The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-19 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY, &c•

WINDSOR CASTLE, Saturday.

The Queen, with the Princess of Wales, drove
out yesterday afternoon. Tier Majesty, accom-
panied by her Royal highness Princess Louise, and
attended by Lady Susan Melville, drove out this
morning.

Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of 117-ales
and Princess Christian also went out driving-
Princess Beatrice walked in the grounds, and
Prince Leopold went out walking, attended by Mr.
Legge.
The Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Christian
went out shooting, attended by Lieutenant-General
C. Grey and Lieutenant Haig.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, attended
by Lady Caroline Barrington, Lord Alfred Paget,
and Colonel 11. and the Hon. Mrs. Ponsonby, went
to London last evening and honoured the perform-
ances at the Lyceum Theatre with her presence, and
afterwards returned to Windsor Castle.

Sir James Clerk arrived at the Castle, and Mr.
G. D. Engleheart left.

StiNDAI•

The Queen, with her Royal Highness the Princess
Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon. Princess
Beatrice drove out also.
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and
Princess Christian went out riding, attended by the
Hon. Mary Lascelles and Major-General F. Sey-
mour, C.B.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by
Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle yesterday
from Greenwich-park.
The Hon. Mrs. Bruce, Viscount Cranborne, the
Right Hon. Lieutenant-General Peel, and Lieut.-
General H. Sandham, R.E., have also arrived.
The Hon. Mrs. Stonor, Viscount Cranborne, and
Lient.-G oneral reel had the honour of dining with
the Queen and the royal family.
The Queen, her Royal Highness the Princess of
Wales, his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh,
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the ladies end
gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service this
morning in the private chapel. The Rev. J. ft'
Woodford preached the sermon.
The hymns and psalms sung were taken from the
Oxford edition of the Rev. IV. Mercer's Hymn 313 a
Psalter Book, which has been adopted in the ReY3l
Chapel by her Majesty's command.

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Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales will
leave Windsor Castle on 'Wednesday or Thursday Del!'
on her return to Sandringham. The Prince of Wales°
expected to return from Russia on or about the 28th inst•

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester will ea'
tertain a succession of distinguished visitors at Kirabollol
Castle, Hunts, during the week.
The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle, the Due (1;e
Richelieu, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Walker Heneage have i
the St. George's Hotel.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke intend to
receive a large party of friends next week at Wimpole 11311'
Cambridgeshire. The company will assemble on the 7t4
instant.
The Earl of March will attain his majority °ll
the 27th of next month, and preparations are already beil3bso
made to celebrate the event with great rejoicing on the
family estates.

It is understood that Mr. Miller, the Conservv
tive member for Colchester, is about to resign his seat, and
in that event Sergeant Ballantine will probably be a can;
didate, with a proportionate gain to the representation
the borough, since he must unquestionably be class!'
among the ablest as well as the soundest and most CO'
tent Liberals of the day.
REPRESENTATION OF PEMBROKESIIIRE.—The writ
for the election of a representative for Pembrokeshire, vet:
Mr. G. Lort Phillips, has been received, and the norniaati°t
is fixed for Monday, the 26th inst. Up to the present Oa°
Mr. J. B. Bowen, of Llwyngawair, a Conservative, is tb
only candidate.
CHARLES LAMB'S TOMB.—A proposal has beef
made to erect a handsome monument over the grave 1),,
Charles Lamb, in Edmonton churchyard. Subscription
will bo received by Messrs. Moxon end Co.
M. GUSTAVE DORE has been engaged to Was;
trate Edgar Allan Poe's celebrated poem, " Tho
The subject is precisely in his wild and fantastic vein.
MR. FRITH'S NEXT GREAT PICTURE.—Mr. Frith
is far advanced with that which will be his most import
work, a picture which is about eight feet long, and c°
tains many figures. The subject is " The Last Sunda)" at
,
Whitehall before the Death of Charles the Second," as
scribed by the Diarist. The persons represented are :110
king and his duchesses, musicians, and courtiers ;
diarist himself is placed behind them. This work IV

appear at the next Academy gathering.
c 013;
MR. G. H. LEWES, we regret to learn, is
pelled to retire from the editorship of the Fortnightly
view, owing to ill-health.
MR. GEORGE CRUIKSHANK will preside at the is
tribution of prizes, and deliver an address, to the stildel°
of the Government School of Art in connexion With
Liverpool Institute, on Wednesday, the 28th. • ill
PROFESSOR DE MORGAN has resigned his Chair
University College, London, in consequence of the rsc,'",t
decision arrived at by the council of that body to rsfej..
Professor Martineau's candidature for the chair of I°t o,
lectual Philosophy and Logic on the ground of his dell

