The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-07 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY, &c.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Tuesday.

The Queen, with Princess Louise and Princess
Beatrice, drove in the Home Park yesterday after-
noon. Prince and Princess Christian went out

driving also.

Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Christian, drove in the grounds this

morning.

Countess Blucher and Lord Chas. Fitzroy have
left the Castle.

The Earl and Countess of Derby arrived at the
Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining
with the Royal family.
Lady Susan Melville has arrived as Lady in
Waiting to her Royal Highness Princess Christian•

Lord Polwarth has succeeded Viscount Strath-
allan as Lord in Waiting to her Majesty.

The Marquis of Sligo has arrived at the Claren
don Hotel from Ireland.

The Marchioness of Ailesbury is so far recovered
from her recent indisposition as to be able to leave her
residence.

The Earl and Countess of Dunmore, accompanied
by the Countess (Dowager) of Dunmore and Lady Alex-
andrina Murray, left, on Monday last, the earl's seat in the
Isle of Harris, for Dunmore Park, near Stirling.
The Earl Spencer is expected to return to Spencer
House, St. James's, to-morrow, from the Duke of Grafton's
seat, Euston Hall, Suffolk. On the following day the Earl
and Countess Spencer go to Althorpo Hall for the winter.
The Earl of Lonsdale has arrived in town from
Lowther Castle.

Viscount and Lady Mary Sandon have passed
through town for Sandou Hall, Staffordshire, from visiting
the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter at Burghley 110115°,
near Stamford.

LEGAL CHANGES.—Another vacancy on the bench
will shortly occur by the resignation of Vice-Chancellor
Sir R. T. Kindersley, who has served a period requisite to
entitle him to a pension. After a long and successful prac-
tice Sir R. T. Kindersley held for several years the ofne°
of Master in Chancery, and was subsequently appointed a
Vice-Chancellor. It is further stated that Mr. Malins, who
at the present moment happens to be out of Parliament, ls
destined to succeed Sir R. T. Kindersley as Vice-Chan-
cellor.

MADAME TussAub's.—ln her celebrated exhibi-
tion, Baker-street, Madame Tussaud has just added
magnificently-executed life-size model of her Royal High-
ness the Princess Mary of Cambridge (now Princess Tea)/
and we feel assured that every admirer of that truly popu-
lar princess will be delighted on beholding the effigy °f
ono who stands so pre-eminently foreniost among our °Wu
Royal family. •

DEATH OF MR. STANuoßouGH.—This much re-
spected gentleman, so well known in sporting circles, 0:-
lured on Sunday evening at his residence, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden, of gastric fever, after a few days' illness; in
fact he attended to his duties up to Thursday. He was a'
well known cricketer, being a member of the Albion Club
many years ago. He was at one time the cricket and
coursing reporter of the Sporting Life, and of late had per-
formed the same duties for Bell's Life in London, where 10
was engaged at the time of his death ; his last copy he gave
in on Thursday, a resume of cricket, and was engaged in
getting out the averages which annually appear in that
paper. He was one who could scarcely have an enemy ;
his numerous friends deeply deplore the loss of an upright
man ; and a kindly and genial disposition was the great
feature of his character.

THE ROCHDALE AND OTHER LIFEBOATS.--The
people of Rochdale have, through R. A. Taylor 110aPe,
Esq., liberally contributed £509 to pay the cost of a life-
boat and its equipment. It will be publicly exhibited in
that town on Saturday next, the 10th inst. The lifeboat
on its transporting carriage will be drawn by a team of
horses through the principal streets of Rochdale to gel-
lingsworth Lake, where it will be launched. The hot
will be manned by the crew of the Blackpool lifeboat of the
Institution ; various evolutions will be performed with the
boat, including capsizing, to test the qualities of self-
righting, self-ejecting water, &c. The lifeboat 4‘ Rod,'
dale" is to be stationed at Polkerres, near Fowey, on the
Cornish coast. The institution has also sent a now life-
boat to Mundesley, on the Norfolk coast, in lieu of an °lda
one there, which was becoming unfit for service. The neW
boat is named the " Grocers' Lifeboat," the cost of it hay.-
ing been liberally contributed through the untiring exer-
tions of William Reed, Esq., of 4, Monument-yard, by the
grocers of England. A new lifeboat has also been sent to
Ilfracombe, North Devon. The cost of it was contributed
to the society on the 21st June last, by Robert Broadwaters
Esq., of Ilornsey-rise, in conjunction with his friends, 10
commemoration of his 50th birthday, and the lifeboat 1155
been named the " Broadwater." The lifeboat is to be pub-
licly launched at Ilfracombe, on Wednesday next, the 14th
inst., when a procession to the harbour will be formed'
and the boat will afterwards be named by the Countess
Fortescue. The several railway companies gave readily
a free conveyance over their lines to the three lifeboats.

