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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1866.

INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL
}XH[BITION, May 22, Tickets £1 Is ; May 23, 10s.;
May 24, 2s. 61; May 25, Is. Tickets may be obtained of the
principal I ondon Nurserymen, and of the usual London
Agents.

][tOYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF
ENGLAND.
The GENERAL MEETING of MEMBERS will be held
at the Society 'a House, 12, Hanover -square, TO-MORRO W
(TUESDAY), May 2 ?, at Twelve o'clock.
By order of the Counlll,
H. HALL DARE, Secretary.

micus in their university robes. The Prfi-777,7
then conducted upstairs to the Upper Library flail,
where the proceedings were commenced with prayer
offered up by the Rev. Dr. Lee. At the request of
the Principal, the Dean of the Faculty of Law then
read the following address to the Prince :
" To HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED,
K.G., &c., &c., &c.
" May it please your Royal Highness, a few years
since the university had the honour of welcoming
an illustrious Prince on the occasion of the laying
of the foundation of a National Museum, which had
its origin to a great extent in his enlightened zeal
for the promotion of science and art.
"The Prince Consort was then pleased to express
his interest in this university, having previously
proved the reality of that interest by inducing his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to study with-
in its walls.
" Still more recently the university have had the
privilege of enrolling your Royal Highness among
its students.
The university now gladly avail themselves of the
opportunity of welcoming a Prince who has won
from his instructors so much esteem as well as affec-
tion in his youth. To this university, which con-
tributed to the National Museum its important col-
lection of natural history, it is very agreeable to
find a son who has acquired so much knowledge
of that science entrusted by-her Majesty with the
duty of announcing to the nation that the work
begun by his father has now been carried to a suc-
cessful completion.
46 To mark their sense of this event, the Senatus

IJR. W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-BADEN
and UP IN THE AIR, an entirely New Entertain-
ment, EVERY EVENING, at Eight (except Saturday);
Saturday Mornings at Three. POLYGRAPHIC HALL,
King William-street, Charing-cross
Luxurious sofa s'alls, 55.; balcony stalls, 35.; area, 2a.;
amphitheatre, Is.—A plan of stalls may be seen and seats
secured at the Hall from Eleven to Five.

London, May 12, 1866.

BONUS YEAR-SPECIAL NOTICE.
CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIEE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

Established 1824.
The Eighth Bonus will be declared in January. 1837, and
all With-Profit Policies in force on the 30th June, 1866, will
participate, s that persons who complete such Assurances
before June 30tIt next, will share in that Division, although
one Premium only will have been pail
Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obt fined
of any of the Society's Agents, or of
GEORGE CLITCLIPFE, Actuary and Secretary.
13, St. James's-square, London, S. W.

QTODARE'S 439TH REPRESENTATION.-
.4.0 THEATRE OP MYSTERY.—EGYPTIAN HALL.—
Colonel STODARE'.S celebrated MARVELS of MAGIC and
VENTRILOQUISM, s performed by him, by command, at
Windsor Castle, before her Majesty the Queen, Nov. 21, 1E65 ;
and twice before d.R.H. the Prince of Wales, June 6, 1865,
and March 10, 1866.—The New Sensation, the MARVEL of
MECCA, the SPHINX, and Stodare's celebrated INDIAN
BASKET FEAT, EVERY EVENING at 8. Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 3 and 8.

Stalls may be secured in advance at the Box-office, Egyptian
Hall, open daily from 11 till 5; and at Mitchell's, Old Bald-
street.—Admission, ls., 25.; stalls, 33.

ORYSTAL PALACE.— THIS DAY.—
WHITSUNTIDE.—" The most varied attractions ever
offered." " The best Shilling's wtorth in the world."
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDA Y, and FRIDAY,
Shilling Days.

"Almost miraculous."—Vide the Times.

T E X F ORD
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.
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CRYSTAL PALACE.—THIS DAY.—
Monday) and following Days.—CHANG, the Chinese
Giant, CHANG'S WIFE, the Rebel Tartar Dwarf, CHUNG
MOW, and attendant; will appear daily during the week.
Besides the public reception, Mrs. Chang will hold a
Daily Tea Party in the Chinese Room adjoining the
Egyptian Court.
ETHARDO, the wonder of the world, in his daring
Ascent of the Spiral Mountain, every day, except Thurs-
day and Saturday.
"The most surprising performance ever submitted."—
Vide Critiques.

