The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-30 00:00:00

RETURN OF TIM QUEEN TO THE METROPOLIS.--•
Her Majesty the Queen, with the junior members of the
Royal Family, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of
the Court, will, it is expected, according to- the latest
arrangements, leave Windsor Castle on Monday, or the
commencement of the week, for Buckingham Palace. Her
Majesty, it is understood, will remain about a week in the
metropolis.
BILLIARD ROOMS IN BARRACKS.—The members
who voted in the minority for disallowing the item of
£.3,000 for billiard rooms in barracks, were Messrs. Allen,
Ayrton, Bazley, Berkeley, Colvile, Cowen, Dillwyn,
Gaselee, Gilpin, Greville-Nugent, Hadfield, Harris, Lee,
M`Laren, J. S. Mill, Otway, Potter (E.), Robertson,
Sheridan, Sykes, Taylor, Winterbotham, Young, and Sir
John Gray. The majority was composed nearly equally
of Ministerialists and members of the Opposition.

We believe that, although it is quite true that
various efforts have been made for the establishment of a
new bishopric for British congregations in South America,
nothing has yet been settled, and no appointment formally
proposed. The endowment of the see is not yet forth-
coming, and it is doubtful whether there will be any ex-
tension of the colonial episcopate until the legal questions
Involved in the Natal case are finally settled. Meanwhil,
active measures are being taken with regard to Mada•
gascar, and owing to the resignation of Bishop Ryan an
arrangement in this case may probably be effected.
Strenuous efforts are also being made to secure episcopal
superintendence for Northern Europe, with Heligoland as
the see.—Herald. •

THE EASTER VOLUNTEER REVIEW.—The arrange-
ments for the review at Portsmouth are now approaching
completion. A good idea, by Which a great relief to the
pressure on the roads leading to the space where the battle
will take place, has been decided on by the conversion of
a footpath from Stainshaw to Hillsea lines. Over this
ground 7,000 or 8,000 troops will march to the scene of
action, and a consequent sensible relief to the passage of
the troops on the main turnpike-road will be afforded.
A noticeable novelty for the sight-seers will be a grand
night attack on the shore defences of the garrison. Public
meetings are being held at all•the neighbouring towns of
Portsmouth, and cordial assistance is given to the execu-
tive, which bids well for the general success of the day's
proceedings.

HORSES AT RAILWAY BRIDGES.—An inquest has
been held on the body of a gentleman who was killed in
consequence of his horse taking fright at the whistling of
an engine as it passed over the Camden-street
bridge of the North London Railway. The deceased,
it appeared, was riding a spirited horse which had before
exhibited signs of impatience. He had recovered his
control over it, however, when suddenly a train rushed
across the bridge with the whistle blowing, upon which the
horse bolted off, and in its headlong course stumbled and
fell with its rider under it. The unfortunate man was
picked up in a state of insensibility, and died from frac-
ture of the skull. The bridge parapet was said to be so
low as to permit the handles of the carriage-doors to be
seen from the street. The jury returned a verdict of
accidental death, with a special finding as to the unsatis-
factory state of the bridge.

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AND Loss OF FOUR LIVES.
—A lamentable boat accident has occurred in Poole har-
bour, by which it is beyond doubt that four lives were
lost. It appears that a clay-cutter named Thomas
Fry, 50 years of age, left the quay at Poole in a canoe,
for Middlesborough, near Wareham, about six miles from
Poole Quay. He had with him in the boat his son, about
five or six years of age, a girl named Mary Ann Green,
aged 16, and hei sister, Emily Green, aged between
two and three, the daughters of John Green, of Middles-
borough. Fry had also in the boat a sack of grass seed
and various other things which took up room and un-
doubtedly tended to overload it. Tho canoe also, it
appears, was an old one, and leaky. Fry was sober, and
as the night was calm, those standing near the landing
steps on the quay did not think any danger was to be ap-
prehended. The boat, however, never reached its desti-
nation, ane the next time it was seen was about nine
o'clock on Thursday morning, when it was found by two
men who were " eel peeking " in Wareham Channel. Pre-
viously to discovering the boat, which was found bottom
upwards, they found the dead body of the little girl
Emily Green floating on the water. They brought the
body to Poole, and placed it in the care of the police, and
steps were promptly taken to find, if possible, the bodies
of Fry and his son, and Mary Ann Green, who, there is no
doubt, were drowned, but these efforts have as yet been in
vain. An inquest was held on Thursday, by Mr. G. B.
Aldridge, coroner, on the body of the child, Emily Green,
when all the evidence procurable was given. Nothing, of
course, was known as to the manner in which the accident
occurred, and the jury returned an (wen verdict of
r Found drowned.",

