The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-04 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

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OSB 0 RNE, Friday.

The Queen drove out in a carriage and four
yesterday afternoon, with Princess Louise and Prince
Leopold, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley.
Major-General Seymour was in attendance upon
horseback.
Her Majesty and Princess Louise walked in the

grouncs this morning.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice went out.
also.
The Earl of C•arnarvon left Osborne yesterday
and returned to London.

RETURN OF TIIE QUEEN TO WINDSOR—IIer
Majesty and the royal family aro expected to return to
Windsor Castle on or about Tuesday or Wednesday week•
The Queen will rest at the Castle for a night, and then pro-
ceed to Scotland.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
returned to town yesterday from visiting the Duke and
Duchess of Richmond at Goodwood Park during the 0°
meeting.

His Royal Highness the Prince de Joinville has
taken Lebanon House, Twickenham (late the residence of
the Duchess Dowager of Northumberland), for the 111301"
'Area term of the lease, as his future residence.

The Marquis and Marchioness of NormanbY
and family have left London for Alulgrave Castle, 'Whitby.
The Earl and Countess Percy left Northumberland
House yesterday, after the funeral of the Duchess Dowager
of Northumberland, for Alnwick Castle.

The Earl and Countess de Grey leave town to-day
for Studley Park, near Ripon. The earl and countess ex-
pect the honour of a visit from her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales after the 11th inst.

Baroness de Clifford has, after a severe illness,
so much improved in health that yesterday her ladyshiP
left town for Brighton for the autumn.

KNEBWORTH CASTLE.—Lord Lytton has given
public notice that the beautiful gardens of Knebworth
Castle will be opened to the public on the Bth and 15th
of this month.—Morning Gerald.

LORD SHAFTESBURY.—We are glad to learn that
Lord Shaftesbury is recovering from the sharp choleraic
attack mentioned yesterday. In reply to inquiries
yester-
day morning, it was stated that he was very much better.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.

MR. COE'S BENEFIT.

The entertainments at the Haymarket Theatre last
night, on the occasion of Mr. Coe's benefit, went off
very brilliantly. Theywere more than ordinarilyvaried
in their character. After the favourite comediett4
of A Kiss in the Dark, came George Coleman the
Younger's five-act comedy of The Poor Gentleman,
with a cast, all things considered, of remarkable
excellence. What with Compton's 011apod and
little Clark's Stephen Harrowby, what with Chip-
pendale's Sir Robert Bramble and Rogers's
Humphrey Dobbins, to say nothing of Braid's Cor-
poral Foss and Howe's Lieutenant Worthington,
of Miss Nelly Moore's Emily Worthington and of
Mrs. Chippendale's Miss Lucretia Mactab, the five
acts of this thoroughly admirable old comedy went
off delightfully and to the complete enjoyment of
the audience—every word of the racy dialogue
flying to its mark with unerring accuracy, as 011a-
pod himself might say, " pop on a sudden ; like the
going off of a field-piece, or an alderman in an apo-
plexy !" After the comedy there was a little inter-
lude of singing and playing—a sort of foreshortened
glimpse of a concert vocal and instrumental— Pro-
fessor Fittig astonishing and delighting his hearers
(as he has recently done his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales) with his wonderful
Zither, a sort of lEolian harp put into harness--
and a pupil of Mr. Benedict's (Miss Eleanor Ward),
making a brilliant debut before a London audience
as a pianist. Afterwards, and to crown the even;
ing's entertainment, there was the representation 0'
the famous Burlesque-Opera of Bonibastes Furioso
—a representation in which both the piece itself
and the incidental music introducing it, scattered
through it, or accompanying it, was played en-
tirely by " Sherwood's Company of Porrorniing
Children"—last night's being their very first
appearance upon way stage ! A marvellous little
troop, of vocalists and instrumentalists, 0f
comic actors and comic actresses in miniature
Master Derrick was the King of Utopia (Artaxe-
minons)—Miss Prettyman (a very pretty little
woman, by the way), being his Minister of State
(Fusbos)—Master Wardle being General Boni'
bastes—Miss Brownsmith and Master Brown"
smith being the two courtiers, and Miss Pettibone
the daintiest of little Distaffinas. The encores
were almost cruelly numerous, and the vibe'e
performance went off—in no mere phrase, but
really—to admiration.

