The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-24 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY, &c.

OSBORNE, Dec. 22.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian
and Princess Louise, drove out yesterday.
The other members of the Royal family walked
and drove.

His Royal Highness Prince Christian, attended
by Sir John Cowell, Captain von Schroetter, and
Mr. Sabi, went to Southampton this morning.

DEC. 23.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon.
Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Beatrice walked out also.

Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone,
arrived in the evening from Greenwich Park.
Prince Christian, attended by Sir John Cowell,
went to Southampton yesterday, and visited the
Ordnance Survey establishment there. His Royal
Highness was received by Sir Henry James and the
officers of the various departments, by whom he
was conducted through the establishment.
Captain von Schroetter and Mr. Sahl had the
honour of accompanying his Royal Highness.
The Rev. George Prothro performed the service
this morning at Osborne before the Queen, Prince
and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince
Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice.

_ . .
The Ladies and Gentlemen in waiting were also
present.

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LORD ST. LEONARDS.

We are exceedingly glad to find that a tele-
gram received from a Dublin correspondent, an-
nouncing the death of Lord St. Leonard; was
incorrect. His lordship is in excellent health at
Boyle Farm, his residence near Thames Dittos,
Surrey. The mistake arose from a telegraphic
message sent to Ireland to some relatives announcing
the death of the eldest son of Lord St. Leonards,
which occurred on Thursday at Staple House, Nant-
wich. Owing to some ambiguity in the message
this was supposed to refer to the venerable peer,
and was published in the Dublin Evening Mail of
Friday.

The Hon. Henry Sudden, just deceased, was born
in March, 1811, and married in August, 1814, Marianne,
second daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Cookson, of Neasham
Hall, Durham, by whom he leaves a youthful family. Ho
was educated at Harrow, and afterwards proceeded to St.
Alban Hall, Oxford, at which university he graduated
B.A. in 1834, and took high honours in mathematics. In
1837 ho was called to the bar at Lincoln's-inn, and in
1816 was made register of the Court of Chancery in
Ireland.

Charles Reade and his American Critic.

Although we have already ourselves commented
at some length upon the gross absurdity of the
latest charge directed against the fair fame of Mr.
Charles Reade by his now notorious and really scur-
rilous assailant of the New York Round Table, we
cannot resist the temptation to give the following
cogent remarks upon the same subject precisely as
they appear in the newly-published number of
Triibner's American and Oriental Literary Record :
" Tho New York Round Table is the best literary paper
published in the United States. it is independent, out-
spoken, free from anything like favouritism, and we be-
lieve totally inaccessible to corrupt influence ; its warm
advocacy of international Copyright, and its denunciations
of really indecent literature deserve special acknowledg-
ment ; setting its face, however, against what is sensational
criticism, and in two instances during the last few months
has done much, we fear, to lessen its influence as a literary
critic, and as a social reformer. One of ita most
startling recent articles had reference to Drunkennes
among American Women, in which, with a
certain show of authority, the writer asserted that
hundreds of women, in the best society, were in the daily
habit of ordering and drinking whisky and brandy in pub-