The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (Limited',
EXTRA NOVELTIES for the WHITSUN WEEK. Ope-
ratic Selections performed by Misses Russell, Barry, Fitz-
Henry; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, flush, Bury, Dalton, and
Tivoli, with full band and chorus, conducted by Mr. F.
JONGIIMANS.

Comedy, Burlesque. Gymnastic, and other performances,
by all the moat talented Foreign and English artistes.

The great Negro Trio, Joe Brown (his first appearance:
and Messrs. Duriah and Davies.

Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is ; private
boxcs, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d.

On the same days Mr. -Nelson Lee will present in the
Theatre a combined Entertainment, including the won-
drous Victorellis, the Etoiles, the Edouards, Persivani and
D'Ronde, the D'Alberte Minstrels, and the laughable Pan-
tomimic Ballet entitled LOVE IN A TUB, by Chas. Lauri
and Troupe.
Pulleyn's Hippodrome. Also Thiodon's Theatre of Art,
Skating Hall, and Gymnasium, Boats, Rifles, Archery,
Cricket, Croquet, Bowls, Swings, Roundabout; Steam
Carrousel, Steeplechasing, and every other Amusement in
the Grounds. Nothing can exceed the spring beauty of
the Gardens and Shrubberies. Now is the time to visit
the borders of the Great Lakes.
On Thursday next (Queen's Birthday), the Great CON-
CERT of the METROPOLITAN SCHOOLS' CHORAL
SOCIETY, numbering 5,000 voices, conducted by Mr.
JOHN ELULLAH. Admission, Half-a-crown.
On Saturday next, GRAND OPERA CONCERT as
usual. Admission, Five Shillings; or by tickets purchased
the day before, Half-a-crown. The Guinea Season Ticket
admits free.

Open every evening at 8-

itfADAIVIE TUSSAMYS • EXHIBITION,
BAKER-STREET, WHITSUN HOLIDAYS.
NEW ADDITIONS.—SeveraI life-size Portrait Models
of the most distinguished Personages of the day (including
those of the late LORD PALMERSTON and GUS-
TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last
Holidays ; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies,
taken from life, of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the
notorious CHARLOTTE WINS OR.
Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, Is. ; children, under ten, half price ; Extra
Rooms, 6d.

Academicus ask your Royal Highness to accept the
honorary degree of LL.D.—a degree which was held
and valued by the Prince Consort, and to assure
your Royal Highness, at the same time, that in
conferring this degree they do not view it as a mere
compliment to the exalted position of your Royal
Highness, but as a fitting academical honour for a
Prince who has stored his mind with knowledge, not
only in the university, but also by close attention
and observation of natural phenomena during his
extensive travels in foreign countries."
The Principal then, with the consent of the Sena-
tus, conferred the degree upon the Prince, and the
hood of LLD. was placed upon his Royal Highness.
His ROYAL HIGHNESS then said—Mr. Principal
and Professors, it is with pride and pleasure that I

The thousand and one attractions of the Crystal Palace
also available. Such a combination of holiday amusements
never before offered.

Excursion and Special Trains from everywhere. See
Time Bills of the various Companies.
By Road or by Rail.—Come Early.—Palace Open from
Nine till Dark.

NOTE.—A Brass Band will play in the Grounds from
Seven o'clock.

EVERBODY and EVERYTHING at the
CRYSTAL PALACE.---WHITSIIN HOLIDAYS.—
The one place for Holiday Amusement.
"The best shilling's worth in the world."—Vide critique.

accept the honorary degree graciously conferred
upon me by this university, with which I was already
connected by many intimate and cherished associa-

tions. Of these associations some are derived from
recollections of the circumstance to which you have
adverted, that my lamented father held and valued
the degreee with which you have to-day been pleased
to honour me ; others are the result of my own ex-
perience of the university, and the many happy and
I trust profitable days which I spent whilst studying
within its walls. To the expression of these personal
feelings I must add the gratification with which I
find the university so intimately connected with the
Industrial Museum, which we are about to open, by
the contribution of its collections of natural history
to that institution. I will only observe, in conclu-
sion, that I trust I may have frequent opportunities
of evincing my interest in this seat of learning, and
of cultivating the acquaintance of the eminent men
who preside over it.

