The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-11 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

The Queen left the Rosenau on Monday night
at half-past 10 o'clock, with Prince Alfred, Princess
Helena, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice.
The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coxburg came over
to the Rosenau in the evening, and took leave of
the Queen.
A special train conveyed her Majesty, the Royat
family, and suite. At half-past 7 o'clock on Tues-
day morning, her Majesty arrived at a station
near Darmstadt, where Prince and Princess Louis
of Hesse were awaiting her Majesty's arrival.
The Queen and Royal family immediately entered
Prince and Princess Louis's carriage, and drove to
Kranicbstein, a seat of the Grand Duke of Hesse,
now occupied by Prince and Princess Louis, where
the Royal family spent the day. . Princess C. or
Hesse, with Princess Anna and Prince William'
and Prince Alexander of Hesse, and Princess Bat-
tenberg, visited the Queen during her stay. The
Queen drove through Darmstadt in the afternoon.
The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting went on
to Darmstadt.
At 10 o'clock in the evening the special train Wes
again ready at the Darmstadt station, and the Queen
and Royal family continued their journey towards
Ant werp.
At half-past 7 o'clock on Wednesday morning
the King of the Belgians, with the Duchess of Bra'
bast, met the Queen at the station at Malines, and
having got into her Majesty's carriage, acconaPa"
nied her Majesty to Antwerp, where the train
arrived at 20 minutes past 8 a.m.
The Queen breakfasted at the station, and having
taken leave of the King, embarked on board the
Royal yacht Victoria and Albert in the Scheldt.
After a fine passage the Royal yacht anchored la
Margate Roads at 7 p.m.
The Vivid and the Trinityhouse yacht Irene au'
companied the Royal yacht.
• The o.sberne and Black Eagle followed.
THURSDAY, Sept. 10.
At 6 a.m. this morning the Royal yacht weighed
anchor, and steamed up to Greenhithe, where the
Fairy was in waiting to convey the Queen and
Royal party to Woolwich.
Earl Granville returned with her Majesty in
the Royal yacht.
The Fairy arrived alongside Woolwich Arsenal
at half-past 11 o'clock, when the Queen and Royal
family disembarked, and immediately proceeded to
Windsor Castle, where they arrived at 10 minutes
after 1 o'clock.
The suite consisted of the Marchioness of 15''
the Lady Augusta Bruce, Lieut.• Gen. C. Grey'
Colonel Sir T. M. Biddulph, Major Cowell, Pr'
Jenner, and Mr. Buff.
The Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline
Barrington, the Hon. Horatia Stopford, and Colonel
Hon. A. Liddell, and Prince Arthur, attended by
Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle yesterday
afternoon.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-naorrovr
(Saturday) at Windsor Castle.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES AT .A.Oll-
- the past week his Royal high-
ness the Prince killed five stags, while her Royal
ness the P:incess had her accustomed drives, fishing erl
Dee, and sketching in the neighbourhood. Oa Friday t""
royal party and suite drove by Ballater to Burn of Va'
commonly called Rob Roy's Cave. A few of the domesitii2o
servants about Abergeldie being sent away previous s
provisions, a fire was lighted, potatoes and other vegeta
cooked, and an excellent luncheon was partaken of bY
royal party beside the cavern. Afterwards her royal
Moth
ness was busily employed sketching Loch Kinnord,
Devon, and adjoining scenery. They returned through
Ballater in the afternoon, where a number of the visitors
turned out to get a look of the royal couple when. Changing
horses.—.l3anishit e Journal.
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The Grand Duke of Baden visited Plymouth oa
Wednesday, and, accompanied by the general commanding
in that district, proceeded in the Princess Alice to inspect
the breakwater. In the evening the grand duke left Or
Toi quay.
His Excellency Sir Andrew and the Hon. Lady
Buchanan have returned to Brown's Hotel from Scotland'
Don Jose de F. Gargoilo and Don Nicolas di
Ojesso have left Ectwards's Royal Cambridge Hotel
George-street, Hanover-square, for Paris, on their way t°
Madrid.

Yesterday, at St. George's Church, Lord LondePt
borough was married to Lady Editha Somerset, young
daughter of the late Duke of Beaufort.

Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial'
office to the Governors of Canada, Malta, Ceylon, lic"
Kong, Labuan, and to the Lord High Commissioner of tne
Islands,
THE LATE LORD CLYDE.—We are glad to se°
that a committee, including his Royal Highness the Pl'S'
of Cambridge, has been formed for the purpose of raisD3g
memorial to the late Lord Clyde.
THE KING OF DAHOMEY, when visited by Cora:
modore Wilmot, was reclining on a raised elaisei
about three feet high, covered with crimson cloth, smnkly`;
his pipe. One of his wives held a glass sugar-basin i°r
him to spit in. He was dressed very plainly, the oil,
part of his body being bare, with only a silver chain 110.1
ing some fetish charm round his neck, and an unpretencall°

cloth round his waist.
RIDICULOUS POPULARITY OF SPIRITUALISM IN
FRANCEI-At the very time when M. Renan's iniPi°„llo
book is all the rage among our Galilean neighbours/
fewer than 17 books on magetism, spirit-rapping, Will:131130f
ism, and mesmerism are announced on the paper cover
the translation into French of M. Home's memoirs, 50 Tint
it is, says the Saturday Review, in noticing this fact, tli"0
people are most gullible when they boast of being t

greatest esprits-forts.
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PORTLAND BREAKWATER!—On the suta----
the island, when the works were began, it Vitkro
roughly reckoned that 20,000,000 tons of rubbly der Wei 4
lying useless. Out of this material, during the lag
years, the convicts have sent more than 6,000,000 toll°,
down the inclines. Trains of iron waggons have roll°
out some 3,000 tons a day along the vast timber stagil3s;
which supports several lines of rail ; and thus, by 01,5,„°
degrees, the whole of this stupendous mass has
"tipped" into the sea. It now forms a bank, 100 feet Wit
and 300 feet broad at the base, well nigh as indestructible
by wind and weather as Portland itself.
FRENCH. Hops.—llop-picking has commenced
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the north of France, but the yield is not so abundaz t as opt
expected. Sales of this year's crop are effected A t fir
103 f to 110 f the 50 kilos. The stock of 1862 is comi'lele

exhausted.
WONDERFUL CAVES OF ARTA IN MAJORCA";
These caves are situated in a chain of hills, covOr!ici
with pines, mixed with abundance of arbutus and 0/'
flowers. The mouth of the caves—formerly there were "V°l
but, since they have been artificially united, there is nov/1":
reality only one—overlooks the sea, and the approach to
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is by a path cut out of a precipitous mass of m0103:11'1,
limest ,ne, leading up to a flight of steps, at the top of vqbleo
is a majestic arch, measuring 140 ft. from the crown to
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base, which gives entrance to the cavern. The Pilaf)
having prepared his lamp of three branches, which ge/a°
very good but yet insufficient light, we entered, °-
passed on after him, from chamber to chamber, 13,8111:0
which were at different levels, but all connected by
steps or wooden staircases. It is impossible to give a ),"tio
idea of the marvellous beauty of these lofty chambers.
calcarous deposits are of gigantic magnitude and 81:e to
varying shape. Sometimes they have the most groteotr4f
appearance ; but usually they present familiar forms'. 14:;
the entrance I saw what looked like trunks of large
trees, apparently decayed with age, and I struck them vg,te
my stick, to be assured they were not wood. More Or
monly the stalactites assume the form of date trees, alei3clio%
towards the middle, as the date palni often ls'sl to
rough bath, and tall stems. At times, they clungi a
roof and sides, like leaves and flowers delicately ellisvjoeff
out of alabaster.." t other times, reaching front floor to rill,°-
they showed like tile massive pillars of a Normanchni•
or the clustered shafts of a later and more graceful 111-oof
tecture. Heavy pendants or bosses front
assisted the illusion of a Gothic cathedral. 'lir
are many chambers, which have cash their .0 "
tinctive character and name. In " the Hall of the irgitl,
there is a tall majestic figure standing on a high pede- to
and when seen under peculiar light, holding what seestielix
be a child in her arms. There is "the BaptisterY,"
its capacious font ; and " the Hall of the Pulpit, hero
sv,'",ero
,
only wants the figure of a priest to give it reality. l :
is " the Hall of the Organ," with its many parade I'l
and contiguous pipes, which, when struck with a bow-cit.,
give cut musical notes of almost metallic sweetness an dint,
riety. There is "the Hall of the Banners," each Pell- -01
from its own staff; "the Hall of the Curtain," massive ,14
and " the Hall of the Theatre," with its re
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soofibidoxfoldes,s; where the people of the neighbourhood seu'ellaid.
assemble for a ball or a pic-nic. But the variety i 3
less. I had heard touch of the wondrous extent and VI" 11."4
of these halls, but half had not beentold me,—Poi
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