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

A special train conveyed her Majesty, the Royal
family, and suite. At half-past 7 o'clock on Tues-
day mooning, 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
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-
teuberg, visited the Queen during her stay. The
Queen drove through Darmstadt in the afternoon.

The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting went 011
to Darmstadt.

At 10 o'clock in the evening the special train wag
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
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, accomply
nied her Majesty to Antwerp, where the train
arrived at 20 minutes past 8 a.m. morning

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 in
Margate Roads at 7 p.m.
The Vivid and the Trinity-house yacht Irene se'
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 iu
the Royal yacht.
The Fairy arrived alongside Woolwich Arsenal
at half-past 11 o'clock, when the Queen and ROY
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 EIY9
the Lady Augusta Bruce, Lieut.• Gen. C. Gre/'
Colonel Sir T. M. Biddulph, Major Cowell, Pr•
Jenner, and Mr. Buff.

The Princess Louise, attended by Lady Carolice
Barrington, the Hon. Horatia S topford, and Colonel
Hon. A. Liddell, and Prince Arthur, attended bi
Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle yesterdni
afternoon,

The*Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow
(Saturday) at Windsor Castle.

TIIE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES AT ABElt-
GELDlE.—During the past 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. Ou Friday the
royal party and suite drove by Ballater to Burn of 11'34
commonly called Rob Roy's Cave. A few of the cl, arestihe
servants about Abergfldie being sent away previous Wit'
provisions, a fire was lighted, potatoes and other vegetable°
cooked, and an excellent luncheon was partaken of by the
royal party beside the cavern. Afterwards her royal high:
ness was busily employed sketching Loch Kinnord, Lee!,
Davon, and adjoining scenery. They returned throng:
Ballater in the afternoon, where a number of thP visitors
turned out to get a look of the royal couple when chailPul°
horses.—Banishile Journal. _ _

The Grand Duke of Baden visited
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 lett for
Tot quay. Plymouth on

His Excellency Sir Andrew and the Hon. Lady
Buchanan have returned to Brown's Hotel from Scotland•

Don Jose de F. Gargollo and Don Nicolas di
Ojesso have left Edwards's Royal Cambridge Hotelt
George-street, Hanover-square, for Faris, on their way t°
Madrid.

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, liong
Kong, Labuan, and to the Lord High Commissioner of 01°
Islands.

THE LATE LORD CLYDE.—We are glad to see
that a committee, including his Royal Highness the puke
of Cambridge, has been formed for the purpose of raising 14
memorial to the late Lord Clyde.
THE KING OF DAHOMEY, when visited by Com-
modore Wilmot, was reclining on a raised dais'
about three feet high, covered with crimson cloth, emolcia
his pipe. One of his wives held a glass sugar-basin Or
him to spit in. He 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 impious
book is all the rage among our Galilean neighbours, no
fewer than 17 books on magetism, spirit-rapping, illurailv;
ism, and mesmerism are announced on the paper cover o.`
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.
Of
PORTLAND BREAKWATER I—On the stimuli, 0
the island, when the works were begun, it WA°
roughly reckoned that 20,000,000 tons of rubbly debris o'er:
lying useless. Out of this material, during the last 1
years, the convicts have sent more than 6,000,000 ton!
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 01°`'
degrees, the sNhole of this stupendous mass has been
" tipped" into the sea. It now forms a bank 100 feet hit4'
and 300 feet broad at the base, well nigh as indestructible
by wind and weather as Portland itself.
FRENCIL HOPS.—Ilop- picking has commenced ill
the north of France, but,the yield is not so abundant as v 0
expected. Sales of this year's crop are efftcted at troll'
1031 to 110 f the 50 kilos. The stock of 1862 is completeli
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 soli/
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 mountsia
Ihnest,.ne, leading up to a flight of steps, at the top of which
is a majestic arch, measuring 140 ft. from the crown to tn°
base, which gives entrance to the cavern. The guide
having prepared his lamp of three branches, which gave a
very good but yet insufficient light, we entered, and
passed on after hire,,from chamber to chamber, many °t
which were at different levels, but all connected by stone
steps or wooden staircases. It is impossible to give a just
idea of the marvellous beauty of these lofty chambers. 'l:l3°
calcarous deposits are of gigantic magnitude and ever'
varying shape. Sometimes they have the most grotesque
appearance ; but usually they present familiar forms. I"l°''f
the entrance I saw what looked like trunks of large °sv
t
towards
the
the stalactites
middle,
as
trees, apparently decayed with age, and I struck them with
my sick, to be assured they were not wood. More COP'
rough bark, assumehathedafotrempoaftmdataefttreeneslss.le:N
ut
°wual
and tall stems. At times, they clung t°
roof and sides, like leaves and flowers delicately chiabileri:7
out of alabaster. At other times, reaching from floor to roof?
they showed like the massive pillars of a Norman church'
or the clustered shafts of a later and more graceful arclai
Lecture. Heavy pendants or bosses from the ro°
assisted the illusion of a Gothic cathedral. 111_,e.r:,
are many chambers, which have. each their
tinctive character and name. In " the Hall of the Virgln,,
there is a tall majestic figure standing on a high pedestal?
and when seen under peculiar light, holding what seems, tu
be a child in her arms. There is "the Baptistery," w,tll
its capacious font ; and " the Hall of the Pulpit," will%
only wants the figure of a priest to give it reality. Tiler,
is '•the Hall of the Organ," with its many parallel an
and contiguous pipes, which, when struck with a hammer
give out musical notes of almost metallic sweetness and ca.,.
riety. There is " the Hall of the Banners," each pencleT
from its own staff; " the Hall of the Curtain," massive wita
solid folds; and " the Hail of the Theatre," with its row:
of boxes, where the people of the neighbourhood sometimes
assemble for a ball or a pic-nic. But the variety is end'
less, I had heard touch of the wondrous extent and beauty
of these 'halls, but half had not beentolcime,—,Doda's .7h91
Weeks zkojorca,