CRYSTAL PALACE. —WHITSUNTIDE.
NJ DYKWYNKYN'S GRINNING JOEY will astonish
the Holiday Visitors Daily..

This part of the ceremonial being finished, his
Royal Highness, accompanied by the Lord Provost,

the Vice-President of the Committee of COuncil on
Education, the Lord Justice General, the Lord Ad-
vocate, the Lord Justice Clerk, the Principal of the
University, and the Commander in Chief for Scot-
land, about 3 o'clock proceeded to the Museum,
which immediately adjoins the college. Here the
party were received by Professor Archer, the Regius
keeper of the Museum, and Capt. Donnelly, H.M.
Inspector of the Science and Art Department, by
magistrates and town-coantit in'tneleenucau ruties
were assembled. When the party had taken up their
position, Prince Alfred requested the Rev. Dr. Lee,
a dean of her Majesty's Chapel Royal, to open the
proceedings with prayer. This having been done, the
city clerk read to his Royal Highness an address
from the Lord Provost, magistrates, and town coun-

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cii, of which the following is a copy :--
To HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED.

" May it please your Royal Highness,
" We, the Lord Provost, magistrates, and coun-
cil of this city, desire for ourselves, as well as on
behalf of the community over which we preside, to
offer your Royal Highness the expression of our
warmest welcome to Edinburgh.
"As the son of our beloved Queen, and as au
alumnus of our university, yourßoyal Highness can
never fail to be received here with affection and en-
thusiasm ; but the circumstances of your present
visit, and the associations connected with this cere-
monial, excite peculiar andmingled emotions. In re-
lation to this very building, your illustrious father
performed one of the latest acts of his useful and
noble life. Ever anxious to lend the aid of his high
countenance to whatever promised to accelerate the
material progress of the nation and to promote the
happiness of the people, the Prince Consort laid the
foundation stones of the Industrial Museum and
of the new Post Office, sketching on that occasion
in broad and masterly outline the influence which
both institutions were calculated to exercise.

" Your Royal Highness has now come amongst
us to finish what was so auspiciously commenced.
We accept your presence, for such a purpose, as an
omen of good, and an assurance that your Royal
Highness, cherishing your father's high ambition,
covets as your richest inheritance some portion of
such a life, a heart, a mind, as his.'
" The citizens of Edinburgh will associate this
institution with the name of the Queen and the
memory of her illustrious Consort ; and we fondly
hope that the study of the valuable collection of in-
dustrial products which it contains may serve to

stimulate the energy of future generations, and
enable Scotland to send forth many workers to do
good service to our common country 'in fruitful
strifes and rivalries of peace.'
" We humbly ask your Royal Highness to receive
the renewed assurances of our loyalty and attach-

ment to the Queen, her person, Crown, and family.

It is our earnest prayer that her Majesty may long
be spared to reign over a great, a happy, and a

prosperous country."
The LORD PROVOST then said—May it please
your Royal Highness, I have the proud and envied
privilege, as chief magistrate of this city, to present
you with the document constituting your Royal
Highness an honorary citizen of this ancient capital.
In doing so, I am affected with a variety of emotions,
to which I cannot adequately give utterance. A

leading feeling in my mind at this moment, how-
ever, is the consciousness that I am officially ad-
dressing a living and conspicuous representative of
a long and double line of Royal ancestors which
stretches back to the dim mists of antiquity—a line
which on the one hand extends through the Tudors
and Plantagenets toWilliam of Normandy, and which
on the other, in an equally unbroken chain of consan-

guinity, reaches through the Stewarts and Bruces to
Malcom Canmore and his famed Anglo-Saxon Queen.

But independently of these historical associations,
and reflecting on topics more congenial to the pre-
sent occasion, I am affected by the consideration
that your illustrious father initiated on this spot—
the ancient Kirk of Field—a movement of great im-

portance to the prosperity of this section of the
United Kingdom,
,and of immense benefit
.to

Edinburgh in particular. It cannot, I think,
be but a pleasing thing for your Royal High-
ness to see this day so far completed that mag-
nificent museum devoted to the promotion of the
scientific and industrial arts which was begun by
the late Prince Consort. Thanks to the department
which takes charge of such matters, the collection of
works of art is already most valuable and instruc-
tive. And I should fain hope that the energy and
patriotism which to this extent successfully carried

