The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-16 00:00:00

The Prince of Wales at High Fore'.

A beautiful district, where a prince may fitly
sojourn, is that of High Force, Middleton-in-Tees-
dale, whether the royal party have repaired to spend
the opening week of the grouse shooting season.
Far removed from the smoky atmosphere of manu-
factories or trading towns, and as yet remote even
from any railway, it seems like a very Paradise in
the midst of the ,c wild and trackless moors," and
indeed so enchanting is the varied scenery that 44 to
look upon it is to admire." On the prince arriving at
the High Force Inn, where he is now the guest of
Gen. Hall, his royal highness visited the waterfall
from whence the place takes its name, and expressed
himself well pleased with what he saw. Long before
you come to the Force you may hear the roar of the
water like that of distant thunder, and entering a
pretty grove you are led by a winding path towards
the Tees, which rapidly flows along far down below.
Here and there are rustic seats; which look tempting
enough with their newly-painted white coats. A
little way down is a little bridge over one of the
" becks" which rush merrily down from the moors.
Then passing down a flight or two of rude stone
steps you reach the bed of the river, and on emerg-
ing from the shade of the trees you gain a full view of
the High Force. This alone is quite worth coming
miles to see. On three sides are steep high crags, part
of which are overhung with shrubs, and slightly re-
lieved by patches of mosses and lichens. It is down
one of the precipices thus formed that the river gushes
through a contracted opening and falls dashing and
foaming a depth of nearly 60f., forming a cataract,
the beauty of which is enhanced as the sunlight
dazes the foam and spray which rise from the boil-
ing waters in the chasm below. Even the amber hue
with which the falling water is tinged tends to
heighten the effect produced, for when the light
shines upon it the foaming torrent seems to be
made up of golden clouds. The water below looks
almost black, and seems to defy any fathoming of
its darkening depths. 'The rocky sides of the river
bear traces of the force with which the waters dash
against them, and, fretted with hundreds of
smoothly fashioned crevices, they seem to echo the
truth, " The waters wear the stones." The inn is the
property of the Duke of Cleveland, who holds the
right of shooting over the moors on the Durham
side of the Tees, and it is a very tolerable place too.
Lately it appears to have been enlarged, in common
with all his grace's houses here ; it has a very
cleanly appearance, wearing an air of respectability
as well as of comfort. At present, of course, the
whole house is occupied by the distinguished guests
of General Hall, who rents the shooting of the
moors on the Yorkshire side, belonging to Mr.
Bowes. It may be mentioned that the river Tees
here forms the boundary of the two counties. Ac-
companying his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales are his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, Lord Huntingtield, Lord Colville, Colonel
Macdonald, Major Teesdale, and the Hon. Mr. Do
Grey.

The morning of the 13th of August broke most
gloriously, and the promise it gave for fine weather
for this, the first day of grouse shooting of '66, has
been fully realised. The royal party left the inn
about ten o'clock in the forenoon, and the Prince of
Wales " led off" the first " drive," which was a
most successful one. His royal highness is a keen
sportsman, and there is no doubt of the enjoyment
which his day's occupation has afforded him. He
is reported to be a capital shot, and certainly he
handles his gun in a truly sportsmanlike style. And,
judging from the movements of the whole com-
pany of sportsmen on the moors to-day, there
could not be much doubt of its being composed of
most ardent lovers of the sport. The grouse seemed
at all events in readiness for the royal sportsmen ;
and that a good opportunity was not thrown away
may be gathered from the fact that before two
o'clock the panniered ponies had returned with their
first load of game, which consisted of 113 brace,
many of which were said to have been g g brought
down" by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
The royal party continued their sport with unabated
vigour until between seven and eight o'clock in the
evening, by which time it is stated that 585 brace
of birds, many of them in very fine condition, bad
succumbed to the power of powder and shot.
The Prince of Wales is very popular here, and
the villagers, in their own way, heartily manifested
their loyalty as he passed through on Sunday even-
ing. One or two rather amusing incidents of mis-
taken identity are told. Several simple-hearted
people, knowing that the prince was to arrive
that evening, went out to meet him ; but, after
passing an omnibus in which there was a young
gentleman dressed in a round bat and brown coat,
and some other folks," as they said, they still trudged
on for miles before they could be persuaded that the
prince and his Royal Highness the Duke of Caw"
bridge, with other distinguished personages, were
amongst the " gentlemen and folks" they had seen.
Another country farmer seemed perfectly perplexed
to think that, after all, the prince should look pretty
much like other people.
Although High Force is at present 13 or 14 miles
from the nearest railway station, there is a proba-
bility of the distance being lessened by at least one
half, as a new branch line is being constructed 11P
the valley to Middleton.

It is expected that his royal highness will remairl
at High Force until Saturday next, when he Will
join her royal highness the princess, together With
the royal children, at Darlington, and they will at
once proceed to Scotland.—Correspondent of Sheffield
Daily Telegraph.

The Garter vacant by the death of the Marqtli°
Camden will be given to the Duke of Rutland.

We have much pleasure in announcing that bet
Majesty has been pleased to confer the honour of knight-
hood upon Mr. Bake; the African traveller, and that of
Commander of the Bath upon Captain Grant, of the Bora"
bay Army, the companion of Speke in his African expedi-
tion.

DR. LANICESTER ON CHILD MURDER.—Yesterday
afternoon Dr. Lankester held an inquest at the Ele;
phaut and Castle, Camden-town, on the body of a child
found dead in Albert-street, Regent's Park, by a
police-
man at about 20 minutes to 1 o'clock on Saturday morning
last. The evidence of Mr. Edward Mahony, assistant'
medical officer at St. Pancras Workhouse, showed that the
deceased child was neatly dressed, had been well nourished/
and when found had been dead for two or three hours.
There was no doubt that death had been causes by euff°-
cation. The child was about two months old. The coro:
ner suggested that the inquiry should be adjourned, and
that the vestry of the palish be requested to issue Pity
sands offering a reward for the discovery of the PerPec;
trator or perpetrafors of the crime. He had been blamed
in many quarters for the statements he had made respect-
ing,,,
the prevalence of child-murder, and was charged u.'„
some of the journals as "a libeller of his country wonle%
The facts and the deductions therefrom were those: in
year he held inquests on 80 children found dead in the
streets, and he believed he would be justified in 800°11:ft
that there was an equal number of children hidden 8
rs
their corpses not discovered. This would be 160 raerde:a
in his own district, while there were two other districts
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the metropolis, each probably bearing an equal proportwr_
as regarded infanticide. This would make 480 child muto
ders in London in one year; but in order to be °Abehr
lowest side, he would take it for granted that the nllB. o
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would be 400 only. The mothers who were discovered
be guilty of the murders of their children were found be
on an average 20 years of age ; and as the expectanefeauro
life of a young woman of that age was 60 years, or 40Yd the
of additional life, he multiplied the 400 by 40,
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startling deduction was that there were in London
16,000 women who bad murdered their offspring•
was based on the assumption that the same wonaan
vut"
the
once imbued her hands in the blood cf the child•
included
abominable crime of child murder now not only
extol
infants newly born ; he was grieved to say it 108
ing to children of several months old, and in
case he felt convinced there must be accomplices,io t
clole
persons who would miss the child, and who 14
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forward if they had a chance of giving ovidence.o_e r
agreed to request the vestry of St. Pancras to
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ward, and the inquiry was adjourned Or a fortuiE
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