The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-20 00:00:00

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lIER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Monday.
Her Majesty, their Royal Highnesses Princes.,
Helena, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice,
attended Divine service at Whippingham Church
yesterday morning, where the Rev. G. Prothero
officiated.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by
Lieutenant Haig, arrived at Spithead in her Ma-
jesty's ship Racoon, from Gibraltar yesterday.
The prince came shortly afterwards to Osborne,
where his royal highness remains.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
The Prince of Wales went to the South Kensing-
ton Museum yesterday morning, and presided at a
meeting of her Majesty's Commissioners for the
French International exhibition of 1867.
His royal highness went to the House of Lords
in the afternoon.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke de Nemours
and the Princess Marguerite visited the Prince and
Princess of Wales at Marlborough House.

THE COURT.—Her Majesty, accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise,
Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, attended by the
ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite, is expected to leave
Osborne House to-morrow (Wednesday) for Windsor
Castle. At Windsor Castle the private suite of apartments
have been prepared in readiness for the arrival of the
Queen and royal family. Several members of the Court
have already reached the palace.
His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador received
yesterday by telegraph the melancholy news of the death
of his mother, Madame Casandra Musurus. The deceased
lady had reached the advanced age of 80 years.
We regret to announce the death of the Dowager
Countess of Cawdor, which took place on Friday morning,
after a lingering illness, at her residence in Tynley-streett
Park-lane.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF KnvouLL.—We have to'
announce the death of the Earl of Kinnoull, which
occurred on Sunday morning at Torquay, where he had
been residing for the last six months. He was born on the
sth April, 1785, and was consequently in his 81st year.,
His successor to the title, George Viscount Dupplin, born
16th July, 1827 (now 11th earl), married in July, 18487
Lady Blanche Somerset, third daughter of Henry, eighth
Duke of Beaufort, by whom he has a family of three sons
and two daughters.

HONOUR TO M. GEROME !—The Academy of the
Beaux Arts of France has elected M. Gerome, the
painter, to fill the chair left vacant by the death of Al;
Heim ; there were six candidates and seven votings, 311‘1"
Pils and Hesse at first pressing M. Gertme very closely,
but at the concluding round of the ballot-box the last-
named artist obtained the required majority of seventeen
against M. Hesse's fourteen votes ; so the painter of the
Ca3sars and of many other popular pictures is now a mem-
ber of the Institute.
LORD HERBERT OF LEA'S STATUE.--Mr, Foley'S
model for the bronze statue of Lord Herbert of Lea, which
is to be placed in front of the War-office, Pall-mall, is
complete. It exhibits the deceased minister standing in.
his peer's robes, his head resting upon the palm of one
hand, which is sustained at the elbow by the other.
NATIONAL CHORAL SOCIETY.—Madame Parepa
will make her first appearance in Exeter-hall since her re-
turn from America, to-morrow (Wednesday), at the per':
formance of Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise" and Rossini '$
"Stabat Mater," by the National Choral Socisty. Miss
Annie Cox, Miss Lucy Franklein, Mr. Leigh Wilson, and
Mr. Weiss are also engaged. Conductor, Mr. G. W. Martin'
COMPLETION OF THE NEW PALACE AT WEST'
MINSTER.—Works have been begun for the casing with
stone of that portion of the exterior of the Houses of.
Parliament which was left in brick in order that the still&
ture might be continued on the north side of Palace yard,
opposite the entrance of Westminster Hall. A garden isto
occupy the site of the houses which formed the south side
of Bridge-street, Westminster.
AN ENGLISH LIBRARIAN FOR THE BRITISg
MUSEUM.—,4 We trust that Lord Houghton will persevere
in opposing the appointment of any foreigner to the duel
librarianship of the British Museum. But for the biblio-
graphical crudities of the framer of the rules for the pre-
servation of a printed catalogue of the printed books in the
library of the British Museum, which accompanied the
abortion, issued as its first volume in 18—, we should long
ere this have been in possession of that great desideratum'
A practical English bibliographer, with a proper subdivi-
sion.ll
of labour, would be able to produce the catalogues '.
less than two years. Let us hope that the good time Is
corning.— Weekly Paper.
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MR. MACLISE'S WATER-GLASS PICTURE, " The
Death of Nelson," which decorates the Royal Gallery et
Westminster, may now be seen as well as the arrangements
for lighting the chamber permit ; also, the " Interview be-
tween Wellington and Blucher after Waterloo." Tickets,
obtainable by application, on Saturday afternoons, at an
adjoining office, immediately admit the visitors to the Royal
Gallery and other parts of the Parliament House.
SCOTT'S KENILWORTH AND PALISSY THE POTTER
are, it is understood, the subject chosen for cat!'
bration by Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Ward this season on the
walls of the Academy. Mr. Ward will probably contrl-
bute a picture representing that scone in Scott's "
Kenil-
worth," where Amy Robsart is interrogating Leicester
about the jewels and orders of knighthood, which he, at
her request, wore during the interview at Cumnor. Mrs'
Ward being engaged meanwhile, we believe, on a picture
representing the last great trial of Palissy the Potter, i.e.,
when he had broken the imperfect specimens of his skill;
notwithstanding the objurgations of his wife, the woful
distress of his children, and the threatening importunities
of his creditors.

