held a living in the diocese of York.
He became a Catholic some years ago, says the Universe.

TEMPLE BAR, as a civic monument, ought to be
preserved where it is, according to the Spectator ; which
adds—it might easily form one-half of the bridge which
must be carried over the Strand, and what would hence be
lost in uniformity of style would be much more than com-
pensated by the great historical and literary interest of this
relic of an older London.

DUCHY OF CORNWALL.—The annual account of
the Duchy of Cornwall shows that the payment made to
the use of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
amounted in the year 1866 to .£53,403, or rather above
£2,000 moro than in the previous year. Tho salaries and
expenses of management also increased.
BIELA'S CO3IET.—On the 27th of February, 1826,
Professor Biela, an Austrian astronomer of Joseph-
stadt, discovered a small comet. When its motions
were carefully studied, it was found by M. Clausen,
another of those indefatigable German computists,
that it revolve' in an elliptic orbit in a period of
&x years and eight months. On looking back into
the list of comets, it proves to be identical with
comets that had been observed in 1772, 1805, and
perhaps in 1818. Its return was accordingly pre-
dicted, and the prediction verified with the most
striking exactness. And this went on regularly till
its appearance (also predicted) in 1846. In that
year it was observed as usual, and all seemed to be
going on quietly and comfortably, wheu, behold !
suddenly on the 13th of January it split into two
distinct comets, each with a head and coma and a
little nucleus of its own. There is some little con-
tradiction about the exact date. Lieut. Maury, of
the United States Observatory of Washington,
reported officially, on the 15th, having seen it
double on the 13th, but Professor Wichmann, who
saw it double on the 15th, avers that he had a good
view of it on the 14th, and remarked nothing parti-
cular in its appearance.. Be that as it may, the
comet from a single became' a double one. What
domestic troubles caused the secession it is impos-

to conjecture, but the two receded further and

farther from each other, up to a certain moderate
distance, with some degree of mutual communication
and a very odd interchange of light—one day one head
being brighter, and another the other—till they
seem to have agreed finally to part company. The
oddest part of the story, however, is yet to come.
The year 1852 brought round the time for their
reappearance, and behold there they both were, at
about the same distance from each other, and both
visible in one telescope. The orbit of this comet
very nearly intersects that of the earth on the
30th of November. If the earth is to be swal-

lowed up by a comet, or to swallow up one,
it will be on or about that day of the year.
In the year 1832 we missed it by a month. The
head of the comet enveloped that point of our
orbit, but this happened on the 29th of October, so
that we escaped that time. had a meeting taken
place, from what we know of comets, it is most pro-
ble that no harm would have happened, and that
nobody would have known anything about it. It
would appear that we are happily relieved from the
dread of such a collision. It is now (February,
1866) overdue I Its orbit has been re-computed
and an ephemeris calculated. Astronomers have
been eagerly looking out for its re-appearance for

the last two months, when, according to all former
experience, it ought to have been conspicuously
visible, but' without succe,:s, giving rise to the
strangest theories. At all events, it seems to have
fairly disappeared, and that without any such ex-
cuse as in the case of Lexell's, the preponderant
attraction of some great planet. Can it have come
into contact or exceedingly close approach to some
asteroid. as yet undiscovered ; or, peradventure,
plunged into and got bewildered among the ring of
meteorolites, which astronomers more than suspect?
—Sir Johniterschel.