The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-27 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, March 26.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Helena, walked and drove in the grounds
this morning.

Princess Louise, with the Erince of llohenlohc-
Langenbourg, went out riding, attended by the lion.
Mary Lascelles.

The Archbishop of York left the Castle this

morning.

The Queen and the royal family.went into mour
ing for Queen Marie Amelie, for four weeks, on the
25th inst.

The Prince and Princess of Wales visited his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at Glouces-
ter-house, yesterday morning.
Their Royal Highnesses afterwards drove to
Clarement, and paid a visit of condolence to the
family of the late Queen Marie Amelie

The Funeral of King Leopold.

A bill has just been presented to the Belgian
Chamber of Representatives for opening a...credit to
pay the cost of the funeral of Leopold I. and the
installation of his successor. The items for which
sums are due- are the following Construction of
a temporary church at Laeken, and opening and
closing of the tomb, 121,965 f. ; funeral car, 49,1291.;
repairs of the road for the passage of the car,
10,484 f. ; decoration of the avenue and bridge of
Laeken and PlaCes des Martyr, 14,020 f. ; toll for
the passage of the'Procession in the Rue des Paials,
2,000 f. ; works for the restoration of the chapel,
paving, &c., 42,072 f. ; purchase of hist:63,isal docu-
ments and subscriptions to different fiErTatves of
the funeral, 8,534 f. ; expen4tes of the inauguration
of Leopold 11., 20,993 f. ; fiundries, 14,956 francs
—total, 275,753 francs.'' The item of 8,531 francs
for historical documents, &c., requires some expla-
nation. In the absence of all precedent of royal
interments in Belgium, the authorities were obligeil
to procure from abroad, principally from France
and Holland, engravings and, albums relative to the i
funerals of Louis XVIII. and William H. Those
documents will now be deposited in the library of
the Chamber. As to the narratives of the ceremonY,
a collection was made of all the accounts published
in the journals, not only of Belgium, but of foreign
countries, including America also, with the principal
articles on th© late King and notices of his life.
Lastly, among the expenses incurred for the in-
auguration of Leopold 11. was the cost of two
magnificently bound volumes of parchnient, richly
ornamented, and containing a report of the Royal
sitting of inauguration, at the bottom of which au
the members of the Chamber of Deputies and of the
Senate affixed their signatures after that of the
King. One of those volumes will be
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the library of the King, and the other in that of the
Chamber of Representatives.

The Reform Bill.

Sir William Hutt has written another letter on
the subject of his amendment. It is as follows
Gibside, Gateshead, March 25.
Dear Mr. AP Queen—l have to thank you for your
letter inquiring of me the object of the notice laid"
I have recently given in the House of Commons.
I wish that all my friends had abstained from
condemning that notice till they had made the
same candid and reasonable inquiry. The sole ob-
ject which I could have in view was to obtain from
the Government some guarantee that in dealing with
reform in Parliament they would provide for
amending the existing' system of local repre-
sentation. My object, though so widely misinter-
preted out of Parliament, and especially down
here, was thoroughly understood in the House of
Commons from the moment the notice was given. I
was, indeed, quickly surrounded by some of the
most earnest and thoughtful of the Liberal mein'
hers, who assured me of their entire concurrence in
its expediency. If you will take the trouble to re-
view the various declarations made by the Govern-
runt when introducing their Reform Bill on the
subject of there-distribution of seats, you will. per-
ceive that they had apparently quite shunted frail
the line of Parliamentary reform on this very import-
ant question. Now, was I, with my strong cowrie-
tions on the subject, and with the consciousness that
grave political interests were confided to my car°
by others, to look idly on and allow this error to be
completed ? If my own feelings would have ac-
quiesced in such recklessness, should I not one day
have been reproached by reformers for betraying
the interests of reform? I took the step which'
after careful consideration, appeared to me to invlll-
- those interests as involved in a just distributionf
of seats, and at the same time to present no kind °
obstruction to the progress of the Franchise Bill. ~,f
my proceedings be only examined, it will be seen
that both by the stage of the bill which I selected f°,;
my amendment, and the peculiar form of it; the sal,
carriage of this bill was solicitously cared for.
have really been ill-treated by those whose wis hes
was studying to promote, and it has pained me 1
much. Still I cannot regret what I have done.
The
believe I have thereby effected my purpose.
Government has seen the expediency of inc',
fying their policy about seats, and of not persistingin adjourning sine die that important question. r_
Friday last, Mr. Gladstone announced that the cl'i.e
vernment would lay before Parliament, while the
Franchise Bill was still in the House of Compleh...%
a scheme for completing in regard to it their measure
of parliamentary reform. On the 10th of APril
Lord Russell, it is understood, will give other aa;
surances on this point to a meeting of the Liber
members of the House of Commons. By placing
myself in the gap at this crisis of the battle I na,',
at least contributed to this notable improvemelli
and I know that one day my constituents and ra;
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old friends the reformers of the North of England',
will do me justice for my exertions.--13e'ev
Ime, &c. WILLIAU litmr•

THE LATE QUEEN MARIE AMELIE.—The ob
quies of her late Majesty the Queen Marie Amelia
will take place on Tuesday morning next. The late Queen
will be buried at Weybridge, in the vault where repos° the
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remains of her husband, Louis Philippe, 'Ong °f ,17,1°
French. Before the funeral leaves Claremot on 'Pies
moraing a solemn service, at which the members of the
late Queen's family who are in England will be Presell:‘,
will take place in the chapel fitted up there specialli to
the corpse. Yesterday his Royal Ilighness theo
Prince of Wales paid a visit of condolence to the Frill°
and other members of the Orleans family at Claremont.
Mr. William Jerdan, the editor of The iiterall
Gazette when that periodical was in the zenith a its.
popularity, has a volume of biography in the pro/3,131°11
"Men I have Known." The book will contain much
pleasant gossip about the principal literary, P°liticB,:' 1
legal celebrities of the present century, including Per,"-°:
sketches and anecdotes of Thomas Moore,i
Thomas tAI-..,1" -
an d other'
bell, the Rev. R. H. Barham, George Canning,
Professor Morley is about to give to the world Ili° er:f
r jamerensl cas eiy.
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THE RUMOURS
OF COMING WAR .'--W
AND AUSTRIA grow will
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PRUSSIA
alarming, so much so that the trade in Vienne "3',or.
ceived a serious check. On the one hand, it aPre3rs L'
or
tain that the Kaiser, whether to indicate his resolutionbo
really to fight, has put his army in motion north War jot
withdrawn furloughs, purchased horses, and wade ~,' est
those preparations on which Governments not in eia'', tbe
are unwilling to waste money. On the other henth) j,
Prussian Government, though aware that Austria i 0 arslee ,
still threatens, and the peace party, of which theira!,d,
and the Prince Royal were the heads, have, it
7teo
given way. The Italian Government evidently belle pa
that war is at hand, the Prussian Court has given 5 grtivoy,
reception to General Govonc, the Italian militaryeehe
and has named Prince Frederick Charles commander ol 41,
army. The main hope of peace in both countries i 6 'of
extreme uncertainty of the course which the Emperor o'
the French would see fit when hostilities had once c° 0,
menced. Many of these statements are probably 00,
rated, but it seems clear that Austria has resolved to real-
no farther.—The Spectator. _,„„T ....
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