The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-30 00:00:00

'ILBSS, WEDNESDAY B'

up in her place whip anlitems were
with en aseempanisment by the band.
de,for Debug, from a
el the sage re the,
ivory word of which was lost to the tribunes, which
Ise answer was vouchsafed. When the space at last
he as sed then were more lofty strains from t e baud,
more peals of the bells, more discharges of artillery, and
at • given Aral the lines wespres of the statue col lapsed.
and the gut bronze of the here's effigy stood oat, all glitter-
tag le the flaming sun, with tee eountenane• fixed epos the
eltellteuslice of the royal lady by whose unwearied love it
lad been reared on its pedestal.
Presently the besieged damsels In green and pink tibial,
who had be
so to
baking sad waiting ire the per-
iceman°, of the pert &Wised to them in the ceremony.
stepped forward, and one by we laid before the pedestal
their wreathe and garland'. There was • new anthem by
the chorus, and se its last notes died away the Queen with-
drew, and we all thought she had gone back to bar ear.
when she was seen at the head of all her family.
walking across the square up to the monument, where she
lhandad to the Duke of ei&A, Oebourg the bunch of flowers
which had keg lain before her on the balcony of the
pevilion. Thou dowers were laid by the Duke on the 1
j pedestal, and along with them all those of the primness
wed primes, till the fregraret mass rose high up to the fest I
el the statue.
Her Majesty plea walked back to the position, and pre-!
wetly her carriage left the square amid the loud shouts of
the deeply-moved people. The whole ceremony lasted
hardly 20 minutes. When the last of the royal carriages
had disappeared, the renleitede, which had loos bees pent
up at the leash of the market-plus, brake in like • swell
keg tide upon the empty area, which was soon black with
its swarming mums. Only • few minutes later, the Queen,
who had been driving round the gaily-mutes:led streets,
reappeared once more unexpectedly on the densely-beset,
square to obtain one more glimpse of the newly-inaugerstmi
mersament. The crowd, among whom her carriage wad
with difficulty make its way, greeted her enthasiasticalic
on her progress, and it was noticed that as the Quest
Tr Lshe had a smile and a kind word for the sculptor
ad, who, together with Mama. Thomas sod Win.-
terhalter, were standing on the seeps of the pedestal. J
I have been concise, sod, so doubt, dry in the above del
seeiption, because the some, although pleasing, and eves
touching, had nothing in it that Gould be called Imposing,
and the very atmosphere of the place seemed to give
something of German domesticity and sentiment. The
feelings of those marry actors and apestaten in the eon•
mono could not, however, he analysed so bristly. Then
wore not • few among Claus present whose imagina-
tion could go far back into the past and bring
it to bear on the present with all he whelmieg maltreat.
Even as the principal personage stood before me In her
weeds on the platform of that pavilion. my memory could
conjure back the image of • young, almost too young pin-
ems, as she permed before me, mach closer than I sew her
now, all dressed in white, between two lines of her loyal
subjects, on the terrace at Windsor, more than five-and.
twenty years ago. The career that was then open* led to
ass of the most fortunate and glorious reigns in English
history ; but its bistro, after so many ran of domestic
bliss, was partly obscured b gross domestic calamity.
The sharer In all that and that grestueis --he
whn wee at that time just expeoted to creme over to Eng-
land from this very.spot—where wee be now' Be stood
before her " even with such majesty, such warm We," se
all the trick of art GIS give, bat wee no lass • mere read.
!notion, • monument of the past I
There was many • mowed in that short space of 20
reiautte that sent a thrill through the veins of even the
most collected and ueimpreentenable spectator. The cannon
ansouncing the Queues arrival her appearance in frost of
the platform. the falling of tie drapery that esshreutled
the deed likeness," sons of these was so overpowering.
nothing took us so meek by supries, as the simple act of
the Quite° walking up to the moeument to pay her tribute
of affection to the dear departed. That, I believe, was
the essentially Garman cart of the performance ; it wee the
touch of eaters that came hem* to every man's bosom. One
could almost have cried out " Musk, awake him ; strike l"
and expect the trentiformation is the Winter's Tale repro-
duced before us. Her Majesty went through the whole
ceremony with her wonted command over her (eelier.
