The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-11 00:00:00

TILE PRINCE OF WALES AT SIIORN-

CLIFFS.

Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales commenced his military career by present-
ing colours to the 100th (the Prince of Wales's
Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot, at Shorncliffe
Camp. The Prince was accompanied by his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and attended by
Colonel Bruce, Captain Grey, and a distinguished
staff. After the regiment had been duly paraded,
and the usual formalities had been gone through,
his Royal Highness, on presenting the colours,
said:—

" Lord Melville, Colonel de Rottenberg, and
Officers and Soldiers of the 100th Regiment,—lt is
most gratifying to me that, by the Queen's gracious
permission, my first public act since I have hadthe
honour of holding a commission in the British army
should be the presentation of colours to a regiment
which is the spontaneous offering of the loyal and
spirited Canadian people, and with which, at their
desire, my name has been specially associated. The
ceremonial in which we are now engaged possesses
a peculiar significance and solemnity, because in
confiding to you for the first time this emblem of
military fidelity and valour I not only recognize
emphatically your enrolment into our national
force, but celebrate an act which proclaims and
strengthens the unity of the various parts of this
vast empire under the sway of our, common Sove-
reign. Although, owing to my youth and inexpe-
rience, I can but very imperfectly give expression
to the sentiments which this occasion is calculated
to awaken with reference to yourselves and to the
great and flourishing province of Canada, you may
rest assured that I shall ever watch the progress
and achievements of your gallant corps with deep
interest, and that I heartily wish you all honour
and success in the prosecution of the noble career
on which you have entered." •
After the ceremony the Prince of Wales left for
Dover, where he arrived yesterday evening at half-
past five o'clock, to embark for Ostend, on his visit
to Rome.

His Royal Highness was attended by Colonel the
Hon. R. Bruce and a distinguished suite. He wore
the uniform of a colonel in the Guards.

Mr. J. P. Knight, the superintendent of the
South-Eastern Railway Company, was in attend-
ance upon the Royal train.
On the Prince alighting from the State carriage
the band of the 4th battalion 60th Royal Rifles,
which regiment supplied the guard of honour at
the railway station, struck up " God save the
Queen." His Royal Highness was received by
Major-General Craufurd, the commandant of the
garrison ; Captain Wllwaine, R.N., naval super-
intendent ; Majoil Barnard, Grenadier Guards ;
Captain Smithett ; the Mayor of Dover (Dr. Astley),
&c. Every arrangement for the reception of the
Prince had been made by the superintendent of the
station, Mr. Way.
There was a large assemblage of spectators, whose
salutations were graciously acknowledged by the
youthful Prince:as he walked, attended by the per-
sonages above named, to Birmingham's Imperial
Lord Warden Hotel.

A guard of honour of the Bedford Militia was in
attendance at the Lord Warden, and as his Royal
Highness left the railway station a Royal salute
was discharged from the guns of the Drop
Redoubt.
After refreshment at the Lord Warden Hotel,
his Royal Highness and suite embarked at the
Admiralty-pier in the Royal mail packet Prince
Frederick William. His Royal Highness, attended
by Captain M'llwaine, was received on board by
Mr. J. G. Churchward, and the vessel; in charge
of Captain Smithett, started for Ostend at 8 p.m.

THE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM.—The
Nord contains a letter ftom Berlin, dated Friday last, in
which we :read :—" We are expecting the accouchement
of the Princess Frederick William from day to day. The
accoucheur of Queen Victoria and an English nurse are on
their way. Another nurse of the Rhenish province will be
at the disposal of the Princess, who, I should add, remains
marvellously well. On the occasion of her delivery come
of the political prisoners and refugees look for an amnesty."
It is mentioned in another letter that the nurse now in the
royal household is the wife of a husbandman in West-
phalia.
The Duke of Leeds has left the Clarendon for
Hornby Castle, near Catterick, Yorkshire.

The Earl of Derby arrived in London yesterday
from his seat, Knowsley Hall, Lancashire.

The Earl of Radnor is receiving company at his
seat, Coleshill House, in Berkshire.

Lady Elizabeth Bulteel has returned to her seat
in Devonshire from visiting the Earl of Radnor at Coles-
hill, Berks.

Lord and Lady Elcho have left town for the New
Forest.

Lady Granville Somerset has arrived at the St.
George's Hotel, Albema-Ae-street.

Lord and Lady Harriet Ashley are pacing the
season at St. Giles's, Dorset, the seat of the Earl and
Countess of Shallesiwry.

Count de Jarnac has left Claridge's Hotel for
Woburn Abbey, on a visit to the Duke of Be3ford.

Lady Alolesworth has left town for Tatton Park,
Cheshire.

Lady Morris has arrived at the Queen's Hotel,
Upper Norwood. _ _ _

Capt. and Mrs. Lord have arrived at Wallace's
Hotel, Hyde-park-emaer ; Mr. Campbell has arrived at the
same establishment.

The Aberdeen Herald states that the late Thomas
Edmonstone of Buness, " has sii-)..ised most
folks—pw:ticularly his relatiom—hy leav;no,- nearly the
whole of b;s wealth, landed propel ty, and £30,000 in cash,
to his natt.al dau;hter."

The Brussels Independance of yesterday con-
tains the folloming telegram from Berlin, dated Saturday :
—" The report of the betrothal of Prince Napoleon Bona-
parte to the Princess Clotilde, daughter of the King of
Sardinia, is circulated and accredited in the best informed
circles of our capital." The princess, who is the eldest of
his Majesty's children, was born on the 2d of March, 1843,
and wol, therefore, be but sixteen on the 21 March rest.
Prince Napoleon is in his 38th year.

We (Times) are requested to state that Mr. J.
H. Orde, having resigned his situation in the War-office,
has ceased to act as private secretary to Major-General
Peel.

TIFF NEW BISHOP OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.—A
subscription has been commenced at Great Yarmouth by
the parishioners of the Rev. Dr. Hills, Bishop Designate of
British Columbia, with the view of establishing in the new
diocese a permanent memorial of the esteem which they
entertain for him. The subscription already exceeds £2OO.
The ladies of Dr. Hill's congregation at St. Nicholas, Yar-
mouth, have presented him with a handsome communion
service for the cathedral church which will be erected in the
colony. The bishop will be accompanied on his departure
for his diocese by 20 missionary clergymen. One of these
is Mr. Lupson, a Scripture reader at Yarmouth, who is to
be specially ordair ed a minister of the Church of England.
ELOPEMENT IN THE EAST RlDlNG.—Another
strange match has again been made in the East Riding of
Yorkshire, respecting which the following are a few brief
particulars :—An accomplished young lady, daughter of a
squire, resident not 50 miles from the town of Driffield, had
become attached to her father's valet, and the charming
beauty (for such she is) resolved to communicate her
thoughts to her admired one. This done, of course he
readily proposed a speedy marriage, to which she consented;
but as to how the marriage was to be effected without the
knowledge of her parents was a matter for consideration.
With the ingenuity peculiar to her sex she soon overcame
the difficulty. She proposed to her father to visit a friend
in the country, some 20 miles distant, for a fortnight or so.
Consent was obtained, and the necessary instructions were
given by the young lady to the valet to meet her at the ter-
mination of a week at York. She, instead of going to the
"relations," proceeded to York, where a week after her
departure, she was met by the young man, who had also ob-
tained leave for a couple of days. No suspicion whatever
was entertained by the parents, who were startled in the'
course of a fortnight by receiving "the wedding cards."
The runaways are supposed to be in the metropolis or Man-
chester, where they will doubtless stay until the storm is
over,--Manchester Examiner.