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

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 Co ,burg came over
to the Rosenau in the evening, and took leave of
the Queen.

A special train cunveyed her Majesty, the Royal
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 Laura
of Hesse were awaiting her Majesty's arrival.
The Queen and Royal family immediately entered
Prince and Princess Louis's carriage, and drove to
Kranichstein, a seat of the Grand Duke of Hesse,
now occupied by Prince and Princess Louis, where
the Royal family spent the day, Princess C. of
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.

went on Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting
to Darmstadt.

At 10 o'clock in the evening the special train sr"
again ready at the Darmstadt station, and the Queen
and Royal family continued their journey towards
Antwerp.

At half-past 7 o'clock on Wednesday morning
the King of the Belgians, with the Duchess of Bra'
bant, met the Queen at the station at Malines, and
having got into her Majesty's carriage, accoruPa"
nied her Majesty to Antwerp, where the tram
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 tho Scheldt.
After a fine passage the Royal yacht anchored 111
Margate Roads at 7 p.m.
The Vivid and the Trinity-house yacht Irene ac'
companied the Royal yacht.
The Osborne 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 ill
the Royal yacht.

The Fairy arrived alongside Woolwich Arsenal
at half-past 11 o'clock, when the Queen and ReTal
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 Ell,
the Lady Augusta Bruce, Lieut. Gen. C. GreY'
Colonel Sir T. M. Biddalph, Major Cowell, Dr'
(Telmer, and Mr. Buff.

The Princess Louise, attended by Lady Carolive
Barrington, the Hon. Horatio. 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.morroVi
(Saturday) at Windsor Castle.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES AT ARO'
GELDlE.—During the Fait week his Royal High'
ness the Prince killed five stags, while her Royal High'
ness the Princess had her accustomed drives, fishing on the
Dee, and sketching in the neighbourhood. On Friday the
royal party and suite drove by Ballater to Burn of 1r4.1.9
commonly called Rob Roy's Cave. A few of the doreestle
servants about Abergt-ldie being sent away previous with
provisions, a fire was lighted, potatoes and other vegetable);
cooked, and an excellent luncheon was partaken of by th°
royal party besido the cavern. Afterwards her royal high.
ness was busily employed sketching Loch Kinnord, Loeb.
Davon, 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.—Banjsbit e Journal.

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 for
Tot quay.

His Excellency Sir Andrew and th© Hon. Lady
Buchanan have returned to Brown's Hotel from ScCtlauct•
Don Jose de F. Gargollo and Don Nicolas di
Ojesso have left Eawards's Royal Cambridge Hotel,
George-street, Hanover-square, for Faris, on their way to
.Ittd rid.

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

Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial'
office to the Governors of Canada, Malta, Ceylon, 11°1'5
Kong, Labuan, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the
Islands.

THE LATE LORD CLYDE.—We are glad to see
that a committee, including his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, has been formed for the purpose of raising a
memorial to the late Lord Clyde.

TUE KING OF DAHOMEY, when visited by Coin'
modore Wilmot, was reclining on a raised dais►
about three feet high, covered with crimson cloth, smoking
his pipe. One of his wives held a glass sugar-basin for
him to spit in. Ile was dressed very plainly, the upper
part of his body being bare, with only a silver chain hold-
ing some fetish charm round his neck, and an unpretending
cloth round his waist.

RIDICULOUS POPULARITY OF SPIRITUALISM IN
FRANCE I—At the very time when M. Renan's impio°
book is all the rage among our Gallican neighbours, 11°
fewer than 17 books on magetism, spirit-rapping, illuroi°-
ism, and mesmerism are announced on the paper cover of
the translation into French of M. Home's memoirs, so true
it is, says the Saturday Review, in noticing this fact, that
people are most gullible when they boast of being the
greatest esprits-forts.

PORTLAND BREAKWATER !—On the summit o
the island, when the works were began, it vvilo
roughly reckoned that 20,000,000 tons of rubbly debris were
lying useless. Out of this material, during the last 14
years, the convicts have sent more than 6,000,000 tons
down the inclines. Trains of iron waggons have rolled
out some 3,000 tons a day along the vast timber staging?
which supports several lines of rail ; and thus, by slow
degrees, the whole of this stupendous mass has been
" tipped" into the sea. It now forms a bank, 100 feet high
and 300 feet broad at the base, well nigh as indestructible
by wind and weather as Portland itself.

FRENCII HOPS.—Hop-pickio g has commenced
the north of France, but the yield is not so abundant as woo
expected. Sales of this year's crop are effected at troll
105 f to 110 i the 50 kilos. The stock of 1862 is completolY
exhausted.

WONDERFUL CAVES OF ARTA IN MAJORCA.""
These caves are situated in a chain of hills, covered
with pines, mixed with abundance of arbutus and wild
flowers. The mouth of the caves—formerly there were two,
but, since they have been artificially united, there is now in
reality only one—overlooks the sea, and the approach to it
is by a path cut out of a precipitous mass of mountain
limestone, leading up to a flight of steps, at the top of which
is a majestic arch, measuring 140 ft. from the crown to the
base, which giver entrance to the cavern. The guide
having prepared his lamp of three branches, which gave f
very good but yet insufficient light, we entered, and ."
passed on after him, from chamber to chamber, many a
which were at different levels, but all connected by stone
steps or wooden staircases. It is iwpossible to give a.lot
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my stick, to be assured they were not wood. More cote'
inonly the stalactites assume the form of date trees, slender
towards the middle, as the date palm often is. with
rough bark, and tall stems. At times, they clung to
roof and sides, like leaves and flowers delicately chiselled
out of alabaster. At other times, reaching from floor to re°4
they showed like the massive pillars of a Norman church'
or the clustered shafts of a later and more graceful archi'
tecture. Heavy pendants or bosses from the roof
assisted the illusion of a Gothic cathedral. Thera
are many chambers, which have each their die:
tinctive character and name. In " the Hall of the Virgil',
there is a tall majestic figure standing on a high pedestal,
and when seen under peculiar light, holding what seems t°
be a child in her arms. There is " the Baptistery," vviet
its capacious font ; and the Hall of the Pulpit," which
only wants the figure of a priest to give it reality. Tiler?
is " the Hall of the Organ," with its many parallel and
and contiguous pipes, which, when struck with a hammer?
give cut musical notes of almost metallic sweetness and vfv:
riety. There is "the Hall of the Banners," each pendant
from its own staff; "the Mill of the Curtain," massive %vith
solid folds ; and " the Hail of the Theatre," with its roso
of boxes, where the people of the neighbourhood sometialcs
assemble for a ball or a pie-nic. But the variety is end-
less. I had heard much of the wondrous extent and beauty
of these halls, but half had not been told me,—.Docid's 241.ce
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