Some Italian papers have written silly things
about the gold-coloured sand strewn before the
embassy, as if it had been ostentatiously done
as a presage of the exalted expectations in
that quarter, but though it is true gold-
coloured sand. marks the line of the Pope's pro-
gress on all occasions of state, it is certainly
not confined to his use, And is frequently
thrown down for the commonest purposes, such
as when the streets are slippery, probably
because yellow sand is the easiest to obtain in
the neighbourhood. On the evening in ques-
tion, however, it was certainly not confined to
the Piazza of the Dodici Apostoli. I rather
think it was laid down at the localities of all
the ricevimenti to dull the sound of the car-
riages on the pavement, but I can, at all
events, testify to its being abundantly used at
the Propaganda, where Mgr. Capalti, and
Gonella presided, as well as at the Spanish
Embassy.
The Times has, I see, drawn similiar infer-
ences from premises which warrant them no
more.. The writer of its article on the Con-
sistory infers that because Cardinal Bonaparte
was created separately from the other cardi-
nals, he will, therefore, certainly succeed to the
Apostolic See. Without touching on the pro.
babilities of that idea, I may remark that it
has always been the custom here,. in con-
ferring the cardinalitial dignity on members
of a royal or imperial family, to make them
the subject of a distinct and special ceremony
of creation, generally at an interval of some
weeks, at least, from any other. I understand
that in the present instance the precedent was
departed from out of regard to the wishes of
the prelate in question, who shrank from the
special honour. So that though it was com-
muted into a separate repetition of the creative
formula, it was certainly not by any means an
extraordinary homage, but the contrary.
Perhaps here, while commenting on those
little inaccuracies in the correspondence of
other papers, I may be allowed to say a word
with reference to some comments on my own.
I have not seen the attack, but I am told
the Weekly Register had some weeks back an
angry remark because, at the time the Con-
sistory was first announced, I mentioned that
the name of the Archbishop of Westminster
was spoken of among those likely to be among
the new eminentissimi. Now, I know there
are correspondents who claim a sort of gift
of omniscience, and write as if they wanted
people to think they had private supernatural
intuitions as to the future, but I hold all
such pretension ridiculous, and consider it
one's province only to chronicle judiciously the
most probable of the countless statements
which are discussed in various circles around
one, and to cull from the multitude of reports
those likely to be interesting to one's readers.
As in any competition, the name of the proxime
accessist is looked for with equal interest to that
of the winner, for there must be but the faintest
shade of difference between the ultimately de-
cided for, and the reluctantly decided against,
just so it seemed to me that readers at home
would find as much pleasure in finding those
they knew and revered among the latter as in
reading the bare names of comparatively
strangers among the former. The only ques-
tion as to the right to make the report had to
be decided by the weight of the authority
from which it was received, and I take this
opportunity, therefore, of affirming that, while
I am never very indiscriminate in the selec-
tion of proofs, I had the most excellent grounds
for what I said on this occasion.

To return to Cardinal Bonaparte. I would
not have it understood, by anything I have
said above, that I by any means mean to deny
that he is made the subject of more frequent
and more animated discussion just now than
any of his colleagues. It could not be other-
wise. The circumstances of his family and
position afford reasons for special interest and
curiosity. He has undoubtedly been received
very graciously in high quarters here. His
father's base ingratitude in getting himself
made President of the Constituent Assembly.
of 1849, and then proclaiming a Roman. Re-
public and the abrogation of the Temporal
Power, has been put out of sight, and only
his own and his mother's virtues remembered ;
while individually he has not afforded oppor-
tunity for one unfavourable comment. Then in
person and in manner he is winning. When
he speaks he is dignified, without self-asser-
tion, and when he abstains from speaking it
seems to be from a certain sad, soft mistrust of
himself, which has a charm in one so high-
placed, and not from hauteur. He has the
fine massive forehead of the first Napoleon,
with a still greater likeness to the well-known
bust of young Augustus Caesar, while he de-
cidedly has the advantage over him in height.
In replying to Mgr. Ricci's address on Monday
night his words were felt to go beyond mere
set phrases. Though it was one of those occa-
sionA of ceremony in which a man cannot help
feeling that what he has to say is so nearly
identical with what must have been said thou-
sands of times before ; that, while no formula
is prescribed, it is yet hardly possible to avoid
falling into a fortuitous one—the honour is
great—the Pope is good—the recipient is un-
worthy—he can but trust to the grace of God
to make him a not unfit representative of the
dignities of Holy Church, &e. ; yet it was felt
that there was a depth in his utterances which
deprived them of conventionality, and men
who have such expressions by heart, from hav-
ing to hear them often on such occasions
through the course of their lives, were inti-
mately touched by his earnestness. It seemed
as if the symbol of high rank only recalled to
him a perception of the end of all dignities,
and that as it was placed on the table before
him there came under his mind's eye a vision
of the day when by Roman custom that very
galerum rubrum would be laid on a sable bier,
surrounded as now by the rank of Rome, while
he himself, instead of standing erect to receive
it, would be laid low beneath the pall, and his
soul already gone to its account. In a tone
suggestive of some such impression he falter-
ingly expressed his desire that the Holy
Father's benediction might procure for him the
inestimable blessing of being ready for the