GOVERNMENT PRECAUTIONS AT PENTONVILO
PRlSON.—Yesterday, in accordance with instructions
received from the Home Secretary, Sir Richard Mayne, the
Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, gave order;
that 20 men and a sergeant should be posted at the Model
Prison, Pentonville, to aid in guarding the Fenian Pri:
Boners who are confined there. The police were B 11"
posted there on Saturday, the duty commencing at silc
o'clock in the evening and terminating at six in the morn-
ing. The duty is divided into two portions of two hour°
each, two constables going on at a time. None but con-
stables of English birth are allowed to do duty there, strict
orders having been given that no Irish constables should
be employed in this special duty. When the two Wu'
stables who have done their turn of duty are relieved 009
join their comrades, all of whom are provided with accom-
modation inside the prison. •

An Institution of Juvenile Street-crossing
sweepers has been established under the auspices of Lord
Brougham. The rules which the boys are expected to oh'
serve are as follow :-1. The boys to keep to their ercisr
ings, except when employed in messages, &c. ; 2. Not
beg,; but trust to the generous public to pay them for the,'
work; 3. To give an account of their earnings to the all-
mittee, who will decide what portion is to go to pay the
expenses; 4. To attend the evening school, and pay for the
same as the committee may decide ; 5. To pay weekly to-
wards a fund to provide against sickness and old aged'
There are now 18 boys in the company. The two hes
boys over the rest sweep in Hanover-square. The uniforal
is a green blouse, but the present funds only allow 10 005'
The police commissioners approve of the plan.
WHAT CAN BE DONE BY CO-OPERATION.-11°
Joint-Stock Coal Company (Limited) presents an
excellent example of what can be accomplished by co-
operation. After declaring a dividend of 10 per cent. (37.
the capital,, an additional bonus of 4 per cent. of the toll
profits has been paid to the consuming shareholders, vibia
c
is equal to a return of 2s 6d per ton upon the price Pi
for their coal, thus giving to the shareholders coal ~
reality at cost price. The true principles of this coin Pal;
thus exemplified, are hardly yet clearly understood by t
public.—Mining Journal, Feb. 17.
A BALLOON TRAIN, to ply between the Place de
of
la Concorde and the Champs de Mars, is spoken „
as one of the schemes to be tried during the great gathe'

ing in Paris next year.
THE GUARDS SENT TO IRELAND.—The Ist bat;
tali= of the Coldstream Guards are to proceed to Irelml►

this day.
MARIE ANTOINETTE.—At a late sale of auto.
graphs at Berlin a curious letter of Mario Antoinette W'to
knocked down for the enormous sum of 7,365 f. It cousis
of four pages, addressed to Count do la March, and
CO'leven an extract from it is to bo found in any published "

lection. •
AMERICAN MINISTER TO GREECE. —The Pre3i:
dent has appointed Captain Nicholas Smith, of I!:at`rf,s,3il
Minister Resident to Greece, to reside at Athens.
is the first appointment of a Minister to that country.
GEN. GRANT,—The Washington correspondenas"
of the New Bedford Mercury thus describes Gen. Grant , s
he appears in the streets of the capital :—" Gen. Grant riue
about town in a one-horse buggy just like any other 103,13;
I saw him in F street on Saturday. The top of his WV,
was turned down, and he sat in the carriage alone (03°.
ing a cigar, of course), with as little concern as if assay ,t
were never known. He is quite a horse-jockey, and docsl3l.
allow any team to pass him, on the road— if he can Del Pitt
Think of Wellington or Napoleon, or our own Gun' c()•es
even, appearing on the street iu a buggy and driving
own horse 1 And yet Gen. Grant has commanded log°
armies, fought more battles, won more victories, and cAlr
tured more cannon than either of them."