The Sun. — 1870-08-09 (London, England)

HER MAJESTY.  OSBORNE, AUG. 8.  The Queen walked out this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise and. Prince Arthur. Princess Beatrice also went out. The Right Hon. W. E. Forster has left Osborne.  The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albqrt Victor, Prince George and Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge, Lieut.-General Ellis, and Mr. Knollys, left Marlborough House last evening on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, at their seat, Dupplin Castle, Perthshire, en route for Abergeldie Castle, Aberdeenshire.  The Duke of Cambridge visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House.  DEATH OF SIR JOHN THWAITES,  We regret to announce that Sir John Thwaites died on Sunday evening, at his residence, at Putney from an attack of English cholera. He was the son of the late Mr. Christopher Thwaites, of Toddy Gill Hall, Westmoreland, and was born in the year 1815. In early life Sir John was in business as a draper, and having been frequently engaged on parochial business, he was elected a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1856, of which body he was chosen the first chairman. In 1865 he received the honour of knighthood, in commemoration of the opening of the great main-drainage works of the metropolis. Sir John was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for Middlesex, and a magistrate for Surrey.  Prince Leopold and the Princess Beatrice are ex pected to join the Prince and Princess Christian at Grew Malvern.  It is expected that Parliament will be prorogued on Wednesday. On Tuesday (to-day) the Ministers go clown to Osborne to arrange with her Majesty the terms of the Queen's Speech, which will be read by Royal Commission.—Observer.  No appointment has yet been made to the Assistant Under-Secretaryship of the Foreign Office, vacant by the death of the Hon. Charles Spring Rice. The names of Lord Tenterden and Sir Louis Mallet have been mentioned in connection with the vacant appointment.— Observer.  There is no foundation whatever for the statement that the King of Hanover has embodied a Hanoverian  legion for service with the French army against the Prussians. The report that a son of the King of Hanover had taken service under the Emperor Napoleon is equally incorrect.  Late on Saturday night a cupola on the Town Hall of Newport, Salop, was observed to be on fire. The flames spread with the utmost rapidity, and by twelve o'clock the handsome front block of buildings was gutted. The hall is insured.  A large French steam ram, barque rigged, passed Dover westward on-Sunday afternoon. It is believed to be the same reported on Saturday morning by telegram, and is supposed to be looking after German ships coming through the Channel. The guns now stored in Guildford-yard, Dover, are being taken out for examination as to their fitness for service, and some are being removed to the fortifications round the coast. It is also observable that larger guns are being mounted on some of the Castle batteries.—Dover Chronicle.  The High Sheriff of Dorset has fixed Monday, the 15th of August, for the execution of Thomas Radcliffe, now under sentence of death for the murder of a warder at the Portland Convict Prison. During his incarceration the convict has been of a sullen demeanour, and has made but little reference to his crime.  The new public park at Moss Side, Manchester, named the Alexandra, in honour of the Princess of Wales, was formally opened to the public on Saturday. The new park covers 60 acres, and has cost 260,000. The other public parks in Manchester and Salford were presented to the inhabitants by a committee, which raised the necessary subscriptions in one year, and completed their gift in another. The new . park is the first in Manchester of which the expense is defrayed out of the municipal funds.  The Nation gladly welcomes the Hon. E. R. King Harman as a candidate for Dublin. "Home rule," it agrees with him, "is the question of the day." It has always, it says, advocated the union of all classes in Ireland in obtaining for her the right of self-government, and now that a Protestant gentleman—a member of one of the leading families in the country—comes forward to join the ranks of Irish patriots—" shall he be denied the welcome "to which this conduct entitles him? "An Irish Parliament in College-green would bring a tide of wealth to the metropolis, the effect of which would be felt by every member of the community."