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PRICE.... ld.
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I forward the collection will not flag until the whole
is perfected according to the original design. For
myself, I humbly trust to be neither a useless nor
an indifferent spectator of this national enterprise,
but to be able to lend dignity to so magnificent a
structure, by the endeavour to open up a new and
broad thoroughfare worthy of the establishment.
Speaking in the presence of so large a concourse of
citizens, I venture to express the wish that they
will help me by doing their part towards the con-
templated improvements. As regards the more
immediate object in hand, the presentation of the
diploma or burgess-ship, the gift is, in one
sense, of little or no value, yet we trust
you will accept it as a token of our good-will ; nor
can it he quite forgotten that the citizensb of Edin-
burgh of every degree have been noted for their
bl oeyrali
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thaetyesnmuemn,
and princes, among whom I may only recall the
names of John Hampden, Earl Grey, Lord Pal-
merston, and your Royal highness's father, the
Prince Consort. It only remains for me, as Lord
Provost, to perform the pleasing duty of placing
the diploma in your hands.
Prince ALFRED, in acknowledgment, said—My
Lord Provost, magistrates, and gentlem:ini,exapeeresep.t
my sincere thanks for the hearty welcome which I
shiaovneofthwishideahy
yreoeueihvedaveisno Eild,airmnbluyrgght,ven
in
your
address. The loyalty of this city and its inhabi-
tants is well known and highly valued by the
Queen ; and I shall not fail to bring under
the notice of her Majesty the feelings of attach-
ment to her person, crown, and family expressed
by you in behalf of the community of which lam
now proud to say I form a part by having just re-
ceived at your hands the freedom of this ancient
city. The occasion which has now called me amongst
you, and the work of which I have been deputed to
announce the completion, naturally recalls a feeling of
mournful regret that my father could not have been
spared to finish the work which he began, and in
which he took so warm an interest. The opportu-
nity which has been afforded me of taking a part in
this important ceremony emboldens me to express
my strong desire to follow the footsteps of the
Prince Consort, however feebly, in promoting those
peaceful arts and sciences so necessary to the wel-
fare of the nation, so intimately associated with his
name. This museum, including as it does, collec-
tions of natural history and geology, and passing
onwards to other applications of industry, and hav-
ing illustrations also of the means of adorning them
by art, gives to this institution a comprehensiveness
I am not aware of any other museum possessing.
The Prince was then invited by Professor Archer
to inspect the museum, which his Royal Highness
did, accompanied by a select party. Upon their re-
turn to the dais, Prince Alfred declared the museum
to be open, which declaration was publicly stated
by the senior herald, and was presently announced
to those outside by a flourish of trumpets, and by
the firing of a royal salute from the castle guns.
The band then piayed the National Anthem, which
brought the proceedings to a close, and his Royal
Highness, after again perambulating the building,
amidst the enthusiastic cheering of the large assem-
bly, withdrew.
His Royal Highness subsequently visited the new
General Post-office, opened a fortnight ago, after
which he returned to the Douglas Hotel. The Prince
again walked out in the evening, accompanied by
the Hon. E. Yorke, returning to dinner at 8, and
leaving by the limited mail train for the south at
half-past 9.
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Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Prince of Wales, as Colonel of the 10th
Hussars (the Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regi-
! place-on soft/may tVeniug-ny ?Liz 'king=
street, St. James's. His Royal Highness, accom-
panied by Prince Teck, and attended by General
Knollys and Major Teesdale, C. 8., arrived punc-
tually at 8 o'clock. Covers were laid for 40. There
were present :—Col. Baker, Lord G-. Beaaclerk
Lieut.-Col. F. Marshall, Major the Hon. C. K.
Falconer, Major Dyne, Major P. Smith, Capt. the
Hon. F. Fitzclarence, Sir Thos. Munro, Viscount
Valentia, Capt. Hanbury, Capt. the Hon. C. C.
Molyneux, Capt. R. C. Sawbridge, Capt. Unacke,
Capt. de Bourbel, Capt. W. Clarke, Capt. A. Clark,
Capt. W. Chaine, Capt. J. Fife, Capt. Severne,
M.P., Mr. H. Beckett, Mr. Surtees, M.P., Mr. Fre-
mantle, Mr. C. B. Ponsonby, Mr. A. W. Edgell,
Mr. T. A. S. Dorrien, Mr. J. J. Milburne, Mr. E.
Hartopp, Mr. P. Gordon, Mr. Liddell, Mr. F. W.
Bulkeley, Lieut. and Adjt. J. C. Russell, Mr. T.
A. St. Quintin, and the Rev. J. Burn-Murdoch.
The band of the 2d Life Guards performed in the
Guardroom during the entertainment.lThe Prince
of Wales and Prince Teck retired shortly after 11
o'clock.

