The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-22 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

The Earl of Bessborough and the Earl of Cork
had also audiences.

Lord Bessborough, having resigned the office of
Master of the Buckhounds, kissed hands on receiving
from her Majesty the Wand of Lord Steward of
the Household in place of the Earl of St. Germans'
resigned.

Lord Cork kissed hands on being appointed
Master of the Buckhounds.

The Lord Chancellor arrived from London, and
had the honour of dining with the Queen and
royal family.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale, who have been staying on a visit to the
Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and Frances
Countess Waldegrave, at the Chief Secretary's Lodge,
Dublin, are expected to leave to-day for Orleans House'
T wickenham.

The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle have been
entertaining during the past week, at Clumber Park.'
Worksop, the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, iris-
count Canterbury, Lord Courtenay, Lady Rossmore
Hon. Robert Temple, Lord Arthur Clinton, Captain
Synge, &c.

The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland is, We
understand, much better. As before stated, there is 73°
reason for anxiety, although the dowager duchess is unable
to leave her chamber.
The Earl Russell will give a full-dress banquet
on Monday, the sth proximo, at his official residence in
Downing-street, to the mover and seconder of the Address'
and a largo party of peers, members of the Government,
and other political friends in the House of Lords.
The Earl of Derby, as the leader of the Censer"
vative party, will give a Parliamentary entertainment en
the sth of next month, at his residence in St. Jamese-
square, to a party of about 30 Opposition peers. ji
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have arrived at Grosvenor-gate for the season. The rig
hon. gentleman has issued cards for a dinner to a "gaff °
members of the House of Commons for Monday, Feb. 5.
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer
entertained at dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence
on Carlton-house-terrace, the following gentlemen:--The
Lord Chief Justice of England, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, M.P., Mr. Childers, M.P., Mr. Edward Hamilton,
M.P., Mr. Tite, M.P., Sir Francis H. Doyle, Sir F. Rogers'
Mr. Melville, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Chis holm, Mr. RepingteP'
Mr. Airy, Mr. Erskine May, and Mr. Gurdon. Mrs. Glad-
stone and familay arrived in town on Saturday evening
from Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, for the season.

Miss Emma flardinge's Orations on America'

Miss Emma Hardinge delivered a second oration
at St. James's Hall on Saturday. In discoursog
upon " The United States : the People and WI!
Uncrowned King," Miss Hardinge described the vast
transatlantic community as being composed of four
great departments—the New England States, where
were the head-quarters of the shrewd, ready-witteu
race popularly known as the " Yankees ;" tho
Central States, whose chief emporium of commerce
and industry was the city of New Yorl-, Wher°
the demon " business" held supreme dominion ;
Western States, whero were the illimitable prairies'
the romantic wildernesses so dear to the imagina-
tion of poets and novelists ; and, finally, the Sol!'
them States, whose military achievements and poli-
tical revolutions had of late vearg
much of the world's attention. The fair orator de-
scribed in fluent and felicitous language the social,
political, and commercial institutions of those vari-
ous contingents of the Great Republic. She then
dwelt at some length upon the prodigious natural
resources of the American continent ; she ne'd
passed to a graphic description of some of tila
characteristic features of the river and mountain
scenery; and after glancing at a variety of miscel-,
laneous matters, and dismissing the Fenian tg craze
with a scornful allusion, she drew a 1131431
augury from the general anxiety for " reconstruc-
tion," tion," and concluded an impressive and spirited
oration by expressing her belief that days of lino'
ampled power and prosperity were in store for the
Columbian commonwealth. The tone of her dis-
course was exceedingly conciliatory, and in strict
accordance with the avowed purpose of her "
sion"—the promoting a better understanding be-
tween the new and old continents of the world. At
the conclusion, Mr. Dove announced that the sub'
ject next Saturday would be the reconstruction °f
the Union, to be delivered at the same hour and in
the same place, and Miss Harding., on retiring, eras
loudly cheered.