The Princess of Prussia was visibly affected by the seine
before her.
The men was too paiefully dazzling, and the gilding of
the breeze two vivid, to allow one to do judos to she
merits of the stelae as a work of art, or M enable me at
this moment to give a description of it. The model has
long hoes before the London public, and every one le aware
of the ram advantages the sculptor, Mr. Thad. had, In
his long intercourse with the Prime Conant, in shi mash
he was allowed to {eke of the comatose**, after death, sad
of the still rarer skill with whisk reproiled himself of
those advantages again and again tooduce most
putrid likeness of a eountenehee so familiar to all of es—a
conatesasee in which the worth within so happily bare
monied with the outward beauty—a COSIOSOBIIOOO no less
endeared to all beholders by the most ezqaisitely hand-
emu set of features than by the ineffable benevolence cf
Ito expression.
The execution in bronze by the Nuremberg founders is
rutty to the satisfaction of the artist himself. The statue
is loft. high. The pedeetal is of polished greeds, and
hears in front an inscription with the names and titles of
the Prince —"Prinz Gemahl von Glosyßritedinien unit
lii red." with the dates of his birth and death ; at the back
the date of the erection of the meetiment, with the follow-
ing words—" Das Oeditebtaiss der Oerecbten bteibt in
Sere" ("The righteous sluff be in everlasting rem's-
, branoe."—Ps. call., 6).
His Highness of fiaze•Cobarg gave a reception in the
evening, at 9 o'clock, in the handsome "Giant's Hall," •
splendid room with limeys* caryatides, io the Ehrenberg,
1 the town palace. Most of the royal family of
pea
were there. with their relatives. The Quell wee sot pre-
sent, and it was understood that sliewould Dot quit Rowena.
for the Gagging. The aseeinblege was select, not large.

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UNCON-FAING OF THE STATUE OF THE PRINL
CONSORT.
The special correspondent of the Times, writing
on August 27, Fives the following account of the
grand ceremonial at Hosenau which has attracted
the Queen and almost the whole of the royal family
to that city :
There were uneasy glances at the clouds all day yester-
day and the day before at Coburg, and aoxioas consulta-
tions of the weather-glue. But each a sun blamed oat at
daybreak this merging, end held so uodiminished a away
in the heavens the whole length of the day, that I hardly
believe the Queen's proverbial spell over the weather ever
was more triumphantly asserted than as this ocusion.
The little town of Coburg bad put co her best
holiday dress, and every house was gay with rest
lands, festoons, and streamers, oats of arms, masses
of flowers, eel every variety of simple but tasteful
devices. Every widow-till, every mullion sod acerabe, up
to the topmost gable, was mantled with evergreens. The
last finish had been given to the public buildinp in the
Market-place. The Town-hall and the goveromeut °filets
were linos with flags drooping down from the roofs to the
basement, and the same vivid oolours waved from Saes and
flagstaffs all acre e the square. These colours weft shindy
the even and white of Coburg, the black and white of
Prairie the red end yellow of Baden, the red end black of
Wurtemberg, and the red and white of Darmstadt. The
union jack and the royal standard of England were sot for-
gotten, nor yet that German tricolor, that unfortunate
Sohwarts•Roth•Gold, which never, perhaps, more emphati-
cally than at this moment espenented a bare ides, a more
geographical exerted in.