The officers of the Ist Life Guards and a large
party of those formerly belonging to that regiment
dined together on Saturday evening at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. The :Earl of Lucan,
K.C.8., colonel of the regiment, presided, and there
were present Majo- Gen. Parker, Major- Gen.Legge,
Major-Gen. Lord G. Paget, Major-Gen. Fletcher,
the Marquis of Ormonde, the Earl of Clonmel, the
Earl of Tyrone, the Earl of Hillsborough, the Earl
of Kinnoul, Viscount Grey de Wilton, Viscount
Powerscourt, Viscount Ingestre, Viscount New-
port, Viscount Adare, Lord Templemore, Lieut.-
Col. the Hon. D. F. de Ros, Capt. Hon. H. Wynd-
ham, Capt. Hon.R. Grosvenor, Capt. Hon. C. Dun-
combe, Lieut. Hon. S. J. G. Egerton, Lieut. Hon.
R. A. J. Talbot, Sir H. Bruce, Sir W. W. Wynn,
Sir E. Blackett, Col. Hogg, Col. Duncombe, Col.
Bulkeley, Capt. Farrar, Capt. De Winton, Capt.
Lowther, Capt.Walsh,Capt. Caulfeild, Capt Levett,
Capt. Sheathfield, Capt. Bateson, Capt. K. Fraser,
Lieut. C. W. Duncombe, Lieut. G. L. Watson,
Lieut. A. W. F. Greville, Lieut. C. Needham, Lieut.
J. R. Osborn, Lieut. J. Limbert (Adjutant); Lieut.
R. N. Biddulph, Mr. H. W. North, Mr. H. H.
Langham, Mr. T. Jex, Mr. H. Clifton, Mr. G. B.
Bruce, Mr. S. W. Fraser, Mr. St. John Taylor (11th
Hussars), Mr. W. 0-. Craven, Mr. Wells, Mr. Her-
vey, Mr. C. Alexander, &c. The regimental band,
under the direction of Mr. Waterson, performed a
variety of choice music during the entertainment.
The company separated about half-past 11.
The annual regimental dinner of the 3d (the
Prince of Wales) Dragoon Guards, took place on
Saturday at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street,
Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Scott, K.C.8., as Col. of the re-
giment, presided, and the following officers were
present :—Sir H. Marsh, Sir Hickman Bacon, Col.
Dyson, Lieut.-Col. Maryott, Lieut.-Col. Barron,
Major Chaplin, Capt. Berkeley, Capt. Melville,
Capt. Neave, Capt. Watt, Capt. Knatchbull, Capt.
Peel Yates, Capt. Garratt, Capt. Gifford, Captain
Turton, Capt. Still, Capt. Macfarlane, Lieutenant
Wright, Mr. F. J. W. Collingwood,rom
Calcutta,
Messrs. Green's ship
battalion of the 18th
with the headquarters of the
Saturday afternoon.
Refit. arrived at Plymouth
torpedo experiments at
Subsequent to the r Relnsotsvbna t f
ecteof them, a trial was made
Portsmouth, but as
edphoar primer," invented by Mr.
Abel, istr to the War Depart-
ment,
oAfbtehLeprnoefwes:
in one of the small ycreeks. near the moorings
of the Excellent gunnery-ship in Portsmouth har-
bour.
The experiments made were perfectly sue—
cessful, and, although a very simple adaptation of
a principle used by the Russians in the Baltic and
the Crimea during the War, it suggested by
one peculiar feature in the arrangements a possible
means for rendering the action of fixed torpedoes in
narrow water-ways more certainly effective than
they are at present. The most perfect and reliable
of the many torpedoes that has yet been tested as a
fixed submarine mine is, without doubt, the torpedo
laid down in the Baltic by Professor Jacobi, the che-
mical adviser to the Imperial. Russian Admiralty.

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