The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Royal Family, with the Crown Prince
and Crown Princess of Prussia and children, will leave
London for Osborne on Thursday, the 4th of July. The
Prince of Wales will leave for Dublin this (Saturday) morn-
ing, on his way to the Curragh of Kildare. Prince Louis
of Hesse will return to the Continent on Monday, the Ist
July.
A state concert of sacred music took took place at Buck-
ingham Palace last evening by command of the Queen.

The Prince Consort entered the ball and concert room
accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Crown Prince
and the Crown Princess of Prussia, the Princess Alice, the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, the Duke of
Cambridge, Prince Louis of Hesse, and Prince Frederick
of Holstein, conducted by the Lord Chamberlain and other
Officers of State, and attend.,d by the Gentlemen in
Waiting.

The band comprised her Majesty's private band, with
numerous additions from the Philharmonic Society, the
Royal Italian Opera, &c. The chorus were selected from
the Italian Opera, and the amateurs of the Sacred Har-
monic Society, Exeter-hall. The entire orchestra comprised
upwards of 200 performers.
Conductor, Mr. Anderson, director of her Majesty's pri-
vate band. At the organ, Mr. W. O. Cusins, organist of
her Majesty's private chapel.
The vocal performers were :—Mdlle. Titiens, Miss Las-
celles, Mdlle. Adelina Patti, Signor Gardoni, Mr. Santley,
Mr. Patey, and Signor Giuglini.
The number of invitations issued was large, but some of
those invited were prevented, by domestic affliction and
other unavoidable causes, from obeying her Majesty's com-
mands.

On the occasion of the state concert which took place last
evening at Buckingham Palace, the Queen passed the night
in retirement at the White Lodge, Richmon I-park. Her
Majesty was accompanied by the Princess Helena, and was
attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Colonel the Hon. A.
Liddell, and Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood. The Queen is
expected to return to the Palace this (Saturday) morning.

'The steam floating battery, the Sagon, built by
M. Armen, of Bordeaux, which was to have been launched
on the morning of the 25th, could not be got off until the
evening tide of that day, when the operation was effected
with E. Recess.

Tun Porn's HEALTH —" The latest news of the
Pope's health," writes our Paris correspondent, "is alarm-
ins. no hub an abscess at the right leg which iniectei his
whole body."
The GRAVE OF COUNT CAVOUR. —A Turin letter
says :—" Visits continue to be paid to the tomb of Count
Cavour at Santena, a village not far from hero. Yesterday,
the students of two colleges, to the number of 200, in mili-
tary uniform, and with flags in mourning, marched to the
spot and laid two garlands on the grave."
We are authorized to state that there is no foun-
dation for the report of the approaching marriage of the
Due de Richelieu and Mademoiselle Duvernay, now Mrs.
Lyne Stephens.

We are authorized to state that no corps under
the establishment of a battalion, unless it belongs to an ad-
ministrative brigade or battalion, will be allowed to take
part in the Volunteer Field-day at Wimbledon on the 13th
of July. The attendance of administrative brigades and
battalions will not be sanctioned unless the field officer
commanding in making his application certifies that his
brigade or battalion will be represented by at least four
companies. All applications from corps forming part of an
administrative brigade or battalion are to be sent in to the
field officer commanding.

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—An ordinary
general meeting of this society, for the election of Fellows,
took place yesterday (Friday) in the Council-room, at the
Gardens, South Kensington ; the Earl Ducie, vice-presi•
dent, in the chair, when 80 new Fellows were ballotted for,
and duly elected, including the Marchioness ofAilsa,Lieut.-
Colonel James Beurne, the Baron de Brunnow, Sir Joseph
Copley, Sir Hector Greig, K.C., Lady Heathcote, Lady
Knatchbull, Sir John Kynaston, Col. Paget, Major E. L.
Parry, Major Balcarras Ramsay, the Marchioness of Lon-
donderry, the Lady Willoughby D'Eresby, the Lady Jane
Walsh, Sir James Tyler, and Lady Templemore. The
Council have fixed Monday, July 8, for the next special
general meeting for the election of Fellows, so as to be in
time for the great rose show on the 10th. To-day the
police bands make their public trial in the gardens of the
society.

THE FRENCH IN SYRIA.—The accounts from
Beyrout, which come down to the 16th inst., state that the
evacuation of Syria by the French troops commenced on
May 30, and was completed on the 10th inst. The troops
forming the expeditionary army amounted to about 8,400
men, who were embarked on board 14 ships of war and
transportm, and the embarkation was effected in perfect order
and created no excitement among the populace. General
Beaufort and his Staff, who, after the embarkation of the
troops had been completed, remained at Beyrout waiting for
a frigate to convey them to France, were expected to *ail on
the 17th in the Moga tor, which had arrived shortly before.
It is satisfactory to learn that down to the latest dates trail.
quillity continued to prevail in that part of Syria and in
the Mountain.

