The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-27 00:00:00

Court Ciratlar.

HER MAJESTY.

The Queen in Germany.
COBURG, Aug. 28.

The Queen and Royal family attended Divine
service yesterday at the Kalenberg Palace. Dr.
Meier, the rev. general superintendent, preached
the sermon.

The whole of the guests of the Duke and Duchess
of Saxe-Coburg, with the exception of the Queen
and the younger members of the Royal family,
dined with the duke and duchess yesterday at the
Coburg Palace.

The Duke of Saxe-Coburg arrived yesterday from
Frankfort, for the purpose of welcoming his royal
guests, and left again by the evening train. The
Hereditary Grand Duke Joseph of Austria came
with the duke on a visit to Prince Augustus of
Saxe-Coburg.
The Crown Prince of Prussia arrived at Coburg
at noon yesterday.

The Visit of the Prince and Princess of
Wales to Mar Lodge.

From the time that it was known that their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales were to honour Mar Lodge with a
visit, the Earl and Countess of Fife have been
untiring in their exertions to provide for their re-
ception. Braemar is, of course, merely a shooting-
lodge, but every endeavour has been made, in fitting
up the suite of rooms appropriated to the prince and
princess, to render them as simple and elegant as
time and space will permit. On Thursday their
royal highnesses will drive direct to Old Mar Lodge,
which they will reach a few minutes after three,
after which the games will immediately commence.
The Earl of Fife is erecting a triumphal arch under
which their royal highnesses will pass, immedi-
ately before arriving at the raised dais which is
being constructed in front of the Old Lodge. Th•
triumphal arch is to be covered with heather, the
centre on one side to have the Prince of Wales'
feathers, and on the other the crown, with the flags
of England and Denmark on either side. The royal
standard is to be hoisted from the top of Old Mar
Lodge as soon as the carriage containing the royal
visitors comes in sight. There will be a grand
torchlight ball on Friday evening, which must be a
novelty to their royal highnesses, the only one of
the kind ever given in Scotland being one given by
the earl and countess at Mar Lodge in 1851, on the
occasion of the visit of the Queen and Prince Con-
sort. The following have received invitations to
have the honour of meeting the prince and princess :
—the Duke and Duchess of Roxburg he, Mr. and
Lady Susan Grant Suttie, Sir Thomas, Lady Louisa,
and the Misses Moncrieffe, Lady Annaly, Hon. Miss
White, and Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Charles
White (Scots Fusilier Guards), Mr. and Mrs.
Erskine Wemyss, the Earl of Brecknock, Viscount
Poweracourt, Viscount Barrington, the Master of
Lovat, Hon. Maurice and Lewis Wingfield, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel F. Fraser (Castle Fraser), Mr. W.
Kennedy Erskine, Mr. Duff, of Fetteresso, M.P.
Mr. Charles Forbes, of Nowe ; and Mr. Charles
Wood. There will also be a number of invitations
to the luncheon on the 27th, and to the ball on the
28th.—Banishire Journal.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland will
entertain a succession of guests at Alnwick Castle during
the ensuing month. The health of his grace has improved
since his return to the north.

The Duke of Atholl is, we are informed, in a
very dangerous condition, and but faint hopes are held ou t
that he can recover. Most of his intimate friends have
visited him at Dunkeld, Perthshire.
The Earl and Countess of Yarborough arrived ill
town yesterday from their seat in Lincolnshire,
The Earl Beauchamp, according to recent ac-
counts, remains in an unsatisfactory condition. An eminent
physician, who attended on his lordship from London, holds
out expectations of a favourable turn. The noble earl had
been in impaired health some time before he sought addi-
tional medical aid.

The Marquis of Ormonde has arrived at Kil-
kenny Castle from London. His lordship's brother and
family are staying at the Castle.