The heavier wrappings had been removed from the statue --
of the Prince Conant, and there It now stood, in the centre
of the square, with no other covering than a thin whits
PRINCE ALFRED AND Panics ARTEUR'S " Go-
noes cloth ; opposite to it was the Quito's pavilion, ea
vlimona."—Tbe Queen, says last night's Gazette, anxious
elegant straiten all meat and gold, with a canopy sup-
ported by ii mittinint, and shore it, in two escutcheons to mark her manse of the exemplary MOM in which Major
nrinounted by a royal crown, the arms of England and Julie Chill" °ewe% C. 8., of the Royal l'lngleeerat has,
Coburg, and spin over the crown the English audit& for nine years, discharged the duties of his important and
Alltrru, round the sow% sight sad left end opposite. mere the responsible 'Mario. as gossamer to him Royal Highness the
tribunes all mailed with evergreens;
distinguished Prince Alfred, has bees graciously pleased, on the famine
ties of thaw duties, la cosamosnee of his royal highness
strangers, others for the notabilities of the place. The
having, on the Pith instant, attained his majority, to give
profusion of all that nature lavishes, most lovely and most
aharmieg to the eye in field, garden, or forest, pee the orders for the sppniotment of that officer to be an Ordinary
Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights
somewhat homely but not commonplace, and, Indeed,
Commanders of the most Memorable Order of the Bath.
highly pioturesque wn a look of half rural festivity, which Her llalath equally "11" i to show her elclweeletne of
had little cause to to
envy the more gorgeous shows of motley
drapery sad gametes tumid with whim, southern land+ the nest and devotiou of which Major Howard Cranford
usually celebeate their solemnities. Elphiestons, V. 0., of the Royal Regimen, ham for many
The crowd, even the privileged many who bad Umbrian year. given proof al the governor to his Royal Highness the
Prince Arthur, hasalmo been graciously *aped to give orders
to the reserved galleries, began to fill their places soon after
for the appointment of that officer to be an Ordinary Member
2ln the aftermoa. So broiling, pitiless • sun I hardly ever
remember having to withstand on the north side of the of the Civil Division of the Third Clues a Companions of
the said most Hoommble Order.
Alps. me and umbrella, mimed ne impethetly ; the
lists
Sir George Grey hart left town for Falloden.
(*tease glare made eyes and heads ache. Yet before um,
together with the Duke's battalions mustering up in the His Serene Highness Prince George of Sohne has
square, and whole legions of students and schoolboys in arrived at the Hanoverian Ligation in Grosvenor-place from
their tiny saucer-like caps with invisible brims, there came visiting the camp at Chalons. The prince leaves town in a
upon the torrid pavement two fair buds of young damsels, day or two for a tour is Scotland.
all dressed in whiter, but distinguishable as one lido by The Duke of Leinater has been entertaining a
green on the other by pink ribands. All these girls bad family party at Carton House, Maynootb, including the
wreaths of flowers in their hands, all of them were bare- Marquis sad Marehieoess of Kildare, Lord and Lady Otho
headed, barearnied, bare-shouldered. How they did Fitzgerald, Mr. and Lady Jam Rapton, M.
manage to hold their ground for two rustles hours is whet The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne have
we could not help wondering all the time. arrived at Lansdowne House, Beasley-square.
At a quarter to 4 their martyrdom and our own was re- The Marchioness of Salisbury and family have
warded by the arrival of court carriages bearing the sale arrived at their residence in Arlington-street, front passing
of the royal personages. Soon after them the royal person- "" nil w" its at Bournemouth, on their way to Hatfield
ages themselves road, their appearance. la the fir ft COI-
Home, Here.
rags she Duke of Sage•Colinrg and Prieto Alfred; in the
second, the Princess of Wales, the Crows Primus of The Earl and Countess of Essex have arrived at
Prussia. and the Prince of Wales ; is the third, the their country seat, Cassiobury Park. Watford, from the
Duchess of SaxeCoburg, the Princess Alice, sad the Crown Continent.
Prince of Prussia • in tee fourth, the Princess Clementine
the rm.. Aro;iis; end the Dune of preheat ;in the The Earl and Countess of Hopetoun have arrived
fifth, Prince Louie of Ruse, the Duke of Cambridge, and at Loos's Hotel from Paris.