minational repution.
AIR, A. COOPER has tendered his resignati°ll,,9*:
full R.A., and retires to the Honorary Academician „f
This act creates another vacancy. In the next electiou vt
R.A.s and A.R.A.s, the new laws will be carried into elfee

and the Associates vote with the full members.
TEL E LATE LORD DUDLEY ST UA RT. --SatlirclAllT;
being the 12th anniversary of the death of Lord Ptl;:ela
Stuart, a meeting of the Polish Historical Society WaS -
at Sussex-chamber, Duke-street, St. James's, in Colloe-:ci
ration of the sad event. Major Szulczewski, Who oceute'to
the chair, and several other gentlemen, paid a tribu; to
the self-sacrifice and devotion to the departed noblellls-
the cause of Poland. )0e of

INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER JOURNAL.---°- to
the beneficial results of the late visit of our volunteersa,
Belgium is the announcement of a new international ;it'll-
nal, which is to be called the Rifleman, and which '5 111
tended to give information in French and Englisbl
events concerning volunteering, sport, aquatics, bill'toal
shooting matches, fishings, and all matters whicil
The
interest British and Belgian
riflemen and sportsmen.
other
prospectus says the Rifleman must thus become '11,,•5 to
bond of union between the two nations. The jourl33—tha
dmfavnfsaigoenmoefntthoe fvaonfuonffiteceerraorfm3,t,hoefCßheafassienuntrs.
be published weekly at Brussels, and is to be necler„...a
Chronicle.
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DR. C MIMING'S PREDICTIONS.—Last everix- est
Cumming took for his text Jonah i., 6 : " What raeniajlot-
thou, 0 sleeper ? arise, call upon thy God.'l' In ccapjseel(l
ing upon the story of Jonah he went over much of "1.0 ro.
ground, and reputed most of his usual illustrations di that
lation to the approaching end of the world. Ile 3:1! vro'
20 years ago he had fixed upon the year 1866 as tt *had
bable period when time should come to an end, and oat
then and since been much ridiculed for his helief•t tiaie
where were the scoffers now ? Did not the Preeen f
men
portend some dreadful catastrophe? The minds °Rod,
were much troubled, and the councils of nations PerPtt los
by the dread of some great and terrible calamity th' in tot
presently to come upon the earth. The Papacy Wss oon
last throe, and all the Pope's lambs were ready to turn
Ind
their shepherd and tear him asunder. The 10,000111113°
1 were
the 10,000 priests dispossessed by Victor Emmarrueto fight
coming over to help Dr. Manning and the Puseyites It 00
their last great battle in England. He believed W' r the
true interpretation of prophecy pointed to this alit,ho
next, or probably 1868, as the consummation of Liook,
but if any Jonah were to go to-morrow, at 12 t'reo of
to the Royal Exchange, "the centre of the ceeill'euid be
this great nation, and proclaimed this belief be vi°
laughed at." 9 A °°ll-
- IS A Hop?—What is a hop - of the
burg correspondent, in the last numberio.
_no
Brewers' Journal, has put a very literal construct,
for
this query, which appeared in the Brewers',./ournatier that
telpher. The question we put related to the flower
had
was absolutely picked for the use of the brewer;v:but we
no idea that it would have led to any controveric
~e bop
co.'
may say at once both botanically and practicloiotUy
we meant is a flower. The hop heads to ring
respondent alluded are sometimes eaten in the.l:l:,,e oft°
the labourers' families in Kent, being cooked i
b.esthst
way as asparagus. When the bine is tied the tier
.e the 0011
there are no more than three blues to a Pca. ,atca t°
shoots being pulled up, and, as we have sa1:0 left to
some extent; and when this is not the case they
t ol,s to
ut on the ground. Any idea of sending theseeoh 0,
• pre-
entire Pre-
the London markets as a spring vegetable _ other;
eluded by the fact that they soon dry an toiolorr
table, 3
wise they would be a welcome addition 0
has inaoy
person 1400d012
they are, we are informed by a
times eaten them, extremely palatable, and at
table would be looked upon as a delicacy.