The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-02 00:00:00

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His Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince and
her Royal Highness the Hereditary Princess of Hohen-
zollern (Infanta of Portugal), attended by the Countess
Renaud and Baron de Branchitsch,will return to Claridge's
Hotel to-day from Osborne, where they have been on a
visit to her Majesty.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Cleveland has left
town for Brighton.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal have
been receiving a select party at Hampstead Marshall,
Berkshire, during the past week.
The Earl de Grey has recovered from his illness.
The noblo earl and countess have left Studley Royal,
Yorkshire, for Nocton, Lincolnshire.

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The Countess Cowper has been and still remains
very unwell. On Friday last her ladyship was taken
with a fit, and on Saturday she was assailed with another
attack. Much anxiety was felt for sonic hours, but up
to a late hour yesterday the countess was going on
favourably.

The Countess (Dowager) of Westmorland and
Lady Rose Fane have returned to town from Brighton.
We understand that the Order of the Garter is
about to be conferred upon King Leopold If. of
Belgium, and that Lord Sydney will shortly proceed to
Brussels for the purpose of investing his Majesty with the
insignia of the Order on behalf of the Queen. The name
of Mr. Edward Buller will be included in the batch of ba-
ronets to be gazetted this week. Mr. Buller, now member
for North Staffordshire, sat for Devon for many years.

London and County Land and Building
Company.

(THIS DAY.)
An extraordinary general meeting of this impor-
tant company was held at the London Tavern
to-day, for the purpose of altering several of the
existing regulations and articles of association of
the company, and making fresh regulations in lieu
of the same.

Mr. L. SIMPSON, chairman of the company, pre-
sided, and, in opening the proceedings, said that
the object of the special meeting was to do away
with certain regulations which time and experience
proved to be unnecessary to the efficient work-
ing of this important association. The main
alteration la hich it was proposed to introduce was
to enable the directors to hold ,their annual general
meetings at the end of January or the beginning of
February, so as to place the shareholders in posses-
sion of the statement of accounts as early as any
other of the great commercial undertakings of the
metropolis. The great body of the shareholders
were favourable to the proposed alteration and
satisfied as to the management of the company, as
a proof of which he held proxies of shares to the
amount of 32,000, a proof of confidence for which
he felt very grateful. At a special meeting it was not
usual to go into the general policy of the company,
but he might avail himself of that opportunity to
state that there was every reasonable ground that
the directors in their report at the end of this
month, or early in February, would be able to
recommend the same dividend as had been declared
previously, and that the affairs of the company
would be found satisfactory to the shareholders.
(Hear, hear.)

Mr. LOOKER, the secretary, then read the diffe-
rent alterations proposed, and a series of resolutions
embodying them having been agreed to, thanks were
voted to the chairman, which terminated the pro-
ceedings.

DEATH OF MR. RAMSAY, OF BARNTON. —On
Saturday morning last died Charles William Ram-
say Ramsay, Esq., of Barnton and Sauchie, near Edin-
burgh, a gentleman who, though little more than 21 years
of age, was well known as a keen sportsman and sup-
porter of the Scottish turf, and as a regular rider to the
Linlithgow and Stirlingshire packs. He died in conse-
quence of an accident, at first deemed trivial. Returning
with a party of ladies and gentlemen from Carstairs,
where he had been to a ball, he was riding outside a pri-
vate omnibus, when the vehicle was driven under some
trees. A bough swept Mr. Ramsay from the roof of tho
carriage, and he received a small wound near
his knee, but apparently no other injury. He thought so
little of the hurt that he went about as usual, and hunted
more than once after having received it. But it did not
heal, erysipelas supervened, and, despite every medical
care, he died in consequence of the accident.
CHARGE OF PIRACY.—Six seamen, mostly young
men, were brought up at Bow-street Police-court
yesterday, and charged with piracy. It seems they shipped
at Calcutta on board the Scotland, the captain of which
had his leg broken the day the vessel left port. While he
was laid by with the broken leg the prisoners complained
as to provisions, and wished to go back to Calcutta. Ap-
prehensive of a mutiny, Captain Campbell signalled for
assistance from a ship in sight, whereupon the prisoners
hauled down the signals and altered the course of the ship.
They appear, however, not to have had enough knowledge
to navigate her, and as she was in danger the captain was
allowed to take command again, but not before he had by
their orders destroyed the entries in the official-log book of
their misconduct. The vessel arrived at the island of
Ascension, and there found a British man-of-war. A court
of inquiry was held, and the prisoners wore ordered to be
sent home in another vessel to be tried, and the captain
came to England by the mail steamer. Tho Scotland has
not yet arrived with the rest of the crew. The captain
was examined yesterday, and several of his statements
were contradicted by the prisoners. The men were re-
manded.
THE MURDER IN PERTHSHIRE.—There will be a
great body of witnesses in this case, and we under- .
stand that, so far as the depositions have gone, the autho-
rities have secured the right man, Joseph Bell, now incar-
cerated in the prison at Perth. That Bell was in poverty
on Monday, the 18th, and had several pounds in his posses-
sion that evening, is undoubted. He gives, or gave, con-
flicting accounts as to how he came by that money—first,
that he• got the loan of it from a publican in Devonside,
Tillicoultry, and then .that he got it from a dealer of game
for value received. That 8011, on the morning of the mur-
der, set out on a poaching expedition is, we understand,
fratkly admitted by him, and that the gun found resembles
one that was used by him. The case continues to occa-
sion much interest throughout a wide district.—Edinburgh
Courant.

FENlANlS3l.—Yesterday at the Thames Police-
court, two men, named Butler and Farrell, were charged
with endeavouring to induce a private soldier named Far-
rell to desert, and further with being in possession of some
soldiers' clothing. Farrell, the soldier, stated that he was
met on Saturday at Kensington by a man whdinvited him
to drink. He accepted the invitation, and afterwards ac-
companied the man to a house in Whitechapel, where the
prisoners and other Irishmen were drinking. After a time,
the soldier says, he was got upstairs, and there the prisoners
wanted to swear him as a Fenian, take off his uniform,
dress him in plain clothes, and send him to Ireland. He
refused to yield to their solicitations, and after a struggle
got into the street. He informed the police at once, and
they apprehended the prisoners. On searching the house
several articles of soldiers' clothing were found. The de-
fence set up for the prisoners was that the whole affair
was a drunken joke played on the soldier. The magis-
trate, however, remanded the men.

So UTH KENSINGTON MUS EUM.—Christmas Week.
—During the week ending Dec. 30, 1865, the visitors have
been as follows :—From Tuesday to Saturday, free days,
open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 27,7 M. From the opening of
the Museum, 5,729,487. Patent-office—Number of visitors
for the week ending Dec. 30, 6,710. Total number since
the opening of the Museum, free daily (May 12, 1858),
990,179.

THE COMMON LAW COURTS.---Yesterday the sit-
tings' papers of the Common Law courts were issued. In
the Court of Queen's Bench the first sitting in term is for
the 15th inst. in Middlesex, and after term the Ist February
In the Common Pleas the first sitting in Middlesex is the
12th inst., and after term the Ist February. The sittings
in the Court of Exchequer are the same as in the Queen's
Bench.

NEW COMMON LAW STAMPS.—At the Common
Law offices yesterday the new stamps were used for the
first time. No money was taken by the officials connected

with the courts, and the, system is regarded as a great im-
,provement, and will, it is believed, work well.