READERSHIP OF THE TEMPLE CHURCH.—The
.owing is the selected list of candidates (six in number) for
he Readership of the Temple Church :—The Rev. Alfre;
Ainger, late scholar of Trinity-hall, Cambridge ; Rev.
ward Josselyn Beck, Fellow, and late Dean of Clare College'
Cambridge ; Rev. William T. Du Boulay, Trinity Colleo
Cambridge ; Rev. William Anthony Harrison Gonville and
Caius College, Cambridge; Rev. W. G. Martin, St. johu
College, Cambridge ; Rev. John Oakley, Brasenose College'
Oxford. The election will be made on the 7th prox.
Mr. JEFFERSON BRICK NATURALISED IN ENG°
LAND.—The Star has got hold of a noble writer who thus
says the Spectator refers to Gustavus Brooke on board the
London: "A billowy curtain has fallen tumultuously on OW
last scene of the chequered life-dream of Gustavus Brooke,
the tragedian." "Go whore you will, his early fame and
the splendour of his adolescence are favourite topics atri°l:g.
the old playgoers." But wo aro told that "the 1)/101'
exhalation disappeared with ominous suddenness." The
whole article is gorgeous in style, and almost suggests tha:t
it must be an exhalation from the splendour of somebody
adolescence,—the finest phrase of a bright boyhood of
which the heart of man over conceived. But the Stctt:
does not often twinkle like this. Surely it has engage"
the man who does the big words in the Telegraph.
"Go IN, FINNEGANS."— Some of our Irish
fellow-citizens, of the Fenian persuasion, had a little
festivity in St. Louis a few days since, and when
the affair was well under way they forgot then'
selves so far as to send for Major-General Frank r"
Blair, with the purpose of drawing a speech froth him'
The General was found just at the conclusion of a dinner
party, which had not been conducted on strict temperance
principles, and to put a fine point upon it ho was not pre-
cisely in a condition to confine himself very closely to on°
subject. He concluded, however, he would go and make,
the boys a speech, notwithstanding the advice of some of
his friends, among them General Sherman, that ho had
better postpone his remarks on the great Fenian question
until some other occasion should arise. Arrived at the
hall where the sunburst glowed and the shamrock bloomed
he was presented to the audience with the usual flattering
observations, and drawing himself up to his full height,
his countenance wearing a look of inexpressible solemnity,
ho roared at the top of his voice :—"Finnegans ! I'm with
you !" The mercurial Irishmen, dashed a little by the '11)-
parent mistake of the General, in addressing them by a nal
they had not called themselves, and looking upon his br"1",
declaration that he was with them as all right, interrupted
him with a tremendous round of applause. Poising hint-
self as if to meet a great emergency, he continued :"
" But, mind, I tell you, you have a big contract 011
hand, and old Ireland is away across the ocean. But will
you get ships, and have them loaded with cannon
things, and sail down New York harbor, I'll go out there
at Sandy- Hook and take off my hat, and say with all in y
heart—Good bye, Finnegans ! And when I think 't
~1s
about time you had touched the sod over there, 1;'„
give you my prayers, and say—Go in, Finnegans •
At this point there was another interruption, and ono
not altogether of excessive approbation. General Blair Nv3s
.
tumultuously told they were not Finnegans, but Feniausci
and, after apologising for his mistake by saying he had
been down South so long he had forgotten the names
things, the hero gracefully retirocl.—Cinn. Commerci(,ll.

OSBORNE, Saturday.
Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Helena, Princess Hermann. of Hohenlohe,
drove out yesterday afternoon.
Prince Christian rode on horseback, attended by
Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge.
His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen arrived
from London, and dined with the Queen and royal

Princess Hermann, of Hohenlohe, joined her I 1
jesty's dinner party.
Lord Augustus Loftus arrived from London, and
also had the honour of dining with her Majesty.

Sunday.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena and
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, drove out
yesterday in a carriage and four.
The Dowager Duchess of Athole and Colonel the
Hon. A. Hardinge attended.
Lord Augustus Loftus had an audience of her
Majesty yesterday, and kissed hands on being aP;
pointed her Majesty's Ambassador to the King °A
Prussia.