The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-10 00:00:00

DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCE OF

WALES.

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and suite left Windsor, per
special train, at a quarter to 10 o'clock this morning, for
Folkestone, via Guildford and the South-Eastern Railway,
en route to the Continent.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge accompanied
the Prince as far as Folkestone, where a review and inspec-
tion of the troops at Siaorncliffe, including the 100th Cana-
dian Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own), took place.

The Prince of Wales afterwards embarked for the Conti-
nent from the South-Eastern Company's spacious and con-
venient station at Folkestone.
The train ran from Windsor to Folkestone harbour di-
rect, without change of carriage, and the time occupied on
the journey was under four hours.

THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—A Cabinet
Council will be held on Tuesday next, at which the day on
which the next meeting of Parliament is to take place will
be determined.
Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess de
Croy have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street.
The name of Lord Carrington was accidentally
omitted from the list of relatives attending the funeral of
Mrs. Anson on Tuesday last. His lordship came from the
country on purpose to be present at the last rites of this
deeply-lamented lady.
Count Cladau, of Cephalonia, is sojourning at
Pera, Constantinople. On the 23d ult., the count had the
honour of an interview with the Greek Patriarch of Con-
stantinople.
The Right lion. W. F. and Mrs. Cowper have
left town on a visit to the Earl de Grey, at Wrest Park,
Bedfordshire.
Col. and Mrs. Gold have arrived at Howchin's
Hotel, from their seat in Yorkshire.
Mr. and Mrs. Shepperdhave arrived at Farrance's
Hotel, Belgravia, from their seat in Suffolk.
Queen Christina is about to leave Malmaison for
Genoa, and it is believed that her Majesty will go to Rome
to pass the rest of the winter.
Count de Hatzfeldt, the Prussian Minister, has
left for Berlin.
Baron Gustave de Rothschild, third son of Baron
James de Rothschild, is about to marry the daughter of M.
Anspach, judge of the Imperial Court, and, like himself, of
the Jewish persuasion.
It is expected, should the Princess Frederick
William's firstborn be a son, that the Queen will visit
Berlin at Easter, to stand as sponsor. Her Majesty, it is
expected, will not be absent more than a fortnight, and the
visit of the Court will, therefore, have no material effect on
the London season.—Court Journal.
It is believed that the Empress Dowager of
Russia, who is recovering from her serious illness, will
accompany the Emperor Alexander on his proposed visit
to London and Paris this year.—Court Journal.
The pony given by Queen Victoria to the Prince
Imperial was mounted yesterday for the first time by the
little Prince, in the reserved garden at the Tuileries, and
attracted such crowds of idlers that an extra guard had to
be called to keep order round the grating.—Court Journal.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL.—
Mendelssohn's " St. Paul" will be performed on Friday
next, January 14. Principal vocalists—Madame Ruders-
dork, Miss Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Signor Belletti.
The noble and illustrious circle assembled in St.
George's Hall on New Year's evening to hear the per-
formance of music, were startled in the midst of the per-
formance by the report of a pistol, which rang through
the apartment. Many of the ladies turned pale, and some
actually jumped from their seats, but the quiet assured
smile of the Queen and the undisturbed proceedings of the
orchestra quickly restored the self-possession of the fair
alarmists. The shot fired was, it seems, a preconcerted
dramatic effect to give duo significance to the chorus in
" Der Freyschutz," See, oh see, the shot his bride hath
struck," and certainly did produce an effect.—Court Jour
nal.

LAUNCH OF A PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR.—
On Saturday afternoon a very fine screw corvette, for the
Portuguese Government, was launched from the yard of
Messrs. R. and H. Green, at Blackwell. She is the sister
vessel of the ship which was built in this yard. and conveyed
the young Queen of Portugal, on the occasion of her mar-
riage, from Plymouth to Lisbon. She was named by the
lady of Admiral Sir G. Sartorius, of the Portuguese Navy,
" Stephanie," after the Queen. Nothwithstanding the
coldness of the day, there was a large company to witness
the ceremony. The ship went off in the most admirable
manner. She is built of wood, is 1,600 tons burden, is
pierced for 20 guns, with a large swivel howitzer on deck,
and is to be fitted with a. screw, worked by engines of 400
horse power. After the launch the ship was hauled into
the East India Docks, to be completed and equipped for sea.
WRECK OF A FOREIGN SHIP ON SCROBY SANDS.
—YARMOUTH, Friday.—At daybreak this morning a vessel
was seen on Scroby Sands, which appeared to be a foreigner.
It blew at the time hard from the northward, with showers
of hail and rain. The Scratby boatmen's lifeboat was at once
launched, but before she could reach the wreck it had beat
off and sunk in deep water. As far as the people could. see,
the shipwrecked crew had taken to their boats. The life-
boat picked up one boat's crew, the other boat made for a
smack that was plying about. With this lifeboat the boat-
men have creditably provided themselves at their own ex-
pense. It is pleasing to observe the alacrity with which
the lifeboats in this noted neighbouthood for wrecks are now
launched, which are chiefly under the management of the
Royal National Life-boat Institution, which has four excel-
lent lifeboats here. This society promptly pays its lifeboat
erews for their meritorious exertions, and this is a point of
much importance ; for it cannot be expected that the boat-
men who compose the crews of lifeboats will show much
dexterity if any doubt or delay exists as to their payment.
Last year the National Lifeboat Institution voted nearly
£6OO in payment to its numerous life-boat crews. It also
granted rewards amounting to nearly £4OO to the crews of
shore boats who had laudably exerted themselves in saving
or attempting to save life from wrecks on our coasts.
THROWING A POLICEMAN INTO A QUARRY.—On
Thursday night a police-constable, named Robert Wardell,
while on the old Hohnfirth-road, near Huddersfield, heard
some voices in a wood that skirts the road. Suspecting
something wrong, he stepped off the road, at a point near a
quarry, and entered a wood, which stands on a steep decli-
vity. Descending cautiously towards the noise, he saw a
man crouching among the trees, and was making towards
him, when another man, whom he had not observed, started
up in his path, and driving his head violently into his
stomach, seized him by the legs, and threw him into the
quarry—a depth of about 24 feet. The cries of the
unfortunate officer, who was unable to move, brought
to his assiatance two men who were going along the
lower or new Holmflrth-road. They procured lights, and
took him to. the nearest inn. He was afterwards conveyed
to the Huddersfield Infirmary, where he was found to have
sustained compound fractures of the right thigh and
elbow Joint. He is progressing satisfactorily—Manchester
Guardian.

A LEGAL DISTINCTION.—At Bow-street police-
court, on Saturday, Robert Palmer, a plumber and glazier,
in business in Lambeth, was charged with stealing a print
of George IV. from Messrs. Debenham and Story's auction
rooms, ICing-street, Covent-garden. The print had been
knocked down to the defendant for 55., and he had paid is.
deposit on it. At•the close of the sale he was seen to take
the picture up and walk away with it. He was followed
and given into custody. The defendant said he had' no in-
tention of taking the print without paying for it. He asked
a porter where he was to pay, and the man replied at the
office in front. He understood this to 'mean the office in
the street, which had a separate entrance, and was going
there when he was charged with stealing the print. Mr.
Henry observed that there appeared to be some degree of
carelessness when a man could take a picture away in this
manner. He discharged the prisoner on his paying for the
picture. His worship subsequently told the officers that
where a person removed property for which he had paid
part of the money, it was not a felony. Even if done in-
tentionally it was only a breach of faith, for which there
was but a civil =eq.