STAGE LIGHTING.—A new system of stage
lighting has just been adopted at the Grand Opera, doing
away with the old float or rant" which had been found so
injurious to the eyes as well as to the voices of the per-
formers. In the present arrangement the float is placed 80
centimetres (21 feet) below the boards of the stage, and the
emanation from the burners are carried off through two
pipes reaching to the top of the roof. The luminous rays
collected by a double reflector in the shape of a sea-shell,
are transmitted to the stage, through a sloping aperture,
covered with a plate of dull glass which subdues the glare
of the gas. By this contrivance all danger of the actresses'
dresses catching fire is obviated, and a source of hurtful
emanations and disagreeable heat, as inconvenient to the
spectators as it is to the actors, is removed. The air, being
no longer disturbed by the vibrations caused by the heat,
the propagation of the sonorous rays is much more regular,
and even the light cast on the stage is stronger and better
distributed. M. Lissajoux, professor of natural philosophy
at the Lycee St. Louis, is the inventor of this system.
THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.—The renewed
concession of the French Government to the Submarine
Telegraph:Cornany having stipulated that a third cable
should be laid for a more direct communication with Lyons,
Bordeaux, Toulon, Genoa, and the Mediterranean, the Asia
screw steamship took on board 81 miles of cable for that
purpose, and, with Mr. Henley, the contractor for laying it,
proceeded to Dieppe on Saturday. The shore end having
been successfully laid on Monday at Puy, a bathing village
about a mile to the east of Dieppe, the Asia returned, steer-
ing a course N.N.V. quart,a. W., to Beachy Head, making
581 miles, and the cable was carried ashore without acci-
dent at Birling Gap, about a mile to the Westward of Beachy
Head, on Thursday, the tide not having served until that
day. This cable constitutes an addition of 60 miles to the
803 already laid by this company. It consists of six con-
ducting wires in gutty percha, served round with a hempen
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steamer, not
inappropriately named the Shark (?e Requiu),
has left Toulon for Port Saida, to bring them to their
senses. The probability is that this report is true ; it may
be confidently expeeted that the Petrie and other semi-
°facial prints will contradict it,

LATEST NEWS.

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FRANCE AND ITALY.

The following is the text of M. Thouvenel's de-
spatch to M. de Rayneval, respecting the recogni-
tion of the Kingdom of Italy :

" PARIS, JUNE 15.
" Sir,—King Victor Emmanuel has addressed a
letter to the Emperor, asking his Majesty to recog-
nise him as King of Italy. The Emperor has re-
ceived that communication with those sentiments of
goodwill which animate him towards Italy, and his
Majesty is the more disposed to give another pledge
thereof by acceding to the wish of the King, as our
abstention, under actual circumstances, might give
rise to erroneous conjectures, and be considered as
the indication of a policy which is not that of the
Imperial Government ; but if we do not wish to
leave any doubts on our intentions in this matter,
there are, nevertheless, necessities which we cannot
lose sight of, and we must be careful that our recog-
nition shall not be wrongly interpreted in Italy and
in Europe.
" The Government of his Majesty has never
under any circumstances, concealed its opinion upon
the events which broke out in the Peninsula last
year. The recognition of the state of things which
has resulted therefrom could not, therefore, be their
guarantee, in like manner as it could not imply a
retrospective approval of a policy on the subject of
which we have also maintained full liberty of ap-
preciation.
" Still less would Italy be justified in finding

therein encouragement for enterprises of a nature to
compromise the general peace. Our opinion (maniere
ale voir) has not changed since the interview at
Warsaw, when we had an opportunity of making it
known to Europe as well as to the Cabinet of Turin.
By declaring then that we considered non-inter-
vention as a rule of conduct for all the Powers, WE
added that an aggression upon the part of the
Italians would not obtain, whatever might be its
consequences, the approval of the Government of
the Emperor. We still maintain the same senti-
ments, and we decline beforehand any responsibility
(solidctrite) in projects the dangers and consequences
of which would entirely be at the risk of the Italian
Government.

" The Cabinet of Turin, on the other hand, will
take into account the duties which our position
entails upon us towards the Holy See, and I
should think it superfluous to add that, in
entering into official relations with the Italian

Government, we do not intetd, in any man-
ner, to weaken the value of the protestations
formulated by the Court of Rome against the
invasion of various provinces of the Pontifical
States. The Government of King Victor Emmanuel
could not, no more than we could, contest the
weight of the considerations of every nature which
are connected with the Roman question, and which
naturally dominate our intentions; he will under-
stand that, by recognising him as King of Italy,
we must continue to occupy Rome as long as suffi-

cient guarantees do not shield the interests which
brought us there.
" The Government of the Emperor has deemed it
necessary at such a moment to enter into the most
frank explanations with the Cabinet of Turin. We
are convinced that it will appreciate their charac-
ter and object.
" You Oil please, Sir, read this despatch to
Baron Ricasoli, and leave him a copy of it.
(Signed) " THOUVENEL.
"To M. de Rayneval, &c."

TURIN, JUNE 29.
The Gazelle di Torino says :

"The Government have informed Garibaldi that
attempts would be made on his life, and that mea-
sures have been taken for watching the entry to
Caprera."

NAPLES, JUNE 27.
Two Bourbon Committees have been discovered,
and several arrests have been made.

TURIN, JUNE 28.

The discussion on the bill relating to the
national loan was continued to-day in the Chamber
of Deputies. Among the members who spoke were
Signori Guerazzi, Crispi, Cordova, and Patruelli.
The Opinione of to day says :—" Portugal has
recognised the Kingdom of Italy."

PESTH, JUNE 28.

It is believed that the Emperor will not accept
the Address of the Hungarian Diet.
Great uneasiness prevails among the deputies and