The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-08 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

• WINDSOR CASTLE, July 7.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise
and Prince Leopold, went out this morning.

Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse returned
to the Castle from Lon•lon this morning.
The Queen held a Council to-day at one o'clock.

HEALTH OF THE PRINCESS OF • WALES.
(THIS DAY).

The following bulletin was issued this morn-

ing :

" Marlborough House, July S.
Her Royal Highness and infant Princess are
going on perfectly well.
" ARTHUR FARRE, M.D.

" EDWARD IL SIEVEKING, M.D."

The Prince of Wales's family now numbers four,
viz., Albert Victor Charles Edward, born January
8, 1864 ; George Frederick Ernest Albert, born
June 3, 1865 ; Louise Victoria Alexandrina Dag-
mar, born February 20, 1867 ; and the princess as
yet unnamed, whose birth formed the subject of
congratulations at Marlborough House on Monday.

The Right lion. W. E. Gladstone, IMP., and
Mrs. Gladstone were honoured by the company of their
Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess de Paris at
dinner last evening, at. their residence on Carlton House-
terrace. The dinner circle included his Excellency the
Prussian Ambassador and ill), Countess Bernstorff, the
Duke of Argyll and Lady Edith Campbell, the Duke Of
Devonshire, Lord and Lady Frederick Cavendish, Lord
William Hay, Lord Eliot, the Hon. an Very Rev. the
Dean of Windsor and Mrs. Weiresley, &c. After dinner
Mrs. Gladstone received a select circle.

The Princess de la Tour d'Auvergne, who has re-
sided for the last eighteen months at Jerusalem, for
the purpose of personally superintending the erec-
tion of a chapel somewhat similar to that on the
Campo Santo at Pisa, has gratuitously ceded to the
French Government an estate she has purchased on
Mount Olivet, and which, according to tradition,
is the exact spot whence Our Saviour delivered the
S.Amon on the Mount. The Princess has made
this donation without any reserve, except that of
being allowed to continue the erection of the sacred
buildings, of which she has submitted a plan to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Ambassador of Russia has transmitted to the
Prefect of the Seine a marble bust of his Imperial
master, which Alexander 11. presents to' the city of
Paris in acknowledgment of the evening of the Bth
of June, 1867, when he dined at the Hotel de
Ville. The bust will be placed in the gallery con-
taining those of Sovereigns who have partaken of
the civic hospitalities since 1852. The list is a long
one, considering the personages of which it is com-
posed :—The Queen of England and the Prince
Consort., Victor Emmanuel, Pedro V. (the late
King of Portugal), his brother, Luiz I. (the present
King of the country), the Queen of Portugal, the
late King Maximilian 11. of Bavaria, the Sultan)
the Emperor of Germany, the King of Belgium')
the Queen of Belgium, and the Emperor of All the
Russias.

A large number of Parliamentary veterans have
decided not to seek re-election to the new House of
Commons. In the list are many who have been.
members of Parliament ever since th. 3 10-pounders
in•beroughs and the 50-pounders in counties have
exercised the franchise under the provisions of the
Act of 1832. Amongst the hon. members who will
retire is Lord Hotharn wit) is 74 years of age. 11'5
lor3ship and Colonel Peers Williams, the senior rJ-
presentative of Great Marlow, may be termed the
joint fathers of the House of Commons, for both
have been in Parliament 48 years. Lord Hothata
has during that long period successively repre-
sented Leominster and the East Riding of York-
shire, while Colonel Williams bas sat uninter-
ruptedly for the constituency which he now re-
presents.

A most interesting work, entitled " Marie
Amelie de Bourbon," has just appeared. The
frontispiece consists of a portrait of the aged Queen,
Winterhalter, and the book itself contains several
autographs, amongst which are letters from LOU'S
Philippe, the Queen herself, the Duchess of Orlearlo,
and the various members of the Orleans fatal
and a letter likewise from the present King of Bel-
gium, written when he was quite a child. A most
curious narrative by the Count of Paris, written
for his mother, gives an intelligent account of 11°
visit to Cail's foundry, where the young Prince was
present at the casting of the various parts of a rail-
way engine.

The following paragraph is from the Figaro :---*
" Among the items of the annual expenses incideo
to the keeping up of the House of Commons is""
Towards dusting and sweeping the House of Cony .
mons during the session of 1857, £1,150 sterling'
`Good heavens!' exclaims the much-amazed Figar°'
'in what wild gymnastic exploits must not the
members of the house indulge to raise such a dastj
as to require the above outlay ! How can the still'::
representatives of the English nation possibly spa'
their time ? Do they jotter de la semelle betweers
their speeches? But even so, to have to pay £lll5O
sterling to sweep away the dust made by 060
gentlemen sounds rather hard lines for the country'"
Why is there no mat at the entrance door ?' Jouel:
de la semelle is a practice common amongst collek
boys and children, who warm their feet in winter
by striking the soles of their shoes or boots in
measured manner against those of another pig.
mate." .
A.remarkable illustration of the character of di°
British juryman was given the other day in a tr-;a1
o
before Mr. Jusece Hannen. The point at is°tif
was whether a builder could recover a sum
money from the property of a lunatic for w°
done at the order of his wife since deceased. 1,1:
'le
lady had been in the receipt of a certain allowance;
and the judge told the jury that if they though
this allowance had been ample to defray all e%:O
penses, these repairs included, then the husbanctt
estate would not be liable. The jury could Dod
sliut their eyes to the fact that the allowance lid
been ample ; but one of them inquired of tbo
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judge with a kind of indignant simplicity thattio
most amusing, " But, my lord, is not the matt t
be paid ?" His lordship then laid down with gr°
gravity that they must not allow that consicleriv,
Con to influence them by one hair's breadth---"o'f
view of the case evidently shocking to the 11110 io
the small tradesman by whom no higher princlP.,l
was conceivable than that a man should be 1)31f
for his work no matter bow or by whom. Anotheo
juror immediately asked, "If we find it 101-
sufficient sum time tradesman will not get ;.`11; 1,
money," and was again assured by the same lie r
exorable authority that this had . nothing t° ,at
't
with the present question. The jury then rtiblii-j !
sulkily found that the allowance was sufficient, t
the verdict was entered for the defendant. I;°f'o
they tacked on to their verdict the expression ,
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an opinion that the wife was the husband's age of .1
and struggled manfully against the instructions - I
the judge. 0
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,110
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£4OO.
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