OLD STAGE SCENERY.—In the year 1658, that ig
to say, during the Protectorate of Cromwell, 'Sir
William Davenant gave daily at the Cockpit theatre, closed
for dramatic purposes, an entertainment entitled Vie
Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru, " expressed by vocal
and instrumental music, and by art of perspective ill
scenes." When Sir William, under the patent granted by
Charles 11., opened the theatre in Lincoln's-inn-fields, h°
revived this entertainment, as one of the acts of a media
work called The Play-house to be Let, each act of which i°
a distinct piece, and which is to be found in Davenant's
collected works. Now, if the manner in which the
Cruelty of the Spaniards, as represented at the Cockpit,
was like that in which it was performed at Lincoln's-inn-
fields, we had in the year 1658, not only scenery, but very
remarkable scenic effects in a place of public amusement.
In the stage directions for the first " entry " (a word used
instead of "act")—we are told that a lantdchap (landscape)
of the West Indies is discerned, distinguished from other
regions by the parched and bare tops of distant hills, and
by sands shining on the shores of rivers. The pros-
pect is made through a wood differing from those el
European climates "by representing cocoa-trees, pines,
and palmitos, and on the boughs of other trees are
seen monkeys, apes, and parrots, and, at further distance°,
valleys of sugar-canes." Here is evidently what a stag')
carpenter would call a " cut wood" with a landscape in the
background, and we may observe that Sir William is veri
anxious to make his picture a correct representation of
South American or, as he would say, West Indian soenerl
the Year Round.

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FACTA NON VERBA.—A writer in the Times says
The two names Mr. Bright flaunts most persistentli
before the working classes to raise their passions and their
indignation are those of Lord Derby and Mr. Lowe. 14'4
us, without prejudice, judge the three men—the accuser
and the accused—by their deeds. During the Cotton Fa"
mine Lord Derby, then in very feeble health, went fronl
Knowsley to Manchester and back, a distance of 60 mile
every week to preside over the prolonged and dreary sit"
tiugs of the relief committee. Words of comfort and en-
couragement, independent of hard work, were evidence °I
his sympathy with the people in their crucial test, while,
in a more practical shape, it is believed he contributed,
directly and indirectly, over £lO,OOO to the relief fund,
For a quarter of a century Mr. Lowe has beet
the laborious supporter of education in every shape sac'
form ; every parliamentary committee on the subject 11 0
always had Mr. Lowe as its most industrious, liberal, and
intelligent member, and to him, more than any living,
statesman, England owes whatever education she possesses'
On the other hand, what has Mr. Bright " done" for the
encouragement or education of working men during the
25 years he has sat in Parliament ? I cannot remember 11°
attending any public meeting during the Cotton Famine t°
cheer and assist the men, nor does his name, to the best ol
my belief, appear in any list of contributors to the funds
1 their relief. Mr. Bright has never originated any motionPr
or movement in the cause of education, and I believe, if
the proceedings of the House of Commons were examined'
he will appear to have sat on fewer committes and to intv°
done less real work for the good of the people than a9l
man of his standing in the house. Mr. Bright has been f'
talker ; he has left the work to others. Naturally, tll°
working classes are pleased with the man who flatters new.
only their virtues, but. their faults; but these "10111_
handed sons of toil" have also hard heads, and, being Win'
selves essentially men of few words and hard work, tbeid
will sooner or later apply to their self-constituted loader"
the tests of deeds rather than words.
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WATER-FOWL FOR GARDENS.— A few water—,
would complete the scene by adding the interest that
always attaches to living objects. A good selection w'')Jl f
be a pair of swans, half-a-dozen Aylesbury ducks, a Pall.o°,l
Canada geese, a pair of the docile and beautifully-tole,
Chenalopex, or Egyptian geese, two pairs of summer ducl,l
which are easily domesticated, and will most probably bull;
in an alder branch, and raise a brood every season' 0130,
ungainly Australian swan, for the sake of its colour, a bla.i._
swan being alwa,ys au object of interest. Here are 13 bir,":,
all of various forms and colours, and all easily attain:l;l4
and requiring but ordinary care to preserve them ; til uel.,
might be extended by adding the barnacle goose, the el"
drake, the teal, the widgeon, and the coot, but these arlelle
a trifle wilder than those in the preceding list, and le • the
first season, at least, it would be unsafe to turn the
without first denuding them of a pinion each. They W for
require more space, too, and some amount of seclusion.
lie
the first few months. For the walks in the vicinity 01 a.,
wilderness a few silver pheasants would be higlill Qrlit
mental and interesting.`—Gardeners' Magazine.