A marriage will shortly take place between the
Earl of Wilton and Miss Elton Smith, only child and
heiress of the late Major Elton Smith, Madras army.
The marriage of Lord Londesborough and Lab'
Edith Somerset, youngest daughter of the late Duke of
Beaufort, is appointed to take place on the 141 h proximo.
Lady Jane Knox and family have arrived at the
Portland Hotel, Southsea.
Major-General Bloomfield, Inspector-General of
the Royal Artillery, returned to town last evening from a
tour of inspection in Scotland and the northern district.

Mr. G. F. WATTS has undertaken to paint a
fresco on the north wall of one of the new south-courts at
the South Kensington Museum, in the gallery whence We
look down into the space occupied by the Loan Collection.
A CRICKET MATCH OF OLD BOYS.—A few dayo
since a match was played at Aylesford between 11
inhabitants under 60 and 11 over that age. The latter,
among whom were one octogenarian and six who had seen
more than 70 years, obtained 41 and 22—total 63; while
their more juvenile opponents gained 30 and 44—total 74.
The match created a good deal of interest and amusement.
COMMUNICATION WITH AMERICA.—Tiaere are at
present two distinct telegraph lines being laid down
to the extreme south-western coast of Ireland—one to
Crookhaven by Mr. Reuter, and the other to Cape Clear
by the Magnetic Company. As this part of Ireland is the
nearest to America, intelligence from the other side of the
Atlantic will be received in Europe earlier than would other-
wise have been the dase. Both lines are completed to
within eight miles of Skibbereen.
MAKING A PRODIGY.—Herz, a prince in his art,
came out in the musical world at a very early age.
He has related through what a series of exercises, or rather
of torments, he passed, in order to acquire the hot-house
talent of which his father was so proud. When he was only
three years and a half old, Henri Herz's father (who had
settled in his plans that his child should be a pro-
digy) got made for him a little piano of the height
of a chair, and with a compass of about four
octaves. Henri sat himself upon a stool: his father
did the same ; and the two amused themselves several boure
daily, trying which should move his fingers the quickest over
the narrow keys of the toy instrument. As the child grew'
bigger, they gave him a larger piano, always in proportion
to his stature. At six years he was promoted to the honour
of playing on a piano of natural dimensions, and his father
made him a present of a pair of boots with yellow tops.
" You see," he said, "I consider you henceforward as a meat
and treat you as such. Endeavour to deserve my kindness•
by wearing out your boots as little and your piano as much
as you can." At eight years old Henry
him a new proof of his consideration, Eery
father gave
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singular apparatus invented by Herz's father. It consisted
of a pulley fastened to the ceiling, through which pulley
ran a long rope, one end of which was tied to a stick about
half a yard long. To each end of the stick were fastened
two bits of string, at the ends of which dangled 5
couple of rings. The little prodigy passed the medium and
the annular fingers of both his hands through the rings'
and the servant set the apparatus in motion by vaulting
the rope run through the pulley. This mode of train'
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Half dead with exhaustion, the poor child fell asleep al°l°6t
before he could get into bed. But at six in the morning'
his father, who slept in the adtdning chamber, knocked au
the wall, shouting, " Come, Henri ; it is six o'clock, ulYl)°lci.
Quick, to the piano I" The wretched lad had to get UPI °„
stumbling with sleepiness, dipped his face in cold wafer, `.;
awaken himself completely, and then returned to row II;
galley—that is, to resume his pianO practice. If Writ'
Herz could support this existence, and if his musical eau'
cation were advanced by it, it was only because he was gifted
with unusual physical and moral strength. Any et.
child would have died under the task, or become au ith°
—All the Year _Round.
,
A BLACK LITIGANT.—The natives often figure
in court as criminals or defendants, but our Guicil:
Bay correspondent records the first instance we rem ea: eth
of an aboriginal South Australian becoming plaintiff been
civil suit. It seems that one cf these poor fellows had
employed by a European, who neglected to pay him froa..
work, The dingy labourer, instead of venting his iud:.gp.is
tion in vain complaints, or appealing to the pity 0:
o,
debtor, went straight to the local court and took out a
mons, upon which the civilised being, feeling that the say,:
had unquestionably the right end of the stick, thought
best to settle the matter by paying the money
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