The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-03 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S LEVEE.

By command of the Queen a Levee was held yes-
terday at St. James's Palace by his Royal High"
ness the'Prince of Wales, on behalf of her Majesty
Presentations to his royal highness at this Court are
by the Queen's pleasure considered as equivalent to
presentations to her Majesty.
The Prince of Wales, escorted by a detachment
of the Life Guards, and attended by his Gentlemen
in Waiting, arrived at the palace from Marlborough
House about two o'clock, and was received by the
Great Officers of Sate of the Queen's Household.
Ms Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
arrived from Gloucester House, attended by
Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald.

His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Sae'
Weimar and his Highness Prince Teck were Pre'
sent at the Levee.
Her Maj esty's Body Guard of the llon. Corps of
Gentlemen at Arms was on duty in the State
saloons, under the command of the lieutenant.
The •Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the
Guard was on duty, under the command of the
Eon in Waiting.

His Excellency the French Ambassador enter-
tained the following company at dinner last evening at
the French Embassy, Albert-gate :—His Excellency the
Bavarian Minister, his Excellency the Portuguese Minister,
the Marchioness of Ely and Lady Marion Loftus, the Earl
and Countess of Clarendon.and Lady Emily Villiers, the
Earl and Countess Russell and Lady Georgiana Russell,
Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe and 1-1013,;
Miss Canning, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley and
Hon. Miss Stanley, Baron de Baude, the Marquis
dd
Tamisier, the Marquis Caumount la Force, and Mr. an
Mrs. Arthur Russell.

The Duchess of Marlborough had a select OW
ing party last night at the family residence in St. James's-
square.
The Duchess of Cleveland gave her first dance
last night at her residence in St James's-square.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde
.
entertained his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Countess Apponyi, the Duke of St. Albans, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess °f
Bessborough, the Earl Cadogan, the Earl and Countess
Grey, the Countess , Frances Waldegrave, and the Tight
lion. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., Viscount and Viscountess
Sydney, Sir William Alexander, the Attorney-General for
Ireland, Hon. Mr. Calthorpe, &c., at dinner last evening, ft.
their residence in Stratton-street, Piccadilly.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal]. had 3
dinner party last night at their residence in Grosvenor-
square.
The Marchioness of Salisbury and young famil/
left yesterday on a tour in Germany. The Marquis of Sags:
bury is at Hertford, doing duty with his regiment, the South
Herts
The Earl and Countess de Grey received a diS-
tinguished party at dinner last evening, at their residence
in Carlton-gardens.

THOMAS CAMPBELL'S FUNERAL. From the Or'
rent number of the Art Journal for May—a number
unusually good and varied in its contents, both litersil
and artistic-we extract the following passage deserl2til: v
of Thomas Campbell's Funeral in Westminster Abbeyfri
passage selected from the latest of Mr. and Mrs. S. C-
Hall's Recollections of their gifted Contemporaries :-Well
do I remember that day and that august assemblage-411
the Jerusalem chamber famous for centuries -Ineni°llear
inscribed en every dark oak panel of that solemn room''-
the mind's eye to read ! There they awaited the cowing
of the dead !-illustrious mourners many of them, Nvli°,s°.
own resting-places were foreshadowed there, under her
fretted roof of England's proudest mausoleum Of It..cr
heroes of penT andh
solemn
sun'ss wano rd de
y.
me
plh traewds a a dark
sais
vsei
sickly
y and
silence;
gl
an gloomy
every footfe
e
ll
There was
had a sound, as we followed the poet Milman, who react
the touching burial service for the dead. And in P°l
Corner they placed Thomas Campbell. A lengthen' ,
pause preceded the words, " Ashes to ashes, dust to dust''f
There advanced from the throng a Polish officer, one
the many of his unhappy nation there assembled.'
dropped upon the coffin-lid some earth gathered for thes
purpose from the grave of Kosciusko. The effect
startling ; but it became a thrill-the hearts of all that
present beating audibly-when immediately afterwards'
as the venerable Dean uttered the words, " I heard a veleA3
from heaven," a thunderclap shook the old abbey-41611„1
pillars, and roof. He paused ; the pause continued furl:
minute, and as the awful sound subsided, the assembly
heard the sentence finished-" they rest from °lel-
,
labours." a
ROBIN HOOD'S LARDER.—Measure the fine old
oak. at four feet from the ground, and it is more than
20 feet in circumference, while in the hollow trunk a doyen
persons (not, indeed, ladies with crinolines) might squee"o
together to escape a shower. This is Robin Hood's Larder
here he hid his venison from the keeper's search; 11,
neath the shade of that old oak, doubtless, he, with Litt
John and "Scarlock, George-a-Green, and Much the Millard
son," and many another clad fn Lincoln green, have ePrefgv.
their repast upon the ground, with " Tuck, the 101.",.
friar," to say grace for them. It later times a butelle"
named Hooton, noted as a sheep-stealer, used to hang
his carcases in the hollow of this tree, and his meat-JO/-
have been seen by "the oldest living inhabitant."-a a
Week.
THE NEW GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA.—The nets
Governor of Jamaica will be Mr. Wiliam Rao's°
Rawson, C. 8., whose name is well kn3wn in colonial
ministration of recent years. His first entrance on efueloaf
life was in the capacity of junior clerk in the Beard wt
Trade, where his aptitude was recognised by Mr. PeuiTod
Thomson, whose private secretary he became.
the same position under Mr. A. Baring and Mr. Glot,.
stone, by whom he was appointed Secretary to the ri°,o
age Commission, and subsequently Civil Secretary to 1:01,
Governor General of Canada. He was thence transfer'
in 1844, to the Mauritius, for which colony the
appointed Treasurer ; and in the following year t° y.
Cape of Good Hope, with the rank of Colonial Seele",'-r f
He has for some time filled the more responsible Pes,'",,ag
Governor of the Bahamas; and now, as the reward. efi°"l„.
service, he is promoted to the more lucrative but Peer:oot
duous station of Viceroy and Captain General of the
tis..
troubled of our tropical possessions. About Mr. EY're6,s;oo.
pension nobody seems now disposed to raise any clues- pi
The public will not have much longer to wait for the ofae
record of facts regarding the late disturbances in J3'.. ;0-
and the mode of their repression. The report of the C° °°n
sioners may not perhaps be actually laid on the table act
as was expected by some persons ; and Lord StauleY._"ct ;
put a question to Mr. Cardwell to-morrow on the sillroeo
but, except the quasi-judicial summing up of the e 1•1 deo °rby Mr. Russell Gurney and his colleagues, there is ht_
000
nothing to be waited for. Substantially the public %job
all they will ever know of the causes and motives:DlA
led to the excess of punishment, and, in certain parllo
to the usurpation of power by the authorities. Those con'demanded from the first a searching inquiry into the d
are
duct of the civil and military officials in the 1913:ts of
already justified by public opinion ; and the apologl ot b 0
Governor Eyre and General Nelson will certainly the
able to obtain a majority for any exonerating vote 0n;
behalf.-London Correspondent of Manchester Goardi.4