Prince Augustus of Sego-Coburg; in the sixth, Duke-Ernest The Earl of St. Germans is expected to return
of Wartembsrg and Prism Leopold ; in the seventh, Prince ...
Hemmen of Hoheolobe Prince William Loberistoin, the ante shortly from the Canaan. The ante earl has
Prince Hereditary of lame and Count Alexander Mem. derived great benefit by his visit to Spa.
doff; is the eighth, Prince Philip and Count Alphonse The Earl of Clarendon is expected shortly to
limadorif. arrive in tom from Wiest:lades.
In atter:dues upon the Queen were the Duchess of Rox-
burgh and Lady Caurchili, Gerard Grey, sad Sir John The Earl de Grey has left Carlton Garden. to
Cowell, lately created • H.C.B. by her Majesty at Rause join the countess at Studley Park, near Ripon. Viscount
In the suite of tho Priam of W aka, Colonel Teesdale and Goderich is quite recovered from an attack of Measles.
Mr. Boltzmann; attached to the Duke of Cambridge,
Arthur, °Lotus
Colonel Clifton. In the suite of Prince Lord Stanley, M.P., is staying with the Earl
MO:diatoms. du. The friends of the late Prince Corson and enlistees of Derby at Knowsley Park, ear Liverpool.
trembled here from Eogland and all parte of German/. I The Roo. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot have 'Tod at
noticed Dr. Playfair, Protestor Hofmann, M. Lord ran- Rieman.
wills and his secretary, the Hon. R. H. Meade, were in at- •
unglues, and also the Hon. C. A. Murray, her Majesty's Viscountess 'Royston and infant daughter, socord-
Eneister at Dresden, and Mr.. Murray. he lag to the last letters from Paris, are both doing well.
The coming of age of the Hou. Digby Willoughby,
The pavilion was soon filled with all the royal persons/pis,
who took their seats and waited for the Qoeen's arrival
from R
bosenau. Soon attar 4 the bolls from all the steeples eldest ran of Lord Middleton. was celebrlited lest won
in Courg set up their loud ;eels, the canton thundered ' with much festivity on the family estate, in Yorkshire and
from the fortress on the bill, the bands struck up the' Nottiogisamshire. The tenintry celebrated the evert by
solemn notes of the English parietal outlaw, and the' public dinners, Lord and Lady Middleton and the Hor.
Queen's carriages drove up amidst the lou I shouts of the , •.
manmade. In the first °smug, ears her keleete, prince Mr. Willoughby are at pressat at their seat, Appleosess, is
the Highlands of Soolland. It is add that ea their return
Arthur and Primer Beatrice k in the ascend, the ladies
sad gentlemen of the Queen's suite. Of the royal family '. month the noble lord and lady purpose to celebrate the ma
only the Duchess of Cambridge aid the Princess Mary josity of their eldest moo in a very liberal mien.
were shunt. They had remained at Runipenberin, the Sir Henry and Lady Sophia des Vann will
summer re o the Ludgrave of Ham. The Qum I
was received at the auriap door by the Duke of Sox . receive a select party at Drakelow, Derbyshire, during the
Ouharg. She soon appeared in her plass in front of the week.
pavilion ; she wore deep maiming, black dress end bonnet, I Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Airey, n ' ame.
with a black veil thrown hack, and meter her boost that
040 Ila Mary Stuart with which the English public have &deli' otter the "Hie( of hie daughter and Sr Dear?
lately become familiar. The royal ladies around her wore Cotterell, grill leave to swam his command at (Misrelate.
o aeon', and the wall of their lively "turns Prenatal i Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Yorke. is ex-
• 'tribe( contrast to the sable hues in which the principal I
mem. ems attired. prine. Leopold and prince Arthur pried in tom early in the mating math from the Coe-
rces Hiablasd esstuire Priam Alfred MOM the Coburg Onset, and will directly after his return lams relieve
uniform. All the other primes sad their atteadeats die Lientansuri.General Sir Jetta Peonefather in the chromatid
played the English colours. • of this camp at Aldershot: .