The Sun. — 1860-08-23 (London, England)

ELIZA COOK.  VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO PRUSSIA.—We hear it rumoured (says the Scotsman) that her Majesty, on her return from the north, will sail from Leith in the Royal  yacht, for Hamburg, on her way to visit the Princess  Frederick William of Prussia.  The New Prussian Gazette states, in a letter from Coburg, that the King of the Belgians will arrive there in September during the visit of her Majesty Queen  Victoria. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary have left Cambridge Cottage, Kew, for Cadlands, near Southampton, on a visit to Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and Madame Muslims, the Earl and Countess of Arran, the Countess of Cathcart, Viscount and Viscountess Castle rosse, the Countess of Kenmore, and Count J. and Lady  Cecil De-la-feld are passing the season at St. Leonard's•  on-Sea.  The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his annual dinner to the principal officers of the House of Commons  yesterday (Wednesday) evening Denis Le Marchant,  Mr. Erskine May, Mr. Ley, Lord Charles Russell, Captain Gosset, Hon. George Waldegrave, Rev. Henry Drury, Mr. Rickards, Mr. Lefroy, Mr. Samuel Smith, Mr. Frere, Mr. Arthur Jones, Mr. Vardon, Mr. Dyson, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Postlethwaite. Mr. J. B._ Rose, Mr. Pole,  Mr. Gray, Mr. Hodgkin, Mr. W. Rose, Mr. Howard. The annual Ministerial whitebait dinner took place last evening at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich. Viscount Palmerston and a large party of his colleagues came by water from Westminster, a Citizen steamer being engaged for the purpose. Covers were laid for 30, the company including the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Somerset, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Wodehouse, Viscount Palmerston, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Charles P. Villiers, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Clarence Paget, RearAdmiral the Hon. F. T. Pelham, the Right Hon.W. Hutt, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Hon. H. B. W. Brand, Mr. Laing, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, Mr. C. Fortescue, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Hugessen, Mr. J. Bagwell, &c. Letters this morning from Point de Galle an• nounce that the whole of the specie of the Malabar—abou £2o,ooo—has been recovered. The diving apparatus used was Heinke's patent. A telegram from Lisbon states that the works of the South-Eastern Railway of Portugal were commenced yesterday. "Prince de Metternich, the Austrian ambassador at Paris," says the Sport, "is expected at his seat in Bohemia, where he will remain during the Emperor Napoleon's tour in the provinces." The directors of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, at a meeting held yesterday, declared a dividend of 5 per cent. for the half-year ending 30th June last. HOMICIDAL MONOMANlA.—Consciousness or unconsciousness of the act is the true test of criminality, not the degree or intensity of the homicidal impulse. The old course is the proper one, which is simply to ask the jury if the prisoner has—or rather had at the time when the crime was committed—a sufficient degree of reason to know right from wrong. We might well tremble at the consequences if it was once established that a man's mind might be right in all points save a tendency to commit murder. It is idle in cases of insanity—as far as the administration of criminal law is concerned—to lose ourselves in fine-drawn distinctions. If a man knows what he is about when he commits a crime, he is amenable to justice, no matter how 'strong his linclination may be to violate the law.—Once a- IVeck. AN