HALF-A-DOZEN CHARMING BALLADS AND DET.SIS
—.published by Messrs. Robert Cocks and Co., °L,
New Burlington-street—have just now wade
their appearance together. Three of therm'
written by the indefatigable J. E. Carpenter, and
set set to music by the inexhaustible Stephen
Glover—are vocal duets, entitled respectively
" Softly the Summer Winds," " Music Entrancing
Sweetly shall flow," and, more tersely than either,:
" The Two Mornings." Stephen Glover, too,
the composer of one of the acconapallYing
songs, a song written by Howard Paul, and ew
titled, "Pretty Nanette." As to the remaining two
pieces not yet specified—each unmistakably a love'
song—one composed by Jesse Williams, the word;
of it by Mrs. Valentine Williams, is the ballad of
" Melanie," now being popularised by the singing
of Mr. Rawlinson, the other written by J°l'll
Streakes and tenderly set to music' by Franz Ah,l
is a little haunting ditty, entitled, met ber 111
the Spring-time." Not one among these half doyen
pieces but will be welcomed by the majority of
those who may chance to hear it.
DEATH OF SIR, HARRY JONES.—We have to re-
cord the death of Sir Harry David Jones, G.C.8.,
Engineers, and Governor of the Royal Military College, °.s
Thursday last, at Sandhurst. Sir Harry Jones obtained his
commission as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engiucfcie
in September, 1808, and in the following year served "
expedition to Walcheren. He also served in the camPeiga
from 1810 to 1814 in the Peninsula.
ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH AMENlTlES.—yesterdtl
morning at half-past 2 o'clock the Lord Mayor received the
subjoined message from the Mayor of New York,which lied
been transmitted by the Atlantic Telegraphic Cable
to
Valenti°. :—" The energy and genius of man, directed by tit
o
Providence of God, have united the Continents. lkitlY this
be instrumental in securing the happiness of all nations
and the rights of all people." it was in reply to an:1013;i
transmitted by the Lord Mayor through the same medium
to the Mayor of Now York, as follows:—"May our co-;
merce flourish, and may peace and prosperity unite Its:a
There was nothing on the face of the message to the Late
Mayor to show the day or the time it was given in at tii
telegraph station at New York, but it arrived at Vitlell¢
yesterday morning at half-past 1 o'clock, and the pr° bs
bility is that from 12 to 15 hours were occupied inwou
transmission from New York to London, seven of Wm 17.0
would be spent in the conveyance by steamer in the
miles from the Amerrican coast to Newfoundland. Fro
Valentia to London the transmission of the message °a
pied about an hour.
THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF CORDWAI.-13,
This ancient company has just placed in their banquet:, of
hall, Cannon-street, an admirable whole-length portr De,
Edward Grant, Esq., the venerable father of the comp b,
which has been painted by Mr. Edgar Williams, arld_ iieCt
scribed for by the members as a testimony of their rest 4
and regard. Mr. Grant has been a liveryman for sits
years, and more than half of that period a member 01_
la,
court, and has always taken an active interest in the
fairs of the company.
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THE MISSING LONGTON BANKER.
has been received from Mr. W. K. HarveY,„oo
Longton banker, who absconded to America on the fad" car
of his bank. When it was known that he had vile_ the
America Messrs. Clarke and Hawley, the solicitors r
two,
bank, at once prepared a deed of assignment of
cn ' t
re 3-
vey's effects, and sent it to New York with a letter 000
ing Mr. Harvey to sign the deed, to save the largo exP2b©
of taking the estate into the Bankruptcy Court:.
nost-
letter, directed to Mr. Harvey, at the New Y°rs'at" the
office, reached him, and by the return mail be Sieorrioct
deed, signed in the presence of a lawyer, and tl.O
note, saying he had only time to post the deed
by
,lhe
mail, but he would write at length by the next rnati_,,, the
deed unfortunately arrives too late to be of any Ilsotirt.
affairs of the bank being already in the BankruptcYtic'i, vat
The estate is not likely to yield a very largo divide. :1124
efforts are being made to remove it out of the PON
Court to save as mob expense as possible