The Sun. — 1870-04-20 (London, England)

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES  AT SOUTHAMPTON.  Their Royal Highnesses arrived'bere this morning in the Queen's yacht Alberta, from Osborn, and were received with great enthusiasm. Royal salutes were fired, the Mayor attended, and ships dressed in honour of Vie occasion.  Their Royal highnesses left for London at 11.45 a.m.  Mr. Gladstone has been invited to preside at the annual dinner of the Cobden Club, which will take pace, as usual, towards the close of the session, and the committee are hopeful that ho will accept the in vitation. Lady Herbert of Lea, accompanied by Lady Mary Herbert and hor son, the Hon. William Reginald Herbert, have returned to Wilton House, near Salisbury, from Lisbon.  The death is announced this morning of Lady Stewart, wife of Sir Houston Stewart, G.C.B. the marriage of Lady Harriet Gordon to Mr. Lindsay is fixed for the 7th of May, at St. James's Church, Piccadilly. A marriage is about to take place between the Hon. Frederick Banbury-Tracy and Miss Winnington, daughte" of Sir Thomas and Lady Winnington. Lord Kildare is about to be created Baron Kildare in the United Kingdom. Tbe Hon. Julian Fane died yesterday morning, in Portman• square. He was 42 years of ago. The deceased gentleman was the son of the eleventh Earl of Westmorland. There is now reason to hope that Colonel Akroyd, M.P., will recover from his severe injuries. General Nissage Saget has been elected President of the republic of Hayti for the period of four years. Mr. James Bryce will succeed the Queen's Advocate, who has resigned the Chair of Civil Law at Oxford. It is stated that Major Knox will contest Mallow again, .and will be opposed by Mr. Waters, Q.C., who retired at the last election in favour of Mr. Munster. Captain H. Barrow telegraphed from Penzance "as follows :—" The mid-channel cable is now laid to the telegraph station vessel Brisk, and signals are perfect." A number of gentlemen who have served with Admiral Sir Henry Keppel purpose entertaining him at a public dinner at Portsmouth on Thursday, the 28th instant, on the occasion of the paying off of the Rodney. A concession for telegraph cables between Ro and Para and Rio Grande do Sul, touching in all the maritime provinces, has been granted to Sir Charles Bright and others. The Palermo journals state that the cartridges recently seized in that city, at San Gregorio, wero to the number of 10,000; they had apparently been made about three years. The material found was sufficient to fabricate 20,000 more. • It is understood that the sentence passed on James Rutterford,, convicted at the Suffolk assizes of the murder of John Hight, at Eriswel', Suffolk, has been commuted to penal servitude for life. Since his conviction Rutterford Las conducted himself with propriety. He will be removed shortly from Bury St. Edmunds. The alligator, said to have been caught in the Thames, turns out to bo a large lizard, which escaped from the premises of Mr. Jamrack, a naturalist, in Rateliff-highway, and found its way into the London Docks, only about 300 yards off, and thence through some of the locks into the liver. Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, as one of the Chelsea steamboats neared Lambeth Pier, a pleasure boat was seen foul of a tier of barges moored in the stream. A women was thrown late the water, and a man jumped in after her and tried to rescue her. She sank, however, and the mau was rescued in an exhausted state.  The Buenos Ayres advices state that, owing to the inunda,iou• of a large bonded warehouse, moat of the Euglish imp:irting houses had had valuable merchaudise damaged. The CastJrn-house authorities allowed the goods to be at once removed without payment of duties, the appmisemeut of the dimaged goods to be made at the differeut warehouses, or upon the auctioneer's bill of sale.  A