The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-22 00:00:00

THE DEPARTURE-THIS MORNING.

The weather fortunately proving auspicious, the
gathering of the Volunteers at the respective places
of rendezvous was very great. The Western Di-
vision assembled in Trafalgar-square at five o'clock
a.m., each man bearing a well-stocked haversack.
The point of departure was the Charing-cross
Station of the South-Eastern Railway, and pre-
cisely at the time appointed by the authorities of
the War-office the different corps entered the Sta-
tion, and took their places in the carriages with
the greatest regularity. The regiments appointed
to leave the metropolis for Dover via Cannon-street,
Blackfriars, Ludgate-hill, and Victoria, arrived with
punctuality and took their seats in the carriages
without confusion, and, as far as we have been able
to learn, without any serious accident.
The weather up to this time was all that could
be desired, and it is to be hoped it will continue
so for the remainder of the day.

We understand that his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales has no intention of going to Dover to-day
as stated.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
attended by Colonel Clifton, left town on Saturday for
Walmer Castle, on a visit to Earl Granville, and in order
to be present at the Volunteer Review at Dover to-day.
His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the
Countess Bernstorff and family left the Prussian Embassy,
on Carlton-house-terrace, on Saturday, to spend the holi-
days at Brighton.
The Duke of Hamilton arrived in town last night
from Paris, and went to-day to Newmarket.

The Duke of Sutherland has left Stafford House,
St. James's, for Paris.

The Marquis and 'Marchioness Townshend have
Left town for Ball's Park, Hertford.

The Earl and Countess of Dunmore have arrived
at their residence on Carlicn-house-terrace, from Dunmore
Park, N.B.

The Countess of Belmore and family have arrived
at Castlecoole, Enniskillen. The Earl of Belmore has re-
turned from Dublin to 56, Eaton-place.
The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave will have a
dancing party at her residence in Carlton-gardens on the
Bth proximo, to meet their Royal Highnesses the Count
and Countess de Paris.

The Earl Granville left town on Saturday for
Walmer Castle, where, as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports,
his lordship will entertain a large party till to-morrow.
The Earl Spencer left town on Saturday on a
visit to Earl Granville at Walmer Castle. The countess
has gone to Althorp Hall for a fow days.
Lady S;:bright was on Thursday last delivered of
a son, who survived his birth but a few minutes. Her
ladyship is going ou favourably at her residence in Grafton-
street.

Viscount Hamilton, M.P., has left town on a
visit to Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Morrison at Broome
Hall, Suffolk.

The Lord:Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford and
the Hen. Mrs. Higgins have arrived at the Queen's Hotel,
Upper Norwood.

THE MIKADO, OR SPIRITUAL EMPEROR, OF JAPAN
is reported to have died of small-pox. That disease has
been known i❑ Japan for between two and three thousand
years ; but no Mikado has succumbed to it before, so that
the people are beginning to doubt whether the Spiritual
Emperors are not losing their supernatural power, and
whether tha last Mikado was not a humbug for dying of so
scurvy a malady.—London Review.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.—
The "Messiah" will be again performed (for the last time
this season) on Friday evening next, the 26th inst. Prin-
cipal vocalists—Madame lludersdorff, Madame Saiuton -
Dolby, Me. Sims Beeves, and Mr. Santley.
WHAT MR. DISRAELI HAS DONE !—The simple
truth, facetiously remarks the Spectator, is that Mr. Dis-
raeli, single-handed, has thrashed us all, Lord Cranborne,
Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, and the Spectator, all together,
and the single great doubt is whether ho has not thrashed
the people of England too.
THE POET CLOSE, says the London Review, has
sent round a handbill containing a list of his productions
and of his patrons. "Archbishops, Bishops, Earls, and
Great Lords have Smiled upon his last Work, and the
Emperor of Franco has accepted the Wise Man of Stain-
more." The poet attends at Kirkby Stephen railway sta-
tion to sell his own books and portraits.