The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-12 00:00:00

The Princess of Wales.

SANDRINGHAM, SUndaY* t.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wald.) 3 I
tended by the Hon. Mrs. F. Stonor and Geller/'
Knollys, attended Divine service at Sandringh'
Church this morning.
The Rev. G. Onslow, M.A., rector of Sandring"
ham, officiated and preached.

The Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Irri-
perial will, we believe, leave for Compiegne ell
Tuesday next.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
expected to arrive at Marborough House to-day, on l'err
way to spend a low days with the Queen at Win
Castle.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
expected to leave town early in next month, on a tour °a
visits in Yorkshire and among other friends will visit IX
and Lady Londesborough at Grimston.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge'
attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Colonel 1100
Purves, returned to Cambridge Cottage, Kew, on S3t3ir-
day evening, from visiting her Royal Highness the Pllll-
coss of Wales at Sandringham.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough Fill
entertain a succession of distinguished visitors at Blenho'

during the week. ea
The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle have arr-

at the St. George's Hotel.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll, who hOveni
since leaving Inverary Castle, been on a visit to the Pul
of Leinster and the Marquis and Marchioness of ICJ
la tine
in Ireland, have gone on a tour in Italy by way of
--
of Torn will moot duck
in duke and w
in Italy.
The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland have been
hospitably entertaining a succession of guests at &tb'',
Castle, near Darlington.
The Duke of Sutherland left Stafford House, The
James's, at the close of the past week for Italy. Tb,i°
duchess will leave town early in the week for Lilloslit'"
Shropshire.
The Earl and Countess of Macclesfield will re-
ceive a distinguished party at Shirburn Castle, 01014 t°-

night, at a grand ball. -
The Earl of Bective, M.P., and the Ladies gade-
line and Adelaide Taylour, who arrived in town on Thllr-
day from spending a few weeks with Lord ,Kenlis at utys
derley Hall, have left on a visit to the Duke and DuclleS
of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace, Oxon. •
The Marquis de la Valette has again left 1"31.
for the Dordogne, where the Marchioness is in de'

licate health.
ri
Count de Flahault, whose health has caused se
ous uneasiness to his friends, is now rapidly recover;
ing and will soon return to Paris. The Count
eighty-one years of age.
The Belgian journals state that Gen. Ghazal line
returned to Brussels from France.

ARCHBISHOP MANNING lays aside the crozier
a moment, says the London Review, to add ill
College reminiscences to those of Lord Houghton, Nati:
regard to the deputation from the Cambridge Union
about forty years ago, went over to the Oxford Union
prove to them that Shelley was a greater poet than BYr°11;
His letter to the Pall Mall Gazette is due to the statenOt
of " Bocardo," in a letter to tho same journal, to the effee
that, at the discussion, in which Oxford fared so 1'3'111;
" Manning, who in truth had brought this shame upon. 11
—for I think it was ho who invited the Cambridge deplitft;
tion—fought gallantly to cover our rear guard, but W/3,30
could ho do alone ?" The Archbishop says :—" I 115;,4
read Bocardo's' letter about the debate on Shelley's
at. Oxford, and can confirm your correspondent's recoll°C;
tion in most points by my own. Nevertheless, Ido 0°
believe that I was guilty of the rashness of throwing WI
javelin over the Cam. It was, I think, a passage of arras g°
up by the Eton men of the two Unions. My sh're;
if any, was only as a member of the august commit
of the green baize table. I can, however, well reniooll)°:i
the irruption of the three Cambridge orators. We Oxf°l.-4
men were precise, orderly, and morbidly afraid of exce9:
in word or manner. The Cambridge oratory came lil"° rt.
flood into a millpond. Both Monckton and Milnes
Henry Hallam took us aback by the boldness and freed°°,
,of their manner. But I remember the effect of Sunderland''
declamation and action to this day. It had never boei:Lci
seen or hoard before among us; we cowered like birds au
ran like sheep. I was reminding the other day the
rotary of the India Board of the damage he did me. fltlt
was my private tutor, and was terrifically sitting rigily
opposite to me. I had just rounded a period when Isn
him make, as I believed in my agony, a sign of eontela
which all but brought me down. I acknowledge that
were utterly routed. Lord Houghton's beautiful rerivil
of those old days has in it something fragrant and so's"
and brings back old faces and old friendships very 11°g

as life is drawing to its close."
A STRANGE DONATION.—Amongst the Times' itcl'
vertisements on Thursday last appeared the folioW'
ing : " Archbishop Manning acknowledges with 13:
thanks the letter and enclosure of N. I. L., received safely
on Nov. 5." The transaction to which the above annourtc°-
ment simply refers is a rather extraordinary one. On 3100:1
day, the sth, a day on which the Gunplowder Plot is eall');
to mind by sundry grotesque exhibitions in the Publ°
streets, Archbishop Manning received the letter alluded „
enclosure being a cheque on a leading bank for a still' °
£5OO. The sender gave no name, but signed himself " L4'll„
Faux, a Protestant," and marked his donation "{or
use of Pope Pius IX." Archbishop Manning looked -01)°°'
the letter in the light of a jest, and was about throWil
letter and cheque on the fire, when his secretary suggestea
that they might be able to trace the author of the supP°sea
hoax, inasmuch as the cheque was numbered and lettered
by the bankers. Archbishop Manning agreed to this, Or
on the cheque being presented at the bank, the rnauart
said he had instructions to pay the amount, and th 3
the gift was that of a Protestant gentleman, Iv"
was anxious that his name should not bo made kl2°W,/30.
The archbishop transmitted the money in due course
Rome, and thanked the donor by public advertiserneut•
THE COLONELCY OF THE 96TH FOOT, vacant by
the death of Sir Charles Warren, has been very propervil
given to Major-General the Hon Sir A. Speucer,
whose services would well have entitled him to such B
ward before this.—Army and Nary Gazette. ‘ ECC°
THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE ECCE 110310.-- •
Homo !" appears to bo at last definitely traced to Pr
ofessei
Seeley, of University College, London.